These are dark and crazy times. I have to pass a house with two lawn signs for "Harris" where they obviously just cut "Biden" off the top and so, half a sign. But the worst part, on the same lawn, between the halves supporting Kamala, is a four foot sign with Franklin's statement "A republic if you can keep it." I am so tempted to stop b…
These are dark and crazy times. I have to pass a house with two lawn signs for "Harris" where they obviously just cut "Biden" off the top and so, half a sign. But the worst part, on the same lawn, between the halves supporting Kamala, is a four foot sign with Franklin's statement "A republic if you can keep it." I am so tempted to stop by and find out where the disconnect lies, but honestly, whoever lives there scares me more than the many outrageous displays of yard demons for the upcoming "Trick or Treat."
Kinda interesting quote to choose given those same people who love Harris often call us a democracy and get angry when you point out we're a representative republic. And also, they are the ones who want no borders, no culture, a global existence... so that would be anti-republic. Stupid idiots, don't even understand their own virtue signaling.
It may be a representative republic, but those elected representatives do not in any significant shape or form represent you or I. They all represent their corporate sponsors who have bought off both parties. The border only exists to keep you and I in. Welcome to the Hotel California where people check in but never check out...
I'm not a member or supporter of AIPAC. So before any of you jump on what I'm about to write here because my last name is Cohen, listen up to the facts I will supply that have nothing to do with my genetic inheritance.
There is nothing in this bill about not being able to criticize Israel, or calling for allegiance to Israel. On the contrary, the working definition of antisemitism given by the IHRA says - "criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic."
Also, "trackaipac" makes the scurrilous and thoroughly disproven charge of genocide against Israel and the IDF, when the exact opposite is true. Israel is fighting against agents of genocide directed towards Israel, combatants who deliberately hide underground and amongst civilians they hope will be killed when they themselves are the targets of elimination. Trackaipac and its supporters are the jihadists "useful idiots" if not jihadists themselves.
This much is obvious to anyone paying any attention to the facts on the ground, but apparently there are actual antisemites here who find the facts stubborn little things inconvenient to their personal animosities. Therefore they disregard reality and replace it with fantastic lies fed by their delusion.
Vote all you want for cessation of arm sales and support to Israel, but you can do that without lying and being vile racists. That's on you and you are reaping what you sow.
Well said! THANK YOU for educating the useful idiots. I guess it's not entirely their fault--the media and those who would like Israel destroyed are running a very slick anti-Israel propaganda con and they've fooled a lot of otherwise decent people. I do hope that those who've bought the lies will read--and re-read--what you have written here and will now understand the true situation.
Israel is an apartheid state (per Amnesty Internation, Human Rights Watch, and most important B't Selem, an ISRAELI human rights group).
Before Oct 07, Kim Iverson, hardly a radical, did podcasts from the occupied West Bank, where she discussed life for the Palestinians, having their land, water, homes, and even lives taken, and subject to checkpoints and arbitrary arrest at any time, for any reason.
Desmond Tutu of South Africa said the Palestinians had it worse than the Blacks in SA during apartheid.
Israel does not like being an apartheid state and has not liked it. They are not going to give the Palestinians equal rights, so they are trying to eliminate the Palestinians. The plan was to use Oct 07 as a pretext to kill quite a few of them, render Gaza uninhabitable, and make the Palestinians leave Gaza, and then repeat in the West Bank.
The Israelis have killed a lot of Palestinians and rendered Gaza largely uninhabitable, but it appears the Palestinians have realized that if they leave, like they did in 1948 or 1967, they will never return, so they are holding on.
The only lies are the blatant lies of Israelis ("they bayoneted babies!") debunked by several. Then we have the blatant lies of the media, and lies of omission by the mainstream media and even CFN.
The true situation is that Israel wants to eliminate the Palestinians, and that the US/Israel want to have hegemony over the Middle East, by making sure other countries are either US puppets, or totally impotent.
JHK has had some good guests of stature, who are not popular with the MSM, Dmitry Orlov comes to mind. But they didn't discuss Israel, the discussed the US and compared to the USSR. Russia survived the implosion--will America?
Why doesn't JHK invite Prof. John Mearsheimer on his podcast, to discuss what is REALLY going on? Or Max Blumenthal? Perhaps some of you might learn something.
How is it that Trump and Harris, most Republicans and Democrats, blindly support Israel? Miriam Adelson boasts of how much Trump did for Israel, and that's why she is donating $100 million to PACs; Haim Saban does the same for K Harris and donates $40 million.
Israel's stated goals were to eliminate Hamas and "recover the hostages. The unstated goal is to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Israel has failed on all counts. So Israel is now attacking Lebanon and doing what it does best, killing civilians. Israel is also escalating with Iran, as Israel wants to draw the US in.
And that's why Adelson and Saban and the Israeli Lobby have bought the US government. To make sure the US does what Israel wants.
We will see, if the internet stays up, and is still relatively free (note that CFN has not come back...) what people will have to say, if and when the attack on Iran leads to massive war that affects the US directly, or indirectly topples the house of cards here.
Ah, Desmond Tutu - here's a response to Tutu's claim of Israel committing genocide written some years ago while that little poseur was still self-righteously walking the earth and bamboozling the ignorant and credulous. Written by Simon Deng, a Sudanese man who, in his childhood, experienced his village being destroyed by jihadists with himself captured and sold into horribly degrading slavery. He escaped after 2.5 years.
"Where is Desmond Tutu when my people in Sudan call out for freedom?
"Late last month, I went to hear Bishop Desmond Tutu speak at Boston's Old South Church at a conference on "Israel Apartheid." Tutu is a well respected man of God. He brought reconciliation between blacks and whites in South Africa. That he would lead a conference that damns the Jewish state is very disturbing to me.
"The State of Israel is not an apartheid state. I know because I write this from Jerusalem where I have seen Arab mothers peacefully strolling with their families -- even though I also drove on Israeli roads protected by walls and fences from Arab bullets and stones. I know Arabs go to Israeli schools, and get the best medical care in the world. I know they vote and have elected representatives to the Israeli Parliament. I see street signs in Arabic, an official language here. None of this was true for blacks under Apartheid in Tutu's South Africa.
"I also know countries that do deserve the apartheid label: My country, Sudan, is on the top of the list, but so are Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. What has happened to my people in Sudan is a thousand times worse than Apartheid in South Africa. And no matter how the Palestinians suffer, they suffer nothing compared to my people. Nothing. And most of the suffering is the fault of their leaders. Bishop Tutu, I see black Jews walking down the street here in Jerusalem. Black like us, free and proud.
"Tutu said Israeli checkpoints are a nightmare. But checkpoints are there because Palestinians are sent into Israel to blow up and kill innocent women and children. Tutu wants checkpoints removed. Do you not have doors in your home, Bishop? Does that make your house an apartheid house? If someone, Heaven forbid, tried to enter with a bomb, we would want you to have security people "humiliating" your guests with searches, and we would not call you racist for doing so. We all go through checkpoints at every airport. Are the airlines being racist? No.
"Yes, the Palestinians are inconvenienced at checkpoints. But why, Bishop Tutu, do you care more about that inconvenience than about Jewish lives?
"Bishop, when you used to dance for Mandela's freedom, we Africans -- all over Africa -- joined in. Our support was key in your freedom. But when children in Burundi and Kinshasa, all the way to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and in particular in Sudan, cried and called for rescue, you heard but chose to be silent.
"Today, black children are enslaved in Sudan, the last place in the continent of Africa where humans are owned by other humans -- I was part of the movement to stop slavery in Mauritania, which just now abolished the practice. But you were not with us, Bishop Tutu.
"So where is Desmond Tutu when my people call out for freedom? Slaughter and genocide and slavery are lashing Africans right now. Where are you for Sudan, Bishop Tutu? You are busy attacking the Jewish state. Why?"
Watch the Al Jazeera documentary, "Gaza", much of it based on Israeli footage. The Israelis themselves tell and show us who they are. Yeah, it's ugly. The world will never forget this livestreamed atrocity and genocide. Prosecutors will have much to work with.
Look, Israel is special. The Israeli Lobby, consisting of wealthy Zionist Jews (American ANDS Israeli) and fanatic religious zealots (Jews and "Christians") controls virtually all key US government officials, including both Presidential candidates.
Israel is a racist society, whether people here like it or not. It's like a very hard version of the Deep South, circa 1910.
But it's not just the native Arabs whom the Israeli Jews view as sub-human. It is apparently ALL goyim.
I just stumbled across this story about David Bogdanovsky. You can't make this stuff up...
He was a solidier doing his part to eliminate the Palestinians of Gaza., he was apparently killed in action in Gaza. Neither of which should surprise anyone.
But this? I had to Google it. Below is an excerpt from the Jerusalem Post, Oct 22. I hope that is OK.
"The Defense Ministry is attempting to reach an agreement with the family of St.-Sgt. David Bogdanovsky, KIA, to remove a cross from his headstone.
“By law, it is not permissible to place a cross or any other religious marker on a MILITARY headstone,” the Ministry said.
The Ministry cited a ruling by the IDF Chief Rabbi that states the holiness of the Jewish cemetery is harmed by the cross.
The Ministry said it is working with the public committee for soldier memorial to reach an agreement with the family, “in light of requests by families whose loved ones are buried nearby who claim that the cross hurts their feelings and their ability to pray and say [the] Kadish [mourning prayer], and in light of the ruling of the IDF chief Rabbi.” "
Fascinating! This man died killing indigenous Arabs for the Jewish State, but this does not entitle his remains to be interred in a appropriately. The goyim are not worthy. Goyim. Like Untermensch. Let's salute "the only democracy in the Middle East"!
Another proof that, sadly, the UN Resolution 3379, passed in 1975, saying "Zionism is Racism" is true.
Now, I'm not saying the US should give Israel an ultimatum to stop the war on the Palestinians, and either give them equal rights or give them the entire West Bank and Gaza, or else our big bad Air Force will put an end to it.
But I do find it very offensive and disappointing that my tax money is enabling this racist behavior. Isn't it time to put America first?
When this Middle East war plays out, I foresee Israel will, like South Africa, grudgingly give the Palestinians equal rights.
This war will be a big setback, perhaps even a defeat, for the US. Consequently, the US will no longer be able to indulge Israel--or even secure AMERICAN interests. That oil is gonna be shared with others... just as the fracking miracle dries up.
And today's Israel is not the Israel of Moshe Dayan, of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Israelis have grown affluent and soft, like the big PX that sustains them. They are vicious, but not tough like they used to be. They will NOT commit suicide by blowing up the world to save their apartheid regime.
We will never know if an honest two-state solution, as imperfect as it would be, might have delayed, or even prevented, the tragedy we are seeing and the much greater debacles to come from the Middle East. Biblical.
Israel never wanted a two-state solution. Well, my Israeli friends, as your hero Miriam Adelson would say, "promise kept!". Enjoy your day--and my apologies for the long the post.
How do you know my liberalism? Yesterday's "classical liberal" is a "conservative" in today's US, isn't that so?
"ΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ ΟΤΙ ΟΥΔΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ"
"The one thing I know is that I know nothing"--Socrates (the original, not me)
The older I get, the more I learn, the more I realize how much I do not really know.... I learn one thing and feel that there are one or two things that I don't know that are relevant. Probably why my posts are so long here...
Still, I do know a few things.
One saying I like: good fences make good neighbors.
That seems to me to be the best prescription for getting along, with less fuss or bloodshed. A more humane way.
Liquidating your enemies does not work as well as it appears to. Nations, like people, need boundaries and limits. Absent that, when nations (or people) think they can get away with anything, their greed for "more" in the end leads to their demise.
I believe that is the destiny of the USA, as it hits 250 years, give or take a few.
Since Lincoln, even more so after 1913, and completely since WW2, the US government has been directed by the nefarious forces of big money from behind the scenes. A veneer of a republic under the control of big capital and big business and their agents known as "special interests".
War, debt, depravity, the dumbing down of the public, all reflect the wishes of the globalists to impose one-world government, and to be "God" (the biggest sin). Now, as they enter the final straightaway, the globalists have "floored it" and added wokeism, then the plandemic and mRNA injections, and now in an effort to subordinate Russia and increase economic control over China, TWO wars with Apocalyptic WW3 potential, one a pure proxy play against Russia using Ukraine, the other an unholy alliance joining hard-core Zionists and the US government against Iran in an effort to keep China and Russia out of the Middle East.
I can see the hazy outlines of those two conflicts merging, or shifting south, across the Black Sea (with all of Turkey's intrigues, plans against Greece, trying to upstage Iran, barking at Israel), and maybe China blockading Taiwan, and perhaps Egypt/Somalia fighting Ethiopia over the most valuable resource for life--water, the Nile.
We can endlessly debate the root causes of America's, impending, or for that matter, ROME's actual demise.
In the case of Rome, was it imperial overreach? Debasement of the currency? Corruption? The absorption of "non-Roman" subjects into the Empire in general, and important positions, like officers or officials in particular? Bloody conflicts between warring factions at the top? The blood of all the Christians?
Probably all of the above. Was one or two of these ills the main reason(s)? People who have studied Roman history (and that is not me) can intelligently debate this. I think they all fed on each other. I personally used to be a big proponent of "currency debasement", but who knows.
"Lugh", it appears to me that you and I agree on more things than we disagree.
Thank you for your succinct comment and giving me the opportunity to respond here.
You love Israel first and foremost and the United States only insofar as it supports Israel, not in and for itself. So the question becomes: Why do you live here? Why not live in your heart's desire?
I try to listen to what people are presenting. I look at whatever evidence they present, and this issue with Israel is disturbing. What I see quite often is people who have spent a LOT of time in an echo chamber. They refuse to look at anything that doesn't fit with their preferred narrative. This works quite well for moving the elite's plan forward because as long as people refuse to look at what others have to show them, they will continue on the elite's path of mutually assured destruction.
It's become too convoluted for me to do anything more than sit on the sidelines and watch it all play out.
So you're telling us you don't see clearly or understand what's going on and therefore have no helpful observations. How is it, then, that you know who is and who isn't spending time in "echo chambers"?
Well, yeah, obviously, we've been totalitarian for awhile now. But technically, that's what we are (RR). "They're attacking OUR DEMOCRACY!" if the funniest thing these Woke Jacobins* say. Well, one of them. There are so many.
What we all missed, is that Biden was the trojan horse to bring Kamala in.
They just needed to keep him stringing out the time until it was too late for anybody but Kamala to be on the ballot.
She is a hard Communist, a true believer, the red diaper baby of two Communists.
As a front for the Obama-Holder-Clyburn network, she will complete the DSA Revolution that Obama started, making America a One Party totalitarian state in all but name.
She was an MKUltra baby from a CIA fam just like Obama so yeah, they were gonna plug her in somewhere. I'm guessing she's somewhat of a disappointment though, maybe they wanted her to take down Willie Brown but instead she climbed up on his lap and cooed to get her way.
She was made Border Czar along with Mayorkas for a reason.
The troops are here and in place. Remember, Cloward-Piven theory says get your people in place, first, before you collapse the .gov with overwhelming demands. They will be in position then to "restore order".
Except that their "armies" will be, as with everything else they do, second-rate, third-class, incompetent failures incapable of carrying out the programs they are ordered to fulfill.
"Burn, loot, murder" doesn't work so well when those you want to burn, loot, and murder are heavily armed and outnumber you 100-1.
But will they use those guns? The actual good people in America are also very moral and religious people who are likely loathe to take another person's life. I imagine they can be pushed to the breaking point or would take a life to defend themselves, but it would probably take a lot to get them to that point. Note that it is the left's adherents who were burning, looting, and shooting a few years ago...it was not the conservative "deplorables" (per HRC et al) who took to the streets. Also, unless the uprising were HUGE, those taking up arms would be quickly rounded up and subjected to the current "justice" system...as were the very peaceful and UN-armed J6 protestors. I think the J6 persecutions/prosecutions have had a very chilling effect on We the People.
That is the single biggest question. As I've often said, if you've never point a gun at somebody and pulled the trigger, you have no idea whether you will actually be able to do so.
They are organized, on a global scale, using culture war, a war without weapons. (Developed specifically to counter superior strength-of-arms.)
We are armed, individually.
Which will prevail?
Our home guns seem to be a Maginot Line, every where the globalists went. Everybody was armed, yet they or their allies, puppets, and satraps hold the high ground in country after country.
Yeah there are "more of us than there are them". Problem is they are organized to the "T", and we ain't. I don't recall that the mob that finally ended Robespierre's reign of terror was organized either. They took out Robespierre but not the cancer he was emblematic of.
And if you kill enough of any organization, no matter how initially good it might be, its performance will quickly degrade to the point of collapse. And these people aren't that good in the first place.
Why? Neither is or will be in control of much of anything. Rather, both are controlled by the same people, the Obama group and those above him and them.
Besides voting FOR censorship, political persecution/assassination, WWIII, and the burning of our Constitution. But they're the "good guys," so if these things happen, it must be good.
Hi, Mary Ann! Yes, it's not EVERYONE'S democracy, but THEIR democracy. They love mob rule, because at present, they make up the mob (or so they believe).
I’m wrong; they don’t say “THEIR “democracy,” they always say “OUR”democracy. Mike Benz has said that at some point they redefined the word democracy to refer to the democracy of institutions, whatever that means, as distinguished from one based on the people.
I listen to Mike Benz all the time. Essentially "democracy" is whatever they need it to be. Primarily they simply use it as a euphemism to refer to the system they control via criminality and conspiracy which does include captured federal agencies and national political parties, etc.
+1 "Essentially 'democracy' is whatever they need it to be."
EVERY "loaded" word leftists use "is whatever they need it to be". The left avoids consistency and logic; their "spell" depends on disorienting and provoking their opponents.
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"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
Yes, the leftists have very much adopted the by any means necessary way of doing business philosophy. Maybe not a bad way to be when you're trying to survive in a dangerous world, but it seems like a very bad way of doing things when you're part of a society that is presumably supposed to be united around a common goal, idea or identity.
Such people can never, ever tell you why they would support Harris without mentioning the Bad Orange Man™. There's nothing there but completely manufactured hatred. And once they start up about him, you won't hear anything about policy preferences or disagreements, just lies, hoaxes, emotion-driven nonsense, and bullshit.
Yep. All those Harris signs are really saying "We hate Trump". They don't even think about what Harris is. What can you do with people that superficial?
And this truth is why I do believe we are all going to have to suffer just because these people need to be slapped across the face and doused with cold water.
Oh, how about get a good nights sleep, enjoy the wonder of each moment, de-regulate the nervous system and suddenly not be triggered by the color, red.
lol -- half a sign! cheap bastards....! the "Vermonters for Harris!" signs came up so fast, it's like the literally grew out of the Earth. It's so annoying, here, the "Harris/Walz" signs -- since the state votes 80% Democrat no matter what. It's like putting up a sign that says, "I'm with Everyone Else!"
10/21/24: Half-wits displaying half signs... one of James's best columns, ever. If the NY Post had any balls (HA!), they'd print it...
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Kamala Harris finally breaks down and visits a remote part of North Carolina.
With news crews following her around as they tour the place, the Vice President asks the local Mayor if there was anything they needed.
"Well," says the Mayor, "We have three very important needs.
"First, we have a medical clinic but no doctor to staff it."
Harris whips out her cellphone, dials a number, talks to somebody for two minutes, and then hangs up. "I've pulled some strings. Your doctor will arrive in a few days. Now, what was the second problem?"
"We have no way to get clean water. The hurricane has poisoned the water our people have been drinking for dozens of years. We've been flying bottled water in, and it's terribly expensive."
Once again, Harris dials a number, yells into her cellphone for a few minutes, and then hangs up. "I've opened some roads for water delivery, and we are setting up a water purification plant for your people. Now, what was that third problem?"
The Mayor looks at her and says, "We have no cellphone reception up here!"
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Danno (posted elsewhere): At first I thought it was a true story.
10/19/24: It gave you that impression because she either so stupid that she didn't notice that she had no dial tone; or so nefarious that she was intentionally lying (pretending to have conversations so she could whip up some supply miracles for the TV cameras); or, and now we come full circle, so f**king stupid that she assumed that the mayor wouldn't KNOW that there's no cell phone service.
Libtards seem to fear "excommunication" above all else.
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"...really, it isn't one Left. There is an ascendant orthodoxy on the Left that is very troubling. It is quite broad, but I think not very deep...when you speak out on a college campus from a perspective on the Left that does not fit this orthodoxy, you are immediately categorized as on the Right, which makes it look that the Left is monolithic and all shares this opinion, but it's not the case."
~ Bret Weinstein Testifies to Congress on The Evergreen State College riots, Free Speech & Safe Spaces - YouTube
"Dark & crazy" times indeed. Mad times, bad times. Just about everywhere.
Our host has swallowed a 'happy/optimistic/fairy tales are real/ truth will out/justice will be done' pill. 'Aint gonna happen.
Stupidity & ignorance still reign supreme. For example, the truth about the vaxx was out there long before the injections really started to roll out. The info was disseminated by fearless & honest experts and available to all with an internet connection. And how many took the poison shot? About 80% world-wide? And how many still in denial, despite current MOUNTAINS of undeniable evidence - would 70% be a fair ball-park figure?
So from where is the momentum for 'justice' going to come - because you do need that broad ground swell of righteous indignation to make it happen. Otherwise it's pretty much this web site and (quite) a few others.. having a bitch. And largely ignored. And if Trumpy makes it to the WH, I'm certain he'll immediately have arrested all the bad guys. Just like he did before ('the Clintons are fine people' - did I get that quote more or less right?)
Nope. We're down the sewer, well past the "S" bend and the World, led by the USA, will spend due time in the cesspool for its sins.
Empires & civilisations come & go. The USA Empire 1945 - 2025 R.I.P.
And yet you’ll support a guy whose OWN chief of staff said he fits the definition of a fascist? A guy who betrayed his oath to the Constitution and tried to steal an election rather than admit he lost?
And a party that is running on a platform of fearmongering & lies.
Don’t waste your time trying to argue with a crazy person.
“I’m not going to help you pretend – by arguing with you – that the reality you’re talking about is not what it is, that there’s still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn’t.”
These are dark and crazy times. I have to pass a house with two lawn signs for "Harris" where they obviously just cut "Biden" off the top and so, half a sign. But the worst part, on the same lawn, between the halves supporting Kamala, is a four foot sign with Franklin's statement "A republic if you can keep it." I am so tempted to stop by and find out where the disconnect lies, but honestly, whoever lives there scares me more than the many outrageous displays of yard demons for the upcoming "Trick or Treat."
Kinda interesting quote to choose given those same people who love Harris often call us a democracy and get angry when you point out we're a representative republic. And also, they are the ones who want no borders, no culture, a global existence... so that would be anti-republic. Stupid idiots, don't even understand their own virtue signaling.
It may be a representative republic, but those elected representatives do not in any significant shape or form represent you or I. They all represent their corporate sponsors who have bought off both parties. The border only exists to keep you and I in. Welcome to the Hotel California where people check in but never check out...
And don’t forget AIPAC!
https://trackaipac.com/.
This shouldn’t be allowed.
Seriously, pledging allegiance to a foreign country in order to take office here in the US. Ridiculous.
I'm not a member or supporter of AIPAC. So before any of you jump on what I'm about to write here because my last name is Cohen, listen up to the facts I will supply that have nothing to do with my genetic inheritance.
There is nothing in this bill about not being able to criticize Israel, or calling for allegiance to Israel. On the contrary, the working definition of antisemitism given by the IHRA says - "criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic."
Also, "trackaipac" makes the scurrilous and thoroughly disproven charge of genocide against Israel and the IDF, when the exact opposite is true. Israel is fighting against agents of genocide directed towards Israel, combatants who deliberately hide underground and amongst civilians they hope will be killed when they themselves are the targets of elimination. Trackaipac and its supporters are the jihadists "useful idiots" if not jihadists themselves.
This much is obvious to anyone paying any attention to the facts on the ground, but apparently there are actual antisemites here who find the facts stubborn little things inconvenient to their personal animosities. Therefore they disregard reality and replace it with fantastic lies fed by their delusion.
Vote all you want for cessation of arm sales and support to Israel, but you can do that without lying and being vile racists. That's on you and you are reaping what you sow.
Well said! THANK YOU for educating the useful idiots. I guess it's not entirely their fault--the media and those who would like Israel destroyed are running a very slick anti-Israel propaganda con and they've fooled a lot of otherwise decent people. I do hope that those who've bought the lies will read--and re-read--what you have written here and will now understand the true situation.
Complete and utter BS.
Israel is an apartheid state (per Amnesty Internation, Human Rights Watch, and most important B't Selem, an ISRAELI human rights group).
Before Oct 07, Kim Iverson, hardly a radical, did podcasts from the occupied West Bank, where she discussed life for the Palestinians, having their land, water, homes, and even lives taken, and subject to checkpoints and arbitrary arrest at any time, for any reason.
Desmond Tutu of South Africa said the Palestinians had it worse than the Blacks in SA during apartheid.
Israel does not like being an apartheid state and has not liked it. They are not going to give the Palestinians equal rights, so they are trying to eliminate the Palestinians. The plan was to use Oct 07 as a pretext to kill quite a few of them, render Gaza uninhabitable, and make the Palestinians leave Gaza, and then repeat in the West Bank.
The Israelis have killed a lot of Palestinians and rendered Gaza largely uninhabitable, but it appears the Palestinians have realized that if they leave, like they did in 1948 or 1967, they will never return, so they are holding on.
The only lies are the blatant lies of Israelis ("they bayoneted babies!") debunked by several. Then we have the blatant lies of the media, and lies of omission by the mainstream media and even CFN.
The true situation is that Israel wants to eliminate the Palestinians, and that the US/Israel want to have hegemony over the Middle East, by making sure other countries are either US puppets, or totally impotent.
JHK has had some good guests of stature, who are not popular with the MSM, Dmitry Orlov comes to mind. But they didn't discuss Israel, the discussed the US and compared to the USSR. Russia survived the implosion--will America?
Why doesn't JHK invite Prof. John Mearsheimer on his podcast, to discuss what is REALLY going on? Or Max Blumenthal? Perhaps some of you might learn something.
How is it that Trump and Harris, most Republicans and Democrats, blindly support Israel? Miriam Adelson boasts of how much Trump did for Israel, and that's why she is donating $100 million to PACs; Haim Saban does the same for K Harris and donates $40 million.
Israel's stated goals were to eliminate Hamas and "recover the hostages. The unstated goal is to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Israel has failed on all counts. So Israel is now attacking Lebanon and doing what it does best, killing civilians. Israel is also escalating with Iran, as Israel wants to draw the US in.
And that's why Adelson and Saban and the Israeli Lobby have bought the US government. To make sure the US does what Israel wants.
We will see, if the internet stays up, and is still relatively free (note that CFN has not come back...) what people will have to say, if and when the attack on Iran leads to massive war that affects the US directly, or indirectly topples the house of cards here.
Ah, Desmond Tutu - here's a response to Tutu's claim of Israel committing genocide written some years ago while that little poseur was still self-righteously walking the earth and bamboozling the ignorant and credulous. Written by Simon Deng, a Sudanese man who, in his childhood, experienced his village being destroyed by jihadists with himself captured and sold into horribly degrading slavery. He escaped after 2.5 years.
"Where is Desmond Tutu when my people in Sudan call out for freedom?
"Late last month, I went to hear Bishop Desmond Tutu speak at Boston's Old South Church at a conference on "Israel Apartheid." Tutu is a well respected man of God. He brought reconciliation between blacks and whites in South Africa. That he would lead a conference that damns the Jewish state is very disturbing to me.
"The State of Israel is not an apartheid state. I know because I write this from Jerusalem where I have seen Arab mothers peacefully strolling with their families -- even though I also drove on Israeli roads protected by walls and fences from Arab bullets and stones. I know Arabs go to Israeli schools, and get the best medical care in the world. I know they vote and have elected representatives to the Israeli Parliament. I see street signs in Arabic, an official language here. None of this was true for blacks under Apartheid in Tutu's South Africa.
"I also know countries that do deserve the apartheid label: My country, Sudan, is on the top of the list, but so are Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. What has happened to my people in Sudan is a thousand times worse than Apartheid in South Africa. And no matter how the Palestinians suffer, they suffer nothing compared to my people. Nothing. And most of the suffering is the fault of their leaders. Bishop Tutu, I see black Jews walking down the street here in Jerusalem. Black like us, free and proud.
"Tutu said Israeli checkpoints are a nightmare. But checkpoints are there because Palestinians are sent into Israel to blow up and kill innocent women and children. Tutu wants checkpoints removed. Do you not have doors in your home, Bishop? Does that make your house an apartheid house? If someone, Heaven forbid, tried to enter with a bomb, we would want you to have security people "humiliating" your guests with searches, and we would not call you racist for doing so. We all go through checkpoints at every airport. Are the airlines being racist? No.
"Yes, the Palestinians are inconvenienced at checkpoints. But why, Bishop Tutu, do you care more about that inconvenience than about Jewish lives?
"Bishop, when you used to dance for Mandela's freedom, we Africans -- all over Africa -- joined in. Our support was key in your freedom. But when children in Burundi and Kinshasa, all the way to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and in particular in Sudan, cried and called for rescue, you heard but chose to be silent.
"Today, black children are enslaved in Sudan, the last place in the continent of Africa where humans are owned by other humans -- I was part of the movement to stop slavery in Mauritania, which just now abolished the practice. But you were not with us, Bishop Tutu.
"So where is Desmond Tutu when my people call out for freedom? Slaughter and genocide and slavery are lashing Africans right now. Where are you for Sudan, Bishop Tutu? You are busy attacking the Jewish state. Why?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A&t=1528s
Watch the Al Jazeera documentary, "Gaza", much of it based on Israeli footage. The Israelis themselves tell and show us who they are. Yeah, it's ugly. The world will never forget this livestreamed atrocity and genocide. Prosecutors will have much to work with.
Look, Israel is special. The Israeli Lobby, consisting of wealthy Zionist Jews (American ANDS Israeli) and fanatic religious zealots (Jews and "Christians") controls virtually all key US government officials, including both Presidential candidates.
Israel is a racist society, whether people here like it or not. It's like a very hard version of the Deep South, circa 1910.
But it's not just the native Arabs whom the Israeli Jews view as sub-human. It is apparently ALL goyim.
I just stumbled across this story about David Bogdanovsky. You can't make this stuff up...
He was a solidier doing his part to eliminate the Palestinians of Gaza., he was apparently killed in action in Gaza. Neither of which should surprise anyone.
But this? I had to Google it. Below is an excerpt from the Jerusalem Post, Oct 22. I hope that is OK.
"The Defense Ministry is attempting to reach an agreement with the family of St.-Sgt. David Bogdanovsky, KIA, to remove a cross from his headstone.
“By law, it is not permissible to place a cross or any other religious marker on a MILITARY headstone,” the Ministry said.
The Ministry cited a ruling by the IDF Chief Rabbi that states the holiness of the Jewish cemetery is harmed by the cross.
The Ministry said it is working with the public committee for soldier memorial to reach an agreement with the family, “in light of requests by families whose loved ones are buried nearby who claim that the cross hurts their feelings and their ability to pray and say [the] Kadish [mourning prayer], and in light of the ruling of the IDF chief Rabbi.” "
Fascinating! This man died killing indigenous Arabs for the Jewish State, but this does not entitle his remains to be interred in a appropriately. The goyim are not worthy. Goyim. Like Untermensch. Let's salute "the only democracy in the Middle East"!
Another proof that, sadly, the UN Resolution 3379, passed in 1975, saying "Zionism is Racism" is true.
Now, I'm not saying the US should give Israel an ultimatum to stop the war on the Palestinians, and either give them equal rights or give them the entire West Bank and Gaza, or else our big bad Air Force will put an end to it.
But I do find it very offensive and disappointing that my tax money is enabling this racist behavior. Isn't it time to put America first?
When this Middle East war plays out, I foresee Israel will, like South Africa, grudgingly give the Palestinians equal rights.
This war will be a big setback, perhaps even a defeat, for the US. Consequently, the US will no longer be able to indulge Israel--or even secure AMERICAN interests. That oil is gonna be shared with others... just as the fracking miracle dries up.
And today's Israel is not the Israel of Moshe Dayan, of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Israelis have grown affluent and soft, like the big PX that sustains them. They are vicious, but not tough like they used to be. They will NOT commit suicide by blowing up the world to save their apartheid regime.
We will never know if an honest two-state solution, as imperfect as it would be, might have delayed, or even prevented, the tragedy we are seeing and the much greater debacles to come from the Middle East. Biblical.
Israel never wanted a two-state solution. Well, my Israeli friends, as your hero Miriam Adelson would say, "promise kept!". Enjoy your day--and my apologies for the long the post.
Yes, the hatred of Christianity is part of Judaism and thus the Jewish state. You rstory shows the idiocy of the Zion-Christians.
You still think we can all get along at some level. That's not true. Your liberalism is full of uninspected beliefs and ungrounded idealism.
How do you know my liberalism? Yesterday's "classical liberal" is a "conservative" in today's US, isn't that so?
"ΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ ΟΤΙ ΟΥΔΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ"
"The one thing I know is that I know nothing"--Socrates (the original, not me)
The older I get, the more I learn, the more I realize how much I do not really know.... I learn one thing and feel that there are one or two things that I don't know that are relevant. Probably why my posts are so long here...
Still, I do know a few things.
One saying I like: good fences make good neighbors.
That seems to me to be the best prescription for getting along, with less fuss or bloodshed. A more humane way.
Liquidating your enemies does not work as well as it appears to. Nations, like people, need boundaries and limits. Absent that, when nations (or people) think they can get away with anything, their greed for "more" in the end leads to their demise.
I believe that is the destiny of the USA, as it hits 250 years, give or take a few.
Since Lincoln, even more so after 1913, and completely since WW2, the US government has been directed by the nefarious forces of big money from behind the scenes. A veneer of a republic under the control of big capital and big business and their agents known as "special interests".
War, debt, depravity, the dumbing down of the public, all reflect the wishes of the globalists to impose one-world government, and to be "God" (the biggest sin). Now, as they enter the final straightaway, the globalists have "floored it" and added wokeism, then the plandemic and mRNA injections, and now in an effort to subordinate Russia and increase economic control over China, TWO wars with Apocalyptic WW3 potential, one a pure proxy play against Russia using Ukraine, the other an unholy alliance joining hard-core Zionists and the US government against Iran in an effort to keep China and Russia out of the Middle East.
I can see the hazy outlines of those two conflicts merging, or shifting south, across the Black Sea (with all of Turkey's intrigues, plans against Greece, trying to upstage Iran, barking at Israel), and maybe China blockading Taiwan, and perhaps Egypt/Somalia fighting Ethiopia over the most valuable resource for life--water, the Nile.
We can endlessly debate the root causes of America's, impending, or for that matter, ROME's actual demise.
In the case of Rome, was it imperial overreach? Debasement of the currency? Corruption? The absorption of "non-Roman" subjects into the Empire in general, and important positions, like officers or officials in particular? Bloody conflicts between warring factions at the top? The blood of all the Christians?
Probably all of the above. Was one or two of these ills the main reason(s)? People who have studied Roman history (and that is not me) can intelligently debate this. I think they all fed on each other. I personally used to be a big proponent of "currency debasement", but who knows.
"Lugh", it appears to me that you and I agree on more things than we disagree.
Thank you for your succinct comment and giving me the opportunity to respond here.
Hey, Jarek. Why do you keep re-posting links that I've already posted? Read better.
You love Israel first and foremost and the United States only insofar as it supports Israel, not in and for itself. So the question becomes: Why do you live here? Why not live in your heart's desire?
In this case you assume and make an ass only of yourself.
Don't feel bad. Many Blacks don't want to live with their own kind either.
As I said….
I consider Israel an ally of the West and USA but the amount of aid they receive from USA is absurd
Israel should be less reliant on aid from USA - their defense and survival depend on self sufficiency like in 1967
I try to listen to what people are presenting. I look at whatever evidence they present, and this issue with Israel is disturbing. What I see quite often is people who have spent a LOT of time in an echo chamber. They refuse to look at anything that doesn't fit with their preferred narrative. This works quite well for moving the elite's plan forward because as long as people refuse to look at what others have to show them, they will continue on the elite's path of mutually assured destruction.
It's become too convoluted for me to do anything more than sit on the sidelines and watch it all play out.
So you're telling us you don't see clearly or understand what's going on and therefore have no helpful observations. How is it, then, that you know who is and who isn't spending time in "echo chambers"?
Complete and utter BS.
The Jew's win.
10/22/24: Go back to grade school and find out when and when not to use an apostrophe.
Fuck off and die, Nazi filth.
This is the only thing that Jew Harmon is capable of doing. Spewing expletives and curses in lieu of a coherent rebuttal. Fitting.
Ironically, that's his wish, Jim.
Should be. Won't be.
I’m blocked from liking your comment.
No you're not lol 🙄
Oh yes she is! (Yuk yuk...)
Reported for Anti-supremacism.
Well, yeah, obviously, we've been totalitarian for awhile now. But technically, that's what we are (RR). "They're attacking OUR DEMOCRACY!" if the funniest thing these Woke Jacobins* say. Well, one of them. There are so many.
* Thank you Jim for coining this
I wonder what Robespierre yelled in order to justify his system.
What we all missed, is that Biden was the trojan horse to bring Kamala in.
They just needed to keep him stringing out the time until it was too late for anybody but Kamala to be on the ballot.
She is a hard Communist, a true believer, the red diaper baby of two Communists.
As a front for the Obama-Holder-Clyburn network, she will complete the DSA Revolution that Obama started, making America a One Party totalitarian state in all but name.
She was an MKUltra baby from a CIA fam just like Obama so yeah, they were gonna plug her in somewhere. I'm guessing she's somewhat of a disappointment though, maybe they wanted her to take down Willie Brown but instead she climbed up on his lap and cooed to get her way.
As long as she signs what she is told to sign.
She was made Border Czar along with Mayorkas for a reason.
The troops are here and in place. Remember, Cloward-Piven theory says get your people in place, first, before you collapse the .gov with overwhelming demands. They will be in position then to "restore order".
Except that their "armies" will be, as with everything else they do, second-rate, third-class, incompetent failures incapable of carrying out the programs they are ordered to fulfill.
"Burn, loot, murder" doesn't work so well when those you want to burn, loot, and murder are heavily armed and outnumber you 100-1.
But will they use those guns? The actual good people in America are also very moral and religious people who are likely loathe to take another person's life. I imagine they can be pushed to the breaking point or would take a life to defend themselves, but it would probably take a lot to get them to that point. Note that it is the left's adherents who were burning, looting, and shooting a few years ago...it was not the conservative "deplorables" (per HRC et al) who took to the streets. Also, unless the uprising were HUGE, those taking up arms would be quickly rounded up and subjected to the current "justice" system...as were the very peaceful and UN-armed J6 protestors. I think the J6 persecutions/prosecutions have had a very chilling effect on We the People.
That is the single biggest question. As I've often said, if you've never point a gun at somebody and pulled the trigger, you have no idea whether you will actually be able to do so.
That's a good question.
They are organized, on a global scale, using culture war, a war without weapons. (Developed specifically to counter superior strength-of-arms.)
We are armed, individually.
Which will prevail?
Our home guns seem to be a Maginot Line, every where the globalists went. Everybody was armed, yet they or their allies, puppets, and satraps hold the high ground in country after country.
No, everybody wasn't armed. Far from it. And no nation in the history of the planet has been as well armed as the American people are.
Yeah there are "more of us than there are them". Problem is they are organized to the "T", and we ain't. I don't recall that the mob that finally ended Robespierre's reign of terror was organized either. They took out Robespierre but not the cancer he was emblematic of.
"Problem is they are organized to the "T""
Not really.
And if you kill enough of any organization, no matter how initially good it might be, its performance will quickly degrade to the point of collapse. And these people aren't that good in the first place.
Reminds me of that scene in the fifth element…Shoot their leader!😂
Why? Neither is or will be in control of much of anything. Rather, both are controlled by the same people, the Obama group and those above him and them.
Interesting thought. You might well be correct. That had not occurred to me.
Besides voting FOR censorship, political persecution/assassination, WWIII, and the burning of our Constitution. But they're the "good guys," so if these things happen, it must be good.
But they keep referring to THEIR democracy, so I assume it’s not the same one the rest of us want to live in. [Hi Mary❤️]
Hi, Mary Ann! Yes, it's not EVERYONE'S democracy, but THEIR democracy. They love mob rule, because at present, they make up the mob (or so they believe).
Same way they’re running around yelling Nazi & fascist trying to tag Trump. My lying eyes say THEY are the ones those labels fit.
Projection is their strong suit.
I’m wrong; they don’t say “THEIR “democracy,” they always say “OUR”democracy. Mike Benz has said that at some point they redefined the word democracy to refer to the democracy of institutions, whatever that means, as distinguished from one based on the people.
I listen to Mike Benz all the time. Essentially "democracy" is whatever they need it to be. Primarily they simply use it as a euphemism to refer to the system they control via criminality and conspiracy which does include captured federal agencies and national political parties, etc.
+1 "Essentially 'democracy' is whatever they need it to be."
EVERY "loaded" word leftists use "is whatever they need it to be". The left avoids consistency and logic; their "spell" depends on disorienting and provoking their opponents.
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"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
~ Lewis Carroll
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Yes, the leftists have very much adopted the by any means necessary way of doing business philosophy. Maybe not a bad way to be when you're trying to survive in a dangerous world, but it seems like a very bad way of doing things when you're part of a society that is presumably supposed to be united around a common goal, idea or identity.
Never better said, Dreamy, short and sweet. I don't mean you're short, but I'm certain you're sweet. <3
sweet as a peach cobbler lol <3
Oh yum.
Such people can never, ever tell you why they would support Harris without mentioning the Bad Orange Man™. There's nothing there but completely manufactured hatred. And once they start up about him, you won't hear anything about policy preferences or disagreements, just lies, hoaxes, emotion-driven nonsense, and bullshit.
Yep. All those Harris signs are really saying "We hate Trump". They don't even think about what Harris is. What can you do with people that superficial?
Beating them with the bucket after you empty the cold water over their heads sound like a good start.
And this truth is why I do believe we are all going to have to suffer just because these people need to be slapped across the face and doused with cold water.
What will they do when trumps gone? Make up stuff about DeSantis I guess.
There is no one like President Donald Trump. DeSantis, Vance, all the others are career politicians.
Oh, how about get a good nights sleep, enjoy the wonder of each moment, de-regulate the nervous system and suddenly not be triggered by the color, red.
Nope. They'll get wound up over whoever comes next.
Exactly. They will need another object onto whom to direct their self-loathing.
I have a long time friend that Hates Trump. Understandable, he's not all that likable. Number 1 issue; Abortion. Immigration zero, economy zero
lol -- half a sign! cheap bastards....! the "Vermonters for Harris!" signs came up so fast, it's like the literally grew out of the Earth. It's so annoying, here, the "Harris/Walz" signs -- since the state votes 80% Democrat no matter what. It's like putting up a sign that says, "I'm with Everyone Else!"
Here in our town, there's an underground economy in Harris/Walz signs: enthusiasts at the gun range pay 20 bucks for Harris/Walz signs.
10/21/24: If Harris and Walz were at this range, it would take them 18 hours to hit their own signs.
Yes, except they wouldn't have the stamina to make it two hours, let alone 18!
10/22/24: The Over/Under for accidental self-inflicted wounds is 13 seconds...
I'll take the Under.
UTSA's new QB is named, "Pickles."
Seriously, that's his name.
When the score is tied, he's half-sour.
10/22/24: An appropriate noun for a graveyard!
Lmao! 🤣👏😂
I rest my case.
I’d like some “We Hate Trump” signs and switch them out after dark, then sell the Harris signs to the gun range folks.
That's important to democrats, thinking and being like everyone else.
They're always stunned when you don't agree with every single thing they say. I get a kick out of it.
+1
10/21/24: Half-wits displaying half signs... one of James's best columns, ever. If the NY Post had any balls (HA!), they'd print it...
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Kamala Harris finally breaks down and visits a remote part of North Carolina.
With news crews following her around as they tour the place, the Vice President asks the local Mayor if there was anything they needed.
"Well," says the Mayor, "We have three very important needs.
"First, we have a medical clinic but no doctor to staff it."
Harris whips out her cellphone, dials a number, talks to somebody for two minutes, and then hangs up. "I've pulled some strings. Your doctor will arrive in a few days. Now, what was the second problem?"
"We have no way to get clean water. The hurricane has poisoned the water our people have been drinking for dozens of years. We've been flying bottled water in, and it's terribly expensive."
Once again, Harris dials a number, yells into her cellphone for a few minutes, and then hangs up. "I've opened some roads for water delivery, and we are setting up a water purification plant for your people. Now, what was that third problem?"
The Mayor looks at her and says, "We have no cellphone reception up here!"
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Danno (posted elsewhere): At first I thought it was a true story.
10/19/24: It gave you that impression because she either so stupid that she didn't notice that she had no dial tone; or so nefarious that she was intentionally lying (pretending to have conversations so she could whip up some supply miracles for the TV cameras); or, and now we come full circle, so f**king stupid that she assumed that the mayor wouldn't KNOW that there's no cell phone service.
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“Vermonters for Harris” I threw up when I saw sign. I live in VT and vote in VT. I know I’m in the minority, but that sign does NOT represent me!
Nor me! There’s a lot of Trump voters actually, just not enough….
+1 "I'm with Everyone Else!"
Libtards seem to fear "excommunication" above all else.
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"...really, it isn't one Left. There is an ascendant orthodoxy on the Left that is very troubling. It is quite broad, but I think not very deep...when you speak out on a college campus from a perspective on the Left that does not fit this orthodoxy, you are immediately categorized as on the Right, which makes it look that the Left is monolithic and all shares this opinion, but it's not the case."
~ Bret Weinstein Testifies to Congress on The Evergreen State College riots, Free Speech & Safe Spaces - YouTube
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The disconnect is so bizarre. Same in my neighborhood. Blue no matter who. Tribalism at its worst. sabrinalabow.substack.com
You should find out, accountability is importent.
"Dark & crazy" times indeed. Mad times, bad times. Just about everywhere.
Our host has swallowed a 'happy/optimistic/fairy tales are real/ truth will out/justice will be done' pill. 'Aint gonna happen.
Stupidity & ignorance still reign supreme. For example, the truth about the vaxx was out there long before the injections really started to roll out. The info was disseminated by fearless & honest experts and available to all with an internet connection. And how many took the poison shot? About 80% world-wide? And how many still in denial, despite current MOUNTAINS of undeniable evidence - would 70% be a fair ball-park figure?
So from where is the momentum for 'justice' going to come - because you do need that broad ground swell of righteous indignation to make it happen. Otherwise it's pretty much this web site and (quite) a few others.. having a bitch. And largely ignored. And if Trumpy makes it to the WH, I'm certain he'll immediately have arrested all the bad guys. Just like he did before ('the Clintons are fine people' - did I get that quote more or less right?)
Nope. We're down the sewer, well past the "S" bend and the World, led by the USA, will spend due time in the cesspool for its sins.
Empires & civilisations come & go. The USA Empire 1945 - 2025 R.I.P.
And yet you’ll support a guy whose OWN chief of staff said he fits the definition of a fascist? A guy who betrayed his oath to the Constitution and tried to steal an election rather than admit he lost?
And a party that is running on a platform of fearmongering & lies.
Dark and crazy times indeed
Don’t waste your time trying to argue with a crazy person.
“I’m not going to help you pretend – by arguing with you – that the reality you’re talking about is not what it is, that there’s still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn’t.”
— Ayn Rand
It's a dog's life!