I dropped Tucker from your feed a couple of weeks ago. Don't know what happened to him in the last six months. He is a very bright man but, methinks, maybe not as all knowing as he might believe. My guess is that hubris has caught up to him and bit him in the butt, hard. Very sad.
I don't understand the anti-Israeli stance of the right, either. Does not seem to make much sense to me.
As MAGA Trump supporters, we can sort of pride ourselves on not being totally batshit crazy, like most of the Left. So I think people who are throwing these things out there, need to take a deep breath and calm down because this Epstein stuff, there's a lot more going on there than we're being told, at the moment. Trump has done everything else that he promised he would do. Let's give this some time. There's a lot going on with this. Getting anti-semitic, just like the Left, is not the answer.
I've liked Tucker Carlson, for the most part, for a long time, but just lately, along with Candice Owens, he's kind of gotten unhinged...
Anybody that starts spewing anti-Israel hate, I'm just going to turn them off.
Because invariably, the anti-Israel hate has been put there by propaganda by people who are sympathetic to Hamas and Palestinians.
Until the left wakes up and realizes that Hamas and the Palestinians and pretty much all of Islam, would like to see Americans and our country dead... That sort of makes my mind up for me on which side I will support.
Konstantin Kisin has made a lot of sense to me. I first heard the term "woke right" on one of his podcasts. Antisemitism is the force that unites extremes of Left and Right.
And to all of you just waking up to Candace Owens' unhinged character, look back to her justification of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. She's always been a nut.
You don’t have to pick a side though, steven. I notice your posts are often presenting a black/white dichotomy. That’s not the real world. Step into the grey?
Scott, your comment is so well put - after reading it I said to myself "Yep, it's a no brainer!".
If someone can't see it, it is because there is some part of them which is unwilling to "live not by lies" (Solzenytzen).
When you live by lies, it is because some part of you wants to be affirmed by some particular herd telling you you need to stop thinking, and join them so you can get affirmed that you are being a "good person" who is on the "right side of history" etc. Maybe too much "agreeableness" as a personality trait overcoming your better judgments. Please if you are starting to submit to this spreading mind virus, STOP! If you have escaped the Covid psy-op mind virus and the "woke" mind virus you can defenestrate yourself from this one too. Do it sooner rather than later!
Yup. And Muslims even go by the taquiyya, which is they can lie to "infidels."
They believe they can rape non-Muslim women whenever they want to...
Many Muslim men abuse young boys. Mothers actually jerk off small boys.
Six toes is fairly common, all the inbreeding. Truly a sick society.
In Iran recently, a 53 year old man was stopped from marrying a 6 year old girl, as his third wife. I guess he was told to be "proper..." Wait until she is 9.
Disgusting.
They come to new, non-Muslim countries, and reproduce like rats. They kindly have six to eight kids where the native population may only have two, or sometimes less. They take advantage of their rights in their new country, to protest and antagonize the native population. Then, once they reach a certain percentage of the population, they agitate for Sharia law. Once they reach 20 to 30% in the country, they're almost assured to cause civil war before long, if it hasn't happened already.
Mathew, have you ever investigated why so many Muslims from poor Arab and Arab-adjacent countries have fled and immigrated illegally to Europe over the past 20 years?
There are many in the U.S. that wish the whites would vacate the country. I don't care what they think. I doubt Israelis care much about what Muslims think. Talk is cheap.
That’s the mullah government and its supporters chanting that. Most normal Iranians do not support the government or death to America. This is the grey I speak of. Your consent to paint all Iranians as ‘death to America’ supporters has been manufactured.
That's what I keep hearing for decades. How the average Iranian citizen doesn't support the mullahs, the Islamic government or the ayatollahs. But if that's so, why haven't they Revolted all these years under Sharia Laws after the Shah was deported and since 1979. All that time, they've done pretty much nothing but couple small protests revolts. Also I wouldn't say, most of because after we it dropped bonds on their nuclear facilities, millions of Iranians were in the streets of Tehran chanting death to america. And I don't believe that Islam is the religion of peace and the Koran is a document filled with peaceful teachings. I've read it. If you look at the New Testament, which is all that really matters for Christians, you don't see Jesus telling people to attack and kill each other, certainly not torture them (the Crusades not withstanding, those were KnightsTemplar and secular Kings). I agree that there are pfobably thousands or tens of thousands of Iranian citizens (many I count as friends) who don't feel hatred towards America, or Israel, but that's certainly not the majority. So you're saying the Majority population of Iran are not Normal, as far as their ideology anyway. I agree.
Or course most Persian Iranians do not seek to spread Islam as their rulers do. The Mullahs are the problem. The population hasn’t yet figured out how to get rid of their rulers.
There is no validity to, "that's just the goverment".
Either the effective majority of the Iranian population supports the Iranian government or they are hostages of it, and should be freed. The idea that your average Iranian is totally at odds with Iran's "Death to America!" leaders is MORE reason for hostility to Iran, not less.
Nah. Many issues can be argued with nuance. Not this one. There is NO moral equivalency between Hamas/Palestine and Jews/Israel. Or Muslims and Western civilization. Or Good and Evil, God and Satan.
I’m a nuanced person and always enjoy bending my mind to explore various nuances in many topics. It helps me find the edges of the issue. But not with this one. It’s really simple, Islam is not compatible with the West. Israel sits at the tip of the spear today, but tomorrow we will in the US. In my judgement, those who don’t see this are not looking close enough. Those who spew in favor of it, are being paid by someone seeking to spread the submission to Islam.
Gray has its moments on rare occasions, as long as it is not used as a synonym for moral relativism. I didn't catch a whiff of that coming off of your original comment, so well done, Mr. Matt L.
I count as several dear friends Persian Americans of 1st and 2nd generation from fleeing the Shah in late 70’s early 80’s. I also know some new Iran immigrants (green card). They do not hate America, and they are Muslim. I’m Christian but in this highly secular world we ‘connect’ over our shared bow down in humbleness before a shared Abrahamic God.
Watch your back. In Islam, it is haram to be friends with the unbeliever. While in a position of weakness, they are told they can pretend friendship, but must keep hate in their hearts. They are allowed to lie, steal from and cheat the unbelievers, because they are told that they are entitled to anything the unbelievers have - which is why so many go on welfare programs, along with their extra wives (as "single mothers") and kids, with no intention of supporting themselves.
Also, we do not share the same god. If you've read the koran, you know that the god of Islam is described as the greatest of deceivers. And I think you know who the king of lies is, in the Bible.
You're friends are lying to you abd maybe even themselves. Fundamentally Islam is Anti West, but even the 9/11 terrorists went to strip clubs and drank the devil alcohol ASAP when they got here. They probably even liked the people.none of that matters when you are a fanatic.
The tension between the Pahlavi family's westernizing influence and the medieval rigidity of the Ayatollahs must be too intense for the population to sustain. Either side seems doomed to be toppled every few decades by a coup, and we we watch videos that are identical except for the change of characters, of zillions of civilians pouring through the streets chanting and shaking their fists. I do wish for the sake of the people of Iran that they can free themselves from whatever kinds of tyranny they do not want.
I did not know that widsom had a color, outside of that obliquely applied to it by Mr. Tolkien in the Lord of the Rings. Thanks for the education, Boogie!
"Stay in the Grey" is my motto, Matt. It is where you find the point of homeostasis.
The extremes of either side of a spectrum are bad news. That's a general operating principle. Although many groups with a cause cannot manage to rein themselves in, because they think that the more extremely "good" they are, the better it is.
Not really. A paradox is a statement or idea that defies logic. It presents a logical fallacy even if a part of it may be sound. This doesn't require perpetual analysis, it requires a decision by you. Be brave and say it one way or the other. Israel or the fake country of Palestine? The latter will not accept the existence of the former. The former will accept the existence of the latter if they stop killing their women and children. Make a decision.
You are making a mistake here in your assumptions.
You think this concept is about choosing sides over various issues, when it is actually something altogether different. It is about psychological balance. You're comparing it here to another category altogether.
You DO have to pick a side ,unless You're Switzerland which always picks a side every time, they just don't tell anybody. You're Neville Chamberlain incarnate
A. Many (not all) commenters here are Jewish. Some of them have been conditioned to hate Islam in a (similar) but more nuanced way as Palestinians have been taught/conditioned to hate Jews. Some of our Jewish brothers & sisters can see this and others can’t. Even Americans were taught to ‘hate’ the USSR for a couple of generations. Emotions of death and destruction and the genocide of the Holocaust cloud the grey, and brighten the polarities, because the Jewish-Muslim (and also Muslim-Christian hate) have persisted for so many centuries.
Or the countries who chant Death to America (the Great Satan) and Death to Israel (the little Satan) and have it written into their constitutions. I am disgusted with my former Party Democrat, and it seems I was right about having contempt for the far lunatic fring Right Republicans as well.
I was born into a Russian- American Jewish family on both sides. My father was in active combat in Normandy & he survived. As a young adult, when I asked him about his war experiences, he never verbalized what he went through. But oftentimes, I would wake up in the middle of the night, because I could hear him crying in his sleep. On occasion, when we talked about Israel & the Holocaust, he would just say "Judy, it can happen again". Did I believe that it could or would happen again in my lifetime? No. But look at where we are now! If I could see my dad right now, I would not have the heart to tell him what it's like to be a Jewish person in the United States in 2025. Or what has happened on the world stage since 1974. Everything he fought for doesn't really matter to a lot of people these days. So there's a ton of eork that we all need to do. I just hope we have enough human beings to carry the torch of freedom & to build a better future so that "it will never happen again".
Tucker had Candace on his Fox show several times, and iirc, once or more on his indie show. Candace is a stupid person’s idea of a smart person—she pretends to get deep into a subject, but if you know something about it you can catch her errors.
As for her Jew hate, I think that’s just a grift, though her connection with Kan-YE or whatever he calls himself, as well as Andrew Tate (through her husband) are curious and condemning.
Tucker strikes me as someone going through a manic phase—as if he is bipolar. I took him at his word, that he simply believes that the US should look after its own defence, and Israel should as well, until he went after Bill Ackman at TPUSA this weekend.
It strikes me that various independent media figures who are more, or at least as, successful as they were when they were on MSM, have let their egos run away with themselves. Maybe this is because they no longer have producers who are working for the network as much as the host?
This is something I’ve noticed with Megyn Kelly, who now talks far more than her guests. And it might be similar to the bug that has bitten Tucker?
Bannon, though egotistical by nature, doesn’t seem to be affected by this even though he runs his own show. Nonetheless he seems to have very similar attitudes about Israel as Carlson. I don’t think Bannon is a Jew hater though.
You make some interesting points, especially about the lack of restraint when one goes out on their own. Of all who have done so, there are likely a couple of hands full who have managed the transition intact. Rush Limbaugh and Victor Davis Hanson come to mind. Interestingly, a self-depricating sense of humor was/is a common denominator. I think Charles Krauthammer would also have fit on this list.
I'd be interested to hear from others who they would add to the roster. Joe Rogan, perhaps?
I don't think Bannon hates Jews or Israel. I think he is sincere in his desire to implement policies that he thinks will help working class Americans. But he also is willing to be ambiguous enough not to alienate people that do hate Jews if he thinks they can help his cause. He is very quick to label supporters of Israel as being Israel first.
I'm not a big fan of Mark Levin but Bannon's attacks on him are personal and petty. He knows that his attacks on Levin resonate with people who are motivated by hatred of Jews.
I really liked what Tucker Carlson did until a couple months ago. I don't remember what it was, but it had me scratching my head and I was saying, "why did he say that, that's just sounded kind of crazy."
And him getting anti-Semitic now is just letting the bats out of the belfry. Because now people are going to assume that, even though he had some great great shows early on, now, they're going to assume that he's crazy about everything. Which doesn't help anybody...if he truly is on the right side.
Scott, can you point me to where Tucker has been antisemitic? I’ve not seen that but I’m open to having my mind changed with evidence. I listen to Tucker every now and again and haven’t heard antisemitic language from him. Thanks
Yeah, I’ve not seen any words out of Tucker’s mouth that are antisemitic. However, I’ve heard plenty of online commenters say he’s an antisemitic Jew hater or something to this effect. I always ask for evidence when I hear that because I too do not agree with antisemitism. I can only guess that people who level these charges against Tucker are parroting what someone else said. I see this on Bari’s The Free Press site occasionally, as she constantly goes for clicks by painting Tucker in a negative light. Then commenters take those cue and pile on.
Thanks for replying and clarifying you haven’t seen that.
To me Candace seems to have gone to the clickbait, greedy side of social media. So much time spent on the exposure of Macron’s wife was weird. I didn’t watch, but read enough know I’m not that interested.
I do want the Epstein matter confronted but I do not want to slow down the mass deportations of illegal aliens. It must not derail the main item on the MAGA agenda.
Let me ask you the question that you won't answer for me, in front of all these other people. Maybe you should answer my question instead of making a fool of yourself, again.
There's nothing crazier, than claiming that women can have a penis and men can get pregnant.
Why is it that Democrats say this? This is bat crazy bullshit.
I mean, if you honestly think this is true, go ahead and support the Democrats. But just stop saying that Republicans are just as crazy as Democrats and they deny science, because they don't!
What mic drop I posted my dislike on Democrats but that does not mean I stopped being a liberal in anyway? You seem to just want one ideology and mindset devoid of any self thought besides one set.
You told me that Republicans and MAGA were just as opposed to science as Democrats. Nope.
I also said that MAGA uses common sense, which isn't always the case with people that the media calls the "educated." Because most of the people that are considered educated, well, they don't sometimes have the sense to wipe their own nose. Just a total lack of common sense. It's not something that you can teach, when you're indoctrinating students in a university, like college professors do. So, all these walk progressives are supposedly more educated, but in essence they are dumbed down, because they haven't been taught to think, they just spend indoctrinated with leftist propaganda.
They only believe in science when it benefits them political like lLBGTQ but actual science look at the idiots who believed Elon Musk space program goals when noted scientists told them Mars was nowhere near ready to be usable for humans.
Trans are not a threat to this country. That a sizeable number of people in positions of power and influence truly believe that boys, even toddlers, become girls by simply saying so IS a threat to our country. Don't care a whit about trans and gender role playing (I would happily go to bat for Divine any day against some wise-acre), I do care that evidently there has been a massive failure of our Education system. (And even more, that the most likely source of that failure is the increasingly long list of thoughts and words and ideas and facts that must not be spoken within the walls of that system. The acceptance of the idea of taboo thoughts and sounds (words) is the main case for considering the Democrat Party a pseudo-religious cult. I haven't met a "MAGA" who refused to hear or contemplate a word or idea or view an image. I have yet to meet a Democrat in recent years willing to be photographed in the same room (or even be in the same room) as a white guy wearing blackface even as part of a Black Panther Halloween costume.
Trans effects .5% of the population in America. SS, Medicare and medicaid, Economy, Environment, and current wars are way more important. Besides what parents do with their children is their concern not the government.
The legitimate concern is that Israel does not overplay their hand and use USA sympathy to involve ourselves (and yes, our military age children) for a gain that as a side-effect will crank up the forever war engine and also hurt our ability to be an honest broker in the long run. (As to the retort that we already do not have credibility with certain players, no matter what we do, as someone who for five years had full access to the TS/SCI message stream between the White House/Pentagon and world leaders, this is actually not true - to use one cleaned up (and somewhat ancient example) the face-palming in our room to watch one Leader publicly excoriate the US for undertaking an operation for which this same leader had privately and very secretly pleaded. (an aside, don't believe anything you hear on television - so much goes on in the world each day that it takes someone with an agenda to get it placed above the noise - and although I'm no longer in the loop, I feel at least in my day the press TRIED to get it right).
I DO I like the fact, that Trump let everybody know that he dressed down Netanyahu, and was very irritated with him, after Trump had said "okay, Now stop no more shooting. No more missiles..."
And Israel had sent a bunch of jets out to bomb. And Trump told netanyahu, "just stop!"
I am glad someone else noticed .. that along with him saying out loud he allowed Iran to make a symbolic, non-lethal "retaliatory" strike against US assets in order to save face made me realize for the first time that this guy has Lincoln level moments in him. Not just happen to have good advisors .. no advisor would EVER have suggested that to him. (The Iran quote was especially delicious, as there was nothing they could then say .. and again I think a unique power of Trump is his unpredictable willingness to at any moment say a quiet part out loud.)
Sasha, I am proud of you and appreciate your candor, as well as the quality of your work.
You and others here are touching upon a very powerful, ancient mystery that can never be adequately explained or understood apart from the revelations provided in the Bible - rightly understood… And that’s where things really start to get heated. Just watch…
Right off the bat, I will assert that it is only possible to ‘see’ Biblical truth through the work and grace of God in an individual’s life.
God can certainly give insight and confirmatory witness to spiritual truth to someone who is not in ‘right relationship’ with Him, if He so desires. In this regard, the most important prerequisite is a genuine love for truth; a love that will constrain and compel a person to accept what is revealed as true, even though it may be the last thing one wants to accept. I think you know a good deal about that.
But, those who proudly assert their atheism, who basically take Pontius Pilate’s view of truth, and/or mock believers and scoff at the Bible as the Word of God, have virtually zero hope of comprehending what is actually true, as opposed to their preferred beliefs or views of reality.
Having said all that, I propose that a principal reason why we see this phenomena spreading so alarmingly within the broad base of MAGA supporters, is because a large number of them are professing Christians who are either Biblically illiterate, Biblically ‘unbalanced’, or steeped in the perspectives of Replacement Theology.
Those theological perspectives, which posit that the Church has ‘replaced’ Israel in God’s Plan of the Ages, arose relatively early in the history of the Church, but became a powerful influence in the 4th and early 5th centuries, largely due to the writings of Augustine of Hippo (St. Augustine. This is a very complex subject; certainly one that cannot be adequately addressed here. But the key point is that the theological perspectives of Replacement Theology are held by the majority of scholars, seminary professors, priests/pastors, elders/deacons and laypersons within professing Christendom.
Granted, many persons who attend or are members of Churches that hold these beliefs may still be unaware of that fact, or are unaware of the Biblical counterpoints against such beliefs. But, most people these days are too lazy, busy, or distracted, to really take the trouble to pray and think their way through this contentious issue, and are easily persuaded to follow the crowd. After all, ten million ants can’t be wrong, can they?
I’m not going to argue these matters here but I will simply point out that, if one starts from the premise that ‘the Church’ has replaced ‘Israel’ in the Bible, and has therefore ‘inherited’ all God’s promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and ‘their seed’ after them, then it follows that modern day Israel has no Biblical ‘right’ to exist and is, in fact, counter to the will of God. This is all that is needed to establish a firm foundation on which to build ‘Christian’ antisemitism. And it is a monumental tragedy.
But, back to the broad MAGA support base, as well as the public at large. Over the past 5-6 years, the ‘herd’ has become increasingly aware of the fact that a great, ominous, amorphous evil is rising up worldwide. Once people reach the point of accepting and naming the nature of this threat as ‘Evil’, it opens the door to spirituality. Now, countless people who may be largely ignorant of such matters suddenly begin to pay attention to all the claims of this or that person of influence or the representatives of some generally respected group, etc. And then, the great Internet spiritual quest kicks off, and the common result is that many people get hopelessly confused, deceived, or misled. It is a mess, and a truly tragic one indeed.
One final point for now.
The author of all of this antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israelism, is Satan. He has a number of motivations for ‘The Longest Hatred’, but the paramount one is his own (vain) existential desire to escape his Biblically-prophesied doom.
That fate is clearly marked, and it is inextricably linked to the Jews being regathered into, and exercising sovereignty over, their ancient Land; particularly, Jerusalem, and specifically, the Temple Mount.
In other words, his warped thinking is that, if he can remove them from such so reign control, he would, in effect, ‘defeat’ God. I know it sounds crazy, but there is a twisted, as well as rational, logic behind it.
It will fail. But one of the greatest tragedies of history, is that he (Satan) is successfully manipulating countless Christians to actually serve his will and purposes, while thinking they are serving Gods. And a corollary tragedy, is that he is doing the very same thing with many Jews.
BUT (Behold the Underlying Truth), God…
In the end of it all (and this will end), He will have His way in His Universe, and be praised forever for the redeeming grace He has poured out on those who turn to Him in this Christ-rejecting world.
What is difficult to understand about how we do not want another country's interests to drive our foreign policy (America First) and we are tired of being lied into forever wars?
Not too much, as long as we are absolutely certain that said foreign interests have no relation to those of the U.S. of A. If you are thinking of the Israel and Iran -- and you may not be -- I think we can have a difference of opinion. I think it was worth the B-2 strikes to bury the Fordow nuclear site for a good long time -- even if other countries may have benefited from American action.
Concerning Ukraine, I would argue to stay away.
I very much agree about being lied to into another forever war. Staying the hell out of said foreign entanglements, alliances and engagements was a mainstay of American foreign policy until the early 20th century. President Washington alluded to this, in fact, in his 1796 Farewell Address.
I think the biggest issue is the war being waged within our country by our fellow Americans by democrats/globalists. United we stand divided we fall. We are being destabilized in so many ways and it is coming from the crazy part of the left - and war mongers. It is working, the blame is put all on Israel and America. Break that alliance up and they’ve won.
The issue I have with Israel is its government, especially Bibi and its other neocon friendly hard liners that have goaded the USA into several Mid East wars/conflicts in my lifetime. Especially the six countries destabilized in last 20 years under the ‘Clean Break’ doctrine:
Iraq, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia.
These countries targeted for destabilizing because they supported Palestinian statehood. And Israel wanted a ‘Clean Break’ from past (1948 to 1997) because strategies in those years found to not be working.
Iran was on Clean Break list as 7th country to destabilize. Tucker knows all this and why he was hyper concerned about a potential war there that could bring the USA into it (like Iraq and Syria).
Matt, the Oslo Accords (1993) was a terrible move for Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians. The Oslo agreement essentially gave the Palestinians a “veto” on anything that moved toward peace. The Israeli government, under new leadership, was correct to step away from Oslo. The strategy as it see it and have heard Bibi speak of, is that under Oslo, the solution to the conflict was sought from within Israel, by including the Palestinians - who vetoed every plan. The strategy shift was to seek influence from other neighboring Arab states to solve the conflict from without Israel. Without the Palestinians. If you look at the Abraham Accords, this is exactly what Israel is doing. Solving the problem by getting support from without Israel.
Yes, I’m aware of the ‘93 straitjacket Oslo put Israel into. I can see why Israel pivots the Clean Break doctrine. My beef is that the USA (fueled by our neocon class) became the helper. Europe is now filled with illegal immigrants that fled those Mid East battlefields.
It’s interesting that whenever something is written about who pulls the strings in DC / the world, & names are listed if someone is Jewish that’s always noted in parentheses. However there isn’t any ethnic or religion noted next to the non Jewish suspects. It seems another, more subtle & sleazy way to demean & blame Jews.
Andrew Doyle did a podcast with Konstantin Kisin in which they concluded that, as to the extremes of both Left and Right, antisemitism was the "center of the Venn diagram of everything." I wish I knew the date of the podcast, but it was one of the most illuminating I've heard.
My theory is that all the detritus of human history is being gathered in the basket of antisemitism.
Agree 100%… Can’t help but think Tucker is so DRIVEN by his desire to uncover scandal, that when he doesn’t find any, he starts seeing things that aren’t there…
Between his inappropriate and maniacal laughter and his enduring anti-elite schtick (dedpite being of the media elite), I have decided that Carlson is mostly just a brand-name product rather than a truly thoughtful person. Screw Tucker. His product has an "off" taste.
Yes. Tucker's "maniacal laughter" emanates from...a maniac, and an antisemitic one at that. Let's be done with him once and for all.
Conspiracy theories tell only lies, but they are themselves true in that they truly exist. May we be "wise as serpents yet innocent as doves" in discerning them.
Makes a lot of sense. Isreal takes our money for us, what do we get back?? Nothing, except neverending involvement in war and bloodshed, which I would guess is by design. The state of Isreal is not some noble country that should go unquestioned lest you be called a name.
Gracias, Mr. Remke. It is too bad about Mr. Carlson. He was, I believe, a History major and, as such, likely knew the perils of overweening pride. It could have been many of us taking his path. "There but for the grace of God," as they say. Have a good evening, sir.
Candace Owens was definitely part of his insanity. Daryl Cooper, who Tucker says is the most well-informed historian (despite Cooper’s amateur status and antisemitism) is a huge part as well. Tucker is having Cooper on to “explain” Epstein this week. Which, of course, will amount to blaming all the world problems on the jooooos
Are you that ignorant? Are you lazy? or just a propagandist? Those videos are all over X and are uncensored. You can see people getting droned carrying sacks of flour. Kids missing half their faces or maybe you'd like to watch a doctor giving CPR to a two year old. If you like you can even see what starvation looks like in a grade school kid (you'll likely be happy to know the kid died BTW). The Jewish troops in Gaza of 2025 are no different than the German Nazis cleaning out the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. ZERO difference. So get off your ass and look for yourself. You're welcome (in advance).
From Grok: there are multiple reports from various sources indicating that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have shot and killed Palestinians in Gaza who were attempting to obtain food, particularly near aid distribution sites. These incidents have been documented by eyewitnesses, media outlets, and humanitarian organizations, though the IDF often disputes the details or context of these events. Below is a summary based on available information:
Incidents at Aid Distribution Sites: Since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US- and Israel-backed organization, began distributing aid in Gaza in late May 2025, numerous reports have described Israeli forces firing on crowds of Palestinians gathered near food distribution points. For example:
On June 17, 2025, Palestinian medics reported that at least 59 people were killed and 221 wounded in Khan Younis when Israeli tanks fired on a crowd near an aid truck. Witnesses described tank shells hitting thousands gathered on a main road. The IDF acknowledged firing in the area, stating it was reviewing reports of civilian casualties and claimed the crowd approached troops, posing a potential threat.reuters.comtheguardian.com
On June 1, 2025, at least 31 Palestinians were killed near a GHF distribution site in Rafah, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office and witnesses, who reported Israeli forces firing on crowds approaching the site. The IDF denied firing directly at civilians but admitted to warning shots about 1 km away.aljazeera.comtheguardian.com
On February 29, 2024, over 100 Palestinians were killed in Gaza City when Israeli troops fired on a crowd swarming aid trucks, with witnesses reporting gunfire and a stampede. The IDF claimed the deaths were primarily due to trampling or trucks running over people but acknowledged firing warning shots.apnews.comcnn.com
Scale and Frequency: The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry and other sources, including the UN, report that hundreds of Palestinians—over 400 since late May 2025—have been killed while attempting to access food aid at GHF sites. These incidents are described as near-daily occurrences, often involving gunfire, tank shells, or airstrikes near distribution points.bbc.comtheintercept.com
Allegations of Deliberate Targeting: A June 26, 2025, report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited IDF soldiers and officers who claimed they were ordered to fire on unarmed crowds near aid sites, even when no threat was present, prompting an IDF investigation into possible war crimes. The IDF and Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected these claims as “blood libels” and denied deliberate targeting of civilians.haaretz.comtheguardian.com
Humanitarian Criticism: The UN, including its human rights chief Volker Türk, has condemned these incidents, stating that shooting civilians seeking food constitutes a war crime. The UN and aid groups like Doctors Without Borders have criticized the GHF system as inadequate and dangerous, arguing it forces Palestinians into unsafe areas to access limited aid, exacerbating the risk of violence.ohchr.orgnbcnews.comtheintercept.com
Context of Hunger Crisis: These incidents occur amid a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where Israel’s blockade from March to April 2025 and ongoing restrictions have left the population on the brink of famine. The GHF’s distribution system, which replaced UN-led efforts, has been criticized for its limited reach and militarized nature, with only four sites serving 2.3 million people, often in areas near active combat zones.theguardian.comtheguardian.comtheguardian.com
IDF’s Position: The IDF consistently claims that its forces fire warning shots or target “suspects” who approach troops or deviate from designated routes, asserting that civilians are not deliberately targeted. They argue that the chaotic gatherings near aid sites pose security risks, and they are investigating some incidents. However, witnesses and humanitarian groups often contradict the IDF’s accounts, reporting indiscriminate fire on crowds.reuters.combbc.comtimesofisrael.com
Challenges in Verification: Coverage is constrained by Israel’s restrictions on international journalists entering Gaza independently, relying heavily on Palestinian witnesses, local journalists, and footage. This makes precise verification difficult, but consistent reports from multiple sources, including medical records and videos, support claims of lethal force being used.theguardian.comtheguardian.com
While the IDF denies systematically targeting civilians, the high death toll and consistent witness accounts suggest that lethal force has been used repeatedly against Palestinians seeking food, often in chaotic and desperate circumstances. The UN and other groups have called for investigations and a return to UN-led aid distribution to reduce risks to civilians.ohchr.orgcnn.com
These reports highlight a complex and tragic situation, with conflicting narratives between Palestinian sources and the IDF. The ongoing investigations may provide further clarity, but the humanitarian crisis and risks to civilians remain critical concerns.
Pretty much what I expected from you too. Most Germans didn't want to know back then and most Jews don't want to know now. The truth can be a scary place for those convinced of their morality. You poor little thing. Adios
Sasha, I appreciate everything you are doing on this platform. People with good hearts will find one another. And God bless you for the way you are taking care of your Mom.
The Curious Case of America's Highest-Paid Question Asker
Starring Tucker Carlson as an independent journalist, foreign autocrats as misunderstood truth-tellers, and "just asking questions" as the most lucrative phrase in media.
There's nothing wrong with a journalist walking into the lion's den to do interviews with our adversaries .
However, after 15 minutes of Putin giving us a lecture on 300 years of Russian History when he promised to be quick...i turned it off and haven't been back since.
He may be using his own metrics for audience development and is seeing clicks/views skyrocket when he goes off brand...which means he's creating a new brand that...in my opinion...doesn't play in Peoria.
Conspiracy theory innuendo about Jewish influence on government is old wine in new bottles. The propagators seem to think they have a hot product for a whole new market.
Greed is the root of all evil. We've all heard the story of the single female librarian who know one knows squirrels away all of her money and at the end of her life donates $1M to some charity. So it's not the money, it's the greed or the charity.
I have no idea what Tucker's philanthropy is but his incredibly uncharitable speech and interview choices are any indication, it's not great. I don't give one crap what Putin says or the Iranian president and can't imagine why he thinks we would. He's become cultish just like Candace Owens.
Clearly you did not hear him and are unfamiliar with Jew hating tropes of Jews and Israel "controlling" the world, of Omar saying that Israel has "hypnotized" the world's leaders. He isn't questioning a particular government of a country but the country itself and also insinuating - with ZERO EVIDENCE that Epstein was a
Mossad agent. I'm sure you have explanations for why he throws softballs at leaders of Russia, Iran and Qatar as well and it's just a coincidence from where his media company received investment. His behavior of late is anything but journalistic and unbiased.
I don’t know where Omar came into this. I never mentioned Omar, just Tucker. We really don’t know what Epstein was/is because our DOJ won’t (or hasn’t yet) done an investigation whether or what motivated the Epstein/Maxwell child sex ring. Alex Acosta (Florida AG) who gave Epstein light sentence in ‘08 has stated he was told to tread lightly because Epstein was Intel. That’s not a conspiracy. That’s on record. Maxwell comes from family with deep (deep) ties to Israel, MI6 and KGB. Her dad had a lavish funeral in Israel with many Israel current & former heads of state and Mossad attending and eulogizing him. Rob is buried in Mount Olive in Israel. This is also fact. There’s a lot of smoke. But nobody interested to find out anything. Then people like you who scream antisemitism anytime someone asks. It’s so very tiring and sophomoric.
Of course you don't know where Omar comes into it.. because you're
Ignorant about antisemitic tropes clearly. Like Omar, he is trafficking in the same antisemitic language and putting himself in company with Islamists. As I've stated and you haven't countered, neither Tucker nor you has provided any evidence that Epstein was an agent for Mossad, yet his spouts that accusation. ZERO PROOF. That isn't journalism and yet again, that isn't MAGA and that isn't Trump, where this discussion began. Bye!!👋🏻
Are you really asking what motivated epstein and maxwell to run a child sex ring? I'd say money, influence/leverage, extortion, and sexual perversion. It's pretty simple
I agree Matt. I have watched many of Tucker's interviews and I haven't heard him say anything that is anti-Semitic. If we can't question our government policies and officials then we are no better than what we have been accusing the democrats of. Judging from the comments on this post, I'm beginning to wonder. I will continue to watch Tucker and Sasha as long as they keep it real!
Yes, I originally landed on Sasha’s site 4 years ago because she was keeping it real, and acceptance of those of us who believe in cyclical history. I’m watching whether that continues, or if this goes into Trump cult land. I like Trump, but I don’t worship him. And on certain subjects I oppose his current stance (handling of Epstein non investigation)
I know plenty of people who like & respect Trump, but none that worship him. Though I know these people exist, they’re not in the majority. It’s good to have a party that questions leadership. Part of it is Trump is seen as a last hope for America, so MUCH is expected. Lots of fear driven maga out there, that’s why some are so quick to focus on the negative & forget how far we’ve come in 6 months. I believe Trump does listen to his base, pretty refreshing.
I did watch it. And there is nothing antisemitic in it. As for MAGA, you are not the gatekeeper of what Makes America Great Again. Trump will also eventually exit the stage and another will try to lead this Populist movement.
I’m concerned about foreign influence in America too.
Are you concerned about elite universities filled with students from Muslim countries, pursuing Islamic studies taught by faculties full of Islamic professors?
Are you concerned that by far the largest city in America is likely to elect a Marxist Muslim as mayor?
Or is your concern only for the nefarious Jewish influence you see lurking in the shadows, trying to influence our culture built on Judeo Christian values?
People miss the forest for the trees, while they fight amongst themselves.
The Left did it first... They were such enemies of conservatives, that they decided that anybody who is an enemy of the GOP, is there ally...
It used to be that people valued this country and what it stood for it, above all else, but the Left has assumed that enemies of conservatives, are their allies... When nothing further could be from the truth.
As Stalin would say, they have become useful idiots, who will be disposed of when nefarious elements infiltrating our country become more powerful...
Just look at Europe. The left in Europe hates nationalists and the right so much, that they embrace the destruction of their own culture by Muslims. We need to very strongly learn and important lesson from that, or we will go down the toilet, just as Europe is doing as we watch.
Wrong. America first means we don’t value other nations agendas over the well being of America. Trump has thoroughly demonstrated that he’s Israel first not America first.
I don't believe the anti-Israel turn by MAGA/whateverists is motivated by actual anti-Semitism but the same resentment that others are gaining at USA's expense - the exact mentality revealed by the Signal leaks.
But this is confusing since I don't see how viz-Iran Israel has gained at America's expense - they did the heavy lifting in those strikes and the whole world benefited (while grumbling about it publicly).
sure. that's why the US has been planning to bomb Iran's nuclear strongholds for 15years... Are you new to this topic? Btw - "America First" is whatever Trump SAYS it is.. Please do show your true colors for all to see.
Thank you for confirming you’re just another sycophant who will blindly believe whatever Trump tells you to believe. You have no idea what America First means.
I’m MAGA to the core. Epstein was not why I voted for Trump. Yes, I’d like some answers, but other promises made and kept by Trump are far more important to how I live my life. Knowing about Epstein doesn’t reflect on my personal experiences nor my life. Tucker IMHO has gone off the rails a bit. I listened to his speech at Turning Point and his obsession over Epstein was too much. Trump has only been in office 6 months and has made substantial changes for the better, all while having to deal with radical judges from the beginning. At some point, I believe we will get more information about Epstein. Am I demanding such? No. More importantly, I want illegals removed before the next census, which will be a huge blow to blue states counting on illegals to drive their number of representatives in DC. I want lower taxes. I want our government services protected for legal citizens. I want girls’ athletic rights protected from trans, on the field and in their bathroom. I want our children protected from psycho predators in the medical field mutilating their healthy bodies. Trump has demanded this by EOs and I applaud his actions.
I also agree - but I think the kneejerk response to this has come from fear Trump is welching on his swamp-draining promises and going back to pair up with the establishment. There are SOME valid reasons to keep a lot of the Epstein dirt covered like all those videos of victims, but I want the damned client names - even if there isn't a neat list.
I voted for RFK Jr and by proxy some might say Trump. The country is soooo far better off today than it was a year ago. If there’s a crack in Trump’s support, it’s being magnified. From someone who has never voted for Trump, I see overwhelming gratitude that he and not Kamala is where he is.
Stay the course. I am not troubled by the hoopla. Someone on X commented that a lot of the negativity is coming from a few accounts that only joined X recently and have less than 200 followers. I think there are people just trying to stir things up, and I don't think it will succeed. Trump was just asked about Bongino by the press and he said he's spoken to him and all is good. I'm more interested in Trump saving our economy and getting rid of bad guys and illegal immigrants, which he's doing a great job of. I don't pay attention to the people trying to create controversy.
I'm seeing many comments at this site at the moment that are really questioning what is going on here, and feeling lied to with some well articulated, nuanced and interesting rationale and observations.
Again why in early 2025, did Trump and his MAGA allies push the narrative of explosive Epstein revelations as a way to energize their base - expsoing a deep state that could finally be removed, and whatever else tickled the fancy. So let's have it. If it's not much of anything which Sasha believes and is entirely likely, then the narrative was false and should not have been pushed. Mind you Trump has no qualms about telling lies when it benefits him. If there is a list and Trump and maga leadership is on it, why didn't Trump know, why was Trump marketing it months back? Not a good look from any angle.
I was talking about comments here in the comment section (and in other articles by Sasha on the topic at Substack, collectively and on average). So questioning the nonrelease of the files and their reasons for feeling these ways. You feel the comments at 4th Turning are shallow and lacking?
My concern is not so much the responses but how dumbed down they've become. In other words, I think any intelligent observer would have been more shocked if any evidence (that did not fit some approved narrative) HAD survived years of cleanup by the most sophisticated tools and experts that have ever existed. To go straight to: "oh the President who did a hostile takeover six months ago is hiding something" does not seem authentic. Though I do not believe it myself, I would find it more likely that Epstein was coerced into killing himself - as it does take less than a minute to hand him some towels. (By the way, who DID hand him those towels?)
Also, Epstein was facing the rest of his previously priviledged old age in prison which I imange would be a horrifying end and last perhaps decades.
It seems that one belief of maga (being a tad general here) is there is a deep state that controls the purse and in way they're correct. It happens in plain site. The wealthy hob nob at the finest institutions of education, clubs, travel. They get ever wealthier, leaving the rest of us fighting over a much smaller pie. Insular and exclusion privileges beget more of the same. Lower taxes equals ever higher net worth. Money buys power incl. political. In order for this to work, gov't enacts ever more societal rules and regs. These too benefit the uber rich and powerful. Not sure that's a deep state but it's life in world's greatest and most aspired to democracies / republics.
Maybe they did and are looked into it, and the evidence was already destroyed? But they looked? Maybe we should focus on the thousands that today are being trafficked by cartels?
We shouldn't question anything that deviates from the prevailing talking points on Epstein because that would make us stupid, ungrateful, and (checks notes) antisemitic.
My decades of support for lying US politicians ended some time ago.
The things we cannot question are precisely the things that must be questioned.
Yes, I agree. But the question was still legitimate. Who does Cruz serve taking all that AIPAC $$ for years and years? Is that what our founders had in mind?
This question becomes moot in the realm of government kickbacks. Some days lately it seems our country has already been sold off to foreign nations who have come to think they already own us.
Soros owns our major cities judicial systems.
Quatar, China, etc own our Ivy universities.
Big pharma owns Congress
Blackrock owns our wealth
Communists own our educational system
Globalists own our social media
Gates owns our food production and just about our water
The WHO wants to own our health decisions
Islamists own the narrative
Foreigners own too much of our land
Communists within own our major cities.
For a while LGBT activists owned our military, our media, education, our tax dollars and seem hellbent on owning our children.
The globalists want to control what we eat, our energy, what we can say, what words are acceptable, our health industry, our borders, our brains, religion and our property.
Somehow the blame is focused on Israel. And America.
Now Canada and Mexico and the EU are our enemies. What does all this tell us?
I feel much the same way. Though I was raised Catholic like my mother and father, my step-mother (who I adored) was Jewish and my half-brothers and sister are likewise Jewish through her. Plus one if my best friends growing up is Jewish, as is a very dear friend I met as an adult. The anti-semitism I see on both sides of the aisle is disturbing, often frightening.
We should not conflate Judaism and Israel. Being critical of Israel should not be considered anti Semitism. I have or used to have Jewish friends. The split was over Trump not Israel or Judaism. 75 percent of American Jews vote Democrat. My intellectual hero is Milton Friedman. But that’s not relevant. I have been called racist and sexist and anti minority and every name in the book. My response: silence and indifference
I understand the difference between criticism of Israel and anti-semitism. Yes, many people are legitimately criticizing Israel (and being labeled wrongly as anti-Semites). However, there is a disturbing increase in blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric both in the media and online in general, and it's coming from the left and the right.
While I believe these people have the right to express their opinion, the surprisingly large number of anti-semitic comments I've seen lately is disturbing.
"They put the Jewish interest above America's interest and it's about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he's an American first and a Jew second."
The criticism of Israel is directly proportional to the slaughter of the Palestinians. And the Gaza Holocaust will be remembered globally for many generations.
There is a big difference between disliking a Jewish person merely because they are a Jew and disliking Zionists because they embrace genocide; the former is racist and the latter is Christian.
Christians, like Jews, believe in the 10 Commandments including "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." The lie of equating Zionism with genocide is evil.
“Thou shalt not kill” comes before that and as a Catholic I condemn Israeli’s killing tens of thousands of innocent children. Defending genocide isn’t Christian and you Susan would defend Israel killing 3 million Palestinian children without blushing.
You have been badly deceived. God said in Genesis 12:3 of Israel, "I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse." Your posts model a continuous cursing of Israel by parroting lies. I would have a chat with God about this. (And, no, God never revoked Genesis 12:3).
I'm a devout Catholic and while I wouldn't want anyone killed, what/how did you expect Israel to respond to 10/7. They raped woman, killed and burned babies, called their mothers to share how many kills they had, took hostages AND still have both living and deceased hostages. What should they do? When will Hamas actually stop fighting? When will the Houtis, Hezbollah?
I am a devout Catholic also and go to Mass daily and say the Rosary with a group after. Regarding Oct 7, let’s be clear that Israel has been torturing and persecuting Palestinians for many years before that. My expectations are that Israel would respond proportionally; not 10,000 times worse by killing over 60,000, maiming over 100,000, making homeless over one million and starving over one million. This is not a war; it’s a genocide. Btw Pope Leo XIV condemns it also.
The pope, any pope, will condemn war, as he should. There’s a long, storied history of Palestine/Hamas using aide from countries all over the globe with which to attack Israel. Israelis left Gaza years ago, including exhumation of all deceased. After Israel responded to Palestine, what did Hamas do? They kept attacking. They kept the hostages. They celebrated the deaths of Jews. They used Gaza’s as human shields and put their operations on the basements of hospitals. This isn’t a war we can understand because the brutality of Hamas is incompressible.
I very much appreciate your devotion, especially to the rosary. How about we agree that this ends and both live in eternal peace?
I am right there with you Sasha. You must be reading my mind. I've been to TPUSA's Amfest a couple of times and had a great time. Until recently I was a regular listener of Steve Bannon's War Room but something dark is taking over a part of the MAGA movement. I had a great deal of respect for both Tucker and Bannon but their recent appeals to the darkest impulses of human nature revolts me.
I think that the Trump administration has bungled the Epstein case very badly. I also think Pam Bondi is in over her head and I would like to see her replaced (maybe by Harmeet Dhillon). But none of that justifies the assumption that far too many on the right are making that somehow Israel is behind it all. The number of people who seem to be OK with insinuating that Israel is behind a vast conspiracy controlling the world is deeply disturbing.
The Covid years and the constant lies of the Biden administration have pushed some people beyond reason. They will now believe almost anything because they trust nothing. Trump has accomplished so much in just 6 months it sickens me to see it all overshadowed by the very loud voices of conspiracy theorists. Particularly when just a few minutes ago there were the people I trusted.
Thank Sasha for continuing to be a ray of light. And bless you for caring for your mother. I've been there and know how hard it can be.
Agree with all. Bannon is full of himself and wants to reclaim the MAGA flag. He's not humble enough to see that without DJT as the representative of MAGA, it would be no where today.
Well that's an interesting observation and a challenge for maga I should think - a good portion of maga ARE conspiracy theorists. Look where they get their news and what opinions they listen to.
Do you get your opinions from Rachel Maddow and MSNBC? My guess would be no. You probably formed your own views and don’t need talking heads and news analysts to tell you what to think.
The same is true of most conservatives. We can think for ourselves. We don’t rely on talking heads to give us our opinions either.
Sasha, I wish you and your sister well in caring your mother. You are good daughters. Take care of yourselves and each other, caring for the elderly is quite taxing.
Like you, I am perplexed with Tucker, and I don't know where this is coming from. Hopefully he will find wise counsel. As for your "home," it can never be with a party, or a politician. Those of us who have faith, put our trust in our God. That is the only place we can count on to find peace and stability. I pray that someday you can have that peace too.
Absolutely! After the 2016 incineration of some people, if asked during the 2024 campaign, I told people I vote my Catholic values as closely as possible. My life's purpose to find my way to heaven and there isn't a single politician in this world that will get me there.
I agree but would clarify that there is only one God and that is Jesus Christ. “Our God” can be very misleading in an open forum like this where readers have many different beliefs about who God is and how many there are.
As MAGA Trump supporters, we can sort of pride ourselves on not being totally batshit crazy, like most of the Left. So I think people who are throwing these things out there, need to take a deep breath and calm down because this Epstein stuff, there's a lot more going on there than we're being told, at the moment. Trump has done everything else that he promised he would do. Let's give this some time. There's a lot going on with this. Getting anti-semitic, just like the Left, is not the answer.
I've liked Tucker Carlson, for the most part, for a long time, but just lately, along with Candice Owens, he's kind of gotten unhinged...
Anybody that starts spewing anti-Israel hate, I'm just going to turn them off.
Because invariably, the anti-Israel hate has been put there by propaganda by people who are sympathetic to Hamas and Palestinians.
Until the left wakes up and realizes that Hamas and the Palestinians and pretty much all of Islam, would like to see Americans and our country dead... That sort of makes my mind up for me on which side I will support. Nobody's blameless but all these leftists that claim they are queers for Palestine, I would suggest to them that they go over to Gaza and demonstrate there. They would find out really quick that they don't have the rights to demonstrate there, that they do here. They don't have the rights to demonstrate anywhere else in the Muslim world.
"Unhinged" is the word for Tucker Carlson. I have never watched much cable news, but I thought he was good when I did see him on Fox. He seemed measured, well-informed, and professional. Either the real Tucker emerged or he has changed since going out on his own. His laughter is often hysterical and inappropriate, and his observations about Russia (better subways than ours, low prices in supermarkets) were juvenile.
FOX kept him reigned in for the most part. He did great reporting on highlighting the opioid crisis long before anyone else. He pointed out Lindsey Graham not seeing a potential war conflict he didn't love. He did some great stuff but he had bumper pads. He burned those bumpers so fast the minute he was fired. He and Candace are unwatchable and what bothers me the most is they both claim to be Christian --- Candace, a Catholic convert. She's not representative of the Catholicism I've known and lived my entire life.
I voted for Trump all three times but didn’t embrace MAGA until I listened to your podcast. I don’t care about the Epstein stuff. It is a sideshow and irrelevant to the mission of fixing our country and setting the course and keeping to it so that we can’t slip back into the madness the Left was steering us into. I am pro Israel and against antisemitism. Nothing will change that for me, nothing. MAGA can’t be a monolith movement or organism and survive. We must tolerate differences but come together to defeat the real enemy who doesn’t tolerate any dissent. Drift Sasha but don’t get lost. You are too important.
"Why does Israel control all the banks, eat the blood of Christian babies, commit a genocide in Gaza after committing October 7 on its own people and worship Satan?|"
"Um... none of that is actually true. And you sound kind of crazy."
That’s not a legitimate question I’ve ever heard asked by MAGA, which I self identify as. If anyone of any political stripes asked any of those questions I would not entertain giving a response.
When I go into cess pools to argue the Israel and Jew haters, that's usually the filth that is thrown in my direction.
It makes me very jaded when I hear "I'm just asking legitimate questions" but then it turns into absurd conspiracy theories.
Maybe there are some.
But if it starts with the most likely premise of these days -- like "Why is Israel committing Genocide?" (It isn't) then the whole thing is a non starter.
If Israel is committing genocide, they are the worst group ever at attempting that effort. There are more people who identify as Palestinians now than at any time in history.
Israel wants to be left alone to live and prosper.
If hamas, hezbollah, houthi and iran laid down their arms today and said they will fight no more, there would be peace tomorrow
If Israel laid down their arms and said that they will fight no longer, there would be a genuine genocide.
You are of course free to pose any question you wish.
And others are free to disregard your questions, and question your motive in posing them. Just as you are questioning the motives of people who don’t see things your way. Ted Cruz must be serving AIPAC and all…
I dropped Tucker from your feed a couple of weeks ago. Don't know what happened to him in the last six months. He is a very bright man but, methinks, maybe not as all knowing as he might believe. My guess is that hubris has caught up to him and bit him in the butt, hard. Very sad.
I don't understand the anti-Israeli stance of the right, either. Does not seem to make much sense to me.
As MAGA Trump supporters, we can sort of pride ourselves on not being totally batshit crazy, like most of the Left. So I think people who are throwing these things out there, need to take a deep breath and calm down because this Epstein stuff, there's a lot more going on there than we're being told, at the moment. Trump has done everything else that he promised he would do. Let's give this some time. There's a lot going on with this. Getting anti-semitic, just like the Left, is not the answer.
I've liked Tucker Carlson, for the most part, for a long time, but just lately, along with Candice Owens, he's kind of gotten unhinged...
Anybody that starts spewing anti-Israel hate, I'm just going to turn them off.
Because invariably, the anti-Israel hate has been put there by propaganda by people who are sympathetic to Hamas and Palestinians.
Until the left wakes up and realizes that Hamas and the Palestinians and pretty much all of Islam, would like to see Americans and our country dead... That sort of makes my mind up for me on which side I will support.
If I just gotta pick a side, I'm going with the ones who don't shout "Death To AMerica"
But that's just me. Your mileage may vary.
Well put.
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Konstantin Kisin has made a lot of sense to me. I first heard the term "woke right" on one of his podcasts. Antisemitism is the force that unites extremes of Left and Right.
And to all of you just waking up to Candace Owens' unhinged character, look back to her justification of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. She's always been a nut.
Bat shit crazy.
You don’t have to pick a side though, steven. I notice your posts are often presenting a black/white dichotomy. That’s not the real world. Step into the grey?
Matt,
This is pretty much a proven fact. Israel gives the rest of the countries in the Mideast, they're right to exist.
Many many Muslims, do not. They chant "to the river, to the Sea," which means Israel and Jews should all die.
If the Muslims laid down their weapons, there would be peace.
If the Jews laid down their weapons, there would be no more Israel.
Nobody is blameless in this, but that's a pretty big difference between the sides.
Scott, your comment is so well put - after reading it I said to myself "Yep, it's a no brainer!".
If someone can't see it, it is because there is some part of them which is unwilling to "live not by lies" (Solzenytzen).
When you live by lies, it is because some part of you wants to be affirmed by some particular herd telling you you need to stop thinking, and join them so you can get affirmed that you are being a "good person" who is on the "right side of history" etc. Maybe too much "agreeableness" as a personality trait overcoming your better judgments. Please if you are starting to submit to this spreading mind virus, STOP! If you have escaped the Covid psy-op mind virus and the "woke" mind virus you can defenestrate yourself from this one too. Do it sooner rather than later!
You are correct in applying Solzhenitsyn.
I cannot and will not live by lies.
Islam is all about conquest and subjugation. Look at what is happening in Europe.
Yup. And Muslims even go by the taquiyya, which is they can lie to "infidels."
They believe they can rape non-Muslim women whenever they want to...
Many Muslim men abuse young boys. Mothers actually jerk off small boys.
Six toes is fairly common, all the inbreeding. Truly a sick society.
In Iran recently, a 53 year old man was stopped from marrying a 6 year old girl, as his third wife. I guess he was told to be "proper..." Wait until she is 9.
Disgusting.
They come to new, non-Muslim countries, and reproduce like rats. They kindly have six to eight kids where the native population may only have two, or sometimes less. They take advantage of their rights in their new country, to protest and antagonize the native population. Then, once they reach a certain percentage of the population, they agitate for Sharia law. Once they reach 20 to 30% in the country, they're almost assured to cause civil war before long, if it hasn't happened already.
Mathew, have you ever investigated why so many Muslims from poor Arab and Arab-adjacent countries have fled and immigrated illegally to Europe over the past 20 years?
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There are many in the U.S. that wish the whites would vacate the country. I don't care what they think. I doubt Israelis care much about what Muslims think. Talk is cheap.
To each his own...
BUT...if they're trying to kill you...
Yeah, that's another problem.
I agree, Mike...Eff them...
But native populations should not be subject to an invasion of people of very different cultures, who have no wish to assimilate.
No, it's pretty black and white when somebody says they want to kill you. That's as real world as it gets.
That’s the mullah government and its supporters chanting that. Most normal Iranians do not support the government or death to America. This is the grey I speak of. Your consent to paint all Iranians as ‘death to America’ supporters has been manufactured.
I didn't say just Iranians.
Palestinians, Iranians, so many of the people in the Middle East, celebrated September 11th.
It's not a problem, just with Iranians or Palestinians, either. It's a problem with Islam.
It's hatred of the West and any Jews, Christians, or, as they call it, "infidels."
Anybody of any other religion, but especially those of "The Great Satan."
Problem is, that's the guys with all the guns. Maybe all those "normal" Iranians ought to take the guns away from the lunatics.
There's still no gray there.
That's what I keep hearing for decades. How the average Iranian citizen doesn't support the mullahs, the Islamic government or the ayatollahs. But if that's so, why haven't they Revolted all these years under Sharia Laws after the Shah was deported and since 1979. All that time, they've done pretty much nothing but couple small protests revolts. Also I wouldn't say, most of because after we it dropped bonds on their nuclear facilities, millions of Iranians were in the streets of Tehran chanting death to america. And I don't believe that Islam is the religion of peace and the Koran is a document filled with peaceful teachings. I've read it. If you look at the New Testament, which is all that really matters for Christians, you don't see Jesus telling people to attack and kill each other, certainly not torture them (the Crusades not withstanding, those were KnightsTemplar and secular Kings). I agree that there are pfobably thousands or tens of thousands of Iranian citizens (many I count as friends) who don't feel hatred towards America, or Israel, but that's certainly not the majority. So you're saying the Majority population of Iran are not Normal, as far as their ideology anyway. I agree.
Or course most Persian Iranians do not seek to spread Islam as their rulers do. The Mullahs are the problem. The population hasn’t yet figured out how to get rid of their rulers.
There is no validity to, "that's just the goverment".
Either the effective majority of the Iranian population supports the Iranian government or they are hostages of it, and should be freed. The idea that your average Iranian is totally at odds with Iran's "Death to America!" leaders is MORE reason for hostility to Iran, not less.
Nah. Many issues can be argued with nuance. Not this one. There is NO moral equivalency between Hamas/Palestine and Jews/Israel. Or Muslims and Western civilization. Or Good and Evil, God and Satan.
Agreed.
I’m a nuanced person and always enjoy bending my mind to explore various nuances in many topics. It helps me find the edges of the issue. But not with this one. It’s really simple, Islam is not compatible with the West. Israel sits at the tip of the spear today, but tomorrow we will in the US. In my judgement, those who don’t see this are not looking close enough. Those who spew in favor of it, are being paid by someone seeking to spread the submission to Islam.
Gray has its moments on rare occasions, as long as it is not used as a synonym for moral relativism. I didn't catch a whiff of that coming off of your original comment, so well done, Mr. Matt L.
I count as several dear friends Persian Americans of 1st and 2nd generation from fleeing the Shah in late 70’s early 80’s. I also know some new Iran immigrants (green card). They do not hate America, and they are Muslim. I’m Christian but in this highly secular world we ‘connect’ over our shared bow down in humbleness before a shared Abrahamic God.
Watch your back. In Islam, it is haram to be friends with the unbeliever. While in a position of weakness, they are told they can pretend friendship, but must keep hate in their hearts. They are allowed to lie, steal from and cheat the unbelievers, because they are told that they are entitled to anything the unbelievers have - which is why so many go on welfare programs, along with their extra wives (as "single mothers") and kids, with no intention of supporting themselves.
Also, we do not share the same god. If you've read the koran, you know that the god of Islam is described as the greatest of deceivers. And I think you know who the king of lies is, in the Bible.
You're friends are lying to you abd maybe even themselves. Fundamentally Islam is Anti West, but even the 9/11 terrorists went to strip clubs and drank the devil alcohol ASAP when they got here. They probably even liked the people.none of that matters when you are a fanatic.
Fair enough.
The tension between the Pahlavi family's westernizing influence and the medieval rigidity of the Ayatollahs must be too intense for the population to sustain. Either side seems doomed to be toppled every few decades by a coup, and we we watch videos that are identical except for the change of characters, of zillions of civilians pouring through the streets chanting and shaking their fists. I do wish for the sake of the people of Iran that they can free themselves from whatever kinds of tyranny they do not want.
Gray is the color of wisdom, dotage and dead weight.
I did not know that widsom had a color, outside of that obliquely applied to it by Mr. Tolkien in the Lord of the Rings. Thanks for the education, Boogie!
I refer to the grey middle-ground on this spectrum more as the balancing ego in Freud's Id/Ego/Superego.
Things often are black/white. For instance, God is, or is not.
I would agree with that.
"Stay in the Grey" is my motto, Matt. It is where you find the point of homeostasis.
The extremes of either side of a spectrum are bad news. That's a general operating principle. Although many groups with a cause cannot manage to rein themselves in, because they think that the more extremely "good" they are, the better it is.
Not so. It is one of those paradoxes in life.
Not really. A paradox is a statement or idea that defies logic. It presents a logical fallacy even if a part of it may be sound. This doesn't require perpetual analysis, it requires a decision by you. Be brave and say it one way or the other. Israel or the fake country of Palestine? The latter will not accept the existence of the former. The former will accept the existence of the latter if they stop killing their women and children. Make a decision.
If the Muslims would lay down their weapons, there would be peace.
If Israel laid down its weapons, it would cease to exist.
Be cold or hot. If you're lukewarm I will spew you out of my mouth. (Or something to that effect) God.
You are making a mistake here in your assumptions.
You think this concept is about choosing sides over various issues, when it is actually something altogether different. It is about psychological balance. You're comparing it here to another category altogether.
Ayn Rand: Why would you pick grey when you have a choice between in black and white?
Or something like that.
You DO have to pick a side ,unless You're Switzerland which always picks a side every time, they just don't tell anybody. You're Neville Chamberlain incarnate
A. Many (not all) commenters here are Jewish. Some of them have been conditioned to hate Islam in a (similar) but more nuanced way as Palestinians have been taught/conditioned to hate Jews. Some of our Jewish brothers & sisters can see this and others can’t. Even Americans were taught to ‘hate’ the USSR for a couple of generations. Emotions of death and destruction and the genocide of the Holocaust cloud the grey, and brighten the polarities, because the Jewish-Muslim (and also Muslim-Christian hate) have persisted for so many centuries.
Or the countries who chant Death to America (the Great Satan) and Death to Israel (the little Satan) and have it written into their constitutions. I am disgusted with my former Party Democrat, and it seems I was right about having contempt for the far lunatic fring Right Republicans as well.
Yeah, it's really not that hard.
You're mileage might vary, not mine, Shiloh.
Interesting that you memtioned Candace Owens, sir. I have also thought that Tucker has taken her path. Don't quite know what happened to her, either.
I was born into a Russian- American Jewish family on both sides. My father was in active combat in Normandy & he survived. As a young adult, when I asked him about his war experiences, he never verbalized what he went through. But oftentimes, I would wake up in the middle of the night, because I could hear him crying in his sleep. On occasion, when we talked about Israel & the Holocaust, he would just say "Judy, it can happen again". Did I believe that it could or would happen again in my lifetime? No. But look at where we are now! If I could see my dad right now, I would not have the heart to tell him what it's like to be a Jewish person in the United States in 2025. Or what has happened on the world stage since 1974. Everything he fought for doesn't really matter to a lot of people these days. So there's a ton of eork that we all need to do. I just hope we have enough human beings to carry the torch of freedom & to build a better future so that "it will never happen again".
Tucker had Candace on his Fox show several times, and iirc, once or more on his indie show. Candace is a stupid person’s idea of a smart person—she pretends to get deep into a subject, but if you know something about it you can catch her errors.
As for her Jew hate, I think that’s just a grift, though her connection with Kan-YE or whatever he calls himself, as well as Andrew Tate (through her husband) are curious and condemning.
Tucker strikes me as someone going through a manic phase—as if he is bipolar. I took him at his word, that he simply believes that the US should look after its own defence, and Israel should as well, until he went after Bill Ackman at TPUSA this weekend.
It strikes me that various independent media figures who are more, or at least as, successful as they were when they were on MSM, have let their egos run away with themselves. Maybe this is because they no longer have producers who are working for the network as much as the host?
This is something I’ve noticed with Megyn Kelly, who now talks far more than her guests. And it might be similar to the bug that has bitten Tucker?
Bannon, though egotistical by nature, doesn’t seem to be affected by this even though he runs his own show. Nonetheless he seems to have very similar attitudes about Israel as Carlson. I don’t think Bannon is a Jew hater though.
You make some interesting points, especially about the lack of restraint when one goes out on their own. Of all who have done so, there are likely a couple of hands full who have managed the transition intact. Rush Limbaugh and Victor Davis Hanson come to mind. Interestingly, a self-depricating sense of humor was/is a common denominator. I think Charles Krauthammer would also have fit on this list.
I'd be interested to hear from others who they would add to the roster. Joe Rogan, perhaps?
I’m a huge VDH fan.
Woof!
I don't think Bannon hates Jews or Israel. I think he is sincere in his desire to implement policies that he thinks will help working class Americans. But he also is willing to be ambiguous enough not to alienate people that do hate Jews if he thinks they can help his cause. He is very quick to label supporters of Israel as being Israel first.
I'm not a big fan of Mark Levin but Bannon's attacks on him are personal and petty. He knows that his attacks on Levin resonate with people who are motivated by hatred of Jews.
Levin and Shapiro are both smart and well spoken, but they will support Israel over the U.S. if it comes down to it.
All great points. I wish Jews weren’t the issue for so many, but perhaps that is their “cross to bear”.
I really liked what Tucker Carlson did until a couple months ago. I don't remember what it was, but it had me scratching my head and I was saying, "why did he say that, that's just sounded kind of crazy."
And him getting anti-Semitic now is just letting the bats out of the belfry. Because now people are going to assume that, even though he had some great great shows early on, now, they're going to assume that he's crazy about everything. Which doesn't help anybody...if he truly is on the right side.
Scott, can you point me to where Tucker has been antisemitic? I’ve not seen that but I’m open to having my mind changed with evidence. I listen to Tucker every now and again and haven’t heard antisemitic language from him. Thanks
Maybe I should have said IF he is getting anti-semitic now.
I know beyond a fact that Candice Owens has been very anti-semitic. I turned her off. I don't listen to her anymore.
Tucker Carlson, I haven't listen to anything that he has posted, recently, so maybe I was premature in saying that. I could have phrased it better.
Yeah, I’ve not seen any words out of Tucker’s mouth that are antisemitic. However, I’ve heard plenty of online commenters say he’s an antisemitic Jew hater or something to this effect. I always ask for evidence when I hear that because I too do not agree with antisemitism. I can only guess that people who level these charges against Tucker are parroting what someone else said. I see this on Bari’s The Free Press site occasionally, as she constantly goes for clicks by painting Tucker in a negative light. Then commenters take those cue and pile on.
Thanks for replying and clarifying you haven’t seen that.
In the Go-Go 80’s, I’d have said they’d gotten hold of some nice Peruvian flake.
I had to Google up Peruvian flake. LOL! You may be right.
I had to Google the Go-Gos .. they all seem to be doing fine.
They got the flake too, maybe?
Woof!
Killer Cocaine
To me Candace seems to have gone to the clickbait, greedy side of social media. So much time spent on the exposure of Macron’s wife was weird. I didn’t watch, but read enough know I’m not that interested.
Agree
I’ve dropped Tucker. I remember college friends who got badly into blow acting like he does now.
I do want the Epstein matter confronted but I do not want to slow down the mass deportations of illegal aliens. It must not derail the main item on the MAGA agenda.
MAGA is just as crazy as the Democrats just what you are willing to put up with.
No, HL3...
Let me ask you the question that you won't answer for me, in front of all these other people. Maybe you should answer my question instead of making a fool of yourself, again.
There's nothing crazier, than claiming that women can have a penis and men can get pregnant.
Why is it that Democrats say this? This is bat crazy bullshit.
I mean, if you honestly think this is true, go ahead and support the Democrats. But just stop saying that Republicans are just as crazy as Democrats and they deny science, because they don't!
Mic drop 🎤
What mic drop I posted my dislike on Democrats but that does not mean I stopped being a liberal in anyway? You seem to just want one ideology and mindset devoid of any self thought besides one set.
You told me that Republicans and MAGA were just as opposed to science as Democrats. Nope.
I also said that MAGA uses common sense, which isn't always the case with people that the media calls the "educated." Because most of the people that are considered educated, well, they don't sometimes have the sense to wipe their own nose. Just a total lack of common sense. It's not something that you can teach, when you're indoctrinating students in a university, like college professors do. So, all these walk progressives are supposedly more educated, but in essence they are dumbed down, because they haven't been taught to think, they just spend indoctrinated with leftist propaganda.
They only believe in science when it benefits them political like lLBGTQ but actual science look at the idiots who believed Elon Musk space program goals when noted scientists told them Mars was nowhere near ready to be usable for humans.
"MAGA is just as crazy as the Democrats just what you are willing to put up with."
Well 🤣😂
You must be willing to put up with
"chicks with dicks." Just sayin'.
I simply dont define trans as even a top 5 threat to this country
Trans are not a threat to this country. That a sizeable number of people in positions of power and influence truly believe that boys, even toddlers, become girls by simply saying so IS a threat to our country. Don't care a whit about trans and gender role playing (I would happily go to bat for Divine any day against some wise-acre), I do care that evidently there has been a massive failure of our Education system. (And even more, that the most likely source of that failure is the increasingly long list of thoughts and words and ideas and facts that must not be spoken within the walls of that system. The acceptance of the idea of taboo thoughts and sounds (words) is the main case for considering the Democrat Party a pseudo-religious cult. I haven't met a "MAGA" who refused to hear or contemplate a word or idea or view an image. I have yet to meet a Democrat in recent years willing to be photographed in the same room (or even be in the same room) as a white guy wearing blackface even as part of a Black Panther Halloween costume.
Yes...
I will succinctly describe the biggest problem with this whole trans thing.
Mental illness and perversion should not be normalized... Kids should not be taught this stuff.
It's good that 70% of the people believe that boys should not be beating the hell out of girls, in girls sports.
Another losing issue that Democrats have aligned themselves with.
I think it's great though. Let them talk and show how bat shit crazy they are.
While Trump straightens out all the shit that Biden fucked up.
Sports does not make or break America and to be honest if your ideology comes down to Trans its your choice.
You must not have kids.
The kids should not be taught that shit.
Trans effects .5% of the population in America. SS, Medicare and medicaid, Economy, Environment, and current wars are way more important. Besides what parents do with their children is their concern not the government.
Bubonic plague arises from a microorganism.
Two words for you: trans athletes.
With you 100%!
🎯🎯
The legitimate concern is that Israel does not overplay their hand and use USA sympathy to involve ourselves (and yes, our military age children) for a gain that as a side-effect will crank up the forever war engine and also hurt our ability to be an honest broker in the long run. (As to the retort that we already do not have credibility with certain players, no matter what we do, as someone who for five years had full access to the TS/SCI message stream between the White House/Pentagon and world leaders, this is actually not true - to use one cleaned up (and somewhat ancient example) the face-palming in our room to watch one Leader publicly excoriate the US for undertaking an operation for which this same leader had privately and very secretly pleaded. (an aside, don't believe anything you hear on television - so much goes on in the world each day that it takes someone with an agenda to get it placed above the noise - and although I'm no longer in the loop, I feel at least in my day the press TRIED to get it right).
Yes, people were criticizing the involvement against Iran...
And if we had gotten troops involved there yeah big big problem.
But just cleaning out their nuclear facilities, yeah I'm all for that.
You said it much more concisely than did I.
I DO I like the fact, that Trump let everybody know that he dressed down Netanyahu, and was very irritated with him, after Trump had said "okay, Now stop no more shooting. No more missiles..."
And Israel had sent a bunch of jets out to bomb. And Trump told netanyahu, "just stop!"
I liked that.
I am glad someone else noticed .. that along with him saying out loud he allowed Iran to make a symbolic, non-lethal "retaliatory" strike against US assets in order to save face made me realize for the first time that this guy has Lincoln level moments in him. Not just happen to have good advisors .. no advisor would EVER have suggested that to him. (The Iran quote was especially delicious, as there was nothing they could then say .. and again I think a unique power of Trump is his unpredictable willingness to at any moment say a quiet part out loud.)
*EXACTLY*
Sasha, I am proud of you and appreciate your candor, as well as the quality of your work.
You and others here are touching upon a very powerful, ancient mystery that can never be adequately explained or understood apart from the revelations provided in the Bible - rightly understood… And that’s where things really start to get heated. Just watch…
Right off the bat, I will assert that it is only possible to ‘see’ Biblical truth through the work and grace of God in an individual’s life.
God can certainly give insight and confirmatory witness to spiritual truth to someone who is not in ‘right relationship’ with Him, if He so desires. In this regard, the most important prerequisite is a genuine love for truth; a love that will constrain and compel a person to accept what is revealed as true, even though it may be the last thing one wants to accept. I think you know a good deal about that.
But, those who proudly assert their atheism, who basically take Pontius Pilate’s view of truth, and/or mock believers and scoff at the Bible as the Word of God, have virtually zero hope of comprehending what is actually true, as opposed to their preferred beliefs or views of reality.
Having said all that, I propose that a principal reason why we see this phenomena spreading so alarmingly within the broad base of MAGA supporters, is because a large number of them are professing Christians who are either Biblically illiterate, Biblically ‘unbalanced’, or steeped in the perspectives of Replacement Theology.
Those theological perspectives, which posit that the Church has ‘replaced’ Israel in God’s Plan of the Ages, arose relatively early in the history of the Church, but became a powerful influence in the 4th and early 5th centuries, largely due to the writings of Augustine of Hippo (St. Augustine. This is a very complex subject; certainly one that cannot be adequately addressed here. But the key point is that the theological perspectives of Replacement Theology are held by the majority of scholars, seminary professors, priests/pastors, elders/deacons and laypersons within professing Christendom.
Granted, many persons who attend or are members of Churches that hold these beliefs may still be unaware of that fact, or are unaware of the Biblical counterpoints against such beliefs. But, most people these days are too lazy, busy, or distracted, to really take the trouble to pray and think their way through this contentious issue, and are easily persuaded to follow the crowd. After all, ten million ants can’t be wrong, can they?
I’m not going to argue these matters here but I will simply point out that, if one starts from the premise that ‘the Church’ has replaced ‘Israel’ in the Bible, and has therefore ‘inherited’ all God’s promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and ‘their seed’ after them, then it follows that modern day Israel has no Biblical ‘right’ to exist and is, in fact, counter to the will of God. This is all that is needed to establish a firm foundation on which to build ‘Christian’ antisemitism. And it is a monumental tragedy.
But, back to the broad MAGA support base, as well as the public at large. Over the past 5-6 years, the ‘herd’ has become increasingly aware of the fact that a great, ominous, amorphous evil is rising up worldwide. Once people reach the point of accepting and naming the nature of this threat as ‘Evil’, it opens the door to spirituality. Now, countless people who may be largely ignorant of such matters suddenly begin to pay attention to all the claims of this or that person of influence or the representatives of some generally respected group, etc. And then, the great Internet spiritual quest kicks off, and the common result is that many people get hopelessly confused, deceived, or misled. It is a mess, and a truly tragic one indeed.
One final point for now.
The author of all of this antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israelism, is Satan. He has a number of motivations for ‘The Longest Hatred’, but the paramount one is his own (vain) existential desire to escape his Biblically-prophesied doom.
That fate is clearly marked, and it is inextricably linked to the Jews being regathered into, and exercising sovereignty over, their ancient Land; particularly, Jerusalem, and specifically, the Temple Mount.
In other words, his warped thinking is that, if he can remove them from such so reign control, he would, in effect, ‘defeat’ God. I know it sounds crazy, but there is a twisted, as well as rational, logic behind it.
It will fail. But one of the greatest tragedies of history, is that he (Satan) is successfully manipulating countless Christians to actually serve his will and purposes, while thinking they are serving Gods. And a corollary tragedy, is that he is doing the very same thing with many Jews.
BUT (Behold the Underlying Truth), God…
In the end of it all (and this will end), He will have His way in His Universe, and be praised forever for the redeeming grace He has poured out on those who turn to Him in this Christ-rejecting world.
Am Israel Chai!
What is difficult to understand about how we do not want another country's interests to drive our foreign policy (America First) and we are tired of being lied into forever wars?
Not too much, as long as we are absolutely certain that said foreign interests have no relation to those of the U.S. of A. If you are thinking of the Israel and Iran -- and you may not be -- I think we can have a difference of opinion. I think it was worth the B-2 strikes to bury the Fordow nuclear site for a good long time -- even if other countries may have benefited from American action.
Concerning Ukraine, I would argue to stay away.
I very much agree about being lied to into another forever war. Staying the hell out of said foreign entanglements, alliances and engagements was a mainstay of American foreign policy until the early 20th century. President Washington alluded to this, in fact, in his 1796 Farewell Address.
I think the biggest issue is the war being waged within our country by our fellow Americans by democrats/globalists. United we stand divided we fall. We are being destabilized in so many ways and it is coming from the crazy part of the left - and war mongers. It is working, the blame is put all on Israel and America. Break that alliance up and they’ve won.
Bravo.
Merci!
The issue I have with Israel is its government, especially Bibi and its other neocon friendly hard liners that have goaded the USA into several Mid East wars/conflicts in my lifetime. Especially the six countries destabilized in last 20 years under the ‘Clean Break’ doctrine:
Iraq, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia.
These countries targeted for destabilizing because they supported Palestinian statehood. And Israel wanted a ‘Clean Break’ from past (1948 to 1997) because strategies in those years found to not be working.
Iran was on Clean Break list as 7th country to destabilize. Tucker knows all this and why he was hyper concerned about a potential war there that could bring the USA into it (like Iraq and Syria).
Clean Break doctrine is this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
Matt, the Oslo Accords (1993) was a terrible move for Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians. The Oslo agreement essentially gave the Palestinians a “veto” on anything that moved toward peace. The Israeli government, under new leadership, was correct to step away from Oslo. The strategy as it see it and have heard Bibi speak of, is that under Oslo, the solution to the conflict was sought from within Israel, by including the Palestinians - who vetoed every plan. The strategy shift was to seek influence from other neighboring Arab states to solve the conflict from without Israel. Without the Palestinians. If you look at the Abraham Accords, this is exactly what Israel is doing. Solving the problem by getting support from without Israel.
Yes, I’m aware of the ‘93 straitjacket Oslo put Israel into. I can see why Israel pivots the Clean Break doctrine. My beef is that the USA (fueled by our neocon class) became the helper. Europe is now filled with illegal immigrants that fled those Mid East battlefields.
Tucker is and has always been an antisemite. It’s just getting free rein now.
It’s interesting that whenever something is written about who pulls the strings in DC / the world, & names are listed if someone is Jewish that’s always noted in parentheses. However there isn’t any ethnic or religion noted next to the non Jewish suspects. It seems another, more subtle & sleazy way to demean & blame Jews.
Andrew Doyle did a podcast with Konstantin Kisin in which they concluded that, as to the extremes of both Left and Right, antisemitism was the "center of the Venn diagram of everything." I wish I knew the date of the podcast, but it was one of the most illuminating I've heard.
My theory is that all the detritus of human history is being gathered in the basket of antisemitism.
Agree 100%… Can’t help but think Tucker is so DRIVEN by his desire to uncover scandal, that when he doesn’t find any, he starts seeing things that aren’t there…
Between his inappropriate and maniacal laughter and his enduring anti-elite schtick (dedpite being of the media elite), I have decided that Carlson is mostly just a brand-name product rather than a truly thoughtful person. Screw Tucker. His product has an "off" taste.
Yes. Tucker's "maniacal laughter" emanates from...a maniac, and an antisemitic one at that. Let's be done with him once and for all.
Conspiracy theories tell only lies, but they are themselves true in that they truly exist. May we be "wise as serpents yet innocent as doves" in discerning them.
Makes a lot of sense. Isreal takes our money for us, what do we get back?? Nothing, except neverending involvement in war and bloodshed, which I would guess is by design. The state of Isreal is not some noble country that should go unquestioned lest you be called a name.
I agree about your Tucker observations. Also, your opinion is about the most plausible explanation I’ve seen. Good post.
Gracias, Mr. Remke. It is too bad about Mr. Carlson. He was, I believe, a History major and, as such, likely knew the perils of overweening pride. It could have been many of us taking his path. "There but for the grace of God," as they say. Have a good evening, sir.
What happened to him was Candace Owens. She's an antisemitic and feeds on "theories". Tucker is eating it up.
Candace Owens was definitely part of his insanity. Daryl Cooper, who Tucker says is the most well-informed historian (despite Cooper’s amateur status and antisemitism) is a huge part as well. Tucker is having Cooper on to “explain” Epstein this week. Which, of course, will amount to blaming all the world problems on the jooooos
I think it has to do with going too far. Shooting starving people trying to get food is a bit too Nazi-like for some of us.
Would you please be able to add some links to substantiate the claim of starving people getting shot? Thanks in advance.
Are you that ignorant? Are you lazy? or just a propagandist? Those videos are all over X and are uncensored. You can see people getting droned carrying sacks of flour. Kids missing half their faces or maybe you'd like to watch a doctor giving CPR to a two year old. If you like you can even see what starvation looks like in a grade school kid (you'll likely be happy to know the kid died BTW). The Jewish troops in Gaza of 2025 are no different than the German Nazis cleaning out the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. ZERO difference. So get off your ass and look for yourself. You're welcome (in advance).
That is about what I expected. Stupid, outlandsh claims without a shread of objective evidence to back them up. Poor bastard.
From Grok: there are multiple reports from various sources indicating that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have shot and killed Palestinians in Gaza who were attempting to obtain food, particularly near aid distribution sites. These incidents have been documented by eyewitnesses, media outlets, and humanitarian organizations, though the IDF often disputes the details or context of these events. Below is a summary based on available information:
Incidents at Aid Distribution Sites: Since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US- and Israel-backed organization, began distributing aid in Gaza in late May 2025, numerous reports have described Israeli forces firing on crowds of Palestinians gathered near food distribution points. For example:
On June 17, 2025, Palestinian medics reported that at least 59 people were killed and 221 wounded in Khan Younis when Israeli tanks fired on a crowd near an aid truck. Witnesses described tank shells hitting thousands gathered on a main road. The IDF acknowledged firing in the area, stating it was reviewing reports of civilian casualties and claimed the crowd approached troops, posing a potential threat.reuters.comtheguardian.com
On June 1, 2025, at least 31 Palestinians were killed near a GHF distribution site in Rafah, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office and witnesses, who reported Israeli forces firing on crowds approaching the site. The IDF denied firing directly at civilians but admitted to warning shots about 1 km away.aljazeera.comtheguardian.com
On February 29, 2024, over 100 Palestinians were killed in Gaza City when Israeli troops fired on a crowd swarming aid trucks, with witnesses reporting gunfire and a stampede. The IDF claimed the deaths were primarily due to trampling or trucks running over people but acknowledged firing warning shots.apnews.comcnn.com
Scale and Frequency: The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry and other sources, including the UN, report that hundreds of Palestinians—over 400 since late May 2025—have been killed while attempting to access food aid at GHF sites. These incidents are described as near-daily occurrences, often involving gunfire, tank shells, or airstrikes near distribution points.bbc.comtheintercept.com
Allegations of Deliberate Targeting: A June 26, 2025, report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited IDF soldiers and officers who claimed they were ordered to fire on unarmed crowds near aid sites, even when no threat was present, prompting an IDF investigation into possible war crimes. The IDF and Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected these claims as “blood libels” and denied deliberate targeting of civilians.haaretz.comtheguardian.com
Humanitarian Criticism: The UN, including its human rights chief Volker Türk, has condemned these incidents, stating that shooting civilians seeking food constitutes a war crime. The UN and aid groups like Doctors Without Borders have criticized the GHF system as inadequate and dangerous, arguing it forces Palestinians into unsafe areas to access limited aid, exacerbating the risk of violence.ohchr.orgnbcnews.comtheintercept.com
Context of Hunger Crisis: These incidents occur amid a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where Israel’s blockade from March to April 2025 and ongoing restrictions have left the population on the brink of famine. The GHF’s distribution system, which replaced UN-led efforts, has been criticized for its limited reach and militarized nature, with only four sites serving 2.3 million people, often in areas near active combat zones.theguardian.comtheguardian.comtheguardian.com
IDF’s Position: The IDF consistently claims that its forces fire warning shots or target “suspects” who approach troops or deviate from designated routes, asserting that civilians are not deliberately targeted. They argue that the chaotic gatherings near aid sites pose security risks, and they are investigating some incidents. However, witnesses and humanitarian groups often contradict the IDF’s accounts, reporting indiscriminate fire on crowds.reuters.combbc.comtimesofisrael.com
Challenges in Verification: Coverage is constrained by Israel’s restrictions on international journalists entering Gaza independently, relying heavily on Palestinian witnesses, local journalists, and footage. This makes precise verification difficult, but consistent reports from multiple sources, including medical records and videos, support claims of lethal force being used.theguardian.comtheguardian.com
While the IDF denies systematically targeting civilians, the high death toll and consistent witness accounts suggest that lethal force has been used repeatedly against Palestinians seeking food, often in chaotic and desperate circumstances. The UN and other groups have called for investigations and a return to UN-led aid distribution to reduce risks to civilians.ohchr.orgcnn.com
These reports highlight a complex and tragic situation, with conflicting narratives between Palestinian sources and the IDF. The ongoing investigations may provide further clarity, but the humanitarian crisis and risks to civilians remain critical concerns.
Pretty much what I expected from you too. Most Germans didn't want to know back then and most Jews don't want to know now. The truth can be a scary place for those convinced of their morality. You poor little thing. Adios
Sasha, I appreciate everything you are doing on this platform. People with good hearts will find one another. And God bless you for the way you are taking care of your Mom.
Tucker isn't MAGA. Tucker is clearly being influenced by his company's backer. No one who believes in journalism could fail to see the absence
of pushback to Putin, the Iranian President and his sudden obsession with anti-Jewish tropes.
Good riddance to Qatarlson.
I hope the paycheck was worth his integrity - because it is gone for good.
You are correct. Sasha and y’all, check out;
The Curious Case of America's Highest-Paid Question Asker
Starring Tucker Carlson as an independent journalist, foreign autocrats as misunderstood truth-tellers, and "just asking questions" as the most lucrative phrase in media.
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JUL 12
Always, follow the money.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bitcloutlabs/p/the-curious-case-of-americas-highest?r=o30r9&utm_medium=ios
Shawn Maguire has been excellent as of late.
A real advocate of Jews and using his platform properly.
Thank you. I will look Shawn up.
He is on X.
What's with that video? Every third word seems to be censored. I have no idea what he's on about.
There's nothing wrong with a journalist walking into the lion's den to do interviews with our adversaries .
However, after 15 minutes of Putin giving us a lecture on 300 years of Russian History when he promised to be quick...i turned it off and haven't been back since.
He may be using his own metrics for audience development and is seeing clicks/views skyrocket when he goes off brand...which means he's creating a new brand that...in my opinion...doesn't play in Peoria.
Who are you to say Tucker doesn’t want to Make America Great Again?
He wants to make America Jew hating.. that’s not making America Great and not part of the Trump Admin’s platform. Period.
That’s who I am.
I disagree. Questioning the government of Israel and its influence on America is not Jew hating. In fact, it’s healthy to do so.
Questioning anything is healthy.
Conspiracy theory innuendo about Jewish influence on government is old wine in new bottles. The propagators seem to think they have a hot product for a whole new market.
Clicks is what this is about.
Good old fashioned money.
Dave Smith is getting rich off of it, why not others.
Money is the root of all evil.
I’m sure you are right. But clicks only come and people can only get rich if there is a market for this drivel. That’s the problem.
Candace too.
Greed is the root of all evil. We've all heard the story of the single female librarian who know one knows squirrels away all of her money and at the end of her life donates $1M to some charity. So it's not the money, it's the greed or the charity.
I have no idea what Tucker's philanthropy is but his incredibly uncharitable speech and interview choices are any indication, it's not great. I don't give one crap what Putin says or the Iranian president and can't imagine why he thinks we would. He's become cultish just like Candace Owens.
Hey Jude, which conspiracy innuendo do you speak of?
This one has been proven pretty true:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
Clearly you did not hear him and are unfamiliar with Jew hating tropes of Jews and Israel "controlling" the world, of Omar saying that Israel has "hypnotized" the world's leaders. He isn't questioning a particular government of a country but the country itself and also insinuating - with ZERO EVIDENCE that Epstein was a
Mossad agent. I'm sure you have explanations for why he throws softballs at leaders of Russia, Iran and Qatar as well and it's just a coincidence from where his media company received investment. His behavior of late is anything but journalistic and unbiased.
I don’t know where Omar came into this. I never mentioned Omar, just Tucker. We really don’t know what Epstein was/is because our DOJ won’t (or hasn’t yet) done an investigation whether or what motivated the Epstein/Maxwell child sex ring. Alex Acosta (Florida AG) who gave Epstein light sentence in ‘08 has stated he was told to tread lightly because Epstein was Intel. That’s not a conspiracy. That’s on record. Maxwell comes from family with deep (deep) ties to Israel, MI6 and KGB. Her dad had a lavish funeral in Israel with many Israel current & former heads of state and Mossad attending and eulogizing him. Rob is buried in Mount Olive in Israel. This is also fact. There’s a lot of smoke. But nobody interested to find out anything. Then people like you who scream antisemitism anytime someone asks. It’s so very tiring and sophomoric.
Of course you don't know where Omar comes into it.. because you're
Ignorant about antisemitic tropes clearly. Like Omar, he is trafficking in the same antisemitic language and putting himself in company with Islamists. As I've stated and you haven't countered, neither Tucker nor you has provided any evidence that Epstein was an agent for Mossad, yet his spouts that accusation. ZERO PROOF. That isn't journalism and yet again, that isn't MAGA and that isn't Trump, where this discussion began. Bye!!👋🏻
Naftali Bennett, former Israel PM
"As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty:
The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false.
Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel.
Epstein never worked for the Mossad.
This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson pretending they know things they don’t.
They just make things up, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it’s Israel.
There’s a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won’t take it anymore."
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-idiocy-of-the-epstein-mythology/
Are you really asking what motivated epstein and maxwell to run a child sex ring? I'd say money, influence/leverage, extortion, and sexual perversion. It's pretty simple
I agree Matt. I have watched many of Tucker's interviews and I haven't heard him say anything that is anti-Semitic. If we can't question our government policies and officials then we are no better than what we have been accusing the democrats of. Judging from the comments on this post, I'm beginning to wonder. I will continue to watch Tucker and Sasha as long as they keep it real!
Yes, I originally landed on Sasha’s site 4 years ago because she was keeping it real, and acceptance of those of us who believe in cyclical history. I’m watching whether that continues, or if this goes into Trump cult land. I like Trump, but I don’t worship him. And on certain subjects I oppose his current stance (handling of Epstein non investigation)
With you, Matt.
I know plenty of people who like & respect Trump, but none that worship him. Though I know these people exist, they’re not in the majority. It’s good to have a party that questions leadership. Part of it is Trump is seen as a last hope for America, so MUCH is expected. Lots of fear driven maga out there, that’s why some are so quick to focus on the negative & forget how far we’ve come in 6 months. I believe Trump does listen to his base, pretty refreshing.
Watch his speech at Turning Point
I did watch it. And there is nothing antisemitic in it. As for MAGA, you are not the gatekeeper of what Makes America Great Again. Trump will also eventually exit the stage and another will try to lead this Populist movement.
I’m concerned about foreign influence in America too.
Are you concerned about elite universities filled with students from Muslim countries, pursuing Islamic studies taught by faculties full of Islamic professors?
Are you concerned that by far the largest city in America is likely to elect a Marxist Muslim as mayor?
Or is your concern only for the nefarious Jewish influence you see lurking in the shadows, trying to influence our culture built on Judeo Christian values?
People miss the forest for the trees, while they fight amongst themselves.
The Left did it first... They were such enemies of conservatives, that they decided that anybody who is an enemy of the GOP, is there ally...
It used to be that people valued this country and what it stood for it, above all else, but the Left has assumed that enemies of conservatives, are their allies... When nothing further could be from the truth.
As Stalin would say, they have become useful idiots, who will be disposed of when nefarious elements infiltrating our country become more powerful...
Just look at Europe. The left in Europe hates nationalists and the right so much, that they embrace the destruction of their own culture by Muslims. We need to very strongly learn and important lesson from that, or we will go down the toilet, just as Europe is doing as we watch.
Whether you disagree or not, he's still not representing the views of the Trump Admin and Trump who is the leader of the MAGA movement -
Not Qatarlson.
MAGA isn’t a religion, Brammymiami. You know that, right?
Are you lost?
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You’re right that Tucker is not MAGA he’s America First. They are not the same and we are not allies.
Trump is both MAGA AND AMERICA FIRST. But America First doesn’t mean America isolationist.
Wrong. America first means we don’t value other nations agendas over the well being of America. Trump has thoroughly demonstrated that he’s Israel first not America first.
I don't believe the anti-Israel turn by MAGA/whateverists is motivated by actual anti-Semitism but the same resentment that others are gaining at USA's expense - the exact mentality revealed by the Signal leaks.
But this is confusing since I don't see how viz-Iran Israel has gained at America's expense - they did the heavy lifting in those strikes and the whole world benefited (while grumbling about it publicly).
Please now enlighten the class about what Trump really means when he says "peace through strength." I'm sure that too will be amusing to the class.
sure. that's why the US has been planning to bomb Iran's nuclear strongholds for 15years... Are you new to this topic? Btw - "America First" is whatever Trump SAYS it is.. Please do show your true colors for all to see.
Thank you for confirming you’re just another sycophant who will blindly believe whatever Trump tells you to believe. You have no idea what America First means.
I’m MAGA to the core. Epstein was not why I voted for Trump. Yes, I’d like some answers, but other promises made and kept by Trump are far more important to how I live my life. Knowing about Epstein doesn’t reflect on my personal experiences nor my life. Tucker IMHO has gone off the rails a bit. I listened to his speech at Turning Point and his obsession over Epstein was too much. Trump has only been in office 6 months and has made substantial changes for the better, all while having to deal with radical judges from the beginning. At some point, I believe we will get more information about Epstein. Am I demanding such? No. More importantly, I want illegals removed before the next census, which will be a huge blow to blue states counting on illegals to drive their number of representatives in DC. I want lower taxes. I want our government services protected for legal citizens. I want girls’ athletic rights protected from trans, on the field and in their bathroom. I want our children protected from psycho predators in the medical field mutilating their healthy bodies. Trump has demanded this by EOs and I applaud his actions.
Agreed, good points.
Thank you.
I also agree - but I think the kneejerk response to this has come from fear Trump is welching on his swamp-draining promises and going back to pair up with the establishment. There are SOME valid reasons to keep a lot of the Epstein dirt covered like all those videos of victims, but I want the damned client names - even if there isn't a neat list.
I voted for RFK Jr and by proxy some might say Trump. The country is soooo far better off today than it was a year ago. If there’s a crack in Trump’s support, it’s being magnified. From someone who has never voted for Trump, I see overwhelming gratitude that he and not Kamala is where he is.
Stay the course. I am not troubled by the hoopla. Someone on X commented that a lot of the negativity is coming from a few accounts that only joined X recently and have less than 200 followers. I think there are people just trying to stir things up, and I don't think it will succeed. Trump was just asked about Bongino by the press and he said he's spoken to him and all is good. I'm more interested in Trump saving our economy and getting rid of bad guys and illegal immigrants, which he's doing a great job of. I don't pay attention to the people trying to create controversy.
I'm seeing many comments at this site at the moment that are really questioning what is going on here, and feeling lied to with some well articulated, nuanced and interesting rationale and observations.
Again why in early 2025, did Trump and his MAGA allies push the narrative of explosive Epstein revelations as a way to energize their base - expsoing a deep state that could finally be removed, and whatever else tickled the fancy. So let's have it. If it's not much of anything which Sasha believes and is entirely likely, then the narrative was false and should not have been pushed. Mind you Trump has no qualms about telling lies when it benefits him. If there is a list and Trump and maga leadership is on it, why didn't Trump know, why was Trump marketing it months back? Not a good look from any angle.
Selling the oldest trope imaginable is a well nuanced take?
I was talking about comments here in the comment section (and in other articles by Sasha on the topic at Substack, collectively and on average). So questioning the nonrelease of the files and their reasons for feeling these ways. You feel the comments at 4th Turning are shallow and lacking?
Only the comments that are certain that Israel and Mossad are exerting secret control over the US government.
My concern is not so much the responses but how dumbed down they've become. In other words, I think any intelligent observer would have been more shocked if any evidence (that did not fit some approved narrative) HAD survived years of cleanup by the most sophisticated tools and experts that have ever existed. To go straight to: "oh the President who did a hostile takeover six months ago is hiding something" does not seem authentic. Though I do not believe it myself, I would find it more likely that Epstein was coerced into killing himself - as it does take less than a minute to hand him some towels. (By the way, who DID hand him those towels?)
Also, Epstein was facing the rest of his previously priviledged old age in prison which I imange would be a horrifying end and last perhaps decades.
It seems that one belief of maga (being a tad general here) is there is a deep state that controls the purse and in way they're correct. It happens in plain site. The wealthy hob nob at the finest institutions of education, clubs, travel. They get ever wealthier, leaving the rest of us fighting over a much smaller pie. Insular and exclusion privileges beget more of the same. Lower taxes equals ever higher net worth. Money buys power incl. political. In order for this to work, gov't enacts ever more societal rules and regs. These too benefit the uber rich and powerful. Not sure that's a deep state but it's life in world's greatest and most aspired to democracies / republics.
yes
Maybe they did and are looked into it, and the evidence was already destroyed? But they looked? Maybe we should focus on the thousands that today are being trafficked by cartels?
We shouldn't question anything that deviates from the prevailing talking points on Epstein because that would make us stupid, ungrateful, and (checks notes) antisemitic.
My decades of support for lying US politicians ended some time ago.
The things we cannot question are precisely the things that must be questioned.
Exactly. Let’s not get distracted by Epstein or Israel
All the best. Great job taking care of your mom. I'm having trouble with Tucker right now too since the Cruz interview and his recent speech at SAS.
Yes, that interview was an attack and rudely done.
The questions Tucker raised about influence of AIPAC on Cruz (massive donations to his campaigns) were legitimate to ask.
Tucker was rude and condescending. One can ask good questions, but when that person laughs when he tries to answer is uncalled for.
Yes, I agree. But the question was still legitimate. Who does Cruz serve taking all that AIPAC $$ for years and years? Is that what our founders had in mind?
This question becomes moot in the realm of government kickbacks. Some days lately it seems our country has already been sold off to foreign nations who have come to think they already own us.
Soros owns our major cities judicial systems.
Quatar, China, etc own our Ivy universities.
Big pharma owns Congress
Blackrock owns our wealth
Communists own our educational system
Globalists own our social media
Gates owns our food production and just about our water
The WHO wants to own our health decisions
Islamists own the narrative
Foreigners own too much of our land
Communists within own our major cities.
For a while LGBT activists owned our military, our media, education, our tax dollars and seem hellbent on owning our children.
The globalists want to control what we eat, our energy, what we can say, what words are acceptable, our health industry, our borders, our brains, religion and our property.
Somehow the blame is focused on Israel. And America.
Now Canada and Mexico and the EU are our enemies. What does all this tell us?
No argument but 'asked and answered,' happened but his subsequent disrespect disappointed me.
Obama targeted two people for destruction above all others:
1. Donald Trump
2. Benjamin Netanyahu
Ask why. MAGA
Barry is a socialist and a closet Muslim
And a closet gay.
Obama…the snake.
Well, that didn't really work out, did it?
I feel much the same way. Though I was raised Catholic like my mother and father, my step-mother (who I adored) was Jewish and my half-brothers and sister are likewise Jewish through her. Plus one if my best friends growing up is Jewish, as is a very dear friend I met as an adult. The anti-semitism I see on both sides of the aisle is disturbing, often frightening.
We should not conflate Judaism and Israel. Being critical of Israel should not be considered anti Semitism. I have or used to have Jewish friends. The split was over Trump not Israel or Judaism. 75 percent of American Jews vote Democrat. My intellectual hero is Milton Friedman. But that’s not relevant. I have been called racist and sexist and anti minority and every name in the book. My response: silence and indifference
I understand the difference between criticism of Israel and anti-semitism. Yes, many people are legitimately criticizing Israel (and being labeled wrongly as anti-Semites). However, there is a disturbing increase in blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric both in the media and online in general, and it's coming from the left and the right.
While I believe these people have the right to express their opinion, the surprisingly large number of anti-semitic comments I've seen lately is disturbing.
Richard Nixon:
"They put the Jewish interest above America's interest and it's about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he's an American first and a Jew second."
The criticism of Israel is directly proportional to the slaughter of the Palestinians. And the Gaza Holocaust will be remembered globally for many generations.
Are you referring to Elmo's X feed today?
or comments on Reddit?
My Jewish friend agrees and doesn't understand why so many Jews vote D, most especially after 10/7.
There is a big difference between disliking a Jewish person merely because they are a Jew and disliking Zionists because they embrace genocide; the former is racist and the latter is Christian.
Christians, like Jews, believe in the 10 Commandments including "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." The lie of equating Zionism with genocide is evil.
“Thou shalt not kill” comes before that and as a Catholic I condemn Israeli’s killing tens of thousands of innocent children. Defending genocide isn’t Christian and you Susan would defend Israel killing 3 million Palestinian children without blushing.
You have been badly deceived. God said in Genesis 12:3 of Israel, "I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse." Your posts model a continuous cursing of Israel by parroting lies. I would have a chat with God about this. (And, no, God never revoked Genesis 12:3).
You would do well to inform yourself: https://www.wrmea.org/2018-may/when-and-how-did-evangelicals-become-zionists.html
For another perspective, see the resources at christinprophecy.org and olivetreeviews.org.
You are Christian or Jewish or other?
Christian.
I'm a devout Catholic and while I wouldn't want anyone killed, what/how did you expect Israel to respond to 10/7. They raped woman, killed and burned babies, called their mothers to share how many kills they had, took hostages AND still have both living and deceased hostages. What should they do? When will Hamas actually stop fighting? When will the Houtis, Hezbollah?
I am a devout Catholic also and go to Mass daily and say the Rosary with a group after. Regarding Oct 7, let’s be clear that Israel has been torturing and persecuting Palestinians for many years before that. My expectations are that Israel would respond proportionally; not 10,000 times worse by killing over 60,000, maiming over 100,000, making homeless over one million and starving over one million. This is not a war; it’s a genocide. Btw Pope Leo XIV condemns it also.
The pope, any pope, will condemn war, as he should. There’s a long, storied history of Palestine/Hamas using aide from countries all over the globe with which to attack Israel. Israelis left Gaza years ago, including exhumation of all deceased. After Israel responded to Palestine, what did Hamas do? They kept attacking. They kept the hostages. They celebrated the deaths of Jews. They used Gaza’s as human shields and put their operations on the basements of hospitals. This isn’t a war we can understand because the brutality of Hamas is incompressible.
I very much appreciate your devotion, especially to the rosary. How about we agree that this ends and both live in eternal peace?
Dear Mel: I have an original print of Max Rocketansky, can I have an autograph please?
Same Libertarian!
I am right there with you Sasha. You must be reading my mind. I've been to TPUSA's Amfest a couple of times and had a great time. Until recently I was a regular listener of Steve Bannon's War Room but something dark is taking over a part of the MAGA movement. I had a great deal of respect for both Tucker and Bannon but their recent appeals to the darkest impulses of human nature revolts me.
I think that the Trump administration has bungled the Epstein case very badly. I also think Pam Bondi is in over her head and I would like to see her replaced (maybe by Harmeet Dhillon). But none of that justifies the assumption that far too many on the right are making that somehow Israel is behind it all. The number of people who seem to be OK with insinuating that Israel is behind a vast conspiracy controlling the world is deeply disturbing.
The Covid years and the constant lies of the Biden administration have pushed some people beyond reason. They will now believe almost anything because they trust nothing. Trump has accomplished so much in just 6 months it sickens me to see it all overshadowed by the very loud voices of conspiracy theorists. Particularly when just a few minutes ago there were the people I trusted.
Thank Sasha for continuing to be a ray of light. And bless you for caring for your mother. I've been there and know how hard it can be.
Yes, yes, yes!
Agree with all. Bannon is full of himself and wants to reclaim the MAGA flag. He's not humble enough to see that without DJT as the representative of MAGA, it would be no where today.
Well that's an interesting observation and a challenge for maga I should think - a good portion of maga ARE conspiracy theorists. Look where they get their news and what opinions they listen to.
Do you get your opinions from Rachel Maddow and MSNBC? My guess would be no. You probably formed your own views and don’t need talking heads and news analysts to tell you what to think.
The same is true of most conservatives. We can think for ourselves. We don’t rely on talking heads to give us our opinions either.
Thank you, Sasha, for your continued bravery and integrity.
Sasha, I wish you and your sister well in caring your mother. You are good daughters. Take care of yourselves and each other, caring for the elderly is quite taxing.
Like you, I am perplexed with Tucker, and I don't know where this is coming from. Hopefully he will find wise counsel. As for your "home," it can never be with a party, or a politician. Those of us who have faith, put our trust in our God. That is the only place we can count on to find peace and stability. I pray that someday you can have that peace too.
Absolutely! After the 2016 incineration of some people, if asked during the 2024 campaign, I told people I vote my Catholic values as closely as possible. My life's purpose to find my way to heaven and there isn't a single politician in this world that will get me there.
Jesus said: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by Me.”
There is ONE Name under heaven given among men by which we may be saved. Jesus.💝
I agree but would clarify that there is only one God and that is Jesus Christ. “Our God” can be very misleading in an open forum like this where readers have many different beliefs about who God is and how many there are.
As MAGA Trump supporters, we can sort of pride ourselves on not being totally batshit crazy, like most of the Left. So I think people who are throwing these things out there, need to take a deep breath and calm down because this Epstein stuff, there's a lot more going on there than we're being told, at the moment. Trump has done everything else that he promised he would do. Let's give this some time. There's a lot going on with this. Getting anti-semitic, just like the Left, is not the answer.
I've liked Tucker Carlson, for the most part, for a long time, but just lately, along with Candice Owens, he's kind of gotten unhinged...
Anybody that starts spewing anti-Israel hate, I'm just going to turn them off.
Because invariably, the anti-Israel hate has been put there by propaganda by people who are sympathetic to Hamas and Palestinians.
Until the left wakes up and realizes that Hamas and the Palestinians and pretty much all of Islam, would like to see Americans and our country dead... That sort of makes my mind up for me on which side I will support. Nobody's blameless but all these leftists that claim they are queers for Palestine, I would suggest to them that they go over to Gaza and demonstrate there. They would find out really quick that they don't have the rights to demonstrate there, that they do here. They don't have the rights to demonstrate anywhere else in the Muslim world.
"Unhinged" is the word for Tucker Carlson. I have never watched much cable news, but I thought he was good when I did see him on Fox. He seemed measured, well-informed, and professional. Either the real Tucker emerged or he has changed since going out on his own. His laughter is often hysterical and inappropriate, and his observations about Russia (better subways than ours, low prices in supermarkets) were juvenile.
FOX kept him reigned in for the most part. He did great reporting on highlighting the opioid crisis long before anyone else. He pointed out Lindsey Graham not seeing a potential war conflict he didn't love. He did some great stuff but he had bumper pads. He burned those bumpers so fast the minute he was fired. He and Candace are unwatchable and what bothers me the most is they both claim to be Christian --- Candace, a Catholic convert. She's not representative of the Catholicism I've known and lived my entire life.
Any anti-Israel people among the Maga crowd are dementia losers. They may be vocal anti-Semites, but they are few. May they become fewer.
I voted for Trump all three times but didn’t embrace MAGA until I listened to your podcast. I don’t care about the Epstein stuff. It is a sideshow and irrelevant to the mission of fixing our country and setting the course and keeping to it so that we can’t slip back into the madness the Left was steering us into. I am pro Israel and against antisemitism. Nothing will change that for me, nothing. MAGA can’t be a monolith movement or organism and survive. We must tolerate differences but come together to defeat the real enemy who doesn’t tolerate any dissent. Drift Sasha but don’t get lost. You are too important.
I stand with Israel.
I stand with the truth, now matter how wretched it is to see or hear.
If anyone asking legitimate questions and is called names or otherwise silenced in return, that person is not interested in the truth.
The context usually seems to go like this though.
"Why does Israel control all the banks, eat the blood of Christian babies, commit a genocide in Gaza after committing October 7 on its own people and worship Satan?|"
"Um... none of that is actually true. And you sound kind of crazy."
"I'm just asking legitimate questions!"
That’s not a legitimate question I’ve ever heard asked by MAGA, which I self identify as. If anyone of any political stripes asked any of those questions I would not entertain giving a response.
When I go into cess pools to argue the Israel and Jew haters, that's usually the filth that is thrown in my direction.
It makes me very jaded when I hear "I'm just asking legitimate questions" but then it turns into absurd conspiracy theories.
Maybe there are some.
But if it starts with the most likely premise of these days -- like "Why is Israel committing Genocide?" (It isn't) then the whole thing is a non starter.
If Israel is committing genocide, they are the worst group ever at attempting that effort. There are more people who identify as Palestinians now than at any time in history.
Israel wants to be left alone to live and prosper.
If hamas, hezbollah, houthi and iran laid down their arms today and said they will fight no more, there would be peace tomorrow
If Israel laid down their arms and said that they will fight no longer, there would be a genuine genocide.
You are of course free to pose any question you wish.
And others are free to disregard your questions, and question your motive in posing them. Just as you are questioning the motives of people who don’t see things your way. Ted Cruz must be serving AIPAC and all…
Nobody can serve two masters. You've chosen yours. Just don't pretend you can be a loyal American as well, or a loyal anything else.
I stand with Jesus Christ, my family, America; in that order.
I think you are doing and thinking fine; I am praying for you ... and Trump ... and America ... and myself. We all need prayers. God bless!!!