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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-issues-new-batch-of-sanctions-targeting-west-bank-settlers-amid-rampant-violence/

You can say it's not enough if you want, but you can't say it's nothing. Certainly gets Netanyahu upset at least.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The "pro family" party everyone. Don't forget their other greatest hits like, kidnapping children of immigrants and not keeping records of who they were kidnapping them from, making reuniting them with their families ever again difficult to impossible.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely despicable. How do these people sleep at night?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Would love an electric hatch back. Wish they'd bring more of them to the US.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago

It also includes restoration of the child tax credit, just like we had during the pandemic when monthly checks were sent out to all parents and the child poverty rate was cut in half overnight. This is just an even bigger payment for the year they are a newborn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This is also misleading because he has pension funds. Those pensions certainly have the money invested. They're acting like the guy has no retirement plan.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

We've noticed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That gas line goes right into Ukraine, they could have blown it up anytime they wanted safely in their own territory. So I'm not sure that makes much sense. They have not done this previously to avoid angering EU allies funding them, as some still rely on it.

I think more likely explanations are it helps make it easier to strike and and shut down a very important rail route for Russian re supply, it brings the war to the Russian people in a way they can't ignore, makes Putin look weak, draws Russian troops away from other fronts, and if the land is held gives Ukraine a bargaining chip in any future negotiations with Russia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Trying to decipher his words is like dementia astrology, who knows. If he doesn't know what he's talking about, we surely can't either.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yes this is the direct quote the article refers to. He rambles nonsense, often self contradicting, and then people in the media try to fashion it into coherent points for him, leading to a fake impression of competency, misleading the public and voters. This is the man who had to have his national security briefings summarized into a few brief bullet points with pictures, and he was apparently still unable to read them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If he was ever going to follow through with it at all (doubtful), it was a hollow pledge that wouldn't have affected most of the tipped income or helped most tipped workers in the country anyways:

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/trump-eliminate-taxes-tips-restaurant-workers-wages

Now things that Harris proposes like re expanding the child tax credit (refundable meaning paid out even if the person doesn't pay taxes) could provide a huge boost to workers with kids, for just one example. Or for another, Trump's proposed tarrifs costing each family $1700 a year on average. Or another, Harris continuing to appoint labor friendly individuals to the NLRB, helping to fight employers engaging in union busting activities. Easy choice.

[–] [email protected] 212 points 10 months ago (33 children)

"Google, nobody called from Google. One of the things like doing a show like yours, your show, you know, you see it on Fox, but when you really see it is all over the place, they take clips of your show that you're doing right now with me and if I do a good job, they're gonna vote for me, they're gonna vote for me because it's not just on Fox, it's on Fox is a smaller part of it. You're on all over this, those little beautiful cell phones you're on, you're all over the place. You have a product, you have a great product. You have a great brand. So you have to get out, you have to get out, you have to do things like your show and other shows and Google has been very bad. They've been very irresponsible and I have a feeling that Google is gonna be close to shut down"

Can anyone help? I don't have a senile narcissist to English translator!

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