SwampYankee

… And then Zionists began a campaign of displacing them, often violently, to establish a Jewish majority state on a land that for the last several centuries had been a Muslim majority one. Again, the migration is not the issue.

I believe the author is, in fact, a Jewish nationalist. See my comment elsewhere in the thread and here.

Here’s a pamphlet on the subject:

https://archive.org/details/rfj_20190624/page/n3/mode/2up

This appears to be an attempt at a non-Zionist, Jewish nationalist movement. This Joseph Hefter lists himself as the national leader in the pamphlet, so despite the reference to “the explosive abnormality of the nameless, homeless, roaming Jewish nation” that “will aggrevate theNew Peace even more than it aggrevated the outbreak of the present catastrophic war” I have to assume that Hefter himself was Jewish. Unsurprisingly, the nationalist is the “self-hating” Jew, and not, despite frequent accusations, the leftist, diasporic Jew, such as myself.

Interesting history, nonetheless.

It largely was uninhabited.

It very definitely was not. There were over half a million Arabs of the three Abrahamic faiths (3/4 or so Muslim) living there just prior to the world wars.

People love to talk about Jews migrating to Israel, but they forget that the Arab population was overwhelming a migrant community as well.

Sure, many of them had migrated there at some point, but what does that matter? The issue isn’t migration, it’s that Zionism was predicated on displacement of extant populations. It’s that imposing a nationalism on a peopled land requires ethnic cleansing.

This is probably the best comment here so far. To emphasize the interceptor missile point, the US yesterday pulled interceptor systems from South Korea. You know, the place next to the nuclear-armed country that likes to lob missiles into the ocean just to show off. It should go without saying how dire the situation is if the US is redeploying interceptors from South Korea. Once interceptor stocks are depleted, Iran will be able to consistently, successfully strike targets inside US allied territory. There are some rumblings that Iran’s success rate is already increasing. Once this happens, Iran has the US & Israel backed into a corner even more than they already do.

That or all out war between Israel and Lebanon.

We don’t, so fair 'nuff.

Yeah, my dad is from there originally and moved back with my mom when they retired. A 15 point gap in the governor’s race is crazy. Democrats really expanded their map in the southeast around Norfolk and the lower peninsula. Some of those areas are rapidly developing, so I wonder how much it has to do with demographic shifts. Judging by the huge swings, I can’t see how Republican insanity isn’t driving some significant portion of this.

I’ve always had the sense that MTG is sincere, but incredibly stupid.

Those are pee pads it’s laying on and its pupils are super dilated. Probably coming down from anesthesia or something, could have been as simple as a teeth cleaning.

It’s also not irony.

Fair enough. I only made the comment about calling the texts fake because some people seem to be making that claim, usually alongside the idea that a 20-something wouldn’t text like that - the “my love” in particular. Your typical 20-something also wouldn’t do an assassination, so it’s a spurious line of reasoning.

We have text messages between the shooter and the roommate. If you want to call those fake, that’s your right, but that’s going to be a major piece of evidence in the trial.

In the texts from the indictment, the shooter says:

I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.

The shooter also calls the roommate “my love”. There are some friends, neighbors, acquaintances corroborating that they were in a relationship.

The roommate’s gender identity isn’t 100% clear. There seems to be some evidence from social media accounts that they’re trans.

I don’t think you can call this shooter “far right”. Not clear that he’s a groyper in my opinion. The Discord messages are pretty milquetoast. I certainly wouldn’t call him a leftist either. Seems he was (more than) okay with LGBTQ folks, but that doesn’t tell you much about his broader views.

Frankly, I’ve always pronounced his last name “booty judge” because why not.

Acosta was the US DA for Florida, where Epstein committed the crimes he was accused of, notably these were federal charges. Pam Bondi was AG of Florida starting in 2011 and could have pursued state charges against Epstein after Acosta’s sweetheart deal on the federal charges. She didn’t, and now she is Trump’s AG.

Trump’s AG during his first term was Bill Barr, whose father (former OSS [pre-CIA US intelligence] operative) was headmaster of a boarding school that Epstein worked at before becoming a billionaire sex trafficker. Bill Barr also worked at the law firm that represented Epstein when the Acosta deal happened.

Alan Dershowitz, who represented Trump in his impeachment trial, is a known associate of Epstein and has been accused of sexual abuse in connection with Epstein.

RFK Jr. flew on Epstein’s plane at least twice, his wife was associated with Ghislane Maxwell, and he attended an event at Maxwell’s home in 2014, well after it was well known that she and Epstein were partners in a child sex trafficking operation.

… By which time the kid may have been gone, or at least far enough away that he would have been hard to hit.

Or, you know, this violent, impulsive sack of shit may have had 10 extra seconds to think about what he was doing and be like “oh yeah, I don’t want to go to prison”.

7/10 of the most violent cities (>100k population) in the country are in red states. Chicago and Boston, Trump’s next stated targets, are 92/200 and 71/200, respectively. Houston, The US’s fourth largest city behind Chicago, has a violent crime rate more than double Chicago’s, placing it at #16 most dangerous. Nashville, comparable in population to Boston, has a violent crime rate almost double Boston’s, placing it at #18.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

Small person or huge cat?

To haboobs!

You know, I thought I had seen enough on the internet that nothing would surprise me…