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Ben Shapiro's podcast a day or two ago. Any other interrogations, tard?

Phoenix, no. I've often said that September is my least favorite month here. You watch some college football with people wearing sweatshirts in autumnal weather, while you are sitting in your boxers in AC. But, we do have nice weather close by. We're heading up to the NE part of the state, an area called the White Mountains, this weekend for two weeks. Two early for fall colors but, should be a nice break.

Thanks! We're going towards the end of the month. We're spending 5 days in the city with her (she has two holidays plus the weekend), then we're planning to drive up to the Catskills for three nights. Hoping to catch some leaves changing, although it is a little early.

Taken to task? That's not the question. Although you kinda answered it with the part about Trump not being in it in any meaningful way. As for your last question: just a guess, but Trump gets really defensive in dumb ways. Like with Stormy, where he went to trial insisting he hadn't done anything with her. Really? Just say, "look, I shtupped her and gave her money to shut up". Instead it became a question about whether or not he slept with her, and he didn't come off well with that. Also I think he may be disingenuous with his story about "breaking up" with Epstein. He had a story about Epstein "stealing" one of his employees... an underage girl. My guess is that Trump had at least a pretty good suspicion what that girl would be doing with Epstein. If true, it's bad but not as bad as the people who actually took advantage of those girls, and he did end his relationship with Epstein.

I heard about it and specifically searched for it. My daughter lives there and we try to see a show every visit. Hadestown was good, a bit woke with the wall stuff but whatever, that was a catchy beat. Also saw Tommy, which was well done but I know the music so well it wasn't really special, if that makes sense. We're going back in September and just now finalizing travel plans. We'll look into Outsiders, thanks for the rec.

You sure type a lot of werds to not address the bolded.

Jeez, I think you ripped the goalposts out of the ground and started swinging them around wildly. Here, I'll answer for you. Occam's Razor says there is no there there. Because if there were, it sure as sh1t would have been released. But, you and the other Lefties here like being gaslit by the latest shiny object the media tells you is the importantest! The reality is that the only way Trump is taken down at this point is (1) a bad economy, or (2) a really bad scandal, like they're trying to gin up with Epstein and him. Despite what TimS said above, the economy is doing fine. That leaves a scandal. Hey look, a butterfly!

The former AP reporter said that the AP would NOT publicize that they were being censored by Hamas. So... it's pretty clear that the AP middle east bureau, at least, is biased.

Have you or anyone else answered why Team Biden and Harris had these files and never released or leaked all of this bad stuff on Trump?

"Federal takeover..." yeah, that's an unbiased headline. And PBS wonders why they are being defunded. It's a conundrum wrapped in an enigma.

Cats would be like 3 minutes long without the music. The song "Memory" would be replaced with the line, "dang, it sucks getting old!"

I think you're thinking with the wrong... umm... body part here.

The cognitive dissonance is strong with this. On the one hand, Lefties here have bent over backward to say that Hamas is evil and worse than Israel. (well, maybe not TimS). But then they hear about this, or see what I just posted, and their gut reaction is "nono, it can't be true, children are starving and it's Israel's fault!"

Thoughts on the video?

Former AP reporter explains how Hamas controls both the reporters and the reporting in Gaza, and how a complicit media happily goes along, or is afraid not to: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK7NvOIR8wz/ I don't expect a lot of response from the "have you seen the pictures of starving children?!" crowd.

The 14th Amendment was intended to protect the freed slaves. "Whole person" was not intended to include people who are in the country illegally. It would be exactly the job of SCOTUS to clarify this.

While I realize that the Left likes to subvert religion with casting like Erivo and uber ghey Adam Lambert as Judas, I am glad at least that they didn't make the character of Jesus a female (she refers to herself as "son" in that song). And hey, who knows, maybe some blue haired Gen Z'er will watch this and think hey, this Jesus guy was pretty cool. I should learn more.

This reminds me of my daughter and my argument over which Les Mis recording is the best. She loves the 10th anniversary version because she loves that Javert. I don't like it because I don't like that Javert. We're never going to agree, but luckily, I'm the dad so I control what we play on road trips.

Clearly you aren't capable of thoughtful, respectful discussion. Apparently you have no center-right thoughts on this.

Another what? I said she can sing. Is it wrong to ask what people think about a female black queer lesbian woman playing Jesus Christ? Perhaps I should move this to a chat board?

Number 1 please

Not worth its own thread so I'll throw this here. I know some of the moderates here will call me racist or Islamophobic for posting this. Let's preserve this culture.

Oh, and in that June post of mine you pulled up, I asked what Israel should be doing instead, but you can't say some version of "I don't know but not this!" Did you answer that? If so, please give me a brief summary. TIA

I appreciate the response. My thoughts on your three problems: 1. It is not a problem to spend time reminding people how awful and evil is Hamas is. It needs doing. As I mentioned to the other Tim, I know it makes you uncomfortable. Your other subpoint here, that it doesn't make Israel the good guys, is semantically true, but you are dangerously close to the moral relativism I've mentioned. Israel could have turned Gaza into glass on 10/8; they didn't. I'm not going to re-litigate all the pablum you guys swallow from Hamas Harry (the pictures!), but for the purposes of discussion, let's call Israel, instead of good, slightly above average. They have a true existential crisis in the middle east (not this global warming cooling changing stuff), and are trying to destroy Hamas while not moving beyond Judeo-Christian values. Compared to Hamas that would make them, dare I say, relatively far better. 2. I'll largely defer to you here, except to say that I don't know of overt efforts to increase settlers in Gaza prior to Hamas invading Israel. And they seem more intent on destroying Hamas than settling in Gaza at the moment. Regarding my Judea comment, it's purpose was to show the hypocrisy of the Left -- they like to say that land belongs to the original people, but what they really mean is that it belongs to the more oppressed people. I'll need to learn more about current events in West Bank, which I believe yip yip Tim just bumped again for me, but I don't feel knowledgeable enough to respond, and if I did, it seems like a bit of a red herring on the Gaza topic. 3. Young acknowledges that bad things have happened; the difference is that IDF soldiers are held accountable when found. There will always be bad acts in war. Where we differ is that I don't believe that IDF leadership is telling its soldiers to shoot innocent children in the head. You and the other Tim seem to think so. Odd that you are both Jewish and have such a low opinion of your country, the IDF, and the soldiers serving in it, but we'll probably never agree on it. Thanks again for the post.

Perhaps you need to learn what "responsive" means.