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If President Trump was the Israli (s.i.c.) PM, nothing would have been left standing

If Donald Trump had been the Prime Minister of Israel, October 7th never would have happened. He certainly wouldn't have been taken by surprise by a primitive WWI-level attack planned over 14 months that even the Egyptians warned him about, and he would never have held back a defensive response for 7 to 23 hours in a country the size of New Jersey. And the American electorate would never have left him in office if he had failed so miserably.

You sound like just another a leftist idiot...your muzzie loving views.

Neocon's never seem to have any better arguments for their pro-endless-war tirades than petty insults.

I and most on FR will not turn our back on Israel.

Good for you. However, that doesn't change the fact that a vast majority of the American electorate no longer blindly supports Israel and that people with your view are rapidly becoming a minority even within the Republican Party.

Primarily boomers and some gen x. Many of the attitudes expressed here on FR are different from the under 50 Republicans. Much less support for Israel, war, and foreign aid among them. Gen Z in particular is anti-Israel.

This is all true, and the under age 30 male demographic was the most Republican voting block in the last election. The era of "Israel First" is being replaced by "America First" by these new Republican voters. Benjamin Netenyahu's still unexplained delay in responding to the October 7th attack, his Epstein links, and his complete destruction of Gaza have done immeasurable harm to Israel's support around the world. The neo-con Boomers are in denial if they think either party will be able to blindly support Israel much longer.

I once read National Review consistently, but they lost me and most of their readership when they chose to abandon traditional conservatism by supporting pointless, never ending wars as our national infrastructure and culture crumbled.

To the contrary, Tucker Carlson has come to embody the common sense conservatism that is at the center of the America First agenda. The political compass has shifted, and many of Mr. Carlson's critics have yet to accept this realignment.

Not all black people are bad——or good. These incidents distort that truth.

Sadly, these incidents may not distort the truth at all, but rather reveal a reality that we would rather not admit. The mob in Ohio that mercilessly attacked the couple and the larger surrounding crowd that coldly refused to try to save them may now be the norm for that culture. The heroic armed veteran in Michigan, who with people of European ancestry, intervened to stop that assault, might well now be the rare exception. Events like these do more to reveal the truth than they do to distort it. There is a violent, thug culture that is developing among a particular racial demographic. Rejecting unpleasant evidence only naively denies the real problem.

Kim Carnes’ 1981 cover of “Bette Davis Eyes. After listening to the original from 1974 by Jackie DeShannon, the shrill cover is painful to hear.

One would think that that the military would be more careful near commercial airports so soon after after flight AA5342 was hit by a Blackhawk helicopter in D.C..

Why is the U.S., a country with a public debt per capita of $107,320 and a $37 trillion dollar total debt, sending any money to a country like Israel with a $57,379 per capital debt?

Six months in and there are no indictments, no spending cuts, and no meaningful deregulation. At the current rate, it will take decades to deport the illegal immigrants who are currently here. This is getting discouraging.

So, will President Trump pardon Gisselle Maxwell? After all, there apparently were no crimes or victims here.

Solomon teased that within the next 10 days, bombshell revelations would be made public...

I wish the administration would just stop with these empty promises. We need less investigations and more indictments, less identification of wasted tax money and more spending cuts, less press releases and more (even a single) convictions. This is getting worse than the Q threads after the 2020 election.

It looks like John Kerry is considering running for president in 2028. It could be him, AlGore, and Hillary all running against each other. It would make for an interesting and terrifying primary!

Several brave women stood before the Israeli Knesset and testified to years of satanic ritual abuse.

Well, this is the best explanation I have heard for why Benjamin Netanyahu decided three weeks ago last Thursday that Israel couldn't wait another minute to attack Iran despite him later admitting that they were still 13 months away from developing a nuclear weapon.

Twenty years ago I would have responded to this story with a "There is no way that could be true!". Now however, my response is more of a "Yeah, that sounds about right."

Thank you for the excellent summary!

I hope this war helps Benjamin Netanyahu get a delay with his trial. Apparently he had tummy ache today and had to get a continuance.

Sure, let’s make America into Canada. All right or left issues would be watered down into a permanent bureaucratic middle-ground where the deep state picks and chooses our leaders. Taking governmental advice from a bitter South African who didn’t get his company’s tax credits isn’t going to end well.

You have posted five times to me on this thread in reply to only two posts. Your bigoted and disjointed ramblings are offensive and disruptive. As I have told you in the past, do not post to me.

Roman Catholics complied Exodus and the Proverbs???

As I wrote earlier, with a few exceptions it was the early councils of the Catholic Church which codified what books were included in the Bible that the Protestants now use. Then and now, other sects of Jews and other religions omit and add other books at their whim. The bible that Protestants revere so highly was bestowed on them by the same Catholic Church they all so diabolically hate.

Whatever credibility you have had just went out the window with that statement.

Not that you ever had any credibility on an anonymous discussion forum, but your comment adds nothing to the conversation and undermines your own credibility.

You do realize the ECFs are not in 100% agreement with Roman Catholicism on key issues like the Immaculate Conception, the Real Presence, etc.....you do know this right?? Or are you just parroting failed talking points from Catholic Answers.

Certainly many people within the Catholic Church, then and now, disagree over certain issues. This is how theology and Church teaching develop. However, unless a doctrine has previously been established that a validly baptized person knowingly disagrees with, they are welcome inside the Catholic Church.

(If Scripture were able to be easily and unambiguously interpreted, there wouldn't be 30,000 different Protestant denominations.) Dude....now you just embarrassing yourself with the so often debunked ridiculous claim.

As I wrote earlier, how many Protestant denominations are there? There certainly isn't just one Protestant church, and there could even be more than 30,000 different Protestant professions. In fact, your particular Protestant denomination likely has more in common with the Catholic Church than it does many of the other Protestant denominations that are out there. Being divorced from the church Christ Himself started and the first 1,500 years of the continuous living tradition of that Church, anyone can start any Protestant denomination with any wacky beliefs they want. It's always funny (and a little sad) to see Protestants stick up so valiantly for each other to attack the Catholic Church when they often have more in common with the Catholic Church than with each other. They only thing they all seem to share is hatred for the Church Christ founded.

It is, but considering how the Catholic church downplays it's importance, it's not surprising.

Catholics certainly respect scripture, but we also have the traditions which have been continuously passed down by the Jews and through the 2,000 years of Christianity to better interpret and live them. The Protestant reformers largely truncated all that and were left with just the Bible to start their own new practices base entirely upon their novel and disparate interpretations.

And no they cannot take credit for Scripture. Scripture came through the Jews with the possible exception of Luke.

With a few exceptions, it was the early councils of the Catholic Church which codified what books were included in the Bible that the Protestants now use. Then and now, other sects of Jews and other religions omit and add other books at their whim. The bible that Protestants revere so highly was bestowed on them by the same Catholic Church they all so diabolically hate.

(If Scripture were able to be easily and unambiguously interpreted, there wouldn't be 30,000 different Protestant denominations.) Another thoroughly debunked claim that Catholics won't admit to.

OK, how many are there? There certainly isn't just one Protestant church, and there could even be more than 30,000 different Protestant professions. In fact, your particular Protestant denomination likely has more in common with the Catholic Church than it does many of the other Protestant denominations that are out there. Being divorced from the church Christ Himself started and the first 1,500 years of the continuous living tradition of that Church, anyone can start any Protestant denomination with any wacky beliefs they want. It's always funny (and a little sad) to see Protestants stick up so valiantly for each other to attack the Catholic Church when they often have more in common with the Catholic Church than with each other. They only thing they all seem to share is hatred for the Church Christ founded.

(Those traditions, practices, and customs continue uninterrupted from the life of Jesus.) Prove it, using something more than Catholic say so. Because otherwise, it's just a baseless claim that they're from Jesus' time.

Unlike the Protestant reformers who threw away everything they didn't like or found inconvenient, the Catholic Church has had largely the same structure for 1,500 years. Although it has grown and evolved over the centuries, there has never been a sharp break in its continuity like all of the Protestant denominations chose to make.

That proves nothing as wherever God works Satan is close behind with error and longevity does not equal guaranteed freedom from error.

Great point! Jesus Christ Himself said that He will build His Church, and that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. When exactly do you think that the Devil overcome Jesus's promise? Was there some kind of gap before he created your particular denomination? Was Jesus wrong?

What? Like the opinions of the clergy from a homosexual infested, pedophile laden marxist organization????

Of the twelve disciples Jesus Himself chose to start start His Church, ten fled at the first sign of trouble and one sold him out for money! I think that ratio has largely stayed the same throughout the ages. The graces in the Catholic Church don't come from the men inside and out that work so diligently to corrupt it, but instead from Jesus Christ Himself through the sacraments He instituted.

Still waiting for your response to the second and third points in post #113. You completely ignore how Jewish people then and now refer to God, as well as how Christians do then and now. Please don't respond to me until you respond to this. Everything else you have posted here is off-topic to this thread.

This is really sad, but his plan to kill himself is tragic:

Real Coffee With Scott Adams - Episode 2844 CWSA 05/19/25

Comey should not be convicted for attempted murder, he should be convicted of sedition and treason (and then hung).