Pettifogger

Man

- Christ is King is true
- Christ is King is being used by grifters, many of whom are not Christian, and that should miff Christians
- Christ is King is being used by said grifter/non-Christians primarily as a war cry against Jews
- None of this explains why Ted Cruz has become functionally the President of AIPAC

How about spending 10% of the energy you spend making podcasts about Israel on taking loser John Curtis to task for tanking Jeremy Carl's nomination solely because Carl takes the novel position that America should largely focus on Americans.

Anyone who doesn't like cold fronts this time of year is a sociopath.

Ya'll just want 80s+ starting in late February through October?

I think Israel manipulates US leaders

I think Israel's efforts are particularly effective because usually they're centered on some interest the US already has that is more or less independent of Israel

I think Israel getting the US to do something the US doesn't have any interest in doing otherwise is wildly overstated

I think the US using Israeli "manipulation" as pretext (the argument Israel puts forward, not the manipulation itself) for something we already want to do is wildly understated

Trump wants regime change, he wants to punish the regime for killing protestors, he wants to settle a decades-old scores, he wants to set the region up for the Abraham Accords to flourish without the Iranian menace, and he wants to reduce a potential Russia and Chinese ally's capabilities as the US retracts from ensuring global security.

But it's easier to just say Israel wouldn't abandon their nuclear weapons pursuit, and Israel is happy to feed him the ammo for that.

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Ammo has nothing to do with what I said. You don't point a firearm at anybody, period.

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Yeah

An ND into the baseboards or the ground would horrify me. I suppose I could imagine someone being tired or sloppy or distracted and doing it despite generally good practices. That would, I think, be a pure ND.

But this - this I can't really understand. I don't really understand how anyone in a firearms-adjacent community gets into this situation.

These children

The global order America built. The global order America protected. The global order America sustained.

When I was in school this was the rule. greek-affiliated houses/condos would get kicked out day by day and survivors would take on stragglers (girls, some friends) and it was round robin until there was nowhere else to go :lol:

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He’s an ordained minister.

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You guys realize that noting this about an openly heretical person who uses Christmas and the virgin birth to promote abortion doesn't convince actual Christians right?

Look at Talarico's twitter

the guy went absolutely ham in 2020 posting about how white people have a whiteness virus they pass on to their kids, etc.

Pretty impressive discipline for republicans to wait until the night he secured the nom to start publicizing all the tweets and videos.

I'm not worried Trump got duped on the cause for war. I think this is pure Monroe 2.0 building, trying to get the region to a place where the dominant actor are the AA states without the Iranian menace so America can retract in the coming age. Nuclear, ballistic production timing, protest crackdowns - all just pretext for that.

I am quite worried that Israel may have sold Trump an unrealistic bill of goods on Iranian resistance. I think Israel has legit, good, decades-old intel relationships in that community. But what if it doesn't materialize, or what if Israel softened the rough edges, etc. - will Trump resist what comes next, which is the inevitable Israel plea of "we've finally gotten to this point, just need that final push at this historic moment"?

Perhaps Trump has already factored that in and made it clear he can't be pushed over the edge.

Even the "corrections" are intended to soften/distort

- "homemade bombs" = they want to emphasize the amateurism

- No reference to Muslim or ISIS

- Referencing Mamdani's home (which is accurate) while not referencing the targets were NYPD officers and RW protestors

this is a false flag we're going to use as pretext to invade Canada while everyone is distracted by Iran

I support it 100%