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A Week of Silence on the Israel-Gaza Peace Deal I waited several days to see if anyone would acknowledge or celebrate the peace agreement between Israel and Gaza — but, as expected, no one did.
@FD1000, I was waiting to read how may live Palestinian prisoners Israel will release for live Israeli hostages. Is 25:2 the correct ratio? Who is getting the better deal?
A Week of Silence on the Israel-Gaza Peace Deal I waited several days to see if anyone would acknowledge or celebrate the peace agreement between Israel and Gaza — but, as expected, no one did.
@FD1000, I was waiting to read how may live Palestinian prisoners Israel will release for live Israeli hostages. Is 25:2 the correct ratio? Who is getting the better deal?
@FD1000, I stand corrected as Israel will also release 1,700 people seized from Gaza during the war and held without charge. So the ratio is 195:2.
A Week of Silence on the Israel-Gaza Peace Deal I waited several days to see if anyone would acknowledge or celebrate the peace agreement between Israel and Gaza — but, as expected, no one did.
@FD1000, I was waiting to read how may live Palestinian prisoners Israel will release for live Israeli hostages. Is 25:2 the correct ratio? Who is getting the better deal?
@FD1000, I stand corrected as Israel will also release 1,700 people seized from Gaza during the war and held without charge. So the ratio is 195:2.
There are arbitrary, bullshit arrests by the Israeli Occupation Force over in the West Bank, too, every single day. Not much publicity for THEIR sakes, these days. Head fake, just like the distractions from EPSTEIN.
When a person has no problem with starving children, and the killing of aid workers, and preventing water/medical supplies to victims of war, it is hard too imagine what exactly about this one-sided "deal" is considered positive to them. Much of the area has been blown into rubble, so those returning will have no homes anyhow.
Whatever international support that Israel had at one time, may now be non-existent. Much of the world now views them as aggressors with no empathy. Even those Israeli's who opposed the razing of Gaza, are now shrouded in suspicion.
And the toddler trump? He is so desperate for a Nobel Prize that his actions are more about his needy ego, than helping anybody. He certainly could not care less about the many U.S. jobs he is destroying, or the farms, or anyone who needs health care. Everything he does is about acclaim and recognition, nothing he does is selfless.
But, it is Another Good Week for Heaven! trump acknowledged to a reporters question that he is fairly certain that he is not going to Heaven.
A new first for trump, a small blip of self-awareness. And a win for The Devil. Who remembers that scene in Little Nicky, where Hitler is asked to pick out his daily pineapple - for the anal insertion.
He is alive and has been making great global changes. Only TDS people DDD=dismiss,deny,downplay.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has challenged Texas's state-level actions by arguing they interfere with federal authority over immigration matters. But now, several Dem states are arguing the opposite. Typical hypocrisy.
He is alive and has been making great global changes. Only TDS people DDD=dismiss,deny,downplay.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has challenged Texas's state-level actions by arguing they interfere with federal authority over immigration matters. But now, several Dem states are arguing the opposite. Typical hypocrisy.
"The group chat members spoke freely about the pressure to cow to Trump to avoid being called a RINO, the love of Nazis within their party’s right wing"
"racist, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic comments attributed to members of the New York State Young Republicans"
“Great. I love Hitler,” Giunta responded. Dwyer reacted with a smiley face."
“1488,” Dwyer responds. White supremacists use the number 1488 because 14 is the number of words in the white supremacist slogan “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” H is the eighth letter in the alphabet, and 88 is often used as a shorthand for “Heil Hitler.”
"“I was about to say you’re giving nationals to [sic] much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest,” Brianna Douglass, Sam’s wife and Vermont Young Republican’s national committee member, replied to her husband’s message."
From Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American.
"The Antideficiency Act, a law that has evolved over time since 1870, prohibits the government from spending money that Congress has not appropriated for that purpose, or agreeing to contracts that spend money Congress has not appropriated for that purpose."
"Trump’s assumption of power over the government’s purse is a profound attack on the principles on which the Founders justified independence from King George III in 1776. The Founders stood firm on the principle articulated all the way back to the Magna Carta in 1215 that the government could not spend money without consulting those putting up that money by paying taxes."
"When leaders from the former colonies wrote the U.S. Constitution in 1787, they made sure the people retained control over the nation’s finances in order to guarantee that a demagogue could not use tax money to concentrate power in his own hands. They gave the power to write the laws to the legislative branch—the House of Representatives and the Senate—alone, giving the president power only to agree to or veto those measures. Once the laws were enacted, the president’s role was to "'take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.'"
"Today, Steady State, a group made up of more than 340 former U.S. intelligence officers from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the State Department, and other intelligence agencies, released a report assessing the state of American democracy. Applying the tools of their craft to the U.S., they assess that the nation is 'on a trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism: a system in which elections, courts, and other democratic institutions persist in form but are systematically manipulated to entrench executive control.'"
"The report, titled Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline, finds that American democracy is weakening as the Executive Branch is consolidating power and 'actively weaponizing state institutions to punish perceived opponents and shield allies,' and that Congress is refusing to check the president, 'creating openings for authoritarian exploitation.'"
"We judge that the primary driver of the U.S.’s increasing authoritarianism is the increased frequency of Executive Branch overreach,” the report says, noting that 'President Donald J. Trump has leveraged emergency powers, executive orders, federalized military forces, and bureaucratic politicization to consolidate control and weaken checks and balances.'"
President Trump has illegally assumed powers not granted by the Constitution nor allowed by U.S. law. Perhaps you would like to join millions of your fellow citizens on Oct. 18 to demonstrate against Trump's actions which have caused undue harm to our great democracy? "No Kings" rallies are scheduled to take place in several cities within the metro Atlanta area.
@FD1000, President Trump has illegally assumed powers not granted by the Constitution nor allowed by U.S. law. Perhaps you would like to join millions of your fellow citizens on Oct. 18 to demonstrate against Trump's actions which have caused undue harm to our great democracy? "No Kings" rallies are scheduled to take place in several cities within the metro Atlanta area.
Somewhere in human history there must have been at least one king with an altruistic or benevolent streak. A better question, @Old_Joe, is to ask if FD1000 desires to restrict liberty and justice for all except his cronies.
Somewhere in human history there must have been at least one king with an altruistic or benevolent streak. A better question, @Old_Joe, is to ask if FD1000 desires to restrict liberty and justice for all except his cronies.
He's not responding, of course. Maybe I wouldn't, either. But liberty, freedom and justice seem like afterthoughts to him, judging from his previous inputs.
The rhetorical but alarming question is still before us: whether it pertains explicitly to mass extermination or unreasonable search and seizure, use of unreasonable force by Law "Enforcement," disappearance of the Rule of Law and unjustified arrests, extrajudicial deportations, or threats directed at political enemies, etc.
"Who's gonna take away his license to kill?" (Bob Dylan, but performed here by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.)
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Just found this: more ICE, DHS, CBP gestapo bullshit, this time at EWR. It's NOT SAFE for foreigners to come here, now.
https://hyperallergic.com/1023753/tourist-denied-us-entry-after-ice-found-jd-vance-meme-on-his-phone/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/caught-on-camera-ice-tactics-intensify-despite-disturbing-videos-surfacing-across-the-u-s/vi-AA1OhGNz?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=68eb85e7c0d14ce09b513f28e1900bd3&ei=53
I was waiting to read how may live Palestinian prisoners Israel will release for live Israeli hostages. Is 25:2 the correct ratio? Who is getting the better deal?
"A bicycle built for two." You'll just have to imagine the nakedness.
I stand corrected as Israel will also release 1,700 people seized from Gaza during the war and held without charge. So the ratio is 195:2.
Whatever international support that Israel had at one time, may now be non-existent. Much of the world now views them as aggressors with no empathy. Even those Israeli's who opposed the razing of Gaza, are now shrouded in suspicion.
And the toddler trump? He is so desperate for a Nobel Prize that his actions are more about his needy ego, than helping anybody. He certainly could not care less about the many U.S. jobs he is destroying, or the farms, or anyone who needs health care. Everything he does is about acclaim and recognition, nothing he does is selfless.
A new first for trump, a small blip of self-awareness. And a win for The Devil. Who remembers that scene in Little Nicky, where Hitler is asked to pick out his daily pineapple - for the anal insertion.
trump acknowledged to a reporters question that he is fairly certain that he is not going to Heaven."
Of course Trump will never, ever go to heaven.
I sure wish the process of sending him straight to hell was expedited!
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has challenged Texas's state-level actions by arguing they interfere with federal authority over immigration matters.
But now, several Dem states are arguing the opposite. Typical hypocrisy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146
"The group chat members spoke freely about the pressure to cow to Trump to avoid being called a RINO, the love of Nazis within their party’s right wing"
"racist, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic comments attributed to members of the New York State Young Republicans"
“Great. I love Hitler,” Giunta responded.
Dwyer reacted with a smiley face."
“1488,” Dwyer responds. White supremacists use the number 1488 because 14 is the number of words in the white supremacist slogan “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” H is the eighth letter in the alphabet, and 88 is often used as a shorthand for “Heil Hitler.”
"“I was about to say you’re giving nationals to [sic] much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest,” Brianna Douglass, Sam’s wife and Vermont Young Republican’s national committee member, replied to her husband’s message."
"The Antideficiency Act, a law that has evolved over time since 1870, prohibits the government from spending money that Congress has not appropriated for that purpose, or agreeing to contracts that spend money Congress has not appropriated for that purpose."
"Trump’s assumption of power over the government’s purse is a profound attack on the principles on which the Founders justified independence from King George III in 1776. The Founders stood firm on the principle articulated all the way back to the Magna Carta in 1215 that the government could not spend money without consulting those putting up that money by paying taxes."
"When leaders from the former colonies wrote the U.S. Constitution in 1787, they made sure the people retained control over the nation’s finances in order to guarantee that a demagogue could not use tax money to concentrate power in his own hands. They gave the power to write the laws to the legislative branch—the House of Representatives and the Senate—alone, giving the president power only to agree to or veto those measures. Once the laws were enacted, the president’s role was to "'take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.'"
"Today, Steady State, a group made up of more than 340 former U.S. intelligence officers from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the State Department, and other intelligence agencies, released a report assessing the state of American democracy. Applying the tools of their craft to the U.S., they assess that the nation is 'on a trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism: a system in which elections, courts, and other democratic institutions persist in form but are systematically manipulated to entrench executive control.'"
"The report, titled Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline, finds that American democracy is weakening as the Executive Branch is consolidating power and 'actively weaponizing state institutions to punish perceived opponents and shield allies,' and that Congress is refusing to check the president, 'creating openings for authoritarian exploitation.'"
"We judge that the primary driver of the U.S.’s increasing authoritarianism is the increased frequency of Executive Branch overreach,” the report says, noting that 'President Donald J. Trump has leveraged emergency powers, executive orders, federalized military forces, and bureaucratic politicization to consolidate control and weaken checks and balances.'"
@FD1000,
President Trump has illegally assumed powers not granted by the Constitution nor allowed by U.S. law.
Perhaps you would like to join millions of your fellow citizens on Oct. 18
to demonstrate against Trump's actions which have caused undue harm to our great democracy?
"No Kings" rallies are scheduled to take place in several cities within the metro Atlanta area.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/multiple-no-kings-protests-scheduled-saturday-metro-atlanta
Let's meet at the BP gas station at Roswell Road & Johnson Ferry Road at 1:45PM.
The rhetorical but alarming question is still before us: whether it pertains explicitly to mass extermination or unreasonable search and seizure, use of unreasonable force by Law "Enforcement," disappearance of the Rule of Law and unjustified arrests, extrajudicial deportations, or threats directed at political enemies, etc.
"Who's gonna take away his license to kill?"
(Bob Dylan, but performed here by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.)
LYRICS:
https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/license-kill/