The Frankish Reich
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OK, so which one is it:
A. Israel undertook the Iran mission unilaterally, even though the US opposed it (at this time). Israel provided the US only advance notice with the US promising it would not obstruct Israel's actions.
B. Israel undertook the Iran mission with US approval, although the US stated it would not provide any support for the operation.
C. Israel and the US partially coordinated; the US-Iran negotiations were in good faith, and the US gave Israel its tacit approval for taking unilateral action when Iran refused to sign a deal.
D. Israel and the US fully coordinated, with a plan to use negotiations (conducted in bad faith) to delay the inevitable Israeli operation and to provide some diplomatic/legal cover (i.e., to show that all peaceful means of shutting down Iran's nuclear weapons program had failed)
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7 minutes ago, Homelander said:
Justice Breyer's brother. A highly regarded judge. This is no weird ass decision coming from a crackpot judge.
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10/7/23: Hamas says peace process? Sorry, we'll decide when that happens.
6/12/23: Israel says U.S.-Iran deal? Sorry, we'll decide when that happens.
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2 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
How do you think he’s overplaying it? Spreading disinformation?
you then: delusional
you now: desperate
He's trying to sell a book. And from what I see, not doing that well.
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57 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
I am blessed with a peculiar memory. BS seems to get logged permanently.
Any thoughts on Jake Tapper’s reporting?
Jake Tapper then: underplaying Biden's decline
Jake Tapper now: overplaying Biden's decline
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2 minutes ago, njbuff said:
Newsweek 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣A Quinnipiac poll.
3 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:What is your basis for saying this? It’s a rhetorical question. I know you are just lashing out.
Since you are all over the place today maybe now is the time for you to share your thoughts on Jake Tapper’s recent reporting. Give it a shot!
Sorry, I don't spend my time putting together dossiers on anonymous posters on football blogs. I understand that for some it may be quite an enriching activity.
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3 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
In your lengthy post above you state:
The question was: Would calling for genocide constitute harassment or bullying?This is a clear misrepresentation, as the hearing was centered on antisemitism on college campuses. The actual questions were (as shown in my post):
“specifically calling for the genocide of Jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment?“ and “does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (insert school name here) rules or code of conduct? Yes or no”?
You chose to leave out the very heart of the matter. You misrepresented what was said. You had a reason for doing so.
I was wrong about you starting the thread. My apologies there.
Yes, and of course the logic (a fascinating course; maybe Harvard Extension offers it online?) goes like this:
- Harvard's code of conduct bans harassment and bullying
- Calling for the elimination or forced movement of a people isn't necessarily harassment or bullying unless it is directed to a specific person
- Hence, calling for genocide doesn't necessarily violate the code.
Wow. That was fun. Shall we do it again?
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1 hour ago, njbuff said:
Total lie.https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls-issues-2084497
Negative on every issue, including immigration.
Look, it's not surprising. People are pretty simple. Bad crap happened under your watch? Then you're not doing a good job.
People like @JDHillFan would have us think that because George Floyd protest/riots in 2020 were Democratic coded they doomed Biden's presidential run.
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24 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
This is how I know you are dissembling.
Hmm?
You guys thought Elise Stefanik was the most brilliant examiner ever. That's where this whole nonsense started.
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Perhaps you'd like to read Elise Stefanik's proudest moment, as reproduced on her own website.
Note the misleading headline she gives it: the university presidents "refuse to condemn calls for genocide." They did nothing of the sort. They refused to say that a call for genocide, not directed at an individual, would necessarily violate their universities' codes of conduct. And that is because free speech is, well, free speech. Except of course to the Woke Right and the Woke Left.
Here's your heroine expressing the Woke Right sentiment perfectly:
"Do you understand your testimony is dehumanizing them? Do you understand that dehumanization is part of antisemitism?"
Translation: it made them feel bad.
Wokism. From the right.
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2 hours ago, JDHillFan said:
Do you remember when you misrepresented the congressional hearings where the question put forth was “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (insert university name here) rules or code of conduct? Yes or no?” You tried to pretend it was about free speech when it was about harassment of Jews and then came up with some weird hypothetical about white guys in Buffalo. That was a good thread. Hopefully this one is as much fun.
Umm, the only "misrepresentation" came from you.
Chanting things like "from the river to the sea" is definitely not a threat to Jewish students at Harvard or Columbia any more than chanting "trans women are men" is a death threat to trans students.
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6 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
How is it a bad week? Do you think what’s happening in Los Angeles is going to weaken him? Is that really your observation?
Yes, it is my observation, and early polling suggests I'm right.
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6 minutes ago, Orlando Buffalo said:
you picked a liberal to show how Conservatives are having an issue? Frankish this is very weak. Also to pretend the Columbia University situation was simply chanting is being disingenuous. People were prevented from going to class because of "takeovers" and Jews were told they should be killed. If you are openly threatening someones life that is not a peaceful protest anymore.
I'm pointing out that a method of analysis - that some types of speech are akin to actual violence - is now so ingrained that it is being used by the right as well as the left.
The appropriate response to stultifying left orthodoxy in higher education is not to try to try to impose stultifying right orthodoxy. But that's what's happening, because this is all about settling scores and not about intellectual freedom.
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1 minute ago, Bray Wyatt said:
He does not want an honest debate when his whole premise is flawed in the well how does it impact me trope. Lots of things he says he is for dont impact him directly.Yeah, it's not like Tarheel with his ultra-productive salesman gig has time to count the posts of some other guy on PPP or anything like that ....
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9 minutes ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:
It's more than words, but you already know that!
No. It is literally words that put some of these guys in deportation proceedings. Hurtful words.
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We always know when it's a bad week for Trump when we see a rise in the irrelevant threads the Trumpies bump.
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1 minute ago, Mikie2times said:
The irony of a guy that has the time to repost political X content on a NFL message board 40 times a day saying somebody else doesn't pay taxes. You're either retired, on disability, or unemployed. Regardless of the answer, your welcome.
Yeah, "The crime rate of illegal immigrants is 100%." That would include, of course, Elon Musk (student visa violator), Melania (who filled out national security need for light porn models) and all sorts of other visa overstayers, student visa holders who started businesses, etc, etc.
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I don't like Gavin Newsom. I think he's a phony and an intellectual lightweight.
But I'm impressed by his political chops. Almost Bill Clinton-esque when he sees an opportunity. This little turnabout is fair play thing is pretty damn clever:
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/12/gavin-newsom-trump-mental-fitness
"He is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago, and he's incapable of even a train of thought," Newsom, a potential 2028 presidential contender, told Fox LA. "He's lost it."
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The battle is over. Wokethink won. The right is now beating the left at its own game.
In waging its war against the universities, the administration is using civil-rights law on behalf of Jewish students, arguing that chants can make Jewish students feel unsafe, and that pro-Palestinian op-eds about Gaza in campus newspapers do so much harm to American foreign policy that their authors must be deported. The American right protested at the woke left when it sought to censor ideas by equating words with violence and prescribed swift punishment for wrongthink. Now, not so much.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/06/10/does-america-now-have-a-woke-right
We now get to worry about hurting the feelings of straight white males.
Even the right's favorite masseur-provacateur is having fun with the newest form of closed-mindedness:
The most prominent accuser has been James Lindsay, an intellectual gadfly first of the left and lately of the right. He first came to prominence for the “grievance studies affair”, in which he and two co-authors submitted parody articles of leftist drivel, some of which successfully passed peer review. He recently conducted a similar prank by getting the thinly disguised introduction to Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” published in a minor Christian publication (by substituting the words “Christian right” for “communism” and “liberalism” for “bourgeoisie”).
Congratulations, Trumpies! You won the battle and lost the war.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/11/magazine/pope-leo-xiv-ancestry-family-tree.html
Descended from ... well, basically every type of person. Slaveholders. Black slaves. Spaniards. Bastard child of a extramarital affair. French Canadians.
What it means to be American.
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2 hours ago, Roundybout said:
I appreciate this.Yes, the WSJ is doing the best reporting on this now.
On the opinion side of that same newspaper, this also strikes me as accurate:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/china-trade-talks-donald-trump-tariffs-f730f437?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
Developing an alternative supply will take years and require cooperation with allies because the U.S. can’t produce and process all the rare earths it needs. Japan has pitched a rare-earths alliance as part of tariff negotiations, and the Administration would be wise to expand such a partnership with other allies.
This gets to the larger problem with Mr. Trump’s tariff strategy—that is, he doesn’t have one. His latest walk-back shows he can’t bully China as he tried to do in his first term. China has leverage of its own.
A smarter trade strategy would be to work with allies as a united front to counter China’s predatory trade practices. Instead, Mr. Trump has used tariffs as an economic scatter-gun against friends as well as foes. This increases China’s leverage, and, like this week’s trade truce, that’s nothing to cheer about.
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55 minutes ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:
What's wrong with this statement?
Well, I guess you're not the brightest knife.
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On 6/5/2025 at 4:26 AM, Orlando Buffalo said:
Yes, I have been to Denmark, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia in the non English part of Europe and the vast majority speak English, enough so that I rarely needed to translate anything. As for the economy situation, if your country relies on a separate country to prosper you do as directed, only the truly ignorant pretend the US does not run our hemisphere
Well, that is certainly true. But then there's the whole southern tier, where it's a very different story.
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2 hours ago, SCBills said:
Obama was nicknamed the Deporter in Chief, so it would awesome if blue states and sanctuary cities would stop the bs because the President is a Republican and allow ICE to do their job.I agree with this.
I'm assuming you mean a return to Obama's first term immigration enforcement policies. Those depended on cooperation by state and local law enforcement agencies. Illegal aliens stopped, found to be driving without a license, then turned over to ICE for removal. No need to raid private businesses or homes; let them come to us (and they will).
That "Deporter in Chief" thing really got under his skin, and resulted in a lot of the bad decisions that got us to where we are today.
UPDATE: ISRAEL v IRAN - Ceasefire reached?
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So, that's my (B) or (C).
Right on cue:
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/in-twist-u-s-diplomacy-served-as-cover-for-israeli-surprise-attack-c79b2206?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_4
The headline is a little misleading (remember, in almost all newspapers, the article author doesn't write the headline), but nonetheless the article suggests more of (C).