IRAQ: Rocket strikes reported at US-Iraqi military base near Baghdad airport

[Wanderfound]

CNN (CNN)

Nima Shirazi (WideAsleepNima)

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[anon15383236]

“Daddy Warbucks” was a fictional American character with a solid basis in reality.

[someguy]

I was sure that had to be Petri. Almost didn’t click just in case, but it is. Phew.

He does not randomly turn on the TV and implement whatever the blondest man suggests.

[d_r]

Yeah, when I first clicked the link at WaPo I was afraid it might be to one of their resident jackasses. I assume it is being avoided here at BB for the same reason.

[someguy]

I will forever love that the White House actually featured one of her columns.

Opinion | How the White House made me Real News

[LurksNoMore]

My favorite part:

As we walk down a road whose end not even experts can possibly guess, who better than Donald Trump to lead us? He is no expert. Who would you rather have steering this country through a nerve-racking and divisive period than Donald Trump, with his keen sense of history and equally keen sense of reality? And if things go south, whom else would I trust to keep an even keel and figure out solutions in a clearheaded manner? What name could possibly leap to mind before the name “Donald Trump”?

[74hc595]

@Wanderfound

Double-tap strike. Deliberately engineered to maximise the number of casualties amongst medics and rescuers.

Double-tap strikes are terrorism, plain and simple.
Aside from that it’s disturbing that US decided to do such thing on a territory of allied country. Normally it would be equivalent to diplomatic suicide.

@Wanderfound

TLDR: when your country is the aggressor in an unjust war, you have an ethical duty to make sure that the aggressor loses.

I completely agree with that idea. Sadly the country he helped create rapidly became a monstrosity, waging unjust wars itself:

Soviet invasion of Poland

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

And other, unspeakable atrocities (like famine in Ukraine).

[anon73430903]

@Carbonman

What about Barron Trump? He looks fit enough and will be draftable in another 4 years, 3 months.

I want to imagine he’s secretly reading Kropotkin, Bookchin, Malatesta and Goldman in his bedroom and telling his father it’s porn.

It’s the one hope I have left, please don’t take it from me.

[DukeTrout]

Follow-up:

I participated in the protest gathering last night organized by the DSA. There were hundreds of people (maybe 500-ish?), which is not bad turnout for a protest organized in less than 12 hours. I was late, since it started right around the time I get off work, but there was a nice crowd. Definitely a “big tent” event, with very mainstream-looking folks like myself right next to radical-types. Not a lot of shouting, but good speakers and very serious faces.

[CanadianBeaver]

What name could possibly leap to mind before the name “Donald Trump”?