A girl carries fire wood collected from flood waters in Morigaon district of Assam state, India: photo by EPA, 25 July 2016
A girl carries fire wood collected from flood waters in Morigaon district of Assam state, India: photo by EPA, 25 July 2016
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Palestinian youth stands behind a window grill during a summer camp
organised by the United Nations in Gaza City: photo by Mahmud Hams / AFP, 23 July 2016
INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - A Kashmiri boy looks on outside a house during a
17th day of curfew in Srinagar. By @TauseefMUSTAFA #AFP: image via AFP
Photo Department @AFPphoto, 24 July 2016
A Kashmiri child watches an Indian paramilitary trooper standing guard during a curfew in downtown Srinagar. Large parts of Indian-administered Kashmir have been under continuous 24-hour curfew since the death on July 8 of a popular rebel leader sparked wide-scale protests and clashes with government forces who have fired and killed 46 civilians so far.: photo by Tauseef Mustafa / AFP, 25 July 2016
Hindu devotees offer prayer to god Shiva during the first Monday of the Hindu month of Shravan in Lucknow, India: photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP, 25 July 2016
Hindu devotees offer prayer to god Shiva during the first Monday of the Hindu month of Shravan in Lucknow, India: photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP, 25 July 2016
An artist from Yakshagana, a southern Indian folk theater, checks his mobile phone backstage after his performance during a cultural event in Bengaluru, India: photo by Abhishek N Chinnappa / EPA, 24 July 2016
Indian members from the Asha Foundation and Animal Shelter escort ducks across the road outside their shelter in Hathijan village, some 20 kilometres from Ahmedabad. There are 125 ducks of different varieties, which were rescued from slaughter houses by members of the Jain community, taking refuge at the centre.: photo by Sam Panthaky / AFP, 23 July 2016
Kabul in mourning after deadliest attack in 15 years @AFP @AFPAfPak: image via Anuj Chopra @AnujChopra, 24 July 2016 Paris, France
Villagers pray in front graves of victims of the suicide attack, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday which killed at least 80 people: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP, 25 July 2016
Villagers pray in front graves of victims of the suicide attack, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday which killed at least 80 people: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP, 25 July 2016
Mourners offer funeral prayers for one of the 80 victims killed in a suicide attack, in #Kabul. Photo @shahmarai: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 24 July 2016
Mourners carry the remains of one of the 80 victims killed in a suicide attack, in #Kabul. Photo @shahmarai: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 24 July 2016
Afghan men dig graves for some of the 80 victims killed in a suicide attack, in #Kabul. Photo @shahmarai: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 24 July 2016
Afghan civil order policemen take position as Afghanistan’s Hazara minority attend a protest in Kabul: photo by Mohammad Ismail / Reuters, 23 July 2016
SYRIA - The White Helmets dig out boy trapped under
buildings following air strikes in Al-Mashhad. By @KaramAlmasri25: image
via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 24 July 2016
People gather at a site hit by airstrikes in the rebel held town of Atareb in Aleppo province, Syria: photo by Ammar Abdullah/Reuters, 25 July 2016
People gather at a site hit by airstrikes in the rebel held town of Atareb in Aleppo province, Syria: photo by Ammar Abdullah/Reuters, 25 July 2016
Crews battle the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California: photo by Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters, 25 July 2016
Crews battle the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California: photo by Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters, 25 July 2016
A plane drops fire retardant while battling the Soberane Fire in Carmel Highlands, California. The fire has scarred more than 10,000 acres and threatens 1,650 structures according to Cal Fire: photo by Noah Berger / AFP, 24 July 2016
Fire spreads through the night in Placerita Canyon at the Sand Fire in Santa Clarita, California. Triple-digit temperatures and dry conditions are fueling the wildfire, which has burned across at least 32,000 acres so far and is only 10% contained.: photo by David McNew / AFP, 25 July 2016
California wildfires: Hundreds flee homes near Los Angeles Photo @eye4light: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 24 July 2016
US - A firefighting helicopter battles a blaze dubbed "Sand Fire" in Santa Clarita, California. By Mark Ralston #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 24 July 2016
Understatement of the century: LIVE: 'The system is rigged. It's true.' - Elizabeth Warren to #DemsinPhilly: image via Reuters Live @ReutersLive, 25 July 2016
Little smartass richgirl scoldy-lecture of the week: LIVE - "comedian" Sarah Silverman says at DNC: 'To the
Bernie or bust people, you're being ridiculous.': image via Reuters Top
News @Reuters, 25 July 2016
“I thought I had an important cause. But then Sarah Silverman said I was ridiculous, and I recanted."
tweet via Mollie
Verified account @MZHemingway, 25 July 2016
LIVE - Sarah Silverman says at DNC: 'To the Bernie or bust people, you're being ridiculous.': image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 25 July 2016
TayGo Retweeted Hillary Clinton
“I
don’t understand people who trash talk about America…who act as if we
are not yet the greatest country that has ever been created.”
TayGo added,
Uh...
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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As
a brown queer leftist in a union and teaching in the hood, I feel
just as threatened/frightened by Clinton and the DNC as I do by the
GOP.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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I'm really fucking tired of white liberals weaponizing our struggles to bully us into voting for their Democratic Party faves. I want out.
I'm really fucking tired of white liberals weaponizing our struggles to bully us into voting for their Democratic Party faves. I want out.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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I'm
tired of them characterizing people who vote third party or abstain as
lazy, privileged and/or illogical. It's abusive and gross.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Liberals genuinely exhaust me. I'm exhausted. Sick. And tired. Stop pretending to be my friend and then slapping me in the face.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who deregulated the banks? A democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who deregulated the media? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who started the Vietnam War? A Democratic president. Who escalated the Vietnam war? Another Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who slashed welfare in the 90's? A Democratic president.
Who slashed welfare in the 90's? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who has drone-assassinated countless innocent brown and black people in the Middle East and Africa? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who used the FBI to destabilize and crush pro-black and anti-capitalist movements in the 60's? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who
bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan -- directly and indirectly
leading to tens of thousands Sudanese deaths? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who
has propped up Paul Kagame, leading to millions dead in Rwanda, Uganda
and the Democratic Republic of the Congo? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who funded and armed the Indonesian fascists as they committed genocide? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who illegally invaded Cuba to destabilize their recently won revolution? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who has deported more undocumented immigrants than any other president in U.S. history? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who owned slaves and massacred Native American villages? A Democratic president.
Who owned slaves and massacred Native American villages? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who
has invested in and worked towards the destabilization and sabotage of
Haiti and its democratic process? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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Who
implemented sanctions against Iraq that directly led to the deaths of
over 500,000 impoverished Iraqi children? A Democratic president.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
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I
could go on. But I'm exhausted. Exhausted by the abusive liberals of
the goddamn DNC. I will never, ever join your gang of oppressors.
tweet via TayGo @taygogo, 25 July 2016
A boy walks through a waterfall while playing in the water at The Yards Park in Washington @JimWatson_AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 24 July 2016
A remarkable moment @#DNCinPHL when Florida Bernie Sanders delegate @AliAkinK raised the Palestinian flag: image via jamil dakwar @jdakwar, 25 July 2016
A remarkable moment @ #DNCinPHL when Florida Bernie Sanders delegate @AliAkinK raised the Palestinian flag: image via jamil dakwar @jdakwar, 25 July 2016
Israel’s worst massacres in recent years, in Gaza, were Democrat massacres. This is why the “lesser evil” claim doesn’t ring true.
tweet via Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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I do believe that people should vote their conscience. If that means voting for Hillary, do it. But don’t tell me to violate my conscience.
tweet via Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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Remember that those who tell you to vote Democrat, always tell you that this particular Republican is the most dangerous ever.
tweet via Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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I didn’t vote for Obama to “stop” maniacally dangerous racist and warmonger McCain. Won’t vote for Hillary either.
tweet via Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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If I vote, it will probably be Green. A vote for Hillary is a vote to kill Palestinian children (and many others).
tweet via Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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People get that Trump is bad. It’s the notion that untrustworthy warmonger Hillary is the antidote that revolts them.
tweet via Ali Abunimal @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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Next to Hillary, Elizabeth Warren is surely the snakiest of Democrat snake oil sellers.
tweet via Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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Elizabeth Warren telling fanciful lies that bloodsoaked warmonger and dictator-supporter Hillary "fights for" children and human rights.
tweet via Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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This Hillary is remarkable: she spent her life tirelessly fighting for kids and the downtrodden while somehow amassing fabulous wealth.
tweet via Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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Family members of powerful can monetize their names, or use relationship to seek office themselves. Clintons masters of both.
tweet via Ali Abunimal @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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Michelle Obama is effective propagandist, humanizing her husband and helping people to forget about his horrific crimes.
tweet via Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
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One of the features of oligarchy is wives succeeding husbands, children succeeding parents. Enough of this.
tweet via Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah, 25 July 2016
The largest mechanical puppet ever built in Britain, Cornish Man Mining Engine, is unveiled in Tavistock. The epic 10 metre-high Cornish Man Mining Engine marks the 10th anniversary of the Cornwall and West Devon mining landscape being added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites: photo by Ben Birchall/PA Wire, 25 July 2016
The largest mechanical puppet ever built in Britain, Cornish Man Mining Engine, is unveiled in Tavistock. The epic 10 metre-high Cornish Man Mining Engine marks the 10th anniversary of the Cornwall and West Devon mining landscape being added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites: photo by Ben Birchall/PA Wire, 25 July 2016
Behemoth
Nobody ever said life on a planet controlled by the largest mechanical puppets ever built was going to be easy. If I vote, will I be able to get down the steps? I mean, if I am able to get down the steps, will I be able to vote? If I vote, it will probably be Green. I mean, it will be a vote in my own mind. I don't have to be able to get down the steps to be in my own mind, do I? A vote for Hillary is a vote to kill Palestinian children (and many others).
Nobody ever said life on a planet controlled by the largest mechanical puppets ever built was going to be easy. If I vote, will I be able to get down the steps? I mean, if I am able to get down the steps, will I be able to vote? If I vote, it will probably be Green. I mean, it will be a vote in my own mind. I don't have to be able to get down the steps to be in my own mind, do I? A vote for Hillary is a vote to kill Palestinian children (and many others).
I don't have to believe that's true, do I?
Well, in a way, I do. And it's getting late. And you have tomorrow, and the surgeon to see, so you are going to have to get down the steps, and I am not going to be able to help you. I saw Bill, ever the cavalier, helping Hill get up the steps of what looked a lot like one of those Air Force Ones, while she was running around campaigning. Do they have a whole fleet of those or what? Bill looks so dapper and slim and nimble these days, shameless old fool genius sly money and power accumulating fox that he is.
Still that's a lot of helping to be doing. Hope his back's okay. Is he on medicare?
Still that's a lot of helping to be doing. Hope his back's okay. Is he on medicare?
Does medicare provide very large mechanical puppets? What's that you say? Kind of clunky and noisy they'd be, though? Just thinking out loud. You don't have to say anything. You're supposed to be sleeping. No one is ever sleeping any more, here in the kingdom ruled over by giant mechanical puppets, naturally. Nothing like them has ever walked the Earth before. If you call that walking. Maybe we could get one fitted with those rubber cap thingies, what do they call them, cane tips, like they sell at Long's.
You know, like MegaHushPuppies? That could work. Yes.
You might be thinking He doesn't mean any of this. That would be one thing to think. And that wouldn't be the half of it. The whole of it would be meaning all of it. Or not meaning all of it. Or meaning the half of it and that's no more, so don't ask. That half just vanished. Thin air, like. No idea what's happened to it. The other half, here with me now, loyal, constant, large, dark, shaggy, half consoling, half menacing. That's it I can hear right now, an awful sound, a great muffled trundling. On the steps is it?
Small wonder you're having so much trouble sleeping.
The largest mechanical puppet ever built in Britain, Cornish Man Mining Engine, is unveiled in Tavistock to hundreds of people: photo via Guernsey Press, 25 July 2016
You know, like MegaHushPuppies? That could work. Yes.
You might be thinking He doesn't mean any of this. That would be one thing to think. And that wouldn't be the half of it. The whole of it would be meaning all of it. Or not meaning all of it. Or meaning the half of it and that's no more, so don't ask. That half just vanished. Thin air, like. No idea what's happened to it. The other half, here with me now, loyal, constant, large, dark, shaggy, half consoling, half menacing. That's it I can hear right now, an awful sound, a great muffled trundling. On the steps is it?
Small wonder you're having so much trouble sleeping.
The largest mechanical puppet ever built in Britain, Cornish Man Mining Engine, is unveiled in Tavistock to hundreds of people: photo via Guernsey Press, 25 July 2016
Bill Clinton helps Hillary Clinton up the steps of the plane: photo by Luke Frazza, 16 May 2016
Protesters supporting Bernie Sanders prepare for a demonstration in front of City Hall before the 2016 Democratic National Convention, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: photo by Tracie Vanauken / EPA, 25 July 2016
Protesters supporting Bernie Sanders prepare for a demonstration in front of City Hall before the 2016 Democratic National Convention, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: photo by Tracie Vanauken / EPA, 25 July 2016
Storm clouds are seen in the sky as people sit on Havana’s seafront boulevard El Malecon, Cuba: photo by Enrique de la Osa / Reuters, 25 July 2016
Nobody ever said it wasn't going to be hopeless. ;p
ReplyDeleteI still feel an urge to puke a little every time I remember Hillary "reminding" America how important the Reagans were in the fight against AIDS. C'est a rire. C'est a pleurer.
But then she suddenly converted to approving of gay marriage right about the time the poll numbers told her it was okay (nay, imperative) to do so.
"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man." (Or, in this case, a woman.)
But I prefer not to have missiles raining down on my head and the heads of those I care about. So we still must push this demagogue thing back into its hairy little hole. (Although it's looking bleaker and bleaker.)
William,
ReplyDeleteI totally hear you. I figure Drumpf means what he oinks when he says he intends to turn over all questions re management of the world (world beyond Murica and its New Great Wall that is) to "the military". This means he plans a Regime of the Generals, which makes sense for him because he cares/knows nothing about any millimetre of the planet from which he can not quickly and easily extract substantial personal profit using his usual business methods (cheating, lying, hustling &c). Maybe doesn't make so much sense for us because we remember the Generals are the instruments of the Permanent War Industry, which makes quick and easy profit everywhere always. But sharing a bit of the take with the Generals at least will...
And so on for that line of thought.
Haim Saban, the zillionaire egypto zionist tinkerer with murican elections, is laughing at me while I hunt and peck these silly-old-foolish words. He will make sure Hildebeest comes out okay (that is, ends up sitting down in the POTUS chair). Hildebeest IS the permanent war industry. She's not splitting the take with anybody, ever. You don't go from being merely a normal POS North Shore suburban rich girl to the driver's seat of the Permanent War machine by being dumb.
Anybody who believes Hildebeest will vacate her Neocon base and move to the Left to placate the Berners probably also believes there is a role for The Bern in any of this. Well indeed there is. It is the role of the silly old fool who got taken.
He had a chance to have his primetime moment by walking. He blew it. Silly, silly, silly old fool. Now when the missiles come raining down across that stretch of Earth where civilization supposedly began, he will be one of those we have to thank. And that will be no problem. For a while...
Try this another way. We've now heard Michelle prime-timing her own autobio slave narrative to whip the brozos up into a lather for the politician whose brilliantly apt true name she authored, she too is helping prepare the launch program. After the Coronation, Hildebeest won't need Generals. We saw her exulting in the war room playhouse right along with the brozos when they heroically executed the long range hit on Code Name Geronimo.
Anywhere the first missile falls will be here.
The cutesy comedian Sara Silverman could play the Slim Pickens role in the film, riding the warhead homeward. The residuals would be terrific.
Hi, Guys. I'm sorry to have to say I'm still going to vote for Clinton. Do I like her? No. Do I want her to be president? No. Do I disagree with anything either of you say? No. But I have two choices: her or Trump. One of them is going to be president. I gave up all my idealism and hope 30-40 years ago. Much as I don't want Clinton, her presidency leaves power in the hands that already have it. Trump's presidency puts power in the hands of what I deem to be even worse people. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteDon't be sorry, john, for doing the thing which anybody who works in and benefits by this system, which you don't like and don't believe in, in which you long ago lost all trust but which permits your cynicism while feeding you, ought to do, that is, doing your small bit to keep it in place because you deem some other arrangement might well be worse for you. The spreadsheet and powerpoint people who game the Her Show are counting on you and a whole lot of similar consuming units to do exactly that.
ReplyDeleteI'm counting on all of you to do just that, too.
On the other hand, if you didn't, I'd be mildly surprised; but from the looks of the dimensions of the money machine that's With Her, I don't think Her would be permitted to lose, one way or the other.
And hey Her has always been out there doing things for kids so you've got to know Her's got a big heart except that Her doesn't and when Her was legal counsel for Walmart (that great commitment to the underdog, again), though the company's use of child labour never seemed to interest Her, it was the women's interests, it was that glass ceiling always, the one that kept nagging at Her, the one in which, as Her's now told us from the 1984 MegaSkypeScreen, Her's just made "the biggest crack".
Of course these demographics are forever shifting sands so that in the past few days, as the numbers have been hinting that the Garden Party Feminism, with its pre-school brain, might not be strong enough, so maybe might not get foregrounded quite so much, in the bullet point charts, this week we might hear something else out of her.
To my ear Her relentless insatiable craving for power really only tunes in when Her goes to the straight up killer war hawk which releases the inner Her, and I expect Her to be talking no fly zones as early as Tuesday. That should do well.
Laura Caceres, the daughter of Berta Caceres, the Honduran indigenous activist who was murdered a few months ago by Her client puppets, has been in Philadelphia, not exactly singing I'm With Her. If she's still hanging around, I'd bet it is out there with the other non-compliers, in the rain, on the wrong side of the four mile security fence which now encloses the Her Zone.
Then there are the people of Venezuela, less than overjoyed with Her for attempting to run their country from Washington. The Her Show -- they're actually finding it offensive. But who are they? They don't have anything to eat. They'll get tired soon.
It's a bit like the Her donor who was a cancer patient, he was rewarded a seat at the table at a Her event but at the last minute he was bumped because a bigger donor wanted that coveted seat, and uh... You had to love the now disclosed inhouse "private" comment on that from the noble Jordan Kaplan, driver of the Her Train: "Unfortunately some people get sick". Feel the Love!
A couple of days ago, on the day Bill Peckerwood Clinton spun that lovely little romantic fable for us, a journalist interviewed some people in Sudan, who are still pointing to the ruins of the country's largest pharmaceutical plant, which Peckerwood Bill blew up because... well, he had, like, intel.
You can bet Her be toting heap big intel every minute. And next minute three two one... launch!
Boss drumpf now, no intel at all, foreign policy wildcard, no policy, make it up as you go... almost like, say, a Murican corporate marketing analyst, or a DNC election strategist. Instead of a committee of malign, selfish, power hungry intent, with a huge staff of industrious complicit lawyers and liars, you have a mere individual of malign, selfish, power hungry intent, with a huge army of Murican purebred morons behind him.
Her on other hand have many global friend, her have scaly back, poor underdog Israel, poor underdog Saudi, they need Her weapon system because of... what was it, existentialism?.
And out of all this, I guess, shall emerge, once more, Who We Are As A People.
So do have a nice vote!!