There's a significant difference between an oligarchic kleptocracy that has to pretend to be a representative democracy and an oligarchic kleptocracy that doesn't have to bother pretending to be anything else.
Gee whiz - who'd've thought that the woman who married a rich guy who looks (and notoriously smells) like a gigantic ambulatory drain clog would be so mercenary.
So we're supposed to believe that Israel is only at this late date "ready to risk (an) all-out war" that it in fact has brazenly and obviously been trying to provoke for months now?
There actually is a statistical correlation between conservative, anti-trans political affiliation and a preference for transgender porn, and Texas leads the nation in searches for transgender porn.
Seriously, WHAT is THE DEAL with conservative disinformationists scattering ALL-CAPS WORDS throughout EVERYTHING they WRITE?
My THEORY is that it's MEANT as a SUBSTITUTE for LOGIC and REASON - that in LIEU of saying things that are ACTUALLY logical, reasonable or true, they JUST say things really LOUDLY.
It MUST be TRUE because it's so EMPHATIC, right?
And it PROBABLY triggers a PAVLOVIAN response in the DUNDERHEADS who READ it. "LOOK at all the CAPS! This is MY kind of TRUTHINESS!"
It's really a very simple calculus - any deal is going to include a timeline for Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, and if Netanyahu signs off on a deal that includes a withdrawal from Gaza, the hard right assholes are going to turn on him. And if the hard right assholes turn on him, he's not going to be able to hold onto the office. And if he doesn't hold onto the office, he's likely going to jail, because he's not just a psychopathic piece of shit, but a grotesquely corrupt psychopathic piece of shit.
And that's really the whole deal right there - tens and potentially hundreds of thousands of people are dying and millions of people are displaced all so that one grotesquely corrupt psychopathic piece of shit can evade justice.
It amuses the hell out of me every time the conservatives whine about their brazen disinformation getting censored, since whenenver and wherever they get an opportunity (including, especially ironically, Facebook), they reveal themselves to be the most cowardly censorious people on the planet.
Everywhere, without exception, where conservatives have control, anything that even hints at undermining their comforting delusions is instantly censored.
But if anybody dares to censor anything they might want to say, including overt and deliberate lies, they wail and cry like the spoiled children they are.
What's with this mealy-mouthed "extremists" stuff?
The Israeli government overtly supports the illegal settlers, and the IDF and the police actually distribute the weapons with which they then terrorize and murder Palestinians.
It's not just "extremists" - it's Israeli government policy in action.
So the unspoken bit about RFK Jr. is that he's a tweaker, right?
I mean, the details are all in the context of politically entitled progeny, but the underlying vibe I get from the stories about him is very reminiscent of the tweakers I've known over the years.
Why would they even need to "grow?" This is just June and July all over again, with the only difference being that Hamas isn't buying any of it this time around.
The Biden administration isn't trying to negotiate anything. It's just trying to strike a pose to dodge the entirely deserved condemnation it's getting for enabling a genocide while continuing to enable a genocide.
As intended. The wealthy few don't buy Supreme Court justices for no reason.
The decisions aren't just about undermining climate policies - they're more broadly about eliminating any impediments to the wealthy and empowered few raping and pillaging to their hearts' content, entirely free of any threat of consequences. But that's ncessarily largely about climate, since that's one of the most notable areas in which the wealthy few are causing significant direct and measurable harm and thus are most eager to avoid the consequences they so richly deserve.
That word "overt" isn't there by accident.
There's a significant difference between an oligarchic kleptocracy that has to pretend to be a representative democracy and an oligarchic kleptocracy that doesn't have to bother pretending to be anything else.