@susie_lastname@NiallStanage@jonfavs Yes, while driving toward the agent. Not reversing. Not staying parked as commanded. While driving toward the agent.
Can’t wait for Matt Damon to play Graham Platner in a future coming-of-age Netflix film about a spoiled rich kid who acts out as a teenager and is shipped off to an $80K a year boarding school only to get expelled after one semester for sexually assaulting a student then he joins the Marines as a fuck you to his parents and while enlisted he frequently posts on Reddit about how soldiers should bang hookers in Thailand then gets wasted in Croatia and gets a Nazi tattoo before deciding to move back to DC and bartend at Tune Inn where he meets a Blackwater executive who hires him to “work security” in Afghanistan which he does for a year before moving home to Maine to sell oysters to his mom and run for the U.S. Senate.
Give it the Oscar already.
@GrugAllman@ConceptualJames Why not quote the actual report, instead of the false framing given to it by the pro-terror propaganda outfit Drop Site News? But whatever, most ordinary people loathe Jihadism and don’t hate on gays.
Brett Kavanaugh, a man in his 50s, had been valedictorian of his high school, at Yale College and a star student at Yale Law, had clerked for the Supreme Court, had a top career as an appellate lawyer and federal judge and a pristine reputation, and then a random woman from the town he grew up in claimed he had groped her at a party 35 years earlier when they were in high school.
Kavanaugh didn’t try to argue that the incident was consensual. He didn’t claim he remembered things differently than she did. He immediately stated that he had never even met the accuser. Denying ever meeting the accuser is a much stronger claim than merely denying assaulting her, and much easier to refute. After Kavanaugh made this denial, Christine Blasey-Ford no longer had to prove he had sexually assaulted her to scuttle his nomination, she only had to prove that the two of them had attended a party together at which such an assault might have occurred.
She was unable to do so. She did not know whose house the alleged assault occurred at. None of the people she claimed attended the party corroborated any aspect of her account. Leland Keyser, a friend of Blasey-Ford’s, who the accuser claimed was at the alleged party, said she recalled no such event and had never met Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh produced a detailed calendar he had kept during the summer Blasey-Ford alleged she was assaulted, which included his whereabouts of every weekend night and listing who he was with. Kavanaugh argued that he could alibi himself and provide witnesses for any night Blasey-Ford claimed she might have been at a party with him. Blasey-Ford responded that she did not know the date of her assault and was not entirely certain it even occurred that year. Instead of being seen as persuasive, Kavanaugh’s calendar was mocked in both mainstream and social media because the reason he kept it was for a drinking contest he was having with his friends.
Nearly a decade later, there is still not a single shred of proof or a single witness who will corroborate the claim that Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey-Ford were ever in the same room before she testified at his confirmation hearing. Nonetheless, people like Nick Kristof still claim Kavanaugh was “credibly accused” of sexually assaulting this woman.
We welcome yesterday’s meeting between Lebanon and Israel in Washington as a first step toward breaking a long cycle of conflict. We hope this path advances through balanced, gradual steps that strengthen stability—by de-escalation, reinforcing state authority, ensuring that arms are held exclusively by the state, leading to Israeli withdrawal and the reconstruction of the South. We want a Lebanon of peace and prosperity.
We affirm our full support for the ongoing negotiation process, provided it is decisive and proceeds in parallel with the complete and immediate disarmament of Hezbollah, placing all weapons, without exception, under the sole authority of the Lebanese state.
We firmly support His Excellency the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister in taking the bold decisions required to restore the state’s full and indivisible sovereignty.
No negotiation can be considered legitimate without concrete steps to end illegal arms and return security and military authority exclusively to state institutions.
Within this framework, engagement with Israel must lead to a cessation of hostilities, full withdrawal, and the restoration of Lebanon’s sovereignty, paving the way for a just and lasting peace.
Lebanon is not an arena, but a sovereign state that must reclaim its decision-making and its arms , leading to lasting peace, stability, and prosperity.
نطالب بفصل لبنان عن مسار مفاوضات وقف إطلاق النار بين إيران وأميركا وإسرائيل.
لبنان ليس جزءاً من إيران، ولن يكون. إدخاله في هذا المسار يكرّس هيمنة إيران على قراره السيادي، ويحوّله إلى ورقة تفاوض.
قد نكسب وقفاً مؤقتاً لإطلاق النار وحمايةً للأرواح، لكننا نخسر على المدى الطويل سيادتنا وهامش قرارنا المستقل.
لبنان ليس ورقة بيد أحد.
ومن يفاوض باسم لبنان هي الدولة اللبنانية فقط، على أن يبدأ أي تفاوض بفرض هيبة الدولة وسلطتها على كامل أراضيها.
#لبنان
إن القرار الذي اتخذته الحكومة اللبنانية اليوم بالطلب من الجيش اللبناني والأجهزة الأمنية المعنية بسط سلطة الدولة بشكل جدي وفعلي في محافظة بيروت، وجمع كل سلاح غير شرعي وغير قانوني، وعدم ترك الأمور على غاربها، حمايةً لبيروت وسكانها وتجنيبًا لهم تكرار ما حدث البارحة، هو قرار أصاب جوهر المشكلة.
صحيح أن خطوة الحكومة هذه هي خطوة أولى على طريق الألف ميل، لكنها خطوة معبّرة جدًا تقف أكثرية اللبنانيين خلفها. إن الجيش والقوى الأمنية المعنية لا تستطيع التذرع بعد هذا القرار بعدم وجود قرار سياسي لبسط سلطة الدولة بشكل فعلي، ولو على مساحة محافظة بيروت في مرحلة أولى.
إن الجيش اللبناني والقوى الأمنية المعنية، كما المراجع القضائية المختصة، مدعوّون لتنفيذ قرار الحكومة من دون إبطاء، وبشكل يعيد للمواطن اللبناني أينما وجد ثقته بأن هناك في لبنان دولة تحميه وترعى شؤونه، وبأنه ليس متروكًا لمصيره.
@emilyjashinsky But I did not read the “quote” as presented verbatim for exactly the reason that—as you point out—that it is now common, I presume bc of space limitations on posts, to use paraphrase quotes. I’m not a fan of the practice but it’s so common that calling it lying is crude.
@emilyjashinsky@misfitpatriot_ Here’s a direct quote of you: “Whatever you think of Tucker Carlson, this is not AT ALL what he said…” I’ve listened to both videos and your “fact check” is easily more misleading to the reader than the paraphrase quote you’re criticizing.