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April 1, 2025
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/24/2025”
No flu vaccine for the 2025/2026 season:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/fda-flu-vaccine.html?smid=nytcore-android-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawIwOI9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZMppzd0diXyQjtLE1z7VymddRymHBEM-mY_5tXT2kgjPa4UxWmomHYwaA_aem_jBS1sqaEutFC5Vg1pp08ZA
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"This isn't the President Trump I voted for. This isn't the President Trump in my headspace." It is dismally amazing that so many people are capable of creating their own reality in their headspace.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1j0w1mo/but_sir_i_was_just_an_innocent_bystander/#lightbox
On “In Times Without Norms, All Laws Fall Silent”
One big mistake that Biden administration did was not prosecute 1/6 fast and vigorously enough including prosecuting Trump. This combined with the post-COVID malaise and inflation shock led to January 6 being memory holed and Trump returning to office. Maybe a lot of normies saw no difference between January 6 and BLM protests for whatever dumb reason.
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/24/2025”
There have been several reported similar incidents across the United States, so it is Trump's minions saying FU to the judge among other things.
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Look who is coming back to the United States:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/europe/andrew-tate-romania-us-intl-hnk/index.html
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A lot. The person could be a Mayan Guatemalan and they are heavily persecuted including being used on forced labor in coffee plantations, political corruption, etc. You do not need to be at Stalin level badness to get asylum from a place.
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In today's flagrant violation of the law, a fellow immigration lawyer reported about winning asylum for a detained man from Guatemala. Rather than release him from detention as required, ICE just put him on a plan to Mexico and the Mexican government sent him back to Guatemala despite him winning asylum from Guatemala due to fear from his life. The Trusk administration is basically completely lawless and out of control but too many people refuse to recognize this or believe that we can just wait it out to the 2026 mid-terms and 2028 Presidential elections like all his normal and the mean time get into fights about DEI's place in liberalism rather than see the bigger picture of encroaching dictatorship.
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Trusk announces freezes to all civilian government travel and purchase cards for 30 days, and orders the review all contracts to see if they should modified or terminated "to reduce overall Federal spending or reallocate spending to promote efficiency and advance the policies of my Administration"
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-cost-efficiency-initiative/
They are intent on completely destroying everything built up over the decades no matter what the cost.
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The reasons why the vast majority of Jews do not believe the Further Left when you claim to be merely anti-Zionist but not anti-Semitic is because it is evidentially clear to us that the Further Left sees and speaks about Jews very differently than it does other groups. You like to plead to Jews for help because our experience of persecution but at the same time do not see us as a real oppressed group who preserved our culture and identity under great threat and peril compared to the other minority but as bougie white people doing bougie white people things. It is absolute demand for support on one hand and a complete denial of rights on the other hand. That which you grant other oppressed groups, you would deny to the Jews. You love Pan-Arab or Pan-Islamic or Pan-whatever solidarity but you see Pan-Jewish solidarity as dual loyalty and international conspiracy.
It is extremely self-evidnet that the Further Left believes three things about Jews that are utterly hypocritical:
1. Jews do not get self-determination as Jews because that is evil settler-colonialism.
2. At the same time. the host nations where Jews live are under no obligation whatsoever to include their Jews in the political nation or formulate their national identity to include the local Jews. They just have to give them the basic citizen rights package and may otherwise treat Jews to benign or malign neglect. If it is necessary in the name of the Revolution (TM) and anti-Colonialism, than they may even exile the Jews from the nation even if the community is thousands of years old.
3. Jews may not be treated as a real true minority or oppressed group that is why.
Why should Jews trust anything the Further Cosplay Revolutionary Left says anything out of it's moth in regards to Jews?
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Tablet does not represent majority Jewish opinion on this matter and you know it but you are engaging in nut picking because it suits your political purposes. There is an official international organization of Muslim countries called the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Most of which have Sharia law applied in some way or not or actually enforced blasphemy laws:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_of_Sharia_by_country
https://end-blasphemy-laws.org/countries/
But the revolutionary left is seemingly fine with this. You can come up with lengthy tirades on why the concept of a Jewish state is utterly evil and how bad non-Jews have it under the Jewish state but you think that Jews should find it honkey dorey to live under an official Muslim state that is part of an officially Muslim world without even acknowledgement that we are a minority.
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It's always dismally amazing how your faction comes to the most technical defenses of the excesses of your faction.
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You realize that many people see being illiberal to save liberalism as a contradiction in terms and that xenophobic immigration policy is part of that. There is also strong evidence that prohibitions on immigration are about just as effective as any other prohibition and if people want to come for economic or other reasons, they will come.
I agree that there is basically a bad tendency to just look the other way when it comes to illiberalism in Islam compared to basically everybody else on the planet though in many quarters.
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This is the leader of the second largest party in Germany's Parliament:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Weidel
This is her grandfather:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Weidel
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Unknown illness kills people in Congo basin with record speed:
https://apnews.com/article/congo-mystery-unknown-illness-cd8b1fdcb3b2ed032968b2c6044dc6db?fbclid=IwY2xjawIp-eFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW_FVJmnenzZCy-RP-9RQVk3n9nK-ewKb67agqknJBk91jLZCf7OAk3_3g_aem_I4qrG588u4H9S54cgyEqrQ
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Rep, Mark Alford tells pissed off and fired federal workers in Kansas City that "God has a plan."
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article300885874.html
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U.S. Attorney Ed Martin announces that he is President Trump's lawyer:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:clxs5bimkdx2zvxzrbs6v3pw/post/3lix7gevpgc2s?ref_src=embed&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com%252F2025%252F02%252Fas-president-trumps-lawyers
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"This isn't the Trump administration I voted for":
https://wtop.com/virginia/2025/02/this-civil-servant-and-veteran-voted-for-trump-now-hes-out-of-a-job/
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025”
AfD comes in second in German elections with nearly 20% of the vote and 143 seats in the Parliament.
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They are trying to pretend that the Palestinians are using ANC style rhetoric and want a secular multicultural democracy. Either that or the more honest ones see Israel as basically French Algeria and Israeli Jews as Pied-Noirs and destruction of Israel is the only thing they will settle for.
There is a weird arrogance in these cases. I've had people, all non-Muslim leftists, say to me things like "we will allow the Jews to stay if the Jews will dismantle their supremacist state. Besides ignoring the dozens of state that call themselves Muslim and place Islam front and center in national identity complete with blasphemy laws, they seem to ignore the fact that Israel basically won every military encounter before there was an Israel and other Muslim countries don't have any appetite for a global jihad against Israel. Israel is both simultaneously worse than WWII era Germany and Stalin's USSR and also a weak state and society about to collapse at any minute.
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In todays why they aren't credible when they say that they are merely anti-Zionist and not anti-Semitic, a now former employee of a pottery studio in Cambridge, MA was caught on film tearing down a poster of the Bibas children yesterday. My theory is that basically large parts of the Left have a mental block when it comes to Jews. They do not see us as a real people with a culture of our own who experienced persecution but as a cosplaying white people associated with money and power. They do not want to learn and can not learn. This is also how they can denounce the concept of a Jewish state as racist while praise the concept of an entire Muslim world or speak about Western imperialism in Muslim land without irony.
https://x.com/ADL_NewEngland/status/1892988694963069097
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They are no more different than other minority groups maintaining their way of life. People respect the Amish to an extent or very much but the Amish are rural while the Hasidim are urban and that causes the disconnect.
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Trump fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The United States is effectively a dictatorship at this point. Anybody who could oppose Trusk from within the federal government is being systematically purged. The Courts are toothless and are adhering to proceduralism to avoid doing anything because as the Straight A honors kids that they are would rather fall to tyranny that get a B, I mean overruled, by a higher court. Either that or they are going to follow Trump anyway or Trump will ignore them. Republican voters in Republican districts are begging their Representatives and Senators to do something but they are twiddling their thumbs. People are entertainment to death and are ignoring their civilc duties in favor of the ultimate food experience. The entire prosperous economy is heading towards a massive crash.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/politics/trump-fires-cq-brown-pentagon.html
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Trump is predictably backing down from his Gaza inanity:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/politics/trump-gaza-egypt-jordan.html
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Forensics shows that Hamas murdered the Bibas kids:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjry3jzedl1o
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I have no idea what is funny here. The activist did not need to descend on Boro Park and make a ruckus. These were American Jews in the United States. They were not settlers in any sense unless you simply believe that Jews don't belong anywhere. They routinely state that they are merely anti-Zionist but here we are.
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