Just once, I would like one of these congresspeople to say “If you’re not willing to acknowledge reality about this, then I have no reason to trust you about anything else. I will vote no. I yield the rest of my time.”
Really good perspective by Sarah about one of my greatest reservations about nominating Platner.
If true, I have serious concerns about this being a war crime.
Under the laws of armed conflict:
Proportionality: the military advantage has to outweigh the anticipated civilian harm.
Hard to see what military advantage would outweigh robbing 20k people of drinking water.
Here are the Chicks performing “Not Ready to Make Nice” on Kimmel last night on the 23rd anniversary of them being right about the Iraq War and getting actually canceled for it:
youtu.be/Gc84Qk7f-pg
The corporations bankrolling President Trump’s new $400 million White House ballroom have been handed more than $50 BILLION in new or expanded federal contracts in just the six months since they wrote those checks.
It gets worse.
I read Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk. I don't recall a single mention of Elon's white supremacy. His grandfather's, yes. It's entirely possible I forgot, but if not, all of his biographers, not just Isaacson, should be feeling pretty sheepish about not uncovering and decrying his bigotry.
CA voters just used the gubernatorial primary to goose GOP turnout in the state in November. Heckuva job.
The one thing Dems/liberals need more than anything, is a mind for strategy, and realization that actions have sometimes predictable consequences. Like putting 61 candidates on the ballot.
When these people insist the mere presence of people unlike them is an attack on them, their country, or their rights, this is exactly the outcome they are seeking, and disappointment among far right Trumpists is largely that he failed to produce events like this here. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.