Maybe it ain’t gonna happen.

In spite of all the lies, Quinnipiac says 70% of Americans oppose military action in Iran, while only 18% are for it.

‘…Blacks certainly aren’t going to riot over a White lesbian being shot, not even the Hispanics they’re trying to “protect” have put up much fuss… these people don’t care about you! It’s like trying to save a den of rattlesnakes.’

Sane people realize that if you get frisky with cops, things will go sideways more often. It’s not a question of blame so much as of simple statistics.

‘In 2021, 80% of the known suspects in homicides for Louisville were black.’

Evidently, Louisville blacks are significantly more prone to violence (or significantly better marksmen) than blacks elsewhere. Else how could Louisville post that third place finish with only 27% blacks?

Assuming America ever actually wished to confront the problem of black behavior and what to do about it, one question would be what factors are more pronounced among Louisville’s blacks than they are in black communities elsewhere?

For example, Louisville featured one of those poor innocent blacks killed by cops while doing nothing killings? Did that lead to a relaxation in policing, and if so, was that connected to the increase? How?

In a book on Yiddish I read years ago, there is a passing reference to Ukrainians including Cossacks turning on Jews they worked for and killing them, at the time of the Khmelnytski revolt. Sometimes the employees taunted their employers/victims in Yiddish before killing them.

It’s worth noting that the same pattern seems to have repeated itself in compressed form in the Baltics and Eastern Poland in 1939-41.

Lithuania at least had no history of pogroms. I doubt if it was all tolerance and integration — but Jews and Lithuanians apparently managed to avoid killing each other. Then came the Soviet takeover — and the local Jews swiftly appointed themselves top dogs. As one observer wrote, there was a definite air of ‘we’re in charge now!’

…and accompanied by mass persecutions, arrests, deportations, etc. Note that just as in the Seventeenth Century Ukraine, the Jews had assumed a place between the indigenous gentile inhabitants and the alien rulers.

Then come June 22, 1941, it was payback time.

In a book on Yiddish I read years ago, there is a passing reference to Ukrainians including Cossacks turning on Jews they worked for and killing them, at the time of the Khmelnytski revolt. Sometimes the employees taunted their employers/victims in Yiddish before killing them.

‘I do not like Trump but he will win the struggle with China because…’

Have you visited a big American city lately? We are living in a nation that is literally rotten at the core.

The plan for Iraq is outlined in the Oded Yinon Plan from 1982. Destroy Iraq and exacerbate tensions between Sunni and Shi’a, an OLD Zionazi tactic. Kill intellectual elites and keep the country backward, forever. It’s more or less their ambitions for all the world.

‘I didn’t realize that back then, I do now.’

It only dawned on me when I read about how we disbanded the Iraqi army, thus sending all those young men home.

…and let them keep their weapons. Now, if I wanted to fuck a country up, what would I do?

‘…that I knew that the US military had f*cked up with its planning and orchestration, that the entire country was going to fall apart and turn into a living hell.’

I came to the realization that this was the plan. Very often, if you think people are ‘fucking up,’ you’re merely mistaking the intent.

Israel had orchestrated the invasion, and Israel wanted Iraq reduced to bloodsoaked, impotent anarchy. She obtained that outcome.

…just as they are doing to Syria now, and will do to Iran if they have their way. What you see as a bug is a feature. The idea is to make these countries fall apart and turn into living hells.

‘MADNESS!! There is NO plug. The Zionazis control the West, the Anglosphere in particular and the USA most of all, COMPLETELY. There is ‘No Exit’. Full stop. Tamam Shud.’

Something like the same situation obtained in the Ukraine just before Bohdan Khmelnytski’s revolt, and perhaps in Germany under the Weimar Republic.

Pride goeth before a fall. Jews seem to have a dysfunctional response to gaining power and influence. One doesn’t observe Lebanese abroad or Overseas Chinese behaving like this. Go to Hawaii: you’ll notice the Japanese community has an awful lot of clout — but they don’t rub it in.

We’ll see.

‘Jewish Voice for Peace

In recent months, cities across the U.S., especially New York City, have seen an increase in events seeking to recruit American Jews to move to Israel, including to illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank that violate international law. Even worse, many of these events sell…’

I can’t say this upsets me too much. The backbone of Israel’s strength would be Zionists here in the US, not Zionists in Israel. The more US Jews emigrate to Israel, the sooner the end comes for Israel.

It’s a bit like when I read about Black Bullshit Matters grifters taking money intended to promote Black Bullshit Matters and spending it on expensive homes instead.

I should mind?

‘…I’ll put my money on…blacks. But I want odds. Give me 2-1.’

I lose. But it wasn’t whites.

‘The church identifies both as Tongan wards, or congregations.’

The indictment appears to be so sloppy that any competent defense attorney could get a dismissal of the charges. Could that be the method to the DOJ’s madness here?

It doesn’t matter. The point was to show Latin American leaders what happens to those who criticize Israel.

Message sent. Israel got what it wanted. We’re left holding the bag — but that’s not Israel’s problem.

‘…Still, if a Haitian (who got into America thanks to the influence of Jewish immigration policy) rapes an 10-year-old white girl it’s the Haitian I want to lynch. It gets hazy with the Jewish influence because it’s almost certain that these Jews didn’t root for child rape…’

Almost certain, is it? I’d say your confidence is unwarranted.

https://twitter.com/ColinWr29337470/status/2008331556125904994?s=20

The US does NOT have a gun problem… it has a “negro with a gun” problem. The negro should not be allowed to bear arms.

I can’t see this story being news if the offender was black. In New York City?

Tough one to call.

‘…An altercation escalated into shots fired, killing two people and wounding six others, three of whom remain in critical condition…’

Okay. ‘Altercation escalating into shooting’ and two dead but six wounded says blacks, but…

It happened outside a Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City.

I’ll put my money on…blacks. But I want odds. Give me 2-1.

Trump announces Venezuela is to be an American colony.

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“Venezuela is going to be purchasing ONLY American Made Products, with the money they receive from our new Oil Deal… A wise choice, and a very good thing for the people of Venezuela, and the United States.” – President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

This all ends with the US finally pulling the plug on Israel.

The only uncertainties are how long will it take, how many will have to die first, and how much damage we’ll do to ourselves first.

Rick Scott lets the cat out of the bag:

“This is the start of changing Venezuela, then we’re gonna fix Cuba, Nicaragua will get fixed, next year we’ll get a new president in Colombia. Democracy is coming back to this hemisphere.”

All four of the states he mentions broke ties with Israel. What are the odds?

My thoughts might change with time, some other views I have had changed, but the Zionist eagerness to paint “anti-Semitic” target signs on those who challenge them make me disinclined to apply the target sign to myself, and I feel others should not do so either.

To a point, I agree — as I more or less said. However, (a) I’m damned if I’ll let myself get seduced into lying, and (b) isn’t the word rapidly losing all pejorative value? It’s getting to be a bit like me accusing you of ‘not being a Christian.’

So what if one is fucking antisemitic? There is much to be antisemitic about.

‘…I think we should disappoint Zionists in the same way, by not yielding to the provocations aimed at turning us anti-Semitic..

Here I suspect we’re going to part ways.

Starting about five years ago, I began noticing it wasn’t just Israel. Whenever there was something corrosive, or ultimately harmful, it was disproportionately Jews pushing it. Whether it was Black Bullshit Matters, or the celebration (as opposed to the tolerance) of sexual deviation and perversion, or gender change for minors, or women’s lib pushed past the point of sanity, or come one, come all immigration, or a legal system so over-elaborated as to be dysfunctional, Jews were always there. Not always every individual behind it, but usually between three out of five and three out of four. That would be the usual count if you looked up the names mentioned as advocating whatever it was in any article on the subject.

And this for a population comprising only 2% of America! So I have become darkly suspicious whenever I see a Jewish name mentioned. I just doubt it will work out well if we trust him. A classic would be Ben Shapiro. I never paid much attention to him, but he was always celebrated as ‘owning the libs.’ Sounded alright (from my point of view, anyway) — but now look at him. He’s sure as hell come out of the closet.

I don’t like the role Jews are playing at all, and while I don’t necessarily see crying out ‘I am an antisemite!’ as useful in all circumstances, I’m damned if I’m going to deny that I am.

‘That may be true but it looks like Washington is going for the long shot’

I think we’re in denial; like an old man who takes to driving a Porsche and wearing an open shirt with a gold necklace.

We’re rotted out at the core. If we don’t intend to address that, all these exhibitions won’t make any difference.

‘Hair-splitting bullshit sophistry.’

? It’s you being grossly ignorant. You just managed to identify a baroque sculpture as a product of the Dark Ages. You might as well place a nuclear submarine with Nelson’s fleet at Trafalgar.

Some prominent historians have said the dark ages began in the fourth century and lasted until the millennium.

It’s one of those terms that depends on the context, and on who’s using the term. For example, as I recall from my puppy years, ‘the Renaissance’ could easily refer to the Fourteenth Century if a historian was using it and talking about Italy; to the the Sixteenth Century if a professor of English Literature was employing the term.

I believe the plan is to isolate China from the rest of the world. Around a month ago they seized a Chinese ship going to Iran. In the future trade will not be permitted by China in anything besides the dollar. Washington has 2 countries left to go to force China in the dollar trade. Russia and Iran.

I believe this overestimates the power and influence remaining to the US. Aside from material factors, my guess is China’s leaders are better card players than ours are.

It’s worth mentioning that this is the second time Netanyahu has come to town to see Trump — and both times something dramatic has immediately followed.

The first time it was a one eighty from we’re going to release the Epstein files’ to ‘what Epstein files?’

This time it was the prompt kidnapping of a critic of Israel.

Still three years left in Trump’s term. Lots more possibilities.

Correct AI names Shapiro, Elliot Abrams as leading pundits calling for Maduro’s Head.

‘…I think Sachs is trapped in the same old rant (as good as it is) because he does not clearly critique the important role of Jewish power in these nightmares. Maybe he tackles this topic in other conversations. The most helpful thing he could do is identify and criticize factions which apparently exist above the level of major governments. Since he criticizes the travesty in Gaza hopefully he can take the next steps.’

Is it really reasonable to expect a Jew to lead the way in condemning the role of his own people?

One can perhaps demand that he concede the point — but surely it is folly to sit around waiting for Jews to condemn themselves first?

Venezuela is never going to be “good”: due to its IQ, ethnic diversity (amongst other things) – yes, Maduro’s left-wing politics make Venezuela even worse than what they’d potentially achieve and surely that’s a pity.
But, that’s immaterial.

It’s very material — albeit not in the sense you mean.

Having taken over the country — as Trump says we have — we become responsible for whatever follows. That’s not going to work out well. Venezuela being fucked up was a good reason to stay out, not to go in.

Of course, if the point was to demonstrate to everyone else in Latin America what happens to leaders who say mean things about Israel, it’s all been a brilliant success. Mission accomplished.

‘This is no doubt a controversial point, especially on this site, but I think the Zionists want us to be anti-Semitic, and I don’t think we should oblige them.’

It would be more accurate to say they want a few of us to be antisemitic.

If we were all antisemitic, they would drop the Zionism — pronto. Of course, you are right in that trumpeting one’s antisemitism at this point is playing into their hands. Damned if I’m going to deny it, but…

But also, at some point, the balance can shift. When that happens — when everyone starts to feel antisemitic, then it’s time to play that card. Say ‘so leave Palestine. Then we’ll think about renting you an apartment.’

The sad bit is — as past events have demonstrated — it’s not all that easy to control the shift.

‘I have never let the possibility of being considered anti-Semitic deter me from supporting Palestine.’

But Judaism has largely degenerated into support for Israel. One could agree that orthodox Jews are perhaps strange but not necessarily objectionable — but what about those who don’t bother with the strange clothing but still consider themselves Jews?

Should you really regard them as just fine? Doesn’t this become like saying that of course German policy in Poland is deplorable — but God forbid I should be mean to you just because you’re a Nazi?

Israel is a Jewish project. If Jews want to be accepted in society, it’s up to them to disavow Israel, not incumbent upon us to be polite to them.

I guess my position is that matters have reached the point where I feel one should be antisemitic. If that’s deplorable, let Jews alter their behavior. We can have peace with Germany; just as soon as they withdraw from Poland.

‘…This is no doubt a controversial point, especially on this site, but I think the Zionists want us to be anti-Semitic, and I don’t think we should oblige them.’

On the other hand, what I have seen far too much of is allowing fears of being labelled antisemitic emasculate criticism of Israel, bar effective action, etc.

Just in the last few months, a Jew, Larry Ellison, has gained control of Tik Tok and CBS and is openly moving to prevent criticism of Israel on those platforms. Another Jew, Larry Fink, gained a large share of the corporation that controls Fox News and got Tucker Carlson fired. We’ve seen the BBC, the Guardian, and the New York Times all effectively muzzled by shouts of ‘antisemitism.’ Right now, Hitler’s little helpers are fighting to gain control of Turning Point USA and expending vast sums to shore up their support among Evangelicals.

They just fucking invaded Venezuela and are explicitly threatening to invade Columbia. Both states, not at all coincidentally, severed ties with Israel in 2024. They are to serve as examples.

At some point, when the cry ‘that’s antisemitic!’ is raised, one has to say, ‘so what? There’s much to be antisemitic about.’

When we really can say ‘Jews aren’t so bad; we shouldn’t hate them’ then we’ll stop hating them. Personally, I like them, generally — as individuals. But at the moment, collectively they clearly are so bad.

If the Jews don’t like it, let them modify their behavior. Then I’ll revisit my attitude. This is like talking about how one mustn’t hate all Germans — in 1941.

Arsetralians have not seen even 1% of the Zionazi barbarity in Gaza, thanks to the MSM. The fifteen dead Jews murdered at Bondi are in ALL the MSM, day after day, and the local Zionazis are making ever more outrageous demands of the Federal regime, while the 100,000 slaughtered in Gaza BY Jews, are utterly forgotten, and to even mention them brings slander and retribution.

There’s also the point that the Bondi Beach massacre was the work of two (2) Muslims. Whatever one may say otherwise about them, it’s not reasonable to claim that most Muslims would do the same. Indeed, given the chance, another Muslim interfered in the massacre and managed to disarm one of the gunmen.

On the other hand, the massacre in Gaza meets with at least the partial approval of millions of Jews, and the vigorous and enthusiastic participation of tens of thousands of them. Worse, it wasn’t just a momentary fit of rage. It’s been going on for two years now. A month of it would have been human nature, if not exactly laudable. Years of it demonstrates that we are looking at evil. What makes anyone think they will ever stop?

Arsetralians have not seen even 1% of the Zionazi barbarity in Gaza, thanks to the MSM. The fifteen dead Jews murdered at Bondi are in ALL the MSM, day after day, and the local Zionazis are making ever more outrageous demands of the Federal regime, while the 100,000 slaughtered in Gaza BY Jews, are utterly forgotten, and to even mention them brings slander and retribution.

A friend of mine in another country was labelled a dangerous anti-Semite by the Israeli embassy in her country. I can see their problem – she is charismatic, a good organiser and is one of those relatively few people who can draw large numbers of other people into political action. She was active in pro-Palestinian causes long before this but her work has really hit its stride now.

As a practical matter, I sometimes wonder how one can long remain an opponent of Israel without becoming antisemitic. After all, half the world’s Jews are in Israel. We’re seeing a pretty large sample of Jewish behavior. How can one look at that and not become biased against Jews? Isn’t the bias perfectly reasonable? In Israel, we are talking about an organism that enjoys the approval and support of a majority of the world’s Jews, to one degree or another. Rare is the Jew who agrees Israel should be dismantled.

They stand for Israel. Therefore, they stand for what it is. Antisemitism is the unavoidable consequence of that. If Jews don’t like antisemitism, the solution is obvious.

Pull the plug on Israel. Then see where we are.

‘True, thank you. Although I picture meanjewesses mind to be like a rancid tin of sardines, kept to long in the sun,’

Without agreeing to its perfect validity, that simile does fit events; in particular, the explosion of violently radical Jewesses debarking on American shores and promptly running amok — Emma Goldstein, for example. I was struck when reading More Powerful than Dynamite, an account of social upheaval in 1915 New York City, by just how many of the agitators seemed to be Jewish female immigrants, fresh off the boat and promptly raising holy hell.

The tin of Jewesses remained firmly sealed so long as they were confined within the stifling society of the Eastern European shetls, where they were kept firmly under control. For hundreds of years, Jewesses remained in that tin, and caused no apparent trouble at all.

But when they came here, that tin was opened — and we’ve been experiencing the results ever since.

I imagine Hitler had the good peasant common sense to realize Poland would never agree to any such thing. Poland wasn’t Czechoslovakia; for one thing, it was full of Poles.

So why fuck around? His only miscalculation was assuming France and England would shy away when it came to actually pulling the trigger and declaring war.

We can take heart in the fact that perhaps the Zionists are as dumbed down as the rest of us, and all their ongoing efforts will be as hamfisted and transparent.

Trump has been the single greatest gift for establishing the fact of our Zionist Occupation. At least Churchill understood that he was engaged in a shamefully traitorous conspiracy, which had to be concealed from the public. Trump simply makes a speech stating that he has sold our nation for a couple hundred million paid by dual citizens directly to Trump.

The NYT hate Trump with a passion and torched their credibility with fake claims that the Russians helped him with a few thousands dollars worth of Facebook adds. Yet when he give the MSM and the Dems an absolute lay up admission that he’s 100% bought by a foreign government. . . . crickets. Thus, anyone with two neurons to rub together can see that Zio-treason is the SOP for both wings of the Uniparty.

‘…But trying to kill Putin with a drone swarm, while not shooting at anything else, makes no military sense. That would invite a perfectly legal, indeed obligatory, Russian nuclear strike on the West…’

More realistically, it helps to ensure the war keeps going — and the dollars keep flowing.

Putin is hardly likely to respond to the attack by making further concessions at the peace table.

‘Difference is many genuine Americans like myself are heavily armed. So when the jew and the other alien outlander hoards make the move to wipe us out (which the kike and some others are trying to do with replacement demographics) in our own Western Culture and Civilization they are in for a rude awakening…’

You could be right…but I wouldn’t count on it.

For one thing, no one’s going to announce, ‘Tomorrow we’re going over to a Jewish-run totalitarian hell-state.’

It’ll just be an incremental, semi-conscious transition — like that from, say, the sexual repression of 19oo to the 1960’s. At no point will you be able to say, ‘yesterday I was free; but today I am not.’

Life will continue to be normal. And one night, two police officers, whom you have spent your life obeying, will show up and ask you to come down to the station with them. To answer some questions.

You’re going to whip out your Ruger and shoot them down on the spot? Maybe it just won’t happen.

Solzhenitsyn describes the process. At no point is there clearly the one moment when you begin to resist. You have been submitting, you probably will submit, and you’ll continue to submit. After all, you’re not insane.

Does anyone really think it wouldn’t happen here? Do you really think the police state being formed isn’t to protect us from “terrorists” but to protect them from us?

‘And like the Nazis, Israel regards anyone outside the tribe as outside their universe of moral concern, which allows them to do anything to anyone without compunction. ‘

Indeed. Himmler once said, ‘Whether 10,000 Russian women collapse with exhaustion in the construction of an anti- tank ditch for Germany only interests me insofar as the ditch gets dug for Germany.’

Expressed using other subjects, I’d bet most Israeli Jews would find nothing objectionable in such a sentiment. The place has literally become a land of moral monsters.

One thought all this raised in me: what about Mers el Kebir?

That was Winston’s idea, and of course whatever the rationale, it was fairly clearly intended to destroy all prospects of peace. Of course in turn the assumption is that this would be for Britain’s benefit; but were Britain’s interests considered at all?

Maybe it was intended purely and simply to stave off German victory — to ensure that somehow, some day, Nazi Germany would be destroyed? Never mind whether that would actually do Britain any good.

Add this one to the Israeli black flag file.

https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/2005617043127627894?s=20

Richard Evans three part Third Reich history, 1: Coming of 2: in Power, 3: At war.

Parts one and two are not too bad.

Part three jews jews jews. how WW2 was all about jews. methinks his sponsors insisted he do pt 3 that way

Pretty much agree. Part 1 — The Coming of the Third Reich — I recall as pretty good.

Part 2 — The Third Reich in Power — got a bit predictable. ‘Nazi agricultural policy was a failure. But — mysteriously — German farmers liked the Nazis anyway.’ Repeat for all segments of the German populace. Never worked, no sirree. Yet for some reason, everyone was happy. Go figure.

Part 3 — ‘The Third Reich at War’ — was, as you say, all about the Jews. It was appalling. History reduced to a catalogue of Nazi atrocities. You know, there were other aspects to the war. Really. Tens of millions died otherwise, societies were transformed, etc. In particular, an analysis of how Nazi Germany was able to make such a convulsive national effort — and keep at it long after all real hope of victory had vanished — would have been appropriate.

The guy likes to vilify David Irving. I agree Irving has his weaknesses. But he’s head and shoulders above Evans.

‘…Note that I didn’t say “Jews” but “Jewish Israelis”. Poll after poll after poll shows that Israeli Jews are indeed horrible people…’

Indeed. But now let me point out an awkward fact. Half of the world’s Jews are Israeli Jews.

If, in your town, half of the pit bulls had mauled children to death, would you hesitate to say that pit bulls were dangerous dogs?

Ah. ‘…in Australia.’

Globally, though, did you outrank Ms. Rachel?

It’s becoming a badge of honor.

Though not as poor as Cambodia, the same poor-yet-respectable behavior was prevalent in Laos, Bolivia, Nicaragua, throughout the world (except in Muslim countries where their “religion” allowed them to cheat infidels).

Which Muslim countries did you have that experience in?

‘Taqiyya’

? So now your position is that Muslims admitted to burning the library so as to cleverly deceive the infidels into thinking they didn’t?

Wheels within wheels…

If the inflation rate were 20% year after year you’d definitely notice…

I have.

‘…Yet loaves of bread do indeed cost a lot.’

There is a larger point here. Thirty years ago, confronted with the contradiction between the claims of the government and the media on the one hand, and my own experience on the other, I would have struggled to accept the government’s version of reality.

But since then, we’ve had the Dancing Israelis, Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, Black Bullshit Matters, the natural origin of the Corona Virus, Russia blowing up her own pipeline, and now no substantial evidence that Epstein was trafficking underage girls. And those are just the open-and-shut cases. I omit the merely dubious claims.

They lie. Given that, we are forced to rely, not on what our betters tell us, but on our own, individual experience. So the government say’s inflation has been 2% to 7%? I say it’s been 10 to 20% — and I see no reason at all to believe the government is right and I am wrong.

This creates obvious problems. For one, we won’t all arrive at the same individual conclusions. What can I say to the lady ahead of me in the Walmart return line who has concluded Angela Merkel was Hitler’s love child? It’s becoming a Tower of Babel out there — and I use the metaphor advisedly. Can we continue to function as a society on this basis?

I am happy to hear you are still doing well. I agree some of the new medical advances are expensive so medical care will cost more but there are 45 other countries on the planet with longer life expectancies than the United States even though we spend the most on medical care of any country on the planet. This was not always the case since in 1950 we were twelfth in life expectancy. We dropped to 29th by the end of the sixties, went back up to 15th in 1980 after successful public health campaigns encouraging people to stop smoking and check their blood pressure and use newly developed drugs for high blood pressure if needed and then after that started dropping again.

So something is wrong here. You could write a book about it and people have. I hesitate to start listing things because if I leave something off the list it will look like I think it is not important. We spend too much trying to keep very old people alive a little longer, pass out bad government advice on diets, do not have safe walkable communities, raise doctor incomes by restricting supply, make patients indifferent to costs by not having them pay anything out of pocket, give illegal immigrants free health care, have too many highly paid specialists, have doctors practice defensive medicine and do too many tests to prevent lawsuits and so on.

One of the biggest problems that has a negative health impact, though, is something completely outside the medical system. The loss of good paying factory jobs for the working class have caused what is referred to by Angus Deaton as “deaths of despair” from drug and alcohol abuse along with suicides. I have known a number of people who never had a good paying job and died early from alcohol abuse, including both my brothers in law. When my niece broke her leg recently and could not work my sister and me both helped her financially because she had no father to go to for help. It is quite sad to see the struggles of many people out here in the Midwestern Rust Belt.

‘…You automatically believe the Moslem writers and dismiss Coptic history…’

As Lewis points out, the story first appears in Muslim sources.

‘…If you Moslems were so superior, what in Abu Bakr’s name happened?’

I’m not Muslim, but what that would have to do with a library burning in any case escapes me. Bernard Lewis points out that (a) no one at the time noticed it being burnt, and that (b) the story only appeared six hundred years later. Ergo, it seems unlikely that this is what happened.

If I tell you that Japan sacked the capital of Ming China in 1425, but can produce no contemporary sources whatsoever to support my claim, how much credence will you give my claim?

Obviously, the library decayed, its collections were dispersed, it was destroyed by accident or by someone else — whatever. But there is no reason to accept the version you’re so fond of — and several reasons not to.

‘…Trump voters in particular have had a difficult year. Spooked back in July by a trickle of leaks suggesting he had been closer with Epstein than he claimed, the president raged at his supporters for demanding the release of the government’s remaining files on the case, despite repeated promises to release them during his 2024 reelection campaign…’

Ummm, no.

Trump, Bondi, et al were all for releasing the files; then Netanyahu came to town and there was an immediate reversal.

It couldn’t have been more obvious.

You are not the only one to suggest that the official inflation figures were fraudulent. As for me, I see what Rich sees—but I am just one citizen, so what I see is not very relevant. In short, Rich and I might be wrong and you might be right.

It is what I keep seeing — whatever the published figures are.

Things I’ve recently noticed. Seed packets two years ago were routinely $1.99-2.99. Now they’re $2.99-$5.00. Eight years ago, empty propane tanks (on Hawaii!) were $20.99. Now they’re $49.99 — here on the mainland. Dinner at the pizza place used to run us $35.00 — with tips, drinks, salad, etc. Try $69.00 now. A year ago, I noticed that Sluggo — which I hadn’t bought for two years — was up 40%. Seed starter — which I hadn’t bought for one year — was up 20%.

Green onions used to be $0.39 a bunch; now they’re $0.79 a bunch. Whatever 14 gauge wire was, it wasn’t $1.27 a foot. Bread was $1.28 a loaf. Same bread: now $3.88.

” I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong”.

GEORGE WASHINGTON TO FRANCIS ADRIAN VAN DER KEMP | WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1788

That’s actually something. More than I expected. However, Washington makes it clear that Dutchmen in particular would be welcomed. Dutchmen weren’t exactly a novelty on the American scene.

What is this “not allow” nonsense, Mr Netanyahu?

The significant bit is that of course Israel by itself can no more ‘allow’ or ‘not allow’ anything than Honduras or Togo can ‘allow’ or ‘not allow’ anything. Israel is a small country, completely incapable of sustaining itself, and dependent on the good will — coerced or not — of others for its survival.

…and that in turn depends on the continuing support of the United States, and the ability of the United States to continue to coerce everyone else into tolerating Israel.

Well, that support is rapidly fading, and the power of the US to coerce everyone else is rapidly fading as well.

Inevitably — but hopefully sooner rather than later — Israel is going to find itself not in its current position, but more like that it would be in if her only friend was Brazil, and Brazil wasn’t too sure about it.

And that’ll be the end of that.

We have to.play with the numbers we have, and it’s pretty easy to find them. But, I don’t actually have to do that. I can look at my trade and the men I work with and everyone is doing fine. I look around my neighborhood and everyone is working, driving new cars, eating more than they should. I look at the numbers, and they reflect that.

Those who want to dwell on the gloom, may live in a different neighborhood and see something different. The people I see who aren’t working are the druggies. I see them in the city when I go to work, but everyone who wants to work seems to have a job. Should we storm.the Bastille with full bellies and brand new cars?

The main issue between dems and repubs is that the dems hate White people. They openly campaign saying how they’re going to hurt Whites and tax them more. Of course I’m going to argue for the side that doesn’t hate me. Guess I’m clannish that way…

It’s also worth noting that your authority for debunking the library story is none other than Bernard Lewis. As I understand it, he was (a) an authority on Islamic history, (b) Jewish, (c) not noted for being especially sympathetic to Islam.

It’s highly unlikely he would dismiss the claim if it had any foundation in fact.

The list of advances, technological, scientific, artistic is unmatched in any other region at that time in history.

lol

List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventions_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world

Islamic world contributions to Medieval Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_world_contributions_to_Medieval_Europe

As one of your great Caliphs said as he burned the great library, “They (the books) will either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it so they are superfluous.”

Never happened.

The Vanished Library

To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1990/09/27/the-vanished-library-2

Thanks for playing, Rich.

Always a pleasure to put paid to your bullshit.

Those buildings aren’t from the Dark Ages in the first place. About Thirteenth Century, at a guess.

And not my field, but that sculpture in the last shot looks more baroque. Seventeenth Century? Did I guess right? Maybe not Bernini…one of his bros?

Here, let me help you out here. The Dark Ages would be more like the Sixth through the Ninth Centuries, give or take.

“Change the laws to where you can throw out any immigrant/refugee who became a citizen if they or their immediate family members ever require welfare, low-income housing, and/or food stamps.”

Your own ancestors would not have made it here under that law. You have to go back.

Actually, it would be a matter of restoring the laws, not changing them.

Even in the heyday of late nineteenth/early twentieth century immigration, ships carrying immigrants could only dock on condition that they agreed to carry back any would-be immigrants we rejected.

…and we calmly rejected any who appeared to be diseased, defective, feeble, or in any way likely to become a public charge.

But in any case, I think we should no longer accept anyone at all — no matter how strapping and healthy they seem to be. We’ve got enough people, thanks. No, I don’t wish to allow someone to move into my basement, even if it would be physically possible.

Make immigration like entrance into the service academies used to be. Each Congressman can nominate two candidates each year. That’s it.

‘The Founding Fathers viewed the U.S. as an “asylum” and “refuge” for the persecuted and oppressed of all nations. ‘

Where did they say that?

‘George Washington expressed a hope for immigrants to “get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people”. James Madison also advocated for welcoming the “worthy part of mankind” who could “incorporate himself into our society”.’

I fail to see how that supports your claim. They seem to be qualifying their willingness to accept immigrants; not welcoming them. They can come — just so long as they don’t change anything.

Is it really your position that either Washington or Madison would have welcomed one hundred thousand Somalis — or a million Eastern European Jews — arriving in America as free and equal citizens?

Sorry, what you write is so ridiculous I couldn’t help myself. It’s not your fault, you were poorly educated, very poorly educated. There was no such thing as the “Dark Ages”. It’s a political term. The list of advances, technological, scientific, artistic is unmatched in any other region at that time in history. I’m acquainted with a Medieval Studies professor who would laugh even harder at your crazy assertions.

As one of your great Caliphs said as he burned the great library, “They (the books) will either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it so they are superfluous.” That’s your heroes take on knowledge.

‘1. 2.7%, down from 6.9% during Biden era’

But these figures — as anyone who can look at old receipts can see — are completely fictitious.

Discussing whether the inflation rate is 2.7% or 6.9% merely demonstrates your susceptibility to propaganda. ‘Choco ration’s going up to eighteen grams next week!’

The conversations have an air of unreality to them. ‘ Do you think Der Fuhrer’s offensive in the Ardennes will win the war outright, or will it drag on into 1946?’ ‘Did Jesus come already, or will we have to wait until next Easter?’

Those rates bear no connection to reality, and anyone who can look for himself can see that. Back in the late Seventies, our betters at least had the decency to run around and wave their arms in the air and say they were going to do something about inflation. Now they just pretend it’s not happening.

And it works! If the government told me outright they were seizing half of my cash, or that they were halving your wage, you’d scream bloody murder — take to the streets in arms. As it is, they let you keep your dollars. They just halve them in value.

And you — all of us — just docilely accept it. In your case, you even allow yourself to be bamboozled into thinking it’s not happening.

‘…It’s been my experience that modern Christianity is very much part of the problem. One such dedicated Christian informed our little group of long-time friends, in almost a reverential whisper, that the only unforgiveable sin is “racism” (no mention of war mongering or mass murder)…’

The funny thing about racism is how little difference it can make. On the one hand, you can have non-blacks who would never agree they were racist — yet they know better than to go into a black neighborhood, or hire a black contractor, or engage a black lawyer. They’ll certainly talk the talk, but they’re not such fools as to walk the walk.

On the other hand, I am frankly racist — there is much to be racist about, in my opinion. Yet, when I have had a black employee, or a black customer, and I can see that this particular individual deserves to be treated well and with respect, I treat them well and with respect.

Maybe I shouldn’t, but there it is. If it’s a matter of the individual in front of me, that’s who I deal with.

Imagine the corruption and cover up, if not collusion, in Jacob Frey’s and Tim Walz’s offices.

I imagine it’s more a matter of carefully looking the other way. Which is worse: hypocrisy or frank corruption? At least the thief has a certain honesty — he’s not lying to himself, anyway.

And without the Freys and Walzes, would he get anywhere?

‘Above all, it incites anti-Semitism😟’

And could Judaism survive without antisemitism?

“Inflation is likely to increase? Well, that’s just an opinion”

No, the Fed just announced it is creating forty billion dollars a month to buy treasuries. Inflation is expansion of the money supply and the Fed is expanding the money supply with its creation of more dollars. This inflation will lead to an increasingly worthless dollar and higher prices. People around the world know the dollar is headed towards becoming worthless as shown by the fact that gold has risen from 2600 dollars an ounce to 4500 dollars an ounce just over the last year.

Tax cuts without spending cuts just increases the deficit. That will require more government borrowing and diverts funds needed for private investment over to nonproductive government spending on welfare programs, a massive military and more foreign wars. The higher the debt goes, the more reluctant people will be to invest in treasuries for fear of a government default, thus requiring the government offering higher interest rates or further monetizing the debt.

We are headed either for a government default or, more likely, the government inflating away the debt and paying back lenders with worthless dollars. This high inflation will impoverish large segments of the population, a process that has already begun. There will be no mass deportations of immigrants because the Republicans will lose in the midterms. While inflation preceded Trump, it has continued under him and people are continuing to get poorer. Trump is likely to spend the last two years of his presidency facing a hostile Democrat Congress and another possible impeachment attempt.

‘Rich laughs, but, as usual, he can’t debunk what I’ve written.

Question: If those great works of Rome and Greece were so influential in Europe during that period called the ‘Dark Ages’, why didn’t the Renaissance occur until after it had ended?’

You’re wrong, but Rich and ‘Exile’ are wronger.

On the one hand, you seem to have omitted the entire High Middle Ages — the bit that occurred between the Dark Ages and Renaissance — completely. I’d question whether we actually owe more to da Vinci than to Thomas Aquinas. What makes Michaelangelo’s sculptures more impressive than a medieval cathedral?

On the other hand, the Dark Ages themselves were very, very dark. There are qualifications to be made, but politically, economically, intellectually, even demographically — it was a cess-pit. What ‘learning’ there was was a kind of ritual repetition of half-understood formula, repeated as an incantation against the growing blackness. Monks — if they actually looked at the scrolls they copied at all — had about as much comprehension of them as a Jewish boy at his Bar Mitzvah does of the Hebrew he’s reading.

It was bleak — but that changed, starting in about the second half of the Eleventh Century, I would say. Moreover, it didn’t change because so much had been saved by the Muslims. Certainly Christians reached out for those texts, but the key was the impulse to reach out, not the fact that the texts were there…as they long had been. The founding of universities, a new, more profound theology, the blossoming of romantic and chivalric culture and literature, renewed trade and the return of a monetary economy, some notions of law…all of this would have happened with or without the Muslims.

‘In the upcoming elections in October, the Bibi bloc is expected to lose.’

Hence the need to gin up a new and larger war. Israel continues to kill Palestinians, but they just aren’t firing back.

The occasional lone-wolf ‘terrorist’ attack won’t cut it. Bibi needs something bigger if he’s to stay in power.

‘…Medical spending has gone from six percent of GDP in nineteen fifty to almost triple that now…’

To be fair, that much is only to be expected. Medicine can do a hell of a lot more now than it could in 1950 — and worse, it’s a vicious circle. The longer life is prolonged, the more health care is required. My dad got whacked by a heart attack when he was fifty four. I had the same heart attack when I was fifty seven, was saved by the drugs that weren’t around for my dad — and am now sixty seven and entering my health care consuming years. For a lot of us oldsters, medical care is all but incessant.

So pay up. I’m happy to attack American health care — the whole paradigm is a disaster — but the truth of it is that it really should cost a lot more than it used to. As one old doctor commented, looking back at the 1930’s, ‘there usually wasn’t much we could do.’

Well, that led to lower life expectancies — but it also led to health care costs being a lot lower. People gots sick, everyone fussed for a week or two, and then they died. Relatively inexpensive. Now there is a lot they can do — but it costs.

‘I have said this again and again and I’ll repeat it once more, both Israel and America will never do a ‘Iraqi like invasion of Iran’.
Israel is in a fix and America will never commit boots on the ground, nor will Israel…’

That’s with the situation as it is now. But what if Israel can inveigle us into committing provocations sufficient to induce Iran into retaliating with a ‘terrorist attack,’ — or at least create a situation where an Israeli black flag operation can be plausibly claimed to be a ‘terrorist attack?’

Remember two things. First, Israel has absolutely no compunctions when it comes to deceit or killing innocents; if it serves her interests, it’s justified. Second, Netanyahu wants to remain in power, and the only way he can do that is to make the fire bigger.

Israel and the US won’t commit boots on the ground in Israel now. That doesn’t mean Hitler’s little helpers aren’t going to try to change that.

Or you can rely on Netanyahu’s conscience, Zionist morality, and Trump’s willingness to defy Miriam Adelson.

America was meant to be inclusive, to have people from different places come here to make our way of life better. It’s who we are.

Cite any evidence at all from the founding of the Republic to support that contention.

Maybe you can; I’m curious to hear what you’ve got.

Yeah right, miscegenated Brasil has solved all its problems!

Racists are a useless and dangerous part of the community of any country.

I’ve come to the conclusion that there is much to be racist about.

Yet I have contributed quite a bit to the community; go figure.

On the bright side, the one with the noose is at least prepping himself.

Sort of like a self-basting turkey or something.

‘Among the many Zionist-talking-point lies about Islam, one of the relatively erudite (but still stupid) ones is the claim that Islamic orthodoxy = 100% predestination 0% free will. As usual, that’s an inversion of reality. The original Mu’tazilah vs. Ash’ari debate concluded with both sides affirming free will, though in different ways. The Mu’tazilah lay out the very strong arguments, while the Ash’ari insist there’s a deeper mystery that reason can’t fully explain (bila kayf). But both sides agree that you have the choice of which elevator button to push.’

Anyway, see Calvinism. Whether a Christian has free will depends upon the flavor of Christianity one subscribes to.

Without wishing to adopt an attitude of uncritical admiration for Islam, there’s nothing in particular to be said against it that can’t be countered with a criticism of Christianity — to say nothing of Judaism.

Equally important to my mind, is the fallacy that Muslims are some kind of monolithic bloc. I see no more reason to equate Indonesian Muslims with Moroccan Muslims than I would Swedish Lutherans and Filipino Catholics.

They’re different; from what I’ve seen, Turkish Muslims are far more like Greek Christians than they are like Pakistani Muslims, while Pakistani Muslims are far more like Indian Hindus than they are akin to Turkish Muslims. A religious identity doesn’t determine every aspect of one’s culture and personality; nor does it enforce some kind of perfect uniformity. To assume otherwise is idiotic.

Boss man won’t let ’em.

‘All the lands…’ through ‘…converting them to the evil Islam’ is simply untrue. The remainder presumably depends on a very selective and uncritical reading of the evidence. Several counter-examples promptly come to mind.

Your evil, poisonous, ignorant bullshit is bad enough. That you spew it while simultaneously claiming to be a Christian really takes the cake.

Anyone who knows the truth of Zionazi barbarity over the last eighty years, in suppressing, tormenting and murdering Palestinians and others who ‘…got in the way’, understands that the LIES of ‘Israeli morality’ are among the most extreme and bizarre ever uttered. Israel has long been a crucible of utter EVIL.

‘Is perhaps the Gaza genocide Allah’s fightback plan against Yahweh?’

The Gaza genocide may be God’s way of teaching Jews humility.

They’ll never live it down. People will be discussing how they rejoiced in their crimes a hundred years from now. Never again will Jews be able to pretend to moral superiority.

I confess I don’t understand

That’s always a good start, admitting your ignorance.

In fact, what you’re confused about isn’t a dilemma confined to Islam. You’ll find the Christian counterpart expressed in classical theological contention such as that between proponents of predestination and those of free will.

Look at it this way… You enter an elevator and press a button to send you to the floor of your choice. You didn’t create the elevator and its many components — the car, the hoistway, the counterweight, the sheave, traction ropes, motor, drive system, brake system, guide rails, suspension system, door operators, limit switches, sensors, buffers, and control panel. No, all of that was made available to you beyond your will, prepared in such a way that all you have to do is enter the elevator, hit that button, let the doors close and — vroom! — you’re on your way.

That’s much like the relationship between free will and destiny. Yes, God willed everything to be, all the elements of the cosmos, yet in such a way that our agency bears the potential to affect that will — however circumscribed the result, like the movement of an elevator affected by the floor button pressed.

So, you can ‘blame’ God for creating everything needed to make your computer and its components, including the keypad and modem. You can even ‘blame’ Him for the internet connection, whether we’re talking about its material elements or the intellect needed to engineer it.

What you can’t blame him for, however, is writing that stupid post of yours. That’s all on you.

Capisce? 🕶️

The tiny bit of retribution Islam has suffered in Gaza after 10/7 is barely a trickle compared to the evil done by Islam throughout the past 1400 years. Sometimes a historical perspective is needed to help make sense of current events.

1. You’re wrong. 2. In any case, may you be given a chance to demonstrate your ability to retain a historical perspective.

Every accusation is a confession. Talmudist instead of Muslim and talmud instead of Islam would accurately describe the deceit of the world swindlers.

“I don’t want my children to have to compete in a race to the bottom against this bullshit.”

At least you admit your kids are at the bottom, given the conduct of their father. But it’s the holidays, so let Jesus into your heart.