"Shem Tov said Hamas captors told him “we’re gonna shoot you” if they heard Israeli forces nearby, but his biggest fear was dying from Israel’s military campaign in the Palestinian enclave."
"A freed Israeli hostage revealed his Hamas tormentors “immediately” treated him better when President Trump was elected — and claimed the group of terrorists wanted Kamala Harris to win the 2024 election.
"Omer Shem Tov, 22, provided insight into Hamas’ political calculations as he detailed the hellish conditions he endured for more than 500 days after he was kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
" 'As soon as Donald Trump was elected, they understood that he wants to bring the hostages back home,” he told CNN in a new interviewpublished Wednesday.
“ 'So immediately the way they treated me changed … when Trump became president the way they treated us changed for me personally.”
"His captors provided him with more food while they stopped cursing at and spitting on him, Shem Tov told CNN’s Bianna Golodryga.
"His self-important and ridiculously pompous rant of a commencement speech fell flat." But did it? I visualize many of Pelley's audience wearing Keffiyehs, chanting pro-Hamas slogans like "Free, free Palestine!", without a clue what a Nazi is, holding signs saying "Hitler didn't finish the job!" and no fear of resistance from pro-Israel students. The Tunnel Dweller
The Scott Pelleys of the world have destroyed what used to be a profitable TV network and are now a drag on the ability of the parent company of that network to sell out and save itself from oblivion.
"Megyn Kelly was having none of it, for example…
. . ."This is a big part of why the Democrat Party is losing young people.
"Young people are genetically skeptical of authority, and here comes a humorless and smug Scott Pelley, all puffed up with himself, lying to them about how America is entering its darkest days under President Trump.
"Contrast that with Trump himself, who at least has a sense of humor, a sense of playfulness, optimism, and belief in the future.
"Think of Caddyshack. The Pelley v. Trump contest for the hearts and minds of the young is Judge Elihu Smails (Ted Knight) v. Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield). That’s no contest. So I’m not accused of being partisan, there’s a reason why former president Bill Clinton prevailed over his Republican political enemies, men who might have been morally right but came off as prudes and hypocrites.
"Plus, young people can feel how manipulative Pelley is. They instinctively understand that he is 1) fabricating a dark world so 2) people join his cult, his side of the political aisle.
"Also, don’t forget that these are people in their early 20s who suffered through the unnecessary and fascist COVID shutdowns and school closings, who had their proms, graduations, and homecomings canceled. They know who the villains are — and that’s authority that accuses you of being evil and racist if you question them.
"Pelley went at them in the exact wrong way. A sense of humor, some self-deprecation, and a little faith in the future go a long way with young people.
"Young people can smell a phony a mile away, and Scott Pelley is not only insufferable, he’s one of the phoniest." . . .
Anti-black racism, as an obstacle to success, has never been more insignificant. Thomas Sowell has said, "Racism is not dead, but it is on life support — kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists.'"
"Piers Morgan, in a February podcast, accused his guest, "trans activist" Blossom Brown, of "race-baiting." Brown replied, "Black women cannot be racist to white women." Brown then added this inability to be racist to white women extended to Morgan: "How am I racist to you? I'm Black. I can't be racist to you." Brown also accused Morgan of lacking "the intellectual capacity to understand" this position.
"Ryan Clark is a black ESPN host. After Donald Trump won reelection, he posted a video in which he said he voted for Kamala Harris, that former President Barack Obama's administration was "scandal free" and that Obama conducted his presidency with "grace and with elegance and with decency." As for Trump, Clark said: "The difficult part is I do understand that not everyone that supports him believes in his rhetoric. Not everyone that supports him thinks bigotry is OK ..."
"Ryan Clark recently spoke about the conflict between WNBA stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark and criticized former NFL star Robert Griffin III, who tweeted in support of Caitlin Clark. Ryan Clark said: "The one thing we know about RG3 is he's not having conversations at his home about what black women have to endure in this country. About what young black women and athletes like Angel Reese have had to deal with being on the opposite side of Caitlin Clark's rise and ascension into stardom.
"If you're RG3, when is the last time within your household you've had a conversation about what (Angel Reese is) dealing with? You haven't been able to do that because in both of your marriages, you've been married to white women."
"Ryan Clark insisted the failure to appreciate challenges faced by black females applies to black men who chose to "date or marry" white women. The man who referred to Trump's alleged "bigotry" engaged in his own. And, get this, Ryan, married to a black woman, has a biracial child through a previous relationship with a white woman.
"Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) made a similar slur against Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.). In a discussion about the breakdown of the nuclear family, Donalds factually noted that during Jim Crow, a black child was more likely than today to be raised by a married mother and father. Crockett said: "The fact that you're sitting around talking about 'life was better under Jim Crow,' like, is this because you don't understand history? Or literally it's because you married a white woman and so you think that whitewashed you?"
" 'Whitewashed"?
"Does this apply to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, former Vice President Kamala Harris, ex CNN host Don Lemon, to name a few, who married "outside their race"?" ...
"Today we see black politicians like Crockett — with no comment, let alone pushback, from Democratic Party leaders — using ugly rhetoric reminiscent of the white "crackers" of yesteryear."
Madeline Leesman“Transgender” influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney, the person at the center of the Bud Light controversy, recently landed a brand deal promoting a women’s fragrance.
"Mulvaney is the face of Jean Paul Gaultier’s new women’s perfume, “Divine.” He traveled to Morocco to shoot the advertising campaign for the product.
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"Time and time again, Mulvaney has robbed
women of opportunities. This is ...latest one.
“Transgender” influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney, the person at the center of the Bud Light controversy, recently landed a brand deal promoting a women’s fragrance.
"Mulvaney is the face of Jean Paul Gaultier’s new women’s perfume, “Divine.” He traveled to Morocco to shoot the advertising campaign for the product." . . .
"doll[slang] (noun): a specific kind of beautiful trans woman. The term emerged from drag and ballroom culture, but it is sometimes used by people outside that community. Inn online culture, “doll” is often used in apposition to the slur “hon,” as a doll/hon binary hierarchy of attractive/ugly or good/bad trans women." . . .
Rodriguez does not appear to be a radical Muslim. He is someone who has been radicalized in America by radical left groups that believe that killing Jews makes them ethical people.
"On Wednesday afternoon, Yaron Lischinsky was trying, as always, to fight lies.
"On social media he could be found pushing back against just one of the many big lies spread every day about the Jewish state.
"Specifically he was commenting on the UN Report which garnered headlines around the world.
"This was a completely lying, untrue report from one Tom Fletcher (UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs) that 14,000 Gazan babies were likely to die in the next 48 hours unless aid reached them.
Mr. Fletcher’s claim ignored every reality on the ground
That reality includes the fact that when aid trucks — including UN aid trucks — enter Gaza they tend to be hijacked by Hamas, who then use the aid for their terrorists or sell it at a hiked-up rate to the Gazan citizens it is meant for.
“Reputable” news organizations like the BBC spread the lie around the world.
For days they have been ramping up their coverage of Gaza. Always on a mission — a mission to claim that Gaza above any other story on earth needed to be the subject of media and international pressure.
The Jewish state was committing a “genocide” many of these outlets claimed.
On Wednesday the UN retracted its own report, but not until they had sent that brutal, brutal lie all over the world.
"This was a completely lying, untrue report from one Tom Fletcher (UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs) that 14,000 Gazan babies were likely to die in the next 48 hours unless aid reached them.
"Mr. Fletcher’s claim ignored every reality on the ground.That reality includes the fact that when aid trucks — including UN aid trucks — enter Gaza they tend to be hijacked by Hamas, who then use the aid for their terrorists or sell it at a hiked-up rate to the Gazan citizens it is meant for.
“ 'Reputable” news organizations like the BBC spread the lie around the world.
"For days they have been ramping up their coverage of Gaza. Always on a mission — a mission to claim that Gaza above any other story on earth needed to be the subject of media and international pressure.
"The Jewish state was committing a “genocide” many of these outlets claimed.
"On Wednesday the UN retracted its own report, but not until they had sent that brutal, brutal lie all over the world." . . .
Darren Linvill, co-director of the Media Forensics Hub at Clemson University, told NPR that it's not surprising that a video showing a world leader in such a position would go viral — or that it would be used to promote a certain agenda.
"In today's digital environment, I think it is not a question of whether it goes viral, it's to what ends people want to use that video for," he said. In this case, Macron — and other disinformation experts — say Russia is seizing the moment to try to make him look weak.
Doctrine of Hamas | Wilson Center"Since its creation in December 1987, Hamas has invoked militant interpretations of Islam to spearhead a Sunni extremist movement committed to destroying Israel. Hamas distanced itself from the longstanding Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)—an umbrella organization for disparate Palestinian factions that ranged from Marxist to secular nationalists—by propagating resistance in the religious context of jihad, or a holy struggle and martyrdom. “Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes,” Hamas said in its firststatementin the late 1980s. Predominantly Shiite Iran has armed, trained and funded Hamas since the late 1980s largely due to its opposition to Israel and Islamic ideology.
"Hamas is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement. It has called on members of the other two Abrahamic faiths—Judaism and Christianity—to accept Islamic rule in the Middle East. “It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region, because the day these followers should take over there will be nothing but carnage, displacement and terror,” it decreed. Hamas also rejected any prospect of peace or coexistence with the state of Israel. “Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with.” . . .
"Western cultural norms are not global norms. We need policy makers to wake up and recognize this -- and to do so fast. It is time for a significant shift in U.S. immigration policy, and for the U.S. government to act against anyone promoting murderous leftist ideology on university campuses."
"In a brief return to Britain, I was concerned to see that London has undergone a dramatic demographic change. The city of my birth is visibly more Muslim than it was even four years ago. On the Tube, I saw more hijabs than baseball caps. The Muslim niqab -- with its full face covering -- is no longer rare.
"For decades, Brits have not been allowed to question the wisdom of importing large numbers of people into a western society who do not share western values. (Brits who do so on social media risk going to prison). Instead, there was a lazy assumption that Muslim immigrants would eventually integrate. Rather than culturally converge, many Muslims living in Britain have culturally diverged.
"Forty three percent of British Muslims now want “the introduction of Sharia law.” Support for Sharia was even stronger among Muslims in London (49%), where Muslims now make up 15 percent of the population. More British Muslims fought for ISIS than currently serve in the British army.
"The United States has long been a melting pot, with a wonderful history of people from all over the world moving to America and becoming American. As an immigrant myself, I love the idea of people moving to America in order to become American. And becoming an American is about a lot more than getting a U.S. passport.
"Western cultural norms are not global norms. We need policy makers to wake up and recognize this -- and to do so fast. It is time for a significant shift in U.S. immigration policy, and for the U.S. government to act against anyone promoting murderous leftist ideology on university campuses." . . .
Learn to call for death to America and Israel in a Middle Eastern voice. TD
. . ."Meanwhile death threats against President Trump continue to accumulate. Moreover, multiple members of his Cabinet have been the victims of death threats, bomb threats, and swatting — often before being confirmed by the Senate. This has been incited by Democrat “leaders” such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)" . . .
"President Trump’s return to the White House and his populist agenda constitute an existential threat to a Democratic Party so unpopular with its own voters that it is in danger of going the way of the Whigs. Several recent polls have revealed that only about 1 in 3 Democrats are optimistic about the future of their party. In response to this crisis, their leaders have reverted to their longstanding tradition of inciting political violence. James Comey claims he is “nonaligned” politically, yet his now notorious “8647” Instagram post was all too typical of Democrat calls for the President’s assassination.
"If the Democrats were at all sincere when they insist that violence has no place in America, they wouldn’t use so much graphic imagery. Former President Biden told donors, a mere five days before Donald Trump was shot in Pennsylvania, “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” Biden later provided a semi-coherent rationale for using those words during an NBC interview, but the irresponsible rhetoric has never stopped. As recently as three weeks ago, for example, the Democratic governor of Illinois issued a thinly veiled call for violent protests which included this admonition: “These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.”
"This is perfectly consistent with the rhetoric that has been deployed against Trump by Democrats and “Never-Trumpers” since he entered presidential politics in 2015. In October of that year Rick Wilson, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, appeared on MSNBC and offered this wisdom: “They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.” Even after the first attempt on Trump’s life, former Biden staffer Kate Bedingfield opined on CNN that Democrats should “turn their fire on Donald Trump.” The connection between such imagery and the assassination attempts was not lost on the voters per an NBC poll:" . . .
" Most importantly, a pluralist agenda doesn’t treat voters as angry mobs to be mobilized but as civic equals to be empowered."
"In their quest to win back working-class voters and compete in battleground states, many Democrats have convinced themselves that the best way to beat Trumpism is to copy it — at least on economics. The new playbook is built around economic populism: tariffs, industrial policy, big government checks, and a willingness to bash corporations, billionaires, and free markets in the same breath. But while this might make for good focus group fodder, it’s a long-term loser — for the Democratic Party, and for American democracy.
"MAGA populism isn’t just about economic pain; it’s about channeling that pain into resentment, isolation and authoritarian politics. When Democrats try to meet that energy with their own brand of populism — whether from the progressive left or the blue-collar center — they validate the frame that all of America’s problems are caused by “them” — elites, foreigners, corporations or coastal urbanites. This style of politics undermines democratic institutions, reduces trust in pluralistic compromise and feeds a dangerous cycle of permanent grievance.
"Instead of competing with President Trump on who can rage louder against the machine, Democrats should offer an alternative vision rooted in civic renewal, economic dignity and democratic accountability. That means rejecting both laissez-faire complacency and populist demagoguery.
"There is a third way — and it’s not centrism for its own sake. It’s pluralism: the idea that the best way to rebuild trust in American democracy is not by consolidating power, but by decentralizing it; not by punishing “bad guys,” but by empowering citizens; not by demonizing markets, but by making them work better for everyone.
"A pluralist economic agenda would emphasize regional development over Beltway industrial policy deals. It would strengthen local entrepreneurship and cooperative ownership instead of doubling down on megaproject subsidies. It would treat tax reform as a civic obligation, not a populist weapon. And it would champion economic inclusion — especially for those left behind — without scapegoating those who succeed." . . .
"Access to Biden was so tightly managed that only a chosen few could even speak to him. So when Americans voted for Biden, they were really voting for his staff.
The unelected team ran the show while Biden stayed out of the spotlight."
"Former President Joe Biden’s administration faced intense scrutiny last week following the simultaneous release of devastating health news and explosive allegations about his presidency’s inner workings.
"Biden received a diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones, a condition that medical experts typically consider terminal.
"The diagnosis drew widespread sympathy, including supportive comments from President Donald Trump.
"The health revelation coincided with the publication of “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” a book that presents damaging allegations about Biden’s capacity to serve as president.
"The book’s co-authors, Axios reporter Alex Thompson and CNN’s Jake Tapper, made startling claims about who actually controlled the Biden administration during his presidency.
"Thompson revealed that a small group of individuals, referred to within the administration as “the Politburo,” effectively ran the White House operations.
"The term “Politburo” traditionally describes the policy-making class of communist states." . . .
"President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from California over transgender women competing in women's sports in a post on hisTruth Socialaccount Tuesday."
"California, under the leadership of Radical Left Democrat Gavin Newscum, continues to ILLEGALLY allow 'MEN TO PLAY IN WOMEN'S SPORTS.' This week a transitioned Male athlete, at a major event, won 'everything,' and is now qualified to compete in the 'State Finals' next weekend," Trump wrote.
"As a Male, he was a less than average competitor. As a Female, this transitioned person is practically unbeatable. THIS IS NOT FAIR, AND TOTALLY DEMEANING TO WOMEN AND GIRLS. Please be hereby advised that large-scale Federal Funding will be held back, maybe permanently, if the Executive Order on this subject matter is not adhered to," Trump continued. The Governor, himself, said it is 'UNFAIR.' I will speak to him today to find out which way he wants to go??? In the meantime, I am ordering local authorities, if necessary, to not allow the transitioned person to compete in the State Finals. This is a totally ridiculous situation!!!"
"According to the New York Post, Trump appeared to be referencing AB Hernandez, a transgender athlete, who recently won the women's long jump and triple jump during a state Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Masters meet.Hernandez is set to compete in the CIF state championships in Fresno this weekend, theNew York Postreported.
"The White House is withholding federal education dollars from Maine over its refusal to ban transgender students from competing in girls' sports.
"California receives about $16.3 billion in federal education funding each year, the LA Times reported."
