I will say: Trump collapsing into useless wreckage the entire diplomatic and military juggernaut that Israel depends on to get them out of any consequences they might be having to face all the time, might be a little bright spot in this whole thing.
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"We did it! We stalled the Palestinian genocide! Sure we did it by cramming so many other bodies into the machinery of the genocide, but we still stalled that one!"
It’s not stalled 😢. The final stages are beginning, mass starvation while the world doesn’t do a fucking thing.
Retribution may be coming for Israel with the US now too spastic to prevent it as we always have, but that won’t bring even a single child back to life.
i know. it's the most awful thing that can happen and it's people who claim to be my brothers doing it to people i know to be my cousins. and when the machinery runs out of who it kills, next they will lubricate the gears with the blood of whoever is closest
They're both fighting to get their hands into each other's behinds so that they can operate the others mouth
Sometimes one wins or the other and often both are operating each other at the same time
It is a wonderful image but sadly it’s not accurate. Netanyahu has had his hand non-reciprocally up the ass of the whole American government for so long that he started to think it was an extension of his body. Now, with Trump so malformed and dysfunctional that he can’t even figure out which end is which to get it in there, he’s alarmed and confused about the situation (and with good reason).
When it smells the same at both ends .... you know you've messed up
Fun fact, some types of digestive blockage can make you so full of shit that you vomit feces. It's supposed to be an incredibly distressing situation for everyone involved. And somehow, Americans decided to put that in charge of the country.
I always enjoyed a description of politicians talking that a very old friend told me a long time ago ...
he called their nonsense talking .... 'ORAL DIARRHEA'
In Dave Barry's book about Japan, he attends a Hiroshima memorial and among some other feelings is absolutely appalled that the Japanese politicians have managed to reduce what should be a human thing for the survivors and the people around them, a little event where people can express their horror and their sorrow, be together, and try to find peace and remembrance, and then turn around and wrap it up in the same bullshit empty language that they use to talk about everything else.
The whole section is separated by two solid gray pages from the rest of the book, because it is a humor book, but he wanted to talk about it and had no humorous feelings about it (either the ceremony itself or the politicians, or any of it), and so it's just stuck into the middle of the book with the gray pages as a warning that it's not supposed to be funny. You can feel him struggling for words to try to express how angry he is that the politicians can't manage to say anything of substance, but still feel like they have to fuck up the silence.
Always been that way but now the pretense has fallen away
Writing for Haaretz, Israeli journalist Aluf Benn notes that each time US presidents have been angered by Tel Aviv's actions, “Israel stood its ground, deflected the pressure and over time got what it wanted.” Benn stated that Trump is also pursuing a deal with Iran over its nuclear program that is contrary to Netanyahu's position on the matter. Trump pulled the US out of the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018 amid encouragement from Netanyahu. However, the president has been trying to come to a diplomatic understanding with Iran to halt the development of its nuclear program during his second term.