Merrick Garland: “Wait, they can do that?”

Jimmy Carter has to hang on for 14 more years.

In the event of a electoral system collapse, the BIOS of government is “who would the military support?”

Harris wins enough states to get to 270 and then (Some electoral votes get sent wrong/don’t get sent and congress/SCOTUS rules Trump the winner), Harris asked the military “who do you support?” and it might be Trump is put in jail by the military before he can be sworn in. Sets a bad “president”, but if you throw out the rules to win, expect the other side to do the same.

Time is running for Harris to break with Biden ON ANYTHING. You saw a jump in poll numbers between Biden and Harris because people thought she would be different. Every interview she gives saying “I am the status quo” pushes her numbers back to Biden.

When a non-state actor does it, it is terrorism. When a state actor does it, it is called war crimes.

Because they never thought people would attack it. When it was built, attacks were bombs on busses, not hypersonic missles shot from Iran.

I feel like there should just be an organization of countries that are not Israel or on the UN security counsel. The United Small Nations. Then they could just do things without everything they propose getting vetoed.

Googling Xi Jinping age: 71

Someone must have said he was 10 years over the age of retirement.

Jamecia backs New Zeland-Madagascar peace plan for Ukraine! Who cares!

Also: Algorithmic generated feeds where you try to click on one thing, but you click on the next thing in the list and when you click back, the feed looks completely different because it has new information on you. That thing you wanted to click on is gone and will never return.

A IDF soldier was recently arrested for raping female palestinian prisoners There was an Israeli protest … in support of the accused.

I am sure there is some place America has been blockading for decades and interfering in elections that I could find to make a comparison, but my main point still stands that “completely out of the blue attacks” rarely are that.

I was comparing it to what Israel did to Gaza pre-Oct 6th. Denying resources to a country that bombed israeli citizens and was run by war-criminals? Justified. Being surprised and calling it “unprovoked” when they strike back? Unjustified.

Polls probably showed it would hurt them, and they waited until they have 5 years of uninterrupted power to take action that could hurt them elecorally.

Do you remember what the British PM did in 2019?

Americans famously signed the first bombs dropped on Japan after peral harbor - and attached the trinkets that were brought by the Japanese peace negotiatiors.

Of course, the mear existence of the negotiators show that America was taking hostile action aganst japan prior to Pearl Harbor.

Knowing you have HIV decreases transmission by 90%. Giving antivirals decreases transmission by 99%. Back in the early 2000 I saw a paper saying we could make HIV tests for 10 cents a person if we wanted to produce enough for every person on the planet (0.1810^9= $800 million). That was something that could have been done back then. $40 a vaccine would be a price tag of $320 billion

“The ceasefire must allow us to keep firing”

Reminds me of an orville quote I can’t find now - something about firing on all the innocent families of a colony, and the navigator chimes in “yes, and all the single people as well!”

There was an anti-genocide independent running against Starmer (the new PM) and they came in second. Image if they had won: biggest Labor majority in generations, you are all set to become PM and you loose your seat because you were vague about whether you support or oppose killing innocent women and children.

Israeli court rules ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted for military service … right before they invade Lebanon.