Trumpifying Gaza Aid

Plus: Columbia forced to release racial data, school choice battles, and more...

Don't worry, Gazans: The Donald is here.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump have allegedly been discussing plans for the U.S. to take over administering humanitarian aid to displaced people in the Gaza Strip, per two officials who spoke to Axios. This comes right after news that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will now pursue a full occupation of the Gaza Strip, entering a new phase of war. (Some internal dissent appears to be roiling efforts; more details here.) Ceasefire negotiations appear stuck.

"The IDF has said it opposes taking over the whole Strip, with the army assessing it could take years to clear all Hamas infrastructure," reports The Times of Israel. "It could also put hostages in danger of being executed by their captors should troops approach where they are being held."

But it's hard to say whether Trump and Netanyahu are working to pursue a sort of division of labor—with Trump taking over aid efforts and Netanyahu expanding the war—or whether this move by Trump could be viewed as antagonistic by Israeli senior officials.

Axios reports that "a U.S. official said it was decided that the Trump administration will 'take over' management of the humanitarian effort in Gaza because Israel isn't handling it adequately," possibly a nod at the recent criticism Israel has received for allegedly opening fire on Gazans at aid sites. ("Palestinians are approaching these distribution sites, waiting for food, but the Israeli forces are opening fire," says Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary. The "same exact scenario plays out in Gaza every single day.")

Trump himself is apparently "not thrilled" about the idea of the U.S. taking over but believes "it kind of has to happen," per an official who spoke to Axios. "The president doesn't want to see the U.S. being the only country throwing money at this problem. It's a global problem. And he's been tasking Witkoff and others to make sure everyone is stepping up, our European friends and our Arab friends," said another official.

Israel's security cabinet is expected to meet Thursday and make a decision as to whether the country will be pursuing a full occupation of Gaza. There appears to be tentative support for Trump's plan in the Netanyahu administration, but it's not clear yet what that looks like or on what timeline things will unfold.

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Scenes from New York: "As part of the settlements struck with two Ivy League universities [Columbia and Brown] in recent weeks, the Trump administration will gain access to the standardized test scores and grade point averages of all applicants, including information about their race, a measure that could profoundly alter competitive college admissions," reports The New York Times. "The release of such data has been on the wish list of conservatives who are searching for evidence that universities are dodging a 2023 Supreme Court decision barring the consideration of race in college admissions, and will probably be sought in the future from many more of them." Yes. I have a hunch this will be a massive scandal and fascinating to go through. Watch this space.

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QUICK HITS

• Youth baseball players from Venezuela have been granted an exemption from Trump's travel ban so that they can compete in the Little League World Series later this month.
• Possible Marjorie Taylor Greene split from the Republican Party? "I don't know what the hell happened with the Republican Party," Greene told The Daily Mail over the weekend. "But I'll tell you one thing, the course that it's on, I don't want to have anything to do with it, and I, I just don't care anymore." The party "has turned its back on America First and the workers and just regular Americans," according to Greene, who has repeatedly been critical of the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files and recently called Israel's war in Gaza a "genocide."
• Prediction: Greater proliferation of school choice is going to lead to more of your taxpayer dollars being wasted on marketing consultants to…market public schools to parents who are excited to finally be free from them. A word to the wise: It's not about better school tours or trying to convince parents that actually higher teacher-student ratios are great; if you actually produce good results, parents will be more interested in enrolling their children. The problem is, that's not what's been happening in a lot of localities for years. 

kind of insane to use TAXPAYER DOLLARS to hire a marketing consultancy versus, oh i dunno, using that money to improve the schools pic.twitter.com/C0QW2Or1Qd

— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) August 5, 2025

("Governments' habit of spending your money to convince you to give them more money is getting ridiculous," writes Christian Schneider at National Review.)

• "The White House is preparing to step up pressure against big banks over perceived discrimination against conservatives and crypto companies with an executive order that threatens to fine lenders that drop customers for political reasons," reports The Wall Street Journal. The executive order, which might be signed later this week, "directs bank regulators to investigate whether any financial institutions might have violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, antitrust laws or consumer financial-protection laws. Violators could be subject to monetary penalties, consent decrees or other disciplinary measures, according to the draft."

Comments

[Chumby]

Merde!

Rapefugees invade and occupy French crop fields. Instead of waiting for bitch slapped Macron to do something, the farmers spread manure on the field to help encourage the rapefugees to move along.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14969321/real-story-video-French-farmer-travellers-spraying-manure.html

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Do you want sqrslys in your fields? Because this is how you end up with sqrslys.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

That’s ok, maybe he’ll book a flight to France and leave us alone here.

[Chumby]

Think Sqrlsy could get diabetes by eating too much of sloppy chemist’s shit?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Hamas can choose to let the palisitinians eat right now, but they don't. Hamas will kill every palistienian if it keeps them in power.

Cancer can be treated with radiation, Islam is no different

[Spiritus Mundi]

They have managed to turn every civilian in Gaza into a human sheild.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

They believe the harder Israel hits, the more it benefits them because of the suffering.

Hamas is way more Hitler than Trump. But progressives like Hamas so it's ok.

[VinniUSMC]

They believe the harder Israel hits, the more it benefits them because of the suffering.

Well, the UNazis are doing everything in their power to prove them right.

If only Israel would just stop resisting. It's their fault they wore that short skirt, after all.

[Chumby]

A Second Dildo Has Hit the Hardwood

Dunker, the WNBA’s new dildo mascot, made another appearance during a contest.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug/02/wnba-sex-toy-court-incident-sky-valkyries

Dunker is known for penetrating defenses and driving to the hole. Good stuff.

[Randy Sax]

I can only think of one way to smuggle more dillys into the arena.

[Chumby]

Imagine being a transgender cosplay woman attending the game and being stopped by security who think the bulge in their crotch is an attempt to bring Dunker to the game whereas it is actually just the penis they were born with because they are male.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

And yet they still get caught trying to sneak a dildo into the game.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Second!? Petty sure there are ten dildos on the court at all times.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

Isn’t it more like twenty boobs?

[Chumby]

There apparently is a betting site that is accepting wagers on the color of the next Dunker tossed onto a WNBA court.
Like in ice hockey where fans throws hats onto the ice when a player scores three goals in the game, whenever a WNBA player gets a double-double in a game fans could throw a double Dunker out there.

[Randy Sax]

Bet it all on black.

[Chumby]

Am hoping the WNBA merch shop comes out with seasonal colors for Dunker. Sorta like Beanie Babies did with those bears. A candy cane Dunker for Christmas might sell well.

[Spiritus Mundi]

They might be inspired by the NHL to throw an octopussy at the next game.

[Jefferson Paul]

Nashville Predators (NHL) fans for years have thrown a catfish onto the ice as some weird team tradition. I wonder which smells of fish more, the catfish thrown at a Preds game, or the dildo at a WNBA game.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

That’s copying a long-standing Red Wings tradition of throwing an octopus on the ice that dates to 1952. Back then, it took eight wins (two best of seven series) to win the Stanley Cup.

[Jefferson Paul]

There was also the Florida Panthers thing of throwing rubber rats on the ice. I think that was only in 1996, when they reached the Final, losing to the Avalanche.

Those rubber rats had some mass to them, so I remember the goaltender of the opposing team crouching down inside the net to avoid getting hit in the head with it (a small area around the back of the head isn't covered by the helmet).

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I guess tossing a pair of safety scissors would be a little too on the nose.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

If the WNBA had people running it who knew what the fuck they were doing, they'd actually lean in to this and get a promo going with Dunkin' Donuts for the double entendre marketing possibilities.

[Chumby]

They could have donuts topped with cotton candy and call them nappy headed hoes.

- Don Iamus

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

It’s a fun time right now for people with a sense of humor. As the oh-so-serious woke douches fade into irrelevance and continue to lose high profile gigs, (Howard stern, the view?) I’m optimistic that we could see more fun in general.

I think the whole Sidney Sweeney meltdown has been so ridiculous that it’s opened a door for more widespread dismissal of the lunatic perpetually angry left. They will be butthurt and lash out occasionally, but they don’t have the balls for anything serious.

Make America Fun Again. Mock the resistance.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

anything about the HSI whistle blower who gave evidence that crooks trained at an HSI range

[Chumby]

Gun Control Works

Denver gun grabbers got their way and violent crime increased, including gun related homicides.

Don’t suppress the truth.

https://www.ammoland.com/2025/08/saying-quiet-part-out-loud-reveals-fatal-flaw-of-gun-control/

[Idaho-Bob]

Gun control isn't about crime control. It's about citizen control.

Armed citizens are much more difficult to force onto the train cars.

[Ajsloss]

First, they're going to have to force the citizens to build the trains.

[VinniUSMC]

Plenty of slave labor in China already. What's the world coming to when a country can't build their own cattle cars?

[TrickyVic (old school)]

""Gun control isn't about crime control. It's about citizen control.""

This goes way back to the effort of keeping guns out of the hands of black people.

Gun control has been used as racial oppression.

[damikesc]

As I consistently point out, the countries that grabbed guns are now joyfully suppressing their other rights.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Feature, not a bug.

[Michael Ejercito]

The same side that wants stricter gun control laws also want decarceration and defunding the police.

https://www.newsweek.com/you-can-have-gun-control-you-can-defang-police-you-cant-do-both-opinion-1794484

[TrickyVic (old school)]

And what's odd is the same side does not like you defending yourself at all (Daniel Penny for example).

[damikesc]

The only people who should have guns...are the evil police who will murder unarmed minorities.

Seems logical.

I will never grasp gun grabbers.

[Eeyore]

Did they consider banning movie theaters and schools? The dangerous places people go to get mass murdered?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Colorado is empirical proof that left-wing neuroticism, altitude sickness, and drugs are a bad combination.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

To be fair, a lot of that was proposed and promoted by the left-wing suburban voters. Tom Sullivan's been on a crusade to completely eliminate gun ownership after his kid was killed by the theater shooter retard, and he's from Centennial.

[Michael Ejercito]

It is almost as if suburbs with little crime have more support for gun control laws than the actual communities where the murders happen.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Aurora and Centennial are right next to each other. The shooting happened in the theater by the mall on the north side of Aurora, but that part of town is a deep blue shithole brimming with illegal aliens. The only thing keeping it from being a complete colony of Mexico is the presence of Buckley Space Force Base, but even the people who are stationed and work there, if they aren't in base housing, typically don't live in Aurora. They live in Parker or Centennial, or in one of the nearby High Plains towns like Bennett or Strasburg.

This is an issue of the Denver metro dominating Colorado political policy, not necessarily a specifically municipal one.

[JFree]

It's silly to call a suburban voter majority 'left-wing'. Suburbs have ALWAYS been the major location of mass school shootings - with rural (not urban) second. Urban shootings are street/gang based - and usually concentrated in well-known zip codes. As long as your ilk insists on a single universal reason for crime that explains nothing, your ilk will be useless at dealing with crime beyond 'lock everyone up for life - and esp browns'.

Course that IS the limit of paleo/Rothbard thinking about the issue.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Yeah, I know, you want to pretend that the Denver suburbs north of County Line Road didn't go hard left after 2008.

[JFree]

Aurora itself is urban - not suburban. Littleton and Centennial are not 'left-wing'. They are, like most suburbs, split votes where men vote R and women vote D. The reason Arapahoe County votes more liberal over time is because suburbs suck at adding people over time. Once they run out of space, they are incapable of growing. Instead they sprawl. Suburbs that can't sprawl anymore, start splitting their votes because, financially, suburbs are a Ponzi scheme. Men vote R and women vote D and what you call 'left-wing' is simply the exact same reason there are no normal women in the Libertarian Party.

If you can't deal with that, then maybe you're an incel.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

The "precieved" discrimination against conservatives. Precieved as in the banks said we will discriminate against conservatives? They openly admit to it.

[Social Justice is neither]

But if you ignore that like a good journalist are there any debanked individuals with accounts there? I thought not and that proves it's not true for every good leftist propagandist.

[Neutral not Neutered]

How much have credit scores been manipulated against conservatives? High interest, more expensive insurance, more difficult to qualify for loans or mortgages?

[Michael Ejercito]

I wonder if debanking and manipulating credit scores was used against civil rights activists in the 1950s and 1960s.

[Zeb]

Is there any evidence that there is discrimination against conservatives in general, or just against activists with a public profile? I honestly don't know. And I'm not sure how banks would know anything about the politics of the vast majority of customers anyway.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

I'm general is a dubious ask as we dont submit party affiliation when applying for accounts.

The issue is with high profile conservatives and conservative linked groups. The latter especially true as a lot of the reasons for debanking from the banks are based on risk analysis. Basically the bank says a pro life conservative group has risks. The exact same method as used in operation chokepoint for guns.

There are numerous stories on this. It isnt general. It is high profile examples.

[Marshal]

Why does this matter? Should it be acceptable to discriminate against public conservatives so unknown conservatives are discouraged from speaking out?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Yes. Same for discriminating against anyone for any reason; in the private sector with no jawboning...

More to your question, I'd say to figure out the solution, one should figure out the scope of the problem. That way your policy fix is tailored to fixing the problem in the least obtrusive manner. Otherwise have hammer, see only nails.

[Marshal]

I've worked in a good number of businesses and never had one that wanted to discriminate on any basis other than ability to pay. It's a completely foreign concept to me and the obvious solution is to not discriminate against anyone.

Ultimately this problem is created by the left's program "the personal is political", which seeks to make all decisions and actions subject to political review.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

No aid for Gaza. No aid for Israel. Not America's problem.

Happy to sell them, COD, anything we got on offer.

[Chumby]

Johnson Arrives

Speaker Mike Johnson becomes highest elected US official to visit the occupied West Bank.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/mike-johnson-israel-west-bank

Make Israel Great Again?

MIGA, please.

[mad.casual]

Making Israel/Gaza Great Again.

Also, if we send a flotilla of aid ships as part of operation America Making Israel Great Again, the senior-most officer would be the Commodore AMIGA.

[Ska]

Do we get to play Beach Head?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

THAT'S THEIR WORD!

[Chumby]

Whatsup Shalomey?

[rbike]

Can't we send a floating dock over there, bypass ,Israel, and provide our own aid?

Do I have to think of everything?

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

That's a great idea, with the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Liz, it would behoove you to put down the board and weed and actually investigate the propaganda you seem to rely on from your coworkers.

GHF is successfully delivering copious amounts if aid into southern Gaza. They set up shop and deliver to Palestinians absent Hamas or UNRWA. They arr so successful Hamas keeps killing Palestinians for getting rid.

In northern Gaza Hamas has more control. UN has thousands of pallets of food they refuse to deliver until Israel allows Hamas, under the guise of UNRWA, to steal and distribute portions of the food. This is a decades long control structure to allow Hamas control of distribution to retain power and steal for their terrorism.

At some point you need to realize you've been too reliant on thr Hamas propaganda. Even the NYT has admitted falling for it at times.

The only ones stopping more aid is Hamas. The only ones keeping Palestine in the state they are is Hamas. They prefer martyrdom and destruction to raising their people up. Until they are removed there will be no change.

And sadly 50% of palestenians said they still support Hamas and the rape/attacks of oct 7.

[Chumby]

Downward trending Liz?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

For sure. Has turned into low effort Liz. Easier to just get talking points from the usual required reading NYT and coworkers.

[Chumby]

Looked her up and still no (obvious) account on Telegram. Often see the news a day earlier there and sometimes just the raw info from someone at the location of the incident. There is bias there; understanding what outlet is reporting (and cross verifying with others) helps focus on what occurred.

She might like it since many of the outlets support Palestine snd oppose Israel.

[Idaho-Bob]

And sadly 50% of palestenians said they still support Hamas and the rape/attacks of oct 7.

50% of Americans still supports Hamas and the rape/attacks of Oct 7. We call them Democrats.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Fair. Quite a few of them are below.

[Longtobefree]

And, just for the record, it is Hamas' war, not Israel's war.
Hamas started it, Hamas can end it at any time.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Tariffs!

Reality shows it's a mixed bag, not the panacea Trump promised, nor the devastation his opponents predicted.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trump-tariffs-economy-impact-2b07ab4f?mod=hp_lead_pos4

The Tariff Effect: Billions in Revenue but No Economic Earthquake
U.S. tariffs are higher than they have been in decades. Their effects have been mild.

Trump—and his critics—have described his tariffs as an earthquake that would transform the U.S. economy. So far, the impact has been mostly a series of tremors.

In recent months, the president pledged that a new tariff regime would slash the trade deficit and force manufacturers to move production back to the U.S. His detractors warned that the tariffs would spark sharp inflation and even shortages in stores as soon as this summer.

Six months into the experiment, with more tariff announcements likely in the coming days, the economy hasn’t crashed. Inflation has ticked up but not soared. Consumers aren’t finding empty shelves.

As Trump promised, the tariffs have brought tens of billions in extra revenue to federal coffers. That is a significant sum of money, but not enough to replace income taxes in the way Trump has suggested.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Ripples man.

This is reason. They prefer 4T in new income taxes to fixing international trade issues or consumption taxes. They prefer spending billions through usaid as a form of soft power than to correcting trade issues as soft power.

[Quicktown Brix]

Don't lose momentum moving those goal posts. You're going to need it.

[Marshal]

Don't lose momentum moving those goal posts. You're going to need it.

It's the anti-tariff group moving the goalposts. Trump's comments abut the best economy ever were not specific to tariffs, but general to his entire program. This impact was expected from a reduction in taxes and regulations.

By contrast the anti-tariff group claimed tariffs would tank the economy and since that hasn't happened yet they've changed their claim from tanking to "well it's not the best economy ever".

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Are the walls closing in? Is it the beginning of the end?

[tracerv]

So far you have been Chicken Little on this topic. Sky not falling and you have been crying wolf for 8 months now.

[Quicktown Brix]

The tariffs have been postponed for 8 months now.

What did chicken little claim? I predicted a recession and Trump's approval to plummet. It's not sky falling. It's routine economic/political cycle.

[tracerv]

Because he is using them as a negotiations tactic. Why are you beating this dead horse into a mud puddle? Everyone on this board knows your position. Until that sky falls, can you just post "you'll see" or something?

No pressure. Just a request.

[Quicktown Brix]

Until that sky falls, can you just post "you'll see" or something?

That's basically what I'm doing although often with supporting information because this is a political website comment section.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Your 'supporting information' never quite makes it into the post, chicken little.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-invest-american-manufacturing-trump-5c2c35a7?mod=hp_lead_pos3

Apple to Announce Another $100 Billion Investment in American Manufacturing

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang also expected to meet with Trump on Wednesday as tech leaders appeal for favorable policies

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Who knew! Democrat political organizations are all graft.

With all this dosh swirling around the Mothership’s orbit, the percentage of cash going into actual campaigns and Democratic electioneering organizations is vanishingly small. “My analysis of the network’s FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees,” Bonica writes. “This represents a fundraising efficiency rate of just 1.6 percent.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/those-constant-texts-asking-you-to-donate-to-democrats-are-scams/ar-AA1JVLOQ

[VinniUSMC]

*raises hand*

I knew!

[mad.casual]

Reason: Trump's business is making too much money off The Presidency!

Also Reason: Trump taking over the strip from Hamas and Israel is a bad thing!

Gaza is the way it is because of the people leading it, or not, from before the PLO. It's almost like you want it to be a lawless shithole like Ethiopia so people can point to it and shame libertarianism.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Which poster could have said this?

Tuesday on “The Don Lemon Show,” Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones (D), one of several lawmakers who left the state to avoid a quorum, compared congressional redistricting to the Holocaust.

Jones said, “In Texas, this is racist; they are targeting black people. They are targeting brown people. That is who they are targeting. We have got to say that people see it when it walks like a duck and it and walk and it quacks like a duck. It’s a duck. People see it when you don’t speak truth to power, when you don’t talk about what’s actually happening, then people don’t feel connected to you because they know that you’re leaving out something that’s truthful. So truth matters. It takes courage to be truthful. And this is very ugly. I think we shouldn’t have to be talking about racism against black people in 2025. I mean, we have the Voting Rights Act and we have the Civil Rights Act that we got passed, but they’re trying to take us back. And people want to talk about the world as they want it to be, or as it should be, instead of talking about the world as it is.”

She added, “I will liken this to the Holocaust. People are like ‘Well, how did the Holocaust happen? How is somebody in the position to kill all of them people?’ Well, good people remain silent or good people didn’t realize that what happens to them can very soon happen to me or somebody I love. So even if you made it, you have an obligation to help people who can’t, because God forbid they end up targeting you and your family.”

[Idaho-Bob]

That's a lot of drama for gerrymandering. It's really telling how none of them said anything similar when the blue states did the same thing in the last few years.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Apparently even Colbert called out Pritzker.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

It’s pretty bad when, as a sitting Democrat governor, you get called out by a partisan TV shill on your side.

[Marshal]

blue states did the same thing in the last few years.

Gerrymandering in the US has been going on for over 200 years and not one leftist objected until it was used by their enemies. Now they pretend they're against it on principle rather than just because they no longer have an advantage being the only ones who use it.

[Mother's Lament]

They fled to Illinois to protest gerrymandering... Illinois!

It's like they are purposefully trying to be Babylon Bee Headlines.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

The Bee has a hell of a time trying to keep satire ahead of reality.

[Mike Parsons]

bro when is the natural endpoint for exhausting the currency of comparing something to Hitler, fascism, or the holocaust?

After 10 years of this, the diminishing returns on evoking these things is so bad I am at the point of completely skipping over someone's argument if it mentions the holocaust in any way, and that even includes the Israel/Gaza debate

[Randy Sax]

The hyperbolic, never ending appeal to empathy has led to apathy.

Alligator Alcatraz has flooding issues recently, and the American public doesn't give a flying fuck. Apathy. Let gators eat 'em all.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Did you see the photo choice in the last Sullum article?

[Chumby]

Long TDS is a bitch. Orangemanbad has broken sarc and Jacob.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

The woman who represents this district wants you to know gerrymandering is a cowardly, undemocratic power grab.

https://x.com/GerryCallahan/status/1952894955497664996

[Medulla Oblongata]

That's (D)ifferent.

Also, it's perfectly OK to gerryman(D)er to create racial majority (D)istricts on purpose, so long as the racial majority in the (D)istrict is black and can be expected to vote (D).

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

And that's the hilarity woth the new Texas map proposal. In increases districts of minority share for Latinos. But they voted Trump last year so it is bad now.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

What I find funny is I've seen liberals and progressives say don't trust anyone who wants you to fear. Yet, they wonder why we don't trust them.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Poor Jeff and his false cries of voter disenfranchisement.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/federal-appeals-court-rules-texas-may-enforce-state-law-requiring-id-numbers

[Chumby]

Sloppy chemist hardest hit?

[Medulla Oblongata]

The media keeps making this out to be far FAR worse. No MSDNC, SCOTUS, in reconsidering redistricting questions is NOT the same as "taking away your right to vote". People in the redrawn districts can still vote, but they might be voting in a district that was NOT drawn on explicitly discriminatory racial lines.

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MSNBC: "The Supreme Court's latest move could put your right to vote at risk"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-supreme-court-s-latest-move-could-put-your-right-to-vote-at-risk/ar-AA1K0zvQ

The Supreme Court last week announced it wants to reconsider one of the core assumptions behind the Voting Rights Act: whether it’s even constitutional to intentionally draw congressional districts where Black or Latino voters make up the majority.

The justices requested new briefing in a Louisiana redistricting case, asking whether the creation of a second majority-Black district, meant to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — which turns 60 this week — might violate the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. It’s a quiet but seismic signal. The court isn’t just skeptical of the Voting Rights Act’s power. It’s asking whether the law’s foundational remedy, majority-minority districts, is itself illegal.

[Fu Manchu]

Trump has allowed Bibi to starve out Gaza. Israel isn't letting aid in except for at its shitty aid checkpoints, where Israel opens fire a few times a day. Trump nuts are spouting propaganda about Hamas stopping Gazans from getting food aid and/or there being no famine. Isn't it embarrassing to be that stupid?

[sarcasmic]

Isn't it embarrassing to be that stupid?

Embarrassment requires the ability to feel shame, which is something neither Trump nor his defenders are capable of.

[Idaho-Bob]

Whoopi Goldberg has joined the chat.

[sarcasmic]

She said that? I haven't seen anything she did since Sister Act. Didn't think you were a big fan of hers. Learn something new every day.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Believable

[Mother's Lament]

"propaganda about Hamas stopping Gazans from getting food aid"

Sieg heil, Shrike. Sieg heil, Sarcasmic.

It's Hamas propaganda you stupid Nazi fucks. They were openly boasting about rejecting it.

[Spiritus Mundi]

He took time to comment, but not condem the lies. Telling.

[sarcasmic]

Do I trust every credible news agency in the world, or emotional twits who shout "Liar! TDS! Antisemite!" whenever anyone criticizes Trump or Israel? Think I'll go with door number one.

[Spiritus Mundi]

I thought I was muted?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

He doesn't mute anyone. And too drunk yo remember who he has claimed to mute.

[Chumby]

Sarckles has likely muted several but he later unmutes them. ITL likely served the longest time in sarc’s penalty box.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Not the only box sarc celebrates.

[Chumby]

Life is like a box of sarcles. You never know what strawman you’ll get.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

Yeah, he has a kind of special dislike for me. Of course, Strawcasmic doesn’t like being called out for peddling strawmen and false equivalencies.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Nope, he’s had me on mute since he started his muting game. Hasn’t even accidentally logged out and responded to me once.

And Lying Jeffy has had me on mute since I got him to rage out about anal incest.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Do I trust every credible news agency in the world

The same ones that insisted COVID came from a wet market and that any speculation that it came from the lab in Wuhan was an unfounded conspiracy theory? (Which Jerryskids pointed out WAAAY before the lab even entered the media lexicon, incidentally) Or insisted for four years that Biden was fit as a fiddle up until their allies couldn't pump him full of enough drugs to keep him lucid before the debate?

Trust in "credible news agencies" isn't at an all-time low just because of those evil Trump voters, you know.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

— Michael Crichton, "Why Speculate?" (2002)

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Yeah, any reading of the modern press will reveal that they have nothing more than a superficial understanding of any topic they're writing about. Mostly, they just regurgitate the press release they're given, and quote tweets from their colleagues claiming the same thing.

I saw this in action a few years ago when a land area stat I had modified in Wikipedia for an Air Force base was cited in a local news article a few months later. I knew the author had just looked up the data on Wikipedia because there was NO other place on the internet that had the land area for the base calculated that way at the time (now, I see it used constantly, lol). These people are incredibly lazy and take shortcuts constantly, hence why their output needs to be taken with not just a grain of salt, but the entire salt content of the Dead Sea.

[Marshal]

Do I trust every credible news agency in the world,

No, you trust the NYT and the rest of the left media because you agree with them politically. That's why you insist they are credible despite them being caught presenting photos of a child with cerebral palsy as a "famine" victim.

[Mother's Lament]

"Do I trust every credible news agency in the world

They've all rewound the famine claims, you stupid fucking Nazi. So even they say your trust in them was misplaced.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Just dont ppint out sarc readily and blindly repeats leftist talking points. He is totes neutral.

[Mother's Lament]

He's the first guy in history to become an antisemite solely because he was mad at a bunch of gentiles who liked Trump.

[Idaho-Bob]

Not the first. He cannot think for himself sufficiently to make such a conclusion alone.

[Idaho-Bob]

Harry Sisson has joined the chat.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

The trolls spouting Hamas propaganda are proliferating. Is it one troll using many socks or many trolls? Nobody gives a fuck. I just put them on mute.

Trump has allowed Bibi to starve out Gaza.

Calling Netanyahu "Bibi" is a tell for SPB. Fucking perverts can't help wanting to signal to each other.

[Mother's Lament]

Yup, Fu Manchu was long known to be Shrike.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

False. They aren't allowing aid to be distributed through Hamas dumbfuck. The UN demands they do.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

UNRWA is the only UN agency ever created to serve a single group of people. 75 years and they still suck at it?

[Quicktown Brix]

Trump nuts are spouting propaganda about Hamas stopping Gazans from getting food aid and/or there being no famine.

Which oddly does not include Trump himself as he seems to acknowledge both the starvation and that Israel is not up to the task of administering aid in Gaza. That seems reasonable to me.

[Spiritus Mundi]

UN = Trump nuts.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Glad Mike has adopted this narrative as well. How much did you enjoy that hostage video mike?

Why is aid flowing fine through southern Gaza mike?

It is odd that you're demanding Israel provide all the aid. Never a criticism of UN letting good aid sit at the border while demanding Israel allow UNRWA to distribute. Sure they participated in oct 7th. Sure they have helped smuggle in weapons. But it is really Israel's fault.

Is there a single dem narrative you dont propagate Mike? The distribution by GHF in southern Gaza is not some esoteric secret. UNs and Hamas demands aren't some type of esoteric secret. But you just want to blame Israel like a good ignorant leftist.

[Quicktown Brix]

That's a lot of words to put in my mouth.

I didn't blame anyone. I don't know what's going on there. I only agreed with Trump that there's a food supply problem and Israel is failing to get it to those that need it. Whether that's because Israel is not trying + shooting at Gazans at aid centers or because Hamas is stealing it, I don't know because I don't trust Israel or Hamas to tell the truth.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"That's a lot of words to put in my mouth."

You should be pleased, asshole; unlike most of your bullshit it made sense.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

The one thing about the leftists here is they think they are clever and try to talk around their viewpoints. The problem is they are all retarded.

Mike makes choices of what to say, what to criticize, etc. He thinks he is clever and people dont recognize these choices.

Note he can never actually condemn the Hamas propaganda. Instead choosing to join in with trying to use it as an attempt on Trump or conservatives. Note he doesn't acknowledge the actual facts. It is a choice.

Yet then he gets indignant when the choices he makes is pointed out to him.

Mike like the rest of the midwits here thinks he is clever when he is just obvious.

Normally if someone said something that was untrue, it would be easy for Mike to say what his actual views are. He didnt do this, instead acts offended.

[VinniUSMC]

Israel is failing to get it to those that need it. Whether that's because Israel is not trying + shooting at Gazans at aid centers or because Hamas is stealing it,

One of these things is not like the other.

That's also assuming that the "IDF shooting at aid stations" isn't full on Hamas propaganda, which is a bridge too far for me. The only problem in Gaza in Hamas, and Gazans supporting Hamas, and the UNazis.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

You do nothing to improve your reputation by responding to Sarc's Trumptator trolling. And you are wrong.

Israel is fine at administering aid. It is the Gazans that are not up to the task of receiving it. 2 years in and they still can't manage to organize well enough to distribute free food amongst themselves. They are incapable of self-governance.

The Soviets in Stalingrad faced starvation and their own political officers shooting anyone who tried to flee. They still managed to outlast and destroy Hitler's 6th Army. If the Gazans were truly facing a genocide, you might consider that they should fight harder. It is all propaganda.

[Quicktown Brix]

Israel is fine at administering aid. It is the Gazans that are not up to the task of receiving it.

That's stupid. If my job is to feed a little dog and I can't do it because a big dog is eating the food i put on the floor, I'm doing a poor job feeding the little dog.

It is all propaganda.

Only confirmation bias lets you accept Israels propaganda and reject Hamas', the UN and countless other 3rd party observers. At least I acknowledge I don't know anything except the situation is terrible and people and children are suffering.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...That's stupid. If my job is to feed a little dog and I can't do it because a big dog is eating the food i put on the floor, I'm doing a poor job feeding the little dog..."

WIH is that intended to convey?

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

Obviously he thinks the Palestinians are dogs. Eventually the lefties always out themselves as horrible racists.

[Quicktown Brix]

Come on Chuck. This is a poor faith argument.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

And "poor job feeding the little dog" is not bad faith? It is an overly simplistic and miserably weak metaphor with an obvious solution: to put the big dog in another room while the little dog eats. The big dog is not incepting the food shipments or attacking the grocer.

I was giving you credit for smidgeon of intelligence by crediting you for calling Palestinians dogs.

[Quicktown Brix]

So if it's a poor metaphor, say it's a poor metaphor not that I think Palestinians are dogs.

[Marshal]

If my job is to feed a little dog and I can't do it because a big dog is eating the food i put on the floor, I'm doing a poor job feeding the little dog.

The big dog can't be blamed because he's a dog. It's revealing this reflects your judgement.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

HAHAHA! You got him pegged.

[Jefferson Paul]

If that's true, then QB's Akita won't want to be around him any more.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

Glad to see the double entendre was not missed. I was actually thinking about the Akita when I wrote it.

[Jefferson Paul]

I wonder if in a year we'll still be making Akita jokes here, confusing the hell out of all the new commenters.

We still do the "bears in trunks," and I hope that never goes away.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Bears in trunks will never die.

[Quicktown Brix]

The apparent assumption that every minuscule and tangential detail of an analogy is intended to apply to the actual situation betrays your lack of argument against my point.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

We are just too stupid to appreciate "Bears in Trunks". Got it.

[Quicktown Brix]

Well, my analogy may well be a bad one, but if the conclusion you draw from it is "He ThiNkS ThEY'rE DoGs!!!!" then yes, you are just too stupid.

But I know that's not the case. I know it was a deflection because I've read your comments for a long time now. I know you are smarter than that.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

My response was not a deflection. You just reacted to getting called out and continue to ignore any of my salient points.

Meanwhile, you are in complete denial that your dog metaphor was completely inappropriate. Get it through your thick skull. Comparing people to animals is not OK. Marshal got it right. Animals can't be held responsible for their own behavior and that is reflected in your shallow thinking about a complex situation.

Dissemble, deflect, distract. It's all you do.

[Quicktown Brix]

OK. Maybe not, then.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

Feel free to go fuck yourself.

[Marshal]

The apparent assumption that every minuscule and tangential detail of an analogy is intended to apply to the actual situation betrays your lack of argument against my point.

It's not tangential. It is specifically the lack of the big dog's agency that places the responsibility on the person. In the real world Hamas is responsible for its own actions in making distribution difficult but you conclude Israel is responsible by employing a model which precludes Hamas's responsibility.

If you approached this honestly you would recognize this and adjust your conclusion. But you chose otherwise which informs us more about you.

[Quicktown Brix]

What I meant is: like the big dog's behavior, Hamas' behavior is predictable.

But please, forget the dogs. My intended point is that Israel has the putative goal of delivering aid. The aid is failing to get to the intended recipients. Therefore Israel is doing a poor job delivering aid.

If they keep doing the same thing and Gazans continue not getting aid, at what point do we acknowledge that Israel is either not trying to get it there, or is severely incompetent in delivering aid?

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

The aid is failing to get to the intended recipients. Therefore Israel is doing a poor job delivering aid.

Try this analogy:
"Marshal is failing to get QB to acknowledge QBs lack of critical thinking. Therefore Marshal is doing a poor job of communicating."

Marshal can be (and is) doing a great job of communicating and QB is just too obstinate/stupid to acknowledge it. Likewise, it says nothing about Israel being able to deliver aid to Gaza if the Palestinian government swoops in and steals it.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

Hamas' behavior is predictable terrorism.

Fixed it for you.

[Quicktown Brix]

"Marshal is failing to get QB to acknowledge QBs lack of critical thinking. Therefore Marshal is doing a poor job of communicating."

The appropriate analogy would be "Marshal's goal is to get QB to acknowledge QB's lack of critical thinking and failing to accomplish his goal. Therefore Marshal is doing a poor job of getting QB to acknowledge his lack of critical thinking."

And that would be correct.

[Marshal]

The aid is failing to get to the intended recipients. Therefore Israel is doing a poor job delivering aid.

This is a naively simplistic framework anyone should be ashamed of advancing. When the other side is actively trying to stop you how can failure be assessed as "not trying"? Similarly "incompetent" is hopelessly juvenile.

It's hard to organize relief for tens of thousands but it's next to impossible when another entity is actively obstructing the process.
In this effort Hamas has all the advantages. First it's easier to obstruct than it is to execute. Next Hamas is hidden among the population. Plus in most cases the population itself actively supports Hamas. Further as we see the outside NGOs, media organizations, and most Western governments actively support Hamas through repetition of their propaganda and applying pressure solely to Israel.

All this could be avoided by a Hamas surrender, but none of the Hamas allies want that so they act to encourage Hamas.

[Quicktown Brix]

It's hard to organize relief for tens of thousands but it's next to impossible when another entity is actively obstructing the process.

You're trying to say Israel has a good plan that includes providing aid that never arrives? Yeah, OK.

[Marshal]

You're trying to say Israel has a good plan that includes providing aid that never arrives? Yeah, OK.

That's an amusing summary in the same thread you complain of others putting words in your mouth. Now I'm confused on whether you think that's wrong or not. Do we put you in the sarc category who believes it's wrong to do to him but he feels free to do it to others? Ok.

In reality we don't know how good their plan is because we can't see it work without obstruction. But we do know that judging them against perfection while saying nothing about or to the group actively obstructing the process is a clear analytical failure.

[Marshal]

"Marshal's goal is to get QB to acknowledge QB's lack of critical thinking

This is wrong, my goal is never to convince people to change their minds. My goal is to show others exactly where your analysis fails and why. So why don't you ask them if I've been successful or not.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

The appropriate analogy would be "Marshal's goal is to get QB to acknowledge QB's lack of critical thinking and failing to accomplish his goal. Therefore Marshal is doing a poor job of getting QB to acknowledge his lack of critical thinking."

Your restated analogy is made absurd in its redundancy. You continue to oversimplify, like with the stupid dog metaphor. You have agency. You could acknowledge your lack of critical thinking when it is pointed out to you, but you refuse.

The aid is being intercepted and stolen. That does not reflect on Israel.

[Quicktown Brix]

That's an amusing summary in the same thread you complain of others putting words in your mouth. Now I'm confused on whether you think that's wrong or not. Do we put you in the sarc category who believes it's wrong to do to him but he feels free to do it to others? Ok.

My apologies for misconstruing your comment. You know what you meant better than me, but that’s the way i took it.

[Quicktown Brix]

Your restated analogy is made absurd in its redundancy.

My original analogy and my criticism of Israel were both redundant. The goal was to deliver food in both cases. In both cases the food failed to arrive. In both cases it is a bad job delivering food.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Mike thinks all of the problems caused by hamas and gazans is the responsibility of Israel and Israel is to be blamed for those problems. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Jefferson Paul]

I don't believe any of the sources coming out, pro-Palestinian or pro-Israel. They're all lying to further their agenda. I had the same stance with Ukraine-Russia, and it should be clear to all of us how both sides of that conflict were not just engaging on the battlefield, but in the media with propaganda.

I accept that the Gaza Health Ministry (which is run by Hamas) are inflating the numbers of casualties by as much as they think they can get away with--and there are plenty in the legacy media who are happy to go along with that. I also accept that Israel will undercount civilian casualty numbers by as much as they can get away with. Everyone should expect that in this modern age of 4th and 5th generation warfare. Has Israel even come out and said what they estimate the number of civilians killed, including women and children? All I can find is them saying the Hamas numbers are fake. Sure, I agree, but what's the number you're reporting?

What I don't understand is why so many of you guys are so keen to accept any news report if it paints Israel in a better light and reject any report that tarnishes Israel.

The clear propaganda piece by the Times which portrayed the child with cerebral palsy as starving to death was a lie. But does that mean no children are starving? I don't know the answer, but I'm not going to jump to that conclusion because I hate Hamas.

Every report of Gazan being shot at by IDF at food distribution centers is immediately dismissed. Why? If it were the US in this situation, and reports surfaced that US soldiers were doing this, I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand. Why is the IDF beyond reproach? Perhaps it's ALL Hamas lies regarding the IDF in this case. I don't know, but I'm not going to accept that Israel/IDF are comprised of pure angels incapable of doing wrong.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

No one is denying that war is hell.

Any defensiveness on my part is simply to the idea that Israel is wrong for continuing prosecuting the campaign against Hamas. They are not obligated by morality or international law to sit there while terrorists lob rockets at them.

You don't need to accept anybody's statistics to know that an enemy that has not surrendered is fair game.

[Jefferson Paul]

I agree that Hamas is fair game and deserve to be destroyed by the IDF. I don't know if it's possible for them to fully destroy Hamas though. I've always said if Hamas is firing a rocket at you, even if doing so from a school, you are within your right to fire back to stop the imminent threat, even if it means killing the students too. But that's not the same as blowing up a building full of civilians because there is, or might be, a Hamas terrorist inside. That's not an imminent threat.

Lumping all Gazans into the same basket and saying what Hamas deserves is what all Gazans deserve is a bridge too far for me. In the end, I just want the US out of this completely. No funding (and that goes for Ukraine and all other foreign funding), and let Israel do what it thinks is best. If they go too far, I'd hope they are held accountable by the international community, but that's not our call as long as we aren't funding or directing the war.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

I just want the US out of this completely. No funding (and that goes for Ukraine and all other foreign funding), and let Israel do what it thinks is best.

Wow, an actual libertarian take. On that, you have my full support.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Yes.

[Quicktown Brix]

Nice Jefferson! I wish I had said it this way because this pretty well summarizes what I was trying to say...but could you work some dogs into it?

[Jefferson Paul]

I took your suggestion and made a comment above referring dogs:

Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark) 2 hours ago
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HAHAHA! You got him pegged.

Jefferson Paul 2 seconds ago
If that's true, then QB's Akita won't want to be around him any more.

[Quicktown Brix]

LOL!

[Spiritus Mundi]

It appears he wants Israel to a better job killing Hamas (the big dog in his analogy).

[Quicktown Brix]

Wow

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

People are not dogs, you asshole. It is not murder to kill looters and thieves in a war zone. It is either a) not happening, b) happening, but the government does nothing about it, c) organized by the government. Take your pick. Any way you slice it, the Gazans are complicit for supporting Hamas.

the UN and countless other 3rd party observers

The UN has repeatedly PROVEN themselves to be compromised by Marxists as proven by their continued narrative of "genocide".

"Countless other" is every bit as convincing as "unnamed source". Why you continually rely on people you can't identify is beyond me.

The IDF has admitted to mistakes. The IDF has admitted to executions. Netanyahu faces harsh criticism within his own nation. That makes Israel a far more reliable source than unidentified 3rd parties and clickbait journalists.

Murder of aid seekers and starvation are propaganda.

[Quicktown Brix]

People are not dogs, you asshole.

I never said they were and You know what I mean. This is an obvious attempt to derail the conversation.

"Countless other" is every bit as convincing as "unnamed source". Why you continually rely on people you can't identify is beyond me.

I say we can't trust any source and you accuse me of trusting the wrong source?

[TrickyVic (old school)]

""I say we can't trust any source"

If one has an opinion other than I don't know, then they are trusting a source. Not speaking specifically of you.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

He is a fucking idiot. I have spent the last 40 years learning how to read and listen to the news. You can often discern the truth by what they omit, what they lie about, and what they accuse others of doing.

Israel is far from perfect, but they are not the nation of supervillains that is being projected by the UN and world press corps. Palestinians have had exactly one free election and they elected terrorists.

[Quicktown Brix]

I guess. I mean I do try to draw conclusions based on a myriad of facts and sources without trusting any single source completely, but you are correct that there must be some value placed in the information.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

You could try cracking a history book or two as you don't seem to understand the situation very well. Israel has been under siege for its entire history and the UN has loudly objected any time they take the offensive. The UN and Al Jazeera are completely untrustworthy on the issue of Palestine. The AP, Reuters, BBC and NYT all source their articles from those undeniably biased partisans.

[Quicktown Brix]

You could try cracking a history book or two

Ever hear of Scott Horton?

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

What do donuts have to do with history?

[Quicktown Brix]

I donut know.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

This is an obvious attempt to derail the conversation.

Except that it is not, you flaming turd. Your asinine metaphor was the deflection. As is this response.

Notice that you are the one who did not respond substantively to anything I wrote - is it happening - UN and "genocide" - IDF admissions.

And you accuse me of bad faith?

[Quicktown Brix]

That's not bad faith. That's rationing my limited time and attention. You made declarations that I don't care to counter.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

You made declarations that I don't care to counter.

So you cherry pick. Go fuck yourself.

[Neutral not Neutered]

At least acknowledge the reason the innocent people and children are starving is because Hamas is using them as human shields and hiding behind them, purposely not feeding them which you know is happening and using them as pawns in their sick struggle to maintain power.

[Quicktown Brix]

Acknowledged.

And all that except the human shields part is also seems to be true of Israel.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"And all that except the human shields part is also seems to be true of Israel."

Cite missing.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Plenty of aid is being given. The shit bags you care so much about are looting it.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/08/05/un-reports-88-percent-of-aid-trucks-slated-for-delivery-in-gaza-since-may-looted-along-routes/

Clutch. Pearls. Harder. Nazi.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Don't tell Mike. This is Israel's fault.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...Trump has allowed Bibi to starve out Gaza..."

Fu Manchu is a lying pile of TDS-addled slimy lefty shit.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Free the Hostages!!

[Randy Sax]

kind of insane to use TAXPAYER DOLLARS to hire a marketing consultancy versus, oh i dunno, using that money to improve the schools

The skools are a black hole money pit, you can dump cash into them and they will not improve. It's been tried. Over and over and over. No effect.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

It is all administration. It used to be that teachers shared administrative duties. Now there is more administration than teachers and it makes no difference in outcomes.

The PEUs have fucked it up beyond the ability to repair.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Yeah, but their union membership is stronger than ever!

[Neutral not Neutered]

It's a sad spiral of the scorpion and the frog.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

Yeah, if the scorpion asked for a ride and then demanded the frog also carry his kid, his cousin, and his retarded nephew. PEUs are as rife with nepotism as private sector unions.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Youth baseball players from Venezuela have been granted an exemption from Trump's travel ban so that they can compete in the Little League World Series later this month.'

Over/under on number of defectors?

[Randy Sax]

The same rate as Cuban doctors on mission trips.

[Longtobefree]

All those without relatives left behind as hostages?

[Randy Sax]

Trump himself is apparently "not thrilled" about the idea of the U.S. taking over but believes "it kind of has to happen," per an official who spoke to Axios.

Why does it "kind of have to happen"?

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

Trump is being an idiot on this. It is an enormous waste of resources with no chance of positive outcomes. The pro-Hamas propaganda machine is already going as hard at America as it is at Israel.

The aid is there. Food is rotting and being thrown out because it can't be delivered. How can that possibly be Israel's fault? Gaza has a border with Egypt and the Egyptians won't open it because they know the shitstorm is self-inflicted and they don't want to get hit with it.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Trump is being an idiot on this. It is an enormous waste of resources with no chance of positive outcomes.

And like they've done for decades, the only thing the Palestinians will do is demand more, and generally act like the evergreen ingrates and spastics they are. This is why pretty much every other Arabic country is absolutely done with them.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

The world's ultimate victim class. Is it any wonder the Marxists at the UN amplify their propaganda?

[Michael Ejercito]

Explain the concept of a victim class.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

One that perpetually gets a pass on their behavior from the left-liberal elite no matter how they act.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

And who’s victimhood can be used as a political cudgel.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'It's not about better school tours or trying to convince parents that actually higher teacher-student ratios are great'

Right. It's about the number of pride flags and using students as patsies during the next teachers' strike.

[VinniUSMC]

using students as patsies during the next teachers' strike.

I misread this at first... I'm sure they'd use students as pasties if they could figure out how.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

Well, I suspect the parents might be a little pissed to find out their kids are now part of a meat pie.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

The White House is preparing to step up pressure against big banks over perceived discrimination against conservatives and crypto companies with an executive order that threatens to fine lenders that drop customers for political reasons," reports The Wall Street Journal.

Perceived is a strange word when we know about Operation Chokepoint and we know all the debanking that has occurred.

[Idaho-Bob]

The left has denied political targeting from the Obama administration because they support it. Any means necessary is not hyperbole.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"The White House is preparing to step up pressure against big banks over perceived discrimination against conservatives and crypto companies with an executive order that threatens to fine lenders that drop customers for political reasons"

What?!? How dare the government fight "good" discrimination. We have a nation founded on principles of selective social justice, based on intersectional oppression scores as determined by federally-funded academics, and unlimited federal power, right?

[Neutral not Neutered]

But but equity

[Spiritus Mundi]

But it's hard to say whether Trump and Netanyahu are working to pursue a sort of division of labor—with Trump taking over aid efforts and Netanyahu expanding the war—or whether this move by Trump could be viewed as antagonistic by Israeli senior officials.

Whatever happens, somebody here at Reeeason wil orange man bad it.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

And JD Vance will be wrong.

[Mike Parsons]

"searching for evidence that universities are dodging a 2023 Supreme Court decision barring the consideration of race in college admissions"

Guarantee we find a streak of sub-par scores gaining admission via their stellar essays that happen to focus on them being 'historically disadvantaged', of course with no mention or consideration of race.

[Jefferson Paul]

Wasn't there that guy whose application essay to Harvard was only just repeating "Black Lives Matter" a few hundred times? He was accepted. Perhaps his other metrics were so stellar that his essay didn't matter, but I doubt it.

[Spiritus Mundi]

"Palestinians are approaching these distribution sites, waiting for food, but the Israeli forces are opening fire," says Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary. The "same exact scenario plays out in Gaza every single day."

Al fucking Jazeera. You do know it is their religious duty to lie to defend the pedophile mohammad? And when it comes to getting rid of the joos, there is no higher calling for the mohammadians.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

During a period in history where pretty much everything gets captured and posted online, you'd think there would be multiple viral videos of this very thing happening, every single day.

That along is enough to doubt the narrative, even taking the Muslims' taqiyya into account.

[mad.casual]

Video or not; the IDF puts out aid, waits for Palestinians to get near it, blasts the hell out of them, cleans up the piles of corpses, sets out fresh aid, and waits for more Palestinians to show up *every* *single* *day*? Not even deer are that stupid. It's like something out of a Roadrunner or Sylvester and Tweety cartoon.

[Mike Parsons]

"During a period in history where pretty much everything gets captured and posted online"

Also notable that the people who are certain this is happening despite not having any video of it as you say, are pretty staunchly in the "pics, video, and notarized stamp or it didn't happen" regarding sexual violence from Hamas

[Spiritus Mundi]

The White House is preparing to step up pressure against big banks over perceived discrimination against conservatives

Unfounded CoNsPiRaCy! Just like the preceived discrimination against conservatives by social media companies. Can't wait for the "but muh private business" articles from Reeeason regarding this.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Don't worry, commenters, the TDS-addled worthless speculation is here.
Stuff it, Liz.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...according to Greene, who [...] recently called Israel's war in Gaza a "genocide."..."

So brain-dead piece of anti-semitic shit. Good to know.

[Use the Schwartz]

Yep, remember she is the "Jewish Space Lasers" lunatic.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

The Epstein Files are what working people need

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Governments' habit of spending your money to convince you to give them more money is getting ridiculous," writes Christian Schneider at National Review.

These same people paid $20 million to a fat lesbian to help them figure out how to connect with young white men. They have a cargo cult relationship with money and think that spending it is a cheat code to success.

[Neutral not Neutered]

Al Jazeera article has no evidence shown that Palestinians are being shot by IDF when approaching aid areas.

Statistics from Hamas can't be trusted yet that is what is provided as the matter of fact?

When has any country or entity provided the level of aid to an enemy that has not ceased to give up it's terrorist attacks and actions or the hostages taken as Israel has?

[Marshal]

kind of insane to use TAXPAYER DOLLARS to hire a marketing consultancy versus, oh i dunno, using that money to improve the schools

This is a fundamental mistake. We've known for decades that there is no relationship between school performance and spending. Claims otherwise are political, not educational.

What schools need is better management which starts with eliminating the institutions whose purpose is preventing better management: teacher unions.

[Chumby]

Eliminate all coerced taxpayer money used to fund the public schools.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

LOL! It is mostly municipal bonds. The people literally beg for it.

[Chumby]

Each place does it differently. The new construction is via bond here. The shakedown to fund the operations is done by property taxes (about 45% of my property taxes goes to an institution I have not used, am not using, nor will ever use).

Voting on the bonds just means the people voted for the wealth transfer. The bonds are paid back through taxes.

I vote NO on all bonds and encourage individual households to make that financial decision themselves.

[Marshal]

Unrealistic solutions are fantasies. If we want progress we have to be realistic.

There's a ton of opportunity right now. On a macro level people are disgusted with what Dems have done with their dominance which include creating campus sex police, child mutilation, vastly increasing bureaucratic control while eliminating their responsiveness to the people, public demagoguery, and politicizing everything.

But on a performance level there's a revolution going on. Consider education. For decades the left has pushed esoteric theories about how to educate children that were obvious failures to anyone not invested in them. But of course all the decision makers were so invested so they were implemented anyway. We've finally gotten to the point where people outside the system have said "no more" and are returning to methods that work (like phonics for reading) and rejecting the political focus desired by leftists. This is the heart of the Mississippi Miracle. Mississippi has for generations been the case study of terrible education. But in the last handful of years they are the most improving state and are now in the middle of the pack educationally, a massive improvement in such a short time all driven by the rejection of the left-controlled establishment.

People are realizing left-control of our institutions is a disaster. In order to take advantage of this we need to show them a path to a better alternative. Presenting the alternative as ending public schools is a complete non-starter. Not only can it not happen based on where we are now they will reject it out of hand. Plus there's no need to present such a radical option when vouchers capture the overwhelming majority of benefits while being vastly more politically palatable. We need to focus on incremental improvements understanding that we will gain the public's trust as our solutions prove to be better over time.

[Mike Parsons]

"people outside the system have said "no more" and are returning to methods that work (like phonics for reading) and rejecting the political focus desired by leftists."

A couple friends had (key word) kids in districts that bought into this nonsense. Of course, the height of anti-racist times. Part of the schools reasoning was "whole word / whole language is something that indigenous, POC, and maybe people with dyslexia might have more success with". Their kids, along with many other kids, fell massively behind in reading and had to be moved to a private school.

And as Mississippi did, almost in parallel with that news story, the districts around us that werent absolutely insane leaned back into phonics hard. The ones that insist on whole language / whole word are falling further behind at a rapid pace.

[Marshal]

Part of the schools reasoning was "whole word / whole language is something that indigenous, POC, and maybe people with dyslexia might have more success with".

Right, this is all driven by Critical Race Theory. CRT asserts anything with a disparate impact is racist and must be eliminated. In reality there are differences in inputs which create differences in output. Imagine telling the NBA they can't track shooting percentage as a metric because teams will use it to evaluate potential draftees or free agents, and this is racist because there's a racial difference in the results. It's ludicrous. You're saying ability must be ignored.

In addition the same thing is happening on the math side so it's not subjective evaluation or any other distraction. Unless you want to claim the concept of education itself is racist because different cultures value it differently this is bunk. If you do abstract it that far what is the solution? Advocates seem to have worked themselves into an unworkable problem. Education is both so important we have to ensure everyone reaches a specific state and must be eliminated as a goal because the concept itself is inherently racist.

[Mike Parsons]

"Unless you want to claim the concept of education itself is racist because different cultures value it differently..."

- CRT practitioners and leftists: "hard yes"

"If you do abstract it that far what is the solution?"

- equity. Govt/state/school redistribution of resources, rewards, admissions/placements based on social justice rather than merit

[Marshal]

- equity. Govt/state/school redistribution of resources, rewards, admissions/placements based on social justice rather than merit

Right. the inherent conflict is between the education system and minority parents since they are both Dem constituencies. Teachers don't want to be held to any standard of performance but obviously at least some minority parents demand exactly that.

The grand bargain is that if minority parents don't make waves about the substandard education the Dem party will reward them with college acceptance and then government jobs. That's why race preferences are so important to Dems, that's the only tool Dems have to manage this friction.

[Chumby]

$37T in debt plus several times that in unfunded liabilities. Without decisive course correction, this doesn’t end well for most. Talk of “we need to do this” as a collective is socialism and leads back to the same place.

[Dillinger]

>>Possible Marjorie Taylor Greene split from the Republican Party?

not certain the National Socialists provide the funding GOP does, Margie ...

[Dillinger]

>>Youth baseball players from Venezuela have been granted an exemption from Trump's travel ban

buena. children are not political prawns.

[Ajsloss]

children are not political prawns.

Get a load of the guy that didn't watch District 9.

[Dillinger]

>>Greater proliferation of school choice is going to lead to more of your taxpayer dollars being wasted on marketing consultants

yes but ultimately the marketers will fail also. close the conformity factories.

[Mike Parsons]

"It's not about better school tours or trying to convince parents that actually higher teacher-student ratios are great; if you actually produce good results"

And most involved and at least average intelligence parents already know this stuff. Between school-review sites, zillow etc, known literacy/score results, and student placement after graduation, everyone knows what the good schools are and why. A coat of paint and a new latte machine or smoothie bar isn't going to cut it for an even mildly informed parent if they know the school has a drastically high illiteracy and violence rate.

They (the left) are fighting tooth and nail to keep everybody in their objectively shittier education system, because that results in more funding for them, and the ability to spread their propaganda. Its hard to tell little Jenny she is an implicitly racist little shit who owes her fealty to people of color and all-giving daddy govt if she goes to the private school down the road and takes actual math classes. Socialists always have to build some kind of wall to keep people trapped in

[Dillinger]

thankfully the worst in my public school era were equivalent to Alex Keaton's parents.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Well if you don't fall for our shitty PSA/marketing; we'll just bus your kid out of the school district. For equity, of course.

[Dillinger]

>>"a U.S. official said it was decided that the Trump administration will 'take over' management of the humanitarian effort in Gaza because Israel isn't handling it adequately,"

love when US officials play the one truth and one lie game.

[mad.casual]

He'll be too successful opening golf courses and resorts and that will reflect poorly on America as a corrupt, elite, cronyist, fascist, Zionist, white supremacist Banana Republic.

[Dillinger]

I'm definitely looking to run for mayor of Gaza one day.

[Michael Ejercito]

Will Jim Acosta interview JFK?

Will he interview Laken Riley or AJ Wise?

How can anyone have thought this was a good idea?

https://x.com/Acosta/status/1952459273881190572

[Chumby]

George Floyd

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Jeff Epstein?

[Dillinger]

the ultimate guest will be Acosta's Career.

[mad.casual]

His journalism career anyway. The lineup for the final show being his journalism career, Titania McGrath, and Abe Vigoda and Abe gets bumped could be a decent turn.

[Mike Parsons]

I love how it gave the most generic copy/paste chatbot responses, and Acosta is convinced this is groundbreaking stuff. Almost sounded like he was conversing with the microsoft paperclip it was so stilted and superficial. I dont think this would even fool the elderly

[Michael Ejercito]

I wonder why he even thought it was a good idea.

[Z Crazy]

Yeah, why not an interview with Madelyn Monroe or Grace Kelly.

Or even Shannon Doheny from that 92010 show about 15 years ago?

[Jefferson Paul]

Just imagine the uproar if some right-leaning "journalist" or influencer did the same with Laken Riley, where AI-she went on to say how important it is to deport all the illegals so others won't be raped and murdered as she was.

I didn't come up with this example, I saw it on a podcast yesterday, but it was an apt comparison.

[Mike Parsons]

"AI-she"

Babe wake up, new pronouns dropped!

[Jefferson Paul]

It'll be all the rage when the machines take over.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Hanging on in loud obnoxious desperation is the Acosta way.

[Chumby]

I see you are trying to gaslight. Would you like help with that?

[I, Woodchipper]

"The White House is preparing to step up pressure against big banks over perceived discrimination against conservatives and crypto companies with an executive order that threatens to fine lenders that drop customers for political reasons," reports The Wall Street Journal. The executive order, which might be signed later this week, "directs bank regulators to investigate whether any financial institutions might have violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, antitrust laws or consumer financial-protection laws. Violators could be subject to monetary penalties, consent decrees or other disciplinary measures, according to the draft."

I swear, it's the greatest time to be a non-liberal american. Trump is so fucking funny.

[I, Woodchipper]

He's gonna fine Chase for dropping kanye's accounts . lol

[Medulla Oblongata]

Fascists! They just want people to die!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/illinois-removes-nearly-700-000-people-from-health-care-plan/ar-AA1K0td1

Almost 700,000 Americans have been removed from a health care plan in Illinois over a two-year period, data from KFF, a nonprofit health policy research and news organization, has shown.

These Americans have been removed from the state's Medicaid program as part of the unwinding process happening nationwide after Medicaid coverage was expanded during the COVID pandemic.

During the COVID pandemic, some states expanded access to Medicaid, the federal health program for those with limited income and resources, through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

These states were then forced to keep recipients on the program despite any changes to their eligibility until March 2023 under federal rules.

That month, states were then allowed to start the "unwinding" process, whereby those no longer eligible for the program were rolled off.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

Illinois, to put it mildly, is broker than Sarc after a run to the liquor store.

[Medulla Oblongata]

And who runs Michigan?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/ex-michigan-state-worker-says-she-was-fired-for-exposing-snap-fraud/ar-AA1JYU1w

A Michigan woman claims the state fired her from her job of 23 years for exposing a scheme to steal money from the state's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. According to a court complaint, Ashanta Butler said she was fired after alerting her superiors to the scam.

Butler filed suit last month in the Eastern District of Michigan. The complaint says Butler was a good employee with no history of significant discipline.

The complaint states that Butler became aware of a scheme by her coworkers to steal taxpayer-funded food benefits, more commonly known as food stamps.

Butler then took that information to her manager. The complaint accuses the manager of being one of the state employees who took advantage of the program.

The complaint also accuses a human resources worker of misconduct.

The complaint claims that an HR director in April 2024 told Butler that "your kind is not welcome in Macomb County," which the plaintiff took as a racially charged statement. Butler is Black.

Butler was fired the next day. During the termination, Butler alleges the HR director also told her she was "blackballed in Lansing" and would never work in Macomb County again.

The Michigan Department of Health & Human Services has not publicly commented.

It's unclear if law enforcement is currently investigating Butler's claims of what was happening in her department. However, a report from Michigan Capitol Confidential shows food stamp fraud spiked in the state by 400% from 2023-2024.

[Jefferson Paul]

The complaint claims that an HR director in April 2024 told Butler that "your kind is not welcome in Macomb County," which the plaintiff took as a racially charged statement. Butler is Black.

So they knew she was black when they hired her. She proceeds to expose an alleged scam operated by her supervisors and coworkers. But because they used the term "your kind" it automatically means this was racism? I think it would be obvious that "your kind" would more likely refer to someone rocking the boat and not going along with the scam.

[JFree]

It's not about better school tours or trying to convince parents that actually higher teacher-student ratios are great; if you actually produce good results, parents will be more interested in enrolling their children.

Horseshit. The way you provide info to students/parents about whether particular curriculum/teaching practices work or not is to implement CLASSROOM choice - not school choice. The 'professionals' who run school districts oppose that - but that merely means taking school districts out of the control of those professionalized organizations and putting individual schools back in the control of parents/teachers/neighbors.

[Jefferson Paul]

What do you mean by "classroom choice"? Is it where students can take a class at all kinds of different schools? The logistics of transportation would likely be a nightmare. Still probably better than the current system, but if ending public schools is not on the table, school choice would be the better alternative.

[JFree]

It's where a classroom simply gets rented out for one hour for whatever combo of teacher/curriculum/texts/etc. The same sort of stuff that charter schools purport to uniquely provide - except no need to also fund separate charter cafeterias, charter playgrounds, charter school buses, charter bathrooms, and a lot of other stuff that adds cost but has very low marginal costs.

A classroom that succeeds in offering something valuable to the parents and students who enroll in that program can easily and quickly expand hours and space to others. Long before 'next school year'. A classroom that fails can likewise quickly ramp down. Any experiment in a single classroom can easily and quickly transmit info to everyone else in the school - without the need for a 'marketing program'.

It's very easy for schools to manage/fund the facilities one way (prop taxes are exactly the way neighborhood facilities get funded) - and curriculum a different way (simply provide the space/facilities)

[Jefferson Paul]

It's a novel idea (in that this is the first I'm hearing about it). I'll have to look into it more. Immediately, though, I think that that would be even harder to pass legislatively, especially with the power the teachers' unions have over education in this country. They strongly oppose school choice, and I imagine they'd oppose and sabotage having a classroom in their school that is untethered from the union and administration. It would go a long way to improving the bang for your buck ratio of spending on public education to just eliminate all public-sector unions, which are the impediment to almost all proposed improvements.

[JFree]

I agree that it would require a political battle/reform over control of 'school districts'.

On the one hand, we used to not even have many school districts. We had schools managed by boards (often volunteer). Before WW2, districts were mainly a southern Jim Crow phenomenon (segregation required that all the elementary schools be managed by the same entity that ensured segregation). Nationwide - there were well over 100,000 'governance entities' re education. Today everything is districtized and there are 13,000 'governance entities'.

On the other hand, there's a reason the entire US went to school districts (had to do with financing new school construction in newly created suburbs - before computers were available) and unless that is fixed, those who CURRENTLY manage education in the 'school district model' will stay in power.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ceasefire negotiations appear stuck.

You don't say. It's almost as though Hamas has no incentive to agree to or honor any ceasefire.

[Chumby]

Tell us the tooth, were you at the dentist again?

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm quiet quitting.

[Chumby]

Hopefully on the Crest of something good.

[Longtobefree]

Like the ceasefire that was in place October 6th?

[Fist of Etiquette]

... it was decided that the Trump administration will 'take over' management of the humanitarian effort in Gaza because Israel isn't handling it adequately...

Just don't rely on the United States to build any piers unless you need them to be very temporary.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...the Trump administration will gain access to the standardized test scores and grade point averages of all applicants, including information about their race, a measure that could profoundly alter competitive college admissions...

Asian parents rejoice.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Youth baseball players from Venezuela have been granted an exemption from Trump's travel ban so that they can compete in the Little League World Series later this month.

Fascism but with waivers.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...and recently called Israel's war in Gaza a "genocide."

The inevitable MTG MSNBC show will be glorious.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Greater proliferation of school choice is going to lead to more of your taxpayer dollars being wasted on marketing consultants to…market public schools to parents who are excited to finally be free from them.

Whatever gets the beast fed, I guess.

[Fist of Etiquette]

he White House is preparing to step up pressure against big banks over perceived discrimination against conservatives and crypto companies with an executive order that threatens to fine lenders that drop customers for political reasons...

Will the Trump fascism never end.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"...directs bank regulators to investigate whether any financial institutions might have violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, antitrust laws or consumer financial-protection laws. Violators could be subject to monetary penalties, consent decrees or other disciplinary measures, according to the draft."

Lol. Appease one administration only to be slapped down by the next.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Not to paint to fine a picture...

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ghazi-hamad-hamas-palestinian-state-israel-2290c711?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

Kill Jews, Get Your Own State
A Hamas leader says new global recognition for Palestinian statehood is a reward for the Oct. 7 massacre.

The leaders of France, Canada and the United Kingdom think they’re doing a good deed by saying they’ll soon recognize a state of Palestine at the United Nations. Maybe they should listen to the response from Hamas, which thinks this recognition is a reward for slaughtering Jews.

That’s the only way to interpret comments Saturday by Hamas Politburo member Ghazi Hamad on Al Jazeera. “The powerful blow that was delivered to Israel on Oct. 7 has yielded three very important historic achievements. First of all, it brought the Palestinian cause back. Why are all these countries recognizing Palestine now?” he asked.

[Mother's Lament]

The leaders of France, Canada and the United Kingdom think they’re doing a good deed by saying they’ll soon recognize a state of Palestine at the United Nations.

No they don't. They like a broken Middle East and want to stir shit up. This has been the goal since before the Balfour Declaration. It's the whole reason they did the partition of the Ottoman Empire.

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

The British controlled the Palestinian Mandate right up until they withdrew in 1948 and left the Jews to be slaughtered by the entire Arab world. The French made a fortune off selling arms to Israel in exchange for the cash Israel was receiving as reparations from Germany.

"Want to stir shit up," is putting it mildly

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

On another note, Howard Stern looks like he's about to lose his massive Sirius contract when it's up. Another media dinosaur on a platform that, while not bleeding viewers like network TV, has been on a slow decline since COVID.

Paying Stern $100 million a year (and he's been with them for 20 years now) made sense during the time that Sirius was growing subscribers and could attract advertisers more easily. That's not the case anymore, and at 71, Stern is WAY past his prime and become the kind of establishment status-quo mouthpiece that he loathed during his radio days. His controversial statements don't draw audiences anymore, he's descended into full-blown hypochondria since COVID, and the cost to host him isn't worth the returns.

So bye-bye, Howard. Maybe one of the porn stars that was on your show who hasn't killed herself yet can give you a farewell blowjob while Beth watches for your final show. Kimmell, Fallon, and Myers are next on the cancellation train.

[Mike Parsons]

"at 71, Stern is WAY past his prime and become the kind of establishment status-quo mouthpiece that he loathed during his radio days. His controversial statements don't draw audiences anymore."

He really has fallen so far from where he was, in terms of cultural cache and really what made him famous.

An in your face, shock jock, overtly misogynist, often extremely racist, gooner who would have pornstars come on and sit on the sybian in front of him...to becoming what amounts to a neutered, nothing-to-say, establishment go along, COVID cuck, producing the most disposable and uninteresting content maybe in the history of radio.

His adaptation into woke culture resulted in perhaps the most stark gelding on record

[Eeyore]

I lot of people showed us who they really are during COVID.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

I had a subscription to Sirius when he said “fuck your freedom.” Which caused me to cancel my subscription, and when they asked why I was canceling I said “Fuck Howard Stern”.