I’m not feeling all too positive about the Israeli-Gaza War; there seems to be a lack of willingness to press home an assault.
I do realize that it is a formidable thing; if Hamas does have 40,000 troops then the assault force will have to be in the range of 120,000. They’ll have to fight in a tightly packed area with plenty of opportunity for ambush and infiltration by the enemy. Hamas will be hiding behind women and children. In short, it would be bloody and perhaps the Israeli government is just unwilling to spend the blood? I can’t see an assault costing less than about 12,000 casualties; call it 4,000 dead and 8,000 wounded. That is a lot, especially given Israel’s small population.
That sort of shock to the Israeli body politic will be hard to absorb; can the Israeli government actually survive that kind of loss? Jews in general and Israelis in particular are very chary about spending blood. This probably stems from now-ancestral memory of the Holocaust. Israel’s Labor Party never fully recovered from the shock of the Yom Kippur War. It now holds just 4 seats in the Israeli Knesset after being dominant from 1948 to 1977. This will work into the calculation, sad as that is to say. And they’ll also worry that it won’t work; that Hamas dug in will be able to hang on and inflict sufficient casualties to get the Israelis to quit.
But I can’t see other than Israel has to do it. It will take some real steel in the veins to get it done, but it must be done. Hamas just proved it has no limits in its actions. If it survives, then it wins – recruits and money will flow in. Hamas is already developing advanced military capabilities. A little more time and it won’t be rockets fired into the blue but precision munitions with deep penetration capabilities hitting vital Israeli targets. They will, if they do expand, be able to attack on several fronts at once and other radical Islamist groups will want to get in on the action…raiding an Israeli village will become a requirement for any organization which wants to have credibility on the Arab street. In short, if Israel doesn’t go in it will be a catastrophic defeat. And a defeat which will place the long-term survival of Israel at risk. Iran will soon have a nuclear weapon…and against an Israel perceived as morally weak, they probably will use it. It might make surviving Israelis feel good to know that Tehran got nuked in the response, but Israel is tiny and just two or three hits to major population centers and the country is done for.
Pudding Brain is heading to Israel – almost certainly because his puppet masters want to pressure the Israelis to quit. It is a matter of conviction on the Left that the reason the Arabs hate Israel is because of the “occupation”. They simply will not admit that it is because of decades of propaganda that the Arabs hate Israel. That if the Arabs simply stopped, it would all be over almost instantly. But the Arabs can’t stop – not the leaders of the Islamist groups; their only claim to legitimacy is their promise to conquer Tel Aviv…if that goes away, they go away. So, they won’t stop. They have no reason to. And if they see Israel wimp out in the face of casualties, then they’ll know that victory beckons. But Biden’s people don’t see it that way – they’re sure if they get the Israelis to back off and can get aid into Gaza that they’ll eventually get Hamas to agree to Israel’s existence (after massive Israeli concessions, of course). I’m hoping that the Israelis just ignore him and rely on Congress to ensure that whatever aid is needed will still flow no matter how mad Biden’s people are.
The other thing bringing me down is the revelation of how many Americans are buying Hamas propaganda. Polling is good but we’ve clearly got at least 20-25% of the population so ignorant of history that they fault Israel for the war. They are out in the streets praising Hamas – that is praising people who just sent in death/rape squads. Don’t believe them when they deny the squads; they are out to cheer precisely that, but they’ve been coached to deny the reason for their joy because their masters know how bad that would look on TV.
For now.
This keeps up much longer and in a few years they’ll be quite open in their support for genocide. We’ve got a serious problem. It has moved me to reconsider just how we govern ourselves: we need to devise mechanisms to ensure that people who favor Nazi-like policies are not allowed a say. Not sure how we do it. The long term fix is to increasingly gain control of the education system and make sure drivel isn’t imparted…but meanwhile we’ve got a whole generation raised on drivel. How do we control them for th next fifty years?
Then next 72 hours or so will be decisive, I think. We’ll find out by then if Israel will move. God bless them and give them strength to endure.
Blogs For Victory 
It’s more and more obvious that only the Republicans—-though, sadly, not all of them—-have courage and moral clarity. I didn’t know about this federal law, which was certainly ignored on and after 9/11 when foreign students were doing the Monkey Dance of Joy watching the towers fall and people were celebrating on the streets.
Sen. Tom Cotton called on Homeland Security to deport foreign nationals who have expressed support for Hamas following the terror group’s unprecedented Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
In a letter to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Cotton pointed to federal law, which he said is “clear that any alien who ‘endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization’ is inadmissible and must be deported.”
Therefore, he argued the administration must expel them from the U.S.
“I write to urge you to immediately deport any foreign national—including and especially any alien on a student visa—that has expressed support for Hamas and its murderous attacks on Israel. These fifth-columnists have no place in the United States,” Cotton wrote.
The letter comes after student groups from Harvard, George Washington University, the University of Virginia, and many other colleges and universities across the country released statements and held demonstrations supporting Hamas’ brutal attack.
“Swiftly removing and permanently barring from future reentry any foreign student who signed onto or shared approvingly the anti-Semitic letter from the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee on October 7 would be a good place to start,” Cotton added.
“The appalling explosion of anti-Semitism in the United States over the past few weeks should disturb anyone who shares American values. While American citizens may have a First Amendment right to speak disgusting vitriol if they so choose, no foreign national has a right to advocate for terrorism in the United States,” Cotton said.
Israel should do to Gaza, what America did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Palestinians will never end their maniacal quest to exterminate the Jews, they’ve said this repeatedly for decades, so ???? Exterminate them. End the problem.
I’m curious as to how the “unprecedented day of rage” begins. Do they wake up screaming and throwing fits? Or is it more of a slow roll to anger? Maybe after breakfast? And how does it end? Are they able to get any sleep after a “day of rage”? Is it a long wind down? Or do they pop a zanax and call it a night? So many questions.
there seems to be a lack of willingness to press home an assault.
There is the fear, and I’ve seen this mentioned by a number of pundits, that Hamas would like nothing more than for Israel to invade Gaza. That alone would be a red flag to me. Is the entire area rigged to blow as soon as tens of thousands of IDF forces are in position? How does Hezbollah play into the scenario? About all we can do is sit back and watch — and pray.
They’ve done cancelled all travel to Lebanon. So, something is brewing.
Another thing Lebanese and Palestinians attacked the U.S. embassy thinking that Israeli forces dropped a missile on the children’s hospital there in Gaza, when that wasn’t true at all. Islamic jihadists were firing rockets towards Israel and one misfired and went directly down on their own hospital.
Breaking: Just got word that Hamas has blown up 34 Americans.
It’s getting bad. The world is showing us how weak U.S. leadership is.
I haven’t heard of new American deaths since the original attack and though no one knew for sure how many died the last number I heard was 29.
Muslim radicals will attack for any reason, real or invented, whether or not they believe it. They hide munitions and explosives under schools and hospitals and then hide behind the sick and the children, because that is the kind of “men” they are—-and then if one of those buildings blows up they blame Israel. You probably saw that man running around with a “dead baby” that turned out to be a doll with makeup.
They are subhuman and their males are the worse examples of manhood I can imagine. American soldiers stationed in the mideast have talked about the trauma of having to hear little boys screaming as they were sexually molested and being under orders to ignore it and take no action because to do or say anything would “disrespect the culture” of the natives. How you can disrespect creatures like is beyond me
Here’s an interesting post from TASS, showing that the hospital was not destroyed. The caption:
OSINTtechnical
@Osinttechnical
Full footage from TASS, no impact craters, interior spaces appear to be intact. Injuries from flying glass appear to have occurred.
This was not a misunderstanding. It was a purposeful lie aimed at undermining Israel’s response to the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. There was no explosion at the hospital. There were no deaths. A Palestinian rocket hit a parking lot. The likely crater from “the bombing” was merely a meter wide.
But eager propagandists, including the ever-reliable NYT, rushed to claim absolute knowledge that the hospital was hit by an Israeli rocket, killing hundreds. This led, naturally, to the wholly predictable “protests” and riots by the Usual Suspects, who remain on call for things like this. Any blood shed in any of these responses to these lies is on the hands of the liars, but Leftist propagandists remain indifferent to their guilt.
Yep. All one has to do is ask the question, “if I were defending Gaza from assault, how would it do it?”. Booby traps; tunnels to allow re-infiltration of areas already cleared, making areas appear secure which are actually pre-sighted for indirect fire weapons…on and on like that. It could very much be an Okinawa type situation.
OTOH, they don’t grow food in Gaza nor do they have a secure supply of fresh drinking water.
They can be starved out – but not if Israel agrees to allow “humanitarian aid” in. Which is like sending supplies to the Germans in 1944.
This tunnel thing baffles me–in Gaza and along our border. I think we have the ground-sensing technology to discover tunnels, and a tunnel is a confined space where all sorts of repelling actions would be effective—sleeping gas, killing gas, pepper spray in large and powerful doses, explosives, physical traps to confine people in selected areas and, of course, collapse. The Israelis have done a lot of work on using sound as a weapon and the confinement of a tunnel would lend itself to all sorts of sound attacks.
It would be interesting to trap hundreds of terrorists in tunnels, incapacitate them, then link them together and make them march across areas of land side by side to clear minefields and booby traps.
It seems that we ought to have the technology to deal with a lot of these potential problems. We have little robots we already send into various areas of danger, so build larger robots and march them into suspected areas. We can trigger detonators with sound waves or radio signals. It’s not as if we are stuck with 19th or even 20th century technology. I would think that repeated announcements to all media outlets and to the public that clearing will take place and there is a schedule of reprisals for various actions taken, such as booby traps and so on, so there is warning that none of these actions will go unanswered.
As for food and water, it sounds as if Gaza has always been dependent on others for basic survival. We hear all these horror stories of the grinding poverty and desperate conditions, and then we see photos of Gazans fleeing in nice cars, all well dressed and healthy looking to the point of plumpness. If the area is incapable of being self-supporting then it appears these people are demanding to be allowed to continue being parasites.
On the other hand, Israel has turned barren deserts into lush, productive farmland.
You compare feeding Palestinians to sending supplies to Germany in WW2. I’ve often made the mental comparisons of what we do now to things like watching Nazi Germany invade neighboring countries in the late 30s and still allowing obviously German obviously military men to stroll across our border with no effort to intervene.
And where is Joe McCarthy when we need him?
(Biden) previously had placed the price tag for American hostages at $6 billion, money that was likely used to offset the cost of the most violent attack against civilians in decades. The Biden White House loves funding Palestine to satiate the anti-Irael caucus growing in his party. Previously, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken continued passing “humanitarian” funds likely used by Hamas despite knowing an attack was coming.
No one should be surprised: the Biden State Department used to employ a special envoy to Iran who grew up with Yasser Arafat as his “godfather” and the Biden Department of Defense currently employs a chief of staff at the Pentagon who has been uncovered as being part of an Iranian propaganda unit.
She’s still employed, and the White House has defended her, allowing her to keep her security clearance.
What may be more shocking, however, is that the Biden Administration has been hiring anti-Israel and pro-terrorism staffers to help craft their immigration strategy at the southern border.
New Conservative Post previously noted that one of the architects of Biden’s immigration strategy, Ramzi Kassem, praised the Hamas terrorist attack. A member of the president’s Domestic Policy Council, Kassem founded CLEAR, a City University of New York project that offers free legal support to New York City Muslims. Following the pro-terror protests that occurred in New York City last weekend, CLEAR announced it would ensure pro-Hamas demonstrators are “protected” as they “continue on until Palestine is liberated, reported The Washington Free Beacon.
Now, an investigation by The Daily Wire has revealed that the Biden Department of Homeland Security hired a former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, an anti-Israel organization.
Nejwa Ali’s job is vetting who at the southern border is allowed to stay in the United States after claiming asylum.
“The U.S. immigration enforcement agency hired a former spokeswoman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and put her in a position to determine who gets to come into the country as an immigrant or ‘asylum seeker.’ Now the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officer is repeatedly posting pictures of Hamas terrorists parachuting in with guns and writing, ‘F*** Israel and any Jew who supports Israel,’ a Daily Wire investigation found.
Nejwa Ali worked in 2016 and 2017 as a public affairs officer for the Palestinian Delegation to the U.S., which according to its own website, served as the “PLO office in D.C.” That office was expelled from the country by the Trump administration, but Ali landed on her feet, according to a screenshot of her LinkedIn profile, securing a job at DHS as an “Asylum Officer,” where she was tasked with “applying immigration laws and regulations to asylum applications.”
So Trump expelled an office supporting the PLO, and then the DHS hired its public affairs officer to be an “Asylum Officer”.
A few weeks ago I posted something about how if we were to make a checklist of ways to destroy this country the Biden Administration would have already checked of nearly every single entry. I didn’t even think of hiring known terrorist sympathizers and supporters to be in charge of deciding which terrorists can receive “asylum” so they can stay here. Of course I also didn’t think of sending billions of dollars to Iran to fund attacks on Israel followed by tens of millions of dollars to the people who attacked Israel.
The only way to keep up with these people is to embrace insanity and accept the most bizarre, reprehensible, inexcusable actions imaginable.
Maybe the Senate, led by Tom Cotton, ought to take a look at this Hamas supporter. But she is probably a citizen and therefore allowed to support terrorism.
BTW, Omar is naturalized so could have her citizenship revoked for her support of terrorists
Update:
Homeland Security’s legal immigration agency put an employee on leave Wednesday after being confronted with her past history as an operative for the Palestine Liberation Organization and a more recent series of pro-Hamas social media posts.
Nejwa Ali had been hired at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as an asylum officer in 2019, and was now serving as an adjudication officer, according to her LinkedIn profile.
That profile also used to highlight her time as a public affairs officer for the PLO, an umbrella group that advocates for Palestinians and has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S.
The Daily Wire first reported on Ms. Ali’s troubling history, saying she has been posting for years in support of Palestinian causes, and has intensified those comments in the wake of Hamas’s horrific sneak attack on Israel earlier this month.
The comments were a black eye for USCIS.
“On leave” = she might still be getting paid, but at least there has been a symbolic reaction, and a hint of awareness that radical leftist views are not as well received as they have been. Maybe BLM is next.
Excellent guest essay at Robert Malone’s Substack by Jeffery Tucker about the shredding of the social contract between governments and their citizens around the world, but nowhere more so than in Israel.
Nothing has been the same since globalists unleashed the Covid experiment.
This is just brilliant, this Canadian guy is running against Trudeau and he just destroyed an ignorant liberal “journalist”, all the while not missing a beat on that delicious apple hahahahaha
https://x.com/semaforben/status/1714716527012745658?s=20
Speaking of moral clarity, this nun has the courage of her convictions:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12641495/Nun-grapples-climate-protester-eco-mob-new-church-France.html
I think the current churn in the House is symbolic of the churn in America. Gaetz has exposed the Republicans who never had our back from the beginning and always signed onto Uni Party demands ie; massive omnibus bills, stop gap CR’s, Infrastructure bills, climate change agendas, foreign wars, etc., and despite their constituents current demands, they still refuse to elect a principled conservative. They do not represent us. They are simply Democrat lite.
America is currently in a day of reckoning and it is long past time this happened. We are seeing the separation unfold daily now
Veteran State Department official furiously QUITS after US backs military assistance to Israel
And then there’s this
DHS worker is unmasked as ex-PLO spokesman who posted: ‘F*** Israel’
From Republicans who constantly betray us, to foreign adversaries working in our government, including the President, this is a battle we must accept and win. I’ve been looking forward to this day for quite a while.
OH NO!!
Now we have to deal with yet another crisis, one no doubt another THREAT TO DEMOCRACY and possibly even worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 put together!
Yes, it’s another attack on the U.S. Capitol! And this time, Congress is in session!
Looks like we are in for another year of hearings and people kept in isolation without trials.
R A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Large group of anti-israel protesters have taken over inside US Capitol rotunda
📌#Washington | #DC
At this time, a large group of Anti-Israel protesters are currently occupying the US Capitol’s rotunda in Washington, D.C. Protesters are demanding and calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, as they chant while holding banners and signs, “ Jews Cease Fire Now”the US Capitol Police has made multiple arrests as demonstrations are not allowed in congressional buildings, as per Capitol Police regulations.
Prepare for spirited discussions about how these people are just supporting terrorists, sneak attacks on unarmed civilians, beheading babies and burning children alive and taking hostages, while the J6 people were supporting Trump, which is so much worse on so many levels.
This is so good …
RINO Bacon Says Jim Jordan is Done and Needs to ‘Withdraw’ from Speaker Race – Hopes McCarthy Detractos ‘Learn a Lesson’
So they hope all those rascally Americans who insist on accountability, have “learned their lesson”. FUCK YOU Don Bacon, you will be the one to learn the lesson as your constituents send you down the road to unemployment. The day of reckoning is coming.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/rino-bacon-says-jim-jordan-is-done-needs/
Does Bacon ever say who he DOES want as Speaker?
I am so tired of disrupters who get off on creating chaos and getting in the way, but who never have an alternative idea. (This has always been one of the biggest criticisms I have had for forty and his fellow travelers. Snipe, snarl, spit, attack, vilify, ridicule, but never have a productive alternative that could be discussed.)
No he doesn’t, and neither do any of them. I think their plan now is to “teach people a lesson”, and isn’t that wonderful. Republicans like Bacon simply want business as usual with the constant flow of money going to his donors and lobbyists, and earmarks for his friends back home.
It seems like the key to getting control of the process is to eliminate earmarks. When donors can’t buy what they want from politicians, and politicians can’t buy votes with promises for earmarks, we might get back to electing people based their commitment to a certain model of government.
Which would take us back to the demand for one bill per policy and no omnibus bills. I would add that any bill has to be of limited length, be written by its sponsor, and no one can vote it without reading it first.
Spot on. And I just read that Jordan withdrew so it looks like they will go back to business as usual. Money talks
Biden just pledged $100 million to Hamas and got all 14 hostages back. OK, I made up that last part. He got zero hostages back. YCMTSU!!!!!!!!
(disclaimer – the $100 million was pledged to Palestine, but Hamas controls Palestine.)
Democrats have Hamas problem and now is the time to split that party in two and drive a wedge through the heart of it. Destroy them
I wonder how many death threats Donald Trump or Matt Gaetz has received? The difference is, they don’t run to the media and scream like children and play the victim. Those traits are purely Democrat
And of course that’s if you believe these threats. Let’s face it, Democrats and RINO’s are famous for making shit up
Are they similar to the death threats the Supreme Court justices received from Democrats?
The day of reckoning is here … never let up until radical Muslims are all with their 72 virgins in paradise and if that requires a couple nuclear bombs, let’s do it. Additionally, give no quarter to UnAmerican Democrats. Fight them like your childrens lives depend on it and if that means battle and blood in the streets, let’s do it. The time is now.
America has a seriously compromised President and that will be on full display this evening as he mumbles through his address which will be of course be to lecture Americans that the Palestine people are actually peaceful people and not supportive of Hamas, ignoring the fact that Hamas was elected by those people by popular vote. Ironically, he will not connect the dots on his own illegitimacy.
Great quote from Jim Caviezel
“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”
IT IS all about the money
Salame admitted that his job at FTX was to illegally funnel money to Republican politicians and political causes, while his co-conspirator, Sam Bankman-Fried, funneled money to Democrats. According to Salame, the donations were to support initiatives supported by Bankman-Fried. Bankman-Fried’s dearest initiative appears to be Joe Biden himself, as he made the second-largest single donation to his 2020 presidential campaign.
Another initiative of Bankman-Fried was Steve Scalise, the man currently preventing Jim Jordan from becoming speaker. Bankman-Fried’s straw donor and co-CEO, Salame, donated $2,900 to Scalise a month before the 2022 Midterms ($2,900 is the maximum donation allowed by an individual):
And not only money for themselves and their friends, but money for Ukraine, which Jordan has said he will cut back. They don’t care about us, they care about their money
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/exclusive-13-22-rino-holdouts-derailing-jim-jordan/
I think we need to be careful about assuming that if a politician receives a donation he or she will reciprocate with some kind of special consideration. This is a dangerous and slippery slope as, if people accept the claim that to receive a donation means to be compromised, any bad actor can compromise an opponent merely by donating what is, really, a small sum of money.
The mere fact that a piddly donation of under $3000 is enough to question the integrity of Steve Scalise is proof of the danger of this kind of faulty assumption. We should/must demand a much closer relationship between large donations and reciprocity before we start sliming innocent people.
That’s just one donor who was able to purchase a bit of loyalty. Multiply that by 100 and that’s where the problem is. Hakeem Jeffries just said that he hopes a “traditional” Republican will step up and win the speakership, and those wishes are echoed by many establishment Republicans. Why?? They don’t want the money train to stop. For 90% of House members, their donors call the shots, not the American people, and that is a systemic problem that must be confronted and defeated. And it’s why we are $31 trillion in debt.
It’s outrageously irresponsible to claim that a donor “purchased a bit of loyalty” from a politician merely by making a small donation to his campaign.
This is a good way to accomplish two things. One is to discourage donations from citizens who merely want to support the candidates they want to win, and one is to have a fast, cheap and easy way to attack the integrity of politicians by claiming their loyalty can be bought for a couple thousand dollars. It’s a good way to keep good people out of politics, too, if they are going to be slimed for campaign contributions just because people want to help them get elected.
Several times, when I have heard of a new politician starting a campaign, I have sent $2000 to that campaign to help it get off the ground. Do you want to know how much “loyalty” I have “purchased”? Zero. None. Those campaign funds are fungible. Once my donation is deposited, it is highly unlikely that the candidate would recognize my name. The only thing I have seen is that this has put me on a list for repeated requests for more money, but I’ll bet $5.00 would put me on the same list.
And how, exactly, do small donors “call the shots”? As a small donor, I’d really like to know how to leverage that into actual influence with my candidate of choice.
So you think FTX was small player? Just a donation from a concerned citizen group? I remember when conservatives use to be oppose to billionaires flooding DC with money and gaining access.
“Discussions” with you are more and more like the skittering around from topic to topic and restating of what was said that are characteristics of efforts with Lefties.
Now my comment that $2900 was not likely to “buy loyalty” from a politician is being totally restated to a claim that I said “FTX was a small player”.
Here’s an example of FTX money in politics:
COMMITTEE (CANDIDATE) /PARTY
PROTECT OUR FUTURE PAC DEM $100,000,000
PROTECT OUR FUTURE PAC DEM $9,000,000
HOUSE MAJORITY PAC DEM $6,000,000
PROTECT OUR FUTURE PAC DEM $4,000,000
PROTECT OUR FUTURE PAC DEM $4,000,000
GMI PAC, INC. $2,000,000
AMERICA UNITED DEM $1,000,000
DNC SERVICES CORP / DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE $500,000
SMP DEM $500,000
DEMOCRATIC GRASSROOTS VICTORY FUND DEM $400,000
I spoke of a single donation of less than three thousand dollars, which YOU defined as buying loyalty. I merely suggested that it takes a lot of money to put a thumb on the scale of a political decision, and that claiming that people who make small donations are really just “buying loyalty” is irresponsible and damaging.
Nowhere did I say, hint or imply that “FTX was small player” or, even more of a lie, that it was just “a concerned citizen group”.
Once again we see the equivalent of you chewing off your own arm to avoid admitting I made a good point.
If you want to engage me in a discussion try to stick to what was said and don’t base your arguments on the voices in your head.
If you’re going to hang your hat on this blatantly biased garbage article, that explains a lot.
The last time I remember the House doing anything constructive for the American people was the 1994 Contract for America. Since then it’s been nothing but no budgets, massive omnibus bills, stop gap CR’s, massive funding for the Military Industrial Complex, the Climate Change industry, and Foreign Aid, all while homelessness in America has exploded, inner cities are gutted, the border is non existent, and American children are either being aborted or killed with fentynal … and we’re $31 trillion in debt
FUCK the House, we need massive chaos to blow this whole thing up, because it will collapse one way or the other. It’s completely unsustainable.
FUCK the House, we need massive chaos to blow this whole thing up which sounds exactly like the rationale of every subversive who has ever tried to justify destroying his government.
So far, the only people I see advocating for massive chaos and blowing up our government are the radical Leftists. And you.
Yeah it would be a shame to stop business as usual. They’ve done so much good over the last 30 years. I should probably just fall in line, right? Remember, it’s really important to save Ukraine’s democracy.
Now you’re dragging Ukraine into this.
Chuck Callesto
@ChuckCallesto
BOMBSHELL REPORT: White House media team outs identities of “Delta Force” last night with image that garnered HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of views.
The White House DID NOT obscure or censor the faces creating a significant breach of NATIONAL SECURITY.
How is this possible?
The post was finally removed after 1 hour..
REMINDER: This came from the White House..
Faces covered for reporting.
How did this happen? Because it was Joe Biden, that’s how. Remember, he is the one who outed the existence and acts of SEAL Team 6, telling the world that they were the ones who took out Bin Laden. Until that time, their very existence was a secret, and after Motormouth Biden started blabbing, to show off how in the loop Obama kept him, the team and their families had to go into hiding to avoid being killed by vengeful Islamists who tracked them down and threatened them.
And we live every day in a nation threatened by his indifference to, if not outright sabotaging of, national security as our nation has to watch millions of men of military age, many of them in groups, many of them with obvious military bearing and military tattoos and similar clothing, stroll across our border.
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if the House actually did what their constituents want for a change? Elect Jordan as Speaker, that’s what conservatives want. Anything else is just a capitulation to the establishment, and we have already seen what they have done over the last 30 years.
You base your allegation that “their constituents” (not identifying the “their”, a common tactic of shifty advocacy “journalism”) want Jordan to be Speaker, which seems to be based on blind acceptance of a biased article.
We don’t know who “most constituents” want as Speaker. And you seem to feel qualified to take it upon yourself to both define “conservative” and then speak for them.
It’s a typical ploy to first identify a “them”—-in your case, the alleged “Establishment”—-and then flail away at it, even going so far as to advocate “blowing it all up”.
Reducing every action and every belief of people you don’t know, who have not explained their positions, to simple minded cartoonish motives might be emotionally gratifying but it doesn’t make sense.
I’d like to know why these 25 Republicans did not vote for Jordan. I think he is liked and respected, so I have to think that at least some of them have a good reason for not wanting him to be the speaker.
Doug Skaff, of West Virginia, is supposedly considering a shift to joining the GOP and running for Secretary of State.
Elgine McArdle, the chairwoman of the West Virginia Republican Party, exhibited a degree of skepticism towards Skaff’s assertion.
In a statement, McCardle acknowledged that “The West Virginia Republican Party recognizes the philosophical nuances that can exist within the Party and welcomes those who genuinely believe in our cause; however, Republican voters are sometimes tasked with differentiating between ‘philosophical nuances’ and ‘diametric ideological opposition.
I think McArdle did a great job of illustrating the kind of analysis we have to employ when we look at why some members of the GOP vote in opposition to others.
Honestly IMO, it’s because Jordan has questioned the amount of money going to Ukraine, and because he was a Trump supporter. Hakeem Jeffries has called Jordan a threat to our democracy, weird coming from a Muslim, but I think that carries weight with establishment Republicans.
Name something to the right of Stalin that HASN’T been deemed “a threat to our democracy” by the Loony Left. And no, I don’t believe that any Republicans take any of this seriously. Some might lack the backbone to take a stand and defend it, some might be morally or intellectually squishy, but I don’t think any Republican takes that “threat to democracy” bullcrap seriously. Though there might be some squeamish trepidation that some voters might, and fear of alienating them.
I can totally relate to this. It’s why I stopped watching “news” after my wife died.
I remember when I was using snap caps on my little revolver with a laser sight, to try to overcome muzzle flip. I would point the laser dot at the TV screen and then when I pulled the trigger I had a visual of the dot jumping upward, which let me train myself to hold the gun steady when I pulled the trigger. It’s a great, simple, training technique to eliminate muzzle flip.
But I stopped doing it when I realized that I had been doing this during a “newscast” and had started to wish I had live ammo in the gun. I continued working on my technique but stopped watching the “news”.
Mid-sized (40-55″) flat screen TVs have become so cheap that it would almost be worth the feeling of satisfaction to put a 200 grain .45 ACP jacketed hollow point through the image of some politician or media hack I detest, but my main TV backs up to the wall of my master bath and might do some serious damage on the other side. I recently replaced a 15-year-old 42″ LG flat screen that still had a picture, albeit a fuzzy one. I took it to the recycling center intact – my bad. I didn’t think about it until afterward that I wasted an opportunity to take out my frustrations. I could have run an extension cord out to the deck with the woods behind it and blasted away.
My son and I have taken out some old tv’s with our glocks in the past. It is fun and cathartic
How did you dispose of the chemicals and broken glass?
There’s a spot in the desert that’s nestled up against a mountain a few miles outside of town that’s a favorite outdoor shooting range for people and there you can find just about anything to shoot at. Kind of a shooting range/dump
So the toxic chemicals and heavy metals and glass in TV sets aren’t hazardous waste if it’s out in the desert?
I didn’t call the EPA
And just to give you an idea of where I live in the desert, this shooting site is not too far from where Sheriff’s found a completely burnt out vehicle with 4 charred bodies in it a couple years ago. I live in Cartel country thanks to Joe.
Arizona sounds lovely
Lol it’s changed a lot since I moved here in the 90’s. When I retire soon, I’m moving
And I will add AZ is not unlike a lot of southern border areas all thanks to politicians ignoring Americans needs. There are a lot of hell scapes in this country now.
LOL. The irony of all ironies was Biden yesterday admonishing Israel for not being consumed with rage, all the while Palestinians celebrate their day of rage today. YCMTSU
I’ve reached the point of just assuming that whatever words come out of Biden’s mouth are totally unrelated to any metric of reality or even anything he truly believes. It’s like a big Wheel of Fortune, and wherever the wheel stops is what he will say—or try to say, as it gets all tangled up in his misfiring synapses.
LOL, it would be hilarious if it weren’t so dangerous
“Discussions” with you are more and more like the skittering around from topic to topic and restating of what was said that are characteristics of efforts with Lefties.
With all due respect, I am not here for a discussion. I’m here to vent and give my opinion and read others opinions. I enjoy reading your comments, most I agree with, some I don’t but they always get me thinking. That’s all.
That’s fine, just so you realize that unfiltered outbursts of “venting” often come across as unhinged and radical announcements of hoped-for violence. I think we all share your basic frustrations and even outrage at the way a lot of things are going, and wish we could exert more control or at least influence, but most of us don’t blurt out that we advocate for the blowing up of the system or the House of Representatives in favor of creating chaos or thinking that shooting “someone” will be productive.
I merely point out the wisdom of a little editing of your raw emotions so you don’t come across as a (literal) bomb-throwing radical. Or, more to the point, given my fondness for this blog, so the blog itself is never identified as being in agreement with your more radical and violent musings.
My position is that if you need to “vent” online about your desire to blow up elements of the government, or just start shooting people, or whatever else you have proposed, you do it on your own blog and not here, implicating the rest of us if your ventings attract attention. You can bluster all you want about how YOU don’t care about the surveillance algorithms etc. that mark our Brave New World of weaponized law enforcement and intelligence agencies, but that is your personal position and you don’t have the right to drag others into the wake of your outbursts. Do it on your own blog, surrounded by the folks you courted so assiduously a few years ago, even trading confidential information as a buy-in to their little circle jerk.
Always a pleasure
And from a personal standpoint, I just no longer allow the media or the political environment to cause any emotions whatsoever. I actually find it comical on a lot of levels. This is our temporary home, nothing here is permanent, and chaos has been the norm in the world throughout history,not the exception.
That sounds like self-serving evasive bullshit. But if that is really your nihilistic worldview then maybe you should step out of the way and make room for people who believe in advocacy, agency, and the obligation to try to make the world a better place.
Biden’s chin—when brain sludge meets gravity