It’s not just about the damn hospital. It’s an APARTHEID.

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Friday October 20, 2023 · 5:31 PM PDT

2023/10/20 · 17:31

Look, this problem of the Israel-Gaza war is not just about the damn hospital, and yes, it is the Israel-GAZA war. At this point I’m tired of seeing the arguments for or against who the hell did it. That’s a fucking microcosm of what we’re dealing with here.

What we have is a fucking apartheid and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people ON THE LAND TO WHICH THEY LIVE or LIVED.

Theres a damn good reason why the rest of the damn world calls the West Bank one of the worst humanitarian crisis ever. There’s a reason why the United Nations and all the other humanitarian organizations in the world call it an apartheid and a crisis as well. THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS A FUCKING APARTHEID. And the US has funded it for decades. We have been complicit at the Zionists in Israel squeezing out the Palestinians to the point where they cannot live in any reasonable way. Their water is toxic, they are in an open air prison and in the largest concentration camp in the fucking world, and Bibi has done everything he can to accelerate the genocide there. Already their average lifespan is 30 years old. and if anyone who’s been paying attention might have seen or heard Bibi talk on this matter, the eeriness to Trump is not coincidental — all fascist right wing dictators sound alike.

So excuse me for thinking this Zionist bullshit has come to a head, and that if you squeeze a population of 2.1 million people into slow, steady extinction, 40% are comprised of kids, that they may lash out every once in a while and show their lack of appreciation. And no, fuck Hezbollah, so don’t bother asking me if I condemn them. You might ask Bibi why he’s helped them along at the same time, by the way. That’s an interesting back story, isn’t it? And please enough with the damn gaslighting about what Israel is actually doing with the Palestinians. It’s pathetic, and the rest of the world is on to it, just as they’re on to us for supporting it.

And finally, Biden. I get it. He’s between a rock and a hard place. Cutting off support to Israel would potentially be political suicide. Then again, continuing to support a fucking apartheid created by Zionists might not be so wise either, Mr. President. Some of us are struggling mightily with our day to day financial and health concerns. My girls friend is a type 1 diabetic, and she sees her medication price creep up and up every damn year. Our healthcare system is absolute shit and getting shittier, because you know, healthcare isn’t a right, it’s a privilege in a capitalist driven society like ours, right? So let’s keep giving off fucking billions to the Zionists in charge who are cleaning out the Palestinians, kicking thousands upon thousands out of their homes and replacing them with Israelis and Jewish guys named Bob from Brooklyn to live in the West Bank for free in a Palestinian family house that had been passed town a Palestinian family for generations, all the while supplying Israelis with FREE healthcare and FREE schooling at the same time.

Makes sense. Happy fucking Friday.

SCOTUS ruling on Abortion pills is next: Prepare for the worst.

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Sunday July 02, 2023 · 1:23 PM PDT

2023/07/02 · 13:23

Because it’s not going to end well with these corrupt Conservative ass clown judges. As this Reuters article notes:

Some legal experts said Skop’s rationale, and that of the other doctors behind the lawsuit, doesn’t meet the bar for standing because the connection between the FDA’s approval of the pill and the alleged harm is too far removed.

If courts were to adopt the plaintiffs’ argument for standing, these experts said, emergency room doctors could sue over almost any regulation that impacted their workload, from oversight of guns to alcohol to teen drivers.

Well guess what? With these past two rulings on Friday, the Convervative SCOTUS majority did away with standing because both cases were made on hypotheticals, one in particular with the website ruling was outright fraudulent as been demonstrated here numerous times.

The Conservative group representing the website plaintiff, Alliance Defending Freedom, Stephen Miller’s group, had their case successfully fast tracked up to SCOTUS. Based on a hypothetical with no standing, they got their ruling in their favor. Now we can have groups legally discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community based on nothing but their own concerns.

If you haven’t taken a guess by now or don’t know who represents the plaintiffs in the SCOTUS case against the abortion pills, I’m sure you can guess by now. Yeah, same group.

I don’t know how else to be more infuriated. At this point, it’s patently clear that our SCOTUS is completely corrupt and beyond illegitimate. What’s more infuriating is there really isn’t much that can be done in the short term. Reality speaking here, Biden will not expand the court, and it wouldn’t pass Congress anyway. I screamed at the top of my lungs how important it is to get Hillary in office, among a million reasons but SCOTUS being at the top of the list, all in vain. I scream all the time about the importance of midterm elections. I can only hope on future generations continuing to come out and vote, and forgive me for being blunt here, but letting the Baby Boomer generation who majority vote Conservative die off as quickly as possible.

But again, prepare yourself for major disappointment and anger. It won’t be in our favor.

Generational Trauma and the celebration of the Queen’s passing on Irish Twitter, Black Twitter, etc.

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Friday September 09, 2022 · 8:56 AM PDT

2022/09/09 · 08:56

I’m genuinely a bit confused by so many here on Kos seemingly in deep sorrow over the Queen of England’s passing. Personally, I was a bit indifferent myself. However, my girlfriend is part Irish and has a lot of family living in Northern Ireland, and she gave me a bit of an education last night that I was forever grateful for. And the more I learned about the atrocities of England even within the past century, the more I began to understand how the Irish, the Scottish, the Africans/African Americans, the Indians (India), the Indigenous all felt a sense of the exact opposite from the rest of the world seemingly in deep sorrow for her passing. They are celebrating. That may be rude to others, but understanding what has happened to them and their families and generations has given me a different and deeper perspective on this event.

I’m admittedly not as active on Twitter as she is or others are here, but taking a gander at Irish Twitter, Black Twitter, Scottish Twitter, India Twitter, Indigenous Twitter among others who have been adversely effected by English colonialism and oppression has been pretty revealing. Has anyone else here noticed that are all coming together in unison for celebration?

Is that rude to some? Most certainly? But I will not take away their sentiments and celebration given what they and their family generations have gone through with English Royalty giving either expressed consent or turning a blind eye to oppression and suffering towards them.

I’m an American Liberal. I’ve been one since 2001, and have never looked back. The strength of being a Liberal in my opinion is examining all points of view and coming to the best conclusion as to what is the correct point of view to follow with the best available evidence given. Often times our points of view takes us into the eyes of the minorities and help lift their voices up to those in the majority who often ignore what their needs are or what they have to say.

So I’m curious, why the fuck are so many of us not doing that now with this issue?

Not Breaking: Jan 6 - Pence refused to get in Secret Service car

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Saturday April 23, 2022 · 2:43 PM PDT

2022/04/23 · 14:43

Well this is interesting:

After being taken to an undisclosed portion of the Capitol during the riot, Pence's Secret Service agents, whom Raskin suspected were reporting directly to Trump's security detail, asked him to enter an armored limousine. The intent, some have theorized, was to drive Pence away from the building, preventing him from certifying the election results, after he had signaled his unwillingness to go against his duties and keep Trump in power.

And how did Pence respond exactly?

"[Pence] uttered what I think are the six most chilling words of this entire thing I've seen so far: 'I'm not getting in that car,'" Raskin said. "He knew exactly what this inside coup they had planned for was going to do."

Huh, ya don’t say? But I thought this was just a wee little protest? Why would the second most powerful man in the country refuse to get in the car with the Secret Service, the government’s most highly respected detail of protecting government civil servants? Gosh, how odd…..

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Wednesday April 20, 2022 · 6:14 PM PDT

2022/04/20 · 18:14

Why do I often feel like stories that should garner the attention of the media, sometimes the freaking world, get little attention? Time and again, he’ll pick any given day during the Trump years, because if it weren’t for the bizarro universe we all stepped into, there were an endless cycle of stories that should have made headline news. Instead, they died like a fart in a windstorm.

I often think of the amazing success of the Right Wing echo chamber. Stories get passed down the pipelines and are repeated to the point of mental exhaustion. But they are repeated nonetheless, no matter the material, no matter how outlandish and unbelievable the story is, the entire Conservative voting block has it committed to memory.

To this day we have nothing similar, nothing even remotely as close. And I often think about if we had ½ the Machine that the Right Wing has, with the news that run in our favor, holy crap the other side would be completely obliterated.

We have no echo. We’re excited when a whisper gets printed in The NY Times or the Wa Post. But there remains no Machine on our end, and it still just plain sucks to this day.

Breaking: Twitter suspends Trump again

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Friday January 08, 2021 · 3:36 PM PST

2021/01/08 · 15:36

Welp, guess it was only a matter of time. And of course no one should be surprised and most of us are quite relieved. I do not know the details, but the screenshot of his Twitter account as of 5 minutes ago says it all above.

Poor little asshole man child.

Breaking: Trump's Private Bankers at Deutsche Bank Resign

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Tuesday December 22, 2020 · 1:02 PM PST

2020/12/22 · 13:02

Well this is interesting:

The private bankers responsible for lending to President Donald Trump and Jared Kushner have resigned from Deutsche Bank, the bank said.

"Rosemary Vrablic and Dominic Scalzi have tendered their resignations to Deutsche Bank effective as of year-end, which was accepted by the bank," Daniel Hunter, a spokesman for the bank said in a statement.

Vrablic and Scalzi have worked closely together for years since joining Deutsche Bank a decade ago. Vrablic was a trusted contact to the Trump Organization and Kushner and assumed the bank's lending relationship with Trump in the private side of the bank after the commercial lending division stopped doing business with Trump.

I’d say some folks at Deutsche Bank are feeling a wee bit of heat from some prosecutors in New York. There’s a myriad of reasons why Trump is so desperate to stay in office. This is likely at the very top of his list.

I'm Done. And I Won't Ever Forget.

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Friday December 11, 2020 · 3:22 PM PST

2020/12/11 · 15:22

Tell me the difference right now between the actions of the modern day GOP and the beginning days of the Nazi Party. I’ll wait.

Since that wait is likely going to be a long time, let’s make sure everyone here has the correct mindset, to which fortunately it’s apparent many of us already do. It’s long past time to call current Republicans anything else but Nazi fucks. To overturn millions of voters because the results were not favorable to their recalcitrant piece of shit Nazi prick man-child squatting in the White House is not just wrong or reprehensible. It is seditious, and it’s absolutely in line with fascism. If their fear of losing votes with voters whom support this fascist behavior supersedes their sworn oath to defend the Constitution, then they are no less than Nazis to me. I’ve cut off all ties from Republicans in my life as a result. Even some family members. I leave that up to others to decide what they may do, but I will not have such fascist ties and horrific toxicity in my life like that, period. Fuck ‘em.

Finally, I won’t forget. These racist, Nazi pricks once known as Republicans have not one fucking leg to stand on with me on any issue. They have lost all credibility completely. For any finger they point at any Democratic leader or Congressman, for any finger they point at President-elect Biden or VP-elect Harris, I will consider to laugh in their face before I spit in it for their horrific rank hypocrisy on every level. They will never gain a moment of credibility with me ever again.

I’m done, and I won’t forget. Ever.

Wa Post: U.S. Officials Told Sanders that Russia is Trying to Help with His Campaign

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Friday February 21, 2020 · 2:16 PM PST

2020/02/21 · 14:16

For the record, my personal choice is Warren, but I’ll vote for Sanders in a heartbeat over Trump any day of the week and twice on Sundays. That being said, I am actually outright confused how to take in this information about Russia helping out Sanders. What the hell does that actually mean? Are they helping him because they feel he’s Trump’s best chance in winning? I really don’t feel that’s the case considering any Democratic candidate at this point should wipe Trump off the mat, so what the hell is the deal here? (I don’t subscribe to the WaPost, so this is from CNN):

US officials have told Sen. Bernie Sanders that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign as part of their efforts to meddle with the Democratic primary contest, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.

It remains unclear how Russia is attempting to help Sanders, the paper reported.

Clearly the goal of Russia is confusion and to help Trump, so is this really a means to that end?

Always Remember: Trump is a Symptom of the Modern GOP, Not an Anomaly

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Friday January 31, 2020 · 12:33 PM PST

2020/01/31 · 12:33

It’s truly a day of dread, and everyone knows it. It should not, however, be a surprise to anyone. We knew what was going to happen in the Senate weeks before it ever began. Hell, one could say we knew months in advance. McConnell told us exactly what was going to happen — why in the hell would anyone believe otherwise?

The one thought that has most certainly not given me any peace, but has truly given me clarity for the last 3 years is this: Donald Trump is a symptom of the modern day GOP, not an anomaly. All of the corruption, all of the fear, hatred, bigotry, racism, religious zealotry, nationalism, selfish I got mine screw you beliefs that have been embedded in Conservative ideology for decades has accumulated and risen up to the top, and has given us the absolute piece of shit, malignant narcissist sociopath that we have in the White House today. It has reared it’s ugly head after an intelligent, incorruptible Black President moved our country forward, and the fear of a female with the last name of Clinton whom won the popular vote scared the living shit out of their dipshit GOP constituents of a future they could not possibly fathom any further.

So if you want to know why the fix was in long ago, it’s because Trump is a symptom of the GOP. Trump is the GOP, and they are him. From this standpoint, all of the actions of the GOP Congressional members and media mouthpiece blowhards make perfect sense.

We have work to do. GOTV.

Thursday: Bill Barr Meets Murdock. Friday: Shepard Smith "Stepping Down" Immediately.

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Friday October 11, 2019 · 1:10 PM PDT

2019/10/11 · 13:10

I’m sure it’s merely a coincidence that our Attorney General paid a visit to the owner of Faux News yesterday, only to have this happen today:

Fox News announced Friday that Shepard Smith would be stepping down from his role as Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of the network’s breaking news unit and anchor of Shepard Smith Reporting. Smith’s last time anchoring was today.

Sightly abrupt, and very interesting timing. Then again, Barr has to keep the State News in line. Sending an offer Rupert couldn’t refuse, maybe? Jesus.

Ukraine President Got the Message - Will Investigate 2016 US Election Interference

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Thursday October 10, 2019 · 6:00 AM PDT

2019/10/10 · 06:00

Short diary. Just ran across this tweet by Emma Kinery, reporter from Bloomberg:

Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukrainian president says his country will investigate possible Ukrainian interference in 2016 US election
Ã¢ÂÂ Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) October 10, 2019

And while we likely knew this was going to occur, it certainly begs the question as to why Ukraine is seemingly so eager and compliant to appease Trump’s request. You don’t think it had anything to do with Turkey, do you? The fact that Trump allowed Turkey to invade into Syria and displace and commit genocide to the Kurds, one of our biggest and necessary allies to fight terrorism in the Middle East — you don’t think that possibly set a message of just how far Trump doesn’t give a flying fuck about anyone, and will burn anyone down at any given moment, do you?

Just a thought. This guy in the WH is a fucking psychopath, BTW.

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