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Once again, we hear the axiomatic badness of Netanyahu. Axiomatic, because it's never examined with any rigor -- if it's examined at all.

Now, it seems, he needs to go for the success of the Gaza war, even though his replacement won't do anything different.

I'll say yet again that someone at the FP should speak to someone in Israel who doesn't believe that Netanyahu is the worst thing since leisure suits. It might help readers gain some insight into a country whose electorate put him in power for so long.

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Mar 11·edited Mar 11

Biden’s remark about a “Come to Jesus” meeting with the Jewish state’s leader makes me laugh. I laugh more when I imagine the hysterical leftist/media reaction if Trump had been caught saying such a thing.

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The field of “ mental health workers” has grown rapidly and exponentially and includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, life coaches...catering to the self centered culture we’ve become. People talk 8n psychobabble these days.

Trauma of living through Auschwitz’s is not the trauma of a perceived micro aggression that many seen to believe are equivalent. Words cease to have ant meaning when corrupted in this way.

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The notion that Michelle Obama will replace Mr. Cognitively Impaired is absurd. She won’t risk the world discovering just how overrated she is.

The big news today is that the truth somehow escaped from Joe Biden’s mouth when he used the word illegal to describe the alleged killer of Laken Riley instead of the word undocumented, the dishonest term introduced into the immigration lexicon by Barack Obama. The word undocumented in this context conveys the idea that everyone has a right to come to America, even if their paperwork is not in order.

The is a prescription for disaster.

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Can you explain to me ANY respect in which Donald Trump is a "threat to the Republic"? What we KNOW is that the "Department of Justice" has been corrupted to pursue political opponents. We can be pretty sure Joe Biden takes bribes from nations whose interests are not our interests, and who pursues their interests in lieu of and in opposition to our interests. We know with absolutely certainty that the Ukraine is simply not something that is strategically important to the United States, but that nuclear war, which becomes very likely in the event of an open war with Russia, is the worst possible outcome of any Presidential policy of any sort.

What is it you are seeing that I am not? I conclude you are insane because you are afraid, and you are afraid because you are in the habit of hallucinating non-existent threats from conservatives, and also of engaging in negative hallucinations--not seeing what plainly IS There--with respect to Democrats.

When are you going to stop lying to yourselves? I assume you are sincere. You are always safer telling the truth, aren't you? You can't stop problems you can't see.

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best idea ever to keep the guy who abandoned citizens to the enemy in Afghanistan and who wages modern war upon multiple countries while inviting those same countries to send millions of people across our open border.

It’s just brilliant.

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I’m about halfway through Shrier’s new book. I work in education and her material on how the therapeutic has infiltrated everything is spot on. It’s awful for everyone involved, except the true believers, who can be found in guidance counselor offices and in administration.

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More Shrier less Wiseman. Please. Although "Democrats Praying for an Open Convention" is funny. Democrats pray? The only pact they've made is with the Devil. They run our education establishment that Gwyneth has exposed. Our children aren't being educated; they're being abused and indoctrinated. By leftist ghouls.

As far as children of survivors, I have a friend who is the only child of two Holocaust survivors. To hear him tell of the burden he carries is moving beyond measure. And yet, he is one of the most loving, kind and successful people you would ever have the pleasure of knowing.

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Speaking of trauma...this incompetent administration triggers me. The self-loathing, mediocre race to the bottom and perpetual victimhood leave me stunned every day. How will we thinking citizens manage to overcome the damage that has been done?

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Gwyneth, the 15-yr-old, is the most mature adult in the room, and as a non-Jew who was exposed to pictures of the depravity of the 3rd Reich's Gestapo and Mengele at the age of 12, I can attest that Abigail is 100% correct about the nightmares, and that experience changed the trajectory of my life.

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"You guys spoke about so many things that I have complained to my parents about. Things like emotionally manipulative class discussions, mind-numbing 'social-emotional learning.'"

Bless this kid. I used to be appalled at the touchy-feely discussions I was being asked to have with my students, who saw through the mumbo-jumbo of mindfulness and psychobabble and resented it. "We talked about this last year," they'd tell me. "I know," I'd respond.

The corollary to "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach" is "Those who can't teach go into administration."

And at great expense hire mindfulness (and DEI) gurus for the kids. Or attend Lucy Calkins lectures and sit rapt because they don't know any better.

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This past week here in micro-aggrieved Connecticut, we saw these two items in our state legislature. First, a bill was introduced to require schools of cosmetology to train students on the care and styling of “textured hair.” Why? Because, according to testimony, too many clients FEEL discriminated against when they step into a salon with a racist stylist who can only handle straight European hair like mine.

Second, a group of high school students and a UCONN entomologist want to ditch the European praying mantis. Pity the oppressor Mantis religiosa in the 21st Century. But neither activist students nor bug lady can agree on a suitable replacement. Consequently, our legislators are in a bind because while the bug lady made the more persuasive argument, lawmakers fear hurting the students’ FEELINGS if they side with her.

To Abigail’s Shrier’s point, we’re drowning in a miasma of feelings. Yes, there are very real psychoses that must be treated by therapists committed to healing their patients, not lining the their pockets. But c’mon. We’re becoming a helpless laughing stock. For so many of these kids, a healthy dose of “snap out of it” is in order.

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Hold it. I thought it was now settled that Joe is just fine and besides the cat's meow ( the Veep) is waiting in the wings to save democracy. Both on top of their games and ready willing and able to lead. Why would anyone object or want anything differently especially since things are really great now ( the border is not a real issue and the rate of inflation is down ), the hoi polloi just don't realize it.

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I read the story about the Abercrombie and fitch scandal. It’s akin to epstein island, instead of young underaged girls it’s 20 something young men.

Why haven’t I heard about this before? Is it because it’s more common than we think or know? Is it non covered because it’s LGBTQWTF?

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As I thought would happen, the Oscars turned into a Hamas love fest and not one of those so called supporters of #MeToo mentioned the raped Israeli women and girls. But according to that kapo POS he rejected his Jewishness, lamented that the Holocaust was used to support Israel, apparently everything is about the "occupation." You can't make up this stupid.

And Biden has always hated Bibi and any Israeli leadership that didn't bend the knee to him and his "brilliance." (I really dislike that they try to portray him as some kindly old wise gentleman, when he is anything but kindly, wise, or gentlemanly.) He once threatened to withhold aid to Israel because Begin wouldn't listen to him about how to protect Israel. So Begin replied:

“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

Israelis will decide who is going to be their Prime Minister. If they want Bibi they will get Bibi. If they want Gantz they will get Gantz. The problem with Biden is he thinks that Gantz will be more amenable to his stupidity. Biden truly doesn't understand what happened on October 7 if he thinks any Israeli leader will bend to his 1990s approach to the conflict.

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"... But bad therapists aren’t what’s causing today’s huge increases in rates of teenage depression, anxiety, and suicide....."

These kids have been brainwashed to believe the earth is boiling and the oceans are rising. No wonder they're depressed.

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