The IDF's Big Week

Plus: Lula's role in Venezuela, Evan Gershkovich freed, I interview Vivek Ramaswamy, and more...

Israeli victories: Yesterday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its airstrikes in mid-July killed Mohammed Deif, a key Hamas operative and one of the masterminds behind the October 7 attacks.

On Wednesday, Ismail Haniyeh, another senior Hamas official, was killed by a bomb smuggled into a guesthouse in Tehran, Iran. Israel has claimed responsibility for the attack. "The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse, according to five of the Middle Eastern officials," reports The New York Times, also noting that it was detonated remotely. "The guesthouse is run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and is part of a large compound, known as Neshat, in an upscale neighborhood of northern Tehran."

A third victory for Israel was notched this week, with the killing of Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah operative, who was killed in a strike on Beirut.

Back in April, an Israeli hit on Iranian officials in Syria led to direct strikes being exchanged, though they were showy in nature, designed more to make a statement than to actually do intense damage. Now, it remains to be seen how these groups—proxies of Iran—will respond to Israel's success in taking out these targets, as well as the fact that Haniyeh was taken out in Tehran.

"Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly, in retaliation for the killing of Mr. Haniyeh in Tehran, according to three Iranian officials briefed on the order," reports the Times. "It is unclear how forcefully Iran will respond, and whether it will calibrate its attack to steer clear of escalation, as it did in April with a barrage of missiles and drones that was telegraphed well in advance."

"We are on the verge of a large, large-scale escalation," Danny Citrinowicz, who used to helm the Iran branch for Israeli military intelligence, told The Wall Street Journal. "Iran is leading the axis, and they cannot protect one of the leaders of the axis coming for [incoming President Masoud] Pezeshkian's inauguration."

Now, President Joe Biden's administration claims it is hard at work deescalating tensions in the Middle East to stave off war. But, for those who've been following domestic politics, questions remain about the degree to which Biden—the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. workday president—is even capable of handling a pressing foreign policy issue such as this one.

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Scenes from New York: "Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Lyle Frank ruled on Thursday that the Council lacked the authority to expand access to the CityFHEPS voucher program for people facing eviction or homelessness to New Yorkers who earn above what current rules allow," reports Gothamist. "Tenants who receive CityFHEPS assistance typically pay 30% of their income toward rent, and city-funded vouchers cover the rest."

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QUICK HITS

• "Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has found himself at the forefront of Venezuela's crisis after [Nicolas] Maduro declared himself the victor of an election his opponents say was fraudulent," reports Bloomberg. "The dispute and Maduro's subsequent crackdown on dissent have thrust the leader of Latin America's largest nation into an increasingly uncomfortable position. The Venezuelan president is an old ally who still has the support of many within Lula's leftist Workers' Party, which endorsed Maduro's victory this week. The opposition and the growing list of global leaders who back it, meanwhile, have appealed to Lula's efforts to paint himself as a defender of democracy, especially after he rallied international support for fair elections in his own race just two years ago."
• For this week's Just Asking Questions release, we interviewed Vivek Ramaswamy (beware, there were technical issues so the quality is suboptimal at times):

• Blake Masters defeated in Arizona:

BREAKING: Abraham Hamadeh wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Arizona's 8th Congressional District. #APRaceCall at 5:27 p.m. MST. https://t.co/FjgpZFcJ4E

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) August 1, 2024

• Several journalists, including The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich, were just released from Russian prison in a swap. In total, 16 people were returned to America and European allies while eight were returned to Russia.

The @WSJ's piece about the secret negotiations to free Evan Gershkovich ends with an incredible anecdote: pic.twitter.com/wM7aWu44tu

— David Gura (@davidgura) August 1, 2024

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[Ra's al Gore]

WaPo, in March, before the new talking points were about her awesomeness.

Opinion For the country’s sake, Vice President Harris should step aside
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/15/kamala-harris-quit-biden-2024/

...Her performance as second in command has been disappointing, to say the least. Americans have taken note. Though Democrats unsurprisingly like her more than Republicans do, a recent analysis by FiveThirtyEight set her average overall approval rating at just 37.2 percent, among the lowest recorded for a vice president.

There’s no reason to think her ranking would spike were she suddenly promoted to the Oval Office. Instead, most signs point to disaster. This is why I propose with all due respect that Harris step away from the ticket.

[Don't look at me!]

Like she would do that.

[Rob Misek]

Jews profit by furthering their own interests at the expense of everyone else.

The US involvement in the Middle East conflict began when Rothschild entered an agreement with Britain to fool the antiwar US into joining WW1 in exchange for the promise of Palestine via the Balfour Declaration. Something nobody had any right to do and cost millions of lives by extending the war long after Germany offered a peaceful return to pre war conditions.

Then unhappy with the slow movement on their theft of Palestine, Jews organized global boycotts of Germany in 1933 to intentionally force them into WW2 and hasten Jewish immigration to Palestine. Again destroying millions of lives to serve only Jewish interests.

Between 1900 and 1945 Jews using newspapers around the world had falsely claimed to be victims of holocausts using the cabbalistic number of 6 million deaths, on no less than 166 separate occasions.

After a successful WW2 propaganda campaign Jews stole Palestine in 1948 referencing the Balfour declaration and using US and British aid to start the Middle East conflict which rages to this day.

Now after the US has supported 76 years of Israeli occupation, apartheid and terrorism of Palestinians Israel itself is committing a holocaust in Gaza again with unrestricted allied assistance.

Israel is on trial in the highest court of the UN for committing genocide. They have refused to stop their offensive of genocidal destruction despite being ruled to by the UN. The UN has ruled that Israel needs to return the land to the Palestinians they stole it from and pay reparations. Again they refuse.

Israel and every nation providing them assistance are violating their signatory obligations to the United Nations genocide convention.

What kind of lying wastes of skin, sign, ratify and renege when caught in the act? Kol Nidre liars.

The Middle East conflict has always been about the Jewish selfish desire to steal Palestine.

Through the secretive satanic channels of freemasonry, Jews pull government strings around the world.

Don’t feel bad about being fooled by these satanic liars. They’ve been perfecting deception and entrenching it in their religion and society for millennia.

It’s why they must have secret societies whose members choose greed over ethics and self respect. It’s also why they end up being persecuted by the victims of their behaviour wherever they live, throughout history.

Look at the fat Jewish lesbian mocking Christianity at the Olympic opening ceremony. Satanism on full display.

If it wasn’t for free speech on global social media, few of us would recognize the truth.

Choose! The red pill or the blue pill.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Whats a word that starts with r. No. Not retard. Ends with efuted.

Thats right.

Refuted.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

FOAD, Nazi pile of shit.

[Mother's Lament]

Joooz! Sevo the Jooooooozzzz!

Say guys. Have you ever noticed that Jeff/Plug/KAR always find the time to write 500 pages of rage when someone says Trump is alright, but when Misek shows up to rant about Jews they are nowhere to be found?

[KARtikeya]

I have him muted. Besides there’s plenty of people who rightly tell the Nazi to fuck off.

[Mother's Lament]

What, not socking as me this morning?

[KARtikeya]

I have seen that you have been accusing me of being the person who’s impersonating you. I just wanted to be clear that it isn’t me.

[Mother's Lament]

Where have you 'seen' that KAR?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Factio Democratica delenda est 5/30/24)]

Refuted.

[Mother's Lament]

Refuted.

Look at the fat Jewish lesbian mocking Christianity at the Olympic opening ceremony.

Yeshua Hamashiach was a Jew.

Choose! The red pill or the blue pill.

Misek chose blue every single time.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

How do we get him to choose the black capsule?

[Rob Misek]

As the story goes he was killed by Jews for telling them how fucked up they are and flipped them the ultimate bird by rising from the dead and forming a much better religion with far more followers worldwide.

Christianity isn’t going away Jew.

[Dillinger]

everybody profits by furthering their own interests.

[charliehall]

To paraphrase Mary McCarthy (Trotskyite) about Lillian Hellman (Stalinist), everything you wrote is a lie, including the words "and" and "the".

[Rob Misek]

Fuck you Kol Nidre boy.

Samuel Landman was the solicitor and secretary to the UK Zionist organization Fromm 1917 to 1922.

“While the “Balfour Declaration” was a less than ringing endorsement of Zionism, Zionists considered it a major breakthrough, because it cracked open a door that they would later force wider and wider open. In fact, many credit this as a key factor in the creation of Israel.[xix]

These Balfour-WWI negotiations are referred to in various documents.

Samuel Landman, secretary of the World Zionist Organization, described them in detail in a 1936 article in World Jewry. He explained that a secret “gentleman’s agreement” had been made in 1916 between the British government and Zionist leaders:

After an understanding had been arrived at between Sir Mark Sykes and [Zionists] Weizmann and Sokolow, it was resolved to send a secret message to Justice Brandeis that the British Cabinet would help the Jews to gain Palestine in return for active Jewish sympathy and for support in the USA for the Allied cause, so as to bring about a radical pro-Ally tendency in the United States.[xx]”

xx] John and Hadawi, Palestine Diary, 72. Citation: World Jewry, March 1, 1935.

“Former British Prime Minister Lloyd George similarly referred to the deal, telling a British commission in 1935: “Zionist leaders gave us a definite promise that, if the Allies committed themselves to giving facilities for the establishment of a national home for the Jews in Palestine, they would do their best to rally Jewish sentiment and support throughout the world to the Allied cause. They kept their word.”[xxiv]”

[xxiv] Mulhall, America, 62.

““The Balfour Declaration, in the words of Professor H. M. V. Temperley, was ‘a definite contract between the British Government and Jewry.’ The main consideration given by the Jewish people (represented at the time by the leaders of the Zionist Organisation) was their help in bringing President Wilson to the aid of the Allies.”

Samuel Landman, “Great Britain, the Jews and Palestine,” New Zionist (London), 1936.

[Rob Misek]

These are properly referenced quotes from Jewish leaders demonstrating that they had intended to create and force Germany into WW2 and were openly taking credit for starting WW2.

“We Jews are going to bring a war on Germany”. David A Brown, national chairman, united Jewish campaign, 1934.

“The Israeli people around the world declare economic and financial war against Germany …holy war against Hitlers people”

Chaim Weismann, the Zionist leader, 8 September 1939, Jewish chronicle.

The Toronto evening telegram of 26 February 1940 quoted rabbi Maurice l. Perlzweig of the world Jewish Congress as telling a Canadian audience that” The world Jewish Congress has been at war with Germany for seven years”.

[Don't look at me!]

Refuted!

[Rob Misek]

1900 — Stephen S. Wise, New York Times, June 11, 1900

“There are 6,000,000 living, bleeding, suffering arguments in favor of Zionism.”

1902 — Encyclopedia Britannica, 10th Edition, Vol. 25, 1902, page 482

“While there are in Russia and Rumania six millions of Jews who are being systematically degraded…”

1902 — Samuel W. Goldstein, New York Times, November 27, 1902

“PLEA FOR ZIONISM…In answer I would say: Does Dr. Silverman represent the 6,000,000 Jews in Russia, 300,000 in Roumania and the 1,000,000 in Galicia?”

1903 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), September 18th, 1903, page 6

“…six million downtrodden brethren.”

1904 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), February 19th, 1904, page 2

“…where five or six million people existed under persecution.”

1904 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), October 7th, 1904, page 1

“…the final and definite deliverance of the six millions of Russian, Roumanian and Galician Jews…transporting five or six million people over the sea.”

1904 — Israel Zangwill, New York Times, October 20, 1904

“The problem does not relate to the American Jews, but to the 6,000,000 in Russia. The Russian Government has consented to allow the Jews to leave,”

1905 — New York Times, January 29th, 1905

“He declared that a free and a happy Russia, with its 6,000,000 Jews, would possibly mean the end of Zionism, since the abolition of the autocracy would practically eliminate the causes that brought Zionism into existence.”

1905 — New York Times, November 1st, 1905

“From 1800 to 1902 he caused 6,000,000 Jewish families to be expelled from Russia…”

1906 — New York Times, March 25th, 1906

“…the condition and future of Russia’s 6,000,000 Jews were made on March 12 in Berlin to the annual meeting of the Central Jewish Relief League of Germany by Dr. Paul Nathan…He left St. Petersburg with the firm conviction that the Russian Government’s studied policy for the “solution” of the Jewish question is systematic and murderous extermination.”

1907 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), October 18th, 1907, page 13

“…for six million people cannot emigrate.”

1908 — Deseret Evening News, March 17th, 1908

“…poverty, starvation and disease are the afflictions which now beset thesix million Jews in that country and Roumania.”

1908 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), August 7th, 1908

“…when six million Russian Jews are crying…”

1910 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), February 4th, 1910

“SIX MILLION BABIES SAVED BY STRAUS.”

1911 — Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Vol. 2, 1911, page 145

“While there remain in Russia and Rumania over six millions of Jews who are being systematically degraded…”

1911 — Max Nordeau speaking at The 1911 Zionist Congress. Hecht, Ben. Perfidy. NY; Julian Messner. 1961. page 254

“But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people,”

1911 — Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (IN), June 4th, 1911, page 15

“PRINCE, PRIEST AND PEASANT WAGE WAR AGAINST SIX MILLION JEWS”

1911 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), August 18th, 1911, page 14

“Very soon a fervid Russian patriotism will reign in every Ghetto, and the melting-up of the race begin. But this absorption of the five or six million Jews…”

1911 — Max Nordeau, The Jewish Chronicle (London), August 18th, 1911, page 14

“…the downfall of six million creatures…for no war has ever yet destroyed six million human lives.”

1911 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), August 25th, 1911

“…six million Jews are still groaning under the most terrible yoke.”

1911 — Max Nordeau, The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), September 1st, 1911, page 3

“…the downfall of six million creatures…for no war has ever yet destroyed six million human lives.”

1911 — Max Nordeau, The Reform Advocate (Chicago), September 9th, 1911

“…the downfall of six million creatures…for no war has ever yet destroyed six million human lives.”

1911 — New York Times, October 31st, 1911

“The 6,000,000 Jews of Russia are singled out for systematic oppression and for persecution due to process of law.”

1912 — American Jewish Year Book 5672 (23 Sept. 1911–11 Sept. 1912), page 308

“Russia has since 1890 adopted a deliberate plan to expel or exterminate six millions of its people for no other reason than that they refuse to become members of the Greek Church, but prefer to remain Jews.”

1912 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), January 5th, 1912

“…more than six million Jews reside in small towns and villages there is no Sabbath question.”

1912 — Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, New York Tribune, September 11th, 1912, page 9

“Russia is now asphyxiating the Jews. It does not dare to offend the nations by blood spilling, so it is slowly, but surely grinding out the lives of 6,000,000 Jews.”

1913 — Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (IN), October 18th, 1913, page 4

“There are six million Jews in Russia and the government is anxious to annihilate them by methods that provoke protests from the civilized world.”

1914 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), July 10th, 1914, page 9

“…where six million Jews are suffering…”

1914 — New York Times, December 2nd, 1914, page 12

“APPEAL FOR AID FOR JEWS….the plight of more than 6,000,000 Jews…upon the Jewish people, more than nine millions of whom live in the countries at war and over six million of these in the actual war zone in Poland, Galicia and the whole of Russian frontier.”

1915 — New York Times, January 14th, 1915, page 3

“In the world today there are about 13,000,000 Jews, of whom more than 6,000,000 are in the heart of the war zone; Jews whose lives are at stake and who today are subjected to every manner of suffering and sorrow…”

1915 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), March 19th, 1915

“How the casting of six million people into the deepest abyss of servitude and outlawry is to relieve tension we cannot understand.”

1915 — The Sun (NY), June 6, 1915, section 5, page 1

“Six million Jews, one-half of the Jewish people throughout the world, are being persecuted, hounded, humiliated, tortured, starved….six million Jews in Russia…are being tortured so mercilessly.”

1915 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), June 25th, 1915

“The annihilation of the six million Jews now congregated in the Russian domains goes on in a well defined and systematic manner.”

1915 — Jacob de Hass, The Boston Sunday Globe, September 26th, 1915, page 46

“Indeed the only point that all warring elements are agreed upon is that at the end of the holocaust the Jews and Palestine will be more closely related than at present.”

1915 — New York Tribune, October 14th, 1915

“What the Turks are doing to Armenians is child’s play compared to what Russia is doing to six million Jews, her own subjects.”

1915 — The Mercury, December 4th, 1915

“…six millions of Russian and Polish Jews are to-day the most pitiable victims of that race hatred and that race fanaticism which have been the creed of Germany…”

1916 — The Jews in the Eastern War Zone, The American Jewish Committee, 1916

“…where six million human beings guilty only of adherence to the Jewish faith are compelled to live out their lives in squalor and misery, in constant terror of massacre…estimated at six million or more…of these six million people…a kind of prison with six million inmates…The persons most affected, the six million Jews of Russia…The Jews are loyal and brave, and it is most inadvisable to pursue a policy which might convert six million subjects into enemies….the six million Jews of Russia still continued…nearly three of the six million…”

1916 — Oakland Tribune (CA), January 25th, 1916, page 1

“The President of the United States — 6,000,000 Starving, Homeless, People — and January 27th Why should the President, by proclamation to the people of the nation, fix upon january 27th as the day for contributing towards the relief of over six million Jews located in the Far Eastern War Zone?”

1916 — Oakland Tribune (CA), January 26th, 1916, page 1 (FRONT PAGE ADVERT 2 DAYS RUNNING)

“The President of the United States — 6,000,000 Starving, Homeless, People — and January 27th Why should the President, by proclamation to the people of the nation, fix upon January 27th as the day for contributing towards the relief of over six million Jews located in the Far Eastern War Zone?”

1916 — North Devon Journal, March 9th, 1916, page 7

“In Poland, in Southern and Western Russia, six million Jews resided when the War broke out. They lived there in the pale of settlement, in poverty, and were terribly overcrowded.”

1916 — Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (IN), March 12th, 1916, page 34

“…six million Jews reported starving in the warring countries.”

1916 — The Tacoma Times, February 28th, 1916

“…there were 6,000,000 Jews in Europe absolutely without food or resources.”

1916 — New York Times, February 28th, 1916

“Nearly six million Jews are ruined in the greatest moral and material misery; millions of them are refugees, dependent upon the good will of their brethren.”

1916 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), March 3rd, 1916

“Nearly six million Jews are ruined.”

1916 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), March 31st, 1916, page 6

“Position of the Jews in Russia. The Jews in Russia, numbering about six million, are denied full political and civil rights and are economically oppressed.”

1916 — El Paso Herald, April 22nd, 1916, page 5

“Six Million Jews Are Deprived Of Papers By Russian Censorship….Six million Jews have been robbed of their newspapers.”

1916 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), August 4th, 1916

“…six million Jews…”

1917 — Corsicana Daily Sun, February 16th, 1917, page 2

“Six million Jews are living in lands where they are oppressed, exploited, crushed and robbed of every inalienable human right.”

1918 — Fort Wayne News and Sentinel (IN), June 22nd, 1918, page 1

“In the war zone of Europe there are six million Jews who have been the war’s worst sufferers,”

1918 — The Columbus Jewish Chronicle, June 28th, 1918, page 1

“Claims Palestine Has Room For Six Million…”It is quite possible for Palestine to find room for five to six millions…800,000 hectares will suffice to produce the food of six millions of people,”

1918 — The Bakersfield Californian, July 30th, 1918, page 4

“… the six million starving Jews in Poland, Galicia and other stricken Eastern provinces…”

1918 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), September 5th, 1918

“…Russia, where the bulk of the Jewish people to the number of well oversix million still dwell, is a land of blood and midnight darkness.”

1918 — The Columbus Jewish Chronicle, September 13th, 1918, page 1

“The report describes the havoc the war has caused among the six million Jews of Russia. Driven by the invading armies, the Jews have been compelled to flee from their homes;”

1918 — New York Times, October 18th, 1918

“Six million Souls Will Need Help to Resume Normal Life When War Is Ended….Committee of American Jews Lays Plans for the Greatest Humanitarian Task in History….6,000,000 Jews Need Help.”

1919 — The Bourbon News, April 1st, 1919, p.4

“… six million Jews in Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, Palestine, Turkey and Siberia who are dying of starvation,”

1919 — The Corsicana Daily Sun, April 3rd, 1919, p.5

“SIX MILLION ARE STARVING…It is estimated that there are six million Jewish women, children and aged men actually starving to death.”

1919- The Galveston Daily News, April 4th, 1919, page 3

“Six million Jews in Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, Palestine, Turkey and Siberia are dying of starvation….These six million despairing souls are totally dependent on American generosity for the bare necessities of life.”

1919 — The Watchman and Southron, April 5th, 1919

“Six million Jews in Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, Palestine, Turkey and Siberia are dying of starvation….These six million despairing souls are totally dependent on American generosity for the bare necessities of life.”

1919 — The Galveston Daily News, April 5th, 1919, page 5

“Six million Jews are dying of starvation.”

1919 — The Galveston Daily News, April 6th, 1919, page 8

“The American Jewish Relief Committee is endeavoring to save from starvation six million Jews who are the helpless victims of the German terror.”

1919 — El Paso Herald., April 7th, 1919

“…to save from starvation six million Jews who are the helpless victims of the German Terror.”

1919 — San Antonio Express, April 8th, 1919, page 15

“The American Jewish Relief Committee is endeavoring to save from starvation six million Jews who are the helpless victims of the German terror.”

1919 — The Corsicana Daily Sun, April 9th, 1919, page 8

“THE AMERICAN JEWISH RELIEF COMMITTEE IS ENDEAVOURING TO SAVE FROM STARVATION SIX MILLION JEWS WHO ARE THE HELPLESS VICTIMS OF THE GERMAN TERROR”

1919- San Antonio Express, April 9th, 1919, page 12

“At no other time in the history of the Jewish people has the need been so great as now. Six million of our brothers and sisters are dying of starvation. The entire race is threatened with extinction.”

1919 — The Wellington Leader (TX), April 11th, 1919, page 1

“We wish to call the attention of our people to the great drive that is on to raise funds for the relief of the six million Jews who are starving in the war ridden districts of the east.”

1919 — The Corsicana, Semi-Weekly Light, April 11th, 1919, page 5

“THE AMERICAN JEWISH RELIEF COMMITTEE IS ENDEAVOURING TO SAVE FROM STARVATION SIX MILLION JEWS WHO ARE THE HELPLESS VICTIMS OF THE GERMAN TERROR”

1919 — The Daily Courier (PA), August 4th, 1919, section 2, page 1

“APPEALS TO AMERICA TO ACT QUICKLY IF LIVES OF SOME SIX MILLION JEWS ARE TO BE SAVED…The lives of some six million people are at stake.”

1919 — The Fulton Patriot, September 3rd, 1919, page 4

“WORLD JEWRY AT GREATEST CRISIS Leaders in America Striving to Save Race in Europe From Destruction….All told, many million Christians and more than 6,000,000 Jews in countries other than the United States are being directly aided by American Jewish relief funds.”

1919 — New York Times, September 8th, 1919, page 6

“127,000 Jews Have Been Killed and 6,000,000 Are in Peril….6,000,000 souls in Ukrainia and in Poland have received notice through action and by word that they are going to be completely exterminated — this fact stands before the whole world as the paramount issue of the present day.”

1919 — The Fort Wayne News and Sentinel, September 17th, 1919, section 2, page 1

“…six million Jews are dying of starvation and where vast numbers of them — innocent victims of the ravages of war — wander homeless, and in rags.”

1919 — Rushville Daily Republican, September 29th, 1919, page 4

“The thought that as I walk the streets of this properous and happy town there are 6,000,000 people in other lands without food, shelter or raiment is disturbing….When I read, as I have read all my life, of the persecution and slaughter of the Jews I am not proud of my own race or my religion….Six million people perishing!”

1919 — Tipton Tribune, September 29th, 1919, page 2

“The thought that as I walk the streets of this properous and happy town there are 6,000,000 people in other lands without food, shelter or raiment is disturbing….When I read, as I have read all my life, of the persecution and slaughter of the Jews I am not proud of my own race or my religion….Six million people perishing!”

1919 — The Washington Democrat, October 2nd, 1919, page 1

“The thought that as I walk the streets of this prosperous and happy town there are 6,000,000 people in other lands without food, shelter or raiment is disturbing….When I read, as I have read all my life, of the persecution and slaughter of the Jews I am not proud of my own race or my religion….Six million people perishing!”

1919 — Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, October 1st, 1919, page 4

“The thought that as I walk the streets of this prosperous and happy town there are 6,000,000 people in other lands without food, shelter or raiment is disturbing….When I read, as I have read all my life, of the persecution and slaughter of the Jews I am not proud of my own race or my religion….Six million people perishing!”

1919 — Janesville Daily Gazette (WI), October 4th, 1919, page 4

“…the Feast Day of Rosh Hashonah. It was not a feast day for some six million starving Jews of Europe because every day for the past four years has been a fast day for them….the five year fast that has been the lot of the 6,000,000 Jews in Europe.”

1919 — Sheboygan Press (WI), October 4th, 1919, page 2

“…the Feast Day of Rosh Hashonah. It was not a feast day for some six million starving Jews of Europe because every day for the past four years has been a fast day for them….the five year fast that has been the lot of the 6,000,000 Jews in Europe.”

1919 — The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (IN), October 6th, 1919, page 3

“With six million of their population in absolute want, they are unable alone to render sufficient aid…There are to-day to be found in the ten provinces of Russia, Poland and the fifteen provinces called the ‘Pale of Settlement’ six millions of these peaceful and law abiding people…We do not see with our eyes the evidences of want and degradation into which six million Jews have been thrown suddenly through no fault of their own.”

1919 — Indiana Weekly Messenger, October 9th, 1919, page 1 & 4

“Life for six millions in the shadow of death!…Six millions mean what?…Six million souls, old men, old women, and little children in Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Palestine, Glaicia, Turkey, Syria, Roumania, Greece, and Bulgaria are in imminent danger of starving to death this winter….The responsibility of maintaining life in these six million sufferers rests upon every man and woman in the United States…Helping the Jews in their extremity is not helping the Bolsheviks,” the speaker emphatically declared.”

1919 — Schenectady Gazette, October 16th, 1919, page 15

“Today 6,000,000 Jews Are Facing the Darkest Days Ever Known in the Long History of the Race.”

1919 — Titusville Herald, October 18th, 1919, page 4

“… Jewish Relief Fund…Contribute Today, the Last Day and Help Save From Death Six Millions of Starving People.”

1919 — San Francisco Chronicle, October 19th, 1919, page 18

“6,000,000 JEWS IN BREAD LINE, STRAUS WRITES. More Than Third of Entire Race in World Reduced to Despair in Europe….Six million Jews, out of the 16,000,000 in the world…”

1919 — Cape Vincent Eagle, October 23rd, 1919

“…there are six million people in other lands without food, shelter or raiment is disturbing….When read, as I have read all my life, of the persecution and slaughter of the Jews I am not proud of my own race or of my religion.”

1919 — The American Hebrew, October 31st, 1919, page 582

“The Crucifixion of Jews Must Stop! From across the sea six million men and women call to us for help…Within them reside the illimitable possibilities for the advancement of the human race as naturally would reside in six million human beings….In this catastrophe, when six million human beings are being whirled toward the grave by a cruel and relentless fate, only the most idealistic promptings of human nature should sway the heart and move the hand. Six million men and women are dying from lack of the necessaries of life […] bigoted lust for Jewish blood. In this threatened holocaust of human life in the name of the humanity of Moses to six million famished men and women. Six million men and women are dying…six million Jewish men and women are starring across the seas…”

1919 — The Evening Tribune Providence, October 31st, 1919, page 11

“In the midst of our campaign for the relief of the six million Jews of Eastern Europe…”

1919 — The Record (Johnson City, NY), November 1st, 1919, page 8

“There are 6,000,000 Jews in eastern Europe whom the war has left dependent upon America for aid.”

1919 — Beatrice Daily Sun (NE), November 8th, 1919, page 2

“The territory which Mr. Hoover visited is but a part of that in which 6,000,000 Jews, suffers of war and war’s equally horrible after-math, stand helpless today,…The Need: SIX MILLION STARVING SOULS. Six million Jews in Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, Palestine, Turkey and Siberia are dying of starvation….These six million despairing souls are totally dependent on American generosity for the bare necessities of life. The Object: $35,000,000 for 6,000,000 LIVES”

1919 — Lebanon Daily News (PA), November 11th, 1919, page 2

“DISEASE AND STARVATION IN POLAND Lieut. Wright Tells of Half Starved People Clad in Rags BREAD OUT OF LEAVES Says 6,000,000 Face Death This Winter Unless Given Immediate Relief…6,000,000 Face Death…Six million Jews in eastern Europe face death during the coming winter,”

1919 — Felix M. Warburg, New York Times, November 12th, 1919

“The Jews were the worst sufferers in the war. The successive blows of contending armies have all but broken the back of European Jewry and have reduced to tragically unbelievable poverty, starvation and disease about6,000,000 souls, or half the Jewish population of the earth.”

1919 — Gouvernur Free Press, November 12th, 1919

“Six Million Men and Women Are Dying… Won’t You Help Them?…From across the sea six million men and women call to us for help…in six million human beings…In this catastrophe, when six million human beings are being whirled toward the grave by a cruel and relentless fate…Six million men and women are dying…Six million men and women are dying…Because of this war for Democracy six million Jewish men and women are starving across the seas…Six million men and women of the race that helped do the greatest of the world’s work are falling into the grave!…six million famished men and women now turn mute eyes of appeal…”

1919 — Chester Times (PA), November 28th, 1919, page 15

“There are 6,000,000 Jews in Eastern Europe whom the war has left dependent upon us for aid.”

1919 — Ironwood News Record (MI), December 6th, 1919, page 9

“For First Time in History of Race, Jews Are Asking Others For Help….They are doing it because six million Jews in eastern and central Europe are actually in need of food at this moment….The problem of 6,000,000starving men, women and little children ought to be the problem of all humanity.”

1919 — Lima News (OH), December 24th, 1919, page 3

“Today Six Million Jews Are Facing the Darkest Days Ever Known In the History of the Race.”

1919 — The Toledo News-Bee, December 27th, 1919

“Six Million Human Beings Are Suffering the Tortures of Disease, Hunger and Death…American Jewish Relief Committee”

1920 — Van Wert Daily Bulletin (OH), January 5, 1920, page 3

“… Jewish relief work in Europe and Asia. There are six million Jews in the two continents who because of the war have been made destitute.”

1920 — Manti Messenger (Utah), March 19, 1920

“Just now some six million of Jews, eight hundred thousand of them just children, are in imminent danger of starvation in eastern Europe.”

1920 — Tulsa Daily World, April 11th, 1920, section B, page 14

“Today 6,000,000 Jews Are Facing the Darkest Days Ever Known in the Long History of the Race”

1920 — Utica Herald-Dispatch, April 20th, 1920, page 9

“Today 6,000,000 Jews Are Facing the Darkest Days Ever Known in the Long History of the Race.”

1920 — New York Times, May 1st, 1920, page 8

“Just Another Drive, but the Lives of 6,000,000 Human Beings Wait Upon the Answer.”

1920 — New York Times, May 2nd, 1920, page 1

“…six million human beings, without food, shelter, clothing or medical treatment.”

1920 — New York Times, May 3rd, 1920, page 11

“Your help is needed to save the lives of six million people in Eastern and Central Europe.”

1920 — New York Times, May 5th, 1920, page 9

“…to save six million men and women in Eastern Europe from extermination by hunger and disease.”

1920 — New York Times, May 5th, 1920, page 19

“Six million starving, fever-stricken sufferers in war-torn Europe appeal to us.”

1920 — New York Times, May 7th, 1920

“…Jewish war sufferers in Central and Eastern Europe where six millions face horrifying conditions of famine, disease and death.

1920 — Ogden Standard Examiner, August 8, 1920, page 9

“PUSH DRIVE FOR JEWISH RELIEF…Mr. Bond declared today that there aresix million jews (sic) in eastern and central Europe whom the war has left dependent upon America.”

1920 — The Ogden Standard-Examiner, August 20th, 1920

“…there are six million Jews in eastern and central Europe whom the war has left dependent upon America.”

1920 — New York Tribune, August 29th, 1920

“Six million Jews were made homeless by five years of foreign and domestic wars.”

1921 — New York Times, July 20, 1921, page 2

“BEGS AMERICA SAVE 6,000,000 IN RUSSIA. Russia’s 6,000,000 Jews are facing extermination by massacre.”

1922 — Lowell Sun (MA), March 22nd, 1922, page 14

“The Jews in the immediate district for which the aid of the war sufferers’ campaign is to be given numbered over six million….Over 300,000 orphans, over 150,000 descrated women, over six million wandering Jews walking, crawling in their misery, feeding on the bark of trees and on herbs that drow by the wayside.”

1926 — Encyclopedia Britannica, 13th Edition, Vol. 1, 1926, page 145

“While there remain in Russia and Rumania over six millions of Jews who are being systematically degraded…”

1926 — Canadian Jewish Review, April 9th, 1926, page 4

“…the extreme need of 6,000,000 Jews in Russia and Poland,”

1926 — New York Times, April 21st, 1926

“In Heaven’s Name, Arouse the Jews of America! New York’s Quota: $6,000,000 United Jewish Campaign of New York”

1931 — The Montreal Gazette, December 28th, 1931, page 25

“SIX MILLION JEWS FACE STARVATION….FEARS CRISIS AT HAND….six million Jews in Eastern Europe face starvation, and even worse, during the coming winter.”

1932 — Symphony of Six Million, film, April 29th, 1932

Directed by Gregory La Cava, written by Fannie Hurst (story), J. Walter Ruben, Bernard Schubert (screenplay), starring Ricardo Cortez.

1933 — New York Times, March 29, 1933

“It is now active in relief and reconstructive work in Eastern Europe where 6,000,000 Jews are involved.”

1933 — New York Times, June 1st, 1933, page 6

“Dr. Margoshes said he had received a letter from the poet at Zurich a few days ago, stating that she had ‘run away from the holocaust…’”

1933 — The Jewish Western Bulletin, September 21st, 1933

“At this period of human persecution and of human destruction, when life, especially Jewish life has ceased to be of any value in the cruel land of bloody Germany, when the lives of hundreds of thousands are tortured and hang in the balance — during this holocaust…”

1935 — New York Times, September 8th, 1935, page 26

“The preliminary session of the first world conference of the Federation of Polish Jews being attended by sixty delegates from eighteen countries representing 6,000,000 Jews…”

1936 — Chaim Weizmann: Reden und Aufsatze 1901–1936. jud. Bucherverlag Erwin Lowe, Berlin 1937, page 272–4

“It is no exaggeration to say that six million Jews are sentenced to be imprisoned in this part of the world, where they are unwanted, and for whom the countries are divided into those, where they are unwanted, and those, where they are not admitted….It is ultimately the fate of six million people!”

1936 — New York Times, May 31st, 1936, page 14

“AMERICANS APPEAL FOR JEWISH REFUGE. The petition, in expressing the opinion of enlightened Christian leadership in the United States, favoring a larger Jewish immigration into Palestine, stressed the intolerable sufferings of the millions of Jews in “the European holocaust.”…to save these unfortunate millions from total annihilation…”

1936 — The Jewish Western Bulletin, June 2nd, 1936, page 3

“Great Britain has it within her power to throw open the gates of Palestine and let in the victimized and persecuted Jews escaping from the European holocaust.”

1936 — The Montreal Gazette, August 8th, 1936, page 5

“Delegates of 32 Nations Represent six million Hebrews.”

1936 — Chaim Weizmann, The (London) Times, November 26th, 1936

“While in Western Europe many individual Jews had happy homes, in Eastern Europe there were 6,000,000 unwanted unfortunates who were condemned to be penned up in places where they could not live….the presence of these 6,000,000 people without a future whose condition was a threat to Europe.”

1936 — Chaim Weizmann, The Jewish Western Bulletin, December 11th, 1936, page 3

“…where six million Jews are in a position which is neither life nor death.”

1936 — New York Post, December 11th, 1936, page 19

“JEWISH RELIEF BOARD TO HEAR LEHMAN SUNDAY Gathering to consider the crisis confronting 6,000,000 Jews in Central and Eastern Europe,”

1937 — Fitchburg Sentinel, February 17th, 1937, page 1 & 11

“Stating that “6,000,000 Jews in central Europe have neither life nor death because of extreme persecution,” Mrs Emanuel Halpern of New York city, member of the national board of Hadassah urged…Today there are 6,000,000 million (sic) Jews in central Europe who have neither life nor death.”

1937 — Jewish Western Bulletin, December 31st, 1937

“The number six million is often used to describe the Jewish population of Central and Eastern Europe.”

1938 — New York Times, January 9th, 1938, page 12

“PERSECUTED JEWS SEEN ON INCREASE. 6,000,000 VICTIMS NOTED….Five tosix million in all are today the victims of governmental anti-Semitism…”

1938 — New York Times, February 23rd, 1938, page 23

“A depressing picture of 6,000,000 Jews in Central Europe deprived of protection or economic opportunities, slowly dying of starvation, all hope gone…Now anti-Semitism has spread to thirteen European nations, and threatens the very existence of millions of Jews.”

1938 — The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), April 1st, 1938, page 15

“I shall not comment upon the first except to remind you that six million Jews in Europe are struggling between life and death.”

1938 — The Guardian, April 4th, 1938, page 11

“Six million Jews at this moment are trapped like rats…”

1938 — New York Times, May 2nd, 1938

“The rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe today, which has deprived more than 6,000,000 Jews and non-Aryans of a birthright…”

1938 — The Jews of Central Europe by Jacob Lestshinsky, in Jewish Frontier, Vol. 5, № 6, June 1938, page 13

“EVERY NATION is morally compelled to face the bitter truth. This article is written not with the intent of bewailing our plight but in order to arrive at a factual calculation of the status of six million Jews in Central and Eastern Europe and of the prospects that exist in the lands of immigration.”

1938 — Port Arthur News, June 9th, 1938, page 1

“It is estimated that nearly six million Jews have been driven from their homes by ruthless oppressors and stripped not only of their property but their right to work for a living.”

1938 — Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 16th, 1938, page 18

“Judge Lewis urged American members of the race to swing moral and financial powers into the channels of evacuating some 6,000,000 Jews to Palestine.”

1938 — Turtle Mountain Star, Rolla, North Dakota, October 6th, 1938

“Five or six million Jews, uprooted by dictatorship and tossed about by economic storms, may have to depend upon the development of the Holy Land, under British mandate, as a solution to their difficulties. But they face the hostility of the Arabs living there, whose economic and religious interests conflict with theirs….protects the settlers from the raiding Arabs….The Arabs Are Coming!…The dreaded Mohammedan raiders have been sighted by a neighbor settler…”

1938 — The Times, November 22nd, 1938

“Mass emigration of Jews to Palestine for two years and the formation of a Jewish national assembly was advocated by Sir John Haslam, M.P., in a message which he sent to a public meeting at the Kingsway Hall last night held by the New Zionist Organization. The message stated that the problem now involved some 6,000,000 Jews.”

1939 — New York Times, January 15th, 1939, page 27

“Rabbi Silver wanted assistance to Jewish emigration safeguarded so that European governments would realize that ‘it is impossible to evacuate6,000,000 Jews.’”

1939 — The Binghampton Press, January 18, 1939, page 8

“IRISH PLEA — Deputy Robert Briscoe, only Jewish member of the Irish Parliament, arrives in New York city to begin a campaign to enlist Americans in a plan for resettling approximately 6,000,000 Jews in Palestine.”

1939 — The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, January 27th, 1939

“Only six million Jews remain at the moment safe. But they will have to carry the burden.”

1939 — Chaim Weizmann, The Palestine Post, February 14th, 1939

“The fate of six million people was in balance…”

1939 — The Jewish Criterion, February 17th, 1939, page 20

“The fate of six million people is in the balance….They supported their stand with a declaration that Jews never needed unrestricted immigration to Palestine as much as at present, with 6,000,000 Jewish refugees seeking a haven.”

1939 — The Evening Independent, February 22nd, 1939, page 1

“6,000,000 Helpless….there are six million Jews in Europe today fighting desperately against intolerance and despair. For them the support of the united appeal is crucial.”

1939 — The Jewish Western Bulletin, March 3rd, 1939

“SIX MILLION JEWS OVERSEAS FACING PERSECUTION, DISCRIMINATION AND ECONOMIC RUIN…”

1939 — The Advocate, March 17, 1939. The Advocate: America’s Jewish Journal. Vols. 95–98. 1939, page 47

“If the six million Jews that constitute the European scene were removed from the lands where they now dwell the forces of brutality and ruthlessness would still continue to operate.”

1939 — The Jewish Criterion, April 7th, 1939, page 4

“Not in Hitler’s Hands, In Yours…The Fate Of Six Million European Jews”

1939 — The Jewish Criterion, April 7th, 1939, page 33

“…six million Jewish people who are in dire need today.”

1939 — The Jewish Criterion, April 14th, 1939, page 4

“Recent events in Central Europe have brought to 6,000,000 the total number of Jews in Central and Eastern European countries affected by anti-Semitic activities”

1939 — The Jewish Criterion, April 14th, 1939, page 6

“…whether our 6,000,000 fellow countrymen will live or die…More than a million refugees, starving, tortured, fear-dazed, have been dragged from their homes, separated from their families, expelled from their countries. Five million more, await with horror the moment this misery will strike them…”

1939 — Chester Times (PA), April 20th, 1939, page 6

“Six million Jews are the stepchildren of fate in Europe today.”

1939 — The Jewish Criterion, April 21st, 1939, page 15

“…the distress and suffering of 6,000,000 Jews in Europe….HAVE YOU DONE YOUR DUTY? THE UNITED JEWISH FUND NEEDS YOUR HELP FOR THE HELPLESS 6,000,000 IN EUROPE

1939 — The Jewish Criterion, April 28th, 1939, page 3

“…6,000,000 fellow Jews who are in distress today.”

1939 — The Niagara Falls Gazette, May 1st, 1939, page 15

“ITHACA RABBI SAYS FREE JEWS MUST AID HARASSED BRETHREN Six million Jews Are Refugees, Members of B’nai B’rith Lodges Told. Three-eights of the world’s Jewish population of 16,000,000 persons, or approximately 6,000,000persons, are potential refugees….Rabbis Fischoff declared that the6,000,000 Jews or Christians of Jewish extraction are in real of imminent danger due to the spread of totalitarianism in the world.”

1939 — The Jewish Criterion, May 5th, 1939, page 9

“PLIGHT OF 6,000,000…The 6,000,000 European Jews…”

1939 — The Jewish Criterion, May 12th, 1939, page 7

“The year of 1939 is the year of the most critical struggle of 6,000,000 European Jews.”

1939 — Western Morning News (Devon, UK), June 8th, 1939, page 6

PLIGHT OF THE UNWANTED…A little more than a month ago Lord Winterton, chairman of the Evian Committee, declared that the potential problem concerned five or six million Jews.”

1939 — Ohio Jewish Chronicle, June 30th, 1939, page 1

“The crisis which Jews of Europe are facing today envelopes far more than six millions souls.”

1939 — Contemporary Jewish Record, Volume 2 July/August 1939 (Published by the American Jewish Committee)

“…the coming ward would be the annihilation of the six million Jews in East and Central Europe.”

1939 — The Jewish Criterion, October 13th, 1939, page 2

“…the coming ward would be the annihilation of the six million Jews in East and Central Europe.”

1939 — Samuel Broncheck, Syracuse Herald-Journal, October 30th, 1939, page 15

“… in Poland alone there are 6,000,000 Jews who are now subject to Hitler’s persecution or Stalin’s “communizing.””

1939 — The Southern Israelite, November 28th, 1939

“…the coming ward would be the annihilation of the six million Jews in East and Central Europe.”

[Rob Misek]

Which holocaust are you referring to?

What are the chances?

[Truthfulness]

Refuted!

[Ska]

Voters are fickle, whether confronted with this media flip or not.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

FACTS CHANGED!

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Greg Price is keeping track of all her flip flopping.

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1818748980374986759

[Mother's Lament]

Poor guy, that’s like trying to manually count engine RPM.

[Longtobefree]

Interesting.
How can this be, since the Washington Post is never wrong?

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

They're so bad, they're not even wrong!

[Moderation4ever]

Why don't the Republicans just put up a better candidate to challenge her?

[Vernon Depner]

Be patient. They're not going to give up just because the first assassin missed.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Lol. You think she is a good candidate. Let me laugh harder.

[sarcasmic]

The Trump cult can't kick their own leader out.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Did Jen Psaki tell you that?

[Spiritus Mundi]

"Fake" strawcastic..

[sarcasmic]

No worries. Soon as the grandfathered grace period is over he’ll be the only one. Because there’s no way in hell I’ll pay one stinking dime to argue with you fucking idiots.

[Don't look at me!]

Poor sarc.

[Mother's Lament]

Of course you will, you're a sociopathic troll, and when you are drinking alone raging here is the only thing keeping you from hanging yourself.

[sarcasmic]

The projection is strong in this one.

[Mother's Lament]

That's right, I'm the drinker here who can't even last a week without booze.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

We already know you're a poor alcoholic.

[R Mac]

Poor sarc.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Have you tried glibertarians?

[Don't look at me!]

Yes, drop the guy who is leading in the polls.

[Mother's Lament]

No, no, hear Mod out... Paul Ryan... No, wait, better yet Chris Christie.

[R Mac]

I think he’s a Haley guy.

[Moderation4ever]

Thank you for remembering that I have supported Nicki Halley.

[damikesc]

Well, Mitt Romney fucking Mitt Romney) was a ready to enslave black people.

Who, exactly, would NOT have been the second coming of Hitler? Give a name. You know Haley would have been evil and racist if she was named.

[Vernon Depner]

Mike Dewine

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Why doesn’t your side simply think critically instead of mindlessly parroting the talking points you got from MSNBC and The Daily Show?

[Moonrocks]

Odd. That article should have been thrown down the memory hole.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Democrats are absolutely a hivemind. It's why they, and especially their allies in the mass media, all repeat the same shit regardless of what the narrative might be, even when it's 180 degrees from what they were saying five minutes before. Orwell figured it out a long time ago.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Let's face it. WAPO is just weird.

[CE]

There's a reason Obama didn't endorse Harris right away. He promised a fair and open process for selecting the nominee, because he knew the Dems could find a better candidate. Pretty much everyone on her VP list is a better candidate.

But then Harris finally showed some initiative when there was power to be seized, and rounded up enough delegates to lock up the nomination. And the lapdog media did what they could to help.

[Eeyore]

If only we could have a VP as charismatic as Agnew.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Looks like nobody cared to notice that the author of that opinion piece, Kathleen Parker, is a conservative-leaning columnists.

So, no big surprise that a conservative-leaning pundit doesn't like KamKam. Boy, you really showed them didn't you!

[Truthfulness]

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/jul/31/kathleen-parker-were-all-democrats-now/

Try harder and quit being so dishonest.

[Ra's al Gore]

Experts:

The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles
With the approval of the government, a renowned sexologist ran a dangerous program. How could this happen?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-experiment-that-placed-foster-children-with-pedophiles

In 2017, a German man who goes by the name Marco came across an article in a Berlin newspaper with a photograph of a professor he recognized from childhood. The first thing he noticed was the man’s lips. They were thin, almost nonexistent, a trait that Marco had always found repellent. He was surprised to read that the professor, Helmut Kentler, had been one of the most influential sexologists in Germany. The article described a new research report that had investigated what was called the “Kentler experiment.” Beginning in the late sixties, Kentler had placed neglected children in foster homes run by pedophiles. The experiment was authorized and financially supported by the Berlin Senate. In a report submitted to the Senate, in 1988, Kentler had described it as a “complete success.”...

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

All love is good love.

[Vernon Depner]

So I took what I could Yes I took what I could get
And then she looked at me with her big brown eyes
And said

You ain't seen nothing yet

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Jeff and shrike start packing their bags.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd's already there.

[Overt]

It really is amazing how even evil people would be limited without the backing of government institutions. There were so many instances in that story where these boys could have been saved from these child predators, and the Government repeatedly intervened to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

[Mother's Lament]

They handed those boys over to be raped by pedophiles... deliberately, and knowingly to be raped by pedophiles.

These sorts of decisions by government should land all who signed off on the program with the same charges as the pedophile.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Funny how all these influential “sexologists” turn out to be complete predatory deviants, isn’t it?

Remember, these are the “experts” that chemtard thinks all of us plebs should simply shut up and obey, because they’re “experts,” and “experts” are always right, even when they get it wrong and "correct" themselves later on, which makes them right.

[Mickey Rat]

Yes, Kinsey, Money etc. Mostly trying to find a way to normalize their own dubious predilections.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

As well as the originator of all this crap, the Hirschfeld Institute and the deviance of the Weimar Republic in general.

[Overt]

I think this is worth reiterating. Time and again, the people at the forefront of movements to "upend societal norms" are in fact just as predatory as they accuse their opponents to be.

The Trans leader of the CHAS Occupation zone was a girlfriend beater. Harvey Weinstein and Epstein both serial abusers. Clinton a rapist in chief. And look at Jonestown and numerous other counter-culture attempts to replace societal norms.

Even within the Catholic Church, we find that a huge amount of the sex scandals were made possible because of a splinter movement inside the church of leaders who were challenging the ban on homosexuality- they were insisting that their purpose was to just make homosexuality okay inside the church, but these leaders were actually building an alternate power structure that allowed them to prey on and abuse boys entering their seminaries.

While I come from a conservative background, I recognize that often times traditions entrench a lot of immoral or at least intolerant practices. But I have also found that knocking them down also destroys bulwarks against abuse that we often overlook and take for granted.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Yeah, the main problem with Marxism is that it argues all of human society needs to be upended, rather than just changing the objectively bad stuff. It's the very definition of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

[Mickey Rat]

"...a “complete success.”"

For what purpose?

[D-Pizzle]

This is what happens when a nation loses nearly an entire generation of masculine heterosexual men to war.

[A Thinking Mind]

Yesterday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its airstrikes in mid-July killed Mohammed Deif, a key Hamas operative and one of the masterminds behind the October 7 attacks.

Israel was never going to accept a long-term peace deal in which the people behind October 7 went unpunished. This much was basically inevitable. I don't see this as an escalation even if Hamas ends up being more reluctant to negotiate as a consequence.

[Don't look at me!]

No need to negotiate with dead people.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Have you been to Chicago?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Factio Democratica delenda est 5/30/24)]

Every election day, they rise from the grave and vote, sometimes multiple times, for the Democrats.

[Ajsloss]

No need to negotiate with dead people.

Haley Joel Osment’s value just took a hit.

[BYODB]

It's insane that anyone believed that Israel would let this one go considering this was more or less their 9/11 only with a lot more rape and beheadings, which frankly makes it a bit worse than 9/11. Not to mention all the video taken by the terrorists of their barbarian behavior.

The U.S. trying to hold them back is pretty rich considering we told the entire planet to go fuck themselves in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. The absolute least we could do is get the fuck out of their way.

[tracerv]

Anyone see Sleepy last night with the thousand yard stare. WAY past his bedtime.

https://youtube.com/shorts/W9Klph-DdyI?si=Hw3RoXQ6tsphagrm

[Ajsloss]

#sleepfake

[Kungpowderfinger]

Kamala sounds drunk.

[R Mac]

Was that before or after he got on the plane that brought home the hostages?

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1819400183123255550

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Cold War hostage taking is a good thing, right?

I mean, why else would the media be swooning over the brilliant Biden, er, Harris, er, Biden diplomacy?

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

I do question the timing of swapping one of Russias top assassins just after an assassination attempt.

[Vernon Depner]

You mean, we should keep Russian talent after seeing the incompetence of domestic assassins?

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Of course. Doing the assassinations Americans can't do.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Factio Democratica delenda est 5/30/24)]

Well, it’s obvious that the best sure as hell aren’t going into the CIA.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Team d is not executing the 9 11 raghead because they think it will help them win Minnisota

[Vernon Depner]

He could end up in Congress.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Factio Democratica delenda est 5/30/24)]

Isn’t one of them there already?

[R Mac]

I’ve seen speculation that there could be some embarrassing things that could come out if there was a trial.

[Don't look at me!]

Why no mention of the professions of the other prisoners?

[Ska]

They weren't WNBA players.

[A Thinking Mind]

Those are just so vital to our economy.

[Ra's al Gore]

Democrats against democracy
Voters need help: How party insiders can make presidential primaries safer, fairer, and more democratic
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/voters-need-help-how-party-insiders-can-make-presidential-primaries-safer-fairer-and-more-democratic/

More specifically, we argue that:

Professional input makes the process more representative. Copious theory and evidence, dating back to the time of America’s Founders, show that nomination by plebiscite (popular vote) can collapse into randomness or minority capture, and it does not dependably aggregate and reflect the preferences of Democrats and Republicans. When many candidates are in the field, professionals help majorities and coalitions to form, and they help prevent minorities and factions from capturing the process.

Professional input strengthens quality control. Primary elections place insufficient emphasis on evaluating nominees with an eye toward competence at governing: that is, selecting individuals with traits such as coalition-building skill, connections to varied constituencies, ability to work with others, and IOUs to and from other politicians. Only professionals can fill that gap.

Professional input deters renegades. Combined with the party ballot’s accessibility to all comers, the plebiscitary nomination process opens the field to demagogues and charlatans. Party leaders have strong incentives to keep candidates off the party ballot who are dangerous to both the party and democracy.
Professional input checks the power of billionaires and media elites. Influence in nominations has shifted dramatically toward actors who bear no responsibility for governing. Billionaires can bankroll themselves or favored candidates, while media elites propel those who break norms and generate conflict. Party professionals tend to favor candidates who are responsible to broad voter constituencies and other members of the governing party.

Professional input is widely acceptable to Americans. There is nothing undemocratic or un-American about professional vetting of nominees. To the contrary, even as the nation became more democratic and inclusive since its founding, formal and informal vetting of candidates by parties and professionals remained standard practice until just a decade or so ago. Even today, survey results indicate that most Americans support giving parties and professionals a voice in the process.

Restoring professional input is mechanically easy, but politically hard. Methods might include superdelegates, early votes of confidence, ratings or signoffs by party stalwarts, use of influence on debate participation, unbinding convention delegates, routing more campaign money through the party organizations, and many more possibilities. The harder challenge is pushing back against democracy fundamentalism, the idea that more democratization is always good for democracy—something which the Founders knew is not true.

...Until recently, democratization appeared cost-free: all upside, no downside. In the 1980s and after, the plebiscitary system seemed to nominate candidates of high quality. In fact, both parties’ nominees might also have won under the pre-reform “boss” system.7 They were mostly experienced politicians who had deep connections to other professionals. Democratic nominees after 1980 included two vice presidents, two successful governors, and three prominent senators (albeit one with little national experience). On the Republican side were a vice president, two successful governors, and two prominent senators. All were acceptable to their party establishments and to broad cross-sections of the party’s base.

What often went unnoticed, however, was why the nominees were so solid: Professional input had survived informally, in the form of a vetting process known as the invisible primary.8 Even after the rules changed in the early 1970s, candidates still needed to prove their viability, which meant showing they could win influential endorsements, command media attention, appeal to multiple constituencies, and raise money. To be competitive, they had to run a gauntlet of party bigwigs, factional leaders, money brokers, and media gatekeepers. As recently as 2008, leading political scientists argued that decision-making remained in the hands of party grandees.9

But then came 2016.

[Don't look at me!]

Trust the experts.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Are they the same as the elites?

[Jerry B.]

Nah. The experts are always right. The elites don't even care about being right.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I'd say experts are usually smart enough to at least sometimes admit mistakes. Elites cannot be wrong, by self-definition.

[Ajsloss]

Until recently, democratization appeared cost-free: all upside, no downside.

I’d say up until about 2021, then vaccination took the “all upside, no downside” mantle and sprinted off into the distance.

[Vernon Depner]

Define "professional" in this context.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Notice the fork-tongued mendaciousness here:

Professional input checks the power of billionaires and media elites.

Even after the rules changed in the early 1970s, candidates still needed to prove their viability, which meant showing they could win influential endorsements, command media attention, appeal to multiple constituencies, and raise money. To be competitive, they had to run a gauntlet of party bigwigs, factional leaders, money brokers, and media gatekeepers.

See the contradiction there? The reality isn’t that “professional input” made the nomination process “better,” what it did was consolidate the party’s power in the hands of a bunch of corrupt brahmins so they could more easily suppress populist insurgencies.

Trump ended up overcoming that because the party votes were so fed up with 25-plus years of GOP obsequiousness that he became the nominee despite everything the establishment tried to throw at him. The “uniparty” nickname manifested itself in a lot of longtime GOP establishment operatives like the Lincoln Project faggots becoming Democrats, and no longer even pretending to be “conservative” or support supposed “conservative” policies in the first place. They revealed themselves to be nothing more than a bunch of money-grubbing grifters with no actual principles other than open borders, forever wars, and genuflection to political and cultural power.

Trump, and Perot before him, (and even Bernie to a certain extent despite him being the biggest jobber in American political history) scared these assholes precisely because they represented legitimate threats to the political feudal structure they’d concocted, and the cultural status quo that they cooperated on.

[CE]

Protecting democracy -- from itself?
Need to always be wary of the populist threat, where some dangerous outsider might get elected to the halls of power, by (gasp) offering the voters what they actually want.

[Ra's al Gore]

Democrats' ActBlue accused of massive money-laundering scheme over potentially fraudulent donations
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrats-actblue-accused-of-massive-money-laundering-scheme-over-potentially-fraudulent-donations

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Reminder. This was caught happening with Obama and foreign donations over a decade ago. He paid a small fine.

ActBlue fights any attempts to require CVV verification because they rely on the fraudulent donations. Dems get money from them so they block legislation requiring CVV.

[Overt]

And yet note that for you to buy bitcoin, you need to have 80 forms of identification, and your mother's thumb frozen in carbonite and stored offsite- just in case you might be a terrorist.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

The left has been doing this since at least the Clinton's.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/clinton-foundation-mcauliffe-donor-caught-up-in-chinese-cash-for-votes-scandal/2016/09/16/bfb3b8fc-7c13-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html

As long as they have a veneer of acceptability they will continue.

News reports of unemployed people living in 1B apartments donating tens of thousands of dollars in thousands of donations in a year should make anyone question it.

[charliehall]

I just made a contribution via ActBlue today and they demanded CVV verification.

Like most anti-Democratic stuff here, this is a lie.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Apparently a change made overnight...

"As of Friday, ActBlue's donation page for Vice President Kamala Harris did have an option to place a CVV when donating."

https://www.newsweek.com/actblue-democrat-pac-money-laundering-virginia-attorney-general-1933976

[Jefferson Paul]

So ActBlue has the OPTION to input the CVV code of the card you are using to make the donation, but doesn’t require it?

charliehall just said it was required. Which is correct?

Even if it’s required now, it’s awfully suspicious that as soon as the story of potential money laundering of donations comes out and is getting attention, they make the change requiring it. It’s almost as though ActBlue knew that loyal “blue not matter who” liars like charliehall would go on to “fact check” anyone pointing out the news story about possible money laundering. This does nothing to debunk the claims that ActBlue has been money laundering by receiving large donations and then spreading that money out as fraudulent repeated small donations from random people.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Virginia AG just sent them a letter yesterday. How strange.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Looks like you're lying about your donation to try to ignore that this happened just last night.

[Mother's Lament]

"ActBlue accused of massive money-laundering scheme"

Uh-oh, chemjeff's paycheck is in jeopardy.

[R Mac]

I assume he gets payed with minors.

[BYODB]

One wonders if the ActBlue donation from the wannabe Trump assassin might have caused some accidental investigations to happen behind the scene's.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse, according to five of the Middle Eastern officials"

Careful when you bang on the wall of your nest B&B rental.

[Moonrocks]

You all thought I was crazy when I was warning you that the jews are in the walls.

[Stuck in California]

Didn't that just turn out to be Annyong?

[Ra's al Gore]

Want proof the refugees/illegals aren't engineers and doctors? If they were, the left would be complaining about how the "brain drain" is stripping the 3rd world of its needed doctors and engineers. From 2005:

Brain drain from developing countries: how can brain drain be converted into wisdom gain?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1275994/

Brain drain is defined as the migration of health personnel in search of the better standard of living and quality of life, higher salaries, access to advanced technology and more stable political conditions in different places worldwide. This migration of health professionals for better opportunities, both within countries and across international borders, is of growing concern worldwide because of its impact on health systems in developing countries. Why do talented people leave their countries and go abroad? What are the consequences of such migrations especially on the educational sector? What policies can be adopted to stem such movements from developing countries to developed countries?

...Brain drain is the migration of skilled human resources for trade, education, etc.1 Trained health professionals are needed in every part of the world. However, better standards of living and quality of life, higher salaries, access to advanced technology and more stable political conditions in the developed countries attract talent from less developed areas. The majority of migration is from developing to developed countries. This is of growing concern worldwide because of its impact on the health systems in developing countries.

[Vernon Depner]

Several times here, I've asked, since the migrants we're taking in are so economically and culturally valuable, isn't it immoral to take them away from their home countries, many of which are struggling shitholes?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

It even happens here on the Indian reservations. The ones who actually show talent and end up gaining degrees in conjunction with that typically don't go back to the rez, where they could do some actual good for the community with the knowledge they gained. They usually just fuck off to whatever big city they decide to live in, and then spend the rest of their lives as "activists" who bitch about how oppressed their ancestors were.

[Mother's Lament]

Some of our reservations up here have started up their own oilfield companies and have even signed deals a week or two ago to start buildings pipelines.
This is starting to bring back the actual talent.

An unfortunate side effect though is that they have taken to exiling the garbage from the reserves so the losers have been flooding nearby towns.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

If they act too White will they get expelled from the next inter-tribal council?

[Mother's Lament]

Fortunately they are all in on it, and the trough is very deep. Any native protesters are going to have to be flown in from Eastern Canada or the States.

[rbike]

Local man with family is a Nigerian immigrant. Dr. Tim. Great guy and he drives a much nicer car than me. And his kids are a awesome.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Ra's Article #1 bashing illegal immigrants

[R Mac]

Poor Lying Jeffy.

[Medulla Oblongata]

An illegal alien in Virginia has been accused of running over a woman and killing her in Virginia after he stole her vehicle in a carjacking.

According to FOX 5 DC, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office says 21-year-old Jose Aguilar-Martinez has been charged in the killing of Melody Waldecker, 54 on Sunday.

Deputies were called to the 21000 block of Towncenter Plaza around 11:30 a.m. on July 28 where they found Waldecker dead at the scene.

The suspect, 21-year-old Jose Aguilar-Martinez, fled the scene. He was located and arrested 45 minutes later, He was transported to a hospital after his arrest. He was evaluated and taken to the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center and is being held without bond.

Aguilar-Martinez is from El Salvador and is living in the United States illegally, the Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations for Washington, D.C. confirmed to FOX 5.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Last month, an illegal immigrant from Ecuador was arrested in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl New York City at a park in broad daylight.

the 25-year-old illegal immigrant, Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, was taken into custody on Tuesday. Charges against him are pending. He reportedly entered the United States in 2021.

The illegal alien admitted in court to recording the attack as he became more “comfortable” during it.

[Medulla Oblongata]

In Houston, Texas, two illegal aliens were arrested in connection with the murder of a 12-year-old girl named Jocelyn Nungaray. Both suspects had their bail set at $10 million. The two illegals reportedly lured the girl under a bridge and assaulted her for hours before she was killed.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Certainly not all immigrants, legal or illegal are committing crimes like these. And sure, a lot of crime is committed by natural-born citizens too.

But *these* crimes *could* have been prevented by not letting *these* evil individuals into the country. And no amount of "It's their culture..." and "Immigrants are always a positive benefit to society" or "We have to take the good with the bad..." bullshit is going to play.

[Ra's al Gore]

She is only black when she wants a low GPA ignored by colleges and wants to be VP/POTUS.

California's Kamala Harris becomes first Indian-American US senator
https://www.businessinsider.com/californias-kamala-harris-becomes-first-indian-american-us-senator-2016-11

[Vernon Depner]

She's at most of one-fourth African descent. Are we back to "touch of the tarbrush"?

[Ra's al Gore]

paper bag test

[Vernon Depner]

By that test, she's White.

[charliehall]

By that test, she would have been barred from my segregated elementary school.

[Truthfulness]

You're quite mistaken. Kamala will take advantage of her situation and manipulate your school into doing whatever she wants.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I don't see that the color of her skin is the question. But she's definitely not "Black (African American)" in the same way that an immigrant from Cameroon who arrive last year is not "Black (African American)" (much like Obama wasn't "Black").

Her heritage and upbringing is not based in the "black experience" ingrained in African American culture. Her attempts to pretend that she is part of that culture are no more real than Rachel Dolezal's attempts to "be Black".

[Nelson]

Why is there suddenly a push on the right to redefine what "black" and "African-American" means? They suddenly want to narrow the definitions, even though they have been broadly applied since I was a child in the 70s, if not longer.

Maybe there's an ulterior motive? Nah, that's not possible. The right is populated solely by principled people with integrity. Only the left distorts and misuses language for partisan purposes. I've been repeatedly assured this is an immutable fact by the hard right commenters here.

[Medulla Oblongata]

It's not new, nor is it right-wing.

E.g.,

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/not-all-black-people-are-african-american-what-is-the-difference/

"There are black people in every continent who are all over the world," explained Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes, an African American studies professor at Northwestern University. "African American is nation-specific. We are typically talking about black people who are born in the United States."

What that means is, for a long time in our country's history, black people were most likely direct descendants of enslaved Africans. Watkins-Hayes described the adoption of the term African American as a "very deliberate move on the part of black communities to signify our American-ness, but also signify this African heritage."

Over time, immigration to the United States increased, and people who identify as black in America were also likely to be first and second-generation immigrants without a direct connection to the history of slavery in this country.

"So, if we think about what's happened post-1960s, what you've seen is rising immigration among black people who were not born in the United States. People who are coming from Africa, from the Caribbean, from Europe, who identify as black but don't identify as African American."

Darien LaBeach, the director of diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy at the digital marketing agency Huge Inc., was born in Jamaica and raised in the United States.

"I am black, and within that, I am a Jamaican-born, African American man, but I call myself and identify as black," he explained."I have had to take on different identities at different periods of my life. But my blackness is the overarching umbrella of those different flavors of my identity."

LaBeach's experience is just one example of the complexities of black identities, especially in the United States. Some people originally from other countries who live in the U.S. accept African American because of its cultural and historical roots in the black experience that is specific to this country. "African American technically isn't even what I am," he said. "I'm a Jamaican-born black person but I have taken on this label of African American because of where I live."

[Ra's al Gore]

Dems gotta carry Michigan......

Accused 9/11 plotters reach plea deals with U.S. to avoid death penalty
The agreement with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States was approved by a senior U.S. defense official overseeing their cases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/31/sept-11-case-plea-agreement/

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

DoJ also released the two who tried to drive into a military bases on low bail instead of just deporting them.

[Vernon Depner]

Of course, it's possible that KSM is a fictional character.

[Minadin]

It's Rosie O'Donnell in drag . . .

[R Mac]

Obligatory:

Rosie O’Donnell’s disgusting…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NFpkvAePP7M&pp=ygUVdHJ1bXAgcm9zaWUgbydkb25uZWxs

[charliehall]

Many of the MAGAts I know still insist that 9/11 was an inside job.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Are these the people in MAGA parts of Chicago? DailyKos was one of the primary pushers of inside job lol.

[Ra's al Gore]

The Impact of Illegal Immigration on the Wages and Employment Opportunities of Black Workers
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/items/9db79b94-13a3-496a-9ed5-94758d0dfc6a

Among its findings, the Commission notes that the illegal workers are estimated to account for as much as one-third of total immigrants in the United States, and that illegal immigration has tended to increase the supply of low-skilled, low-wage labor available. The Commission found also that about six in 10 adult black males have a high school diploma or less, and are disproportionately employed in the low-skilled labor market in likely competition with immigrants. Evidence for negative effects of such competition ranged from modest to significant, according to the experts who testified, but even those experts who viewed the effects as modest overall found significant effects in occupations such as meatpacking and construction. The Commission views this topic as complex, and therefore makes no specific recommendations at this time. The Commission recommends generally, however, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other appropriate governmental agencies collect data concerning the presence of illegal workers in the U.S. workforce and on the employment and wage rate effects of such workers on low-skilled and low-wage workers of all races. The Commission believes that such data should be made available to the public.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"The Commission believes that such data should be made available to the public."

Yeah, but the DNC-media complex disagrees.

[Anomalous]

But it's racist to point to these facts.

[Vernon Depner]

Facts are white supremacy.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Ra's Article #2 bashing illegal immigrants

[R Mac]

Poor Lying Jeffy.

[charliehall]

And nativist bigot Republicans might be able to capitalize on some of this except that they nominated an anti-Black bigot for President.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Congrats on becoming the new Act Blue retard assigned here.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"Because she's a black woman"

Doesn't go where you think it might go.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1816639361858810171

[Truthfulness]

Ensure Our Legal Immigration System Puts American Workers First

Republicans will prioritize Merit-based immigration, ensuring those admitted to our Country contribute positively to our Society and Economy, and never become a drain on Public Resources. We will end Chain Migration, and put American Workers first! - 2024 Republican Party Platform

Has the thought occured to you that maybe, just maybe, those “nativist bigot Republicans” just want to prioritize merit over skin color? Hmm?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'But, for those who've been following domestic politics, questions remain about the degree to which Biden—the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. workday president—is even capable of handling a pressing foreign policy issue such as this one.'

To be fair, Biden's work hours are 5pm to 11 pm Middle East time, which sounds much more hipster.

[CE]

As if Biden handles anything other than the spoon for his oatmeal.

[Idaho-Bob]

The parallels between the IDF taking offensive measures and the American right concerning political violence is hard to ignore. Media smear campaigns, protesting the victims, and open bigotry. Leftist attacks are commonplace, while retaliation is rare. There's a lesson in there.

[Ra's al Gore]

Re: 'womens' Olympic boxing, remember this?

Female volleyball player, 17, left paralyzed with brain damage by transgender opponent who 'cackled with delight' after knocking her to ground
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13693959/payton-mcnabb-volleyball-player-paralyzed-brain-damage-transgender.html

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

It is Jeff's new favorite Olympic sport.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

You know who else cackles with delight?

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

The Predator as he self-destructs?

[Ska]

Retractable mandibles are the most important thing.

[Anomalous]

Hillary?

[Eeyore]

That's cankles.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Wine moms, aka democrat women.

[Ajsloss]

Max Zorin?

[MK Ultra]

Muttley?

[Ajsloss]

Wacky Races was incredible.

[Dillinger]

is still on every day ... new channel - MeTv Toons

[InsaneTrollLogic (Factio Democratica delenda est 5/30/24)]

Sarcasmic?

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

The thread last night with him and srg was hilarious last night. The vivek story.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Factio Democratica delenda est 5/30/24)]

Just went and read that. How many 40s did he have before commenting?

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Was pretty late. So 15?

[Vernon Depner]

David Byrne?

[Dillinger]

qu'est-ce que c'est?

[sarcasmic]

Me, every time I see the Canadian Cunt get butthurt about being impersonated.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Lol. You admitted to impersonating him in the same thread you cried about being impersonated.

[Mother's Lament]

Daily reminder that Sarcasmic has no sense of shame (or by his own claim, integrity or honour):

sarcasmic 6 hours ago
Flag Comment Mute User
Yeah, I don’t like being impersonated. I know you don’t care because you have no honor or integrity, but I do.

sarcasmic 5 hours ago
Flag Comment Mute User
Thought there’s be at least a handful of people who don’t approve of liars pretending to be other people.
Boy was I wrong.

[Lee Hartman]

Okay, I've been here for a few weeks now, and I just have to ask, is this real? Are sarcasmic and chemjeff some sort of act you guys are putting on to make fun of leftists?
Because they aren't even plausible fictional characters.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

They are in fact, the only 2 real libertarians here with (dis)honorable mention to butplug.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

No. They’ve been here for probably approaching a decade. There is usual capture going on of what many of us call liberaltarians. They largely push corporate/dem narratives while claiming to be one true libertarians. So we’ve been mocking them for years.

They hate the MC. They hate anyone conservative even the likes of Vivek, Rand Paul, Massie. They are open borders nuts while denying the costs, they support transing kids, call Trump Hitler and push any and every dem narrative that makes its way to Msnbc or CNN including lockdowns, masking, vaccines, etc.

[sarcasmic]

That’s because Jesse and his crew deliberately misinterpret what we say, tell outright lies, take things out of context, claim hyperbolic or sarcastic statements were to be meant to have been taken literally, see implications that aren’t there and then claim that is what was said, make shit up, never admit it when we are right or they are wrong, and otherwise behave like a catty clique of teenage girls who are just plain mean for the fun of it.

They wage similar attacks on any new people who express libertarian views and usually succeed in driving them out.

They are tribalist morons who see only two sides and lack the brain capacity to comprehend not being on either side.

So to them all libertarians are leftists to be relentlessly attacked.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

How many times are you going to try this buddy? Especially right after your posts are given word for word just a few posts up? Just because lying to yourself works doesn't mean other people buy the lies.

[sarcasmic]

You mean when you took a couple comments out of context?

You think that’s clever, but it’s just lying by omission.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

I post entire comments. I post the links when I feel like it. Lol.

They are in context. Every time dumbfuck. You lie explicitly about your comments. Here is a grand example easily showing your pathalogical need to lie in under 24 hours.

https://reason.com/2023/11/06/blinkens-mission-impossible/?comments=true#comment-10306317

Link provided. Please talk out the context of your blatant lie.

Youre a lying piece of shit sarc lol.

[Mother's Lament]

It blows my mind how he thinks that the stuff he says just disappears the second he adopts a new narrative.

[Mother's Lament]

Even strangers are noticing you’re like a parody, Sarckles.

Also: “deliberately misinterpret what we say, tell outright lies, take things out of context, claim hyperbolic or sarcastic statements were to be meant to have been taken literally”

You were quoted in full, the whole posts without any edits. Nobody could possibly believe you even if they wanted. Do you actually think those words I posted just disappear when you decide to lie and claim something other than the obvious?

[sarcasmic]

At least you don’t pretend to not be a sociopath.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Which argument are you using today. Prove what you said. Or he is a stalker for providing proof?

The true sociopathic behavior is your pathalogical lies and your defense of those lies even when given word for word posts and links.

[Mother's Lament]

But you do, right? Because you are a sociopath. You see, I don't because I'm not.

[sarcasmic]

No one cares except for the retards in my hate club.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Poor sarc.

[Mother's Lament]

You're right. Nobody cares, because nobody cares about you.
That said, it is fun for everyone to laugh at what a living joke you are, and marvel at just how big a hypocrite you can be.

[sarcasmic]

What movie about middle school are you paraphrasing?

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

One starring Jen Psaki.

[Mother's Lament]

Sarckles Goes Bananas (1965) - Disney

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

#Facts

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Margaret Hamilton?

[CE]

Your fun aunt?

[Longtobefree]

https://babylonbee.com/news/imane-khelif-wins-first-ever-gold-medal-in-freestyle-domestic-violence

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Equal rights and equal lefts!

[Chipper Chunked Chile Con Congress (ex NCW)]

SHOTS FIRED!

[Moonrocks]

Not a girl bullying.

[Medulla Oblongata]

The boxer who quit 47 seconds into her match for fear of losing her life has now apologized to the she-man who was beating her senseless.

---------------------

...Khelif's and Lin's tests revealed XY chromosomes...

After her fight with Khelif, Carini did not shake her opponent's hand and broke down in tears. She would later say she had never been hit so hard and that she thought it was possible her nose had been broken. She also said she quit 46 seconds into the fight because "I had to preserve my life as well in that moment."

Carini is now softening her stance after the backlash against Khelif.

"All this controversy makes me sad," Carini told Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport. "I'm sorry for my opponent, too. If the IOC said she can fight, I respect that decision."

[Ra's al Gore]

Nah, a totally open border won't lead to problems. What's the worst that could happen?

Illegal Jordanian migrants who ‘tried to breach’ Quantico base allowed to walk free after posting bail
https://nypost.com/2024/08/01/us-news/jordanian-migrants-who-tried-to-breach-quantico-base-freed-on-bail/

[ducksalad]

Yawn. NYP waited until 9 days after the event to try to spin it as an attempted act of terrorism for the benefit of their bedwetting readership.

“Tried to breach” as if they were cutting through the fence of a high security zone in the dead of night. What really happened was they showed up at a gate where commercial vehicles frequently get waved through and didn’t leave immediately when asked. Which counts as…..exactly what they were charged with, misdemeanor trespass.

What’s the worst that could happen?

If the worst is some delivery guys getting lippy with security guards, I can live with that.

[Idaho-Bob]

Why weren't they deported? I know an Indian engineer who was threatened with deportation for a fucking speeding ticket.

[mamabug]

Because H1-B visa holders are generally law-abiding, which makes them wonderfully exploitable by government agents, companies, landlords, and so on. They are basically a cash cow - I assume the threat went away as soon as he paid an exorbitant fine which might have been waived if he challenged it.

Plus, almost zero chance they will reliably try to illegally vote for the dem candidates so they don't get as much love as illegal agents of foreign governments/organizations.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

No no no. The narrative of illegals being a danger to America MUST be preserved at all costs, even if it means playing fast and loose with the truth. So delivery guys who get lippy with the security guards at a base must be framed as AN ATTEMPTED INCURSION AGAINST A TOP SECRET MILITARY BASE.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Well this is dishonest. They were asked to leave after lying about them working for Amazon then sped through the check point.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

The fact that doing a google search on this story yields nothing but right-wing outrage pieces referencing each other, should be a clue that something is not right and key information is being omitted.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

And now we know why. Your team is very desperately wanting to call this an example of a 'terror attack'.

https://cis.org/Bensman/Calling-It-America-Just-Suffered-First-Terror-Attack-BorderCrossing-Illegal-Alien

Even though, if it really was some type of terror attack, the plan was cartoonishly stupid, and there is absolutely zero clue about what their terrorist agenda supposedly was. (Oh wait, they are from Jordan so I guess it was holy war, right? Because all Muslims are Jihadists?)

But you all want very much to try to claim that it was a 'terror attack' because then you can say "see? see? we were right, terrorists ARE coming through the southern border!" rather than it being just another hyperbolic unsubstantiated claim.

[Don't look at me!]

Sorta like the j/6 “insurrection “.

[Jefferson Paul]

As I was reading chemjeff's comment, I was thinking I'd post that he doesn't seem to have that level of incredulity that a bunch of MAGA gun nuts would attempt to "overthrow our democracy" and commit insurrection but just happen to forget all of their guns at home.

Then I read the next comment and see that you beat me to it, DLAM.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Ra's Article #3 bashing illegal immigrants

[charliehall]

Well we had a totally open border from the Western Hemisphere in the sense of no numeric limits on immigration from 1776 to 1965. No problems.

[Jefferson Paul]

You're wrong (again).

Since you leftists seem to like google as your source of information, I did a quick google search and got this:

Immigration laws
In 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed the Quota Act, which limited the number of immigrants from each nationality to 3% of their representation in the 1910 Census. The National Origins Act followed, allowing for immigrants to be examined in their home country and potentially refused before traveling to Ellis Island. These laws effectively ended the open-door policy and ushered in an era of mass immigration restrictions.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Almost all people who came here then came for the chance to be Americans. Many now come to prey on Americans and the American welfare system.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Bail of just a few thousand dollars.

[tracerv]

https://www.dw.com/en/venezuela-us-says-opposition-candidate-beat-maduro/a-69835464

Venezuela: US says opposition candidate beat Maduro

[Idaho-Bob]

The US said the same thing in the last presidential election.

It's not the votes, it's the vote counters.

[tracerv]

Exactly. It's the hypocrisy and nerve of these fuckers that will never cease to amaze me.

[Nelson]

Oh, right. There is a sizable population of credulous morons who still believe the last election was stolen. There are none so blind as those who stubbornly, delusionally, and steadfastly refuse to see.

[Truthfulness]

That's because they actually have a case with the evidence provided. You left that part out.

That's not hypocrisy, Nelson. That's consistency.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Several journalists, including The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich, were just released from Russian prison in a swap. In total, 16 people were returned to America and European allies while eight were returned to Russia.'

But who won? Which side got back a convicted assassin?

[charliehall]

MAGAts until this week: Biden is a failure because he can't get Americans out of Russia!

MAGAts this week: Biden is a failure because he got Americans out of Russia!

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Cite?

Was funny watching Joe brag he got them put when Trump couldn't without realizing 3 of the 4 were arrested during Bidens administration. But you are dumb enough to believe him. So you have that going for you. Which is dumb.

[Ra's al Gore]

‘Bully’ Kamala Harris ‘berated staff,’ left them in tears after berating them with ‘F-bombs,’ intern told never to make eye contact: report
https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/us-news/kamala-harris-berated-staff-with-f-bombs-report/

[tracerv]

Sounds like Ellen should be her VP.

[Vernon Depner]

Sounds more like Oprah.

[Eeyore]

She needs to appointment one of those brave women who were born with testicles.

[Chipper Chunked Chile Con Congress (ex NCW)]

Bring Back Brinton?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Nothing about the July jobs report going down the crapper?

[Spiritus Mundi]

Too local

[InsaneTrollLogic (Factio Democratica delenda est 5/30/24)]

Just wait, it’ll be ratcheted down as usual, and we’ll find out no jobs were made and we actually lost jobs in July.

[Don't look at me!]

Dow down 900

[Nelson]

If you worry about what the Dow does day to day, you are a terrible investor.

[Truthfulness]

No, that's someone who you call very observant. That should be commended.

Seems like you need to go back to economics class.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Court is doing its best to keep Trump gagged as they label him a felon in political ads. Judge denies lifting trial gag order.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3107228/trump-loses-gag-order-appeal-after-saying-it-helps-harriss-felon-attacks/

[Mother's Lament]

Merchan and Bragg need to be sharing a cell with Mike Nifong.

[charliehall]

When you have been found guilty of 34 felonies, yes, you are a felon. Deal with it, snowflake.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

You'd have done well in Stalinist Russia lol.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Tiberius_Gracchus#Land_crisis
According to Plutarch, "when Tiberius on his way to Numantia passed through Etruria and found the country almost depopulated and its husbandmen and shepherds imported barbarian slaves, he first conceived the policy which was to be the source of countless ills to himself and to his brother."[8]

When the soldiers returned from the legions, they had nowhere to go, so they went to Rome to join the mob of thousands of unemployed who roamed the city. As only men who owned property were allowed to enroll in the army, the number of men eligible for army duty was therefore shrinking; and hence the military power of Rome. Plutarch noted, "Then the poor, who had been ejected from their land, no longer showed themselves eager for military service, and neglected the bringing up of children, so that soon all Italy was conscious of a dearth of freemen, and was filled with gangs of foreign slaves, by whose aid the rich cultivated their estates, from which they had driven away the free citizens."[9]

[InsaneTrollLogic (Factio Democratica delenda est 5/30/24)]

And the elite establishment killed him for trying to do right by the veterans. They killed his brother as well, resented Gaius Marius, and finally the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar would be their undoing.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

The whole issue of land for veterans was a serious and destabilizing one in Rome for a looooooong time. Rome’s wars were increasing its landholdings, but they were falling into the hands of oligarchs who compiled massive estates and leaving the veterans without their own plot of land to sustain their livelihoods. It lasted beyond even the end of the Caesarians when Nero killed himself.

It’s a big reason why the whinging over Caesar is so disingenuous. Caesar doesn’t gain the influence that he does without several decades of Roman veterans getting shat on by the Optimates and posers like Cato the Younger or wishy-washy fence-riders like Cicero (the original centrist who eventually got exterminated because he pissed off the wrong guy).

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

FDA always had evidence puberty blockers are bad for kids.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3107453/fda-official-puberty-blockers-dangerous-transgender-youth/

We also know why fascist jeff is desperate to make WPATH the arbiter of these transitioning procedures as documents show the Biden WH pressuring them to support gender transitions of minors.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/white-house-flip-flop-transgender-surgery-kids-prompts-gop-probe-nih

I would ask what Chase has to say about this but jeffsarc will start screaming homophobe. Ignore Chase brought up WPATH as a reason government should stay out of the issue.

[Mother's Lament]

This is what actually motivates Jeffsarcs claims that people "hate Chase because he is gay".

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Nope - it's because you all keep bringing up his sexual orientation as a reason not to vote for him. With the implicit assumption that because he is gay, he is therefore a 'woke progressive'.

When given the choice between the guy who says he will actually accomplish libertarian goals, vs. the guy who just wants to fight petty culture war battles, you choose the culture war every time.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

The only people who care about his orientation are you and sarc.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

They bring it up constantly.

[Mickey Rat]

Being gay initself is not the issue. Holding the political positions of a gay activist are, including advocating special privileges in law.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

“Nuh uh, its cuz he's gay”

/sarcjeff

[Mother's Lament]

“you all keep bringing up his sexual orientation”

Literally, the only two people here who ever bring it up are you and Sarckles, you dishonest fuck. Nobody else, just you two clowns, because it’s your smear.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

I would love to see Jeff's citations.

[Medulla Oblongata]

You are pretty much the only one I ever see bringing up his orientation. You are the only one I've seen call him a "fag".

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Bari Weiss calls out Jeff’s favorite unbiased news group for calling a terrorist who supported Oct 7th and helped plan it a moderate.

https://x.com/bariweiss/status/1818521445829579171

[Mother's Lament]

"The moderate face of Hamas"
Doesn't get more chemjeffy than that.

[charliehall]

Franz von Papen was the moderate face of the Nazi regime. He was the single person most responsible for making the Anschluss happen. And then they sent him to Türkiye in case they needed a repeat. Moderate faces can be more dangerous than the not so moderate faces.

[Truthfulness]

"moderate face of the Nazi regime"

You completely fell for the Reuters strategy. And invoked Godwin's Law while you were at it.

Franz von Papen was not a moderate by any means. You are lying with your stupid revisionism.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

New video shows Trump assassin clearly visible running across the roof, easily seen from the stage. Pretty insane.

https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/1818699366577651810

[Ra's al Gore]

I'd love to see a Venn diagram of people who think the CIA killed JFK vs. the people who think the Trump shooting was a lone nut and get away with your conspiracy theories.

[mamabug]

I try very hard not to be a conspiracy theorist, but the amount of credulity to attribute everything to incompetence is rapidly crossing the 'Epstein killed himself' threshold.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Apparently, Harris would like to see more Venn diagrams, too.

[Dillinger]

all the guys with guns thought he was LEO lol stop making salient points.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

THIS NEVER HAPPENS. Stop saying mail in ballots are not secure!!

Heflin, 45, was charged with seven counts of unlawful use of absentee ballots. Specifically, the indictment alleges that Heflin falsified applications to vote absentee for multiple people and then used those people’s names to vote for himself by absentee ballot. Each count of unlawful use of an absentee ballot is a Class C felony punishable by one year and one day to 10 years in prison.

https://1819news.com/news/item/democrat-candidate-for-clay-county-commission-arrested-on-7-voter-fraud-charges

THIS NEVER HAPPENS. No illegal would register to vote with that scary box they have to check!

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: 14% of illegals in one single apartment complex in GA say they are registered to vote.

And it's all on tape: VIDEO

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1818782118987657545

[Don't look at me!]

No widespread fraud.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

At least less than 50%

[Mother's Lament]

"Yes there was fraud, but there is always a little and the other side does it too so it doesn't effect the outcome of the election, and it's pointless in looking at it now" - t. Chemjeff.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Nobody ever jaywalks either. Look at the arrest numbers.

[Rick James]

Wait, just because they're voting illegally doesn't mean we know who they're voting for. Remember, if it turns out they're voting for Trump, then we'll get a real news story on it.

[Medulla Oblongata]

That's pretty much why we know they're voting for the Democrats.

If it were believed by the Democrat powers-that-be that illegals were registering to vote AND voting for Trump, Biden's ICE would be doing door-to-door sweeps and filling C5s withs illegals and dumping them back in Ecuador or wherever, at least until election season is over. They'd have machine gun emplacements along the newly extended and reinforced border wall.

[Nelson]

There is always fraud in elections. Always.

There is never widespread fraud. Never.

The chance that there were tens of thousands of fraudulent ballots in multiple states is zero.

There may have been ten thousand fraudulent ballots nationwide (that's roughly the number each Presidential year), but claiming millions of fraudulent ballots nationwide is impossible to honestly claim.

But, to be fair, the stolen election folks have never pretended to be honest.

[Truthfulness]

If the margins of victory are very close, there does not need to be "widespread fraud" to change the results of the outcome. 14% of illegal aliens is no small amount and could potentially be thousands when all is said and done.

There is no dishonesty in pointing this out, Nelson. You've been deceived.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

DoJ set to employ federal monitors to ensure voter fortification remains in place. Also this is weird because Biden and dems claim the executive branch has no official duties regarding elections in their immunity complaints.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/doj-monitor-arizonas-compliances-federal-voting-rights-laws-state-primary

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

“Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has found himself at the forefront of Venezuela’s crisis after [Nicolas] Maduro declared himself the victor of an election his opponents say was fraudulent,” reports Bloomberg. “The dispute and Maduro’s subsequent crackdown on dissent have thrust the leader of Latin America’s largest nation into an increasingly uncomfortable position. The Venezuelan president is an old ally who still has the support of many within Lula’s leftist Workers’ Party, which endorsed Maduro’s victory this week. The opposition and the growing list of global leaders who back it, meanwhile, have appealed to Lula’s efforts to paint himself as a defender of democracy, especially after he rallied international support for fair elections in his own race just two years ago.”

Questioning elections is a good thing now.

The most hilarious part to me is Maduro is following the US playbook. He won’t release the election materials. Said his votes came late at night. Calls his opponents election deniers. Seeks to arrest anyone who questions the election. Ignores the statistical analysis of the vote pointing to fraud.

Just hilarious.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Factio Democratica delenda est 5/30/24)]

Thing is, every irregularity in Venezuela for this election is vaguely familiar to the election in 2020 here in the US. It’s almost as if Maduro used a template that had been used previously.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I noticed that right off the bat the day after the election. It’s why I thought him shaking his dick at the western establishment was so hilarious, because he didn’t do a damn thing different than what the “well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information” did four years ago.

Maybe they’re just jealous that he can coordinate all that on his own, while they need the nation’s entire corporate and political establishment to pull it off here.

[Ska]

The true value of central control - single point of contact for better organized threats, extortions, and bribes.

And here I thought bureaucrats couldn't appreciate efficiency.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

The irony is that Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, are basically today's Dems and Chamber of Commerce, just on a smaller scale. The Hollywood set and academia absolutely loved Chavez when he was in charge, and Maduro's reign and antics the last few days are the logical end point of election "fortification."

To the extent he's an adversary right now, it's mainly because the CIA and the Deep State in general is still pissed that their color revolution in 2018 failed against him. It certainly doesn't have anything at all to do with his politics, since he and the Dems have the same ideology.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

For this week's Just Asking Questions release, we interviewed Vivek Ramaswamy (beware, there were technical issues so the quality is suboptimal at times):

Technical issues at Reason?!?!

[Longtobefree]

Technically, there were issues.

[Dillinger]

oh ... there were issues.

[Ra's al Gore]

Hard hitting journalisming

Kamala Harris Is Dressing to Be President
With very little time to prepare for the campaign trail, the vice president is sticking to her suits — a political move of its own.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/style/kamala-harris-presidential-style.html

[tracerv]

Worked out well for Hillary Pantsuit.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

But what about her converse shoes?!?

[Don't look at me!]

But no press conferences.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

She finally gave a quick statement live and managed to fuck it up.

[Rick James]

Unburdened by what has been?

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Regarding the prisoner swap...

“This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy”

[BYODB]

Uhh...is there...is there some other kind of clothing they would expect a candidate for the Presidency to wear? Like, maybe some Fetterman hoodie type thing?

Genuinely curious since last I saw pretty much every female office holder wears...a suit. Just to be inclusive, just about every male office holder also wears...a suit. Except the one's with actual no shit mental impairment, that is.

Since Kamala doesn't wear a color coded tie to signify her party affiliation, perhaps she could wear some kind of armband? I hear they were all the rage in the 40's. /sarc

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Hard hitting journalisming

At the Style section no less! Yes you totally nailed it, the writers at the Style section aren't writing hard news stories about KamKam. God job.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

NYT has a style section?

"All the news that's fit to print."

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Jeff loves their children's wardrobe writeups.

[Mother's Lament]

And the sales adverts: “Little Boy’s Pants Are Half Off This Tuesday”, “Childs Seats on Sale”.

[Ra's al Gore]

Live 2-foot eel chews through man’s intestines after he put it up his anus
https://nypost.com/2024/08/01/world-news/live-2-foot-eel-chews-through-mans-intestines-after-he-put-it-up-his-anus/

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Sqrsly laughs at the amateur.

[Mother's Lament]

Sqrlsy knows to file down the teeth first.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Factio Democratica delenda est 5/30/24)]

Apparently the dork also put a large lime up there as well. The guy should’ve been a Darwin Award winner. And no, this was not Florida Man, but Indian Man in Vietnam. Make of that what you will.

[Ajsloss]

The guy should’ve been a Darwin Award winner.

Right?! What kind of a moron puts it up there headfirst?

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

This is why we need to teach anal eel play to 1st graders. - jeff. Probably.

[Ajsloss]

If they're gonna do it, and trust me, they're gonna do it, it's best for there to be some supervision.

[Chipper Chunked Chile Con Congress (ex NCW)]

That does seem like the sort of thing Cartman would want to supervise.

[Eeyore]

I like how they describe him as "adventurous".

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...Now, President Joe Biden's administration claims it is hard at work deescalating tensions in the Middle East to stave off war..."

Whose administration is it now, other than 6 hours a day?

[Eeyore]

6 hours? 15 minutes a week - max.

[Ra's al Gore]

NZ Government propose legalising the use of force to vaccinate.
https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/nz-government-propose-legalising

[Moderation4ever]

While the recent assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders might escalate to war in the middle east, it could also have a sobering effect of the leaders of groups attacking Israel. These leaders cannot expect to sit back in comfort and watch their minions take the brunt of the IDF's response. The leaders will have to always be looking over their shoulders and that may make them think twice before they launch an attack. I am waiting to see it Iran really strikes back or just launches another show attack.

[Vernon Depner]

You're projecting reasoning ability onto them.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

He can’t project something he doesn’t have.

[Moderation4ever]

I am not suggesting they are reasonable, I am suggesting they are cowards that stand behind their women. children and old people. They fear death as much as anyone and now know that even living in comfort in Iran or Lebanon, they are still targets.

[Vernon Depner]

They fear death

Assumes facts not in evidence.

[Medulla Oblongata]

The must have had some, as they weren't in some bunker under Gaza, but living the high life in Dubai and stuff and just sending their orders into Gaza.

[Ra's al Gore]

False positive PCR-driven pseudo-epidemics are nothing new - they happen all the time.
https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/false-positive-pcr-driven-pseudo

So just to be clear:

The initial pseudo epidemic was caused by false-positive results from a PCR test.

People (wrongly, as it turned out) ascribed real symptoms to the disease as a result of the test. Due to the power of the nocebo effect (which I touch on here, and here1) it is also possible that individuals developed symptoms because of the positive test, or that cold symptoms which would otherwise have been mundane were made more severe.

A variety of disruptive and potentially harmful measures were instituted as a result.

The “definitive” test - culturing the bacterium responsible for whooping cough (pertussis) found zero cases. There was no pertussis in any of the samples.

Some further nuggets from the article:

Dr. Trish M. Perl, then an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins said “pseudo-epidemics happen all the time. The Dartmouth case may have been one the largest, but it was by no means an exception”.

New molecular tests are quick but technically demanding- there are no good estimates of their error rates. But their very sensitivity makes false positives likely, and when hundreds or thousands of people are tested, as occurred at Dartmouth, false positives can make it seem like there is an epidemic.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Many of us were in the Bailey threads talking about the very high false positive rates for these tests. Some over 10%.

We kept noting the age based death rate did not shift for any but the oldest cohort during the pandemic.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Not to mention the dubious death counts as a whole, where every death by a person who had popped for COVID was ascribed to COVID.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Even murder-suicides.

From Sky News:

The Grand County Colorado coroner is disputing the number of COVID-19 deaths the state is reporting for the county.

Brenda Bock told county commissioners on Tuesday that the state is reporting two additional COVID-19 deaths in Grand, which she believes should not be included.

The coroner maintains that only one person in the county has died from COVID-19, while two more people have died with it, for a total of three COVID-related deaths in the county. However, the state is reporting five for Grand.

In disputing the numbers, Bock explained that a couple who died of gunshot wounds late last month IN A MURDER-SUICIDE SHOOTING have been included in the state’s numbers. The state told Bock those deaths are included in the count because the two tested positive for COVID-19 within 30 days before their death.

[Don't look at me!]

More testing needed!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Some 40% to 50% of people (supposedly) infected with COVID reported no symptoms or extremely mild symptoms that resolved on their own in a few days, like a cold.

I myself tested positive in late 2020. I felt a little under the weather and Mrs said to take a test. I had a mild cough for two days, but since I was already working remotely, didn’t even miss any time at work. OTOH, it was one of those post-office free tests so I don’t put much stock in the test results.

P.S. I did attempt to remain isolated from Mrs and MIL, because MIL (who lives with us) was in the very much at risk age group.

[Small w woodchippertarian]

Food trucks hardest hit:

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/food-truck-owners-frustrated-with-skyrocketing-licensing-fees/

(Leave it to our geniuses to catch up the old rates all at once rather than phasing them in.)

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Guess we need to give them more welfare.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Pretty elegant admission that their regulatory office has gotten too big and it needs to soak the business owners to make up the difference.

Most food trucks, incidentally, are overrated shit that are mainly patronized by white bougies looking to jerk themselves off over how sophisticated, inclusive, and open-minded they are.

[Chipper Chunked Chile Con Congress (ex NCW)]

> Most food trucks, incidentally, are overrated shit that are mainly patronized by white bougies looking to jerk themselves off over how sophisticated, inclusive, and open-minded they are.

Sadly true. Many taco trucks, not so. But many other things, very much so.

[Moonrocks]

President Joe Biden's administration claims it is hard at work deescalating tensions in the Middle East to stave off war

I hope they plan on doing something different than what they have been doing for the last four years.

[charliehall]

Such as? Getting thousands of Taliban terrorists released from prison? Stabbing the pro-US Free Syrian Army in the back? Stabbing the pro-US Kurds in the back? Subordinating the interests of the US in the region to Putin's interest in propping up its proxy, Assad? Negotiating an effective surrender of the pro-US government in Afghanistan to the Taliban? Allowing Iran to enrich uranium without limits? None of that was Biden, that was Trump.

Oh but he moved an embassy. Which Biden wanted to move in the 1980s. Typical Trump: form without substance.

[Jefferson Paul]

You should ask for a refund for the donation you made to ActBlue last night. They didn't provide you with the best talking points.

[Moderation4ever]

I don't know about that there seems to be a enough there to consider.

[Michael Ejercito]

https://www.threads.net/@mejercit/post/C-K80kFJ_zL

So she was scolding us for greeting each other with “Merry Christmas” because of what is happening to some children whose parets were deported?

Why does this rationale not apply to children of incarcerated parents?

Why did this rationale not apply after the events of 10/7, 9/11, or 12/7?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Who cares about the rationale or the double standards? The double standard is the point--it's to hector you into a struggle session.

Just tell the commies to fuck off, and give them a double slap to the ears to break their eardrums if they decide to persist in hectoring you.

[Jerry B.]

Children of deported parents are higher on the intersectionality scale than other children whose parents have been killed or incarcerated. Besides, the 9/11 children should be old enough to be over it by now. And their parents were mostly White anyway, so no one cares.

[charliehall]

" the 9/11 children should be old enough to be over it by now"

One never gets over the murder of a parent.

[Chipper Chunked Chile Con Congress (ex NCW)]

Where do barely pubescent girls raped to death by illegals fall on the scale?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Were they really raped, or just did someone just jerk off onto them?

[Dillinger]

>>It is unclear how forcefully Iran will respond

depends on what President Kamala says they're allowed to do.

[Rick James]

Obama is sending memos as we speak.

[Dillinger]

>>Several journalists, including The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich, were just released from Russian prison in a swap

hostages. misspelled "hostages"

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Just wish reason cares as much about the prisoners and meme makers that Bidens DoJ has gone after.

[Dillinger]

American hostages in Gaza entirely less important than what the poor, poor Pals ate for lunch yesterday

[Dillinger]

>>For this week's Just Asking Questions release, we interviewed Vivek Ramaswamy (beware, there were technical issues so the quality is suboptimal at times):

selective edits are the shifty-eyed dog of today's media.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

#TechnicalFake

[BYODB]

"The guesthouse is run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and is part of a large compound, known as Neshat, in an upscale neighborhood of northern Tehran."

This seems noteworthy, but of course everyone already knew that Hamas is just an Iranian terror proxy funded by Obama's cash transfers. Turns out, appeasement is an abjectly retarded strategy.

A more obvious case of actual no shit treason would be difficult to find these days, but of course nothing else happened.

[Rick James]

Israeli victories: Yesterday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its airstrikes in mid-July

Also known as "loud popping noises".

[chemjeff radical individualist]

https://www.couch-fucker.com/

lol

[Rick James]

I'm in IT so I'm not clicking on that. I feel like the first thing that happens is you get "Malware successfully installed".

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Your side has to claim Vance fucked a couch to distract from your kiddie diddling and genital chopping.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Huh so out of about 12 articles that Ra posted, 3 of them bashed illegal immigrants. That seems like a high proportion. I wonder why that is.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

How do they compare to your "couch fucker" post?

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Wait. Jeff actually posted that as factual? Lol!

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Several journalists, including The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich, were just released from Russian prison in a swap. In total, 16 people were returned to America and European allies while eight were returned to Russia."

Putin knew he'd better take the offer now, as Trump was not likely to make it any better.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Trump just can't help himself.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-nabj-black-voters-race-8d3c811ec6369aadef00e25e29ec0fab

He's going there with respect to KamKam's race. I'm sure Trump's attempts to race-splain KamKam's identity will surely win him mega-votes among the swing voters in swing states.

[Dillinger]

per usual the point and you are in separate hemispheres.

[Don't look at me!]

Poor Jeff/sarc

[chemjeff radical individualist]

lol

https://x.com/JamesHu29812484/status/1819115952656495076

A host on Mike Lindell's television network called on Vice President Kamala Harris to take a DNA test to prove a demonic spirit wasn't prompting her to say she was Black.

"It's because it's a demonic spirit, I know a lot of people don't like to hear that, but it's true."

[Vernon Depner]

No, her demonic possession is a separate issue from her ancestry.

[Mother's Lament]

Literally in response to a Jeffy hero reiterating the one-drop rule.

James Hughes
@JamesHu29812484
Aug 1
Donald Trump posted a photograph today of Vice President Kamala Harris wearing an Indian sari as he continued to push false racially charged claims that the Democratic presidential candidate isn’t actually Black.

Princess Kammies mom was a Brahmin. The single most privileged and racist ethnic group in human history. Her father descended from slaveholding Jamaican Quadroons.

The only American black she actually had in her is when she'd sit on Mayor Willies cock.

This is the thread Chemjeff is posting.

Also no citation or clip. Just some rando claiming some guy said that.

[JFree]

“We are on the verge of a large, large-scale escalation,” Danny Citrinowicz, who used to helm the Iran branch for Israeli military intelligence, told The Wall Street Journal.

That was always the purpose. To start a war with Iran so the US is forced into the middle to fight it.

[ducksalad]

I think you’re exaggerating.

The strategy isn’t all-out war with Iran, and if that happens it will be due to a miscalculation. The current Israeli strategy is to continuously shift the narrative – Look! Iran is attacking us! – and away from whatever their administration is currently getting criticized for. And it’s at least as much about domestic criticism as international. So they need ongoing but far-from-existential confrontations to sustain that distraction.

The Iranians play the same game themselves, at an even more blatant level. Don't look at that girl the cops beat to death or the sucky economy. Look how we bombed that American base! Look how we launched 300 missiles at Israel! All of it calibrated to be just short of what would really make all hell break loose.

The real danger here is someone miscalculating.

[JFree]

I often exaggerate to make a point more clear. But Read the transcript of what Netanyahu said in Congress a week ago?

He invited himself to Congress in order to sell the critters on why ‘ceasefire’ is not in the cards and permawar is the objective. The assassination of Haniyeh just makes that more obvious. Once you accept that Gaza is a permawar (and ‘Hamas’ has been effectively redefined as ‘all adult males from Gaza plus their terrorist family associates’ - aka ethnic cleansing is the objective) – then who is the US supposed to see as the enemy?

He’s not interested merely in keeping the flow of free weapons going. Nor did we move carriers to the region to supply weapons to Israel.

And yes I understand that governments are mostly focused on their own wag the dog games for a domestic audience. I’m specifically talking about what those government policy goals are for their foreign audience.

[BYODB]

Did Obama ring up Iran and tell them to direct their Hamas operatives to go a rapin' in Israel to gin up a war or something?

Wow, more unhinged by the day. Or, let me guess, you think Netanyahu directed Hamas to murder Israeli citizens in some kind of ploy to...do...something unspecified?

Were you not born yet, or not of age, when 9/11 happened or something? We went to war for almost two decades over that one, so are you one of those guys who also thought Bush orchestrated those attacks to...also do...something unspecified?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Something about oil, which never made much sense.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Some of us have lamented the fucking-over of the WSJ. More indications of just how fucked it it from today's headlines:

Is Trump Really Better Than Harris for Oil and Gas Investors?

Wisconsin Voters Seethe Over Out-of-Control Housing Prices

Historic Prisoner Swap Marks a Win for Biden’s Focus on Alliances

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Wisconsin voters can get fucked, same as every other overpriced blue shit hole. They wanted this, so they get to suffer from it.

Too bad all the hicklibs there are too stupid to realize it.

[charliehall]

Given that oil and gas drilling doubled under Biden and that Trump will have to repay Elon Musk for his multiple tens of millions of dollars of contributions by requiring all of use to get electric vehicles, the first question is quite reasonable to ask and has an obvious answer.

Wisconsin voters elected the folks who put in the zoning restrictions that cause the out of control prices. Many are Republicans.

MAGA has been blasting Biden for not getting the prisoners out of Russia. Now it is blasting him for the opposite. But Franklin Roosevelt proved that competent diplomacy works better than obnoxious bluster with his Good Neighbor Policy that got Brazil and Mexico to make real contributions to the Allied war effort during WW2. Biden understands stuff like this; Trump doesn't and MAGA thinks that all you have to do to get your way is to be a bully.

[Don't look at me!]

Joe said :

“How many have heard this phrase, the blood of liberty washes those… gimme a break,” President Biden said. “No, I mean it. Seriously. And by the way, if they want to think they want to take on government if we get out of line, which they’re talking again about, guess what, they need F-15s. They don’t need a rifle.

[Vernon Depner]

He wasn't articulate, but he's right. An insurgency against the government of a modern First World state is impossible unless the military backs it up.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Really? Government officials have houses, right? They drive to work? People think only of a stand-up shooting war against “the government” that needs military backing, but don’t realize the soft targets that are easily removed through small arms. What is an F15 going to do to protect a Lt. Gov. or a judge or a someone’s Chief of Staff?

[Medulla Oblongata]

There’s been quite a buzz recently about a Zoom call dubbed “White Dudes for Harris,” where some well-known names rallied in support of Vice President Kamala Harris. The event made headlines, but not everything that’s been said about it is true. Let’s clear up the confusion.

A lot of chatter online suggested that Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow joined the call. A popular X account, Kamala’s Wins, which has a hefty following of over 550,000, claimed that Burrow was on the Zoom supporting Harris. But hold on—before you start picturing Burrow giving a political speech, let’s set the record straight.

The Bengals quickly denied the claim, with a spokesperson confirming to the Cincinnati Enquirer that Burrow was not on the call. Kamala’s Wins later deleted the post, but not before it had already sparked quite the conversation.

The rumors didn’t stop with Burrow. Another viral tweet suggested that New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones and Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff also participated in the pro-Harris session. But according to Front Office Sports, sources close to both Jones and Goff said they weren’t on the Zoom either. It seems like misinformation was spreading faster than a football on game day.

https://civildeadline.com/nfl-team-responds-to-social-media-post/?utm_source=tpi&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TPI08012024BR1

[Fist of Etiquette]

The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse...

They don't clean that guesthouse very frequently. One-star review.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The opposition and the growing list of global leaders who back it, meanwhile, have appealed to Lula's efforts to paint himself as a defender of democracy...

"Yeah, about that... I'm in power now so I don't really need that stuff."

[Fist of Etiquette]

...16 people were returned to America and European allies while eight were returned to Russia.

Biden read Trump's The Art of the Deal.