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I don't see this happening but it's not completely out of the question if several flukey things transpired. Bob Dole was the last Republican nominee to accomplish this.

https://twitter.com/electo_mania/status/1800589755656142939

Is there any proof that the IDF knew collateral was “inevitable”?

If you have an explanation for how storming a building deep beyond your side's zone of control next to a crowded market in the middle of the day and then calling in airstrikes when you inevitably end up in a firefight could lead to anything other than a bloodbath then I'd love to hear it

Israel is just a far right country pretending to be centrist. Like I said, the Lehi, one of the terrorist groups that founded the country, happily worked with Nazis.

I just read the Wikipedia article on Lehi and saw no evidence they “happily worked with Nazis”. It looks like they delusionally made outreach to them to get support for a Jewish state which was ignored by the Nazis. If I missed evidence of them working with them (happily or otherwise) in any real sense, please share.

I’ve seen a trend on Twitter where people misinterpret the Haavara agreement, a financing scheme to enable desperate Jews to escape Germany to Palestine, as evidence of Jews making common cause with Nazis. It’s dishonest.

So not people who "happily worked with Nazis", just wannabe Nazis who the actual Nazis didn't want to associate with. I'm not sure that makes them any less deserving of moral condemnation, it just makes them more pathetic.

Hamas has rejected the US proposal for hostages and a truce. Remember this was a deal that some people here said wasn't even acceptable to Israel. But Hamas returned a response with massive changes.

That's that for peace I guess. Even a deal the US would have to force down Israel's throat, according to some posters here, could never be good enough for our Hamas heroes.

Meanwhile leaked messages from Sinwar to other Hamas leaders specify that the plan is to get another 100k Palestinians killed, through military conflict or famine, whatever works to kill a whole bunch, especially the women and the children, so that everyone abandons Israel. But they are prepared to hold current hostages as long as Shalit if that is what it takes to free Sinwar's favorite murderous terrorist prison buddies from Israeli detention. Hopefully like Sinwar they all get their brain tumors fixed prior to release.

It's the exact same problem as every other ceasefire proposal: Netanyahu won't accept a proposal that prevents him from going back into Gaza at will and Hamas won't accept a proposal that isn't permanent or that requires they give up power in Gaza. Biden tried to hide this discrepancy by being vague about the transition from the first to the second stage but Netanyahu loudly announced that he was interpreting the terms as allowing him to invade again as soon as the hostages were released.

Perhaps the most absolutely bizarre part of your posts is that you never explain how Netanyahu is going to "defeat Hamas" when after 8 months Hamas still controls every town and city in Gaza, you just revel in the inevitable slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people with no clear explanation of how this will change anything. Sinwar clearly isn't so crazy for thinking the Israelis would release his "murderous terrorist buddies" because they'd already conceded on the "dangerous security prisoners" file. Obviously he won't move an inch if the only plan the IDF has to remove him from power is to do exactly what he wants and to slaughter even more random Gazans.

[There is very much an age limit to when you can fall in love. Someone without all of his mental faculties (i.e., most people in their advanced age) should not be making major life decisions like marriage.]

Kinda creepy.

Why's it creepy at all? There's no age limit on when a person can fall in love.

To be honest, I was wondering why they waited so late to marry, but apparently they only met in 2021.

There is very much an age limit to when you can fall in love. Someone without all of his mental faculties (i.e., most people in their advanced age) should not be making major life decisions like marriage.

If these were my family members, I'd also be concerned about issues of survivor- and guardianship.  Your spouse is your next of kin.  Marrying at such an elderly age complicates expectations around inheritance.

FWIW, the marriage ceremony ITT was legally non-binding.  The couple has to get a marriage license when they get home to Florida if they want to make this official.

"Most" is not "all" by any means, and I'd even question the assertion that it is "most." Perhaps there is a mental limit to falling in love, but that's not the same thing as an age limit where you suggest that anyone over a certain age is incapable of falling in love - that's an absolutely ridiculous assertion.

Yes, a significant number of elderly people are slipping mentally, but that doesn't mean they're totally senile or are incapable of thinking clearly. Plenty of them are mentally well-equipped to make the decision of whom to marry.

Don't typecast all elderly people as dementia-ridden Feinsteins. Some are, yes, but others aren't; and there's no reason to assume that this couple is in the former category unless their is evidence to support such a claim.

Re: the second paragraph, if they are in love with each other - which they most certainly CAN be; age is hardly an inherent inhibitor of such sentiment - then an issue as mundane as who gets the inheritance should be very much secondary, given that they're both around the same age. Now yes, if it's a 90-year-old marrying a 30-year-old, then there are definitely very legitimate inheritance concerns. But precisely because they are BOTH so old, there's no argument to be made that one is seeking financial advantage of the other. Realistically speaking neither one of them will live even a decade longer, and in all likelihood they will die within a couple years - or less - of each other. So the inheritance issue is utterly moot in this case.

I’d imagine that the type of voter who blames the parent for an adult child’s ethical failings (as though a parent can force an adult child to make good choices?  Literally all you can do as a parent is your best; your children are independent humans who will do whatever the hell they want as an adult), are already voting for Trump.  I haven’t met a single “yes, I can definitely mold my child into the exact adult form I want them to be in” parent who ISN’T a Republican.

I don’t feel like this is going to change much.   *shrugs*

The Republican Candidate, Rulli, is apparently very known in Youngstown and the rest of the Mahoning region thanks to managing a local grocery chain (bearing his families name). Coalitions may end up a bit abnormal depending on how many people turn out....

Yeah I almost see the Mahoning County portion shifting right (from 2020 Pres)!due to a local R boost and low nonwhite turnout in Youngstown, but the Dem getting favorable swings in the more rural counties to the south.

Any ideas yet on the title for the Sir Keir Starmer version of this thread?

"(Sir) Keir We Go"? "Knight of the Cabinet table"?

Spreading rumors of his resignation if his bloc performs poorly seems to be an obvious electoral strategy by Macron to get his voters out.

No change. To my surprise, I haven't seen the headline presented to me on any of my passive news sources like social media, and I have to go to news sites to see the story. Even on Free Republic, it's not the top story right now, and a bunch of the comments on their thread is about how it's not going to mean anything, although that's probably just their own version of doomers saying that.

https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1800562245744959780?t=kHL6dcE77Kpw8FsFEWgtOw&s=19
I appreciate Thomas Massie's stance against the Hunter Biden conviction. While Hunter Biden is by no means a good person, use of illegal drugs should not automatically revoke 2nd amendment rights.

Stuff like this is part of why I don't hate Thomas Massie.

Watch the new Republican talking point be: "Biden hates gun and gun owners more than he loves his own son!"