The biggest move Trump made and will make America Great and Healthy again is Robert Kennedy Jr. Big Pharma and the Vaccines cults backed by them will do everything they can to torpedo it. We must stand strong for him and all Trump's appointments.
I am a huge proponent of getting pesticide, preservatives and artificial sweeteners out of our food supply. Like Hillary, Kennedy is not an effective communicator who too many don’t have faith in. There are a number of skilled doctors with Kennedy’s baggage that would be better accepted.
My Trump dream triumvirate is Trump, Kash and Pete. We’ll see how Bondi does, and Rubio sat on the Senate Intel committee a little too long for my tastes. I don’t dislike Bondi and Rubio, but I don’t think they will be the change agents that measure up like Kash and Pete will for Trump’s final term.
Granny: I'm certainly in favour of Kash at the FBI, and love that Tom Woman is heading up the illegal immigrant front, but I thought State, Defense, and AG would be the determining factors in overall success of Trump's administration. I know how you feel about Rubio and I understand why, but I do believe Rubio has made a nearly complete turnaround. I could be wrong though...
Guess it’s time for new luggage, Jim, because mine is plastered with anti-Rubio stickers back to his ‘Gang of 8 days’ with John McCain and Ted Kennedy. You may recall, we at CAPS worked hard back then with CIS, FAIR, Numbers USA to unseat House Speaker Eric Cantor. Let’s hope Rubio has changed his position. I’m a Homan supporter. There’s much work to be done by Homeland Security. Trump Loyalist Christy Nome is a weak, grossly unprepared nominee, but a pretty female! Capable of starring in commercials. WHY Christy? There are several stellar, proven leaders to secure our country, enforce immigration laws, oversee FEMA, and finally protect average working Americans, and our children. She’s more concerning to me, than Rubio’s past positions on immigration or unimpressive tenure on Senate Intell.
I have to agree with you. Further, not sure Hegseth is the guy either. Like Nome, pretty face in front of the camera. Jack Keane at DoD would have been a safer choice.
I’m with you Granny, but I’m confident that Bondi will do great work (True Patriot)…and believe that Rubio was placed to expose certain elements of the Deep State (including Little Marco) using the State Dept to topple countries (using USAID +++)…Trump doesn’t silence his enemies, instead he shoves them into the light & lets them destroy themselves…
A great leader surrounds himself with a capable intelligent team. Every single one of Trump’s team is stellar. The Dems look like fools with their inane questions during their confirmation hearings. Two more days. The suspense is deafening!
California senators Adam Schiff and Xavier Becerra conducted themselves in total disrepute with their nonsensical badgering of AG candidate Pam Bondi. Each Calif senator reading identical lines from the Kamala Harris "prosecutorial for hire" handbook.
Not only is this state running out of water after past decades of Democrat super-majority domination, but there must also be "something in the water" if i these three are the best this state offers the national dialogue.
Schiff & Becerra (+ others) comments/questions reminded me of an oft used saying on the boards, “Those that scream the loudest” (have the most to lose)…
The Democrat two step: (1) ask a gotcha question, demand an immediate yes or no answer. (2) Then immediately insert their own words into the other persons's mouth because they refused to answer their intentional gotcha question with either a yes or no. It was disgusting.
Harris did this same dance, and now in lock-step so did Schiff and Becerra. That is the Democrat games-playing America that soundly rejected. These are not serious people.
I was communicating at length Thursday night with Eric Early who made an impressive Congressional run against Adam Schiff in an 80%+ registered Hollywood/Burbank area. Attorney Early’s impactful contributions to education and specifically to Santa Barbara need to be acknowledged and remembered. Had we in Early’s campaign stopped Schiff then, he’d never have been where he is now. May Schiff continue sleeping, dozing to reduce the damage he does. Any suggestions beyond hibernation for our two other Californians Harris and Becerra?
Another reason why China keeps winning on trade is because we sabotage or undermine our manufacturing companies all the time. We have all kinds of nonsensical regulations and environmental laws which create multiple roadblocks they have to navigate. In addition, many states don't have right-to-work laws and give labor unions too much power to prevent our manufacturing companies from effectively competing. Some of the work rules they impose on our companies make it cost prohibitive to stay in business. We shoot ourselves in the foot on a regular basis. You can't blame all this on China.
I read this article by Mr. Buckley Titled "Say “Hello” to President Trump’s Triumvirate"
and I quote excerpts from same > "And if I am confirmed, keeping that promise will be the core mission of the United States Department of State.” THAT PROMISE again I quote >
“During President Trump’s first term... there were no new wars, ISIS was eviscerated, Soleimani was dead, the historic Abraham Accords were born, and Americans were safer as a result." and
“Finally, we will responsibly end wars to ensure we can prioritize our resources –and reorient to larger threats.” LET'S SEE IF TRUMP KEEPS THIS PROMISE TO END WARS.
I leave with Soon-To-Be President's Statement and Promise to the American People>
"I will Settle the Ukraine War in 24 Hours" [Certainly in a Short Period of Time]
Hegseth - NO! What has he ever done? A junior infantry officer in the Nation Guard? That’s one step above the leader of a Boy Scout troop. The National Guard = Civil defense, disaster assistance, public safety . . . etc.
Hegseth:
- No high-level defense experience.
- No experience managing large, complex bureaucracies like the Pentagon
- No understanding of joint military operations and interagency coordination.
- Doesn’t understand strategic policy and large-scale organizational leadership.
So he likes girls and booze - so what? I don’t mind the fact that he’s a hard-head and has some skeletons in his closet . . he’s absolutely not qualified for the vital job of SecDef.
What we need are guys like Mike Pompeo or General Jack Keane- pros who understand the world’s dangers and can handle our interests professionally and effectively.
Can't disagree with you Earl. But, as I look back at former Secretaries of Defense, which ones would you have chosen? Robert McNamara, for example, managed to put together an army of 500,000 to fight in Vietnam. What exactly did that get us? Well, you know. Reminds me of a chapter in Manchester's Churchill biography in which Churchill visits the front during World War I and this "general" was bragging about how well he was supplying the trenches with men and munitions. When Churchill asked him what his strategy was to win the war, however, the general had none. I'm up for giving strong, courageous, ex-warrior Hegseth a chance.
Jim, “ . .500,000 to fight in Vietnam. . .” that’s the exact reason why we need an experienced strategist:
- From the beginning Johnson and McNamara had no clear plan. ’Stop the spread of Communism’ was not a realistic objective.
- They completely underestimated the enemy's resolve.
- Johnson’s optimistic analysis destroyed U.S. public trust
- Divided the whole country.
Sorry, I don’t consider Hegseth a ‘strong, courageous, ex-warrior’. I believe he’s a hustler who got lucky - I just don’t see him as qualified to lead our military.
We need to get rid of all the Neocons from the Republican party. These are the same criminals that destroyed congressman Ron Paul's campaign and his nomination for president in 2012. Paul is a staunch Constitutionalist, meanwhile the Republican party has been deeply infiltrated and contaminated by the foreiver war mongering neocons and Rubio is one of them. The others that need to be chucked out are Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and other Romney types. We need more Dr. Ron Pauls, not the Rubio type. I was a presidential delegate for Dr. Ron Paul in 2012 and the man has pristine integrity...
Definition -Roger that dates back to US radio communication as early as 1941, based on then-use of the given name Roger in the US military phonetic alphabet for the word for the letter R. Here, the Roger stands for the initial R in “(Message) received.”
To indicate a message had been heard and understood—that is, received—a service-person would answer Roger, later expanded to Roger that, with that referring to the message. In military slang, the phrase Roger wilco conveyed the recipient received the message and will comply with its orders, shortened to wilco.
Cabinet members serve at the pleasure of the President. Do I agree that Trump’s nominees are the best this country has to offer? I do not. As for those cabinet positions mentioned; State, AG and DoD, I have an alternative line up. Condoleezza Rice out of retirement for State, Johnathan Turley for AG and Jack Keane for DoD. All good, strong picks. But wait, this isn’t Fantasy Football, it’s politics and the President Elect has the right and prerogative to pick his own team. All of Trump’s nominees are very media savvy and look the part in front of the camera. I’m confident they’ll do well and represent this country in the fashion we expect. By contrast, the buffoonery of the Biden cabinet/appointees; Lloyd Austin, Merrick Garland, Rachel Levine, Pete Buttigieg and luggage thief and mental case, Sam Briton. Yes, NO matter HOW the left bitches and moans about Trump’s choices for cabinet positions, Biden’s appointees reminds me of the bar scene in “Star Wars “…a real inter-galactic freak show!
Oh well, at the end of the day, it’s not my monkey…not my circus! Monday can’t come soon enough!
LT: Well, yes, you've introduced the three-ring circus with Austin, Garland, "Ms" Rachel Levine, Buttigieg, and Briton (not to mention the two biggest clowns: Biden and Harris)! And if any of Trump's nominees were as incompetent or evil as Schiff or Blumenthal, they'd probably fail to be confirmed, but, hey, this is Washington, D.C. where anything can – and usually does – happen.
I read "triumvirate" and I think RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel. With a side of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami. It seemed to me the worst failing of Trump's first administration was that he appointed/hired people who then tried to undermine him. Now he is much more savvy and has a wider field to choose from who profess to intend to work for America's betterment. Add to that his complete inability to admit when he is wrong, thus I continue to be dismayed that he won't face up to how he was taken in by Fauci and went along with the plandemic. That said, he is the man for the times, and I am enthusiastic to see the changes he is capable of bringing to pass.
Trump did not have a lot to pick from in his first term, with the deep state already ganging up against anyone daring to serving in his administration. They drew blood on Michael Flynn right out of the starting gate. Plus look what lives got shattered just because some had worked for the Trump administration first term.
But towards the end of this first term, and after he was more of a proven commodity, he did start gathering a better team around him. But also got a brutal lesson about long-entrenched "civil servants" who were neither, but he was stuck with them.
Biggest surprise this time, same man with the same rough edges, has so many that now want to get onboard and share a recognition about where America needs to go.
Yes, Joe did that too. No one wants to go back to the Biden years ever again. Plus this time I think Trump will exercise his signature line "you're fired" more vigorously this time since he knows time is running out to get things done.
Nial Fergussan wrote well for me when he said Trump is at peak Trump, aka king of Mar Lago. Every man and his dog comes to his florida residence to genuflect to him. This is the high point of his presidency. Tomorrow when he actually becomes the president the down hill slide will start, as he finds the establishment in Washington, the world financial markets have huge powers all of their own to impede his wishes.
IMO Trump only wants self agrandisment, he will get that but will he trully leave us in a better space in four year stime. i have severe doubts as to his intentions and his abilities.
DH- Time will tell. Your perspective is insightful and shared my many as we await to see if promises kept, expectations met. Uncertainties and concerns are many. What we know is Trump was without question the superior of two candidates, or only choice, on 11/5/24. Kamala only a distraction. I appreciate your post. Nepotism is cause for concern, too. Why Hugabee in Israel-Gaza region?
DH: we have realistic expectations about what Trump can and will accomplish. The executive office is only one branch of our three part government. It will be an uphill slog every single day.
I read with an open mind but you got me at Pete hegseth and that Trump has an overwhelming mandate. He won, yes. He does not have mandate since half the country didn’t vote for him. Fact.
Here’s another point of view…from Heather Cox Richardson, an historian.
“ Aaron Zitner and Xavier Martinez of the Wall Street Journal reported today on a new Wall Street Journal poll revealing that American voters want what they call “MAGA lite, rather than extra-strength MAGA.” More than 60% oppose Trump’s plan to replace nonpartisan civil servants with loyalists. More than 60% also oppose Trump’s plan to eliminate the Department of Education. Almost 75% of voters oppose his plans for sweeping deportation raids, wanting only those with criminal records to be removed from the country. More than two thirds oppose calls to take control of Greenland, and only 46% approve of his choices for cabinet positions.
But the Republican-dominated Senate seems poised to approve Trump’s picks for cabinet secretaries and other appointees that require Senate confirmation. As they have been appearing before the committees responsible for vetting those candidates before they go on to the vote of the full Senate, key appointees have been demonstrating that their primary qualification is their loyalty to Trump.
Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth revealed that he knows close to nothing about the actual requirements for the job but declined to say he would refuse an unconstitutional order. Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, said she would “study” the Fourteenth Amendment after being asked about the birthright citizenship embedded in it, and she refused to say that Biden won the 2020 election.”
Elaine- Bondi will review 14th amendment closely, which we anticipate will go to SCOTUS for a final ruling. Bondi gave the correct response! Birthright citizenship is “subject to the jurisdiction of” this country that requires one parent to be a citizen or legal permanent resident under US jurisdiction. Babies born here are NOT citizens because neither parent qualifies as being ‘subject to the jurisdiction of’ our country when the baby was born. “Anchor babies” are not citizens because neither parent was subject to the “jurisdiction of” US. Take Kamala Harris’ case as a starting point: babes born to visiting foreign students who both are citizens elsewhere. Was a Harris’ parent subject to the ‘jurisdiction of’ US? Move on to ‘tourist babies’ like those from enemy, hostile countries (who now work for the CIA). Then move on to children of alien migrants who unlawfully entered, or those who overstayed their VISA making unlawful residents.
Would our State Dept negotiate, would our military risk American lives to rescue an ‘anchor or tourist baby’? Nominee Bondi knows this issue.
Montecito93108: Nice going. President Trump has already revealed that he is going to challenge the concept of "anchor babies." This is something long overdue for clarification, as no other nation on Earth has such an insane policy.
The popular vote, which is the only one that makes sense did NOT give him a mandate. We have to live by the electoral system but that is NOT representative of what “the people” want. One person, one vote does have meaning.
The people ratified the US Constitution. Where and when did you get your civics education, Elaine. (Serious question.)
One person, one vote very much has meaning since one illegal vote either cancels out my legal vote or erroneously amplifies my legal vote. Zero tolerance is the only election standard to apply to all future elections.
One person one vote is additionally undermined by the CVRA population-based voting districts. We have a lot of election clean up to do in California. Are you on board?
I would say that you read with an open mind to that which comports to your preconceptions. What was your major for which you have a graduate degree and from what top 10 university? More importantly, in what year did you graduate? Few escape the university with their mind intact.
Elaine, "Birthright citizenship" is not settled law; only informal policy. It is now ripe for SCOTUS review. Anyone crossing our border illegally is a "hostile invader" and they knew this when they committed this first intentional act.
I'm confused. The 14th Amendment is an informal policy?
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”.
This 'informal policy' was solidified by the landmark Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark in 1898.
The interpretation of the full language and intent of the 14th Amenment used today to "support" birth right citizenship has never been adjudicated regarding the language ...."subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
Prior court rulings do not support rights granted to "hostile invaders" nor any automatic creation of any rights to their children born to those not under the legal jurisdiction thereof.
Birthright citizenship was created to respond to the end of the Civil War and US slavery emancipation. It was never intended to be a broad citizenship grant in perpetuity by sheer birth on US soil. That is why we have a Supreme Court - to issue final interpretive language rulings. You were misled if you thought otherwise. Policy by anecdote is not US law.
That is actually fine by me. But what about Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark in 1898.? And you still didn't say how it's an informal policy.
TJ: The Wong case has unique standing only is my best recollection, and its value as precedence is very much part of this current discussion, along with other case that also define "hostile invaders" who under prior cast law get no such sweeping citizenship rights. No one is over-looking the Wong case. This birth right citizenship issue in its fuller sense and universal application is now ripening.
Certainly tossing our Roe v. Wade as a federal matter indicates this current SCOTUS does not deal in penumbras of the law to support only social activism, which is where birth right citizen has been lurking for far too long since there is no clear and express grant of this as a constitutional right within the four corners of the current document, or as interpreted by subsequent court rulings.
Keep digging, because there are more prior cases which form a much wider picture of the underlying issues, than what open border advocates are pushing out today. There are those with very vested interests in open borders. Guard against relying only on their legal interpretations.
Nit picking with little context seems to be your forte, TJ. I will stop rising to your bait, because I assumed you wanted to broaden your basic understandings on some matters. I see by your pattern of argumentative responses, and they are always responses, this is not the case. Keep exploring what interests you on your own, TJ.
I think the non citizenship for invaders argument is that persons from another country are not “subject to the jurisdiction of” the US. And so they are not granted any birth right citizenry through the 14th amendment. As a thought experiment … we can ask a diplomate from another country who is working in the USA. And while in the US, as a diplomat from another nation, has a birth of a child. That child does not now become a US citizen, even though it was born in the USA. Because, the diplomate was not a ‘citizen of the US and thus was not ‘under the jurisdiction thereof”.. So that is a basic fact of the application of the 14th amendment, a post Civil War Amendment.
Elaine ,Trump got an overwhelming mandate, that was profoundly geographical across 90% of all US counties, which was also reflected in his trouncing electoral college numbers.
We already know most of 23 million government employees and their families and friends will not be moving the needle much for Trump or any other Limited Government conservative.
That is given, but that is a wholly taxpayer dependent voting class and does not represent the rank and file of the rest of America today.
We dodged a bullet in 2024, because the Democrats sole goal is to grow Big Government and expand the taxpayer dependency class of Democrat voters. We came very, very close to tipping point from which we may have have been able to return, just like what already happened in California.
I am praying the Gaza cease fire holds, but I fear it is another bait and switch like the cease fire with Lebanon. Jewish exceptionalism means "cease fire" mean Israels withdraws its focus on an area and can save face about no longer controlling territory, but continues to wreak havoc on it whenever the mood strikes. Israel was founded on a supremacy ideology that has been murderous from before day one. Please examine the honest history. Every American voter has a duty to learn this history since our government been funding and giving political support to this project from the beginning.
If you celebrate Trump's annihilation of Gen. Soleimani on his way to a peace meeting as something positive and the Abraham Accords as anything relating to peace or security, then you have either failed to look deeply into this conflict or have misplaced your moral compass. I hope it is the former. The killing of Gen. Soleimani is, as far as I have learned, the first time the US used the tactic of assassinating a military official of an opposing force since WWII after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Obviously it is a war crime to carry out an extrajudicial assassination of a government official, but we are not even in a declared war with Iran. Is that the sort of barbarism you want the US to be known for? Because it will not quickly be forgotten and it invites retaliation and a lowered bar for international conduct.
Who is Jared Kushner? Despite his father's mob activities, what do we know about him and his ties to the Chabad Lubavitch movement? Are you familiar with Chabad Lubavitch? Journalist and author Alison Weir wrote a good summary article of that movent a while back. https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/07/why-is-the-us-honoring-a-racist-rabbi/ Is anyone associated with this movement going to be able to successfully negotiate a peace deal that can bring stability? Well, the events of Oct. 7 show he did not manage to. Much of the atrocities on Oct. 7 were fabricated Israeli propaganda and much of the killing also was carried out by the IDF itself under the thinking of the Israeli military's "Hannibal Directive." These things are covered in the mainstream media, including in Israel. Also covered in the media is the strange lack of awareness at what is usually one of the the most fortified borders in the world and the long delay in responding to the border breech by Palestinian resistance.
Clearly some in the Israeli government wanted Oct. 7 to happen and to then use it the way 9/11 was used in the US to give the Israeli public a thirst for wars of choice. But even with all of the Israeli participation and facilitation of the events of Oct 7, there was also a genuine resistance attack on the border and military installations by Palestinian resistance fighters. And the Palestinian population largely supported this action because "the Abraham Accords" meant Arab countries normalizing relations with Israel after all these years despite no recognition of the most basic human rights for Palestinians required. With Saudia Arabia seeking to enter a similar agreement, many in Gaza felt the slow killing they were experiencing would be allowed to continue indefinitely, so it was worth the risk of a strong military action against Israel.
Who in Gaza would have predicted the degree of satanic barbarity the Israel government would be permitted to carry out. (Don't worry, Palestinians have long known Israelis are capable of it, but many probably thought the US or the "international community" would be able to stop an all out genocide being live-streamed in real time and spoken of quite directly by Israeli officials. Unfortunately, the the US, UK and most of the West have been dominated enough by the Jewish lobby and mob that there was no restraint put on the sickening leveling of Gaza and the brutal siege stopping food and medicines. So, while these events occurred on Biden's watch and Trump will sell it that he was able to change the conditions before even entering office since he is known for being tough, Trump allowed his Chabad Lubavitch son-in-law to sow the seeds for conflict in the name of US diplomacy. It also somehow paid off handsomely for Kushner, which is Hunter Biden level corrupt, but that isn't even the worst of the moral failings in his role in this conflict.
I do think Trump would not have allowed Syria to be destabilized and turned into a ground for conflict between the US, Turkey and Israel. But Trump did pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, so he did take actions under the advice of his hawkish neocon advisors to put us closer to nuclear confrontation. He also pulled out of an important nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
Trump and Rubio and many others are branding themselves as "America First" and for peace, but it will be up to us to hold them to it. And the only way we can do that is to be informed about the underlying issues in the region and advocate a peace founded on basic morality, the only kind that can be durable. I honestly believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people in the Middle East, including most Israelis. The only ones who lose are Netanyahu, who is trying to distract from his serious corruption charges, the weapons dealers, and people like Jared Kushner who have their eyes on stealing more land out from under Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and a Greater Israel project that will continue the effort to sow chaos in the entire region so land can be grabbed in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Egypt. If Trump will stand up to these greedy, wild-eyed sociopaths, he will be loved by the real America First movement and most of the world forever.
If by "anti-semitism" you mean was honest about Jewish criminality, then I have read many "anti-semitic" history books. One written by Israeli scholar Israel Shahak. I met Israeli history student Teddy Katz who exposed the Tantura Massacre. And I have listened to many others, including non-Jews like Alison Weir, Tony Martin, Ali Abunimeh and more. Jesus Christ said the truth will set you free. Since He is God, it is not surprising that His advice is otherwordly genius.
I will save you the trouble of pigeonholing me since you keep missing. I am a Catholic of European descent with long and short roots in the US. You might call me a Western or product of The West. The West developed for 1000 years under Catholicism. Relative peace and cooperation enabled by Christian values allowed for the height of human achievement in theology, morality, philosophy, the arts and technology. The skepticism, division and lack of quality control in faith brought about by the scientific revolution and the Protestant Reformation led to the idolatry of freedom of thought and freedom of action over the common good and adherence to the moral law which opened the door to hedonism, nihilism and enslavement by usurers, technology worship and the separation of politics and economics from morality. Yes, I do identify to a degree with Catholics and other Christians in Palestine that were killed or uprooted or persecuted by the Jewish supremacists from the late 1940's through today. But more generally, I do not agree with might is right and think that the more brutal forms of European colonization were done outside of Catholic teaching while the better forms were adhering to it. But, as a Catholic, we are taught that truth is a transcendental and that it is a sin to bear false witness, so even if distorting history could make "my people" look better or help me win my point, I do not feel it is moral to lie about history. And as a Christian who is called to see the likeness of God in all human beings, including those who persecute me or my family or others I might be in a group with, I also hope to see as much of the nuances and complexity of situations as possible to seek to be just. So no, I haven't read the Hamas handbook and I am very critical of the Muslim Brotherhood as it happens, but liquidating the people of Gaza to supposedly stop Hamas is evil and hardly anyone is buying that hollow pretext anymore. Maybe not even Trump. Did you see his post with a clip from Jeffrey Sachs calling Netanyahu an evil sob? https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/trump-posts-video-slamming-netanyahu-us-middle-east-policy/
Aimee, You are not the only self-professed "Christian" sharing rabid anti-semitic views on this forum. We get similar veiled screeds from a few others too. An odd phenomenon that I did not know existed in Santa Barbara, but good this is coming out into the open for all to see. Disturbing, but obviously this too is part of the fabric of our community in toto.
Oh, you slander me as respond to my many points that are verifiable with the most cursory investigation with a broad brush ad hominem fallacy. But at least I am not the only one! Please tell me what you feel I am mistaken on and then provide evidence to support your claim over mine. That is called honorable debate. Are you up for that? Or do you prefer dirty tricks, the sophistry that Plato warned us about more than 2000 years ago?
Christianity as a belief system is opposed to the Jewish belief system. Judaism as a belief system is opposed to the Christian belief system. That is because these two belief systems came out of a split among a people about whether Christ was God, the messiah or whether he was a liar. These movements have different values and different teachings. The Catholic Church, the only Christianity in the West that has a quality control mechanism over its teachings, has opposed Zionism from the beginning because it is anti-Christian and unjust. Most Christians you know have been deceived by the Scofield Reference Bible to think God likes Zionism, but I think it is rather easy to prove that this Rothschild funded Bible promoted an ideology that was an evil deception, counter to Christ's most central teaching. (For example, Christ said that we who follow Him are the New Israel, not some land grab by a bunch of atheist ethnosupremacists such as David Ben Gurion, Theodore Hertzl and Ze'ev Jabotinsky.)
The term "Judeo-Christian" came into use in around 1940 to trick the growing community of deceived Christians who had fallen for the Scofield satanic heresy of Zionism that Jewish and Christian values are the same, but it was never an honest term. It was just more of the Scofield scam to deceive sincere people who are trying to follow Christ but don't have a Church with a magisterium and respect for tradition. But now with Gaza, the truth is coming out. People are examining the values that allow for slaughtering innocents, Christians among them, on live-stream with pride rather than apology and they are questioning how this all got started. They are learning about Scofield. Oxford University Press who published his bible and that the Rothschild's commissioned it. They are learning about the Balfour Declaration and how the US was tricked into WWI to help the Zionists get Palestine from the British. They are learning about how the Israeli military attacked a US ship called the USS Liberty and the US government covered it up. (Candace Owens covered this.) They are learning a lot and won't be stopped by the woke leftist tactic of slandering and accusing of "hate" when they say something the ADL doesn't want anyone to know.
They are also learning about how the ADL was created to get fellow Jew Leo Frank off for the rape and murder of a Catholic girl called Mary Phagen and that the ADL took money from the Jewish mob. Many things we are not supposed to talk about or learn. But Christ said, the truth will set you free. It is important that we seek the truth with love in our hearts so that we can be honorable citizens and work for peace and justice for all, leaving vengeance to the Lord.
What about all the "self-professed "Christian"s" sharing rabid anti-semitic, anti-Palestinian, pro genocide views on this forum? You, as I recall, are one of them.
The biggest move Trump made and will make America Great and Healthy again is Robert Kennedy Jr. Big Pharma and the Vaccines cults backed by them will do everything they can to torpedo it. We must stand strong for him and all Trump's appointments.
I am a huge proponent of getting pesticide, preservatives and artificial sweeteners out of our food supply. Like Hillary, Kennedy is not an effective communicator who too many don’t have faith in. There are a number of skilled doctors with Kennedy’s baggage that would be better accepted.
Should have been, Without Kennedy’s baggage
My Trump dream triumvirate is Trump, Kash and Pete. We’ll see how Bondi does, and Rubio sat on the Senate Intel committee a little too long for my tastes. I don’t dislike Bondi and Rubio, but I don’t think they will be the change agents that measure up like Kash and Pete will for Trump’s final term.
Granny: I'm certainly in favour of Kash at the FBI, and love that Tom Woman is heading up the illegal immigrant front, but I thought State, Defense, and AG would be the determining factors in overall success of Trump's administration. I know how you feel about Rubio and I understand why, but I do believe Rubio has made a nearly complete turnaround. I could be wrong though...
On a personal level, my focus is restructuring the FBI ... some of which are thugs in disguise. I should know, I've experienced them.
Kash is King!
Guess it’s time for new luggage, Jim, because mine is plastered with anti-Rubio stickers back to his ‘Gang of 8 days’ with John McCain and Ted Kennedy. You may recall, we at CAPS worked hard back then with CIS, FAIR, Numbers USA to unseat House Speaker Eric Cantor. Let’s hope Rubio has changed his position. I’m a Homan supporter. There’s much work to be done by Homeland Security. Trump Loyalist Christy Nome is a weak, grossly unprepared nominee, but a pretty female! Capable of starring in commercials. WHY Christy? There are several stellar, proven leaders to secure our country, enforce immigration laws, oversee FEMA, and finally protect average working Americans, and our children. She’s more concerning to me, than Rubio’s past positions on immigration or unimpressive tenure on Senate Intell.
I have to agree with you. Further, not sure Hegseth is the guy either. Like Nome, pretty face in front of the camera. Jack Keane at DoD would have been a safer choice.
I’m with you Granny, but I’m confident that Bondi will do great work (True Patriot)…and believe that Rubio was placed to expose certain elements of the Deep State (including Little Marco) using the State Dept to topple countries (using USAID +++)…Trump doesn’t silence his enemies, instead he shoves them into the light & lets them destroy themselves…
I agree with your statement 100%.
A great leader surrounds himself with a capable intelligent team. Every single one of Trump’s team is stellar. The Dems look like fools with their inane questions during their confirmation hearings. Two more days. The suspense is deafening!
California senators Adam Schiff and Xavier Becerra conducted themselves in total disrepute with their nonsensical badgering of AG candidate Pam Bondi. Each Calif senator reading identical lines from the Kamala Harris "prosecutorial for hire" handbook.
Not only is this state running out of water after past decades of Democrat super-majority domination, but there must also be "something in the water" if i these three are the best this state offers the national dialogue.
Voters, let's do better next time. A lot better.
Schiff & Becerra (+ others) comments/questions reminded me of an oft used saying on the boards, “Those that scream the loudest” (have the most to lose)…
The Democrat two step: (1) ask a gotcha question, demand an immediate yes or no answer. (2) Then immediately insert their own words into the other persons's mouth because they refused to answer their intentional gotcha question with either a yes or no. It was disgusting.
Harris did this same dance, and now in lock-step so did Schiff and Becerra. That is the Democrat games-playing America that soundly rejected. These are not serious people.
Right on, and [they] are scared witless because Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming, Nothing
https://x.com/fnowisthetime/status/1786832203516952819?s=61
EVERYTHING IS RIGGED…
https://x.com/investigatej6/status/1880681535319531991?s=61
https://x.com/bgatesisapyscho/status/1880745499315392517?s=61
I was communicating at length Thursday night with Eric Early who made an impressive Congressional run against Adam Schiff in an 80%+ registered Hollywood/Burbank area. Attorney Early’s impactful contributions to education and specifically to Santa Barbara need to be acknowledged and remembered. Had we in Early’s campaign stopped Schiff then, he’d never have been where he is now. May Schiff continue sleeping, dozing to reduce the damage he does. Any suggestions beyond hibernation for our two other Californians Harris and Becerra?
Kevin Kiley is operating on all cylinders - does he stay a California Congressman for a while, or is he getting ready to take on Xavier Becerra?
Put your money on Kevin Kiley and sign up for his newsletter.
I was kinda hoping for Kiley or Harmeet Dhillon for Governor and representing the red team next go round.
Another reason why China keeps winning on trade is because we sabotage or undermine our manufacturing companies all the time. We have all kinds of nonsensical regulations and environmental laws which create multiple roadblocks they have to navigate. In addition, many states don't have right-to-work laws and give labor unions too much power to prevent our manufacturing companies from effectively competing. Some of the work rules they impose on our companies make it cost prohibitive to stay in business. We shoot ourselves in the foot on a regular basis. You can't blame all this on China.
I read this article by Mr. Buckley Titled "Say “Hello” to President Trump’s Triumvirate"
and I quote excerpts from same > "And if I am confirmed, keeping that promise will be the core mission of the United States Department of State.” THAT PROMISE again I quote >
“During President Trump’s first term... there were no new wars, ISIS was eviscerated, Soleimani was dead, the historic Abraham Accords were born, and Americans were safer as a result." and
“Finally, we will responsibly end wars to ensure we can prioritize our resources –and reorient to larger threats.” LET'S SEE IF TRUMP KEEPS THIS PROMISE TO END WARS.
I leave with Soon-To-Be President's Statement and Promise to the American People>
"I will Settle the Ukraine War in 24 Hours" [Certainly in a Short Period of Time]
https://x.com/4Mischief/status/1641116933931122700
The Problem is the US Have Few People In Place, Trump included that Know the Russian's and Can Negotiate with the Russians.
Listen to This Podcast of COL. Douglas Macgregor > At 4 mins, 5 mins, 6 mins & 7:20 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIpbddqe1Ks&ab_channel=JudgeNapolitano-JudgingFreedom
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
PS1 - Ukraine has run out of Brave Men, over 550,000 KIA and Russia KIA 450,000 with
Total KIA and Injured Brave men & women over 1,000,000. Listen weblink below>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z5AXAzIB10&ab_channel=MilitarySummary
Marco - yes.
Pam - yes
Hegseth - NO! What has he ever done? A junior infantry officer in the Nation Guard? That’s one step above the leader of a Boy Scout troop. The National Guard = Civil defense, disaster assistance, public safety . . . etc.
Hegseth:
- No high-level defense experience.
- No experience managing large, complex bureaucracies like the Pentagon
- No understanding of joint military operations and interagency coordination.
- Doesn’t understand strategic policy and large-scale organizational leadership.
So he likes girls and booze - so what? I don’t mind the fact that he’s a hard-head and has some skeletons in his closet . . he’s absolutely not qualified for the vital job of SecDef.
What we need are guys like Mike Pompeo or General Jack Keane- pros who understand the world’s dangers and can handle our interests professionally and effectively.
Princeton Class of 2003 - informal motto: In the Nation's Service.
That was Woodrow Wilsons Class of 1879 that had the "In the Natioin's Service".
By 2003 it had morphed to " “Princeton in the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations.” - Damn Globalists.
Today it's “Princeton in the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations.”
Either way you slice it - It's not just to MAGA anymore at Princeton.
Can't disagree with you Earl. But, as I look back at former Secretaries of Defense, which ones would you have chosen? Robert McNamara, for example, managed to put together an army of 500,000 to fight in Vietnam. What exactly did that get us? Well, you know. Reminds me of a chapter in Manchester's Churchill biography in which Churchill visits the front during World War I and this "general" was bragging about how well he was supplying the trenches with men and munitions. When Churchill asked him what his strategy was to win the war, however, the general had none. I'm up for giving strong, courageous, ex-warrior Hegseth a chance.
Jim, “ . .500,000 to fight in Vietnam. . .” that’s the exact reason why we need an experienced strategist:
- From the beginning Johnson and McNamara had no clear plan. ’Stop the spread of Communism’ was not a realistic objective.
- They completely underestimated the enemy's resolve.
- Johnson’s optimistic analysis destroyed U.S. public trust
- Divided the whole country.
Sorry, I don’t consider Hegseth a ‘strong, courageous, ex-warrior’. I believe he’s a hustler who got lucky - I just don’t see him as qualified to lead our military.
We need to get rid of all the Neocons from the Republican party. These are the same criminals that destroyed congressman Ron Paul's campaign and his nomination for president in 2012. Paul is a staunch Constitutionalist, meanwhile the Republican party has been deeply infiltrated and contaminated by the foreiver war mongering neocons and Rubio is one of them. The others that need to be chucked out are Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and other Romney types. We need more Dr. Ron Pauls, not the Rubio type. I was a presidential delegate for Dr. Ron Paul in 2012 and the man has pristine integrity...
Roger That. Ron Paul one of the very few.
Definition -Roger that dates back to US radio communication as early as 1941, based on then-use of the given name Roger in the US military phonetic alphabet for the word for the letter R. Here, the Roger stands for the initial R in “(Message) received.”
To indicate a message had been heard and understood—that is, received—a service-person would answer Roger, later expanded to Roger that, with that referring to the message. In military slang, the phrase Roger wilco conveyed the recipient received the message and will comply with its orders, shortened to wilco.
Solid philosophical core.
Thank you, Jim. Godspeed (and thank God) for Trump and all of his nominees.
Bravo!
Cabinet members serve at the pleasure of the President. Do I agree that Trump’s nominees are the best this country has to offer? I do not. As for those cabinet positions mentioned; State, AG and DoD, I have an alternative line up. Condoleezza Rice out of retirement for State, Johnathan Turley for AG and Jack Keane for DoD. All good, strong picks. But wait, this isn’t Fantasy Football, it’s politics and the President Elect has the right and prerogative to pick his own team. All of Trump’s nominees are very media savvy and look the part in front of the camera. I’m confident they’ll do well and represent this country in the fashion we expect. By contrast, the buffoonery of the Biden cabinet/appointees; Lloyd Austin, Merrick Garland, Rachel Levine, Pete Buttigieg and luggage thief and mental case, Sam Briton. Yes, NO matter HOW the left bitches and moans about Trump’s choices for cabinet positions, Biden’s appointees reminds me of the bar scene in “Star Wars “…a real inter-galactic freak show!
Oh well, at the end of the day, it’s not my monkey…not my circus! Monday can’t come soon enough!
LT: Well, yes, you've introduced the three-ring circus with Austin, Garland, "Ms" Rachel Levine, Buttigieg, and Briton (not to mention the two biggest clowns: Biden and Harris)! And if any of Trump's nominees were as incompetent or evil as Schiff or Blumenthal, they'd probably fail to be confirmed, but, hey, this is Washington, D.C. where anything can – and usually does – happen.
Lloyd Austin-what a stinking joke. Leave it to Biden to come up with a loser like Austin.
It begins. Morning in America again.
(Link is a 1:24 video preview of the longer Trump Inauguration biography video. Every incoming President has one.)
https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1880627118008377620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1880627118008377620%7Ctwgr%5E4f44eeb257a09b4e0389e59641a45d01465465aa%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fwardclark%2F2025%2F01%2F18%2Fhot-takes-video-depicting-trumps-personal-history-drives-x-wild-n2184519
I read "triumvirate" and I think RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel. With a side of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami. It seemed to me the worst failing of Trump's first administration was that he appointed/hired people who then tried to undermine him. Now he is much more savvy and has a wider field to choose from who profess to intend to work for America's betterment. Add to that his complete inability to admit when he is wrong, thus I continue to be dismayed that he won't face up to how he was taken in by Fauci and went along with the plandemic. That said, he is the man for the times, and I am enthusiastic to see the changes he is capable of bringing to pass.
Trump did not have a lot to pick from in his first term, with the deep state already ganging up against anyone daring to serving in his administration. They drew blood on Michael Flynn right out of the starting gate. Plus look what lives got shattered just because some had worked for the Trump administration first term.
But towards the end of this first term, and after he was more of a proven commodity, he did start gathering a better team around him. But also got a brutal lesson about long-entrenched "civil servants" who were neither, but he was stuck with them.
Biggest surprise this time, same man with the same rough edges, has so many that now want to get onboard and share a recognition about where America needs to go.
Yes, Joe did that too. No one wants to go back to the Biden years ever again. Plus this time I think Trump will exercise his signature line "you're fired" more vigorously this time since he knows time is running out to get things done.
Nial Fergussan wrote well for me when he said Trump is at peak Trump, aka king of Mar Lago. Every man and his dog comes to his florida residence to genuflect to him. This is the high point of his presidency. Tomorrow when he actually becomes the president the down hill slide will start, as he finds the establishment in Washington, the world financial markets have huge powers all of their own to impede his wishes.
IMO Trump only wants self agrandisment, he will get that but will he trully leave us in a better space in four year stime. i have severe doubts as to his intentions and his abilities.
DH- Time will tell. Your perspective is insightful and shared my many as we await to see if promises kept, expectations met. Uncertainties and concerns are many. What we know is Trump was without question the superior of two candidates, or only choice, on 11/5/24. Kamala only a distraction. I appreciate your post. Nepotism is cause for concern, too. Why Hugabee in Israel-Gaza region?
DH: we have realistic expectations about what Trump can and will accomplish. The executive office is only one branch of our three part government. It will be an uphill slog every single day.
Ha! The Best Is Yet To Come!!!
I read with an open mind but you got me at Pete hegseth and that Trump has an overwhelming mandate. He won, yes. He does not have mandate since half the country didn’t vote for him. Fact.
Here’s another point of view…from Heather Cox Richardson, an historian.
“ Aaron Zitner and Xavier Martinez of the Wall Street Journal reported today on a new Wall Street Journal poll revealing that American voters want what they call “MAGA lite, rather than extra-strength MAGA.” More than 60% oppose Trump’s plan to replace nonpartisan civil servants with loyalists. More than 60% also oppose Trump’s plan to eliminate the Department of Education. Almost 75% of voters oppose his plans for sweeping deportation raids, wanting only those with criminal records to be removed from the country. More than two thirds oppose calls to take control of Greenland, and only 46% approve of his choices for cabinet positions.
But the Republican-dominated Senate seems poised to approve Trump’s picks for cabinet secretaries and other appointees that require Senate confirmation. As they have been appearing before the committees responsible for vetting those candidates before they go on to the vote of the full Senate, key appointees have been demonstrating that their primary qualification is their loyalty to Trump.
Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth revealed that he knows close to nothing about the actual requirements for the job but declined to say he would refuse an unconstitutional order. Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, said she would “study” the Fourteenth Amendment after being asked about the birthright citizenship embedded in it, and she refused to say that Biden won the 2020 election.”
Elaine- Bondi will review 14th amendment closely, which we anticipate will go to SCOTUS for a final ruling. Bondi gave the correct response! Birthright citizenship is “subject to the jurisdiction of” this country that requires one parent to be a citizen or legal permanent resident under US jurisdiction. Babies born here are NOT citizens because neither parent qualifies as being ‘subject to the jurisdiction of’ our country when the baby was born. “Anchor babies” are not citizens because neither parent was subject to the “jurisdiction of” US. Take Kamala Harris’ case as a starting point: babes born to visiting foreign students who both are citizens elsewhere. Was a Harris’ parent subject to the ‘jurisdiction of’ US? Move on to ‘tourist babies’ like those from enemy, hostile countries (who now work for the CIA). Then move on to children of alien migrants who unlawfully entered, or those who overstayed their VISA making unlawful residents.
Would our State Dept negotiate, would our military risk American lives to rescue an ‘anchor or tourist baby’? Nominee Bondi knows this issue.
Montecito93108: Nice going. President Trump has already revealed that he is going to challenge the concept of "anchor babies." This is something long overdue for clarification, as no other nation on Earth has such an insane policy.
Exactly.
Harris not a citizen.
Obama not a citizen.
Salud Carbajal not a citizen.
These days 51% is a mandate.
The popular vote, which is the only one that makes sense did NOT give him a mandate. We have to live by the electoral system but that is NOT representative of what “the people” want. One person, one vote does have meaning.
The people ratified the US Constitution. Where and when did you get your civics education, Elaine. (Serious question.)
One person, one vote very much has meaning since one illegal vote either cancels out my legal vote or erroneously amplifies my legal vote. Zero tolerance is the only election standard to apply to all future elections.
One person one vote is additionally undermined by the CVRA population-based voting districts. We have a lot of election clean up to do in California. Are you on board?
Graduate degree from a top ten University. What does “zero tolerance” mean?
I would say that you read with an open mind to that which comports to your preconceptions. What was your major for which you have a graduate degree and from what top 10 university? More importantly, in what year did you graduate? Few escape the university with their mind intact.
Elaine, "Birthright citizenship" is not settled law; only informal policy. It is now ripe for SCOTUS review. Anyone crossing our border illegally is a "hostile invader" and they knew this when they committed this first intentional act.
I'm confused. The 14th Amendment is an informal policy?
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”.
This 'informal policy' was solidified by the landmark Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark in 1898.
Is there something I'm missing on this one?
The interpretation of the full language and intent of the 14th Amenment used today to "support" birth right citizenship has never been adjudicated regarding the language ...."subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
Prior court rulings do not support rights granted to "hostile invaders" nor any automatic creation of any rights to their children born to those not under the legal jurisdiction thereof.
Birthright citizenship was created to respond to the end of the Civil War and US slavery emancipation. It was never intended to be a broad citizenship grant in perpetuity by sheer birth on US soil. That is why we have a Supreme Court - to issue final interpretive language rulings. You were misled if you thought otherwise. Policy by anecdote is not US law.
That is actually fine by me. But what about Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark in 1898.? And you still didn't say how it's an informal policy.
TJ: The Wong case has unique standing only is my best recollection, and its value as precedence is very much part of this current discussion, along with other case that also define "hostile invaders" who under prior cast law get no such sweeping citizenship rights. No one is over-looking the Wong case. This birth right citizenship issue in its fuller sense and universal application is now ripening.
Certainly tossing our Roe v. Wade as a federal matter indicates this current SCOTUS does not deal in penumbras of the law to support only social activism, which is where birth right citizen has been lurking for far too long since there is no clear and express grant of this as a constitutional right within the four corners of the current document, or as interpreted by subsequent court rulings.
Keep digging, because there are more prior cases which form a much wider picture of the underlying issues, than what open border advocates are pushing out today. There are those with very vested interests in open borders. Guard against relying only on their legal interpretations.
So where is the 'informal policy'? What about Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark in 1898? Obfuscation seems to be your number one tool.
Nit picking with little context seems to be your forte, TJ. I will stop rising to your bait, because I assumed you wanted to broaden your basic understandings on some matters. I see by your pattern of argumentative responses, and they are always responses, this is not the case. Keep exploring what interests you on your own, TJ.
I think the non citizenship for invaders argument is that persons from another country are not “subject to the jurisdiction of” the US. And so they are not granted any birth right citizenry through the 14th amendment. As a thought experiment … we can ask a diplomate from another country who is working in the USA. And while in the US, as a diplomat from another nation, has a birth of a child. That child does not now become a US citizen, even though it was born in the USA. Because, the diplomate was not a ‘citizen of the US and thus was not ‘under the jurisdiction thereof”.. So that is a basic fact of the application of the 14th amendment, a post Civil War Amendment.
All a Google search has to offer.
Elaine ,Trump got an overwhelming mandate, that was profoundly geographical across 90% of all US counties, which was also reflected in his trouncing electoral college numbers.
We already know most of 23 million government employees and their families and friends will not be moving the needle much for Trump or any other Limited Government conservative.
That is given, but that is a wholly taxpayer dependent voting class and does not represent the rank and file of the rest of America today.
We dodged a bullet in 2024, because the Democrats sole goal is to grow Big Government and expand the taxpayer dependency class of Democrat voters. We came very, very close to tipping point from which we may have have been able to return, just like what already happened in California.
I am praying the Gaza cease fire holds, but I fear it is another bait and switch like the cease fire with Lebanon. Jewish exceptionalism means "cease fire" mean Israels withdraws its focus on an area and can save face about no longer controlling territory, but continues to wreak havoc on it whenever the mood strikes. Israel was founded on a supremacy ideology that has been murderous from before day one. Please examine the honest history. Every American voter has a duty to learn this history since our government been funding and giving political support to this project from the beginning.
If you celebrate Trump's annihilation of Gen. Soleimani on his way to a peace meeting as something positive and the Abraham Accords as anything relating to peace or security, then you have either failed to look deeply into this conflict or have misplaced your moral compass. I hope it is the former. The killing of Gen. Soleimani is, as far as I have learned, the first time the US used the tactic of assassinating a military official of an opposing force since WWII after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Obviously it is a war crime to carry out an extrajudicial assassination of a government official, but we are not even in a declared war with Iran. Is that the sort of barbarism you want the US to be known for? Because it will not quickly be forgotten and it invites retaliation and a lowered bar for international conduct.
Who is Jared Kushner? Despite his father's mob activities, what do we know about him and his ties to the Chabad Lubavitch movement? Are you familiar with Chabad Lubavitch? Journalist and author Alison Weir wrote a good summary article of that movent a while back. https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/07/why-is-the-us-honoring-a-racist-rabbi/ Is anyone associated with this movement going to be able to successfully negotiate a peace deal that can bring stability? Well, the events of Oct. 7 show he did not manage to. Much of the atrocities on Oct. 7 were fabricated Israeli propaganda and much of the killing also was carried out by the IDF itself under the thinking of the Israeli military's "Hannibal Directive." These things are covered in the mainstream media, including in Israel. Also covered in the media is the strange lack of awareness at what is usually one of the the most fortified borders in the world and the long delay in responding to the border breech by Palestinian resistance.
Clearly some in the Israeli government wanted Oct. 7 to happen and to then use it the way 9/11 was used in the US to give the Israeli public a thirst for wars of choice. But even with all of the Israeli participation and facilitation of the events of Oct 7, there was also a genuine resistance attack on the border and military installations by Palestinian resistance fighters. And the Palestinian population largely supported this action because "the Abraham Accords" meant Arab countries normalizing relations with Israel after all these years despite no recognition of the most basic human rights for Palestinians required. With Saudia Arabia seeking to enter a similar agreement, many in Gaza felt the slow killing they were experiencing would be allowed to continue indefinitely, so it was worth the risk of a strong military action against Israel.
Who in Gaza would have predicted the degree of satanic barbarity the Israel government would be permitted to carry out. (Don't worry, Palestinians have long known Israelis are capable of it, but many probably thought the US or the "international community" would be able to stop an all out genocide being live-streamed in real time and spoken of quite directly by Israeli officials. Unfortunately, the the US, UK and most of the West have been dominated enough by the Jewish lobby and mob that there was no restraint put on the sickening leveling of Gaza and the brutal siege stopping food and medicines. So, while these events occurred on Biden's watch and Trump will sell it that he was able to change the conditions before even entering office since he is known for being tough, Trump allowed his Chabad Lubavitch son-in-law to sow the seeds for conflict in the name of US diplomacy. It also somehow paid off handsomely for Kushner, which is Hunter Biden level corrupt, but that isn't even the worst of the moral failings in his role in this conflict.
I do think Trump would not have allowed Syria to be destabilized and turned into a ground for conflict between the US, Turkey and Israel. But Trump did pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, so he did take actions under the advice of his hawkish neocon advisors to put us closer to nuclear confrontation. He also pulled out of an important nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
Trump and Rubio and many others are branding themselves as "America First" and for peace, but it will be up to us to hold them to it. And the only way we can do that is to be informed about the underlying issues in the region and advocate a peace founded on basic morality, the only kind that can be durable. I honestly believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people in the Middle East, including most Israelis. The only ones who lose are Netanyahu, who is trying to distract from his serious corruption charges, the weapons dealers, and people like Jared Kushner who have their eyes on stealing more land out from under Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and a Greater Israel project that will continue the effort to sow chaos in the entire region so land can be grabbed in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Egypt. If Trump will stand up to these greedy, wild-eyed sociopaths, he will be loved by the real America First movement and most of the world forever.
Aimee: Wow, that's some history book you're getting your "facts" from. Apparently, the Soviet Union lives on!
Yes, Jim, she read a history book that was full of rabid anti-semitism.
If by "anti-semitism" you mean was honest about Jewish criminality, then I have read many "anti-semitic" history books. One written by Israeli scholar Israel Shahak. I met Israeli history student Teddy Katz who exposed the Tantura Massacre. And I have listened to many others, including non-Jews like Alison Weir, Tony Martin, Ali Abunimeh and more. Jesus Christ said the truth will set you free. Since He is God, it is not surprising that His advice is otherwordly genius.
No Jim, the Soviet Union was in on the creation of Israel. Sorry. Keep studying!
Aimee: Ah well, you must be getting your history from the Hamas Handbook then. Excuse me.
I will save you the trouble of pigeonholing me since you keep missing. I am a Catholic of European descent with long and short roots in the US. You might call me a Western or product of The West. The West developed for 1000 years under Catholicism. Relative peace and cooperation enabled by Christian values allowed for the height of human achievement in theology, morality, philosophy, the arts and technology. The skepticism, division and lack of quality control in faith brought about by the scientific revolution and the Protestant Reformation led to the idolatry of freedom of thought and freedom of action over the common good and adherence to the moral law which opened the door to hedonism, nihilism and enslavement by usurers, technology worship and the separation of politics and economics from morality. Yes, I do identify to a degree with Catholics and other Christians in Palestine that were killed or uprooted or persecuted by the Jewish supremacists from the late 1940's through today. But more generally, I do not agree with might is right and think that the more brutal forms of European colonization were done outside of Catholic teaching while the better forms were adhering to it. But, as a Catholic, we are taught that truth is a transcendental and that it is a sin to bear false witness, so even if distorting history could make "my people" look better or help me win my point, I do not feel it is moral to lie about history. And as a Christian who is called to see the likeness of God in all human beings, including those who persecute me or my family or others I might be in a group with, I also hope to see as much of the nuances and complexity of situations as possible to seek to be just. So no, I haven't read the Hamas handbook and I am very critical of the Muslim Brotherhood as it happens, but liquidating the people of Gaza to supposedly stop Hamas is evil and hardly anyone is buying that hollow pretext anymore. Maybe not even Trump. Did you see his post with a clip from Jeffrey Sachs calling Netanyahu an evil sob? https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/trump-posts-video-slamming-netanyahu-us-middle-east-policy/
Aimee, You are not the only self-professed "Christian" sharing rabid anti-semitic views on this forum. We get similar veiled screeds from a few others too. An odd phenomenon that I did not know existed in Santa Barbara, but good this is coming out into the open for all to see. Disturbing, but obviously this too is part of the fabric of our community in toto.
Oh, you slander me as respond to my many points that are verifiable with the most cursory investigation with a broad brush ad hominem fallacy. But at least I am not the only one! Please tell me what you feel I am mistaken on and then provide evidence to support your claim over mine. That is called honorable debate. Are you up for that? Or do you prefer dirty tricks, the sophistry that Plato warned us about more than 2000 years ago?
Christianity as a belief system is opposed to the Jewish belief system. Judaism as a belief system is opposed to the Christian belief system. That is because these two belief systems came out of a split among a people about whether Christ was God, the messiah or whether he was a liar. These movements have different values and different teachings. The Catholic Church, the only Christianity in the West that has a quality control mechanism over its teachings, has opposed Zionism from the beginning because it is anti-Christian and unjust. Most Christians you know have been deceived by the Scofield Reference Bible to think God likes Zionism, but I think it is rather easy to prove that this Rothschild funded Bible promoted an ideology that was an evil deception, counter to Christ's most central teaching. (For example, Christ said that we who follow Him are the New Israel, not some land grab by a bunch of atheist ethnosupremacists such as David Ben Gurion, Theodore Hertzl and Ze'ev Jabotinsky.)
The term "Judeo-Christian" came into use in around 1940 to trick the growing community of deceived Christians who had fallen for the Scofield satanic heresy of Zionism that Jewish and Christian values are the same, but it was never an honest term. It was just more of the Scofield scam to deceive sincere people who are trying to follow Christ but don't have a Church with a magisterium and respect for tradition. But now with Gaza, the truth is coming out. People are examining the values that allow for slaughtering innocents, Christians among them, on live-stream with pride rather than apology and they are questioning how this all got started. They are learning about Scofield. Oxford University Press who published his bible and that the Rothschild's commissioned it. They are learning about the Balfour Declaration and how the US was tricked into WWI to help the Zionists get Palestine from the British. They are learning about how the Israeli military attacked a US ship called the USS Liberty and the US government covered it up. (Candace Owens covered this.) They are learning a lot and won't be stopped by the woke leftist tactic of slandering and accusing of "hate" when they say something the ADL doesn't want anyone to know.
They are also learning about how the ADL was created to get fellow Jew Leo Frank off for the rape and murder of a Catholic girl called Mary Phagen and that the ADL took money from the Jewish mob. Many things we are not supposed to talk about or learn. But Christ said, the truth will set you free. It is important that we seek the truth with love in our hearts so that we can be honorable citizens and work for peace and justice for all, leaving vengeance to the Lord.
What about all the "self-professed "Christian"s" sharing rabid anti-semitic, anti-Palestinian, pro genocide views on this forum? You, as I recall, are one of them.
How is she supporting the Soviet Union?