Catastrophes From Gaza to the GOP

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So today there were photos released that were taken by , I assume , like the hostage rescue team from the Israeli Special Forces , that were of and I'm sorry to start this off with such a down note , but beheaded children . Hamas took it on themselves to capture nearly 40 babies and young children , decapitating some of them .

This was at a place in kibbutz near the Gaza border , and just , I mean horrific images . Nothing anyone should be . I Just don't even know how to put in the context how Just awful of a travesty this is . Yeah , you , but it's just your boys having a tough time . You know , kids dead , kids be headed , family shot down just it's dark shit , man , dark shit .

Unlike Netanyahu , I did voice my concerns about the prospect of Israel's military forces over-escalating the conflict and it playing out in such a fashion that it cost of , you know , innocent civilians in Gaza their lives and while that is a major concern and you know we can't expect Anything good out of Netanyahu for sure .

I mean , I think we all know that those soldiers on the ground , after seeing like cars , like this you know I'm not endorsing the idea that those soldiers on the ground go overboard , but , man , they got to take these dudes out and apparently Hamas has , you know , more than a dozen US citizens being held hostage as we speak .

I'm absolutely sure the first thing president Biden did was get in touch with Netanyahu's people and I assume , with the expertise provided by our own military intelligence , they'll be putting together a plan to try and see those people to safety . I mean , it's a precarious spot .

I don't know if you know the nature of , like the layout of Gaza , I don't know it super well , but I do understand it to be a city of tunnels and I would assume that the militants holding the people hostage have them in a place . It's very precarious for Israeli forces to launch an assault In an attempt for a rescue .

You know , I do hope Biden is attempting to institute a plan , but even if they do attempt to execute some sort of retrieval , just the odds are very slim Of that being successful . I just got to lay it out there for you .

If this does happen to go wrong , I would say that like , just don't use this as an opportunity to let the blame at the foot of Biden's administration . I don't think there's an administration in the history of the United States that would be able to pull off some kind of military search and rescue , that retrieve these hostages alive .

And you know , hopefully there is a diplomatic solution . But just given the nature of the attacks on the Israeli people and the methods they've employed so far , I just wouldn't count on there being a diplomatic situation either . You know , it's just the brakes .

And , of course , over the weekend , republicans were wildly active on the Twitter asking where was Biden , what's he doing ? Is he hiding in the basement and whatnot .

Well , what Biden was doing was being in constant contact with our allies abroad , getting them to come together in unison in support of Israel and announcing Hamas and allocating the resources that Israel needs to in order to find a solution to the problems they're facing in Gaza with Hamas .

Not only that , he somehow found time to be interviewed by the special counsel , robert Her , who was investigating the documents that were found at Biden's office at home Voluntarily , might I add something that Trump never seemed to be able to manage over the course of multiple investigations into his criminal activity , whether that be with special counsel Robert Mueller's

investigation into the Russian conspiracy to help seal the 2016 election , or even from , you know , mary Garland's counterintelligence people at the FBI , who were trying to retrieve the classified documents . Tomorrow I'll go Hell . I'm sure you probably forgot about the investigation into the Biden documents , but yeah , there was yet another special counsel appointment .

You know , at this point I think we should start referring to them as not so special counsels . Considering how many have been appointed here in the last half decade , it's out of fucking control .

But if you're wondering what this means for the Biden administration , I do believe that this is a signal that the investigation is coming to a close that hers wrapped up as investigation for the most part and wanted to just tie up any loosens and get any questions answered that he might have about any knowledge Biden might have had about .

You know the nature of the circumstances around how those documents ended up in the places they were found , whether or not it was intentional , and why they weren't returned Like and I'm sure for the most part , biden's probably just going to tell them the truth that his staff was responsible for making sure the documents were secure and returned to the proper location

for their storage and oversight happened Like , I mean it's .

There's literally a word for this , it's called a spill and intelligent circles , and you know I mean there's so many classified documents that are in the possession of people who are authorized to have them and you know , occasionally you just have accidents where documents are misplaced or left in a place that they shouldn't be .

And the point here in Biden's case , unlike Trump , is that Biden and his entire team cooperated .

They're the ones who voluntarily turned over the documents to the Department of Justice and NARA and made sure that they did absolutely nothing whatsoever to obstruct the investigation , like Trump , who stole the documents , purposely , refused to return them when asked and then played a shell game trying to hide them from NARA and as well as investigators and even his own

lawyers , even after having been subpoenaed for the fucking documents . So I imagine you know her is going to get his questions answered . He's , you know , going to check a few things off the list .

Just investigation up , same way as it was done with Mike Pence Case closed , no charges and of course there's no evidence whatsoever to support the idea that while Biden was out of office he was sharing secrets about our nuclear arsenal and our nuclear submarines to foreign nationals .

So that's yet another way in which the investigation in Biden's activities differs from Trump . In case you somehow forgot about the fact that we just recently discovered that Trump committed espionage . Yet none of the major media networks seem to care . But we care here on part of the interaction .

I believe we also briefly talked about the limited gag order that was issued on Trump and company by Judge Engorn in New York After Trump posted that statement on true social about the judge's clerk who was seen in a photo with a senior majority leader , chuck Schumer , basically calling her Chuck Schumer's girlfriend and saying that Chuck Schumer and Democrats were

running the investigation out of New York , which is just fucking balkers for a number of reasons . I mean like if you're in any legal circles in New York , you probably have a fucking photo of Chuck Schumer lying around somewhere the fact that he continues to call everything that doesn't go in his favor . Rigged or some kind of Democrat conspiracy is bananas .

And for this to be some kind of conspiracy engineered by the Democratic Party Well , it involves a lot of people and like a lot of legal jurisdictions there would have to be some kind of evidence somewhere . You know , like I've said this , about the plots overturned in the 2020 election after the Trump lost right , there would have to be some evidence somewhere .

You know , because of the nature of a gigantic criminal conspiracy involving , you know , dozens , if not hundreds , of people , like you'd have to find some evidence . And guess what ? We found the fucking evidence . We found plenty of it .

And you know , in the case of a conspiracy to try and rig all these criminal prosecutions of Trump , that would just take so many fucking it , just it's too many people . There's no way that anyone could ever pull anything like that off without there being some evidence .

And I'm only humoring Trump's absurd claims just to give you , like , the opportunity to really take a second and think about how absolutely fucking absurd the accusation is .

Yeah , so in Goron shut Trump the fuck up , at least in regards to his staff , and by God Almighty , it fucking worked , because not only has Trump managed to , you know , keep his stash name out of his mouth . He even deleted the fucking post .

So you know the judges overseeing these trials given that they have the opportunity to exercise and there's some level of discretion when it comes to limiting what Trump can say when they do decide to actually tell him to shut the fuck up , make it official he follows the fucking instructions . He actually shuts the fuck up .

Like they have a lot of control over the level of nonsense Trump can spew , as long as they're willing to exercise their power and hopefully judge Chuck in DC does , because Jack Smith has recently asked For a protective order banning Trump and his fucking cohorts from saying anything that could somehow influence or bring harm to potential jurors , and he's citing the

nature of Trump's comments about the clerk in New York as evidence . And I can only assume Chuck is going to drive some sort of similar order to what Ingoern signed off on in New York and make it applicable to the jurors and the court staff and clerks in DC . You know , and we've said over and over the Trump is a bitch of a line stepper .

It's like he has a compulsion , like an absolute deep-seated need to cross boundaries and flaunt rules and you know , we can only assume that he's eventually going to violate the order in New York .

But even if he doesn't , that's great Mission accomplished and , like Chuck , has the opportunity to do something similar in DC and protect the integrity of her criminal trial and the safety of her jurors and such . Because it appears that that works and there are rules that Trump can potentially follow .

And if you thought that Trump was the only member of the Republican Party that's facing some criminal jeopardy , well , I got news for you . George Santos had a superseding indictment against him unsealed earlier today , adding 10 additional criminal counts .

These counts include wire fraud , identity theft and , of course , a fake donor scheme that was exposed by Mother Jones earlier this year . Hit the Google button on that .

One of the things Santos is also criminally charged for is basically a credit card fraud scheme where he received the credit card numbers of donors and then repeatedly charged them , you know , multiple thousands of dollars over the course of months without their permission . This dude is a scumbag . It's just absolutely absurd level of criminality here by this one guy .

It's like somebody must have told him hey , if you want to win the election in the Republican Party , you got to be more like Trump . And he was like great , let me go out here and commit a bunch of financial crimes . Oh my God , it's absolutely insane .

And you know , like when he was first indicted wait , let me circle back when we first found out about all the lies that he's told to get elected . Like that should have been a hint to Republicans to maybe , I don't know kick this dude out of the fucking party .

Like his entire life was a fraud , everything about him was a fraud , everything he's ever said was a lie , everything he put down on his campaign finance forms was a lie . And you know , at the point where we were like , hey , some of this looks suspicious .

Maybe Republicans should have looked ahead and saw the future and be like , maybe we should kick this dude out of the party . And , of course , when those financial statements turned out to be evidence of crimes and Santos was indicted , republicans were like , oh shit , well , our majority is slim , we need this motherfucker .

Anyway , we're going to just , we'll keep him around , we'll have him involved . Like he's become like a lynch pin vote and the nomination for a GOP speaker of the house , since Matt Gaetz thought it would be awesome to kick out the speaker of the house for the laws , yeah .

So , of course , as this indictment was being unsealed , I'm sure no one was available to inform George Santos , because he was in a secret Republican meeting about selecting a GOP candidate for Speaker of the House and probably didn't have his phone Womp Womp .

And then what's really crazy if you think about it like inviting this dude into your inner circle when you're a party of crimes . Like if these dudes , you know , considering they don't have a plan in any shape , form or fashion to win the 2024 election , they're absolutely going to have to resort to some sort of criminal conspiracy .

And like you've got a guy who's been indicted once and you're like bringing him into the fold and now he's been indicted yet again . Like it's a non zero chance that this dude flips , pleads guilty and signs some fucking sort of cooperation agreement and rats you all the fuck out . Oh my God , republicans are batshit crazy . I swear like that .

They are just so short sighted at every turn and only motivated by the most immediate incentives , regardless of whether those immediate incentives end up a detriment to them in the long run . Like they just cannot help themselves .

Like Donald Trump got indicted multiple times Instead of seeing that is some sort of evidence that , hey , maybe we should kick this motherfucker out the party , take our lumps , yeah , we're probably going to lose 2024 , but they were going to lose that anyway and then set themselves up for 2028 .

They're like no , we're going to double down and hit your entire wagon to a sinking ship . I mixed a bunch of metaphors there , but you know what I meant .

And now George Santos has been indicted multiple times and here they are dragging him kicking and I guess he's probably dragging them kicking and screaming because they need his ass towards a showdown , possibly tomorrow to vote for the Speaker of the House .

And did I mention we are in the midst of an international crisis and Republicans don't have a fucking Speaker of the House ? What are they doing ? What are they do ? Where is the plan ? Where is the cohesion ? My God ? And like , just stop and think about this again .

Like I know it's probably slipped your mind because we just narrowly avoided it , but Republicans spend weeks planning on shutting down the fucking government and we could have potentially had an international crisis on our hands with war in the Middle East and no functioning federal government . You cannot trust these people . We cannot hand them power .

They will get us all fucking killed . I promise you , and we've got evidence to support that , because you know , of course , the last time they were in power and there was a worldwide crisis , you know that little thing we just typically refer to as the pandemic .

Yeah , go check the numbers on that , because they spent so much time plotting on how to convince their fucking stooge voters to just go out here and infect themselves with COVID because they wanted to pretend like it was the fucking flu . Yeah , go check the total death rates for COVID in Blue counties versus Red counties . It's going to shock you .

But I mean , I guess , if there is a bright side , that just means there's fewer of them to vote for some idiotic criminal than 2024 . And that concludes this episode upon the interaction .