After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
It also, for that matter, further disincentivizes the stronger side from seriously engaging in any kind of mediation to begin with, because mere entry into negotiations could lead to a diminishment in what it gets out of a deal. 🔥 🔥 🔥
And herein lies the explanation for those accusing [#Israel of #politicalTheater and in never being serious about negotiations and settlement]
"Throughout [Katie Britt's] remarks, her face was frozen into a ghastly cheerleader’s rictus—an effect that became especially gothic as she doted with unseemly relish on the details of alleged immigrant rape, sex-trafficking, and other mayhem."
"(What’s more, Britt’s central immigrant horror story turned out to be a repurposed saga of cartel-driven sexual abuse in Guadalajara dating from the second George W. Bush administration, which she dishonestly and cynically presented as an American calamity, authored by the immigration policies of Joe Biden.)"
"One thing I never thought I'd see was a Republican majority in the national legislature fail to pass a key vote on funding the national defense."
~ Charles Pierce
Republicans have loaded up the appropriation bill with poison pills targeting abortion and LGBTQ people, and when they can't get everything they want, they intend to shut the government down.
"Republicans have openly admitted that their efforts to impeach President Joe Biden — which will begin in earnest this week as House members return to DC from summer break — are in bad faith. They don’t just want to tarnish Biden. They want to tarnish the impeachment process itself."
"Trump not only needs the impeachment as a weapon of mass distraction, but also as an instrument of moral flattening. If everyone is a crook, no one is a crook. If everyone is impeached, then impeachment is no longer a badge of shame.
His own legal nightmare? Four indictments? Ninety-one felony charges? Whatabout Hunter’s laptop?"