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alwaysbewoke · 1 month
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these mf's always crumble under even the smallest pressure of logic smfh
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eretzyisrael · 18 days
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by Daniel Greenfield
There are people on social media who spend their time claiming that American soldiers will fight and die for Israel.
Anyone who knows anything about the Biden administration also recognizes that for the joke that it is.
There are 6 Americans still held hostage in Gaza. After the Oct 7 attack, the administration was asked if it would send in a rescue force to get any of the Americans who were held hostage out then. The answer was no.
But Biden finally is sending in the troops. Not to save the hostages from Hamas, but to build a nice pier to supply aid to Hamas supporters in Gaza.
A floating pier and causeway that will be used to deliver critical humanitarian aid by sea to Gaza is expected to take at least one month or possibly as long as two for the US military to build and become fully operational, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder said on Friday. Ryder also said the construction of the pier and causeway will likely require as many as 1,000 US military personnel to complete.
Are any of those personnel going to be in danger?
Official word from the administration is that there will be no ‘boots on the ground’, just in the water. That’s borderline meaningless. And it’s not just Hamas there. The Houthis and Hezbollah have taken to lobbying rockets around and the presence of a sizable contingent of vulnerable U.S. personnel will draw them like flies.
Two months is a whole lot of time in which to plan and execute an attack.
Biden has sent 0 troops to rescue the hostages from Hamas, but he’s sending 1,000 into a war zone to provide aid to Hamas supporters.
He’s also refused to use the military to secure our border by ending the flow of migrant invaders across it.
But once again, Biden has found a way to use the military to aid our enemies. He won’t use the military to protect America, but he’ll use it to send aid to Hamas.
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deadpresidents · 4 months
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I've had these books sitting around for a couple of years now, but I finally picked up Erika Fatland's Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) yesterday and I am burning through it and didn't even want to put it down long enough to post this. It's a good bet that any book that starts with a chapter about endlessly fascinating Turkmenistan and its crazy post-Soviet dictators -- the late, utterly ridiculous "Turkmenbashi" and the horse-obsessed dentist now in power -- is going to immediately capture my attention. The bizarre personality cults built around the dictators of Turkmenistan might actually be the one thing to shame Donald Trump because he'd be so envious of their audacity.
While I don't want my journey with Sovietistan to end as quickly as it's going to, I'm glad I also have Erika Fatland's book The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage (BOOK | KINDLE) ready to immediately dive into afterwards. I'm also going to need to get her newest book High: A Journey Across the Himalaya Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China (BOOK | KINDLE) to follow The Border. The author, Erika Fatland, is from Norway and speaks eight languages, so she's not completely lost in these wildly different and remote former Soviet satellite republics and her writing is vivid and funny (all three books are translated into English by Kari Dickson, so cheers to her, as well). I don't read a ton of books that fall in the genre of travel writing, but I might have to if there are more like this!
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unhonestlymirror · 6 months
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@tierneyx @kurhanchyk @ohsalome what are your thoughts about this?
It's a 2020 book, "The Border" by Erika Fatland
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blueiskewl · 3 months
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All Along the Watchtower
Ukrainian reconnaissance team from Sonechko Battalion of Ukrainian HUR MO at one of the border crossings.
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scotianostra · 11 months
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From my wee sister on her way home earlier.. 😂😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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tygerland · 1 year
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ssahotchnerr · 4 months
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can pinterest just fix their widget it makes me SICK
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michaelmandoarchive · 5 months
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Michael Mando in The Border (2010).
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This still image is of Michael Mando from the show finale of The Border (2010) / CBC & CTV. This episode was directed by John Fawcett who Michael has worked with previously that summer on The Bridge (2010) / CBS & CTV.
In this episode Michael was called upon to play an MS 13 gang member who has absolutely no respect for authority, or fear of death. The shot was taken in the border police's interrogation room, as Marco (Michael Mando) threatens the lives of the special agents played by Catherine Disher (Maggie Norton) and Jim Cordington (Darnell Williams).
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krispyweiss · 15 days
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Song Review: Willie Nelson - “The Border”
One sure sign of spring is a new Willie Nelson album - and Nelson just announced his 75th solo studio collection of new songs.
The Border is due May 31 and is named for the cover of Rodney Crowell’s title track, also the lead single. Nelson and company stick close to Crowell’s 2019 original, setting the song to a sashaying, Spanish melody with Nelson’s trademark runs on Trigger dancing gently alongside accordion and flamenco accompaniment as Nelson delivers the words in a craggy voice:
I work on the border/I see what I see/I work on the border/and it’s workin’ on me, he sings.
The 10-track LP features four originals and six covers. And though Nelson doesn’t name his backing band, it’s said to include “some of Nashville’s finest musicians.” The sound of “The Border” makes that assertion easy to believe.
Grade card: Willie Nelson - “The Border” - B+
3/14/24
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mysharona1987 · 11 months
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Matt Davies
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The immigration bill hangs in the balance.
What’s happening.
The core group of Senators negotiating the immigration bill continues to work on the text of a final bill—cheered on by President Biden in speeches over the weekend. Senator Chris Murphy said the following:
We do have a bipartisan deal. We’re finishing the text right now. We are sort of finalizing the last pieces of text right now. This bill could be ready to be on the floor of the United States Senate next week. But it won’t be if Republicans decide that they want to keep this issue unsettled for political purposes. I was glad to hear the president come out and speak forcefully in favor of this bill. I’m hopeful that we will still have enough Republicans in the Senate who want to fix the problem at the border rather than just to do Donald Trump’s bidding, but we will see over the next 24 to 48 hours whether that’s true.
As many Republicans publicly announced their opposition to a bill that has yet to be released, at least one Republican Senator criticized his party for sacrificing the nation’s immigration policy to Trump's re-election bid. See Washington Post, Lankford defends bipartisan border security bill after attacks by Trump, GOP.
GOP Senator Lankford told an interviewer on Sunday that Republicans demanded immigration reform as a condition of funding Ukraine and Israel. Having extracted that quid-pro-quo from Democrats, Republicans said, “Just kidding.” In Lankford’s words:
So we actually locked arms together and said we’re not going to give you money for this. We want a change in law. When we’re finally going to the end, they’re like, ‘Oh, just kidding. I actually don’t want a change in law because it’s a presidential election year.’
We all have an oath to the Constitution and we have a commitment to say we’re going to do whatever we can to be able to secure the border.
Republicans have viciously attacked Lankford (a member of their party) for having the audacity to perform his constitutional function against the wishes of defendant Trump. The Oklahoma Republican Party has “censured” Senator Lankford for “playing fast and loose with Democrats”—which is apparently how MAGA extremists view bipartisan negotiations. See The Hill, Oklahoma GOP votes to censure Lankford over Senate border talks.
What President Biden is doing.
Meanwhile, President Biden is leaning into the proposed bill in a big way. A proposed provision would allow the President to “shut down the border” if illegal crossings exceed 5,000 per day. In a written and video statement released on social media last Friday, President Biden said he was prepared to “close the border” immediately if Congress passed the proposed legislation.
And . . . just like that, progressive media outlets that had been repeating the GOP’s false narrative that Biden has allowed an “open border” began suggesting that Biden was “going too far” by saying he would close the border. (I am looking at you, Alex Wagner of MSNBC).
We need to support the President.
We cannot criticize Biden for everything he does. For months, Democrats and major media outlets have suggested that Biden might lose in 2024 because of the border. He has now called the GOP’s bluff by saying, “If you pass it, I will sign it and enforce it.”
We cannot turn on a dime and immediately criticize Biden for addressing the “border crisis” in a manner that is proportional to the perceived crisis created by MAGA extremists and a complicit press. If we do that, we are telling him he cannot defend himself—and America’s vital interests—over an issue that is critical to his re-election.
So, let’s support President Biden as he navigates through this difficult issue. He has plenty of people spotting issues and second-guessing every word he writes or utters on the subject. We need to support him in a full-throated manner for his consistent commitment to immigration reform.
Extra credit.
Here is a fun fact to pull out of your pocket next time someone says that Joe Biden is in favor of “open borders”: Guess what bill President Biden sent to Congress on the first day of his presidency? A bill to strengthen our border security and modernize our immigration system. Joe Biden has been trying to solve the border and immigration crisis since his first day in office. Let’s not let the press and our friends pretend otherwise. Instead, let’s support Biden and amplify his tremendous efforts to date.
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kayakin-world · 8 months
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The Border
Information & about
Zero (creation)
Nega (destruction)
Devini (inertia)
Desmos (time)
Idem (duplication)
Rever (restoration)
Enigma (balance)
Exo (chaos)
Lucius (light)
Varus (darkness)
Helian (fire)
Lazuli (water)
Eartia (earth)
Aither (wind)
Raiden (lightning)
Dasaki (floral)
Elia (dreams)
Phobie (nightmares/fear)
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unhonestlymirror · 6 months
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Another bonus for ya @tierneyx
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