Is there any time of day it’s not atrocious? Seems like any time would have basically equal risk for collateral casualties.
To be effective it all had to be at once. It seems that they waited until the pagers were being used to coordinate a fresh wave of rocket attacks with promises of more to come before setting them off.
That’s all correct, just want to add that the political motivation cannot be understated. Blue states tend to have better employment, higher average wages, and a more educated workforce. As such, they pay more in taxes than their Red State counterparts, both state and federal tax. Plenty of red States under Republican leadership have tried to eliminate most of their state taxes so that they rely even more on federal tax revenues to subsidize their shitty state economies by paying for minimum basic services.
Blue states don’t want minimum basic services, they want good services; good schools, good state roads, a modern and competent law enforcement and justice system, a strong system of public higher education and high quality flagship state university, maybe throw in some free in-state tuition, and many other things.
Red States have thrown in the towel on all that stuff, gutted public services and institutions, sold it out to private equity, in the name of lower state taxes.
By limiting the federal deduction for taxes paid to a state, citizens of blue states are once again taxed moreso than citizens of red states. That is the intented consequence of this move by Trump and the Republicans. Just as with their COVID response, their political calculation was that it would harm their political opponents moreso than their own constituents. Since that’s the only qualification for Republicans to support a particular policy, Trump enacted it into law. I wouldn’t call it treason per se, since tax policy can hardly be considered an act of war or revolt, but it’s certainly treasonish in its disdain and contempt for the American people.
“In America there is no us and them, there is only us.”
There was so much shit during his presidency, that people have amnesia about all the harm he did.
I’m sure Israel caught a lucky break through whoever they had in Taiwan, to get this opportunity.
Stunning that you’re being downvoted. This was a brilliant attack on a group that actually attacks Israel actually indiscriminately on the daily.
It’s going to be a steady stream of heavy hitters endorsing Harris until the election.
I only vacation there and usually only to rural places for wilderness activities, hunting or fishing, exploring, though I think I’ve visited most of the cities. I should have said I was not talking about the cities. And yes, absolutely, lots of great towns mixed throughout both states. I think it’s the fact that I’m mostly looking for remote places when I visit.
His supporters are so stupid.
Actual number of terrorists who have entered via land border crossing: 0.
The feds have a list of gun owners, it’s just not pulled from gun sales or anything like that. It comes from data, bought up from internet data brokers, deanonymized and put into your FBI file. Like if you’re liking and sharing a bunch of ammosexuals and tacticool content, or whatever you’re doing publicly online, the feds know.
Ehhh. I’d say it’s a different kind of dumb.
Have you been there?
In terms of “states” I lump New Hampshire in with Vermont. There’s something about the people in the region that blurs the border; you cannot tell when you’ve crossed from one state to the next, save for the signs or by checking your position on a map. Their defining feature is the piles of garbage in their front yards, as natural to the landscape as rocks. The half-built cars, the half-destroyed cars; the falling-down outbuildings, roofs covered with blue tarps, one after another; the metal monstrosities, talking about like “oh let’s take this snow groomer, and strap an airplane body to the top, leave it in the front yard for the next sixty years.” And this is just what you can see from the road. These are houses with curb appeal. The real weird shit is at the houses and dilapidated outbuildings that you can’t see from the road. Gotta get three or four locals together to make a full set of teeth. YMMV.
His supporters are too dumb to know that.
You know doesn’t smell like shit?
Kamala Harris. Can tell with your eyes she smells amazing.
Could it be that it’s because Harris isn’t a fascist piece of shit and the most pressing threat to democracy in American history? Could it be that Trump is an Un-American dumpster fire, and likely a full fledged asset of Russia and Vladimir Putin? Could it be that he traded nuclear secrets? Could it be that he received $10 million from Egypt’s president? Could it be all the rapes? Could it be the belittling of American armed forces? Maybe it was the violent coup attempt, or just the general courtship between Trump and angry uneducated whites?
Durrr, what could be the reason?
Wouldn’t it be something if Trump got killed by his own weapon? Like if he had been successful in removing the metal detectors from the mall on January 6th, and somebody had smuggled in a gun and killed him with it.
Trump and his supporters are this country’s weird ex-boyfriend that won’t stop stalking her and threatening her for attention.
Yeah that’s a good one.
Another orange asshole.
My grass doesn’t grow for like 5 months of the year. If you don’t have winter, you don’t need to store your mower for half the year.
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Maybe all an army has to do to take over the entire world is bring their families to the front. Can’t shoot back at them because their families are there. So they pretty much win every engagement. Problem solved. No more wars.