@YossiGoldstein8@AkaLazarus Their grandparents and great grandparents came from Egypt, Syria, Jordan. They came finding work under the British Mandate. The most “ubiquitous” Palestinian was Yasser Arafat. He was born in Cairo, Egypt. But somehow he’s “Palestinian” with historic blood ties to the land.
This is an argument that has been repeated often for many years, and here's the thing:
Everyone on all sides of the conflict knows deep down that this is 100% true.
@NiohBerg@mrkaiko95 Khomeini drew huge crowds when he returned from France and overthrew the Shah. Which means Iranians are responsible for their own misery. The Islamic Regime is horrendous. But Iranians themselves overthrew a royal authoritarian with reformist aspirations for a medieval theocracy.
@joe_wolfe@KeithAMay@MarcoFoster_@grahamformaine Admittedly, some get rich through fraud by gaming the system. Congressman and Senators, for example. They use their political positions to obtain inside stock and market information denied the public to their advantage, Both Democrats and Republicans do it. It should be illegal.
@joe_wolfe@KeithAMay@MarcoFoster_@grahamformaine You don’t get rich because of wages. You get rich providing a service or product people want and are willing to pay for in large scale. Entrepreneurs, investors, artists (including top Hollywood actors), and elite athletes get rich. It has nothing to do with other peoples’ wages.
@clayton_karsten@Celan_G@Ersin0X How do you know the driver on the left was driving slow? Perhaps he was exceeding the speed limit and therefore felt no reason to leave the left lane. And the tailgater was recklessly driving.
@feelsdesperate@TheStroBro Platner is an obvious mental case. Enough has been revealed about him that shows he’s at least mentally broken. To what extent his military service is a contributing factor is up to his doctors. But he’s clearly psychologically deficient enough to be disqualifying of high office.
Jill Biden is a liar and a sociopath who spent four years helping conceal her husband’s obvious decline because staying in the White House mattered more than telling the truth to the American people. While her family profited from the Biden name and her son cycled through one scandal after another, she stood by and played along, all while Democrats and the media lectured everyone else about integrity and accountability.
She’s lucky Melania showed her the grace and courtesy she did because, after everything that’s come to light, she deserved neither. Few people have done more to enable a political deception of the American public while demanding everyone else pretend not to see it.
@DRCarter_571@MrPitbull07@Jeremymari36773 Lee Marvin was a heavy cigarette smoker since his teen years. He was known to smoke up to six packs of cigarettes a day. He died at 63 because of his cigarette habit. A weaker man would have died sooner given his cigarette smoking. He could have lived another 30 years without it.
Modern history frames the American Founders' hypocrisy on slavery as the ultimate proof that their ideals were a lie. But Coleman Hughes argues the exact opposite. Writing "all men are created equal" while owning slaves wasn't America's fatal flaw.
To be a hypocrite, you first have to state a moral standard.
Most historical empires avoided this problem entirely. Hughes notes that Ottoman sultans could simply point to texts legalizing slavery. No clash of values meant no internal pressure to change.
America put itself in a moral corner. By putting equality on paper, the Founders gave abolitionists a weapon. They created a cognitive dissonance that eventually forced a resolution.
This defines the current debate over American history.
The 1619 Project looks at the founding hypocrisy and declares the system structurally condemned.
Martin Luther King Jr. looked at the exact same hypocrisy and saw a promissory note waiting to be cashed.
You cannot hold a society accountable to a standard that does not exist. The founding ideals did not excuse the system. They gave future generations the exact leverage needed to break it.
Source: @JTLonsdale@coldxman
James Garfield could write a sentence in Greek with his left hand while writing the same sentence in Latin with his right.
At the same time.
Before politics, he was a classics professor. Spoke seven languages. Read theology, philosophy, and mathematics for fun.
Four months into his presidency, he was shot.
The smartest man to ever hold the office.
American Exceptionalism 🇺🇸
@MrsBolelli@emraslnn You don’t know that. If the child has the father for only 20 years that’s more time than millions of children who are abandoned by their fathers or who are essentially absent fathers. From Tom Cruise to the poorest who abandon children, it’s quality time not quantity that counts.
@chris_whitbread@Gianl1974 Yes, Carter became friends with Ford but not Reagan. Clintons became friends with George H.W. Bush, but ended friendship with Trump. Obama became friends with McCain, but is hostile to Trump. The pattern is Democrats befriend Republican losers and despise REPUBS that defeat them.
@Jim87504388@mentorsrule1@AnnCoulter Divorce is a private matter, and so is adultery. Outside of the military and Uniform Code of Military Justice, adultery isn’t even a crime. Whatever the reasons Paxton may have betrayed his marriage vows it’s a private family matter and after Bill Clinton’s affairs no one cares.
@mentorsrule1@AnnCoulter If Americans took Democrat lawfare and the 34 felony convictions Democrats conspired to had Trump seriously, he wouldn’t have been re-elected. Your problem is with the political acumen of most of our countrymen, not politics itself. Democrat Party must be broken to reform itself.
@mentorsrule1@AnnCoulter Yea, all these legal and ethical violations are fabrications, weaponized lawfare used against conservatives by leftist Democrats and their RINO globalist allies. Most Americans don’t take the felony convictions Trump received from Democrat prosecutors seriously. Same with Paxton.