BREAKING: Republican Mike Johnson Elected Speaker of the House –

RedState  

It was a positive sign that a resolution was in sight when Trump threw his support behind Johnson,

 "The long wait for a new Speaker of the House is finally over, with Republican Mike Johnson of Louisiana managing to accrue 220 votes, surpassing the dreaded 217 number that eluded Jim Jordan (R-OH). Votes fell strictly along party lines, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) garnering 209 votes. Jeffries now has the dubious honor of losing 19 straight speaker elections, having previously gone up against Kevin McCarthy and Jordan." . . 

. . ."It has been a chaotic 22 days since Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker by the "MAGA wing" of House Republicans. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Jim Jordan were early frontrunners to replace McCarthy, but Scalise bowed out early, and Jordan failed to win over a significant portion of the House GOP conference.

"As recently as Tuesday afternoon, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) was the Republican's speaker designee, an accolade that lasted around four hours and 10 minutes. Donald Trump made it clear that he was no fan of Emmer's, meaning things were back where they started with a disgruntled "MAGA wing." Emmer withdrew by Tuesday afternoon, and Johnson became the designee by Tuesday night." . . .

"So, why Mike Johnson? RedState's Joe Cunningham had some thoughts:

One of the things that worked in Johnson's favor, however, is the fact that while he was once the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, he is not a member of the House Freedom Caucus. Any affiliation with that group would likely have tanked his bid for Speaker, considering the strong feelings most of the more moderate wing has about Jim Jordan and how just about everyone seems to have about Matt Gaetz. Byron Donalds, also of the HFC, could not get further in his bid for Speaker due to that (as well as his relative inexperience).

UPDATE: Democrats Are ALREADY Losing Their Minds Over the Election of Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance  

You might be Googling who Mike Johnson is this morning.    Let me make it simple

Johnson is a hard-right, pro-Trump, leading election denier in the House.
Sadly, this is what passes for Speaker material in the Republican conference.— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 25, 2023

Staple a Green Card to Their ‘Kill the Jews’ Signs

 Ann Coulter

Sorry to roll my eyes, but where have they been? The gleeful cheering for the mass murder of Israelis is only the latest expression of hate by inferior cultures toward the superior culture of the West — of which the donors are a shining example.

"In last week’s column, we noted the popularity of Hamas terrorists with BLM representatives. This week, we’ll consider the other main contingent of Hamas Boosters: foreigners, who, for reasons I can’t understand, are in my country.

"In the past few weeks, Muslims and Arabs have poured into the streets in nearly every U.S. city to celebrate the slaughter of Israelis, while wearing scarves, keffiyehs and other clown outfits, waving the flags of Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Yemen, Turkey, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, and on and on.

"It’s so obvious that these people don’t belong here that the immediate reaction of a number of politicians was to demand that their visas be revoked. (Nobody looked at anti-war protests in the ’60s and said, Revoke their visas!)

"Question: Why are we importing millions of people from lesser cultures who will inevitably despise and resent the West for its very success?

"This isn’t the old They hate us for our freedoms! Rather, it is simply an acknowledgment of the fact that the most common and destructive human emotion is jealousy. People will brag about being gluttons, prideful, greedy, angry, lustful and lazy. The only venal sin no one will cop to is envy. That’s how insidious it is.

"Consider the “open letter” from 33 Harvard student groups blaming Israelis for their own slaughter. In addition to about a dozen Muslim and Arab groups, the letter was signed by clubs for immigrants from various locales notable for their high levels of corruption and leprosy (e.g., Bangladesh, Nepal, Bengal and South Asia).

"You think Harvard had a problem with the “Bengali Association of Students” before the 1965 Immigration Act?" . . .

LISTEN: Hamas Terrorist Calls Parents, Brags About Killing 10 Jews

 Hamas Terrorists Found with Instructions to Decapitate Jews and Remove Hearts, Livers (breitbart.com) 

Obama Criticizes Israel over Gaza: 'Don't Harden Palestinian Attitudes for Generations' (breitbart.com)  How silly can this man be?

 Israel’s Government Press Office set out the contents of the note in a statement, saying:

Note found on Hamas terrorist: “Know that this enemy of yours is a disease that has no cure, other than beheading and extracting the hearts and livers!”

On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and carried out a massacre in communities in southern Israel. A handwritten note was found on one of the terrorists which was given to him before the invasion.

The words from Hamas commanders consist of an order to kill Jews and encouragement to decapitate their victims and tear out their hearts and livers.

Please find attached a copy of the note in the original Arabic.

More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed since the first attack began, with some 220 people also kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas terrorists and their allies in the Gaza Strip.

Forensic evidence of the victims’ bodies and video footage captured by terrorists have shown that Israeli women and children were raped and beheaded while others were dismembered.

The war between Israel and Hamas, which began with the Oct. 7 attack, is now in its third week." . . .

AP Stylebook Suggests Hamas Not Be Called ‘Terrorists,’ Though Term Is Fine for Republicans – RedState . . ."What makes all of this linguistic cowardice more pathetic are two realities. The first is that our own government recognizes Hamas as (gird yourself here, AP), a terrorist organization. This is not a recent development. The State Department has listed them as such since 1997. The Associated Press knows this to be the case, as it was mentioned in an explainer the group the news syndicate published -- just this month.

"The other detail worth noting is just how freely the term “terrorist” is tossed around in the press when it comes to Republicans. Funny, the political party has been declared by the press as not worthy of having both-sides coverage due to election denialism and similar actions, but they need to be sure that a murderous group torching infants needs to have its side of the story told. 

"Just days after the gruesome attacks killed at least 1,400 Israeli citizens the same press corps was repeating the claim with energy that Representative Jim Jordan was a “legislative terrorist”. (The source? The AP!) While MSNBC is hesitant to go there with the terrorism charge, look at how regular FBI expert guest Frank Figliuzzi has dropped the term to describe various Republicans."  . . .

Biden's Global Chaos Vindicates Trump's Strong Foreign Policy

 The Federalist  Unlike Trump, Biden is not shaping global events so much as he is reacting to them.

Unlike Trump, Biden is not shaping global events so much as he is reacting to them. So when their approaches are presented side-by-side, it becomes clear why Obama’s Secretary of Defense Bob Gates famously said Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” 

"The Middle East is on fire. Eastern Europe is gridlocked in war. America’s southern border looks like a scene out of “Mad Max.” And Southeast Asia is a tinderbox that could ignite with one wrong move. After four years of expanding peace under President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden is presiding over a world careening toward mayhem. “Mean tweets and world peace” has a nice ring to it. But it’s also worth exploring why Trump’s unorthodox approach to foreign affairs produced such markedly better results than Biden’s heralded return to normalcy.

"The current state of the Middle East — where most recently on Biden’s watch, Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, slaughtered civilians, and even took American citizens hostage — is a case study in the contrast between the two presidents.

The state of education and indoctrination infecting our education system

God help us! What have we become as Americans and human beings? TD

Nauseating: George Washington University projects Hamas-glorifying slogans on a building with Jewish donors' names - American Thinker   . . ."It's just so ... gross. It's the embodiment of the third-world, third-rate confusion and resentment that V.S. Naipaul and R. Emmett Tyrrell wrote about in the 1980s. As these clowns fist-wave and turn George Washington University into a fourth-rate madrassa in a third-world hellhole, railing about Jews and spewing glory-to-martyrs garbage, these same resentful, jealous losers don't hesitate to step up to the plate for the best in western and Israeli education, medicine, technology, and dollar-denominated salaries, which George Washington University offers all of." . . .

Why do leftists have a natural inclination to side with terrorists?

  "On social media, Thunberg released a series of posts that appeared to show her support for Hamas despite the terrorist organization’s brutality against Israel."

All that happens, happens among a culture that is so manipulated toward the most ridiculous of philosophies. There is no distinction between those who think men can become women and those who think the Hamas massacre of Israeli families was caused by Israeli citizens. The Tunnel Dweller

With Israel-Hamas war, intellectual left has rarely been less moral (forward.com)

"Celebratory reactions to Hamas’ attack have helped me solve an old puzzle about how the Holocaust happened in highly educated Germany" . . .

. . ."The shock waves of the Oct. 7 massacre have reverberated through American institutions of higher education. In response to Hamas’ attack — which killed more than 1,300 Israelis, most of them civilians — student groups supported Hamas before the blood dried, while universities quickly retreated into corporate vagueness.

The reaction was swift. Major donors closed their checkbooks. Academics decried the “moral failure of a liberal education.” Law firms rescinded offers of employment.

"Unlike many other alumni of these institutions, my reaction is not anger or criticism or rage, but rather gratitude. I just want to say: thank you."

Pure Evil—Team Biden Pimping Nonexistent 'Islamophobia' Narrative – PJ Media  Just as he has done with "white Supremacy". 

. . ."It was after that weekend pause that Biden’s handlers decided to hop on the Islamophobia Fears Express.

"The alarm is once again being sounded for a problem that never materializes. Meanwhile, the police in Detroit are insisting that the brutal and fatal stabbing of synagogue president Samantha Woll wasn’t a hate crime, despite not having a clear suspect.

"So…we’re not supposed to read too much into the thing that actually did happen all the while the Left is reading everything into something that’s not happening." . . .

Talk about "deflection"..."What is [Biden's] level of concern right now about a potential rise of antisemitism?"

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks" pic.twitter.com/q1WYkpbKmn

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 23, 2023

'I don't give a damn': Douglas Murray responds, discusses "proportional response"

404 Journalism; An anti-Semitic press lies to destroy Israel

 How the 'octopus' became a symbol of anti-semitism and landed Greta Thunberg in trouble - Times of India (indiatimes.com)   

Don Surber (substack.com)

The NY Times and MSNBC: joined at the hip. TD

"Last week, Palestinians bombed the parking lot of al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, which is run by the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem. Christians founded the hospital in 1882. While press reports claim it was an errant missile, Palestinians blamed Israel too harshly and too quickly to be anything but another deliberate sacrifice of Palestinians to the Palestinian god of war.

"That the hospital itself was spared showed unusual restraint on the part of Palestinians, who generally have no problem killing their own women and children. Perhaps they had not had time to move whatever war materiel they stored inside the facility. The horror was meant to keep Israel from full retaliation for Palestinian war crimes. Terrorism works because, after 50 years of terrorizing Israel, Palestinians are still there as Israel cares more about world opinion than its own safety.

"The English-speaking press gladly accommodates Palestinian terrorism because the press now sees itself as an academic enterprise rather than a trade. Master’s degrees in journalism now dominate the hiring at newspapers. Newspapers prefer degrees from prestigious schools, which always made me smirk because if you have a degree from Harvard, why are you working for peanuts at the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia?

"But that background explains why the press promotes Palestinian terrorism against Israel. American universities are citadels of anti-Semitism. Liberals have bestowed victimhood upon the terrorists. Foolishly, I believe, because they will turn on liberals before liberals have the chance to turn on them. Terrorism is by definition a cut-throat enterprise.

"American journalists blissfully ignore this as they carry the water for Palestinians.

"When Palestinians bombed the parking lot of Christian hospital in Gaza, every single major news outlet in America blamed Israel and said the missile destroyed a hospital." . . .

Blood libel - Wikipedia  "Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation)^[1][2] is an antisemitic canard^[3][4][5] which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christian boys in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals.^[1][2][6] Echoing very old myths of

secret cultic practices in many prehistoric societies, the claim, as i
t is leveled against Jews, was rarely attested to in antiquity. According to Tertullian, it originally emerged in late antiquity as an accusation made against members of the early Christian community of the Roman Empire.^[7] Once this accusation had been dismissed, it was revived a millennium later as a Christian slander against Jews in the medieval period." . . .

Useful Idiot

Useful Idiot Greta Thunberg Promotes the Blood Libel – PJ Media   . . ."Schools that would never allow the KKK or Nazis now embrace the “pro-Palestinian” or “anti-Israel” hate groups of students who are really just useful idiots supporting a Marxist agenda that relies on anti-Semitism to grow its power. Ironically, many of the members of these blood-libel groups on campuses are themselves part of a demographic like women and LGBT or mentally ill individuals who would be persecuted and killed by Hamas and its allies.

"Take, for example, possibly the biggest useful idiot in the world forum today: Greta Thunberg. The Islamo-Nazis of Hamas would kill her in a moment simply because she is an emotional wreck with OCD and Asperger’s syndrome. Yet she promotes their goals and their anti-Semitism. Thunberg supports Hamas and its goals, not even being cognizant that if she had been in Israel on October 7, she would have been an ideal target for them to kidnap, rape, and kill." . . .

Here Are Obama's 'Thoughts on Israel and Hamas.' Just Wait Until You Get to the End.

 Here Are Obama's 'Thoughts on Israel and Hamas.' Just Wait Until You Get to the End. (townhall.com)

"You can decide and debate this in the comments section below. Former President Barack Obama has another lengthy post about his “thoughts” on the Israel-Hamas war. It’s a tortured thought exercise that will inevitably leave all parties dissatisfied. Obama voices his support for Israel, the safety of its people, and its right to exist, which is anathema to the legions of far-left, pro-Hamas supporters we’ve seen come out of the bushes in the past two weeks. These folks weren’t clamoring for a two-state solution; they wanted Israel destroyed, along with its people. 

"On the flip side, Obama insinuates that Israeli forces might be induced to commit war crimes with their pending ground invasion of Gaza following Hamas’ vicious and genocidal terrorist attack on October 7. Obama goes to great lengths to be fair in this post, which only helps Hamas. Civilian casualties should be minimized and avoided, but it's a tragic part of war. People are going to die, lots of them. 

"With a terrorist organization like Hamas, their life’s blood, as with any insurgency, is with the people who support them." . . .

"You can see why Netanyahu never trusted this guy. Israel doesn’t target civilians; Hamas does. Israel has warned civilians for days to vacate areas that will become war zones. And for all the Arab nations’ support for Palestinians, none of them want these people around either. We might as well have Hamas propaganda on this list, which The New York Times ran with over the Gaza hospital story, which was fake news. ' . . .

 

 Audio is put up on screen: A Hamas terrorist calls his father: "Father, I killed 10 Jews! Check your WhatsApp! I sent you the photos! Father, I killed 10 Jews! I killed 10 Jews with my bare hands. check your WhatsApp. Father, be proud of me!"

Hamas Happily Filmed Their Slaughter of Innocents. So Israel Showed It All to Journalists. (townhall.com)  "That this heinous screening was even necessary is a testament to the virulence of the anti-Israel propaganda machine.  Within hours of the October 7 massacre, 'pro-Palestine' forces were openly justifying and celebrating the Jew butchery.  Such depravity has continued for weeks, with another anti-Semitic tactic being folded into the mix: Holocaust-denial-style 'questioning' of whether the horrors really even took place.  The Israelis had made it up, some started to argue.  The Israelis had exaggerated the specifics, others said, openly doubting whether women had been raped, and asserting that babies had not been beheaded.  So widespread was this attempted white-washing -- an obvious effort to tamp down public sympathy for Israel, and to weaken support for the Jewish state's military response -- that many people now believe the baby decapitation detail is a 'debunked myth.'  In fact, it's a gut-wrenching reality:

“Kugel also explained that the age range of the victims spans from 3 months to 80 or 90 years old. Many bodies, including those of babies, are without heads.

Asked if they were decapitated, Kugel answered yes.”https://t.co/SElxvYJ8ON pic.twitter.com/3SMTbWmiJa

— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 21, 2023

 "Many bodies, including those of babies, are without heads."  Evil, beyond all imagination.  "Asked if they were decapitated," Dr. Chen Kugel, the head of Israel's National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Tel Aviv, "answered yes."  More examples, which unfortunately must be documented and shared, in light of the history revisionism that's already underway:" . . .

. . ."Which brings us to the screening.  Hamas was proud of their subhuman atrocities.  They filmed them.  And Israel simply showed their enemies' own footage to international journalists:"

. . ."Among other things, they were ordered to behead Israelis.  Directly from one of the terrorists.  Here is how a 'journalist' at a left-wing publication tied himself into knots over the forensic evidence provided, apparently backtracking under pressure to qualify his characterization of the obvious truth:. . .

Eric Levitz

@EricLevitz

Last night, I asserted that this report indicated that babies were beheaded. This was an overstatement. I should have said that the report established that babies were found headless, a fact that lends plausibility to claims of beheading, but which does not prove them.

Is this guy with Ali Velshi and MSNBC?

"The report established that babies were found headless, a fact that lends plausibility to claims of beheading."  Do these people hear themselves?  Just as the anti-Israel fanatics refuse to believe Hamas beheaded babies, they also insisted that Israel 'bombed a hospital in Gaza,' killing hundreds. Evidence proving that the damage near a hospital was caused by a misfired rocket shot at Israel by Palestinian terrorists was established fairly quickly, and confirmed by US officials.