I'm sorry but I have a couple of pet peeve triggers that keep going off.

[JMCKUSICK]

1. To call Israel-Iran situation a conflict is making me want to vomit. Two countries are firing missiles at each other. They used to call that WAR.
2. For ten years and counting now, the MSM has described Russias assaults on elections around the world as meddling. Interfering with another countries elections used to be considered and act of WAR.

I'm sorry, but WTF?

[SheltieLover]

1. You are correct, John!

Breathe...deeply.

We can resist & protest, but we cannot control the media lies or the ruskie assets in govt.

Precisely why I've not watched any tv in over 10 yrs. I detest liars.

[JMCKUSICK]

20. Agreed. I've stopped any real news watching since November 5

And in most ways, I'm better off for it.

[SheltieLover]

21. Good for you!

[unblock]

2. Don't get me started. Giving key government jobs to unqualified donors used to be called corruption.

They had no problem calling Al gore a liar for one deliberately misinterpreted statement, but they *still* wince at even saying Donnie "has a problem with the truth" when he's literally the most thoroughly documented liar in history.

And they've long since stopped bothering even mentioning the grift of charging secret service random prices to stay at his residence because hey it's a hotel, so grifting is ok I guess.

[ananda]

3. I hear you!

Thanks

[yellow dahlia]

4. I hear you!

[usonian]

5. Here's what I think. We call everything a "conflict" because a war hasn't been declared since WWII.

A conflict opens loopholes for having a war without actually getting congress to declare one.

Korea? Vietnam? Iraq? Afghanistan? The list goes on.

Here's the "rationale"

https://govfacts.org/explainer/declaration-of-war-vs-authorization-for-use-of-military-force-how-america-goes-to-war

Regardless, he doesn't give a shit for laws.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-doomsday-plane-spotted-flying-2087848


Readying the E4B for the doomsday scenario
(so much nicer than a bunker, don't you think?)
and/or the flight to Moscow.

WHAT TO KNOW
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20415032

The E-4B "Nightwatch,"dubbed the "Doomsday Plane" is a militarized Boeing 747. It serves as the National Airborne Operations Center and is a key component of the National Military Command System for the president, the secretary of defense and the joint chiefs of staff.

In a national emergency or loss of ground command, the aircraft "provides a highly survivable command, control and communications center to direct U.S. forces, execute emergency war orders, and coordinate actions by civil authorities," the U.S. Air Force said.

It was used during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

----
Wonder if it has enough fuel to make it to Moscow?
With all those trumpcoins safely in a crypto wallet?
Oh, those tankers .....

I predicted a complete internet and infrastructure outage.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160

That sucker seems right on plan and on schedule.

До свидания


WAIT! "coordinate actions by civil authorities"
That's no damn good at all.

[Bev54]

6. And not one reporter on MSM has noted Netanyahu's

Complete hipocracy, complaining that Iran has hit a hospital where citizens, including babies are located. He goes on to say it is a war crime. JFC look in a mirror, I guess he just confessed he has committed war crimes.

[question everything]

14. The Israeli hospital does not hide an entry to a infrastructure of tunnels where only Hamas fighters, not

civilians can hide.

[returnee]

22. It may be different...

…but it’s still a war crime.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

16. Sounds very familiar

How many crimes has the fugly felon publicly confessed to? And - crickets.

[BidenRocks]

7. Don't get me started on the Democrat(sic) party!

The media are letting Democrat party go through as if it isn't an error.
Just fuck you!

[Nictuku]

8. It is all part of Normalizing Authoratarism

The Free Press is Complicit.
Elected Officials are Complicit.
Trump Voters or Non-Voters are Complicit.

Nothing is Normal Anymore.

[Karasu]

10. Yep. They have proven that they will normalize ANYTHING for clicks and ratings.

[Karasu]

9. The MSM constantly uses the weakest, most insufficient language possible so as not to offend the sensibilities of

fascists. All opinions are equally valid, don't you know--no matter how uninformed.

It's infuriating.

[3Hotdogs]

11. My favorite --- why just this afternoon's noon..... Bibi, referring to Iran as war criminals for

targeting civilians.

Like I've posted before, what is genocide, depends on who is doing the genodeciding.

[Wiz Imp]

12. Agreed 100%

[TomSlick]

13. The conflict thing may be a result of international law.

To avoid the question whether there is a "war" for purposes of the application of the Geneva Conventions, etc., international law does not talk about the "laws of war." Instead, the reference is to the "laws of international armed conflict" and "laws of non-international armed conflict."

The change is in the 1977 Protocol I (international armed conflict) and Protocol II (non-international armed conflict) to the Geneva Convention. The US signed Protocols I and II but never ratified them. The consensus of US international law experts is that by signing the Protocols, the US agreed to move toward ratification and, therefore, agreed to be bound by them. Israel, Turkey, and India have not signed the Protocols.

A good argument is made that since the Protocols have been adopted almost all countries, it is binding on all countries, whether or not signed or ratified.

[stopdiggin]

15. there is also most likely an element of deliberate downplay and deescalation

With the idea that regional (and perhaps intermittent?) conflict, while messy, horrible and degrading, is much preferable to WWIII - and people going nuclear ?

Or so the thinking goes.

[Vinca]

17. My top pet peeve has always been starvation renamed "food insecurity."

[JMCKUSICK]

19. Agreed!