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France arrests 26 as South Asian migrant trafficking ring

[cosmicway 1,326]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

lol

Your command of the English language is nowhere near a level where you can even begin to think about having a go at me over my lingusitic skills.

 

You but you make solicisms. Not good if you were a lawyer.

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Democratic Party Representatives Targeted by Thanksgiving Bomb Threats at Homes

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrat-representatives-targeted-by-thanksgiving-bomb-threats-at-homes/ar-AA1uW0G9

Several members of Congress including Democratic Representatives Joe Courtney, Jahana Hayes and Jim Himes have all said their homes were targeted with bomb threats on Thanksgiving.

According to NBC News, all three Connecticut representatives have released a statement addressing the bomb threats in which they said their homes were targeted.

In a statement, Himes said he was "notified of a bomb threat targeting my home where I was celebrating Thanksgiving with my family," adding that "no evidence of a bomb was found."

This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available.

 

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25 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

You but you make solicisms. Not good if you were a lawyer.

Give me examples of this, cleverclogs.

You cannot even spell the word solecism correctly, yet you deem it fit to try and slate me with it.

We can go back and find a multiplicity of solecisms contained within your positings on this board, and at rates that far surpass anything I have produced.

My command of the English language and its idiom is vastly superior to yours. 

I would destroy you in a formal debate setting (or in a court of law, seeing as you want to bring that arena into play).

You are also a bigoted troll who spews homophobic bollocks on a far too often basis.

I brook no truck with some of those vile stances you put out there.

 

Edited Thursday at 20:17 by Vesper

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https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/how-to-gaslight-your-trump-voting

Stuck with MAGA relatives around the table today? Gaslight them by pretending you’re a convert to their movement! Just slip these surefire talking points into the conversation:

1. Matt Gaetz would have been a great Attorney General. No one cares more about America’s children.

2. I can’t wait for Trump’s tariffs. I’m sick of paying so little for everything.

3. American education is a mess, and that’s because we’ve never had someone in charge of it with professional wrestling experience.

4. The fact that a worm ate half of RFK Jr’s brain means he won’t have as many thoughts distracting him from his job.

5. If you ask me, Kristi Noem’s dog was asking for it.

6. Thank God Trump is kicking out all those undocumented workers! If I want fruit and vegetables I’ll just pick them myself.

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2 hours ago, Vesper said:

Give me examples of this, cleverclogs.

You cannot even spell the word solecism correctly, yet you deem it fit to try and slate me with it.

We can go back and find a multiplicity of solecisms contained within your positings on this board, and at rates that far surpass anything I have produced.

My command of the English language and its idiom is vastly superior to yours. 

I would destroy you in a formal debate setting (or in a court of law, seeing as you want to bring that arena into play).

You are also a bigoted troll who spews homophobic bollocks on a far too often basis.

I brook no truck with some of those vile stances you put out there.

 

It's sol-i-cism. Word derives from the village of Soloi (spelled Sol-ee) of Attica whose inhabitants were lapsing in some local tonque.
You may say solecism if the "e" is pornounced "i" but it's solicism.
You cannot defeat me in a court of law because you frequently express youself by making circles without order.

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On 27/11/2024 at 13:47, Fulham Broadway said:

Trumps cabinet. Its not 'America First; its 'Israel First'

 

As it should be. Our allies first… what’s so hard to grasp here?! 

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Just now, robsblubot said:

As it should be. Our allies first… what’s so hard to grasp here?! 

Nothing is hard to grasp. Any other country it would be 'foreign interference'. 

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Just now, Fulham Broadway said:

Nothing is hard to grasp. Any other country it would be 'foreign interference'. 

And? I don’t think it’s a mystery now that the USA is 100% percent behind Israel—regardless of party?

Harris got the vast majority of the Jew vote in last election, and I honestly don’t think Harris support for Israel would’ve been much different.

I’m just surprised that folks can be constantly surprised with something so… unsurprising. 😄

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3 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

And? I don’t think it’s a mystery now that the USA is 100% percent behind Israel—regardless of party?

Harris got the vast majority of the Jew vote in last election, and I honestly don’t think Harris support for Israel would’ve been much different.

I’m just surprised that folks can be constantly surprised with something so… unsurprising. 😄

😃Maybe people are not as knowledgeable as you. Its surprising the amount of US taxpayers that are unaware where their billions of dollars are going and what exactly are being used for. 

I'm off now - different time zone to you -didnt you say you were Brazilian/US ? Laters

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8 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

😃Maybe people are not as knowledgeable as you. Its surprising the amount of US taxpayers that are unaware where their billions of dollars are going and what exactly are being used for. 

I'm off now - different time zone to you -didnt you say you were Brazilian/US ? Laters

Yeah I do think there are a lot of dumb people out there, but there is also a strong possibility that I’m the dumb one.

You know that’s pentagon money all the same. Which makes a Trump administration, in theory, not that bad from that point of view. He’s really not a fan o anything related to the military and military spending—incredible how he manages to get the military vote, but that goes into misinformation and all that.

Been away from Brazil for so long that I find it hard to say that I am, but technically yeah. Brazil is actually looking better: they apparently go after people who attempt a coup… and definitely do not put them back in power.

Edited Thursday at 23:04 by robsblubot

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1 hour ago, cosmicway said:

It's sol-i-cism. Word derives from the village of Soloi (spelled Sol-ee) of Attica whose inhabitants were lapsing in some local tonque.
You may say solecism if the "e" is pornounced "i" but it's solicism.
You cannot defeat me in a court of law because you frequently express youself by making circles without order.

Oh really?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/solecism

Edited Thursday at 23:29 by Vesper

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1 hour ago, robsblubot said:

As it should be. Our allies first… what’s so hard to grasp here?! 

Israel is only out for Israel.

They have spied on, manipulated, blackmailed, extensively used espionage on (at public and industrial/commercial levels), taken hundreds of billions of US dollars in foreign aid and then ignored the US's caveats on it, massively interferred in US elections and legislative actions, and even militarily and/or clandestinely attacked the US (USS Liberty, King David Hotel bombing, the Lavon Affair, etc), etc etc, since its founding in 1948 (and even before that).

They are an 'ally' like a pimp is an ally for a prozzie.

 

 

Edited Friday at 00:12 by Vesper

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6 hours ago, Vesper said:

Israel is only out for Israel.

They have spied on, manipulated, blackmailed, extensively used espionage on (at public and industrial/commercial levels), taken hundreds of billions of US dollars in foreign aid and then ignored the US's caveats on it, massively interferred in US elections and legislative actions, and even militarily and/or clandestinely attacked the US (USS Liberty, King David Hotel bombing, the Lavon Affair, etc), etc etc, since its founding in 1948 (and even before that).

They are an 'ally' like a pimp is an ally for a prozzie.

 

 

That’s a very trumpian way of looking at allies: how much do they cost?

Perhaps a more plausible explanation for the unwavering support from the USA that has gone on for decades and will likely go on for the foreseeable future is not listed above? 👆

Suspect that in terms of cost/benefit NATO wouldn’t fare too well.

The USA gets a lot from Israel’s presence in the region. Whether you agree with that is a different story.

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58 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

That’s a very trumpian way of looking at allies: how much do they cost?

It is not at all 'Trumpian'.

It is based on documented malign actions taken against the US by Israel.

Trump doesn't give a rat's red arse about the US or anything else, save for himself.

 

You claim the US gets a lot from Israel's presence in the Levant/Middle East.

What exactly does it get, other than having a regional cat's paw to constantly initiate instability in the region for plunder and profit by the MIC and the bankers?

It is very much a one-way street in favour of Israel.

I posted on this (Israel as a cat's paw) before:

 

The term 'cat's paw' comes from Le Singe et le Chat (The Monkey and the Cat) by Jean de La Fontaine, ca 1679.

http://www.la-fontaine-ch-thierry.net/singchat.htm

Bertrand with Raton, one a Monkey, and the other a Cat,
Commensals (1) of a house, had a common Master.
Of mischievous animals it was a very good dish (2);
They both feared none (3), whoever it might be.
Was anything found spoiled in the house?
No one attacked the people of the neighborhood.
Bertrand stole everything; Raton for his part
Was less attentive to mice than to cheese.
One day by the fireside our two rogue masters
          Watched chestnuts roasting;
Swindling them was a very good deal
Our gallants (4) saw double profit to be made,
Their good first, and then the harm of others.
Bertrand said to Raton: Brother, today 
          you must make a masterstroke.
Pull out these chestnuts; If God had made me born 
          Suitable for pulling chestnuts out of the fire,
          Certainly chestnuts would see fair play.
No sooner said than done: Raton with his paw,
          In a delicate manner,
Moves the ashes a little aside, and withdraws his fingers, 
          Then brings them back several times;
Pulls a chestnut, then two, and then three by swindling. 
          And yet (5) Bertrand crunches them.
A servant comes: farewell my people. Raton
         Was not happy, they say,
Nor (6) are most of these Princes 
          Who, flattered by such a job,
          Go to scald themselves (7) in the Provinces,
          For the profit of some King.

 

 

Sources: It seems difficult to choose between Les jours caniculaires by S. Maioli, translated into French by F. de Rosset in 1609, where the scene is in Rome at the home of Pope Julius II, and J. Régnier Apologi Phaedrii , 1643. In these authors, the monkey uses the strength of the cat's paw to remove the chestnuts from the fire. In La Fontaine, the monkey uses persuasion: the moralist knows well that by appealing to vanity one makes people act as well as by constraint (G. Couton, Garnier classics, fables, p.507). 
The deception is all the more successful since the intervention of the servant (who here plays the role of the ironic Fortune ) prevents the cat from even realizing that he has been duped: the duper and the duped communicate in the same discontent. This piquant undertow of the story is again the invention of La Fontaine ( M. Fumaroli, Fables, La Pochothèque, p. 932)

(1) officers of the king who were fed at court
(2) at the time it was said of 2 or 3 people of the same "genius", who were not worth much: that's a good dish.
(3) in the idea of doing wrong, they feared no one
(4) to be taken in the sense: skillful, adroit, who succeeds well in his affairs
(5) during this time
(6) similarly
(7) reference to Raton who burned his paw

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39 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Trump doesn't give a rat's red arse about the US or anything else, save for himself.

 

A lot of us sincerely hate, the bad people, who have mislead people like yourselves to think such things. You have been absolutely attacked over time with a horrendous amount of false flags. It wears down ability to see things clearly. 

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12 minutes ago, IMissEden said:

A lot of us sincerely hate, the bad people, who have mislead people like yourselves to think such things. You have been absolutely attacked over time with a horrendous amount of false flags. It wears down ability to see things clearly. 

I have discernment, autonomy, and agency, and use those things in a rational manner.

I think for myself and decide what I will keep and/or support, and what I will discard and/or oppose.

I also strive to post documentation and evidence to back up my positings.

You should do the same and list off the 'horrendous amount of false flags' you claim are wearing down the ability to see thing clearly.

 

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Western Media Covers Up Israeli Finance Minister Call For Genocide