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

[The Bedlington Terrier]

We all hate Jews (not Leeds!)

Israel Just Called China Antisemitic. Yes, Really.

Israel has officially classified China as an antisemitic state and is calling on the world to impose a comprehensive political and economic boycott against Beijing.
Take a moment. Breathe. Then consider what is actually happening here.
China is the largest buyer of Iranian oil and provides Iran with critical economic support. Washington has already sanctioned Chinese refineries for the crime of trading with Tehran. And now Israel, a state currently engaged in an active war against Iran with full American military backing, wants the world to also boycott China politically and economically.
This is not a principled stand against hatred. This is geopolitical warfare dressed in moral language.
The antisemitism label has become the most overworked instrument in modern diplomacy. Criticise Israeli policy: antisemitic. Refuse to endorse a blockade: antisemitic. Buy Iranian oil legally on the open market: antisemitic.
At this rate, the word will soon mean nothing beyond "country that declined to do what Israel wanted."
Consider the audacity of the ask. Israel wants nations to boycott a country of 1.4 billion people, the world's second largest economy, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and the manufacturing backbone of global supply chains. For what? For condemning a war that has killed hundreds of Iranian civilians and calling for a ceasefire.
Imagine this from the same Israel, a state notorious for her unspeakable genocide in Gaza and unrestrained killing of civilians in Lebanon calling for sanctions on another nation.
China's foreign ministry condemned Israeli and American strikes on Iran and declared its support for Iran in defending its sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
That is not antisemitism. That is a foreign policy position shared by most of the world.
Good luck with the boycott, Israel. You will need it.

So here is the question: when the antisemitism charge is applied to 1.4 billion people for opposing a war, what exactly does the word mean anymore?

[sinkov]

Even the Evil Orange Emperor cannot sue for third party exposure for stuff that's already in the public domain. I actually wrote "Donald Trump has not been criminally convicted of s-e-xual assault or rape". Try and keep up old chap.

The ABC hack lied about Trump, I've seen more lies from your good self about Trump in the last year than I've had hot dinners, still you'll be alright, he has bigger fish to fry than halfwits on English football forums, and anyway I won't tell him.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The ABC hack lied about Trump, I've seen more lies from your good self about Trump in the last year than I've had hot dinners, still you'll be alright, he has bigger fish to fry than halfwits on English football forums, and anyway I won't tell him.

Half-wit? Who said, “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”

After telling the CBS News interviewer that only “horrible people” would ask him about that, the president said: “Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”

O’Donnell did a double take and said: “Oh you think – do you think he was referring to you?”

“I’m not a pedophile. Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m not a pedophile,” Trump replied. “You read that crap from some sick person? I got associated with all stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things.”

Trump has repeatedly made the false claim that the partial release of documents from the federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, the late child *** offender he socialized with for nearly two decades, had “exonerated” him and implicated only Democrats. In fact, a large number of documents have not been released and a number of Republicans have faced questions over their relationship with Epstein, including Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick.

The president then attacked O’Donnell again, saying: “You should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things.”

Trump was apparently happy enough with his answer to O’Donnell’s question that the exchange was included in a highlight reel from the interview posted on the White House’s YouTube channel.

Despite the president’s anger at being asked about what he took to be a description of him, which has become common among his critics amid widespread anger at his long friendship with Epstein, an FBI affidavit in support of a criminal complaint against Allen, filed in federal court on Monday, quotes the same part of the manifesto as part of its case that the suspect planned to assassinate Trump.

According to the affidavit, Allen sent a note to family and friends by email shortly before he attempted to charge into the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night in Washington, is which he described his motivation as follows:

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.) While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

As numerous critics of Trump were quick to point out on social media, the judge in the 2023 civil trial in which Trump was found liable for ***ually abusing and defaming E Jean Carroll, wrote that the jury did, in fact, find that Trump had raped Carroll, in the way that word is understood in “common modern parlance”.

While no evidence has been released by Trump’s justice department to show that he took part in Epstein’s ***ual assault of minors, Trump did tell New York magazine in 2002 that he was aware that the friend of 15 years he called a “[t]errific guy”, and “a lot of fun to be with”, had a reputation as someone who “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side”.

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