Did you know that in the United States the Democratic party is a political party, not a court, not a department of Justice, not a Congress and as such cannot order candidates of another party to be removed from the ballot?
Does it work differently in Canada?
Yes, a Democratic president can sign a bill that Democrats with a 0 seat majority managed to pass and that a Republican wouldn't sign. But a president can't sign the bill that the Congress didn't pass.
The miracle is - how much Dems passed with a non-existent majority.
You do realize that a Dem in the White House can't turn 0 (-2) seat majority into a filibuster proof 60 votes, don't you?
There is a reason you are so incensed by being the object of the satire: you can't look the truth in the eye.
Of course: you wanted Trump to kill ten times more people worldwide better paving Gaza.
Trump voters are either gullibles who didn't know better or bigots who don't care about others.
Supposedly, you are neither: you claim to be a humanitarian & well informed. Yet now you pretend that our country didn't cause ten times more deaths in a year so that you can deny your responsibility.
I reiterate: this war will not replace this regime with Pahlavi, it will not replace it with any regime better than the current one, it may replace it with a more brutal Ayatollah regime.
Pahlavi won't be in charge. The regime change failed. It was always bound to fail, but especially so when led by a moron attempting it for his own narcissistic reasons.
Yes. Once this war ends Iranians will have to resume their fight for their freedom. But they will have to do it in a bombed out country under a dictatorship even more murderous than before.
Sure. The problem is that nothing Trump does leads to an improvement over whatever preceded it.
MBS als wants to westernize, at least in some aspects. It does not make him any less of a journalist-dismembering dictator.
The ayatollahs took advantage of the revolution but the reason there was a revolution was that the whole society was fed up.
Anyone would be an improvement over ayatollahs (an improvement that Trump excursion will not bring) but
"Giving women the vote" in a dictatorship puts it in context.
I'm sure Trump isn't taking his calls, which was, in part, my point.
But while almost anything would be an improvement over today's theocracy, installing a son of a previous dictator who wants to have monarchical power for an undetermined "transitional period" is probably not what Iran needs.
Yes, and I agreed with you. But then I clarified that whatever is happening isn't going to help Iranians get rid of the theocracy.
Sure. But Trump is not going to help Iranians get rid of Islamism. A further deterioration is the only possible outcome of Trump's "excursion".
While one can understand the desperation of diaspora Iranians, it is not a choice between anyone and ayatollahs. It is a choice between ayatollahs and bloodier ayatollahs. Trump is not going to overthrow the regime and even if he does, he won't bring in anyone better.
Yes, I do not care if you identify as "he", "she", or "them": your post was misogynistic.
Yes we agree: your statement is flatly antisemitic just as a similar statement about Muslim institutions would be Islamophobic.
Your self-identification, whatever it is, does not prevent you from being either a bigot or a misogynist.
AIPAC shots could be fair, had their combination with misogyny not carry a strong odor of bigotry.
And Jews have connection to both the land and the state of Israel.
"They chose to associate with a nation-state from which they don't come".
Just like most members of an ethic group x.
Most American Jews have deep personal, cultural, historical & (for many) religious connections to Israel, connections transcending the actions of the current Israeli government.
And yet you demand more idiocracy.
We have been having so much success with idiocracy over the last year that we demand more!
Iranian Americans are often flying Iranian flags (admittedly, usually pre-theocracy flags). They are not associating themselves with Iranian theocracy.
If Iranian Americans opposed to this war were flying official Iranian flags, they would still not be associating themselves with Iranian theocracy.
The part "women support someone because he is a hottie" is misogyny.
AIPAC went off the deep end & its actions hurt its ostensible goals but it's an organization of American citizens like many others.
The issue is that many (not all) use it as a dog whistle and you can be sure it's a dog whistle when used in a skeet heavy in misogyny.
Congratulations: you managed to slip in misogyny and an attack on AIPAC in one short skeet!
You can't hate cars. You can't hate planes, buildings, or countries. You can only hate people. So when you claim you hate cars, planes, buildings or countries, you hate people who drive or build those cars and planes, you hate people who live in those buildings and countries.
* Almost always "I don't hate Jews, I hate Israel" is just an excuse of a Jew hater too cowardly to admit their hate.
* Do you hate China? Russia? Syria? Azerbaijan? Turkey? England? Germany? Japan? Unless you hate & deny the right to exist to all of them, your hatred of Israel is Jew hatred.
