When I was 18 and in the 80's,I went out with friends one night. We started out at a guys house who I was familiar with but was a bit older. My friends knew him so I was in a comfortable atmosphere. He offered me a drink,said it was apple cider. I wasn't a drinker 1...
@AdamKinzinger I'm so sick of hearing everyone yell about international law, war crimes et al. It doesn't seem to matter what the fuck any insane person does. They're just words that have no impact.
@sjredmond@RobSchneider Its about how serious your condition is @RobSchneider. Some surgeries aren't necessary in the short term. Don't go shooting off about something you know nothing about.
@MalcolmNance@sandibachom Just once I'd love to see a member of the media break normalcy and just yell some truths to them. I'd love to be in there for 5 minutes.
@MrPitbull07 I love this so much. A lesson for so many, myself included. Whether its dementia or any other illness, its for better or worse, good and bad times.
NOTE TO MEMBERS OF U.S. MILITARY: Any employee of the Pentagon or member of the U.S. military should go and read the Nuremberg Trial conclusions: if you are actively involved in the current unconstitutional & illegal, unprovoked undeclared war of aggression (in this case, on Iran), then you are guilty of wars crimes, and you wonβt have the excuse of βI was just following ordersβ.
In addition to bombing civilians and civilian infrastructure and poisoning the environment in the country of Iran - if you are also involved in the deployment of nuclear weapons against Iran, or aiding & abetting the IDF in a nuclear strike on Iran - then you are actively involved in fomenting WW3, and if you still have a country, then will be despised for generations to come. Remember that your illegal actions & war crimes not only place the world at risk, but also the very existence of America itself in the future.
And youβve done all of that not for the United States, but for a foreign entity, Israel, who has bribed nearly all of our Congressmen & Senators, and who is currently charged with crimes against humanity & genocide at the International Courts of Justice.
You wonβt be able to say, βI didnβt know.β
"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce
@pirakarulz@NikkiHaley@snowstormyou Iranians don't think Iran is their country? Wtf are you talking about? Even those who hate their government will defend their country against outside aggressors.