Good morning! Today will be cloudy, with a high of 64 degrees. The low is that the Seattle City Council will likely pass some carceral policies this afternoon.
The council is scheduled to vote on the Stay Out of Drug Area (SODA) zones, the Stay Out of Area Prostitution (SOAP) zone, and the prostitution loitering law later today. These new laws basically allow judges to banish people from certain parts of the city if they’ve committed certain crimes. They also allow cops to arrest you for prostitution and promoting prostitution if you’re kind of giving off those vibes, no real evidence required. A long list of organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU), oppose this legislation, but that hasn’t slowed down the city council.
In fact, even after the ACLU argued that the laws could violate constitutional rights, the council expanded the zones, including the addition of a SODA zone along Broadway on Capitol Hill. You can thank the Capitol Hill Business Association (CHBA) for that. They said the downtown SODA zone could push drug activity up to the Hill, so they demanded their own zone. Of course, their zone will just push drug activity to other parts of Capitol Hill.
It’s a little disappointing to see zero pushback from the rest of the Capitol Hill business community, but the council pushed these policies through as quickly as possible. CHBA spokesperson and policy council Gabriel Neuman acknowledged that much when he said the council shouldn’t have introduced all these bills at the same time because it limits discussion. I’ll have more on this in the next couple hours, but people (and businesses) still have time to tell the council what they think of these “ineffective” and “counterproductive” laws, as the ACLU calls them. The meeting starts at 2 pm today for anyone interested in giving public comment.
Meanwhile, while the council has moved at warp speed to pass these exclusion zones and to reinstate the prostitution loitering law, they’ve taken their sweet time when it comes to the Social Housing Initiative, I-137. Yesterday, the council finally announced a plan to propose an alternative to the initiative, which would raid the JumpStart payroll tax on big businesses for funding instead of creating a new business tax. If the council passes the bill, then voters will have to decide between two different options when I-137 finally heads to the ballot in a February special election. Council Member and alleged bad boss Martiza Rivera proposed the alternative alongside Council Members Bob Kettle, Tanya Woo, and Cathy Moore.
City Council, if you raid JumpStart for Social Housing, what are you going to raid in fall to pay for your precious police department??? You are eventually going to have to levy new taxes or cut other services, departments
— Hannah Krieg (@hannahkrieg) September 16, 2024
Real quick, let’s throw it to Hannah to let her wrap up the council updates today:
Justice for Ayşenur: Support for an independent investigation into Israel’s killing of Seattle-based activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi is growing. As of Monday afternoon, 90 Washington state lawmakers have signed a letter echoing Eygi’s family’s demand for the investigation. Every Seattle representative in the State House, State Senate, and King County Council has signed on, but there’s some stragglers on the Seattle City Council. Only Council Members Tammy Morales and Cathy Moore have signed the letter. Luckily for the other members, they are still welcome to sign on to stand up for their constituent.
Thanks, Hannah! Alright, back to me.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy demands workers return to office: Starting January 2, Amazon workers must appear in the office in person five days a week, according to CNBC. Jassy basically argued that before the pandemic, workers couldn’t work remotely two days a week. Yeah, Jassy, and before Amazon, people couldn’t same-day receive sex toys to their doors. Technology changes shit.
New Monopoly game based in … Bellevue? That’s right, the game company Top Trumps, which is licensed to make city editions of Monopoly, plans to launch a new version of the game based in Bellevue, according to KUOW. The company decided not to locate the game in Seattle because “there are just too many different, diverse neighborhoods,” a spokesperson said.
Sean “Diddy” Combs arrested: The FBI arrested singer Combs Monday night on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Prosecutors believe Combs abused women for more than a decade and “presided over an empire of sexual crimes,” according to the Associated Press. Earlier this year, security footage from a hotel showed Combs attacking singer Cassie, who had previously sued Combs for allegedly beating and raping her for years. Combs is expected to appear in court Tuesday on federal charges.
Trump’s claims about Springfield, Ohio cause chaos: After former President Donald Trump made false claims that Haitian immigrants in Ohio had started stealing pets and eating them, bomb threats have plagued the city and Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine ordered Ohio State Highway Patrol to station themselves outside city schools, according to ABC News.
Fed plans interest rate cut: If your credit interest rate has started to really panic you, then the Federal Reserve may soon grant you some relief. The Fed is expected to cut interest rates for the first time since 2020, which reflects the easing rate of inflation, according to CNBC. The Fed has to strike a balance between reducing inflation without sending the economy into recession.
Ok that’s all! This new track from Hinds helped lower my blood pressure this morning as I thought about the council meeting later today. Hope it helps you all as well.
‘Trump’s [& jr vance’s] claims
about Springfield, Ohio
cause chaos’
well Sure.
and only donold
eltrumpfster can “Fix it.”
Vote Blue, baby.
it may be the
Last Time
you’re
allow-
ed.
speaking of
Genocides
complicity
& being
Wrong:
nyt:
Wireless Devices
Explode Across Lebanon
After Israel Warns Hezbollah
A Lebanese official
said pagers belonging to
Hezbollah militants had exploded,
causing a large number of injuries.
The Israeli military declined to comment.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/17/world/israel-hamas-war-news
YOUR Tax
Dollars, $TILL
Hard at Work in
bibi’s Land Grab cum
Genocide cum Keep-bibi-
the-FUCKOUTTA-Prison gambit.
Where does it End?
“Top Trumps”? Really, fuck that company name.
May I suggest the council also create a “SOGA” (Stay Out of Graffiti Area) banishment zone? The Express Lanes on I-5 could use less squalor.
@1
‘Donold’
Funny that the left is now zeroing in on Trump’s age when until the first debate every last one of you was going to vote for someone even older claiming he was the only hope for democracy.
Y’all lack credibility when it comes to damning someone for their age
“It’s a little disappointing to see zero pushback from the rest of the Capitol Hill business community, but the council pushed these policies through as quickly as possible”
I know this will be shocking but most residents are tired of the progressive approach of allowing drug users to do whatever they want, whenever they want too. These laws may be ineffective at stopping people from using drugs but if they make the area a little safer and encourage some of our “neighbors” to relocate to other more permissive cities (here’s your bus ticket to Portland) that’s still a success for most of us.
The SODA and prostitution area laws are meaningless because you need cops to enforce them and they won’t.
@2: you’re saying a genius-level attack that specifically targets individual Hezbollah members is a “land grab cum Genocide”?
Hezbollah aren’t Gazans. They’re not West Bank Palestinians. They’re Iranian proxies, beyond the control of the Lebanese Govt.
@4, They’re basically the same age but one of them chose to make age a campaign issue for some stupid reason. As far as any rational person is concerned age can’t be a deciding factor if the candidates are indistinguishable but now that’s no longer the case. Maybe your candidate shouldn’t have made his own shortcomings a campaign issue.
6: Lack of law enforcement doesn’t negate the viability of a law.
Lol, all the game pieces in the Bellevue Monopoly game should be cars.
@3 because nothing would beautify our city like blank, 20’+ high walls of concrete framing the daily gridlock as it belches fumes into the heart of the city. Never understood people using the I-5 corridor as a poster child for places that would be better to look at without graffiti. But maybe it’s the only part of Seattle those kinds of commenters actually spend any time in?
“….they’ve taken their sweet time when it comes to the Social Housing Initiative, I-137.”
The Council need not take any action at all on I-137:
“If the Council does not act upon the initiative within 45 days from the date it was introduced to them, it must go before the voters at the next regularly scheduled election, irrespective of whether it is a state or municipal election or a primary or general election; but the City Council may in its discretion designate submission at a general election rather than a primary or call an earlier special election…” (https://www.seattle.gov/cityclerk/city-clerk-services/initiative-referendum-and-charter-amendment-guides/initiative-petition-guide#step8)
That the Stranger wants the Council to pass I-137 doesn’t actually obligate the Council to do anything.
“Of course, their zone will just push drug activity to other parts of Capitol Hill.”
Meaning the areas long plagued by illegal drug use, sale, and trafficking in stolen property, and other associated crimes will get a break. As @5 noted, this has more popular appeal than the Stranger’s uncompromising abolitionist stance. A terrible policy beats abject policy failure. Perhaps, with new management, now might be a good time for the Stranger to review the results of policies it has long advocated?
“… alleged bad boss…”
Meaning it’s time to remind the Stranger’s readers, yet again, how then-CM Sawant hired and fired City Hall staffers based solely upon those staffers’ standings within Socialist Alternative — not upon merit or performance. (It’s also time to remind the Stranger’s readers that the Stranger responded to Sawant’s abuses of city employees with an utterly servile silence. “Screw the workers!” was thus heard loud and clear.)
@7: As you know, Hezbollah are a gang of jihadi terrorists, backed by the women-beating fundamentalist regime in Iran.
In other words, exactly the type of persons for whom @2 will always have the deepest of sympathy. (Their innocent victims? Not so much.)
@11: So, which tag is yours? SATN? 8BIT?
@2, maybe buying all those cheap pagers off eBay wasn’t such a hot idea.
@7 Yes, Hezbollah and Israel are explicitly fighting over Gaza. A permanent ceasefire in Gaza is the main condition for an end to the conflict according to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah are the main political party of Lebanese Shiites who make up ~1/4 of the population. They are the principal factor in preventing Israel from doing whatever they want in Lebanon. They are allied with Iran. Resuming the preceeding by saying “they are Iran’s proxies” is neocon talk.
@13 I’m glad the artists are getting name recognition, but I can’t take any credit. I’m partial to the little 7s with wings though. Nice color, simple, cleanly executed.
Israelis not only beat Palestinian women, but they crush them under 2000lbs bombs and shoot their children in the head “by accident”. In other words, exactly the type of persons for whom @12 will always have the deepest of sympathy. (Their innocent victims? Not so much.)
@15 your naivete knows no bounds. Hezbollah has been terrorizing and killing Christians in Lebanon as part of their effort to drive them out of the country and establish a caliphate there. Is that part of the Gaza issue as well?
(https://www.arabnews.com/node/2491551). Saying they are Iran’s proxies isn’t neocon talk, its acknowledging the truth. Your full throated support for these organizations that want nothing more to subjugate and exterminate those who aren’t part of their extremist ideology continues to be incomprehensible.
“A terrible policy beats abject policy failure.”
A jaundiced analysis of policy failure is no justification for terrible policies that have failed over and over again
from Democracy Now:
U.N. Experts
Accuse Israel of
“Starvation Campaign” in Gaza
& Demand End to Western Complicity
Top United Nations human rights experts have condemned Western nations for supporting Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, urging the world to stop an unfolding genocide in Palestine.
This comes as the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, is accusing Israel in a new report of carrying out a deliberate starvation campaign in Gaza.
“What we are witnessing in Gaza is the starvation of 2.3 million Palestinians. We’ve never seen a civilian population made to go hungry so quickly and so completely,” says Fakhri, who joins us from Brazil.
We also speak with Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, who says Israel’s assault on Gaza is part of a larger plan of “getting as much control as possible over maximum land with minimum Palestinian people.”
The lack of clean water has led to 1.7 million cases of infection diseases, mainly diarrhea, dysentery and hepatitis A, particularly affecting children, as well as cases of polio, smallpox and other infectious diseases that can trigger massive and deadly epidemics.
All this coupled with the lack of medical care result in deaths, especially of babies and children, making water scarcity and contamination a silent bomb which has far less visibility than those that destroy buildings, but a no less lethal bomb.
oodles:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/17/gaza_food_un
take Note
Kamala:
the World
TRUSTS You.
don’t Let ‘em Down:
YOU are the Voice of America.
@18 No, no you are the naive who claims that more warfare will eventually solve sectarian warfare.
“Your full throated support for these organizations “
Stop lying. I am only stating facts and I am not supporting any sectarian organization that practices terror, contrarily to you who systematically justifies state terror against innocent civilians.
@17: So, Hamas’ long-documented abuse of civilians in Gaza for human shields, combined with Hamas’ leader clearly saying Hamas wants a higher casualty count amongst those civilians, finally overloaded even your reality-denial system, eh? From now on, Hamas won’t even exist in your world, will it?
@19: Go tell that to the voters of Seattle. (Be sure to mention your pride at being one of the Stranger’s few remaining supportive commenters. That ought to drive some votes — albeit not in the direction you’d intended.)
@21: “I am only stating facts,”
No, you’re lying. Hezbollah has long been under control of Iran. Trying to present them as home-grown protectors of Lebanon just adds to your already considerable dishonesty.
(If you actually believe your false and/or misleading statements here come across as anything other than support of terrorists, I strongly suggest you read this comment thread again.)
I think it is possible to believe both that Israel should rein in their settlers and stop bombing Gaza and that Hezbollah are a bunch of Taliban-adjacent would-be theocrats at the same time.
@23 Being a theocrat doesn’t mean that one doesn’t oppose the killing of innocent and foreign military rampage in one’s country. Hezbollah also has extensive social outreach among Shias in Lebanon who are extremely poor and therefore many welcome it. Only claiming that Hezbollah are Iran stooges is a cartoon version of a complex reality that serves only those who don’t want these populations to govern themselves.
@22 Israel has a long history of using human shields, including at the present, such as by forcing Palestinians civilians (including teenage children) to clear a path free from bombs for its troops.
“Hezbollah has long been under control of Iran”
You are a moron for pretending that Hezbollah doesn’t act according to its own interest first. These interests happen to align with Iran’s interests but claiming they don’t have their own agency is plain stupid, racist and worthy of Bush 2’s axis of evil rhetoric
Kamala has sworn loyalty over and over to Israel as does Trump. Her husband is a loyal member of AIPAC. The democratic party is in charge right now and they are the ones sending bombs and aid to a racist, fascist, cult called zionist Israel. Israel that is committing genocide on the Palestinian people. Zionism does not see anybody that is not the “chosen people” as really human but are there to be their slave/servants. They, zionist Israhell, is trying to eliminate every last Palestinian In the Gaza strip and the West Bank etc. And of course there is the samson project that threatens to blow up the world if Israel does not get what it wants.
Israel is in charge of this federal government and if Israel kills Americans this government will not do shit about it. Just like the beautiful young woman that an Idf sniper shot in the head and then Israel claimed it was a mistake. Biden stood with Israel just like he always does.
Anyone that votes for the genocide candidates Kamala or Trump is complicit in genocide.
We can and many will vote for someone that is not a puppet to Israel. Stein and West are two examples. Speak up against genocide demand that this government stop sending aid to the lunatic murderous state of Israel now!!
25: You can call me complicit in genocide, but I’m still voting for Kamala Harris.
@25 “Her husband is a loyal member of AIPAC.”
Wow, Ivy…you know that’s literally an antisemitic thing to say, right? Like, just because he is a Jew doesn’t mean he is a “loyal member of AIPAC.” He is the second gentleman of the United States, not a foreign agent.
And @2 and @15 are just making excuses for terrorism. Super disappointing to read this stuff.
As an American taxpayer you are complicit in the empire even if you vote for “antiestablishment” charlatans like Cornel West and Jill Stein, or no one at all. Voting isn’t some magic trick that determines where your tax dollars go. Your money is already spent.
@24: “Hezbollah also has extensive social outreach among Shias in Lebanon who are extremely poor and therefore many welcome it.”
Foreign-financed terrorist groups like Hezbollah are a major reason Lebanon has remained a failed state for as long as it has. Eliminate those groups — and it appears someone has today taken a major and welcome step towards eliminating Hezbollah — and Lebanon might once again someday have a functioning government, which could then benefit all citizens. (Said benefits would include preventing terrorist groups from using Lebanese territory to attack Israel, which would eliminate justification for Israeli presence in Lebanon.) You’re describing a major source of Lebanon’s problems as if it was some beneficial, charitable solution. You’ve really gone around the bend when you’re enthusiastically praising the wonders of a jihadi terrorist group.
“…human shields,”
Pretty much every army which has ever gone to war has committed war crimes, the US military most definitely not excepted. (This makes for yet another great reason to solve disputes peacefully.) You’re intentionally confusing an occasional and illegal practice — one which the Israeli Supreme Court has specifically condemned — with a practice the leadership of Hamas has long established as a central pillar of policy in Gaza, and clearly intends to implement this policy specifically to kill even more Gazan civilians than it already has.
As for your enthusiastic defense of Hezbollah’s supposed great independence from a longtime major supporter, all you’re showing is you have absolutely no idea how regimes like Iran’s actually operate.
“After former President Donald Trump made false claims that Haitian immigrants in Ohio had started stealing pets and eating them”
Anyone claiming there is no difference between a Kamala victory and a Trump victory is lying to you
@24- I don’t disagree that both are possible. It may also be that Hezbollah does some social good. But the world would be a far better place if theocratic influences were wiped out. And before anyone claims I’m an Islamophobe, I mean all theocrats. Sunni, Shia, Catholic, Evangelical, Ultra-Orthodox, etc. Other peoples’ religion is not worth dying for.
Don’t let @25’s warmed-over Protocols bs distract you from the fact that 40+ years of “I can’t in good conscience vote for a president who betrays my values as much as Jimmy Carter has” has delivered, not the promised end to the two-party stalemate, but instead the narrowing horizons of ever-more-limited choices as the Overton Window creeps rightward.
Certain people invest social cachet in liking things that are not popular. It’s the political equivalent of “I liked this band before it was cool.” Ignore them.
7: This Israeli operation reads like something straight out of a James Bond/Mission Impossible movie; how do you get pagers to explode like this on command? There are so many layers to this story (and its implications).
@27
ffs how is @2
justifying a
Genocide?
my Intent was
it’s Polar
Oppo-
site
@Ivy
sans ranked
Choice Voting
with TWO parties
OWNING OUR Elections
is Always gonna Be the Lesser of
corps
Amerikkana
having Bought
America Inc., LLC lol
should
Kamala
happen to
Outfox eltrumpfster
I doubt Young Peeps’re
gonna keep off the Streets
& Allow our ‘leaders’ free reign.
I’m Olde
perhaps I’ll
Join them. what’ve
we got to Lose? Palestine
today; Palestine, Texas tomorrow.
@33: apparently, 20 grams, <1 oz, of PETN explosive set off by a command that overheated the lithium battery. they also pinged the pager just prior so the target would be looking at it when it blew up.
The fact that anyone cares what the SEATTLE city council thinks about Israel/Palestine shows the utter worthlessness of the modern processive movement.
@21 “that more warfare will eventually solve sectarian warfare”. I never said that. I just believe Israel has a right to defend themselves and dismantle an existential threat to their existence. It’s a tragedy that civilians are being killed but I place the blame for those deaths where they belong, on Hamas who uses their followers as tools of propaganda. I also don’t think the Palestinian population is completely innocent. In repeated polls they have expressed support for Hamas, felt the attacks on 10/7 were a good thing and have actively participated in the detention and torture of hostages. Both of us want this conflict to end, where we differ is what it will take to end it. Judging by your past posts you seem to believe that if Israel were to lay down their arms and open their arms to their neighbors they would be allowed to live in peace. I have never seen any action from the surrounding Arab countries that would make me believe that to be true. I think Hamas, Hezbellah and others need to acknowledge Israels right to exist, release all the hostages and pledge no further attacks and then there will be peace. Until then there will continue to be this back and forth of each side killing the other.
@33 I think the bigger question is why are Hezbellah carrying pagers in 2024? I haven’t seen one of those since the 90s.
@21 I agree that we should act so that theocrats yield minimum political power but we should let their people decide how, not Exxon and co and/or the Pentagon. Also instead of inciting nationalist crispations through warmongering (both economic and military), our purpose would be much better served by cultural opening and trade. Also let’s not forget that neocons are themselves the major culprits in theocrats taking over in many places such as Iran where we encouraged our friendly dictator to annihilate the secular opposition,
@27 No, YOU are promoting terrorism both by a) pretending that spilling more blood will not lead to more terror. and b) giving a free pass to Israel’s extra-judicial killings throughout the region and mass murder of civilians
@29 “Pretty much every army which has ever gone to war has committed war crimes”
When I mentioned that fact to discuss Hamas war crimes in context, you went ballistic accusing me of all ills in the creation. Another example of you saying anything that is convenient and its opposite when the occasion presents itself. You are an unprincipled opportunist.
“This makes for yet another great reason to solve disputes peacefully”
Hypocrite. You have used many 1000’s of words justifying violent repression and apartheid to suppress Palestinian demands for fairness.
The IDF has used human shields for decades, including today. Hiding behind a supreme court ruling that is ignored when convenient won’t do.
@38 ” I never said [more warfare will eventually solve sectarian warfare]”
This is what you are de facto saying when you conflate Israel indiscriminately murdering 10,000s of women and children with “Israel defending itself”.
” you seem to believe that if Israel were to lay down their arms and open their arms to their neighbors they would be allowed to live in peace.”
Oh please, Israel could start by stopping the theft of Palestinian land, the bulldozing of Palestinians homes and their orchards, the theft of water resources, the shooting of protesters, the jailing of political prisoners, and on, and on
The far left, with its constant infighting, relentless purity tests, and (in some corners) antisemitism, is just exhausting. They have the luxury of knowing the rest of the liberal-leaning people in the country will vote to protect them so that they can live a life of undergraduate anger.
omg
Catalina
have you gone
Full-on Boomer?
I Knew it was
Dangerous to dabble
but No you had to ‘try it on…
well then let’s Protect those
Children by allowing them
to Vote their Conscience
AND for the lesser
of Two
r ( /,
baby.
or
Bust.
kristofarian dear, if you are going to attempt to insult me you will need to explain what you found so offensive.
The far left does engage in infighting (anyone who had any experience with the Freedom Socialist Party when they ran the Gay Pride march can testify to that). They don’t form coalitions, at least not ones that last, and they are in a constant state of supposed moral superiority that alienates people from their cause.
This all goes on on the right end of the spectrum as well, although they tend to unite under what they regard as “strong men” (see donald trump)
There is a luxury in being able to be politically self-isolating and claim a supposed higher ground, because up to this point we’ve never had a fascist front with any political power. But now we do.
You can acknowledge that, or you can be like the handful of commenters and writers here on Slog that refuse to accept the fact that the progressives lost control of the Seattle City Council because people were fed up with their posturing and ineffectual governing. (To be fair, the ravages of Covid and the lack of federal response to the economic injustice in this country had a hand in that as well)
Moral certainty breeds arrogance and corruption.
@43
sadly
I have no
Opinion on why
Progressives lost the
Seattle City Council to
the corporate middle or
wherever their ideology lies
but I care much more
Deeply about stripping
Power AWAY from the Big
Two — dems & rs with some
Ranked Choice Voting. it’s become
a bit a of a Mantra to me. are you With me?
@44 and what would the alternative for the r’s and d’s be if we had RCV? The only thing RCV would do is make things that are blue turn deeper blue and things that are red deeper red.
@40 I’m beginning to think you prob had a pager explode in your pocket today too. Get well soon!
@45 well
the alternative’d
be Choice. the very
thing we Dems claim
we gotta Have when it
comes to family planning
why not extend that
to candidates suddenly
Beholden to the Electorate
in Stead of the Other way round?
sure it’ll
Fuck with the
Status quo but just
Lookit where we Are.
supporting
Genocide hoping
and Praying to get
Grandp’s Keys. thanks,
Nancy! I guess we got Lucky.
Kristofarian dear, I have no quibble with rank choice voting, but I do think that you still run into the question of who is going to support the candidates if you have no party apparatus. The real problem is money in politics. Since the Supreme Court has decided that money is speech and corporations are people, we are sort of stuck.
@34: what did @27 write which led you to believe it was accusing you of “justifying a Genocide”? The statement @27 says you were making excuses for terrorism @2. That had been established @7, ‘you’re saying a genius-level attack that specifically targets individual Hezbollah members is a “land grab cum Genocide”?’
The point of @7 and @27 was you angrily throwing bizarrely false accusations at whomever (you assumed it was Israel) attacked Hezbollah. By this, you demonstrated your support for Hezbollah, a well-known terrorist organization. That’s what @7, @27, and others noted.
Pager Attack on Hezbollah
Puts Israel and Lebanon on Edge
Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group backed by Iran, blamed Israel for the operation. That assessment was confirmed by U.S. and other officials who said Israel had planted explosives in at least hundreds of pagers. Israel, which has waged a long covert war against Iran and its allies, has declined to publicly comment on the attack.
As the hand-held devices exploded in sidewalks and in grocery stores, at homes and inside cars, the blasts sent Lebanon reeling and increased fears that the Israel-Hezbollah conflict could tip into full-scale war.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/18/world/israel-hezbollah-gaza-hamas
Our Tax Dollars
$TILL at Work.
Where does
it End?
@49: “Where does
it End?”
Good question!
“Hezbollah Walkie-Talkies Blow Up Across Lebanon in Second Wave of Attacks.”
(https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/new-details-in-hezbollah-pager-attack-point-to-supply-chain-breach-by-israel-8cd76a60?mod=mhp)
The poor dears! How will they coordinate their violent jihadi attacks now? Postal service? Why won’t everyone just leave these terrorists ALONE?!?