The United States provides Israel with approximately $3.8 billion in military assistance annually under a ten-year bilateral memorandum of understanding...
Cumulative Aid: Israel has received from the USA over $300 billion in total inflation-adjusted economic and military assistance since 1948...
Israel is widely believed to possess an estimated arsenal of around 90 nuclear warheads, though the country maintains an official policy of nuclear ambiguity and neither confirms nor denies having them...
THAT'S CRAZY!
TRUMP SAID: ISRAEL TOLD US TO BOMB IRAN - I WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS!
TRUMP COMMITS MURDER AGAIN:IRAN - The Stupidest Move Since George Bush the Son... Putting All of US in Danger of World War III and Atom Bombs...
Five-sided abstract art background...
It's like the Pentagon! Five-sided!
I wonder... Will Iranians Launch Sabotage Attacks Inside the USA? Do we need Internment Camps like the Japanese in World War II?
How many Iranians live in the United States?Estimates of people with Iranian ancestry in the United States range from approximately 500,000 to over 1 million...
If Trump starts World War lll and we all die this year, I must say that, while we're still alive, "I'm glad I met you." We had some amazing times together... Hiking in Yosemite; Niagara Falls; Tripping at Grateful Dead concerts; swimming in Chico Creek, Butte Creek, the Pacific Ocean at Santa Cruz and at the AAU Far Western swim meet at Foothill Junior College; soaking at the hot tub in Big Sur; cross country skiing at Lake Tahoe; Marching In anti-war protest marches at the White House & Eureka & Los Gatos & Laguna Beach; riding the Giant Dipper roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk; chanting OM at the Rainbow Gathering, Meeting "Mezcalita" and Performing my Peyote Song with her for the entire tribe; Sailing in a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay during a storm; playing the Analog Synthesizer in an outer space Jazz improv band for 8 hours on a Saturday night; Going to the Exploratorium in San Francisco during the 1960s; Skin diving in Florida; EPCOT; Fireworks on the 4th of July; Whitewater rafting down the Shenandoah River; Going to the Smithsonian Institute about 25 times; Joining Alcoholics Anonymous and quitting drinking; Winning money at a Casino in Nevada; Dancing with a Half a Million people at a Beach Boys concert on July 4th at the Washington Monument; Visiting Bumpus Hell bubbling mud pots at Mount Lassen Park; Dancing at a disco where the floor lit up with blinking lights. Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll; Driving around the Western United States in a Van with a bed in the back; Living life as a turtle! Bringing my home with me wherever I went!
What a time to be alive! I've actually been to Paradise (California) and played the drums...
Maybe we'll be reincarnated as dairy cows and get to spend a lifetime together in the Eel River Valley... An ideal place to live if you're a cow... Or a hippie... Or a redneck...
Trump put all of US in Danger of World War III and Atom Bombs... First Trump bombs Iran then they bomb SEVEN countries near them... When will it all stop? With the book Revelation from the Bible? Are we living in the end times? Is Donald the Antichrist?
Danger-Danger GOP Plan: Declare JESUS is the ONE TRUE GOD and Start Burning Witches! Danger-Danger!
All Thru the Trump Years he Kept on Talking About a Witch Hunt... and He FAILED to actually FIND any Witches... Except for Lev Parnas=Guilty, Igor Fruman=Guilty, Steve Bannon=Contempt of Congress, Nikolas Cruz=Guilty, John Lambert=Guilty, Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Maria Butina=Guilty, Paul Erickson = Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guilty OMG! So Many Evil People!
Did You Ever Stop to Consider IF the Bible was Actually Correct? Trump is Obviously the Anti-Christ spoken of in the Book Revelation... and NOW we are Starting to Have PLAGUES... Out of Control FIRES... Remember the Rainbow Sign? God Told Noah No More Floods... This time it's FIRE!
Did you ever Notice that Diablo is the Spanish Word for Devil? and That Nuclear Power Plant is the DEVIL'S Bargain? NO NUKES!
ALTERNATIVE FACTS! Remember Her? The "Leaker" that told the Whistleblower about Trump's Ukraine Phone Call... Kellyanne Conway... She always said Trump's Lies were "Alternative Facts" - So Quickly we forget the Idiots... Except I saw Mr Stupid Himself on FOX "NEWS" - Trey Gowdy... Truly a Mindless Vegetable only outdone by Gosar the Gosarian!
NOW Governor Ron Death Santa is Rejecting Math Books to be Used in Skool...
Because they Tell the Truth!
Alternative Facts!
a Major Part of
the GOP Evil Plan!
"They" Say that Einstein was a Genius... well, "they" say a LOT of Crazy Stuff! Did You Know that Without Einstein's "Genius" Ideas we couldn't have Built the ATOM BOMB or the Fission Nuclear Power Plant... I sure hope we don't have any more "Brilliant Minds" Like His...
CERN: a Complete Waste of Time and Money. Discovering that the "God Particle" is Real has not resulted in ANY BENEFIT to Humanity... However, at CERN Tim Berners-Lee invented the Hyperlink... and That's GREAT! That allowed the World Wide Web to Exist!
The Physics at CERN? Total Failure...
I Don't Smoke Weed but It's INSANE to Spend Taxpayer Dollars on Law Enforcement and Incarceration. AND - If we Tax It, It's a VOLUNTARY Tax that I Don't Pay... Hey, Government Representatives! Ever Think about Behaving SMART With Your Freaking Laws?
Oh, That's Right... The Alcohol Industry is Bribing the Senators... Make the Safer Drug Illegal! Protect Out Profits! and Big Pharma Totally Purchases Congressmen and Congresswomen... Look at Idiot Joe Manchin! and Whazzername...
I'll have to write my own list!
In no particular order...
The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey,
1984 by George Orwell,
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks,
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe,
The Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand,
One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest by Ken Kesey,
My Problem Child by Dr Albert Hofmann,
Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass,
The Psychedelic Experience by Dr Timothy Leary and Dr Richard Alpert,
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert Pirsig,
America's Bogus Wars by Gregory Vanderlaan,
Island by Aldous Huxley,
Foundation by Isaac Asimov,
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein,
You are not the Target by Laura Huxley,
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,
The Time Machine by HG Wells,
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne,
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol,
Thru the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol,
The Wizard of OZ by Frank Baum,
Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
(and Everything else he wrote),
The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft,
The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castaneda,
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz,
The Art of the Failed Deal by don Trump,
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay,
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,
Dune by Frank Herbert,
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle,
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien,
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien,
The Violet Overgrow by Gregory Vanderlaan,
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,
The Bible by Various Authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Ezekiel, Enoch, Peter, Paul and Mary),
Still Here by Ram Dass,
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov,
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov,
Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley,
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda,
Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill W.
Q: Why do Trump and MAGA hate common decency?
A: This is actually an excellent question, and it’s well worth thinking about the answer. Of course this is one of those loaded questions that assumes in advance the answer to a prior question, which is: “Do Trump and MAGA despise common decency?”, but the answer to that question is pretty manifestly YES, so the question that remains is: But Why?
In truth, I do not think that they despise common decency as such. Well, Trump might. But I suspect that for the majority of MAGA it’s not that they despise it, but that they feel justified in abandoning it.
Take the killing of Alex Pretti, for example. It’s rare to find any member of MAGA who is even so much as willing to admit that the death of a citizen, in the conduct of what they claim to believe is a lawful deportation operation, is a tragedy. Most of them are primarily concerned with justifying his killing, by attempting to establish that Pretti was a raving lunatic, and brought his death upon himself.
Why are they like this? Simply put, it’s because they’re fed up. Actually, they’re way, way beyond being fed up. They feel like the country doesn’t belong to them anymore, like they don’t recognize it, like liberal elites don’t like them, look down on them, ignore their needs and interests, and regard them as ignorant hicks.
They’re not wrong about any of this. And so in consequence they feel that the pieties and courtesies of polite civil society don’t apply to them, because they feel they’ve been banished from polite society, because they don’t care about its rules, and because they feel that abandoning those rules is justified by the way they’ve been mistreated.
But now, consider this. Consider that the reason why Alex Pretti and those like him are out in the streets angrily protesting is that they believe that Trump’s militarization of Blue Cities, first by deploying the National Guard and even the Marines, and now through the deployment of ICE, is a threat to our civil liberties, the normalization of which would lead to a Police State.
MAGA’s response to this is to say that the liberal/leftist recaction is hysterical and overblown, and that the protestors are just a bunch of spittle-spattering, holier-than-thou, raving agitators. (This description is assembled from real characterizations given to me by MAGA folks.)
So, in other words, MAGA’s rage is real and justified, while the left’s rage is fabricated/illegitimate. MAGA’s rage is the only rage that gets to count. So, the next question is: why do they seem so incapable of empathy?
Answer: The Presumption of Privilege. They regard themelves as the Real Americans, properly entitled to rule us all. If we do not defeat them now, they will rule the majority of us by force. As David Frum rightly pointed out almost a decade ago, “If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” This is where we are.
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