Post: #67426

Israel first:

Quote:U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel

THE CRIMINALIZATION OF political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the West. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing T-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel. The U.K. has enacted a series of measures designed to outlaw such activism. In the U.S., governors compete with one another over who can implement the most extreme regulations to bar businesses from participating in any boycotts aimed even at Israeli settlements, which the world regards as illegal. On U.S. campuses, punishment of pro-Palestinian students for expressing criticisms of Israel is so commonplace that the Center for Constitutional Rights refers to it as “the Palestine Exception” to free speech.

But now, a group of 43 senators — 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats — wants to implement a law that would make it a felony for Americans to support the international boycott against Israel, which was launched in protest of that country’s decades-old occupation of Palestine. The two primary sponsors of the bill are Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Rob Portman of Ohio. Perhaps the most shocking aspect is the punishment: Anyone guilty of violating the prohibitions will face a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison.

The proposed measure, called the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720), was introduced by Cardin on March 23. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that the bill “was drafted with the assistance of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.” Indeed, AIPAC, in its 2017 lobbying agenda, identified passage of this bill as one of its top lobbying priorities for the year.

There's a bunch more at the link.

Post: #67427

(07-20-2017 02:00 PM)weambulance Wrote:  Israel first:

Quote:U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel

THE CRIMINALIZATION OF political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the West. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing T-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel. The U.K. has enacted a series of measures designed to outlaw such activism. In the U.S., governors compete with one another over who can implement the most extreme regulations to bar businesses from participating in any boycotts aimed even at Israeli settlements, which the world regards as illegal. On U.S. campuses, punishment of pro-Palestinian students for expressing criticisms of Israel is so commonplace that the Center for Constitutional Rights refers to it as “the Palestine Exception” to free speech.

But now, a group of 43 senators — 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats — wants to implement a law that would make it a felony for Americans to support the international boycott against Israel, which was launched in protest of that country’s decades-old occupation of Palestine. The two primary sponsors of the bill are Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Rob Portman of Ohio. Perhaps the most shocking aspect is the punishment: Anyone guilty of violating the prohibitions will face a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison.

The proposed measure, called the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720), was introduced by Cardin on March 23. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that the bill “was drafted with the assistance of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.” Indeed, AIPAC, in its 2017 lobbying agenda, identified passage of this bill as one of its top lobbying priorities for the year.

There's a bunch more at the link.

That will be easily challenged in US court.

The Euro-pee-ons? Not so much.

Post: #67428

One of our favorite Hungarian shitlords and Trump advisors, Sebastian Gorka, posted an article on The Hill detailing Trump's foreign policy plans:

Quote:America is back with the first 6 months of Trump

Donald Trump won the presidential election against Hillary Clinton with a very simple message: I will fix the economy, build the wall and destroy ISIS.

In this, he channeled the simplicity of Ronald Reagan's own election platform. Then-Gov. Reagan promised to restore Americans’ faith in our nation, to fix the economic “malaise” of the Carter years and to defeat the Soviet Union once and for all.

For the Trump campaign, and now the Trump administration, our approach is summarized under the “Make America Great Again” motto, or #MAGA.

However, winning an election is not the same as governing or implementing a policy agenda once in office. Bumper stickers saying MAGA make for effective political communication, but do not automatically translate by themselves into policies or grand strategy.

Now, as the Trump administration marks six months in office, observers, allies and enemies are asking: How does the MAGA message translate into American foreign and national security policy under America’s new commander in chief?

Soon, President Trump will issue America’s new national security strategy. But given the very high operational tempo of the last 25 weeks, thanks in large part to the challenges and outright threats we inherited, the key principles of the Trump foreign policy have already been laid down.

The first principle of our administration is plain for all to see. America is back. And under President Trump, so is American leadership. American influence is a global good and this recognition is a first step toward advancing our leadership, which in turn can help set the conditions for the security and prosperity of the United States and its allies. The era of apologizing for America is over.

We have openly rejected the passive and reactionary ideas central to the Obama years, especially “leading from behind” and “strategic patience.” It is our key assumption that a world without American leadership, in which the president does not forcefully stand up for the eternal truths upon which the republic was founded, is a very dangerous world. And the last eight years proved us right.

When America withdraws from the world, and when we apologize for our civilizational values and our culture, those who have other values will step into the vacuum and eventually endanger us and our allies, undermining peace globally. That is why the Obama years saw the invasion of Crimea, the collapse of the Middle East and the rise of ISIS, the use of chemical weapons in Syria, an increasingly belligerent Iran, and China spreading its military, political and economic influence worldwide.

The international system created after more than 60 million souls perished in World War II was shaped by the influence of our great nation. That system may have been far from perfect, but it prevented the global spread of communist dictatorship and nuclear war between East and West. We cannot solve all the world's ills, and it is not the president's mandate to do so, but when our influence is not felt, the influence of others is, others who wish to destabilize and ultimately undermine what we have achieved.

President Trump is not, however, interested in being an interventionist commander in chief. Nor are we interested in fighting other people's wars for them. But, that does not automatically mean we are isolationists. We do not believe in extremes.

“America first” does not mean “America alone.”

This brings us to the question of America's alliances and international partnerships after Jan. 20, and to the second principle upon which all our strategies are built: In order to respond to threats, we must first name them truthfully.

In Warsaw, the president not only reasserted American leadership, he also reminded the world what makes America and her allies special. We believe that the values of our founding are not based on some cold utilitarian calculation, or on a subjective interpretation of “right and wrong.” America’s values are based on objective truth — the truth we have inherited as part of our membership in Western civilization.

Before becoming the most powerful man in the world, President Trump was a highly successful businessman. As such, ideology had no place in his world. What mattered was the truth — the true state of the world — not the ideological color of any lens imposed upon it. His administration reflects this approach. We look at the world as it is, not as we would want it to be. At the same time, we will stand shoulder to shoulder with any nation, for example Poland, which shares the values that made the West great and is prepared to defend them.

We are only one-half year into Donald Trump's presidency. In that very brief period, we have seen the nation's economy re-energized, illegal migration plummet, the NATO alliance revitalized, and the president order new measures to secure America from terrorists.

Most striking of all is what President Trump has managed to achieve in just 25 weeks with regard to the totalitarian menace that is the Islamic State.

When the administration came into office, ISIS held territory in multiple countries in the Middle East, with fully functioning affiliates in more than a dozen countries. On the territory of the physical “caliphate,” Abu Bakr’s deadly cohorts were running actual slave markets, selling women and children into sex slavery, and had even established their own system of “caliphate taxation.” Now, with the liberation of Mosul, the death knell of the caliphate is being rung, and ISIS is on the run. All this thanks to our replacing a strategy of attrition with a strategy of annihilation.

Just as America was crucial to the defeat of the totalitarians of the Third Reich, and to the ideological defeat of the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union, we will defeat the newest totalitarian threat to the West, radical Islamic terrorism under the leadership of the current American president. This is but the beginning of translating MAGA onto the global stage.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/th...t-6-months

Post: #67429

^ It was never a problem that the US did intervention or even attempted to bully the world, the problem was that this bullying was increasingly done for the benefit of Israel, not America.

Post: #67430

So speaking out against Israel or a boycott can possibly get a hefty fine and prison time.

FUCK AIPAC

I hope this gets challenged in court and gets struck down.

Post: #67431

(07-19-2017 08:30 PM)Brother Abdul Majeed Wrote:  

(07-19-2017 08:25 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:  

(07-19-2017 07:36 PM)uncledick Wrote:  I wouldn't wish this disease on my enemies

Having watched multiple people I love die very slowly over years of cancer, and understanding the vicious reality of it and how it dehumanises and destroys a person, cancer is too good an end for McCain.

I sincerely hope he shits blood, the radiation sores bleed in his mouth as he tries to drink, the treatments make him too weak to stand and he lays in his own shit as the pressure sores wrack his body. I hope his hideous privileged family wail, despair, lose their faith, and, best case scenario, kill themselves in their misery so his bloodline is wiped from the earth.

This is an evil man who has systematically fucked over the middle east, caused the death of thousands of innocents and would not share a tear over the death of every one of us if it made him that little bit more money or offered him a tiny bit more power. I'm not going to pretend to be the better man here, and am sick of being lectured about holding myself to higher standards of morality by people who don't hold themselves to the standards they dictate for us.

Burn in hell, you Cunt.

I take it that you're not a fan of the man.

I think he's holding back honestly. Why don't you tell us how you really feel, brother Abdul?

Post: #67432

(07-15-2017 10:10 PM)weambulance Wrote:  Trotsky was Jewish and Lenin was part Jewish.

I came across a review of David Duke's book on the ethnic origins of communism. His level of scholarship is not as thorough as that of E. Michael Jones on this subject (see vid below) but it looks like he covers the essential points.





https://therightstuff.biz/2017/07/20/boo...communism/

Quote:On June 9, 1919, Schuyler cites Wilton as follows: “A table made up in 1918, by Robert Wilton, correspondent of the London Times in Russia, shows at that time there were 384 commissars including 2 Negroes, 13 Russians, 15 Chinamen, 22 Armenians, and more than 300 Jews. Of the later number 264 had come from the United States since the downfall of the Imperial Government”.

The “Russian Revolution” was not Russian.

Your public school history book did not tell you that. Neither did your preacher, Fox News, the John Birch Society, the NRA, the Tea Party, Donald Trump, or the Republican Party.

Moses Hess is often credited with founding both communism and Zionism. Marx learned from Hess. Leon Trotsky –the prominent Bolshevik and leader of the Red Army -was a Jew with the birth name of Bronstein. The first leader of the Cheka secret police, the forerunner of the KGB, was a Jew named Moses Uritzky. When the Cheka had morphed into the NKVD, it was presided over by a brutal Jew named Genrikh Yagoda. On page 131 Duke quotes a Jewish author, Sever Plocker, concerning Yagoda. The Jew Plocker states: “Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin’s collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system”.

Even the prominent non-Jews -often were not that “non”. For example, Lenin was officially ¼ Jewish, was married to a Jew, and could speak Yiddish... There is a reason that prominent Jewish banker Jacob Schiff could give $20 million, a huge sum at the time, to support the Bolshevik Revolution.

Post: #67433

(07-19-2017 07:47 PM)Dusty Wrote:  Can't wait for the news when we learn Lindsey Graham caught the AIDS.

In serious tone, there must be many other dinosaurs politicians like McCain that also must be very sick and unable to do the job, Pelosi and Waters are two I am sure must be very sick mentally.

These people have been doing this for over 40 years and many are over the age of 65, all these anti-Trump people in congress should show their medical records just like they wanted Trump to show his.

Post: #67434

(07-20-2017 04:38 PM)kaotic Wrote:  So speaking out against Israel or a boycott can possibly get a hefty fine and prison time.

FUCK AIPAC

I hope this gets challenged in court and gets struck down.

I wouldn't depend on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kagan, Breyer or Sotomayor (whose mother was Jewish) to be neutral on this subject.

Post: #67435

(07-20-2017 04:38 PM)kaotic Wrote:  So speaking out against Israel or a boycott can possibly get a hefty fine and prison time.

That's dumb(EDIT: the fact that one can get a fine and prison time), mind you the biggest BOYCOTT ISRAEL champions are the university campus lefties that want to mimic their predecessor's campaign against South African Apartheid

Post: #67436

(07-20-2017 04:38 PM)kaotic Wrote:  So speaking out against Israel or a boycott can possibly get a hefty fine and prison time.

FUCK AIPAC

I hope this gets challenged in court and gets struck down.

Kaotic, I bet you a beer at that cool brewery that this bill does nothing that even resembles "a hefty fine and prison time for boycotting or speaking out against Israel."
Let me know if you're up for it.

Post: #67437

(07-19-2017 01:16 PM)rpg Wrote:  I bet Ryans own wife hates him. He sucks at his job.

I bet his wife doesn't suck..... his cock that is!

Post: #67438

A cuck like Ryan probably hires another man to service his wife. Cuck is gonna cuck.

Post: #67439

I'm not a fan of BDS, but you should be able to speak against or for it without restriction. This would simply turn more people against Israel which I think is the opposite intention of this law.

Post: #67440

Evan Sayet, whose lecture on liberals helped me find my conservative footing 10 years ago, just wrote an amazing article. Spread it far and wide, for it will explain to anyone who is still anti Trump on grounds of decency, that they should support him instead.

Quote:He Fights

My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.” Here’s my answer:

We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.

This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”

The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.

The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.

With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America’s first wartime president in the Culture War.

During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”

General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum, then Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.

Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics.

That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.

Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.

First, instead of going after “the fake media” – and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri – Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal. Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”

Everyone gets that it’s not just CNN – in fact, in a world where Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof are people of influence and whose “reporting” is in no way significantly different than CNN’s – CNN is just a piker.

Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. With Trump’s ability to go around them, they cannot simply stand pat. They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices.

They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery.

The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.

Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s, church.

Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.

This makes “going high” a non-starter for CNN. This leaves them no other option but to ratchet up the fake news, conjuring up the next “nothing burger” and devoting 24 hours a day to hysterical rants about how it’s “worse than Nixon.”

This, obviously, is what CNN has chosen to do. The problem is that, as they become more and more hysterical, they become more and more obvious. Each new effort at even faker news than before and faker “outrage” only makes that much more clear to any objective observer that Trump is and always has been right about the fake news media.

And, by causing their hysteria, Trump has forced them into numerous, highly embarrassing and discrediting mistakes. Thus, in their desperation, they have lowered their standards even further and run with articles so clearly fake that, even with the liberal (lower case “l”) libel laws protecting the media, they’ve had to wholly retract and erase their stories repeatedly.

Their flailing at Trump has even seen them cross the line into criminality, with CNN using their vast corporate fortune to hunt down a private citizen for having made fun of them in an Internet meme. This threat to “dox” – release of personal information to encourage co-ideologists to visit violence upon him and his family -- a political satirist was chilling in that it clearly wasn’t meant just for him. If it were, there would have been no reason for CNN to have made their “deal” with him public.

Instead, CNN – playing by “Chicago Rules” – was sending a message to any and all: dissent will not be tolerated.

This heavy-handed and hysterical response to a joke on the Internet has backfired on CNN, giving rise to only more righteous ridicule.

So, to my friends on the Left – and the #NeverTrumpers as well -- do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.

So, say anything you want about this president – I get it, he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights.

Evan Sayet is the author of The KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks. His lecture to the Heritage Foundation on this same topic remains, some ten years later, by far the single most viewed lecture in their history. Evan can be reached at [email protected]

Post: #67441

"I surmise if we put those “people wanting to help” in the State Department on paid vacation to do ceramics, pottery or whatever low-testosterone people do when they take a sabbatical, it would be great for peace."

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Post: #67443

(07-20-2017 06:15 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 04:38 PM)kaotic Wrote:  So speaking out against Israel or a boycott can possibly get a hefty fine and prison time.

FUCK AIPAC

I hope this gets challenged in court and gets struck down.

Kaotic, I bet you a beer at that cool brewery that this bill does nothing that even resembles "a hefty fine and prison time for boycotting or speaking out against Israel."
Let me know if you're up for it.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-cong...%5D%7D&r=1

The bill prohibits U.S. persons engaged in interstate or foreign commerce from:

requesting the imposition of any boycott by a foreign country against a country which is friendly to the United States; or
supporting any boycott fostered or imposed by an international organization, or requesting imposition of any such boycott, against Israel.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-cong...%5D%7D&r=1

“(j) Violations Of Section 8(a).—Whoever knowingly violates or conspires to or attempts to violate any provision of section 8(a) or any regulation, order, or license issued thereunder shall be fined in accordance with section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705).”.

http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(...on:prelim)

(b) Civil penalty
A civil penalty may be imposed on any person who commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) in an amount not to exceed the greater of-
(1) $250,000; or
(2) an amount that is twice the amount of the transaction that is the basis of the violation with respect to which the penalty is imposed.
© Criminal penalty
A person who willfully commits, willfully attempts to commit, or willfully conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.

Post: #67444

Trump is strong!

Post: #67445

(07-20-2017 10:35 PM)kbell Wrote:  

Trump is strong!

Meanwhile, see below Barry proudly exerting 10 pounds of pressure:



Nice symbol of the Right's strong but fair hand, as opposed to the Left's limp-wrist and dumb policies.

Post: #67446

(07-20-2017 01:19 PM)DarkTriad Wrote:  There are many ways to do it in history. It was last done in America by Nixon, and made him look dirty as hell and was the beginning of the end for him. This whole thing is a sophisticated trap.

This bears repeating. We are more than halfway to Trump being the next Nixon, and no one wants to think or talk about it.

I don't think the NYT interview is misdirection. Trump is seriously A/B testing the idea of firing Sessions.

Mueller will make his move before the 2018 midterms. Will the GOP close ranks for Trump like the Democrats did for Bill Clinton? I doubt it.

Paul Ryan is itching to stand up and say "It is with great regret that we must pass these articles of impeachment." Then once it is 60 senators versus 40, the scale will start to tip.

Trump knows this and wants to take the initiative, but there are no good options, because Sessions, for who knows what idiot reason, opened a huge hole in the president's defenses that is impossible to repair.

Firing Comey was a gambit that worked, at least in the short term. Not quite a Saturday Night Massacre. Now Comey's mentor is investigating the president and will find something, guaranteed. That is his sole purpose. The only question is what happens after that?

Someone propose a scenario that is equally likely to happen. I am interested to hear it.

Post: #67447

(07-20-2017 05:26 PM)Latinopan Wrote:  

(07-19-2017 07:47 PM)Dusty Wrote:  Can't wait for the news when we learn Lindsey Graham caught the AIDS.

In serious tone, there must be many other dinosaurs politicians like McCain that also must be very sick and unable to do the job, Pelosi and Waters are two I am sure must be very sick mentally.

These people have been doing this for over 40 years and many are over the age of 65, all these anti-Trump people in congress should show their medical records just like they wanted Trump to show his.

And hopefully a few Supreme Court justices

Post: #67448

Curiouser & curiouser :

Post: #67449

(07-20-2017 02:00 PM)weambulance Wrote:  Israel first:

Quote:U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel

THE CRIMINALIZATION OF political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the West. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing T-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel. The U.K. has enacted a series of measures designed to outlaw such activism. In the U.S., governors compete with one another over who can implement the most extreme regulations to bar businesses from participating in any boycotts aimed even at Israeli settlements, which the world regards as illegal. On U.S. campuses, punishment of pro-Palestinian students for expressing criticisms of Israel is so commonplace that the Center for Constitutional Rights refers to it as “the Palestine Exception” to free speech.

But now, a group of 43 senators — 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats — wants to implement a law that would make it a felony for Americans to support the international boycott against Israel, which was launched in protest of that country’s decades-old occupation of Palestine. The two primary sponsors of the bill are Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Rob Portman of Ohio. Perhaps the most shocking aspect is the punishment: Anyone guilty of violating the prohibitions will face a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison.

The proposed measure, called the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720), was introduced by Cardin on March 23. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that the bill “was drafted with the assistance of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.” Indeed, AIPAC, in its 2017 lobbying agenda, identified passage of this bill as one of its top lobbying priorities for the year.

There's a bunch more at the link.

The globalist cucks are getting easier and easier to list.

Every politician that supported that bill should be moved to the "priority" pile.

Post: #67450

(07-20-2017 11:49 PM)MidJack Wrote:  

(07-20-2017 01:19 PM)DarkTriad Wrote:  There are many ways to do it in history. It was last done in America by Nixon, and made him look dirty as hell and was the beginning of the end for him. This whole thing is a sophisticated trap.

This bears repeating. We are more than halfway to Trump being the next Nixon, and no one wants to think or talk about it.

I don't think the NYT interview is misdirection. Trump is seriously A/B testing the idea of firing Sessions.

Mueller will make his move before the 2018 midterms. Will the GOP close ranks for Trump like the Democrats did for Bill Clinton? I doubt it.

Paul Ryan is itching to stand up and say "It is with great regret that we must pass these articles of impeachment." Then once it is 60 senators versus 40, the scale will start to tip.

Trump knows this and wants to take the initiative, but there are no good options, because Sessions, for who knows what idiot reason, opened a huge hole in the president's defenses that is impossible to repair.

Firing Comey was a gambit that worked, at least in the short term. Not quite a Saturday Night Massacre. Now Comey's mentor is investigating the president and will find something, guaranteed. That is his sole purpose. The only question is what happens after that?

Someone propose a scenario that is equally likely to happen. I am interested to hear it.

Let's propose a few scenarios then:

Hillary or Bill are indicted for taking dirty (and ultimately terror related) money from known enemies of the State, through their obviously-racketeering "foundation"

Barry is indicted for, I don't know, his ties to terror-mastermind Bill Ayers, his (law-dodging) buying of a Chicago mansion, his use of a doctored social security number, the sabotaging of the plane that was carrying the Hawaiian woman having "certified" his dummy birth certificate, the last-minute assassination of Breitbart

McCain is indicted for his numerous encounters with Ukrainian mafia bosses

Hillary or Barry is indicted for ordering the shooting of a bunch of Ukrainian young people on Maidan, in order to start a manufactured "revolution"

Ten intelligence agents scrutinize Mueller's life from every angle, find something (there always is something, unless the guy is Saint Francis of Assisi) juicy, leading to his removal from office

Time has come to go on the offensive. As G. Washington said: "offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only (in some cases) means of defense".
Keep in mind that Chang Yu also said: "If he can fight, he advances and takes the offensive; if he cannot fight, he retreats and remains on the defensive. He will invariably conquer who knows whether it is right to take the offensive or the defensive."