You raise the issue of what the Republican blowhards have to say about Biden's withholding certain weapons from Israel's efforts in Rafah. The question is, what do the likes of John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute, have to say about that decision?
A further issue, Saletan said that Israel has been successful at killing 30,000 Gaza civilians. Are you aware that Hamas has been making up numbers when it comes to casualties? It is conceivable that 30,000 have been killed, but elements of Hamas saying so is not valid evidence, and thus there is no valid evidence that that number have been killed.
It was a subtle compliment, but Tim's opinion of Will Saletan's mom simply shone out in the first few minutes. Tim's opinion was that Will's mom had obviously done a good job. This is so typical of the Bulwark team! They are the most professional, intelligent, respectful and straightforwardly nice people. I'm proud to support these folks.
McEntee and that crowd are like 15 year olds. That apparently passes for edgy now. I doubt he would get close to enough to a homeless person to hand fake money to. He probably got a friend or two together to fake the encounter. A lot of the video on Twit X and TikTok are created just to illustrate a point...you know the ones I mean...the horrible high school student who cusses out a teacher or a fight in the hallway all designed to show how degraded everything and everyone is.
A disproportionate number of the homeless are veterans. I hope the Deputy President feels good about possibly passing bad money to them. Having said that, given Trump’s opinion that anyone in the military must be a sucker and/or loser, he’s probably just echoing his master’s voice.
i know that on morning joe he equally said that the UN had found that the casualty report was less, but its actually misreporting [spin] primarily lead by Foundation for the Defence of Democracy & HonestReporting both are israeli advocate groups[which the mainstay press took the lead off], with FDD stated mission is "provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America and the public's understanding of issues affecting Israeli-Arab relations" & Honestreporting - A pro-Israel media watchdog, it describes its mission as "combat[ting] ideological prejudice in journalism and the media, as it impacts Israel"
Sadly as now the UN is clarifying in case of such spin, they are clarifying that they beleive the deathcount is accurate[and should be unchanged]its just they were reporting that 10,000 of the deaths are unclear of who is dead and unidentified clearly
"The UN said on Monday that the figures had earlier been based on a breakdown by the Hamas-run Information Ministry, with the updated number coming from a revised breakdown by Hamas' Health Ministry provided to the UN late last month. It says the number of total dead, around 35,000, remains the same.
OCHA's report for May 6, which uses figures from Hamas' Information Ministry, says that some 9,500 women and 14,500 children have been killed in the war. In its May 8 report, it cites the Health Ministry and says 4,959 women and 7,797 children have been killed. It added that there were still 10,000 deaths not included in the breakdown because there were insufficient details.
UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Monday that the Hamas-run Health Ministry's figures – cited regularly by the UN in its reporting – now reflected a breakdown of the 24,686 deaths of "people who have been fully identified."
"There's about another 10,000 plus bodies who still have to be fully identified, and so then the details of those – which of those are children, which of those are women – that will be re-established once the full identification process is complete," Haq told reporters in New York."
I made my living working for a magazine. Everything I know deeply comes from literature and I suppose the Church. So many stories of our lives revolve around the possibility of redemption. I don’t come to Michael Cohen through a “political resistor” perspective but through seeing him go through his Trump trials. Yeah, he did horrible things and he’s since offered himself as someone who lied and went to jail for Trump. He lost his law license etc. etc. I think he’s a great witness.
Looks like those of us who said, "Not so fast" to lauding Mike Johnson have been validated: see his performance in NY today. As Liz Cheney posted, “Have to admit I’m surprised that Speaker Johnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club. I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”
The Republicans criticizing the Biden decision to withhold arms are cynical slime. I'm pretty sure detonating a nuclear bomb over a city today would violate international laws that we have agreed to follow according to treaty. But I disagree with Biden's decision. I also disagree with the administration's opposition to evacuating Gazans from the war zone. I see no sign that Biden put pressure on Egypt and other countries to take refugees. All I hear is BS about how that would be "ethnic cleansing" and undermine the creation of a Palestinian state. The U.N. has opposed it as well. Never mind tens of thousands of lives could be saved.
I'm glad one service member was able to get his mother out of Gaza. I'm sorry about his dad. I cannot imagine losing a parent in a war. My dad served in WWII. I believe I wouldn't be here if the U.S. had not dropped the nuclear bombs. If the U.S. had needed to take Japan by invasion, there would be fewer Americans and Japanese alive today.
I'm certain there are instances where the IDF has violated international law either knowingly or accidentally. But I am unmoved.
In the long run, more Palestinian lives will be saved - and liberated - if Israel can defeat Hamas as quickly as possible. I'm not so pessimistic about the progress Israel is making toward that objective. I'm pessimistic about how the international community will keep trying to prevent Israel from reaching its objective.
It really boggles my mind why Tim and Wil don't understand why Biden is running behind the Senate candidates. It's really simple. He has been bashed by every single media outlet for every reason imaginable. Inflation? His fault. Age? Too old. Gaza? His fault. Border? His fault.
Fox News? Senile
WaPo? Too old.
NYT? Too old and won't do interviews
Regardless of the leaning of the voters, they are only getting negative stories about Biden.
The old thing is actually insane when you think about it. This is the first time I can recall in my lifetime when a thing that 2 candidates have in common is actually a concern that is talked about by the media about only 1 of the candidates. They are both FUCKIN old. I literally can't remember the last time this happened. When Romney/McCain ran against Obama, nobody focuses on the fact that Obama was a man as a negative. Why? Because they had it in common!
We need to drop the "liberal media" label because this coverage has proven that it is objectively BS. If it was true, they would t spend hours/days just repeatedly shitting on Biden.
Projection is the way to look at Trump, when he was debating Hilliary Clinton, he was the one that brought those women that were accusing Bill Clinton, as he thought it would matter. If he thought it would matter then, why wouldn't it matter now. As for the vaccines, someone needs to run some commercials with his voice, when every public school in America has a vaccine mandate, even Mississippi. As for John MacEntee, how hard would it be to get him for passing counterfeit money.
You raise the issue of what the Republican blowhards have to say about Biden's withholding certain weapons from Israel's efforts in Rafah. The question is, what do the likes of John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute, have to say about that decision?
A further issue, Saletan said that Israel has been successful at killing 30,000 Gaza civilians. Are you aware that Hamas has been making up numbers when it comes to casualties? It is conceivable that 30,000 have been killed, but elements of Hamas saying so is not valid evidence, and thus there is no valid evidence that that number have been killed.
The only possible response to the McEntee video is the universal New Yorker Cartoon caption: "Christ, what an asshole!"
It was a subtle compliment, but Tim's opinion of Will Saletan's mom simply shone out in the first few minutes. Tim's opinion was that Will's mom had obviously done a good job. This is so typical of the Bulwark team! They are the most professional, intelligent, respectful and straightforwardly nice people. I'm proud to support these folks.
McEntee and that crowd are like 15 year olds. That apparently passes for edgy now. I doubt he would get close to enough to a homeless person to hand fake money to. He probably got a friend or two together to fake the encounter. A lot of the video on Twit X and TikTok are created just to illustrate a point...you know the ones I mean...the horrible high school student who cusses out a teacher or a fight in the hallway all designed to show how degraded everything and everyone is.
A disproportionate number of the homeless are veterans. I hope the Deputy President feels good about possibly passing bad money to them. Having said that, given Trump’s opinion that anyone in the military must be a sucker and/or loser, he’s probably just echoing his master’s voice.
i know that on morning joe he equally said that the UN had found that the casualty report was less, but its actually misreporting [spin] primarily lead by Foundation for the Defence of Democracy & HonestReporting both are israeli advocate groups[which the mainstay press took the lead off], with FDD stated mission is "provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America and the public's understanding of issues affecting Israeli-Arab relations" & Honestreporting - A pro-Israel media watchdog, it describes its mission as "combat[ting] ideological prejudice in journalism and the media, as it impacts Israel"
Sadly as now the UN is clarifying in case of such spin, they are clarifying that they beleive the deathcount is accurate[and should be unchanged]its just they were reporting that 10,000 of the deaths are unclear of who is dead and unidentified clearly
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-14/ty-article/un-says-total-number-of-gaza-deaths-unchanged-after-halving-toll-of-children-killed/0000018f-739f-dff1-a9af-73bf60770000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=israel-at-war&utm_content=9028e212cf
"The UN said on Monday that the figures had earlier been based on a breakdown by the Hamas-run Information Ministry, with the updated number coming from a revised breakdown by Hamas' Health Ministry provided to the UN late last month. It says the number of total dead, around 35,000, remains the same.
OCHA's report for May 6, which uses figures from Hamas' Information Ministry, says that some 9,500 women and 14,500 children have been killed in the war. In its May 8 report, it cites the Health Ministry and says 4,959 women and 7,797 children have been killed. It added that there were still 10,000 deaths not included in the breakdown because there were insufficient details.
UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Monday that the Hamas-run Health Ministry's figures – cited regularly by the UN in its reporting – now reflected a breakdown of the 24,686 deaths of "people who have been fully identified."
"There's about another 10,000 plus bodies who still have to be fully identified, and so then the details of those – which of those are children, which of those are women – that will be re-established once the full identification process is complete," Haq told reporters in New York."
edit : the lefty site Owen has a UN offical clarifying speaker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAodtIxR6RY at [ @7:37-10:16]
Where do we submit questions to the life advice section?
By the way, have you heard Tommy Ramone’s love song to Maria Bartiroma?
Tell me more
https://open.spotify.com/track/5PuBEHHXFYpQH1tuKUzlpC?si=depxhpkTQRyqmi9oSfbc5g
Sorry, it was Joey Ramone.
I made my living working for a magazine. Everything I know deeply comes from literature and I suppose the Church. So many stories of our lives revolve around the possibility of redemption. I don’t come to Michael Cohen through a “political resistor” perspective but through seeing him go through his Trump trials. Yeah, he did horrible things and he’s since offered himself as someone who lied and went to jail for Trump. He lost his law license etc. etc. I think he’s a great witness.
Tim did misspeak about the UN changing the death figures. That was a misrepresentation of what actually happened.
I finally see what gets Lindsey off. It's not women, it's not men. It's blowing people up.
Looks like those of us who said, "Not so fast" to lauding Mike Johnson have been validated: see his performance in NY today. As Liz Cheney posted, “Have to admit I’m surprised that Speaker Johnson wants to be in the ‘I cheated on my wife with a porn star’ club. I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”
The Republicans criticizing the Biden decision to withhold arms are cynical slime. I'm pretty sure detonating a nuclear bomb over a city today would violate international laws that we have agreed to follow according to treaty. But I disagree with Biden's decision. I also disagree with the administration's opposition to evacuating Gazans from the war zone. I see no sign that Biden put pressure on Egypt and other countries to take refugees. All I hear is BS about how that would be "ethnic cleansing" and undermine the creation of a Palestinian state. The U.N. has opposed it as well. Never mind tens of thousands of lives could be saved.
I'm glad one service member was able to get his mother out of Gaza. I'm sorry about his dad. I cannot imagine losing a parent in a war. My dad served in WWII. I believe I wouldn't be here if the U.S. had not dropped the nuclear bombs. If the U.S. had needed to take Japan by invasion, there would be fewer Americans and Japanese alive today.
I'm certain there are instances where the IDF has violated international law either knowingly or accidentally. But I am unmoved.
In the long run, more Palestinian lives will be saved - and liberated - if Israel can defeat Hamas as quickly as possible. I'm not so pessimistic about the progress Israel is making toward that objective. I'm pessimistic about how the international community will keep trying to prevent Israel from reaching its objective.
Great episode guys. Thank you for bringing some humor into the darkness.
It really boggles my mind why Tim and Wil don't understand why Biden is running behind the Senate candidates. It's really simple. He has been bashed by every single media outlet for every reason imaginable. Inflation? His fault. Age? Too old. Gaza? His fault. Border? His fault.
Fox News? Senile
WaPo? Too old.
NYT? Too old and won't do interviews
Regardless of the leaning of the voters, they are only getting negative stories about Biden.
The old thing is actually insane when you think about it. This is the first time I can recall in my lifetime when a thing that 2 candidates have in common is actually a concern that is talked about by the media about only 1 of the candidates. They are both FUCKIN old. I literally can't remember the last time this happened. When Romney/McCain ran against Obama, nobody focuses on the fact that Obama was a man as a negative. Why? Because they had it in common!
We need to drop the "liberal media" label because this coverage has proven that it is objectively BS. If it was true, they would t spend hours/days just repeatedly shitting on Biden.
Projection is the way to look at Trump, when he was debating Hilliary Clinton, he was the one that brought those women that were accusing Bill Clinton, as he thought it would matter. If he thought it would matter then, why wouldn't it matter now. As for the vaccines, someone needs to run some commercials with his voice, when every public school in America has a vaccine mandate, even Mississippi. As for John MacEntee, how hard would it be to get him for passing counterfeit money.