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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1473304
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First? My timing sucks.
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"When someone tells you that they are a fascist, believe them." – Me, in an adaptation of the famous Maya Angelou quotation
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Netanyahu Suggests Link Between Hamas Attack, Reservists’ Protest - Israel News - Haaretz.com
Gantz calls on Netanyahu to retract statement suggesting that calls to refuse reserve service – made during protests against the judicial coup - could have influenced Hamas leader’s calculations
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested a possible link on Sunday between the October 7 Hamas attack and the pro-democracy movement that had railed against his judicial coup in the months before the attack.
Netanyahu believes that the calls not to show up for service should be looked into as factors that may have influenced Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to launch the attack.
Sources said the prime minister the attack took Netanyahu completely by surprise, and that he did not receive any warning.
Netanyahu’s statement drew harsh criticism from Minister Benny Gantz, who joined an emergency government with Netanyahu after the war began.
“Evading responsibility and mudslinging during war deals harm to the country,” Gantz wrote on X. “The prime minister must unequivocally retract his statement.”
Brothers and Sisters in Arms, a group of reservists who took a central role in the pro-democracy protests before the war (and were instrumental in support to communities after the attack) said in response that “Netanyahu stabbing the warriors in the heart in the midst of the war.”
Labor head Merav Michaeli called to for Netanyahu to be replaced and said "the blood of 1,400 Israelis
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A pathological liar not only lies frequently, but may feel a compulsion to do so even against his own military at war.
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So the second trump admin is going to be exactly like the first?
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No One Will Be Safe From Trump’s Retribution Tour
I am hoping this tour will be cancelled due to illness, hopefully severe.
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I’d like to know HOW Federico Klein – the State Department official who was sentenced to SEVEN YEARS in prison – got a frigging security clearance. HIS PARENTS were cozy with the Argentine military in the 1970s. According to the WaPo article about his sentencing, he wanted a position involving South America, but was evidently so clueless he was shuffled off to answer FOIA requests.
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There is a specific and measurable danger with this candidate, TIFG. The problem is, the last time we tried to run on that danger, the messaging was ignored (see 2016) and we ended up with him anyway.
I don’t know if there’s a more successful way to get through to the electorate (half of which agree with and support his messaging). This nonsense of Joe being too old is rarely ever countered with, well TIFG is only four years younger, so how is this an issue?
Not sure how this stupidity is overcome, but it has to be. It just must.
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But, with fewer competent folks, and more fascists.
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Looks like a shut down is coming. The current CR runs out on Nov. 17. Jake Shermn reports
NEWS — HOUSE REPUBLICANS are unlikely to consider a stopgap funding bill this week. @SpeakerJohnson wants to spend the week talking to house rs. Next week is funding deadline and it will become immediately high wire for the new speaker. UNDER CONSIDERATION: a “laddered CR” and attaching Israel aid to a stopgap bill.
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But of course
Florida Taxpayers Could Pay for Donald Trump’s Lawyers Under New Proposal (msn.com)
lorida’s chief financial officer floated a plan that would potentially see former President Donald Trump’s legal fees paid for by taxpayer dollars, sparking a backlash on social media.
Speaking at the Florida Republican Party’s Freedom Summit on Saturday, Jimmy Patronis suggested setting up a legal defense fund to help any Florida presidential candidate “targeted by politically motivated prosecutors.”
Patronis made the suggestion as a way to fix what he called the “double standard of justice” faced by Trump.
“Imagine if we could fix the double standard of justice at the federal level,” Patronis said during his speech at the summit.
I think we need a new state law to set up a LEGAL DEFENSE fund for any Florida Presidential Candidate to use when they get targeted by politically motivated lawsuits just because they are brave enough to put their name on a ballot! (1/3)
Patronis said that Florida is in “the best fiscal health” in its history, and that it “wouldn’t hurt” to set aside some of the state’s budget surplus to cover the legal fees of presidential candidates.
“When these men and women are brave enough to put their name on the ballot, we should protect them,” he said.
“Are you with me? We need to fund this. Our state right now is in the best fiscal health we’ve ever been in the history of the state, so it wouldn’t hurt to take a little bit of our budget surplus, set it aside. We can use this to protect any Floridian who wants to defend themselves and make sure that these politically motivated prosecutors don’t magically appear during election cycles. It’s just wrong… We could even call it to the Defending Florida Fighters Fund.”
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis speaks during a rally for Florida Republicans at the Cheyenne Saloon on November 7, 2022 in Orlando, Florida.© Octavio Jones/Getty Images
Florida’s chief financial officer floated a plan that would potentially see former President Donald Trump’s legal fees paid for by taxpayer dollars, sparking a backlash on social media.
Speaking at the Florida Republican Party’s Freedom Summit on Saturday, Jimmy Patronis suggested setting up a legal defense fund to help any Florida presidential candidate “targeted by politically motivated prosecutors.”
Patronis made the suggestion as a way to fix what he called the “double standard of justice” faced by Trump.
“Imagine if we could fix the double standard of justice at the federal level,” Patronis said during his speech at the summit.
"If we could fix the double standard of justice that doesn’t lock up a Hunter Biden but does everything possible to prosecute a President Donald Trump.
“Here’s where I’m going with this. I think we need to set up a new legal defense fund for any Florida presidential candidate to use when they are targeted by politically motivated prosecutors, by the Department of Justice.”
Both Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is also running for president, attended Saturday’s summit. During Trump’s speech, he called to the stage several Republican Florida lawmakers who switched their endorsements from DeSantis ahead of the event.
Trump, the frontrunner in the polls for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is facing 91 felony counts in four separate criminal cases, two filed in federal court in Washington and Florida, and two in state courts in New York and Georgia.
The Washington and Georgia cases are related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, while the Florida case alleges he mishandled classified documents. The New York case charges him with falsifying business records, charges stemming from hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to bury allegations of extramarital sexual encounters.
Trump is also set to testify Monday in New York as part of a civil fraud trial in which he is accused of deceiving banks and insurers by exaggerating his wealth on his annual financial statements. Trump has denied wrongdoing in all of the cases and said he was a victim of political persecution.
Patronis said that Florida is in “the best fiscal health” in its history, and that it “wouldn’t hurt” to set aside some of the state’s budget surplus to cover the legal fees of presidential candidates.
“When these men and women are brave enough to put their name on the ballot, we should protect them,” he said.
“Are you with me? We need to fund this. Our state right now is in the best fiscal health we’ve ever been in the history of the state, so it wouldn’t hurt to take a little bit of our budget surplus, set it aside. We can use this to protect any Floridian who wants to defend themselves and make sure that these politically motivated prosecutors don’t magically appear during election cycles. It’s just wrong… We could even call it to the Defending Florida Fighters Fund.”
Patronis shared a clip of his remarks on X, formerly Twitter, prompting a wave of criticism.
Others called for state funds to be used to fix issues Florida is facing, including high insurance premiums, rather than to pay the legal fees of political candidates.
“The CFO of Florida just proposed using state money (taxpayer funds) to help pay Donald Trump’s legal bills,” one person wrote on the platform. “A man who collected $millions from donors & claims to be a billionaire. Instead of paying teachers, fixing infrastructure, etc your CFO says Trump deserves the tax dollars.”
Another wrote in response to Patronis: “Perhaps Florida’s CFO should concern himself with his job responsibilities, since our insurance premiums are the highest in the country, and it’s driving folks out of their homes.”
And another wrote**: “Words cannot express the vitriol for such asinine concept.** Floridians are currently paying more for home insurance and are losing their homes and you want us to pay for a legal defense fund for presidential candidates?”
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Your timing is perfect. You’re First!!
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The Most Ignorant Man In DC?
TPM alum Cameron Joseph with an exhaustive profile of Alabama GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville
I’m glad they chose ignorant as opposed to stupid. Given his success as a football coach he must have some native intelligence, but not very much knowledge outside of that realm. I suspect he’s pretty incurious too.
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Jr. and Eric are a tough act to follow with a straight face. But Fat Donnie under oath calls for popcorn or a serious drinking game.
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WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The father of a man charged in a deadly Fourth of July parade shooting in suburban Chicago will stand trial starting Monday accused of helping his teenage son obtain a gun license even after he had threatened violence.
Robert Crimo Jr. is charged with seven counts of reckless conduct — one for each person his son, Robert Crimo III, is accused of killing in Highland Park on Independence Day last year. Each count carries a maximum three-year prison term.
In 2019, at the age of 19, Crimo III was too young to apply for his own gun license, but he could apply with the sponsorship of a parent or guardian. His father sponsored his application, even though just months earlier a relative reported to police that Crimo III had a collection of knives and had threatened to “kill everyone.”
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Zelensky is certainly an inspirational leader and he pulls no punches with the MTP comment in the clip. Not exactly what the party of putin likes hearing because it’s visceral and truthful and illustrates clearly the courage and determination of the Ukrainian people.
But the 45-91 cult will continue to support that fuckin’ terrorist Putin because … well, just because.
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Hello! I’m the Tegu Lizard!
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In the weekend’s NYT appeared this rather namby-pamby profile of the so-called conservative “intellectuals” [sic], who are pushing the GOP to embrace full-on Nazism. The persons cited demonstrate my long-standing contention that there are no conservative intellectuals, just scavengers from the garbage dump of discredited ideas: class hierarchy, dictatorship, religious and racial intolerance, glorification of violence.
(hopefully this share link can be read by all)
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With more dumb.
I doubt we even get all day ice cream cones.
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I’m beginning to see how trumps gaslight strategy to overwhelm his opposition has affected his followers and supporters: they cannot think straight, not reason at all, and their level of discernment towards any issue is non-existent. Maybe we should feed that and drive them to the brink? How do we wake them from that ? They are beyond unreasonable. They believe a grown man who claims windmills are killing whales (among many other absurdities), is a genius, the only one who can save America.
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