Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

Appeasing them would antagonise many non-Muslim voters who are old enough to remember September 11th 2001. Muslims are still a minority in the US.

No Israeli had of government has ever expressed a desire to wipe a country off a map.

Now why would you make such an absurd and easily disproven claim?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-map

Israel being a flawed democracy doesn't mean people have to be comfortable with it having WMDs. Your statements about Iran and its leadership are apropos of nothing in the quote you've replied to.

And Trump wants to do a Chamberlain again by giving away Ukraine or most of it to Russia. How do you think that will turn out?

Most countries however have recognized Palestine. Including Ireland.

Israel and its leaders have called for wiping Palestine, a country, off the map. 'It's okay to wipe these people out because I choose to pretend its not a country' is a rather genocidal cop-out, to be perfectly honest. Whether the Rand McNally or National Geographic atlas recognizes Palestine as a country or not the nuclear fallout would still be the same as a result of a nuclear mass destruction by the way. Nuclear radiation doesn't differentiate your politics from someone else's, it ionizes all the same.

I said "most of the Western countries" haven't recognised Palestine. No Israeli prime minister has ever expressed a desire to exterminate the Palestinian people. When Golda Meir said that there was no such thing as a Palestinian people she meant that they're ethnically the same as Jordanians, Lebanese, Iraqis, Saudis etc.

Hamas started this war. Even if the Gazan health ministry's death toll is true, it includes terrorists and is only 2% of the Gaza Strip's population (2.3 million) as of 7 October 2023. Hamas hides behind civilians. To accuse Israel of exterminating Palestinians is like accusing the Allies of exterminating French people because of the deaths of civilians in air raids that were aimed at German forces in France in 1944.

By the way, it wasn't the prime minister who made the "nuking Gaza" comment - the offending minister was suspended.

In Israel, women are not being attacked by police for refusing to wear headscarves and homosexuals are not being hanged. Therefore, there is a difference between a country like Israel or the US or the UK having nukes and a country like Iran having nukes.

Of course "only 2% " is 2% too many, but the context is the accusation of genocide against Israel. If over a full year they have killed 2% it's hardly genocide from what is one of the world's most powerful military machines.

And I am not using this as any kind of excuse for Israel's tactics or strategy, just in case there is the usual pile-on

Surprise, Florida.

Milton has been named and forming out of the gulf and headed East, it will be a major hurricane at landfall on Oct 9th with projection currently centering on Tampa Bay.

It's a highly unusual but not unheard of vector for a tropical depression/storm, like Josephine 1996, but starting in the gulf like this is very rare, and most never get strong enough to get named much less reach Hurricane category, this will be a Category 3+

Like Helene, this has the potential to reshape the nature of the race. I would anticipate Biden will be pre-empting Trump's efforts to spread disinformation and conspiracy theories especially about FEMA and disaster relief. As it now stands over $100M has been spent for relief of Helene so far, with $34Bn in damage estimated so far.

When Republicans punted with a continuing resolution the other week it put $20 Bn in FEMA's coffers but that doesn't all just go to Helene either, it also has to fund the agency for near future disasters and all previous disasters it is still providing recovery funds for, just since 2023, there have been 265 qualifying projects it is responsible for. Some of those are different project areas of the same disaster, like Helene, across various jurisdictions and states, but also includes all manner of disasters like fires, and storms earlier in the season like TS Debbie.

It will be up to the House (Origination Clause, Appropriations Clause) to pass a Helene and/or Milton relief bill to address them specifically if they so choose. Speaker Johnson seemed nonchalant about appropriating more relief for Helene earlier this week saying it was likely to be brought to the floor but he indicated it was very unlikely he will call the House back into emergency session before their recess ends on November 12, the week after the election.

There have been various reports this election cycle that maybe Florida is in play on the electoral college. I don't know if this will change anything or make this more likely to be the case, but it is something to consider worth monitoring. If by some … 'act of God' (…), Harris did win Florida, Trump has no viable path to the Presidency. If Harris repeated Biden's 2020 map and picked up Florida it would be a blowout of 333-205

And, like clockwork, the Trumplodytes threaten the judge. Because, you know, they're 'fine people.'

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/colorado-judge-sentenced-election-denier-tina-peters-prison-114519167

So what's the consensus on Musks performance at Trump's latest rally? Will it turn any undecided to Trump's side?

"Grovelling little bástárd"

90% of people influenced/swayed by Musk are probably in the MAGA camp already, so won't do much. All it was was an opportunity for him to bend the knee and lick the boot.