4.8-11 Open Threads/Happy Spring and Easter.
Anonymous RN
Far NorthApril 6
“@George S There is a magic wand and it’s in the hand of President Biden. Declare a Climate Emergency. We having no problem going to war with other countries. It’s high time Democrats go to war for our only home.”
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This is a quote from a comment thread in today’s Gray Lady newspaper. People with kids and grandkids, etc. need to heed it. NOW! Hope all is well in your casa, and have a safe and healthy Holiday Weekend! 🙂
A little late but how true
I ‘d make the deal-Tucker can go home
Boy what a week politically!!
Janet kicks ass in Wi for WISSC court, and of course our sore losers of the GQP threatened to impeach her.
Nice upset in Chicago for mayor hopefully he does well as thiers a lot of corruption at the political level (city) to get thru. Then theirs the crime problem as well. Score one for Bernie as his endoursement may have put him over the top.
Then you have the Tennessee GQP kicking out 2 black Dems for wanting to be heard about the shootings in the school there. Did you notice the vast Majority of people protesting were white. These two men have a bright future in politics, Their very eloquent in there speaking, down to earth and relate well to the people they represent you couldn’t ask for 2 better politicians. The Tennessee GQP blew this one big time, all they had to do was censure these 3 and it would have never made the national media. The shooting would have faded away like so many others have in the past. But noooo!!!! The out right rascist/ fascist Tennessee GQP had to show off and kick these guys out. Now they have a nation wide platform and its bringing Attn. to how bad racism is in Tennessee and the rest of the country. The only thing missing in the GQP Tennessee Legislature was the white hoods. Tennessee is the birthplace of the KKK and they legislate like it.
The the fight over abortion pills, once again a GQP fascist judge is imposing his perverted interpretation of a drug that been around for over 20 years. Unfortunately their are way to many states that are gerrymandered to death and makes it impossible to overturn these batshit fascist Legislatures. Holding out hope in Wi yet.
The us fought WWII to defeat Fascism in Europe but ite rearing its ugly head in this country and many so called Americans are ok with it. Craprate America seems ok with it as well as long as it doenst interfere with thier price gouging and profits. Apparently they arent students of history as Hitler nationalized most of Germanany’s economy and placed limits on the rest of the businesses. One thing about fascism they want total power over everything. So watch out craprate America that nice little company you have could be undernew ownership if your not carefull. Think i’m crazy look at the latest threats by DeFascist in Fla. and the Mouse. In this case its literally a choice of two evils. I wonder how long the taxpayers will put up with taxdollars being spent on this fight with the mouse. Why is DeFascits even messing with a corporation that brings about 20 billion in consumer spending dollars into Fla.every year. 100s of thousands of people depends on the jobs that are a benefit of having the mosue in this state. The mouse will end up moving anyway as Fla just might be underwater due to climate change that the GQP calls fake news/science.
I figure the Mouses lawyers are at this point with DeFascist since they own the Star Wars franchise- thier playing with him
I enjoyed the first Star Wars flick, but after that, nada. They were like watching very expensively done space cartoons. Always stayed a Star Trek fan. 🙂
I enjoyed the first one, as the new special effects of that time were new and an upgrade from the 50s-60s. you know where my home is.🖖
Thanks orl!
Wonder whom is on the other side of his suit pocket?
Nothing like a white Nazi with plenty of $$$$.
Alongside of all of the other fascist relics, a Supreme Court Justice. Bought and paid for. Who said slavery was dead?
Good, it’s long past overdue that Congress has been slacking on their jobs/responsibilities. They hold more power than SCOTUS, and always have.
I’m doing a post and run, but wanted to say Happy Easter. i feel like such a schmuck but i have been truly sick and working since late january. no need for the gory details, but have an important appointment may 1. plus all i seem to care about are the wars and the hopefully emerging multi-polar world. honestly, it looks to me like our media spit out many more lies than rt. and i don’t think most arguments work well in these cases. we have our beliefs and that’s that. so i go on, probably way to addicted to things political again.
one day i’ll gather a few of the sites i listen to. one that has really informed me on how much our National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its tentacles are involved in soft and hard coups, using legitimate beefs to whip up usually violent opposition and install an american friendly govt. brian berletic, an ex-marine, who gives off the calmest presentations at The New Atlas, https://rumble.com/c/c-1459863
TWO great pieces of news–i just pray they grow and become reality.
1. RFK Jr. is running for president against the deep state of war everywhere all the time.
2. Thought I’d pass this along, too. Ending the war in Yemen, brought to you by China and Russia and Saudi Arabia and really Iran and all the others that are tired of the death and the coups. i have no illusions that they are paradise, but we need to be stopped, imho.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/peace-in-the-middle-east-thats-a-threat.html#comments
‘Peace In The Middle East? That’s A Threat.’
Thanks to China’s and Russia’s mediation peace is breaking out in the Middle East.
Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai – 4:14 UTC · Apr 8, 2023
#BreakingNews:
The United Arab Emirates has begun withdrawing its forces from #Yemen. The Saudi-Emirati-Yemenite agreement will be announced soon.
The Middle East is solving its conflicts without the #US negative impact.
Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai · Apr 7
Great news:
#SaudiArabia will announce the end of the war in #Yemen after the Eid al-Fitr. Saudi is ending all its (high/low) conflicts in the Middle East with #Iran, #Syria, #Iraq, #Yemen & #Lebanon(not interested in the country for now) to turn towards its own development. …
Peace will also come to Syria. The foreign minister of Saudi Arabia will soon visit Damascus. He will invite Syria to rejoin the Arab League. An Arab League summit will be held next month in Saudi Arabia and the Syrian president Bashar al Assad is expected to be there.
This comes after agreements between Iran and Saudi Arabia to bury the hatchet and after agreements between Iraq and Iran to reign in a Kurdish uprising in Iran that was controlled by Kurdish forces in Iraq.
‘We can’t have that’, says U.S. president Joe Biden. He sent CIA director Bill Burns to Saudi Arabia to threaten consequences:
CIA Director Bill Burns made an unannounced trip to Saudi Arabia this week where he reportedly aired Washington’s frustrations over Riyadh’s opening to Iran and Syria through mediation brokered by US rivals China and Russia.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a US official confirmed the trip to Al-Monitor. “Director Burns traveled to Saudi Arabia where he met with intelligence counterparts and country leaders on issues of shared interest,” the US official said.
The official did not disclose the exact day of the trip but said that Burns discussed intelligence cooperation, especially in the area of counterterrorism. The CIA director met the country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Burns likely threatened to withhold U.S. intelligence on terrorist groups from the Saudis. The CIA could additionally push some of its ISIS assets to make some nasty appearances in Saudi Arabia to then offer ‘help’ to ‘fight terrorism’.
I do not think that this will work. The Saudis have had enough of U.S. interference in their region. They are looking for development and development requires peace.
Thus the U.S. is upping its threat:
The US Navy deployed a nuclear-powered submarine capable of carrying 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Middle East waters via the Suez Canal, a spokesperson revealed Saturday.
The Pentagon’s rare disclosure of the location of one of its Ohio-class submarines came amid heightened tensions between the United States and Iran after an American military contractor was killed by a drone attack on a US base in Syria last month.
The USS Florida arrived in the region before transiting the canal on Friday “to help ensure regional maritime security and stability,” Cdr. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, told Al-Monitor via email.
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Last week, the Pentagon extended the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS George H. W. Bush in the Mediterranean to support US forces in the Middle East in case of further conflagration and moved up the planned deployment of a squadron of A-10 attack aircraft to the region, CNN first reported.
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Thanks for listening. I know I’ll be back eventually, if you’ll have me. Love.
p.s. i think brian’s assessment of the war is probably too optimistic, but hope i’m wrong.
Greetings pb4, it is good to see you. We’ve missed your company. It’s interesting to see what you’ve been reading lately and hearing about our disastrous foreign policy, especially with the explosive spending under Biden’s administration.
In addition to Yemen, I am concerned about Israel and the attacks going on again in Lebanon and the West Bank. And our war machine feeds the authoritarian beasts in the Israeli government. Except for Bernie and a couple of other people in the House, Biden’s defense budget grows unchecked.
@polarbear4 Here’s a photo jcb posted last week and I said it reminded me of you.
Peace and flowers, comrades, on this Easter weekend.
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awww tanks. easter is so full of faith in peace. i sort of gave up on hope. lol
Hey PB great to hear from you. Hopefully you get good news from what ever ailes you. We all wish you well!! Looking forward to you posting more frequently when you know the time is right. the Middle east– Just maybe the people over thier are sick and tired of war. When you look at the history of that region thier hasn’t been much peace over the last 2000 years. The US certainly hasnt helped much other than the Isreal-Egypt peace treaty done by Jimmy Carter.
It is so great to hear from you, pb4!! I’ve been telling our fellow Nesters we’ve got a lot of folks lurking and reading. One quibble: there are a lot of Americans like you and me who ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THE MICC! Byedone and the other prehistoric greedballs do NOT speak for us. They speak for themselves and who/whatever has bribed them. So, don’t say ‘we’ when these noncon yahoos pull another war deal, say ‘they’ or better ‘it.’ I hope your health is improving, and good, good luck May 1st! Please do not be a stranger cos we all miss you!! LOL. 🙂
Happy Easter PB! Sorry to hear about your health and good luck with your upcoming appointment.
polar bear easter. :0)
Don’t we just love a dose of FRightwingnut non-IQ first thing this post-Easter Monday! NOT!
Orl, a question. Are the Villages set up with the same type of district that the mouse has or something simular?
The Villages is a retirement community town. WDW has nothing to do with it. We’ve got them scattered around the state. There’s one near Daytona that Jimmy Buffett has/had an interest in. I don’t know if he still does. They are full of mostly upper middle class retirees, the majority, different shades of conservative. Hubster and I are fortunate enough that we own our own ‘retirement’ casa. LOL 🙂
No i didnt think it was related to the Mouse. i was wondering if the Villages got breaks from the state govt like the Mouse got for Reddy Creek? From the little i know the villages looks like a super-sized HMO.
Not that I know of. These retirement places are treated like any other incorporated FL town.
Thx
The Repukes and DINOs have had the white-collar (and worse) crime waves going down for decades! There has been no real accountability; so, being human, they get more and more brazen with it.
Almost seems as though they feel entitled, doesn’t it? They’re trained that way. I went to college in the 80s, at a large university with a reputable Business Administration program. While the Humanities Department was squeezed into one small building, the Business Administration Department had more than enough space in their building, there was always an unused classroom or two. So a number of my upper division Humanities classes took place in the Business Administration building. The change of classes was an education in itself. The frat boys would pile in, in the same group they did everything else in, and you could just tell by the way they acted toward each other and the fleeing Humanities students that something was way, way off, even then. It just repulsed me, I wanted out of there because it felt that I was in the presence of something really, really wrong. Some of the greed is instilled in business school, but the selfishness and arrogance was there before class. They’re raised to it. Bred for it. And that’s what needs to be fixed.
Not only that, but they are rewarded for being greedy and stupid as hell. Believe me, I know. Where I got my degrees is one of the most respected academic MBA institutions.
Yes Dick Durbin is indeed awful. Illinois could do way better.
Once one allows steamrolling like this, they will continue to think it’s OK.
First of all, get away from writing ‘operatives.’ That is FRightwing BS. Lee needs to make sure she has some valued staff who know how to spot FRightwing, craporate language. These MFs know their psycho-linguistical manipulative chops. 🙁
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/10/us/louisville-ketucky-incident/index.html
Some GQP nut job will pay top$$$ for it just to use it for bragging rights. It should be melted down in all cases of mass shootings.
Screw the praying. Number one: RESTORE THE BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS AND RELATED AMMO CARTRIDGES!!
And the cop killer Ammo designd to go thru the kevlar -that ammo is for the military
Good. Shame Fundie aholes like Modi run that nation.