BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @AJC.
Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers.
Step 1 in deescalation must be restraining the Israelis, otherwise all efforts to negotiate will follow this pattern:
POTUS publicly announces deescalation.
Israel takes major strikes to destroy the negotiations & in turn weaken our ability to negotiate.
The war accelerates.
#RememberGaza is trending. Let’s keep it going.
For every orphaned child, raped Palestinian, and innocent person shot and killed by the IDF as they ran to collect food amidst starvation.
⚡NEW: The Protect Girls Sports in Maine referendum has had its signatures approved and is headed to the ballot!
Leyland Streiff, principal officer behind the initiative, said the following:
"It’s official! This November, Mainers will get to do what the MPA and State Legislature have failed to do, and they’ll get to do it through the most democratic process possible - a simple majority vote will designate competitive sports and private facilities in our schools by sex. This is inclusive, fair and safe - everyone gets to play sports; not one single person is banned.”
Full press release in the replies below!
Joe Kent: "As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people"
you know you're living in interesting times when you're hitting refresh multiple times on the Federal Reserve's status page and you didn't even know it had a status page just a few hours ago. good luck to everyone else trying to run payroll today!
https://t.co/XnpIYDsDvQ
American people seem to have no power at all. No matter how clear we are or how united we are, politicians and national media always support the donors over us. We have one last weapon left - voting. Not for one party or another, but against all the incumbents who’ve betrayed us.
I think starting a war with Iran is a bad idea, and Trump specifically ran against regime change wars in the middle east. Reasonable people can disagree on the merits, but calling opponents "borderline traitors" is a reprisal of the dumbest Iraq-war era political bullshit.
I always laugh at physical and moral cowards who posture like they are someone who inspires confidence in times of crisis.
You haven’t done anything in your life that positions you to speak credibly about war and the decisions related to war.
You graduated college in 1999.
Two years later you were given the opportunity to put it all on the line for your nation.
9/11.
You failed to answer the call, and instead chose to taste pizza online instead.
Which is fine.
So long as you never posture as someone who actually had the balls to take the oath and wear the uniform.
You’re a coward.
Literally.
So do everyone a favor and sit this one out.
No one gives a fuck what you think.
"Trust the intel. Support the troops. The politicians agree. You're a traitor if you question it."
This isn't an argument, Dave. It's a loyalty test. It's what every empire tells its citizens before it sends their kids to die for someone else's interests.
You know who wanted this war? Netanyahu. For twenty years. You know who didn't? 80% of Americans.
But we're the traitors. Not the guy cheerleading a war his own country rejected. Not the President who campaigned on "no new wars" and is now bombing his seventh country.
Us. The ones who noticed.
Wrap yourself in that flag a little tighter, Dave. Maybe it'll cover the boot in your mouth.
Dave Portnoy accuses those of opposing the new US/Israeli war as being "borderline traitors."
It's unclear to which country such people are traitors -- to the US or to the country which Portnoy most reveres -- but Theodore Roosevelt had this to say about people like Portnoy: