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Shirly you can't be serious. He makes no decisions. He has no substance. His staff tells him what to do to appease voters and he is the puppet of their desires, all designed for votes. Idiotic energy policy with countless flips, including begging the Saudis to not announce OPEC production cuts until after the US mid terms. Releasing reserves from the strategic petroleum reserve for unintended reasons. He is useless.

Thankfully, Biden is a liar. "As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden responded to a New Hampshire town hall question unequivocally, adding repetition for emphasis. "No more drilling on federal lands," he said Feb. 9, 2020. "Period. Period. Period. Period." Biden repeated his stance a month later, saying at a presidential primary debate: "No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends." Three years later, the Biden administration disappointed supporters of his climate change policy by approving a major drilling project in Alaska." See provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act to understand why Biden was legally bound to approve drilling. It wasn't his choice, not that anyone would know, it was a legal requirement. The man would drill through his mother's grave if it meant getting a vote. He is an airbag. Nothing of substance. But at least he was stupid enough to inform us at last year's State of the Union that we would need fossil fuels for at least ten years, resulting in laughter from both sides and in every household who happened to be watching.

This is the kind of suggestion that makes me think some Americans are grossly ignorant. Here's a postulate......American citizens do not control Israeli life or decisions. The Israelis are the ones who have been missiled, raped, abducted, burned, tortured, held hostage and murdered. They have every right to demand that their government eliminate this threat, and they are doing just that. They don't want a ceasefire. They want Hamas and anyone else who does this eliminated, so it doesn't happen again. That may well include Hezbollah, which is fare greater a threat. This alleged "claim" that the US citizen's view can or should drive Israeli policies, or has any right to, is preposterous. The barbaric actions on Oct 7th have sealed the fate of Hamas, and what is going on is a justified response which will, hopefully lead to the elimination of them. The claim that US citizens have any real "standing," to use a legal term, is arrogant and senseless. They have as much claim as the UN General Assembly, and Security Council. Stupid, useless actions. No effect. Just noise.

This can't be. I thought a ceasefire was going to be in place by Monday, as suggested by the Biden Administration just ahead of the Michigan primary. You mean the sides were not close? Were we played?

I would start by telling the armed killers to stop launching warhead carrying rockets into civilian populations. I would tell these "armed killers" that killing, kidnapping in order to hold hostages, torturing, raping and filming these events would not be tolerated. I would hesitate to judge the response until I had some idea of what they were actually doing, and what measures they were taking to prevent loss of life. I would never believe the casualty counts provided by the attackers, who are completely incapable of ever telling the truth while their leaders hide in foreign countries and count their riches while sacrificing thousands of innocent people. I would hold the attackers responsible for doing nothing in seventeen years of "rule" other than building an underground system in civilian areas including hospitals and schools for the sole purpose of waging war to eliminate a neighbor that is not going to be eliminated.

Israel can do its normal democratic thing. Hamas needs to be eliminated. Seventeen years, and all they have done is build an underground tunnel system designed to wage war against Israel, under the idiotic support of Iran who is determined to use surrogates to chase some foolish and unattainable goal to eliminate Israel. Again, Hamas needs to be eliminated.

Grossly off topic, but........ Do you ever care or wonder who takes you seriously here? I can't think of anyone.

At some point, rational people, if they exist in this realm, will realize that every single on of these Iranian surrogates is doing their bidding at immense cost and no hope for success. Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are all going to lose this battle. The Palestinian civilian population will bear the brunt, but the struggle to eliminate Israel is a stupid, losing battle that will never succeed and needs to be abandoned. The faster that is realized, the lower the body count.

I think you are remarkably naive about this issue. Iran is paying individuals a ton of money to do this wet work for them. There isn't some religious devotion to a cause here. The Israelis are pretty good at getting at the people responsible, and I support them terminating them with prejudice. I have no sympathy for Iranian paid murderers.

I'll leave that to the Israelis. They have a history of getting rid of individuals. Far better a history than us and any other country. The long term mistake would be to allow them some kind of survival, so the Israeli citizenry can be slaughtered again. It is time to end Hamas. Soon enough, it will be time to end Hezbollah. Or, alternatively, end the Iranian Islamic regime, which would solve it all.

Madam Vice President, there was a ceasefire. Hamas broke it, slaughtering women and unborn babies. Get rid of Hamas, then a ceasefire, but she it too stupid to understand that.

Totally speculative on my part, but I wonder nonetheless. As someone who seems to lean left, but not outrageously, have you any view on the Biden appointments? The confirmation hearings are horrible. Totally incompetent individuals being exposed in hearings as having no idea what they are talking about, let alone qualified for various positions. Does this concern any Biden supporter?

Two issues. One is the lack of governance on prohibiting illegal immigration. We have laws on this. They need to be enforced. If they are not enforced, we need to hold those responsible for non enforcement responsible, and this is the Biden Administration. The other issue is holding countries responsible for fomenting the problem responsible. A number of attempts have been made in that regard from an aid perspective, but we need to after them in a threatening manner. Not nice, but we are suicidal in this regard, and that benefits nobody.

I listened to an extensive, probing radio show today. Two separate organizations. Both concluded that supporting illegals costs the US about $150 billion per year. That is after subtracting their tax contributions from the expenses they cause. That means $1156 per year from each American taxpayer. This is one more thing that is simply unsustainable. In education costs alone, it is estimated to a $69 billion drain from our schools.

The president has very little to do with economic results. He can screw various things up, as Biden did when he instituted idiotic energy policy, which he did on his first day, and exacerbated energy costs after Russia invaded Ukraine, but the US economy is so big that any president has little impact on it. The president can set the atmosphere, but that takes years to have an impact. Point being, Biden deserves no credit for what is a very limited stock market rise. The market, as measured by the Dow and S&P is driven by the success of very few companies. People who trade know this. People who don't assign credit where it is not valid, What Biden, and Trump before him have done, is promoted reckless fiscal policy, ie., printing money, that has led to massive deficits. Some of this was needed to keep the ship afloat during the covid issue. Some was purely a political move, kind of like strapping the US taxpayer with student loan debt.

Sure. I'll continue to watch what happens.

And do what? Continue to put up with this? Their game doesn't need to be played with. It needs to be eliminated, or this never ends. Nobody away from Israel knows what their situation is. Ergo, in my view, nobody in the US can judge.

The claim that Netanyahu allowed them to attack is stupid and ignorant. Stop with that nonsense, Nope. Nope and nope. Genocide is your assertion. Not mine, and not factual or supported. Hamas has set things up to ensure that civilians get killed. That's how they play their game. That is a universal strategy among Islamic military planning. Start a war, which they did. Get you ass kicked, which they are doing. Appeal to the international community for mercy, claiming war crimes/genocide/whatever, from the entity that you attacked. Rinse repeat, over and over.

Ya. Too bad.

Sure. You would know. The Holocaust was genocide. Ridding an aggressive enemy, determined to exterminate you, capable of inhuman actions against women and children, including the unborn, and all of your people is not genocide. It is survival, and I'm all for it.

One of the interesting things about your posts is that they almost always contain a false premise, or accusation. If anyone is interested enough to respond, they have to respond to that nonsense. It's quite similar to the "have you stopped beating your wife" query. This one is typical. They don't get a blank check to commit genocide. Nobody here, me included, has any idea what is going into their planning and execution. They are determined to get rid of Hamas, and whatever Netanyahu eventually completes, it will be his last action. A huge proportion of the Israeli population that serves is involved in this. Way more than any ignorant American can surmise. But....To the point, getting rid of Hamas is going to be incredibly ugly, because that's the way they, (Hamas), have structured it, as always. They structured the chessboard. Quit complaining when the other side plays it.

There is no one here who can judge Israel's response. not me or anyone else. I always think it's funny when Americans voice opinion on situations they think they are informed of, but actually know nowhere near enough to justify opinion. Thirty years of international travel taught me that, so I simply don't judge based on exposure to what the US media reports. What happened on Oct 7 was sub-human. The Israelis have had enough, and Hamas needs to be eliminated, or this happens again and again. The Israelis are attempting to eliminate Hamas, not do some kind of proportioned response, which is idiotic, and given Hamas' and other similar strategies employed in that region, Hamas is quite happy to sacrifice civilians to protect themselves and garner international sympathy after their deeds are responded to.

Easy question. It will be enough when they are gone. The "bill" will come due again and again until they are gone. This ends today if Hamas releases all the hostages and their leaders get on the next transportation to Iran, or wherever they can spend their acquired wealth, which is apparently significant, from years of abuse. They can then spend their lives looking over their shoulders, because Israel is know for settling scores. (See the Munich massacre of the Israeli Olympic team and what happened those those involved). It is not enough to allow them to retool and do what they did again. Netanyahoo will be gone and some new dynamic will emerge, but to leave Hamas in charge is not wise.

The economic performance of the US is pure testament to our private sector industrial skill. It has nothing to do with political leadership, which has been an anchor. The man we have in charge now, along with his entire cabinet and appointees, have no private industry experience. They have nothing to do with this success, and it would have been greater if not for their efforts.

Maybe Trump's alleged antisemitism and call to action against them are because he really doesn't like his Jewish grandchildren. This place gets more and more stupid.