“How many lives are 1200 Israelis worth?” That chilling question was put forward by a Rhode Island history professor last week in a condemnation of Israel as a “white supremacist nation” that prompted the Hamas massacre.
Many donors and parents have been repulsed in recent weeks by such extremist viewpoints on our campuses over the Israel-Gaza war. For some of us, however, the hostile environment is nothing new on campuses where faculties have been purged of conservative and libertarian voices for years.
Indeed, many of the same figures have previously supported radical, or even violent, efforts directed against conservatives for years. This academic radical chic was long celebrated, not condemned, by the media.
My own campus is not immune from extremist rhetoric. George Washington University has seen flyers of Hamas hostages ripped down and huge images celebrating the Hamas “martyrs” protected on our buildings. Most recently, a panel was held at our medical school accusing Israel of “genocide” and describing Hamas as “resistance” fighters against oppression.
This came as Hamas announced that no hostage would be found alive if Israel did not meet its demands.
The day after Hamas made that declaration, Eric Loomis, a history professor and director of graduate studies at University of Rhode Island, wrote a column on the blog Lawyers, Guns, and Money, a far-left site known for extremist rhetoric.
In his column, Loomis declared that, if Israel is not committing genocide, “it is way too close to comfort” to genocidal murder. While condemning Hamas, he said the massacre was “inevitable” and that “if you put people in an open air prison, you basically deserve the attacks you get.” He insisted that “ethnonationalist states can have no place in a liberal world” and “if you can’t agree with this when it concerns Israel, you are racist toward the Palestinians and we can move from there.”
Loomis recognizes that some may be critical of his views but ends by calling them “gigantic flaming a**holes.”
Even after weeks of such rhetoric from faculty, including Cornell University Professor Russell Rickford celebrating the massacre, it is still shocking for many. It is not shocking to those of us who are part of the dwindling number of dissenting voices on our campuses.
These very same faculty members have been fostered by the media for years. The Washington Post ran Rickford’s views and the New York Times ran those of Loomis. The latter relationship is particularly ironic after the Times effectively banned Sen. Cotton for raising the possible need to deploy the national guard to stop violent protests (a measure used on Jan. 6th).
I continue to defend the free speech rights of far-left academics despite my deep disagreement with them. The problem is not their exercise of free speech but the absence of balance or opposing voices on our campuses.
Many are celebrating the retention of Harvard President Claudine Gay as a victory of free speech. Yet, Gay oversees a university ranked dead last in protecting the free speech of others. For the many conservatives and dissenters bullied and silenced at Harvard for years, there may be less cause for celebration that the president is protected. Indeed, liberal faculty members have long enjoyed the full protection of free speech denied to the dwindling number of faculty on the right.
Many faculty members have been calling for violent attacks on conservatives and Republicans with little objection from the media or even some universities. Faculty members have freely called for “detonating” people,” calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservatives and other outrageous statements.
Conversely, for the few remaining conservatives on most faculties, there is little tolerance for controversy. Dr. Mike Adams, a professor of sociology and criminology, committed suicide after losing his academic position after an inflammatory tweet.
In this academic eco chamber, espousing conservative views is a virtual guarantee of rejection. Imagine being a young conservative professor applying to the University of Rhode Island’s history department where the director of graduate studies has stated that he has no objection to killing conservative protesters.
Other sites like Above the Law have spent years ridiculing objections to the barring of conservative faculty. Senior Editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” by arguing that hiring a conservative professor is akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism to teach at a university.
It is working. A survey conducted by the Harvard Crimson shows that more than three-quarters of Harvard Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty respondents identify as “liberal” or “very liberal.” Only 2.5% identified as “conservative,” and only 0.4% as “very conservative.”
The same is true at other schools. A study found that only nine percent of law school professors identify as conservative at the top 50 law schools. A 2017 study found only 15 percent of faculties overall were conservative. Another survey showed that 33 out of 65 departments lacked a single conservative faculty member.
The last few weeks have awakened donors to the rising intolerance and extremism on our faculties. Some donors have even pulled funding, including $100 million withdrawn from the University of Pennsylvania.
Donors (and state legislatures with state-funded schools) can use their leverage to force greater diversity of thought on our campuses. The problem is not that we have these radical faculty members. The problem is that we have comparably few faculty with opposing views. The diversity of opinion on most faculties runs from the left to the far left. Some faculty members now argue that intellectual diversity is not a core or essential value in academia.
If donors want to open up our campuses, they may need to close their wallets until real reforms are implemented in higher education.
Don’t mistake this post as supporting the woke left. Rather, consider it free-speech:
I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want to be on record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history.
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Third, Israeli leaders talk about Palestinians and what they would like to do in Gaza in shocking terms, especially when you consider that some of these leaders also talk incessantly about the horrors of the Holocaust. Indeed, their rhetoric has led Omar Bartov, a prominent Israeli-born scholar of the Holocaust, to conclude that Israel has “genocidal intent.”[9] Other scholars in Holocaust and genocide studies have offered a similar warning.[10]
To be more specific, it is commonplace for Israeli leaders to refer to Palestinians as “human animals, ”human beasts,” and “horrible inhuman animals.”[11] And as Israeli President Isaac Herzog makes clear, those leaders are referring to all Palestinians, not just Hamas: In his words, “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.”[12] Unsurprisingly, as the New York Times reports, it is part of normal Israeli discourse to call for Gaza to be “flattened,” “erased,” or “destroyed.”[13] One retired IDF general, who proclaimed that “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist,” also makes the case that “severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring victory closer.”[14] Going even further, a minister in the Israeli government suggested dropping a nuclear weapon on Gaza.[15] These statements are not being made by isolated extremists, but by senior members of Israel’s government. — John Mearsheimer
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/death-and-destruction-in-gaza
War and conflict always brings about the dehumanization fo the enemy.
Look at the american depictions of germans in WWI, or fo the Germans and Japanese in WWII.
Americans and the west did many ghastly things in those wars that we should not have done,
and likely would not have done had we been able to think of the enemy – particularly enemy civilians as humans.
The same is true of the views of Gazans currently.
Regardless, the dehumanization of the enemy – particularly an enemy that has attacked you and is intent on your destruction as wrong as that may be is NOT the moral or any other equivalent of genocide.
Israel is being reckless with the lives of Gazans. The US killed between 200,000 and 2M in the afghan and Iraqi wars.
That was wrong. That was reckless. But even the international rules of war do NOT provide much in the way of protection of innocents.
The DELIBERATE killing of civilians is allowed as part of the law of war – so long as that killing is a consequence of a legitimate military goal of sufficient importance.
That is disturbing – but it is also reality. For all our modern talk – war is NOT surgical.
Regardless, Recklessness in the legitimate destruction of a violent enemy is NOT the moral equivalent of genocide.
As Golda Meir famously said “If Israel lays down their weapons there will be genocide, if the arabs lay down theirs there will be peace.”
Israel is what Trump describes as a “shithole country” – it has nothing in the way of nature resources. It is unremarkable and not particularly valuable.
Yet the jews have turned it into a remarkable success.
Gaza is NOT an open air prison. It is the same shithole that the rest of israel is. Frankly it is better – Gaza was once a mediterainin vacation destination.
Nothing prevents the Palestinians from thriving in Gaza and the west bank just as the Jews have done in the rest of israel.
Nor is Gaza or the west bank a prison the Palestinians seek to escape.
It is their home – not their prison. While they may want the rest of Israel too. It is again – not a prison.
If it is a miserable place to be – The Palestinians have done that to themselves.
They have been receiving 30B/yr in aide for decades – with nothing to show.
This war will likely be over soon. At some point Hamas and its infrastructure will be destroyed or Israel will bow to international preasure and declare mission complete.
At that time Gaza will be far worse than it was before.
And the Gazan’s will have a choice – Rebuild for the next war with Israel. Or rebuild for peace and prosperity.
That is THEIR choice – not yours or mine or Israel’s.
If they chose to continue as they have in the past – then they are actively committing Self Genocide.
I can criticize Israel – but callousness and reckless disregard for the lives of the civilian population of an enemy that has REPEATEDLY sought to exterminate you – is NOT genocide.
The Palestinians ARE genocidal and make no excuses.
Excellent comment, John Say.
Mearsheimer has been insightful on Ukraine but verging on the hysterical about Israel. As a “realist” he should better understand the imperatives of a state genuinely facing existential threats from its enemies, especially after that state misjudged its enemies for decades and paid a horrific price. It was clear after October 7 that Israel would not allow Hamas to remain in control of Gaza and that destroying Hamas in Gaza would involve substantial civilian loss of life.
And that was half of Hamas’s goal (loss of civilian life in Gaza). The other half was loss of civilian life in Israel. Hamas is a genocidal death cult. They worship death. They are literally demonic.
I have noticed that those who are against Ukraine are also against Israel and are almost universally Islamophiles.
@John Say,
Israel is not being reckless.
Hamas is committing the war crime. Using civilians as shields. Using the hospitals, schools and mosques to store weapons caches and hide missile sites.
Israel actually has a good record on reducing the number of civilian deaths and there is no rule that they must sacrifice themselves to prevent civilian deaths.
The Palestinians are also suicidal along w homicidal willing to commit genocide.
-G
What can one say about John Mearsheimer? I’ll quote from The New Republic article written by Alan Dershowitz.
“As the discourse about Israel on university campuses continues to degenerate, there is growing concern that some of Israel’s most vocal detractors are crossing a red line between acceptable criticism of Israel and legitimizing anti-Semitism. The recent endorsements by several internationally prominent academics—including John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Richard Falk of Princeton—of an overtly anti-Semitic book written by a notorious Jew-hater illustrate this dangerous trend.”
The book in question has off-the-wall anti-Semitic statements. We know whose Mearsheimer’s friends are, anti-Semites. When we look at other writings of his, we see anti-Semitic streaks, so the question becomes, should we consider him an anti-Semite?
“[W]e must begin to take the accusation that the Jewish people are trying to control the world very seriously.”
“American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the elder of Zion’ [sic] are an authentic document or rather a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do try to control the world, by proxy.”
“Atzmon has written that Jews are evil and a menace to humanity:”
“Atzmon regularly urges his readers to doubt the Holocaust and to reject Jewish history:”
Read the entire article. After knowing Mearsheimer’s agreement with such anti-Semitic writings, I would trust nothing he says. But even his blog on this subject is close to the level of thought Svelaz provides.
He sounds ignorant when he quotes headlines as information. He makes outrageous statements about indiscriminate killings. If the IDF were indiscriminate, the war would have ended in days, lest one forget that Israel defeated all the surrounding enemies in a six-day war. He forgets that Palestinians are Arabs and Arabs live as citizens in Israel, occupying seats in the Knesset and on the Supreme Court. He also forgets that this is an existential threat to the survival of Israel, like the threats of WW2, where the Allies pummelled cities to near destruction. In Japan, the firebombing killed entire towns in a matter of minutes.
I have zero respect for Mearsheimer after reading this silly and immature op-ed.
It’s garbage coming from a man who demonstrates a distinct dislike for Jews. See below.
The Hamas protests are just ANTIFA and BLM marches funded by Soros and the usual suspects, including China. Of course you need to toss in the naïve little girls that are always useful idiots and then you have your “protest”.
Notice there are no calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Syria, Yemen or any other non-Jewish flashpoint. Notice that Israel is a capitalist nation and an ally of the United States and therefore and therefore to hurt them is to hurt us and China benefits along with the useful idiots that hate America.
Notice also that there are no “protests” by Just Stop Oil at any Chinese embassies or at any other Chinese events. Odd huh? Notice that there are no closing of streets to demand a ceasefire in Ukraine or riots at Russian embassies. Odd huh?
Notice that there are no riots in support of Israel or riots at Iranian embassies. Odd huh?
In the 80s we had anti-nuke riots in the west and never any riots aimed at the USSR. Odd huh? Thankfully Reagan was strong enough to ignore them and he ended up getting fair deals lowering the tonnage of both sides nuke arsenals. The left was demanding we disarm unilaterally. Odd huh?
When I see Greta Thunberg protest China I may change my mind. When I see Just Stop Oil protest Russian and Iranian oil I will be shocked.
In 2020 we all agreed to stay home due to the pandemic and we were told, no, forced, to not visit parents, not open businesses, not go to school and to basically destroy our economy and ruin the incumbent Republican president’s economy…but then we were told to go protest and yes riot against racism. The leftists told us to stay home…unless we were going 100,000 strong to “protest” against their fake racism charges, i.e. the west.
PS. STOP POSTING AS ANONYMOUS!!!!
This! – Neil Bobacon
“My own campus is not immune from extremist rhetoric. George Washington University has seen flyers of Hamas hostages ripped down and huge images celebrating the Hamas “martyrs” protected on our buildings. Most recently, a panel was held at our medical school accusing Israel of “genocide” and describing Hamas as “resistance” fighters against oppression.
This came as Hamas announced that no hostage would be found alive if Israel did not meet its demands.”
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The Left – blaming the victim for eons and liking it.
Svelass aka Mr Peetape says—
“There’s already one confirmed “NO”vote from the republicans on the upcoming impeachment inquiry vote. Rep. Ken Buck is a firm no. So they can afford only two republicans to vote no. It’s not looking good.”
I told you i was gonna save this one, Mr Peetape.
Hey Dennis, you still agree with Svelaz about that vote today?
One domino at a time, between now and Nov 2024, you shills are gonna get your noses rubbed in your steaming turds.
I share your assessment of Svelaz, but in this instance I must defend him or atleast defend the distinction between a lie and error.
Svelaz and many on the left -= here and everywhere make numerous bold and naked false claims about facts.
You have correctly listed many factual claims that Svelaz has made that are wrong.
More importantly – they are LIES – they are factual claims that were KNOWABLY wrong at the time they were made.
Predictions regarding the future are NOT the same.
LYING is a moral failure. Those who LIE are immoral.
Being wrong is error – not moral failure. Especially when the truth is not knowable at the time of the statement – such as when making predictions.
There is a connection. Those who are blind to the truth or deliberately lie about it, are unlikely to make good predictions regarding the future.
But being wrong about the future is not moral error.
I do not know what the future brings. Like everyone here I am reading the tea leaves.
I beleive as Peter Theil stated in an interview recently – that we reached “peak woke” in 2020 and we are in the midst of the collapse of the left.
I do not know whether that will be rapid or slow, but it is still inevitable.
If the election was held tomorow – Trump would win. He has gained 6-10pts on Biden since 2020. He would likely win the popular vote.
His electoral college total could reach into the 300’s.
But the election is in 11 months, not today. Alot can happen.
My read of the future is that most of what is likely between now and November is likely to make things worse for the left.
But the future is still often fickle.
A significant portion of Biden’s recent decline in the polls, is because of the War in Israel. That is a perfect storm of destruction for democrats.
70% of americans support Israel, a significant portion of democratic politicians are jewish. This is personal for them.
At the same time in the under 35 age group there is near majority support for HAMAS.
Democrats are effectively alienating young voters over Israel. Democrats are trying to thread the needle supporting Israel while preasuring Israel into a cease fire. This does not appear to be working. It risks alienating voters on BOTH sides of the issue.
But the immediate conflict in Israel will end – and likely soon (relative to the election) and Biden’s polls will recover SOMEWHAT.
Some people are not coming back.
Further though most not on the left have been saying over and over, that much of the mess we currently have would not have occured under Trump. There would have been no Ukraine war. There would have been no Oct 7. There would be no mess at the southern border.
and on and on. Those are not easily proveable claims – even if correct.
However more and more people are sharing that view.
Dennis, Svelaz, Gigi, …. are all free to disagree – again this is not proveable.
But repeating, more and more people are concluding that Biden is not the victim of chance – as Trump was with Covid.
Biden is the victim of his own incompetence and that of his party and his ideology.
The Israeli war also highlights the critical fracture int he democratic party between ordinary democrats and the radical left that has taken power.
Republicans have differences, but nothing of this magnitude. Nor is this fracture so much about politicians, as it is about voters.
Democrats are going to have a great deal of difficulty in the future holding onto the Manchins as well as the AOC’s
This is not a problem that is going away.
All that said – while in my OPINION the political prospects of democrats in the next 11months are going to decline further.
That is not guaranteed. Miricales could happen in Ukraine, Gaza, the economy, … and Biden could go into the 2024 election with the wind at his back.
The odds of that are small. But it is not impossible.
Um
Ok
Except i didnt say he lied nor call him a liar in this post.
I know the difference.
John Say, excellent.
What the Democratic leftists are really saying is given the opportunity they would kill all conservatives and Jews. It’s really no less than that. And yet they call conservatives Nazis. Hamas says the same things and we should take them and the American Democrats at their word. The people on campus who call for these killings are not just trivial actors but leaders of a death cult movement. They cover their faces in public and call people fascists while attacking people with fists and clubs. The far left today is all of the American left not just Antifa. This is not an overstatement.
Quickest way to a ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas lay down your weapons and come out.
Anyone calling for anything else is subhuman.
Exactly. Israel cannot tolerate murder
rape… rape-rape, torture, and abduction as tools of the terrorists’ trade. The pro-Hamas activists either don’t care or are affirmatively aiding and abetting a high risk environment for soldiers and civilians alike. #HateLovesAbortion
Israel has been abducting thousands and thousands of gazans for many years
Israel has been murdering gazans for no reason for many years
Israel has murdered, tortured, raped and blown to bits at a 20 to 1 rate for decades
I really don’t get you whack jobs. If you actually were under threat at all, you’d have something to whine about that wasn’t a total lying fantasy based upon your own mental illness projections claimed to be the state of the minds of the 2 million prisoners in the gazan auschwitz
Shakdi: Do you have any proof of Israel killing Gazans that didn’t first attack Israel or blow up a school bus? You can make things up, but then you would be like Svelaz. I think you can be better than that.
He makes stuff up too. The hospital he said was turned to rubble still stands today. The Israelis somehow went into this “pile of rubble” and there were still patients there. They found weapons caches and tunnels beneath. But according to this clown it was levelled.
This crack head maniac still claims its not there. Reality means nothing to him
You are correct.
Shakdi ruined his reputation, much like Mearsheimer, who could not separate his antisemitic thoughts from what he wrote. If one cannot do that, then it means others cannot rely on anything they say, even when in agreement. Antisemitism leads to Doublestandardstan, as Shakdi would say, but neither realizes that if one has a double standard for one group, it taints everything they say,
LMAO another delusional monster idiot
I can’t even believe what total morons the regulars of this blog have turned into
The communist rot is deepest in higher education.
It’s going to take a lot more than leftist donors wanting the vicious dialed down a little.
Until radical firings and expulsions take place the bacterial infection grows.
The Harvard Corporation missed an opportunity to begin to clear out the rot by dismissing Gay. She has presided over the demise of open debate by stifling any and all anti-woke sentiment (while pleading “free speech” when antisemitism is challenged), helped purge Ronald Sullivan and Roland Fryer, fostered DEI as the university’s governing ideology and is a plagiarist to boot. Unless and until those with power demand change, nothing will be done.
Daniel, I think they will get rid of her. She is too much of an embarrassment to be the face of the university. And she is not a very good example for students who are told not to cheat [if not cheating is even still a thing at Harvard].
But it will likely be done discreetly, perhaps disguised as her choice. Maybe she will get a state fair type of medallion and a handsome monetary award. Harvard can afford to be generous even lacking the billion or so she is said to have cost them. But she likely has to go.
Just giving her a boot in the @** would be cleaner and more honest, shake off some of the tarnish, but Harvard.
Instead, why dont we as Svelaz, aka Mr Peetape, how those odds are looking now for a impeachment inquiry vote???
Still think its not gonna pass?
Oh and if it does, i guess that means there is sufficient evidence now, since you’re the one who claimed that the R holdouts meant their wasnt enough evidence.
Really. New posters and old frustrated ones: don’t respond to Svelaz. He/she/it are only here to detract and sow discord, this is nothing remotely new, and it is better to let the comments rot in midair like a gastrointestinal explosion (😂 that is actually high praise for their tripe). Much better to respond with counterpoints that do not even acknowledge their idiocy. Ditto for ‘Anonymous’ Elvis Bug (eb), FishWings, and the ‘bad’ Anonymous, ‘Bob’, and there are a few others but they are not nearly as tenacious. they have been c******g on this blog for years, which has led many of us to believe they are either paid or just truly pathetic and listless. Tired of this being taken over by troll cage matches. Once again, the comments were reduced to bickering between a troll and another poster (in this case Tom and Svelaz, for pages) the other day, and it could have been as simple as scrolling past Svelaz and posting something salient instead. You play into their hand every time you do this, and that is precisely what they want. Stop enabling them.
The Professor takes the time to do this for us, and he sure doesn’t have to. We all share here of our own volition too, because it matters to us. You are letting the idiots run the show when it is as simple as not engaging directly with the idiots.
REGARDING ABOVE:
Here’s Estovir telling us that only his puppets, and the few remaining conservatives, are the only commenters worth responding to.
Estovir is terrified that real discussions might develop on this blog that might break his chokehold on the site.
Now watch Estovir respond to this post with one of his gay videos (like that should suffice as an answer).
And here is the drunkard Buganaon with his tired sockpuppet routine. Typical lefty tactic, since he is the one with all the sockpuppets like brandrunner and ynot
Please name a single instance in which anyone on the left here has engaged in actual discussion ?
James, I believe it’s simply ego that drives people to respond to them directly. As I mentioned to Tom the other day, there’s nothing wrong with a counter-argument to something they posted, it simply does not need to be made in a reply to them. If they are paid trolls, their incentive would likely be based on direct replies.
Olly, are you utterly clueless, or ‘what’? James and Tom are both Estovir!!
Are you okay with that deception? Or don’t you want to know?
Yes and its such a good deception! He even argues cross purposes between the puppets to add to the deception.
Notice this retard is too stupid to employ that tactic.
Its ok, you know this idiot as buganon, the drunkard. He’s having a fever dream and its lasted 6 months now. As any good marxist he projects his use of sockpuppets like brandrunner and ynot and denies it because he’s well, a pussy.
Long live Estovir the Terrible!!
@OLLY
I think so too, and we have to resist it. I always appreciate your thoughtfulness and acuity. Your posts always contribute something to the conversation, and minus the trolls, miraculously, that is something the rest of us still have here, regardless of our levels of experience/predilections/views, scrolling fatigue. And I really, really appreciate that. Many thanks to you, the other thoughtful posters, and to our host who believes in the value of these things and works so hard to provide this for us.
If there were a single, even one, a single one, ‘left wing’ poster here that were actually sharing their views instead of parroting the daily DNC missive, I would be all in for that, too, for the discussion; that is not the reality. There is not. Not one. Not a single one. Ever. For years. That is the party. Period. One would think a man like the Professor who believes in our foundations would at some point, on his own blog, which is representative of people and not politicians, we are not the elite, most certainly his bounty of readers aren’t, would find some way to come to that conclusion. The left is lost, the left is anathema to not just freedom, but base survival in the 21st century, if freedom is anything but a catchphrase, and if that is the case – they had better prepare for the backlash.
Many thanks to you, the other thoughtful posters, and to our host who believes in the value of these things and works so hard to provide this for us.
Thank you James! I too appreciate these posters. I read their contributions because they have plenty to offer, but not if they are replying to these trolls.
Frankly, I love to see their posts. 99% of the time they reassure me that the left is f’ed up and the crap they are selling is garbage.
But, yeah, they are like the boys on the boys team in the rugby match against the masters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKv6o7YqHnE
I gotta say, some of these self important righties don’t look much better.
“Oh, our wonderful blog, where a few of us used to bring such enlightenment and would solve all the worlds problems without even trying. They’ve ruined it!”
Now I’m a jet fuel genius
I can solve the world’s problems
Without even trying
I’ve got dozens of friends
And the fun never ends
That is, as long as I’m buying
Is it any wonder I’m not the President
Is it any wonder I’m null and void
Tom, your opinions seem to be agreeable, but you might want to open a can of STFU once in awhile. We all love turkey on Thanksgiving, but after a bit we get sick of it. In this metaphor you are the turkey.
Easy big boy, I’m not Gigi, i understood the metaphor.
As to your point, i do get a little carried away from time to time. Even though i know svelaz is purposely obtuse, because no one can be that stupid, i still feel a need to help lost souls.
I typically let opinions alone. I focus mainly on falsehoods, and there is no shortage with the big 4.
I did back off for awhile, and will again. Guess i was bored. My recreational activities slack a little when the weather turns, and i’m all caught up on my shows lol.
OK Tom, fair point and made well.
James, thank you for your comment. I agree and I have stopped reading Svelaz and the obvious “Anonymous” since they are just partisan hacks, paid operatives or just contrarian weirdos.
As for Tom, who you cited above, he makes good points but he is caught in the Svelaz trap and I also just scroll past their bickering.
I believe it is a plot to ruin the comments section by using paid idiots like Svelaz and “Anonymous” to destroy the conversation and render it useless.
I have asked, almost begged, for a long time to please have the site manager, Darren I believe, change the system so that there are no Anonymous commenters. No, I am not asking to end anonymity, hence my moniker Hullbobby, but allow us to recognize each individual person so that it will be easier to ignore and skip past the usual idiots.
FOLKS, AND I AM USING THE DREADED CAPITALS HERE, PLEASE SIGN UP, PICK A DARN NAME AND STOP BEING ANONYMOUS. We all forget to sign in once in awhile and our comment comes out as being from Anonymous, but for those of you that use Anonymous on purpose STOP IT! You owe it to Professor Turley and his awesome site to act responsibly, politely and with consideration. In other words pick a name so we can ignore the trolls.
We need to wake the f*ck up to the fact that the root problem is not just antisemitism, but rather a global jihad against western civilization. If you have not seen this video titled The Third Jihad, then you have missed “them” saying what their plan is. The mass migration of Muslims has been underway for years. What happened in Israel on October 6 is going to happen in western nations and that includes the United States.
Updated with the latest lie from Elvis Bug, the Lawn Boy
The Consumer Price Index was indeed at 7.6% when Trump left officeElvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy (it was 1.4%)
Archer gave no details about the meeting at the Naval Observatory with Marc Holtzman—-Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Archer had no idea what was on those phone calls. He admitted it under oath—Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Evidence isnt permissible unless its incontrovertible—-ATS
Circumstantial evidence alone is not enough to convict——Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Republicans are the only ones calling for violence these days—-Dennis
Democrats call for violence when the cause is right—-Dennis in the same post
Gas prices spiked because Texas uses crude oil to make electricity—-Gigi
AR-15’s ruin the meat—-Dennis
The inflation rate was 8% when Trump left office—-Gigi
(it was actually 1.4%)
Biden only released the strategic oil reserve once—-Svelass Mr Peetape
Archer never said it was Joe that was called from Dubai—-ATS
The State of Florida does property tax “appraisals”—-Svelass Mr Peetape
You can’t convict without incontrovertible proof—ATS
Trump was convicted of rape—Svelass Mr. Peetape
The Jefferson County school board has a supermajority of republicans—-lawn boy EB
Trumps attorney forgot to “check a box”——Dennis
An insult or name calling is not a personal attack—-Svelass Mr. Peetape
The DC NG answers only to the President—-Gigi
Christianity teaches to treat your fellow man the same way you treat Jesus—-Svelass Mr Peetape
The ideal athlete is 6’2” and 175#—-Dennis
There is no way a fat person can shoot a 67 in golf—-Dennis
“Bright red Alabama is the “wild west”,” (when its bright blue Birmingham that accounts for 95% of the gun violence in Alabama)—-Dennis
That’s why McCarthy didn’t hold a vote. He was going to, but upon realizing he didn’t have the votes he chose not to hold one.—-Mr Peetape
McCarthy never said he didn’t have the votes.—-Mr Peetape.
Dennis McInlyre aka Mr Alpha Bank
Would you state for the record, if you stand with the 30% who believe the pee tape is real and that Joe is not a crook?
It will take more than donors fleeing, unless Qatar also stops funding our universities, but that won’t happen any time soon. It will take offers of employment being rescinded and for big law firms and I-Banks to stop hiring Ivy League and elite uni grads.
Dennis McInlyre aka Mr Alpha Bank
Would you state for the record, if you stand with the 30% who believe the pee tape is real and that Joe is not a crook?
Do not underestimate the power of markets.
Donors are fleeing – because the mirror is being held up to what our most prestigious universities have become – and those funding them are appalled and do not want to be associated with that.
But Donors are just part of it. Would you send your son or daughter to Harvard today ?
Harvards prestige, its appeal – to students to donors, its rank in the world is because for centuries it has churned out the greatest minds on earth.
Yet, the problem for Harvard right now is that CLEARLY is not true. Gay is clear not one of the great minds that have lead harvard in the past.
The Faculty is increasing not the great minds of the past.
And the current students are more easily compared to the HAMAS terrorists that anything even remotely great – and worse still they revel in that comparison.
Jonathan: Speaking of “awakening donors” Mike Lindell can’t hold a “Pillow” to DJT’s latest scam. DJT is desperate for donors as his cash reserves are being strained with millions in legal fees. So on Tuesday DJT came out with the third installment of his NFTs. According to DJT’s promo “if you buy all 47 of the new ‘Mug Shot edition’ digital cards for $4,653, you will get an autographed piece of the suit he [DJT] wore when he was arrested”. That’s right. You will get a scrap of fabric from the suit DJT wore when he posed for the mug shot at the Fulton County jail. DJT calls the suit “The Most Historically Significant Artifact in United States History”. So forget about a piece of the Star Bangled Banner, Abe’s top hat or even a piece of Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit. The “artifact” DJT is peddling is the one you can’t do without!
In addition to the piece of DJT’s suit, if you buy all of 47 cards you will be invited to dine with him at Mar-a-Lago. That could turn out to be a once in a lifetime experience–considering DJT could be kicked out of his residence when Judge Engoron rules next month. Oh, I nearly forgot. DJT’s promo is celebrating the holiday season. He is selling Christmas stockings featuring his Fulton county mug shot. What a way to celebrate the holidays!
For those on this blog who can’t wait to buy the NFTs and the other goodies–buyer beware. It’s in the promo’s fine print. There’s a chance you won’t actually receive a piece of DJT’s suit “due to an issue in manufacturing”, etc. As to the dinner at Mar-a-Lago, DJT might be “unable to attend” [probably because he will have to attend so many court appearances] and you will be responsible for travel expenses–including “transportation and lodging”. In lieu of the above you will be “awarded” more NFTs “as determined by us in our sole discretion”. Like I said, when it comes to DJT’s scams, you definitely have to read the fine print!
+100
Hey Dennis
We are taking donations for digitizing the pee tape. Would you like to contribute?
Tom: You are getting monotonous. When are you going to have an original thought? And you never answered by response to your obsession with your AR-15!
I’m sorry Dennis I must have missed that. You have a nasty little habit of going back days after everyone else has moved on, and replying to old posts.
I am happy to answer your question.
What was your question about me and AR’s?
Also, I will move on to the next ridicule of you when u answer to the current one.
Do you stand firmly with the 30% who think that Joe Biden is not a crook and the pee tape is real?
PS, i find it hilariously ironic that you would accuse anyone of being monotonous. Self awareness just absolutely eludes you it seems.
I see you ran away again. typical
Selling NFT is a scam? Why? Where is the scammy part?
iowan2: A “scam” is a fraud, a racket designed to get people to give money without any intent to give what is promised in the scam. Look at DJT’s latest promo and the fine print and tell me it’s not a scam. But a sucker is born every day. You may well be one. So go ahead. Send DJT your $4,653 and see what you get in return. Will it be a piece of DJT’s mug shot suit? A dinner at Mar-a-Lago with the scammer? No, what you will get back are worthless NFTs. Or maybe a stocking with DJT’s mug shot you can hang on your Christmas tree. Hardly worth $4,653 wouldn’t you say? That’s the definition of a scam!
All NFT’s are scams? As to the rest, all I have is big, Huh? I don’t buy lottery ticket, though I will sit down at a Black Jack, or poker table. That doesn’t mean I think lotteries are a scam, just over priced. for me. YMMV. The disclaimers seem up front and open, not scammy at all.
This is the crank you got working on your panties? The TV commercial I’m watching right now has more relevence than what ever you think this means.
He wont be back after that, iowan
Maybe Sam Freidman will step-up or the chinese or the ukrainians…Wasting Trumps money by using taxpayers resources in the hopes he doesn’t get elected so they can waste even more taxpayer resources and military personnel’s lives…Awesome team you cheerleader for, clown.
I’m still Laughing Out Load – Tickled Pink!
Hunter pulls up to the Capitol steps,
Gets out of the Secret Service SUV Limos (Your Tax Dollars at Work),
Espouses some word-salad about this being an Injustice, all the while in the act of committing an Injustice,
Then figuratively ‘Flipping the Bird’ to the House Oversight Committee subpoena and then sped-off in an act of Contempt of Congress.
Oh Boy! is this Great!
I’m a Biden. We don’t break the law!
As he defies a subpoena.
“My father spent his whole life in public service in congress, and he thinks its ok if i defy a congressional subpoena.”
I wonder if Hunter still talks to his dad every day.
Well, Jim Jordan thought it was OK to ignore a Congressional subpoena, and he was directly involved in the insurrection–so, what’s your point? Jordan is pushing for an “impeachment inquiry” despite the fact that there’s NO evidence that JOE Biden did anything wrong.
Sorry GIgI, you are the one without a point. Aside from the constitutional questions re:subpoenaing a member of congress which apparently u arent aware of, JJ’s subpoena has nothing to do with this discussion, but nice try. Eric Holders subpoena also has nothing to do with this.if you want to make comparisons, steve bannon and peter navarro (both charged) would be better comparisons.
Its a sad statement i have to even explain this to you, but that really the point of gaslighting, isnt it?
2 USC 192 is the law. Hunter biden broke it. Your weak sauce whatabout is indicative of your small mind.
Next
I’m sorry, but did some Court somewhere say that Jordan could ignore a Congressional subpoena, or is this just more drivel spoon-fed to Trumpsters like you who fall for whatever they tell you? Where in the Constitution does it say that a member of Congress is exempt from complying with a Congressional subpoena, or for that matter, getting directly involved with trying to overthrow a free and fair election just because a narcissist can’t handle failure? What court ruled? Where is the Order? I haven’t seen it. The issue is ignoring congressional subpoenas, so it has EVERYTHING to do with this discussion. Hunter has agreed to testify–in public–so Republicans can’t lie about what he said. What are they afraid of?
I’m sorry, but did some Court somewhere say that Jordan could ignore a Congressional subpoena,
Its a constitutional question as to whether a Congressional committee can subpoena a sitting member of Congress, and force the executive branch to enforce the Subpoena. Its called separation of powers. Its in the constitution. You will not, the committee did not refer Jordan to the DoJ. Very simple reason. IF the DoJ pursued enforcing the subpoena, then the new Democrat Party precedent of hauling members before any committee, would create a free for all. The Dems are stupid so who knows
Say it back to me “separation of powers” Its real
Bannon and Navarro have been charged. Eric Holder has not. Jim Jordan has not
You figure it out, numbnuts.
Small IQ
What law did JOE Biden break? WHERE is the evidence? And, Hunter DID agree to testify–PUBLICLY–not behind closed doors.
“And, Hunter DID agree to testify–PUBLICLY–not behind closed doors.”
This is how dumb you are. Who did he agree with?? Himself??
You do understand the definition of “agree”, right?
NUTCHACHACHA,
There is no insurrection that is led by people who say, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
There is no insurrection when Capitol Police lift barricades, open doors, and escort impromptu visitors in.
There is no insurrection without armed combatants; the only armed combatants on Jan 6 were surreptitious FBI assets.
There is no insurrection without organization; there were no organized conservative and paramilitary units on Jan 6, other than those of the undercover, false-flag FBI operatives.
There is 1,000,000,000,000,000 pieces of evidence that Joe Biden is involved.
See, i can say something just as stupid as you.
Where is evidence of transfer of funds to JOE Biden? WHERE? It doesn’t exist.
Plenty. You just choose to ignore it.
$40k went into jim bidens wifes account after going thru several shell companies of hunter biden. Few days later, jim writes joe a check for $40k (loan repayment of course)
Do you know where that $40k came from?
I find it hilarious that there are all these checks for “loan repayments” to joe, but never a check from Joe to anyone.
I also find it hilarious that jim and hunter, who were raking in millions, always seem to be repaying joe for loans, who was making a couple hundred thousand.
You’re a hoot Gigi. Just keep chanting “no evidence, no evidence, no evidence”. Dont forget to click your heels together.
Congress can not subpoeona its own members.
That is not new.
It is in the constitution.
Gigi,
there is no shortage of damning evidence.
There is 10,000 times more evidence than in either Trump impeachment.
Frankly there is not an impeachment proceeding against a president in the entirety of US history that has a stronger foundation.
The CORE allegation is bribery – that Biden excercised the power of the federal government vested in him personally in return for private benefits.
There is no question that is an impeachable offense – it is written right into the constitution as an impeachable offense.
Beyond that there is ZERO doubt that VP Biden excercised public power vested in him with regard to the Burisma case.
He has openly admitted that.
The lunatic claim that Shokin was corrupt though ferociously defended by those like you has ultimately FAILED
It has gone the way of the collusion delusion.
The source of that claim was Sorros funded NGO’s and VP Biden directed FBI task force. Absolutely they persuaded others to go along.
The Bushies got the UN and most of the country to go along with their claims that Sadam was hiding weapons of mass destruction.
Something is not true merely because alot of politicians or diplomats echo it.
Regardless, the claim has failed. Shokin was not corrupt. He was actively though slowly grinding away at Burisma.
He did not receive a golden parachute from some Oligarch. He is living modestly on a public servants pension.
So VP Biden LIED about what he was demanding Shokin fired. Again that is irrefutable.
As Turley has pointed out repeatedly – it is NOT necescary for Joe Biden to personally profit. it is Enough for his family to profit.
And that has been proven. The Biden syndicate collected tens of millions – that is enough.
But with only some of the Biden records – we now KNOW that Joe Prfited personally – Money ended up in Joes hands.
There is more than enough evidence for an impeachment inquiry.
There is more than enough evidence for an impeachment.
There is more than enough evidence for the senate to remove Joe Biden.
There is more evidence of public corruption – Bribery than any other public corruption case in my life.
There is more evidence for actual impeachment than any presidential impeachment in US history.
John Say;
I would add to the Shokin facts, that Burisma is the one fearing Shokin was getting to close to them and needed Shokin gone.
Regardless of what opinion others had. Burisma feared Shokin and wanted him gone. Biden was paid to make it so. As
You gotta say, at least the Trump Kids showed up for their Ass-Chewing
I gotta thay, this whithkey ith thome good thit!!
——bug anon the drunk
Jim Jordan, now head of the “Even thought we have to lie to do it, let’s create a counternarrative accusing Joe Biden of crimes to offset Trump’s actual crimes committee, so stupid voters who don’t know any better will believe there’s equivalency” IGNORED a J6 Committee Subpoena–and he was directly involved in the insurrection. There is not, and has never been, any evidence tying JOE Biden to any crimes. So, to prevent desperate Republicans from lying about Hunter’s testimony if it occurs behind closed doors, Hunter is demanding that it be public. Sorry, pal, but the facts are just plain against you.
Bwahahahaha are u drunk???
Gigi, lets get it on the record. Are you among the 30% who believe the pee tape is real and that Joe Biden is not a crook?
Hilary and her gaggle of court jester toadies have always been an out of touch group of feckless failures when trying to lie straight.
Presenting Trump as a near 70ish man who has the stamina and wherewithal to get it on all night with a group of highly sexed women only made his stock shoot into the stratosphere with millions of admiring men (and women) of all ages and political ideologies.
“Hunter is demanding that it be public.”
Because a private citizen can do that.
I guess i need to re-read 2 USC 192 again. I must have missed that.
The reason that Hunter’s Defense and the Hill Democrats want Hunter to testify publicly is that there are certain matters of Foreign Policy that can not be aired publicly. The Republicans want to ask questions about Hunter and Joe Biden on matters of; Ukraine, China, and Other Foreign Countries, wherein the interactions of the Biden’s influence involved Foreign Policy matters. These questions can be asked and answered behind closed doors when matters of National Security are present.
The Media is not spinning it that way. They know the POTUS’s Goose is Cooked.
So they play it: The Democrats don’t want these questions answered. The Republicans want answers to these questions.
Hunter Biden has never had ANYTHING whatsoever to do with “matters of foreign policy, Ukraine, China and other foreign countries”. And, as Turley has admitted “influence peddling” is not illegal–it’s what lobbyists do every single day. There are NO “national security” issues involved with HUNTER Biden. He’s never had any role in government, and you know it.
The only spinning going on is alt-right media that keep trying to create the illusion that JOE Biden is a crook because of allegations against Hunter that they dreamed up. How many taxpayer dollars have been wasted trying to pin somethingon JOE Biden–all failed. Republicans KNOW that there’s no evidence of JOE Biden committing any actual criminal offense, but they have to do something, anything, to counter the daily court losses of their hero. Plus, they have to get revenge for Trump’s impeachments and crminal indictments, even if they have to lie about JOE Biden engaging in wrongdoing.
Revenge, yep we heard that new talking point today.
Elections have consequences—-Obama
Gigi, do you agree with the 30% who believe that the economy is good, bidens not a crook, and the pee tape is real?
If the so-called “Palestinians” have a rationale to kill Israelis and annihilate Israel, “From the river to the sea,”
the Indians have a rationale to kill Americans and annihilate (i.e. fundamentally transform) the United States of America.
Wait, that’s precisely what Obama, his illegal alien gang, and the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) are doing in the name of Karl Marx.
They’ve already eradicated American freedom; now they are after America’s wealth and physical boundaries.
Correct, but this also works in reverse.
If it is acceptable for the Palestinians to advocatge for and try to commit genocide against jews.
It is acceptable for Israel to obliterate the threat by obliterating palestinians.
If it is OK for american indians to exterminate settlers.
It is OK for settlers to exterminate american indians.
I recently watched a Burns documentary on the Pilgrims that was quite interesting -especially if you stick to the reported facts, not the speculation of interviewed “experts”.
The mayflower landed and settled an area of New England that was devoid of indians at the time.
They did find abandoned indian settlements – where the dead were abandoned and allowed to rot.
But not a living soul. It appears there was some kind of disease a few years prior to the arrival of the mayflower that spread through indian populations the entire length of the coast of new england. Killing all humans from the coast to about 15mi inland.
For quite sometime the indians had little contact with the pilgrims, out of fear – the pilgrims were occupying a land of death, and out of weakness – the indians were still recovering from natures destructive embrace.
The documentary speculates the disease was something the indians were not immune to that european fishing vesels brought with them.
That is the most likely explanation – but it is far from certain. There were very few europeans prior to the mayflower that contacted new england indians. Further it is not as if all diseases and epidemics are introduced by evil westerners. Everywhere in the world has had plagues and epidemics many times – all without a single european. As we have seen with covid they can occur at anytime, anywhere – even in advanced societies. But they are much more common in more primative societies. And contra the left, american indians in the 1500’s were by far the most primative occupants of the western hemisphere. They were FAR behind the “natives” in Central and south america who had cities and built temples and even homes out of stone that they quarried. Soiuth and Central america had civilizations in 1500 atlease as advanced as the Egyptions. Outside of africa and pacific islands there were no groups of people as primative as american indians.
Again contra the left primative life is NOT clean and sustainable, it is actually dirty, disease ridden and struggling for survival.
The next myth exposed is the nonsense that native americans were peaceful. The indians that first approached the pilgrims were warily trying to decide if they were a threat or a potential allie – because they were facing a threat of extermination by another tribe.
As Hobbs said – Life was nasty brutish and short.
Early life for the pilgrims at plymouth was miserable. The mortality rate was enormous.
But as primative as pilgrims were by our standards – they were essentially space aliens relative tot he indians.
Once they managed to gain a toe hold and survive – they thrived. They did so because their poor standard of living was STILL 3000 years ahead of that of natives. Those on the left like to rant that we have much to learn from indigeoueous peoples. That is true.
But it is also still true that the knowledge of the pilgrims was still 3000 years ahead of the indians.
The medical care of the pilgrims – barbaric by our standards – was still 3000 years ahead of indians.
Life for the pilgrims was nasty brutish and short.
Life for indians was far nastier, more brutish and shorter.
Europeans did not cross the ocean to find an advanced society living in sustainable harmony with nature.
They found a continent of hunter gatherers, with some limited farming skills, who lived in squalor, constantly at war with each other, and without a written language.
Turley — “The last few weeks have awakened donors to the rising intolerance and extremism on our faculties.”
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Too many of the intolerant extremists and marginally competent diversity academics have found their way into government and the courts. That’s why government looks like a Bud Light ad or Disney ‘spectacular’. flailing, failing, incompetent, demented, dishonest and dangerous.
We can drink something else and watch different movies but we need someone like Trump to right the ship and put it back on course. His brashness isn’t a detriment; it’s a necessary tool for this job.
Young says:
“Too many of the intolerant extremists–
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Does this group include all those MAGA types who want ban any book that mentions ‘sex’?
Geez, I thought they did not intend to “ban any book” but were acting against exposing innocent young elementary, middle, and high school children to abject, flagrant, gratuitous, and exploitive pornography.
Are you sure you’re presenting that correctly?
You wouldn’t embellish and equivocate, would you?
My bad.
Are u drunk?
The denial/stupidity/hatred/sheer cluelessness of those donors, parents, alumni etc. purposely funding the indoctrination of our children into the fine art of genocidal mass murder by these institutions of planned, systemized death, whose stated missions MUST INCLUDE GENOCIDE IF THEY ARE TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR GOALS, is absolutely astounding, bordering on psychotic.
Everybody knows the basic grooming and brainwashing procedures for creating soulless, remorseless killers includes the requirement that they be so dedicated to “the cause” that they are prepared to willingly turn on their own parents, families, friends, loved ones, country, history, identity and essence of individual self.
That’s some of the benchmarks of the success of the programs.
Too bad for so many of the ones who provide the mean$ to fuel the Death Cult Indoctrination Institutions trajectory toward absolute evil that their miscalculation of the price of their self congratulatory wokie madness, is going to cut short their celebration of their any means necessary victory over The Constitutional Republic and those Americans of their stated hated persuasion they are out to eliminate. Because…they too are members in one way or the other of a class, belief, way of thinking, leaning etc., destined by the dogmas of racial, religious and political genocide for complete removal…by of course, “any means necessary.”
What IS IT about the lefty liberal/connedservative elitist wannabe brains that makes them so completely oblivious to the consequences of their own actions that are guaranteed come back and turn on them?
@Dawn
Thank you, Dawn, I’m right there with you. The entire culture stinks, and it has for some time. These universities are corporations, not schools, and the profit is all that matters to them. They are basically Disney trying to maximize their dollar based on shifting winds, and anyone that thinks differently is not thinking, IMO. Ivy League has been an hysterical joke for some time indeed, it did not start with recent events.
OT
All I want for Christmas is a full-combat-load, pre-dawn FBI raid on Hunter Biden’s house…
Fox News, having been previously notified.
If not…
All I want for the New Year is an impeachment of Merrick Garland by the House and a conviction of Merrick Garland by the Senate.