StarkRift

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

I'm here for this energy.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Cactuscali19912 Stephen Miller is an ugly fuck.

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

So what's up with China sending pandas places? Like why doesn't the US Loan out Buffalo or Europe loan out Eastern Europeans?

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇨🇳🇺🇸 President Xi Jinping says China will send 2 giant pandas to the US as a symbol of friendship during meeting with President Trump.

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

Elon about to start gargling on some Orange Raisins real soon.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 President Trump considers allowing Chinese automakers to build electric vehicles in the US.

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

@omletsu_gohan Are you open to sharing? 😊

[South America @SouthPark]

Things'll be better in November.

[pain @paaiinnnn]

I don’t care if you guys agree or not but a girl with a great ass and no boobs is way hotter than a girl with big boobs and no ass

[riisen @riisenlol]

when she has a praise kink but she's lowkey not that good at things

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

Has he not been in the senate before? Is he planning on doing anything different other than shilling for foreign governments?

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

42 days until New Jersey sends Cory Booker back to the U.S. Senate 🇺🇲

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

Surprised he could type this out with a dick in his mouth.

[Brian Eastwood @BrianEastwoodx]

Every presidency carries an albatross: one misstep that outweighs a dozen wins.

For George W Bush, it was Katrina and Iraq.

For Barack Obama, it was the Iran deal along with sanctions relief, and Russia taking Crimea all the while Syria burned.

For Trump’s first term, it was honestly great. If you exclude Covid-19 and the impeachment hoaxes. He defined his first term with tax cuts and the Jobs Act; he was blessed with 3 Supreme Court picks and the Abraham Accords, and the economy before the pandemic hit a 50-year unemployment rate low of 3.5%. Incredible!

For Joe Biden, the signature failure was everything, but Afghanistan was the absolute worst, then Bidenomics and Covid-19.

Now, for Trump’s second term, it’s the Iran war. Hands down, this was the greatest miscalculation made by a sitting president.

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

Do this along with $8 beers again and I'd stop wearing cargo shorts into movie showings.

[gracey ⚞•⚟ @graceyemgee]

i need amc to know if they made a popcorn $5 and the drink $5 i would buy a popcorn & drink every single time instead of like once in a while and i have a list... wouldnt you rather $10 every week instead of like $20 once a month @AMCTheatres

[Matthew Ivan @matthewivan77]

cinematic parallels

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

So this is what electing a democratic socialist mayor can get you: corporations issuing groveling apologies for underpaying their workers

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

Because one is a protected class and the other one is a pedophile.

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

I need more clarity on why this person can spray paint "Kill Donald Trump" on a bridge underpass in plain site of everyone without getting arrested but if someone peels out in their truck on a gay pride street mural they're hunted down and charged with a hate crime:

[mr_eggs 🇵🇸 @scrumble_eggs]

Lauren Boebert lesbian sex video leak

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

Tel Aviv times is gonna get front row seating now.

[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump bans CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from the White House, effective immediately.

"Other fake news media outlets to follow."

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

@josiahwsutton Don't worry about it Kitten. ❤️

[🦝trash panda🏳️‍⚧️ @TrashPandaGirll]

In theory, I support the death penalty for rapists and pedophiles. In practice, I don't trust the government with that sort of power especially when you know Black people and minorities will be targeted.

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

This is as useful as the mfrs that sit outside of grocery stores asking to sign a petition to save the PlatypusBear.

[Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin]

The Trump mass deportation agenda is to make the immigration process so onerous that talented, bright immigrants cannot remain in America after attending school here.

I led my Democratic colleagues to introduce a resolution of disapproval to block this Administration’s attacks on immigrant students.

[StarkRift @StarkRift]

Expect your checks February 30th

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

SPEAKER JOHNSON SAYS $5,000 CHECKS WILL TAKE TIME

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.