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Re: I realize anything can happen in a year... - Yesterday
Quotepdq QuoteLemon Drop Their big donors have no appetite for another Trump loss. IMO Dems need to stay focused on supporting Biden Harris and every Dem Senator, Governor on down who is up for reelection in 2024. PS: Donations to GOP drop as worries mount about the party’s finances Donors have not cut as many large checks to the RNC in recent years, and the party’s small-dby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Crime in DC is so bad.... - Yesterday
Quotecbelt3 Important to remember who controls the DC budget. Congress… A Congress where the residents of DC have no voting representation.by Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Santos Expelled from Congress - Yesterday
Quotegabester QuoteRAMd®d ...the Repubs, as soon as they realized what a crook he was, they sprang into action and excised the problem. I think you're being sarcastic, but clearly took for some of them being directly robbed - direct proof! - by this crook to oust him. And, you know, the appearance of some kind of due process with the completion of the House Ethics Committee review. I thiby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: RIP Sandra Day O'Connor - Yesterday
There's the concept involving the difference between necessary and sufficient conditions that can lead to a consequence. It wasn't necessarily the case that Gore lost because Nader ran, but Nader running was a sufficient condition for Gore to lose. I say that Nader running didn't necessarily lead to Gore losing because there were alternate ways that Gore could have run his candidacy that woulby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Santos Expelled from Congress - 3 days ago
I heard a report today that there were some fellow Republican reps at an early stage that wanted to show support for him by contributing $2000 each - and then they found out later he had charged their credit cards $5000. Lie with dogs with blood sucking ticks, you're going to get some blood sucked by ticks.by Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Who's yer pal? Saudis/Russia + other OPECS cut production by 2 millon barrels a day - 3 days ago
I think they see the writing on the wall and are just trying to maximize the money they can make with their oil while it still is in fairly strong demand. The Saudis would probably be more than happy to supply us, for free, all the oil we would need for ships, tanks and planes to attack Iran for them.by Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Darling Nikki really dislikes China - 4 days ago
Quotesekker QuoteAcer Ironically, the thing that has made China the threat they are is their embrace of capitalism. Centrally-managed, perhaps, and possibly not indefinitely sustainable in that fashion (e.g., currency manipulation). But for now, China is in the catbird seat. Very tenuous, indeed. They are at risk of a MASSIVE real estate bubble bursting, and their one-child policy means their dby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Musk to departed advertisers: “Go f**k yourselves.” - 4 days ago
Musk related: "Elon Musk’s attempt to silence his critics will be heard by one of America’s worst judges" QuoteTwitter (the company that Elon Musk insists upon calling “X”) appears to be hemorrhaging advertisers. And it’s responded to this lost revenue by suing a prominent critic of the increasingly right-wing social media website: Media Matters, a left-leaning organby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Trump card?!…..they’ve cast the actor for the ‘Trump’ movie….. - 4 days ago
From the link in the OP: QuoteThe movie The Apprentice — a nod to the NBC reality competition series that Trump hosted — is described as “an exploration of power and ambition, set in a world of corruption and deceit,” per Deadline. It will explore Trump’s New York real estate business in the ’70s and ’80s and his relationship with Cohn, while telling “a mentor-protégé story tby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Musk to departed advertisers: “Go f**k yourselves.” - 4 days ago
QuoteLux Interior Yeah! That's right! You can't blackmail Elon in to not being a racist, fascist POS!by Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Henry Kissinger Is Dead at 100 - 4 days ago
I can't wish him peace with honor.by Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Never in history have the book banners been the good guys - 5 days ago
Laws should allow parents to opt out of their children being "exposed" to books that they think don't reflect their deeply held screwed up beliefs (within reasonable limits). Laws should not allow individual parent's value judgments on every book at a school to dictate what others parent's kids get "exposed" to. It's pretty evident that many states now have laws where the valuby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Biden’s economy is *so* bad, that instead of a recession, we got… - 5 days ago
Good news! Say it again!by Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Late night TV has gotten darker - 6 days ago
As long as it is the case that the feral hogs are causing noticeable economic damage to a landowner and/or causing noticeable disruption to the native flora and fauna ecosystem, then I can see the justification for large scale hunts. But it should not be treated like a sport or spectacle.by Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: [T]he most pro-life president ever” is now claiming to be a pro choice moderate... - 6 days ago
Quotegabester This is actually my greatest fear. That the obviously alt (wh/r)ight would-be petty dictator will "switch sides" and run in '24 as a moderate... and "the people" electing politicians in this country, "the people" who have such short memories and almost no attention span, would fall for it. Yeah, though I would say it might be as much about the kindsby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: A White House Christmas - 7 days ago
Jill's looks like she wants people to think happy thoughts. Melania's looks like she wants people to know how chic and cool she is.by Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Apple suspends ads on X after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic post - 11 days ago
Excellent interview with the president of Media Matters that Musk is suing because Musk wants to intimidate media critical of him into silence. They discuss how this is just the tip of the iceberg of efforts the right wing is making to punish those who question their wisdom. MSNBC - "‘Everything we reported was completely accurate’: Media Matters president on X lawsuit" [8:45 viby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: CNN analysis: Video suggests IDF might have rearranged weaponry at Al-Shifa prior to news crew visits - 16 days ago
Sometimes it's just better to wait a little while to see if the truth emerges from the chaos.by Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Apple suspends ads on X after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic post - 16 days ago
QuoteJanit QuoteDeusxMac If "white people" are people "of European origin", isn't a Polish Jew therefore a white person? Or Jews from any of the other 49 states and territories of Europe? The Jews who came to the US from Poland a century ago were not considered Polish by the "Poles," nor were they considered white by the "whites." On the other handby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: TEXAS gonna Texas! - 16 days ago
Birdwalking a bit: If Trump gets reelected he will for sure completely ignore the federal government Merit System and Hatch Act and we'll see the corruption of the federal government blossom like a field of corpse flowers.by Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Ceasefire demands will grow without proof of Hamas HQ at Al-Shifa - 16 days ago
QuoteAugust West QuoteSteve G You're late. I had expected you to be jumping up and down, waving your arms two days ago. The personal attacks are getting very tired. There have been at least a few people - irrespective of "sides" - that have been percolating up from mildly passive-aggressive to clearly passive-aggressive verging on more overtly aggressive. I'm not a fan of it eitherby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Warning - long rant: How should we apply the concept of self defense from personal to national? - 16 days ago
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Re: US House: “Same clown car with a different driver” - 17 days ago
Quote$tevie Quotegabester Was there more to it than this? Hard to find the video clip you might be talking about of the exchange between Wray and Higgins... Or maybe this one - btw I hate the "shorts" format but thanks to every dummy holding a smartphone wrong... Yep, that's it. That's enough for me to prove that Higgins is a smacked ass. I love how he says the term &quby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Warning - long rant: How should we apply the concept of self defense from personal to national? - 17 days ago
Sorry, I'm not convinced that I didn't present an analogy in the OP. The use of the notion of self defense being applied to international relations is written right into the UN Charter: QuoteArticle 51 Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Securityby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Warning - long rant: How should we apply the concept of self defense from personal to national? - 17 days ago
Justifying self defense against violence on a personal level is usually pretty straightforward - was a person physically attacked by a person who themselves were not in danger from the person they attacked? If yes, then the person being attacked or in immanent danger of being attacked is justified in using violence against the attacker as self defense. Of course, once the attacked person has beenby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: If You're Still on Twitter, 'You Know You Shouldn't Be' - 17 days ago
QuoteTiangou It gets worse. He just won’t shut up. From that article: QuoteThen, on Thursday, IBM confirmed that it was withdrawing advertising from X following a report on how their ads were running against pro-Nazi content. Paid ads for other major companies, including Apple and Comcast, also appeared next to such toxic extremism, per the report. I think in Musk's espoused visionby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: A great interview with an Israeli-American historian of the Holocaust - 18 days ago
Quote You write in your piece, “My greatest concern watching the Israel-Gaza war unfold is that there is genocidal intent, which can easily tip into genocidal action. On Oct. 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Gazans would pay a ‘huge price’ for the actions of Hamas and that the Israel Defense Forces, or I.D.F., would turn parts of Gaza’s densely populated urban centers ‘intby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
"‘Corpses on streets’: Sudan’s RSF kills 1,300 in Darfur, monitors say" - 18 days ago
QuoteSudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) besieged a camp for displaced people on November 2 after attacking a nearby army base in West Darfur. Over the next three days, the paramilitary group committed what may amount to the single largest mass killing since the civil war erupted in April. Local monitors told Al Jazeera that about 1,300 people were killed, 2,000 injured and 310 remain misby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Trump’s Truth Social has lost $73 million since its launch. - 18 days ago
QuoteDeusxMac "In July 1991, Trump’s Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy. He could not keep up with debts on two other Atlantic City casinos, and those two properties declared bankruptcy in 1992. A fourth property, the Plaza Hotel in New York, declared bankruptcy in 1992 after amassing debt. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts filed for bankruptcy again in 2004, after accruing about $1.8 billiby Ted King - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: US House: “Same clown car with a different driver” - 18 days ago
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