I'm not optimistic about that. The new guy is Newsom without the charm or good hair. He's already trying to erect the great wall of woke around the state. I'm frankly worried how many displaced CA residents are going to show up here in the next year or two because we are a 'safe blue state'. further skewing our politics up here.
Any comment on Tulsi's volte face on Section 702 ,which she was previously strongly opposed to, in order to get approved? It seems even some Republicans were putting pressure on her. Not a good sign.
If true, it's certainly a worrying sign -- though the way the story is being characterized reminds me of every anonymous slop story about Trump from 2016.
If we're at the point where the GOP will simply not confirm anybody who doesn't back 702, I'd rather have Tulsi there than somebody else, because her effectiveness is pretty detached from 702 in the first place.
Obviously it would be better to be able to approve of somebody who doesn't approve of 702, though.
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We'll know more when the actual hearing rolls around, but it hasn't been scheduled as of yesterday.
This, and other positive current events, are the results you get when the vacuum that was Biden's presidency is suddenly filling after four years of emptiness. History will accurately recall the period as the US having gone 4 years with the position vacant.
This also underlines the weak foot dragging of Slo Joe's "negotiations" and whoever/whatever is running his administration will claim this success as their own.
I paste in below an excerpt from the transcript of Martyr Made's most recent podcast--the prelude to his upcoming series on WWII from the German perspective. He's one of the scant handful of Substackers I think worth spending actual money on. But I found the paragraphs I quote here to have been such a powerful rebuke to me--one that I sure didn't want but sure did need--that I think everyone ought to read them. [It may be hard to follow since it's a transcript but I think it's worth the effort.]
"One need only look at the rhetoric from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the attack of October 7, 2023. People often ask me why that conflict gets me more animated than, say, a civil war in Sudan. There are several reasons, such as the fact that I just know a lot more people involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
and I know more about the conflict itself, and of course the fact that my own country has a great deal of, I would say, negative influence in that conflict. But one of the most visceral reasons... is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the only one that reliably turns many people I know and otherwise respect into raving, bloodthirsty lunatics.
Regular, normal, generally sane and humane people making excuses for the indiscriminate terrorism of Hamas. or cheering on the Israelis as leading cabinet ministers in that country compare Palestinians to Amalek, the Old Testament tribe whom the Israelites were commanded to wipe out down to the last infant. And when these people are confronted about it, supporters of both sides,
when they're not simply lying about what their own side has done, they offer the same excuses. The crimes of the other side are so barbaric that they have forfeited membership in the human race, and so the normal rules don't apply. We don't want to do this, but they give us no choice.
And when confronted with atrocities too glaring to talk their way around without putting themselves in an impossible position, they say... Well, of course I don't like or approve of that kind of thing, but given the situation, how do you expect people to react? And they have a point.
The Israelis have suffered brutal terrorist attacks since that country was founded. What do you expect? The Palestinians had their country taken from them by force and have been under military occupation for 60 years. What do you expect?"
I mean, it's not like the Palestinians didn't *get* their country by force in the first place. For that matter, so did we. Every square mile of Europe belongs to who it does due to war. The city I live in is surrounded on three side by Indian reservations. Gaza could have been a Mediterranean resort decades and decades ago. The leaders of their empire picked the wrong side in WWI. Same thing happened to lots of Germans after both world wars. Sometimes people just have to accept that they lost and move on with their lives. Palestinians and the people of surrounding countries have failed to do so over and over again, and they keep picking fights that they then lose. This has not resulted in positive changes for their life circumstances.
When you start with the basic premise that God hands out real estate, and you birth a couple of daughter cults with equally deranged ways of viewing the world, and the core of all three belief systems is that "Daddy loves me best," you are unlikely to solve your problems.
What if you start with the basic premise that people who announce they want to end your civilization and install a moral code from the 7th century are a danger to your way of life?
That premise is easily proven wrong. Jews have been assimilated into Western Civilization for centuries. Just as an example, they have won something like 15% of Nobel prizes while being less than 1% of the population.
Palestinians claim to fame is Munich, Entebbe, and 10/7.
If only the Islamic radicals would conclude the same thing. Unfortunately, they seem bent on global intifada. And have been welcomed with open arms into Western Civilization. Pretty sure “don’t play” is not what they are contemplating. So then what’s the best move?
There's a basic truth to life. All fundamentalists are crazy. And the rabid support of Christian Zionists for Israel has greatly impeded any reasonable hope for peace, for all these many decades.
Being a Jewish Zionist is just basic reality. We came from somewhere. One can adopt any or no religion as suits one, but ethnicity is indelible. It's only in America that Jews have the luxury of being able to not care about that. But rabid Jewish support for the worst of Israeli policies has greatly impeded any reasonable hope for peace too.
Pam Bondi promising to opening the books about the FBI hiring informants to spy on Americans is the cherry on top of the sundae today.
https://rumble.com/v69p7z4-bondi.html
I hope that she keeps her promise. I'm still awaiting release of all the J6 vids that Johnson promised before he got the speakership.
sure is
We've also said "so long" to Jay Inslee in Washington today!
Congrats!!! I hope stuff gets better for you guys!
I'm not optimistic about that. The new guy is Newsom without the charm or good hair. He's already trying to erect the great wall of woke around the state. I'm frankly worried how many displaced CA residents are going to show up here in the next year or two because we are a 'safe blue state'. further skewing our politics up here.
After I made the comment I saw Republic Jim's comment and immediately felt bad for you guys. 😢
It is nice to see Lord Inslee leave, but not really any comfort. Sideshow Bob will likely be even worse. 🤡
I gave him the "Well....bye" gif.
I'm thinking much worse.
Any comment on Tulsi's volte face on Section 702 ,which she was previously strongly opposed to, in order to get approved? It seems even some Republicans were putting pressure on her. Not a good sign.
Yep, from this thread:
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-re-americanization-of-america/comment/86347576
If true, it's certainly a worrying sign -- though the way the story is being characterized reminds me of every anonymous slop story about Trump from 2016.
If we're at the point where the GOP will simply not confirm anybody who doesn't back 702, I'd rather have Tulsi there than somebody else, because her effectiveness is pretty detached from 702 in the first place.
Obviously it would be better to be able to approve of somebody who doesn't approve of 702, though.
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We'll know more when the actual hearing rolls around, but it hasn't been scheduled as of yesterday.
Thanks, I somehow managed to miss that thread......
The discussion just happened this morning, so it would have been very easy to miss since the article was published last night.
When I try to go to this link I get this message:
This video is restricted/private
Not sure what that means. Why would someone put out a rumble message that is private?
Maybe I screwed up the settings, hold on......
Edit: Try now
Ditto
Try it now. I screwed up a setting.
It works now, thanks.
BOOM! I told you guys she's a bulldog
Ug, she just mentioned price gouging after the fires. I guess nobody's perfect.
Oh no. Now you got me thinking.
Unsurprisingly, a Senator later claimed oil companies are price gouging so now we have to go after them, don't you agree.........?
She pivoted back to emergencies, but..........
Sounds like she's still pro red flag laws, too.
Careful - thinking is not legal. Yet.
Biden claims the win when it was Trump that delivered it. Typical.
Biden administration is the reason why the war lasted this long. Had KH won the election, the war would only *expand*.
https://x.com/BMarchetich/status/1878615892822782072
The seething of the TDS afflicted leftoids has only just begun. The meltdowns on deck are going to be spectacular.
Get your popcorn ready.
I feel compelled to again note that I am not Jewish, just a Beatles fan.
This, and other positive current events, are the results you get when the vacuum that was Biden's presidency is suddenly filling after four years of emptiness. History will accurately recall the period as the US having gone 4 years with the position vacant.
This also underlines the weak foot dragging of Slo Joe's "negotiations" and whoever/whatever is running his administration will claim this success as their own.
If only Hamas had decided to do this a long time ago, they could have saved Gaza a lot of bombing.
Oh, I know.
Biden on taking credit.. guess all hell breaking loose. was the tipping point. thanks Donald
This is what happens when the baby sitter tells the kids that dad will be home in an hour and they better cleanup the mess.
All Hell hasn’t already broken loose across the middle east? Is he joking?
Wait, isn't there a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon? And isn't at least one of the countries still bombing the fk out of the other?
So what happens after the ceasefire in Gaza? Will people stop dying?
Of course, this will be chronicled by the presstitutes as a closing triumph of the wise old Sage of Scranton.
Pardons? What pardons?
Cross your fingers but don't hold your breath. Hamas doesn't want anyone to find out how few hostages are still living and/or sane.
good. let's keep our effing noses out of it now
I paste in below an excerpt from the transcript of Martyr Made's most recent podcast--the prelude to his upcoming series on WWII from the German perspective. He's one of the scant handful of Substackers I think worth spending actual money on. But I found the paragraphs I quote here to have been such a powerful rebuke to me--one that I sure didn't want but sure did need--that I think everyone ought to read them. [It may be hard to follow since it's a transcript but I think it's worth the effort.]
"One need only look at the rhetoric from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the attack of October 7, 2023. People often ask me why that conflict gets me more animated than, say, a civil war in Sudan. There are several reasons, such as the fact that I just know a lot more people involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
and I know more about the conflict itself, and of course the fact that my own country has a great deal of, I would say, negative influence in that conflict. But one of the most visceral reasons... is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the only one that reliably turns many people I know and otherwise respect into raving, bloodthirsty lunatics.
Regular, normal, generally sane and humane people making excuses for the indiscriminate terrorism of Hamas. or cheering on the Israelis as leading cabinet ministers in that country compare Palestinians to Amalek, the Old Testament tribe whom the Israelites were commanded to wipe out down to the last infant. And when these people are confronted about it, supporters of both sides,
when they're not simply lying about what their own side has done, they offer the same excuses. The crimes of the other side are so barbaric that they have forfeited membership in the human race, and so the normal rules don't apply. We don't want to do this, but they give us no choice.
And when confronted with atrocities too glaring to talk their way around without putting themselves in an impossible position, they say... Well, of course I don't like or approve of that kind of thing, but given the situation, how do you expect people to react? And they have a point.
The Israelis have suffered brutal terrorist attacks since that country was founded. What do you expect? The Palestinians had their country taken from them by force and have been under military occupation for 60 years. What do you expect?"
I mean, it's not like the Palestinians didn't *get* their country by force in the first place. For that matter, so did we. Every square mile of Europe belongs to who it does due to war. The city I live in is surrounded on three side by Indian reservations. Gaza could have been a Mediterranean resort decades and decades ago. The leaders of their empire picked the wrong side in WWI. Same thing happened to lots of Germans after both world wars. Sometimes people just have to accept that they lost and move on with their lives. Palestinians and the people of surrounding countries have failed to do so over and over again, and they keep picking fights that they then lose. This has not resulted in positive changes for their life circumstances.
When you start with the basic premise that God hands out real estate, and you birth a couple of daughter cults with equally deranged ways of viewing the world, and the core of all three belief systems is that "Daddy loves me best," you are unlikely to solve your problems.
What if you start with the basic premise that people who announce they want to end your civilization and install a moral code from the 7th century are a danger to your way of life?
What if we start with the basic premise that all Middle Eastern blood sacrifice cults are the same?
Islam is Judaism on energy drinks.
That premise is easily proven wrong. Jews have been assimilated into Western Civilization for centuries. Just as an example, they have won something like 15% of Nobel prizes while being less than 1% of the population.
Palestinians claim to fame is Munich, Entebbe, and 10/7.
But sure, try to make an equivalence there.
Thank you for proving the point of my first comment here.
On a very basic level, we want people to suffer consequences of defeat -- otherwise they'll attempt conquest forever.
And now Germany is well-fucked, again.
The only winning move for us is not to play. Like....at all.
If only the Islamic radicals would conclude the same thing. Unfortunately, they seem bent on global intifada. And have been welcomed with open arms into Western Civilization. Pretty sure “don’t play” is not what they are contemplating. So then what’s the best move?
There's a basic truth to life. All fundamentalists are crazy. And the rabid support of Christian Zionists for Israel has greatly impeded any reasonable hope for peace, for all these many decades.
Being a Jewish Zionist is just basic reality. We came from somewhere. One can adopt any or no religion as suits one, but ethnicity is indelible. It's only in America that Jews have the luxury of being able to not care about that. But rabid Jewish support for the worst of Israeli policies has greatly impeded any reasonable hope for peace too.
i think it's both ways.
there's one constant in mankind: conflict over real estate. we ain't gonna change that from our keyboards.
i just want us to stay the eff out of it.
There has never not been warfare in the Middle East from the beginnings of civilization.
Prezactly!
And nothing, absolutely NOTHING, is going to resolve that many thousands of years old tribal conflict.
So why do so many people, over so many centuries, keep trying?
Because the most fertile feature of the crescent is lunacy.
Being crazy is bad for people.