Tinidril

Removal from office takes a supermajority in the Senate, so maybe disqualification via the 14th does as well. That would presumably depend on Senate rules that currently don't cover it.

A simple majority ought to be sufficient, but it also ought to be sufficient for just about everything, but it's not.

That's a really simple world you live in. I don't think things are going to wind up the way you do, but only time will tell.

Lots of people share your perspective, but not as many as your bubble leads you to believe. The US has been against the ground war from the beginning, and the world knows it. A UN resolution calling for a ceasefire would be toothless and ineffective, and the world knows that too. It would only serve to undermine the authority of the UN. The ICJ already made demands of Israel (with US backing) and those demands are sitting in Netanyaho's waste basket.

It seems to me that the dollar has been losing its trade status for decades, while somehow never actually doing so. Weird that.

And the US is required to do all of that ourselves? This isn't a "tax dollars" thing, it's just that it seems a little insane to here zero criticism of countries sending in zero supplies while the US is the great Satan for bringing in what it can while negotiating to bring in more by other methods.

Yes, ground is best, but that has serious risks. Those convoys would need to be protected by soldiers. Should they be IDF? We know why that's not a great idea. Should they be US? What happens if they clash with Hamas? Is the US going to be pulled into the conflict? It sounds like bringing is supplies by sea is coming soon, and I know it's not soon enough.

I totally get how bad things are, and it makes me sick. However, I also know that it's totally possible to make things worse. This still has the ability to spread outside Gaza to a regional conflict.

Just in case it needs to be said, fuck Israel and Netanyaho. Also, in any conversation, "Bernie is right" is almost being redundant as far as I'm concerned. We absolutely need to do more, but the realities of the situation have to be navigated carefully.

Iran is the only ally Russia has that has a real interest in what Israel does to Palestine. If Iran has to choose between Russia and Palestine, that doesn't end well for Palestine. Countries have interests, not friends. Russia would leap at the chance to be Israel's protector while fighting the "Nazis" in Ukraine. It fits right in with their narrative and would make it harder for Europe to escalate aid to Ukraine.

Even if it's not Russia, you already named the other option. China would also love to give the US a black eye.

Biden has no interest in this genocide. It does nothing for him, it damages him politically, and his administration has been against it from the start. The reason he isn't doing what you think he should is exactly what I'm saying.

Biden is deeply flawed, but his delusion about being a man of principles is real. He does not want this to be his legacy.

I appreciate (and share) the desire, but the idea that the US can force Israel to leave Gaza isn't realistic.

US support for Israel is done in pursuit of US interests. Those interests aren't going away, and are neither particularly sinister nor altruistic. Israel depends on aid but, under Netanyaho, it doesn't care where that aid comes from. If the US pulls out, Russia has multiple incentives to take it's place. That is not an acceptable outcome for America, and would arguably be a disaster for Palestine too.

I do not argue that the Biden administration has done everything it should to restrain Israel but, from a cold foreign policy perspective, the leverage the US has is far more limited than people think.

Of course the US always has the capability to project military force into the situation, and Israel has no realistic means to resist that. However, I don't see where support would come from for such a move. It's not there internationally, domestically, or even popular with supporters of Palestine.

Flour massacre is fair. I'm not exactly stumping for Israel when I say that they would love to use another incident involving US troops as propaganda. Ultimately, Israel is at fault for their deaths no matter how it occurred.

Again, this was just the first drop, so the number of people needing food immediately is what's relevant. Air drops are a terribly inefficient way to do this, but they are also the safest for everyone. The air drops are expected to accelerate, and other methods of delivery are being negotiated. The appropriate response is "great, but we need more, and we need to make them unnecessary." Calling them "a fucking joke" is as likely to contribute to ending deliveries as it is to encourage accelerated deliveries.

That's why these are air drops. Short of Hamas (ineffectively) firing rockets at US aircraft, airdrops eliminate the risk of incidents like the flour riots.

According to UNRWA, the number of Palestinians currently in need of food assistance is more like 500k. 30k is a good start, especially when you consider that it was just the first drop. Negotiations are reportedly going well to start bringing in boats, but time will tell if Israel is as open to that as they claim.

Any boots on the ground, even those protecting aid workers, carry a risk of more incidents like the flour riots, so that's not going to happen without operational coordination agreements. Israel would love it if there were an incident between American soldiers and Palestinians. It would be a propaganda goldmine.

Don't forget the carbonation for cool looking bubbles!

That amount isn't much more than our shitty local emergency rooms charge for walking in the door.

A few years ago when I was working from home and on the phone all day, I much preferred my landline. My cell service was decent, but the landline was better. No dropped calls, no static or garbled audio (from my side anyways), and no latency causing me to talk over other callers. I always hated getting on calls when I was remote from my home office.

True, but not so much in this case. It was BLM, not the Democrats, and most Democrats rejected it. Biden even increased police funding in response.