Smells Like ‘68: Foreboding Parallels for Democrats in 2024

"There are surely many differences between 1968 and now.  But politically speaking, if American history repeats, rhymes, or even speaks the same language of 1968, it doesn’t bode well for Democrats in the fall."  "Even the hen doesn't cackle until she lays the egg." A Lincoln

- American Thinker

William Sullivan  "This election season, there are many parallels to the election year of 1968 on display, and none of it bodes well for Democrats’ chances in November. 

"It didn’t work out for Democrats back then, certainly, with Republican Richard Nixon handily defeating Hubert Humphrey, and Republicans picking up a net five seats in both the Senate and the House, along with a net gain of five governorships.

"Here are a few of these observed similarities.

"Radical leftists are again eating their own

"The first parallel, which many have already noted, is that the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will be again held in Chicago in August of this year, as it was in a politically contentious 1968.  Recent events signify that the city may again be witness to mass protests outside the DNC, just as when “tens of thousands of protestors swarmed the streets to rally against the Vietnam War and the political status quo” in 1968.  

"Pacifying those radicals without alienating the political center will be difficult.  But this is the Faustian bargain that Democrats chose, then and now.

"By 1968, there had been an explosion of outrage over American military defense of South Vietnam against the aggression of the communist North Vietnam.  Escalation in this Cold War conflict had occurred over many presidencies, and as such, the communist-sympathizing activists on college campuses viewed this as a systemic result of the American political status quo.  

"Sen. Bernie Sanders recently argued that the Israel-Hamas conflict might become “Biden’s Vietnam.”  Politically, he may be right.  America is divided today on the conflict in the Middle East, and in a way that presents something of a catch-22 for Biden’s administration as it did for Democrats in 1968." . . . 

Biden betrays Israel for the feeling of a few clueless college students (nypost.com)  . . ."If the Israeli army does not destroy Hamas in Rafah then the war is effectively for nothing, and all the pain and grief on all sides might as well not have occurred.

"As I have said before, there is no point in putting out 80% of a fire. Until the Israeli army can clear Hamas out of Rafah the fire of Gaza is not out.

"But Biden seems to be bowing to pressure from some of his own base. As someone joked a few months back, Biden does indeed want to focus on a two-state solution, but the two states are Minnesota and Michigan.

"He is desperate to chase the few tens of thousands of voters who might turn on him because they care about Hamas more than they care about America." . . .

Biden vows US will not supply weapons for Israel's offensive attack on Hamas-controlled Rafah (nypost.com)

For the sake of spoiled students and their puppetmasters who ask others to feed them. 

Is Soros Buying Universities’ Silence on Anti-Semitic Agitators?

 Tom Olohan (newsbusters.org) 

The leftist billionaire also made an absurd comment about the terrorist group, saying that America and Israel “must open the door to Hamas.” The president of Soros’ Open Society Foundations Lord Mark Malloch-Brown has also advocated in favor of Hamas, arguing that “Hamas must be a party to a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian problem.”

"George Soros’ Open Society Foundations sunk massive amounts of cash into several universities—most of which have been a breeding ground for radical anti-Israel students and whose administrations responded poorly to protestors, agitators and rioters trespassing, breaking into and occupying buildings and harassing Jewish students.

"Both the New York Post and Politico have reported on Soros’ connections to the groups leading the anti-Israel protests. And now, an MRC Business investigation exposed how Soros has also given at least $34,638,060 to the nine universities that have made headlines for their slow response to anti-Semitic protests and riots, as well as their ineffectual or possibly even sympathetic administrators.

"Among the recipients of Soros funding connections were Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of North Carolina (UNC), University of Southern California (USC), City University of New York (CUNY), the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and, of course, the University of California Berkeley from 2016 to 2022.

"Soros also poured money into media and journalism-related initiatives at several of these schools, including $2,399,360 to Harvard, $1,827,560 to Columbia, $366,369 to UNC and $125,000 to CUNY. 

"The accusations of anti-Semitic sentiments at Harvard, MIT, UPenn and Columbia were so severe that all four presidents of these universities have been called to testify before Congress. The presidents of UPenn and Harvard resigned in disgrace due to their failure to address campus anti-Semitism. Former Harvard President Claudine Gay also failed to clearly condemn the anti-Semitic phrase “From the River to the Sea,” which calls for the genocide of the Jewish people. The president of Columbia only allowed police to clear out trespassing anti-Israel agitators after they barricaded themselves inside a building, trashed it and prevented people from going in or out. 

"At CUNY and UNC, anti-Israel hecklers tore down the American flag while raising the Palestinian flag above the campus. Students have occupied and attempted to occupy buildings, trashed their campuses with garbage and graffiti, and acted with basic impunity due to a lack of decisive actions from their university administrations." . . . 

"Let 10 Million Cop Cars Burn!" - Radical Pro-Hamas Terror Group 'Rachel Corrie's Ghost Brigade' Admits to Torching 15 Portland Police Cars in 'Preemptive Attack'   Video

Letter From A Jan. 6 Political Prisoner

 Armando Simón – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

Author’s Note: Elsewhere, I published a letter from a J6 prisoner for two reasons: it was a very coherent description of life behind bars for J6 prisoners, and, second, I felt people needed to remember that these are real persons with families, whose individuality should not disappear under the blanket label of “Jan. 6 prisoners.” I publish this subsequent letter for another reason: to highlight the fact that they are subject to intimidation and punitive measures if they exercise their rights. He mentions interfering with mail. This is true. Receiving mail in prisons and jails is a long-established right for any inmate. Yet, in one prison, a J6 prisoner’s mail will be blocked if writing is on both sides of the page, whereas in others it is admitted; in another, newspaper and magazine articles are forbidden, whereas in others is allowed, etc. Much of my correspondence has been blocked for reasons ignored for non-J6 prisoners.

There are few conservative newsletters to have taken up the cause of the J6 political prisoners and they have highlighted instances of beatings by guards, withholding medical treatment, throwing people in isolation (the hole) for speaking/writing to the media,  having court-appointed attorneys who work for the prosecution, and holding an accused person without bond and without trial for over a thousand days (this J6 prisoner appears to have avoided the worst injustices, other than the obvious). Other conservative and liberal websites and writers have turned their backs on these patriots, feeling that the only reaction to blatant electoral fraud should have been disapproval headshaking. They feel the Jan. 6 “insurrectionists” are an embarrassment. I think they are patriots. They feel the Jan. 6 “insurrection” was shameful. I believe it will go down as America’s Bastille Day.

Correspondence to J6 prisoners can be done through here. Financial help would certainly be welcomed.

I am withholding the writer’s name to minimize the possibility of retaliation. The letter here.

Aid Workers Call Biden's $320 Million Gaza Pier 'A Joke'

 Rick Moran – PJ Media  "Is the $320 million U.S.-built and operated pier in Gaza going to end up being a White Elephant? Or will it be a magnet for terror attacks?

"Ready or not, the pier will begin operating in the next few days. A shipment of supplies embarked from Cyprus on Thursday and will reach the pier by the weekend." . . .

U.S.-Built Pier in Gaza Nears Opening, but Distributing Aid Is No Easy Feat (msn.com): "The U.S. said it would soon begin using a pier to receive aid for the Gaza Strip but is struggling to set up distribution, marking a test for President Biden’s promise to ease a humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave.

The opening of the $320 million U.S.-built floating pier would mark the first major use of a sea route to deliver assistance to Gaza since the current conflict began. It involves hundreds of troops, several ships and a mission supported by humanitarian groups and several nations, including Israel.

The U.S. hopes to begin using the pier to deliver humanitarian assistance in the coming days, a White House spokesman told reporters Thursday, after Biden announced it in March during his State of the Union address.

The opening of the pier comes at a critical time in the more than seven-month-old conflict in Gaza. Israel has begun military operations in the southern city of Rafah, threatening the two main aid crossing points. The U.S., which opposes a Rafah invasion, has suspended a shipment of weapons. More than a million Gazans are experiencing famine-like conditions, according to a United Nations-backed system that monitors hunger crises worldwide." . . .

Exclusive: US military's pier in Gaza to cost $320 million | Reuters . . ."Concerns about the threat to American troops getting caught up in the Israel-Hamas war were underscored on Thursday as news emerged of a mortar attack near the area where the pier will eventually touch ground. No U.S. forces were present, however, and they were miles off shore -- beyond mortar range.

"Biden has ordered U.S. forces to not step foot on the Gaza shore.

What happens when children seize the wheel

 CarolineGlick.com So who is in charge: Obama, Biden (I laugh), or functionaries in the Deep State somewhere that even Donald Trump had no control?

"Israel today is compelled to decide between two options. It can fight the war to win it, in Iran and Gaza, first and foremost, and risk a rupture of relations with the United States. Or, it can lose the war and accept the position of a U.S. protectorate, with the full knowledge that the United States will not permit its protectorates to challenge Iranian hegemony."

"Three reports published since Iran’s April 13 combined missile and UAV assault on Israel stand out for what the tell us about the nature of U.S. policy in relation to the war.

"First, on Sunday Reuters reported that Turkey mediated between Iran and the United States to agree on the size and scope of Iran’s assault on Israel before Iran carried it out. A Turkish diplomatic source told the news agency that, “Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel…[and] Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be ‘within certain limits.’”

"The Turkish diplomat told Reuters that the mediation was conducted by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken.
“Iran informed us in advance of what would happen. Possible developments also came up during the meeting with Blinken, and they [the U.S.] conveyed to Iran through us that this reaction must be within certain limits,” the official said.

"The second story, reported widely by the U.S. and Israeli media, revealed that the United States is pressuring Israel to suffice with a “symbolic” counterattack against Iran. In other words, U.S. President Joe Biden and his team are telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government that Israel can conduct a bit of a sound and light show over Iran, but it may not do any meaningful damage to Iran’s military, missile, nuclear, energy, or regime targets. Blinken reportedly went so far as to tell Minister Benny Gantz and Jewish leaders in the United States that it isn’t in Israel’s interests to attack Iran.

"Finally, on Thursday morning, Qatari media reported that the United States has agreed that Israel may attack Hamas’s final redoubt in Rafah, along the Egyptian border, but only if Israel’s strike against Iran is little and mild.

"The most startling feature common to all three stories is the sense that for the administration, everything that is happening here is a game. It isn’t a war. At best, it’s a playground fight, or a video game. The reports indicate that as the Americans see things, Iran and its terror armies in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq are children. And they’re ganging up on Israel—another child. It’s Uncle Sam’s job to be the grownup and set rules for their fight that give everyone a chance to get his licks in—but only so hard, and only so many.

"The rules Biden and his team have set are fairly straightforward. Iran and its proxies are permitted to attack Israel as hard as they can. Israel is allowed to defend against their attacks. Israel is permitted to carry out limited—preferably covert—raids to counterattack.
Israel is not allowed to defeat its foes." . . .

A Democratic Party Megadonor Just Issued a Major Warning for Biden

 Matt Vespa (townhall.com)    "Now, let’s move to the incompetence part of this presidency. It certainly played a factor in this decision to suspend arms shipments to Israel, but does Biden think he can pull a long con over the electorate here? Does this man believe he has the smarts and skills to sell to the antisemites and pro-Hamas supporters within the Democratic Party base that he’s tough on Israel while telling American Jews that our “ironclad” support for the Jewish state will remain? 

"That’s the sticky wicket: Biden needs to kowtow, grovel, and appease vicious antisemites and supporters of radical Islam to keep his 2024 bid alive. It’s the ‘Keep Michigan’ page of the 2024 playbook. He loses this state, and it’s all but over. His path to 270 in the Electoral College virtually vanishes, a point where operatives on both sides agree. So, to win over the terrorist vote, Biden is playing reckless games with Israel, which is on the cusp of total victory against Hamas in Gaza." . . . 

"Let's not forget there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters who care about Hamas,"

Ted Cruz Rips Biden on Israel Arms: It Gets Even Worse When You See Who He Did Approve Arms Shipments For – RedState

. . ."Why Biden would do this — essentially helping Hamas — right at this pivotal point is concerning. It appears political, to help his fortunes with the left and in places like Michigan, that he desperately needs to hold onto for the election. 

"What makes Biden's threat even more concerning is what he's doing at the same time." . . .

"So not only is he threatening them by holding up weapons, he's providing weapons to their enemies, including Lebanon where they have Iran terror proxies who are even now attacking Israel. 

"While one might argue that he's trying to appeal to the left to help his political fortunes, this does nothing but hurt our ally and embolden terrorists. There isn't even the gross, disgusting political excuse to cover him here of trying to appease leftists, by arguing to stop the action in Rafah. 

"Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted this action." . . . 

Hamas and American campuses

UPDATED 5:20 PM Friday: Where are the anti-Hamas protests? Why does the world accept the rape, torture and slaughter of Jews? (substack.com)

'Hamas has taken Americans hostage. Where is that pathetic housewife Michelle Obama with her duckbill pout and hashtag sign?'

Within 72 hours of the attack, Politico reported, “U.S. calls for ‘proportionate’ Israeli response while not openly setting red lines.”

Proportionate?

Fortunately, Israel ignored Democrats and did not send soldiers in to rape and murder Palestinians. Instead it methodically destroyed the military fortress hidden below Gaza City. Palestinians staged horrors. The world press ate it up." . . .

Ilhan Omar on Biden Withholding Arms from Israel: 'What Young People Across the Country Were Protesting For'   . . ."Protesters who had participated in the various encampments and protests had issued a varying list of demands, including calling for their universities to divest from Israeli companies, ending academic ties with Israeli educational institutions, ending academic student trips to Israel, a ceasefire in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel."

Northwestern Administrators Sign Resolution Calling for Boycott of 'Terror' State Israel (freebeacon.com)

Northwestern University administration officials and faculty members signed a resolution demanding that the school cut ties with Israel, calling the Jewish country a "terror" state and accusing it of "one of the most atrocious and monstrous sieges in modern history." . . .

Campus scarf people, remember this hostage. Will she play again?

Greta Thunberg joins the campus scarf people:  – Twitchy

The black and white Keffiyeh, a garment that symbolizes a commitment to jihadist terrorism and the elimination of the world's lone Jewish state, is officially the Current Thing.

What a world we live in. https://t.co/6vILrOUypF

— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) May 9, 2024

 This Pro-Hamas Student at Princeton Shows How Weak and Soft the Left Is (townhall.com)    "It’s not enough that pro-Hamas mayhem has overtaken college campuses nationwide. We now have these students, though many are probably professional agitators, going on hunger strikes to protest the war in Gaza. We should put “hunger strike” in quotes since this is intermittent fasting. These kids are taking snack breaks—it’s the weakest sauce hunger strike ever. Yet, at Princeton, one student who claims to be immunocompromised complained that she was dying from her self-imposed hunger strike and blamed the school for weakening her." . . .

Hamas was here.

. . . "And? This decision was yours to make. Israel isn’t going to withdraw because some idiots decided to starve themselves for terrorists. Biden may be messing with arms shipments to Israel, which is reckless, but even this administration isn’t going to abandon Israel, though it might seem that way right now. They’re setting the stage to sell Muslim voters that they’re willing to crack down on the Jewish state without doing so—those bombs will be shipped but later. And Muslim voters will be able to see right through it because Biden can’t maneuver worth a damn. It’s part of the ‘keep Michigan’ playbook." 

Defending Freedom: A Tribute to the Warriors of Israel :: Gatestone Institute

It is no coincidence that Gaza was the historic home of David's avowed enemies, the Philistines. Goliath was a Philistine; David killed him not far from the caves of Adullam in the Kingdom of Judah, present-day Judea, in Israel's heartland. In similar mode, Israel's enemies invaded Judea in October 7th. Statements by these enemies openly acknowledge that they will continue hostilities and repeat attacks until all Jews are eliminated: 

 Israeli soldiers inspect the entrance to a Hamas terror tunnel just
outside an UNRRWA compound in Gaza City

. . ."Encouraged by the words of Yitzhak Lamdan, "Never again shall Masada fall," Israel fights for all that is beautiful, free and democratic, and shall protect civilization to the end. It is therefore incumbent upon a new cohort of great men and women, the latest giborei Yisrael - heroes of Israel – to secure the nation so that its hard-won freedoms, values, and moral-ethical precepts, can be enjoyed by subsequent generations.

"Finally, Israel's brave warriors might identify with Eli Wiesel's statement in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech of December 10, 1986:

"I have faith in the Jewish people. Let Israel be given a chance, let hatred and danger be removed from her horizons, and there will be peace in and around the Holy Land."

"As people of peace, the warriors and all citizens of Israel long for such a time with all their hearts, but first there are battles to be won."

Is This Biden’s ‘Supermarket Scanner’ Moment?

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com) 

But we won’t be satisfied until that line – “they have the money to spend” – is indelibly etched in everyone’s memory, along with the line “worst president in U.S. history,” whenever Biden’s name comes up.

 . . ."This week, Joe Biden actually did do something that shows he is perhaps the most clueless president in American history.

In a softball interview this week, CNN’s Erin Burnett let Biden carry on — uninterrupted — with his usual litany of lies.

• That he created 15 million jobs (there’ve been less than 6 million net new jobs under Biden – about equal to Trump’s over the same period).
• That Trump told people to inject bleach (a claim repeatedly debunked by fact-checkers).
• That a million people died from COVID on Trump’s watch (fewer than 470,000 had died when Biden took office; more than 720,000 have died since).
• That “we have got 1,000 billionaires in America. You know what their average federal tax is? Eight-point-three percent” (a completely made-up number that we wrote about here).
• That “when I started this administration, people were saying there’s going to be a collapse of the economy” (nobody but Biden was saying that).

"But then Burnett, to her credit, asked about inflation.

“ 'The cost of buying a home in the United States is double what it was, when you look at your monthly costs, from before the pandemic,” she says. “Real income, when you account for inflation, is actually down since you took office, economic growth last week far short of expectations. Consumer confidence, maybe no surprise, is near a two-year low.”

"Biden’s response was a priceless example of incoherent braggadocio.

"First, he completely ignores the fact that real wages are down, and instead points to a survey that, he says, shows “65% of the American people think they’re in good shape economically.”

"Then he follows that up by saying “the polling data has been wrong all along.”

"Then he’s entirely dismissive of anyone complaining. “The idea that we’re in a situation where things are so bad, the folks that — I mean, we have created more jobs. We have made — we’re in a situation where people have access to good-paying jobs.” . . .

American wisdom and intelligence operating in the world

 

ISRAEL ALONE: Biden Places Arms Embargo On Israel, IDF Continues Into Rafah -   “We’re going to continue to make sure Israel is secure in terms of Iron Dome and their ability to respond to attacks that came out of the Middle East recently,” he told CNN. “But it’s, it’s just wrong. We’re not going to – we’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells.”

"Republican senators as well as pro-Israel Democrat Senator John Fetterman reacted harshly to Biden’s arms embargo against Israel, which is in essence holding up a congressionally approved deal.

"Senator Lindsey Graham said the following to Secretary of Defense Austin: “If we stop weapons necessary to destroy the enemies of the State of Israel at a time of great peril, we will pay a price. This is obscene. It is absurd. Give Israel what they need to fight the war. They can’t afford to lose. This is Hiroshima and Nagasaki on steroids.” . . . And how did Iron Dome work on October 7?

While it may be hard to understand how Israel will continue to fight without American resupply, Israel has been in this situation before. Before 1967, Israel did not have the types of arms pacts with America it has now – and it still prevailed. This is the land of miracles. Israel’s government may be flawed, but even they realize that the Jewish people have no other choice but to fight and defeat the Jihadist Nazis with or without America. . . . 

 Joe Biden's decision to halt supply of arms to Israel if Rafah is invaded could come back to haunt him | World News | Sky News

• "The message it sends: That America could be seen to abandon Israel (despite that not being what Mr Biden has said) will not be lost on countries around the world. It suggests that America is flaky with its alliances. For months, Mr Biden has dismissed calls to limit weapons supplies. Now he's u-turned. If Mr Biden blinks as Mr Netanyahu crosses the Rafah red line then the flaky image is only compounded. What does America stand for will be the question."

Israel Enters Rafah As Negotiations With Hamas Breakdown and Bibi Tells Biden Where to Put It – RedState  

The breakdown seems to be caused in no small part by the utter ineptitude of Biden's team.

  . . ."The material impact of Biden's threat is minimal.

Israel’s top military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, also appeared to downplay the practical impact of any arms holdup. “The army has munitions for the missions it plans, and for the missions in Rafah, too -- we have what we need,” he said in response to a question at a news conference.

"However, the political significance of his threat is immense. This puts Biden in the difficult position of following through on his threat in his "one tough hombre" persona and showing the world just how fragile US security assurances are, or backing down and having the kids of his cabinet officials and friends jeer him from the campus of Columbia University."

White House Says Hamas Has Suffered Enough!

In other words, leave Hamas in place. We didn't notice any mention of the American hostages or even Palestinian civilians — just the "suffering and pressure" Hamas has undergone.

Joe Biden Gets Un-Endorsed After Betraying Israel – PJ Media 

Biden's efforts to balance his public support for Israel with his need for votes from the antisemitic wing of his party is starting to cause some backlash from Democrat voters who support Israel.

  . . ."However, his betrayal of Israel may also be backfiring on him, as people who have long supported him are calling him out. On Thursday, actor Michael Rapaport posted a profanity-laced video rant on X/Twitter indicating that he's "un-endorsing" Biden for refusing to provide them arms just to help him get some votes.

" 'I’m officially un-endorsing #JoeBiden I did so much work on behalf of this soft serve ice cream eating MF, I’m done," he wrote in his post.

"But the video was far more angry.

" 'Smokin' Joe Biden. Cadaver Joe Biden. You know who I am. You know my work. I'm the one who invented ****-stain Donald Trump," Rapaport begins in the video. "Pig-**** Donald Trump. That's me, that's my work. I didn't ask for a thank you. I didn't ask for an invite to the White House and everybody and anybody shows up at the White House these days. I did it for the love because I couldn't stand that motherf****r." 

"Rapaport was hardly through." . . .

But Biden’s nuanced position has created different fault lines of division within his own Democratic Party. The president now faces a rash of new criticism from some lawmakers and voters in battleground states where his position on Israel carries the most political risk for his efforts to win re-election. . . .

Hamas Joe secures another vote for Trump -

Musings from Dianny

There are probably a lot of people like me who believe that Donald Trump is the worst possible Republican nominee in 2024 who will now happily bite the bullet and cast their vote for the guy just to ensure that the manifestly unfit Joe Biden and the Marxist band of dangerous weirdos running his administration are driven out of the White House on January 20, 2025.

"Whelp, it turns out that Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy blunder didn’t just hand a lifeline to Hamas. It tossed Trump a lifeline as well.

"I went to bed last night decidedly undecided about what to do in November. I’d sooner slide naked down a railing covered in razor blades than vote for Joe Biden. At the same time, I do not like Donald Trump and wish, like Cher, that I could turn back time and convince the insufferable blowhard to stand aside and endorse Ron DeSantis as his undoubted heir.

"Then I woke up to discover that Hamas Joe had blown up decades of US foreign policy by stabbing Israel in the back while providing aid and comfort to a designated terrorist group, and by golly, paint me red and tattoo Make America Great Again on my forehead.

"Great work, Joe!

"It was reported this week that the Pentagon paused a shipment of “high payload munitions” to Israel over the administration’s opposition to Israel’s operation in Rafah." . . .

Hamas Declares That It Will Make No Further Concessions ...John F. Di Leo 

..."So, how should we respond to the leaders of Hamas, when they insist on undeserved concessions?"Exactly the same way we would respond if the request came from Speck, Gacy or Manson."Hamas tortured, maimed, raped and killed 1140 innocents on Oct. 7, 2023 alone."  The only difference between them is scale." 

 Did Biden's Love for Hamas Just Lose Him the Jewish Vote? – PJ Media

The Dispatch's Jonah Goldberg — whom I like personally, find engaging as a critic of Leftism, but who pretty much swims in a sea of NeverTrumpers — had this to say on Twitter/X shortly after the arms suspension was revealed: "I’ve heard from a LOT of reliably anti-Trump people - I mean really, really, anti-Trump people - who have had it with Biden tonight. Anecdotal, to be sure. But very telling in my circle."

The Morning Briefing: Netanyahu Is a Magnifying Glass on Biden's Pathetic Weakness – PJ Media   . . ."We can blame age-related dementia all we want, but Joe Biden would have been a weak president even if his last brain cells hadn't taken a permanent vacation. The predictable byproduct of the leader of the world's lone (for the moment) superpower being weak is that the worst people in the world find new ways to be awful. 

"That gets compounded when said weak leader essentially throws in with the worst people and abandons an ally, as Biden has done in his pursuit of 15 electoral votes in Michigan. In his effort to do so, Biden has been attempting to project power by threatening to cut off war supplies to Israel. To the eternal shame of the Republic, Biden and his handlers have finally thrown Israel all the way under the bus." . . . 

You must have wondered who was operating Joe's strings; well here is one answer:

 Biden's NSC Intel Director, Maher Bitar, Is a Former Radical Pro-Palestinian Activist  "Maher Bitar, the White House Coordinator for Intelligence and Defense Policy at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC), was a radical pro-Palestinian activist and a leader within Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

The SJP is one of the most prominent groups involved in the pro-Hamas, antisemitic “encampment” protests that have taken over dozens of university campuses. Its parent group is also the target of a lawsuit by survivors and families of victims of the October 7 terror attack that alleges SJP is a propaganda front for Hamas in the U.S.

Bitar’s record is coming under closer scrutiny as President Joe Biden takes unprecedented action to undermine Israel’s war against the Hamas terrorists that attacked it on October 7, including withholding arms from Israel.

Victor Davis Hanson: Try a Little Honesty About Israel

The scarf people on campus chant phrases given to them without an original thought from their mouths. TD

Victor Davis Hanson; PJ Media

If Hamas had come out of its tunnels, separated from its impressed civilian shields, released its surviving Israeli hostages, and either openly fought the Israeli Defense Forces or surrendered the organizers of the October 7 massacre, no Gaza civilians would have died.

"Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protestors. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion after October 7 from the Biden administration. Here are 10 of their most common untruths about October 7 and the war that followed.

"Progressive Hamas"

"Gay and transgender student protestors in America would be in mortal danger in Gaza under a fascistic Hamas that has banned homosexual acts and lifestyles. Anyone protesting publicly against Hamas or its allies would be arrested and severely punished.

"Women are segregated in most Hamas-run educational institutions. Under the Hamas charter, women are valued mostly as child-bearers. By design, there are almost no women in high positions in business or in government under Hamas.

" 'Colonists and settlers"

"Students scream that Israelis are "settlers" and "colonists" and sometimes yell at Jewish students to "go back to Poland."

"But the Jewish presence in present-day Israel is deeply rooted in ancient tradition. Dating back at least three millennia, the concept of "Israel" as a distinct Jewish state, situated roughly in its current location, is ingrained in history.

"By contrast, the much later Arab invasions of the Byzantine-controlled Levant and their arrival in Palestine occurred about 1,800 years after the establishment of a Jewish Israel.

" 'Two-state solution"

"When student protestors scream "From the river to the sea," that is not advocacy for a two-state solution." . . .

"It is a call to eliminate the state of Israel -- lying in between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea -- and its 10 million Jewish and Arab citizens. The Hamas charter is a one-state/no-Israel agenda, which we saw attempted on October 7." . . .

In Maine "New Mainers" equals "Biden newcomers" equals illegal aliens (by definition)

 

Guess where she will get those workers! Maine Governor Wants to Resettle 75,000 Foreign-Born Migrants in Maine by 2029 - The Maine Wire

. . ."Mills told the liberal Portland Press Herald newspaper that the goal of attracting 75,000 migrant workers to Maine is part of her plan to supply businesses in Maine with “New Mainers” to fill job vacancies.

“ 'New Mainers” is a euphemism that progressives and left-wing nonprofits in Maine have adopted to refer to migrants, refugees, asylum applicants, and illegal aliens who have settled in Maine. Some newspapers in the state have adopted the term as well.

It’s unclear whether Gov. Mills intends for those 75,000 new workers to come exclusively from foreign-born migration. Her office hasn’t clarified what it meant and her communications aides did not respond to inquiries Thursday.

The plan will be crafted by the governor’s advisors and delivered to her next year, so right now it’s not clear exactly how the migrant resettlement office would be funded, how expensive it would be for taxpayers, or whether it would be a cabinet level agency.

Republican lawmakers quickly panned the idea, questioning Mills’ prioritization of current and future migrants over the needs of Maine citizens. Some noted the governor’s refusal to support a bipartisan plan that would create a new cabinet level agency for child protective services.

“I hope the governor corrects her statement about adding 75,000 asylum seekers to the state of Maine,” House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) told the Maine Wire.

“Her office has grossly mishandled the asylum seeker situation,” Faulkingham said. “How does she propose increasing the population of the state by five percent when her solution for a few hundred asylum seekers is hotels and basketball stadiums?”

The Gov may appreciate this:   

“Who called this girl to the stage? Never repeat this. You’ll face consequences if you do.”
~ Whether it is ‘literate’ #Kerala or lawless Kandahar, the mindset is the same. pic.twitter.com/m87nUWBXfW

— Abhijit Majumder (@abhijitmajumder) May 10, 2024