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I'm so torn. On one hand, my government is committing terrorist attacks. On the other hand, the victims of these attacks are the sneering, contemptible Europeans who richly deserve to have their shit fucked up.
Although I'm leaning towards,"they kept calling us baby-killing murderers...why don't we hoist the black flag and start some baby-killing?
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“Cui bono?” Says the Russkies. “Whose got form here” says - 3 guesses.
[NYPOST] As the world burns and President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... ’s inadequacies grow only more obvious, Democrats reassure themselves that voters next year will care most of all about domestic issues.
And there, they think, Biden has something to be proud of: Bidenomics.
The economy has delivered good news in recent months — inflation is slowing and employment is booming.
The latest jobs numbers have been rapturously reported by a wide swath of the media. "Jobs report shock: American economy added a stunning 336,000 jobs in September," ran CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... ’s headline.
Yet the same web page trumpeting that achievement carried an analysis by CNN’s David Goldman acknowledging the economy still "feels lousy for many people," and according to the network’s own polling, "A majority of Americans say President Joe Biden’s policies have made economic conditions worse."
The historian Titus Livy, surveying the last days of the Roman republic, concluded, "We can endure neither our vices nor their cure."
In our case, we can endure neither inflation nor its cure — and voters are mad about both.
A year ago, Democrats breathed easy: Yes, they lost control of the House of Representatives, but the midterms were not the rout for Biden’s party that everyone expected, despite the dizzying inflation rate.
Republicans were perplexed: Were Americans really indifferent to escalating prices and the tumbling purchasing power of the dollars in their wallets?
Just as puzzling was the way voters seemed not to punish Democrats for heightened levels of violent mostly peaceful crime.
In 2020, even with all the headwinds Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... faced, many in the GOP thought the riots and rising crime of that summer and autumn would secure his re-election.
It was 1968 all over again, and Trump was the new Nixon.
And by last year’s midterms, Joe Biden was meant to be the new Jimmy Malaise Carter ...only the second worst president ever... , presiding over a country beset by malaise, whose best years seemed to be in the rearview.
Yet only now does inflation appear to be doing the damage to Biden that conservatives thought it would do from the start, even though economists say the worst of it is now behind us.
Crime is also catching up with the Democrats, despite assurances from liberals that murder rates in many places are stabilizing or falling.
What prognosticators on both sides get wrong — and I did too — is the degree of "latency" in American politics.
Those of us who follow politics closely assume ordinary voters will react as quickly as we do to the latest numbers and trends.
Yet the current mood of the public, as well as its reactions in 2020 and 2022, is easily accounted for by taking a lag into account.
Voters really do care about crime and inflation but only once the experience of these evils has had time to reshape their outlook.
And where inflation is concerned, the cure is almost as painful as the affliction.
Higher interest rates hurt homebuyers. Bringing down prices means throttling wage growth, too.
Every trip to the supermarket and gas station reminds voters of what inflation has done, yet the pain doesn’t vanish just because professional economists say the forecast is brightening.
And as inflation-reducing measures take hold, groceries and gasoline remain expensive while the pinch of new constraints is felt.
This has been going on long enough for Americans to get sick of it and sick of the president under whom it’s been happening.
Biden can’t complain of any injustice here: If he’s not getting credit for the good news, he didn’t get the full blame he deserved for the bad news earlier, either.
Americans gave Biden a loan, in effect, both in 2020 and 2022. Now the payments are coming due — and those interest rates are up.
After three years, Bidenomics means Bidenflation to most voters.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... cities remain unsafe, even if not every ZIP code is growing more violent mostly peaceful, and bloody events around the world are spiraling beyond the president’s control.
Will things get better in the next 12 months — and will Americans feel an improvement quickly enough to reward the octogenarian incumbent with four more years?
On paper, Joe Biden was just the man to give citizens a sense of stability again after the drama of the Trump years.
He was a familiar face of the past — a link to the Obama years and earlier — at a time when voters were deeply troubled about the present.
Now they’re no less troubled, and their most recent recollections of peace and prosperity date to the Trump era.
Bidenomics holds little hope of saving Biden, no matter what happens next.
The damage is already done, and now that voters have had time to process it, they’re prepared to deliver a damning verdict.
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Maybe.
The best comment I've seen on the 2022 elections is that the voters were very upset about crime and inflation and so voted for people who would give them more crime and inflation.
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BLUF: 151 known terrorists are known to have illegally come in through the southern border, set loose in America, could do here what Hamas just did in Israel. How many more got-aways in the tens of thousands flowing in?
#1
I was just talking with my insurance lady Friday about riots. She said there were probably 2, 3 lines of Texas militia between me and any source of trouble.
Apparently (surprise!) while there is a distinction between 'riot' and 'act of war', damages from the latter will generally be disallowed.
#4
^ To be more precise, we surrendered. Vietnam same thing. That's how you go from winning 90%+ battlefield engagements yet still end up "losing". That's because "winning" was defined to mean something other than victory.
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A swift Western victory would have hurt the enemy's feelings and deprived the military industrial complex of years/decades of ample revenue.
Both effects were unacceptable, hence the Western political class opted for an endless special military operation that ultimately had to end in shameful defeat.
#6
Victory had nothing to do with the battlefield. Put this way, when you take out a nation's beloved leader, it's a good idea to have the military "otherwise engaged". And yes, ending in humiliation was always going to be the end result. Makes the domestic operations much easier.
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[NYPOST] A letter signed by 31 Harvard University student groups blaming Israel as "entirely responsible" for Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’ heinous attacks shows how low US higher education has sunk.
Even the campus Amnesia Amnesty International chapter joined in making excuses for the targeting and kidnapping of civilians, buying the hard-left idea that "fighting imperialism" (or whatever) justifies utter atrocities.
That is: A pack of privileged students justified out-and-out war crimes as somehow legitimate.
Specifically, they called Israel an "apartheid regime," though Israeli Arabs in fact enjoy full civil rights.
And it’s actually Hamas that oppresses the people of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , with its dedication to wiping Israel off the map directly responsible for the strip’s isolation.
They also betray grotesque historical ignorance, writing: "Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Paleostinian existence for 75 years," when for decades Israel controlled neither Gaza nor the West Bank.
And it was the Arab nations that weaponized them into a people without a state instead of taking them in, even as Israel accepted Jews driven out from the Arab world in those decades.
Plus, Hamas is simply the catspaw of an actual imperialist power, the regime based in Tehran, and its rule over Gaza is nothing the people there choose: It’s the "occupying power" there.
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Nowadays you don't get to tenure track without being good in politics - which includes not making discoveries that offend established faculty's sense of self worth.
#6
But don't forget that since June 1 Harvard has had its first black female president. So back off, you haters!
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Well, they're not wrong. Israel is an apartheid regime.
There are few places in the world where governments construct a web of nationality and residency laws designed for use by one section of the population against another. Apartheid South Africa was one. So is Israel.
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Just so you know. Apartheid is very necessary when we're dealing with Moslems.
Islam has it's inbuilt concept of apartheid. The kaffir are the dhimmi or second class citizens, with lesser rights than the Moslems in any islamic establishment. Hence, it is okay to treat them with the same standard. They're hypocrites is what they are, Mohammed licking, inbred, degenerate murderers and rapists. To treat them like the pieces of shit they are, if it's apartheid, it's a good thing. I'll take apartheid over giving Moslems equal rights.
BLUF:
[Town Hall] But it turns out Biden was also busy with something else -- the second day of a two day interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Hur is investigating Biden's mishandling of classified information after leaving the vice presidency in 2017. Biden stashed some of classified documents next to his corvette in the Delaware home where Hunter Biden spent significant time during the pandemic.
"The President has been interviewed as part of the investigation being led by Special Counsel Robert Hur. The voluntary interview was conducted at the White House over two days, Sunday and Monday, and concluded Monday," White House Counsel spokesperson Ian Sams released in a statement Monday night.
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Skid, if Hamas has not interest in the US, why did AZ capture 250 Palestinians on our border last month??? Its about to get very interesting.
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Iran also has loads of sleeper agents here, 49 Pan, many in the Detroit area, as I recall — they’ve been arriving since 1979. The subject comes up from time to time, so I assume at least some are known.
[NYPOST] Some people are calling it "Israel’s 9/11."
That makes sense, in that Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... ’ massacre was a totally unexpected massive terrorist attack with a huge body count of innocent people.
Not as many people died as on 9/11 (though proportionately to Israel’s population it was worse than 9/11 was for America).
Because the assault involved shootings, rapes and kidnappings, it seems somehow more personal than the jets of 9/11.
But there’s one way in which it was identical, and that’s the "totally unexpected" part.
Like American intelligence agencies before 9/11, Israel’s security services were caught flat-footed.
Both American and Israeli officials have said it was a complete surprise.
Israel has spies in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , of course, but apparently they heard nothing, which is worrisome. Or they aren’t reliable, which is more so.
The United States and Israel both monitor communications there and saw no indication anything was being prepared.
(There must have been plenty of communications, of course, but maybe they used couriers, carrier pigeons or some other nonelectronic means. Electronic spying doesn’t get everything, and people tend to rely on it too much.)
Israeli Ambassador Michael Herzog admits there was surprise but wants to look forward, not backward: "Right now, we have to fight a war, and win it, as I said. Later on, we’ll have time to investigate what happened."
That’s probably sensible — though if I were Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, I’d have someone lock down the records now — but since I don’t have a war to fight, I have a few thoughts.
We know what the Israeli intelligence agencies weren’t doing, which is getting warning of the attack. So what were they doing?
Well, one thing was organizing protests against Netanyahu, in opposition to his party’s platform of reform aimed at Israel’s Supreme Court.
As a Washington Post headline says, "Israeli spy chiefs led secret revolt against Netanyahu reforms."
"The leaked document labeled top secret says that in February, big shots of the Mossad Spy Service ’advocated for Mossad officials and Israeli citizens to protest the new Israeli Government’s proposed judicial reforms, including several explicit calls to action that decried the Israeli government,'" the article continues.
This "direct intervention into Israeli politics by Mossad, an external spy service forbidden from wading into domestic matters," is "a significant revelation."
So the Mossad, whose job is to protect Israel from external threats, was instead monkeying with domestic politics.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face... Hamas planned mass slaughter, unmolested.
Was the distraction of the agency’s (illicit) involvement in domestic politics the reason nobody noticed a huge terror operation in the works?
We may get the answer after the investigation Herzog promised, but there are already some lessons for us here in America.
It is a characteristic of every bureaucracy — and intelligence agencies are very much bureaucracies — that it tends to engage in mission creep, and its leadership tends to become increasingly focused on politics as opposed to mission.
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So the $6B went to buyoff any local raghead action?
#4
So? The NSA spied on Americans in violation of federal law passed by Congress. Nobody went to prison.
Mossad is in control of Israel now? Who cares? They were in control of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell too.
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And the lesson is, When the agencies become involved in domestic politics, that becomes too important to it, as opposed to actually doing their job.
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“We [insert name of political entity] are TOO big to fail! Ignore the barbarians at the gate and focus on our internal rivals!!” Classic mistake of many a decadent society …are ‘they’ (Israel or the Western elites) too far gone to comprehend what an ‘existential threat’ is?
Israel's military and intelligence have always been politicized to one degree or another. It is just that the political infighting has made them lose track of who their real enemies are.
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[REGNUM] Many images of the Palestinian attack on Israel (killing civilians, mocking hostages, mocking corpses) are real horror. You may ask: haven’t we seen a lot of this kind of horror before from a variety of war zones or performed by a variety of terrorists? We saw it. But this goes on and on, the thicker it becomes. Before our eyes, the so-called world stability is collapsing, which, as it seemed to many, will only become even more stable in the future.
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It's tribal warfare at it's finest. From the Teutoburg Forest to the last outrages of the Apaches and Comanches to Southern Manhattan and now a desert rave.
I remember when 'Little Big Man' was a thing and teen aged girls were over the top over the 'Human Beings' sequence. Well, this is the other side of that same coin because if the your tribe are The Human Beings or The People of the Kingdom of Heaven, or True Believers, just where does that leave the rest of humanity?
The tribe as such always reserves the right to compete with one another to see who accomplishes the worst atrocity.
You cannot make peace or sign agreements with any individual or group which has this mindset. They, whether Islamic, Abenaki or Congolese, do not view us as really human and it is foundational to their strategy to use anything against us.
Good faith concessions? Appropriate treatment of prisoners? Humanitarian gestures? The tribal side regards things of that nature as weakness to be exploited and will jovially let you make all the concessions your nagging conscience will demand.
This degenerate, murderous raid specifically on the most helpless is who they are. It is who they are in Gaza, it is who they are at Harvard, or wailing in the streets of formerly civilized, cosmopolitan cities.
Wake up. There are no concessions to make, they want us converted 2nd class servants in perpetuity and view anything other than the harshest resistance as an incremental victory.
This has gone on for a century before the Battle of Tours. It WILL go on until somebody says Enough. If 9/11 didn't do it and now this utterly savage act, what will? Do we all have to die to satisfy the platitudes of the current academic fad?
Conan's nemesis said it best, 'Steel is not strong, boy. Flesh is strong, what is steel compared to the hand that holds it?'. Way past time to get medieval. Deus Vult.
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We tried to bring the message to the masses following 9/11, but we were robbed of the necessary language to do so. And then the schools started in teaching Islam straight up and the opportunity was lost. Flash forward, we had ignorant children dancing in the desert for peace under the very noses of those who would soon rape, torture and murder them. And still... nothing will be learned.
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^Well, maybe the Israelis will learn something. Because the best weapon Allanbeasts have is our belief in "Peace".
Here, I can also add that anyone who cares about "Palestinians" would be working toward their absorption in Arab World, not trying to force Israel to suicide.
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...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
