Democratic Base: “Trump & the GOP don’t give a damn about housing and healthcare troubles of Americans. They’re evil, and only want to line the pockets of billionaires.”
Same Dem base: “Senators shouldn’t have folded. If they held out another week, the GOP and Trump would’ve done the decent thing.”

What is your alternative scenario? That in a day or a week the Party that holds the House, Senate & WH and SCOTUS would just have folded, in the interest of working people? They showed us they do not CARE about starvation, tripled premiums and debt.

I don’t see how being just is willing to burn your house down as your pyromaniac neighbor is a badge of honor. But OK, sure.

What would it take for Trump and the GOP majority in the Senate to move their needle? nothing less than a crash would’ve done that. There was no endgame. Now the GOP will be holding the bag for a healthcare policy in the here and now, not some abstract future date. They can’t create one. Take a W.

The officer was hurt so badly he had to go to the Mayo Clinic.

He specifically endorsed the phrase “globalize the intifada.” the plain meaning of this phrase is to support violent acts against Jews, worldwide. There is no precious or fine dissection of this phrase that gives comfort to its intended victims. To that extent, Levy is right.

“if she had only done what I told her, I wouldn’t had to beat my wife,” is the closest cognate.

Ah yes. Hamas is well known for holding to its ceasefires, you shameless hack

Didn’t a member of the British Royals pay a huge sum of money to avoid a scandal for having received a trafficked minor from Epstein?

He won’t be fired. He’ll be lionized. It’s a cult.

I don’t have a ranked order of empathy for the victims of political assassination. Violence in the service of political ideology diminishes all of us and our entire nation. There is no greater or lesser tragedy based upon the nature of the political beliefs of the victim.

How about you do a study on the ready availability of large caliber weapons to people who have been treated for mental illness? Here is a hint: no other country that prescribes SSRI drugs has people blowing up churches.

Crime in the Subways is a huge problem. Less so in Jersey Mike’s, because you have to do it Mike’s way. It’s a sectarian problem in Chicago, mostly an Italian beef.

Used to be Balagan. Great Israeli chef. Informal, fun chef’s counter. Chef has a more formal place in Paris as well

BTW, just returned from my 1st trip to Normandy. Wow. Cannot wait to return and see the rest of France. Dined at Kapara in Paris, among other places. Yum.

French press is only good for making coffee, I always say. Well, truthfully, I said it once. Perhaps I can get more traction with it on social media and maybe copyright it.

Did a journalist point out that the vast majority of these statues and monuments were erected during Jim Crow as the South resisted integration of parks and public areas, as intimidation? No. I didn’t think so.

Risks? Strain thinks there is a chance it won’t cause harm? The bastard child of whataboutism is dilution of a moral certainty.

“Inventive?” By that you mean stunningly corrupt and hypocritical.

She will make a public statement that is non-responsive or outright false. Then he will endorse it.

Why would POTUS demand the “complete and unconditional surrender” of a nation with which we are not at war?

lol. You get your history from Islamic Jihad. 1947, 1967, 1973, October 7. Your ignorance is breathtaking. All Arab invasions. All failed

Which established fact do you deny in your flight from reality? Your attachment to a medieval theocracy in Persia is fascinating. You would last an hour in Iran, or one of its vassals in Yemen or Lebanon.

I think the Times might have noticed the war Iran launched first through Hamas, Hizbollah and the Houthis in its headline.

“Malicious plagiarism?” You think there was ever a college Sr. whose inner voice said “I want to plagiarize just to screw somebody?“ Do you think he could get through 3 years at Princeton without learning to write a paper and cite a source? A selfish life of flouting rules is the likely pattern.

Try it yourself, you ignorant dolt. Since the term was invented—by an anti-Semite, it has always meant one thing: Hatred of Jews. Not speakers of languages. Your distortions are laughable and sick

Before Zionism? Jews the world over pray every year since the Roman diaspora to return to Jerusalem, and have maintained a continuous presence in Israel for millennia, making up a majority in Jerusalem dating back before the erosion of Turkish rule. Your history is poor.

Listen dope, the term has meant one thing and one thing only since it was created, and you don’t get to redefine it. Zionism is the right to a single Jewish homeland. There are 27 Islamic states.

One of the great shocks of my life that should not have been shocking was when I read the 1911 Report of the NJ Dept. Of Labor. It separated industrial injuries and deaths at work into 3 columns: Men, Women, and Children. I am a WC lawyer. It stuck with me.

“Dentist defers to economically illiterate and unethical felon with multiple bankruptcies on issues of economics.”