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Originally posted by spunk639:
I was in Harvard Square today.....I laughed when I saw some Harvard LGQTB students supporting Hamas, and some homeless guy calling them idiots saying those monsters would kill gays first

I too am amused with the fact the homeless guy had more common sense, awareness and knowledge about current events than this group of nitwits who no doubt think they are incredibly sophisticated and educated. Clearly the adults and academics in their lives have failed them and told them what to think and say - talk about creating useful idiots. I would be more impressed if they went to Gaza to show their support and got some real world experience.

"Today,POTUS and I are announcing the country's first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...-go-away/ar-AA1jhKDW

Minnesota Muslim leaders vow to 'abandon' Biden over his Israel support: 'Anger is not going to go away'

Protesters held Palestinian flags and signs demanding a ceasefire in Gaza at three locations Biden visited in the state on Wednesday.

Other Arab-American voters across the state said they felt alienated by the Democratic Party over the issue, and believed that Biden hadn't shown enough empathy for Palestinian lives lost.

On the same day, the Biden administration announced a national strategy to fight Islamophobia against Arab-Americans.

"We look forward to continuing our work with community leaders, advocates, members of Congress, and more to develop the strategy – which will be a joint effort led by the Domestic Policy Council and the National Security Council – and counter the scourge of Islamophobia and hate in all its forms," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

The announcement came as more Muslim leaders around the country have signaled they won't support Biden in 2024.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/i...ficials-s-rcna122977

As U.N. officials say hospitals in Gaza are running dangerously low on fuel, Hamas is maintaining a stockpile of more than 200,000 gallons of fuel for the rockets it fires into Israel and the generators that provide clean air and electricity to its network of underground tunnels, according to U.S. officials, current and former Israeli officials and academics.

The statements come as President Joe Biden called for a humanitarian pause in Gaza and U.N. officials warned that aid agencies, water treatment plants and bakeries there may soon run out of fuel. Israel, which has allowed a limited number of trucks carrying food, water and medicine into the enclave, continues to ban deliveries of fuel, which it says Hamas will use for military purposes.

Hamas, meanwhile, has repeatedly demanded fuel deliveries to Gaza during negotiations to allow foreign nationals to leave the enclave and in talks about the release of 240 people it kidnapped.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN that Hamas has been blocking Americans from leaving Gaza. “Hamas has been preventing their departure and making a series of demands,” said Sullivan, who declined to describe the demands. Other U.S. officials said fuel deliveries were among the stumbling blocks.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified before Congress on Tuesday that Hamas is refusing to share its fuel with hospitals in Gaza.

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Originally posted by sdy:
"Today,POTUS and I are announcing the country's first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia."

might be related to:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...-go-away/ar-AA1jhKDW

Minnesota Muslim leaders vow to 'abandon' Biden over his Israel support: 'Anger is not going to go away'

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They could create a blue ribbon committee and a good percentage would still chant death to America, death to Jews

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Minnesota Muslim leaders vow to 'abandon' Biden over his Israel support: 'Anger is not going to go away'

Muslims are something like 1.3% of the population.
Jews--so I read yesterday but no source given--contribute something like half of the donations to the Democrats.

Biden is trying to play both sides at once, and screwing up royally of course.

Come on over to the conservative side, folks! We treat everyone nice...if they're not trying to kill us or our friends.

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Biden is trying to play both sides at once, and screwing up royally of course.

Come on over to the conservative side, folks! We treat everyone nice...if they're not trying to kill us or our friends.

Yeah... When you divide everyone into groups, that's what happens.
When all you want out of politics is a level playing field you treat everyone as equals.

from Wiki

Cities with large concentration of African-American Muslims include Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Newark, Washington. D.C, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. The Nation of Islam led by Louis Farrakhan has a membership ranging from 20,000 to 50,000 members

Conversion to Islam is a practice which is common to African-Americans in prison. J. Michael Waller found that Muslim inmates comprise 17–20% of the prison population, or roughly 350,000 inmates in 2003. Waller states that these inmates mostly come into prison as non-Muslims. According to him, 80% of the prisoners who "find faith" while in prison convert to Islam.[41] These converted inmates are mostly African American, with a small but growing Hispanic minority.

Keith Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota and former U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district (2007–2019)

Ilhan Omar, U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district (2019–present)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...can-American_Muslims

The army said ground forces and tanks clashed with Hamas terror cells in the northern Gaza Strip overnight, killing dozens of operatives, in what The Times of Israel has learned was an intense and chaotic midnight battle that raged on for over three hours following an ambush targeting soldiers from Golani’s 13th Battalion.

In a statement Thursday morning, the IDF troops of the Golani Infantry Brigade had taken part in “prolonged battles” against Hamas terrorists who had fired missiles, set off explosive devices, and hurled grenades at the forces.

The Hamas gunmen tried to ambush the Israeli force at midnight, emerging from tunnels and attacking them with anti-tank missiles, mortars, and drones. They tried to enter the armored personnel carriers and take control of them. More than 20 terrorists were believed to have been killed and several managed to escape, while there were no Israeli fatalities in that fight.

https://hotair.com/ed-morrisse...y-surrounded-n589532

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will urge the Israeli government to agree to a series of brief cessations of military operations in Gaza to allow for hostages to be released safely and for humanitarian aid to be distributed, White House officials said on Thursday.

The message comes as President Biden revealed on Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had previously agreed to halt shelling briefly on Oct. 20 to allow for the release of two Americans, Judith Raanan, 59, and her daughter, Natalie Raanan, 17.

Mr. Blinken will push for more of what American officials call “humanitarian pauses” in the war when he arrives in Israel on Friday for another round of diplomacy amid fierce fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas, the group that controls Gaza.

I don’t mean to sound like a defeatist, but as I told the kids years ago, the Middle east has been fighting before I was aware & will likely do the same going forward. I fully support the Israeli response. The other part is continued tensions & fighting when the current fight is mostly over.

One can take the trajectory of events over decades & decipher where we will be in the future.

I’m just saying, at the most, maybe a tepid ‘peace’.

Article of some relevance from Israel National News. Particulary interesting are the examples of few extremely similar attacks that pre-date the establishment of the state of Israel.

“Why my generation hates Jews”

There was no comparable act of terrorism in Israel's 75-year history, but not for lack of trying - and yet, Gen Z sides with Hamas.
Opinion. Dr. Alex Grobman

The savage attack by Hamas on October 7 raises a number of questions and issues. The first is the laws of war. Asa Kasher, Emeritus Professror of Ethics and Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and a lead author of the Israel Defense Forces Code of Ethics, makes it clear that “Israel has a legal, moral, and ethical framework for approaching questions about conduct in war.”

The Laws of War

A fundamental interest is “how the IDF can effectively protect Israel, its citizens, and Israel's own soldiers while adhering to moral principles, military ethical norms, and international law.” Israel’s “military response to the attacks so far,” he said, has followed these standards, and the IDF has taken multiple steps to minimize collateral damage.” Israel’s decision to enter Gaza to ensure Hamas is eliminated in order to preclude any future attacks, is not an act of “revenge,” and should not be portrayed as such. “The major principle at issue is self-defense.”

The core problem Kasher says is that though the Arabs glorify death, the Israelis venerate life. “We must free ourselves from the attitude that regards others’ lives with fear and trembling while holding the lives of our own combat soldiers in complete contempt,” Kasher advised. “International law wants to impose a position on us whereby soldiers are a consumable resource and that the lives of enemy civilians must be protected more than the lives of our own combat troops. Bandages are a consumable resource. Water is a consumable resource. Human beings are not.”

In other words, Kasher asserts, “Israel cannot forfeit its ability to protect its citizens against attacks simply because terrorists hide behind non-combatants. If it did so, it would be giving up any right to self-defense.” One must remember that most of the IDF soldiers, especially in the army and navy, “are conscripts. As citizens in military uniform, they are entitled to ask the state, as well as the IDF and its commanders, whether they are being placed in greater jeopardy to save the lives of enemy non-combatants who have been repeatedly warned to leave the scene of battle. An affirmative answer to this question would be morally unacceptable.”

Massacres in Context “Untouched by the Hand of Civilization”

Massacre in Safed 1834

In 1834, when Arab farm workers revolted against the regime of Muhammad Ali, Jews were attacked in the major cities. In Safed, they stole Jewish property, destroyed homes, and defiled synagogues. Some Jews were raped, beaten and murdered. A report by Rabbi Shumel Heller of Safed assessed the tragedy that ensued: “For forty days, day after day, from the Sunday following Shavuot, all of the people of our holy city, men, women, and children have been like refuse upon the field. Hungry, thirsty, naked, barefoot, wandering to and fro in fear and confusion like lambs led to the slaughter…. They [the Arab marauders] removed all the Torah scrolls and thrust them contemptuously to ground, and they ravished the daughters of Israel—woe to the ears that hear it—and the great study they burned to its foundations…. And the entire city was destroyed and laid ruin, they did not leave a single wall whole; they dug and sought treasures, and the city stood ruined and, desolate without a single person….”

The Hebron Massacre of August 24, 1929

Sixty seven Jews out of the 800 who lived in the city, were murdered and their homes and synagogues were destroyed. The four hundred survivors, including 153 children were evacuated to Jerusalem. A reporter who had witnessed the slaughter in Hebron described the horrors in a private communication: “Even to one who went through war as a combatant [the scene of the Hebron bloodbath] is still an appalling sight. It is perfectly clear that…the Arabs who took part…behaved like the wildest of savages untouched by the hand of civilization.”

Massacre of the Hadassah Convoy April 13, 1948.

The equivalent of a Red Cross medical convoy comprised of non-combatants including doctors, nurses and university faculty and students was ambushed by Arabs in the Sheikh Jarrah section of Jerusalem. Among the dead were the founders of the new faculty of medicine, a physicist, a philologist, a cancer researcher, the head of the university’s department of psychology, and an authority on Jewish law.

Seventy eight Jews, including 23 women were murdered either by having been burned alive in buses or shot. The Arabs claimed that the ambush was a heroic act. They did not want a single Jewish passenger to remain alive. There were 28 survivors, only eight had no injuries.

Antisemitism “Poisons America”

Since October 7, the number of antisemitic incidents against Jews have increased about 400 percent according to Reuters. “That is a problem, and not only for American Jews” opines historian Walter Russel Mead. “The beliefs that have made the U.S. a uniquely hospitable home for Jewish citizens are essential to national cohesion and strength. If we lose faith in what was once proudly called the American Way, there is little chance that society can summon the energy and unity to withstand attacks from our enemies abroad.”

“Why My Generation Hates Jews”

In an article entitled “Why My Generation Hates Jews,” Julia Steinberg, a 21 year old junior at Stanford, provides insight into why some members of Gen Z, who were born between 1997 and 2013, and comprise about a fifth of America’s population, hate Jews.

“Apparently, 48 percent of my peers want people like me dead,” she said. “As of October 23, 64 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds think what happened on October 7 was a terrorist attack. Seventy-seven percent of us think ‘it’s true that Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israeli civilians by shooting them, raping and beheading people including whole families, kids and babies.’ But when asked, in this conflict do you side more with Israel or Hamas? Forty-eight percent said Hamas. I am not surprised.”

She said “Not all of us—thank God—go to elite universities, where the obsession with the so-called ‘oppressed’ is our intellectual north star. But the vast majority of us were raised on Instagram and Twitter—our ideas are tweet-length and infographic-sized. And the oppressor/oppressed framework was made for us.”

After seeing a thread on X about how TikTok—the favored search engine, “for just over half of Gen Z—is an echo chamber for virulently anti-Israel posts and how its algorithm promotes pro-Palestine content.”

She concludes “A new axis of evil—Big Tech, social media companies, and China—has taken the once-fringe position that Jews are undeserving of a homeland, and is now pushing the idea of their mass slaughter via shoddy animation and beautiful women hosting “explainer” videos. And it’s trickling down onto t-shirts and ‘cute’ laptop stickers.

"It’s cool to promote hate.”

The precipitous increase of antisemitism in the US has shocked American Jews, especially since October 7, when Hamas unleashed a savage attack against the Jewish state. Their reaction to this alarming rise of physical and verbal assaults, vandalism and harassment on college campuses has been instructive. Liberal and progressive Jews, who are in the forefront of insisting on social equality and universal human rights, are surprised and frustrated by the failure of their friends and colleagues to condemn Hamas. Why should they be surprised?

All too often these Jews, including liberal and progressive clergy, provide legitimacy and support to Arab mendacious claims that Israel is an occupier, an oppressor and other canards that undermine the country’s legal, moral, religious, and historic rights of Jews to the land of Israel.

Arabs are Victims: Jews are the Oppressors

The Arabs have succeeded in establishing their identity as victims. The Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has documented hundreds of statements promoting death as a Martyr to be the ultimate and heroic objective, even for children. “We’re playing Martyr,” says young girl, “the Martyr is the beloved of Allah." In one video clip, Nan Jacques Zilberdik, a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, describes how “Four young Palestinian girls, approximately 4 to 6 years old, carry a younger girl around in an infant seat. It could be a normal children’s game. Only the infant seat represents a stretcher, and the baby is the ‘dead Martyr.’”

The children are playing ‘the Martyr game.’ During the game, the girls giggle and praise the ‘Martyr’ child because: ‘The Martyr is the beloved of Allah.’

In Fatah’s, (the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization), Waed magazine for 6-15-year-olds Palestinian Arab children are taught: “We will die, and Palestine will live.”

This campaign is not new. During the peak of the second intifada in 2002, the PMW exposed a video of young Palestinian Arab boys playing “the Martyr game.” For more than two decades, “nothing has changed.”

Who Says Hamas Does Not Represent The Palestinian Arabs?

With the start of Operation Swords of Iron, the Biden administration asserted Hamas is a minor group of terrorists that does not have the backing of many Palestinian Arabs. “This is not only false; it is dangerously so,” asserts Bassam Tawil, a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East. “This assertion contradicts the reality, which proves that Hamas actually does represent a significant portion” of the Palestinian Arabs.

Tawil cites the most recent poll published by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR), indicating that if new presidential elections were convened today, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh would garner 58% of the vote, while Mahmoud Abbas would receive only 37%. Hamas's "armed struggle" against Israel was supported by 58% of the Palestinian Arab public. The PSR poll also showed that 71% support the creation of armed groups to murder Israelis.

In other words, a majority of Palestinian Arabs agree with Hamas’s goal of eliminating Israel, which is what the Hamas Covenant of 1988, proclaims in Article Eleven: “The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day. This being so, who could claim to have the right to represent Moslem generations till Judgement Day?”

Arab Student Council Elections

In May 2023, elections for student councils were held at the two most important Palestinian Arab universities in Judea and Samaria: An-Najah University in Nablus and Birzeit University, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Arabs. The two major student lists that ran in the elections are affiliated with Hamas and Fatah,

According to Reuters, the Hamas-affiliated lists won most of the seats on the student councils. For the 87-year-old Abbas and his Fatah faction, the victory of the Hamas’s victory was not only embarrassing, but also a wake-up call that when dealing with Israel, many Palestinian Arabs choose terrorism instead of negotiation.

The Arab Center in Washington DC quotes the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, that found “When asked about the most effective means of ending the Israeli occupation and building an independent state, the public split into three groups: 41 percent chose armed struggle, 30 percent negotiations, and 24 percent popular resistance.”

The Palestinian Media Watch published pictures from processions in Nablus to show Palestinian Arabs “celebrating the Al-Aqsa Flood operation” – Hamas’ name for its massacre war on Israel.

Palestinian Arabs supporting the atrocities brought their young children to teach them that the murder of Jews should be “encouraged and approved.”

Pay for Slay

Under Palestinian Authority law, Itamar Marcus, founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, reported that “every terrorist who is killed attacking Israel is defined as a ‘Martyr whose family is immediately rewarded by the PA with a 6,000 shekels ($1,511) grant and a 1,400 ($353) per month allowance for life.

This means each family of the 1,500 dead Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel will receive 7,400 shekels for this first month. Families of those terrorists who were married and had children will receive even more. The PA will pay at least 11,100,000 shekels ($2,789,430) this month as a reward for participating in last week’s murders and atrocities against Israeli civilians.”

Disparaging Attacks Against Israel

“Apologists for Hamas attribute the blood lust to the Israeli occupation and blockade” declared Charles Krauthammer, referring to the Operation Protective Edge that began July 8, 2016. “Does no one remember anything?” he asked. Throughout the world, the media broadcast the Israeli army expelling Jews from the Jewish communities in Gaza. After every Jew was forcibly ousted from their homes, Gush Katif was given to the Arabs.

“And there was no blockade, Krauthammer continued. “On the contrary. Israel wanted this new Palestinian Arab state to succeed. To help the Gaza economy, Israel gave the Palestinians its 3,000 greenhouses that had produced fruit and flowers for export. It opened border crossings and encouraged commerce.

When James Wolfensohn and Mort Zuckerman raised $14 million to buy the Gush Katif hothouses from Israeli farmers to give to the Arabs, many people were surprised. "We thought it was a chance to show the Palestinians that there were more benefits from cooperation than confrontation," Zuckerman explained.

The entire reason “was to establish the model for two states living peacefully and productively side by side,’ Krauthammer said. “No one seems to remember that, simultaneous with the Gaza withdrawal, Israel dismantled four smaller settlements in the northern 'West Bank' as a clear signal of Israel’s desire to leave the West Bank as well and thus achieve an amicable two-state solution.”

In response to this wanton destruction of the hothouse, Zuckerman said, "I'm just sad that they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. . . . It's almost inexplicable." Twenty-nine-year-old Samir Al-Najar explained why he and eight of his men destroyed a half-acre greenhouse at the Neveh Dekalim community. He would probably rebuild the greenhouses he said, "but I want the greenhouses to be our own, not Jewish ones."

Krauthammer concluded that “Rarely does international politics present a moment of such moral clarity. Yet we routinely hear this Israel-Gaza fighting described as a morally equivalent ‘cycle of violence.’ This is absurd. What possible interest can Israel have in cross-border fighting? ….Everyone “knows the proudly self-declared raison d’etre of Hamas: the eradication of Israel and its Jews.”

A Final Note

“Where are the roads and rail, the industry and infrastructure of the new Palestinian Arab state?” Krauthammer asked. “Nowhere. Instead, they built mile upon mile of underground tunnels to hide their weapons and to hide their political and military leaders. They spent millions importing and producing rockets, launchers, mortars, small arms, even drones. They deliberately placed them in schools, hospitals, mosques and private homes to better expose their own civilians.”

We are being told by the Biden Administration that the savages who murdered non-combatants, who beheaded, raped, kidnaped, mutilated bodies and ripped babies from their mothers and the Palestinian Authority, which pays the families of these terrorists for murdering Jews, are peace partners for a future Arab state. What is wrong with this administration and those who support them?

What type of people delights in murder of Israelis, and continues to live in squalor out of sense of pride, yet takes hand-outs from the UN, and when given a thriving business opportunity levels the site, because they want to build their own someday? The British, the US, the European Union and Israel have enabled Arab leaders to engage in this self-destructive behavior for decades by giving in to their endless whiny and unjustified demands, providing them with money that is rarely used for the welfare of their people, and not holding them accountable to agreements they make.

A Final Note

The success of the Jewish people in returning to their ancestral home depended on the Jews themselves, and not on any other people or institutions as Stephen S. Wise predicted in February, 1930: “The answer to every Zionist question,” he said, “will ultimately come, and come not in London, New York or Warsaw, but from Eretz Israel, and from they who are its builders and remakers.”

Dr. Alex Grobman is the senior resident scholar at the John C. Danforth Society and a member of the Council of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). He is author of The Palestinian Right To Israel. and co-author of Denying History: Who Says The Holocaust Never Happened And Why Do They Say It? He lives in Jerusalem

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Originally posted by sdy:
"Today,POTUS and I are announcing the country's first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia."

...with the goal of protecting the people who are going to commit a terrorist attack in this country.

Aiding and abetting the enemy. They used to have a word for that.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by sdy:
"Today,POTUS and I are announcing the country's first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia."

...with the goal of protecting the people who are going to commit a terrorist attack in this country.

Aiding and abetting the enemy. They used to have a word for that.

Fuck her

What a disgrace to the country - but what do you expect from a 50-cent whore

Wow, I was not prepared for that level of stupidity and evil, even for that witch.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:...but what do you expect from a 50-cent whore

49 cents change...

^^^^^^^^

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Anti-Sikh incidents: 11.6%
Anti-Islamic incidents: 9.6%

You know, I've never once heard of a Sikh blowing himself up in a crowded area, and yet, they are targeted more than the people who saw people's heads off - the same people, who every time there's a new video of their horrific activities, the messaging from our government and media is that all the good Muslims (who never speak out against this barbarity) are now afraid of retribution and reprisals. If we count Christianity as a whole (since they didn't delineate attacks on Sunni vs Shia), then Muslims are only targeted .5% more than Christians, so nearly tied.

So tired of the messaging. I fucking hate being socially engineered.

House passes $14.3 billion Israel aid bill

President Biden has threatened to veto the bill

https://justthenews.com/govern..._campaign=newsletter

The GOP-led House passed a bill that would provide Israel with $14.3 billion in the aftermath of the Hamas terrorist attack, which cuts the Democrats' new Internal Revenue Service funding as a way to pay for the legislation.

The cuts would come from the $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act that passed last year.

National security spokesperson John Kirby said on Thursday that Biden would veto the bill. Biden has proposed a combination aid package that would help Israel and Ukraine as well as provide humanitarian assistance for Palestinian refugees.

“The president would veto an Israel-only bill. I think we have made that clear,” Kirby said at a news conference.

The final vote was 226-196 with 12 Democrats joining almost all Republicans in voting in favor of the bill. Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia voted against the bill.

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Hamas is maintaining a stockpile of more than 200,000 gallons of fuel for the rockets it fires into Israel and the generators that provide clean air and electricity to its network of underground tunnels,

Hold on just a minute. You mean Hamas isn't using green energy and dedicated to fighting climate change? I think Biden and Harris have their priorities screwed up and need to send Greta to explain to the terrorists the damage they are doing to the future of Swedish teenagers. I am sure they will understand.

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Oh!!! I LOVE that, DrDan!! Hell...have her bring that idiot Hogg with her for good measure. You know.....for protection.

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The cuts would come from the $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act that passed last year.