Political Thread in memory of David Reid. (R.I.P.)

[sinkov]

"the UK health secretary Wes Streeting said he found Israel’s decision to do so “soul-destroying”.

I can empathise with Mr Streeting, I found the Hamas decision not to release the remaining hostages "soul-destroying".

[sinkov]

I like the story of the Al Jazeera hack who was also involved with Hamas, he put up a video of a huge protest march in Gaza claiming it was against the Israeli incursion. Unfortunately for him it didn't take long for an Arabic speaker to point out that what the marchers were actually chanting were anti-Hamas slogans, they'd had enough of the death and destruction Hamas had caused and wanted them out of Gaza. Realising he'd been rumbled he immediately took the video down, but it was too late, the IDF had spotted this propaganda video and put him on their wanted list. Now he's in hiding, another dead man walking.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Sinkov & Trump support and applaud the Israeli killing machine. No surprise there but I found an ordinary American who posted this:
CHARLES PIERCE WRITES: “In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome."

I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over.
I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City.

I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job.
They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.

"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators.
Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.

"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.

We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents.
They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.

Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."

[sinkov]

Sinkov & Trump support and applaud the Israeli killing machine. No surprise there but I found an ordinary American who posted this:
CHARLES PIERCE WRITES: “In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome."

I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over.
I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City.

I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job.
They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.

"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators.
Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.

"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.

We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents.
They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.

Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."

Trump Derangement Syndrome. No Known Cure.

[sinkov]

Meanwhile, in Gaza, Palestinians are marching for a second day, protesting against the terrorist scum.

"Hundreds of people have taken part in the largest anti-Hamas protest in Gaza since the war with Israel began, taking to the streets to demand the group step down from power. Masked Hamas militants, some armed with guns and others carrying batons, intervened and forcibly dispersed the protesters, assaulting several of them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g71lk09npo

I wonder which marches we should take most seriously, those of the people in Gaza having to live through this war the best they can, or those in our cities by a rag-bag collection of fruitcakes, weirdos, anti-semites and crackheads, with their big drums and infantile chants ?

Answers on the back of a postage stamp please.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

No marches or protests will stop the Netanyahu/Trump agenda, they want ALL Palestinians evicted from Palestine. It's very reminiscent of what the early "settlers" did in the USA. Kill the indigenous population and put the remaining few on supervised reservations.

History has a horrible history of repeating itself.

Incidentally, me being a small in stature, well dressed 73 year old male wearing a small "Free Palestine" badge was on my way to join an anti-Israel/Support Palestine protest/meeting in London when I was physically turned around and told to get the pfhucking train back to whichever "Northern $hithole" I had come from.

Israel has our politicians and police chiefs licking their arses and servicing their bum cracks with their tongues. It's stomach churning and may I tell you democracy and right to protest in the US and UK is dead.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Can the Headmaster not add up..?

Moorland Senior School in Clitheroe, which offers boarding for around ?36,000-a-year and has 288 pupils, has announced it will close this week, on Friday March 28, with neighbouring schools including Westholme in Blackburn assisting with the administration of GCSE and A-Level exams.

?10 million quid per annum is still not deemed enough to teach the bourgeoisie?

[sinkov]

Incidentally, me being a small in stature, well dressed 73 year old male wearing a small "Free Palestine" badge was on my way to join an anti-Israel/Support Palestine protest/meeting in London when I was physically turned around and told to get the pfhucking train back to whichever "Northern $hithole" I had come from.

I assume it was an officer of the law manhandling you mon ami, otherwise I'm sure your assailant would have spent the next ten minutes spitting loose teeth out. Or are you going soft in your old age ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I assume it was an officer of the law manhandling you mon ami, otherwise I'm sure your assailant would have spent the next ten minutes spitting loose teeth out. Or are you going soft in your old age ?

5 x 6 foot plus male policemen and one snarling little bitch dressed in a Bizzies uniform were a bit much even for me mon ami.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Probably written by Mrs Trump...

Concerns are mounting over President Donald Trump’s ability, willingness, or even interest in engaging with the most pressing issues facing the country, as he increasingly—and casually—admits to being unaware of critical matters. His repeated declarations of ignorance, often delivered without hesitation or concern, have deepened alarm among critics who warn of a dangerous void in informed leadership in the Oval Office.