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July 14, 2024

Meme from China my wife got sent from China - i found this funny as hell. Their view of Butler

I will place even money the CCP will scrub it within the hour, so we saved it. If you cannot see it, the panda is Trump.

The Chinese says "好了以后的建国."

Translation: "After Trump recovers, he will look like this."

July 14, 2024

I will blow the GOP talking point about the shooter giving $15 to AB three years ago so he's a Democrat

even though he's a registered Republican.

Donald Trump was a registered Democrat before he became a Republican too. I guess that fucker is a Democrat because he was before, as was Richard Shelby, Strom Thurmond, and the rest of that ilk that switched parties from D to R.

No, kindly, Republicans, STFU and sit the fuck down.

July 14, 2024

You realize, under current definitions, the shooting in Butler is a mass shooting. 4+ more people shot in one event

One dead, three shot (including Baron Van Shitzhispantz).

One more mass shooting to add to the list.

We're gone ZERO days without one. . .again.

July 14, 2024

I was about 15 miles away from the shooting in Slippery Rock with my wife and parents enjoying sushi

We were talking about the political climate and how it seems it would be a matter of time before someone might decide to use a 2nd amendment solution on someone running for office.

We all assumed it would be some right wing nut going after a Democrat. We were shocked coming home (since we don't look at phones during meals) that Agent Orange was shot at.

While discussing, we thought it might be some Constitution Party wackjob or some lone wolf looking to pull a John Hinckley or Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme/Sara Jane Moore for notoriety.

Again, this is just a family discussion, but the fact we're slowly returning to this violence in our body politic has us concerned. Remember, my parents are in their 70s and lived through Medgar Evers, MLK, Malcolm X, JFK, RFK, and the attempts on George Wallace, Ford, and Reagan. Remember also that nutjob that stood on Pennsylvania Avenue and shot at the White House when Clinton was president.

Political violence has nothing new to our politics. Burr killed Hamilton in a duel over politics, we've seen four presidents assassinated, the Brooks/Sumner beating in 1858, Huey Long, George Tiller, and numerous elected and non-elected politicals assassinated or subjected to attempted assassination.

While I loathe the Orange Asshole with ever fibre of my being, the only thought I could think driving back from Butler to Lawrence County here in PA was "dear God, why here?"

July 12, 2024

Kremlin says Biden was disrespectful of Putin and whole world noticed his gaffes

Source: Reuters via AOL

The Kremlin said on Friday that the whole world had paid attention to Joe Biden's verbal slips at a NATO summit and said the way the U.S. president had spoken about Russian President Vladimir Putin was unacceptable.

The Kremlin was commenting after Biden on Thursday misspoke and introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as "President Putin", before quickly correcting himself. In another slip, Biden mixed up the names of Kamala Harris, his vice-president, and his election opponent Donald Trump.

"We noticed that the whole world paid attention to what happened, and there can be no comment here (from us), but it is clear that these were slips of the tongue," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

"It is understandable that they probably received such a wide resonance given the context of the internal political discussions that we are now witnessing in the US, but

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/kremlin-says-biden-disrespectful-putin-101013124.html



Wow, talk about hubris and chutzpah.
July 5, 2024

Hezbollah fires over 200 rockets into Israel after killing of senior commander

The Lebanese Hezbollah group said it launched over 200 rockets on Thursday at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders.

The attack by the Iran-backed militant group was one of the largest in the monthslong conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border, with tensions escalating in recent weeks.

The Israeli military said "numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets" had entered its territory from Lebanon, many of which it said were intercepted. It confirmed the death of one soldier in the barrage.

It said about 200 “projectiles” were launched toward the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and over 20 drones into Israeli territory, but that it had intercepted some of them.

https://www.aol.com/news/hezbollah-fires-over-200-rockets-092036069.html


I'm guessing pro Hezbollah people will protest now, call them freedom fighters, and damn Israel for taking out another terrorist leader.

I'm beginning to view all this like the Korean peninsula and Taiwan/South China Sea (and Ukraine). NK can be as provocative and aggressive as possible, continually launching rockets at SK and Japanese waters. Everyone wants SK to remain calm and take it.

China can do this to Taiwan with Operation Fish Kill and the water cannoning and attacking with knives and axes Filipino ships, but Manila and Taibei must show restraint.

Russia can invade and slaughter, but up until recently, Ukraine wasn't allowed to attack inside Russia.

Israel can be under a constant threat of attack and terrorism and have its citizens attacked and killed. If Israel strikes back, they are immediately wrong.
June 28, 2024

American politics in a nutshell - style over substance.

Democrats need to be perfect
Republicans just need to not drool on themselves.

With a narrative forming media controlled by conservatives, it's the reason we've always been a race to the bottom.

June 22, 2024

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Name: Aram Katz
Gender: Male
Hometown: Sullivan County, NY
Home country: USA
Current location: Phuket, Thailand
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Demoralized, depressed, and destroyed by American immigration law written and pushed for in 1952 by two xenophobes determined to keep people out at the height of McCarthyism and the Cold War.
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