criticalcircuit

@USA_Polling One of the best outcomes of X adding account country of origin was outing this lunatic. He immediately pivoted from pretending to be a legitimate pollster to just spewing absolute nonsense. Similar career arc to Nate Silver, but with an anti-American bent.

Literally why would the Iranians agree to that America is just going to do what Russia wants to do, which is regroup, get everything set up again, and attack Iran immediately after the ceasefire

@Kiradavis Genuinely cannot tell is this is satire. Republicans ONLY opportunity to win is to finish top 2 due to a crowded Democratic field.

Chad needs to do the right thing for CA. He’s not a bad man. He’s just not the candidate who can win for us. And we NEED to win. If he drops out Steve sails to victory. Is he stays in likely neither of them make it past June.

@RealHickory New legislation cannot be passed via Reconciliation. Thune is a lying pig.

LET'S GO! PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!

@EricLDaugh He's such a disgusting liar. Just utter subhuman filth.

🚨 BREAKING: Senate Leader John Thune floats a RECONCILIATION bill for the SAVE America Act, needing only 50 votes and JD Vance "This was discussed, there is a lot of support...that's an option. If that's what it takes to get it across the finish line!"

@Timodc Lie with dogs, get fleas.

This is crazy. Trumps 1st endorser Jeff Sessions appointed Mueller!! He indicted 25 Russians. The report was so straightforward the GOP senate report echoed it. Then he retired and went back to private life. For this he deserves the president grave dancing on him? Trash.

@cturnbull1968 False. Overseas military ballots remain protected under the 1986 UOCAVA, which mandates states count them if postmarked by Election Day and received within seven days.

Not a win for our brave men and women in the military, that are stationed away from their homes. What kind of person celebrates denying voting rights to the people that defend our freedom?

@Kasparov63 Did you know that modern medicine has developed a number of very effective treatments to paranoid hallucinations?

When mail-in voting is limited or eliminated, then selected polling stations are closed or surrounded with "security checks", when poll workers are replaced by ICE "for security", when ballots are confiscated for "fraud", maybe you’ll take it seriously. Too late.

@JohnCleese This would accomplished absolutely nothing when ballots can just be dropped in the mail without ever approaching a polling station.

This would give the Republicans the best chance of winning What's depressing is that it's so blatant

@Tribunul1 You're using words you don't seem to understand the meanings of.

@CritEngineering >faithful Catholic who understands the history and teachings of the Church better than the magisterium it seems...

Sorry to any Catholic followers but this is comically unserious. Childish “let’s just be heckin nice” nonsense.

@Tribunul1 Who am I? I'm a faithful Catholic who understands the history and teachings of the Church. Who are you to sling insults without, apparently, an elementary understanding of Canon Law?

@CritEngineering >who critiques church messaging who are you to make the difference between messaging and church authority? at least the protestants are honest about it

@Tribunul1 @ArtemisConsort 🤣 ah, yes. Because anyone who critiques church messaging is a sedevecantists. Big brain over here.

@CritEngineering @ArtemisConsort >The Vatican increasing preaches European globalism over Catholicism y'all sedevecantists are such subversive weasels and funny enough , more protestant/anti-pope than the actual protestants

Muslims and their useful idiots keep repeating this “Greater Israel” fantasy as if saying it enough times will make it real. It won’t. If Israel were truly driven by a grand expansionist vision, it would be the most incompetent empire in history. Decades of military strength, repeated battlefield victories, and yet no lasting expansion. That’s not how conquest works. In 1947–48 The United Nations proposed a partition plan, two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Jewish leadership accepted. The Arab states rejected it and chose war instead, launching a coordinated attack through the Arab League. Israel’s first war was not a war of expansion, it was a war of survival. From 1948 to 1967, twenty years, Israel did not expand. No “Greater Israel,” no creeping conquest. Just a small country under constant threat. Then came 1967. Gamal Abdel Nasser openly called for Israel’s destruction, massed troops, and closed the Straits of Tiran. Facing annihilation, Israel struck preemptively and took control of the West Bank (then under Jordanian control), Gaza (under Egyptian control), Sinai, and the Golan Heights. That was a security response to an existential threat. And here is where the “Greater Israel” myth completely collapses. 1979: Israel signs peace with Egypt under Anwar Sadat. It returns the entire Sinai Peninsula, territory several times its own size. In 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, and Israel returned disputed lands as part of that agreement. A Lebanon: In 1982, Israel entered southern Lebanon not to expand, but because Palestinian militias had effectively taken over parts of the country and were launching constant attacks across the border. Lebanon had become a base of operations against Israel. Israel pushed in to remove that threat. And then in 2000, it withdrew. No annexation. No “Greater Israel.” Just left. Gaza: In 2005, Israel withdrew completely. Every soldier, every settlement removed. That territory was not kept, not annexed, given up. The Golan Heights: Strategic high ground overlooking northern Israel, used repeatedly to shell Israeli communities before 1967. Its control is about preventing that from happening again. Security, not hegemony. Yet still, according to the testimony of former Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, Israel offered Hafez al-Assad a withdrawal in exchange for peace, but he refused. Every territorial move Israel made was driven by security threats, not expansionist ideology. And when those threats were credibly reduced, Sinai, Lebanon, Gaza, Israel withdrew. So where is the “Greater Israel”? Where is this supposed empire? It exists only in propaganda. Israel has repeatedly traded land for peace, withdrawn from territory, and avoided permanent expansion even when it had the power to do so. Meanwhile, the same voices pushing this myth ignore the actual history of conquest and domination in the region, where expansion was not defensive, but ideological. Withdrawing from the West Bank today, under current conditions, would not be peace, it would be suicide. It would mean creating another Gaza overlooking Israel’s core population centers. No serious country does that. No nation hands strategic ground to forces committed to its destruction. So again: where is the “Greater Israel”? It doesn’t exist. It’s a narrative, useful, repeated, and detached from reality.

@JohnCleese What is going to stop them? Brits surrendered a decade ago.

Is their confidence justified that they will take over Britain, or is it the extreme confidence of the really stupid

@WhitePapersPol I agree with your general point, but comparing Mexican culture and Muslim culture is like comparing the COVID vs Ebola.

We should ban Islamic immigration, however Mexico has as many child brides <15 as Iran. Mexico has more violence against women (incl murder & rape) than the Middle East. And Mexico is - literally - our back yard. There are ~4.5 million Muslims and 40 million Mexicans in America. Banning Islamic immigration is necessary but a mere band aid on the third world cultures we have been importing for 60 years.

@jared_shult So you support removal of the filibuster then, right Jared?

Republicans control the house and senate you dumb fuck

@cabsav456 @BradSanJuan @Sroneous

@cabsav456 @BradSanJuan @Sroneous You didn't answer the question. Either you don't understand what a chokepoint is or you're evading the question. Explain how submitting voter rolls - something the states already maintain - creates a "chokepoint".

The SAVE Act has gotten even worse since this post. It now faces even more constitutional challenges, especially with the requirement that states turn over their entire voter rolls to the federal government via DHS. "Each State shall submit each individual in the official list of eligible voters for Federal office in the State to the Department of Homeland Security through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (‘SAVE’) system for the purposes of identifying individuals who are not citizens of the United States and taking the necessary steps to remove such individuals who are not citizens from the official list." This is a massive step toward federalizing elections and centralizing power in D.C. This is federal overreach and is exactly what conservatives have always opposed. Hard pass.

No, liar. You do realize this entire exchange is public and just a scroll away, right? Right...? The reply was one in a chain of 13 consecutive replies directly between you and me. In reply to my post listing election insecurities the legislation seeks to address, you replied directly to me, claiming those aren't real insecurities - they're simply 'decentralized by design.' That's embarrassingly bad wordsmithing, but you were clearly arguing the legislation is unnecessary because it seeks to alter what is intentionally decentralized. And I'll go ahead and explain this to you, since you don't seem to be capable of connecting the dots anywhere else, but the opposite of decentralized is centralization. Is this all you've got left? You're just going to deny reality? While I do enjoy deconstructing logical fallacies and checking entitled pricks, it's not nearly as entertaining dealing with compulsive liars.

@CritEngineering @Sroneous @cabsav456 @grok I was having a conversation with a separate person stating that I believe decentralization is inherently more secure than centralization. You injected everything else.

🤣 You're a dishonest douche. This entire discussion is focused on the SAVE Act. You argued against the legislation, stating that election "decentralization was by design." The only reason to make that argument is if you believe the legislation runs contrary to decentralization. You're now just quibbling semantics, and doing that poorly as well.

@CritEngineering @Sroneous @cabsav456 @grok Never said the Save Act centralized elections.

Oy... Buddy. It's tough enough when you pretend not to understand anything I state. If you're going to pretend not to understand the things you state immediately after stating them, it's going to be a long day. You're also shifting to a red herring now that your previous fallacies didn't pan out, but I'll play along. Exhibit A, x.com/i/status/20361…, in which you suggest the legislation encroaches on state authority over its voters and the process for tabulating said votes, implying it will be replaced by a single centralized federal system. None of which is true. Exhibit B: x.com/i/status/20361…, in which you suggest that legislation which requires zero federal dollars and which does nothing to shift election administration from states to the federal government is "wasteful spending" and contrary to the principle of limited government.

@CritEngineering @Sroneous @cabsav456 @grok Explain why you don’t think I understand The Save Act and what changes if implemented.