Oh my heart… 🥹
I didn’t know that Chewbacca was going to restore my faith in humanity today, but here we are
❤️❤️❤️— Jessi 💫 (@its_jessi_grace) June 14, 2024
- I was skeptical about whether Netanyahu could ever pull this off, but Ted McLaughlin has the polling data.
Amazingly, the American public has turned way against Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
- Scotties Playtime is often enlightening, but sometimes misses the target. Comes from being human, I suppose.
Scottie suggests that there actually was no ceasefire between Israel and Hamas (huh?) on October 6, the day before the horrific Hamas Oct 7 attack.
This is counter to what is generally understood and widely accepted.
To support this startling new fact, Scottie offers a 19 minute video by Owen Jones, a British left-wing notable.
It is 19 minutes that I will never get back.
Owen goes to the British Balfour Declaration over a hundred years ago, listing every allegation of Israeli brutality since then that can fit in those 19 minutes. I may have missed the reasoning the Scottie and Jones say negates generally recognized history: that Hamas broke an accepted cease-fire by executing and videotaping and boasting about the execution of music celebrants.
The central thrust of the Jones narrative seems to be that Israel is so awful, and always has been, that there cannot have been a ceasefire.
That’s it. Nothing else.
The logic is that Israel was, and remains, evil.
Has been since 1917, 31 years before Israel actually existed.
So there could not have been a ceasefire.
And while what Hamas did on October 7 is not to be condoned, might even be regrettable, they broke no agreement.
It’s all a Zionist trick.
As far as I know, my thought still holds:
- In Hackwhackers, President Biden generates international backing as G‑7 nations and NATO join US patriots in supporting Ukraine resistance to Putin aggression.
- Conservative notable Bret Stephens does not exactly want the US to reduce all our adversaries, most immediately Palestinians in Gaza, to embers glowing in the dark. But, as driftglass notes, he comes close. To further his military dreams, he now wants Biden to drop his campaign for reelection and retire when his current term ends.
driftglass goes all analytical, performing vivisection on Bret’s proposal, and on Bret himself.
- In The Borowitz Report Marjorie Taylor Greene warns that windmills will drive up the cost of wind.
Key accusation:
Joe Biden is coming for your wind!
- At The Moderate Voice Kathy Gill explains how the cognitive ability of any President depends, not on memory for names and details, but on which of two ways the Oval Office resident makes decisions.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil waxes poetic as mr Trump waves at his imagination.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has a thought on sharks and electrocution:
Isn't this the type of question you hear from people who are high? https://t.co/W7ok37GBta
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) June 10, 2024
Of course, I have a less cogent observation:
- Tommy Christopher brings us the reaction of the CNN morning crew to mr Trump’s obsession with Taylor Swift, and his suggestion that she may not be legitimately liberal.
Key Trump reasoning:
It surprises me that a country star can be successful being liberal.
Key CNN panel commentary:
He clearly has spent more time looking at her than listening to her. She hasn’t been a country star for a long time, as my swiftie daughter could certainly tell you.
My thought:
- Key claim:
Since he decided to run for president in 2015, almost exactly nine years ago, Trump’s narrative has been that the United States is in terrible decline and that only he can “make America great again.”
In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson does, you know, history as well as contemporary data. There are facts to support Democrats as they flip the script on MAGA Republicans.
The same analysis is now available in audio format, as Richardson narrates in podcast.
- Max’s Dad covers a potpourri (You gotta be impressed with my vocabulary) of topics, in biting detail. Things like:
- Alito is a nutjob
- Trump is a felon
- Hunter Biden is a felon
- Paul Ryan has been threatened by a filthy cop from Texas
- The feces throwing House GOP is still a clown show
- Trump thinks he’s being beheaded
- Southern Baptists think IVF is evil
- Clarence Thomas is a crook
- The Wall Street Journal is participating in a quid pro quo with the Convicted Felon.
Lots has been happening lately. - Sebastian Gorka, who was briefly Trump’s Deputy Assistant before falling away, then briefly a Fox contributor before falling away, is considered a bit of a right-wing extremist. He, of course, falls for a Trump trial hoax. Well… He is kind of a fruitcake.
A satire post says an anonymous cousin claims to be a juror. It turns out to be a bogus attempt at humor
But the Judge asks that it be investigated, just in case
And your own tall tale twists this precaution into an admission the trial was fixed?
Forgive me but that's pathetic
— Burr Deming – @BurrLand01@mastodon.world (@BurrLand01) June 9, 2024
And now, News Corpse lets us know that those whom the Fox Network considers legal experts are tumbling eagerly for that same obviously bogus story.
- Frances Langum has the video as Fox folk talk, without conscious irony, about how their opponents engage in projection.
Key projection:
Monica, do you think if Trump wins, Biden is going to go gracefully?
And that’s not all ->
I think AOC is just mad that Donald Trump won’t date her! Remember how she’s always so obsessed with, like, guys wanting to get her?
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reports the Republican National Committee, as they prepare for the GOP Presidential nominating convention, is completely prepared in case mr Trump is, for …um… some future reason, otherwise engaged and cannot attend.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit is developing less than total admiration for Republicans as Jan 6 Capitol Police heroes get booed in Pennsylvania.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony helps out mr Trump with new MAGA slogans as old chants age poorly.
- Julian Sanchez explains how MAGA brains work:
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ANDPost by @normativeView on Threads - Hunter Biden is officially guilty. CalicoJack in The Psy of Life has questions.
One is rhetorical: Does the conviction disprove Trump’s Thesis?
One is not: Does it matter?.
Jack suggests three distinct strands of reality and invites comments
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged sees Rudy Giuliani’s recent name calling (and name mispronouncing) of Fulton County DA Fani Willis as more evidence of the decline and fall of the once mighty Rudy and those of my brothers-and-sisters-in-Christ who listen to him.
Key self-reveal:
All of those so-called Christians who laughed showed us the White Supremacists chuckleheads they really are. Because the man Giuliani and they support is a serial adulterer and adjudicated rapist. And they support him, and jeer anyone else?
As may be expected, I have a thought:
- The Onion provides what we should know about Steve Bannon’s coming stay in prison.
- Speaking of blowhards,, says Juanita Jean, did you know that Alex Jones has agreed to liquidate his assets and pay the $1.4 billion that he owes to the parents of Sandy Hook victims?
She offers a history in photos of the (short) career of Alex Jones.
- Dave Columbo clarifies, for those of us who don’t get it, the latest financial disclosure of Justice Thomas (easy once it’s explained):
- Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group have the background as contraceptive pill Mifepristone (kind of, maybe) wins at SCOTUS (transcript should be coming soon).
Key caveat:
But the battle for access is far from over.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara says greedflation, the idea that corporate price gouging is largely responsible for rising prices, is a leftist myth because inflation is monetary.
Key libertarian basic:
There can only be one cause. The government. In the U.S. the government nationalized money over 100 years ago.
Ummm… so we should have local currencies?
Key scapegoat:
So how can Biden and the misnamed “Progressives” blame business? Simple. He and they are desperate liars.
- PZ Myers carefully explains, and illustrates, the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
- Infidel753 makes a plausible case supporting anti-immigration movements in Europe.
Key proposition:
Calling such parties “far-right” is a thought-canceling MSM smear to discredit positions which they cannot challenge on the merits of the issues, and which are actually common and even majority views in Europe.
- In Right Wing Watch, a conservative pastor and candidate for Congress from South Carolina says anyone who favors equal rights for gay people should be executed for treason.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz goes to a local Pride event, and encounters groups of Evangelical Christians confronting the children (kids? yeah kids) entering with their families. The nominal Christians accost the little ones to tell them their parents are sending them to hell.
Pastor Pavlovitz suggests the only groomers attending are those confrontational Christians.
Key point:
…these Christians aren’t rescuers, they’re bullies. They don’t operate out of love but hatred.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce remembers how his religious upbringing kept him from having fun.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes quotes scripture, climbs a hill, and rejects immortality.
Key insight:
Every moment is so full that it’s no sacrifice to let it go.
- Nan’s Notebook ponders God, science, and creation stories.
Key skepticism:
IMO, there are so many holes in the “Creation Story” that I’m left aghast at the number of people who simply accept what was written in a book that is several thousand years old.
- In Happiness Between Tails da-AL hosts an author and blogger who has been afflicted since childhood with the crippling effects of life‑threatening blood cancer. da‑AL finds strength and resilience in the struggles and victories of Brent Dempsey.
Key inspiration (da-AL):
Day-to-day challenges are always blunted when I stop to admire strength in others.
Key focus (Brent Dempsey):
My journey with health and resilience is far from easy, but it’s one that I embrace wholeheartedly. Through the ups and downs, I’ve discovered inner strength and resilience that I never knew existed within me.
- SilverAppleQueen remembers how she started writing again, reading Anne Frank who found it inside herself to keep The Diary of a Young Girl.
- YellowDog Granny illustrates thoughts on personal decorum, Trump, convictions, and ketchup.
- @whiskeywhistle98 explains that we need not fear:
- Author and blogger John Scalzi shows us that Donald Duck has anger issues.
- Clickbait satirist Reductress has a solution if you can’t afford a vacation: 5 fights you can start with loved ones at home.
- Mark Waulberg (No, not Mark Wahlberg, the other Mark) reminds us that, no matter how hard work may seem others have it harder:
great lineup – thank you for including mine