It occurs to me that the fact that a sane American can sincerely ask the highlighted question above in the year 2025 suggests that if we were allowed to teach literally ONLY ONE SENTENCE to our kids in school, it would be, "It can happen here."
Maybe just repeat it day after day, for 13 years.
Closely related to “it can never happen here” is “someone will assuredly step up and stop him if he ever tried to do that”..
Agree. And I oscillate between somewhat pessimistic and somewhat optimistic on this, depending on what I'm hearing about the lawsuits, and from Congressmen, Senators, State AGs and Governors, etc.......
Newname, stop quibbling over the numbers. What matters is that it's a lot. And because you care so much, you've got your work cut out for you. Pack a bag, and get ready to help the Israelis and Arabs involuntarily move at least 1.8 million people out of Gaza.
And watch out for the backpacks and heavy coats !!!
Don't like that 400k number exposed?
I,of course, totally oppose anymore ethnic cleansing by Israel/US and have made this clear for many years on Letsrun.
Makes me wonder about your sanity when you say things like "...get ready to help the Israelis and Arabs involuntarily move at least 1.8 million people out of Gaza."
The continuing absurdity of the die-hard Trumper playing Palestinian sympathizer. Freakin' weird.
I,of course, totally oppose anymore ethnic cleansing by Israel/US and have made this clear for many years on Letsrun.
Makes me wonder about your sanity when you say things like "...get ready to help the Israelis and Arabs involuntarily move at least 1.8 million people out of Gaza."
The continuing absurdity of the die-hard Trumper playing Palestinian sympathizer. Freakin' weird.
But if it makes you feel any better, you do have a whole ton of single-issue (pretend) solidarity with god knows how many REALLY dumb actually-pro-Palestinian Americans who voted against Harris!
Maybe you can socialize with them. Just make sure that you don't talk about ANYTHING other than Gaza, or it will probably get really ugly.
And far more kids have been killed in Gaza in those 15+ months than anywhere in the world in any conflict in the 21st century. Ditto on the number of journalists
Not entirely correct, more American kids have been killed by fentanyl. Which will be ending soon. MAGA about to lay the smack down on the drug trade. It’s time for conflict in Gaza to end. enough is enough and we are ending it. you are welcome.
Fentanyl crisis is ending? How so?
Gaza isn’t ending. According to Trump it’s just beginning. Getting rid of the Palestinians is just phase one. Phase 2 is inserting the USA directly in the center of the conflict.
Aren’t you the moron that thought Biden created selective service?
Not entirely correct, more American kids have been killed by fentanyl. Which will be ending soon. MAGA about to lay the smack down on the drug trade. It’s time for conflict in Gaza to end. enough is enough and we are ending it. you are welcome.
Fentanyl crisis is ending? How so?
Gaza isn’t ending. According to Trump it’s just beginning. Getting rid of the Palestinians is just phase one. Phase 2 is inserting the USA directly in the center of the conflict.
Aren’t you the moron that thought Biden created selective service?
Sorry, but you need to learn more about the plan. It's going to be the freakin' Garden of Eden, with ALL security provided by other countries.
Art of the Deal, baby. Now, every other country basically said "Hell no" after the first round of negotiations, but really, it's all gonna work out. He's a genius. And he cares.
Gaza isn’t ending. According to Trump it’s just beginning. Getting rid of the Palestinians is just phase one. Phase 2 is inserting the USA directly in the center of the conflict.
Aren’t you the moron that thought Biden created selective service?
Sorry, but you need to learn more about the plan. It's going to be the freakin' Garden of Eden, with ALL security provided by other countries.
Art of the Deal, baby. Now, every other country basically said "Hell no" after the first round of negotiations, but really, it's all gonna work out. He's a genius. And he cares.
Clarification: Israel did NOT say "Hell no" to the fine plan.
BUT, please don't hold your breath for when they start the operation to clear out 1.8 million people who hate them.
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Not entirely correct, more American kids have been killed by fentanyl. Which will be ending soon. MAGA about to lay the smack down on the drug trade. It’s time for conflict in Gaza to end. enough is enough and we are ending it. you are welcome.
Fentanyl crisis is ending? How so?
Gaza isn’t ending. According to Trump it’s just beginning. Getting rid of the Palestinians is just phase one. Phase 2 is inserting the USA directly in the center of the conflict.
Aren’t you the moron that thought Biden created selective service?
Nope, not me. Aren’t you that moron who voted for Harris?
Well, the Houthis attacked the Yemeni armed forces and then about eight other countries and Al-Qaeda got involved in Yemen. The first Gulf War started because Iraq invaded Kuwait. The second one, the US invaded Iraq. The Syrian civil war started out of the Arab Spring protests and eventually devolved into a conflict between the Syrian gov (backed by Iran / Russia / Hezbollah) and about five different rebel factions (backed in part by the US / Turkey / Israel).
There aren’t accurate civilian death toll numbers for any of these conflicts (let alone age-specific numbers), but even conservative estimates put it at hundreds of thousands dead + millions displaced in each of them.
Anyway, idc. Trying to view the middle eastern political landscape in black and white is a zero-sum game. You’re obsessed with I/P, and that kinda sucks for you b/c the end result of all of this is just that the can gets kicked another 20 years down the road and this all plays out again next time violence boils over.
An invader and the invaded. An oppressor and the oppressed. The oppressor does 90% of the killing.
Looks pretty black and white to me.
Russia invasion of Ukraine nearly 3 years:
Children Killed: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that 1,957 children have been killed or injured since the escalation of the war in 2022. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine confirmed that at least 579 children have been killed as of January 8, 2025. Women Killed: According to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, 2,992 women have been killed since the start of the war up to January 8, 2025. Journalists Killed: As of May 16, 2023, at least 17 civilian journalists and media workers had been killed in the line of duty since the Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014
Gaza in 15 months (less in these numbers):
18,000 children killed by January 15, 2025,
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 169 journalists and media workers were killed in Gaza, the West Bank, by February 7, 2025.
Those Russia-Ukraine figures seem low to me given the current cumulative fatality estimates (not the journalists/media worker figure). Comparing the Hamas-Israel conflict and the Russo-Ukrainian conflict is not easily done because of the different demographics amongst other things, and issues with the ways the numbers of deaths are ascertained. I think we should just say that both have resulted in a large loss of life and leave it at that. They are both large conflicts in the context of the world today, as with the current crises in Africa (Sudan for example and talking of the total fatalities there). Also just curious as to why we're leaving men as a category out of this, seeing as they sustain the largest % loss in war.
If your point is that a lot of children have died in either conflict then yes, I agree.
To be honest, the numbers are horrifying whichever way you look at it.
President Trump sat down with Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier for an exclusive pre-Super Bowl interview where he discussed Elon Musk's role in DOGE and his next directives.
For the enthusiastic Trumper national politicians (like Jordan), it's interesting to ask if they're essentially SURE that Rs can stay in the WH indefinitely? If not, do they really not think that 4 years will pass? Time will slow down or stop? They're really willing to give future D presidents this power because of all of the great - and much hopefully temporary - things that Trump will do with it in the next 2-4 years?
And I guess that the easy answer is, "Yes" - "Good stuff now, worry about later, later." But it is this inability to look into the future that I think of kids and young adults possessing, and mostly outgrowing (thankfully). And those who don't, are Trumpers and R politicians, I guess.
I know it sounds conspiratorial, but everything we see in 3 weeks shows that the crew around Trump (billionaire tech bros, Musk, heritage foundation) have no plans to leave office or power in 2028. These enormous purges and decimating of federal government are not just for a few years.
As far as congressional people like Jordan, they will leave congress rich and well taken care of for his “loyalty”. No need for fear of his district back home.
These Trump guys must be holding back laughter when people give them the hypothetical of what their actions will be like after the Dems get back in power. They will not let that happen.
fleecing the rubes! the fact that Republicans don't see him as a con man is eternally amusing and sad. What a bunch of idiots.
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I,of course, totally oppose anymore ethnic cleansing by Israel/US and have made this clear for many years on Letsrun.
Makes me wonder about your sanity when you say things like "...get ready to help the Israelis and Arabs involuntarily move at least 1.8 million people out of Gaza."
The continuing absurdity of the die-hard Trumper playing Palestinian sympathizer. Freakin' weird.
The absurdity of me being the only anti Israel, pro Palestinin voice on Letsrun for many years and being smeared and facing bans for it being accused of suddenly faking support for Palestine.
I would love to see some of the die-hard Trumper posts I have made.
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