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March 19, 2024

Daily Tech News 19 March 2024

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • Ars Technica violated Betteridge's Law (any headline phrased as a question can be answered with no) and the First Rule of the Internet (never read the comments) with a single article: Is TikTok's parent company an agent of the Chinese state? (Ars Technica)

    Yes, they say, but only because if Bytedance executives refuse to comply the communists will murder their families.

    Which is accurate but would read better if you elided the "but only".

    Oh, and the first comment simply reads, Yes.

    Now, whether the proposed legislation is a good idea is another thing entirely; the very worst legislation often comes with massive bipartisan support, because it benefits them, not you.

    But doing something about TikTok seems necessary.


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King Harv Imperial Coffee

Monday Overnight Open Thread (3/18/24)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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*****


The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

“The whole Seattle is dying is such a meme and is bullshit. As far as the racial justice movement that started at the same time, there is nothing to recover from.” Randy Saldinger
Who is so blind if he sat on a pin he would be blind in both eyes.

Quote II

"Senior execs somehow think that people in the office are more productive than at home, even though there's no evidence to back that up." Professor Cary Cooper, an organizational psychologist and cofounder of the National Forum for Health and Wellbeing At Work
And he who has the gold makes the rules Professor.

Quote III

"To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door, because they're breaking into your home to steal your car,” Toronto Police Service Constable Marco Ricciardi

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Helping Hands Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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Valley of the Gods, Utah

If you think the recent cold snap is unbearable, then Antarctica is not for you.

Surfin' the fjords. Well not really but close enough.

Diving bell ship allows crew to walk on the bottom of a river without getting wet.

Cave diving.

Panda dogs. I think some pervert has dressed them in costumes but I'm not sure.


Biker dogs.

His name is "King."

Jelly dog.

How about a game of catch?

Healing a horse with malformed legs.

A self-propelled fuzzy Kleenex.

A visit from the neighborhood porcupine.

Livecam from Huffington Post's offices.

ICYMI: Another video of the sharpshooting dog.

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Skitch Qui

—Disinformation Expert Ace

You no doubt remember that James Biden's favorite method of laundering money into Joe Biden's bank accounts was to claim that the money he wired over -- which has been proven to be the proceeds his own deals with the Chinese -- was merely a "repayment" for a previous "loan" Joe Biden had given James Biden.

But Hunter Biden's "business" partner, who acted as an accountant for Joe Biden, could not recall any "loans" Biden ever made to his family members.

From JustTheNews:

One of the key revelations from the interview is, that while he was in business with Hunter Biden, Schwerin did accounting work for Joe Biden at no expense. Schwerin told the committee because of his work, he had access to Joe Biden's bank accounts "through 2017."

"And then when you were compiling all of the documents for Vice President Biden, did he ever give any loans, that you can recall?" committee investigators asked, according to the transcript reviewed by Just the News.

"Not -- when I was compiling the documents, not that I recall," Schwerin answered.

And your accountant would of course know about any "loans" you'd made.

Are short-shorts back?

On March 1, the women's clothing line posted a series of images of its micro shorts line on the Free People Instagram account.

"We are wearing micro shorts this season. Link in bio to shop the styles," the post read.

Over the past month, several Instagram users piled on the post and the product, frequently mocking the absurd size and tightness of the short jeans.


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The Free People website features 51 different "micro bottoms" products including pants, shorts, skirts, sets, swim bottoms, sleep and lounge, and jumpsuits and rompers. Sizes ranged from XS to XL with prices ranging from $30 to about $400.

A similar style of "short shorts" for men was popularized in 2021 following a Men's Health magazine article that predicted they would gain popularity in the summer among fitness enthusiasts.

The Guardian is soliciting Very Sad Stories from its mentally-ill cat-hoarding readers about how "climate change has affected your relationships."

Ah yes -- a million lonely angry miserable women, all because of "climate change."

Inside Edition gives Joe Biden's "boat anchor" shoes a positive review. I'm sure the media would equally flack for a Republican.

Trump's million propaganda media concern trolls would never, ever use dangerous, provocative words like bloodbath!


Drag Show for... Hamas:

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Gaslight Media Floods Country With Disinformation About a "Bloodbath"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Bee:

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I've put this off all day, trying to think of something clever to say about it.

I couldn't think of anything clever to say. It is what it is: The "American" media is a hostile foreign psyops machine, blasting us with Tokyo Rose propaganda 24/7/365.

Trump said that if he isn't elected, Biden will permit China to build duty-free cars in Mexico and import them into the US, driving US factories out of business. A "bloodbath," he said it would be.

The evil enemy-of-the-people media all pushed the disinformation that Trump was saying there would be a "bloodbath" of political violence if he isn't re-elected (for the second time).


The gaslight media is like a heroin junkie -- everything they say has the agenda of getting you to loan them money for heroin. No matter what you're talking about, they hijack the conversation into talk about a "loan" so they can "get some resumes printed" and "get back on their feet."

And you know what they really mean is "give me money so I can go to the park and buy some heroin."

It just never stops. The media are obsessive and single-minded like drug addicts.

And the rest of us are getting very sick of our lying, thieving junkies.

Trump slams "Fake News Media" for "bloodbath" lies, "They fully understood...I was...referring to imports"


Former President Donald Trump criticizes mainstream media for lying about his 'bloodbath' comment, asserting it was about Biden's policies impacting the auto industry, not violence.


Trump used the term "bloodbath" in reference to the decline of the U.S. auto industry under Biden's policies, particularly the electric car mandate.

He accused the media and Democrats of misconstruing his words, suggesting they knew he was discussing economic impacts.

Trump emphasized that his re-election would lead to a resurgence in U.S. auto manufacturing.


...

Trump argued that his remark was taken out of context, explaining that he used 'bloodbath" metaphorically to describe the adverse effects of Biden's policies on the automobile sector, including the importation practices and the electric car mandate. This, Trump suggests, is leading to a significant decline in the industry--a sentiment he claims is shared by the United Auto Workers, albeit not their leadership.


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NBC Regime Media: Biden Is "Angry and Anxious" About His Failed Campaign for "Re" Election

—Disinformation Expert Ace

How bad must it be, for the most Regime of all Regime Media to report this?

President Joe Biden was seething.

In a private meeting at the White House in January, allies of the president had just told him that his poll numbers in Michigan and Georgia had dropped over his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas.

Both are battleground states he narrowly won four years ago, and he can't afford any backsliding if he is to once again* defeat Donald Trump. He began to shout and swear, a lawmaker familiar with the meeting said.

* Citation needed

He believed he had been doing what was right, despite the political fallout, he told the group, according to the lawmaker.

Asked about the episode, Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said: "President Biden makes national security decisions based on the country's national security needs alone -- no other factor."

LOL. That's why he keeps slamming Israel and visiting Muslim enclaves in Michigan, huh?

Biden's chafing at his persistently-low poll numbers.

...


History suggests it will be tough for him to recover. Biden's 38% approval rating at this stage in the calendar is lower than that of the last three presidents who went on to lose re-election: Trump (48%), George H.W. Bush (39%) and Jimmy Carter (43%), according to Gallup survey data.

Like Obama, Biden thinks he just isn't appreciated enough by American ingrates.

Biden has long believed that he isn't getting sufficient credit for an economy that has created 15 million new jobs. Looking to reach distracted voters who may be tuning in, he told his speechwriters before the State of the Union address to tone down some of the lofty rhetoric and plainly lay out what he's done, a person familiar with speech preparations said.

Biden really wants to get out there and tell his Old Man Confabulations, but his staff of nurses and elder care experts keep stopping him:

Surrounded by protective aides who want to minimize the chances of a flub, the 81-year-old president has chafed at restraints that he sees as counter to his natural instincts as a retail politician, a third person familiar with internal discussions said.

He has felt cocooned at times and has been eager to get out more, meet voters face-to-face and take the fight directly to Trump...

Sure, sure. The man who can barely walk and who naps for 18 hours a day really wants to get out there and expend more energy.

There are signs that some within his party are also losing patience with him.

"Biden stood up in front of the whole world and said, 'I'm ready. I'm the guy who can take down Donald Trump,'" said Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash. "So, he goddamn well better do it. We don't have time for him to be worried about whether or not people are saying things right or the poll numbers are where they should be. I want focused energy and not defensive anger."

The media treats "go**amn" as if it's acceptable language. But they'll shriek if you correctly gender Dylan Mulvaney and Will "Lia" Thompson.

Biden has on occasion directed his ire at his tightknit senior staff. Given the successes he has had in passing consequential bills and improving the economy, Biden was irritated that his message wasn't sinking in with the broader electorate, the sources said.

LOL. Don't stroke out, dude.

At times, Biden gets suggestions that conflict with one another. Some advisers have told him he should walk faster out of concern that his gait feeds impressions that he's too old. And yet the White House is sufficiently worried about him tripping that he has taken to boarding Air Force One via a shorter staircase through the belly of the plane, forgoing the iconic image of the president waving from the main doorway high above the tarmac.

"He's probably a little mad at himself for not being more forceful with the staff," a person familiar with internal discussions said.

Oh, I hear he's plenty "forceful" with his staff, raging at them with senile impotence.

Privately, Biden questions whether he should trust his gut instincts over the guidance coming from the array of advisers tending to his political interests, this person added.


...

A consensus of Democratic officials is that Biden needs an army of surrogates to spread the word that his record has improved American lives in concrete ways. He can't carry the message alone.

Joe Biden thinks he's done such a good job as president that the man who routinely denigrated him as a "f*ck up" would totally be jelly.

President Biden doesn't speak frequently with Barack Obama -- but behind closed doors, he talks about him a lot.

Why it matters: Biden often measures himself against the man he served as vice president, current and former aides say. It's a complex relationship in which there is a rivalry -- particularly on Biden's side.

"Obama would be jealous," Biden sometimes says when speaking about a perceived accomplishment, according to two Biden aides familiar with such instances.

The competitive dynamic has informed Biden's approach to several issues -- including how he's dealt with Afghanistan, Israel and Congress.

...

Driving the news: Biden's range of feelings about Obama is apparent in the recently released transcript of Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden's handling of classified documents.

Unprompted, Biden told Hur about the wounding experience of Obama favoring Hillary Clinton over him to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016.

Biden recalled that "a lot of people ... were encouraging me to run in this period, except the president .... He just thought that [Clinton] had a better shot of winning the presidency than I did."

Biden privately has told aides that he believed he could have beaten Donald Trump if he had run in 2016.

Biden speaks more often with former President Bill Clinton than Obama, the Washington Post has reported.

...

The intrigue: Many longtime Biden aides have long felt that Obama and his team did not fully appreciate Biden's experience with foreign policy, Congress and grip-and-grin politicking -- and were disrespectful.

Many strong relationships remain between Biden and Obama worlds, but there is some hostility.

One former Biden aide told Axios: "The Obama people thought Biden would suck as president. They didn't think he'd be organized enough to execute."

So that's how you see yourselves, huh? Fascinating.

Some Biden aides resent the large number of Obama veterans Biden and his top aides decided to bring into the current administration at levels above people who had worked with Biden for much longer.

"We do have too many Obama people who don't care about Joe Biden. It's about them," one former White House official told Axios.

Obama himself acknowledged in 2021 the overlap between his team and Biden's, telling The New York Times, "Joe and the administration are essentially finishing the job ... 90% of the folks who were there in my administration, they are continuing and building on the policies we talked about."

This has created tension between the two camps ahead of the 2024 election -- especially when some Obama-era operatives offer advice.


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Zoom in: At times, Biden's competitiveness with Obama has affected how he governs. He's tried to correct for what he sees as the former president's mistakes and shortcomings.

Biden was adamant about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in 2021 -- in part because he felt vindicated that Obama should have followed his advice in 2009 to largely withdraw them then.

When talking about lobbying Obama against surging troops to Afghanistan in 2009, Biden told Hur that he was trying to "quite frankly, save his ass."

Biden ordered a withdrawal from Afghanistan in his first months as president. The chaos at the end of that operation -- including the killing of 13 U.S. service members -- was the lowest moment of Biden's presidency for many in the administration.

Biden White House officials also recall there was a push to "go big" in early 2021 with their first legislative package -- the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which included COVID aid and expansions of the social safety net.

That was partly because they believed Obama hadn't gotten enough money approved for the $787 billion Recovery Act during the 2009 financial crisis.

And that worked out great, huh?

David Strom quotes Nate Silver, making the case that Democrats really are losing blacks and Hispanics, but Democrats are pretending all the polls are "skewed."

Silver was commenting on the below Twitter thread, noting various polls showing Biden's loss of support among minorities:

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Shock Study: "Woke" People Are More Neurotic, Depressed, Miserable, and Mentally Ill

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The deuce you say!

Psychological researchers in Finland have created an assessment to help measure an individual's commitment to principles of social justice and made some surprising findings across the Finnish population -- including a negative correlation between progressive ideals and levels of happiness.

Their findings, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, suggest other Western nations may see similar patterns among their socially conscious citizens.

Study author Oskari Lahtinen, a senior researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of Turku, remarked that the "woke" discourse has since worked its way into Finnish discourse.

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In the end, their final Critical Social Justice Attitude Scale identified seven truisms of woke people:

"If white people have on average a higher level of income than black people, it is because of racism."

"University reading lists should include fewer white or European authors."

"Microaggressions should be challenged often and actively."

"Trans* women who compete with women in sports are not helping women's rights." (reverse scored)

"We don't need to talk more about the color of people's skin."

"A white person cannot understand how a black person feels equally well as another black person."

"A member of a privileged group can adopt features or cultural elements of a less privileged group." (reverse scored)


"The gender divide was probably most surprising to me," Lahtinen told PsyPost of Finnish attitudes. "Three out of five women view 'woke' ideas positively, but only one out of seven men."

This was especially true of women in fields such as social sciences, education, and humanities. By contrast, participants who worked in STEM were more likely to critique social justice efforts associated with being woke.

However, the most concerning finding was the relationship between mental health and agreement with the scale. Specifically, researchers found a high prevalence of anxiety and depression in people who believe the statement "If white people have on average a higher income than black people, it is because of racism." More broadly, they found that those who identified as left-wing were most likely to report lower mental well-being.


In very much related news: Based on current trends, more and more women will be single and childless every year through at least 2030, and women will continue experiencing depression and mental illness at increasing levels.

Feminism -- Marxism for Gurlz (TM) -- is viral mental illness and misery.

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Netanyahu to Chuck Schumer: Drop Dead

—Disinformation Expert Ace

As you probably know, Israel is on the verge of wiping Hamas off the face of the map, if I can use Hamas' words to describe their own peril.

As Israel is about to enter Hamas' last redoubt, Rafah, and exterminate these terror-roaches once and for all, the Marxist transnationalists are in a frenzy to pressure Israel to spare Hamas and keep the terrorist government in place.

Chuck Schumer joined this frenzy last week, demanding that Israel -- an independent country, in case you didn't know -- hold snap elections so that Netanyahu can be voted out of office and Hamas saved for future use by the Marxist transnationalist Regime.

Professor William Jacobsen rails against Schumer's vile terrorist protection policy. And Schumer is adopting a pro-terrorist policy to appease the pro-terrorists "newcomer" voters of the Democrat Party.


It's disgusting what he did. It's pandering. It's pandering to the anti-Israel Democratic base, the pro-Hamas vote in Michigan. It is the worst thing he could possibly have done because he's trying to divide the Jewish community. He knows there's in the American Jewish community, which is overwhelmingly liberal, he knows there's some dislike for Netanyahu. And what he's trying to do, he's trying to separate Israel and Netanyahu, which has been Biden administration policy. I wrote about this about two weeks ago, that's where they're going to distinguish. 'Well, we hate Netanyahu, but we love Israel.' Well, they're in the middle of a war, okay?

And why do they hate Netanyahu so much right now? It's because he's refusing to capitulate to the American President and the American Secretary of State who want Hamas to survive. They do. You can't read their actions any other way.

Hamas now exists only in Rafa, four battalions by all counts, which is thousands of Hamas fighters. That's where the leadership is. That's where the hostages are. And all of American policy for the last two to three weeks, maybe month, has been to try to bully Israel into not finishing off Hamas. And now Chuck Schumer steps in and picks up that cudgel and he hits Netanyahu over the head. And why is he hitting net over the head? Is because he's been too uncompromising.

I think there's going to be a huge, there is a huge backlash to this. I think what Schumer did is disgraceful. He's trying to walk it back.

Did Schumer try to walk it back? Sort of, yes, he did attempt to soften his demand for regime change in an allied nation.

Now he's saying he's not necessarily saying that there should be a regime change... just that Israel hold a snap election so that there can be a regime change, or at least a "discussion" about a regime change:

Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer

The U.S. cannot dictate the outcome of an election.

That is for the Israeli public to decide.

As a democracy, Israel has the right to choose its own leaders.

But the important thing is that Israelis are given a choice.

There needs to be a fresh debate about the future.

Back to William Jacobsen:

Too late, Chuck, you will not walk it back. Your legacy will be that you betrayed not just the Jewish people, but you betrayed Western civilization and your own country with these comments at a critical moment in history. Because let's face it, the people Israel is fighting in Gaza and elsewhere are enemies of the United States. They are enemies of Western civilization.

What they did on October 7th, they would do to us in a heartbeat if they could. And Chuck Schumer is fighting to prevent them from being destroyed. It's disgraceful. He will never live this down.

Audio of Jacobsen's statement at the link. He delivered this rant on the Tony Katz radio show.


Netanyahu has likewise counter-attacked the pro-Hamas senator, noting that Israel is on the verge of achieving its war aims -- and thus bringing about the peace that Schumer claims to want -- but Schumer wants Hamas' war on Jewish civilians to go on for another 1000 years.

As we have reported, Democrats have been throwing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the bus. They seem to be so desperate to appeal to the folks on the left in their party that they've lost the plot when it comes to Israel. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called for regime change against Netanyahu. Joe Biden called it a "good" speech, that Netanyahu was hurting more than helping, and there were reports that his White House was trying to force Netanyahu out. Then, on Sunday, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also talked smack against him, claiming that he'd interfered in our elections in a bizarre attack when, indeed, it was the Obama administration that had interfered in Israeli elections against Netanyahu.

But Netanyahu had a few things to say about the situation and the Democrats in response during an interview with Pete Hegseth on "Fox and Friends."

He explained that Israel wasn't going to back off on going into Rafah and that the only thing that has made Hamas release hostages is continued military pressure. He said that they had destroyed 19 of Hamas' 24 battalions and that asking them not to go into Rafah right now (something Biden said he was against and was a "red line" for him) was like telling the allies during World War II not to go into Berlin. "That's ridiculous," Netanyahu said, saying it would allow Hamas to repeat their attacks on his country.

He said they had already effectively had a "two-state solution" with Gaza, and Hamas used that to launch the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, that to give them such a state after that attack would be the "greatest reward for terrorism in history." He also noted that they voted 99 to 9 against the imposition of a two-state solution on Israel, noting that the vast majority of the Israeli public was against it and in support of going into Rafah.


Netanyahu sort of had a little smile on his face when Hegseth brought up the question of what Schumer and Biden had said. Then, he completely took down Schumer.

I think Schumer's statements are wholly inappropriate. I think we're not a banana republic. The people of Israel will choose when they'll have elections, who they elect, and it's not something that will be foisted upon us. It's wrong to try to replace the elected leaders of a sister democracy and a staunch American ally at any time, but especially during the time of war.

Just imagine that, after 9/11, and when you're in the midst of fighting Al Qaeda, and winning. People would say, some Israeli would say, "Oh, the right thing to do is not to have new elections in America or have President Bush resign." It's inappropriate. Shouldn't have been said. It's wrong."

In fairness to Schumer and his fellow Democrats -- they did call for Bush to be impeached for being too anti-Al-Qadea.

Video of Netanyahu's appearance on Fox & Friends at the link.

In further news, the Regime propaganda world media attempted to wishcast a ceasefire into existence by claiming Hamas had agreed to a "framework" for a ceasefire. Hamas then contradicted the propaganda media and said no, we haven't agreed to any ceasefire or any framework to a ceasefire.

This represents yet another expression of progressives' "translation" of terrorist statements, to ventriloquize progressive dream statements into the mouths of terrorists. Osama bin Ladin says he will kill the Jew and the infidel wherever he finds them; the leftwing propaganda Regime media reports "Osama bin Ladin says he will never stop fighting for a Single Payer health insurance system."

And in another disgusting example of the Marxist transnationalists saving Hamas -- Qatar offered to expel the Hamas terror leaders that they are sheltering/protecting from Israeli terror-hunters as well as any other nations who might want to bring them up on charges.

Incredibly, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said "no" -- you keep on providing safe haven to the Terror Lords. We want them to be safe!

From the Times of Israel:

WASHINGTON -- Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani proposed expeling Hamas's leaders from Doha during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken days after the terror group's October 7 onslaught, two officials familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.

Thani... then asked whether it was time for the US to ask Qatar to expel the Hamas's leaders, the two officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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When Blinken began his own remarks, he didn't respond directly to the emir's proposal but did go on to say that he thought it would be better for Qatar to use its contacts with Hamas -- through the office it allowed the terror group to establish in Doha in 2012 at Washington's behest -- to mediate between the Gaza war parties to secure a hostage deal, the officials recalled.

No don't kick out Hamas terrorist leaders, we're desperate to continue "negotiating" with them through back-channels. It's proven so effective in the past we must not do anything to disrupt this productive working relationship with Hamas terrorists.

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Hezb'allah Terrorist Arrested at Southern Border; Admits He Entered US to Build a Bomb

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Migrant crime is out of control.

Illegal migrant admits terror group affiliation after crossing into U.S., "I'm going to try to make a bomb"

Sun Mar 17 2024
MXM Exclusive

Quick Hit:

A Lebanese illegal migrant captured along the U.S. southern border has admitted to being a member of Hezbollah and expressed intentions to make a bomb in New York. Basel Bassel Ebbadi was apprehended by border patrol on March 9th near El Paso, Texas, and is now facing deportation.

Key Details:

Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by border patrol on March 9th near El Paso, Texas.

Ebbadi admitted to being a member of Hezbollah, having trained with them for seven years and served as an active member for another four years.

He was placed into isolation and marked for deportation after making "terroristic threats to personnel."

Diving Deeper:

First reported by the New York Post, Basel Bassel Ebbadi, a 22-year-old Lebanese migrant, was apprehended by border patrol near El Paso, Texas, on March 9th. During his custody, Ebbadi admitted to being a member of Hezbollah, a militant group and political party based in Lebanon. He revealed that he had trained with the group for seven years and served as an active member for another four years, guarding weapons locations.

According to internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents and images obtained by the New York Post, Ebbadi's training focused on "jihad" and killing people "that were not Muslim."

Upon his capture, Ebbadi was found without any documents, claiming they were stolen "with a knife" while he was in Costa Rica. He also admitted to using a fake birthday and name in Sweden, Ecuador, and Panama. His initial plan was to go to New York and then move around the country.

In more migrant crime news: a man wanted by Interpol in connection with four murders was allowed to move to the US and settle here.

It's unknown if he's an illegal alien or merely an alien that no real country ever would have allowed to visit.

Aderbis Segundo Pirela Pirela, a top fugitive on Interpol and Colombian National Police lists, was apprehended in New Braunfels. He faces serious charges for multiple crimes, including murder, drug trafficking, and extortion in Colombia.

Key Details:

Aderbis Segundo Pirela Pirela, listed as a most wanted fugitive by Interpol and Colombian authorities, was captured in New Braunfels.Pirela Pirela is implicated in at least four murders and faces charges in Bogota, Colombia, for homicide, drug trafficking, and extortion.

Details regarding his entry into the U.S. and his stay in New Braunfels remain unknown.

The arrest of Aderbis Segundo Pirela Pirela in New Braunfels highlights a glaring gap in the Biden administration's border security and immigration policies. The fact that a highly dangerous individual, wanted internationally for grave crimes, could enter and reside in the United States undetected poses serious questions about the effectiveness of border control and immigration vetting processes. Pirela Pirela's presence in the U.S., linked to at least four murders, drug trafficking, and extortion, underlines a critical lapse in national security measures. This incident not only exposes the vulnerabilities in monitoring and tracking individuals who pose a potential threat but also reflects a broader issue of inadequate enforcement and oversight within the current immigration system.

Further complicating the matter is the lack of transparency regarding how Pirela Pirela managed to enter the United States and the duration of his stay before being apprehended.

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:16 PM Comments

Inflation Rises "Much More" than Expected; Media Hails Joe Biden's Genius In Finally Curing Americans of Consumerism

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Hail the great leader! He brings us political prosperity!

Wholesale inflation rose 0.6% in February, much more than expected

The producer price index, which measures pipeline costs for raw, intermediate and finished goods, jumped 0.6% on the month, double the Dow Jones estimate.

On a year-over-year basis, the headline index increased 1.6%, the biggest move since September 2023.

Two-thirds of the rise in headline PPI came from a 1.2% surge in goods prices, the biggest increase since August 2023, thanks to a 4.4% jump in energy.

Retail sales increased 0.6%, less than expected, while weekly jobless claim filings nudged lower to 209,000.

Wholesale prices accelerated at a faster-than-expected pace in February, another reminder that inflation remains a troublesome issue for the U.S. economy.

This will complicate the Feds' agenda of reducing interest rates to stimulate the economy in order to rig the election for Joe Biden.

Fortune: America hit with one-two punch of bad economic news.

The mighty American consumer has shrugged off months, even years of recession predictions from top economists and Wall Street CEOs. Facing the hottest inflation in 40 years, and aggressive interest rate hikes meant to tame it, consumers have managed to continue spending, enabling the economy to remain on solid footing. But this week, a one-two punch of bad economic data has some experts waiting for another uppercut.

The second straight weak retail sales report, which included a downward revision of January's sales data, has sparked concerns that consumers are finally showing signs of wear and tear after powering through price increases and rising borrowing costs for roughly two years....


At the same time, producer price inflation, which tends to lead consumer price inflation, also came in above Wall Street's expectations for the second straight month on Thursday. It's another piece of data that could put investors' dreams of swift, economy-boosting interest rate cuts on hold, particularly with Fed officials being very clear that they don't plan on cutting rates until inflation is well under control. As Quincy Krosby, chief global strategist for LPL Financial, put it: "For the data dependent Fed, this report isn't helpful."

Or for Biden.

Related: Despite President Confabulation's claims, the company did not reduce the size of Snickers bar because of corporate greed and artificial "shrinkflation."

No, the size of the Snickers bar was reduced because the company was attempting to obey Michelle Obama's "Eat Less, Move More" campaign. They tried to deliver a lower-calorie candy by making it smaller, as Michelle Obama demanded.

CNN states that the 2 to Go Snickers resealable package includes two smaller snickers bars containing 220 calories each. The move from King size to the 2 to Go package was officially announced in 2012, explaining that the new language and resealable packaging was meant to encourage consumers to share or save the second Snickers bar to eat later. The outlet stated that the confectionery company also said they planned to replace or eliminate all candy bar sizes which contained over 250 calories by the end of 2013. According to NPR, downsizing from the then standard two ounce and 280 calorie Snicker bars to a 250 calorie bar represented an 11 percent shrink. Advertisement

Reason stated that Mars' decision to only sell lower calorie portions of their products was, in part, inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, which was designed to help combat childhood obesity.

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THE MORNING RANT - EV Death Pool Update: Rivian Puts Halt to Georgia Plant; Fisker Circling the Drain

—Buck Throckmorton

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Governor Brian Kemp’s Parkway to Nowhere

As I’ve been documenting over the past few years, there has been no easier mark for electric vehicle hustlers than Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R). He has repeatedly thrown outrageous amounts of taxpayer money at pie-in-the-sky EV and battery ventures. He embraced the eco-communists’ vision of a world without gasoline-powered cars, and to paraphrase Nikita Khrushchev, Brian Kemp wanted Georgia to become the premier manufacturer of the electric ropes with which western civilization would be hung.

Rivian has been Gov. Kemp’s largest and most visibly bad communist public-private investment – a boondoggle for which he pledged $1.5 billion of Georgia taxpayer money. The state has already condemned the land, graded it, turned the land over to Rivian, and spent tens of millions of dollars on roadways for the project. Rivian is a start-up with neither a customer base, nor any historical manufacturing experience. It not only hemorrhages cash, but it suffers a gross loss of tens of thousands of dollars on every vehicle it sells. There is no pathway to profitability for it. Like a dot-com company from 25 years ago, its financial performance is measured in its cash-burn rate. Rivian already has a plant in Illinois with a manufacturing capacity of 150,000 units per year, but it can only sell about a third of that.

This announcement has been inevitable for quite some time:

“Automaker Rivian pauses construction of its $5 billion electric truck plant in Georgia” [AP – 3/07/2024]

The CEO of Rivian Automotive announced Thursday that the electric truck maker is pausing construction of its $5 billion manufacturing plant in Georgia to speed production and save money.

It would also save $2.25 billion in capital spending for now, Rivian said in a news release. The company has been burning through accumulated cash quickly, even as it hasn’t met production targets at its Illinois plant.

Rivian did not give a timetable for restarting work on the Georgia plant, saying in a statement: “The timing for resuming construction is expected to be later.”

I can help out here regarding the timetable for Rivian’s Georgia plant - it will never be built.

Like a degenerate gambler who has just put the deed to his house on the table because he knows his luck is about to turn around, Gov. Kemp is still confident about this awful EV gamble.

“Kemp: Rivian and Georgia remain 'committed' to $5B manufacturing plant” [Fox5 Atlanta – 3/13/2024]

At a press conference on Tuesday, Kemp addressed the automaker's announcement for the first time, saying that Rivian's decision was "disappointing" but that the state was still optimistic about the deal. "What they've relayed to me is that there is no doubt here. We're under contract with them. The state is in a really good place," he said.

To be fair, the state is in a better place than it would have been had construction started before Rivian goes out of business. This way, there will not be any demolition required for whatever future purpose is found for this land.

Still, Kemp remained positive that construction would continue on schedule. "They can still meet the metrics that they have to under our contract obligations by 2030," Kemp said, "We honor our commitments in our state, and we're going to do that in regards to the site, and we're expecting the company to honor their commitments as well."

This last sentence (below) made me smile. Someone at the state’s highway department understands better than the Governor himself that the Rivian misadventure is now winding down.

The state also has completed most of the $50 million in roadwork that it pledged. But signs for Rivian Parkway at a new traffic signal on U.S. 278 had been removed as of last week.

I might suggest that Rivian Parkway be renamed “Governor Kemp’s Parkway to Nowhere.”

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Fisker Is Going Bankrupt – Again

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

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The Morning Report — 3/18/24

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning, kids. This latest bit of meshugas is so patently ridiculous, so idiotic and such obvious bullshit that it just reeks of desperation. Or am I just too sane enough and set in my ways to understand or appreciate that the general public has the collective attention span of an amoeba and ditto (more crucially) its critical thinking skills – both due to the combined dumbing down by a media that does nothing but pump out pure leftist propaganda 25/8 and the cumulative effect of at least three generations of what the American educational system has wrought – and that this gigantic lie will swamp the past three years of actual lived experience of pain, misery, angst and suffering?

Anyone reading the headlines published by a number of mainstream outlets might believe that Trump was not just predicting, but calling for, political violence if he were to lose another election.

  • The New York Times: Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses

  • The Guardian: Trump predicts ‘bloodbath’ if he loses election and claims ‘Biden beat Obama’

  • NBC News: Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election

  • Politico: Trump says country faces ‘bloodbath’ if Biden wins in November

  • Rolling Stone: Trump Says There Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’ and Elections Will End if He Isn’t Reelected

    . . . But while those outlets and others were only too happy to share that one cherry-picked line — Trump predicts ‘bloodbath’ if he loses in November — they were equally happy to leave out the fact that at the time, he was specifically talking about the automobile industry and the economic impact of a company owned by Communist China building cars in Mexico to avoid U.S. tariffs.

    Here’s the full context of the “bloodbath” comment, which he said was addressed to Chinese President Xi Jinping:

    Those big monster car manufacturing plants you are building in Mexico right now and you think you are going to get that — not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the car to us, no.

    We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it.

    Grabien media founder Tom Elliott followed with a video supercut of liberal media pundits using the term “bloodbath” to describe everything from economic issues and Taylor Swift ticket snafus to midterm election results and the recent shake-up in leadership at the Republican National Committee.

  • As we know all too well by now, to even attempt to point out the chutzpocrisy of the Democrat-Left is pissing into the wind. That is, of course, their standard operating procedure in terms of how they function socially and politically and, via one of Saul Alinsky's infamous "Rules" what they will beat us over the head with every single chance they get, the accuracy of the charge be damned.

    It's why I get so exercised about language insofar as what is and is not appropriate and more crucially who gets to be the arbiter of it. Of course, that has been the sole purview of the left since the went full tilt boogie in undermining our society since the sexual revolution, the women's movement and the complete undermining of the legitimate civil rights movement, going on 60 years. All of it aimed at seizing absolute power. And the control of language is a, if not the prime super weapon in the Democrat-Left's drive to dominate us. There are quite a few people who get irked at Trump for "shooting his mouth off."

    I get irked at him for other reasons, mostly in terms of staff and past policy. But if, because of this, we're going to suddenly demand that he somehow forces himself to literally think before uttering every word at every single rally and interview going forward, then it's over. Love him or hate him, Trump's greatest asset is what some perceive as his Achilles heel: his mouth. And it's only an Achilles heel insofar as we allow the Democrat-Left to make it so. His ability to connect with an audience speaking off the cuff is something the other side cannot do. Especially the demented vegetable presidential poseur whose brain is melting by the hour and can't put two coherent sentences together even with a teleprompter, idiot cards and a media that is covering for him and covering it all up, with lesser and lesser effectiveness the closer we get to November.

    Unfortunately, we do not have a political party to tell the Democrats and their propagandists to go fuck themselves. Instead, we have the GOP: Grifting Oleaginous Parasites:

    Anchor Kristen Welker said, “I want to start by getting your reaction to Donald Trump’s comments about a bloodbath. Do you think those comments were appropriate?”

    Cassidy said, “The general tone of the speech is why many Americans continue to wonder should President Trump should be president? That kind of rhetoric is on the edge, and maybe it doesn’t cross, maybe it does, depending on your perspective.”

    He added, “He always walks up to the edge on the rhetoric, and again, that’s why people are concerned."

    This was after Welker actually, and surprisingly, played the entire soundbite of Trump. It was in complete context. Even if she didn't, you'd think Cassidy would've listened to it beforehand. And yet, he's agreeing with this lying bint that what he said as voters "concerned." Why is this schmuck even appearing on Press the Meat in the first place? The only reason to do so would be to blast her and her colleagues for being the lying sacks of shit that they are. Voters indeed are concerned. Mostly about an economy on the verge of collapse, an intentional invasion of foreign peasants, criminals and terrorists, a foreign policy that is lighting the fuse on World War 3 and the persecution of anyone even slightly to the right of Che Guevara.

    Thank you and fuck you, Bill Cassidy.

    In any case, remember they tried to pull this crap years ago with the Charlottesville "good people" bromide. Despite that being a somewhat easier situation for the propagandists to obfuscate, considering the rather touchy issue of the Confederate flag, what it represents and the parties involved in that situation, there was absolutely zero ambiguity in this instance.

    Isn't it amazing how both Trump and Biden see "the end of democracy" if the other wins? If Biden can say it, why not Trump? 

    Frankly, I don't think either man can "end democracy" or prevent a "meaningful" election in 2028. Neither do I believe that democracy is "teetering" or in any great danger.  The U.S. republic has withstood far worse threats to its existence than anyone running for president in 2024. 

    “He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge,” the Biden campaign statement reads.

    "Affection" for violence? Wow. Just wow.Biden and the left fall into Trump's briar patch every time. Don't they ever look at the polls? No one is listening to their "warnings." No one is paying attention to their predictable attacks. 

    They're writing and speaking for an audience already predisposed to hate Donald Trump and to fear him. They're not making any converts. They're only driving people out of the political process altogether or into the arms of Trump.

    Exactly as Trump knew they would.

    I am not a fan of PJ Media's Rick Moran, and his assertion that the republic will withstand anything that will be thrown at it flies in the face of the facts since Trump came down the escalator 9 years ago, if not before, and the trajectory we are on. But that said, I do think his conclusion is dead on. Like Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' Nuremberg Rally disguised as a State of the Union Speech, all of this dreck will not move the needle in influencing "independent" voters, if such creatures even exist.

    Meanwhile, speaking of "bloodbaths," I give you this horrid piece of shit impersonating a civilized human being and American:

    State Sen. Charlane Oliver, who represents Nashville, said the Republicans’ pro-police legislation is “rooted in racism,” and will force those in her district to “fight like hell.” The bill was sponsored by Republican state Sen. Brent Taylor after Memphis passed an ordinance that banned traffic stops for issues such as expired registrations, a single inoperable headlight or brake light, and loose bumpers, News Channel 3 reported.

    The Memphis city council passed the ordinance following the death of Tyre Nichols, a black man, who was fatally injured during a confrontation with five black Memphis police officers on January 7, 2023, after he was pulled over.

    “It is a slap in the face and you might as well stomp on the grave of Tyre Nichols,” Oliver said after the state Senate passed Taylor’s bill by a vote of 26-6. “Yes, we are emotionally charged. Why? Because it’s personal for us. Taylor made this personal the minute he introduced this legislation to target one family and one life that was lost.”

    “So yeah, we gonna fight,” Oliver added. “Dr. King said that riots are the language of the unheard. You ain’t seen nothing yet. If you keep silencing us like this, what do you think our district is going to do? We have had it up here. Gloves are off. Like, we gonna fight like hell. You don’t expect us to respond when you gaslight us every single day with these bills?”

    This animal with a "D" after her name gets to threaten actual, real violence in the form of "riots." You can bet your ass the propagandists are going to invoke the word "context" out the wazoo. But, as Ace always says, "Our speech is violence, but their violence is speech." More than that, Democrat Leftists are allowed to say whatever the hell they want, regardless of consequences real or imagined because they get to control the language.

    And in another part of the forest, this Skeletor Doppelgänger opened his maw and spewed this delightful turd:

    Democrat strategist James Carville said during an interview over the weekend that if Democrats lose in the upcoming November elections that Israel will be to blame.

    “This Gaza stuff, this is not just a problem with some snot-nosed Ivy League people,” he said. “This is a problem all across the country. And I hope the president and Blinken can get this thing calmed down because if it doesn’t get calmed down before the Democratic convention, it’s going to be a very ugly time in Chicago. I promise you that. . .

    . . . And they’re gonna have to tell Bibi Netanyahu, ‘Hey, dude, we are not going to lose our election because you stand to go to jail. You have to think of something else.'”

    Carville demonized Netanyahu, claiming that he showed “negligence” and that the U.S. “should be putting pressure on him every way we can to de-escalate this thing, and quickly.”

    There it is folks. Carville says if Biden loses, blame the Jews. How many synagogues will burn this summer in Chicago? Only Brandon – Johnson and Joey – know for sure.

      ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

    • “A Holocaust survivor is coming to speak to my son’s 7th grade History class on Monday. Wonderful. What’s less than wonderful, though, is the opt-out for this lesson because ‘We understand that all students have different experiences.'”
      Fairfax County Public School System Provides ‘Opt-Out’ Option for Students on Holocaust Presentation
    • "The former Defense Intelligence Agency head, retired General Michael Flynn, said the House should immediately move to halt funding for both the CIA and FBI and start subpoenaing the January 6 Commission members to find out what they know about the CIA activities leading up to an on January 6. . . And when they get a chance, I have a couple special request questions for House members to ask the J 6 Committee:  Where was Antifa that day or are you expecting us to believe this was the only riot in years they missed?  Is this the same CIA that started the Russia Collusion frame up against Trump to help Hillary in the 2016 election?"
      What Was the CIA Doing at the January 6 Riot? (Mostly orchestrating and fomenting it - jjs)
    • Victor Davis Hanson: "A cynical public now expects any accused prominent leftist to remain unindicted, while any non-leftwing target will be indicted, convicted, and jailed—for the same alleged offenses."
      Guilty!—But Not Really Guilty?
    • Daniel Greenfield: "And how the WOBOs took over from them."
      HIBOs: How the Hipster Left Took Over the Democrats
    • "If my home state’s abortion laws had been different in 1963, I would not be alive today." (Hat tip to Buck Throckmorton - jjs)
      A Life Spared by Abortion Law: Reflecting on the [spurious] VP's Historic Planned Parenthood Visit

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    Sunday Overnight Open Thread(3/17/24) I'm Not Irish Edition But My K9s Are

    —Misanthropic Humanitarian

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    The Quotes of The Day


    Quote I

    “He’s easily pushed around by the woke-left lunatics who renamed his family’s baseball team. “My attitude is anybody that changes the name of the Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians should not be a senator, should not be in government.” President Donald J. Trump
    Considering who Ohioans vote for Katshit, DeWine, etc. I expect the RINO to win.

    Quote II

    “This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It’s an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-tac-toe, a winner. A winner,” Nancy Pelosi


    Quote III

    "For the last 100 years, Sam Ash Music has successfully adapted to meet the challenge of changing business conditions. As we look towards the next 100 years, the company must continue to adapt to ensure its continued success." Statement from Sam Ash Music


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    The Comments of The Week


    Astute. Clever. Witty. Snarky. The commenters here are the very best.


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    Gun Thread: St. Patrick's Day Edition!

    —Weasel

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    Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

    Holy Flaming Green Shitballs! It's St. Patrick's Day! OK, enough celebrating. Have you been practicing your fundamentals?

    Q: Weasel, when are you ever going to shut up about fundamentals?
    A: Never.

    With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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    Food Thread: Thar She Blows! Fish Is Good! And So Is Beef...Don't Think I Am Getting Soft!

    —CBD

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    There are all sorts of interesting food fish, and any good fish store will carry at least several. Sure, most people know salmon and cod and flounder and swordfish and tuna, but there are dozens of less well known fish that can be delicious. Even if they look weird! Like the Mahi Mahi in the photo. Or the Patagonian Toothfish, otherwise known as Chilean Seabass.

    Mahi Mahi is mighty tasty. It is used a lot in fish tacos, but I made it a few days ago, simply sauteed and then finished with a butter and lemon pan sauce. It was delicious and easy, and it is meaty and fatty enough to be relatively easy to cook.

    Chilean Seabass is a milder fish that is sort of like the piscine equivalent of chicken breast. The cook can make it taste any way he wants. But it's pushing $30/lb, so unless the preparation looks absolutely spectacular, I'm not springing for it at a restaurant, and I certainly won't buy it for home cooking when Cod is one third the price!

    If you have a halfway decent fish store near you, give it a try! There are reasonably priced fish that are delicious, and while many people are intimidated by the relative difficulty of cooking fish as opposed to a big old chunk of cow, with a bit of attention it is manageable, and the payoff is a new food in the rotation.

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    First-World Problems...

    —CBD

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    I found this damned thing rooting through my garbage this morning. And then it started squawking about shelves and intermittent fasting and hobo jerky.

    What the hell!

    Do we have to move?

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    Judenrat

    —CBD

    We all know that Scheming Chuckie Schumer is a scummy prick with delusions of grandeur and an insatiable desire for self-aggrandizement. As the joke goes; the most dangerous place in D.C. is between Schumer and a camera.

    Oddly, he represents a state with a huge Jewish population, so one would assume that he would be more sensitive to the safety, security, and autonomy of the Jewish homeland. And of course, he's Jewish! But his progressive politics swamp any cultural or religious loyalty, and his only loyalty is to the reflexive liberalism of most American Jews. But that liberalism is being challenged by the naked anti-Semitism and virulent hatred of Israel that has come to the fore in the wake of the October 7th pogrom and the Israeli response. Large swathes of the Democrat party base have gone public with their hate, and have expressed it violently on the street and vilely in the halls of power.

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    This is the Democrat party!

    And they are the ones that Schumer is placating and courting with his attacks on Israel and his disgusting interference in the domestic politics of a sovereign nation with a democratically elected government.

    Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calls for new elections in Israel

    During his speech, the New York Democrat reiterated his strong support for Israel but also heavily criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his repeated rejections of a two-state solution, saying at one point Israel’s leader has “lost his way.”

    “At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government,” Schumer said, noting the United States should not try to dictate the outcome of another country’s elections.

    That decision, Schumer added, is up to the Israeli public, “a public that I believe understands better than anybody that Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world.”

    Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in U.S. politics, also called out other Israeli officials for what he said was “extremist” rhetoric. He cited Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and its National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir as examples for this. Smotrich, Schumer said, has openly called for the forced displacement of all Palestinians in the West Bank, and Ben-Gvir facilitated the “mass distributions of guns” to far-right settlers.


    He is bringing the politics of division and hatred from America to Israel, via the conflation of defense of country and culture with extremism and racism.

    Netanyahu was deeply disliked by many Israelis, but he is conducting the defensive war against Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north the way most Israelis want. The country was shaken to the core by the savagery of the October 7th pogrom, and is coalescing around love of country, pride in its armed forces, and a quiet and cold resolve that "Never Again" will never again be a mere catchphrase.

    Every time an American politician deigns to tell Israel how to conduct itself, the country becomes more unified. If it were up to many American and world politicians, Israel would have been overrun by the 7th century savages massed on its borders, with appropriately somber statements made after the fact.

    Schumer (and his fat-f*ck sidekick Jerry Nadler) is an insult to Judaism, an insult to the many Americans who are cheering Israel on in its existential fight against the barbarians, and an insult to the very concept of Western culture.

    And lest we forget, those barbarians have said time and time again that we are next! "First comes little Satan, then comes Great Satan!"

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    Sunday Morning Book Thread - 03-17-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

    —Open Blogger


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    Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...(Irish kittens sold separately)

    So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, enjoy a corned beef sammich, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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