Barrack Obama's speech at Rev. Jesse Jackson's memorial service was beautiful. Hopeful, respectful, reverent, humble, eloquent, humorous, gracious and dignified. Thank you, Mr. President.
Nelson Demille's, The Lion is the story of a kid whose family is killed by a stray missile sent for Khadaffi after flight 107 went down in Scotland and grows up to become the most dangerous terrorist alive. I don't read that kind of stuff often, but it was good.
When the world is blowing up, it's nice to have the dogs to look forward to.
This is how terrorists are made. These sailors' sons and daughters will hate the U.S. for their entire lives.
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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That right there is why he should have to get Congress's permission. Not as an afterthought. "Yeah, some civilians are gonna die" should have more say from civilians.
Also, fuck you, you senile fucking monster. You don't get to be glib about the deaths of your constituents.
Oh yeah!
thanks
Did he take down the post as well?
Your linked article was deleted.
Interesting article about Camus, and his take on authoritarian regimes. Particularly pointed in how they always use hyperbole over truth a exercise a "gangster morality". theconversation.com/far-right-ga...
great pics! thanks!
Watching the primary results between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton come in, I keep thinking, "Am I rooting for the mostly douche bag or the complete douche bag and which is most likely to lose to Crockett or Talirico?"
Maybe instead of a run off the Republicans can do trial by combat. I would watch.
I lived through Viet Nam, the Watergate, and the Reagan era, so I understand disillusionment, but I never identified those who wanted the same thing I did as enemies because they couldn't make a sea-change happen.
Thanks for hanging in.
You need to acknowledge that there can be worse consequences to an ideological vote. I think you did when you voted for Biden. Sometimes we really do need to stop things from getting worse.
(By the way,Biden wasn't even my 3rd choice in the primaries,but Piggy had to be stopped.As in 2016, 2024.)
You're right. You're just like MAGA. When presented with facts you ignore them and default to your fragile fee-fees. You've don't it at least four times in this thread.
But you're willing to sacrifice human rights and the lives of millions from starvation with a clear conscience? Yikes!
Man that's privilege. I vote to keep my neighbors from being dragged out of their houses, or shot, or having their basic rights violated. But you do you.
His vote killed the public option.
Yeah, you're wrong.
I don't disagree that you should vote for the person in the primary that best fits the agenda you want. (By the way, I don't know any dems who don't want universal health care, student loan forgiveness, and down-scaling or cancelling ICE.) But, to hold out in a general is naive and selfish.
You understand that we lost Roe AND student loan forgiveness because people held out on Hillary Clinton, right? 3rd party voters in swing states were way more numerous than the numbers she needed to win. Thus, 3 Supreme Court judges who overturned Roe and Student Loan Forgiveness.
So he didn't change it all because it wasn't within his ability, right? You shift to electoral numbers when the agenda fits your desires, and lack of will when you perceive it doesn't.
The truth is, it ALL comes down to electoral numbers. People can't exercise power they don't have.
You need to look at the actual votes. Lieberman did it. It had already passed the house.
Cartoon by Tommy Siegel
Joe Lieberman, a Democrat, sunk the public option. Look it up.
Why do you think Bernie didn't save them? I mean, he was committed to those things? Why didn't he fix it?
But if someone tells you they won't be weak on congress, will pass Medicare for All, cancel student debt, and abolish ICE, they'll get your vote, even though YOU KNOW that the last 3 of those things can't be done without consensus?
Solid reasoning.
