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SleeplessinSoCal

(9,145 posts) Fri Dec 27, 2019, 04:14 AM Dec 2019

Indicted Netanyahu gives me the willies.

He is bad news period. A new term for "hardball" politics is needed for people like him and Trumputin. Why have corrupt men like Bibi dominated Israeli politics? What is the attraction to mob bosses? Good people are destroyed by them. And they seem both vindictive and invincible. They are the worst of the worst, yet have all the power.

The latest gamesmenship...

GANTZ: APPOINTING NETANYAHU PRESIDENT ‘MORALLY
BANKRUPT’

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Gantz-Divisions-on-the-Left-could-bring-an-extremist-immunity-govt-612103

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Indicted Netanyahu gives me the willies. (Original Post) SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2019 OP

ditto, like weinstein predation. elleng Dec 2019 #1

I find it somewhat ironic pecosbob Dec 2019 #2

Evil people in movies and real life fascinate us. Funtatlaguy Dec 2019 #3

You make a great point. SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2019 #6

Umm... OldBaldy1701E Dec 2019 #4

They would still get the $$$ SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2019 #5

Biggest tribal asshole wins? moondust Dec 2019 #7

elleng

(131,159 posts)

1. ditto, like weinstein predation.

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 04:19 AM

Dec 2019

(watching amanpour, interviewing authors of book about weinstein.)

pecosbob

(7,545 posts)

2. I find it somewhat ironic

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 04:41 AM

Dec 2019

The Sunni princes and hard-line Israelis climb in bed for a few billion dollars in bribes. Corruption trumps (no pun intended) religious hatred every time.

Funtatlaguy

(10,887 posts)

3. Evil people in movies and real life fascinate us.

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 06:10 AM

Dec 2019

They are not the one thing you can never be in entertainment Or infotainment and that, my dear friends, is BORING.
Donald Trump knows this more than anyone.
He has studied professional wrestling and perfected the art of being the “evil heel”.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,145 posts)

6. You make a great point.

Reply to Funtatlaguy (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 06:16 PM

Dec 2019

Our fascination with the Godfather series proves that. And there is this desire for a strong man. I never imagined that I'd be considered the enemy, and Putin the ally to our POTUS.

OldBaldy1701E

(5,162 posts)

4. Umm...

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 06:15 AM

Dec 2019

Why have corrupt men like Bibi dominated Israeli politics? What is the attraction to mob bosses?

Three billion of American tax dollars every year? Just a thought...

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,145 posts)

5. They would still get the $$$

Reply to OldBaldy1701E (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 06:14 PM

Dec 2019

Always have, always will. Democracies Unite. But they are all stifling democracy.

moondust

(20,006 posts)

7. Biggest tribal asshole wins?

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 09:19 PM

Dec 2019

Bibi
Modi
Erdogan
Bolsonaro
Orban
Xi
Duterte
Putin
Sissi
Trump
...

All have records of being (tribalistic/nationalistic) assholes who oppress migrants and/or minorities.

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