bass4funk comments

You mean like when they were at peace with a democratically elected government and the USA orchestrated s coup to put a USA friendly Shah in power and setting off all the events that has lead to what is happening today?

What?

That kind of peace?

I think you need to fast forward.

If the USA had kept it's nose out and where it belongs there would be no "crazy mullahs" in power in Iran!

So now you’re making excuses would’ve could’ve should’ve?

And had Israel respected international laws Iran would not be attacking it right now!

Interesting, so Israel should just sit back, have their people butchered and just remain calm and do nothing, just take it, right? The Sunni nations are awfully silent tonight.

The USA and Israel call themselves democracies but in reality they are bullies

For defending themselves? Yes, we are democracies, no stoning, we don’t throw gays off rooftops, no beheadings, women can wear what they want, marry whomever they want, don’t need to coverup, can say whatever they want. Pushing anyone to do these things are worse than being called a bully.

, Israel has democracy only for a certain portion of its population with 21% having second class status,

And there are a multitude of reasons for that.

the USA version of democracy is one rule for us and the rests we decide who is in power!

Ok, calm down, but if you have to choose between US, Iran (so called) democracy, which do you choose?

I feel sorry for the good people in Iran for what’s about to come. Once these crazy mullahs are out of power the nation of Iran can become a nation of peace.

America will be on the wrong side of history if they back Israel even more.

No, they’re not and the U.S. will always back Israel.

Rather than trying to mediate, naturally the greatest warmongers want to choose a side.

Are you kidding me??!!! 2000 years of conflict and you think the U.S. can successfully mediate any of this? Sorry, but history is not on your side.

This is Israel’s responsibility, they started it, let them try to finish it (with Iran that is).

No, Hamas started it when they parachuted into a camp with hundreds of young people dancing and partying and massacred hundreds of them.

There was no mortgage crisis in 2023 but keep hoping.

Well, now convince the nation otherwise. This is the problem of the left that they just don’t seem to get being once again out of touch.

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/03/14/yellen-regrets-calling-inflation-transitory-n2393954

Sure, sure. Keep telling yourself that...

I don't need to, the act was done.

Police have just ruled out terrorism. The 40 year old coward who did this was "known to police" (ie. had a criminal record). A fair chance this coward was a woman-hater, as 5 of his tragic victims, so far, were women.

Again, the violent act in itself is terrorism, the police can say what they want.

Sure, if you call every mass shooting in the USA a "terrorist attack."

I never said it wasn't, but it is also not done usually by Islamic Jihadists.

Police have just ruled out terrorism. The 40 year old coward who did this was "known to police" (ie. had a criminal record). A fair chance this coward was a woman-hater, as 5 of his tragic victims, so far, were women.

BS excuse! It may not have been Islamic-related, but the act itself is a "terrorist attack." Call it for what it is, doing so doesn't make a person racist. Political correctness will be the ultimate downfall of society.

Because while America fetishizes guns as symbols of masculinity and freedom,

Masculinity, we don't, as a symbol of freedom, definitely.

Australia chooses to see them as nothing more than tools.

That is fine if they so choose, different country, different rules and laws.

Yes - he is "of Middle-Eastern/Arab appearance".

People here will get furious at this revelation, I'm sure.

Not furious, but not surprised either.

Interest rates go up, lender stocks go down. This is hardly an indictment of the Biden recovery.

But he’s the President and as he himself said, the buck stops with him. Didn’t matter that Democrats Chris Dodd and Barney Frank help to revise loan rules to help people obtain loans at low interest rates, loans people couldn’t pay back and ultimately the housing market and the economy tanked, who got the blame, Bush, and why, because the buck stopped with him because he was President. So yes, it’s an indictment on Biden.

https://www.ft.com/content/9d36f6c7-0924-4b1a-a1fc-b393f87f18e1

Yup, in Trump world

Not Trump world, the US.

the US totally did not hit stock market all time highs yesterday and is clearly in recession.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/janet-yellen-blames-everybody-else-for-the-financial-panic-svb-signature-banking-system-treasury-san-francisco-federal-reserve-e715ded3

I sure hope Biden loses Michigan and Wisconsin and maybe even Minnesota over this in the elections.

landslide.

I am with you on that one.

When I first came to Japan 25 years ago, this woman annoyed me to no end, but over time, I slightly warmed up to her and her songs, classic J-pop icon without a doubt, not to mention she’s way better looking now at this stage in her than when she was a teen.

Oh, here we go. Well, I do love their WiFi it’s definitely unmatched for a public place

With all the complexities that Japan has, and this life further deteriorates slowly, but surely you are going to see arise and drug use. And for many years, the Japanese tried to avoid the drug issue, they never tried to talk about it, nor tried to teach children about the harmful effects of drugs, they just said drugs are bad, and that’s the end of the argument this will also bite them in the rear.

The woman that single-handedly destroyed the economy of the US

Trump will shoot this down - watch.

Most definitely.

The Don, showing his gangster background, making an offer his sycophants cannot refuse, the Republican Party is a cult/ cabal

I’m trying to understand when the left use words like cult or MAGA…I mean, what’s that supposed to do? Make us feel bad, ashamed? Yeah, don’t waste your time. Sticks and stones…

that has forgotten about the country

69% feel that about this administration.

and is instead is looking out for what benefits their fraudster-in-chief and the rapidly declining fortunes daddy left him,

No, not his father, he made himself.

he's so broke he's for sale to the highest bidder, whichever nationality.

But he will remake that money in time. Hey, people need to live somewhere, right?

How long until Steve Bannon Roger Stone or another in the cabal comes up with one more crowdfunding scheme they can skim from, maybe selling presidential pardons in advance to all the other thugs and their followers that support the previous guy.

All they are doing is taking the pages of the Dems playbook and replicating it. The art of war.

But certainly in the rightwing regressive Fascist thinking. Reee

Which have nothing to do with the policies that the left created and decimated an entire culture

Yes, 30 years ago. Keep talking.

Yes, you go after Trump over something he did 7 years ago and beyond that, more liberal hypocrisy

No one disputes that. What people do dispute is why that happens. Why do you think that might be?

Because the Dems know they don't have a leg to stand on.

So why do you think this is relevant to the election in November this year?

Because and taking a page out of the Democrat playbook, it is all relevant, and like Rahm Emanuel once said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

Toddler steps won’t be enough.

But a lot though, maybe not for Europeans, not that it matters...

The US administration and many other countries disagree with some of the actions by Netanyahu in his bombing and shelling of Gaza. But that does not mean Biden has abandoned Israel. There isn't a single working hospital in Gaza.

Yes, it does, and what I mean by that is, regarding the attacks on Jews throughout the nation on college campuses and other institutions Biden has not forcefully and vigorously unrepentantly condemned antisemitism, assaults, verbal and physical attacks on the Jewish communities/

https://jewishinsider.com/2024/04/is-biden-losing-his-voice-against-rising-antisemitism/

Calling for a ceasefire is not abandoning Israel. After six months of destruction, it is needed.

Again, he already did that.

The border issue has nothing to do with the Israel-Gaza situation.

It does when you talk about wanting us to believe Biden, and when it comes to trust and believing the man, that trust is just not there, he hasn't shown it, nor does he deserve any going by his history.

How do you compare a single handgun with a carrier group? Are you ignoring the hazardous situation building up with a possible attack from Iran?

We are pretty much already there.

When Trump was in office you wanted him to attack Iran.

No, I didn't unless he had to.

Lmao You're stuck 30 years in the past. Did Biden say there were good people on both sides of white supremacist marches and counter protests in Charlottesville?

No, Bide said worse about Blacks

Does Biden routinely call for immigration cuts from all but white countries?

And who makes up most of the crime in the US, sadly a lot of people of color, pointing that out is not racist. sorry.

To read your silly posts, one would think that Trump is an amazing ally to African-Americans yet can't even get 20% of the black vote. Why would that be?

No one is saying that, but if you have been following the same exact playbook for over 70 years, trying something different is not going to hurt and if it doesn't work out, then you can go back to the party of empty promises, no law against it.

Yet the overwhelming majority of black voters did and will vote for him. Apparently they know something you don’t.

Historically, Blacks have voted Democrat by default for over 70 years, slowly that is thankfully changing, baby steps becoming toddler steps.

Both Biden and Trump have less than ideal records in dealing with minority communities. Fact. 

Biden and the Dems less so.

But only one , Biden, has expressed regrets for his past and looks to reform and address racial justice and economy in some measures. 

Ok, but that has nothing to do with the F-fail grade the Dems get for destroying the Black community with their toxic policies

https://newrepublic.com/article/159106/democrats-trump-urban-policy-kimberly-klacik

Small steps , but it is something. 

Yes, as Trump said, "Why not try something different, what have you got to lose?"

Of course if there was any true justice we would have a President Cornel West. 

https://www.businessinsider.com/cornel-west-says-trump-leading-campaign-war-against-black-people-2022-5

Hardly, but West can be as nutty as he wants, he knows the truth. One, he will never be President and Two, the reality of what the Democrat party has always been for Blacks.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/6bQdKPLDjyo2s0I8c60gA2/aec7a4feb53cdd469d9c59bc3dd5cc64/swain-the_inconvenient_truth_about_the_democratic_party-transcript.pdf

He hasn’t won 32% in a 2024 because it hasn’t happened yet. Come in now. 

Yes, that’s the job of pollsters to gather this information locally and going door to door and having town halls etc.

The majority of Black Americans and Hispanics will vote for Biden even if Trump sees an increase for him.

No one said that they won’t. That’s not the issue, we know they will, but the more thoughtful and insightful ones are walking away and more are thinking about it, losing 12% of black men and 25% of black women is not good for the Democrats at all. So this definitely helps Trump. He even has the Amish voting for him, and these people are never political one way or another usually even though they’re socially and morally conservative.

https://www.newsweek.com/amish-farmer-turned-republican-hero-becomes-flash-point-culture-war-1872374

https://www.economist.com/interactive/united-states/2024/03/19/joe-bidens-weakness-among-latinos-threatens-his-re-election

You can provide zero evidence for your claim.

Yawwn….

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/01/03/joe-biden-israel-netanyahu-gaza-hamas-aid/

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/03/25/un-adopts-resolution-demanding-ceasefire-as-us-refuses-to-veto-n2636931

Biden this morning on TV said he and America would protect Israel.

Biden also said that the border is shut.

He has moved a carrier group into the Red Sea.

And owning a Glock doesn’t mean anything when someone shoots at you and you don’t use it.

Well, no. You are supposed to be fighting the opposition, not your own party.

Not in a true democracy. In a true political democracy you are going to have dissensions and disagreements, that’s going to happen, that’s unavoidable. The Democrats have that as well, the difference is they just didn’t have a very slim majority and Pelosi also made sure with threats and intimidation of withholding campaign funds if they choose to run again or help for their states or districts. So her caucus had no choice but to toe the line.

The Republicans don’t have that and you’re going to have various opinions come out, fights and disagreements will arise no doubt about it. Sausage making is never pretty, not a fan, but I understand it. I love both politicians, I understand both positions, but I think they need to talk more.

You claim to be a supporter of the First Amendment.

Always.

So you would have Biden abandon Israel which you claim to support.

He pretty much already did.

Yeah, Biden is losing that fight and more than ever. In 2020 Trump won the votes of Black men by 12% now in 2024 32%

Black women in 2020 6% now in 2024 25%

Doesn’t help Biden, and it definitely doesn’t help the Democrat party going forward.

Biden just wants their vote while he double crosses them.

Cynical politics from a cynical man.

A very crucial vote at that, not to mention he’s hemorrhaging Black and Hispanic votes as well. Which is another reason why Biden refuses to seal the border. Get in as many illegals as possible and register them as Democrats as quickly as possible.

Shameful. Knock it off, settlers.

Hmmmm

If letting someone guilty off is our greatest injustice, we must be the most just country on the planet.

Uhhh, not so sure about that.