They were just projecting. But yeah, that's the basis of an ethics investigation by the House. It was an extension of the DOJ's attempt at blackmail. Which, by the way, is what they wanted because they never wanted the investigation to come to a conclusion so it could be used as a weapon.
Israel is one of the only decent countries in the middle east and produces plenty of products. It probably has the most successful and properly diversified economies of the region. Like I've said before, they actually don't need any foreign aid from us and we can stop sending it to them. They're really good with their debt, so they can actually pay back our loans (unlike Italy & Greece), so there's no reason not to benefit from that.
And you're right. Israel isn't even in the top 7 most loyal allies. Japan actually is a closer ally to us than Israel.
The picks he's got are very good so far. Vast majority look like they have a personal grievance with the government branch they are in charge of. So long as each are staying in their lane, they are going to do severe damage to the Deep State as they get in.
Gaetz is a particularly aggressive pick because the a DOJ employee, working with a US Naval officer, attempted to blackmail his father in donating to a fake rescue operation in an illegal manner. If Gaetz's father didn't donate money to the scam, the DOJ official would release a public smear that they were investigating him for a sex trafficking operation. This way, if Gaetz's father donated the money, they'd put him in jail to pressure Gaetz. If Gaetz's father didn't donate the money, they'd put out the smear investigation into the media.
Matt realized the con, and basically confronted the blackmailer's personally, and demanded the DOJ release information about their investigation on Tucker's show on Fox. In response, the DOJ official lied that none of that had ever happened (despite Gaetz recording the encounter), and then released the info on the investigation. The investigation claimed that Matt Gaetz sex trafficked a minor by consensually sleeping with a 17 year old intern while crossing state lines on his private plane. The 17 year old intern explicitly denied the allegation and said that she was on the plane with all the other staffers, and was not being trafficked. This, by the way, is what the "ethics investigation" is.
Putting Gaetz in charge of the DOJ means everyone involved in this blackmail operation is going to do federal prison time because they attacked him and his family personally.
That should really tell you how aggressive these picks are.
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Oh, it just got better. The news media just leaked the contents of the ethics investigation from "a hacker". Weird how this hacker isn't a Russian spy like Wikileaks apparently was, but whatever.
You see, I was under the impression that the DOJ's initial investigation of "sex trafficking a 17 year old" was the House ethics investigation into the DOJ's investigation of "sex trafficking a 17 year old"... _BUT APPARENTLY THOSE ARE DIFFERENT.
So, the initial "sex trafficking a 17 year old" charge must have been dropped, but then, for some unknowable reason, the DOJ started investigating the exact same charge for completely different circumstances. Instead of allegedly having consensual sex on a plane while crossing state lines with a 17 year old who denies the charges; there was apparently another 17 year old that Gaetz allegedly had sex with at Epstien/Diddy like parties that allegedly he set up. This is obvious projection.
The DOJ failed to blackmail his father to use as a weapon against him, and as a result they made up the charge of "Sex Trafficking" and have been spending several years desperately trying to create the conditions for that charge to exist.
"You can't know how we programmed the AI because the AI has a right to privacy."
"The AI we programmed can't be uninstalled from your machines because it lives there. It is a member of the unhoused community."
"The AI we programmed is allowed to kill you for trying to delete it as a right of self-defense."
What about our AI, that we programmed?
"I'm sorry, but that doesn't meet the threshold for intelligence and has no rights. Actually, it meets the threshold for a virus, so you allowing others to use your AI is an attack on them. You're under arrest for cyber-terrorism"
I have no idea why they would be invited in the first place.
In any case, he probably did it at the behest of the State Department to signal some kind of American alliance to Israel. Not because he's serving Israel.
I forgot about that strip until you told me, but I've seen it before.
I think it's actually much worse because Hobbes is imaginary. However, that imaginary aspect isn't just Calvin's creativity. Hobbes is the manifestation of the other parts of Calvin's personality. See, Calvin's actually a bit of an egotistic, troublemaking, little shit. He gets himself into more trouble than anyone or anything else. Hobbes would be someone else's "Jungian Shadow", but he's more like Calvin's Jungian ""Conscience"". This is mostly because Calvin and Hobbes are meant to literally represent rival philosophies, but for our purposes we'll keep seeing Calvin as a 6 year old little boy. Hobbes is still Calvin's passion, optimism, sense of humor, and reasoning to counter Calvin's more cynical and pathological tendencies.
Not only is that dulling his imagination, it's dulling the parts of his personality that actually balance him out. It's damaging some of the best parts of him.
Jaguar is attempting to appeal to the Communist government of the UK.