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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

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In today's The Morning Report, J.J. Sefton discussed the current situation in Israel, and the American administration's rabid anti-Israel and anti-Semitic foreign policy officials compared to President Trump's regional successes.

As I have stated for the past several days, Israel is facing an existential crisis as serious as any in its history. And considering we have a government - and an illegitimate one at that - that is openly anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic makes the potential for catastrophe that much greater. Make no mistake, that catastrophe will reach out and touch us right here. Pausing for a moment, the thought of the Middle Eastern situation today was almost unthinkable a year ago thanks to President-in-exile Trump. Iran was on the ropes, the so-called "Palestinians" had been removed from the chess board and the greatest regional geopolitical realignment in history that had never before been conceivable (or even wanted by the "peace process" pimps) was within our grasp. How quickly that can all vanish, mostly thanks to a rigged election.

Except...Israel has spent the last years degrading Iran's ability to produce nuclear material, has systematically assassinated their key scientists and engineers, has destroyed countless shipments of Iranian war materiel as it was moved around Syria, not to mention killing a fair number of their operatives in Syria and elsewhere.

They are now in the process of destroying Hamas' ability to project force into Israel by destroying the command and control infrastructure in Gaza, destroying the tunnels, killing hundreds of its commanders and low level terrorists, and in all probability destroying many of their unused rockets.

The state of Israel has been in an existential crisis since its official reconstitution in 1948, and has had to deal with antagonistic American administrations, including the Obama and Carter administrations. Even nominally neutral or supportive presidents tended to try to control Israel's reactions to terrorism or conventional attacks by its many enemies. For instance, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Nixon (advised by Kissinger) delayed resupply of desperately needed materiel..."Let them bleed" was Kissinger's comment.

So the previous four years of a clearly friendly Trump administration that recognized the obvious difference between Israel, a pluralistic democracy, and its enemies, a group of savage zealots who treated their own people only marginally better than they treated Israel, was an outlier. A wonderful one that did much to create the conditions for a cold peace, but an outlier nonetheless.

Israel will survive this crisis, and in fact, because of the Biden administration's chaotic and weak-sounding responses may be able to continue its operations against the Hamas terror network for longer than one would expect. Add to that a political situation in Israel that will reward an aggressive response to terror, and we have the conditions for a modest success.

And let us not forget the Palestinian propensity for catastrophically bad choices! Just weeks after the idea of a coalition government in Israel that -- shockingly -- included a few of the Arab parties, the profoundly clueless and stupid and tone-deaf Arab population in Israel decided to destroy 75 years of progress and riot in support of...what? Hamas launching rockets at them? Whoops! No more talk of coalitions with the Arabs!

Most of us want Israel to be ruthless and brutal with the terrorist groups that run the Palestinian enclaves, intuiting correctly that only total subjugation will stamp out the support for terror that is rampant in Gaza and the West Bank. But that is not to be. The best we can hope for is exactly what is happening now: destruction of the terrorist apparatus with surgical precision.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM




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1 Monkey!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2021 10:00 AM (kTF2Z)

2 Off to read the rant.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2021 10:01 AM (kTF2Z)

3 Top 7?

Posted by: IP at May 18, 2021 10:01 AM (pWrfh)

4 Israel needs a wing of B-52s.

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:02 AM (AwYPR)

5 I called em.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2021 10:02 AM (kTF2Z)

6 Israel is going to get the full court press from the Marxist world government.

Hope they can ignore it but they get a lot of support from other countries.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:02 AM (4fSQf)

7 Isreal needs to do moar pouncing. Particularly in DC. So many easy targets to spear. Do that and things in the ME will get very quiet.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 18, 2021 10:03 AM (/MaDp)

8 I like this guy Israel, he fights.

Posted by: IP at May 18, 2021 10:03 AM (pWrfh)

9 I'm in favor of killing terrorists and their supporters.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 18, 2021 10:03 AM (ifmtJ)

10 What if the UN forces countries to stop selling Israel weapons?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:03 AM (4fSQf)

11 The media is carrying the water for the Palis - duh - and there was some garbage article on AOL where a teenager kept pleading for Israel to stop attacking them. As if this twat doesn't know her family is firing rockets there every five minutes.

Raze Gaza, move in, and turn it into a waterfront paradise.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 18, 2021 10:04 AM (bkUtD)

12 Push Hamas into the sea.

Go full Curtis LeMay on their asses.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 18, 2021 10:04 AM (2JVJo)

13

CBD

I understand J.J.'s concern.

But I gotta admit, your writings bring up some very valid points as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 18, 2021 10:04 AM (S7VTO)

14 4 Israel needs allies who won't put PR above safety.

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:04 AM (ONvIw)

15 Most of us want Israel to be ruthless and brutal with the terrorist groups that run the Palestinian enclaves, intuiting correctly that only total subjugation will stamp out the support for terror that is rampant in Gaza and the West Bank. But that is not to be. The best we can hope for is exactly what is happening now: destruction of the terrorist apparatus with surgical precision.
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I intimated something similar on the morning report. I think the big difference-maker is Iron Dome. I suspect that the Israelis are confident enough in Iron Dome to make the cycle of periodic destruction of warmaking capability in Gaza and West Bank palatable without utter destruction of the enemy and permanent occupation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 10:04 AM (Jsjd7)

16 But those sweet sweet non mean tweets, eh?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:04 AM (Vxf2I)

17 What if the UN forces countries to stop selling Israel weapons?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:03 AM (4fSQf)

With a few speeches?....stern letters?

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:05 AM (AwYPR)

18 10 What if the UN forces countries to stop selling Israel weapons?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:03 AM (4fSQf)


Reply hazy, try again.

Posted by: Magic 8-Ball at May 18, 2021 10:05 AM (vuisn)

19 As I've said, it blows my mind that America pays off Iran who then uses the money to send missiles into Gaza and then Hamas fires them off randomly. It's just bizarre watching the Biden junta "foreign policy" work this way, and yet not a peep from Jewish leaders.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (0Fm2R)

20 The best way for Israel to keep the US off it's back is to go to work after 1:48 PM EST.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (uhPTO)

21 >>> Israel needs allies who won't put PR above safety.
Posted by: CN


The countries who agreed to the Abraham Accords should at least throw moral support to Israel. Or is that over now that Trump was cheated out of office?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (bkUtD)

22 With a few speeches?....stern letters?

Powder blue helmets (and sexual assaults) are pretty intimidating.

Posted by: IP at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (pWrfh)

23 9 I'm in favor of killing terrorists and their supporters.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 18, 2021 10:03 AM (ifmtJ)

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Bounties and letters of marque exclusively offered to Palestinians by Israel for the heads of known Hamas members.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (LvTSG)

24 What if the UN forces countries to stop selling Israel weapons?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:03 AM (4fSQf)

Israel makes most of her weapons already. She needs American planes, and that is pretty much it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (Q9lwr)

25 Trump said pussy!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (kTF2Z)

26


* Pope Wave *

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (o6NKx)

27 The depth of Hamas' hatred of Jews would exceed Challenger Deep as them carrying out a mortar attack on a convoy of relief supplies entering Gaza from Israel proves.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (PITl1)

28
*Munkey*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (n+4am)

29 As I've said, it blows my mind that America pays off Iran who then uses the money to send missiles into Gaza and then Hamas fires them off randomly. It's just bizarre watching the Biden junta "foreign policy" work this way, and yet not a peep from Jewish leaders.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (0Fm2R)

Cash flow...good for commerce.

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (AwYPR)

30 15 The attacks from Gaza should never be viewed as palatable, but the blm factions here will demand that we see their grievances and not their murderous intent.

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (ONvIw)

31 Trump said pussy!
Posted by: Duke Lowell

The only person to ever do so! We must hate!! Reeeeeeeee.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (Rvt88)

32 Willowed:

Since I am buying a farm I am looking for a pickup. Wow prices on those have gone up.

I may just have to take a sheet metal saw to our minivan
Posted by: blaster


GMC Sierra with all the bells and whistles $69,500.

(Go to fleet sales at the dealership for a plain model for farm work)

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (OCTRt)

33 A chain saw is surgical, right? A Howitzer? A 500lb bomb?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (axyOa)

34 If electric cars ever do become mainstream, an awesome side effect will be Arabs collecting no money from the sale of oil and losing their ability to find Hamas and the like.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (Vxf2I)

35 >>>But those sweet sweet non mean tweets, eh?
Posted by: Joe XiDen


Saw a story today which claims Bidden has an awful temper and screams at his staff regularly. Guess that's his alternative to Twitter.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (bkUtD)

36 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

37 "Would you rather have Middle East peace under a bad man or Middle East chaos under a moral one? Check and mate."
-Never Trump

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:08 AM (LvTSG)

38 24 What if the UN forces countries to stop selling Israel weapons?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:03 AM (4fSQf)

Israel makes most of her weapons already. She needs American planes, and that is pretty much it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (Q9lwr


What about Iron Dome? That takes a lot of parts that are not all manufactured in Israel.

Just saying an embargo on the world stage would be catastrophic for Israel.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:08 AM (4fSQf)

39 I suspect that the Israelis are confident enough in Iron Dome to make the cycle of periodic destruction of warmaking capability in Gaza and West Bank palatable without utter destruction of the enemy and permanent occupation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 10:04 AM (Jsjd7)

I think that is a very good point, and it highlights one of the major flaws in Israeli strategic and popular thinking.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:08 AM (Q9lwr)

40 I try not to worry about things I have no control over . The Middle East chaos is one of those things. I just continue to be a prepper and hope my efforts cover most scenarios.

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 18, 2021 10:09 AM (2DOZq)

41 I definitely stand with Israel, unlike our feral government that always wants to give aid and succor to our sworn enemies.

This is messed up on so many levels.

Posted by: Elliot Page's Unknowable Gint at May 18, 2021 10:09 AM (jvt6t)

42 The Israelis should douse Gaza's water supply with LSD.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2021 10:09 AM (PITl1)

43 Netanyahu also has his own pit of vipers to worry about at home.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:09 AM (4fSQf)

44 42 The Israelis should douse Gaza's water supply with LSD.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2021 10:09 AM (PITl1)

Good one. Newsletter?

Posted by: Elliot Page's Unknowable Gint at May 18, 2021 10:09 AM (jvt6t)

45 Mahmoud Abbas is in the 16th year of a 4 year term.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 18, 2021 10:10 AM (PiwSw)

46 I saw Iranian War Materiel open for GWAR at The Icehouse in '86.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

47 Someone here speculated that we would have riot summer 2.0 over the Palestinians, and I think they're right. Same people, same urge to burn stuff down for a cause, any cause to spin it as righteous protes,
Helps that CAIR and Palestinian activists have been in on the BLM protests from the beginning.

It can't be resolved because the emboldened BLM and antifa activists across the globe need it to not be resolved.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 18, 2021 10:10 AM (bDqIh)

48 What about Iron Dome? That takes a lot of parts that are not all manufactured in Israel.

Just saying an embargo on the world stage would be catastrophic for Israel.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:08 AM (4fSQf)

I'm sure Israel is working in that as we speak.

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 18, 2021 10:10 AM (2DOZq)

49 The Israelis should douse Gaza's water supply with LSD DDT.

FTFY

Posted by: IP at May 18, 2021 10:10 AM (pWrfh)

50 Israel needs allies who won't put PR above safety.
Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:04 AM (ONvIw)


It isn't a truism, as CBD pointed out re Nixon and Kissinger, but every GOP candidate needs to come right out and kick the Jews in the nuts - "A Republican president and congress will support Israel. The Democrats will throw them into the ovens."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (2JVJo)

51
A chain saw is surgical, right? A Howitzer? A 500lb bomb?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (axyOa)


B52 carpet bombing is extremely accurate. The bombs ALWAYS hit the ground.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (n+4am)

52 If electric cars ever do become mainstream, an
awesome side effect will be Arabs collecting no money from the sale of
oil and losing their ability to find Hamas and the like.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (Vxf2I)

=======================
Somehow, I don't think more poverty will help the situation

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (0Fm2R)

53 Just saying an embargo on the world stage would be catastrophic for Israel.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:08 AM (4fSQf)

A total embargo? I doubt that will happen. As for embargoes of sensitive stuff like parts for Iron Dome? Eh...Israel has a significant high-tech industrial base, so they can make what they need eventually, although at greater cost.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (Q9lwr)

54 DDT?

Okay I can see that since it is full of two-legged vermin

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (PITl1)

55 The one problem with utter destruction of the enemy is that it's a very large enemy that goes beyond Gaza. Iran and enty of other Muslim countries would gladly attack Israel in the absence of Pals.

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (ONvIw)

56 "Would you rather have Middle East peace under a bad man or Middle East chaos under a moral one? Check and mate."
-Never Trump


What we acyclovir have:

[ ] Peace, bad man
[ ] Chaos, moral one
[ X ] Chaos, immoral blithering idiot

Posted by: Oddbob at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (qc+VF)

57 I definitely stand with Israel, unlike our feral government that always wants to give aid and succor to our sworn enemies.

This is messed up on so many levels.
Posted by: Elliot Page's Unknowable Gint



*Fistbump

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (OCTRt)

58 Kissinger told Nixon to hold off on aid?! What would make him think that was the best plan? I assume I'm missing some information either about him or the situation.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (1lKRm)

59 Bounties and letters of marque exclusively offered to Palestinians by Israel for the heads of known Hamas members.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:06 AM (LvTSG)


I like that whole "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" scenario. Assuming the targets were big enough.

That would sew distrust and confusion amongst the ranks of Hamass and might even lead to internecine fighting and assassination.

In fact, were I Israel, I'd assassinate a few top dogs and then claim that the rewards were claimed by Palestinians. Maybe even set up some fake Swiss Banks act's with the names of other Big Dogs that somehow "leak out".

Hijinks ensue.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 18, 2021 10:12 AM (dWwl8)

60 When this all cooked off, I recall that the Gulf States were all awfully quiet about it instead of issuing the traditional immediate condemnations. Have any said anything since then?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 18, 2021 10:13 AM (dfRN6)

61 "acyclovir?" Really, autocomplete? Why is that even an option there to hit accidently?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 18, 2021 10:13 AM (qc+VF)

62 A total embargo? I doubt that will happen. As for embargoes of sensitive stuff like parts for Iron Dome? Eh...Israel has a significant high-tech industrial base, so they can make what they need eventually, although at greater cost.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (Q9lwr


I hope so but I'm not sure they have a strategic reserve of things like chips or heavy metals. Could be wrong but all the things that make tech possible are sourced from a lot of different countries.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:13 AM (4fSQf)

63 Israel needs allies who won't put PR above safety don't despise Jews.
Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:04 AM


FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 18, 2021 10:13 AM (m+jkK)

64 off confused sock. GAAAACK!!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 10:13 AM (jvt6t)

65 Israel is going to get the full court press from the Marxist world government.

Hope they can ignore it but they get a lot of support from other countries.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:02 AM (4fSQf)

My opinion is, there's no legitimacy to the "world government," and at this time certainly not the United States.

So if we wanted to see what a non-handcuffed Israel would look like, with its ability to operate in its own interests, without meddling from the idiotic Euros or the weenies here, we're about to find out.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:13 AM (AIH1c)

66 The one problem with utter destruction of the enemy is that it's a very large enemy that goes beyond Gaza. Iran and enty of other Muslim countries would gladly attack Israel in the absence of Pals.
Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (ONvIw)
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Iran, certainly. The Arabs have been much more tolerant over the past 20 years and they were more than happy to make strides absent the Palis, probably because of the Iranian danger. I don't trust the Arabs, but they know that the Persians, not the Israelis, are the threat.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 10:13 AM (Jsjd7)

67 Kissinger told Nixon to hold off on aid?! What would make him think that was the best plan? I assume I'm missing some information either about him or the situation.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 18, 2021 10:11 AM (1lKRm)

You have to put all foreign policy at that time in the context of the Cold War.

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 18, 2021 10:14 AM (2DOZq)

68 14 4 Israel needs allies who won't put PR above safety.
---------------
So the French?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 18, 2021 10:14 AM (/MaDp)

69 The Israelis should douse Gaza's water supply with LSD.
Posted by: Anna Puma

With all due respect Anna, how would one know it has taken effect?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 18, 2021 10:14 AM (Rvt88)

70 59 In fact, were I Israel, I'd assassinate a few top dogs and then claim that the rewards were claimed by Palestinians. Maybe even set up some fake Swiss Banks act's with the names of other Big Dogs that somehow "leak out".

Hijinks ensue.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 18, 2021 10:12 AM (dWwl

=========

From what I've heard, the Palestinian people don't like Hamas all that much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:14 AM (LvTSG)

71 Educate me.

Why doesn't Israel strike Iran in Iran?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:15 AM (QeenG)

72 What about Iron Dome? That takes a lot of parts that are not all manufactured in Israel.

Just saying an embargo on the world stage would be catastrophic for Israel.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:08 AM (4fSQf)

Possibly. Or it would force their hand and they'd have to end things for good.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 18, 2021 10:15 AM (EjmvJ)

73 "Acyclovir is used to treat
infections caused by certain types of viruses. It treats cold sores
around the mouth (caused by herpes simplex), shingles (caused by herpes
zoster), and chickenpox."

Posted by: IP at May 18, 2021 10:15 AM (pWrfh)

74 I hope so but I'm not sure they have a strategic
reserve of things like chips or heavy metals.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:13 AM (4fSQf)

Your point is a good one, but one reason Israel has conducted outreach in pretty much every country on earth that will let their planes land is to cultivate other sources for stuff that Europe may stop selling them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:15 AM (Q9lwr)

75 Apparently the IDF did try to whack Hamas's leader three days ago.

https://is.gd/5zjPiE

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 18, 2021 10:16 AM (PiwSw)

76 71 Educate me.

Why doesn't Israel strike Iran in Iran?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:15 AM (QeenG)


It's a countdown clock. They will only level Iran if they get a nuke. But they've done a lot of work making sure they keep setting the clock back through other means. Viruses, sabotage, etc.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:16 AM (4fSQf)

77 63 you didn't fix it.

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:16 AM (ONvIw)

78

CBD, you ignorant slut...


- - K.K. Peston

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 18, 2021 10:17 AM (s2VJv)

79 Why doesn't Israel strike Iran in Iran?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:15 AM (QeenG)
++++
Probably several reasons. They do strike Iran in Iran, but not routinely or systematically. They probably can't sustain that kind of offensive for one thing (not without *any* support from external powers, and they can't count on that) and there are several countries in the area that will look the other way on surgical strikes against atomic infrastructure but might not be so accommodating in the event of a general strike on the wider government and Tehran.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 10:17 AM (Jsjd7)

80 Why doesn't Israel strike Iran in Iran?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:15 AM (QeenG)

Because that will start a very big war. They would rather keep it simmering and hope to degrade Iranian capabilities over several years, rather than risk open warfare.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:17 AM (Q9lwr)

81 The best part of World War Z was the explanation on how Israel was prepared for the zombie apocalypse when no one else was. I think that has a basis in truth.

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 18, 2021 10:17 AM (2DOZq)

82 So if we wanted to see what a non-handcuffed Israel would look like, with its ability to operate in its own interests, without meddling from the idiotic Euros or the weenies here, we're about to find out.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:13 AM (AIH1c)


Nice canal ya got there...hey Europe, it'd be a shame if it was, like, you know, closed.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2021 10:17 AM (axyOa)

83 Operation Nickel Grass, the airlift that saved Israel during the Yom Kippur War.

https://tinyurl.com/3r8pnns9

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2021 10:17 AM (PITl1)

84 34 If electric cars ever do become mainstream, an awesome side effect will be Arabs collecting no money from the sale of oil and losing their ability to find Hamas and the like.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (Vxf2I)


Because we all know the only thing oil is used for is gasoline.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 18, 2021 10:18 AM (G2zl5)

85 Saw a meme that was that picture of the Gaza night sky with the rockets from Hamas on the right, and the iron dome rockets stopping them on the left. The caption was:

[under Hamas rockets]: US taxes
[under iron dome defensive rockets]: US taxes

That's the worst part of this -- that it has happened right after Biden sent the Palestinians tens of millions, and he's just sent them more money. But do please pretend to be shocked, Joey choo-choo.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 18, 2021 10:18 AM (bDqIh)

86 It's a countdown clock. They will only level Iran if they get a nuke. But they've done a lot of work making sure they keep setting the clock back through other means. Viruses, sabotage, etc.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Still plenty of tourist spots in Iran could be bombed in the meantime.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:18 AM (QeenG)

87
81 The best part of World War Z was the explanation on how Israel was prepared for the zombie apocalypse when no one else was. I think that has a basis in truth.
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 18, 2021 10:17 AM (2DOZq


The tenth man

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:19 AM (4fSQf)

88 From what I've heard, the Palestinian people don't like Hamas all that much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:14 AM (LvTSG)

They voted them in over the PA. So they like them enough.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:19 AM (Q9lwr)

89 "Acyclovir is used to treat
infections caused by certain types of viruses. It treats cold sores
around the mouth (caused by herpes simplex), shingles (caused by herpes
zoster), and chickenpox."
Posted by: IP at May 18, 2021 10:15 AM (pWrfh)



I think that's the stuff they eventually gave me when I had pityriasis rosea. Which sucks, by the way. Don't ever get it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 18, 2021 10:19 AM (Ez6QX)

90 86 Still plenty of tourist spots in Iran could be bombed in the meantime.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:18 AM (QeenG)


Sadegh's House of Clit-Clipping?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 18, 2021 10:20 AM (s2VJv)

91 88 From what I've heard, the Palestinian people don't like Hamas all that much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:14 AM (LvTSG)

They voted them in over the PA. So they like them enough.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:19 AM (Q9lwr)

==========

*obvious Dominion joke that's as tired as Biden in the early afternoon*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:20 AM (LvTSG)

92 Still plenty of tourist spots in Iran could be bombed in the meantime.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:18 AM (QeenG)

I knew you were an idiot.

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:20 AM (AwYPR)

93 76 71 Educate me.

Why doesn't Israel strike Iran in Iran?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:15 AM (QeenG)

Logistics. They were at the limits of range and deception when they whacked the Iraqi reactor years ago. Plus, if you look at a map, there is no clear way to fly directly there without violating all kinds of other airspace. I know they have subs, but missile subs? Not sure.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 10:20 AM (jvt6t)

94 Because we all know the only thing oil is used for is gasoline.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 18, 2021 10:18 AM (G2zl5)

Heh...is gasoline even the largest use for crude?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:20 AM (Q9lwr)

95 If electric cars ever do become mainstream, an awesome side effect will be Arabs collecting no money from the sale of oil and losing their ability to find Hamas and the like.
Posted by: Joe XiDen


Because we all know the only thing oil is used for is gasoline.
Posted by: Buzzion


At the level the Arabs need to stay profitable and keep a home brewed pogrom from happening? Yeah.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:20 AM (OCTRt)

96 Hamas: stop shooting and killing us so that we can move our missiles to a new human shield site and shoot you again at a later date.
Dems: what Hamas said, but with hands as clean as Herod.

Posted by: Downcast at May 18, 2021 10:20 AM (uaE7n)

97 "acyclovir?" Really, autocomplete? Why is that even an option there to hit accidently?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 18, 2021 10:13 AM (qc+VF)

Maybe we know something you don't, ever think of that?

Hmmm... by the way, you have some dry rot on a few of the boards on your deck. And your tires need to be rotated soon.

Posted by: Your Government at May 18, 2021 10:21 AM (AIH1c)

98
Heh...is gasoline even the largest use for crude?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:20 AM (Q9lwr)



Doubt it. There's a billion things oil is used in nowadays.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

99 "The best we can hope for is exactly what is happening now: destruction of the terrorist apparatus with surgical precision."

Whatever you're on is some powerful stuff, man.

Look, the last 70 years (Israel), 20 years (uptick in islamic terror), and 5 years (most recent wave of islamist violence and illegal marxist-funded invasion in the EU) have shown rather conclusively that "surgical strikes to keep them in line" is a load of hogwash.

Failing to completely expel the arabs at the formation of Israel was a mistake. Failing to finish the job at a few points since was a continuation of that mistake. The world is aghast at that one arab that nearly got lynched on TV, ignoring the wave of arab Israeli citizens that have decided now is the time to throw off the mantle of puppies and rainbows and shank their neighbors.

What they need to do is finish business as soon as the rest of the world is distracted - most likely by some clusterfuck involving China. THAT is what we should hope for - and an Israel free of arabs is one less politically useful cause for the marxists.

Posted by: somedood at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (BRmwW)

100 Still plenty of tourist spots in Iran could be bombed in the meantime.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:18 AM (QeenG)

This is a profoundly stupid thing to say. Did you have a recent brain injury?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (Q9lwr)

101 Speakin' of which....

@charliespiering 21m

"We are not following the same tactics of the prior administration" Jen Psaki confirms about Biden's Israel approach.


Well that's working out just peachy, PJen.

Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (cF8AT)

102 They voted them in over the PA. So they like them enough.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:19 AM (Q9lwr)

==========

*obvious Dominion joke that's as tired as Biden in the early afternoon*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:20 AM (LvTSG)

Thought they didn't hold elections in Gaza (Hamas) and that Fatah didn't hold real elections in the PA.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (z5Vrg)

103 80 Why doesn't Israel strike Iran in Iran?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:15 AM (QeenG)

Because that will start a very big war. They would rather keep it simmering and hope to degrade Iranian capabilities over several years, rather than risk open warfare.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:17 AM (Q9lwr)


It's like why didn't we bomb the shit out of North Vietnam before Nixon in '72? Or really, the Chi-Coms as that is where the weaponry came from, along with Moscow.

At some point, Israrel will probably have to and please G-d the KSA and GCC will take an active role.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (s2VJv)

104 Politics make strange bedfellows and with the Iranians again acting like 800lb gorillas...

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (PITl1)

105 That's the worst part of this -- that it has happened right after Biden sent the Palestinians tens of millions, and he's just sent them more money. But do please pretend to be shocked, Joey choo-choo.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 18, 2021 10:18 AM (bDqIh)


I suspect Biden, his administration, and all of the media is being played and they are falling for it.
I'm thinking of the little girl with the stuffed bear among the debris and the "interview" with the ten year old little girl who amazingly speaks perfect English and seems to hit all the Pali talking points.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2021 10:23 AM (axyOa)

106 101 Speakin' of which....

@charliespiering 21m

"We are not following the same tactics of the prior administration" Jen Psaki confirms about Biden's Israel approach.


Well that's working out just peachy, PJen.
Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (cF8AT


Please, Jen. Explain your tactics. I'd like a few Jewish Democrats to hear this.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:23 AM (4fSQf)

107 @charliespiering 21m

"We are not following the same tactics of the prior administration" Jen Psaki confirms about Biden's Israel approach.


Well that's working out just peachy, PJen.
Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (cF8AT)



Yes, because signing treaties and peace deals in the middle east was a SHITTY way to go about governing.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

108

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 18, 2021 10:23 AM (K2SnJ)

109 Complacency in defense, guess you never lived in a small country.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:23 AM (QeenG)

110 The best part of World War Z was the explanation on how Israel was prepared for the zombie apocalypse when no one else was. I think that has a basis in truth.
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 18, 2021 10:17 AM (2DOZq)

To clarify, you are referring to the book, not the movie.

The stupid movie completely reversed the outcome there, and had the Israelis basically blowing themselves up.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:23 AM (AIH1c)

111
Please, Jen. Explain your tactics. I'd like a few Jewish Democrats to hear this.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:23 AM (4fSQf)



It's cute you think they care about Israel.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

112 Heh...is gasoline even the largest use for crude?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


In the US, most crude is refined into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. The transportation sector has been the largest sector since 1949.

Take away gas, diesel and jet fuel use, and most countries wouldn't need to buy from the arabs.

Not at the levels the arabs are used to selling at.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:25 AM (OCTRt)

113 111
Please, Jen. Explain your tactics. I'd like a few Jewish Democrats to hear this.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:23 AM (4fSQf)


It's cute you think they care about Israel.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)


I'd like to see sides declared, thank you.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:25 AM (4fSQf)

114 Complacency in defense, guess you never lived in a small country.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:23 AM (QeenG)

What does that even mean?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:25 AM (Q9lwr)

115
It's like why didn't we bomb the shit out of North Vietnam before Nixon in '72? Or really, the Chi-Coms as that is where the weaponry came from, along with Moscow.

At some point, Israrel will probably have to and please G-d the KSA and GCC will take an active role.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (s2VJv)


Also logistics. It is a long way to Iran from Israel...all of it over Arab countries. It would require their support for refueling alone, much less using their airspace to get there and back. Add to this, once you cross the border, it is a long way to the targets. Israeli losses would be significant.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2021 10:26 AM (axyOa)

116 I suspect Biden, his administration, and all of the media is being played and they are falling for it.
I'm thinking of the little girl with the stuffed bear among the debris and the "interview" with the ten year old little girl who amazingly speaks perfect English and seems to hit all the Pali talking points.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2021 10:23 AM (axyOa)

I don't believe they're being "played." I think this is what they want. They think they can win this.

And yes, by "they" I mean their allies in Iran.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:26 AM (AIH1c)

117 About 50% of oil is used for gas. I wonder if that would impact Irans economy????? Hmmm.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:26 AM (Vxf2I)

118 "If electric cars ever do become mainstream, an awesome side effect will be Arabs collecting no money from the sale of oil"


the whole AGW BS is a weapon against the West, as we see with India and China having no issues with belching out coal soot. They shut down out oil/coal/pipelines maybe, but once the Oligarchs are fully in charge, the oil will flow again (into the West).

Posted by: illiniwek at May 18, 2021 10:26 AM (Cus5s)

119 This is a profoundly stupid thing to say. Did you have a recent brain injury?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Only one kind of tourists in Iran at the hot spots.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:27 AM (QeenG)

120
Also logistics. It is a long way to Iran from Israel...all of it over Arab countries. It would require their support for refueling alone, much less using their airspace to get there and back. Add to this, once you cross the border, it is a long way to the targets. Israeli losses would be significant.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2021 10:26 AM (axyOa)


This is why having the UAE, Bahrain and Saudi bases is key. Hop skip and jump over the Gulf.

And thank you Obama for tipping off the Iranians to a potential strike from the north from Baku!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 18, 2021 10:27 AM (s2VJv)

121 I'd like to see sides declared, thank you.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:25 AM (4fSQf)

They have been. Most liberal JINO's hate Israel now and would love to see it destroyed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2021 10:27 AM (trdmm)

122 @DailyCaller2m

.@PressSec: "Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don't think [the Trump administration] did anything constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the Middle East."


Pray tell, Pjen...what did Obama/Biden do to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the ME?

Keep going...you're cracking us up!

Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 10:27 AM (cF8AT)

123 Because we all know the only thing oil is used for is gasoline.
Posted by: Buzzion
At the level the Arabs need to stay profitable and keep a home brewed pogrom from happening? Yeah.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:20 AM (OCTRt)

I kind of wonder what the unintended consequences of no longer needing gasoline would be. Yeah you still need other petroleum products but no gas, how much does that destroy the profit motive to refine oil, and then does production fall off a cliff and thus cause the prices of the other stuff to rise based simply on their no longer being as much production. I do wonder how much "no more gasoline!" has been games out.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 18, 2021 10:27 AM (G2zl5)

124 105 The deaths and injury of children are exploited by the enemy at every turn because it works. The West can be depended on to cry tears and condemn the real victims instead of those who put kids in harm's way.

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:27 AM (ONvIw)

125 And yes, by "they" I mean their allies in Iran.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:26 AM (AIH1c)


Like John Kerry.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 18, 2021 10:27 AM (PiwSw)

126 What most folks don't understand is just how SMALL Israel is.

If you take out the West Bank, some of it is only 9 miles wide. I do afternoon hikes longer than that. At its WIDEST point its something like 71 miles wide... an hour at modern highway speeds.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 10:27 AM (oHd/0)

127
Back to the studio.

Later.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 18, 2021 10:28 AM (s2VJv)

128 Also logistics. It is a long way to Iran from Israel...all of it over Arab countries. It would require their support for refueling alone, much less using their airspace to get there and back. Add to this, once you cross the border, it is a long way to the targets. Israeli losses would be significant.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2021 10:26 AM (axyOa)

Saudi Arabia hates Iran and has long been involved in a proxy war in Yemen with them. Southern Iraq is basically an Iranian satellite now since the current US regime will probably cease to compete for it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 18, 2021 10:28 AM (z5Vrg)

129 Only one kind of tourists in Iran at the hot spots.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:27 AM (QeenG)

So you are suggesting the wholesale murder of Muslim tourists in Iran?

Maybe a vacation from this blog is in order? Get your priorities straight?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:28 AM (Q9lwr)

130 What they need to do is finish business as soon as the rest of the world is distracted - most likely by some clusterfuck involving China. THAT is what we should hope for - and an Israel free of arabs is one less politically useful cause for the marxists.
Posted by: somedood at May 18, 2021 10:22 AM (BRmwW)


Ackshewallee, that's one of China's favorite ploys.

Most of their recent invasions, such as Tibet, happened when the "world" (ie, the US) was distracted by shenanigans in the Middle East or elsewhere.

Best guess? If the ME really goes hot or gets messy enough. They take Taiwan or those islands of Japan (I forget the names right now) that they claim cuz of oil and fishing resources.

China is one of Iran's Big Daddy's and Xiden is China's puppet so things could get very messy should they want it.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 18, 2021 10:29 AM (dWwl8)

131 If electric cars ever do become mainstream, an awesome side effect will be Arabs collecting no money from the sale of oil and losing their ability to find Hamas and the like.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (Vxf2I)
++++
This is a fairly poor argument. We use oil for a lot more than gas and moving to a less-resilient transportation method (well, less energy-dense at any rate, with more fragile external requirements) is not a great way to own the Arabs and Persians.

There is another way to squeeze them on energy, and it's what we were doing with astonishing efficacy right up until the end of January: make our own energy, gain independence from them, then compete with them globally as convenient but otherwise ignore them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 10:29 AM (Jsjd7)

132 Biden in a nutshell: If Trump was for it, we're agin it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2021 10:29 AM (kTF2Z)

133 There is another, almost not reported story. Palestinian legislative elections were scheduled for 5/22/21. After much hemming and hawing from Abbas and much pressure from EU and Arab world. Now they are indefinitely postponed. Last elections (legislative council) were held in...2006. Presidential in 2009. According to surveys (yeah, I know) Fatah was to win but with a slim margin (38-34% Hamas). Maybe Hamas thought that this conflict would have allowed them to pushed Fatah aside and control both Gaza and W Bank.

Posted by: runner at May 18, 2021 10:29 AM (V13WU)

134 *push aside

Posted by: runner at May 18, 2021 10:30 AM (V13WU)

135 Well, time to flush eight hours of my life down the toilet. I'll be back when we're on a different topic.

227 days to go. Ugh. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 18, 2021 10:30 AM (2JVJo)

136 I spell out for you.

Military tourists.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:31 AM (QeenG)

137 I kind of wonder what the unintended consequences of no longer needing gasoline would be. Yeah you still need other petroleum products but no gas, how much does that destroy the profit motive to refine oil, and then does production fall off a cliff and thus cause the prices of the other stuff to rise based simply on their no longer being as much production. I do wonder how much "no more gasoline!" has been games out.
Posted by: Buzzion


I think prices would go the other way. Bargain basement prices. The world would suddenly be awash in so much non-needed oil that every tiny country could refine what they needed because you couldn't give the oil away.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:31 AM (OCTRt)

138 136 no way Israel will take on China

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:32 AM (ONvIw)

139 I spell out for you.

Military tourists.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:31 AM (QeenG)

Check your spelling.

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:32 AM (AwYPR)

140 Military tourists.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:31 AM (QeenG)

Once again, this is idiotic. The issue isn't Iranian training of terrorists, the issue is the Iranian nuclear program. All else is trivial.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 18, 2021 10:33 AM (Q9lwr)

141 Joe,

About 50% of the oil that is sold worldwide is used for gasoline. Say 1/2 of that 50% is no longer needed as EVs gain market share. That would be devastating to Iran, SA, etc.

The Saudis know this is coming and are trying to diversify away from depends on an oil based economy.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:33 AM (Vxf2I)

142
I'd like to see sides declared, thank you.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:25 AM (4fSQf)



Your point is valid, but I don't see how they haven't already declared them over the last few decades of Israel hatred coming from the left in DC.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

143 Israel shares a lot of technology developments with India.

They share radar/ECM jamming pods for their military aircraft.

I also think that Israel, at times, does technology sharing with China, which makes a lot of people in the US military nervous.

As regards to the 1973 Yom Kippur war, Nixon had photo recon intelligence that the USSR had deployed nuclear armed short range missiles in Egypt, in case
1) Egypt got over run
2) Israel got over run and they excercised the so-called Jericho Option (nuking the Arabs).

After the Yom Kippur war, the missiles were withdrawn by the USSR. Yeah, that Cold War thing had a lot going on.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 18, 2021 10:34 AM (vcOmj)

144 About 50% of the oil that is sold worldwide is used
for gasoline. Say 1/2 of that 50% is no longer needed as EVs gain market
share. That would be devastating to Iran, SA, etc.



The Saudis know this is coming and are trying to diversify away from depends on an oil based economy.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:33 AM

Wait until someone invents Mr. Fusion, then the shoe will be on the other hand.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 18, 2021 10:35 AM (JUOKG)

145 .@PressSec: "Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don't think [the Trump administration] did anything constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the Middle East."


Pray tell, Pjen...what did Obama/Biden do to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the ME?

Keep going...you're cracking us up!
Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 10:27 AM (cF8AT)

I don't think it's accurate to say they didn't DO anything, or that they aren't doing anything now. It's also not accurate to say her characterization of the Trump efforts is missing something.

It's not. She means what she says, and if you LISTEN to the words, the message is clear: Anything that benefits Israel is bad, everything that benefits Iran is good. So her words, as much as you don't AGREE with them, are not laughable. She means what she's saying... or the psychopaths she speaks for mean it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:35 AM (AIH1c)

146 About 50% of the oil that is sold worldwide is used for gasoline. Say 1/2 of that 50% is no longer needed as EVs gain market share. That would be devastating to Iran, SA, etc.

The Saudis know this is coming and are trying to diversify away from depends on an oil based economy.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:33 AM (Vxf2I)
++++
If EVs gain market share, then fine. No problem and consequences to foreign oil are likely positive. I'm not exactly anti-EV (I don't want one myself), but I think "pursue EVs to hurt the MidEast oil industry" is poor policy since it involves too many negative trade-offs to get there, whereas pursuing domestic energy production has positive effects in employment, industrial production, etc. That's all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 10:35 AM (Jsjd7)

147
I'd like to see sides declared, thank you.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:25 AM (4fSQf)


Your point is valid, but I don't see how they haven't already declared them over the last few decades of Israel hatred coming from the left in DC.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

I think it's a quiet thing, whispered in certain circles. Forcing the issue out in the open may open some eyes in the community. Anything that cleaves support from Democrats.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:35 AM (4fSQf)

148 Just an idea.

I projected to little. Some projected to much.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:36 AM (QeenG)

149 Has there ever been a previous administration with an agenda driven entirely by hatred of the previous administration?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 18, 2021 10:37 AM (cSyAR)

150 Biden, like his dumb lefty predecessor Obama, are laundering money through Iran to arm Hamas et al. The nuclear issue is the smokescreen.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 18, 2021 10:37 AM (r+sAi)

151 I wasnt saying buy an EV to pwn the Arabs. I said it would be a nice side effect if EVs became the mainstream form of autos worldwide.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:37 AM (Vxf2I)

152 Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:35 AM (AIH1c)

I seem to remember some historic Peace Treaties signed with Israel during the Trump Admin.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 10:37 AM (oHd/0)

153 One of the reasons Israel will not strike Iran is their very good understanding of Iran's politics. Hint , very much like the old USSR - tyrannical regime, freedom loving subjects.

Posted by: runner at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (V13WU)

154 There's no need to strike Iran at the moment, all that needs to be done is to destroy their ability to project power. With no ability to project power, a military force is just a dog in a cage. Israel destroys Iran's ability to project power by destroying all of the weapons stores in Gaza, and by preventing any new shipments through their naval embargo.

and Hamas doesn't need to be destroyed utterly, they just need to be taken down to where they have nothing left to fight with but rocks and sticks. At that point they become little more than a pack of baboons in a big zoo. suspect that the huge number of rockets being fired at Israel is not because of any great strength, but because even Hamas realizes that they are now in a "use it or lose it" situation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (trdmm)

155 I think I worded that last comment badly. Blame it on back pain.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (cSyAR)

156 Has there ever been a previous administration with an agenda driven entirely by hatred of the previous administration?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker

Obama > Shrub

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (OCTRt)

157
I think it's a quiet thing, whispered in certain circles. Forcing the issue out in the open may open some eyes in the community. Anything that cleaves support from Democrats.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:35 AM (4fSQf)


It won't happen until the US is destroyed and we're no longer a constitutional republic, but I understand your direction here.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

158 In fact, were I Israel, I'd assassinate a few top
dogs and then claim that the rewards were claimed by Palestinians.
Maybe even set up some fake Swiss Banks act's with the names of other
Big Dogs that somehow "leak out".



Hijinks ensue.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 18, 2021 10:12 AM (dWwl
Untraceable bitcoin.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (BMmaB)

159 149 Has there ever been a previous administration with an agenda driven entirely by hatred of the previous administration?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 18, 2021 10:37 AM (cSyAR


No previous administration has ever gone against the swamp like Trump.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (4fSQf)

160 Your point is valid, but I don't see how they haven't already declared them over the last few decades of Israel hatred coming from the left in DC.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

Seems clear to me. The official position of the United States at this time is to see Israel wiped off the face of the Earth.

I don't see how it's possible to read it any other way.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (AIH1c)

161 The West should treat the Historical Sites of Islam with the same reverence that muslims employ when they encounter the Historical Sites of Judaism.

I make no apologies for wanting Islam wiped off the books.

Posted by: garrett at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (Y3JUK)

162 Escort every Arab Muslim in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel proper to the borders, give them $5k, and tell them they will never be allowed back. That $5k is enough to let them live the good life in any other Islamic shit hole. Demand that all Arab countries abide by the UN's official declaration: any refugee who has lived in a country for twenty years is no longer a refugee, but a citizen of that country. Enough is too much. End it once and for all. Gaza and the West Bank were part of Israel at the partition of '48. Israel accepted that, even though it was only a small part of what had been declared the Jewish homeland in the Balfour Declaration.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin, clinging bitterly to a deplorable life at May 18, 2021 10:39 AM (efX5n)

163 152 the DC pols had to stop that, didn't they? Trump highlighted their ineptitude or their refusal to act. Playing both sides is very lucrative, no doubt.

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:39 AM (ONvIw)

164 151 I wasnt saying buy an EV to pwn the Arabs. I said it would be a nice side effect if EVs became the mainstream form of autos worldwide.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:37 AM (Vxf2I)

EVs are not viable for the vast majority of the world. Only the US really has the electric grid to support EVs... even the EU has areas where there is not enough capacity or a strong enough electric Grid to support all vehicles going electric.

Africa, Asia, and South America???? Going to be using gas for a long damn time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 10:40 AM (oHd/0)

165 Blame it on back pain.

Catchy line. Mind if we use it?

Posted by: Milli Vanilli at May 18, 2021 10:40 AM (WnIYD)

166 I think I worded that last comment badly. Blame it on back pain.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (cSyAR)



I think we can make a song out of that.......

Posted by: Milli Vanilli at May 18, 2021 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

167 >>Has there ever been a previous administration with an agenda driven entirely by hatred of


America?


Yes. The First two Obama administrations.

The Third one has decided...YOLO.

Posted by: garrett at May 18, 2021 10:40 AM (Y3JUK)

168 Escort every Arab Muslim in Gaza, the West Bank, and
Israel proper to the borders, give them $5k, and tell them they will
never be allowed back. That $5k is enough to let them live the good life
in any other Islamic shit hole. Demand that all Arab countries abide by
the UN's official declaration: any refugee who has lived in a country
for twenty years is no longer a refugee, but a citizen of that country.
Enough is too much. End it once and for all. Gaza and the West Bank were
part of Israel at the partition of '48. Israel accepted that, even
though it was only a small part of what had been declared the Jewish
homeland in the Balfour Declaration.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin, clinging bitterly to a deplorable life at May 18, 2021 10:39 AM


Problem with that is nobody in the Arab World wants them. Not a single Country has every said, hey guys come on over here and live. Matter of fact Egypt keeps locking the door on their side of the border.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 18, 2021 10:40 AM (JUOKG)

169 165 Blame it on back pain.

Catchy line. Mind if we use it?
Posted by: Milli Vanilli at May 18, 2021 10:40 AM (WnIYD)

166 I think I worded that last comment badly. Blame it on back pain.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (cSyAR)

I think we can make a song out of that.......
Posted by: Milli Vanilli at May 18, 2021 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)


BWWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

170 I think hump'bot might be making a tourist/terrorist pun in his usual obscure way

Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (UgCb4)

171 Is the hatred of Israel by the Democrats based on religion?

I just don't get the Democrat thinking here. Support Iran because why? Money?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (4fSQf)

172 The West should treat the Historical Sites of Islam with the same reverence that muslims employ when they encounter the Historical Sites of Judaism.

I make no apologies for wanting Islam wiped off the books.
Posted by: garrett

I'm unapologetic. I learned all I needed to know about islam on 9-11-2001.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (OCTRt)

173 Strikes don't need to be nukes. Let the whole country get the memo.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (QeenG)

174 Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:35 AM (AIH1c)

I seem to remember some historic Peace Treaties signed with Israel during the Trump Admin.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 10:37 AM (oHd/0)

Yes, and this administration means to tear those up, as they go against everything they want to accomplish.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (AIH1c)

175 The Horde mind is real and it is glorious.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (kTF2Z)

176 153 I think we over-rate the number of freedom loving people in Islamic states.

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (ONvIw)

177 Africa, Asia, and South America???? Going to be using gas for a long damn time.

Asia is going to be using mopeds and tuktuks

Posted by: Downcast at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (uaE7n)

178 The 'Rona, is there nothing it can't do?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 18, 2021 10:42 AM (VVEnO)

179 Re EVs (and the Green New Deal more broadly):
Where are tires going to come from?
Where is steel going to come from?
Where is concrete going to come from?
When someone can explain to me how those are done, then I'll think they're serious. Otherwise, it's just fairy dust. Some electric cars will get built, but they'll never have the market share needed to make a dent in oil demand.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 18, 2021 10:42 AM (BMmaB)

180 158 In fact, were I Israel, I'd assassinate a few top
dogs and then claim that the rewards were claimed by Palestinians.
Maybe even set up some fake Swiss Banks act's with the names of other
Big Dogs that somehow "leak out".

Hijinks ensue.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 18, 2021 10:12 AM (dWwl
Untraceable bitcoin.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 18, 2021 10:38 AM (BMmaB)

Clearly Russian Hackers!!!!

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 10:42 AM (oHd/0)

181 Catchy line. Mind if we use it?
Posted by: Milli Vanilli at May 18, 2021 10:40 AM (WnIYD)
+++++
I blame the vain.
https://youtu.be/G6nsdyqYCg0

Posted by: Dwight Yoakam at May 18, 2021 10:42 AM (Jsjd7)

182 171 its always money.

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:42 AM (ONvIw)

183 I think hump'bot might be making a tourist/terrorist pun in his usual obscure way

Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (UgCb4)

Not that clever.

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:43 AM (AwYPR)

184 Problem with that is nobody in the Arab World wants them.

Posted by: Mister Scott


Life sucks when you're an asshole.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:43 AM (OCTRt)

185 Irans "friendship" with China is a very serious problem for US. China hacked many sensitive systems and has more spies here than Iran can dream of. Iran has more oil than China can dream of. If sanctions are lifted...well you can imagine what happens. And the Chicoms are working very hard to do just that, in the US by helping to install Biden, and in Europe with the EU. Very problematic.

Posted by: runner at May 18, 2021 10:43 AM (V13WU)

186 Problem with that is nobody in the Arab World wants
them. Not a single Country has every said, hey guys come on over here
and live. Matter of fact Egypt keeps locking the door on their side of
the border.


Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 18, 2021 10:40 AM (JUOKG
Black September, 1970. Jordan kicked them out.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 18, 2021 10:44 AM (BMmaB)

187 184 Problem with that is nobody in the Arab World wants them.

Posted by: Mister Scott


Life sucks when you're an asshole.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:43 AM (OCTRt)


Funny guy.

Posted by: Hope Solo at May 18, 2021 10:44 AM (4fSQf)

188 Napoleon Solo > Han Solo > Hope Solo

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 18, 2021 10:44 AM (PiwSw)

189 I think hump'bot might be making a tourist/terrorist pun in his usual obscure way
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron.

Thank you Mr Neuron.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:44 AM (QeenG)

190
Life sucks when you're an asshole.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:43 AM (OCTRt)



I always figured it was just shitty.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

191 I think we over-rate the number of freedom loving people in Islamic states.
Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (ONvIw)


Hell, we overrate the number of freedom-loving people in America.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 18, 2021 10:46 AM (2JVJo)

192 A chain saw is surgical, right? A Howitzer? A 500lb bomb?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (axyOa)

surgical MOAB?

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (8D42x)

193 Hell, we overrate the number of freedom-loving people in America.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 18, 2021 10:46 AM (2JVJo)


^^THIS

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (jvt6t)

194 164

Worldwide EVs were 4% of all new car sales in 2020. Up from 2.5% in 2019. Norway - which ironically enough sells a lot of oil - is at 70% and Sweden is about to hit 50%. Chyna is at 6%.



Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (Vxf2I)

195 Hell, we overrate the number of freedom-loving people in America.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 18, 2021 10:46 AM (2JVJo)


Glad this pandemic has opened some eyes across the country. Many people now understand their neighbors will quietly board the train.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (4fSQf)

196 Is the hatred of Israel by the Democrats based on religion?

I just don't get the Democrat thinking here. Support Iran because why? Money?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:41 AM (4fSQf)

I think the Globalists see Israel as a competing entity.

Their agenda is consolidation of power, and they see a source of power they don't control. It's an existential threat. As long as there is any power they don't control, they must kill it. Not just Israel, but Trump, religion, American individualism, people with guns, etc.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (AIH1c)

197 Hell, we overrate the number of freedom-loving people in America.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 18, 2021 10:46 AM (2JVJo)

Post of the day...so far.

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (AwYPR)

198 Bush Admin: We're gonna turn you into a Jeffersonian democracy!

Afghanistan and Iraq: We don't know what that is, but we don't want it anyway!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (kTF2Z)

199 I just don't get the Democrat thinking here. Support Iran because why? Money?
Democrats hate Western ideology and freedom. We must always remember that deep down they are marxists, they want to control populations. Iran and Hamas and China control their populations through sheer terror and fear. Dems therefore love them. They do hate the USA and Israel as relatively free people.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (r+sAi)

200 Do the Israelis have air to air tanker refueling? I'm sure they do, but I've never read anything about it.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 10:48 AM (jvt6t)

201 30 15 The attacks from Gaza should never be viewed as palatable, but the blm factions here will demand that we see their grievances and not their murderous intent.
Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:07 AM (ONvIw)

Well put.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2021 10:48 AM (Zsfob)

202 . They do hate the USA and Israel as relatively free people.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (r+sAi


Logical

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:48 AM (4fSQf)

203 Hopefully, Iran will build a nuclear device with the means to deliver it with The Mossad knowing about it.

The things will get lit! as the kids say.

Iran will become the new "Forbidden Zone".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 18, 2021 10:49 AM (ddM9D)

204 199 I just don't get the Democrat thinking here. Support Iran because why? Money?

Also Valerie Fucking Jarret is of Iranian descent.....and ran the SCOAMFS presidency.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 10:49 AM (jvt6t)

205 The 'Rona, is there nothing it can't do?

Dr Fauci says COVID has exposed the 'undeniable effects of racism'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 18, 2021 10:49 AM (VVEnO)

206 The Palis may be doofii at almost everything, but they can play the (willing) media like a Stradivarius.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 18, 2021 10:49 AM (DMUuz)

207 Democrats hate Western ideology and freedom. We must always remember that deep down they are marxists, they want to control populations. Iran and Hamas and China control their populations through sheer terror and fear. Dems therefore love them. They do hate the USA and Israel as relatively free people.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (r+sAi)
++++
This. They are tyrants who lust after power and control to be sure, but I think that even more important than that in their own hierarchies of motivation is hatred for this place.

They despise the United States. They despise every aspect and element of it, its history and its people. Anyone who is an enemy - whether communist, Islamist, whatever it happens to be - is their friend. Those people align with them on their primary motivation: hatred of this place and desire for its destruction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 10:50 AM (Jsjd7)

208 *StradiVirus

Posted by: m at May 18, 2021 10:50 AM (Zsfob)

209 @PressSec: "Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on
arrival, we don't think [the Trump administration] did anything
constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in
the Middle East."


Pshe actually said that? Wow, just wow.

We're being ruled by psychopaths for whom reality is just a concept, never to even be acknowledged. WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 18, 2021 10:51 AM (HaL55)

210
205 The 'Rona, is there nothing it can't do?

Dr Fauci says COVID has exposed the 'undeniable effects of racism'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 18, 2021 10:49 AM (VVEnO)


What's the twisted logic behind worm tongue's statement?

Dude just won't let go of the spotlight.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:51 AM (4fSQf)

211 Pogroms against the Jews have been going on for thousands of years. This is just the latest iteration of them. It's disgusting.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 10:51 AM (jvt6t)

212 Once we became energy independent here in the states the majority of oil purchased from the Middle East is used for producing industrial lubricants. We have a few oil fields here in this hemisphere that produce sweet crude(clean/low sulfur) but nothing like what the Middle East has. The sweet crude from the ME is so clean it can bypass certain refining process keeping costs down. Thats the only reason that I am aware of that we still purchase oil from the ME.

Posted by: JROD at May 18, 2021 10:51 AM (0jZnq)

213 Dr Fauci says COVID has exposed the 'undeniable effects of racism'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 18, 2021 10:49 AM


Shark Status:

[X] Jumped

[ ] Not Jumped

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 18, 2021 10:52 AM (m+jkK)

214
They despise the United States. They despise every aspect and element of it, its history and its people. Anyone who is an enemy - whether communist, Islamist, whatever it happens to be - is their friend. Those people align with them on their primary motivation: hatred of this place and desire for its destruction.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 10:50 AM (Jsjd7)



And they will stop at nothing to convert you or kill you.

They're EXACTLY like the muslhams in soooo many ways.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

215 Hate is not logical, it is an emotional response, no ?

Posted by: runner at May 18, 2021 10:52 AM (V13WU)

216 Hell, we overrate the number of freedom-loving people in America.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 18, 2021 10:46 AM (2JVJo)

Post of the day...so far.
Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (AwYPR)

It's more complicated than that, actually. People love freedom, in general. But people are also dumb, and when something like freedom is taken away from them, for "their own good," enough people just shrug and go along with it.

But that's not important. What's important is that people who AREN'T sheep rise up and do something about it. The sheep will follow. It doesn't take ALL the people to understand they're being oppressed. It just takes enough.

And if you listen, you can hear some folks who will talk about percentages.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:52 AM (AIH1c)

217 Life sucks when you're an asshole.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:43 AM (OCTRt)


I always figured it was just shitty.
Posted by: Sponge

That's the view.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:53 AM (OCTRt)

218 *StradiVirus
Posted by: m at May 18, 2021 10:50 AM (Zsfob)



La Llorona, la llorona...

Posted by: runner at May 18, 2021 10:53 AM (V13WU)

219 Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 18, 2021 10:51 AM (HaL55)

She gets away w/that crap 'cause who's gonna contradict her?

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:53 AM (AwYPR)

220 Napoleon Solo > Han Solo > Hope Solo
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 18, 2021 10:44 AM (PiwSw)

Our Roast Beef Super > Hope Solo

Posted by: Arby's, We Have The Meat! at May 18, 2021 10:53 AM (ddM9D)

221 Use the crane technique, Bibi
If do right, no can defend

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 18, 2021 10:54 AM (iTXRQ)

222 The New York Times is running an editorial today about how the Palestinian situation proves that the Abraham Accords have failed. I'm not sure how an entity that didn't sign them doing stupid shit means that, but journalism.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 10:54 AM (ZGrMX)

223 The National Guard in Dallas is patrolling the streets with CCP Lung Flu injections for those who have not taken the jab.

Posted by: vyx at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (TMb1F)

224 @PressSec: "Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don't think [the Trump administration] did anything constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the Middle East."
=====

Lying whores gotta whore. And lie.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (IytoW)

225 Dr Fauci says COVID has exposed the 'undeniable effects of racism'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 18, 2021 10:49 AM

Shark Status:

[X] Jumped

[ ] Not Jumped
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 18, 2021 10:52 AM (m+jkK)

This is glorious. We're mere weeks away from Tony Fauci giving handies under a bridge to anyone who will listen to him on this subject.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (AIH1c)

226 Li'l Pissy Chrissy is all upset about the USSC taking up the abortion case.

Nicholas Fondacaro
@NickFondacaro
Fredo suggests being pro-life is about being pro-racism and Jim Crow: "It's about dividing lines, legislating to the far-right white-fright vote (...) It's just like voting rights in one way."
He adds that the pro-life movement doesn't understand that science is on their side.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (VVEnO)

227 222 The New York Times is running an editorial today about how the Palestinian situation proves that the Abraham Accords have failed. I'm not sure how an entity that didn't sign them doing stupid shit means that, but journalism.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 10:54 AM (ZGrMX)

=======

Maybe it failed because all of the signatory countries have turned on Israel and openly declared their support of Palestine?

Has that happened? Has it?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (LvTSG)

228 And if you listen, you can hear some folks who will talk about percentages.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:52 AM (AIH1c)

What? Some more polls?

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (AwYPR)

229 What's important is that people who AREN'T sheep rise up and do something about it. The sheep will follow. It doesn't take ALL the people to understand they're being oppressed. It just takes enough.

Right. As OBL said, people will follow the strong horse. And it's not hard to look stronger than Joey the Paste-Eater.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (ZGrMX)

230 222 The New York Times is running an editorial today about how the Palestinian situation proves that the Abraham Accords have failed. I'm not sure how an entity that didn't sign them doing stupid shit means that, but journalism.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 10:54 AM (ZGrMX)


Because any solution that doesn't give Palestine everything they want is an utter failure?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (4fSQf)

231 210 205 The 'Rona, is there nothing it can't do?



Dr Fauci says COVID has exposed the 'undeniable effects of racism'


What's the twisted logic behind worm tongue's statement?


Dude just won't let go of the spotlight.
As we learn more of his involvement with the Wuhan Lab, not to mention his previous transgressions around the AIDS virus, there should be a collective interest in watching him suffer for his crimes.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (N39Ws)

232 195 Hell, we overrate the number of freedom-loving people in America.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 18, 2021 10:46 AM (2JVJo)

We sure do, but we have a very great tendency to project our views on the populations of other nations. Most Islamists are Islamists, they don't come here and commit honor-killings, or anti-Jewish attacks, or try to force their opinions about Islam on Americans because they have a "freedom loving" mindset. We have to accept that many of the people from hostile countries are approved to come by hostile governments and are colonists.

But yeah, many Americans would agree with Charles and Diana's wretched whelp, that Freedom of Speech is "bonkers"

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (ONvIw)

233 Dr Fauci says COVID has exposed the 'undeniable effects of racism'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Shark Status:

[X] Jumped

[ ] Not Jumped
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Fauci jumped the shark when he said that there was a variant out there that could hide undetected.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 10:56 AM (OCTRt)

234 226 Fredo suggests being pro-life is about being pro-racism and Jim Crow: "It's about dividing lines, legislating to the far-right white-fright vote (...) It's just like voting rights in one way."
He adds that the pro-life movement doesn't understand that science is on their side.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (VVEnO)

==========

"It's called a zygote, not a baby, science haters."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:56 AM (LvTSG)

235 Maybe it failed because all of the signatory countries have turned on Israel and openly declared their support of Palestine?

UAE (who did sign) put out a statement that the Palestinians are stupid assholes. Not phrased that bluntly, but close.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 10:56 AM (ZGrMX)

236 Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (r+sAi)

Israel, by any valid measure, is the most successful country in the Middle East, even WITH the Pali problem. Their science and technology rivals the US.

It is also the only country in the Mid East that is based on Judeo Christian Western Culture.

Just like the 'war' on the US White Male. The 'race' that built the most successful and most powerful country ever... that culture is being destroyed.

I'm not sure how we reached this point. It CAN'T be some big conspiracy as its too wide spread. Is there some drive programmed into Humanity to tear down the most successful?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 10:56 AM (oHd/0)

237 The National Guard in Dallas is patrolling the streets with CCP Lung Flu injections for those who have not taken the jab.
Posted by: vyx at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (TMb1F)



Under who's order? I don't think the Governor has told the Guard to do this.........

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

238

Black Lives Matter
@Blklivesmatter
Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians. We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation. ( always have. And always will be ).
#freepalestine

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 18, 2021 10:56 AM (63Dwl)

239 Here is a perfect example of lefty hatred of the USA:
https://tinyurl.com/3y24x5uc

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 18, 2021 10:57 AM (r+sAi)

240 @PressSec: "Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don't think [the Trump administration] did anything constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the Middle East."
=====

Lying whores gotta whore. And lie.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (IytoW)

She's not lying. She's telling you where they are. It would be like Hilter's press secretary, on June 7, saying "the allies have done nothing to liberate Europe."

In their eyes, what happened on the 6th was the EXACT opposite of liberation.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:57 AM (AIH1c)

241 Also Valerie Fucking Jarret is of Iranian descent.....and ran the SCOAMFS presidency.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 10:49 AM (jvt6t)


Peter Strzok? Grew up in Iran?

Lisa Page? Mother from Iran.

Apropos of nothing.

Posted by: blaster at May 18, 2021 10:57 AM (ZfRYq)

242 >Fauci jumped the shark when he said that there was a variant out there that could hide undetected.


so how would he know it's 'out there' ?

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 18, 2021 10:57 AM (iTXRQ)

243 212 @JROD, you are correct. Technically, we're not energy independent -- we are Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela's most important customer -- but we also export as much as we import, so in a net sense, we are. Crude oil comes in a lot of varieties, and some are more desirable than others are. We actually need to import heavy crude because our domestic production from fracking tends to be light crude that doesn't have enough heavy components to make a good blend for refining, but you're right about the light sweet versus light sour (amount of sulfur). There actually is an amazing light crude that comes out of Algeria. Looks like olive oil.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 18, 2021 10:58 AM (BMmaB)

244 #freepalestine
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 18, 2021 10:56 AM (63Dwl)



Find palestine on a map. I'll wait.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

245 But that's not important. What's important is that people who AREN'T sheep rise up and do something about it. The sheep will follow. It doesn't take ALL the people to understand they're being oppressed. It just takes enough.

And if you listen, you can hear some folks who will talk about percentages.
Posted by: BurtTC

They try to dilute the country's real mandate.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 10:58 AM (QeenG)

246 USA. Nation of immigrants or colonial country.

Pick one, Lefties.

Posted by: blaster at May 18, 2021 10:58 AM (ZfRYq)

247 Is there some drive programmed into Humanity to tear down the most successful?
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 10:56 AM (oHd/0)

LOL, maybe a little something called envy. Not one of the Seven Deadly Sins for no reason.

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:58 AM (ONvIw)

248 >>>Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr


Then move to Palestine, assholes. You hate this country, cool. There's the door, you pricks.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 18, 2021 10:58 AM (bkUtD)

249 @PressSec: "Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don't think [the Trump administration] did anything constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the Middle East." ...
Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (IytoW)
++++
By their own standards ("their" meaning "the Left and the postwar foreign policy establishment"), this is true. Trump didn't deliver their impossible definition of "Middle East Peace."

All they want - and all they worked toward for around fifty years - was an omnibus deal. All countries, all in agreement. A perfect cathedral of peace with the United States as chief architect. This is stupid and unachievable. Donald Trump threw it out and returned us to bilateralism. He turned the clock back not to the interwar period but to the pre-1914 period of one-on-one negotiation and building from there.

He was wildly successful, but not on their terms and indeed he did not deliver *their* vision. He delivered his own, saw major success, and set the stage for it advance and expand - but that counts for precisely nothing in their eyes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (Jsjd7)

250 242 >Fauci jumped the shark when he said that there was a variant out there that could hide undetected.


so how would he know it's 'out there' ?
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 18, 2021 10:57 AM (iTXRQ)

Well you can't tell because it's capable of hiding undetected.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (z5Vrg)

251 Maybe it failed because all of the signatory countries have turned on Israel and openly declared their support of Palestine?

Has that happened? Has it?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (LvTSG)

Have those countries closed their embassies with Israel? Closed their borders? Declared WAR?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (oHd/0)

252 238

Black Lives Matter
@Blklivesmatter
Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians. We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation. ( always have. And always will be ).
#freepalestine
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 18, 2021 10:56 AM (63Dwl


The irony of enjoying the fruits of colonialism while simultaneously denouncing colonialism.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (4fSQf)

253 And if you listen, you can hear some folks who will talk about percentages.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:52 AM (AIH1c)

What? Some more polls?
Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (AwYPR)

If you're listening to polls, you're listening in the wrong direction.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (AIH1c)

254 New variant hiding under Fauci's bed??

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:00 AM (jvt6t)

255 251 Maybe it failed because all of the signatory countries have turned on Israel and openly declared their support of Palestine?

Has that happened? Has it?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (LvTSG)

Have those countries closed their embassies with Israel? Closed their borders? Declared WAR?
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (oHd/0)

=======

I was assured that the Accords meant nothing because the countries weren't in formal states of war with Israel anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 18, 2021 11:00 AM (LvTSG)

256 The irony of enjoying the fruits of colonialism while simultaneously denouncing colonialism.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (4fSQf)
++++
Par for the course, dude.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 11:00 AM (Jsjd7)

257 Then move to Palestine, assholes. You hate this country, cool. There's the door, you pricks.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 18, 2021 10:58 AM (bkUtD)

BLM has no idea how ACTUALLY Racist Palestinians are.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 11:00 AM (oHd/0)

258 Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians. We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation. ( always have. And always will be ).
#freepalestine
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 18, 2021 10:56 AM (63Dw
I'm wondering how my former synagogue is going to justify that. I'd laugh if it wasn't so damn tragic.

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 11:01 AM (ONvIw)

259 >>>BLM has no idea how ACTUALLY Racist Palestinians are.
Posted by: Romeo13


That's why I want BLM to move there.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 18, 2021 11:01 AM (bkUtD)

260 Israel is a colonial oppressor? Lol. The Jews have only been there for 5000 years. But OK lets go with that.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 11:01 AM (Vxf2I)

261 245 But that's not important. What's important is that people who AREN'T sheep rise up and do something about it. ...
Posted by: BurtTC
-----------------------

Rub some yeast on it.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2021 11:01 AM (FFFtY)

262 If you're listening to polls, you're listening in the wrong direction.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (AIH1c)

The Horde is a good cross section of the country. And what I see here, is what I hear everywhere I go for the most part. That's a good sign. People are waking up to the fact they've been played. Bigly.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:02 AM (jvt6t)

263 Under who's order? I don't think the Governor has told the Guard to do this.........


It's Abbott. Started in January.

Scroll down here to May 14 and you'll see the video of Nat. Guard injecting a guy at 7-11:

https://twitter.com/DCHHS

Posted by: vyx at May 18, 2021 11:02 AM (tjZg/)

264 Glad this pandemic has opened some eyes across the country. Many people now understand their neighbors will quietly board the train.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (4fSQf)

They will gladly board the train after they post on FaceTwit about how you are a hoarder and wrecker who should be taken into custody and your ill-gotten gains distributed to the people.

For the children.

Posted by: Just Lily. Thread-Winner Elect at May 18, 2021 11:02 AM (m9OJQ)

265 If you're listening to polls, you're listening in the wrong direction.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (AIH1c)

Don't participate or read any.

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 11:02 AM (AwYPR)

266 Rainbow flag is bait in Iran.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 18, 2021 11:02 AM (QeenG)

267 What's the twisted logic behind worm tongue's statement?

Dude just won't let go of the spotlight.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:51 AM (4fSQf)

It's the final phase of the brainwashing psy op. It reframes the true failing of the world, not as any virus, but as "racism". Fauci has a platform and with few exceptions everyone with a platform either spouts narrative or are destroyed.

The Narrative is the world is permanently stained with racism by whites.

This statement is there, among other things, to guilt people into behaving irrationally, and making it impossible to live in society in peace.

Posted by: ... at May 18, 2021 11:02 AM (mp612)

268 I liken the Mideast problem to my front loading washing machine. A lot of money is spent getting it and it promises to work better than the old top loading machine.

But it doesn't. And then it breaks. Full of water rotting clothes. Fire machine. It's back breaking getting it to the truck bed to the dump. Then the hassel of getting new top loader in place.

End of ordeal is right back where I started only poorer. Only Arabs actually try to kill you.

Posted by: torabora at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (Y274z)

269 261 Israel is a colonial oppressor? Lol. The Jews have only been there for 5000 years. But OK lets go with that.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 11:01 AM (Vxf2I)
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There's an old, ancient even, registry containing the original metes and bounds.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (FFFtY)

270 Also Valerie Fucking Jarret is of Iranian descent.....and ran the SCOAMFS presidency.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 10:49 AM (jvt6t)

Peter Strzok? Grew up in Iran?

Lisa Page? Mother from Iran.

Apropos of nothing.
Posted by: blaster at May 18, 2021 10:57 AM (ZfRYq)

Whaaaat? Are you suggesting there are enemies of the United States who will take jobs in the government, to sabotage it from within??

That's crazy talk, that is.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (AIH1c)

271 Fauci jumped the shark when he said that there was a variant out there that could hide undetected.


so how would he know it's 'out there' ?
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 18, 2021 10:57 AM (iTXRQ)

Well you can't tell because it's capable of hiding undetected.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (z5Vrg)

Ah yes, the good ol' "unknowns unknowns." That should keep us under his midget thumb forever.

Posted by: LASue at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (Ed8Zd)

272 Black Lives Matter
@Blklivesmatter
Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians. We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation. ( always have. And always will be ).
#freepalestine
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Just like our Palestinkian allies, we're stupid, we're violent, we're stupidviolent!

Posted by: Black Lives Matter at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (VVEnO)

273 258 Israel... Hamas... Same thing...different Gods.

None of our business.
Posted by: Pork Soda at May 18, 2021 11:01 AM (N+JuD)

Most ignorant thing you'll see all day.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (jvt6t)

274 That's why I want BLM to move there.

I'd settle for Queers for Palestine having a parade in Gaza City. With lots of cameras running.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (ZGrMX)

275 Fauci jumped the shark when he said that there was a variant out there that could hide undetected.


so how would he know it's 'out there' ?


Because it's going to be released in the fall (as per Bill Gates--'the next one will get our attention'), be blamed on the unvaxxed and used to force this on everyone, regardless of the consequences?

Posted by: vyx at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (tjZg/)

276 Dems keep begging for a race war and America keeps ignoring them.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (4fSQf)

277 Boo!

Posted by: Virus jumping out from undetected hiding at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (m9OJQ)

278 Israel is a colonial oppressor? Lol. The Jews have only been there for 5000 years. But OK lets go with that.
Posted by: Joe XiDen


I love asking the Pali-symps what language Palestinians speak.

They fall into the trap every time.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (nI1Kq)

279 261 Israel is a colonial oppressor? Lol. The Jews have only been there for 5000 years. But OK lets go with that.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 11:01 AM (Vxf2I)

Well, they did move there from Egypt... once Yul Brenner freed them...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (oHd/0)

280 Why does Blam sound like every leftist commie front group from the last 75 years? Hmmmmm

Posted by: ... at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (mp612)

281 The National Guard in Dallas is patrolling the streets with CCP Lung Flu injections for those who have not taken the jab.
Posted by: vyx at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (TMb1F)
++++
This is foolish but if it's not against the will of the recipient then it probably isn't illegal (though it does raise very serious questions as to the notion of how free the recipient's consent actually is when faced with armed men in uniform giving a hard sell. From that standpoint, strict legality aside, this is insanely dangerous)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (Jsjd7)

282 Whaaaat? Are you suggesting there are enemies of the United States who will take jobs in the government, to sabotage it from within??

That's crazy talk, that is.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (AIH1c)

Cheerio!

Posted by: Kim Philby at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (Ed8Zd)

283 204 199 I just don't get the Democrat thinking here. Support Iran because why? Money?

Also Valerie Fucking Jarret is of Iranian descent.....and ran the SCOAMFS presidency.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 10:49 AM (jvt6t

Um no she isn't. You're making the mistake that got Roseanne cancelled. She's black. Her dumb commie parents were working in Oran when she was born.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (G2zl5)

284 Most ignorant thing you'll see all day.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (jvt6t)

It's early yet, give it time.

Posted by: BignJames at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

285 Whaaaat? Are you suggesting there are enemies of the United States who will take jobs in the government, to sabotage it from within??

That's crazy talk, that is.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (AIH1c)


Just wish there was something about this in the founding father's writings. Sad.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (4fSQf)

286 Well you can't tell because it's capable of hiding undetected.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (z5Vrg)

Like the heat hiding under the ocean

Posted by: ... at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (mp612)

287 >Ah yes, the good ol' "unknowns unknowns." That should keep us under his midget thumb forever.
Posted by: LASue


that great Rumsfeld quote

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (iTXRQ)

288 @ByronYork

Dismaying to see some of you try to downplay ugliness of events at Capitol on January 6. It was bad, and that can't be changed. Better to use FBI Director Wray's analysis of what happened. This is from a March 2 hearing:

https://tinyurl.com/yhuftsot

He's taking a heap o'pushback in the comments.

Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (cF8AT)

289 The truth is out there.

Posted by: Dr. Fauxi at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (VVEnO)

290 so how would he know it's 'out there' ?
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 18, 2021 10:57 AM (iTXRQ)

Well you can't tell because it's capable of hiding undetected.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (z5Vrg)

--------

The new virus is from Canada so you wouldn't know it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (kTF2Z)

291 138 136 no way Israel will take on China

Posted by: CN at May 18, 2021 10:32 AM (ONvIw)

Don't expect the US to either.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (ynpvh)

292 BLM has no idea how ACTUALLY Racist Palestinians are.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 11:00 AM (oHd/0)

BLM doesn't give a fuck about racism.

Posted by: ... at May 18, 2021 11:07 AM (mp612)

293 Um no she isn't. You're making the mistake that got Roseanne cancelled. She's black. Her dumb commie parents were working in Oran when she was born.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (G2zl5)

I'll retract that then. I had heard she was, but just like everything else, who really knows?

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:07 AM (jvt6t)

294 I read that Fake Pres. Mush Brain is going to Detroit to visit a Ford plant today. That should be good for some laughs.

Posted by: LASue at May 18, 2021 11:07 AM (Ed8Zd)

295 The National Guard in Dallas is patrolling the streets with CCP Lung Flu injections for those who have not taken the jab.

-
He is not of the body! Get him!

Posted by: Captain Landru at May 18, 2021 11:07 AM (VVEnO)

296 Most ignorant thing you'll see all day.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM (jvt6t)

It's early yet, give it time.
Posted by: BignJames


Way to early. I wouldn't be comfortable saying that at 2345 hours.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 11:08 AM (OCTRt)

297 Dismaying to see some of you try to downplay ugliness of events at Capitol on January 6. It was bad, and that can't be changed. Better to use FBI Director Wray's analysis of what happened. This is from a March 2 hearing:

https://tinyurl.com/yhuftsot

He's taking a heap o'pushback in the comments.
Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (cF8AT)

Shorter Nevertrump doucebag: It's dismaying none of you listen to me anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 11:08 AM (AIH1c)

298 The UN LOVES to go after Israel for every little thing. Funny that the real offenders are never brought to task, but instead the worst human rights violators are put on the human rights council. Tibetans (non-chinese kind) and Uigurs (non-Han) were unavailable for comment, some of them permanently.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2021 11:08 AM (ynpvh)

299 282 The National Guard in Dallas is patrolling the streets with CCP Lung Flu injections for those who have not taken the jab.
Posted by: vyx at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (TMb1F)
---------------------------

That's rather difficult isn't it?
Considering that the vaccine must be stored at sub-zero temperatures.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2021 11:08 AM (FFFtY)

300 Worlds worst insurrection.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 11:08 AM (4fSQf)

301 Most ignorant thing you'll see all day.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM


Give him time. We know he can be more ignorant than that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 18, 2021 11:08 AM (6EUVF)

302 He's taking a heap o'pushback in the comments.
Posted by: Tami


Uniparty courtesans mistake DC diktat for wisdom and harrumph when you don't bow and scrape before them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 18, 2021 11:09 AM (nI1Kq)

303 The National Guard in Dallas is patrolling the streets with CCP Lung Flu injections for those who have not taken the jab.
-
He is not of the body! Get him!
Posted by: Captain Landru


Good way for unarmed guardsmen to get shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 18, 2021 11:09 AM (OCTRt)

304 >I read that Fake Pres. Mush Brain is going to Detroit to visit a Ford plant today. That should be good for some laughs.


"No Mr. President, there's no bumper cars. Yes- you can have some popcorn."

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 18, 2021 11:09 AM (iTXRQ)

305 Shorter Nevertrump doucebag: It's dismaying none of you listen to me anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 11:08 AM (AIH1c)

I don't think York is a NT-er, is he? He usually is pretty good...this is just a really bad take for him.

Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 11:09 AM (cF8AT)

306 So Byron is dismayed at ugliness he thinks he sees in Washington but has fuck all to say about BLM and antifa?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 11:09 AM (4fSQf)

307 287 Well you can't tell because it's capable of hiding undetected.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 18, 2021 10:59 AM (z5Vrg)

Like the heat hiding under the ocean
Posted by: ... at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (mp612)
************
Excellent

Posted by: torabora at May 18, 2021 11:09 AM (Y274z)

308 the jab.

Can I just stop and object to the stupid infantilization of language around the shot? "The jab" is on the mild end compared to things Karens say like "Fauci ouchie", but it's all stupid.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 11:10 AM (ZGrMX)

309 Most ignorant thing you'll see all day.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:03 AM

Give him time. We know he can be more ignorant than that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 18, 2021 11:08 AM (6EUVF)

Same troll, new day, different tack.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 11:10 AM (AIH1c)

310 "...75 years of progress and riot in support of...what? Hamas launching rockets at them? Whoops! No more talk of coalitions with the Arabs!"

Part of me reads a line like that and thinks how convenient for those who profit off of turmoil in the middle east.

Posted by: JTwig at May 18, 2021 11:10 AM (X2egF)

311 295 I read that Fake Pres. Mush Brain is going to Detroit to visit a Ford plant today. That should be good for some laughs.
Posted by: LASue at May 18, 2021 11:07 AM (Ed8Zd)
--------------

Might be an interesting comparative to Obama's GM, "I'm gonna buy a Cruze", visit.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2021 11:10 AM (FFFtY)

312 301 Worlds worst insurrection.

Posted by: Alabama at May 18, 2021 11:08 AM (4fSQf)

With Antifa, the Feds are keystone cops (and fellow conspirators). With Trump supporters, they're all Robocop and Judge Dredd.


Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2021 11:11 AM (ynpvh)

313 Bill de Blasio has gone full Beaver Clever to attract the yutes.

https://bit.ly/3v2hCys

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 18, 2021 11:11 AM (VVEnO)

314 I saw Fauci-Ouchie open for Oingo-Boingo at the Plaza.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 18, 2021 11:11 AM (dfRN6)

315 @289

Byron York and Conservative Inc's World View Vis-a-Vis Jan. 6th.


1. Marxist's on the cusp of dominating America and The World.

2. ??

3. Enduring Conservative Governance.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 18, 2021 11:11 AM (XLHhm)

316 The National Guard in Dallas is patrolling the streets with CCP Lung Flu injections for those who have not taken the jab.
Posted by: vyx at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (TMb1F)
---------------------------

As we said in jr. high, I call BS.

Posted by: LASue at May 18, 2021 11:11 AM (Ed8Zd)

317 DIL got the shot two days ago. Middle of that night she wakes up with terrible stomach ache. Poops her brains out. Stands up and then decides to lie down on the bathroom floor. Essentially passes out. I think she's okay now but wtf

Posted by: ... at May 18, 2021 11:12 AM (mp612)

318 ++++
This is foolish but if it's not against the will of the recipient then it probably isn't illegal (though it does raise very serious questions as to the notion of how free the recipient's consent actually is when faced with armed men in uniform giving a hard sell. From that standpoint, strict legality aside, this is insanely dangerous)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 18, 2021 11:04 AM (Jsjd7)



However, it is hugely intimidating for most of society, I'm sure.

I'm sorry, but if I see a bunch of uniformed military roaming around injecting people, I'm going to think there's some sort of martial law in effect.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

319 York can go horsefuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 18, 2021 11:12 AM (w56Mf)

320 Shorter Nevertrump doucebag: It's dismaying none of you listen to me anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 11:08 AM (AIH1c)

I don't think York is a NT-er, is he? He usually is pretty good...this is just a really bad take for him.
Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 11:09 AM (cF8AT)

All these douchebags look the same to me. I read what you posted. Which is nevertrumper douchebaggery.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 18, 2021 11:12 AM (AIH1c)

321 York is right - it is horrendous that 5 Trump supporters died that day, one by homicide.

Posted by: DJ at May 18, 2021 11:12 AM (O3/K+)

322 320 York can go horsefuck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 18, 2021 11:12 AM (w56Mf)

That poor horse.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:13 AM (jvt6t)

323 Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

For National Guard to do this, it would have to ordered by the State's Governor.... I don't buy it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 18, 2021 11:13 AM (oHd/0)

324 309 the jab.



Can I just stop and object to the stupid infantilization of language
around the shot? "The jab" is on the mild end compared to things
Karens say like "Fauci ouchie", but it's all stupid.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 11:10 AM (ZGrMX)

How about calling it what it is: a Prick.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2021 11:14 AM (ynpvh)

325 317 The National Guard in Dallas is patrolling the streets with CCP Lung Flu injections for those who have not taken the jab.
Posted by: vyx at May 18, 2021 10:55 AM (TMb1F)
---------------------------

As we said in jr. high, I call BS.
Posted by: LASue at May 18, 2021 11:11 AM (Ed8Zd)

I'm going to suspect that it's something like a mobile medical unit that has the vaccine and will drive around and park in various areas to offer it rather than just being a single stationary location somewhere doing it. Vyx's description is going for and unstated "against their will" vibe.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 18, 2021 11:14 AM (G2zl5)

326 York can go horsefuck.

What did I do to you????

Posted by: The Horse at May 18, 2021 11:14 AM (6XLoz)

327 Nooooooood...for the chirren!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 18, 2021 11:14 AM (EjmvJ)

328 Got my second shot yesterday.
I felt it this time. The first shot I didn't feel at all.

Both times, on the day after, shot spot is a little sore.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2021 11:15 AM (FFFtY)

329 318 DIL got the shot two days ago. Middle of that night she wakes up with
terrible stomach ache. Poops her brains out. Stands up and then decides
to lie down on the bathroom floor. Essentially passes out. I think
she's okay now but wtf

Posted by: ... at May 18, 2021 11:12 AM (mp612)

That's how you know it's working?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2021 11:15 AM (ynpvh)

330 @ByronYork

Dismaying to see some of you try to downplay ugliness of events at Capitol on January 6. It was bad, and that can't be changed. Better to use FBI Director Wray's analysis of what happened. This is from a March 2 hearing:

https://tinyurl.com/yhuftsot

He's taking a heap o'pushback in the comments.
Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 11:05 AM (cF8AT)

"Dismayed" is the new "disappointed"

Passive-aggressive Pussy talk.

Posted by: LASue at May 18, 2021 11:15 AM (Ed8Zd)

331 I don't think York is a NT-er, is he? He usually is pretty good...this is just a really bad take for him.
Posted by: Tami at May 18, 2021 11:09 AM (cF8AT)


He's a slightly less female Laura Ingraham.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 18, 2021 11:16 AM (y7DUB)

332 323 320 York can go horsefuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 18, 2021 11:12 AM (w56Mf)



That poor horse.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:13 AM (jvt6t)

Maybe he meant it the other way around.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2021 11:16 AM (ynpvh)

333 Got my second shot yesterday.
I felt it this time. The first shot I didn't feel at all.

Both times, on the day after, shot spot is a little sore.


I'm getting the second shot tomorrow. First one was a complete non-event, and the nurse was cute.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 11:16 AM (6XLoz)

334 333 323 320 York can go horsefuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 18, 2021 11:12 AM (w56Mf)

That poor horse.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 18, 2021 11:13 AM (jvt6t)

Maybe he meant it the other way around.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2021 11:16 AM (ynpvh)

kcufesroh?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 18, 2021 11:17 AM (z5Vrg)

335 I'm getting the second shot tomorrow. First one was a complete non-event, and the nurse was cute.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 11:16 AM (6XLoz)
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Good lucky.
My nurse could have played pro football.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 18, 2021 11:18 AM (FFFtY)

336 334 Got my second shot yesterday.

I felt it this time. The first shot I didn't feel at all.



Both times, on the day after, shot spot is a little sore.



I'm getting the second shot tomorrow. First one was a complete non-event, and the nurse was cute.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 18, 2021 11:16 AM (6XLoz)

When I got my shot, one lady there was named Kim Chi, another I thought was Bacon, but turned out to be Bagon.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2021 11:18 AM (ynpvh)

337 335 333 323 320 York can go horsefuck.

That poor horse.

Maybe he meant it the other way around.

kcufesroh?Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 18, 2021 11:17 AM (z5Vrg)

In Russia, horse fucks you...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 18, 2021 11:19 AM (ynpvh)

338 141 Joe,

About 50% of the oil that is sold worldwide is used for gasoline. Say 1/2 of that 50% is no longer needed as EVs gain market share. That would be devastating to Iran, SA, etc.

The Saudis know this is coming and are trying to diversify away from depends on an oil based economy.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 18, 2021 10:33 AM (Vxf2I)
*************Only natural gas turbines, coal and nuke can supply the electricity. AND there is a severe shortage of lithium and other metals needed to make the car go.

EV will remain a dream. And we are likely staving off an ice age with the fossile fuels.

Posted by: torabora at May 18, 2021 11:19 AM (Y274z)

339 So are antibodies bodies?

Posted by: torabora at May 18, 2021 11:21 AM (Y274z)

340 Ace up, a while ago.

Posted by: m at May 18, 2021 11:30 AM (Zsfob)

341 Cool.. Your page. Your rules. Still wondering why Jews l would expect conservative, American support when they all vote democratically.

It's a fair question.

Posted by: Pork Soda at May 18, 2021 01:56 PM (4+qX4)

342 Remember how Netanyahu one of the first ones to congratulation Biden on his election win?

Who runs that hate group called the ADL?

Who gives spies against the United States a hero's welcome upon their release from prison?

Doesn't sound like our "Greatest Ally" to me.

Posted by: JimmyCrackCorn at May 18, 2021 07:44 PM (BJAwB)

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