On Bidens answer of 'can the U.S. support Ukraine and Israel at the same time?' - “We’re the United States of America, for God’s sake. . . . We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.” This statement might be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
Has his Border Czar or anyone else in his administration informed him of the shitshow at the southern boarder? It looks like the Boston marathon at the 330 ports of entry on the daily. I mean "come on man"! Its nice to hear he feels strongly about our international defense, while totally failing to defend our own borders. Its widely known by those who live in the southwestern states that the border is being completely overrun day and night. At this point border patrol officers are simply taking names, photos & country of origin (when possible) of illegals and turning them loose into the US interior. Its a complete and utter failure of the Biden administration.
Finally......does anyone have odds on if any terrorists have entered the US at the border in the past 36 months? Asking for a friend.
Its crazy when I ask them how they could be proud of voting for this guy......most just hang their head and mumble something about being better than Trump. While I'm far from a Trump fan, only the most delusionally captured can agree with that nonsense today.....
Sure Trump is an obnoxious ass. But which one of his policies was wrong? Can the drooling Biden acolytes name even one? Now we have open borders, raging inflation and energy prices, a failing grid, lawlessness at home and chaos abroad. Is this what having "the adults back in charge" looks like? Well, maybe - if they're denizens of an adult rest home.
(Paul Ryan, if you must know. But then I REALLY regretted my ignorance that Kanye was still in the race. You have to take into account that I live in Massachusetts. So it was a tactical decision.)
There is the point that during Trump's presidency, Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea were clearly unwilling to contest the United State so openly because they hadn't a clue as to what might do...His mile-a-minute monologues and his penchant for dispensing with "agency consensus" certainly made all of them hold back.
Note, too, that the Biden administration's FBI and CIA are so interested in investigating and harassing parents who think parental responsibility attends to what their kids are taught in school, and stalking devout Catholics who prefer the Mass in Latin, that they completely missed the signs of the Hamas aggression.
The failures of Biden and his apologists tracks well with the corruption of our colleges and universities.
"Inexplicably to me, the administration is saying that it has no evidence that Iran played a part in the attacks from Gaza."
Of course, the admin would say this. Both the ever senile Joe and that disaster he served, Obama, are in bed with the Islamic theocracy, Iran.
Obama sent billions of dollars to Iran and he did it in the middle of the night hoping no one would notice.
One has to wonder, how much of those billions went into the ever senile Joe's and Obama's pockets.
When it comes to Iran, the Dem/Soc have never been able to control them, starting with the ever incompetent Jimmy Carter.
I have posted this before. The way to shut Iran down is to bomb their infrastructure. Take out the railroads, bridges, port facilities and their oil fields.
Their finances would dry up and they wouldn't be able to support themselves much less world terrorism. What I am proposing should have been done decades ago.
This could have been done with a minimum loss of life.
If you think the Iranian populace is pissed off because Iranian thugs, the morals' police, beat a beautiful young woman to death for wearing the wrong pair of shoes or something like that, wait till the only thing they have to eat are dates.
Iran has brazenly and proudly accepted the mantle of the biggest supporter of international terrorism. The question we should be asking the civilized world is, why have we wait this long to do anything to shut these brutal, murdering, thugs down.
It seems to me the left loves Iran and Islam in general. If you criticize Islam for being a brutal misogynistic religion, the left (the feminist party, Dem/Soc) calls you an Islamophobe. I call you rational and a realist.
Did he? Abraham Accords, a breathe of sanity in US Foreign Policy. I remember a couple of sharp taps when he felt them necessary too. We'll all get along fine as long as you keep your tanks off of our lawns.
"which one of his policies was wrong"? You could start with Trump's stupid non-leadership at the beginning of and through Covid: Calling it the "Chinese virus" instead of simply saying common sense suggests it came from the lab in China. Chinese versus China is a subtlety that escapes his limited brain cells. . Letting Fauci and Birx babble ad nauseam from the White House briefing room. You could add to it with having a rather droll Mike Pence babble on about "15 days to flatten the curve" ... and then what, Mike, huh? You can add to that his parading of various sycophants (Pillow Man, anyone?) to praise him from that same stage. And he started the federal fisc being turned wide open to trash the economy with cash. Yes, that Trump policy started it and played right into Dem's hands. The stock market rise was little to do with Trump. Sure the tax changes helped but that was Congress more than Trump. Finally, while not a policy, far more significant was his leadership failure during Covid. "Its going away after a few weeks". Trump had it easy from his inauguration on - save of course for the attacks from the Dems, nothing new there. He was riding a good economy. Then Covid hit and that moron failed critical leadership tests day after day. THAT is why a guy campaigning from his basement beat him. Finally, the tantrums he has thrown continually since the 2020 election make Biden look better than Trump - you know that the Dems are going to assure Trump is the Repub nominee and America will reject Trump. Can you imagine Trump as Prex with War in Ukraine, Israel, and maybe the border MidEast???
A bit of whataboutism, Bruce. What we can agree on is that this country is sorely in need of leadership. Trump? No. Biden? No. Harris? No, no, no. Pence. No. Poof Hair Cali Gov? No. The Republican field? Other than maybe Haley, no, and Haley is a tad too comfortable with the MIC (though in our current straits we seem forced to capitulate to the MIC)
Trump was following the expert advice of our leading Ivy-league educational/scientific institutional leaders. Who explicitly said they would infect the country because racism.
And you saw this happened, agreed with them, and blamed it on Trump. This is why our country is collapsing.
The best I can conclude is that most folks prefer words over actions. A leader makes tough decisions and takes action.
Trump wrote mean tweets but didn’t involve us in any wars. Biden is incrementally backing us into WWIII: hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians are dead because of his weakness, but because he reads nice words off a teleprompter, he is somehow better. Now he’s empowered Iran and contributed toward this heinous attack on Israel. The bodies keep piling up, but “no mean tweets”!
This makes me really support DeSantis, a highly effective governor whose only knock is he’s not good on TV.
He doesn't have nice words. No one understands what he's talking about anymore. On the rare chances when we do understand, it's him repeating stories about himself or his son that didn't happen. I question if he can even read the teleprompter.
We should perhaps point out that there are very few, if any, Palestinians living in Gaza that have lived anywhere else.
"Returning" to someplace implies that one has been there before...
And, the only "been there before" on this horizon is that those same Palestinians are going to be made to suffer, once again, for the hubris of a few radicalized, power-mad people who don't have enough sense to keep out of the lion's cage,
The result is going to be the same as the last time this group of terrorist stuck their heads out of their dismal tunnels.
Exactly. DeSantis keeps doing presidential/leadership things like he always has. The latest is flying Americans out of Israel and saying that any candidate for president should declare that we will not admit anyone from Gaza. The Free Press should be talking about DeSAntis but they cannot bring themselves to that.
The Free Press should be talking about DeSantis but they cannot bring themselves to that because Bari Weiss thinks DeSantis is anti-gay and the gay agenda is foremost in her mind. Anything else is secondary.
I think you are right. It is ridiculous on a number of levels. We should not have sexualized shows for children. And, the loud trans activist autogyno men are not even same sex attracted - but in love with themselves "as women". It is a paraphilia. Literally no one would care about them "going for it" if they left the children alone. But, they insisted in taking "sex" out of "transexual" like the eupjhoria they get in ladies clothing and ladies spaces has nothing to do with the "Identity". They had to come up with an entire Ideology based on "Gender Identity" and also push "non-binary" (What would Charles Darwin say to that? Where are the Scientists?)
This whole Woke/DIE Monster brings to mind:
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller"
Instead it is more like:
"First they came for the children in schools, and I did not speak out because I was not a child.
Then they came for universities/corporations/Social Media, and I did not speak out - because I needed my job.
Then they came for our cities (Antifa/BLM/rioting/crime isn't crime/free speech), and I did not speak out because I was insulated in suburbia or behind a gate/by money.
Then, they came for the Jews - and no one would speak out."
Did I write this under the name “Mark” (but can’t remember because I’m so upset and distracted by what’s going on)? I’ve certainly said these exact words repeatedly...
I think the question is “Can the Biden/Obama regime support Ukraine and Israel at the same time?”
In the former case, Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton wrote a screen play starring Putin as the boogeyman to poison the electorate against Trump. And as any horror fan knows, boogeymen never die, they’re just replaced when expedient. Expect the sequel "Russia, Russia, Russia 2" to be released soon. In the meantime, a lot of Ukrainians have and will die until someone like Trump writes a new script.
In the latter case, the Biden/Obama regime has insured that Iran is flush with $60 billion in Petro-dollar cash, and that doesn’t even count the $6 billion the administration hacks expect us to believe “hasn’t been touched”. By strangling our domestic oil production and ignoring the sanctions Trump put in place, the Biden/Obama regime insured that Iran had all the coin it needed to reconstitute its Hamas and Hezbollah proxies and reclaim its status as the supreme sponsor of terrorism. It turns out purchasing weapons and the hired assassins necessary to rape, behead, desecrate, and kidnap Israelis and Americans isn’t cheap and without it, the capacity and will of even the most depraved ghouls tends to atrophy, as it did during the Trump administration. Only the dumbest Orange Man haters will argue the connection between Iran’s newfound blood money and the deliberate reversal of Trumps policies.
The inhumanity directed at Israel is only the latest example of what we can expect from the Biden/Obama regime. Day by day it’s becoming clearer that questioning whether the U.S. “can support Ukraine and Israel at the same time” is integral to a much larger question, that being:
My own take is that Biden is an opportunistic grifter. Obama, on the other hand, seems reflexively anti-Western civilization, except as regards his own personal lifestyle, of course.
Now is the time to stand up TX the voting system is sick it’s rigged and Biden’s words “This is America for Godsake” yeah exactly that TX let’s show them what we made of it’s America🇺🇸🇺🇸
I don't even think this voters want him. If you ask Dem voters most of them don't want him either. It's him forcing himself on the country, and the Dem establishment unwilling to tell him no and push someone else.
Is America a country for the people or are we a country for the elites. Everything about Biden reeks of havoc, chaos and corruption - it’s enough now we are on the brink of a world war, Israel and the Ukraine are bearing the brunt of his poor leadership, and have paid a terrible price. The time is coming very fast for us to cast our votes remember there is a lot at stack.
It is the FBI and other unaccountable bureaucrats in the alphabet executive branch agencies, including intelligence agencies, forcing him on the US citizenry. They prefer a weak president.
Tell your friend they are spot on. I often ask myself if I was an enemy of the US and wanted to do damage, how would I go about it? Just think if they have a couple hundred suicide solider terrorists and have them go to crowded places and start shooting. What kind of panic would that create? But who in Iran or Hamas would think like that?
After 9/11 the govt commissioned academics to come up with the most effective way to commit terror in the homeland. Remember the beltway sniper? The Freakonomics guy Steven Leavitt was on that commission and hypothesized that ten such pairs of terrorists could shut down the US economy for weeks.
"On Bidens answer of 'can the U.S. support Ukraine and Israel at the same time?' - “We’re the United States of America, for God’s sake. . . . We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.” "
No doubt basing this on his Vast Years of Military Planning experience.
Considering statements coming out of Tehran; that has to be factored in. Unless it is just preposterous rhetoric, well anyone and anything could have crossed the US/Mexico border at any time since Jan7 '21 when senility and stupid grabbed the tiller of state.
Let’s just say that where I live we have a Naval Hospital, Marine Air Base and Training Base and there is serious security around all three. Situational awareness and being prepared - something that those excuses for UCLA students haven’t had to learn, but reality bites when it comes for you.
The Israelites also thought their intelligence would detect even the slightest intention by Iran or proxies to launch a 9/11 style terror attack. They thought they were headed for peace with Saudi Arabia and big development of oil and gas industry, and then a future of free trade, Semitic love, and coe prosperity. The MOSAD suffered from this group think and an overly comfortable expert consensus that this was the future. They did not imagine that their sources could be deliberate diversions and that training exercises can instantly morph into attacks.
Except take a peak at who is manning national intelligence and the State Department. Defense relies on those agencies for its situational awareness and preparedness.
Do you have evidence that terrorists have crossed our southern border? Are are you "just asking the question"? When you use words like 'invasion', it makes your thought process pretty transparent. We're talking about desperate refugees fleeing violence. Also, where are you getting your facts. I live in a southwestern state and I don't see evidence that our country is being "overrun", although anti-immigrant right wingers keep trying to scare us into thinking so.
“We started by asking Niall whether President Biden is right when he said, on Sunday, that “We’re the United States of America, for God’s sake. . . . We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.””
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The difference between Russia and Palestine and 1940s Germany is that in Russia you don’t see 200,000 frothing psychos in Red Square chanting
“From the river to the sea, Europe is gross and smells like pee!!!”
Russia is not a serious threat unless we convince them to launch ICBMs by continuing to overthrow governments in their neighborhood. Palestine should have been bulldozed 20 years ago. It’s Nazi Germany. Wipe them out.
In terms of “It’s who we are!!” and “We’re the United States of America!!”, Joe Biden’s two favorite slogans which he says creepily:
No, Joe, you and your dipshit parasite friends are NOT the United States of America. You’re the dumbest and most perverted assholes in the country and you got elected by bribing people with welfare.
Dwight Eisenhower is dead and these people are morons. We need to be careful.
Agree with you here Kevin. There must be a military response before a diplomatic and humanitarian response can ever be effective. I don’t think people fully comprehend that our entire world order is at stake with this “incident”no matter who “knew” or who started it. What we’re faced with is whether power shifts from West to East. Most of us closer to WWII and still living know full well what that actually means. God help the young who are naive and ignorant (similar to NJ is these comments) and don’t have a clue what to replace capitalist democracy with once they destroy it. They cannot separate “empire” from democracy, and in that failure, may doom us all.
"Wipe them out." Ah, the Free Press, the news source to trust if you want genocide against the Palestinians (apparently, based on the comment section).
You might prefer the cable news network ‘MSNB From The River To The C’.
Wiping out Germany and Japan also was not a genocide; it was necessary and it fixed the problem. This case couldn’t be genocide even if we tried since this isn’t even a race or ethnicity or anything. It’s just a small fraction of the Arab population that has chosen psychopathic antisemitism as a lifestyle.
Germany and Japan were well equipped countries whose citizens could move about freely in the world and had a level of prosperity unknown to the people trapped in Gaza. Neither had endured the policy of “mowing the grass” (such as Operation Cast Lead) and severe restrictions on the necessities of life that were in place for the world to see long before this terrorist attack.
I am not an apologist for the Hamas attack on October 7th, nor do I care to pretend history began on that day either. A Jewish doctor from Canada, Gabor Mate, has made an eloquent statement about the situation in Israel. He’ll be called a self-hating Jew (a tactic to disqualify anyone with an opposing viewpoint) for his honesty.
I wish cooler heads were in charge during this volatile time but they’re not. The only prediction I feel confident in making is plenty of people will be killed and more rage and an even greater thirst for revenge will be inflamed on both sides .
Well while ‘Palestine’ isn’t a country like Germany, I guess you have proposed a fair compromise where we do to ‘Palestine’ what we did to Germany and then after wiping it out completely we allow it to continue as something new that has learned it’s lesson.
I’ll consider this. Maybe give it to the people who run Dubai or one of the other non-Nazi Arab states. Lots of options once we wipe out the Nazis.
Yes, Kevin, they will think you nuts, but what you say is their only hope.
I have long said, establish a "Gaza Strip Authority," enable it to build boardwalks, hotels, casinos, bars, restaurants, theaters, even strip joints. It will be tawdry, commercial, and a heck of a good time. People from all over Europe and the Middle East will flock - as if to Mecca. Jewish and Palestinian capitalists can join up and make out like bandits. Of course, only TOTAL defeat will get the jihadists past the phony idea that death is preferable to such earthly trivia of this sort. At that point, like the Japanese deciding to build cars, the people of Palestine may say, like Nike, "Just do it."
Of course, after watching those "amusing" Ben Kawaller interviews TFP provides us here, thanks so much BW, what about those youngsters!!!? What do we do about THEM? The Israeli-Palestinian knot may be an easier one to untie than that.
You a big fan of the Arab states? I have to admit, I find that surprising. In any case you'd have trouble finding one who'd give a bucket of warm spit for the life of every Arab who calls themself Palestininan. All the surrounding Arab states have spent generations treating them as someone else's problem.
And in response to your earlier posts, we didn't 'wipe out' Germany or Japan' we defeated them, deposed their governments, and imposed new ones more to our liking. Then helped them rebuild and recover from the damage they had suffered during the war. Which is how they ended up our allies. Something similar needs to happen here. The Palestinians need a state of their own, albeit one with a government committed to peace. Anything short of that means continuing the generations long cycle of violence. You can invade Gaza, raze it to the ground, hunt down every Hamas member you can find. Then in another decade or so, another mass atrocity will happen on Israel's soil, and it will start over again.
“You can invade Gaza, raze it to the ground, hunt down every Hamas member you can find. Then in another decade or so, another mass atrocity will happen on Israel's soil, and it will start over again.”
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It depends on the country. Japan took quite a bit in order to force true capitulation, but everyone has their breaking point. ‘Palestine’ might require even more than that, which is a lot.
Don’t worry, this won’t happen and Israel will go with your appeasement strategy for the 700th time and try to find a way to live next to the Nazis. Then you can watch the next massacre on TV and pretend it isn’t directly the fault of people who ‘think’ like you do. The next one will probably be a suitcase and it will be on you.
The guy I was replying to on this thread. If you’re gonna reply to my comments, at least read them. I’m not saying Israel is committing genocide. I’m just talking to the commenter.
In other words, no, you didn't know that. Of course.
You're on par with UCLA's best and brightest in terms of situational and historical ignorance, moral reasoning faculties, and willingness to not let that stop you from expressing strong opinions.
As Israel does not have such expansionist pretensions, I prefer a chant based on the international law that flowed from the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine in 1922 and all the international treaties surrounding it (along with Article 80 of the UN Charter that expressly prohibits the UN from unilaterally diminishing, in this case, the rights of the Jewish people under the Mandate - which is why its 1947 partition resolution was a recommendation only).
I know that’s quite the windup, but as we saw in that last clip on the UCLA campus, the lack of knowledge of basic facts is shocking but not terribly surprising. This conflict is like many others but more so: there is an inverse proportion between lack of knowledge and firmness of opinion.
The Arab "Palestinians" need to be on the otherside of the Sinai and Syrian deserts, i.e t'other side of the Canal and on the Euphrates. They are a UNRWA facilitated menace anywhere near Israel. Hell, Fatah/PLO was still a menace when chased to Tunis.
I wasn't considering King Abdullah's despotate as Israeli national territory. That ship sank with Black September. If Hussein had been daft enough to join the Ramadan War from the start.... I was considering the desert as the defensive depth Israel so desperately needs but lacks.
I don't know the current state in Iraq, but the Baath said many times any Arab in Iraq was Iraqi. For all practical purposes, Iraqi citizenship applied to any Arab that set foot in the place and chose to live there. Probably not the case anymore, but the precedent is there. Palestinians, whether they are an ethnos or not, are pretty capable people; they'd be an asset not a defecit to any Arab state. that chose to take them in. Hell, they'd be an asset to Somaliland or Punt, and anywhere that is a massive Arab fail.
Palestinians in Palestine, or immediately next door isn't workable AT ALL as of ten-eleven days ago. Just as Germans in Sudetenland became impossible after WWII.
I like your little ditty "Europe smells like pee." As usual, I encourage you to keep up the good work. However, I find your responses a little moderate. You need to pick up the pace. Plus, you have insulted morons all over the world.
Putin doesn't have to send his people to chant in the streets. When he doesn't like someone, he murders them. When he disagrees with the policies of a country bordering his, he invades it. I say we are doing the world a service by supporting his enemies.
As for Palestine, I don't believe in collective punishment. The inhabitants of Gaza are as much the victims of Hamas as anyone else. They are 2 million+ unarmed civilians who have been made inmates in the world's largest prison, and Hamas is the ruling gang. Certainly Hamas must be gotten rid of. The tragedy is that untold thousands of innocent people will be killed in the process of doing this, and many times more will lose what little they have in this world.
"Dwight Eisenhower"? You're kidding me, right? As if any of the current generation of Republicans were even fit to try and walk in his footsteps? As for Joe Biden, I'm no big fan, but I'll take him any day of the week and twice on Sunday when the alternative is a corrupt, narcissistic, blowhard, egomaniac and pathological liar like ol' Big Orange.
Well you don’t have to take Biden over Trump any day. You *have* Biden over Trump right now and it’s going quite well. Nice job.
The reason Abbas doesn’t hold elections is because he would get destroyed because everyone would vote for Hamas. If the guy who raped and killed that girl at the concert could prove that he did it he would win in a landslide.
It is a nation of Nazi terrorists. They are universally such scumbags that countries dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood are scared to take them in.
You're talking about millions of people here. You've judged them all guilty based on the actions of a relative handful. Attitudes like that will ensure the continuance of the violence indefinitely into the future.
Yeah that’s a good way of looking at it. The entire Democrat governing strategy is identical to something a known criminal and con artist buffoon once tried out of sheer desperation. Excellent point.
Democrats are that disgusting all of the time; each and every one of them……except way worse because it’s never an extra $800 one time.
It's almost like putting your own people into a hospital where you also have a military installation, so that if your side ever gets hit with bombs you can tell people your enemy kills doctors and babies.
Oh I forget I thought it was $1200 and then Trump wanted to bump it up by $800 to $2000.
Regardless, $800 is less than one month of COVID-level welfare which Republicans just voted to make part of the new *baseline* spending because Democrats will accuse them of killing children and veterans if they try to return us to pre-COVID spending levels, which were already psychotically unsustainable.
You know who voted for Trump’s already psychotic pre-COVID spending? 100% of Democrats, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and Adam Kinzinger.
You know who voted against it? Chip Roy, Ron DeSantis, Matt Gaetz, etc etc.
I’m literally shopping for apartments in Dubai right now.
You know about the Russian Empire, its intentions and the threat it poses about as much as the UCLA student interviewed by Ben Kawaller knows about the Middle East - the one who couldn’t tell the difference between Pakistan and Palestine.
“Among others, Biden’s CIA director, William J. Burns, has been warning about the provocative effect of NATO expansion on Russia since 1995. That’s when Burns, then a political officer in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow…….”
What about Bill? Do you think he knows? I mean he’s no Jake ‘Russian Alfa Bank Server’ Sullivan, but still.
Don’t worry, the megalomaniacal adolescent dipshits who have pumped you full of propaganda are in charge and we are going to continue pursuing your strategy of toppling the Russian government on behalf of the Clintons. We will see how it goes.
Nobody offered NATO membership to Ukraine. There was some talk about admitting them to the EU, but it never went beyond hypotheticals. In any case, the Russian Federation signed a treaty in 1992 which explicitly recognized Ukraine as an independent nation, with no further conditions or stipulations. You should try educating yourself by listening to Professor Stephen Kotkin, or some other historian who actually know something about this subject.
I personally only trust aging dumpy busybody morons like Victoria Nuland and her friends to handle these things. After all, the people who have lost 19 consecutive wars couldn’t possibly be f***ing this up.
(chuckling because Ben Rhodes is literally on TV as I type this)
Bari- I subscribed to TFP a bit back to support you as someone cancelled for your honest reporting. Heck- I’m a grandma, a devout Christian- a conservative…. Not
Necessarily someone who would show up in your day to day world. But I respect your courage and your dedication to truthful reporting. I was glad then I became a subscriber. But since these evil events from Hamas….. I am now beyond grateful for your team- and you can count on my support as a contributing subscriber. You have been called with your skills and heart/ for such a time as this. 🙏🫶
Ok…someone remind me again why the University of California System gets such high ratings academically?? I am seeing clueless fecklessness - and it amuses me!
It is absolutely insane that so many ignorant people are attending college. Piling up debt so they can demand relief simply because they are so clueless they become unemployable. My Grandson at 11 knows more than these fools. Pretty sad and no wonder they are Lemmings.
Don’t get worked up about the college students who are completely ignorant of world affairs. It’s not as if their vote counts the same as yours and mine.
Dr. Vinay Prasad - Badge of honor for having honesty, integrity and courage, something those complaining about you have none of! Your opinions seem to be rational, well thought out and absolutely correct. Why not take this opportunity to hopefully eliminate the thugs controlling Iran and let the people break free. Might as well clean house on these dirt bag, scum sucking killers. Only one language killers understand, short rope or bullets. We should be prepared and use our military force to make it crystal clear what happens when you cross certain lines. Not like Obama's famous vanishing Red Line.
By the way, Sen Tom Cotton is correct. Anyone on a Visa protesting in support of Hamas is violating the Visa laws and should be expelled immediately and banned for life. Time to stop playing games and get rid of the trash.
Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen - seems he is into something the FP should think about. Oh wait; he's a little late to the party as we have already been saying this. But welcome anyway and get the other rich Liberals to see the same picture.
Global day of Jihad means day of embracing killers and policies that put people in chains and governed by ignorant armed thugs. Oh yeah, a lot to celebrate there. IDIOTS!
Douglas Murray is calling for the UK to expel Hamas and its supporters as terrorists/sympathizers. I agree for the US too, but first Biden should stop escorting them in.
That is true. But we obviously have an idiot class afoot so precise language matters. Without mentioning names I bet dollars to donuts some readers here will assume that the invaders are escorted and thus monitored.
Of course they are. There’s no one stopping them and lefty agencies give them direction and aid. Then we taxpayers provide free cell phones, free rides to NYC, free hotel rooms, free food. Nice escort service we provide there.
The asylum seekers receive some of that. But we have no idea how many "getaways" entered or where they are now. Additionally the asylum serkers are not tracked effectively.
Ben’s video is far from humorous. It’s an indictment of not only the indoctrination of our youth in the institutions of higher learning, but an absence of parental responsibility. The parents of these children have not instilled in them the most important skill in life: the ability to think critically. This video is arguably one of the most depressing you’ve posted.
Yes, but I thought he did a brilliant job exposing two important things - ignorance and moral relativism.
First, he showed how shallow their understanding is of world events, especially among those students who claimed to support Palestinians. Second, he brought to light how unwilling most students are to have any opinion on right and wrong, even in the most extreme circumstances.
I would have preferred to laugh out loud like I did when he went to the DSA conference, but satire remains a powerful weapon and Ben Kawaller wields it expertly.
Yeah, like, I totally protested for George Floyd but like, I don't think any one side can be right, except when everybody else thinks so, or like for Nazis or something, but like everything is relative you know?
Considering the disastrous history of lack of good governance over there, maybe that UCLA student was on to something with her “Free Pakistan” movement. The people certainly deserve better.
And who gives a fresh bowel movement about the opinions of college students in world affairs anyway? Most of them-if we’re to believe polling-are struggling to figure out which variety of gender they are or which pronouns they’re comfortable with. Get back with us in 20 years after life kicks your ass around awhile and hopefully knocks some sense into you.
Unlike ambitious students working toward their professional goals most students seem to be drifting through school more concerned about the horror of using speech that their nimwit classmates might consider hurtful. They just want a diploma from an institution with some degree of prominence that-along with a job application full of “help the world” pablum lands them a job with their socially conscious employers. Thank heavens for the intelligent, driven students who prize learning over popularity and will hopefully save us from the others.
“Twelve days after his ouster, there still isn’t a speaker. On Monday evening, though, there were signs that the circular firing squad that is the House Republicans these days might be laying down their arms and alighting on Jim Jordan”
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Yeah I am being told that we need a new Speaker of the House because we need to pass legislation to help Israel, and as someone who wants to help Israel I have questions.
The budget is $7.2 trillion. Imagine you live in Beverly Hills and you have the most lavishly funded fire department in human history. And then a billionaire’s house catches on fire and the Fire Chief has a press conference and says
“Okay so we need a truck and some hoses and access to water and we need some big rubber boots and helmets. We probably need some fire retardant but I need to do a little more research on that.”
If that happened, would we not ask
“Hey, bitch, what the f*** are you doing with the current money??”
This comes from Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Mead, making the point about the Suni-Shia divide and how the mullahs of Iran don't like the Palestinians: "The cynicism of Iran’s mullahs and their enablers is, in the end, the most shocking. Set aside the Israeli casualties and the blood of innocent Jewish children. Those who claim to rule Iran in God’s name do not care how many Palestinians die in the service of their ambitions. They despise the Sunni faith of the Muslim Brotherhood, to which Hamas belongs, and if they could, they would persecute tomorrow the terrorists they arm today. "
Iran's end game is the destruction of Israel. They do no care how many Muslim lives are spent in achieving that goal. But expending Sunni lives instead of Shia lives is definitely a plus in their book.
I think a disaster might be healthy in the long run because it might end diversity hiring once and for all. Or maybe we all die, who knows? Always a problem when the sole qualification of someone in a very important role is the color of her skin and her gender.
I think she is scared of law-abiding rednecks in pickup trucks in Texas with - let me clutch my pearls - long guns!!! in gun racks!!!! during hunting season. So no, I do not think she is prepared to lead the free world in the face of a real enemy.
She’s not prepared and never was. I guess it will be the same people that are currently running Joe will be running Kamala when and if the time comes. Maybe that was always the plan.
A bit jarring to see Ferguson's sober and chilling warnings juxtaposed with minor news and Kawaller's cringey "comedy." Before we do anything, how bout we get our own house in order and crack down on the terror worshippers' attempts to cow and humiliate our fellow Americans who are Jews? And then make their supporters pay the price for their adoration of terrorists. Like Winston & Strawn and Bill Ackman did and as major donors are doing in withdrawing support for any university that coddles them.
Great posts. I know I'm oversimplifying here, but that clip of the UCLA students - should tell you a lot about why too many irrational positions coming from the new left are so easily accepted. This is a generation raised on relativism, oppressors/oppressed matrix worldview - the ignorance in general is stunning, not just on the Israel-P conflict. It is so bizarre and depressing to watch 1984 play out in real life.
An idea that jumped into my mind between these articles. The same people canceling Vinay Prasad are more than likely the same people protesting for the day of rage on Campus. If we as a society do anything out of this current situation, it is to strip the moral power from the woke. People can protest all they want, but the power they have by shutting down speakers or changing the name of football and baseball teams has to end. I was shocked that people would cave to the protests until I realized the people caving were in sync with those protesting. Thanks to the Free Press for shedding light on it.
With greatest respects to Mr Ferguson, we’re in WWIII right now. We’re living the few intro sentences no one ever remembers which come before right before the victor’s narrative.
On Bidens answer of 'can the U.S. support Ukraine and Israel at the same time?' - “We’re the United States of America, for God’s sake. . . . We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.” This statement might be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
Has his Border Czar or anyone else in his administration informed him of the shitshow at the southern boarder? It looks like the Boston marathon at the 330 ports of entry on the daily. I mean "come on man"! Its nice to hear he feels strongly about our international defense, while totally failing to defend our own borders. Its widely known by those who live in the southwestern states that the border is being completely overrun day and night. At this point border patrol officers are simply taking names, photos & country of origin (when possible) of illegals and turning them loose into the US interior. Its a complete and utter failure of the Biden administration.
Finally......does anyone have odds on if any terrorists have entered the US at the border in the past 36 months? Asking for a friend.
A senile imbecile.
Nothing more.
His "voters" saddled us with this moron.
Its crazy when I ask them how they could be proud of voting for this guy......most just hang their head and mumble something about being better than Trump. While I'm far from a Trump fan, only the most delusionally captured can agree with that nonsense today.....
Sure Trump is an obnoxious ass. But which one of his policies was wrong? Can the drooling Biden acolytes name even one? Now we have open borders, raging inflation and energy prices, a failing grid, lawlessness at home and chaos abroad. Is this what having "the adults back in charge" looks like? Well, maybe - if they're denizens of an adult rest home.
I voted against Trump, twice.
But he didn't get us into a war, for the first time in a long while.
And yet our enemies feared us, didn't move against us, on his watch.
(Did I mention Abraham Accords?)
For the witch of Chappaqua and the senile imbecile?
My vote?
No. A write-in, both times.
(Paul Ryan, if you must know. But then I REALLY regretted my ignorance that Kanye was still in the race. You have to take into account that I live in Massachusetts. So it was a tactical decision.)
Oh he unlocked the gates for everything going on right now by weakening the alliances that had managed to maintain (mostly) peace for a long time.
Like when he said out loud that the U.S. would look the other way over a "minor incursion" by Russia into the territory of our ally Ukraine?
Wait. That was someone else. Senior moment. Never mind.
Why did you vote against him?
He might be an obnoxious ass. But he is OUR obnoxious ass!
There is the point that during Trump's presidency, Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea were clearly unwilling to contest the United State so openly because they hadn't a clue as to what might do...His mile-a-minute monologues and his penchant for dispensing with "agency consensus" certainly made all of them hold back.
Note, too, that the Biden administration's FBI and CIA are so interested in investigating and harassing parents who think parental responsibility attends to what their kids are taught in school, and stalking devout Catholics who prefer the Mass in Latin, that they completely missed the signs of the Hamas aggression.
The failures of Biden and his apologists tracks well with the corruption of our colleges and universities.
Let's go Brandon.
You do rest home denizens a disservice. This is more akin to a hospital for the insane.
D’accord.
Maybe criminally insane…..
Niall Ferguson said:
"Inexplicably to me, the administration is saying that it has no evidence that Iran played a part in the attacks from Gaza."
Of course, the admin would say this. Both the ever senile Joe and that disaster he served, Obama, are in bed with the Islamic theocracy, Iran.
Obama sent billions of dollars to Iran and he did it in the middle of the night hoping no one would notice.
One has to wonder, how much of those billions went into the ever senile Joe's and Obama's pockets.
When it comes to Iran, the Dem/Soc have never been able to control them, starting with the ever incompetent Jimmy Carter.
I have posted this before. The way to shut Iran down is to bomb their infrastructure. Take out the railroads, bridges, port facilities and their oil fields.
Their finances would dry up and they wouldn't be able to support themselves much less world terrorism. What I am proposing should have been done decades ago.
This could have been done with a minimum loss of life.
If you think the Iranian populace is pissed off because Iranian thugs, the morals' police, beat a beautiful young woman to death for wearing the wrong pair of shoes or something like that, wait till the only thing they have to eat are dates.
Iran has brazenly and proudly accepted the mantle of the biggest supporter of international terrorism. The question we should be asking the civilized world is, why have we wait this long to do anything to shut these brutal, murdering, thugs down.
It seems to me the left loves Iran and Islam in general. If you criticize Islam for being a brutal misogynistic religion, the left (the feminist party, Dem/Soc) calls you an Islamophobe. I call you rational and a realist.
Gutfeld monologue, a must watch! Hits the nail on the head. I wonder how "Hamas compro" would respond to this?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/greg-gutfeld-you-know-we-got-problems-when-the-ayatollah-our-politicians-and-academia-all-sound-alike/ar-AA1ikibM?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7f922cdbb9af404cb6ff11dd7917ceba&ei=9
I pondered that as well.
"Sure Trump is an obnoxious ass. But which one of his policies was wrong?"
Pulling back from the Middle East. I understand the Why I just disagree.
(one mans opinion, freely given and worth ALMOST that much)
Did he? Abraham Accords, a breathe of sanity in US Foreign Policy. I remember a couple of sharp taps when he felt them necessary too. We'll all get along fine as long as you keep your tanks off of our lawns.
I'm talking withdrawal from Syria.
"which one of his policies was wrong"? You could start with Trump's stupid non-leadership at the beginning of and through Covid: Calling it the "Chinese virus" instead of simply saying common sense suggests it came from the lab in China. Chinese versus China is a subtlety that escapes his limited brain cells. . Letting Fauci and Birx babble ad nauseam from the White House briefing room. You could add to it with having a rather droll Mike Pence babble on about "15 days to flatten the curve" ... and then what, Mike, huh? You can add to that his parading of various sycophants (Pillow Man, anyone?) to praise him from that same stage. And he started the federal fisc being turned wide open to trash the economy with cash. Yes, that Trump policy started it and played right into Dem's hands. The stock market rise was little to do with Trump. Sure the tax changes helped but that was Congress more than Trump. Finally, while not a policy, far more significant was his leadership failure during Covid. "Its going away after a few weeks". Trump had it easy from his inauguration on - save of course for the attacks from the Dems, nothing new there. He was riding a good economy. Then Covid hit and that moron failed critical leadership tests day after day. THAT is why a guy campaigning from his basement beat him. Finally, the tantrums he has thrown continually since the 2020 election make Biden look better than Trump - you know that the Dems are going to assure Trump is the Repub nominee and America will reject Trump. Can you imagine Trump as Prex with War in Ukraine, Israel, and maybe the border MidEast???
Do I wish Trump were more statesmanlike? Sure. But he was way more right on the Chinese guilt for Covid than any Dem, or most health officials
A bit of whataboutism, Bruce. What we can agree on is that this country is sorely in need of leadership. Trump? No. Biden? No. Harris? No, no, no. Pence. No. Poof Hair Cali Gov? No. The Republican field? Other than maybe Haley, no, and Haley is a tad too comfortable with the MIC (though in our current straits we seem forced to capitulate to the MIC)
"Racism is more dangerous than a virus"
- Rochelle Wolensky, CDC 2020
Trump was following the expert advice of our leading Ivy-league educational/scientific institutional leaders. Who explicitly said they would infect the country because racism.
And you saw this happened, agreed with them, and blamed it on Trump. This is why our country is collapsing.
You appear to be deranged.
The best I can conclude is that most folks prefer words over actions. A leader makes tough decisions and takes action.
Trump wrote mean tweets but didn’t involve us in any wars. Biden is incrementally backing us into WWIII: hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians are dead because of his weakness, but because he reads nice words off a teleprompter, he is somehow better. Now he’s empowered Iran and contributed toward this heinous attack on Israel. The bodies keep piling up, but “no mean tweets”!
This makes me really support DeSantis, a highly effective governor whose only knock is he’s not good on TV.
He doesn't have nice words. No one understands what he's talking about anymore. On the rare chances when we do understand, it's him repeating stories about himself or his son that didn't happen. I question if he can even read the teleprompter.
I keep waiting on him to declare he is Jewish. And an Arab we now refer to as Palestinian.
We should perhaps point out that there are very few, if any, Palestinians living in Gaza that have lived anywhere else.
"Returning" to someplace implies that one has been there before...
And, the only "been there before" on this horizon is that those same Palestinians are going to be made to suffer, once again, for the hubris of a few radicalized, power-mad people who don't have enough sense to keep out of the lion's cage,
The result is going to be the same as the last time this group of terrorist stuck their heads out of their dismal tunnels.
Yes!!!
Exactly. DeSantis keeps doing presidential/leadership things like he always has. The latest is flying Americans out of Israel and saying that any candidate for president should declare that we will not admit anyone from Gaza. The Free Press should be talking about DeSAntis but they cannot bring themselves to that.
And DeSAntis served as a JAG in the Navy.
The Free Press should be talking about DeSantis but they cannot bring themselves to that because Bari Weiss thinks DeSantis is anti-gay and the gay agenda is foremost in her mind. Anything else is secondary.
I think you are right. It is ridiculous on a number of levels. We should not have sexualized shows for children. And, the loud trans activist autogyno men are not even same sex attracted - but in love with themselves "as women". It is a paraphilia. Literally no one would care about them "going for it" if they left the children alone. But, they insisted in taking "sex" out of "transexual" like the eupjhoria they get in ladies clothing and ladies spaces has nothing to do with the "Identity". They had to come up with an entire Ideology based on "Gender Identity" and also push "non-binary" (What would Charles Darwin say to that? Where are the Scientists?)
This whole Woke/DIE Monster brings to mind:
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller"
Instead it is more like:
"First they came for the children in schools, and I did not speak out because I was not a child.
Then they came for universities/corporations/Social Media, and I did not speak out - because I needed my job.
Then they came for our cities (Antifa/BLM/rioting/crime isn't crime/free speech), and I did not speak out because I was insulated in suburbia or behind a gate/by money.
Then, they came for the Jews - and no one would speak out."
--- What MN might say today
DeSantis actually does the work that needs to be done.
Most politicians focus on their campaigns and squeak by with the bare minimum effort on the real tasks.
The latter is necessary to get elected; ergo, DeSantis does not get elected.
Did I write this under the name “Mark” (but can’t remember because I’m so upset and distracted by what’s going on)? I’ve certainly said these exact words repeatedly...
I think the question is “Can the Biden/Obama regime support Ukraine and Israel at the same time?”
In the former case, Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton wrote a screen play starring Putin as the boogeyman to poison the electorate against Trump. And as any horror fan knows, boogeymen never die, they’re just replaced when expedient. Expect the sequel "Russia, Russia, Russia 2" to be released soon. In the meantime, a lot of Ukrainians have and will die until someone like Trump writes a new script.
In the latter case, the Biden/Obama regime has insured that Iran is flush with $60 billion in Petro-dollar cash, and that doesn’t even count the $6 billion the administration hacks expect us to believe “hasn’t been touched”. By strangling our domestic oil production and ignoring the sanctions Trump put in place, the Biden/Obama regime insured that Iran had all the coin it needed to reconstitute its Hamas and Hezbollah proxies and reclaim its status as the supreme sponsor of terrorism. It turns out purchasing weapons and the hired assassins necessary to rape, behead, desecrate, and kidnap Israelis and Americans isn’t cheap and without it, the capacity and will of even the most depraved ghouls tends to atrophy, as it did during the Trump administration. Only the dumbest Orange Man haters will argue the connection between Iran’s newfound blood money and the deliberate reversal of Trumps policies.
The inhumanity directed at Israel is only the latest example of what we can expect from the Biden/Obama regime. Day by day it’s becoming clearer that questioning whether the U.S. “can support Ukraine and Israel at the same time” is integral to a much larger question, that being:
Does the Biden/Obama regime support America?
My own take is that Biden is an opportunistic grifter. Obama, on the other hand, seems reflexively anti-Western civilization, except as regards his own personal lifestyle, of course.
Well said. I keep wondering if I am the only one who realizes the Hamas terrorist attack benefits Russia/Putin? And I do not believe in coincidence.
Is the Pope a Buddhist? :-)
Of course they don't. Their actions and inactions tell you so.
His voters are trying to force another 4 years of this bullshit in us, we can’t let that happen.
He doesn't need voters as long as he has vote harvesters and mail in ballots.
Now is the time to stand up TX the voting system is sick it’s rigged and Biden’s words “This is America for Godsake” yeah exactly that TX let’s show them what we made of it’s America🇺🇸🇺🇸
I don't even think this voters want him. If you ask Dem voters most of them don't want him either. It's him forcing himself on the country, and the Dem establishment unwilling to tell him no and push someone else.
Is America a country for the people or are we a country for the elites. Everything about Biden reeks of havoc, chaos and corruption - it’s enough now we are on the brink of a world war, Israel and the Ukraine are bearing the brunt of his poor leadership, and have paid a terrible price. The time is coming very fast for us to cast our votes remember there is a lot at stack.
It is the FBI and other unaccountable bureaucrats in the alphabet executive branch agencies, including intelligence agencies, forcing him on the US citizenry. They prefer a weak president.
But at least no Mean Tweets!
This emperor has long worn no clothes. Every public statement by him or his pained and embarrassed surrogates sounds like doublespeak..
Tell your friend they are spot on. I often ask myself if I was an enemy of the US and wanted to do damage, how would I go about it? Just think if they have a couple hundred suicide solider terrorists and have them go to crowded places and start shooting. What kind of panic would that create? But who in Iran or Hamas would think like that?
After 9/11 the govt commissioned academics to come up with the most effective way to commit terror in the homeland. Remember the beltway sniper? The Freakonomics guy Steven Leavitt was on that commission and hypothesized that ten such pairs of terrorists could shut down the US economy for weeks.
Scary but true. What ever happened to that commission? Wasn’t there also a commission of Hollywood types to “imagine” future threats ?
"On Bidens answer of 'can the U.S. support Ukraine and Israel at the same time?' - “We’re the United States of America, for God’s sake. . . . We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.” "
No doubt basing this on his Vast Years of Military Planning experience.
100%
Considering statements coming out of Tehran; that has to be factored in. Unless it is just preposterous rhetoric, well anyone and anything could have crossed the US/Mexico border at any time since Jan7 '21 when senility and stupid grabbed the tiller of state.
Let’s just say that where I live we have a Naval Hospital, Marine Air Base and Training Base and there is serious security around all three. Situational awareness and being prepared - something that those excuses for UCLA students haven’t had to learn, but reality bites when it comes for you.
The Israelites also thought their intelligence would detect even the slightest intention by Iran or proxies to launch a 9/11 style terror attack. They thought they were headed for peace with Saudi Arabia and big development of oil and gas industry, and then a future of free trade, Semitic love, and coe prosperity. The MOSAD suffered from this group think and an overly comfortable expert consensus that this was the future. They did not imagine that their sources could be deliberate diversions and that training exercises can instantly morph into attacks.
Except take a peak at who is manning national intelligence and the State Department. Defense relies on those agencies for its situational awareness and preparedness.
Do you have evidence that terrorists have crossed our southern border? Are are you "just asking the question"? When you use words like 'invasion', it makes your thought process pretty transparent. We're talking about desperate refugees fleeing violence. Also, where are you getting your facts. I live in a southwestern state and I don't see evidence that our country is being "overrun", although anti-immigrant right wingers keep trying to scare us into thinking so.
“We started by asking Niall whether President Biden is right when he said, on Sunday, that “We’re the United States of America, for God’s sake. . . . We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.””
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The difference between Russia and Palestine and 1940s Germany is that in Russia you don’t see 200,000 frothing psychos in Red Square chanting
“From the river to the sea, Europe is gross and smells like pee!!!”
Russia is not a serious threat unless we convince them to launch ICBMs by continuing to overthrow governments in their neighborhood. Palestine should have been bulldozed 20 years ago. It’s Nazi Germany. Wipe them out.
In terms of “It’s who we are!!” and “We’re the United States of America!!”, Joe Biden’s two favorite slogans which he says creepily:
No, Joe, you and your dipshit parasite friends are NOT the United States of America. You’re the dumbest and most perverted assholes in the country and you got elected by bribing people with welfare.
Dwight Eisenhower is dead and these people are morons. We need to be careful.
Remember when it was Trump that was going to start WW III?
💯🎯 And I’m not a Trump fan, but “fair is fair”...
And Reagan. Ronny Ray-gun.
Agree with you here Kevin. There must be a military response before a diplomatic and humanitarian response can ever be effective. I don’t think people fully comprehend that our entire world order is at stake with this “incident”no matter who “knew” or who started it. What we’re faced with is whether power shifts from West to East. Most of us closer to WWII and still living know full well what that actually means. God help the young who are naive and ignorant (similar to NJ is these comments) and don’t have a clue what to replace capitalist democracy with once they destroy it. They cannot separate “empire” from democracy, and in that failure, may doom us all.
"There must be a military response before a diplomatic and humanitarian response can ever be effective."
Yes: Prerequisites of peace, in the actual world.
Defense against violence, foreign and domestic, is job number one of any civil government.
Sadly so.
I’m impressed with the wisdom and conciseness of this statement.
"Wipe them out." Ah, the Free Press, the news source to trust if you want genocide against the Palestinians (apparently, based on the comment section).
You might prefer the cable news network ‘MSNB From The River To The C’.
Wiping out Germany and Japan also was not a genocide; it was necessary and it fixed the problem. This case couldn’t be genocide even if we tried since this isn’t even a race or ethnicity or anything. It’s just a small fraction of the Arab population that has chosen psychopathic antisemitism as a lifestyle.
Nice tiki torch though, pervert.
Germany and Japan were well equipped countries whose citizens could move about freely in the world and had a level of prosperity unknown to the people trapped in Gaza. Neither had endured the policy of “mowing the grass” (such as Operation Cast Lead) and severe restrictions on the necessities of life that were in place for the world to see long before this terrorist attack.
I am not an apologist for the Hamas attack on October 7th, nor do I care to pretend history began on that day either. A Jewish doctor from Canada, Gabor Mate, has made an eloquent statement about the situation in Israel. He’ll be called a self-hating Jew (a tactic to disqualify anyone with an opposing viewpoint) for his honesty.
I wish cooler heads were in charge during this volatile time but they’re not. The only prediction I feel confident in making is plenty of people will be killed and more rage and an even greater thirst for revenge will be inflamed on both sides .
“I wish cooler heads were in charge during this volatile time but they’re not”
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You wish that the smooth-brained, two-state solution, adolescent, utopian dipshits were in charge to deal with the Holocaust that they caused?
I mean they are in charge, but still, that’s psychotic.
Last time I checked Germany and Japan still exist.
And dude, you need to spend less time on the internet.
Oh okay so as long as it still exists?
Well while ‘Palestine’ isn’t a country like Germany, I guess you have proposed a fair compromise where we do to ‘Palestine’ what we did to Germany and then after wiping it out completely we allow it to continue as something new that has learned it’s lesson.
I’ll consider this. Maybe give it to the people who run Dubai or one of the other non-Nazi Arab states. Lots of options once we wipe out the Nazis.
Yes, Kevin, they will think you nuts, but what you say is their only hope.
I have long said, establish a "Gaza Strip Authority," enable it to build boardwalks, hotels, casinos, bars, restaurants, theaters, even strip joints. It will be tawdry, commercial, and a heck of a good time. People from all over Europe and the Middle East will flock - as if to Mecca. Jewish and Palestinian capitalists can join up and make out like bandits. Of course, only TOTAL defeat will get the jihadists past the phony idea that death is preferable to such earthly trivia of this sort. At that point, like the Japanese deciding to build cars, the people of Palestine may say, like Nike, "Just do it."
Of course, after watching those "amusing" Ben Kawaller interviews TFP provides us here, thanks so much BW, what about those youngsters!!!? What do we do about THEM? The Israeli-Palestinian knot may be an easier one to untie than that.
We need not untie the knot: it is Gordion; a US Army bayonet would do the trick.
Careful what you wish for...
Once the Germans and Japanese decided to begin building cars again - they kicked our asses at it! :)
You a big fan of the Arab states? I have to admit, I find that surprising. In any case you'd have trouble finding one who'd give a bucket of warm spit for the life of every Arab who calls themself Palestininan. All the surrounding Arab states have spent generations treating them as someone else's problem.
And in response to your earlier posts, we didn't 'wipe out' Germany or Japan' we defeated them, deposed their governments, and imposed new ones more to our liking. Then helped them rebuild and recover from the damage they had suffered during the war. Which is how they ended up our allies. Something similar needs to happen here. The Palestinians need a state of their own, albeit one with a government committed to peace. Anything short of that means continuing the generations long cycle of violence. You can invade Gaza, raze it to the ground, hunt down every Hamas member you can find. Then in another decade or so, another mass atrocity will happen on Israel's soil, and it will start over again.
“You can invade Gaza, raze it to the ground, hunt down every Hamas member you can find. Then in another decade or so, another mass atrocity will happen on Israel's soil, and it will start over again.”
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It depends on the country. Japan took quite a bit in order to force true capitulation, but everyone has their breaking point. ‘Palestine’ might require even more than that, which is a lot.
Don’t worry, this won’t happen and Israel will go with your appeasement strategy for the 700th time and try to find a way to live next to the Nazis. Then you can watch the next massacre on TV and pretend it isn’t directly the fault of people who ‘think’ like you do. The next one will probably be a suitcase and it will be on you.
Yup. The comment section of FP has been an abomination.
Ohhhh Jolene’s tiki torch smells like pumpkin spice. Very nice.
😂
Jolene,
Jolene,
Joleeeene.
Please don't write things just because you can.
Witty, SCW, witty.
😂
Just say it, Jolene: "Gas the Jews!" There, feel better?
Nah, I’d rather not gas myself, my family, my state, and most of the people I love. Thanks anyway.
I’m sorry are you saying you are an Israeli who supports a two-state solution? Not sure I understand your comment.
You are confused as to who is the real target of genocide.
Nope, the Jewish people are. That doesn't mean other people, like the guy I was responding to, can't also call for it against other groups.
The guy I was replying to on this thread. If you’re gonna reply to my comments, at least read them. I’m not saying Israel is committing genocide. I’m just talking to the commenter.
I've read everything FP has ever published. And forgive me for thinking it is problematic to advocate for wiping a country off the map.
You know that Palestine isn't, and never has been, a country, right?
Wow, good comment. Time well spent for sure.
In other words, no, you didn't know that. Of course.
You're on par with UCLA's best and brightest in terms of situational and historical ignorance, moral reasoning faculties, and willingness to not let that stop you from expressing strong opinions.
I prefer "From Euphrates to the Sea, Israel WILL BE!!!"
As Israel does not have such expansionist pretensions, I prefer a chant based on the international law that flowed from the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine in 1922 and all the international treaties surrounding it (along with Article 80 of the UN Charter that expressly prohibits the UN from unilaterally diminishing, in this case, the rights of the Jewish people under the Mandate - which is why its 1947 partition resolution was a recommendation only).
I know that’s quite the windup, but as we saw in that last clip on the UCLA campus, the lack of knowledge of basic facts is shocking but not terribly surprising. This conflict is like many others but more so: there is an inverse proportion between lack of knowledge and firmness of opinion.
“From the river to the sea,
all that land is Israeli.”
The Arab "Palestinians" need to be on the otherside of the Sinai and Syrian deserts, i.e t'other side of the Canal and on the Euphrates. They are a UNRWA facilitated menace anywhere near Israel. Hell, Fatah/PLO was still a menace when chased to Tunis.
I wasn't considering King Abdullah's despotate as Israeli national territory. That ship sank with Black September. If Hussein had been daft enough to join the Ramadan War from the start.... I was considering the desert as the defensive depth Israel so desperately needs but lacks.
I don't know the current state in Iraq, but the Baath said many times any Arab in Iraq was Iraqi. For all practical purposes, Iraqi citizenship applied to any Arab that set foot in the place and chose to live there. Probably not the case anymore, but the precedent is there. Palestinians, whether they are an ethnos or not, are pretty capable people; they'd be an asset not a defecit to any Arab state. that chose to take them in. Hell, they'd be an asset to Somaliland or Punt, and anywhere that is a massive Arab fail.
Palestinians in Palestine, or immediately next door isn't workable AT ALL as of ten-eleven days ago. Just as Germans in Sudetenland became impossible after WWII.
Don't hold back Kev. Tell us how you really feel.
I like your little ditty "Europe smells like pee." As usual, I encourage you to keep up the good work. However, I find your responses a little moderate. You need to pick up the pace. Plus, you have insulted morons all over the world.
Putin doesn't have to send his people to chant in the streets. When he doesn't like someone, he murders them. When he disagrees with the policies of a country bordering his, he invades it. I say we are doing the world a service by supporting his enemies.
As for Palestine, I don't believe in collective punishment. The inhabitants of Gaza are as much the victims of Hamas as anyone else. They are 2 million+ unarmed civilians who have been made inmates in the world's largest prison, and Hamas is the ruling gang. Certainly Hamas must be gotten rid of. The tragedy is that untold thousands of innocent people will be killed in the process of doing this, and many times more will lose what little they have in this world.
"Dwight Eisenhower"? You're kidding me, right? As if any of the current generation of Republicans were even fit to try and walk in his footsteps? As for Joe Biden, I'm no big fan, but I'll take him any day of the week and twice on Sunday when the alternative is a corrupt, narcissistic, blowhard, egomaniac and pathological liar like ol' Big Orange.
Well you don’t have to take Biden over Trump any day. You *have* Biden over Trump right now and it’s going quite well. Nice job.
The reason Abbas doesn’t hold elections is because he would get destroyed because everyone would vote for Hamas. If the guy who raped and killed that girl at the concert could prove that he did it he would win in a landslide.
It is a nation of Nazi terrorists. They are universally such scumbags that countries dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood are scared to take them in.
You're talking about millions of people here. You've judged them all guilty based on the actions of a relative handful. Attitudes like that will ensure the continuance of the violence indefinitely into the future.
"If you vote for me I'll increase the stimulus paychecks you desperately need because my party cut off your money supply over a fake emergency!"
Totally not bribing or extortion
Yeah that’s a good way of looking at it. The entire Democrat governing strategy is identical to something a known criminal and con artist buffoon once tried out of sheer desperation. Excellent point.
Democrats are that disgusting all of the time; each and every one of them……except way worse because it’s never an extra $800 one time.
Like the sign at El Arroyo: "We rip off the other guy and pass the savings on to you."
It's almost like putting your own people into a hospital where you also have a military installation, so that if your side ever gets hit with bombs you can tell people your enemy kills doctors and babies.
Also, what do you mean $800?? I heard $1400! You cheated me out of 600 you sonofabitch!
Oh I forget I thought it was $1200 and then Trump wanted to bump it up by $800 to $2000.
Regardless, $800 is less than one month of COVID-level welfare which Republicans just voted to make part of the new *baseline* spending because Democrats will accuse them of killing children and veterans if they try to return us to pre-COVID spending levels, which were already psychotically unsustainable.
You know who voted for Trump’s already psychotic pre-COVID spending? 100% of Democrats, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and Adam Kinzinger.
You know who voted against it? Chip Roy, Ron DeSantis, Matt Gaetz, etc etc.
I’m literally shopping for apartments in Dubai right now.
Kevin Durant?
You know about the Russian Empire, its intentions and the threat it poses about as much as the UCLA student interviewed by Ben Kawaller knows about the Middle East - the one who couldn’t tell the difference between Pakistan and Palestine.
“Among others, Biden’s CIA director, William J. Burns, has been warning about the provocative effect of NATO expansion on Russia since 1995. That’s when Burns, then a political officer in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow…….”
What about Bill? Do you think he knows? I mean he’s no Jake ‘Russian Alfa Bank Server’ Sullivan, but still.
Don’t worry, the megalomaniacal adolescent dipshits who have pumped you full of propaganda are in charge and we are going to continue pursuing your strategy of toppling the Russian government on behalf of the Clintons. We will see how it goes.
Nobody offered NATO membership to Ukraine. There was some talk about admitting them to the EU, but it never went beyond hypotheticals. In any case, the Russian Federation signed a treaty in 1992 which explicitly recognized Ukraine as an independent nation, with no further conditions or stipulations. You should try educating yourself by listening to Professor Stephen Kotkin, or some other historian who actually know something about this subject.
I personally only trust aging dumpy busybody morons like Victoria Nuland and her friends to handle these things. After all, the people who have lost 19 consecutive wars couldn’t possibly be f***ing this up.
(chuckling because Ben Rhodes is literally on TV as I type this)
Bari- I subscribed to TFP a bit back to support you as someone cancelled for your honest reporting. Heck- I’m a grandma, a devout Christian- a conservative…. Not
Necessarily someone who would show up in your day to day world. But I respect your courage and your dedication to truthful reporting. I was glad then I became a subscriber. But since these evil events from Hamas….. I am now beyond grateful for your team- and you can count on my support as a contributing subscriber. You have been called with your skills and heart/ for such a time as this. 🙏🫶
Ok…someone remind me again why the University of California System gets such high ratings academically?? I am seeing clueless fecklessness - and it amuses me!
It is absolutely insane that so many ignorant people are attending college. Piling up debt so they can demand relief simply because they are so clueless they become unemployable. My Grandson at 11 knows more than these fools. Pretty sad and no wonder they are Lemmings.
Ben would get much better answers from high school graduates in "flyover states". The UC system and the entire state of California are farcical embarrassments. You cannot reason with a demoralized person: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-reason-with-a-demoralized-person-yuri
It’s actually scary watching the UC students ignorance on display. I can’t believe they are allowed to vote!
Don’t get worked up about the college students who are completely ignorant of world affairs. It’s not as if their vote counts the same as yours and mine.
Wait, what? Noooooooooo!
haha ya bro i voted for the guy that sounds like my favorite weed strain
This is why our Founding Fathers didn't award the privilege of voting to everybody.
Dr. Vinay Prasad - Badge of honor for having honesty, integrity and courage, something those complaining about you have none of! Your opinions seem to be rational, well thought out and absolutely correct. Why not take this opportunity to hopefully eliminate the thugs controlling Iran and let the people break free. Might as well clean house on these dirt bag, scum sucking killers. Only one language killers understand, short rope or bullets. We should be prepared and use our military force to make it crystal clear what happens when you cross certain lines. Not like Obama's famous vanishing Red Line.
By the way, Sen Tom Cotton is correct. Anyone on a Visa protesting in support of Hamas is violating the Visa laws and should be expelled immediately and banned for life. Time to stop playing games and get rid of the trash.
Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen - seems he is into something the FP should think about. Oh wait; he's a little late to the party as we have already been saying this. But welcome anyway and get the other rich Liberals to see the same picture.
Global day of Jihad means day of embracing killers and policies that put people in chains and governed by ignorant armed thugs. Oh yeah, a lot to celebrate there. IDIOTS!
Douglas Murray is calling for the UK to expel Hamas and its supporters as terrorists/sympathizers. I agree for the US too, but first Biden should stop escorting them in.
Expecting another 9/11 here is not unreasonable.
They aren't being escorted.
"Escorted" by tacit omission - not stopping them at the border.
That is true. But we obviously have an idiot class afoot so precise language matters. Without mentioning names I bet dollars to donuts some readers here will assume that the invaders are escorted and thus monitored.
Of course they are. There’s no one stopping them and lefty agencies give them direction and aid. Then we taxpayers provide free cell phones, free rides to NYC, free hotel rooms, free food. Nice escort service we provide there.
The asylum seekers receive some of that. But we have no idea how many "getaways" entered or where they are now. Additionally the asylum serkers are not tracked effectively.
Ben’s video is far from humorous. It’s an indictment of not only the indoctrination of our youth in the institutions of higher learning, but an absence of parental responsibility. The parents of these children have not instilled in them the most important skill in life: the ability to think critically. This video is arguably one of the most depressing you’ve posted.
Yes, but I thought he did a brilliant job exposing two important things - ignorance and moral relativism.
First, he showed how shallow their understanding is of world events, especially among those students who claimed to support Palestinians. Second, he brought to light how unwilling most students are to have any opinion on right and wrong, even in the most extreme circumstances.
I would have preferred to laugh out loud like I did when he went to the DSA conference, but satire remains a powerful weapon and Ben Kawaller wields it expertly.
Yeah, like, I totally protested for George Floyd but like, I don't think any one side can be right, except when everybody else thinks so, or like for Nazis or something, but like everything is relative you know?
- USA Upper-Education
exactly!! The only thing that they can conclude there is a "wrong" and "right" on is bassetball!!
This is the logical consequence of the village raising the child.
Considering the disastrous history of lack of good governance over there, maybe that UCLA student was on to something with her “Free Pakistan” movement. The people certainly deserve better.
And who gives a fresh bowel movement about the opinions of college students in world affairs anyway? Most of them-if we’re to believe polling-are struggling to figure out which variety of gender they are or which pronouns they’re comfortable with. Get back with us in 20 years after life kicks your ass around awhile and hopefully knocks some sense into you.
Unlike ambitious students working toward their professional goals most students seem to be drifting through school more concerned about the horror of using speech that their nimwit classmates might consider hurtful. They just want a diploma from an institution with some degree of prominence that-along with a job application full of “help the world” pablum lands them a job with their socially conscious employers. Thank heavens for the intelligent, driven students who prize learning over popularity and will hopefully save us from the others.
“Twelve days after his ouster, there still isn’t a speaker. On Monday evening, though, there were signs that the circular firing squad that is the House Republicans these days might be laying down their arms and alighting on Jim Jordan”
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Yeah I am being told that we need a new Speaker of the House because we need to pass legislation to help Israel, and as someone who wants to help Israel I have questions.
The budget is $7.2 trillion. Imagine you live in Beverly Hills and you have the most lavishly funded fire department in human history. And then a billionaire’s house catches on fire and the Fire Chief has a press conference and says
“Okay so we need a truck and some hoses and access to water and we need some big rubber boots and helmets. We probably need some fire retardant but I need to do a little more research on that.”
If that happened, would we not ask
“Hey, bitch, what the f*** are you doing with the current money??”
"Well, we have a BEAUTIFUL fire station. And another in Palm Springs. (I just LOVE my son.)"
The ignorance of the American college student is astounding.
Don't forget their professors too.
Their professors are purposely instilling the ignorance.
I'm horrified by the antisemitism on displayed by some of these professors.
This comes from Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Mead, making the point about the Suni-Shia divide and how the mullahs of Iran don't like the Palestinians: "The cynicism of Iran’s mullahs and their enablers is, in the end, the most shocking. Set aside the Israeli casualties and the blood of innocent Jewish children. Those who claim to rule Iran in God’s name do not care how many Palestinians die in the service of their ambitions. They despise the Sunni faith of the Muslim Brotherhood, to which Hamas belongs, and if they could, they would persecute tomorrow the terrorists they arm today. "
Iran's end game is the destruction of Israel. They do no care how many Muslim lives are spent in achieving that goal. But expending Sunni lives instead of Shia lives is definitely a plus in their book.
And they will given the chance.
Oh wow. Iran benefits from the destruction of both sides. That's a game changer.
The scariest thought is that the world is only one blood clot away from a President Kamala Harris. Does anyone think she's prepared?
I think a disaster might be healthy in the long run because it might end diversity hiring once and for all. Or maybe we all die, who knows? Always a problem when the sole qualification of someone in a very important role is the color of her skin and her gender.
“Or maybe we all die, who knows?” Lol. True that!
Well we have spent a fortune to avoid that we all die scenario.
I think she is scared of law-abiding rednecks in pickup trucks in Texas with - let me clutch my pearls - long guns!!! in gun racks!!!! during hunting season. So no, I do not think she is prepared to lead the free world in the face of a real enemy.
She’s not prepared and never was. I guess it will be the same people that are currently running Joe will be running Kamala when and if the time comes. Maybe that was always the plan.
And to think Joe is going to fly into the storm - pity his protection detail...
Kamala is praying for Joe. What exactly for we don’t know.
A bit jarring to see Ferguson's sober and chilling warnings juxtaposed with minor news and Kawaller's cringey "comedy." Before we do anything, how bout we get our own house in order and crack down on the terror worshippers' attempts to cow and humiliate our fellow Americans who are Jews? And then make their supporters pay the price for their adoration of terrorists. Like Winston & Strawn and Bill Ackman did and as major donors are doing in withdrawing support for any university that coddles them.
Great posts. I know I'm oversimplifying here, but that clip of the UCLA students - should tell you a lot about why too many irrational positions coming from the new left are so easily accepted. This is a generation raised on relativism, oppressors/oppressed matrix worldview - the ignorance in general is stunning, not just on the Israel-P conflict. It is so bizarre and depressing to watch 1984 play out in real life.
It truly is.
An idea that jumped into my mind between these articles. The same people canceling Vinay Prasad are more than likely the same people protesting for the day of rage on Campus. If we as a society do anything out of this current situation, it is to strip the moral power from the woke. People can protest all they want, but the power they have by shutting down speakers or changing the name of football and baseball teams has to end. I was shocked that people would cave to the protests until I realized the people caving were in sync with those protesting. Thanks to the Free Press for shedding light on it.
With greatest respects to Mr Ferguson, we’re in WWIII right now. We’re living the few intro sentences no one ever remembers which come before right before the victor’s narrative.