Patented Phil

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4264412-trump-leads-biden-by-4-points-among-swing-state-voters-poll/ When broken down by state, Trump is leading Biden in Georgia by 5 points, Arizona by 4 points, North Carolina by 4 points, Wisconsin by 2 points and Pennsylvania by 1 point. Biden leads Trump by 3 points in Nevada, and the two candidates are running even in Michigan, according to the survey.

Dude’s got an Austin Powers look going on.

When announcers say this, I literally jump off the bed.

You sick fock!

You dip fries in vinegar? And you admit this???? Weirdo!

Yes! Me too! Who the fock calls olive oil a condiment? THAT should be the focus of this thread.

And Craig Kimbrel - you suck donkey balls

Come on, who’s with me on this?!?!

Good Lord. Did he sniff your ass to make sure you actually pooped? Get the hell outta that place.

Spoken like the elitist pos you are.

There was a time and a place for that. Not now. Not in the middle of a war, when Jews are literally fighting for their survival. “You are either with us, or with the terrorists.”

Yes.

Vouchers.

You want more supporting evidence SquidTard? How about a Gallup poll from 6 months ago? Democrats' Sympathies in Middle East Shift to Palestinians WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After a decade in which Democrats have shown increasing affinity toward the Palestinians, their sympathies in the Middle East now lie more with the Palestinians than the Israelis, 49% versus 38%. Today’s attitudes reflect an 11-percentage-point increase over the past year in Democrats’ sympathy with the Palestinians. At the same time, the percentages sympathizing more with the Israelis (38%) and those not favoring a side (13%) have dipped to new lows. Sympathy toward the Palestinians is also at a new high among political independents, up six points to 32%. However, more independents still lean toward the Israelis (49%). Republicans’ views are unchanged, with nearly eight in 10 (78%) continuing to sympathize more with the Israelis while 11% side with the Palestinians. The latest findings are from Gallup’s Feb. 1-23 update of its annual World Affairs poll. Mideast Sympathy Gap Narrows Nationally As a result of this year’s partisan shifts, sympathy toward the Palestinians among U.S. adults is at a new high of 31%, while the proportion not favoring a side is at a new low of 15%. The 54% of Americans sympathizing more with the Israelis is similar to last year’s 55% but is the lowest since 2005. The resulting 23-point gap in Americans’ sympathy for Israel versus the Palestinians represents Israel’s slimmest advantage on this question in Gallup’s World Affairs poll trend. It is also the first time Israel has not enjoyed a better than 2-to-1 advantage over the Palestinians in Americans’ sympathies. The most consequential changes in public opinion on this question have occurred in the past five years, as support for the Palestinians has ticked up and support for Israel as well as ambivalence about the conflict have each declined. Aside from partisan differences, Gallup continues to see generational distinctions in how U.S. adults view the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Net sympathy toward Israel -- the percentage sympathizing more with the Israelis than the Palestinians -- is solidly positive among older generations, including baby boomers (+46 points), Generation X (+32) and the Silent Generation (+31). By contrast, millennials are now evenly divided, with 42% sympathizing more with the Palestinians and 40% with the Israelis, yielding a -2 net-Israel sympathy score. There are too few adult members of Generation Z (aged 18 to 22) in the recent poll to report, but the limited available data suggest their views on this question are similar to millennials’. Today’s divergence reflects a steep drop in recent years in net sympathy for Israel among millennials, whereas net sympathy for Israel has been steadier at a higher level among all three older generations. Favorability Toward Israel Remains Strong In addition to the sympathy question, which focuses on the Israeli and Palestinian people, Gallup asks Americans if their overall views of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, as countries, are favorable or unfavorable. This is part of a longer list of countries rated each year. Consistent with prior years, Americans view Israel much more favorably than they do the Palestinian Authority, 68% versus 26%. Israel’s current favorable rating is below Gallup’s annual readings over the past decade, but matches the average since 2001. The Palestinian Authority’s current rating is on par with the slightly elevated level seen since 2021, and is higher than the average 19% recorded since 2001. As is also typical, Israel is viewed favorably by a majority of all party groups -- 82% of Republicans, 67% of independents and 56% of Democrats. Conversely, relatively few in all three groups view the Palestinian Authority positively: 36% of Democrats, 28% of independents and 9% of Republicans. What little increase has occurred in the Palestinian Authority’s favorable rating over the past decade has been exclusively among Democrats (up 16 percentage points since 2013) and independents (up 14 points). Israel’s favorable ratings have been largely stable by party, although this year’s rating from Democrats is slightly below the 60% to 74% range seen over the past decade. Bottom Line Americans’ views on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have become more polarized as Democrats increasingly commiserate with the Palestinians, while Republicans maintain their solid alignment with the Israelis. The escalation of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities over the past year, resulting in a high number of Palestinians killed, could partly explain the most recent shift in Democrats’ perspective. But Democrats’ waning religiosity may be a factor in the longer-term trend. Sympathy for Israel has historically been highly correlated with religion, with those attending religious services weekly being much more sympathetic to the Israelis than those who seldom or never attend. Regardless of the reasons that Democrats’ (and, to a lesser extent, independents’) views have changed on the conflict, majorities of all generational and party groups still view Israel favorably and look more favorably on Israel than on the Palestinian Authority. This suggests that while rank-and-file Democrats may want Palestinians’ needs addressed, they will want solutions that respect Israel’s needs as well.

Time for Democrats to Address Their Anti-Semitism Problem Last week, pro-Palestinian demonstrators trolled the streets of New York and Los Angeles to terrorize and attack Jews. Such outbreaks of violence, perpetrated under the guise of “anti-Zionism,” are commonplace in Europe and the Middle East. It would be an unmitigated tragedy if such political violence were to become the norm in the United States. Anti-Jewish attacks did not spring forth in a vacuum. Increasingly, the American Left has gone beyond mere criticism of the Jewish State (of the sort that is made against other nations) and adopted the kind of virulent strain of anti-Israel rhetoric that was once mercifully relegated to far-left college campuses. In this environment, Squad members Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib can falsely accuse Israel of being an “apartheid state” and of employing U.S. military aid to target civilians and children — a new spin on an old blood libel — and experience almost no rebuke from their own party. The intense opprobrium saved for Israel, and spared authoritarian nations such as China and Iran, betrays the progressive left’s moral corruption. And rather than react in dismay, New York Times progressive columnist Michelle Goldberg lamented that attacks on Jews might undermine the Palestinian political cause. Rather than distance themselves from violence conducted by their allies, former Bernie Sanders surrogate Amer Zahr implored progressives in a video and tweet to “stop condemning anti-Semitism.” He said, “You are not helping. You are playing their games. It’s a distraction.” Instead, he urged followers to say, “Free Palestine — and nothing else!” Zahr needn’t worry. Most progressive politicians who did bother denouncing the recent wave of violence against Jews diluted their rebukes by also condemning rising Islamophobia, creating the impression that advocates of both sides of the Israeli–Palestinian debate were engaging in violence — which is, needless to say, a myth. There is little political upside for Democrats to call out the Squad. Polls show a party that has lurched leftward and become increasingly antagonistic towards the Jewish State. As Ayaan Hirsi Ali recently noted, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict feeds into many of the progressive left’s ideological biases: “the narrative of the oppressor versus the oppressed, of the coloniser versus the colonised, of the genocide perpetrator and system of supremacy.” Those few Democrats who unapologetically defend Israel, such as Ritchie Torres, a freshman congressman representing New York’s 15th district, find themselves ostracized. “The moment I sent out a statement denouncing the terrorism of Hamas, I was swiftly demonized by extremists as a white supremacist, as a supporter of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide,” Torres told an audience at a recent United Jewish Appeal–sponsored event. Surely, condemning those who instigate anti-Jewish violence should not undermine the cause of Palestinian statehood. And if it does, then there is something wrong with that cause. After Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene recently made an ignorant and intellectually lazy historical analogy, comparing the campaign for vaccination passports to the Nazis’ forcing of Jews to wear “gold” stars, reporters began chasing down Republicans to get their reactions. Minority leader Kevin McCarthy and other members of the House leadership eventually issued statements condemning the Georgia congresswoman. When it comes to Ilhan Omar and Co., where is Nancy Pelosi? Where is Chuck Schumer or Durbin? To this point, nowhere to be found. It is, of course, true that neither Left nor Right has a monopoly on anti-Semitism. These days, however, one party is increasingly under the sway of a noxious, all-encompassing hostility to the Jewish State.

We get the eagle as well. You get…… the pigeon.

Split it up. The Right gets “Patriot”, the flag, the colors, the anthem, the Constitution… the Left gets to create some new and progressive crap to match their woketard beliefs. I’d go with a mix of the US flag with a hammer and sickle. A new anthem would be nice, perhaps “If I had a Hammer”. No Constitution - just reams of onerous of laws and regulations limiting personal freedoms. Seriously - just split the focker up already. I don’t want to share a country with people I revile.

The US Government is completely broken. Nothing works. We don’t even have a Speaker of the House. Both parties suck. The Democrats have turned into woketard lunatics without a shred of common sense or morality. The Republicans, on the other hand, have been destroyed by Trump and aren’t much better. So here we are. Just about every facet of American life is worse than it was 30 years ago. America is a shell of what it used to be, and i don’t see any solution on the horizon. A Constitutional Republic can’t exist in a country as large and diverse as ours. It has to be split up. Time for a national divorce.

Oh I see. It’s just the Republican side of Government that is broken. You aren’t a serious player. You’re a partisan hack. You support the Party that is openly anti-Semitic. Pathetic.

So you’re a Commie. Got it. Explains everything. Show me one instance where a private school has underperformed against a local public school. I’ll wait…..

I ALWAYS default to the private sector being much better equipped to deliver excellence than the public sector. "Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the free market. It's a simple truth, but it's a fundamental truth. What I am speaking about here is the education system. I never understood why there is a bias favoring public education.

Government's role in a country should be limited (primarily) to national security and streets and roads. Stay out of the free market and stay out of peoples' personal lives.

As a Republican and a Conservative, I am disgusted by all this. A pox on all these houses. The American political system is broken. The Liberals/Democrats are absolute nut jobs, and the Republicans aren't much better.

Serious question - do you ever get tired about being wrong? Every. Focking. Time.

You’re wrong. As usual. https://x.com/repdeliaramirez/status/1714386551034044764?s=46&t=IzbM3-87p2zeOh7T9ScCrQ