To trans or not to trans....

 

Fox News host claims that Democrats want to "trans our kids" - LGBTQ Nation "Fox News host Jeanine Pirro has claimed that teachers nationwide want to turn kids transgender, an increasingly common right-wing claim that has set parents and anti-LGBTQ activists against public educators.

"In a recent installment of the Fox News talk program The Five, Pirro said that the midterm elections would continue a Democrat-led downward slide against free speech, aided by “Big Tech.”

"She then added, “If the Republicans don’t win, then it will be a threat to democracy because it will be the end of education, where teachers believe they should be able to trans our kids and talk about 1619 without our knowing about it.”

She also said that Democrats apparently want “one-party rule” because of their “continued degradation of anyone who isn’t a Democrat.” . . .

3 teens who thought they were transgender explain why they detransitioned (newsnationnow.com)   . . ."An October survey found about 8% of responding transgender and gender-diverse adults have detransitioned, though most (62%) say they went back to being trans. However, there are virtually no studies or data on the detransition rates among teens. 

"Though it’s a small group, those who have chosen to detransition — reversing or stopping medical treatments or socially/legally reverting to their gender assigned at birth — are starting to voice concerns. NewsNation spoke with three young people who chose a different path after transitioning in their teen years. 

“ 'Every single part of my transition was a mistake, and I didn’t want to be going down that path anymore,” said 18-year-old Chloe Cole, whose medical transition began when she was 13. 

"Cole told NewsNation she always felt like a tomboy, but she really started thinking about transitioning to a boy after she created an Instagram account." . . .

Juneteenth: A time to remind Democrats of their history of slavery, Jim Crow, and LBJ's Great Society

 Monica Showalter - American Thinker

"Listen to this wonderful song so appropriate for Juneteenth by The SteelDrivers, whose lead singer at the time was Chris Stapleton, singing about black people escaping slavery to join "Mr. Lincoln's soldiers" take up arms as "wrap these arms around a gun" and "shake the taste of bondage from my tongue.' "

"Juneteenth, celebrating the freedom of the enslaved people in the aftermath of the Civil War is a truly wonderful holiday. It's something that should be celebrated, and nominally, it is, but not in the focused way its founders in Texas did.

"In fact, many people aren't keen on it, mainly for the way in which it is celebrated these days, with 1960s black nationalist red-green-black-yellow colors, DEI lectures, mass lootings, riots, victimology, and collective guilt trips.

"But it's actually about freedom. Freedom is to be celebrated, especially freedom from slavery. And more than 400,000 men in arms from the north took part in bringing that freedom, so it is their holiday, too. It's the Republican Party's holiday, given that the party was actually founded to end slavery.

"And don't forget that it's about arms, too, black soldiers carried arms on behalf of the Union, specifically to end slavery." . . .

"Hard truths"?

. . ."Such as, how her own Democrat party has at every step of this American journey made itself the party of slavery? It started when Southern Democrat states plotted together to keep President Lincoln off the ballot, and yes, they succeeded at that, creating the beginnings of the Civil War. They tried to defund the war, started riots in New York, and plotted against President Lincoln all through his presidency like snakes, some of whom called themselves copperhead snakes.

"After that, they got the hooks in in the post-war South and ended Reconstruction and all the progress for black people that came of it, no more 40 acres and a mule. They instituted Jim Crow laws, claiming separate but equal access to public facilities, and then things got worse when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson reinstated segregation in the military and made life more hellish for black people across the board. He was after all, a commited racist with an academic superiority complex.

"After that, Democrats led the charge against the Civil Rights movement. It's not for nothing that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a lifelong Republican.

"And as if that wasn't bad enough, they foisted the Great Society onto the impoverished, including those they impoverished, such as black people, breaking up the black family, marginalizing fathers, and replacing heads of households with the government.

African-American Soldiers & The Civil War (usaonrace.com)

"Does that sound like a record to be proud of? Since Jacobs wants to contemplate all the bad things that have happened to black people since Juneteenth instead of just celebrate the moment of freedom, maybe this should be what she thinks about.

"We know a lot of black people have. They're moving to President Trump in this current election and while it may not be all of them, it's in sufficient numbers to sting, and Democrats are terrified.

"So naturally, they race-bait and grievance-monger as a result, beating the same tired drum of color consciousness they always have. That's their Juneteenth.

"As for the rest of us, no matter what color, it's a celebration of freedom."

William H. Carney: The first black soldier to earn the Medal of Honor

Founded in 1854 as a coalition opposing the extension of slavery into Western territories, the Republican Party fought to protect the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

. . ."In 1854, opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would permit slavery in new U.S. territories by popular referendum, drove an antislavery coalition of Whigs, Free-Soilers, Americans and disgruntled Democrats to found the new Republican Party, which held its first meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin that May. Two months later, a larger group met in Jackson, Michigan, to choose the party’s first candidates for statewide office.

"The Republican goal was not to abolish slavery in the South right away, but rather to prevent its westward expansion, which they feared would lead to the domination of slaveholding interests in national politics." . . .

RECEIPTS PROVIDED: Violent Crime Skyrockets in CA But Newsom's Attempting to Block Tough-on-Crime Reforms –

 Jennifer Van Laar; RedState

"As bad as crime has been in California over the past 10 years, it's been increasing at a frightening pace over the last year as soft-on-crime district attorneys refuse to admit that their coddling of repeat violent criminals doesn't work - and Saturday night's armed robbery of a Secret Service agent who'd just been working on President Biden's detail is the perfect example. 

"If you thought that the state's Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, might actually care about keeping families safe in his state, the email chain obtained Monday by CBS California between Newsom's chief of staff and the head of the California District Attorney's Association, Greg Totten, will disabuse you of that silly notion.

"Newsom, who has presidential aspirations (despite repeated denials), has been making those attempts to look as if he's trying to do something about the problem. However, he is a true believer in "justice reform" and one of the architects (along with then-San Francisco DA George Gascòn) of 2014's Prop 47, which caused the problem to start with, so he can't support any attempts to repeal or "fix" Prop 47 without admitting that his genius ideas didn't work. Apparently, Newsom doesn't realize that one sign of intellectual and emotional maturity is the ability to recognize and admit when one is wrong or that one's idea didn't work.

"And that's why he is pulling out all of the stops to derail The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act, a proposition that recently qualified for the November 2024 ballot and aims to fix Prop 47.

"Newsom's administration, along with Democrat supermajority leaders in Sacramento, have drafted a slate of supposed public safety bills that are going through the legislative process with the aim of confusing voters so they'll think that the initiative isn't needed:

Steve Maviglio is a Democratic strategist who said that while this tactic may be unpopular, it can be effective for Democrats concerned that the ballot initiative would lead to a return of mass incarceration in the state.

"A poison pill in legislation is designed to essentially kill something that they don't like," Maviglio said. "The goal is to confuse voters so they vote no."

"However, any legislation passed can simply be undone next year when the Democrats will still have a comfortable majority (and could possibly retain the supermajority). If the Fix Prop 47 initiative is passed by voters, the legislature can't change its provisions, so it's a permanent and public L for Newsom." . . .

READ MORE: Joe Biden's America: Secret Service Agent Robbed During President's California Visit

Actress Goldie Hawn ready to flee Los Angeles after home break-in scares: ‘LA is terrible’ (msn.com)

How California’s Paradise Become our Purgatory; Victor Davis Hanson

  American Greatness (amgreatness.com)  How and why did California end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism?  . . ."In sum, a privileged Bay Area elite inherited a California paradise and turned it into purgatory."

Currently, Newsom is fighting in the courts to stop the people’s constitutional right to place on the ballot initiatives to restore penalties for violent crime and theft. 

"California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly.

"How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism?

"The symptoms of the state’s suicide are indisputable.

"Governor Gavin Newsom enjoyed a recent $98 billion budget surplus—gifted from multibillion-dollar federal COVID-19 subsidies, the highest income and gas taxes in the nation, and among the country’s steepest sales and property taxes.

"Yet in a year, he turned it into a growing $45 billion budget deficit.

"At a time of an over-regulated, overtaxed, and sputtering economy, Newsom spent lavishly on new entitlements, illegal immigrants, and untried and inefficient green projects.

"Newsom was endowed with two of the wettest years in recent California history. Yet he and radical environmentalists squandered the water bounty—as snowmelts and runoff long designated for agricultural irrigation were drained from aqueducts and reservoirs to flow out to sea.

"Newsom transferred millions of dollars designated by a voter referendum to build dams and aqueducts for water storage and instead blew up four historic dams on the Klamath River. For decades, these now-destroyed scenic lakes provided clean, green hydroelectric power,
irrigation storage, flood control, and recreation.

"California hosts one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients. Over a fifth of the population lives below the property line. Nearly half the nation’s homeless sleep on the streets of its major cities.

"The state’s downtowns are dirty, dangerous, and increasingly abandoned by businesses—most recently Google—that cannot rely on a defunded and shackled police." . . .

Leftist NYT Scribe Nicholas Kristof Weakly Admits Progressive Policies Are Destroying West Coast Cities

Newsom Crows About Rise in CA Retail Theft Arrests—Gets Roasted for Creating Lawlessness in First Place   . . ."And you can arrest as many criminals as you want -- if those arrests don't result in prosecutions, convictions, AND prison time, arrests are worthless. Newsom is actively closing prisons (making it impossible to take criminals off the street) and many DA's refuse to prosecute." . ..

The Morning Briefing: Nobody Is Really in the Mood for President Harris to Happen

PJ Media

"If her husband does manage to do something so egregious that he removes himself from the scene, the Dems will no longer have a comfy puppet president situation in place. Kamala Harris will have ideas of her own, and they'll all be awful." . . . 

"You know, it would be kind of a relief if all the videos of Joe Biden looking like a catatonic extra from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" were actually the "cheap fakes" that his water carriers are calling them. It might be nice if the nation's chief executive could string together three sentences during internationally televised events without having an episode. 

"We can all dream. 

"As we have been discussing all week, the body of evidence that Joe Biden is not present in our reality mounts seemingly by the hour. Matt wrote about the most recent incident: 

The following video shows Joe Biden slowly lurching along before slowly — and I mean ridiculously slowly — getting into an SUV as a Secret Service agent stands behind him to ensure he gets in the vehicle safely.

"It's yet another video that is uncomfortable to watch and would garner sympathy if he and his handlers weren't busy shredding the Constitution. I don't think that his alleged stutter is what made him struggle with the simple task of seating himself in a motor vehicle. 

"All of Biden's mental and physical frailty has tongues everywhere wagging about if, when, and/or where the Dems will make their move to replace him. There are probably monks in Tibet who have a monastery pool betting on who that replacement might be. 

"The conversation tends to focus on how the party will make a move at the Democratic National Convention to shake up the ticket. 

"One thing that's not getting much buzz is the fact that if Biden can't even make it to the convention, a new president will be chosen by the Constitution, not the Democratic Party. Her name is Kamala Harris. 

"This is all speculation that is impossible to avoid these days. I'm still sticking with my belief that nobody is going to get Jill Biden out of the way, but it is fun to kick around alternative scenarios. 

Related: Trust Me — DOCTOR Jill Biden Has Already Worked Out a Modified 'Weekend at Bernie's' Plan

"There are still two months to go before the DNC in Chicago. The odds of Biden going into perma-glitch mode before then are increasing every day. There is a very real possibility he will soon do something that even his media lapdogs can't cover for. If that happens, enter President Harris. 

"The thing about that very real prospect is that it doesn't make anyone happy. It's no secret that most Democrats are no more fond of Madame Vice President than Republicans are. I'm fairly certain that's behind the feverish attempt to create the "cheap fakes" false narrative. White House Press Secretary and primary argument against DEI Karine Jean-Pierre was busy pushing that again yesterday. 

"KJP was getting some help, too. I read a lot of backup in several MSM outlets, and my RedState colleague Nick Arama writes that CBS News posted an almost five-minute video to prop up the narrative. Nick also explains that CBS didn't do a very good job of it." . . . 

UPDATE: Americans Usually Care About How We Treat Our Seniors but Are Oddly Silent on How Joe Biden Is Treated – RedState

Activists Chant 'Death To America And Israel' In Farsi At Chicago Left-Wing Meet

 

New Jersey High School Deletes Photos of Jewish Students, Replaces Them With Photos of Muslims - The Lid (lidblog.com)   "A high school in New Jersey clearly needs to have its administrators purged and replaced with ones that aren’t rampant, Jew-hating, racists.

"Jewish students who received their yearbooks at East Brunswick High School in Jersey were shocked when their photos were deleted from the book and replaced by Muslims in an outrageous act that even the town’s mayor called a “blatant antisemitic act.”

"The incident, first reported by Jack Elbaum of Algemeiner.com, outraged East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen, and rightfully so. He added that an investigation into the school’s horrid actions was going to be undertaken.

"Elbaum reported that, “The 2023-2024 yearbook for East Brunswick High School replaced a photo of the Jewish Student Union (JSU) with Muslim students and erased the names of the members of the JSU, leaving a large blank space on the page.”

"This really is incredible." . . .

Leaked Footage Shows How Dangerous Pro-Palestine Activists Are Getting - YouTube  "Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip of pro-Palestine activist Shabbir Rizvi teaching activists at the Anti-War Committee Chicago how to chant “death to America” and “death to Israel” in Farsi."

Video: Activists Chant 'Death To America And Israel' In Farsi At Chicago Left-Wing Meet - News18  Over a week after activists chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” at a high-profile rally in US’ Michigan, anti-Israel activists raised the same slogan in Farsi at a “break out session” for the Anti-War Committee in Chicago on Saturday.

"The video of the shocking incident was widely shared on social media, where the organizer of the session, Shabbir Rizvi was seen teaching the “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” slogans in Iran’s native language to participants attending the event.

"Rizvi told about 80 attendees—- all of whom were wearing black KF94 masks– that they could use the chant if they ever encountered “Zionist freaks”, according to a report by The Free Press.

"Explaining to attendees the pronunciation of ‘Marg bar’, he said it’s like saying “margarita bar.” . . .

. . ."To this, Rizvi replies, “We can get a ‘marg bar America,” and leads the group in a chant of “Marg bar America.”

"The disturbing incident occurred mere hours before Iran’s unprecedented aerial attack on Israel on Saturday. Similar slogans were raised at a rally in Michigan on April 5, marking Al Quds Day, in which Muslims around the world denounce Israel.

"As per the report by The Free Press, the “breakout session” was part of a larger gathering of about 300 anti-war activists at the basement of the Teamsters Union’s headquarters on Saturday to hear organizers from all over America describe their plans to disrupt the Democratic National Convention this August.

"As per the report, Joe Biden’s backing of Israel since Hamas’s October 7 attack has turned these left-wing radicals against their own party.

Israel-Iran Conflict

"Iran launched scores of missiles toward Israel in retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic complex in Syria on April 1. Israel’s military said that “99 per cent” of the more than 300 projectiles were intercepted.

"Only one casualty — a 7-year-old Israeli-Arab girl — was reported in the incident so far." . . .

Agitator behind ‘Death to America’ chants in Chicago contributes to Iran state TV, Hezbollah-linked channel (msn.com)   "Earlier this month, Anti-War Committee Chicago organizer Shabbir Rizvi was filmed teaching a group of 80 activists in Chicago to chant "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" in Farsi. Rivzi has a troubling background when it comes to his documented support for Iran and anti-Israel views." . . . Ignorance among our youth.

Joy Behar Mocked Hard After Claiming Trump Will Cancel ‘The View’ if Elected

 Paul Roland Bois (breitbart.com)

Trump has previously served four years as President and "The View" is still with us. Why is life so morbid for TV people named Joy? TD

"Internet trolls came out in force after Joy Behar shared her paranoid delusion former President Trump would cancel ABC’s The View if elected in November.

"As Breitbart News reported, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow inspired conspiratorial dread during an appearance on The View this week when she said “no one will be safe” if Trump wins. Joy Behar took it a step further to suggest that Trump would even seek to have The View canceled.

“ 'Some people think that sounds overdramatic but I’m right there with you. I think that he is so vindictive that he will go after, however he has to, whether it’s through the IRS maybe, or even through sponsors to get us off the air maybe or you. How seriously should we be taking that?” wondered Behar.

“ 'Well, so I was asked am I worried about me and my answer was I’m worried about all of us. I’m no worried about me than I am worried about everybody in the country,” Maddow responded." . . .

That’s A Shame month

Don Surber (substack.com)

. . ."Which is, of course, about time because the LGBT crowd has gotten away with bullying people for years. It takes someone with courage to stand up. JK Rowling did." . . .

"June 2024 is turning out to be That’s A Shame month for the LGBT crowd, especially the T-girls. Will Thomas who calls himself Lia got kicked out of the Olympics and Biden’s use of federal funding to force girls to give their sports trophies to boys in drag got kicked out of 10 states.

"Biden used Title IX funding — which is supposed to help women in college — to coerce colleges to accept T-girls as women. It’s a Mafia muscle move. Or maybe it is the Mafia that uses the federal government as a role model. Either way, Speak Softly Love.

NYT reported:

"A federal judge on Monday blocked the Biden administration’s new Title IX regulations in six more states as Republicans and conservative groups try to overturn a policy that expanded protections for LGBT students.

"In a 93-page opinion, Judge Danny C. Reeves of the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled that the Education Department had overreached in expanding the definition of “sex” to include gender identity.

"Judge Reeves halted the regulations in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia just days after a federal judge made a similar ruling for Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho.

"Title IX, which was passed in 1972, prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding. The new regulations broadened the scope of the law to prohibit unequal treatment of pregnant students and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

"The Indiana Capital Chronicle got to the heart of the matter in its headline, “U.S. judge blocks Biden Title IX rules, says ‘sex,’ ‘gender identity’ not the same thing.”

"So just as the ATF decided that bump stocks are machine guns, Biden decided drag queens are women. Boy will Sam Alito have fun ripping this proposal into tiny pieces." . . .

"On June 6, 2020, Rowling retweeted an op-ed piece that discussed “people who menstruate,” apparently taking issue with the fact that the story did not use the word women. “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” she wrote. How dare she mock them!"

The Looney Tunes left took another hit this week when Brittney Griner, the only WNBA player anyone heard of, stood for the national anthem. It was her first game back since her little, um, vacation last year. Her protest for social justice ended when she got a 10-month taste of Russian justice, comrade. 

When Will The Ministry Of Truth Shut Down The Lyin’ Biden Ads?

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)  

Liars are going to lie, and there are no liars like Joe Biden’s Democratic Party of 2024. It’s as if the Disinformation Governance Board were still in business and was dishing out lies rather than exposing them. But then that is exactly what it was designed to do. 

 "President Joe Biden’s reelection ad campaign contains a boatload of misinformation and disinformation. Will the censors shut it down? Will the media alert their readers and viewers to the falsehoods? We all know the answers to those questions.

"The political left is obsessed with shutting down any speech that doesn’t agree with its narrative. And it has successes to show for it. The Twitter files are the preeminent example. There exists a censorship-industrial complex, “a state-sponsored system targeting ‘disinformation,’” says journalist Matt Taibbi, who had access to the Twitter files, that strike “at the essence of the right to free speech.”

"Hardly two years ago, and just a little more than a year into one of the worst administrations in U.S. history, the Biden White House created a Disinformation Governance Board. Its mission was to do the “critical work across several administrations” of addressing “disinformation that threatens the security of our country,” which meant punishing speech the Democrats don’t want the public to hear.

"It didn’t last long. In less than four months it was dissolved. Turns out that people didn’t trust it. Many instinctively knew that its real mission was to censor political opponents and the free expression of private citizens who don’t hold the “correct” opinions and beliefs.

"It would have also been good cover for the Democrats’ incessant lying, recently manifesting itself in the Biden campaign ads. Following is some of the inflammatory, and intentionally misleading, content from those ads, followed by the facts.

“ 'If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath. … It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”

"Trump said those words. It’s true. But he wasn’t threatening violence if he loses. Listen to the entire passage, not just a couple of sentences cherry picked by dishonest apparatchiks, and it’s clear he’s talking about the U.S. auto industry being harmed by foreign competition. While we don’t agree with Trump’s proposal to place tariffs on imports, honesty about what he said is still important." . . .

Leftist MSNBC Contributor's Claim that a 'Feeble' Trump Was Guided Off Stage During Rally Blows Up in His Face

 

RealityBites by Broc Smith

MEDIA FAIL: Leftist MSNBC Contributor's Claim that a 'Feeble' Trump Was Guided Off Stage During Rally Blows Up in His Face After Footage Emerges Exposing the Truth (VIDEO)   . . ."Now, some are also trying to suggest that President Trump, not Biden, is actually the one with mental problems. Brian Tyler Cohen, an MSNBC “News” contributor and podcast host of an ironically named show called “No Lie,” decided to gaslight America by sharing a photo yesterday that he claims shows Trump being escorted off the stage.

"The incident supposedly occurred during a Trump rally in Hialeah, Florida, in November 2023.

" 'Here is a photo of Trump having to hold someone’s hand to guide him off stage,” Cohen wrote. “I’m sure this will get just as much coverage as the daily “BiDeN oLd” story gets.”. . .

. . ."But then a video emerged showing what actually happened. It turns out Trump was shaking hands with his eldest son, Don Jr., before exiting the stage without assistance." . . .

"If this is the best left-wingers can do to smear Trump as physically and mentally unable to handle another term as President, Americans have nothing to worry about. Biden, of course, is a far different story."

MSNBC, you recall, is the home of Joy "Racism" Reid, Ali "Fiery but mostly peaceful" Velshi. and  Fake News Fabulist, Rachael Maddow.

WATCH: Fox’s @GregGutfeld calls out liberal media over claims from White House that Biden videos are ‘cheap fakes’: "Where were these anti-hoaxers in the ‘fine people hoax’, the ‘drinking bleach hoax’, the ‘koi pond hoax’, the ‘migrant kids in cages hoax’, the ‘border patrol… pic.twitter.com/LmnygWM4kW

— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) June 18, 2024

Some translation required | Power Line   "President Biden met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office yesterday. The White House has posted a brief readout of the meeting. NATO News has posted a five-minute video of Biden’s and Stoltenberg’s public statements here on YouTube. Biden read from the usual cards his staff prepares to orient him in space and time.

"This is entirely my reconstruction of the background to the RNC Research video clip below. I take it that the press was ushered into the Oval Office for a quick peek before Biden met privately with Stoltenberg. Biden mocked the reporters shouting questions with a childish outburst of gibberish. He found himself amusing. He nevertheless frequently falls into such gibberish without trying to be funny.

"Is this any way for Biden to treat a core group of supporters? Or is this another instance of Biden reaching the seventh age of man described by Jaques in As You Like It — “second childishness and mere oblivion…”?

Israel Gave Work Permits, While Palestinians Planned Oct. 7 Massacre

 Gatestone Institute But the people of Gaza chose Hamas when they had the chance to vote for someone else. TD  Or did they? Explainer: Was Hamas Elected by a Majority of Palestinians in Gaza? (yahoo.com)

. . ."Now, Palestinians can blame Hamas not only for dragging them into a disastrous war with Israel, but also for having left tens of thousands of families jobless in the wake of their loss of permits to work in Israel." . . .

• Prior to the October 7 massacre, more than 170,000 Palestinians were working in Israel, constituting an important source of income for the Palestinian economy.... The Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who were permitted to work in Israel received many of the same rights as Israeli workers, including health insurance and pension plans.

• "I will be able to earn about $120 dollars a day [in Israel], while I cannot even earn $250 dollars a month in Gaza. Due to the difficult political and economic conditions, the people of the Gaza Strip suffer greatly from poverty and are unable to build a future for their children like their parents." — Mohammed Kamal, a 38-year-old father of four from the Gaza Strip, newarab.com, March 24, 2022.

• It appears that the murderers and rapists from the Gaza Strip saw Israel's goodwill gestures as an indication of Israel's weakness. In addition, they apparently saw the controversy in Israel surrounding the Israeli government's judicial reform plan as a sign that Israel had become extremely weak, especially when anti-government protesters threatened to boycott military reserve service.

• The October 7 atrocities serve as a reminder that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not about improving the living conditions of the Palestinians or strengthening their economy. Instead, the conflict is about the desire of the majority of Palestinians to slaughter Jews and destroy Israel.

• Pre-and post-October 7 public opinion polls have consistently demonstrated that the majority of Palestinians back Hamas and believe that the atrocities committed on that day were "correct."

• Now, Palestinians can blame Hamas not only for dragging them into a disastrous war with Israel, but also for having left tens of thousands of families jobless in the wake of their loss of permits to work in Israel.

• Instead of brainwashing and indoctrinating their people against Israel and Jews, Palestinian leaders need to be required to focus on creating job opportunities and boosting the Palestinian economy, which the flow of international handouts have relieved them from doing." . . .

How 'Let's go Brandon' became an anti-Biden conservative heckle

 BBC (bbc.com)

. . ."The meme feeds into several long-running beliefs in conservative circles - that liberals are snowflakes who get offended at things quickly and that so-called liberal media will censor all criticism of Biden," Amarasingam says." . . .

"The phrase was spotted on T-shirts as well as a banner pulled by a plane at Donald Trump's rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Saturday. It's a recurring meme on right-wing social media websites.

"Fans chanted it at college football games last weekend in Texas and Mississippi.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz mentioned it on a conservative podcast, calling it "one of the funniest things I've ever seen".

"But what does it mean?

"In short, it's an insult directed at Democratic President Joe Biden - and a way for conservatives to thumb their noses at what they see as liberal bias in the mainstream media.

"It all started at the end of a televised Nascar stock car race in Talladega, Alabama, on 2 October. NBC reporter Kelli Stavast was interviewing the winner, driver Brandon Brown, when members of the crowd in the grandstand behind them began chanting an obscenity directed at the president.

"The vulgar word directed at Joe Biden was clearly picked up on the broadcast's audio.

"Whether by mistake or as an intentional attempt to deflect from the swearing on live television, Ms Stavast told Mr Brown that the crowd was cheering him on with chants of "Let's go, Brandon".

"The conservative social media ecosystem quickly latched onto the moment.

"Obscene chants directed at the president have been a recurring theme at conservative gatherings and sporting events in recent months, so the "Brandon" line became a tongue-in-cheek way of evading media censorship and public sensibilities - while still getting the point across to those in the know."

Here it is, though one regrets the repeated use of God's name by Brandon. TD