And the United States Armed Forces, his own personal army, navy, and airforce and all the intelligence agencies at his bidding. He is aiming to rule as a King and a very bad King at that.
They keep making strategic mistake after strategic mistake but then come begging and begging for somebody to save them from their own stupidity. They demand absolute respect while they go to the bathroom on everybody else but get pissy when you point this out. They can speak at great length and with much elegance on how Israel is blight upon all of Islam but can't understand why Jews don't want to be citizens of a Muslim state complete with rules against apostasy and blasphemy that is part of bigger Muslim world.
Uncommitted Michigan delegate begs for Biden to do something about Netanyahu before Trump takes over. We haven't seen this level of chutzpah for a long time.
Either this is a very bad joke or real but there are rumors of Boebert for Secretary of Education. I can not find anything to verify whether this is real or somebody making a very bad joke.
The UN Convention Against Genocide is broadly written to the point of uselessness. It defines the inflicting of serious physical or mental harm as genocide. That would technically mean the US intervention against Serbia during the Balkan Wars was genocide and you really need to be out there to say that with a straight face. I get why the convention was written this way. They didn't want war criminals to have wiggle room at trial but most people would not call brutal war a genocide. This is why the Left is both technically correct under the convention definition but also falling flat on the face with people who don't agree with them because most people define genocide more narrowly than the UN convention.
A commentator on the other blog also noted that the Left doesn't just consider liberal support for Israel wrong, they consider it illegitimate. Liberal Pro-Israel people tend to see the Pro-Palestinian Left as wrong but not that their beliefs are so bad to have that they must not even be expressed or that we can't see how somebody would come to those conclusions. The Left has the same sort of treatment of the Jews as an illegitimate minority. This is why books like David Baddiel's Jews Don't Count rang a chord with Jews everywhere.
 I just really want to know what is going on in the headspace of the people who think that taking a more anti-Israel stance or really a harder left stance would be a great political winning message. They seem to be able to hold two simultaneously contradictory thoughts in their heads at the same time. One is that America is an imperialist white supremacist misogynist nation that voted for Trump because he represents that. The other is that there is a real yearning for hard left politics in the United States. Both these things can't be true.
A Fox News Host is going to be our next Secretary of Defense. Governor Dog Killer is the Secretary of DHS. Rubio at state is really bad but at least still in the normal parameters. Are you not entertained?
I went to high school with Nick Grossman. He was a year below me and my brother. He is absolutely correct on this. Nutpicking works a lot better for the right than it does the liberal-left spectrum as a political strategy. This was true before the Internet but the Internet makes it worse. I have no idea how to combat this but a lot of people are going to learn that they played a very stupid game and are about to win some very stupid prizes.
The good people in Dearborn fished around and found out. Now enormity of what they have done is dawning on them. Next up will be the Latino men and women that voted for Trump.
I definitely think that some re-invention for the Democratic Party is needed but this is going to be very hard to pull off, especially in the way that American political parties are structured and somebody who doesn't have Trump's cult of personality to remake the party in their image. Latinos had made it very clear that they like the term Latinx and DEI is unpopular but there are more than a few DEI true believers that simply won't be moved and won't stop using that term because they are right damn it. Same with the issue of crime. More than a few ideologically committed people believe the way forward is to run every district like it is AOC's district or Vermont until it becomes more liberal by learning to like it.
That is certainly possible as well. The trigger point seems weak but we also have similar weak trigger points causing massive outbursts of violence and anger like the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. Trigger point or no trigger point, the argument remains the same. It does nothing to convince Jews that we would be better off without Israel.
Everybody has their own hot takes including myself and they are basically in agreement with this guy. But while Trump won the popular and electoral college vote this time, the Democratic Party did well in Congressional elections and state elections. Liberal ballot messages won. 2024 could simply be nothing more than the general anti-incumbent backlash that happened because of COVID fallout and Trump being popular in many quarters. Somebody like Nikki Haley might have caused greater loses for the Democratic Party because she doesn't read as much as a hate figure as Trump from the libearl-left spectrum or caused Harris to win because she doesn't have Trump's celebrity and ability to mobilize low propensity voters.
The trigger point was apparently an Israeli being respect to a Palestinian flag or something. I do not understand this. Every time you have a big anti-Jewish riot or something since the Holocaust, the majority response from the world's Jews is "at least we have Israel and the IDF now" or "this is why we need Israel" but the Pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli side never seems to either get this or they actively believe Jews should be in danger. Like they are making the arguments for Zionism but don't realize this.
There was a real but hidden enthusiasm for many people to vote for Trump. In fact many people seemed to only literally want to vote for Trump and did not vote for anything else on the ballot. This seemed especially true in Nevada and North Carolina. One of the theories I've been working out in the head is maybe that the nature of politics in the ages of memes, TikToks, and vibes has changed and the Right picked it up a lot earlier globally. The British historian Dominic Sandbrook notes that one of the strengths of the Conservatives under Thatcher compared to Labour politicians was that they picked up on the use of ads and TV earlier. Labour kept running over old school campaigns and lost heavily until Neil Kinnock became head of Labour. Republicans and the Global Right seem to know how to use social media more to get out voters than the Global Left.
On “Open Mic for the week of 11/11/2024”
Kentucky bourbon distillers are concerned about Trump's tariffs despite voting for him:
https://www.wkyt.com/2024/11/14/kentucky-distillers-express-concerns-about-possible-tariffs/
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And the United States Armed Forces, his own personal army, navy, and airforce and all the intelligence agencies at his bidding. He is aiming to rule as a King and a very bad King at that.
On “The Four Stages of Post-election Cruelty”
The American people fished around and found out.
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Future historians are going to find so many people saying they voted for Harris, that they aren't quite sure how she lost.
On “Open Mic for the week of 11/11/2024”
They keep making strategic mistake after strategic mistake but then come begging and begging for somebody to save them from their own stupidity. They demand absolute respect while they go to the bathroom on everybody else but get pissy when you point this out. They can speak at great length and with much elegance on how Israel is blight upon all of Islam but can't understand why Jews don't want to be citizens of a Muslim state complete with rules against apostasy and blasphemy that is part of bigger Muslim world.
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Uncommitted Michigan delegate begs for Biden to do something about Netanyahu before Trump takes over. We haven't seen this level of chutzpah for a long time.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1856786479793766549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1856786479793766549%7Ctwgr%5E948c22907efe762587a9680ecda45991da831b28%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2Fembed%2Fcomments%2F%3Fbase%3Ddefaultf%3Dlawyersgunsmoneyblog-comt_i%3D14615020https3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F3Fp3D146150t_u%3Dhttps3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F20242F112Fi-sleep-in-a-big-bed-with-laura-loomert_e%3DE2809CI20sleep20in20a20big20bed20with20Laura20LoomerE2809Dt_d%3D22I20sleep20in20a20big20bed20with20Laura20Loomer2220-20Lawyers2C20Guns202620Moneyt_t%3DE2809CI20sleep20in20a20big20bed20with20Laura20LoomerE2809Ds_o%3Ddescversion%3D2f004bcca512a26c144adf0de41046de
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Either this is a very bad joke or real but there are rumors of Boebert for Secretary of Education. I can not find anything to verify whether this is real or somebody making a very bad joke.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/trump-taps-rep-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general.html
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It's funny because it's true:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c0bacbfe096542f30180d982d3291191e2a81f9ef4b6c6140c788229b4dbc928.jpg
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This is the most succinct distinction between Lawful Evil and Chaotic Evil possible using current politics:
https://bsky.app/profile/jacobtlevy.bsky.social/post/3latdcloizs2j
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The UN Convention Against Genocide is broadly written to the point of uselessness. It defines the inflicting of serious physical or mental harm as genocide. That would technically mean the US intervention against Serbia during the Balkan Wars was genocide and you really need to be out there to say that with a straight face. I get why the convention was written this way. They didn't want war criminals to have wiggle room at trial but most people would not call brutal war a genocide. This is why the Left is both technically correct under the convention definition but also falling flat on the face with people who don't agree with them because most people define genocide more narrowly than the UN convention.
A commentator on the other blog also noted that the Left doesn't just consider liberal support for Israel wrong, they consider it illegitimate. Liberal Pro-Israel people tend to see the Pro-Palestinian Left as wrong but not that their beliefs are so bad to have that they must not even be expressed or that we can't see how somebody would come to those conclusions. The Left has the same sort of treatment of the Jews as an illegitimate minority. This is why books like David Baddiel's Jews Don't Count rang a chord with Jews everywhere.
"
 I just really want to know what is going on in the headspace of the people who think that taking a more anti-Israel stance or really a harder left stance would be a great political winning message. They seem to be able to hold two simultaneously contradictory thoughts in their heads at the same time. One is that America is an imperialist white supremacist misogynist nation that voted for Trump because he represents that. The other is that there is a real yearning for hard left politics in the United States. Both these things can't be true.
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A Fox News Host is going to be our next Secretary of Defense. Governor Dog Killer is the Secretary of DHS. Rubio at state is really bad but at least still in the normal parameters. Are you not entertained?
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I went to high school with Nick Grossman. He was a year below me and my brother. He is absolutely correct on this. Nutpicking works a lot better for the right than it does the liberal-left spectrum as a political strategy. This was true before the Internet but the Internet makes it worse. I have no idea how to combat this but a lot of people are going to learn that they played a very stupid game and are about to win some very stupid prizes.
"
The good people in Dearborn fished around and found out. Now enormity of what they have done is dawning on them. Next up will be the Latino men and women that voted for Trump.
On “He Got Away With It”
It could also be that we just have a very polarized electorate with no ideological center.
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Group number 3 needs a hit in the privates and smack on the head.
On “Open Mic for the week of 11/4/2024”
I definitely think that some re-invention for the Democratic Party is needed but this is going to be very hard to pull off, especially in the way that American political parties are structured and somebody who doesn't have Trump's cult of personality to remake the party in their image. Latinos had made it very clear that they like the term Latinx and DEI is unpopular but there are more than a few DEI true believers that simply won't be moved and won't stop using that term because they are right damn it. Same with the issue of crime. More than a few ideologically committed people believe the way forward is to run every district like it is AOC's district or Vermont until it becomes more liberal by learning to like it.
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This article confirms that you are right:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14063329/Amsterdam-rioters-planned-Jew-hunt-Telegram-attacked-Israeli-football-fans.html
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That is certainly possible as well. The trigger point seems weak but we also have similar weak trigger points causing massive outbursts of violence and anger like the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. Trigger point or no trigger point, the argument remains the same. It does nothing to convince Jews that we would be better off without Israel.
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Everybody has their own hot takes including myself and they are basically in agreement with this guy. But while Trump won the popular and electoral college vote this time, the Democratic Party did well in Congressional elections and state elections. Liberal ballot messages won. 2024 could simply be nothing more than the general anti-incumbent backlash that happened because of COVID fallout and Trump being popular in many quarters. Somebody like Nikki Haley might have caused greater loses for the Democratic Party because she doesn't read as much as a hate figure as Trump from the libearl-left spectrum or caused Harris to win because she doesn't have Trump's celebrity and ability to mobilize low propensity voters.
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There was an anti-Semitic riot in Amsterdam that targeted Israeli soccer fans in the city for a match and local Jews:
https://www.reuters.com/world/israels-pm-aware-very-violent-incident-against-israelis-amsterdam-his-office-2024-11-08/
The trigger point was apparently an Israeli being respect to a Palestinian flag or something. I do not understand this. Every time you have a big anti-Jewish riot or something since the Holocaust, the majority response from the world's Jews is "at least we have Israel and the IDF now" or "this is why we need Israel" but the Pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli side never seems to either get this or they actively believe Jews should be in danger. Like they are making the arguments for Zionism but don't realize this.
On “History Was Made in 2024 Election, Now What?”
There was a real but hidden enthusiasm for many people to vote for Trump. In fact many people seemed to only literally want to vote for Trump and did not vote for anything else on the ballot. This seemed especially true in Nevada and North Carolina. One of the theories I've been working out in the head is maybe that the nature of politics in the ages of memes, TikToks, and vibes has changed and the Right picked it up a lot earlier globally. The British historian Dominic Sandbrook notes that one of the strengths of the Conservatives under Thatcher compared to Labour politicians was that they picked up on the use of ads and TV earlier. Labour kept running over old school campaigns and lost heavily until Neil Kinnock became head of Labour. Republicans and the Global Right seem to know how to use social media more to get out voters than the Global Left.
On “2024 Election Day Live Stream, Reaction, Open Thread”
Stephen Miller is freaking out:
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1853942454753378511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1853942454753378511%7Ctwgr%5E2afeb00443c54a3b55dbebeca38c3fc331bfb2ba%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2Fembed%2Fcomments%2F%3Fbase%3Ddefaultf%3Dlawyersgunsmoneyblog-comt_i%3D14595820https3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F3Fp3D145958t_u%3Dhttps3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F20242F112Fan-inclusive-message-from-herr-millert_e%3DAn20Inclusive20Message20from20Herr20Millert_d%3DAn20Inclusive20Message20from20Herr20Millert_t%3DAn20Inclusive20Message20from20Herr20Millers_o%3Ddescversion%3Dd9bf63667ed03c99c8fc502b196e66ef
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Republicans are lighting their Emergency Signal in Clark County.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/93ca5c9843688488fdd0d794852cf79994d029871e274a135cbaca7c806e48df.jpg
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