Everything posted by Satchel
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Israel
Biden must summon the courage to use the considerable he has to force a cease fire. This won’t be precedent setting: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/13/us-presidents-red-lines-israel Other U.S. presidents have also threatened to withhold aid from Israel. Dwight Eisenhower During the Suez Crisis of the 1950s, then-President Dwight Eisenhower leveraged the threat of sanctions to convince Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula, per AP. In 1953, the Eisenhower administration also temporarily delayed $26 million in funding to Israel over its construction of a hydroelectric project on the Jordan River. Ronald Reagan Back in 1981, former President Ronald Reagan indefinitely delayed two shipments of F-16 fighter jets to Israel over the ''escalating level of violence'' in the Middle East. The following year, the Reagan administration warned Congress that Israel might have violated its arms agreement with the U.S. by using American-made weapons during its invasion of Lebanon, the New York Times reported. In 1983, Reagan reaffirmed that he would not send F-16 jets to Israel until Israel withdrew its forces from Lebanon. "While these forces are in the position of occupying another country that now has asked them to leave, we are forbidden by law to release those planes,' he said. In 1992, the Bush administration threatened to withhold the delivery of $10 billion in loan guarantees to Israel if it continued building settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, the Washington Post reported.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
It would be hilarious were it not so serious. Is this karma from drumming Thomas Eagleton and Howard Dean out for their “transgressions”?
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Active shooter thread
Americans need to start demanding a safe county wherein we can pursue happiness in relative peace. It’s every bit as much our right as carrying guns every damn where.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
This is a Trump quote from an appearance with Moms for Liberty. Think of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation,” Trump falsely claimed, misrepresenting the complex and highly regulated process of gender-affirming health care for minors in the United States. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child. And many of these childs, 15 years later say, what the hell happened? Who did this to me? They say, who did this to me? It’s incredible,” Trump said.
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Evangelical Christians
Never forget how congregants yelled USA, USA, USA on Christmas Sunday following a political address given by Trump during his last visit to FBD.
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Active shooter thread
Until we acknowledge that guns are a problem, things will only get worse.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
I watched some of Walz’s speech today, and in a folksy way, he is compelling and persuasive.
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Abbott: Border barriers needed between New Mexico, Texas
What will the MAGAs do when forced to pay $9 for a head of lettuce?
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Colin Allred, doing what nobody asked
Allred’s voting record is more progressive than Pete Aguilar, Jim Clyburn and Jared Moskowitz. Let’s not get crazy here.
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Colin Allred, doing what nobody asked
Sent this exchange to his campaign. Hope it helps.
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Colin Allred, doing what nobody asked
Why? They aren’t voting for him.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Harris should embed their ad in one of hers with the tagline, “I’m Kamala Harris and I approve this message.”
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Colin Allred, doing what nobody asked
Over butter biscuit Eric Johnson’s dead body.
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Colin Allred, doing what nobody asked
Spoke with an East Texas community organizer just this week who was lamenting the fact that Allred has not stepped one foot in the Eastern multi county area that is home to over 340,000 black resident who vote Democratic when they vote. He notes their numbers eclipsed those of black voters living in Bexar and Travis counties combined. Ignoring these voters could be the difference in winning and losing for Allred.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Looks like Corey is in his ear. Not the one that was nearly blown off, according to Eric. The good ear: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/us/politics/trump-truth-social-posts.html Former President Donald J. Trump used his social-media website on Wednesday to amplify a crude remark about Vice President Kamala Harris that suggested Ms. Harris traded sexual favors to help her political career. The post, by another user on Truth Social, was an image of Ms. Harris and Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump’s opponent in 2016. The text read: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently…” The remark was a reference to Mrs. Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, and the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and a right-wing contention that Ms. Harris’s romantic relationship with Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco whom she dated in the mid-1990s while he was speaker of the California State Assembly, fueled her political rise. Mr. Trump’s repost was the second time in 10 days that the former president shared content from his personal account making sexually oriented attacks on Ms. Harris. Though he has a history of making crass insults about his opponents, the reposts signal Mr. Trump’s willingness to continue to shatter longstanding norms of political speech
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Colin Allred, doing what nobody asked
It’s clear Rafael is concerned. His latest ad has Colin claiming some wall is racist. He knows what gets his base all lathered.
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Is Tulsi Gabbard A Russian Asset?
She needs a job.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
She’s a magna cum laude graduate from a top ranked law school. She’s not dumb. She’s completely and wholly compromised.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
He, Mike Gundy and Dabo Sweeney should start a PAC.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
He just made it easier for coaches to recruit against him. I celebrate his honesty and stupidity.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
Well! Look who’s entered the chat?
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
It almost happened once and could happen again: https://www.history.com/news/electoral-college-nearly-abolished-thurmond and the National Popular Vote interstate Compact could happen as well: https://apnews.com/article/maine-national-popular-vote-compact-2a345dc04d7e3937c4857577523a3a11
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
He’s getting ready to bail on the debate.
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Bill Maher has become the whiny little bitch he complains about
That’s to keep the Texags posters tuning in hoping that he will say something negative about liberals
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Yormark is the perfect commissioner in this era of college football that has the potential to be an unadulterated shit show.