Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another beautiful day and the links!
Videos Show Massive Explosions As Israeli Fighter Jets Hammer Gaza Targets In Retaliatory Strikes
Gaza Terrorists Say 130 Israelis Being Held Hostage, Seek Exchange for Israeli Prisoners
State Department says it considered Burisma corrupt, but kept dealing with its reps anyways
Biden Thinks People Only Dislike the Economy Because of the Media
The 5% Bond Market Means Pain Is Heading Everyone’s Way
Liberal Media Visibly Flustered by Biden’s Underwater Polling Numbers
Supreme Court Temporarily Reinstates Biden Admin’s ‘Ghost Gun’ Rule
Chef Michael Chiarello dies at 61 after allergic reaction
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
That has to be tough – but I hope Israel resolves to free them if possible during their offensive and otherwise regards them as casualties of war. Releasing current prisoners to aid the enemy isn’t going to help (because it isn’t like they’ll take an oath on their honor not to fight until the conflict is over like POW exchanges might have been and all), and encouraging the hostage taking is the wrong answer.
Again, I know some of this is emotion — but especially in the Middle East the only thing that seems to work with people like this is the hardass line. “We don’t negotiate with terrorists, and Mossad will hunt your ass down regardless.” I truly, truly hope the non-Hamas part of the Palestinian population can come to accept that Israel is going to exist and work with them — but since they elected Hamas (granted, not like they’ve had elections since… but there hasn’t been an Arab Spring style uprising either) and with the decades of propaganda, I’m not holding my breath.
In any event — morning, Banjos. Morning, the rest of ya. As with all days where the news sucks (as so many times lately), hope you can concentrate on the joys in your life, and the problems we can actually control. That’s my plan, in any event.
Kill the hostage takers, execute the prisoners they demanded the release of.
If the hostages manage to be saved, that’s a plus. But if hostage taking proves to be an effective way of getting what they want, there will be more taken in the future.
The message must be unambiguous “This is not going to end the way you want.”
Pinochet would release the prisoners.
Out the side door of the helicopter, I assume?
Thought about that — but I believe Israel is part of the Geneva Accords, so that would be a violation. Plus it is just bad optics — if Mossad goes in and wipes them out, fine… but if they’re in custody, give them a trial. Shoot them if they’re guilty – but strength is one thing, being barbaric is another.
Most certainly make hostage taking a negative reward though. (And Washington needs to remember that as well and not send billions to Iran et alia for Americans). It isn’t like we have examples going back to Jefferson here or anything.
Carcer non pugna.
Have you seen prisons?
Ok, for the convicts you have a point. For those running the prison, I hold them to a higher standard to promote civilization and sanity.
I hope Biden is out before the promised billions are freed because sure as shit Iran was counting on it and showered Hamas with funds in recent months.
Iran is desperate to stop the Arab world from making peace w/ Israel. Recent overtures by Saudi Arabia and Egypt towards not just normalization but towards alliance with Israel would be a huge problem for Iran and the Mullah’s ambition on starting their caliphate by conquering the Middle East.
Geneva Accords do not apply. Hamas is not a signatory and even if it were the accords are null and void once an actor violates them.
Executing prisoners is frowned upon, and for good reason.
The Sri Lankan government needed 30 over so years to finally defeat the Tamil Tiger separatists. That was easier given that Sri Lanka is an island, and so there was no concern that a third party would enter the war. In contrast Israel surrounded by potential enemies.
It’s puzzling that the US has military bases in Arab countries but not Israel, which is the one place in the Middle East where it would make sense to have one. Of course, if it did that, it would be ridiculous for the US to posture itself as a neutral arbiter in any dispute involving Israel.
There is no longer a justification for US troops in Germany or South Korea, but their presence did keep enemies at bay.
Nah, murder is wrong regardless of the situation.
I’m reading in some quarters that there is no such thing. Of course they’re not all terrorists and the people are probably subject to constant propaganda, but from what I am hearing the general population is pleased with the attacks.
At DLI, I had an Arabic teacher who grew up in Gaza. He was also a devout Muslim. On the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he said that in such a war, there is no way to defeat the spirit of the common people from which the militants draw their recruits and support.
The Israelis aren’t going to massacre the Palestinians and the Palestinians can’t massacre the Israelis. That’s the silver lining in this.
Since a war never ends until one side’s will to fight is utterly destroyed, reluctance to achieve that goal isn’t a silver lining.
Israel used, used being the key word here, to have a zero hostage policy. If the PLO hijacked an El Al plane, Israel would shoot it down, that sort of thing. The thinking was that the hostages were dead already, and it would only embolden the PLO. So, it only took a couple tries for the PLO to go, “yeah, this isn’t working.”
Gee… I wonder what political “brand” could possibly have been influencing that. Such a mystery.
Still raises my blood pressure that Trump’s first impeachment was for even raising the question of looking into this crap. Godforsaken Deep State so focused on bringing him down and covering up anything that would make their side look bad… So, so, so many people should have been fired (and I still don’t get the impression he has learned jack over crap on that front).
I remember Giuliani saying that the Democrats had stepped into a trap by trying to impeach Trump for the phone call. He naively believed it would force the truth out about the corruption.
Giuliani was right: The truth came out. He was wrong to believe that truth matters these days.
^^^THIS^^^
The people in the sphere of leftist propaganda cult are so captured that nothing short of real deprogramming would save them. And since only one side thinks camps are a good thing and a necessity (see Hillary Clinton), that will never happen. Too many people believe they can just lay low and avoid this disaster. That option is not going to work out well for them.
Exactly this. When leftists eventually admit what the right is saying is true, they change their talking points to “it’s a good thing the left did x”. Or “who cares, nothing burger, etc.” As cultish some Trumpers can be, modern leftists are 100 times worse. Some are literally martyring themselves for their ideology, getting stabbed to death in their crime ridden shithole cities.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734580/quotes/?item=qt0308480
That was the turning point for me, when it became blindingly obvious that every single organ of the American government was firmly under partisan Democrat control.
In any sane government that nonsense – and the titanic piles of nonsense that have followed – would have been laughed out of court.
“That was the turning point for me, when it became blindingly obvious that every single organ of the American government was firmly under partisan Democrat control.”
The sad thing is that it was obvious to me that that was the fundamental change to America Obama kept promising but that so many idiots thought was him making things better for the people instead of the dnc crime syndicate.
Well, when you and your idiot staff keep thinking (and trying to rule like) you’re FDR, but you make Carter look good in comparison…. people do tend to notice. Even with the media running cover. Frankly, that the numbers are still as positive as they are astounds me — but I suppose those are the people wanting him to ruin the country so they can “fundamentally transform” America into Democratic Socialist Land or something (and who will almost certainly be first up against the wall if that ever happens…. and so surprised by that turn of events).
There is a vast cesspool of democratic socialists who want the whole thing burned down. It took COVID lock downs for me to realize just how big that population was.
By vast you mean about the size of the libertarian movement? The difference is socialists organize and speak loudly and emotionally, whereas the libertarians don’t.
Socialism understands that through consolidation of power it can effect change. What they also fail to grasp is that the consolidation of power indubitably and inevitably leads to an authoritarian entity rife with criminality and abuse. The people most attracted and active in socialist revolution always tend to be people that want blood and to overthrow the existing system to put (or keep) themselves on top.
JI is right. They aren’t a numerous group, but they put those numbers to good use. Also, they are good foot soldiers for the general left.
There’s also a giant pool of folks who can never, ever, admit that they’ve made a mistake in supporting him the first time, so therefore they must be right in supporting him now.
He’s not even conscious, and I mean that quite literally.
It’s not that they can’t admit they were wrong. It’s that they believe like al cultists do that their cause is the only just one, and that any means justify the end. You are thus never wrong even when it is blatant you are wrong and downright into evil shit.
That also describes many on the right.
I see no mention of the known or suspected allergen that killed the chef. Well-known prescription drug? “Do not take Noacetol if you’re allergic to Noacetol.”
Yup… I was curious about that as well (bee sting? Surely not a peanut allergy for a chef… ? etc.) Nada. Which is more than a bit odd, imho.
It could have been any number of exotic ingredients. He’s a chef. What a horrible way to go.
“Symptoms include death.”
You see, all those NATO weapons that ended up with Hamas didn’t get there because they got sold on the Ukrainian black market. It’s because Russia captured them from Ukraine and gave them to Hamas in order to make Ukraine look bad.
https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1711345650690871424
I was wondering how the “War with Russia” faction would spin Hamas into their preferred narrative. The “War with Iran” faction has been handing them their ass this weekend.
Meanwhile the “War with China” faction is sitting around with their thumbs up their asses. Get your shit together guys.
Really? “Reported” by whom, you have to ask. Seems like the Taliban and all the shit we left in Afghanistan is 1000 times more likely.
Hmm… Krassenstein… pretty sure he and his brother are known constant PPP shills… so wouldn’t be at all surprised if that’s a feed from Langley.
If you get a chance to, listen to their “debate” with Clint Russell and Dave Smith. They’re idiots.
Somebody is feeding them their talking points.
Hamas has had US-made equipment for many years. Most of it gets smuggled in from Egypt, which has been receiving US military aid for decades.
In this video from 2014 at the 2:28 mark, a Hamas militant holds an M-48 mortar shell, which is manufactured by General Dynamics. That company also makes the F-16.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rInnMAWCBlA
We should have stopped giving military aid to Egypt long ago.
If we don’t arm all sides, how can we keep the market going?
They can buy our shit with their own money, not ours.
How will you keep the dollar the primary currency of world exchange when you no longer have enough manufacturing to sell anything of value or production of fossil fuels to corner the market, if you are not handing out a bunch of it for the others to use to buy stuff (especially weapons)? The millions for Pakistani gender studies or for pride month in Lebanon are not really going to any of that shit. It goes to keeping the US military-industrial complex going and the dollar as the world’s main currency despite the fact America no longer can produce any shit of value.
Amen.
They are not our friends.
But the pyramids are cool though.
Something about keeping your enemies closer and making money no matter what devil you need to dance with?
It’s being reported that Russia is handing over American-made weapons
We’re the good guys!!!11!!
Should NATO or the US do anything about this?
No. This narrative is bullshit and everyone with even two braincells to rub together knows it.
Dear Ed,
You cannot have your U.S.-led invasion of Russia. Eat Shit. Thanks.
~B.P.
If weapons came out of Ukraine it’s more likely that the Ukrainian mafia was smuggling them.
Hard to understand why someone/some group would pick a fight with the toughest kid on the block. Israel rules the skies, the food, water, electricity and fuel.
Sort of like burning down Walmart and the power company.
Puppets for Iran who doesn’t think they’ll be directly impacted and doesn’t give two rat droppings for the Palestinians is all I can think.
^^^THIS^^^
Iran hopes this brings the Arab world together against Israel, and stops the current movement towards Saudis, Egyptians, and other traditional anti-Israel nations, which would be a problem for Iran’s ambitions in the region.
And rub the US’s nose in the fact that the recent cash infusion paid for this, and everybody knows it.
And to force Israel to either look weak or look like a monster. I think they’re gonna pick the latter.
And to prove (once again) that none of the Arab states give a crap about the Palistinians except as pawns, and that they can show that openly, and the world doesn’t care.
Plus religion/ideology runs deep. Always has.
Some terrible end game is part of this. Certainly the war machine is delighted. And Soros has to be delighted that the people he abandoned are being attacked.
Hamas are just useful idiots and pawns in a much larger game.
There’s a channel, Military Summary, that give a decent overview of conflicts. He leans pro Russian but the Israel coverage has been more balanced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wJ8FncDDtg
His take is that Hamas fully expects and even wants the Israeli army to enter to Gaza. Iran is behind these attacks, and he expects Hamas and the Iranian Guard are waiting to ambush with cheap, yet very effective, Shahed anti-tank drones that currently being used by Russia against Ukraine. Hamas is also fully stockpiled with generators, gas, water, and all the supplies. They took dozens of armored vehicles, even tanks, lots of ammunition, and heavy weaponry from the Israeli military bases they overran.
They are also hoping this attack will be enough to recreate the Yom Kippur war. Lebanon has already declared war on Israel, again, via Hezbollah. Hamas is now pushing the West Bank, Egypt, Iran, and Syria join. This may be an existential fight for Israel.
If that’s what they’re counting on then they’ve miscalculated. Syria has existential problems of their own still and won’t declare war and Egypt under the authoritarian but mostly secular Al-Sisi wont get involved either. Other than the Iranian proxies in Lebanon and the Palestine Authority (and maybe even not them) Hamas is mostly on their own.
I don’t think counting on as much as hoping for. That would be the ultimate win.
Unless if Israel sacks up to remove Gaza from further consideration, the attack has already been wildly successful and Hamas achieved their primary objectives. They seized a great deal of military weapons/supplies which are already back in Gaza, they struck fear into Israelis, and, most importantly, they showed the Arab world that Hamas is still relevant. Even if no other Arab countries join this war, those countries will flood Hamas with funding.
*The ultimate win from Hamas’ perspective. Not mine of course. As I mentioned last night, Israel should give Gaza residents the ultimatum of picking a side or fleeing. Then remove Gaza from further consideration if the residents don’t dismantle Hamas on their own.
Maybe. And finance isn’t my thing (God knows that’s evident from the haphazard way I manage my own) — but I find it odd that the article reads as if a correction / contraction in the markets (and higher rates presumably discouraging rampant government borrowing and putting a focus on clearing some deb… bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha… sorry, couldn’t get that statement out with a straight face these days…) is a bad thing as opposed to the way markets cyclically work and what’s needed to clear for new innovators.
Reeks for the Y2K era of “the digital economy has changed the paradigm and will grow forever!” — but I’m probably just sensitive on that topic.
Yes, mortgage rates will go up… kind of like the 70s and 80s. Yes, government debt interest is unsustainable… but whrrrrrrrrrr is likely what’ll happen there and there’s nothing we can do about it because DC is a bunch of leeches and fools.
The pain is necessary.
There will be continued efforts to try to force Powell back to the zero-bound, but I think they’re going to have to kill him or start WW3 to do so, either of which is possible at this point.
5% rate – nominal; what’s the actual yield accounting for inflation?
Whose inflation numbers are we using? Krugman’s or Winston’s Mom’s?
Winston’s Mom has been calling 4 inches 7 for years, so you can’t trust hers. At least Kruggies are predictable based on which party is in power – in which case it is the opposite of whatever he says.
higher rates presumably discouraging rampant government borrowing
Lol, oh you. The debt ceiling was suspended until January 2025.
There it is.
https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1711350442330902779
Oil’s going to pop for certain now.
All eyes on the Strait of Hormuz now.
Back in the early ’70s when gas went to 50 cents a gallon I bought a smaller car to go to work, 27 miles.
My, my, how times change.
Ran out of gas on the NJ Turnpike on the way back from a chess tournament in 1974 (US Team championship, where I took the prize for best 4th board). We pushed the car about a mile and a half to the next rest stop where we were permitted to purchase 2 gallons of gas since it was an odd day and the number on our license plate was not divisible by 2. Fun times.
That’s fine — we’ll just ramp up domestic production and use Canadian pipelines to keep our economy humming…. oh….
Well then, we’ll fall back on our strategic petroleum reserve until this settles down…. oh….
Again — if you were actively trying to destroy the US and the US economy — what would you do differently than the Biden Admin anyway?
If its any consolation, Europe is going to collapse first.
When Obama and Biden and their ilk go on about being “citizens of the world”, it would be nice if the American public were actually paying attention to what that means.
Part of that larger game, I would presume.
Can we stop pretending that S.A. is our friend now?
We’ll try to buy our way back in.
Not until we disentangle from being the petro-dollar.
The Saudis tamped down tensions with Iran and have committed to joining BRICS. The times they are a-changin.
There was a play to bring them back into the fold with a military pact.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-saudi-defence-pact-tied-israel-deal-palestinian-demands-put-aside-2023-09-29/
That appears to be scuttled.
It might be resurrected in the future but there’s no way the House of Saud would improve relations with Israel during an actual war with Palestine regardless of what precipitated it. The Wahabbists who are always part of the equation there would literally have their heads. It’ll be interesting how supportive of the Palis they actually turn out to be.
Oil will pop, but at least we have a strategic petroleum reserve to cushion the shock…oh, wait.
I ‘member when the middle east was not ablaze and energy was relatively cheap just a few years ago. At least we don’t have mean tweets from bad orange man now.
At least Democrats have stopped complaining.
Regarding the hostages, if I were the US gov’t, I’d call Hamas’s representatives in and basically say: “I’m talking and you’re listening. We get that y’all are at war with Israel – that’s between y’all. But the hostage thing is a plain no-no and we won’t have it. And some of them are Americans, and you’re gonna let them go. And we’re not playing your game of separating the hostages by nationality – when I say you’re letting them go, I mean every last one – Israelies, Germans, etc.. If some are soldiers, register them with the ICRC. You have 12 hours to deliver the civilians all unharmed to an American ship. After that I will kill every last name on this list (waves big list of Hamas members, and points at the rep’s name being on there). And this is just about the civilians – you’ll have to take the whole military side of things up with Israel. The clock is ticking. That is all.”
You don’t get it. Most of the US government wants this.
Not to mention they might reply with: “With what weapons and what troops?” Sending everything to Ukraine and being all-in on Colonel Puppy Play and the like has consequences.
In my hypothetical, we ain’t sending a helluva lot to Ukraine.
And I definitely wouldn’t be sending in any troops in the conventional sense.
Way punitive. As targeted as possible, and patience is a virtue.
Hence that part about “…if I were the US gov’t…”
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it”
While a myth it seems to fit here.
Not our fight, the last thing we need is to get drawn into another conflict.
I’m all about not getting drawn into a conflict. In my hypothetical, though, I’m all about protecting my people. So if somebody somewhere in the world murders a bunch of them, and/or takes them hostage, then my goal is to punish them for that and try to dissuade them from doing it again.
“If you do not turn over all American citizens unharmed I will annihilate you, level your cities and salt the earth.”
Of course I would have said the same thing to Iran. It’s really not that difficult to deal with people that only understand power and force.
Slack channels have been very quiet. I think my (((coworkers))) have bigger things to worry about. I’m leaving them alone for now; I will be doing more listening than speaking in tomorrow’s meeting with my manager. My issues seem rather trivial now.
A little War music helps my mood.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Xs7NK-7B8
That is what I was expecting. Now let’s hope everyone doesn’t turn into animals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0JMCaKwOUY
Perfect.
*High fives Patzer
Given the likely politics of a good chunk of the company I work for (not all — I have gotten rumblings that some of my immediate compatriots are more like minded than I would think), I’m simply glad every day that politics is rarely discussed. The out-and-proud transgender folks and the noise on Pride Month being the rare exception on a couple of channels. Corporate Training is pretty woke, of course — the recent batch spouting the “It doesn’t matter what was said, or what the intent was… if anyone at all is offended, it is harassment!” had me rolling my eyes. Talk about a model that gives free range to vindictive feuds and is unsustainable if followed….
Oh, lovely — on the note of the transgender folk. I’m going to continue to avoid talking with them if at all possible, honestly.
You may want to avoid them, but they sure as hell do not want to leave you be…
I don’t need religion to tell me that I am not playing along with this madness, with one exception. Be a convincing enough male or female that I can’t tell. Deirdre McCloskey comes to mind.
But if you’re a dude with a moustache and lipstick and screaming at me “IT’S MA’AM!” No. Go fuck yourself.
Talk about a model that gives free range to vindictive feuds and is unsustainable if followed
We recently rolled out this idiocy:
https://bonusly.com
High school culture in the workplace. Give points to the members of your clique, earn rewards! A giant circle jerk.
Oh dear god please no.
I’d rather attend a book fair*.
*though I think these stopped after junior high
My company is run largely by (((conservatives))). We get the usual woke training videos but otherwise the woke coming out of HR is pretty light-touch and completely optional. Nobody talks about politics, ever.
I quickly played https://squaredle.com 10/09, but continue to blank on bonus words and just find ones that are there:
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Fun today. Yeah, I blanked on bonus words today too.
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Easy day.
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Humanity is Doomed – Ozzy Man Reviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99BMAbdMYpw
for the idiots in cars category
My cousin was gonna go on holiday in Israel in two weeks. I have a feeling that’s canceled
Signs point to yes
I don’t see the appeal anyway, except for the very devout.
I mean I would like to visit most places given time and money… But Israel is low on the list.
Almost all empires rapidly decline about 30 years after reaching their peak size. The sole exception to this was the Roman Empire. They got lucky and had a series of capable emperors for about a century. It took about another century worth of bad and mediocre emperors to damage things beyond repair.
The inherent value of paper money is zero. Getting closer by the day.
Of course, you only know it was peak size when looking back on it after the decline.
Ray of Sunshine needed for today.
He Raced This 114-Year-Old Motorcycle Cross-Country and Won
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/he-raced-this-114-year-old-motorcycle-cross-country-and-won-b271a80a?st=i81r4yw01cb8tc8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
In my shop, I rebuilt the motor and massaged every piece that could possibly break. Part of this race is held on mountain passes, and this Indian’s motor puts out about 3 ½ horsepower. It has pedals, so I knew I would have to pedal up mountains. The entire year leading up to the event, I trained—running, biking, swimming. I lost 25 pounds.
Damn. Nice story!
Yes, that was one of my favorite bits.
Also that his support team was just a buddy and an RV that he used to sleep in.
Fuck no.
The whole point of having a motor is so you don’t have peddle.
unexpected offensive that drew comparisons with the 9/11 attacks or Pearl Harbour.
Except the Japanese attacked a military target.
after Hamas launched a deadly surprise attack
Zero chance it was a surprise to the powers that be.
It does seem improbable that Israeli intelligence would miss all aspects of the tremendous planning and logistics stream that would be needed for this but maybe they really are that incompetent.
Their focus for the past decade or so has been on Syria and Hezbollah. That’s my theory for the intelligence failure.
Their focus this year has been the all out assault paid for by Soros and backed by our democrat run cabal of D.C. crooks on any attempts to reform their supreme court which basically was a lefty captured entity and abusing its power. They got caught with their pants down because they were too busy trying to undermine the Nethanyahu government (see a parallel in that anywhere??). Now Nethanyahu will get his way in spades as the people get reminded that you can not ignore people that want to kill you.
9h, they’re trying to blame on Netanyahu:s “divisive” policies.
It’s hard to believe they’re as incompetent/evil as the FBI who ignored all signs pointing to what became 9/11.
You assume someone didn’t make the decision 9/11 was something they had to let happen to further some cause/agenda…
That still doesn’t explain why there are reports it took hours for Israel to put aircraft in the sky. That’s yet to be verified, but if true it means an utter and complete failure (which I find exceedingly difficult to believe) or a betrayal in order to create an even more incendiary incident.
And then there’s this.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-israel-hamas-strike-planning-bbe07b25
A completely missed invasion by all Western intelligences, but we’ve already got the bad guys on record within 48 hours saying it was definitely Iran’s doing. Are anybody else’s spidey senses tingling yet?
Mossad and the IDF leaders have been pussyfooting around Bibi, not wanting him at all, nor wanting the changes at the Israeli supreme court his party is pushing.
I would bet sheckles to Challah that they thought some small thing was brewing, and it would work to their advantage. But much like FDR, they though they could keep the beast under wraps, and got hosed.
State Department says it considered Burisma corrupt, but kept dealing with its reps anyways
Because the state dept. is corrupt.
At this point the entire federal gov’t is illegitimate.
Sounds like terrorist talk to me. Lock him up.
“You all are not the happiest people about what you report. You get more legs when you report something negative,” Biden said. “I think [Americans] know they’re better off financially than they were before. It’s a fact,” he concluded, before going on to make a strange point about throwing a dog in a lake.
Except groceries are twice as expensive and housing is twice as expensive and…
You run in the wrong circles. Why aren’t you wealthy like Biden?
LOL. Never change, Joe.
More ‘Don’t believe your lying eyes’ from the socialists.
Meanwhile the other socialists in America are celebrating the attack on Israel, burning American and Israeli flags, shooting off fireworks….
Evil is on the rise people. This will not end well.
Supreme Court Temporarily Reinstates Biden Admin’s ‘Ghost Gun’ Rule
My “ghost” gun is named Casper.
*Attention ATF/NSA/CIA/FBI cuntes: I don’t actually have a “ghost gun”. So kindly fuck off.
Mine is named Beetlejuice!
Meanwhile.
And the UAW continues to play their part in the destruction of American vehicle manufacturing.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/4000-uaw-mack-trucks-workers-begin-striking-east-coast-plants
It’s all coming together nicely, isn’t it?
It needs to be destroyed at this point.
It’s collapsing under the EV fantasy. The unions want some of that graft for themselves. Well it doesn’t exist.
Step 1: let all central America come to the US
Step 2: all libertarians go to central America and build walls in the narrow bits
Step 3 : libertopia
It’s certainly looking that way.
*opens up Duolingo app, clicks on Spanish*
Well just make English the official language. I am not suggesting any natives remain unless they are libertarian and learn English.
The weather is quite nice.
Too humid…
They’re not sending us their best.
That scares the hell out of me. If other countries get involved against Israel, I’d expect terrorist attacks in the US. There could easily be thousands or tens of thousands of people in the US who could do it. They practically give you a prostate exam if you get on a plane, but walking right over the border unhindered is totally fine.
Border Patrol are traitors.
Also, I read some scary shit about the kind of damage 1000 sappers could do to the grid and other infrastructure.
But hey, I’m sure the powers are on it.
The powers are counting on it. And they’ll blame MAGA or any other dissidents of the regime.
Tappy Lappy
@tappylappy
There is no solution under capitalism.
How can there be any unity between the peoples of Israel and Palestine?
ONLY a common struggle for Socialism can unite the Israeli working class and the Palestinian working class.
Capitalism means division.
Socialism means unity.
https://twitter.com/tappylappy/status/1710594314080776670
I supposed everyone in a mass grave is united in a way, I guess this moron is technically correct.
One of the biggest lies bandied about by socialists and socialism, a cult that is designed to appeal to man’s petty feelings of envy and jealousy, is that capitalism is bad because it prevents the pie from being equally distributed. Socialists believe the pie is finite and can’t be grown, which leads to the dumb claim that hoarders are taking the wealth (I still have never seen an example how you can get rich stealing from poor people, however) from others. Capitalism allows the productive and inventive to grow the pie. It has flaws when abused (especially by government collusion with the powerful), but it is the one system that can address scarcity,
The delusion that resources, scarce or otherwise, should be equally distributed because only then there is justice, seems to always ignore that not a single thing about the laws of physics, economics, nature, human behavior, and so on ever will favor the stupid pie in the sky wish of the socialist caba.
Socialism means unity.
At gunpoint.
The Cultural Tutor
@culturaltutor
A brief introduction to Soviet Architecture:
https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1711039632043901430
Not that it’s news to anyone around here, but it’s refreshing for Lefties to be outing themselves so blatantly as raging antisemites.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12607931/Times-Square-Palestine-rally-Hamas-Israel.html
Mammary Monday.
https://archive.ph/320Fb
Huh… I knew of the NYC one – but check the bottom of that article. Simultaneous protests (organized by the Socialists) in NYC, Montreal, Atlanta, presumably many more. (Oh, and RS shows… add Australia)
All just after a major Hamas assault.
That doesn’t seem at all coincidental — seems the sort of money trail and coordination an intelligence community that wasn’t rooting for the socialists should follow up on. Too bad for us.
Well, the whole genderfliud groomer thing meant to divide us is failing so….
Yeah, that is not the usual pro-Pali protest. I’ve mentioned before that I lived in basically the Pali Central of NYC for 12 years, where there were frequent protests during the summer usually instigated by the lovely Linda Sarsour who lives nearby.
This is different. This is the Palis joining with Antifa and other commies. Look at all the whiteys in the anti-Israel crowd.
One thing I never understood is why the commies have such a death grip on the Pali cause. Like, why them in particular?
Because the Israelis are evil white colonizers and commies hate jews
In their worldview the Palestinians are oppressed and Israel the oppressor.
All of those photos are shot so as to make it difficult to see how large the crowd is.
Not that I’m advocating the anti-Semitism in any way.
This is a good point.
The picture of the black guy in the pro-Pali demonstration holding up a swastika is confusing optics. The Palistinians are pro-nazi?
many muslism are pro nazi
They hate Jews…
It is ballsy. Most of them keep that on the down low.
Considering everything I have seen in the past few years, I would say he’s a plant.
Probably accusing Israel acting like Nazis. Kind of like the Tea Party people wore swasitkas to Pelosi rallies back in the day.
I’m confused.
Australian Jewish Association President David Adler told Sky News an email was sent to the Jewish community warning them to avoid the harbor front building and the center of the city.
“We’ve seen one or two Jewish people who turned up early, who have been taken away by police because they carried an Israeli flag,” Adler told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
“An email went around to the Jewish community warning us to stay out of the city of Sydney tonight, to stay away from the Town Hall area, to stay away from the Opera House area.
“We would be at risk if we were identified as Jewish in Sydney.”
Richard Hanania
@RichardHanania
Pretty sure if you gave me a year I could write Shakespeare quality work.
Like if someone hadn’t read all of Shakespeare and you randomly gave them me or him, on average they couldn’t tell the difference.
Of course without the blind test people would pretend it wasn’t as good.
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1711179945052098742
I mean anyone could really
red.
@redstreamnet
.@yanisvaroufakis
told red. media “those who try very hard to extract a condemnation of the attack by Hamas” from him or his movement @DiEM_25
will “never get it”. Varoufakis said, “the criminals here are not Hamas…the criminals are Europeans” for remaining silent “as long as it’s Palestinians who die and not the occupiers”.
Varoufakis urged Europeans to “redeem ourselves” by pushing for peace via “the destruction of the state of apartheid”.
https://twitter.com/redstreamnet/status/1711025426867380254
Seems it is neither the Jews nor the Americans but Europeans fault…
The hatred of Jews still runs deep in Europe…
it is more prevalent in newcomers really…
But socialist scum is socialist scum, and this guy is as scum as they come
Happy Columbus Day everyone.
Will we still get any hot takes this year with the Middle East blowing up?
I think it’s safe to say at this point that all the attempts to curtail Iran’s nuclear program were a waste. The focus should have been on reigning in their proxies, and not by military force.
In other words, had oil prices stayed low, Iran would not have been able to fund and arm its proxies by the extent it did. Had the US stayed out of the Syrian civil war, Iran would have not been able to establish a foothold there.
This sort of thinking isn’t that complicated. It’s a chess game with looser rules.
Depose these tyrants.
Major corporations from oil and gas companies to retail giants would have to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions as well as those that come from activities like employee business travel under legislation passed Monday by California lawmakers, the most sweeping mandate of its kind in the nation.
The legislation would require thousands of public and private businesses that operate in California and make more than $1 billion annually to report their direct and indirect emissions. The goal is to increase transparency and nudge companies to evaluate how they can cut their emissions.
“We are out of time on addressing the climate crisis,” Democratic Assemblymember Chris Ward said. “This will absolutely help us take a leap forward to be able to hold ourselves accountable.”
It’s almost like they want to move even more manufacturing to China.
Let’s aid the Chinese auto manufacturers some more while continue to wreck the US economy.
“(The department’s) deliberative action on the PEF will require the (automakers) to pay needless CAFE civil penalties, hurting American competitiveness,” Blunt wrote in the Sept. 29 letter.
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2023/10/09/detroit-automakers-biden-petroleum-equivalency-factor-face-civil-penalties/71082599007/
Decolonisation is not a metaphor
In praise of the rough honesty of the far left
https://thecritic.co.uk/decolonisation-is-not-a-metaphor/
“what did y’all think decolonization meant?” Najma Sharif, a Somali-American writer sneered (the lower case is hers, presumably to show how cool she is while excusing murder), “vibes? papers? essays? losers.” “Decolonisation is not a metaphor,” Mahvish Ahmad, Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics at the London School of Economics, wrote in a now-deleted tweet, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
“Postcolonial, anticolonial, and decolonial are not just words you heard in your EDI workshop,” posted Ameil J. Joseph, Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, McMaster University. “Palestinians … are rising up against the colonizers,” wrote Tariq Ali of New Left Review. Again, just to be clear, the violence these people are describing explicitly involved the deliberate murder of civilians and the celebration of their deaths
The same students who see misgendering as a hate crime are fine with children being murdered.
I hope the last few days have woken people up to the civilisational suicide cult that is wokeism. We need to dismantle all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion departments.
https://twitter.com/LeoKearse/status/1711283635871981862
I know some of you disagree, but I still think people in media have to be completely demoralized. Day after day they have to flat out lie to cover an old corrupt POS and his crack head son who make more than the media folks will see in a lifetime. And now that old corrupt POS is telling them they’re not doing a good enough job and it’s their fault he’s losing.
If you’re a psychopath, it’s not an issue.
But Junior’s expenses are so high, the poor dear: lawyers, drugs, hookers, child support*, coastal L.A. rent…
They’re true believers, which I suppose entails a type of demoralization. However, they’ll never see it that way. They don’t question it for the same reason a cult member doesn’t question why it’s necessary for his wife to fuck the leader; in fact he’ll gleefully encourage it.
So what is the official glibertarian position on the concept of labor shortage, because on pure economic terms there is n o objective amount of labor that needs to exist so that there is no shortage. I say as long as government does not distort the market with minimum wages and welfare, the concept is not that valid.
If you’re trying to hire someone with specific job skills, and there aren’t any people qualified who are currently unemployed, then you might think that was a labor shortage. But, at some wage level, you could hire someone from your competitors. Or pay those employees to work two jobs.
So, it’s not a labor shortage, it’s that at the margins, your incremental increase in production would cost more than the incremental amount that anyone would pay for your product.
I absolutely think the government can cause a labor shortage. We’re seeing it in action here. All kinds of positions are open since the plague hysteria unleashed geysers of cash, from nurses to bus drivers to cops and nobody is taking them because it’s easier to sit on your ass and collect benefits.
In case you missed it: a lazy journo forgot to fix a hyperlink. It has since been deleted.
It leads to a Google doc with the following in the first lines:
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Israel is a well documented apartheid state, with its own officials admitting to it. They must have 2.5mm dicks to impose apartheid on people who barely have running water, while armed with nukes.
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Good, Nahal Toosi. Let the hate flow through you.
Behold: https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/10/nahal-toosi-makes-oopsy.html
Not in my back yard.
Democrats are trying to divert their flood of wage-cutting, rent-spiking migrants toward GOP states and cities as their blue state voters rebel against the Democrats’ poverty policies.
“What we need is [President Joe Biden’s] help deciding where these folks are to go because they can’t all go to Chicago and New York, and D.C. — They need to go in places where there’s even more help to offer,” Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker told CBS’ Face the Nation on October 8. He added:
We, of course, are a welcoming state and have been caring for the people who’ve arrived. But we can’t bear the burden only ourselves. So, we communicated that [to the White House] … We want immigrants in the United States … [and] there are lots of places in the country where there are NGOs [Non-Governmental Organizations] that can be of assistance to these folks who have arrived.
You could ship them back across the border from which they came.
This hits my confirmation bias way too well. Imma need some citations.
https://twitter.com/Libertarians4DT/status/1711052173008572586
While I’m waiting for those citations, I’m going to go pleasure myself at the thought of Graham getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Don’t ever pleasure yourself to thoughts involving Lindsey Graham no matter what they are.
Good news. So lots of the recent “random” violence in NYC has been at odd hours.
Those “odd hours” are rapidly shrinking. Four people on a 72 year old.
The attack occurred around 10:15 p.m. at West 17th Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan
https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/hunt-on-for-four-thugs-in-nyc-hate-crime-attack-on-elderly-man/
Back after a long time away glad to see this place still going strong.
Which prize is more worthless the Nobel or the Heisman?
Nobel economics prize goes to Claudia Goldin
The Heisman winners aren’t actively trying to ruin society.
bad link
Also obligatory ITiS noT a NobeL PriZe
Not sure what happened but it copied the glib page link. What better way to come back to the site than with a link derp.
https://www.reuters.com/world/claudia-goldin-wins-2023-nobel-economics-prize-2023-10-09/
Well, it’s a damn good thing the adults are back in charge!
Right!
Right?
A dolt is definitely in charge, nominally.
The emperor has no clues.
I had that same sentence run through my mind an hour ago perusing the absolute shitshow that the current admin has presided over and helped make a reality.
And all the terrible just works together. Bad energy policy, bad foreign policy, bad immigration policy, bad economic policy all have a compound effect on each other.
Indeed, just hoping there is some pendulum swing sooner rather than (too) later.
But at least the portions are large.
So the Brandon regime will be sending more billions of dollars to terrorist orgs I suppose.
At least four U.S. citizens are believed to be among those killed in Israel during Saturday’s Hamas attacks, senior U.S. officials told U.S. lawmakers during a Sunday night briefing.
According to several people familiar with the briefing, held by senior State Department and Defense officials, the total likely to rise in the coming days.
The White House confirmed “several” deaths of U.S. citizens earlier in the day, after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration was working overtime to verify U.S. casualties and hostages.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan said “dozens” of American citizens were among the hostages.
He’s just so dreamy!
Smithsonian showcasing signed Anthony Fauci Nationals mask: ‘Infectious disease superstar’
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/smithsonian-showcasing-signed-anthony-fauci-nationals-mask-infectious-disease-superstar
That’s going to age well.
‘Infectious disease superstar’
Yes, but not how they intended.
Rand Paul offers a much needed rebuttal:
COVID Masking Hysteria Was Never About Following the Science
‘Infectious disease superstar’
Because he creates and releases them?
From Sensei’s link:
The question regarding the Energy Department’s proposed change and the impact it and the standards proposed by the Biden administration — which it says could result in two-thirds of all new cars being sold being electric vehicles, compared to just 6% in 2022 — could have on U.S. automakers comes at a fraught time.
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Reuters first reported on the AAPC’s letter this week, noting the change in the PEF could cost GM $6.5 billion, Stellantis $3 billion and Ford about $1 billion. But those charges were first specifically referenced by NHTSA in July in materials supporting its proposal to hike fuel efficiency in cars and trucks significantly, beginning with model year 2027. Along with EPA’s proposed rules for auto emissions, the regulatory changes are widely seen as promoting, if not virtually requiring, automakers to transition to selling many more electric vehicles than at present.
In its proposal this summer, NHTSA noted that there could be significant compliance costs for some automakers, saying, “While some of this change may be due to increasing standards, the updated PEF value also has notable effects on manufacturers’ computed compliance levels.”
U.S. automakers, while investing billions in new battery and EV plants, have argued that the Biden administration’s goals may be too ambitious and, they say, that is also true in the proposed PEF change. In the letter, Blunt argued that change actually works in favor of other automakers that have been slow to embrace plug-in EVs instead of protecting American companies.
They had their chance to stay off the slippery slope.
E fuel is the future, maybe hydrogen if they can figure it out.
It’s only the future for those who believe in dangerous man-made global warming.
We have investigated ourselves and found that we were blameless.
State police paid to end middle-finger traffic ticket lawsuit. Were officers disciplined?
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2023/10/09/delaware-state-police-middle-finger-ticket-jonathan-guessford/70993862007/
You know what the answer is to any question asked in a headline.
Paid leave?
Alex, what is Betteridge’s Law?
Shut up, Mike.
“I also believe this is what happens when we have leading voices like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis signaling retreat from America’s role as leader of the free world. What happened in Ukraine was an unprovoked invasion by Russia. What happened this weekend was an unprovoked invasion by Hamas into Israel and I believe now more than ever, both the debate within the Republican Party and the debate within America is whether or not we’re going to once again stand without apology as the leader of the free world, as the arsenal of democracy.”
“The heartbreaking images coming out of both of these theaters of operations remind us that America is the indispensable leader of the free world and if I’m President of the United States, we’ll lead from American strength,” Pence continued.
“Unprovoked”, they sure like that word.
Yeah, it was right out of the blue. Who could have seen it coming?
Sooo… All that shit happened under Democrat leadership?
America’s role as
leader of the freeworld police.WTF
Good lord, Robert Reich said damn near the same thing today.
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Like most of you I’ve been following the harrowing news about what’s occurring in Israel and Gaza — and, of course, Trump’s crazy-ass attempt to blame it on Biden. “The horrible attack on Israel, much like the attack on Ukraine, would never have happened if I were President — zero chance!” he said with his usual modesty, even though Trump is more responsible for the diminished capabilities of American intelligence (connected to Israeli intelligence) than Biden or any other recent president.
…
This is the underlying agenda of Trump and his enablers as we head into the terrifying election year of 2024.
It’s behind Trump’s increasingly wild ravings. It animates the House nihilists (such as Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs, and Nancy Mace). It fuels the zealotry of Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy. It’s behind Steve Bannon’s and Tucker Carlson’s incendiary agitprop. (It’s also basic to Putin’s maneuverings.)
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Bro, if you’re gonna shill for Biden, at least get paid for it.
Reich, his intellect is only matched by his stature.
All this serious talk this morning has driven one story off the front pages. It is one that Americans are really interested in, too: “Why wasn’t Taylor Swift at the Chiefs game yesterday?”
Afghanistan, Ukraine, Belarus, Sudan…maybe Israel will be the next US embassy Biden will evacuate.
“Something happened somewhere and I’ve been in touch with those ‘communities’ impacted”
https://twitter.com/lightstonea/status/1710913390565081266?s=20
My submission for tardiest hot-take.
https://democraticunderground.com/100218342482
That guy’s in the wrong line of work, he’s a regular Retard Holmes.
Trump has Iran’s top general whacked, moved the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and he betrayed Israel to Hamas via Russia?
That’s some Olympic-level mental gymnastics there.
DU cares about Israel now?
Oh, I get it. Orange Man Bad.
“Why wasn’t Taylor Swift at the Chiefs game yesterday?”
No national teevee broadcast.
She’s busy writing her Kelce breakup song? I’ll put money on the title being “Travisty”
LOL
Maybe she had better things to do than hijack the NFL.
It was though.
XY and I are back from the dentist, $200 lighter. While the world burns, the rest of us go about our business because what choice do we have?
Vote harder
Right?!
Husband and I are having a bit of an ongoing discussion about my growing unwillingness to vote at all.
Vote local. It absolutely matters. The rest, meh.
I would deregister, but I still might want to sign petitions.
You can still complain, write letters, raise hell at local meetings. Voting not required.
None of which will do any good but neither does voting. Rarely at a local meeting is the vote by the elected officials anything other than unanimous, in my experience.
Oh, I dunno, I’ve signed at least a couple of petitions that got the measures on the ballots.
But if the measures get on the ballots and those supporting the measures don’t vote… 😕
Oh, I voted, once successfully and once un–.
👆
Recently posted on Al-Jazeera:
إسماعيل هنية: المعركة انتقلت إلى قلب الكيان الصهيوني
Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas chief spokesman): the battle has been taken to the heart of the Zionist entity
Dangerous lunatic
The air was heavy; Kennedy and I had spoken a few weeks before, and it ended badly. The man has an almost inhuman ability — or compulsion — to talk, and he called me one Sunday afternoon as he was hiking in the canyons behind his Brentwood, California, home. More than two hours later, he was asking if I agreed with him on the threat government censorship had on American life. As I wracked my brain to think of concrete examples of the federal government actually prohibiting or punishing people for speaking, he took my silence for acquiescence.
“I can tell you are not troubled,” he said. “To me, that is just really shocking. I thought you were supposed to be a journalist.”
In order to change the subject from my failures as a reporter and as a human being, I asked him if he remembered where he was during the afternoon of Jan. 6.
“What do you think is more dangerous,” he responded. “The censorship by the government of Americans who disagree with its policies or Jan. 6?”
I tried to point out that there really is no government censorship as commonly defined — that the government neither really coerces nor threatens private citizens or businesses. As for his complaint that the government sometimes flags information on social media platforms as incorrect, after which those platforms remove certain posts, I suggested that presumably the government has as much right to flag suspect content as any other entity, that no one was being killed or imprisoned for their statements or their views and that in fact there were more avenues to reach more people now than ever before. I said that not only did people die on Jan. 6 but a mob tried to murder a sitting vice president and members of Congress in a bid to disrupt the lawful transfer of power, but Kennedy cut me off.
“Jan. 6 was an attack on a building,” he said. “And we have lots of layers of government behind that building.”
There is no censorship, only dangerous traitors who abuse their ability to speak in order to contradict the government experts’ narrative.
As I wracked my brain to think of concrete examples of the federal government actually prohibiting or punishing people for speaking
Owen Shroyer could not be reached for comment.
a mob tried to murder a sitting vice president and members of Congress
I must have missed something. No, wait. This individual is a lying cunte.
Like many people from both the right and the left who rail against censorship, Kennedy’s views on the matter tend to align with his political incentives and don’t particularly cohere. He talks a lot about the need to express himself on social media, but little, for example, about limits some school districts are placing on books in their library or what college professors can teach. Still, it is this question of censorship, even more than his widely discredited anti-vaccine work, or arguments against Covid-era public health measures, or his long and estimable career as an environmental lawyer, or his equally long crusade against a government which he says is willfully deceiving the people it claims to serve, that is the true cornerstone of his run for president. This is so because it is the thing Kennedy talks about that he has enfolded everything else within. What is the debate around vaccines, after all, if not a debate about who gets to say what where, and what kind of information has the imprimatur of truth and science associated with it?
The “debate” about vaccines which consists of accusing anybody who disagrees with the official story of being a murderous Luddite? Who could find fault with that?
“…but little, for example, about limits some school districts are placing on books in their library or what college professors can teach.”
It’s sort of the job of school districts to set curriculum policy. Also, tell me more about school districts setting policy for higher education. Many of the people who are supposed to be smart have no idea how a lot of things work.
“a mob tried to murder a sitting vice president and members of Congress”
Sure, Jan.
What I’m wondering about is how didn’t Israel see this coming? The U.S. has 18 (?) intelligence agencies who spy on absolutely everyone. Israeli intelligence is literally run by a bunch of Jews — the most intelligent people on the planet. This wasn’t their first rodeo. The shit been going on since 1945. Hamas is a known enemy, with a long history of previous attacks. No one was watching them? Is it like how FDR allegedly knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened?
https://twitter.com/profstonge/status/1711404432464711899
Linky no worky for me. Missing digits or tweet deleted?
https://twitter.com/profstonge/status/1711406226607673614
Thanks.
I’m reluctant to believe anything about Jews or Israel from Zerohedge.
Their unifying theory is of no use to you?
I’m not sure they are that intelligent. Israel was ahead of the world in jabbing its population multiple times against covid. And how many Jews in the US still get boosters? I personally know a few.
Their best and brightest have preoccupied with disrupting Iran’s nuclear program. That put Hamas on the back burner.
It was allowed to happen.
I think Derpetologist is right, their focus has been elsewhere.
Back in the spring of 2020, before how you responded to Covid became a marker of political-tribal identification, most everyone was sealing themselves up inside their homes, wearing masks outside and washing down groceries to avoid a mysterious disease killing people by the thousands. Not Kennedy. After years of battling with the medical establishment, he saw a vast web of white coats who weren’t trying to save lives but were fulfilling their longstanding fantasies of societal control.
“I didn’t believe it from the beginning,” Kennedy said. “I was reading the science every day, and I saw the move to start restricting civil rights. I have a lot of knowledge of American history, and I know there is no pandemic exception to the Constitution. I know a lot about the manipulation of fear, so I was suspicious of everything they said.”
In August of 2020, back when families were strapping portable toilets to the roofs of their cars for summer family road trips, and over 1,000 people in the U.S. were dying from the disease every day, and even red-state school districts were requiring masks and figuring out social distancing guidelines, Kennedy traveled to Berlin. He wrote on Facebook, “We are expecting more than 1 million people from every nation in Europe protesting Bill Gates’s bio-security agenda, the rise of the authoritarian surveillance state and the Pharma-sponsored coup d’etat against liberal democracy” and posted a photo of himself with some of the leading German coronavirus conspiracy theorists “in front of Brandenburg Gate where my uncle President John F. Kennedy gave his famous ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech in 1963.” (Maybe it’s quibbling, but President Kennedy gave the speech in front of Schoeneberg Gate, which is four miles away.) In the end, 18,000 people attended the protest, which was organized by the far-right political party Alternative for Germany and attracted people holding signs in support of QAnon before it was broken up by the Berlin police for violating mask mandates and pandemic restrictions on mass gathering.
A kook, consorting with other kooks, including Nazi kooks, in violation of common sense public health measures. Such a shame. A sad smear on a noble family.
over 1,000 people in the U.S. were dying from the disease every day,
Not really. But hospitals certainly killed many people.
recently posted on Al-Jazeera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHnTI6bBb50
It’s all about how Hamas developed their rocket forces with Iranian help and hid them from the Israelis despite the blockade. Their new rockets have enough range to hit every part of Israel. This video was posted 2 years ago.
gist: They steadily improved the range of their rockets and dug up old Israeli water pipes to make rockets. They also used divers to dredge up British artillery shells from WW2 to make warheads.
That part was rather clever. 80% of intel comes from open sources.