Meanwhile on the International front....

My problem is what I wrote, the politicians who only care about using the war for political gain. Yes, some of it is the bandwagon jumpers you describe, but no I can't respect Tliaib's focus on blaming Israel after Hamas's terrorist attack. I respect the consistency, but not the content.

 

My Walmart has receipt checkers. But they check about 1 in every 25 customers. The ones rolling 70-inch TVs out.

He's not consistent. He's obviously fine with Eastern European female immigration. (not that there's anything wrong with that).

 

Membership stores (Costco, etc.) do have a legal right to stop you, however.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...re-revival-deal-gaza-hostages-wsj-2023-12-16/

JERUSALEM, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to confirm on Saturday that new Qatar-mediated negotiations were underway to recover hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, after a source said Israel's lead negotiator met Qatar's prime minister.

 

It’s the customers who have purchases that aren’t in a bag (including those TVs).

 

How Much Is Biden’s Support of Israel Hurting Him With Young Voters?

As recently as this summer, a poll with Donald J. Trump leading among young voters would have been eye-popping.

Now, it’s increasingly familiar — and our new New York Times/Siena College national survey released Tuesday morning is no exception.

For the first time, Mr. Trump leads President Biden among young voters in a Times/Siena national survey, 49 percent to 43 percent. It’s enough to give him a narrow 46-44 lead among registered voters overall.

Usually, it’s not worth dwelling too much on a subsample from a single poll, but this basic story about young voters is present in nearly every major survey at this point. Our own battleground state surveys in the fall showed something similar, with Mr. Biden ahead by a single point among those 18 to 29. Either figure is a big shift from Mr. Biden’s 21-point lead in our final poll before the midterms or his 10-point lead in our last national poll in July.

And there’s a plausible explanation for the shift in recent months: Israel.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/19/houthi-shipping-red-sea-oil-alliance/

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s Houthi militants said Tuesday they will not stop their “military operations” in the Red Sea, hours after the United States announced the formation of a multinational naval coalition to protect commercial shipping there.

The Yemeni group that’s aligned with Iran has been targeting commercial ships in protest over the Israel-Gaza war, disrupting one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.

“Our war is a moral war, and therefore, no matter how many alliances America mobilizes, our military operations will not stop,” Mohammed Albukhaiti, a member of the organization’s ruling council, told The Washington Post.

“Participating in a coalition to protect the perpetrators of genocidal crimes is a disgrace in the history of the participating countries,” he added. “If America had moved in the right direction, it would have obliged Israel to stop its crimes without the need to expand the scope of the conflict.”

 

It would take a special level of stupidity and ignorance for those college students to vote against Biden due to his support for Israel. It is a common mistake, looking at the candidate in a vacuum rather than comparing him to his opponent. If what you care about is doing a better job of helping Palestinians, the question should be which candidate would do more to help the future. Of course, Biden is the better option.