Ulysses S. Grant Republican
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Ulysses S. Grant Republican
@AngryMeow42
Lincoln/Grant/Teddy Roosevelt/Reagan/George W. Bush/Liz Cheney Republican. So I guess that means I'm a political orphan. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
United States Katılım Ağustos 2023
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@bokoen1 Do a Venezuela.
But since Trump and his minions are idiots, they didn't realize Iran is a VERY different nut to crack than Venezuela.
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I’m sorry, then what was the purpose of the war?
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
BREAKING: US officials say they believe it is 'unlikely' to achieve goals including 'overthrowing Iran's theocratic regime and putting a nuclear weapon permanently out of reach', according to Washington Post report.
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@NewReaganCaucus All the people who might plausibly lead an uprising...died in January. You're hoping for something that just won't happen barring at least as big a commitment as invading Iraq.
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It doesn't really matter because the most likely regime change will occur from an uprising and the people will install who they will.
Unless Trump is planning a ground invasion.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar
Politico quotes two Trump administration officials on background who say that Reza Pahlavi is not considered a viable option as a leader in Iran. Full Story: politi.co/4d6pW9A
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@ShiversShana I think it's still PG until we actually get to the slaughterhouse.
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@ThomasDHowes A) Cinderella and The Jungle Book were straight-up better than the animated originals.
B) WHY does this movie exist??? The sequel to the original JUST made like a billion dollars like two years ago!!!
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I don't plan on ever taking my kids to a live-action remake.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
The new trailer for the live-action ‘MOANA’ remake has been released. In theaters on July 10.
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@NewReaganCaucus Amen. They'll need it. They're being asked to do what it took two British and three Soviet armies to do in World War II, and Iran wasn't even ruled by radical Islamist fanatics back then.
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Ulysses S. Grant Republican retweetledi
In 1967, Israel won the 6-day war against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, and captured the West Bank.
Before 1967, the West Bank had been entirely Arab (since the massacre of Jews in Hebron in 1929 and the expulsions of 1948). Today, 500k Israeli settlers live there (red dots), and some hardline settler leaders have said they wish to remove all Palestinians. Ongoing settler violence, much of directed towards acquiring more land for settlements, is one of the things that stands in the way of peace.
Yitzhak Rabin, who signed the 1993 Oslo Accords, was assassinated in 1995 by a pro-settler religious nationalist who opposed the Oslo deal (he's currently serving a life sentence for murder). Many Israelis oppose the actions of the settlers, but the settlements are protected by the Israeli military (which sometimes arrests violent settlers).
Again, the settlers are far from the only barriers to peace. Terrorist murderers like Hamas also don't want peace, and even many non-Hamas Palestinians refuse to accept the idea of a Jewish state, but looking at that map and all those red dots, it's clear that no peace can be achieved without taking the settlements into account. (The West Bank's population is roughly 2.9 million Arabs and 500k Jews, not counting East Jerusalem.)
I offer no solutions because I see no solutions. I agree with Israeli novelist Amos Oz:
"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a Wild West movie. It is not a struggle between good and evil, rather it is a tragedy in the ancient and most precise sense of the word: a clash between right and right, a clash between one very powerful, deep, and convincing claim, and another very different but no less convincing, no less powerful, no less humane claim."
Ihab Hassan@IhabHassane
BREAKING: Israeli settlers are right now carrying out a pogrom in the village of Deir Sharaf in the West Bank, setting Palestinian cars on fire and attacking Palestinian homes and civilians.
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@Nance726 Bishop Barron absolutely has displayed a lack of moral courage ever since he joined the Religious Liberty Commission.
This is not an example of it.
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I work really hard to always maintain strict, respectful, decorum when addressing our Catholic Senior Prelates (bishops & Cardinals if you’re not Catholic)
However,
I can also objectively identify a lack of moral courage when I see one. I fail to see the pragmatism that Bishop Barron hoped to express and cannot help but identify ADL talking points when I see them. Particularly when I read “all forms of Antisemitism” knowing that definition includes non-Zionists which inherently includes Catholics.
Also, Donald Trump’s pastor, Paula White was almost giddy at Bishop Barron’s criticism of Carrie Prejean Boller. She could wait to repost it.
THAT should tell you everything.
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This is why I’m against public execution. I know some conservatives are in favor of it. Even Charlie Kirk was. But witnessing death, especially violent death, has a profound effect on the human heart. It damages something inside you. The mentally and emotionally healthy can recover, but there are many people who are not healthy.
We all remember when Charlie was shot. The abject horror we rightly felt. The grief for his wife and children. But there were some who celebrated.
When Rob Reiner was murdered, many were rightly horrified and grieved. But once again, there were some who celebrated.
If people can celebrate the violent murders of a Christian family man, and a movie director grandfather and grandmother, how many more would celebrate the just execution of an actual criminal?
Is that good?
Is it healthy for society?
Do we really want to become that?
In the Roman Colosseum criminals and prisoners were publicly executed; forced to fight, fed to lions, and all manner of creative methods of dying. People cheered.
During the French Revolution people congregated at the guillotine to watch beheadings. Chunks of hair and body parts were sold or collected as souvenirs.
Is that who we are?
Is that who we want to become?
Should death be entertainment?
Because I guarantee you, if we have public executions, death will be our entertainment.
And death will be how history remembers us.
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@NewReaganCaucus Honestly, I don't think we did.
ON THE OTHER HAND, there may well have been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hit the regime and make it hurt. If so, Trump should have told our allies and the American people about it.
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A lot of things converged.
Trump should've communicated better.
But we needed to act.
Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸@alexplitsas
Iran was not two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon. They were two weeks away from enriching 440kgs of uranium from 60% to 90% which would be enough fuel for 11 weapons. Centrifuges were destroyed during Midnight Hammer and then they’d still have to build a bomb.
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Ulysses S. Grant Republican retweetledi
Four years ago when Ken Starr died, Bill Clinton stated he read the obituary and realized "his family loved him," which he considered "something to be grateful for.” Clinton added he was taught not to speak ill of the deceased, saying, "I have nothing to say.” #trump
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Great to see Bl. Fulton J. Sheen being venerated. He no doubt is praying for the conversion of the attendees to the fullness of the faith. As he said in "The Cross and the Double Cross," the Jews are the "blood-brothers of Christ of whom God said, 'He who curses you, I shall curse.'"
Catholics for Catholics 🇺🇲@CforCatholics
A NIGHT WITH THE SAINTS At our recent Catholic Prayer for America Gala, we were uniquely blessed to have more than 50 relics of the saints (many American saints), as well as a special relic of the soon-to-be-beatified Archbishop Fulton Sheen. “These men and women are champions of our faith. Our goal is to get to heaven, and the saints are here to help us.” — John Yep, President of @CforCatholics We thank the Relic Project and the Fulton Sheen Movement for making this possible.
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Ulysses S. Grant Republican retweetledi
Yes, there were terrible people on the left that revealed themselves the day Charlie Kirk was killed. None of them were elected undisputed leader of the party and their behavior was vocally shunned by most elected Democrats within the day.
So the GOP has a long way to go.
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Ulysses S. Grant Republican retweetledi
I hate having a president who celebrates when people die. Basic respect and human decency are still worth caring about, even if a large number of people have decided that’s lame and old-fashioned. I hope we recover that before long.
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George S. Patton to reporters: *is quite profane as part of his public persona*
George S. Patton in private:
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Ulysses S. Grant Republican retweetledi
“You can’t criticize Israel!”
“I mean, you can. Israelis do it all the time. Netanyahu is viewed with a lot of skepticism, and many in his own party have objected to his military goals. What is it about Israel that bothers you that you feel you can’t talk about?”
“The Jews eat babies.”
“Yeah, they might get mad about that.”
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@MRibnek Two things can be true at the same time:
--Bishop Barron is a coward who knows who butters his toast.
--Carrie has gone beyond legitimate criticism of Bibi's government and is embracing straight up anti-semitism. You know, what Nostra Aetate condemns.
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@NewReaganCaucus I say this with all due respect and sympathy for both Israel and the Iranian people:
GIF
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2 Chronicles 36:22-23
"In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing: 'This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:‘ 'The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the Lord their God be with them.’"
Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavid
586 BCE: Babylonian Empire conquers Judea and enslaves the Jews. 47 years later: 539 BCE: Persia defeats Babylon and frees the Jews. 1979: The Islamic regime conquers Iran and enslaves the Iranians. 47 years later: 2026: Israel is defeating the regime to free the Iranians.
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@imthespecialk She definitely was for Season 1; not so sure about Season 2.
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Hold on Kate Hawley is the designer and I feel like I knew this?? but forgot??? anyway I am obsessed with it
K@imthespecialk
ok but why is the costume design of The Rings of Power so slay
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@BishopBarron When one of the worst people within the Catholic hierarchy makes a valid point...
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Over the past several weeks, Carrie Prejean Boller has complained that she was removed from the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty because of her Catholic beliefs, and she has called out myself and other Catholic members of the commission for not defending her. This is absurd. Mrs. Prejean Boller was not dismissed for her religious convictions but rather for her behavior at a gathering of the Commission last month: browbeating witnesses, aggressively asserting her point of view, hijacking the meeting for her own political purposes. The Catholic position on matters of “Zionism,” to which I fully subscribe, is as follows: all forms of antisemitism are to be unequivocally condemned; the state of Israel has a right to exist; but the modern nation of Israel does not represent the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies and hence does not stand beyond criticism. If Mrs. Prejean Boller were dismissed for holding these beliefs, it is difficult to understand why I am still a member of the Commission. To paint herself as a victim of anti-Catholic prejudice or to claim that her religious liberty has been denied is simply preposterous.
Carrie Prejean Boller@CarriePrejean1
Your Excellency, you shared with me through text message to me that my position reflects Catholic teaching, especially that the modern state of Israel is not the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. That is the position I expressed, and yet I was removed from the Religious Liberty Commission. Respectfully, it is difficult not to conclude that this commission does not truly care about religious liberty when a Catholic can be removed for faithfully articulating the Church’s teaching. Asking me to deny Catholic teaching in order to satisfy a political ideology is itself a violation of my religious freedom. As Pope Leo XIII warned, “To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamor is raised against truth, is the part of a coward.” Whether I serve on this Commission or not, my voice will only grow louder for those being persecuted for their faith. I believe this appointment was ordained by God, and I will not abandon my Catholic faith to keep a position on a commission that has abandoned its mission. If my religious freedom is not protected, then no one’s is. Please speak up. Please stand up for Catholics. Be brave, Bishop Barron. The world needs brave men.
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