@Mott-The-Hoople
Democrats used to be bad, now they are good.
Republicans used to be good, now they are bad.

I see the Gateway Pundit has filed for bankruptcy.

@kellyjay said
You believe anyone calling for genocide against anyone is not a genocidal maniac?

The Hamas Charter of 2017 does not have anything in it about killing Jews.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full

Of course, the Hamas Charter has never been voted on and approved by the Palestinian people, and so has no more weight than the platform of ANY political party. But still, here is the relevant section:

16. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

17. Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage. The Zionist movement, which was able with the help of Western powers to occupy Palestine, is the most dangerous form of settlement occupation which has already disappeared from much of the world and must disappear from Palestine.

@shavixmir said
I assume, nay, presume that if Russia is facing actual defeat they will go nuclear.

“If we don’t get Ukraine, nobody does.”

You aren't making much of an argument for nuclear non-proliferation.

Just the opposite, in fact.

@moonbus said
Before you rejoice at the fall of a dictator, make sure that comes after him is not worse. Remember what came after Saddam Hussein?

Our post-dictatorship, state-building record has been uneven, that's for sure.

@boonon said
And just who is going to defeat them?

{Ukraine raises hand.}

@boonon said
How about we take of our country first.

Taking care of "our country" involved paying to build 6,000 M1 Abrams tanks which have since sat useless. The tank was purpose-built to kill Russians.

So, put them where they can do what they were constructed to do: Ukraine.

We've already spent the money, no point in wasting it.

@boonon said
What is your end game to defend Ukraine? Where do you stop?

Stop? Why stop?

Authoritarianism had a pretty bad run in the 20th century - Germany, Italy, and Japan all were once dictatorships and are now stable democracies. NATO has been an unbelievably stabilizing influence and needs to expand further.

These things go in cycles - dictators got a little 'surge' there with Putin and Xi. Put the march of democracy will not stop in the long run. Ukraine will be an important pillar. They will join NATO. Then we look at Russia itself once Putin is gone - which will happen in our lifetimes. Dominoes...

@mott-the-hoople said
corrupt democrats abusing the justice system to interfere in the upcoming election…

You can still vote for him if he's in a jail cell. Eugene V. Debs ran for office while in prison. There's no interference.

@rajk999 said
These cockroaches need to be destroyed.

"These cockroaches need to be destroyed."
- Adolf Hitler, 1939

Isn't it funny how you become the monster? So ironic...

@mott-the-hoople said
what do you think should be done about the 17 officials that lied about Trump on Russia collusion?

Or about Clinton creating the fake Russia dossier?

Or the officials that lied about hunters laptop?

I think they should get the same treatment as Taylor Swift for appearing at the Super Bowl and cheering for the Chiefs. That was totally unfair.

@quackquack said
You don't get to attack a country and then complain about justified retaliation. No American cares or should care how many people were in Hiroshima or Nagasaki after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The number one responsibility of a country is to protect its citizens.

Exactly. Zionists threw 700,000 Palestinians off their land.

You don't get to attack people and then complain about justified retaliation.

@cliff-mashburn said
Again with the "we almost lost our Democracy" nonsense.
As if they stayed in the capital building, they could have ruled the whole country.
Load of BS.

We did almost lose our democracy.

The plan was to disrupt the electoral count, ask SCOTUS to intervene, then throw the election into the House where the Republican majority would have declared Donald Trump the winner.

That's what they SAID they were going to do and that's what they DID.

That would have started a civil war, but luckily, they failed - much like Hitler failed the first time he tried to seize power in the 'Beer Hall Putsch.' Hitler did jail time, was released, and made sure he didn't fail on his second attempt. Trump is too old for that, but one of his kids will certainly be leading the next attempt. If we don't destroy the Republican Party, that is.

@cliff-mashburn said
Seems like liberals are becoming more like Nazis every day.

Ethnic cleansing? Creating "lebensraum" for your settler movement in neighboring lands? Allowing the "lesser races" to work for you but not give them full citizenship? Imprisoning "undesirables" in large camps which they cannot leave? Attacking those camps when they rise up?

WHO is becoming more like Nazis everyday? Did you say liberals? Or did you mean some other group of "Chosen People" is acting more like Nazis everyday?!? Pretty ironic, but then:

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

@mott-the-hoople said
except for Jan 6th right?

Good. That needs parsing.

Is protesting by: 1) sitting on the lawn of Columbia University and even occupying the office of the President (they didn't, but it's been done other places) JUST LIKE: 2) breaking into the Capitol building on Jan 6th?

There are some similarities. I think the differences lie with who set the protest up and why.

1) A student-lead, grassroots effort to get their University to divest from an apartheid-like regime.

2) A conspiracy organized by high-ranking officials, including the President, to whip up a crowd to overthrow the government and install a dictator in power.

It would be as if the President of Columbia, having been voted out, whipped up the conservative student's union to storm a Board of Directors meeting and tried to derail the process of installing her successor.

So no. Quite different.

@mott-the-hoople said
what part of these hamas terrorist holding US citizens hostage are you fools ok with?

If Americans go and support Israel's unjust, oppressive regime and get captured, that's their problem.