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Ally House (Oregon)'s avatar

I really appreciate the writing you’re doing on this situation. Thank you.

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M. Trosino's avatar

Interesting you brought up Sykes' piece in the Bulwark this morning, and I agree with your point about telling Israel what to do, or rather what *not* to do. Whether or not that will happen in any meaningful way is pretty much anyone's guess at this point, I think.

As to the folks mentioned in the piece who're now jumping up and down like a bunch of trained monkeys about a subject I've no doubt they know precious little - if anything at all - about, one's response I found particularly egregious. And no, it wasn't Donald Trump's. His words have all pretty much become meaningless to me in that they are all egregious in some way or another. Rather it was one of Trump's sycophantic, supposed primary *challengers*. To wit...

RE: Senator(!) Tim Scott..."The truth is though, Joe Biden funded these attacks on Israel. America's weakness is blood in the water for bad actors... This is the Biden $6 billion ransom payment at work."

Well, Senator, if you think America is perceived as being, or actually is *weak*, you might ask yourself why, exactly, that is. Why does the House of Representatives have no speaker? Why has military readiness been diminished by blocked promotions in the Senate? Why does a particular party spend more time and energy fighting a culture war than seeing to it that this nation is adequately prepared for war itself and is ready, willing and able to support our friends and allies with assistance when war comes to their lands, and by helping to protect them only enhance our own protection in the long run?

And why, please tell me, while blood is pooling on the ground from the citizens of an ally as a result of a barbaric terrorist attack much akin to one we suffered ourselves in the not-too-distant past, is it still yours and so many members of your party's now innate and reflexive response to stand up and lie, obfuscate and fabricate complete distortions of the truth, continuing your modus operandi of the past years in nearly all matters of any import to this country's health and well-being as a free, strong and functioning democracy?

How 'bout it, Senator?

Actually, never mind. If you or any of your fellow liars were to actually answer those questions truthfully, I fear your hearts would all stop dead from the shock of your own ears hearing the truth come out of your own mouths. And there are more than enough dead bodies dropping already.

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