“Now the Association of University Heads in Israel has written to their counterparts in America and Europe to “express deep concern over the discourse emanating from academia following the devastating Hamas attack. . . and the inadequate response, in many cases, by academic leadership.””
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How much do you want to bet that these ‘Israeli University Heads’ are hardcore leftists who were pushing diversity and racial conflict theory 6 weeks ago and talking about how Netanyahu was a threat to OUR DEMOCRACY.
You bought the ticket and now you get to ride the ride, pussies.
Why aren’t American hostages receiving more attention? Because the despicable MSM will stoop to any level to cover for the decrepit president they helped install. Same thing happened in Afghanistan. Good luck to all Americans abroad - you’re on your own if shit hits the fan thanks to your beloved Brandon and Blinken who say nice things but are utterly incompetent.
It has been my experience that the State Dept does little or nothing to help US citizens who are kidnapped or arrested overseas.
Before the Iranian Islamic barbarians took US Embassy hostage. Two executives of one of Ross Perot's companies were arrested. When Perot call the State Dept about it, they answered well your employees must have done something wrong. Perot hire a retired SF colonel Bull Simons:
I have a lawyer friend who won't travel anywhere where the rule of law isn't assiduously followed. It limits his travel options, but he's never been arrested because he didn't have mordida to pay off the police.
Cynthia, Mexico is a free fire zone. Why would anyone go there? When we go on a Carribean cruise we never get off the ship in Mexico. My doctor told me, years ago, that bullets passing through my body is bad for my health and I believe her.
“Whatever you think about this administration’s Middle East policy, Biden’s rhetorical support for Israel since October 7 has been unwavering”
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This is maybe the most perfect Democrat Thing™️ I have ever read.
Don’t pay attention to my actions. No, no. Just listen to my words as I drown you in linguistic manipulation and whorish extortionate reversal tactics.
These people are all flat-out Cluster B psychopaths; the feminized version.
I disagree that Biden’s support has declined because he sort of supports Israel. I think his numbers have declined because his weak leadership caused the attack.
This is a good point, the Free Press has highlighted people on the left waking up so I think that you're correct, but proba is a little but of both. I can't understand our young people. A majority think Hamas is justified in what they did? Who are these kids? Makes me think the US needs to instate mandatory military service to give the younger generation some perspective.
Today's youth has been mis-educated. I have been a middle and high school teacher for 27 years. The curricula are devoid of civics, current events, basic knowledge of geography, and dates. Young people don't know what happened yesteryear, why it did, how did, where it did, what preceded it, and which historical contexts need to be mastered in order to make sense of today. Worse, they don't even know that they don't know. We can all thank the Albert Shanker and Randi Weingartens of the world, as well as the PC mob and the legacy media for these phenomena.
Which is why they tear down statues instead of learning about the people and the events the statues represent. And that's worked out great for stabilizing crime and poverty in minority communities, right?
Also send a <sarc> “thank you” to Howard Zinn, who was the earlier manifestation of Woke that most of the people teaching nowadays slurped up in their day.
Agee! These are the kids who grew up playing violent video games and think it’s all great fun, no real idea of life and death. Not as drastic but representative of how stupid this cadre is: look at the young airman, without real evil intentions, sharing military secrets with his online friends as if it were all fun and games!
Who are these kids? Descendants of rancid colonizers trying to blackwash - whoops, Blackwash - the sins of their great-great-great-great Grandfathers. You know, our Founders.
I think there’s also other factors at play that might have lead to these decreased numbers: inflation, skyrocketing national debt, and an overall sense of anxiety about the future. Biden wasn’t a strong president even before 10/7.
Wasn't it his support *among Democrats* that declined? I can easily believe that enough Democrats are anti-Israel for Biden's "support" of Israel to be a factor.
Who has done the most for humankind, the Jews or the Muslims?
Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023,[1] at least 214 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population, meaning their share of winners is 100 times their proportion of the world's population.[2][3][4][5]
Jews have been awarded all six of the Nobel Foundation's awards:[3]
• Chemistry: 36 (19% of total)
• Economics: 38 (41% of total)
• Literature: 16 (13% of total)
• Peace: 9 (8% of total)
• Physics: 56 (25% of total)
• Physiology or Medicine: 59 (26% of total)
As of 2023, sixteen Nobel Prize laureates have been Muslims, more than half in the 21st century. Nine of the fifteen laureates have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while four have been for the sciences and three for Literature.
There are approximately 15.2 million Jews on Earth and 1.5 billion Muslims.
I do not understand the hatred of Jews and how the brutal, murderous, misogynistic religion of Islam gets a pass.
The "how" is an easy question to answer: Islam and Leftists share a deep and abiding hatred of Jews. That hatred is strong enough that the Left willingly looks the other way as Islam engages in sexism and homophobia in the most brutal ways imaginable.
Which perfectly illustrates why Wokes categorize Jews as “White”...you know, all those terrible signs of “White supremacy”, like diligence, being on time, working hard, etc.
And also the creators of almost every single Broadway musical! West Side Story (and Spielberg’s ill-fated Upper West Side Story). It may be time for an amusing song and dance “Ayatollah” under the bright lights. Mel Brooks, we need you! Lin-Manuel - make all the Islamic characters into Jews (edgy). Great Arabic music, gotta give it to them.)
I for sure think it is part of why it declined. But in the end I think the issue is that the Dems are a loose coalition of people that actually have different goals and beliefs. So any time Biden takes an actual stand on pretty much anything, part of his base revolts. When you party has some of the biggest peaceniks on the planet AND some of the most violent fascists, you are never going to be able to keep them all happy.
This is likely part of why he wouldn't debate last election. He knew (his handlers knew) that they couldn't take any real stances on anything, because it would upset the base.
Sghoul, good point! To add to it, it’s why that same “loose coalition” hated Trump. He was Pro-Law & Order, Pro-Constitution and made no apologies about his love & patriotism for America. Yet, he was a “threat to Democracy” meaning “THEIR” way of Democracy. He stood firm on his beliefs and wasn’t afraid to say so.
Hence, “What a bloviating narcissist” and “Orange Man Bad”because he did not pander to the WOKE Leftist!
Notice how any person who stands strong on their convictions, which don’t go along with the WOKE Democrat narrative (Tucker, Elon, Taibbi, Schellenberger to name a few)
Yes indeedy. I am willing to be that is Trump had come out in favor or all their stuff, his "Grab `Em" comment would have seemed funny to them instead of making them lose their minds. They have a metric ton of egotistical narcissists on their side whom they seem to love (see all of the politicians who forced their voters to stay home while they went out wherever they wanted without a mask).
Bill actually did "grab them". Trump only talked about is with a bunch of men. It is called locker talk and almost all of us have done that, locker talk that is.
When I was a teenager, I was taught in church classes that a time would come when people would very clearly align themselves with one "team" or the other. I had trouble imagining that, because I knew a lot of people who were not really evil, even though they didn't really want to be on the good "team" either.
In the many years since then, I've seen people--most of them Leftists--align themselves with some pretty hideous things. But this pro- and anti-Israel split (and its revelation of who has been antisemitic all along) is the closest we have yet come to that one-team-or-the-other split.
Lonesome, this younger generation of WOKE Left have been brainwashed by their Democrat parents, their teachers & schools, video games, Hollywood, social media and MSM!
When you are raised and indoctrinated to hate your Country and believe it was founded on racism, with a shameful, ugly history, then you have no convictions about patriotism. When you’re taught Capitalism is evil (tho you’re reaping the benefits) you’ll believe the Marxist theory of “utopian socialism”!
If you’ve been subjected to / bombarded with immoral displays of behaviors, then you do not develop a moral compass.
I worry about the future for my grandchildren, because what I just stated is what they are subjected to living in NYC.
Good for Nikki Haley. If these terrorist lovers, love terrorism so much, they should be proud to have their names and phots exposed. They are neo-Nazis. NAZI means, National Socialist German Workers' Party. Note the word socialist. The left hates it when you point out the Nazis were socialists.
Agree, Stanley. FP seems to have forgotten that Biden's polls have been dropping ever since his Afghanistan debacle. They're too busy lambasting Trump and the new speaker of the House to remember that we still have hostages being held by the Taliban.
How do attacks on US bases equal Hamas's attack on Israel and how does that implicate Biden in the Hamas attack? If the US was attacked, I could see your point.
I suspect that we don't need to go that far with Iran. The Persian people were civilized back when Europeans were still living in tribes. Then they got invaded by Arabs and gradually adapted to Islam.
I suspect that if we were able to get rid of the ayatollahs and their minions in government, the Persian people would form a secular democratic republic. The have the social hardware to do that, unlike the Iraqis and Afghans.
in this case, the "neighborhood cops" were the IDF. I think Hamas began their planning long ago and when the opportunity presented itself, they struck. Iran most likely financed them, although they've purloined enough money from the West to buy the weapons they wanted. The US didn't have a presence on the ground or offshore and there was no reason to have one. Everyone's, especially Israel's, intelligence failed. I suspect that there was/is someone inside the Israelie govt. who is responsible for the failure of intelligence. At any rate, it's far too complicated for me to understand the whole scenario.
The loss of reason and a strong moral center allows the dark forces of the unconscious to seize control of reality. Ukraine was the same situation.
There is no political there there. No force of will to hold chaos at bay. Some Republicans but primarily the DNC is the sock puppet of what is now "international" criminal finance. Chaos and disorder serves totalitarianism. The visible assault on free speech, the continuing looting of the American economy, flooding the nation with illegals, the DEI butchery of lives and careers, etc. exactly match the tactics now being used to bring Europeans to their knees.---A handful of financial criminals intend to seize control of the free world.
I mean lets be honest here. Have you ever seen these "University Heads"? They are almost always limp wristed, feckless, cowardly & spineless paper pushing administrative activists. While I'm sure there's an exception, I can't think of a single University leader that has shown any courage in the face of social/political strife. COVID mandates, George Floyd, BLM, ANTIFA, SCOTUS, DEI and so on......they all just fold up like a cheap suit. Generally speaking, higher education has suffered from a collective, catastrophic failure of leadership which has also permeated throughout most of the university administration staff and professors. Its no wonder so many kids continue to leave college indoctrinated and ill prepared for life as an adult. Cowardice and victimhood, like shit, rolls downhill.....
Pink Floyd - 'The Happiest Days Of Our Lives'
When we grew up and went to school,
There were certain teachers,
Who would hurt the children in any way they could,
By pouring their derision,
Upon anything we did,
Exposing every weakness,
However carefully hidden by the kids.
But in the town it was well known,
When they got home at night,
Their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them, within inches of their lives.......
Also worth noting that Sasse sent a letter shortly after 10/7 to all UF faculty and students warning them that there was no room for anti-Semitism at UF and that any disruption of vigils for the victims of 10/7 would be harshly dealt with. There are real universities left in America.
Well there is a huge difference between him and the elitists university administrators. One he isn't a communist sympathizer and two he has a backbone.
I wish I could post a meme, but here’s what is shows---before and after photos of a person and alcohol, a person and crack, a person and cocaine. You can imagine the difference in their appearance, right? The last photo is of a person, before and after college. A nice looking young lady turned into a pierced and tattoed freak with a mostly shaved head and a hysterical look on her face.
I would add that the people who "graduate" with no real-world skills and tens of thousands of dollars of debt. These idiots are teaching you this nonsense in a discipline that will never make you a productive member of society. Canceling debt is the left's answer, but rather than saying people should pay their debts (which is obvious), the GOP should go after the fraud, which is college, and pound the Elizabeth Warrens of the world who became wealthy from this racket. The Washington General GOP would never do it, but will anyone next year. Who is the leader on the GOP side for this?
On that note I have pondered how to separate the Republican wheat from the chaff and have two methods: 1) every Republican SBF plied with cash, and 2) every Republican not threatened by McConnell this week "incoming" if they support Senator Hawley's bill to limit corporate campaign actions.
Oh, please stop. Categorizing all teachers as incompetent liberals is simply wrong, or that they are intellectually weak is also wrong. I spent many years in the schoolhouse working with title 1 children and with great effect. So many of my colleagues worked diligently to do the same. this is not so say there are not great problems with education and the academy. BTW did you go to school?
And to carry the above saying, those who can't teach, teach gym!
Agreed. A good teacher is a blessing. But I think we have less and less good teachers. Especially since they will have to go through a university Ed program to become one
You’re right. I shouldn’t have generalized as much as I did in my comment.
My point was that there seems to be a lack of courage amongst university leadership & that trickles down into the administration and professors. This is also happening at the high school and grade school levels.
My sister is a teacher in Houston Texas and she has openly spoken out against a lot of far left policies/behaviors that she’s seen with her school board, school leadership, and other teachers at her school. From doing this, she & one other teacher have been ostracized amongst their peers. Many of them share in private they agree with them but they are too afraid to step out and join them. We need more courageous & heterodox teachers.
You are of course correct that it is not all teachers, but 234 has a point. Do you acknowledge shortcomings in modern education? If so, to what do you attribute them?
You are absolutely correct, When Reagen called the Soviet Union, "The Evil Empire", the spineless Democrats/Socialists and their minions in the press derided Reagan for saying that.
I thought at the time. What should Reagan have called the Soviet Union, a country that slaughtered millions of its own people and enslaved millions more? Should he have played nice and call Russia the Rainbow and Unicorn country or the compassionate country of peace?
Reagan called the US "The Shining City on the Hill" and was derided for that. I have said this before, if the US is such a tyrannical shit hole as the left makes us out to be, how come millions of people risk their lives to sneak into to this shit hole?
I would love for the anti-American moron to respond to that. We all know who the moron is.
Our society is infiltrated by brain dead lemmings due to colonization by idiots from other countries that follow fake causes. No concern for Americans dead in Israel or the hostages. No that's in support of Hamas trying to be free. Yet a career criminal is killed by police somewhere and everyone is ready to throw the cop to the wolves. Off with their head they yell. Yet Hamas actually does take off heads and it's somehow freedom? A career criminal is important, but families of innocent Americans are okay to sacrifice. Again -- Fing STUPID people!!!!
I can only say, with the influx of colonizers from the world to our country and the willingness to sell their souls on Tik Tok, our population has become so STUPID and gullible, we as a society deserve whatever comes. It is just so mind bending to see such ignorant fools like LGBQ support those who will kill them. Women who will be subjugated to the status of animals support Hamas causes, yet how dare you look at me?
I agree, we need a pause in the war, but to allow all of these idiots to be sent to Gaza and then start again. They do not deserve the freedom others sacrificed to give their lazy asses. There should be no pause until all of Hamas is destroyed and its leaders are dead, and then shot again to be sure they are dead. That's how you handle evil.
“Is Joe Biden paying a political price for his support for Israel?”
Is this some sort of trick question? Just what has old Joe done for Israel? Has he stated his support for the stand alone House bill put forward by new speaker Mike Johnson providing $14.3 billion in immediate aid? Has he spoken to Jewish senate leader Shumer to fast track a vote? On the contrary, both have voiced their opposition. Biden and Schumer are more concerned about bundling $160 billion that includes $61.4 billion for Ukraine to further enrich corrupt politicians losing a war that even Zelenskyy aides and advisors privately admit can’t be won(https://responsiblestatecraft.org/zelensky-war-time-magazine/), 13.6 billion for “border security”., (read payoffs to sanctuary cities whining about the cost of providing sanctuary), $9 billion in grifter, er “humanitarian” relief, $4 billion in military assistance and “government financing” of waste and lastly, $14.3 billion to Israel.
You know Tim you're speaking of an actual industry that feeds off manufactured crisis and tax dollars. Ukraine was/is/has long been a center for money laundering and oligarchic cover up. White House-for-Sale Joe was neck deep in it. Black marketeers made millions reselling the weapons abandoned in Afghanistan. All the aid packages are split up between inside players beforehand. We all remember the Halliburton no bid contract's when Cheney was President. Taibbi called them "vampire squids" and that is exactly what they are. Just before the Hamas travesty there were reports that 60% of run away American inflation was the result of corporate gouging. Meanwhile, BlackRock, Bezos and Gates are swallowing American farm land and destroying the housing market (again) by purchasing block upon block of residential properties, turning them into permanent rentals, jacking the rents and shutting young people and first time buyers out of the market. All this while the D.C. hog trough lines its pockets with campaign donations and half million dollar a pop speaker fees. ----Just sayin'.
I agree. I have found though that often if I search it myself I can find it non-paywalled. There are some I will not reward with my money no matter how much I want access to their product.
If one lives in a world of propaganda -- and even if one knows they live in a world of propaganda -- the sheer mass of it will end up penetrating the sharpest and most defensive of minds. And most of the young people these days may be very smart but are so egocentric from the way they were reared that their sharp and defensive minds are focused only on protecting their feelings. And we taught them that focus by removing difficult competition from in front of them before it could challenge them and teach them to reach farther than they believed they could.
To the objective observer the elite capture in our institutions by the CCP and the petro-dollars from the mid-east is an impressive accomplishment. Then provide them with such a devastating propaganda tool as TikTok and the subversion accelerates. We are finding the foundations of traditional liberalism being cracked by the very tools that have made it successful and now is the time to fight back -- if it is not already too late.
We have fallen out of traditional time and history into cyber time. A manipulated hypnotic weaponized perpetual "now" that contains all knowledge, but no moral center. It numbs emotion, blurs memory and overwhelms the human psyche by creating a mass dissociative disorder and severing human connection and social cohesion. It isolates the individual and distorts human emotion and reality.
It is being used by political criminals, and criminal capital, to superimpose a propagandized surveillance hyperreality over the realpolitik of actual life. Disinformation (open lies), the "othering" of normal human emotion/moral reason as criminal terrorism, the bot introduction and encouragement of hatred and extreme emotion to prevent a healthy national dialogue as a means of shifting blame away from the actual visible consequences of financial looting, ineptitude and failed social/cultural policies, naturally creates suspicion and anger in the victimized citizen. Because actual human reality abhors the "lie" the perpetrators must (as demonstrated by the CIC/DEI) continually surveil and target truth/fact based individuals and organizations and if possible destroy their lives and livelihoods. The perpetrators know that their criminal enterprise is based on avarice and greed and ultimately, will destroy their prey and collapse the societies they infect. So, they wrap themselves in the most convenient flag claiming patriotism and ideological purity.
Poor Mr. Orwell, no doubt spinning in his grave, pointed again and again to the fascist use of manufactured crisis and perpetual war to silence legitimate social concern, hold the citizen in thrall and loot the national economy. The American Constitutional Republic is on the verge of the most important Presidential election ever held. The DNC/WEF/EU/CCP Davos billionaire juggernaut has proven itself the most treacherous nest of vipers the world has ever seen.
I do not understand Nellie’s adoration of Newsom. He is leading California into the depths of poverty, chaos, and despair. Except, of course, where he spends his time *cough* French Laundry during lockdown *cough.*
I perceived Nellie's "adoration" of Newsom to be part of her usual snark and sarcasm. While I can appreciate snark and sarcasm, her writings often confuse me as to her actual intent and opinions on very serious subjects.
Oh, Nellie... I understand that Newsom is a pretty boy, but he has been wrong on every issue, then recently started vetoing bills that he would have certainly signed if he weren't planning a presidential bid and now he's China's useful idiot.
Mike Gallagher misses the whole point of TikTok. I find it very hard to believe that a person can watch a TikTok video and have that change their worldview to love Hamas. Sorry, Mike, the problem is not TikTok but the National Teachers Association, College Professors, and Woke Parents. And I would add spinless GOP politicians like him. If you want to talk about propaganda, TikTok did not fan the flames of the George Flyod national hysteria; the national media and the Democratic Party did. Ritchie Torres and Biden can talk about being mainstream, but they fun the ideological fools who were communists in the 70's, 80's, 90's and now. Before banning a platform that people love, go after the funding for idiot colleges and their propagandist professors, work to discredit the mainstream media, and defeat the Democratic Party. China is the issue of our time, but it's not TikTok that the problem is, but the fellow communists that are all over our education and media establishments.
While I agree that TikTok didn't accomplish this is a vacuum, If your teacher is telling you that Israel needs to die AND the platform you spend all your time on curates content to back that up, it is going to help lead a kid down that path. If TikTok were to de-emphasize any video that might contradict the narrative, it will increase the echo chamber. Tiktok may not be the main cause, but it sure helps it along
What do we know about TikTok‘s algorithms? We know it’s a Chinese company (which means it’s CCP–approved). We know that China is on Hamas’ side, and that a Chinese-controlled search engine recently removed Israel from its maps.
Is it really unreasonable to question whether the algorithms are pushing content in one particular direction -- the direction that the CCP supports? And do our young people really have the character and intellect to understand that they’re being manipulated? Our education system has been manipulating the hell out of them, and they don’t seem to have a clue about that!
I don’t want to sound paranoid, but I’m beginning to feel like China may have been a lot more involved in sneakily steering this “long march” inside the west than we ever imagined.
I fully disagree with notion that young Americans support Hamas due to TicTok. Tickok is just as symptom not the disease. Real problem are twofold. First majority of young people grew up in time of endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where our governments wasted trillions of $$$ while things at home were not doing well, thus they dont see reason for our involment in the region as necessary.
Second Israel has been winning ground war but has been losing Media war for decades now, thanks to misguided polices of settlements in west bank that provide constant stream of videos where settlers are clashing with Palestinians
Exactly. Young people's understanding of history is limited to what they're told by teachers and professors, the majority of which hate America.
We've raised two generations of people now who don't have any critical thinking ability and just take whatever they hear from "trusted sources" as the truth unquestioningly. And a lot of that happens via TikTok now sadly.
We've raised, Joe T. The burden of our failing young critical thinkers falls on us, the generations that brought them into this world. We failed at keeping their minds safe during the digital rise. We were not prepared or maybe even aware of the misinformation age of social media and developing minds.
"...the daily results strongly suggest that Democrats’ approval of Biden fell sharply in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and Biden’s promise of full support for Israel on the same day."
Clearly, the conclusion to which the author has evidently jumped cannot be made to follow from this. One could as easily, and I would suggest more plausibly, infer that the fall reflects Democrats' disapproval of Biden foreign policy blunders that helped facilitate the attack on Israel in the first place, which Biden's subsequent belated declaration of support for Israel is not, thus far, enough to offset. That would explain my disapproval, at any rate.
Biden is a moron plain and simple. Always has been. Despite his current pro Israel rhetoric, it doesn't change the fact he unfroze $BILLIONS to Iran the largest supporter of terrorism. Plus he supports China because he lines his own and family pockets with their money. And as far as 51% of university/college students go, young people are NOTORIOUS FOLLOWERS OF STUPID IGNORANT IDEAS AND PEOPLE. They are easily brainwashed.
Yeah and let us not forget he just sent out billions of $$ of free checks to these same stupid students via his "loan forgiveness program" to buy votes from these same morons, at our expense.
As if Biden has any say. This is Obama and his team pushing his failed ME strategy from behind the curtain. I'm guessing Jarrett, Rhodes and Powers are pulling the levers.
“Now the Association of University Heads in Israel has written to their counterparts in America and Europe to “express deep concern over the discourse emanating from academia following the devastating Hamas attack. . . and the inadequate response, in many cases, by academic leadership.””
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How much do you want to bet that these ‘Israeli University Heads’ are hardcore leftists who were pushing diversity and racial conflict theory 6 weeks ago and talking about how Netanyahu was a threat to OUR DEMOCRACY.
You bought the ticket and now you get to ride the ride, pussies.
It’s the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
Why aren’t American hostages receiving more attention? Because the despicable MSM will stoop to any level to cover for the decrepit president they helped install. Same thing happened in Afghanistan. Good luck to all Americans abroad - you’re on your own if shit hits the fan thanks to your beloved Brandon and Blinken who say nice things but are utterly incompetent.
It has been my experience that the State Dept does little or nothing to help US citizens who are kidnapped or arrested overseas.
Before the Iranian Islamic barbarians took US Embassy hostage. Two executives of one of Ross Perot's companies were arrested. When Perot call the State Dept about it, they answered well your employees must have done something wrong. Perot hire a retired SF colonel Bull Simons:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bull+simons+statue&qpvt=bull+simons+statue&form=IGRE&first=1:
to break his employees out, which he did. I served under Colonel Simons.
Read "Wings of Eagles" by Ken Follett. It is the true story of the break out. It tells how the State Dept fought Perot every step of the way.
I can give you more stories about those elitist assholes in the State Dept. They disgust me.
I have a lawyer friend who won't travel anywhere where the rule of law isn't assiduously followed. It limits his travel options, but he's never been arrested because he didn't have mordida to pay off the police.
I grew of in Latin America and carried a ten dollar bill behind my driver's license.
So smart. We live in San Diego, we always carried extra money in case we were stopped in Tijuana.
Cynthia, Mexico is a free fire zone. Why would anyone go there? When we go on a Carribean cruise we never get off the ship in Mexico. My doctor told me, years ago, that bullets passing through my body is bad for my health and I believe her.
Stud. He was an inaugural inductee into the Ranger Hall of Fame (1992), damn that was a long time ago....<2>
Let’s all admit it openly. It’s President Blinken. Let’s not fool ourselves.
"Americans abroad" and in the sea to shining sea Republic. We the people have been squarely on our own for decades now.
“Whatever you think about this administration’s Middle East policy, Biden’s rhetorical support for Israel since October 7 has been unwavering”
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This is maybe the most perfect Democrat Thing™️ I have ever read.
Don’t pay attention to my actions. No, no. Just listen to my words as I drown you in linguistic manipulation and whorish extortionate reversal tactics.
These people are all flat-out Cluster B psychopaths; the feminized version.
I disagree that Biden’s support has declined because he sort of supports Israel. I think his numbers have declined because his weak leadership caused the attack.
This is a good point, the Free Press has highlighted people on the left waking up so I think that you're correct, but proba is a little but of both. I can't understand our young people. A majority think Hamas is justified in what they did? Who are these kids? Makes me think the US needs to instate mandatory military service to give the younger generation some perspective.
Today's youth has been mis-educated. I have been a middle and high school teacher for 27 years. The curricula are devoid of civics, current events, basic knowledge of geography, and dates. Young people don't know what happened yesteryear, why it did, how did, where it did, what preceded it, and which historical contexts need to be mastered in order to make sense of today. Worse, they don't even know that they don't know. We can all thank the Albert Shanker and Randi Weingartens of the world, as well as the PC mob and the legacy media for these phenomena.
Which is why they tear down statues instead of learning about the people and the events the statues represent. And that's worked out great for stabilizing crime and poverty in minority communities, right?
Also send a <sarc> “thank you” to Howard Zinn, who was the earlier manifestation of Woke that most of the people teaching nowadays slurped up in their day.
Hear,hear!
🪒🛎️
I blame Tik Tok....news source for many of the young
*news source
Agee! These are the kids who grew up playing violent video games and think it’s all great fun, no real idea of life and death. Not as drastic but representative of how stupid this cadre is: look at the young airman, without real evil intentions, sharing military secrets with his online friends as if it were all fun and games!
Who are these kids? Descendants of rancid colonizers trying to blackwash - whoops, Blackwash - the sins of their great-great-great-great Grandfathers. You know, our Founders.
I think there’s also other factors at play that might have lead to these decreased numbers: inflation, skyrocketing national debt, and an overall sense of anxiety about the future. Biden wasn’t a strong president even before 10/7.
Biden isn't the President.
Blinken is.
Obama is another man behind the curtain.
Perhaps. It does seem like Hillary Clinton is still running the State Department.
Seriously.
Wasn't it his support *among Democrats* that declined? I can easily believe that enough Democrats are anti-Israel for Biden's "support" of Israel to be a factor.
Who has done the most for humankind, the Jews or the Muslims?
Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023,[1] at least 214 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population, meaning their share of winners is 100 times their proportion of the world's population.[2][3][4][5]
Jews have been awarded all six of the Nobel Foundation's awards:[3]
• Chemistry: 36 (19% of total)
• Economics: 38 (41% of total)
• Literature: 16 (13% of total)
• Peace: 9 (8% of total)
• Physics: 56 (25% of total)
• Physiology or Medicine: 59 (26% of total)
As of 2023, sixteen Nobel Prize laureates have been Muslims, more than half in the 21st century. Nine of the fifteen laureates have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while four have been for the sciences and three for Literature.
There are approximately 15.2 million Jews on Earth and 1.5 billion Muslims.
I do not understand the hatred of Jews and how the brutal, murderous, misogynistic religion of Islam gets a pass.
Hear! Hear! I would rather live in a community of Jews than a community of muslims.
Yes, have never heard Israelis chanting “Death to America”
The "how" is an easy question to answer: Islam and Leftists share a deep and abiding hatred of Jews. That hatred is strong enough that the Left willingly looks the other way as Islam engages in sexism and homophobia in the most brutal ways imaginable.
And, Celia, BOTH groups are Anti-America, criticizing our past while enjoying all the benefits (FREEDOMS!) of our present!
Which perfectly illustrates why Wokes categorize Jews as “White”...you know, all those terrible signs of “White supremacy”, like diligence, being on time, working hard, etc.
And also the creators of almost every single Broadway musical! West Side Story (and Spielberg’s ill-fated Upper West Side Story). It may be time for an amusing song and dance “Ayatollah” under the bright lights. Mel Brooks, we need you! Lin-Manuel - make all the Islamic characters into Jews (edgy). Great Arabic music, gotta give it to them.)
1.5 Billion lame moose .
Huh?
I for sure think it is part of why it declined. But in the end I think the issue is that the Dems are a loose coalition of people that actually have different goals and beliefs. So any time Biden takes an actual stand on pretty much anything, part of his base revolts. When you party has some of the biggest peaceniks on the planet AND some of the most violent fascists, you are never going to be able to keep them all happy.
This is likely part of why he wouldn't debate last election. He knew (his handlers knew) that they couldn't take any real stances on anything, because it would upset the base.
Great observation.
Partly, but I think he was recovering from his face lift!
Sghoul, good point! To add to it, it’s why that same “loose coalition” hated Trump. He was Pro-Law & Order, Pro-Constitution and made no apologies about his love & patriotism for America. Yet, he was a “threat to Democracy” meaning “THEIR” way of Democracy. He stood firm on his beliefs and wasn’t afraid to say so.
Hence, “What a bloviating narcissist” and “Orange Man Bad”because he did not pander to the WOKE Leftist!
Notice how any person who stands strong on their convictions, which don’t go along with the WOKE Democrat narrative (Tucker, Elon, Taibbi, Schellenberger to name a few)
are slandered, censored and cancelled!
Yes indeedy. I am willing to be that is Trump had come out in favor or all their stuff, his "Grab `Em" comment would have seemed funny to them instead of making them lose their minds. They have a metric ton of egotistical narcissists on their side whom they seem to love (see all of the politicians who forced their voters to stay home while they went out wherever they wanted without a mask).
Bill actually did "grab them". Trump only talked about is with a bunch of men. It is called locker talk and almost all of us have done that, locker talk that is.
Almost all politicians do that. To Trump's credit he did do that and that had a broad appeal with voters.
I'm telling you, the left is evil.
When I was a teenager, I was taught in church classes that a time would come when people would very clearly align themselves with one "team" or the other. I had trouble imagining that, because I knew a lot of people who were not really evil, even though they didn't really want to be on the good "team" either.
In the many years since then, I've seen people--most of them Leftists--align themselves with some pretty hideous things. But this pro- and anti-Israel split (and its revelation of who has been antisemitic all along) is the closest we have yet come to that one-team-or-the-other split.
Lonesome, this younger generation of WOKE Left have been brainwashed by their Democrat parents, their teachers & schools, video games, Hollywood, social media and MSM!
When you are raised and indoctrinated to hate your Country and believe it was founded on racism, with a shameful, ugly history, then you have no convictions about patriotism. When you’re taught Capitalism is evil (tho you’re reaping the benefits) you’ll believe the Marxist theory of “utopian socialism”!
If you’ve been subjected to / bombarded with immoral displays of behaviors, then you do not develop a moral compass.
I worry about the future for my grandchildren, because what I just stated is what they are subjected to living in NYC.
Two articles I agree with:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nikki-haley-wants-the-names-and-faces-of-every-pro-hamas-protester-to-be-published/ar-AA1jfuxN?cvid=474640885b3e4850b8ba6c5b2e975883&ei=43
Good for Nikki Haley. If these terrorist lovers, love terrorism so much, they should be proud to have their names and phots exposed. They are neo-Nazis. NAZI means, National Socialist German Workers' Party. Note the word socialist. The left hates it when you point out the Nazis were socialists.
The second article:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/democrats-have-an-anti-semitism-problem/ar-AA1jevfK?cvid=d7bc2f8c24454a56b0d9070598d117c1&ei=30
Agree, Stanley. FP seems to have forgotten that Biden's polls have been dropping ever since his Afghanistan debacle. They're too busy lambasting Trump and the new speaker of the House to remember that we still have hostages being held by the Taliban.
Ukraine likewise.
I agree that Biden is a weak leader and I don't understand how that caused Hamas to attack Israel?
Weakness perceived is a weakness exploited. It emboldened Iran. Just look at the number of attacks on US bases in the Middle East.
Attacks that go unanswered equals weakness.
How do attacks on US bases equal Hamas's attack on Israel and how does that implicate Biden in the Hamas attack? If the US was attacked, I could see your point.
Iran.
Yes, Iran is a problem that was created, in large part, by Obama and continued under Biden.
I forgot that it was Reagan who sold arms to Iran, so he's implicated as well.
We need to bomb Iran back into the stone age as a subtle reminder to our enemies of what happens to people who cross us.
I suspect that we don't need to go that far with Iran. The Persian people were civilized back when Europeans were still living in tribes. Then they got invaded by Arabs and gradually adapted to Islam.
I suspect that if we were able to get rid of the ayatollahs and their minions in government, the Persian people would form a secular democratic republic. The have the social hardware to do that, unlike the Iraqis and Afghans.
and return the original name of the DoD...
The War Department
You are aware that Hamas is a proxy for Iran, right? As is Hezbollah.
Yes.
You must be kidding.
How soon after Biden's cowardly disastrous exit from Afghanistan did Putin invade Ukraine?
Hamas no doubt started planning their attack the same time.
When the neighborhood cops disappear the bad guys show up in spades.
The Afghanistan pullout gave Hamas unlimited weapons, much more powerful than the homemade rockets they've been using.
in this case, the "neighborhood cops" were the IDF. I think Hamas began their planning long ago and when the opportunity presented itself, they struck. Iran most likely financed them, although they've purloined enough money from the West to buy the weapons they wanted. The US didn't have a presence on the ground or offshore and there was no reason to have one. Everyone's, especially Israel's, intelligence failed. I suspect that there was/is someone inside the Israelie govt. who is responsible for the failure of intelligence. At any rate, it's far too complicated for me to understand the whole scenario.
The loss of reason and a strong moral center allows the dark forces of the unconscious to seize control of reality. Ukraine was the same situation.
There is no political there there. No force of will to hold chaos at bay. Some Republicans but primarily the DNC is the sock puppet of what is now "international" criminal finance. Chaos and disorder serves totalitarianism. The visible assault on free speech, the continuing looting of the American economy, flooding the nation with illegals, the DEI butchery of lives and careers, etc. exactly match the tactics now being used to bring Europeans to their knees.---A handful of financial criminals intend to seize control of the free world.
I mean lets be honest here. Have you ever seen these "University Heads"? They are almost always limp wristed, feckless, cowardly & spineless paper pushing administrative activists. While I'm sure there's an exception, I can't think of a single University leader that has shown any courage in the face of social/political strife. COVID mandates, George Floyd, BLM, ANTIFA, SCOTUS, DEI and so on......they all just fold up like a cheap suit. Generally speaking, higher education has suffered from a collective, catastrophic failure of leadership which has also permeated throughout most of the university administration staff and professors. Its no wonder so many kids continue to leave college indoctrinated and ill prepared for life as an adult. Cowardice and victimhood, like shit, rolls downhill.....
Pink Floyd - 'The Happiest Days Of Our Lives'
When we grew up and went to school,
There were certain teachers,
Who would hurt the children in any way they could,
By pouring their derision,
Upon anything we did,
Exposing every weakness,
However carefully hidden by the kids.
But in the town it was well known,
When they got home at night,
Their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them, within inches of their lives.......
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Ben Sasse (Univ of FL) stepped right over protestors when he started his job, and was an early Israeli supporter.
Also worth noting that Sasse sent a letter shortly after 10/7 to all UF faculty and students warning them that there was no room for anti-Semitism at UF and that any disruption of vigils for the victims of 10/7 would be harshly dealt with. There are real universities left in America.
Well there is a huge difference between him and the elitists university administrators. One he isn't a communist sympathizer and two he has a backbone.
Yes, Bill, but too few!
I wish I could post a meme, but here’s what is shows---before and after photos of a person and alcohol, a person and crack, a person and cocaine. You can imagine the difference in their appearance, right? The last photo is of a person, before and after college. A nice looking young lady turned into a pierced and tattoed freak with a mostly shaved head and a hysterical look on her face.
Would love to see that.
See Yuri B’s substack
How about this?
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2040153696341736&set=a.136155673408224
I have seen these frogs in the wild and like an idiot picked one up. I was lucky I didn't die on the spot. That is no exaggeration.
I had some clients that I illustrated the progression of their drug use through their mug shots.
You should see before and after of the meth addicts. They look like death warmed over.
You left out glassy eyed.
I would add that the people who "graduate" with no real-world skills and tens of thousands of dollars of debt. These idiots are teaching you this nonsense in a discipline that will never make you a productive member of society. Canceling debt is the left's answer, but rather than saying people should pay their debts (which is obvious), the GOP should go after the fraud, which is college, and pound the Elizabeth Warrens of the world who became wealthy from this racket. The Washington General GOP would never do it, but will anyone next year. Who is the leader on the GOP side for this?
STEM programs are not immune from this rot. The problem is all the DEI indoctrination, which has become mandatory everywhere.
The Long March through the institutions is coming to fruition and it ain’t pretty.
Unfortunately most of the GOP is either just as feckless as the said "Heads" or as corrupt and complicit as said "Warrens" IMO....
On that note I have pondered how to separate the Republican wheat from the chaff and have two methods: 1) every Republican SBF plied with cash, and 2) every Republican not threatened by McConnell this week "incoming" if they support Senator Hawley's bill to limit corporate campaign actions.
Let's not stop at student debt. Let's pay off car loans, cosmetic surgery and mortgages.
you been reading Paul Krugman again?
Yeah, he's my hero. Wait a minute. I should have said, "He is an asshole."
that description seems a little weak compared to my thoughts about the man
What can I say? I am a closet communist/democrat.
Abortions, child care costs, medical expenses, rent, reparations ... .
There's an old saying that defines those people....
"Those who can, do........Those who can't, teach."
Oh, please stop. Categorizing all teachers as incompetent liberals is simply wrong, or that they are intellectually weak is also wrong. I spent many years in the schoolhouse working with title 1 children and with great effect. So many of my colleagues worked diligently to do the same. this is not so say there are not great problems with education and the academy. BTW did you go to school?
And to carry the above saying, those who can't teach, teach gym!
Agreed. A good teacher is a blessing. But I think we have less and less good teachers. Especially since they will have to go through a university Ed program to become one
The problem is the ED schools.
You’re right. I shouldn’t have generalized as much as I did in my comment.
My point was that there seems to be a lack of courage amongst university leadership & that trickles down into the administration and professors. This is also happening at the high school and grade school levels.
My sister is a teacher in Houston Texas and she has openly spoken out against a lot of far left policies/behaviors that she’s seen with her school board, school leadership, and other teachers at her school. From doing this, she & one other teacher have been ostracized amongst their peers. Many of them share in private they agree with them but they are too afraid to step out and join them. We need more courageous & heterodox teachers.
Well, she lives in Houston. What else can I say?
I read this week that the population of Houston has increased by 1.6 million in the past year.
Ugh!
You are of course correct that it is not all teachers, but 234 has a point. Do you acknowledge shortcomings in modern education? If so, to what do you attribute them?
I agree.
Word
Most of these very weak Presidents have been women.
Diversity hires, all of them.
You are absolutely correct, When Reagen called the Soviet Union, "The Evil Empire", the spineless Democrats/Socialists and their minions in the press derided Reagan for saying that.
I thought at the time. What should Reagan have called the Soviet Union, a country that slaughtered millions of its own people and enslaved millions more? Should he have played nice and call Russia the Rainbow and Unicorn country or the compassionate country of peace?
Reagan called the US "The Shining City on the Hill" and was derided for that. I have said this before, if the US is such a tyrannical shit hole as the left makes us out to be, how come millions of people risk their lives to sneak into to this shit hole?
I would love for the anti-American moron to respond to that. We all know who the moron is.
Teachers leave them kids alone,
Hey teachers leave them kids alone!
Our society is infiltrated by brain dead lemmings due to colonization by idiots from other countries that follow fake causes. No concern for Americans dead in Israel or the hostages. No that's in support of Hamas trying to be free. Yet a career criminal is killed by police somewhere and everyone is ready to throw the cop to the wolves. Off with their head they yell. Yet Hamas actually does take off heads and it's somehow freedom? A career criminal is important, but families of innocent Americans are okay to sacrifice. Again -- Fing STUPID people!!!!
I can only say, with the influx of colonizers from the world to our country and the willingness to sell their souls on Tik Tok, our population has become so STUPID and gullible, we as a society deserve whatever comes. It is just so mind bending to see such ignorant fools like LGBQ support those who will kill them. Women who will be subjugated to the status of animals support Hamas causes, yet how dare you look at me?
I agree, we need a pause in the war, but to allow all of these idiots to be sent to Gaza and then start again. They do not deserve the freedom others sacrificed to give their lazy asses. There should be no pause until all of Hamas is destroyed and its leaders are dead, and then shot again to be sure they are dead. That's how you handle evil.
Like how you used the term ‘colonizers’. Turn their weapon on them.
Too many of these followers of fake causes are young privileged Americans who have been conditioned to believe Jews not Antisemitism are the problem.
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I guarantee if Hamas had killed 1500 George Floyds they'd be out in the streets in rage.
Re: Gavin Newsom
What an asshole.
My fondest hope is that Ron DeSantis tears Newsom apart in their debate on Fox.
Ron DeSantis couldn't tear apart a tissue.
Big time. Nellie is in love with him which proves my continued claim women love assholes.
Maybe lesbians? Cause this straight woman thinks he’s a dictator asshole.
Though many have made insightful comments here, this one should ALWAYS be the top comment.
Succinct and truthful. I love it...
California Uber Alles!
Americans hostages are not being covered because the NYT doesn’t want its loyal antisemitic readers to know something that might change their views.
“Is Joe Biden paying a political price for his support for Israel?”
Is this some sort of trick question? Just what has old Joe done for Israel? Has he stated his support for the stand alone House bill put forward by new speaker Mike Johnson providing $14.3 billion in immediate aid? Has he spoken to Jewish senate leader Shumer to fast track a vote? On the contrary, both have voiced their opposition. Biden and Schumer are more concerned about bundling $160 billion that includes $61.4 billion for Ukraine to further enrich corrupt politicians losing a war that even Zelenskyy aides and advisors privately admit can’t be won(https://responsiblestatecraft.org/zelensky-war-time-magazine/), 13.6 billion for “border security”., (read payoffs to sanctuary cities whining about the cost of providing sanctuary), $9 billion in grifter, er “humanitarian” relief, $4 billion in military assistance and “government financing” of waste and lastly, $14.3 billion to Israel.
You know Tim you're speaking of an actual industry that feeds off manufactured crisis and tax dollars. Ukraine was/is/has long been a center for money laundering and oligarchic cover up. White House-for-Sale Joe was neck deep in it. Black marketeers made millions reselling the weapons abandoned in Afghanistan. All the aid packages are split up between inside players beforehand. We all remember the Halliburton no bid contract's when Cheney was President. Taibbi called them "vampire squids" and that is exactly what they are. Just before the Hamas travesty there were reports that 60% of run away American inflation was the result of corporate gouging. Meanwhile, BlackRock, Bezos and Gates are swallowing American farm land and destroying the housing market (again) by purchasing block upon block of residential properties, turning them into permanent rentals, jacking the rents and shutting young people and first time buyers out of the market. All this while the D.C. hog trough lines its pockets with campaign donations and half million dollar a pop speaker fees. ----Just sayin'.
Wish Substack writers would stop linking to paywalled articles.
I recently wrote about this issue on my Substack. Please check it out.
https://www.substack.com/pay-me-$8.99-right-now-thanks
I agree. I have found though that often if I search it myself I can find it non-paywalled. There are some I will not reward with my money no matter how much I want access to their product.
Just read another one where most of the links were broken.
If one lives in a world of propaganda -- and even if one knows they live in a world of propaganda -- the sheer mass of it will end up penetrating the sharpest and most defensive of minds. And most of the young people these days may be very smart but are so egocentric from the way they were reared that their sharp and defensive minds are focused only on protecting their feelings. And we taught them that focus by removing difficult competition from in front of them before it could challenge them and teach them to reach farther than they believed they could.
To the objective observer the elite capture in our institutions by the CCP and the petro-dollars from the mid-east is an impressive accomplishment. Then provide them with such a devastating propaganda tool as TikTok and the subversion accelerates. We are finding the foundations of traditional liberalism being cracked by the very tools that have made it successful and now is the time to fight back -- if it is not already too late.
As a thought.
We have fallen out of traditional time and history into cyber time. A manipulated hypnotic weaponized perpetual "now" that contains all knowledge, but no moral center. It numbs emotion, blurs memory and overwhelms the human psyche by creating a mass dissociative disorder and severing human connection and social cohesion. It isolates the individual and distorts human emotion and reality.
It is being used by political criminals, and criminal capital, to superimpose a propagandized surveillance hyperreality over the realpolitik of actual life. Disinformation (open lies), the "othering" of normal human emotion/moral reason as criminal terrorism, the bot introduction and encouragement of hatred and extreme emotion to prevent a healthy national dialogue as a means of shifting blame away from the actual visible consequences of financial looting, ineptitude and failed social/cultural policies, naturally creates suspicion and anger in the victimized citizen. Because actual human reality abhors the "lie" the perpetrators must (as demonstrated by the CIC/DEI) continually surveil and target truth/fact based individuals and organizations and if possible destroy their lives and livelihoods. The perpetrators know that their criminal enterprise is based on avarice and greed and ultimately, will destroy their prey and collapse the societies they infect. So, they wrap themselves in the most convenient flag claiming patriotism and ideological purity.
Poor Mr. Orwell, no doubt spinning in his grave, pointed again and again to the fascist use of manufactured crisis and perpetual war to silence legitimate social concern, hold the citizen in thrall and loot the national economy. The American Constitutional Republic is on the verge of the most important Presidential election ever held. The DNC/WEF/EU/CCP Davos billionaire juggernaut has proven itself the most treacherous nest of vipers the world has ever seen.
Is that enough horror for one day?
Yes, I do think that is sufficient!
Add to that, schools not teaching kids to be critical thinkers, so they don't even think to challenge the narrative.
I do not understand Nellie’s adoration of Newsom. He is leading California into the depths of poverty, chaos, and despair. Except, of course, where he spends his time *cough* French Laundry during lockdown *cough.*
I perceived Nellie's "adoration" of Newsom to be part of her usual snark and sarcasm. While I can appreciate snark and sarcasm, her writings often confuse me as to her actual intent and opinions on very serious subjects.
That is likely purposeful
Oh, Nellie... I understand that Newsom is a pretty boy, but he has been wrong on every issue, then recently started vetoing bills that he would have certainly signed if he weren't planning a presidential bid and now he's China's useful idiot.
Bills that sometimes his veto doesn't actually matter on so it doesn't actually hurt him to veto it.
Mike Gallagher misses the whole point of TikTok. I find it very hard to believe that a person can watch a TikTok video and have that change their worldview to love Hamas. Sorry, Mike, the problem is not TikTok but the National Teachers Association, College Professors, and Woke Parents. And I would add spinless GOP politicians like him. If you want to talk about propaganda, TikTok did not fan the flames of the George Flyod national hysteria; the national media and the Democratic Party did. Ritchie Torres and Biden can talk about being mainstream, but they fun the ideological fools who were communists in the 70's, 80's, 90's and now. Before banning a platform that people love, go after the funding for idiot colleges and their propagandist professors, work to discredit the mainstream media, and defeat the Democratic Party. China is the issue of our time, but it's not TikTok that the problem is, but the fellow communists that are all over our education and media establishments.
It's not one or the other, it's both..
While I agree that TikTok didn't accomplish this is a vacuum, If your teacher is telling you that Israel needs to die AND the platform you spend all your time on curates content to back that up, it is going to help lead a kid down that path. If TikTok were to de-emphasize any video that might contradict the narrative, it will increase the echo chamber. Tiktok may not be the main cause, but it sure helps it along
What do we know about TikTok‘s algorithms? We know it’s a Chinese company (which means it’s CCP–approved). We know that China is on Hamas’ side, and that a Chinese-controlled search engine recently removed Israel from its maps.
Is it really unreasonable to question whether the algorithms are pushing content in one particular direction -- the direction that the CCP supports? And do our young people really have the character and intellect to understand that they’re being manipulated? Our education system has been manipulating the hell out of them, and they don’t seem to have a clue about that!
I don’t want to sound paranoid, but I’m beginning to feel like China may have been a lot more involved in sneakily steering this “long march” inside the west than we ever imagined.
“the problem is not TikTok but the National Teachers Association, College Professors, and Woke Parents.”
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I fully disagree with notion that young Americans support Hamas due to TicTok. Tickok is just as symptom not the disease. Real problem are twofold. First majority of young people grew up in time of endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where our governments wasted trillions of $$$ while things at home were not doing well, thus they dont see reason for our involment in the region as necessary.
Second Israel has been winning ground war but has been losing Media war for decades now, thanks to misguided polices of settlements in west bank that provide constant stream of videos where settlers are clashing with Palestinians
I think you give majority of young people too much credit for knowing anything about history, Iraq, Afghanistan.
They have been brainwashed in college by professors who hate America and the West. They support anything that furthers their decline.
Exactly. Young people's understanding of history is limited to what they're told by teachers and professors, the majority of which hate America.
We've raised two generations of people now who don't have any critical thinking ability and just take whatever they hear from "trusted sources" as the truth unquestioningly. And a lot of that happens via TikTok now sadly.
We've raised, Joe T. The burden of our failing young critical thinkers falls on us, the generations that brought them into this world. We failed at keeping their minds safe during the digital rise. We were not prepared or maybe even aware of the misinformation age of social media and developing minds.
But China knew.
And here we are.
We let the village raise the children and that has failed.
HRC said it takes a village....
too many believed her
The Palestinian groups especially their leadership that ives in Qatar has played a foul but impressive propaganda campaign for the last 2-3 decades.
"...the daily results strongly suggest that Democrats’ approval of Biden fell sharply in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and Biden’s promise of full support for Israel on the same day."
Clearly, the conclusion to which the author has evidently jumped cannot be made to follow from this. One could as easily, and I would suggest more plausibly, infer that the fall reflects Democrats' disapproval of Biden foreign policy blunders that helped facilitate the attack on Israel in the first place, which Biden's subsequent belated declaration of support for Israel is not, thus far, enough to offset. That would explain my disapproval, at any rate.
Biden is a moron plain and simple. Always has been. Despite his current pro Israel rhetoric, it doesn't change the fact he unfroze $BILLIONS to Iran the largest supporter of terrorism. Plus he supports China because he lines his own and family pockets with their money. And as far as 51% of university/college students go, young people are NOTORIOUS FOLLOWERS OF STUPID IGNORANT IDEAS AND PEOPLE. They are easily brainwashed.
Yeah and let us not forget he just sent out billions of $$ of free checks to these same stupid students via his "loan forgiveness program" to buy votes from these same morons, at our expense.
As if Biden has any say. This is Obama and his team pushing his failed ME strategy from behind the curtain. I'm guessing Jarrett, Rhodes and Powers are pulling the levers.
And Jewish people continue to vote Democrat. Especially with the likes of the Squad and the Progressive Left it's hard to believe.