No you don’t. That’s the whole point. You don’t. You may have fear, but it’s not repeat not the same fear.
A man can’t possibly have “the same fear” of men as women do, because the fear that women have is rooted in the built-in physical differences between women and men. Men are much stronger than women, and that includes Mister Molly, because he is a man. It’s so annoying, this constant sneering gloating jeering misappropriation of the fact that we are at a disadvantage and he is not.
Another progressive man steps up to the plate.
[Actor Wil] Wheaton also had sharp words for the author and creator of the Harry Potter franchise, J.K. Rowling, whose views on trans people have drawn widespread criticism.
“J.K. Rowling’s a piece of shit,” says Wheaton. “She’s a hateful, disgusting, despicable human being. She gets off on the suffering of others. I don’t know what her fucking problem is. I don’t know why she can’t leave people alone. I hate her, and what I want everyone to understand is, when you watch this program, you are putting money in her pocket that she turns around and spends to hurt people.”
Wheaton adds that he thinks everyone involved in producing the new Harry Potter series “should be deeply ashamed of themselves.”
Just another day in Tinseltown.
He’s not just yelling, he’s taking his revenge.
The US has announced it will impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), hours after one of its former judges was given the Nobel Peace Prize, which Donald Trump covets.
While the White House has previously targeted individuals and other groups linked to the ICC, the latest measures announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio are on the court itself.
US allies including Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom and several European nations criticised the sanctions, which will freeze the court’s assets in the US, as well as block financial transactions and IT agreements the ICC has with US companies.
Well Japan, Canada, the UK and several effete libbrul Yuruppean nations should slap themselves upside the head and get with the program.
Mr Trump has made it clear for several years he believes he deserves the award, which is judged by an independent panel in Norway.
Well yes, he has, and that’s what’s so excruciatingly cringey. You’re not supposed to make these things clear. EVER. You’re even more not supposed to go around demanding them as if they were an order of fries.
The Guardian’s take on the subject:
At what was supposed to be a rally for other Republican candidates in Syracuse, New York, the US president devoted a long portion of his speech airing his grievances with the Nobel committee.
“The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel peace prize, but didn’t. And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway, and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision,” Trump said.
Should have why? He doesn’t explain. He does assertion; he does not do explanation.
“The Nobel peace prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilization,” Trump went on. “We will not forget, Norway, that you didn’t give this prize.”
Even after all this time, one can’t help wondering how he manages to think this is a good look. He might as well be taking all his clothes off and lying on the floor kicking and screaming. He couldn’t be more blatantly infantile and out of control if he tried. He might as well wear a sweatshirt with “Prefrontal cortex completely gone” on the front and back.
Trump is chatting about the Nobel Peace Prize with his usual dignity and stoicism.
Trump overnight delivered a lengthy, scathing rant on the decision to award South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay the Nobel Peace Prize.
In a post on Truth social, Trump called the decision an “indelible stain on Norway” as he dismissed Pillay’s career and touted his own diplomatic record.
“I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel,” he wrote, adding: “I don’t know what the woman has done.”
Where to begin. He starts with claiming no one ever heard of Pillay only to contradict himself without even starting a new sentence. No one ever heard of her except that they have heard of her, very obviously. Is he able to pick his own nose without assistance?
The post came after the president had already lambasted the award decision while speaking at a campaign rally in Syracuse, New York, on Friday, where he branded it as “disgraceful and embarrassing.”
You know what and who is really disgraceful and embarrassing?
Now why would they do that?
Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, putting Washington on a diplomatic collision course with European allies.
The court denounced the move as an “assault on the rule of law and on the very foundations of the international legal order,” and called on its 125 member states to take action to defend it.
It’s such a good look, too. Buffoon in blue suit does not win a prize so he tries to punish people who do better things than he does.
“President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement, first published by Reuters.
Yeah see that’s gangster talk. We don’t get impunity. We don’t deserve impunity. We deserve it a whole lot less now in the wake of Trump’s many violations of human rights.
“That is why, today, the United States is sanctioning the International Criminal Court. We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate.”
They want violations of human rights. They need violations of human rights. See Colonel Jessup on the stand.
It’s a very good look for US officials to be trying to plough under the International Criminal Court. It’s a bit like a bank robber slashing the tires of all the local police cars.
The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal over investigations into the United States and its allies, including Israel.
Oh, they want to investigate us? Well we can’t allow that; get rid of them.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions Friday, after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former judge at the ICC and other international courts. Trump has coveted that prize for himself.
Trump has also started a war of choice. He can covet a blow job from God Himself if he wants to, but he’s not going to get one, and he’s also not going to get any peace prize from anyone but his own stooges.
“We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us,” Rubio said in a video address posted to social media. “The United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC.”
Then nobody is. If we’re not, why is anyone else? Do explain; we’re all agog.
The sanctions cut the court off from U.S.-based financial services, technology companies and even using U.S. dollars. They set a six-month timeline for U.S. companies and individuals that have business with the court to wind that business down.
The ICC denounced the step as an attack on the rule of law and the foundations of international order, themes that Rubio had appeared to embrace only two days ago in a speech in front of the Acropolis in Athens.
“It is an attempt to obstruct the course of justice and to prevent the court from doing what it was created to do,” the court said in a statement. “It is an assault on the rule of law and on the very foundations of the international legal order which strikes at the simple principle that no one stands above the law.”
Ah but you see that simple principle would mean that Donald Trump does not stand above the law, and they can’t be doing with that.
ICC President Tomoko Akane, a citizen of U.S. ally Japan, said the court would “continue to fully discharge its mandate, with independence and impartiality, acting only on the basis of the law and the evidence, for the sake of the countless victims of grave crimes.”
She also appealed to other ICC members for support. “This is not just about defending a single institution, but about safeguarding the international order grounded upon the rule of law.”
Trump doesn’t want an international order grounded upon the rule of law unless it issues him an absolute exemption before it does anything else.
In a joint statement, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom expressed strong disagreement with the U.S. sanctions.
Um…er…well we don’t see the Soviet Union or China or Afghanistan there, so who cares? Right?
But wait there’s even more.
The Justice Department presented evidence to a federal grand jury this weekin a case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who was a key witness for a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Federal officials have accused Hutchinson of lying to lawmakers when she testified about the events surrounding the Capitol attack, said the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
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The active federal grand jury investigation against Hutchinson in D.C. is the latest example of the Justice Department wielding its law enforcement powers against perceived foes of President Donald Trump. The investigation around Hutchinson began under then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was fired by Trump in April in part because he thought she was moving too slowly in cases against his adversaries, the people familiar said.
Move fast and break things, right?
Trump fails to win Nobel Peace Prize again.
In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a leading international lawyer and judge, the Nobel Committee has affirmed the importance of international law at a moment when it is under threat, in what amounts to an implicit rebuke of President Trump and other world leaders who are increasingly hostile to that system.
“In awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law — national and international — underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts nonviolently,” the committee said in its prize announcement on Friday. But today, it continued, the judges on international courts who “guard the thin red line between order and chaos” are “sanctioned, and their institutions are attacked.”
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At a brief news conference in Nuremberg, Germany, Navi Pillay said she dedicated her award to “the survivors of international crimes and to the defenders of international justice.” She mused that “perhaps it was meant to be” that she received the news in a city whose famous post-war trials of Nazi leaders were foundational to creating the modern international justice system. But she offered a warning, too, saying that efforts to undermine the system “risk returning us to a world in which power rather than law determines whose suffering matters.”
Trump is seeking his revenge.
Hours after the prize was awarded, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new sanctions on the International Criminal Court. “We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate,” he said in a statement.
The U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, condemned the action, calling it a “serious blow to our collective pursuit of international criminal justice, of which the I.C.C. is a key pillar.” Earlier Friday, he praised the Nobel committee for awarding the Peace Prize to Pillay, a former I.C.C. judge. Guterres’s dual statements captured the challenges he has faced in dealing with the United States, once regarded as the pillar of international order and law.
But now just a playpen for the worst human on the planet.
One of Navi Pillay’s contributions to international law is her pioneering work on the gravity of sexual violence during conflict. As a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, she pushed from the bench to define the rape of women and children as a weapon of war instead of “collateral damage.” In 1998, when that tribunal found a former Rwandan mayor guilty of genocide, it was the first time that rape had been defined as part of genocide. Sexual violence has since been integrated in international law as a potential war crime, a crime against humanity or an act of genocide.
Women are, after all, human.
Hmm. If Dr Aladwan is a medical doctor I recommend not going to her with your flu/migraine/GI disruption.
This seems a tad dangerous…
They’re making a plan to steal the election and trigger a civil war?
I can’t help thinking that’s not a very good plan.
This is hilarious but also horrifying. It’s called perseveration and it is NOT a good sign.
Listen, if you get the guy a pardon, you deserve a little respect, know what I mean?
Last year, Donald Trump pardoned Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, who was under indictment for federal bribery charges. All he expected in return was that Cuellar, out of gratitude, would immediately switch parties and become a Republican. To his shock, Cuellar never did. “Many considered this to be a tremendous act of disloyalty,” Trump fumed on Truth Social last night, “and certainly showed him to be an extremely ungrateful person.”
Don Don Don Don. You’re not supposed to say these things in public! You’re not supposed to admit you expect a quid pro quo when you pardon people!
He then encouraged Texas voters to vote Cuellar out in November. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: It’s genuinely amazing how little Trump tries to hide his own mob-boss style.
It’s beyond even how little he tries to hide it, it’s at how much he tries to advertise it.
The Defense Department said in a statement Thursday that the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed for the public to watch.
Oh come on. That’s barbaric.
The announcement came after earlier comments Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made indicating he wanted the execution to be public.
“He’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview with far-right political activist Jack Posobiec. “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it’s public. Because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.”
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Hasan, an American-born Muslim, killed 13 people and injured 32 others at the Central Texas Army post where troops were preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.He shouted “Allahu akbar!” meaning “God is great,” before targeting soldiers with a handgun he had fitted with laser sights.
Serious consequences are one thing, and showing the serious consequences on television is another thing.
