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teriyakiburns said:
They were promising impeachments from the moment he won last time, when he literally hadn't done anything other than be elected, and let's not forget the number of times impeachment was waved as a threat against Obama and Bush prior. It's like your entire political class has been obsessed with impeachments since Clinton. Every time a politician wants to be noticed, they cry about impeaching the president, or a judge, or some other trophy position. It's a wonder the US government gets anything at all done.
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To be fair, there's an argument for impeachment for every one of the presidents, including Washington. Especially for modern presidents, shitting on the constitution is part of the job.
 
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Gay Boi ain't running again, sad! He did more than some of these red district tough guy conservatives did:
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Meatball is now sitting in the open desperate for attention:
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And the new last gasp of neocons is to respond to the viral push of the Osama Bin Laden "Letter to America" and try and tie it to the MAGA/Tucker wing of the party because when people get tired of sending Israel billions yet we can't have 3 billion for a wall, they have to go back to "you just want the terrorists to win." They are also starting to push the talking point that there are US hostages in Gaza so that's why we have to get involved because America First, a blatant attempt to try and use Rules For Radicals on people who just want the faggotry to stop.

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Meatball is now sitting in the open desperate for attention:
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it almost looks like one of those joke videos where someone takes boring footage and swaps out the backgrounds to be funny

where did those chairs come from? did they bring them in a van or did they just borrow some from a local store? are they seriously sitting in the green space of some random town, dressed in formal clothing, while peons in their walmart clothing do their best to ignore them? the video is very uncanny valley
 
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mandatorylurk said:
And the new last gasp of neocons is to respond to the viral push of the Osama Bin Laden "Letter to America" and try and tie it to the MAGA/Tucker wing of the party because when people get tired of sending Israel billions yet we can't have 3 billion for a wall, they have to go back to "you just want the terrorists to win." They are also starting to push the talking point that there are US hostages in Gaza so that's why we have to get involved because America First, a blatant attempt to try and use Rules For Radicals on people who just want the faggotry to stop.
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Potatoherder said:
Elon started noticing too much and they are not happy. John Kerry being his replacement seems like a clear message. The beatings will continue until you stop noticing.
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All we want is to be heard, but you assholes just cannot live without one more goddamn shekel in your pockets. At this fucking point, let the terrorists win. Better than the day-to-day of seeing these fat fucks gorge themselves while innocent people starve and are unable to make ends meet, and every chance of vocalizing their concerns is drowned out with your feckless bullshit. Legitimately, fuck each and every one of you.
 
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GunCar Gary said:
it almost looks like one of those joke videos where someone takes boring footage and swaps out the backgrounds to be funny

where did those chairs come from? did they bring them in a van or did they just borrow some from a local store? are they seriously sitting in the green space of some random town, dressed in formal clothing, while peons in their walmart clothing do their best to ignore them? the video is very uncanny valley
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Think it was in a studio and they just had some stock footage up in the background. For one there is no ambient noise you'd hear while being downtown somewhere and we also have the fact that when the camera zoomed on DeSantis the stores were completely different then the ones seen in the wider shot.
 
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Think it was in a studio and they just had some stock footage up in the background. For one there is no ambient noise you'd hear while being downtown somewhere and we also have the fact that when the camera zoomed on DeSantis the stores were completely different then they were in the wider shot.
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now that you mention it the lighting doesn't match up and they have fuzzy outlines like what you see with green screen cutting

maybe it makes more sense in the context of the whole interview but it's still a strange choice of stock footage to use, even if it's footage from iowa
 
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Progressive pressure on Jeffries: Israel critics want help surviving backlash​

Progressive Democrats who’ve condemned Israel over its war offensive in Gaza are demanding that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries do more to protect them against primary challenges from pro-Israel Democrats.

In a closed-door meeting at party headquarters last Thursday, the three lawmakers who lead the Progressive Caucus’ PAC met with Jeffries and Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), the head of House Democrats’ campaign arm. They told the Democratic leader he needed to keep the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee out of Democratic primaries.

In fact, the progressive leaders argued, Democrats’ efforts to recapture the House next year might depend on it.

“If we have to spend a lot of money to keep our incumbents in office, then that’s less money that gets spent on frontline districts and districts we can pick up, so it is a real problem,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), a co-chair of the PAC. “And that’s why it’s really important to be clear to AIPAC that they need to stand down and that we are going to vigorously defend our members.”

The Israel-Hamas war is forcing Jeffries to navigate a treacherous divide between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian members just as he’s gearing up for a battle to retake the chamber next year.

Jeffries has committed his party will support reelecting incumbents, including those who’ve harshly criticized Israel over its response to the Hamas attack last month. His vow comes as several of them, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.), have drawn primary opponents backed by deep-pocketed groups aligned with Israel. Jeffries heard out the progressives’ concerns about AIPAC, a group that he still maintains close ties to, according to a person familiar with the conversation, and talked through the dynamics of several of the races.

Democratic Party divisions on the Israel-Hamas conflict are reverberating throughout the party. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who’s one of the co-chairs of the Progressive Caucus PAC, was apparently delayed to the meeting because of ceasefire protesters at his house — an example of how politics for pro-Israel progressives have been complicated by the outbreak of violence in Israel.

The moment is also an opportunity for Jeffries and other new Democratic leaders to shore up support on their left flank. Although they haven’t always been on the same page on the Israel conflict, with Jeffries staking out a more pro-Israel stance, progressives are willing to set aside their differences — if they get the necessary help.

Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee, a progressive first-term lawmaker facing a primary challenge, acknowledged that Jeffries had contributed financially to defending incumbents. But she urged him to do more.

“I hope that he will speak out as urgently and aggressively as those who are speaking out against us,” Lee said.

It was a call echoed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who said in a brief interview that with “the highly racialized targeting of many of these members, we absolutely need leadership that would defend our members from that.”

The meeting marked the second time in recent months that top progressives have gone to ask leadership for help. Progressives first asked Democratic leaders to clarify their position on protecting incumbents over the summer, after Jayapal dubbed Israel a “racist state.” Jeffries and his team reassured liberals at the time they would continue the policy of defending incumbents.

It’s not a controversial position in the party, even among Democrats who had been sharply critical of the party’s left flank on Israel-related issues. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), who’d voted to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over her criticism of Israel, acknowledged that Jeffries had “the responsibility to make sure we get to 218” but also “that we are supporting our members.”

Still, it’s unclear how much Jeffries can do to dissuade AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups. The United Democracy Project, a super PAC run by AIPAC, and DMFI PAC, which is run by Democratic Majority for Israel, are already ramping up for the 2024 cycle. UDP is running a negative ad against Lee in her district as well as an ad hitting Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.). Lee faces a credible primary challenge from Bhavini Patel, and Westchester County Executive George Latimer has been floated as a challenger to Bowman.

DMFI is also running an ad against Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American member of Congress, that highlights her criticisms of the Israeli government.
“These anti-Israel members, they’ve already crossed that threshold. So then the real question is, as I said before, is can we have an impact here?” said DMFI president Mark Mellman, describing how the PAC decides where to spend money.

Last cycle, DMFI PAC spent $7.5 million in independent expenditures, and UDP spent $26 million, according to OpenSecrets. United Democracy Project did not respond to a request for comment.

It’s not just House leaders who are signaling they’ll defend incumbents — the Black Caucus PAC is publicly committing to standing behind them, too. Several of the targeted lawmakers are members of the Congressional Black Caucus, which Bowman called “ a problem to me, because this is a country that historically has undermined Black leadership.”

“The [CBC] PAC has endorsed them already and we will support them the way we support all of our endorsed candidates,” said Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), the head of the CBC PAC.

Meeks said he hasn’t talked specifically to any of those members, many of whom are members of the CBC, about their primaries but plans to support them.
AIPAC’s heavy spending has particularly rankled Democrats, many of whom criticized the flood of outside money. The small-dollar fundraising that buoyed many progressive members in their first races has dried up this year, making them more vulnerable to primary challenges. Small-dollar fundraising, defined as donations under $200 apiece, is down for campaigns and committees across federal campaigns in both parties, giving extra influence to big-check donors and outside spending.

Bush, for example, only reported about $20,000 in cash on hand as of the most recent FEC filing deadline. She said she felt confident, though, about the support she had in her district, adding that she saw a bump in donations after her opponent, Wesley Bell, announced he was challenging her. She told POLITICO in an interview that on top of financial support, she wanted leadership to openly back her and to rebut attacks on her congressional tenure.
“The support is really the truth about what’s going on,” she said. “Because the thing is, people will try to smear this work.”

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) a co-chair of progressives’ PAC, was particularly concerned by AIPAC’s spending in Democratic primaries given the group’s Republican donors.

“We just wanted to continue talking about how to make sure that an entity like AIPAC — if they don’t play in Republican primaries, they shouldn’t be playing with Democratic primaries,” he said of the group’s conversation with party leadership.
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It seems doubtful Jeffries will throw much of a lifebuoy considering he was at a prominent pro-Israel rally as a speaker just a few days ago. Republicans could exploit the Democrat pro-Israel/pro-Palestine tensions as much as possible to cause more Democrat infighting. Both parties have Jewish representatives in them but the liberals have more and right now a bipartisan Jewish Caucus is being formed. Representatives like AOC will really have to sink or swim it seems in the next election cycle.
 
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Betonhaus said:
That's pretty mask off of them to openly admit they've taken over the government.
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Being openly pro Palestine won’t get much support at federal level, and no US president, Democrat or Republican, will win the presidency being pro Palestine. For decades, the US has consistently been pro Israel. The approach towards Israel could differ based on president, but the support will stay.
 
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US forces in Syria attacked four times in less than 24 hours - U.S. military official​



BAGHDAD, Nov 13 (Reuters) - U.S. and international forces in northeastern Syria were attacked with drones and rockets at least four times in the past 24 hours, though there were no casualties and only minor damage, a U.S. military official said on Monday.

U.S. forces came under attack three times on Sunday evening, including near the Al Omar Oil field and at a U.S. base at al-Shaddadi, the official told Reuters.

Multiple drones were fired at U.S. forces at the Rumalyn Landing Zone on Monday morning, the official said. One drone was shot down but another damaged four tents, the official adDed

Btw the attacks continue on USA basses in Iraq and Syria someone posted this picture counting 58 attacks since October 17

i have no idea how accurate it is but worth looking if someone can track down the article of it would be great

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Sithis said:
Christians may have moments of distaste for the killers of their Lord and Savior but the overwhelming majority are convinced to go against Israel or God's chosen is to invoke God's wrath.
I don't see how they rationalized pushing various races of crab-in-bucket melanin primitives who kill their own with glee as being preferable to that. But these are the retards who saw God smite Egypt with plagues and then worshipped a golden calf.
They seem to have got so caught up with the idea that America is Israel's protector they forgot the demographic of America that actually did fighting and dying on their behalf in the last century.
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being a zionist depends if you believe in a covenant framework or are a dispensationalist and your eschatology. If you're a premillennial, then you need the kikes around to the build a physical Third Temple in Jerusalem in order for Jesus to come back. Jews still go to hell but only they can build a temple.
 
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being a zionist depends if you believe in a covenant framework or are a dispensationalist and your eschatology. If you're a premillennial, then you need the kikes around to the build a physical Third Temple in Jerusalem in order for Jesus to come back. Jews still go to hell but only they can build a temple.
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Wouldn't Christians have inherited that right, and so the Vatican would count?
 
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Hah, god, it'd be hilarious (in a honk honk clown world sort of way) if they just yeeted her off the streets. They have an entire plane of CCP goons and Biden isn't going to do shit. I could absolutely see her going missing and oh gosh golly gee mysteriously she must have decided to travel to China and face charges for her crimes against the state.
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They wouldn't do it while xi is here. the ccp will do it like they do other dissidents and wanted persons and just pick them up.



Some U.S. intelligence officials fear that the Chinese government is conducting sophisticated "kidnapping" programs in the United States in order to spirit their nationals back to the mainland, where they face arrest and imprisonment on political and corruption charges. Beijing has openly admitted to repatriating more than 3,000 people "who had escaped overseas" since late 2012, Xinhua reports, although the U.S. intelligence community believes China's strategies in Western nations often involves pushing the definitions of coercion and kidnapping.

In one example cited in the report by Foreign Policy, a Chinese-Canadian billionaire was snatched from his hotel in Hong Kong in 2017 and was loaded — likely sedated — into a wheelchair and rolled out through the lobby with a sheet covering his head. Similar stories have also come out of Australia, a U.S. intelligence partner, including one about a man who was allegedly drugged by Chinese security forces and transported back to the mainland on a state-owned shipping vessel.
Chinese nationals living in the United States have also begun to disappear under suspicious circumstances, although unlike previous targets, "they were not high-profile folks," said one former U.S. intelligence official.


"There were multiple reports of people observing Chinese intelligence operatives materializing around the schools or residences of the missing people," the intelligence official went on. "One theory was that they were strong-arming them in person, saying, 'We're here. Your flight back to China is tomorrow.'" The official stressed that there is still a difference between "kicking in a door and taking a guy forcefully away and saying, 'Come with us or we'll kill your family in Inner Mongolia.'" Still, in one case involving a Chinese graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, there was "evidence of this person being taken against their will."
The fear is that just because China has not brazenly kidnapped anyone in the United States yet, it "doesn't mean they won't eventually." Read the chilling investigation at Foreign Policy. —Jeva Lange
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Betonhaus said:
Wouldn't Christians have inherited that right, and so the Vatican would count?
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Depends on your framework. to some traditions like Orthodox (maybe Roman Catholic?), Christians are the New Israel and Jesus was the temple. It all depends on how you interpret the Book of Revelation and if it's literal, metaphorical, allegorical, or some mix of all.
 
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