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Hmmmm....what happened after World War 2 that destablized the entire region including Lebanon? I wonder.... Meanwhile from a more balanced account of how the Lebanese civil war started... https://www.britannica.com/event/Lebanese-Civil-War Background The causes of the war were multifaceted and deeply rooted but can be generalized as a growing crisis of insecurity. After he played a key role as commander of the army in resolving the crisis of a 1958 rebellion, the newly elected president Fuad Chehab made a valiant attempt to address the disproportionate development of the country and to centralize the state’s security apparatus. By the late 1960s, however, the development program he initiated proved politically unsatisfactory and had become a destabilizing force. The strengthened security apparatus, meanwhile, gained a reputation for suppression and corruption. The situation grew more precarious as the government negotiated the presence and operation of PLO guerrillas inside Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps, which had attracted Israeli raids on Lebanon, most notably on the airport in Beirut in 1968. As the state proved increasingly unable to maintain a monopoly of force, patronage networks, both existing and new, began arming and organizing their own security.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to TheTexan again.

So far there haven't even been any accusations of Haitians eating humans in America. Zero dividing by anything is still zero. But that's the funny thing about racism. It requires people to look at other people in terms of a group identity while allowing their own group the benefit of being individuals. Looking "per capita" the Haitians you're concerned about are less likely to be on drugs and more likely to show up to work on time than the white people around them "per capita." The white MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters in Springfiled Ohio were complaining that the Haitians had more welfare on their EBT cards than they did. I don't think refugees should be given welfare. But considering that they got it, this is what most likely happened. One person or more people in the household were getting EBT while others were working factory jobs. Since they didn't need the EBT and it rolls over each month that's how they were able to stack up $3,000. Trump was correct that people who were upset about him not paying taxes should change the law rather than bitching about him for taking advantage of it. Same with the migrants who stack up EBT. Maybe EBT payments shouldn't roll over for anybody. Certainly it shouldn't be given to migrants. But these white MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters could get off drugs and go get a job and get to work on time. That's what you would say if they were black and complaining about not getting enough welfare. And even people arguing against the Haitians haven't brought forward evidence that they aren't being paid above minimum wage. Example: https://www.newsweek.com/springfield-emblematic-americas-immigration-death-spiral-opinion-1953366 But today, a new threat is endangering the livelihood of Springfield's citizens: Employers are actively displacing the domestic workforce by hiring newly-arrived immigrants from Haiti. All this at a time when 7 million American men between the ages of 25 and 55 are unemployed, and almost three quarters of the U.S.'s employment growth has come from immigrants since 2019. And not everyone is embarrassed to admit it. "I wish I had 30 more

Yeah, now double check the date of that post before you say "either side" is one whit different from the other.

I said Trump didn't do a thing for him. You then said Trump had nothing to do with it, and added the usual accusation of derangement as if you hadn't agreed with me. Wise people don't cast aspersions on the sanity of people they're agreeing with.

https://x.com/GarbageHuman24/status/1845783272380670005 1845783272380670005

Truly next level, especially that stop trick he does... stopping the damn speed bag is way harder than it looks, total finesse! Amazing!! This is also why polite society is a must. This could be any random guy standing in the food court checkout line at the mall. Random tough-guy punk pulling at his waistband would be shredded into coleslaw by this guy. FAFO

Christ, no I had forgotten that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8x8vw4gwpo Georgia court dismisses two more charges against Trump A court in Georgia has dismissed two of the 10 criminal charges against Donald Trump and one other charge against his allies for alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Thursday that the southern state did not have the authority to bring the specific charges related to the alleged filing of false documents in federal court. Judge McAfee allowed the rest of the case to move forward, including eight charges against Trump, out of the original 13.

Looks like Trump is about to win again.

Do you remember this story? http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?546198-Nashville-COVID-19-FEMA-camp-confirmed&highlight=homeless+arrested+covid

https://x.com/AntiFeder1776/status/1845995104315888023 1845995104315888023

I was kind of thinking the same thing myself. Thanks for the input. Earlier in the race I didn't think the black vote was going to manifest itself, and it'd be the same old, same old, a GOP candidate pulling 8 or maybe 10 points of the black vote. I think that may have actually shifted now. We'll see shortly.

Remember this? Not too long after that debate, Kamala dropped out because her support, especially among black people, had cratered. Obama putting his support behind Biden helped Biden make it through the primary and that carried on into the general election. But people have not forgotten. There are a lot of left wing black people who can't stand Kamala. They don't like her stance on the Ukraine and Gaza wars. They don't like her wishy washy stance on the things they want like medicare for all. (I know that's not popular here. I'm explaining what others are saying). They see her as a war hawk and as an overzealous prosecutor. Some are upset about Biden / Harris prosecuting black people over going to the U.N. to talk about police brutality. (Very odd considering that the BLM hype train is part of what took Biden into the Whitehouse). And nobody thinks she's doing a good job on the border. The smartest thing that Governors Abbott and Desantis did was bus migrants to Democratic cities like Chicago and New York. Black people are seeing recent migrants taking resources that they feel should have gone to the community. For example a high school that had been closed was renovated at a cost of 1.5 million dollars to be used to house migrants. Some of these problems were surfacing back when Biden was the de facto nominee, but swapping horses with Kamala hasn't worked when her hooves are just as lame. See:

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https://x.com/NatCon2022/status/1845943553715065080 1845943553715065080

jmdrake What, in your opinion, is the Harris weak spot? Only 71 percent is significant. https://x.com/i/status/1845921310553096509 1845921310553096509

Go take some pictures.

This backlash was inevitable. I hope Michael Heise has a contingency plan in place because this was a very foreseeable eventuality. Deep State will even help scruffy pothead cultural libertarians if it helps oppose the Mises Caucus or anything associated with Mises.

Shooting near Tennessee State University leaves 1 dead, 9 injured, including children, officials say https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/12/us/nashville-shooting-near-tennessee-state-university/index.html Mon October 14, 2024 A man was killed and nine other people were injured in a shooting Saturday in North Nashville near Tennessee State University and investigators believe at least one of the injured participated in the gunfire, officials said. The shooting happened around 5 p.m., Nashville police and fire officials said at a news conference Saturday evening.

Then it was benevolent Christian conquerors. Now it is malignant Marxist conquerors. They take no prisoners.

Did he know yet he was talking about his opponent?

The deliberate destruction of the Democratic Party picks up steam. http://www.x.com/CollinRugg/status/1845872355605651900 1845872355605651900

Using a Kennedy to get the independent parties to shoot themselves in the foot. It has been quite the psyop. Must admit, that side gambit suckered me too.

That would be an appropriate capital for this banana republic.