If he serves all that time behind bars, I’d say it seems to fit the crime. But he’ll likely get out sooner. There is also civil remedies for the victims: they can sue the crap out of the guy provided he has anything to go after, also his future earnings.

I’m...at a loss for words. If they worked at the same place and wore the same uniform, wouldn’t it just make more sense to swap name-tags? Why the whole uniform?

That’ll just be punishing those old folks. I’m sure he’d grift them, steal their medicine and abuse them when no one is looking.

I’m not sure if we should give him more chances to commit elder abuse. Something tells me 5 years in prison isn’t going to make him a softer, kinder person.

That said, I’d be pretty O.K. if he never got his driver’s license back.  Yeah, he can and probably would still drive without it, but it will ramp up the penalties…

Lindsey Graham literally called on Israel to level Gaza. Nikki Haley asked Israel to “finish them.” These are literal calls for genocide, but that’s totally cool with Congress. Fuck these hypocrites.

It’s wild that, according to the header pic, there’s clearly a gap built for a pedestrian gate but they just filled it in with more fence.

I’m Jewish, and what she said is simply an expression of the idea that Palestinian residents from the area who were forced out by literal gunpoint during the nakba and during subsequent expulsions would like to return to the land in which they and their ancestors were up.

The notion that this phrasing is in any way…

lol,. Hamas went after military targets, too. That was what they were after. They just happened to also hit several civilian areas as well because Israel surrounds the world’s largest open air prison with which they have been at war since 2006 with civilian settlements. Yet somehow the phrase “human shields” never…

The responses in this thread make me very concerned.

So Palestinians deserve to be executed without due process? Palestinians deserve to have their property confiscated with no due process? Palestinians deserve to be uprooted and displaced, on potential pain of death, without due process? Palestinians don’t deserve basic civil political rights?

Do you think all Palestinians are terrorists? Because that’s the only way in which it’s fair to say I care about terrorists. I don’t really care too much about the 25,000 or so Hamas members who have committed themselves to being combatants, I care about 5 million Palestinians subject to the authority of Israel, but…

Yeah, and the last time America got attacked, we reacted super rationally and definitely haven’t spent the following two decades regretting the seemingly endless bloodshed.

When I’m attacked I kill thousands and thousands of people who had nothing to do with it.  That’s basic self-defense.

If Israel didn’t kill Palestinian civilians with such impunity, I would have no cause to criticize them. But 4,000 children have been slaughtered by Israel in a month, in response to an attack that killed 1,400 Israeli civilians. If the latter is savage butchery, what is the former? Historically in this conflict,…

I mean, even if you disagree with her. And believe the phrase is a call for the end of the state of Israel; so what.

And these 22 Dems will stand with Israel, after they’ve killed more civilians, as they take an even more active role in the, “security,” in Gaza. More apartheid. More suffering. More rationing of fuel, water, basic life necessities.

“counterproductive to promoting peace.”

22 Democrats supporting the censure resolution

“gay marriage/same-sex marriage”, “global warming/climate change”, “gun control/gun safety”. I don’t really think softening terms really change how people think about an issue. I like pro-abortion/anti-abortion because it gets to the heart of the issue rather than how people rationalize their stance, whether it’s about…

I know it is unkind to gloat, but I’m an Ohioan and GODDAMN does this feel good tonight. Republicans in Ohio have had their boots on the necks of us women for far to long, and it has been excruciating listening to their whinging for the past few months about how “extreme” and “radical” it is to ensure that women can…