Lies, Damn Lies, and Democratic Operatives
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My direct paternal great grandfather was a Jew born in Lithuania.
He was sent to America at the age of 14 in 1886 to join the family of a maternal side uncle.
I gather that his branch of the family were non-Zionist.
However, I do not think that Louis would support attacks on Zionists.
He was sent to America at the age of 14 in 1886 to join the family of a maternal side uncle.
I gather that his branch of the family were non-Zionist.
However, I do not think that Louis would support attacks on Zionists.
Retired Gen., Former CIA Director Michael Hayden Apparently Just Called For the Death of a U.S. Senator
Former CIA Director and retired Gen. Michael Hayden seemed to call for the death of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) Monday night.
Quoting a Twitter post that asked, "Should Tommy Tuberville be removed from his committee? Yes or No?" Hayden wrote, "How about the human race?"
Tuberville has been bullied by Senate Democrats and know-nothing pundits since last December over his opposition to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's creation of an "abortion tourism benefit." As Streiff explained:
Unlike many Republicans, Tuberville has remained steadfast in his opposition and continues to place holds on senior military promotions. Hayden's retired. What does he care? Or is Tuberville blocking nominees for whom Hayden greased the skids?
This Is What ‘Decolonization’ Looks Like
On Saturday, as the raping and murdering and kidnapping were happening in Israel, Najma Sharif, a writer for Soho House magazine and Teen Vogue, posted on X: “What did y’all think decolonization meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.”
So far, Sharif’s post has been liked 100,000 times and reposted nearly 23,000 times—by, among others, The Washington Post’s global opinions editor, Karen Attiah.
The point was: Don’t be squeamish. Never mind the Jewish girl being pulled by her hair with blood streaming between her legs. Never mind the women being raped beside the corpses of their friends at a music festival. Never mind the children and babies snatched from their parents.
American Library Association president says libraries, public schools need to be ‘sites of socialist organizing’
Emily Drabinski, who also is an associate professor at Queens College, got in line at the microphone and introduced herself as a librarian during the question-and-answer part of a session called “Freedom to Learn: Black And Asian American Solidarity Against Attacks on Antiracist Education,” according to undercover journalist Karlyn Borysenko.“I just want to say thank you for bringing up libraries and classroom libraries, but also school libraries of all kinds, public libraries and high educational libraries who have been under attack in similar ways,” Drabinski said, according to an audio recording captured and posted by Borysenko.
“I think your point that public education needs to be a site of socialist organizing,” Drabinski added. “I think libraries really do too ... I haven’t seen that working in libraries. But I think there’s real opportunity here to both connect with happening in public education, what’s happening in libraries, but also we need some help in the libraries. We need to be on the agenda of socialist organizing.”
Hamas atrocities expose peril of liberals’ long embrace of Palestinians and Iran
Security experts said the weekend attacks exposed the peril of a decade-long Democrat pursuit of an elusive deal to end Iran’s nuclear and terrorist activities combined with a romanticism in liberal academic and political circles of a Palestinian "struggle."
That "struggle" has repeatedly resorted to inflicting terrorist casualties on innocent civilians dating to the days of Yasser Arafat and the Achille Lauro ship hijacking, where a wheelchair-bound American Jew was executed and thrown overboard.
Over the years the names of sponsoring organizations have changed – Arafat’s PLO and the related Palestinian Liberation Front of yesteryear or today’s Hamas and Islamic Jihad – but the ties to Iran’s mullahs and the tactics of indiscriminate violence have remained the same, the experts said. Some suggested the weekend’s attacks were even more vile and heinous, akin to the horror inflicted by ISIS in the last decade, and that reality can no longer be ignored.
“The danger is not just to Israel,” former Obama-era Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Just the News on Tuesday night. “The enemy we face in Hamas is the same enemy that America faces in ISIS and Al Qaeda. It is a radical, medieval, vicious, brutal, barbaric, jihadist group.
“It’s not a clash of civilizations … it's a clash between a civilization and a different universe, a very dark and evil universe. And you have to believe in evil,” Oren said during an interview conducted from a bomb shelter with the Just the News, No Noise television show. “These are people who behead babies, repeatedly rape young women and strip them and march them naked through the streets of Gaza so they can be spat upon and beaten, who take entire families out and shoot them.”
House Democrat renounces Democratic Socialists of America over NYC rally
The Sunday rally followed the Hamas raid and was met with widespread claims of anti-Semitism. A litany of Democrats, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, repudiated the demonstrators and characterized the rally as "abhorrent and morally repugnant," according to Politico.
The DSA's involvement prompted scrutiny of many progressive lawmakers who maintain ties to the organization, though Thanedar appeared to be the first to formally sever the connection.
"Today, I am officially renouncing my membership in the Democratic Socialists of America," Thanedar said in a statement. "After the brutal terrorist attacks on Israel, which included the indiscriminate murder, rape, and kidnapping of children, I can no longer associate with an organization unwilling to call out terrorism in all its forms."
"Sunday's hate-filled and antisemitic rally in New York City, promoted by the NYC-DSA, makes it impossible for me to continue my affiliation. I stand with Israel and its right to defend itself. There is no place for moral equivocation in the face of unadulterated evil as we have seen from Hamas," he concluded.
SPLC Won’t Say Whether It Plans To Designate Left-Wing Groups Supporting Slaughter In Israel As Hate Groups
Southern Poverty Law Center refused to tell The Federalist whether it plans to designate as hate groups the left-wing organizations that responded to the murders of more than 1,200 Israelis and 22 Americans at the hands of Hamas by excusing or blatantly ‘standing with’ the terrorists.
The SPLC claims to “monitor hate groups and other extremists throughout the United States,” including many of which it says are “far right” antisemitic organizations. In years past, SPLC largely focused its efforts on tarnishing organizations with Christian missions or conservative ties.
These partisan designations, decried by Republicans and the organizations as smears, were then used by the FBI, Democrats, Big Tech, and woke corporations to investigate and censor the left’s political opponents.
I predict SPLC will take NO actions
What Can Be Done About the Pro-Hamas Left?
I can’t understand why left-leaning Jews haven’t acknowledged what’s been happening to their party, but it is happening. I’ve noted for years that anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment has become increasingly fashionable in the Democratic Party over the years, particularly during Obama’s two terms. He spent two decades in the pews of his anti-Semitic pastor’s church, he surrounded himself with anti-Semites throughout his presidency, and for too long, so-called progressive Jews turned a blind eye to it. Now, as the Israel-Hamas war rages on, we’re seeing how bad it’s really gotten.
It isn’t just a small group of left-leaning groups that are aligning themselves with Hamas. The pro-Hamas left is all around us. Its members are serving in the government, promoting propaganda in the media, and teaching the younger generations in academia.
Various members of Congress like the so-called “Squad” either refused to condemn the attacks or tried to pin equal blame on Hamas and Israel for the ongoing conflict. Liberal networks and papers have managed to find ways to blame Israel for the conflict and criticize the Jewish state for defending itself.
Sonny Hostin, a co-host of ABC’s “The View,” even accused Israel of committing “terror” and “war crimes” and bizarrely equated the terrorist group with the Proud Boys. “Hamas has been designated a terror organization just like many other terror organizations have had this designation, like the Proud Boys here in the United States,” she said.
Former CIA Boss Has No Regrets About Rigging 2020 With Hunter Biden Laptop Lies
Panetta excused using his intelligence credentials to influence a presidential election by telling Baier, “Well, Bret, look, I was extremely concerned about, uh, Russian, uh, interference and misinformation. And we all know intelligence agencies discovered that Russia had continued to push disinformation across the board. And my concern was to kind of alert the public to be aware that these disinformation efforts went on. And frankly, I haven’t seen any evidence from any intelligence agency that that was not the case.”
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Yet when Baier pushed him on the letter one last time, Panetta responded by trying to cover up one discredited, government-laundered disinformation operation with another one: “No, I don’t have any regrets about not trusting the Russians.”
Of course he’s not sorry. Lying to Americans and the press works, baby. Not one Democrat or intelligence official has had to pay a serious price for weaponizing U.S. intelligence agencies into partisan actors, a harbinger of totalitarianism. Why would they regret what works so well? Worst-case scenario, they maybe have to endure hearings in Congress that never result in firings, loss of funds, or restrictions on their powers.
Panetta surely knows that intelligence actors like him have massive control over what Americans know about public affairs, and thus election results. They can lie until the cows come home, and nobody whose voice is allowed to be heard will call them on it. It’s this dynamic that so conveniently boosts their power.
A vast array of often government-funded “nonprofit” intelligence agency cutouts flag narratives that damage Democrats and pressure internet monopolies to turn down their volume. That’s the subject of a massive First Amendment case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Leftists Can’t Acknowledge Real Terrorists Without Exposing ‘Terrorist’ Smears Of Republicans As Ridiculous
After Hamas’ violent attacks on Israel last week, Rep. Ilhan Omar finally found someone she can condemn as a “terrorist”: Ohio Republican Jim Jordan.
Omar chose this moment in world events to resurrect and post a quote from former House Speaker John Boehner describing Jordan as a “legislative terrorist” (a description Boehner apparently used to complain about Jordan’s ability to make “Boehner’s life miserable”).
Thankfully, others have stepped up to disavow the heinous behavior of Hamas. A San Francisco Board of Supervisors declaration condemned the “domestic terrorist organization” and blamed its sponsor states for putting “weapons in the hands of those who would harm and terrorize us.” Rep. Jamaal Bowman called for focusing “energy” on fighting “the Nazis” before “anything else.” The National School Boards Association wrote to the attorney general about the “immediate threat” posed by “actions of malice [and] violence,” urging a response to “terrorism and hate crimes.” Whoopi Goldberg of “The View” bravely denounced them as “terrorists.” Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage condemned the “terrorist” at the top.
Omar, to her credit, decried the “ethnic cleansing” and “war crimes.”
Just kidding! None of these principled condemnations were directed at the terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israeli civilians last week. Issued over the past several years, they respectively referred to the National Rifle Association, Republicans in Congress, concerned parents at school board meetings, congressional Republicans (again), and Donald Trump. Omar’s “ethnic cleansing” comment was actually about Israel urging residents and others in Gaza to evacuate before incoming airstrikes against Hamas targets, while her “war crimes” remark slammed Israel for turning off electricity in Hamas-controlled territory.
Meanwhile, left-wing college students, their professors, and other congressional Democrats have found themselves unable to condemn the actual terrorists who killed, raped, and kidnapped unsuspecting Israelis and their families. Student groups and Marxist outfits like Black Lives Matter have aligned themselves with the terrorists, while others have reserved harsher words for the defending Israeli forces than for their attackers.
Why is it so hard to call a terrorist — a real one, who murders families in their homes and, yes, beheads babies — a terrorist? For a known antisemite like Omar, the answer is easy enough to discern.
For Marxists like BLM and their drones in college classrooms, it’s only slightly more complicated. Having been taught to see everything through the lens of oppressors and oppressed, they buy into the lies about Israeli “colonizers” and must therefore stand with the
But there’s another hurdle to leftists admitting the terrorist acts committed by Hamas are, in fact, terrorism. To do so would invite comparison between those terrorists — of the raping, killing, and beheading variety — and the Republican “terrorists” that Democrats have assured us pose the greatest threat to the republic.
It looks pretty silly to call a potential speaker of the House of Representatives a “terrorist” when there’s so much real terrorism going on in the world. It looks equally silly to call Republicans “Nazis” while your own side cheers the deaths of hundreds of Jewish victims. No serious person could take a person like that seriously!
State Department Official Resigns Over US Support of Israel and More Are Looking for an Exit
If you read the letter Paul sent to colleagues explaining his decision, and I encourage you to do so, you begin to understand why the "deep state" is a real thing. Paul is a career civil servant. His job is literally to execute the foreign policy of the United States as determined by the President and Congress. He is under the misapprehension that his role is to shape policy.
Sorry, chief, saying you've morally compromised yourself for a decade, but this is too much sounds as convincing as a hooker saying, "I won't do that." What you're calling a moral issue is, in reality, a political one. You don't get to virtue signaling by quitting.
Of course, his colleagues loved it.
This is what a disloyal Fifth Column looks like. These people are putting their group identity before the interests of the United States or the policy of the government they purport to serve. The real hoot is complaining about having their loyalty questioned when they want to intervene in US policy on behalf of a terrorist group because they share the same religion. For some reason, Japanese, German, and Italian Americans could get beyond this racial/religious/ethnic identity and loyally serve the nation during World War II. But Muslim appointees can't do that. Amazing. Yep, anyone who would question their loyalties is just bonkers.
This points to a massive problem within the federal government. There are thousands of guys, like Paul, who believe they have the right to shape US policy without having been elected or holding a presidential appointment. Hundreds of Muslim appointees believe the fact that they share a religion with a terrorist group gives them some special right to be consulted. If we are fortunate enough to get another Republican president, and I'm not holding my breath, there needs to be a major housecleaning. The people in the civil service must not only be loyal to the nation, they must understand they implement policy, they don't make it.
Indulging The Left’s Historical Revisionism Has Consequences
Patronizing People’s Delusions
To put the Pasqual-Charlie claim in perspective, consider the fact that humans have only had written language for about 5,500 years. Alternatively, cultures that lack written languages, instead relying on oral traditions to communicate their folklore, mythology, and socio-cultural rites, are capable of verbally passing down information for many generations. Perhaps, some historians and anthropologists have surmised, these oral traditions may be related to real ancient events that happened thousands of years ago. However, these arguments are usually based on the most specious of speculation, given the obvious difficulty in effectively verifying some folk tale with a specific event like, say, a natural disaster or a human migration.
In other words, the likelihood that a particular culture, even one with strong oral traditions, would maintain stories that could reasonably date how long they have lived in a particular place, or how they got there in the first place, is about as likely as you and your mother simultaneously winning the lottery.
To wit, it was not any oral tradition in Middle Eastern, European, or Asian culture that led the majority of scientists to assess the human species originated out of Africa, but via human fossils and archaeological remains. With all due respect to Ms. Pasqual-Charlie, assertions — even innocent, well-intentioned ones — about ancient oral traditions regarding the duration of human existence in the Americas are simply balderdash.
And yet, really, who is most to blame for this woman’s quotation appearing in national media but The Washington Post itself? It is WaPo that is cynically patronizing Pascqual-Charlie and her entirely unconfirmable claims for the purported sake of foregrounding the voices of marginalized peoples, as they’d likely put it. But this example is just the tip of the iceberg.