It was interesting to see Johnson demanding Biden call out the national guard to deal with these student protests.

It's always worked so well in the past.

Rebel Moon 2

When it got to the point they were winnowing grain in slow motion, I figured it had to be the most expensive piss-take in movie history.

Got a bit better/less unintentionally funny, but not much.

4 of 10? Meh.

In order to restore my faith in American story-telling, I watched "No Country for Old Men" again. 

Just as good the sixth or seventh (or tenth?) time.

And in an effort to ease tensions, House speaker Mike Johnson will visit Columbia today. [<<<<< THIS IS SARCASM]

Just another political football to be spun in whatever direction they think will cause the greatest outrage in their opponents. They are all cunts.

Speaking of...

Israel still going forward with their plan to somehow evacuate a million or more people into tents in the desert north of Rafah so they can destroy the city and kill whoever remains therein.

Not exactly a little thing, but didn't know where else to put it, and it definitely brightened my day:

Passersby resccue a fellow from his burning car in Minnesota a couple of days ago.

Men, women, white, black.

I particularly love how all but one of them stay right in there when something explodes around the 34 second mark.

Leicester 2-0 vs Southampton.

They look like they'll be back up.

Should offer more of a challenge than the current three.

Why even show up?

Gutless fucking cowards.

The eye-gouger can fuck right off.

1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East 

by Tom Segev

A detailed examination of the Six Days War, after which Israel annexed East Jerusalem, re-occupied the Gaza strip, and occupied the Golan heights and the West Bank.

Deals almost exclusively with Israel, which is a limitation, but still an excellent book.

In particular, the discussions of the top leadership before during and after the conflict.

A book well worth reading if you want a better understanding of the modern world.

On 20/04/2024 at 07:04, TheHowieLama said:

It is well past the shenanigans of the House, Mike has had a few conversations with the big boys.

Appearing increasingly clear that those at the top have changed their minds on Ukraine.

Taylor-Greene getting the Corbyn treatment now:

If the US and Germany/EU don't resume funding UNRWA, how will the Palestinians, in Gaza and elsewhere, survive?

At least for the US, I think there is no chance that they resume funding, regardless of what happens going forward.

Neither party will touch it.

So the Palestinian refugees in Gaza are left to starve in the rubble, and those elsewhere, in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the West Bank, also face an uncertain future.

I'm sure some in Israel, and elsewhere, will see that as a major victory, but will it lead to more violence or less?

Terry Anderson, US Journalist Held Hostage for Six Years, Dies at 76

The kidnappers, identified as Shia Hezbollah militants of the Islamic Jihad Organization in Lebanon, beat him, blindfolded him and kept him chained in some 20 hideaways for 2,454 days in Beirut, South Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley.

The militants, supported by Iran, indicated that they were retaliating against Israel’s use of American weapons in earlier strikes against Muslim and Druze targets in Lebanon. They also had been seeking to pressure the Reagan administration to secretly facilitate the illegal sales of weapons to Iran — an embarrassing scheme that became known as the Iran-Contra Affair because the administration had planned to use proceeds from the arms sales to secretly subsidize the right-wing Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

RIP

Forest not helping by being absolute shite, but clearly the fix is in on this one.

Volkswagen workers vote to unionize in major win for organised labour

It's not directly tied to Biden (other than his constant bragging that he's the most pro-union president in history), and it's just one plant, but it's a win for the Democrats and a pretty significant win for the union as it happened in the normally anti-union south.

That's that.

3 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

 

I think you missed a country out there. 

 

26 billion also goes to a country at the Hague for genocide. A country already  constantly in receipt of massive US aid. 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-vote-long-awaited-95-billion-ukraine-israel-aid-package-2024-04-20/

 

 

I think I've made my feelings about Israel's current actions in the Gaza strip eminently clear in that thread.

Just as you have made eminently clear in this thread your feelings regarding Putin's murder of tens of thousands of innocent Ukrainians.

Ukraine bill passes 311-112.

Oliver is bent.

Tiktok TickTock Bill has passed.

Jackson one-on-one with the keeper and he effectively runs it into the corner.

Next race is in North Korea.

Guess who my money's on.

Dr. Breen (Half-Life)

If it were all just a game, as it often is in Congress, then I'd be hoping the Repubs do screw the Dems, just for the long term political damage it would do to them.

And I think they're fully capable of shooting themselves in the foot; they've done it repeatedly since the last election.

But in this case aid to Ukraine is essential.

One thing that has me somewhat hopeful is that they've incorporated a couple of the things that Trump was calling for into the bill (forgivable loan vs. gift, etc).

So perhaps he has given his tacit approval to it, and they won't try to pull any shenanigans hijinx.