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October 24, 2023

Is anybody else 'frequency hopping' on the GAZA War?

I am empathize with everyone except Hamaz. I can't get to a big picture on what should happen. I limit my time watching or hearing about the horror. I am so mad at Hamaz for cannibalizing GAZA and the Palestinian people there going on 17 years. Obviously I think it is henious what they did on the 7th to Israelis that is ongoing with the hostages. And for cannibalizing Palestinians again by using them as human shields as they are doing now. One would think if the Israelis could go into the tunnels slowly they could starve out Hamaz? Less need for bombing of Gaza City?

October 24, 2023

Bonus Quote of the Day

Bonus Quote of the Day
October 23, 2023 at 9:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 110 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/10/23/bonus-quote-of-the-day-1902/

"SNIP..........

“They just can’t believe that we’re this bad.”

— Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD), when asked by CNN how his constituents view the dysfunction in the House amid Republican infighting.

..........SNIP"

Applegrove:

Can the GOP find a fig leaf big enough to hide that the GOP and Trump are the architects of all the mayhem in the USA. All of it! Fox News cannot hide the whole House of Congress.

October 23, 2023

I want to apologize for posting an article which took

Newt Gingrich seriously as a pundit on what could happen in the House. I forget sometimes that I am Canadian and the bullies and creeps in the Republucan Party over the years hurt American grievously. And you don't need to be reminded of that. I'm sorry.

Applegrove

October 22, 2023

Joe Biden paid $4.1 MILLION more in taxes than Donald Trump did between 2015 & 2020 despite earning LESS in income than Trump,

https://www.threads.net/@victorshi2020/post/Cyqm1SNrQA3/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Here’s a story that didn’t get much attention this week: Joe Biden paid $4.1 MILLION more in taxes than Donald Trump did between 2015 & 2020 despite earning LESS in income than Trump, based on brand new Trump tax returns. That’s because, unlike Trump, Joe Biden has decency, character, morals, & cares about America.
October 21, 2023

Here are 27 insane things Trump said he will do if he gets a 2nd term.

https://www.threads.net/@meidastouch/post/CyqupwUvHlV/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

(Video at link).

Here are 27 insane things Trump said he will do if he gets a 2nd term. This needs to be shared far and wide. Thanks to
@thejfreakinc
for making this go viral on TikTok.

October 21, 2023

The death of natural moral suasion and birth of astro suasion.

Congressman Ken Buck says he is being evicted after refusing to vote for Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House

BY DILLON THOMAS

OCTOBER 20, 2023 / 6:04 PM / CBS COLORADO

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-congressman-ken-buck-says-being-evicted-refusing-to-vote-jim-jordan-speaker-of-the-house/

"SNIP.........

Congressman Ken Buck, a Republican from Weld County, says his office in Windsor will soon be forced to move after receiving an eviction notice. Buck, a longtime resident of Weld County, received an eviction notice from his Water Valley office space.

A spokesperson for Buck said the eviction notice was given as a result of Buck's refusal to vote for Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Buck also told reporters he received death threats due to his voting against Jordan for the position which would put Jordan second in line for the presidency.

A group of constituents gathered outside of Buck's Windsor office on Friday to protest his votes of late. More than a dozen people held signs outside of the office, located next to the Pelican Lakes Golf Course, calling on Buck to vote for Jordan.

........SNIP"

Applegrove:

When someone gets evicted because of a vote that is a kind of persecution. The outrage should have been massive and national, but there is too much other crazy noise going on for it to become a wave. This is how non democracies function. Instead we get a planned demonstration against the man flipping moral suasion on its head. And we get the feeling the country will not have our backs. Americans are less civil society connected and protected as Buck is made example of. I know he is a Republican but psychopaths have to keep their flock and people who might stand up to them in check. Republicans are used and victimized too.

October 8, 2023

Destabilize the region? Force a major war in the ME? Help their

friend Russia in Ukraine by opening up another front the US has to help arm in an Israeli ground war? Maybe Russia told them they would give them some nuclear fuel or science? This is the Middle East. God knows Saudi Arabia, in dealing with Biden, has said they want the Palestinians to have some semblance of something to show for any accord and now GAZA will be in hell for the foreseeable future? That alone could tank a deal before Biden could pull it off, which affects the election in the US. Who knows what they want?

October 8, 2023

And Palestine had 50 years to negotiate a peace and they did not. The Israelis

said times up and sent in the settlers. I don't agree with that but understand if Palestinians will not allow Israel to exist, Israel does what it wants. 'Settlers' has taken over 'the 1967 borders' as a meme. Other groups use the word apartheid to describe their situation in the world, not just South Africa and then the Palestinians in 'Israel Apartheid'. So they lost the meme war. Palestine keeps losing. And their people keep losing. And the children keep losing. And they obviously had months and intelligence agencies from Iran and maybe Russia helping them plan this and Israel will attack Hamas and destroy Gaza. They had no plan for day 5. The children will lose again. And again. And it is more than Islam going on.

Interesting to note that it looks to me like Hezbollah increased their digital activities to fool Israel into going to the West Bank (as digital intelligence Israel was collecting on GAZA went quiet they say). Just a guess but Israeli military assets were moved to the West Bank and had to race back towards GAZA yesterday.

This from July 6th.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/hezbollah-lebanon-israel-iran-battlefront/

October 5, 2023

People who think they'll get theirs: place in society or compliant wife

or minorities 'in their place' or belong permanently to something that doesn't judge them for being deplorable or who knows what they want and can't get because of 40 years of getting less and less because of trickle down (but they think it is civil rights that took it all away). They want their wives to be their mommies, which is a phenomena of men in the British diplomatic core because all the upper crust boys were sent to boarding school at 11. Trump and Strong men to be their daddies. These are not the greatest generation. They are not real men that know life can be hell unless you fight for what is good and right. And they were missing meaning in their lives so they were ripe for the picking. GOP set it up. Russians and Trump took advantage of the situation.

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