Thanks for sharing this footage. Fags for Hamas is chickens for KFC. Worth noting that no one was arrested for defacing statues right by the White House, but teens are being charged with felonies for putting skid marks on a rainbow crosswalk mural. This is what anarcho-tyranny under the new state religion looks like.
The winking "emoji" would indicate the former. There aren't very many witless stupids on Racket News' comment boards, thank the Lord. A few, of course, but I fear that's unavoidable. And most of those, alas, are of my sex.
Zionists worse than Hamas??? LOL, tell that to the Palestinians living free in Israel, or to any homosexuals living in the closet in Gaza, or any Muslim women in Gaza that is not comfortable in a burka or similar Muslim female covering.
You just go further and further down the rabbit hole.
Yes, living free as third class citizens, mLOL. Most of the world is not animated by queer issues, they want fairness and freedom. Maybe ask those Christians murdered by the IDF and zealot settlers how they feel?
You keep trying to justify genocide with issues that are less important so, who's going down a rabbit hole while dodging the truth.
I’m talking about the guerrilla info war that Hamas began on October 7th, also known as asymmetrical warfare.
since Hamas can’t win against the militarily superior forces of the IDF, the attacks, murders and kidnappings of the 7th were designed specifically to get Israel to massively react and to destroy Gaza in front of the whole world. thereby drawing allies both old and new to support Hamas and condemn Israel. as you can see by the video above, when you have “fags for Hamas” in front of the WH, the strategy is working quite well.
"I’m talking about the guerrilla info war that Hamas began on October 7th, also known as asymmetrical warfare."
Yeah, man! They're not supposed to do that! That's not fair!! In the words of George Carlin, "That's OUR fuckin' job!!"
"the attacks, murders and kidnappings of the 7th were designed specifically to get Israel to massively react and to destroy Gaza in front of the whole world"
Yeah, man! But Israel is much smarter than Hamas, so -- thus and therefore -- it logically follows that Israel did *not* massively react and did *not* destroy Gaza to play into Hamas' hands. No matter *what* your lyin' eyes tell you. Are you with me?
No one was arrested. Of course! Forget the vandalism of public monuments, and BTW no harm to some poor public employee in a Smokey the Bear hat that gets stuff thrown at him, and of course --- no one is arrested.
St. Louis burned down after Michael Brown --- no one arrested.
2020 George Floyd "peaceful protests' --- no one arrested.
Hamas cosplay across the US of A? Even if property damaged or people detained by these jerks? No one arrested.
But tonight I read reporting that a 75 year-old woman is being sent to prison for two years for violation of The Face Act? A pro-life protestor? Don't know the details; must have been really bad. A threat to D E M O C R A C Y.
Hopefully even Democrats are finally getting fed up or at least politically worried about this crap.
But don't hold your breath. This is the ground-laying for what comes in the next several months.
The "troops" are organized and mobilized. Their scenario One: Trump voters will never accept that he lost, so we must be ready to suppress dissent. Their scenario Two: Trump did not win, and we must be ready to resist (2016 all over again).
Letting this anarchy go on is destroying the nation. Isn't anybody else tired of people just "protesting" 24/7? How about getting rid of tax exemptions for whoever is funding this bs?
I would say that Christo is probably the culprit behind all this, but he's been dead for six years. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that he faked his own death.
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This guy is a total clown, you should ignore him. Parasites like this that have nothing to contribute but captured right-leaning clickbait word salad. Commenters like this deeply degrade Substack quality. One has to dig very far into the comments to get into anything of substance.
The “authoritarian things” are all originating from the current administration, which is progressive/leftist. The progressives have been pro-censorship, anti-liberty and anti-free expression. Can’t see how they were duped. Taibbi and Shellenberger have stayed consistent on these essential rights. The left has abandoned free speech. Who has been duped?
The 'left' in America, as understood by people like Michael Shellenberger, is the will and priorities of the Democratic party. True left wingers have limited to no political representation in the US. It's sad so many people enjoy demonizing direct representation in the form of protest or activism when it differs from their own politics. It's one of the few times you get at least some idea of how people genuinely feel and only because of publications like Racket and News2Share. Given that, it's funny to me how all the rejectors of mainstream media, both rightwing and leftwing folks, absolutely eat it up and revel in the conventional wisdom of the establishment when it's putting down regular people exercising their free speech.
I guess the lost, brainwashed students and their parents from the 60s need something to protest. No matter how twisted the cause, it’s something to do while they collect their food stamps and fuck the new migrants entering illegally. I look at all these young blond and dyed girls yapping it up after being raised in their happy suburbias and have to cringe at how lost this generation has become. The only redemption is that they will guarantee Trumps return.
A subscriber named “Jester” posted an insightful observation after viewing the comments from the last Racket video showing a pro Palestinian demonstration. These folks pay for subscriptions so they can barge in when anything Palestine-related is aired. It’s an inexpensive way to stir the pot and cause fear among thoughtful people. They will never go away, but we can ignore them.
Matt’s raison d'etre is free speech. No brown short-wearing trolls will stop him.
Protesting US state-sponsored genocide seems like a good cause for anti-fascists. No need for the scare quotes.
It was only a bullhorn and not chemical weapons are were deployed against the crowd, apparently. But yeah, that guy seemed like a jerk. I say better our jerk than one of theirs.
And yet it's Hamas which is dedicated to genocide, while the Palestinian population has grown exponentially.
I'd like to see some of these same people protesting our involvement in Ukraine. Or at least protests about the deaths of Americans in Ukrainian jails since the U.S. backed war began. Ukraine is now a thoroughly fascist state, and we support that as a nation, under Faux Joe.
Taibbi, and especially his adjacent videographers like Ford Whashisname and Orfalea, seem to attract antisemites and Hamas supporters. I think they hope they can sway Taibbi to come back to his original, Bard-college-inspired roots. You can’t ever expect them to confront their own racism and stupidity. They are the Progressives of America!
The one time Obama was right was not intervening in a regional conflict. We should emulate that stance far more often than we do.
If people want to argue for a blanket non-interventionist policy, there's a lot of merit to that argument. The world would be a lot better off if we hadn't interfered in Libya. Or if we'd been smarter and briefer in Afghanistan, if we really had to go there at all. Or Iraq, for that matter.
Hamas isn't dedicated to genocide any more than Israel has been. You do understand the ideological roots of Zionism correct?
The name of the game has been the eradication of Palestinians the whole time. Netanyahu and his supporters put it right out there for you in plain language; they have always and will always use any excuse they can to encroach upon Palestinians and displace them. That's been happening for 50 years, just look at the pattern. This is the same game the Zionists have always played.
And yet they withdrew from Gaza, and enabled the elections which brought Hamas to power (though Hamas has refused to allow any further eletions).
I am not a Netanyahu fan. I have never said I was. I do support Israel's right to exist as a nation, and I do not see any other ceaselessly harangued to cede terrirory gained in the conduct of defensive war.
And I don't think it's fine to slaughter babies, unarmed people at a music festival, nor do I support rape. Israel, at least, tried to warn civilians to evacuate areas planned for attack. Did Hamas do that? I think we both know the answer.
Does anyone else get the sense that 95% of the participants in these Hitler Youth demonstrations are there because this is a more realistic version of Cosplay?
When you look at the crowd, they look like a collection of white losers who are only there to try to fit into a social space. They're privileged, slovenly, ignorant and have limited social skills, but can dress up and play the role.
Why is it so hard to believe that some people, when confronted with what they consider to be a great injustice, e.g., the extradition of Julian Assange, the terror and deprivation that Palestinians have suffered at the hands of the Israeli government for over 60 years, now with visual representation, the unbearable conditions in U.S. prisons, the humiliation and poverty accorded black Americans for decades, will rise up and protest on behalf of those who cannot? I think it an honorable thing for someone to participate in a protest movement (Your choice of "mob" is telling.).
Protest is acceptable, certainly - so long as it is peaceful, and does no damage to individuals nor property. Will you claim that these protests have complied with these strictures? If so, you haven't been keeping informed.
To be honest, I don't think the protests have harmed individuals. Did they spray paint buildings, probably so in some instances. However, I do not think protests should be condemned for those actions to private property, and I certainly do not think they are grounds for calling in the police, expelling students or threatening their future careers, when they take place on universities. I do think it's appropriate to have students who have spray painted property to clean it up.
You are not quite correct when you say I "haven't been keeping informed." The truth is that we rely on totally different agencies for our news reports. I trust Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, John Mearsheim, Noam Chomsky, Norm Finkelstein Amy Goodman, implicitly, and think it a waste of time to tune into mainstream media.
An elderly Jewish man coutner-protesting at an anti-Israel protest in Southern California was stalked, harassed, knocked to the ground, and died of his injuries. I think that counts as harm. There have been other, less severe assaults.
And I personally think vandalism of property a perfectly acceptable reason for expulsion. Such acts evince a terrible lack of any sense of social responsibility.
But if these were honest protesters, they would not need to hide behind masks. The principled proterster stands behind his or her actions, and stands up to take any legal consequences for lawbreaking. Certainly, the Reverand Dr. King submitted, and never hid behind a cowardly anonymity.
The current crop of protesters seem to feel entitled to rampage at will, and believe that any consequences should be borne only by those they are protesting against. In fact, the sebse of their own entitlement seems to be their most salient characteristic.
It's now "opression" not to cater their campus takeovers, rush in to supply them with what they failed to think of providing for themselves. No, I have no respect for that mindset. Not one jot.
Al Capp put it very well a long time ago: "Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything." S.W.I.N.E.
So it is OK for anyone to throw paint on another persons property so long as they "clean it up". Said someone who obviously has never cleaned paint off anything. It costs thousands of dollars to repaint structures. The scrubbing leaves marks on the structure and the whole thing needs to be repainted to make the owner "whole". But not just that. They are inconvenienced by the original paint, the cleaning off, and the painting back. But it is easy to see how a leftist has no empathy for anyone else. Expecially those they would rather see imprisoned, in the gulag, or (as always happens eventually when the left loses patience) dead.
I'm all in for protesting when our "leaders" are objectively selling human kind up the river on endless fronts, war and otherwise. Good on these people. The worst that happened was graffiti. Meanwhile, there's blood & body parts in what's left of Gaza. And we're here with what we laughably call a democratic republic in the death throes. Ashes. Ashes. We all fall down.
Two questions: 1. mode of operation. Some of these are more peaceful and less destructive of property and respectful of law enforcement than others. It doesn't garner support to destroy property or disrespect law enforcement. If the point is not to garner support for these positions, then what is the point?
2. All those things you decry are valid things to protest... and yet... why Palestine specifically? Why now specifically?
People have been protesting over Israel's apartheid government for decades this isn't a new issue. The protests have ramped up in scale because Israel has escalated to blatantly commiting acts of genocide while being funded with our tax money to do so. People are rightly pissed off about it and they're taking to the streets in greater numbers.
No apartheid, Alex, millions of Palestinian Arabs of various religions who are full citizens of Israel with voting rights and rights to hold elective office. Actions have consequences; the Gazans voted for Hamas in supposedly a free and fair election at least once ( maybe not so much recently)they are finding Out the consequences now, good and hard,but it is their made bed.
I have made this point repeatedly in thee stacks and I have yet to have anyone contest this.
Some people are demonstrating in some places in the US, in other places no one is demonstrating. So there’s that. Actually seeing those videos makes me less sympathetic to the protestors’ cause. Is that a feature or a bug to you?
But they ignore the killing of white farmers in South Africa or Coptic Christians in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East. They have selective outrage. I’m sure some know why they’re protesting but I think some will be there because a keffiyeh looks cool. Remember when university kids wore the Che Guevara shirt?
“Well, maybe like Casy says, a fella ain’t got a soul of his own, but on’y a piece of a big one — an’ then—“
“Then what, Tom?”
“Then it don’ matter. Then I’ll be all aroun’ in the dark. I’ll be everywhere — wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’ — I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build–why, I’ll be there. See?” - Tom Joad as played by Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath
Agree with #1 & 2 strongly. Bad behavior on both sides among protesters. I wouldn't want to be associated with the guy with the bullhorn. As to #3, this is a genocide, and if anything gets people out to protest, it should be this. But it's also true that we don't protest other injustices and horrors. People are inconsistent, but that doesn't make opposing this less justified.
It does appear the hasbara trolls have descended upon Racket News, sadly. Not surprising though, as their job is to scour the internet for anything anti-Israel to then unleash their zionist drivel.
And yet you buy the bullshit spewed by the U.S. and Israel when it comes to their colonial project in the Middle East. Such brave knowledge seekers who “see through” everything. Matt has failed you, out of fear more than likely, with how he handles Palestine. Turn to Aaron Mate or Max Blumenthal for your coverage here.
This isn't a result of either Biden or Trumps administrations, but reflects Obama's pledge to 'fundamentally change' our country.
There's no downsides anymore to uncivilized behavior, as long as it supports the Left's cause. This is the position of a former 'Community Organizer' who brought a Chicago style 'any means to an end' philosophy to the federal government.
He was raised with all of the benefits of an entitled white child, but decided to profit on his 'black' brand to make a career in politics, which paid off handsomely for him, at the countries expense.
Protests may not be "civilized" but the founders used them and tried to draft a Constitution to protect them, unlike the overly-"civilized" British, may their royals rot in hell.
Yes, protests can be civilized, but most of these recent anti Jew protests have broken a number of state and federal laws, yet I don't see anyone really suffering the consequences of their actions.
Again, this goes back to Obama setting the precedent of allowing riots, as long as they promoted the Left's position.
Contrast that with J6 prisoners who have been in jail for over three years with no charges brought yet.
Agree with you, aside from your exoneration of Biden (cough, Obama, cough). He was Obama’s VP, remember? (Back before he was a vacant shell.) Today, he’s a poorly strung marionette for the exact same forces.
Of course not! Nor was the invasion and vandalism of Federal buildings and at least one Senator's local office during the BLMantifa riots insurrection. Nor was it insurrection when leftist screechers assailed the Capitol during the shameful, bogus Kavannaugh "hearings" to harangue members of Congress at their jobs. Nor when Rep. Jamal Bowman deliberately impeded a Congressional vote by literally crying "fire" in a crowded building.
It's only insurrection when you're going against the groupthink promulgated by almost every leftist and Democrat politician.
My father was a US Army Officer who spent his career killing communists. During the Nixon administration, I was a sullen teenager and I recall him watching the DC protests on TV and saying “God bless America”. I didn’t get it back then, but I get it now.
And this is why the democratic party will try to jail and disqualify Donald Trump. Biden's lost votes of his deranged base. These people are sick and dangerous. J-6ers don't hold a candle to their psychosis.
Could not watch for even a full minute. Who is funding these spectacles? Best to send them down to the southern border where they can welcome millions more just like them.
Watched about half of this video. That is all I could take of it. It had the opposite effect on me than the protesters intended making me more pro Israel or maybe anti Palestinian leadership.
Thanks for sharing this footage. Fags for Hamas is chickens for KFC. Worth noting that no one was arrested for defacing statues right by the White House, but teens are being charged with felonies for putting skid marks on a rainbow crosswalk mural. This is what anarcho-tyranny under the new state religion looks like.
There is no punishment for RightThink. Why would there be? 😉
Sarcasm or witless stupidity?
The winking "emoji" would indicate the former. There aren't very many witless stupids on Racket News' comment boards, thank the Lord. A few, of course, but I fear that's unavoidable. And most of those, alas, are of my sex.
I call it "school-marmism"! Same people who brought us prohibition!
Sadly, Ellen, you are correct. AWFUL is an amazingly cogent acronym.
Sadly, I agree, Ellen. There are days I’d repeal the 19th Amendment.
Hater
I've been told (more than once) that gender/sex is a patriarchal/white supremacist construct
Seems like the stupids come out when the issue is Palestine.
Winking emoji, ah yes the cyber shorthand.
Are you sure?
Zionists worse than Hamas??? LOL, tell that to the Palestinians living free in Israel, or to any homosexuals living in the closet in Gaza, or any Muslim women in Gaza that is not comfortable in a burka or similar Muslim female covering.
You just go further and further down the rabbit hole.
Have a good day.
Yes, living free as third class citizens, mLOL. Most of the world is not animated by queer issues, they want fairness and freedom. Maybe ask those Christians murdered by the IDF and zealot settlers how they feel?
You keep trying to justify genocide with issues that are less important so, who's going down a rabbit hole while dodging the truth.
Projection?
Question.
Sarcasm. I keep the witless stupidity for other topics I’m less intimately familiar with.
I’m sad to say that Hamas is fully winning the Information War.
I would argue it's actually the Palestine supporters, who've been protesting the zionist leadership of Israel since the 1948 Nakba.
I’m talking about the guerrilla info war that Hamas began on October 7th, also known as asymmetrical warfare.
since Hamas can’t win against the militarily superior forces of the IDF, the attacks, murders and kidnappings of the 7th were designed specifically to get Israel to massively react and to destroy Gaza in front of the whole world. thereby drawing allies both old and new to support Hamas and condemn Israel. as you can see by the video above, when you have “fags for Hamas” in front of the WH, the strategy is working quite well.
"I’m talking about the guerrilla info war that Hamas began on October 7th, also known as asymmetrical warfare."
Yeah, man! They're not supposed to do that! That's not fair!! In the words of George Carlin, "That's OUR fuckin' job!!"
"the attacks, murders and kidnappings of the 7th were designed specifically to get Israel to massively react and to destroy Gaza in front of the whole world"
Yeah, man! But Israel is much smarter than Hamas, so -- thus and therefore -- it logically follows that Israel did *not* massively react and did *not* destroy Gaza to play into Hamas' hands. No matter *what* your lyin' eyes tell you. Are you with me?
While the bodies of their people pile up for their photo ops.
No one was arrested. Of course! Forget the vandalism of public monuments, and BTW no harm to some poor public employee in a Smokey the Bear hat that gets stuff thrown at him, and of course --- no one is arrested.
St. Louis burned down after Michael Brown --- no one arrested.
2020 George Floyd "peaceful protests' --- no one arrested.
Hamas cosplay across the US of A? Even if property damaged or people detained by these jerks? No one arrested.
But tonight I read reporting that a 75 year-old woman is being sent to prison for two years for violation of The Face Act? A pro-life protestor? Don't know the details; must have been really bad. A threat to D E M O C R A C Y.
Hopefully even Democrats are finally getting fed up or at least politically worried about this crap.
But don't hold your breath. This is the ground-laying for what comes in the next several months.
The "troops" are organized and mobilized. Their scenario One: Trump voters will never accept that he lost, so we must be ready to suppress dissent. Their scenario Two: Trump did not win, and we must be ready to resist (2016 all over again).
Letting this anarchy go on is destroying the nation. Isn't anybody else tired of people just "protesting" 24/7? How about getting rid of tax exemptions for whoever is funding this bs?
I would like this comment twice if I could
I would say that Christo is probably the culprit behind all this, but he's been dead for six years. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that he faked his own death.
Now you are onto something.
Thanks muchly for the giggle. I needed it.
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Shameless hypocrisy. Rinse. Repeat. 🔁
When the state religion promotes defunding Israel (Ukraine, Taiwan, etc.) and other foreign wars, I'll take communion.
I'd say fewer teens on the streets in hot rods and more teens hangin' around the White House is damn good police work.
Where there is chronic inflammation in the body, due to disease and lifestyle, the inflammation will grow until it is countered or, over time more diseases come forth, and if unchecked the body grows sicker, limps along, with drugs some of which cause more inflammation - until the body dies
Cry about it and seethe! It’s the police’s job to enforce the law and if they didn’t make any arrests for people breaking the law, that’s on them!
I thought their job was dealing with all of the people who want to tell them what their jobs are. Which is why they're always so happy.
Their job is not to arrest anyone. Their job is to follow the orders of the civilians who tell them who to arrest and when.
Such as?
No, such as who are these student protestors beaten and jailed for no actual crimes?
This guy is a total clown, you should ignore him. Parasites like this that have nothing to contribute but captured right-leaning clickbait word salad. Commenters like this deeply degrade Substack quality. One has to dig very far into the comments to get into anything of substance.
The “authoritarian things” are all originating from the current administration, which is progressive/leftist. The progressives have been pro-censorship, anti-liberty and anti-free expression. Can’t see how they were duped. Taibbi and Shellenberger have stayed consistent on these essential rights. The left has abandoned free speech. Who has been duped?
"Current administration is progressive leftist"......give me a break.
You wouldn't know left from right in the US!
The 'left' in America, as understood by people like Michael Shellenberger, is the will and priorities of the Democratic party. True left wingers have limited to no political representation in the US. It's sad so many people enjoy demonizing direct representation in the form of protest or activism when it differs from their own politics. It's one of the few times you get at least some idea of how people genuinely feel and only because of publications like Racket and News2Share. Given that, it's funny to me how all the rejectors of mainstream media, both rightwing and leftwing folks, absolutely eat it up and revel in the conventional wisdom of the establishment when it's putting down regular people exercising their free speech.
Free speech is destruction of property??
I guess the lost, brainwashed students and their parents from the 60s need something to protest. No matter how twisted the cause, it’s something to do while they collect their food stamps and fuck the new migrants entering illegally. I look at all these young blond and dyed girls yapping it up after being raised in their happy suburbias and have to cringe at how lost this generation has become. The only redemption is that they will guarantee Trumps return.
Rich college kids and aging hippies, plus assorted collection of freaks.
GG and Aaron Mate etc are NOT far left. Yo wouldn't no 'left' from 'right' in the US!
Ya that was pretty clueless no doubt
Well it just about is, or the drug & human traffickers, Islamists, and terrorists that Pedo Joe & his handlers have intentionally let in.
Funny how so-called “anti fascists” are so terrified of journalists and free speech. That coward with the bullhorn forgot his little brown shorts.
Bingo. @No Use For a Name.
A subscriber named “Jester” posted an insightful observation after viewing the comments from the last Racket video showing a pro Palestinian demonstration. These folks pay for subscriptions so they can barge in when anything Palestine-related is aired. It’s an inexpensive way to stir the pot and cause fear among thoughtful people. They will never go away, but we can ignore them.
Matt’s raison d'etre is free speech. No brown short-wearing trolls will stop him.
Nor shall they stop many of us, either, I trust.
Protesting US state-sponsored genocide seems like a good cause for anti-fascists. No need for the scare quotes.
It was only a bullhorn and not chemical weapons are were deployed against the crowd, apparently. But yeah, that guy seemed like a jerk. I say better our jerk than one of theirs.
And yet it's Hamas which is dedicated to genocide, while the Palestinian population has grown exponentially.
I'd like to see some of these same people protesting our involvement in Ukraine. Or at least protests about the deaths of Americans in Ukrainian jails since the U.S. backed war began. Ukraine is now a thoroughly fascist state, and we support that as a nation, under Faux Joe.
I was wrong earlier. There seem to be a great many "witless stupids" squirming out of the woodwork, like cockroaches, today.
Anytime Palestine is mentioned they pop out of their hole.
Taibbi, and especially his adjacent videographers like Ford Whashisname and Orfalea, seem to attract antisemites and Hamas supporters. I think they hope they can sway Taibbi to come back to his original, Bard-college-inspired roots. You can’t ever expect them to confront their own racism and stupidity. They are the Progressives of America!
But you can laugh and mock them.
Obama/Biden team set the stage for the Russian invasion
The one time Obama was right was not intervening in a regional conflict. We should emulate that stance far more often than we do.
If people want to argue for a blanket non-interventionist policy, there's a lot of merit to that argument. The world would be a lot better off if we hadn't interfered in Libya. Or if we'd been smarter and briefer in Afghanistan, if we really had to go there at all. Or Iraq, for that matter.
Hamas isn't dedicated to genocide any more than Israel has been. You do understand the ideological roots of Zionism correct?
The name of the game has been the eradication of Palestinians the whole time. Netanyahu and his supporters put it right out there for you in plain language; they have always and will always use any excuse they can to encroach upon Palestinians and displace them. That's been happening for 50 years, just look at the pattern. This is the same game the Zionists have always played.
Your stupidity - both historical and moral - absolutely breathtaking.
https://nationalpost.com/news/senior-hamas-official-we-will-repeat-oct-7-until-israel-is-finished
And yet they withdrew from Gaza, and enabled the elections which brought Hamas to power (though Hamas has refused to allow any further eletions).
I am not a Netanyahu fan. I have never said I was. I do support Israel's right to exist as a nation, and I do not see any other ceaselessly harangued to cede terrirory gained in the conduct of defensive war.
And I don't think it's fine to slaughter babies, unarmed people at a music festival, nor do I support rape. Israel, at least, tried to warn civilians to evacuate areas planned for attack. Did Hamas do that? I think we both know the answer.
Israel is not targeting civilians. Hamas is.
Who are these Americans dying in Ukrainian jails?
Your first sentence is straight out of the hasbara/propaganda playbook, and couldn't be more wrong.
sounds like you're looking for any excuse for rape during war.
I can't. I'm not a fan of Netanyahu. I think it's a very poor idea/strategy.
True. We shouldn't be giving aid to hamas-gazans.
Everyone makes mistakes. Like Biden voters.
Protesting genocide is good. The coward I'm referring to was threatening a journalist, which is what fascists do.
Trash like that ain't "one of ours"
Harassing, yes. Threatening, no.
Whatever helps you sleep at night, honey.
Oh is that what they were doing? Seemed to me like they were out there supporting Jew-killing terrorists and fascists.
There is no genocide.
They're brown for a reason - understandable, given the effect terror can have on the bowels.
There's that red shirt/brown pants joke . . .
Lt. Jim Dangle would most definitely fit right in with that crowd.
Fags for Hamas??
“From the River to the Sea
Means off the roof for LGBT!”
These people are morons.
And they’re not even bothering to masquerade as “humanitarians” anymore.
It is rather like "Rats for the Pied Piper!"
So, they are more like you now, is that what you are saying?
Huh?
No, more like you
Ahhh, I see. Another pro-genocide lunatic weighs in.
No genocide, Cosmo, attempted & hoped for genocide by Hamas, but they are too corrupt and incompetent to be successful at it.
See my post elsewhere in this thread.
Every now and then the mask slips off the left.
Yes.
Does anyone else get the sense that 95% of the participants in these Hitler Youth demonstrations are there because this is a more realistic version of Cosplay?
When you look at the crowd, they look like a collection of white losers who are only there to try to fit into a social space. They're privileged, slovenly, ignorant and have limited social skills, but can dress up and play the role.
well said !
People are pissed. On a multitude of topics that Biden fair weathers on. He creates more discord daily. At 72, I m ready to make my protest debut.
1) kudos to infinitely patient Park Police!!! You rock! Thank you.
2) mobs are not humanity's finest moment; never have been, never will be.
3) I don't think, at some psychic level, that this is really about Palestine at all. Not that I know what it is about.
Why is it so hard to believe that some people, when confronted with what they consider to be a great injustice, e.g., the extradition of Julian Assange, the terror and deprivation that Palestinians have suffered at the hands of the Israeli government for over 60 years, now with visual representation, the unbearable conditions in U.S. prisons, the humiliation and poverty accorded black Americans for decades, will rise up and protest on behalf of those who cannot? I think it an honorable thing for someone to participate in a protest movement (Your choice of "mob" is telling.).
Protest is acceptable, certainly - so long as it is peaceful, and does no damage to individuals nor property. Will you claim that these protests have complied with these strictures? If so, you haven't been keeping informed.
To be honest, I don't think the protests have harmed individuals. Did they spray paint buildings, probably so in some instances. However, I do not think protests should be condemned for those actions to private property, and I certainly do not think they are grounds for calling in the police, expelling students or threatening their future careers, when they take place on universities. I do think it's appropriate to have students who have spray painted property to clean it up.
You are not quite correct when you say I "haven't been keeping informed." The truth is that we rely on totally different agencies for our news reports. I trust Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, John Mearsheim, Noam Chomsky, Norm Finkelstein Amy Goodman, implicitly, and think it a waste of time to tune into mainstream media.
An elderly Jewish man coutner-protesting at an anti-Israel protest in Southern California was stalked, harassed, knocked to the ground, and died of his injuries. I think that counts as harm. There have been other, less severe assaults.
And I personally think vandalism of property a perfectly acceptable reason for expulsion. Such acts evince a terrible lack of any sense of social responsibility.
But if these were honest protesters, they would not need to hide behind masks. The principled proterster stands behind his or her actions, and stands up to take any legal consequences for lawbreaking. Certainly, the Reverand Dr. King submitted, and never hid behind a cowardly anonymity.
The current crop of protesters seem to feel entitled to rampage at will, and believe that any consequences should be borne only by those they are protesting against. In fact, the sebse of their own entitlement seems to be their most salient characteristic.
It's now "opression" not to cater their campus takeovers, rush in to supply them with what they failed to think of providing for themselves. No, I have no respect for that mindset. Not one jot.
Al Capp put it very well a long time ago: "Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything." S.W.I.N.E.
So it is OK for anyone to throw paint on another persons property so long as they "clean it up". Said someone who obviously has never cleaned paint off anything. It costs thousands of dollars to repaint structures. The scrubbing leaves marks on the structure and the whole thing needs to be repainted to make the owner "whole". But not just that. They are inconvenienced by the original paint, the cleaning off, and the painting back. But it is easy to see how a leftist has no empathy for anyone else. Expecially those they would rather see imprisoned, in the gulag, or (as always happens eventually when the left loses patience) dead.
Pay no attention to the damage. Nothing to see here. Rochambeau was probably a racist anyway.
I'm all in for protesting when our "leaders" are objectively selling human kind up the river on endless fronts, war and otherwise. Good on these people. The worst that happened was graffiti. Meanwhile, there's blood & body parts in what's left of Gaza. And we're here with what we laughably call a democratic republic in the death throes. Ashes. Ashes. We all fall down.
Gazan government started a war. Fafo.
Two questions: 1. mode of operation. Some of these are more peaceful and less destructive of property and respectful of law enforcement than others. It doesn't garner support to destroy property or disrespect law enforcement. If the point is not to garner support for these positions, then what is the point?
2. All those things you decry are valid things to protest... and yet... why Palestine specifically? Why now specifically?
People have been protesting over Israel's apartheid government for decades this isn't a new issue. The protests have ramped up in scale because Israel has escalated to blatantly commiting acts of genocide while being funded with our tax money to do so. People are rightly pissed off about it and they're taking to the streets in greater numbers.
No apartheid, Alex, millions of Palestinian Arabs of various religions who are full citizens of Israel with voting rights and rights to hold elective office. Actions have consequences; the Gazans voted for Hamas in supposedly a free and fair election at least once ( maybe not so much recently)they are finding Out the consequences now, good and hard,but it is their made bed.
I have made this point repeatedly in thee stacks and I have yet to have anyone contest this.
Some people are demonstrating in some places in the US, in other places no one is demonstrating. So there’s that. Actually seeing those videos makes me less sympathetic to the protestors’ cause. Is that a feature or a bug to you?
But they ignore the killing of white farmers in South Africa or Coptic Christians in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East. They have selective outrage. I’m sure some know why they’re protesting but I think some will be there because a keffiyeh looks cool. Remember when university kids wore the Che Guevara shirt?
Plus Keffiyehs are handed out free!
You mean like J6
“Well, maybe like Casy says, a fella ain’t got a soul of his own, but on’y a piece of a big one — an’ then—“
“Then what, Tom?”
“Then it don’ matter. Then I’ll be all aroun’ in the dark. I’ll be everywhere — wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’ — I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build–why, I’ll be there. See?” - Tom Joad as played by Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath
It’s mostly about causing fear so they can dominate. Make people fearful & they will give in to anything (e.g., the vax)
Agree with #1 & 2 strongly. Bad behavior on both sides among protesters. I wouldn't want to be associated with the guy with the bullhorn. As to #3, this is a genocide, and if anything gets people out to protest, it should be this. But it's also true that we don't protest other injustices and horrors. People are inconsistent, but that doesn't make opposing this less justified.
The Dartmouth graduation ceremony was interrupted yesterday by the Democratic Socialists of America shouting “Death to America!”
Get the picture?
I don’t think so.
Hope those clowns trip over their Keffiyeh and bust a lip.
Eve Barlow, on her Substack, referred to keffiyehs as 'bougie swastikas'.
That alone is reason to subscribe to Eve.
I love that - thanks, and I will check out Ms. Barlow's Substack today.
👆🏼Typical Taibbi reader now
Surprised you are so comfortable with rape.
You need to get all the facts.
If you don't believe the raped women, I can only pity and despise you.
Brilliant? Sophisticated? Not a clown terrorist loving moron? You betcha.
It does appear the hasbara trolls have descended upon Racket News, sadly. Not surprising though, as their job is to scour the internet for anything anti-Israel to then unleash their zionist drivel.
That's an accolade any sensible, thinking person would be proud to hold.
And yet you buy the bullshit spewed by the U.S. and Israel when it comes to their colonial project in the Middle East. Such brave knowledge seekers who “see through” everything. Matt has failed you, out of fear more than likely, with how he handles Palestine. Turn to Aaron Mate or Max Blumenthal for your coverage here.
Why, can't you tolerate dissent?
Hahaha!
What a profound statement!
This isn't a result of either Biden or Trumps administrations, but reflects Obama's pledge to 'fundamentally change' our country.
There's no downsides anymore to uncivilized behavior, as long as it supports the Left's cause. This is the position of a former 'Community Organizer' who brought a Chicago style 'any means to an end' philosophy to the federal government.
He was raised with all of the benefits of an entitled white child, but decided to profit on his 'black' brand to make a career in politics, which paid off handsomely for him, at the countries expense.
Protests may not be "civilized" but the founders used them and tried to draft a Constitution to protect them, unlike the overly-"civilized" British, may their royals rot in hell.
Yes, protests can be civilized, but most of these recent anti Jew protests have broken a number of state and federal laws, yet I don't see anyone really suffering the consequences of their actions.
Again, this goes back to Obama setting the precedent of allowing riots, as long as they promoted the Left's position.
Contrast that with J6 prisoners who have been in jail for over three years with no charges brought yet.
Agree with you, aside from your exoneration of Biden (cough, Obama, cough). He was Obama’s VP, remember? (Back before he was a vacant shell.) Today, he’s a poorly strung marionette for the exact same forces.
I exonerate him for the reason you stated, Joe only does what he's told by his handlers, principally Obama, or his couriers.
I feel no sympathy for the elder abuse Joe's suffering from as he's been a government parasite for 50 years.
Isn’t that an insurrection?
Of course not! Nor was the invasion and vandalism of Federal buildings and at least one Senator's local office during the BLMantifa riots insurrection. Nor was it insurrection when leftist screechers assailed the Capitol during the shameful, bogus Kavannaugh "hearings" to harangue members of Congress at their jobs. Nor when Rep. Jamal Bowman deliberately impeded a Congressional vote by literally crying "fire" in a crowded building.
It's only insurrection when you're going against the groupthink promulgated by almost every leftist and Democrat politician.
Accurately stated. Thank you.
When I watch this video, it’s not clear whether I’m seeing stupidity or evil. Or some disconcerting hybrid of the two.
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My father was a US Army Officer who spent his career killing communists. During the Nixon administration, I was a sullen teenager and I recall him watching the DC protests on TV and saying “God bless America”. I didn’t get it back then, but I get it now.
And this is why the democratic party will try to jail and disqualify Donald Trump. Biden's lost votes of his deranged base. These people are sick and dangerous. J-6ers don't hold a candle to their psychosis.
Now we know what Israel has been putting up with all these years...
Can we deport the F*gs 4 Hamas to Hamas? Lol
Hamas isn't a place
TBF it WAS as place, but it ain’t never been a country.
Could not watch for even a full minute. Who is funding these spectacles? Best to send them down to the southern border where they can welcome millions more just like them.
Watched about half of this video. That is all I could take of it. It had the opposite effect on me than the protesters intended making me more pro Israel or maybe anti Palestinian leadership.