Thursday, February 13, 2025

For Israel--and the World--Take Off the Gloves

Phyllis Chesler at The American Spectator   "Israel, along with those countries facing the menace of Islamic extremism, must ensure there are no future Oct. 7th attacks"   

Israel, as ever, should lead the way. President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu must strategize a way in which Gaza is emptied of potential and active Jihadists. The problem of dealing with a non-stop and never-ending series of Oct. 7ths should not be Israel’s alone to bear.  


"Since its founding in the wake of the Holocaust, Israel has been seen by those who love freedom and justice as a “light” unto the nations, an uncanny progenitor of what it means to be brought low and to rise up again from the ashes. If this perception of Israel is true, and I believe that it is, then how Israel now chooses to deal with Islam’s most shamelessly sadistic barbarism may yet set an absolutely necessary example to other nations.

"After Israel receives the very last living hostages and the very last corpse is set free — it must do the unthinkable: Totally destroy Hamas and remove its active supporters in Gaza, finally take over the Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria (i.e. the West Bank), and create a sufficient zone of safety between itself and Hezbollah in Lebanon. (Please note I am not suggesting that men like Khaled Abu Toameh or Bassem Eid be ethnically cleansed or exiled.)

"Israel must try, one last time, as must the Trump administration, to persuade other Muslim countries to grant asylum to the allegedly “innocent” Gazans, perhaps even the type of Gazan who mercilessly mobbed, jeered, and menaced, the sole, lone, young Israeli woman on her way to the Red Cross truck, a woman who’d spent 482 days in solitary, in addition to being starved, deprived of oxygen, sunlight, and medical attention, and who suffered God knows what other abuses.

"Perhaps other Muslim countries will choose the more “innocent” of Gazans, such as the women who kept the Israeli hostages as food-deprived domestic slaves; or those who were employed by UNRWA and who also starved and hid them — and did God-only-knows what else to them.

"If Israel obtains a total military victory (as so many other experts far more knowledgeable than myself have long been calling for); if Israel rids itself of the most hate-filled Jihadists, at least those Jihadists who hug its borders, or who function as fifth-columnists within, imagine the example this might set for Europe, the United States, Canada, and India, all countries or regions that are dealing, or will eventually have to deal, with the growing Islamist hatred that Israel has faced for more than half a century.

"I have long believed that Europe is reaping its karmic destiny. This has not filled me with joy, only sorrow. What I mean is this: For two millennia, Europe persecuted and exterminated its peaceful, productive, and often highly assimilated Semites — the Jews. For a variety of reasons, including greed, guilt, and multiculturalism which functioned as “soft” racism, it has now inherited quite a whirlwind.

"Europe is now faced with violent, parasitic, and non-productive Islamists, who make up the largest number of pedophile rape traffickers in the UK; who stab, car-ram, behead, and shoot down anti-Islamist dissidents, free thinkers, and civilians (but especially Jews in the UK and France); conduct Jew-hunts in Holland; shoot up Christmas markets and gang-grope large groups of women in Germany and in Sweden; and forcibly veil, forcibly marry, and honor kill their own girls and women — especially those who wish to lead Western lives." . . .   More...

The Army is BACK! Military releases new high-octane Trump-era ad... and it's a huge split from woke Biden one

 UK Daily Mail   "Viewers quickly compared the latest advert to one pushed out by the military in May 2021, during the Biden administration.

"The ad, titled 'Emma', told the story of Army officer Emma Malonelord, who operates the Patriot Missile Defense Systems, showing her from her childhood being raised by two moms. 

"She begins the clip saying: 'Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality... I like to think I have been defending freedom from an early age.' 

"The story went on to show how Emma gained confidence from watching one of her moms re-learn to walk after an accident so she could walk down the aisle to marry Emma's other mother. 

"Viewers took to social media to slam the 'Emma' ad as the 'most hated military recruitment advert of all time', and said the newer ad showed the military had entered a new era under Trump. " . . .

The 'Emma' ad, telling the story of Army officer Emma Malonelord, who operates
the Patriot Missile Defense Systems, was panned as a woke approach
to military recruitment 

. . ."The 'Emma' advert was viewed over five million times, but the Army YouTube account removed the comments section after it received backlash. 

"Two weeks into its release, the clip had over 36,000 dislikes and only 775 likes, leading to the comment restrictions, reported the Army Times.  

" 'We started noticing a significant uptick in negative commentary,' Laura DeFrancisco, public affairs chief for the Army Enterprise Marketing Office, told the outlet at the time. " . . .

. . ."'When young men and women who are honorably signing up to serve in our nation's military see someone like Pete Hegseth, the new Secretary of Defense, who is a proven war fighter… that's very inspiring,' Leavitt told reporters of the latest figures.

" 'And we look forward to seeing those recruitment numbers and retention numbers skyrocketing over the next four years,' she added.

" 'I know Pete Hegseth is committed to increasing recruitment at all branches of the Military.' "

The Trump-Hegseth Army ad:


Full article...  Is there any sense of shame in the Democrat crowd?

How Vance’s ‘Do You Hear Yourself?’ Moment Helped Me See The Propaganda Press For What It Is

 The Federalist 
"Even though I knew the corporate media leaned left and had an agenda, I simply could not fathom that they would straight-up lie and fabricate."  HKG


"The way Donald Trump and J.D. Vance talked to the media on the campaign trail was one of the reasons a lot of people eventually turned away from the Democrats and into the arms of MAGA. I am one of them. 

"About 10 years ago, I started noticing the ever-expanding delta between what I saw with my own two eyes as reality and what the media presented. There is a 2016 standup bit by Dave Chappelle that captured this chasm beautifully. In it, Chappelle recalls the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton in which Trump said, “The whole system is rigged!” and everybody on the stage who was a beneficiary of the system calmly responded, “No, it’s not,” yet Chappelle thought: “Now wait a minute, it’s what HE said!”

"The cognitive dissonance we’ve lived through over the last several years cannot be overstated. When the regime keeps telling us we must acquiesce and join the chants that men can be women, that it’s a noble idea to defund and kneecap the very people who exist to protect us, or that we must put face masks on toddlers, the thought incongruence is harder and harder to reconcile. This must be the “lived experience” for many Democrats too, whether they admit it or not.

"I am very familiar with such a duality. I grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia and was taught from the time I could remember that there were things we discussed at home that we absolutely could not share at school. From as young as kindergarten, I knew I couldn’t mention anything about my relatives who defected to the West. I knew I could not speak about the books my parents read or that I knew the word “samizdat.” I knew I could not reveal, not even to my friends, that my family would crouch around a small black transistor radio on the weekends at our cabin and listen to “Voice of America.” 

"The totalitarian communist regime demonstrated very clearly to me that just because something is repeated often doesn’t mean it’s true (“The five-year plan is a great success again!”) and that just because the propaganda machine uses terms such as “democracy” and “free elections” to describe itself, that does not mean there is a democracy or free elections."...

 Hana Kabele Gala has been teaching Hotel Business Management for over 15 years. She holds a Ph.D. from Charles University, Prague as well as several other degrees of questionable value. Hana also runs a thriving coaching practice in Seattle, Washington, where she uses neuroscience and hypnosis to help overthinkers live better.

About that "Constitutional Crisis"; "Balderdash".

 Back in Al Gore days the catchword was "gravitas". Today it's "constitutional crisis". In my school days it had been "I love Elvis!" 

AT via Magic Studio

A hissy fit, not a constitutional crisis  "Who knew that the Stones had the Democrats in mind when they sang about that woman who kept having nervous breakdowns? Did Mick have Senator Elizabeth Warren in mind? or Rep. Maxine Waters? I saw a lot [of] women screaming on TV saying that the Constitution was in crisis and that bad stuff is coming our way.

"It's mid-February and the Democrats can't keep up with President Trump. So it's time to go "nervous breakdown" or the "constitutional crisis card." So here we go -- the constitutional crisis is here and fasten your seat belts. The coup is coming. Look out for the tanks because they are rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue any moment. With Pres. Trump is in the lead tank and Elon Musk in the next." . . .

"That's it. Going crazy on TV attacking Musk and Trump is not proof of a constitutional crisis. It simply confirms that there are a lot of screamers on the other side who don’t know why they lost the election."

Jonathan Turley: Dems exhaust last of credibility with false Trump 'constitutional crisis'   "Forty years ago, a radio personality coined the phrase “jump the shark” in reference to the episode of the sitcom “Happy Days” in which the character Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps over a live shark on water skis. The term is often applied to dying franchises that turn to sensational language or scenes to try to revive the fading interest of the public. More often, you jump the shark and land in utter obscurity.

"This week, the Democratic Party jumped the shark.

"For years, Dems and their allies pushed the absurd claim that democracy was about to die if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris was not elected president. The public wasn’t buying it. In 2024, Donald Trump won a majority of the voters as well as control of both houses of Congress.

"Rather than examine its messaging, Democrats decided to double down. After the election, politicians and pundits announced a new “constitutional crisis” surrounding the effort to downsize the federal government led by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

"Kris Mayes, the attorney general of Arizona, declared this week, “We are on the brink of a dictatorship, and America has never been in a more dangerous position than she is today.” 

"The same media that carried the breathless accounts of the imminent death of democracy with the last election are now running “constitutional crisis” articles with many of the same “experts.”

 Trump hasn't created a ‘constitutional crisis' -- he's teaching Dems a lesson  

"Not a sentence said by a Democrat these days doesn’t have a subject, a verb and “constitutional crisis.” 

"President Trump wanting to halt spending while he reviews a government in massive debt is an “assault on Democracy,” a “circumvention of Congress” and, in typical understatement, an “executive coup.” 

"Balderdash".

"While Trump must jump through certain hoops to offer buyouts or pare down departments, it was never the Founders’ intention for career government employees to outrank the president. 

"As Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 70, “energy in the executive is the leading character in the definition of good government.”

"It’s the job of the president to drive the government forward, not allow it to become an unelected blob that controls every aspect of our lives." . . .

 Elon Musk noted Tuesday that if the executive can’t act, “then we don’t live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy". Which is where Democrats want to live, since they’ve spent years seeding the bureaucracy.They want to ensure elections don’t matter. "

 It’s impossible for the real Constitution to win if the American people are forced to fund the Constitution’s enemies.

Mix Schumer, Liz Warren, Maxine Waters and you have natural parody!

 Democrats Furious Republicans Trying To Control Government Just Because They Won Election


"WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats have unleashed furious attacks on Republicans for using winning the election as an excuse to try to take control of the government.
"Democrats have accused Republicans of attempting to make decisions as to how the government ought to be run, as if Republicans were voted to be in charge.
" 'Winning the election gives Republicans no right to run this country," shouted Senator Elizabeth Warren at a protest. "They cannot simply come in and take control of governmental agencies simply because people voted for them. We must employ every means possible to resist this takeover."  
Tony Branco
"Democrats have turned to the streets in anger as Republicans continue to assert that being elected puts them in charge. "People voting for Trump to be President doesn't magically make him the boss," explained Senator Schumer. "Trump cannot be allowed to come in and issue these executive orders, just because he is the Executive. Rest assured, the Democrats will fight with all of our hearts to stop the people who were elected from being in power."
"At publishing time, Democrats had announced that the only thing Trump was actually allowed to be in charge of was pardoning that turkey on Thanksgiving."

‘Wasteful’: Trump Orders Treasury to Stop Producing Pennies

Legal Insurrection


"President Donald Trump told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to stop minting pennies. He wrote on Truth Social:

For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let’s rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it’s a penny at a time. . .  .

‘The Time Has Come’: Rep. Brandon Gill Wants to Arrest and Deport Ilhan Omar to Somalia For Treason

The Gateway Pundit   


"Republican Congressman Brandon Gill is circulating a petition to arrest and deport Ilhan Omar for treason.

"Gill, a first-term Congressman and son-in-law of conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, asked supporters to sign a petition to deport Omar in a fundraising email obtained by Axios.

"The first email states:

Friend, we should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country.

And frankly, America would be a much better place if she were to be sent back to Somalia.

Recently, it came out that Ilhan Omar is hosting free workshops for Somalians, who are in our country illegally, on how to evade ICE and deportation.

It could not be more blatant: Ilhan Omar is more loyal to illegal Somalians than she is to the United States, or the office she was elected to.

It is an absolute disgrace.In another email, Gill accuses Omar of treason for facilitating the invasion at the southern border of millions of illegal aliens.

"The second email states:

A sitting Member of Congress is facilitating a full-scale invasion of our country…

A normal society would refer to that as treason…

But regardless of labels, one thing is clear: The time has come to arrest and deport Ilhan Omar." . . .  Full article


REPORT: Ilhan Omar’s Close Friend Goes on Record, Confirms She Has Been Gaming The System

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Douglas Murray on Relocating Gazans to Egypt and Jordan

Youtube

"This is the most sensible answer so far as every other idea has not worked. I trust Douglas Murray as I have followed him for years and have never once heard or seen him do or say anything other than that which is just pure common sense based on evidence and experience. He has helped me better understand my own opinion on a number of issues and change my perspective on others."

@VaucluseVanguard:  "8 million Germans were expelled from eastern Europe between 1945 and 1947. The largest “ethnic cleansing” ever in Europe. However, after the experience of two world wars, it seemed like the only solution to the “German problem”. It is now widely recognised that this expelling of Germans has been a key component in post-war reconciliation and decades of peace. The idea that expelling an ethnic group from one area to secure peace is not always a bad thing, it is not ‘genocide’."

President Donald Trump Orders End to ‘Crooked Joe’ Biden’s Green Energy Regulations on Household Appliances

 Breitbart


"President Donald Trump is waging war against former President Joe Biden’s green energy regulations on Americans’ household appliances.

"Trump made the announcement in a social media post at 5:57 a.m. on Tuesday and said he was instructing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Lee Zeldin to oversee the matter, Fox News reported.

"The president wrote in his post:

I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe. I look forward to signing these Orders. THANK YOU!!!

"Biden imposed climate standards for some appliances, including gas stoves, washing machines, and dishwashers during his only term as president, per the Fox report.

"The outlet noted that experts and manufacturers said those standards could result in higher-priced alternatives that do not work as well.

"In July of 2023, the Biden administration cracked down on water heaters by slapping them with greater efficiency standards, Breitbart News reported at the time.

"The following month, Biden imposed a ban on incandescent lightbulbs, limiting what kinds of lighting would be available for consumers." . . .

Was the Black National Anthem a tribute to George Floyd, or a Democrat effort to start a race war?

 Joy Reid, Whoopi, and Rev Al Sharpton will think it to be a gold-plated invitation. TD

‘These Evil Freaks’: NFL Blasted By Furious Fans After League Plays ‘Black National Anthem’ Prior To Super Bowl | The Daily Caller

"Now that the season’s over, can we finally get rid of Roger Goodell?

"A lot of fans were angry with what they saw as they were watching Super Bowl LIX. However, the moment wasn’t involved with the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.

"Rather, it was connected to the national anthem. In particular, “The Black National Anthem” which has the song name “Lift Every Voice And Sing.” A lot of Americans make the claim that the wannabe anthem is divisive, and considering it’s just meant for black people and black people only, and they’re right.

"We could have one song — ya know, “THE-STAR SPANGLED BANNER” — to unify all of us Americans. But nope, the NFL themselves prefer to fuel divisiveness, and that’s exactly what they did.

"Some singer I’ve never heard of before named Ledisi sang the “anthem” while being backed up by a choir." . . .

One site calls this a tribute to George Floyd, for whom the left burned cities, murdered some who resisted Antifa, and gave rise to this comment from a British journalist:


Glaude: There’s an Idea Underneath the Constitution that America Must Always Be a White Nation   "Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that people in the United States believed the Constitution is a ruling document.

"However, he says there’s “an idea underneath it” that this country must “always be a white nation.” . . .

I'm sure his students wear keffiyehs and attack Jewish people, being products of an education system that makes ignorance an art form. In addition, his discussion partner is MSNBC's Ali Velshi of "Fiery, but mostly peaceful riots" during the George Floyd riots. TD

Does President Trump have to come over there to Los Angeles, again?

 Monica Showalter  

"Seems it's one miss after another in the City of Angels. The litany of bad decisions is growing long now, and the clowns in charge are making Trump come over there. They really, really, shouldn't make Trump come over there."

"In this first week of office, President Trump flew to Los Angeles to knock heads on rebuilding fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades and Altadena.

"He put on an amazing demonstration as an advocate for the residents in the face of official indifference to their plight -- insisting on speeding up resident access to burned out homes, speeding up permits, speeding up rubble removal and other important things. He also demanded that water be released to rebuild the city's firefighting reservoirs.

"He took no prisoners and left the clowns running Los Angeles flopped out on the pavement with no choice but to improve their act.

"For awhile there, they straightened up.

"But now it looks like they are back to their old ways.

"A few days ago, she announced this:

. . . FACT CHECK CONFIRMED: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) has indeed hired Hagerty Consulting—a far-left, Illinois-based firm with a history of pushing racial reparations, BLM-aligned policies, and Soros-funded activism—to oversee the post-fire rebuild of the Palisades and Los Angeles. This isn’t about recovery; it’s about radical social engineering on taxpayers’ dime.

What Democrats should do; Opposing Trump on everything will not take back the White House

Don Surber   

"Four years later, [in 1876] Democrats nominated Sam Tilden and got a majority of the votes but not the presidency. A backroom deal was cooked to end Reconstruction in exchange for the presidency, which meant Democrats got what they wanted: a segregated South to control for the next century-plus." 


Maxine the bomb-thrower

. . . "And the Democrat playbook not only doesn’t work, it backfires. Let us review.

"Raiding his home and sifting through his wife’s underwear drawer only made him and her more determined to win.

"Dragging up that ugly kook E. Jean Carroll to accuse him of rape was a joke.

"Suing him for taking out a loan and paying the money back with interest was disgustingly unjust.

"Indicting him was angering.

"And the mugshot blew up in their face like an Acme bomb explodes on Wile E. Coyote.

Joe The demagogue
"Shooting him just made him look immortal. The whole world saw what Democrats did. The also know the price of failed regicide—in this case, prezicide—is death, although I mean that figuratively.

"Democrats have run out of ideas. They are an easily moved object facing an irresistible force. They cannot stop him.

"A panicked Mark Halperin summed it up best: “I’m very reluctant to use sports metaphors but I think it’s the right one. This is Travis Kelce catching the ball on his own 40 and looking around and seeing there’s no one near him. And he’s just barreling downfield.

“ 'The Democrats are nowhere on the field. The press is nowhere on the field. The liberal interest groups are nowhere on the field. The reasons for their being so ill prepared, I think, will be studied eventually. I have never seen anything like, not just the activity but the inability, of his opponents to forget stopping him. They’re barely, with a few exceptions, even slowing him down.”

Schiff the Shameless
"Democrats are on the field. They have 12 men on the field in fact.

"The analogy is wrong because Kelce had a bad game. The Elgses (as the mayor spells them) won the Super Bowl. Trump is Philadelphia’s Cooper DeJean whose Pick Six (an interception that the defender takes in for a touchdown) sealed the game in the second quarter." . . .

. . ."So let these dumb bunnies hop on every little thing Trump does because it makes them look like the out-of-touch losers they have become. The last thing we want is another Democrat president." . . .     Full article here...