Israel builds their own weapons and have for many years. The US and many others but them though and that supports them.

And yet you elide over my real question…which side isn’t killing kids? That is the side I’m going to stand up for.

Hamas is presently the government of Palestine. The majority of people there voted them in. Whether they did so knowing what Hamas would do with that power, who really knows. So yes there are innocent civilians being caught in the middle of this conflict. Some are being used as shields by Hamas and if you are truthful, some certainly understand that. But a lot of them are just kids and they don’t understand. I’ve said since Oct. 7th that the only side I’ll be on is the one not killing kids. You tell me which side that is in your opinion, because frankly I’m not seeing one.

I hate and won’t support what Israel is doing. However it’s not like Palestine hasn’t been offered another cease fire and refused it likely because they don’t want to admit the hostages are dead. It is a bad situation all around. Biden has provided food aid to the Palestinians and tried to stop Netanyahu from continuing the offense, yet you don’t hear about that from a lot of these media sites.

It has to be brought to a vote, which is the responsibility of the speaker of the house, who is a Republican. There is a way around that, but I think it would take more than just a few Republicans

It is funny how similar they are. Only the name is different

There are two jobs of being an elected official. One is getting elected. The other is actually governing. The GOP is failing at the second one.

I wonder if the Senate will do the whole trial part and make the House GOP present what they think is evidence?

That’s what I was thinking… Here come the bots

I think the media shouldn’t call him by name anymore, he should just be “man currently under 91 felony indictments” or maybe just “fraud” or “rapist”

Their “sky daddy” has explicitly told them not to do it. They just don’t care

What was that thing these religious fools like to say? Thou shalt not kill?

Or is he just displaying his “Christian” pro-life values

Obligatory mention of Carter having to sell his peanut farm…

Honestly I’ve been saying this for years. I’m okay with legalization, but we don’t have a test that isn’t subjective to determine if someone is currently impaired. That would be a really good thing to have in place beforehand

I think it was in Texas from what I heard from the rumor mill. The article is in the guardian which is UK based so they put the exchange rate in for the $15 in £ so the UK folks had a frame of reference

The narco-terrorists exist more because our “war on drugs” fuels a huge black market. This is similar to how the mafia rose in power during prohibition. The answer to that issue lies more in the legalization of drugs rather than immigration

Well we have to start somewhere. These people are already being exploited and in horrible positions. We do a lot of foreign aid work in these countries as it is, but a lot of time the money just gets passed around to corrupt officials. If people want to come to the US and work, then the money goes to them directly and they will often send money back to their families and it does more good that way. Plus, if they come here legally to work, then they would be able to earn minimum wage, maybe limited benefits.

I think what we need to do to help alleviate some of the immigration issues is not to build a wall and keep them completely out, but to build a better gate. Our immigration system is broken and terribly understaffed, a lot of it is by design because people would rather have an issue to complain about rather thannsolve the problem.

We need immigrant labor and a lot of folks need jobs, so we rework the system to provide more temporary work permits to begin with. There is a system to do this already, it is just woefully inadequate.

Second, we set up a system where people aren’t necessarily instantly rejected for asylum at the border. That would keep a lot of people from having to cross the border illegally just to try to claim asylum (which is unfortunately the current process). At the border, anyone claiming asylum could be processed, a background check run and a preliminary determination before a judge. At that point, it could be determined if the person has family or some support system in the US and they can possibly be released with an ankle bracelet to that support, confined until the asylum verdict, or deported immediately if they fail a background check.

This sort of process does three things.

Allows tracking for more immigrants that are going through the asylum process legitimately.

Allows legitimate migrant workers to be here legally which allows us to better track their whereabouts and deport them if needed. It also protects them from being abused by people who currently bring them over illegally. Keep in mind, lots of migrants like this just come here for a few months to work and then are happy to go back home.

Cuts down on who is actually crossing the border illegally. If you provide mechanisms for people to work here legitimately, apply for asylum without illegally crossing the border, then the people who do illegally cross are going to be fewer and much more likely to be the people you really want to keep out.

I’ll see the same post on 2 or 3 subs and it will just be something I saw a year or more ago.

A lot of decriminalization has started with justice department changes. But honestly don’t we want something that will stick and not be taken away as soon as a different party is in charge?