Trump is the ultimate shape-shifter. He's a Russian asset, while being an insurrectionist, while being a Nazi, while being a King and now finally, he's a puppet of the JOOOOOOOOOZ. Trump is all of those and none of those at the same time. He exists in a quantum state, not of physics but of politics.
There's nothing in the world easier than to not do things. That's why everybody talked about Iran for 47 years without doing dick. Trump took action and we don't know the ultimate outcome of this war, and won't for decades. But with Trump, he actually hits with the big stick he carries. And that alone makes him worth more than all of his critics put together multiplies by infinity plus one.
I love the idea of the American Navy blockading the Straits. If Iran won't let out oil and materials to Western and non-China Asian nations, then they can't sell their oil either. Shut em all down. Those who claim it will hurt Europe and other nations, they aren't paying attention. Oil, gas and materials were already closed to non-Iranian aligned countries. This doesn't impact those economies at all. Meanwhile, Trump is diverting the 20M barrels a day of demand from Iran to North America. Presumably America cannot fill it all, but Canada, Mexico and Venezuela along with the United States probably can
I would say that those, like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly, who claim Trump is a tool of Israel, are themselves the Tools and the Fools. Projection...
Megyn Kelly baffles me. She used to have all kinds of smart people on her show to debate views. She hasn't had anyone on to balance out Tucker or Glen Greenwald or Joe Kent. Where is Victor Davis Hanson, Glenn Beck, or Ayan Hirsi Ali? She used to talk to VDH at least once a quarter. She has no intention of broadening her views on this. It's sad.
It’s quite telling that she and Carlson have pretty much embargoed VDH, who actually knows military history and has a historian’s ability to look at current events in light of the past. But they’re too busy chasing Groyper clicks.
I have made the same observation MMP! I don't know what happened to Megyn Kelly. I don't like to listen to her show anymore because as you stated it is not balance. I started watching her show because she had people with different views.
Trump was public with his Iran opinion way before Netanyahu was in power, as stated. No connection, other than tiny Israel is our ally. NYT writer Friedman posts that he’d rather see the US lose the war than Trump get any credit. Pretty sick. TDS seems incurable.
They scream it, but Israel is the one who actually destroying the USoA i.e. Death to the USA. I always take actions more serious than words. Your ignorance on this subject is, just wow!
Oh, I’m the one who’s ignorant? Your life must be pure bliss. Seems you know nothing of the Bible, nothing of history. But you go ahead and continue demonizing Gods chosen, our ally in the Middle East and blame them for everything. 👍🏼
Yes. It's not, it's like the majority of Americans it's tense, uncertain, and increasingly unhappy with Trump. I know both the bible and history well enough that I can say Christians Zionists in alignment with Jewish Nationalists are a bigger problem than Iran. God's chosen, hardly, they are criminals with a lust for blood and money and they see people like you as their useful idiots.
Your opinion is the least popular in every space but libtards and deranged anti-Israel spaces. In the normal world nobody believes Israel is the biggest problem because no one is being used to spread enemy propaganda. Your brainwashing is so complete even this reply won’t penetrate your psyche, it will only trigger the need to insult me.
I hope one day soon you’ll see how you were misled and why.
You called me ignorant in your last comment, now call this person more names. Maybe it’s you who is ignorant, stupid and uninformed. Your debating skills need serious work.
A lot of people have all the answers..... even without having all the information.
In other words, it's not reasonable to think Trump and members of his administration do not have access to information that is not available to the public. Patience, Grasshopper!
It doesn't help that the excretable MSM double down daily on the outright lies and gaslighting concerning anything related to Iran. This is even worse than COVID or Russiagate. As always, a significant portion of the population willingly embrace and amplify those lies. Confirmation bias on crack.
The two-button/superhero meme that Sasha posted the other day where the choices were "War Crimes" or "TACO" absolutely nailed the hypocrisy of the anti-Trump/anti-Israel narrative.
Yep, the same people that will sport a keffiyeh one day while marching for "from the river to the sea" will don a Handmaid's Tale costume the next day and march against patriarchal misogyny. These are the same people who declare that we occupy stolen land, but advocate for open borders and birthright citizenship.
Anyone who didn’t snap awake after seeing that meme, or watching in real time the hypocrisy in the media surrounding Trump last week, is an absolute lost cause and will never be capable of critical thought or common sense so are not worth anyone’s time to debate with. It was all right there clear as day and they missed it.
…and here’s the thing: Iran has been @ war with the U.S. since the mad mullahs came came to power in 1979; storming an embassy, taking hostages, blowing up a Marine barracks in Lebanon (1983) & killing 241 Marines, funneling weapons & IED’s into Iraq to kill U.S. personnel…all this has gone unanswered until now. As much as I’m thoroughly sick & tired of ME wars here’s a fundamental fact: if the Iranians get a nuke they will drop it right in the middle of Tel Aviv & then probably an American city. It’s not hard to make a “dirty bomb”, stick it in a shipping container & have it transported to NYC or Long Beach, CA. The mad mullahs are on record for this.
So I just hope Trump gets it over with soon & focuses back domestically.
I remember well the hostages taken by the mad mullahs and the bombing of the barracks. I also remember Iran being a secular and forward looking society.
They've been taunting us and killing ours for decades.
Trump is on record as early as 1980 when he was quite young as urging that the Mullahs in Iran be smacked down hard. This was during the hostage crisis of 1979- 1980. He’s not being let around by Israel. This has always been his position for the past 45 years.
The Iranian regime has systematically and consistently killed hundreds of Americans, calling the United States the “great Satan”—their religious archenemy in military jihad—for almost 50 years.
So many supposed Conservatives sound like leftists these days. I’ve been unfollowing people on X. I can’t take the idiocy, especially on the right. The left has always been a lost cause.
I think the topic is very delicate — and should be for good reason…BUT, there is a true Israel influence for nefarious reasons, this is a fact. To separate the two, I say we call the nefarious piece, the Elite Ashkenazi Zionist Faction. These are the bad people that hide before the good: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/stop-saying-its-the-jews-start-calling
I’d would argue that the word nefarious introduces the nuances to the topic. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t address those nuances and stay one dimensional
You can argue any fool thing you want, but "nefarious" is loaded with tons of historic overtones that would compel a thinking person to pick up a thesaurus and find a better word. As words go, that's a chainsaw, not a scalpel. Scalpels allow for nuance. - not chainsaws. Nice try, though ...
Not a fact. Your incorrect opinion. Israel is fighting for its existence. If that is "nefarious" then what are you? Do you fight for your existence? Then you are evil. Your logic
Agree with you, Jim. However, do give some people the benefit of doubt that their being critical of Israeli government actions is not the same as Jew hate. This especially of America 1st voices from the Right. This nuance is being lost.
Maybe if every single anti-Israel protest didn't devolve into anti-Semitic chants, the benefit of the doubt would be broader. Maybe if Jews weren't being beaten in the streets of New York and L.A. simply for being Jews, decent people wouldn't need to be so cynical of those claiming criticism of Israel has nothing to do with its Jewish nature. Maybe if far worse actors on the world stage received even a tiny fraction of the vitriol and hatred directed at Israel (and for offenses far more egregious than anything Israel is even accused of - I'm looking at you, Saudi Arabia, China and Myanmar). There is, of course, legitimate criticism to be made of any government - and if you read Israeli newspapers, you'll find it on the op-ed page every single day from Israelis! (Try finding criticism of the Saudi, Chinese or Russian governments in newspapers in those nations.) And even here, there is of course reasonable debate to be had about Israel's war aims, etc. But the vast majority of criticism of Israel is clearly, obviously, blatantly nothing more than a smokescreen for being able to vent anti-Semitic sentiment - even on the far right. When inbred morons like Tucker Carlson question the legitimacy of the very existence of Israel, that's not holding the government to account (nor is it America First). It's simply neo-Nazi bullshit in fancy garb.
Sure, but what makes us the greatest country for free speech and freedom is that anyone can voice their opinion. I have the fourth, and it's like checking the list. To me, the gray champion is indeed our president. He is a disrupting force that will move us out of the morass we have sustained from our previous woke hospitalization. There is no question that Iran needs to be fully disarmed if they hope to live, though that is questionable given their ideology.
Jim, I’d say you can start with your own social circles, which includes this stack. My Christianity teaches me to take everyone as an individual, and not assign the actions of others upon each individual you might encounter. If you think something you read rhymes w/ the media you consume, better to confirm it’s correct or else your bias (which may not be the truth) reigns. It’s like a poster here said about the write in Sasha dropped about today. Someone called him/her a Jew-hater for being against the war. I’m personally okay with the conflict occurring and USA coordinating w/ Israel. But, I fully respect and understand other MAGA voices that are not. The 1st Amendment is a beautiful thing we have. And exercising our speech doesn’t mean it’s hate.
Israel is a democracy. They can change if they want. Seems like they are doing the hard work that has been ignored for too long. Ignoring problems doesn’t solve them.
Exactly! How did October 7 occur? It was because the long-standing effort by Iran to destroy Israel and put its Shiite flag in the ground to surround its Sunni rivals relied on the success of its two proxy quasi-states, Hezbollah and Hamas. Israeli liberals / progressives, fought the hardliners like Netanyahu in the Knesset to lift the restrictions and surveillance of those two quasi-states giving both "the benefit of the doubt". The theory was that they would be better neighbors if they weren't antagonized and restrained. How did that work out? Like all liberal efforts to appease opponents, it blew up in the face of the Israeli people. Chamberlain and Hitler taught us all a lesson we can never forget: appeasement is a green light for aggression. Obama and Biden also never learned this lesson and empowered Iran, Russia and China
1. Prevent/delay Saudi Arabia joining Abraham Accords and Iran’s enemy normalizing relations w/ its other enemy, Israel
2. In summer of ‘03, Israel agreed to co develop the Gaza Marine natural gas field w/ Egypt & the PA. This lucrative gas field is a threat to Tehran $ influence in West Bank & Gaza (it could replace mullah $).
#2 is both underreported and under appreciated outside foreign policy circles.
Agreed. I think the tendency to drift toward the age old blood libel is strong though, especially now. There was a time years ago where I believed that Israel and Judaism were the bane of mankind that they were true evil on earth. Fortunately, I pulled my self out of that dark chasm of judgement against an entire people, and came to realize that there are people who just hate the Jews as a rule, and that they use their own forms of propaganda to try to turn others to their views. That is in overdrive now. But I do think that Israel's government is deserving of criticism for their actions, and much like here in the US, the media in Israel is as critical as anyone in the USA or Europe (while some of their media is 100% supportive of the government, just like here). Fortunately, Israel is a democracy and an ally of the USA. We have benefited from that as have they. In any case, for a nation surrounded by nations that want to eradicate them, I think Israels overreactions are more understandable, at least to me. Not right, but understandable. They should be held to account for what they do, but so should Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran. We now have Americans supporting terrorist goals (from the river to the sea, ring a bell?) and this I can not agree with in any way whatsoever.
America First doesn’t mean abandoning Israel. There is no nuance. God loves Israel, even while they break all the commandments and ignore Him. He brings back the remnant in Revelation. If God doesn’t abandon the nation He loves and chose, nor will I. Ever. It’s an everlasting covenant.
Actually many of these posters are paid propaganda trained by enemies that wish to completely sever all ties between Israel and the U.S. They follow the same pattern the democrats used leading up to the 2024 election. I read replies like the one Sasha highlighted all the time and they all contain the same pattern: disclaimer to set them up for credibility (I’ve read you for a while, I voted for Trump three times, I’ve been MAGA for X years, etc etc) then it’s followed by a “but” and what follows is a careful transcript of the same narrative being plopped everywhere else. Not a single original thought. All scripted. When I look into the account that is posting I notice either they are a newer account that only reads one or two substacks and the one they are replying to is one of them even though they are opposing everything it says, and there is very little footprint for anything else - or, their account shows all of their “likes,” posts, and other replies are anti-Israel, anti-Trump, anti-MAGA slop. If they aren’t a paid propaganda account then they are definitely somebody’s village idiot.
It's a strange "genocide" when there is a smaller civilian to combatant death ratio than in any other modern urban warfare...and there are more Palestinians than at the start of the war. Israel must suck at "genocide."
In fact, the only genocide involved is the explicitly genocidal attack by Hamas on Israel and the explicit stated intent of Hamas in the aftermath to continue such attacks in line with their genocidal charter.
Accusations against Israel are classic "DARVO": "Deny Attack Reverse Victim and Offender." It is Goebbel's "big lie." There are always people willing to take the bait and swallow whole.
Exactly... the Party of Love is definitely today the Party of Hate. So much so, that it was obviously disingenuous when Kamala Harris tried to dress up her campaign as a love-in in 2024. More propaganda from the Left
Quite true. He had 4 years in the “wilderness” to develop his plans and assemble his team. Many of the Cabinet members were with him in his 2024 campaign, which seems to have annealed them into a cohesive and strong group.
Trump also has the essential virtue of courage; so lacking in most of the political class. He speaks plainly (and sometimes crudely). But that does penetrate through the lies of the Legacy media.
I hope that we come through this period with better civil society. We will surely be stronger economically and militarily. OTOH the minds of many are easily manipulated and profoundly poorly educated. I read regularly college profs (at so called “good” schools) decrying the lack of numeracy and reading skills of. their students, who complain if given more than 20 min of reading and seem to have no ambition to truly master a subject by reading the great thinkers on the topic. Yet the AVERAGE grade at most of these schools is an A-…
Prayer for common sense, commitment to truth and revival in order.
People who use the word "genocide" to describe Israel's attacks on Gaza and Lebanon just can't be taken seriously. You can argue that Israel should have used different tactics in their war, but words have meaning and what they have done just can't seriously be called genocide. Anybody who uses that term reveals themselves to be an illiterate idiot.
There is no way to argue with people who have been consumed by Jew hatred. I must admit that I'm somewhat shocked at how pervasive it has become. I used to think it was relegated to the conspiratorial fringes. It is incredibly sad to see it now be mainstreamed.
Going after an enemies missile batteries and storage, when those missiles are fired indiscriminately at innocent civilians, is an effort to defeat genocide. Those missiles were supplied by Iran to Hezbollah in the tens of thousands so that Hezbollah could commit genocide against Israelis. American "tools of Iran" need to get their heads screwed on straight
Absolutely agree. It’s shocking and quite sudden. Revelation does mention “nations turning against Israel” as part of End Times. Funny that the ones complaining about Iran and Christians bringing on the End Times are actually the ones assisting it.
The lack of handling history honestly in both our high schools and our colleges has dumbed down so many people who are completely unaware how foolish they look
Trump has America First considerations beyond Iran not getting a nuke. Much of what he's doing concerns controlling China. Right now, he's boxed in not only Iran, but also China, with his blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. China needs the strait open because it needs the oil that flows through the strait. The bottom line is that there's way more going on here than just Israel, nukes, missiles, drones and the persecution of the Iranian (not IRGC) people.
Yes -- Trump works on the biggest picture. China, Iran, and Isreal are all intertwined. When Iran is toppled, the Middle East wars can end, and a prosperous Middle East could act as a counter-weight to China. I'm simplifying, but I believe that's the likely way forward.
Ty Sasha! If only the media were on Trumps side, the American side of this skirmish. The war has been won and the Straight has been effectively closed. Iran is out of cards to play. We pay a buck more for gas , which in my opinion an extremely small price compared to Nuclear Winter.
It is not opposition to Israel's policies that is driving those people, it is anti-Semitism pure and simple. It is a different sort on the Right and Left but Jew hatred in both. I had a long exchange with some guy in England who said he was Jewish about the difference between America and Europe. He was maintaining that that anti-Semitism was native to the Right and Christianity. Spanish Inquisition and all that. English rulers except Cromwell were a problem and Jews were expelled from more or less every country in Europe over time. I countered that maybe in Europe but in America you can find support for Israel dating back to 1640. George Washington was notably Philo-Semitic and both Madison and Hamilton knew Hebrew and were informed by Jewish scholarship when they were drafting the Constitution. In the US, other than the outbreak in the 1920s, anti-Semitism is native to the Left and started with black resentment of Jewish commerce in the ghetto. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are good examples of this. Jimmy Carter was an anti-Semite in the Christian tradition but was also on the Left. Both Europe and America had anti-Semitism turbocharged by the influx of Muslims who are allied with the Left. I am puzzled by the emergence of anti-Semitism on the Right in recent years. They are certainly not inspired by the Muslims nor the Left. Perhaps the Euro version was always there but just underground. Anyway, they are a tiny fringe on the Right but mainstream on the Left. The thing about Trump being controlled by Israel is just absurd.
Maybe they are inspired by the Muslims and the left, and just don’t realize it. I see both those groups as posers invading the right - wearing the hat of the right (so to speak) to gain credibility and be listened to, and once they have your trust they start to plant their narratives. They manipulate information and people. They cause clashes to occur between Jewish people and their allies that otherwise might not have happened. I think that’s what happened to Megyn and Tucker, circumstances are being manipulated in such a way both are convinced Israel is out to silence them or something when in reality they weren’t part of the ruckus at all.
I remember in high school a bunch of jealous girls got together to try to drive a wedge between the two most popular girls in our class (I was one of them.) The lies and deception that happened convinced the other girl I had said and done things I didn’t. The shit stirrers did it so well that almost anything I did or said played right into the script they set up. It ended in a fist fight between me and the other girl across the street of the school and we both got suspensions. She never believed me when I told her I hadn’t said or done any of the things the others claimed. Why would ALL of them lie in sync? So I must be the liar. Because nasty people do nasty things to tear apart alliances that threaten them, that’s why. Two of the nasty girls ended up getting exactly what they wanted: her best friendship without me in the way. (I beat her ass a second time in high school simply for being such a gullible, stupid twit and thinking she could get away with doing shit to me in front of everyone. She learned the hard way I had a limit and would slam her right down decisively. I got another suspension, but I also got the admiration of the entire class including her boyfriend - so worth it. People like underdog stories.)
My point is dishonest people will orchestrate the most elaborate schemes to fool two allies and drive a wedge between them. That’s why so many on the right are fooled today. It’s elaborate. Who lies so well? The enemies of Israel do. It’s in their religious texts for goodness sakes.
There is the thing about Tucker being on Qatar's payroll. But Qatar is supporting the US (and indirectly Israel) in this one so you would think they could get him to chill. Or maybe it is just about clicks. I would like to see a revenue analysis.
Excellent points, Richard. And quite true. Many don’t realize how old the synagogues are in the USA; most of the older East coast cities have Jewish populations from 17-18C.
Appreciate your excellent analysis! I have supported Trump more out of contempt for those who have opposed him than anything else. At this point I'm coming around to the idea he will have to be understood as one of our greatest presidents. His virtues will be seen more clearly in retrospect.
First, Trump was a Hitler clone, yet also a tool of Putin. Now he's a would-be King, yet also somehow a willing Israel-tool. Whatever merits these attacks on Trump can claim, basic logical coherence has never been among them. Eager critics need to decide whether Trump is the out-of control, tyrannical puppeteer or the helpless puppet; slamming him from both directions simultaneously is incoherent.
Isn't "Trump is Putin's puppet" wearing a little thin, after 10+years?
You do understand if Trump really were a king, he'd have had the No Kings protesters rounded up, incarcerated, and sentenced without trial to life in prison, or worse.
Because you elected a senile old man on death's doorstep for president, then willingly, against his wishes, removed him as a duly elected nominee for a widely known prostitute, you've become blinded with TDS and now would know true leadership if it bit you in the a*s.
Shouldn't you be directing this 'reply' to Trump's TDS-afflicted attackers? I'm pointing out that the supposed grounds for the attacks are incompatible.
Trump is the ultimate shape-shifter. He's a Russian asset, while being an insurrectionist, while being a Nazi, while being a King and now finally, he's a puppet of the JOOOOOOOOOZ. Trump is all of those and none of those at the same time. He exists in a quantum state, not of physics but of politics.
There's nothing in the world easier than to not do things. That's why everybody talked about Iran for 47 years without doing dick. Trump took action and we don't know the ultimate outcome of this war, and won't for decades. But with Trump, he actually hits with the big stick he carries. And that alone makes him worth more than all of his critics put together multiplies by infinity plus one.
I love the idea of the American Navy blockading the Straits. If Iran won't let out oil and materials to Western and non-China Asian nations, then they can't sell their oil either. Shut em all down. Those who claim it will hurt Europe and other nations, they aren't paying attention. Oil, gas and materials were already closed to non-Iranian aligned countries. This doesn't impact those economies at all. Meanwhile, Trump is diverting the 20M barrels a day of demand from Iran to North America. Presumably America cannot fill it all, but Canada, Mexico and Venezuela along with the United States probably can
I would say that those, like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly, who claim Trump is a tool of Israel, are themselves the Tools and the Fools. Projection...
Megyn Kelly baffles me. She used to have all kinds of smart people on her show to debate views. She hasn't had anyone on to balance out Tucker or Glen Greenwald or Joe Kent. Where is Victor Davis Hanson, Glenn Beck, or Ayan Hirsi Ali? She used to talk to VDH at least once a quarter. She has no intention of broadening her views on this. It's sad.
It’s quite telling that she and Carlson have pretty much embargoed VDH, who actually knows military history and has a historian’s ability to look at current events in light of the past. But they’re too busy chasing Groyper clicks.
I have made the same observation MMP! I don't know what happened to Megyn Kelly. I don't like to listen to her show anymore because as you stated it is not balance. I started watching her show because she had people with different views.
That's right. And now, she is being intellectually dishonest in her views because she is not entertaining any other views. It's a shame.
Trump was public with his Iran opinion way before Netanyahu was in power, as stated. No connection, other than tiny Israel is our ally. NYT writer Friedman posts that he’d rather see the US lose the war than Trump get any credit. Pretty sick. TDS seems incurable.
Loved your first sentence lol. So true
hahahaha! you’re good. thanks for setting the insanity straight!
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Well said, agree with your comment and Sasha’s.
Great reply. He would say “high IQ. Able to see the Wood.”. I would say” brilliantly put”
Why was action ever needed to be taken with Iran when Israel is the real problem? Instead we give them more money to be an even bigger problem?
Israel is the real problem, not Iran? Just wow. A country that screams Death to America seems quite problematic to me.
They scream it, but Israel is the one who actually destroying the USoA i.e. Death to the USA. I always take actions more serious than words. Your ignorance on this subject is, just wow!
Oh, I’m the one who’s ignorant? Your life must be pure bliss. Seems you know nothing of the Bible, nothing of history. But you go ahead and continue demonizing Gods chosen, our ally in the Middle East and blame them for everything. 👍🏼
Yes. It's not, it's like the majority of Americans it's tense, uncertain, and increasingly unhappy with Trump. I know both the bible and history well enough that I can say Christians Zionists in alignment with Jewish Nationalists are a bigger problem than Iran. God's chosen, hardly, they are criminals with a lust for blood and money and they see people like you as their useful idiots.
You have not read your Bible as it contradicts your remarks. Just admit you’re an antisemite and a leftist.
If you think Iran is not a problem then there is no possible response to you.
Have a nice day.
Could it be you are incapable of a response that doesn't make you look stupid and uninformed. Have a nice day.
Your opinion is the least popular in every space but libtards and deranged anti-Israel spaces. In the normal world nobody believes Israel is the biggest problem because no one is being used to spread enemy propaganda. Your brainwashing is so complete even this reply won’t penetrate your psyche, it will only trigger the need to insult me.
I hope one day soon you’ll see how you were misled and why.
But just like the leftists, they just KNOW they are right! Then they just call names.
You called me ignorant in your last comment, now call this person more names. Maybe it’s you who is ignorant, stupid and uninformed. Your debating skills need serious work.
You just reinforced my view with your latest. Perhaps they do, but critical thinking skills are something you appear to never have acquired.
Ah yes, now my critical thinking skills fail. Brilliant debate there. 👍🏼 You need a giant mirror.
A lot of people have all the answers..... even without having all the information.
In other words, it's not reasonable to think Trump and members of his administration do not have access to information that is not available to the public. Patience, Grasshopper!
It doesn't help that the excretable MSM double down daily on the outright lies and gaslighting concerning anything related to Iran. This is even worse than COVID or Russiagate. As always, a significant portion of the population willingly embrace and amplify those lies. Confirmation bias on crack.
Not to mention lies and gaslighting concerning anything related to Trump.
The two-button/superhero meme that Sasha posted the other day where the choices were "War Crimes" or "TACO" absolutely nailed the hypocrisy of the anti-Trump/anti-Israel narrative.
Yep, the same people that will sport a keffiyeh one day while marching for "from the river to the sea" will don a Handmaid's Tale costume the next day and march against patriarchal misogyny. These are the same people who declare that we occupy stolen land, but advocate for open borders and birthright citizenship.
Anyone who didn’t snap awake after seeing that meme, or watching in real time the hypocrisy in the media surrounding Trump last week, is an absolute lost cause and will never be capable of critical thought or common sense so are not worth anyone’s time to debate with. It was all right there clear as day and they missed it.
Well, the MSM did blow the lid off of the "lobster-gate" incident. Worthless clowns. 🤡🤣
…and here’s the thing: Iran has been @ war with the U.S. since the mad mullahs came came to power in 1979; storming an embassy, taking hostages, blowing up a Marine barracks in Lebanon (1983) & killing 241 Marines, funneling weapons & IED’s into Iraq to kill U.S. personnel…all this has gone unanswered until now. As much as I’m thoroughly sick & tired of ME wars here’s a fundamental fact: if the Iranians get a nuke they will drop it right in the middle of Tel Aviv & then probably an American city. It’s not hard to make a “dirty bomb”, stick it in a shipping container & have it transported to NYC or Long Beach, CA. The mad mullahs are on record for this.
So I just hope Trump gets it over with soon & focuses back domestically.
I remember well the hostages taken by the mad mullahs and the bombing of the barracks. I also remember Iran being a secular and forward looking society.
They've been taunting us and killing ours for decades.
Trump is on record as early as 1980 when he was quite young as urging that the Mullahs in Iran be smacked down hard. This was during the hostage crisis of 1979- 1980. He’s not being let around by Israel. This has always been his position for the past 45 years.
The Iranian regime has systematically and consistently killed hundreds of Americans, calling the United States the “great Satan”—their religious archenemy in military jihad—for almost 50 years.
Trump is ENDING this war. By winning it.
Wouldn't even engage with the Jew hatred. You can't reason with stupidity, and they are walking examples of morons in our midst.
So many supposed Conservatives sound like leftists these days. I’ve been unfollowing people on X. I can’t take the idiocy, especially on the right. The left has always been a lost cause.
I think the topic is very delicate — and should be for good reason…BUT, there is a true Israel influence for nefarious reasons, this is a fact. To separate the two, I say we call the nefarious piece, the Elite Ashkenazi Zionist Faction. These are the bad people that hide before the good: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/stop-saying-its-the-jews-start-calling
The moment you introduce a word like "nefarious" into a conversation on Jew hatred you betray your true motives ... lol ...
I’d would argue that the word nefarious introduces the nuances to the topic. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t address those nuances and stay one dimensional
One dimensional on antisemitism and proud of it.
Amen.
You can argue any fool thing you want, but "nefarious" is loaded with tons of historic overtones that would compel a thinking person to pick up a thesaurus and find a better word. As words go, that's a chainsaw, not a scalpel. Scalpels allow for nuance. - not chainsaws. Nice try, though ...
God loves His people, without “nuance”. He’s quite “one dimensional” in that regard. Guess I’ll remain “one dimensional” as well.
Not a fact. Your incorrect opinion. Israel is fighting for its existence. If that is "nefarious" then what are you? Do you fight for your existence? Then you are evil. Your logic
Agree with you, Jim. However, do give some people the benefit of doubt that their being critical of Israeli government actions is not the same as Jew hate. This especially of America 1st voices from the Right. This nuance is being lost.
Maybe if every single anti-Israel protest didn't devolve into anti-Semitic chants, the benefit of the doubt would be broader. Maybe if Jews weren't being beaten in the streets of New York and L.A. simply for being Jews, decent people wouldn't need to be so cynical of those claiming criticism of Israel has nothing to do with its Jewish nature. Maybe if far worse actors on the world stage received even a tiny fraction of the vitriol and hatred directed at Israel (and for offenses far more egregious than anything Israel is even accused of - I'm looking at you, Saudi Arabia, China and Myanmar). There is, of course, legitimate criticism to be made of any government - and if you read Israeli newspapers, you'll find it on the op-ed page every single day from Israelis! (Try finding criticism of the Saudi, Chinese or Russian governments in newspapers in those nations.) And even here, there is of course reasonable debate to be had about Israel's war aims, etc. But the vast majority of criticism of Israel is clearly, obviously, blatantly nothing more than a smokescreen for being able to vent anti-Semitic sentiment - even on the far right. When inbred morons like Tucker Carlson question the legitimacy of the very existence of Israel, that's not holding the government to account (nor is it America First). It's simply neo-Nazi bullshit in fancy garb.
Sure, but what makes us the greatest country for free speech and freedom is that anyone can voice their opinion. I have the fourth, and it's like checking the list. To me, the gray champion is indeed our president. He is a disrupting force that will move us out of the morass we have sustained from our previous woke hospitalization. There is no question that Iran needs to be fully disarmed if they hope to live, though that is questionable given their ideology.
Jim, I’d say you can start with your own social circles, which includes this stack. My Christianity teaches me to take everyone as an individual, and not assign the actions of others upon each individual you might encounter. If you think something you read rhymes w/ the media you consume, better to confirm it’s correct or else your bias (which may not be the truth) reigns. It’s like a poster here said about the write in Sasha dropped about today. Someone called him/her a Jew-hater for being against the war. I’m personally okay with the conflict occurring and USA coordinating w/ Israel. But, I fully respect and understand other MAGA voices that are not. The 1st Amendment is a beautiful thing we have. And exercising our speech doesn’t mean it’s hate.
Israel is a democracy. They can change if they want. Seems like they are doing the hard work that has been ignored for too long. Ignoring problems doesn’t solve them.
Exactly! How did October 7 occur? It was because the long-standing effort by Iran to destroy Israel and put its Shiite flag in the ground to surround its Sunni rivals relied on the success of its two proxy quasi-states, Hezbollah and Hamas. Israeli liberals / progressives, fought the hardliners like Netanyahu in the Knesset to lift the restrictions and surveillance of those two quasi-states giving both "the benefit of the doubt". The theory was that they would be better neighbors if they weren't antagonized and restrained. How did that work out? Like all liberal efforts to appease opponents, it blew up in the face of the Israeli people. Chamberlain and Hitler taught us all a lesson we can never forget: appeasement is a green light for aggression. Obama and Biden also never learned this lesson and empowered Iran, Russia and China
10/7 occurred, IMO, for 2 reasons:
1. Prevent/delay Saudi Arabia joining Abraham Accords and Iran’s enemy normalizing relations w/ its other enemy, Israel
2. In summer of ‘03, Israel agreed to co develop the Gaza Marine natural gas field w/ Egypt & the PA. This lucrative gas field is a threat to Tehran $ influence in West Bank & Gaza (it could replace mullah $).
#2 is both underreported and under appreciated outside foreign policy circles.
Appeasement is one thing. Obama and Biden also funded it.
Agreed. I think the tendency to drift toward the age old blood libel is strong though, especially now. There was a time years ago where I believed that Israel and Judaism were the bane of mankind that they were true evil on earth. Fortunately, I pulled my self out of that dark chasm of judgement against an entire people, and came to realize that there are people who just hate the Jews as a rule, and that they use their own forms of propaganda to try to turn others to their views. That is in overdrive now. But I do think that Israel's government is deserving of criticism for their actions, and much like here in the US, the media in Israel is as critical as anyone in the USA or Europe (while some of their media is 100% supportive of the government, just like here). Fortunately, Israel is a democracy and an ally of the USA. We have benefited from that as have they. In any case, for a nation surrounded by nations that want to eradicate them, I think Israels overreactions are more understandable, at least to me. Not right, but understandable. They should be held to account for what they do, but so should Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran. We now have Americans supporting terrorist goals (from the river to the sea, ring a bell?) and this I can not agree with in any way whatsoever.
America First doesn’t mean abandoning Israel. There is no nuance. God loves Israel, even while they break all the commandments and ignore Him. He brings back the remnant in Revelation. If God doesn’t abandon the nation He loves and chose, nor will I. Ever. It’s an everlasting covenant.
Yep!
Actually many of these posters are paid propaganda trained by enemies that wish to completely sever all ties between Israel and the U.S. They follow the same pattern the democrats used leading up to the 2024 election. I read replies like the one Sasha highlighted all the time and they all contain the same pattern: disclaimer to set them up for credibility (I’ve read you for a while, I voted for Trump three times, I’ve been MAGA for X years, etc etc) then it’s followed by a “but” and what follows is a careful transcript of the same narrative being plopped everywhere else. Not a single original thought. All scripted. When I look into the account that is posting I notice either they are a newer account that only reads one or two substacks and the one they are replying to is one of them even though they are opposing everything it says, and there is very little footprint for anything else - or, their account shows all of their “likes,” posts, and other replies are anti-Israel, anti-Trump, anti-MAGA slop. If they aren’t a paid propaganda account then they are definitely somebody’s village idiot.
It's a strange "genocide" when there is a smaller civilian to combatant death ratio than in any other modern urban warfare...and there are more Palestinians than at the start of the war. Israel must suck at "genocide."
In fact, the only genocide involved is the explicitly genocidal attack by Hamas on Israel and the explicit stated intent of Hamas in the aftermath to continue such attacks in line with their genocidal charter.
Accusations against Israel are classic "DARVO": "Deny Attack Reverse Victim and Offender." It is Goebbel's "big lie." There are always people willing to take the bait and swallow whole.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud of what the Party of Love has become.
Exactly... the Party of Love is definitely today the Party of Hate. So much so, that it was obviously disingenuous when Kamala Harris tried to dress up her campaign as a love-in in 2024. More propaganda from the Left
But..."Love Trumps Hate". I think The Party of Love has always been the party of Hate Trumps Love.
They must be beaten to submission. Some folks need that unfortunately
As soon as possible, like now.
Brilliant.
Trump has confounded his critics by being right in everything that matters.
“Trump has confounded his critics” absolutely!
Quite true. He had 4 years in the “wilderness” to develop his plans and assemble his team. Many of the Cabinet members were with him in his 2024 campaign, which seems to have annealed them into a cohesive and strong group.
Trump also has the essential virtue of courage; so lacking in most of the political class. He speaks plainly (and sometimes crudely). But that does penetrate through the lies of the Legacy media.
I hope that we come through this period with better civil society. We will surely be stronger economically and militarily. OTOH the minds of many are easily manipulated and profoundly poorly educated. I read regularly college profs (at so called “good” schools) decrying the lack of numeracy and reading skills of. their students, who complain if given more than 20 min of reading and seem to have no ambition to truly master a subject by reading the great thinkers on the topic. Yet the AVERAGE grade at most of these schools is an A-…
Prayer for common sense, commitment to truth and revival in order.
And btw, thank you Sasha!
People who use the word "genocide" to describe Israel's attacks on Gaza and Lebanon just can't be taken seriously. You can argue that Israel should have used different tactics in their war, but words have meaning and what they have done just can't seriously be called genocide. Anybody who uses that term reveals themselves to be an illiterate idiot.
There is no way to argue with people who have been consumed by Jew hatred. I must admit that I'm somewhat shocked at how pervasive it has become. I used to think it was relegated to the conspiratorial fringes. It is incredibly sad to see it now be mainstreamed.
Going after an enemies missile batteries and storage, when those missiles are fired indiscriminately at innocent civilians, is an effort to defeat genocide. Those missiles were supplied by Iran to Hezbollah in the tens of thousands so that Hezbollah could commit genocide against Israelis. American "tools of Iran" need to get their heads screwed on straight
Absolutely agree. It’s shocking and quite sudden. Revelation does mention “nations turning against Israel” as part of End Times. Funny that the ones complaining about Iran and Christians bringing on the End Times are actually the ones assisting it.
The lack of handling history honestly in both our high schools and our colleges has dumbed down so many people who are completely unaware how foolish they look
Trump has America First considerations beyond Iran not getting a nuke. Much of what he's doing concerns controlling China. Right now, he's boxed in not only Iran, but also China, with his blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. China needs the strait open because it needs the oil that flows through the strait. The bottom line is that there's way more going on here than just Israel, nukes, missiles, drones and the persecution of the Iranian (not IRGC) people.
Yes -- Trump works on the biggest picture. China, Iran, and Isreal are all intertwined. When Iran is toppled, the Middle East wars can end, and a prosperous Middle East could act as a counter-weight to China. I'm simplifying, but I believe that's the likely way forward.
Ty Sasha! If only the media were on Trumps side, the American side of this skirmish. The war has been won and the Straight has been effectively closed. Iran is out of cards to play. We pay a buck more for gas , which in my opinion an extremely small price compared to Nuclear Winter.
I’d be happy if they were just neutral and unbiased.
It is not opposition to Israel's policies that is driving those people, it is anti-Semitism pure and simple. It is a different sort on the Right and Left but Jew hatred in both. I had a long exchange with some guy in England who said he was Jewish about the difference between America and Europe. He was maintaining that that anti-Semitism was native to the Right and Christianity. Spanish Inquisition and all that. English rulers except Cromwell were a problem and Jews were expelled from more or less every country in Europe over time. I countered that maybe in Europe but in America you can find support for Israel dating back to 1640. George Washington was notably Philo-Semitic and both Madison and Hamilton knew Hebrew and were informed by Jewish scholarship when they were drafting the Constitution. In the US, other than the outbreak in the 1920s, anti-Semitism is native to the Left and started with black resentment of Jewish commerce in the ghetto. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are good examples of this. Jimmy Carter was an anti-Semite in the Christian tradition but was also on the Left. Both Europe and America had anti-Semitism turbocharged by the influx of Muslims who are allied with the Left. I am puzzled by the emergence of anti-Semitism on the Right in recent years. They are certainly not inspired by the Muslims nor the Left. Perhaps the Euro version was always there but just underground. Anyway, they are a tiny fringe on the Right but mainstream on the Left. The thing about Trump being controlled by Israel is just absurd.
Maybe they are inspired by the Muslims and the left, and just don’t realize it. I see both those groups as posers invading the right - wearing the hat of the right (so to speak) to gain credibility and be listened to, and once they have your trust they start to plant their narratives. They manipulate information and people. They cause clashes to occur between Jewish people and their allies that otherwise might not have happened. I think that’s what happened to Megyn and Tucker, circumstances are being manipulated in such a way both are convinced Israel is out to silence them or something when in reality they weren’t part of the ruckus at all.
I remember in high school a bunch of jealous girls got together to try to drive a wedge between the two most popular girls in our class (I was one of them.) The lies and deception that happened convinced the other girl I had said and done things I didn’t. The shit stirrers did it so well that almost anything I did or said played right into the script they set up. It ended in a fist fight between me and the other girl across the street of the school and we both got suspensions. She never believed me when I told her I hadn’t said or done any of the things the others claimed. Why would ALL of them lie in sync? So I must be the liar. Because nasty people do nasty things to tear apart alliances that threaten them, that’s why. Two of the nasty girls ended up getting exactly what they wanted: her best friendship without me in the way. (I beat her ass a second time in high school simply for being such a gullible, stupid twit and thinking she could get away with doing shit to me in front of everyone. She learned the hard way I had a limit and would slam her right down decisively. I got another suspension, but I also got the admiration of the entire class including her boyfriend - so worth it. People like underdog stories.)
My point is dishonest people will orchestrate the most elaborate schemes to fool two allies and drive a wedge between them. That’s why so many on the right are fooled today. It’s elaborate. Who lies so well? The enemies of Israel do. It’s in their religious texts for goodness sakes.
There is the thing about Tucker being on Qatar's payroll. But Qatar is supporting the US (and indirectly Israel) in this one so you would think they could get him to chill. Or maybe it is just about clicks. I would like to see a revenue analysis.
Yeah that’s a head scratcher. Lol
That sounds straight out of Salem, Massachusetts, ca. 1692.
Excellent points, Richard. And quite true. Many don’t realize how old the synagogues are in the USA; most of the older East coast cities have Jewish populations from 17-18C.
Golda Meir famously said there will be peace when the Muslims love their own children more than they hate Jews.
Europe and many Americans are faced with a similar choice: do you love Western Civilization and your own future more than you hate Jews and/or Trump?
"Do you love Western Civilization and your own future more than you hate Jews and/or Trump?"
Yup!
Your reader is a Jew hater. People love to blame Israel and the Jews for every ill in the world. Yawn.
You have no way to know if that reader is a Jew hater. Way to project though. Yawn.
To the ever-growing and ever-bolder anti-Semitic crowd, everyone is a tool of the Jews voluntarily or not.
Not everyone who is critical of Israeli government actions is anti-Semeitic.
Is this email from our local anti-semite? I thought Trump was Putin's puppet...
Appreciate your excellent analysis! I have supported Trump more out of contempt for those who have opposed him than anything else. At this point I'm coming around to the idea he will have to be understood as one of our greatest presidents. His virtues will be seen more clearly in retrospect.
First, Trump was a Hitler clone, yet also a tool of Putin. Now he's a would-be King, yet also somehow a willing Israel-tool. Whatever merits these attacks on Trump can claim, basic logical coherence has never been among them. Eager critics need to decide whether Trump is the out-of control, tyrannical puppeteer or the helpless puppet; slamming him from both directions simultaneously is incoherent.
Isn't "Trump is Putin's puppet" wearing a little thin, after 10+years?
You do understand if Trump really were a king, he'd have had the No Kings protesters rounded up, incarcerated, and sentenced without trial to life in prison, or worse.
Because you elected a senile old man on death's doorstep for president, then willingly, against his wishes, removed him as a duly elected nominee for a widely known prostitute, you've become blinded with TDS and now would know true leadership if it bit you in the a*s.
Shouldn't you be directing this 'reply' to Trump's TDS-afflicted attackers? I'm pointing out that the supposed grounds for the attacks are incompatible.
Yes, he definitely did not pick up on the sarcasm in your first sentence. 😀
SAT Basic Reading Comprehension Test: Is this passage,
A) Attacking Trump? ...or...
B) Mocking Trump's attackers?
It's pretty much a pass-fail question. ;-)
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Exactly