Because Trump 2.0

[sunday]

30 minutes ago, X-Files said:

Have your phone ready next time and upload the answer straight to Instagram.

That would be too much of a discourtesy.

He was very kind with a random stranger.

[sunday]

Bibi states that he does not control Trump.

 

[DKTanker]

21 minutes ago, sunday said:

Bibi states that he does not control Trump.

Tell you what, start a new reconquista there in Spain and leave us here in the USA out of your Jewish problem.

[sunday]

 

Edited September 29 by sunday

[Ivanhoe]

KC-135s converging on America's Aircraft Carrier;

 

 

 

[rmgill]

18 hours ago, DKTanker said:

Tell you what, start a new reconquista there in Spain and leave us here in the USA out of your Jewish problem.

Why do folks in Iberia have such a hard on for Jews? 

[rmgill]

2 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

KC-135s converging on America's Aircraft Carrier;

 

 

 

And they're pushing out of where? Whiteman? 

Where are the B-2s? 

[sunday]

11 minutes ago, rmgill said:

Why do folks in Iberia have such a hard on for Jews? 

Does that expression mean to have some kind of unexplainable, unhealthy attraction to something or someone?

[rmgill]

4 minutes ago, sunday said:

Does that expression mean to have some kind of unexplainable, unhealthy attraction to something or someone?

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/have+a+hard+on+for+us


It can be somewhat confusing and very contextual. The 1st is a vulgar slang for attraction/ The second is a desire to do damage or harm to or revenge upon. 

I, of course, mean the second. 

Capiche?

Edited September 29 by rmgill

[sunday]

Nope. A Catholic can not be an Antisemite, nor he can be a Zionist.

Several Popes, St. Pius X, and Venerable Pius XII, left that very clear, with their word, their writings, and their works. The humanitarian work of Pope Pius XII was one of the reasons for Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome, to ask to be received in the Roman Catholic Church.

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Conversion to Catholicism

In his autobiography, Before the Dawn: Autobiographical Reflections by Eugenio Zolli, Former Chief Rabbi of Rome, Zolli said that while presiding over the religious service in the synagogue on the holy day of Yom Kippur in 1944, he experienced a vision of Jesus. Within his heart, he says, he found the words "You are here for the last time."[11]

On 13 February 1945, Zolli, his second wife, and daughter converted to Catholicism (his first wife having died years earlier). He was baptized at Gregorian University by Mgr. Luigi Traglia in the presence of Father Paolo Dezza; his godfather was Father Augustin Bea, confessor of Pope Pius XII. Zolli chose to be christened "Eugenio Maria" in homage to Pope Pius XII, who was born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli.[citation needed]

After his conversion, Zolli was asked in an interview why he had "given up the Synagogue for the Church." Zolli responded saying, "But I have not given it up. Christianity is the completion or crown of the Synagogue. For, the Synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise. The Synagogue pointed to Christianity: Christianity presupposes the Synagogue. So you see, one cannot exist without the other. What I converted to was the living Christianity."[12]

I should write again that Spain saved more Hebrew people during WWII that all the democracies put together. That is not something an Antisemitic country does.

Also, as a non-Zionist country, Spain refused to recognise the state of Israel. Then, there is the strange happening of the country that saved a lot of Jewish people being considered Antisemitic.

Some people still think of Pius XII as "Hitler's Pope", so humanity does not make logical sense sometimes.

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[rmgill]

6 minutes ago, sunday said:

Nope. A Catholic can not be an Antisemite, nor he can be a Zionist.

The Jews killed, abused or victimized in the many pogroms over the centuries in Europe would be pleased to know that. 

 

6 minutes ago, sunday said:

Also, as a non-Zionist country, Spain refused to recognise the state of Israel. Then, there is the strange happening of the country that saved a lot of Jewish people being considered Antisemitic.

Non-Zionist? 

Should Spain be returned to France? 

[sunday]

Ryan, you are Stuarting here.

[Murph]

YouTube just agreed to pay President (I love that word) Trump $24.5 million dollars to settle the suit over them illegally shutting down his YouTube channel.  So much winning.  

YouTube agreed to pay President Trump a $24.5 million settlement in his lawsuit against the tech giant for banning his account in January 2021.

President Trump previously filed a lawsuit against YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook after the tech giants banned his accounts following the January 6 Capitol riot.

“We’re demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know so well,” Mr. Trump said in July 2021. “I am confident that we will achieve a historic victory for American freedom and at the same time freedom of speech.”

Trump’s lawyers asked the Court to prevent the tech giants from “exercising censorship” or “editorial control” over the posts of a US president.

 

According to The Wall Street Journal, YouTube agreed to pay a $24.5 million settlement after Meta agreed to pay Trump $25 million and Twitter/X paid $10 million

 

[rmgill]

6 hours ago, sunday said:

Ryan, you are Stuarting here.

No, I didn't post 5 pages of text to say it. 

If anything, I'm Simon'ing. 😉

Less succinctly, why not recognize Israel and do recognize any other country not born the way Spain was? Does Spain Recognize Poland? Pakistan? India? Bangladesh? 

Edited September 30 by rmgill

[sunday]

Currently Spain recognizes the State of Israel since January 17th, 1986. I think there are good, practical reasons do do so.

If you were unaware of Spain recognizing Israel, and expressed some opinion based on that misapprehension, then you were Stuarting.

[Mr King]

Trump dabbles in AI and memes on the dems 

 

 

[rmgill]

3 hours ago, sunday said:

Currently Spain recognizes the State of Israel since January 17th, 1986. I think there are good, practical reasons do do so.

Seems a but late. But ok. 

3 hours ago, sunday said:

If you were unaware of Spain recognizing Israel, and expressed some opinion based on that misapprehension, then you were Stuarting.

I was trusting your assertion as a true statement. Sorry. Would you like me to stop doing that? 

[seahawk]

1 hour ago, rmgill said:

Seems a but late. But ok. 

 

Developing a relationship between Israel and Franco Spain was obviously a bit difficult for both sides. 

It started back in 1949, when Franco was making overtures towards Israel, but was rejected for being an ally of Hitler. This escalated when Israel voted against the lifting of sanctions on Spain in the UN in 1949. 

Which practically meant that the relationship between the Arab nations and Spain improved, as the enemy of my enemy is my friend. 

The later democratic governments slowly reversed course, but mainly due to pressure from other European states and Spain's desire to join the European Economic Community. 

[Rick]

17 hours ago, sunday said:

Ryan, you are Stuarting here.

Duels have been fought over lesser words.

[rmgill]

I was contemplating this in the shower this morning. It occurred to me that I really didn't care what Spain thought of Israel. Was Spain ever really important in the post WWII environment? They weren't really a major factor other than geographically, but not even worth a deployment of troops in WWII. The UK had and had Gibraltar.

Mox Nix eh? 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/09/28/albany-man-arrested-after-he-confesses-to-killing-his-parents-on-live-tv/
 

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An upstate New York man was arrested this week moments after he left a TV studio where he confessed in an on-camera interview that he had killed his parents.

Lorenz Kraus, 53, made the disturbing confession to CBS6 in Albany on Thursday, admitting that he killed his parents eight years ago. Kraus was at the station to respond to police recovering two bodies on his property the day before.

 

 

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The discovery of the bodies by police was the result of an investigation that found that Kraus had allegedly been collecting his parents’ social security benefits and using the funds for his own personal use.

The Social Security Administration had requested police go to the Kraus home for a welfare check.

 

This is one of those things where the SSA tries to catch fraud, but there is so much of it. 

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Kraus also made a presidential run as a Democrat in New Hampshire in 2020, Albany’s Times Union reported.  He campaigned on a platform of dissolving the presidency and promoted a series of antisemitic conspiracy theories, according to the newspaper.

The Albany newspaper also reported Kraus’s conspiracy-driven online posts over recent years revealed a hatred of the British, the Council on Foreign Relations, Freemasons, and Jews.

In a 2020 interview, while running for president, “Kraus called Trump a ‘lunatic zionist waving a gun in everyones face,’ when asked if he was a nationalist.”

 

You knew that was coming, didn't you?

[Ivanhoe]

https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2025/09/29/doj-turns-the-tables-on-the-left-files-face-act-suit-against-violent-mob-at-nj-synagogue-n4944260
 

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Back in June, our own Rick Moran detailed how the Trump administration had planned to turn the left’s strategies on them by using the FACE Act to protect houses of worship — a part of the law the Democrats have conveniently ignored. 

Today Trump’s DOJ made good on that promise. Earlier this afternoon, the Department of Justice filed a civil complaint under the FACE Act against “entities and individuals who targeted a synagogue in West Orange, New Jersey, during a November 2024 protest that escalated into violence.” 

Those entities and individuals include the Party for Socialism and Liberation of New Jersey; American Muslims for Palestine New Jersey; Tova Fry (aka Terry Kay); Altaf Sharif; Matt Dragon; and Eric Camins. 

Last November, members of the Jewish community made plans for two gatherings: an Israel real estate seminar and a celebration. While the original site of the events was to be the home of a community member, it had to be moved to a nearby synagogue due to what the JewishLink news site called “multiple threats from pro-Hamas groups and protesters stalking the (member’s) home.” 

The JewishLink report added, “Despite efforts to keep the new location private, pro-Hamas protesters discovered the venue. They stormed the quiet neighborhood, chanting ‘Zionists are Nazis,’ ‘Intifada, Intifada’ and ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.’” 

 

Good, but its only a start. 

[sunday]

2 hours ago, rmgill said:

I was contemplating this in the shower this morning. It occurred to me that I really didn't care what Spain thought of Israel. Was Spain ever really important in the post WWII environment? They weren't really a major factor other than geographically, but not even worth a deployment of troops in WWII. The UK had and had Gibraltar.

Mox Nix eh? 

The stance of modern Spain on Israel it is not a big deal, really. Despite some propaganda movements by our sorry excuse of a PM to deviate attention from multiple corruption issues haunting him and his family, the stance of the country has not changed.

So please do not waste time on it.

[sunday]

On 9/28/2025 at 6:30 PM, X-Files said:

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Hegseth is on fire!

But that could also means there is a war coming.

 

[sunday]

3 hours ago, Rick said:

Duels have been fought over lesser words.

To write opinions about topics one does not fully understand is not right. To maintain those opinions in front of evidence, written sources, and the like that show the opinions not matching reality is worse still.

We have seen a lot of that going around in this grate sight, but usually only on topics that had not been established fully, like covid, or military conflicts in development. In that kind of topics one often arrives at a conclusion that could be at odds with later known data.

One of the excellent aspects of this Grate Sight is the use of the sentence "I stand corrected" when someone was shown the real goods, and went to recognize his mistake. Nowadays it is not rare to move the topic of the discussion to a more or less related aspect of the same topic, to change the topic anyway, or simply doubling down.