Proud Jew.Proud American. Zionist. LA South Robertson Neighborhoods Council boardmember. FREE SPEECH. This account is not used for official NC purposes.
🇺🇸 On America’s 250th birthday, I want to speak from the heart about what this country truly means to me — and why I owe it everything.
I was just three years old when my family and our entire community were rescued from the Islamic Revolution in Iran. We arrived with nothing but hope, a deep belief in democratic values, and an unshakable love for the United States and its eternal flame of freedom. Even though we came from a nation that had become hostile to America, this country opened its arms wide and welcomed us anyway.
We didn’t speak the language. My family struggled at first. There were no handouts. But America gave us something far more powerful: the tools, the freedom, and the opportunity to not just survive — but to thrive. We became Americans immediately, fully and completely. And we have loved this country more fiercely than anything in this world ever since.
In high school I was physically weak and terrified of public speaking. I joined the U.S. Air Force Civil Air Patrol cadet program. It built my strength — but more importantly, it gave me a voice and taught me how to lead. (And yes… as you can probably tell, I no longer have any fear of public speaking 😂)
Later, the U.S. government awarded me a scholarship worth nearly half a million dollars to cover medical school and graduate school — with zero expectation that it would ever be repaid. That gift came with no strings attached, only trust. Because of it, I have carried a profound sense of duty ever since.
Today I try to repay that debt every single day — through my work as a physician and scientist, through my words, and through my actions. I stand up for our freedoms, I fight against socialism and radical Islam, and I defend free speech and freedom of choice with everything I have. And yes… I’m also paying an absurd amount in taxes every year too 😉
I don’t take any of this for granted. I owe this country everything. We all do. And with that gratitude comes a sacred obligation: to serve it, to protect it, to make it better, and to cherish it with everything we have.
Happy 250th Birthday, America.
Here’s to 250 more incredible years… and then another 250,000 after that.
This year I’m in Washington, D.C. celebrating in person with all of you.
God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸🗽
I’m going to add one qualification to Hen’s grim observation here.
All these targets are Democratic Jews.
Republican Jews are no less hated, but are inclined to stand up for themselves, and are led and surrounded by colleagues who unite to reject antisemitism and Israel-haters.
I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought most conservatives were ignorant or evil or lying. I believed almost everything written in the New York Times, The New Republic, and the Atlantic. I was horrified when conservatives criticized the authorities. Every criticism I saw: I thought all of it was motivated by animus, resentment, self-interest, or ignorance.
Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere "half-truth": an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized. Why did I see it in terms of weaponization? Because I was biased: I saw liberal establishment institutions and figures as fundamentally good, so all criticism of them was automatically interpreted as being in bad faith.
Didn't the critics know that these institutions or figures were fundamentally good? If they didn't, they were ignorant. If they did, they were evil. It was that simple. This meant that any legitimate criticisms would just be dismissed, as if bouncing off of an impenetrable bulletproof shield.
This all changed once I started writing about the pandemic. Soon people started talking about me the way I once thought about conservatives. This led to a complete identity collapse as I came to understand that my old worldview was hateful and ignorant, that I hadn't understood what I had been judging.
I cannot forget the hearing that led to my dismissal from medical school a year after I started writing. During the hearing, people talked about me as if I wasn't human. My behavior was interpreted in the worst possible light. Complete fabrications were created. Nobody was concerned with the truth, only horrified at my apparent "unprofessional behavior", which was really a mirror of their unprofessional behavior directed at me. They structured the hearing to make it virtually impossible for me to speak and explain that what was being said was a lie. And nobody seemed to have any problem with this. Why? Because I was bad. If I am bad, then every mistreatment and every violation of the school's own policies became justified. A person who is bad does not deserve any rights. They only deserve punishment.
But the thing I remember most was the allusions to my social media activity. They said, "Kevin is driven by resentment from his childhood." I wasn't. I was on good terms with my parents. They alleged that I needed psychotherapy to deal with this trauma. It was a completely fake story that they had constructed about me, to demean me, to marginalize me, to try to explain the views I had expressed: that something terribly wrong had happened during the pandemic. They couldn't imagine that I might have legitimate points. So they reduced me to the same kinds of psychological caricatures that I once reduced conservatives to in my own mind.
When I was dismissed, I was broken. But I had help from friends who helped me understand what happened. And I came to realize that a hysteria had overtaken the left. I spent a lot of time reading about show trials, about witch trials, and so on. I also connected with people who had experienced similar things and came to realize that something similar had happened to hundreds of physicians around the country. My story wasn't unique. It was all the same story over and over again.
I cannot believe the person I once was. I cannot believe that I could exist like that. I still don't understand how I could be like that, or how millions of people in this country could continue being like that. It disturbs me greatly.
One thing I know is that whatever this thing is that is driving people crazy needs to be destroyed. It is hostile to civilization and to our humanity. It causes us to dehumanize each other and try to destroy each other. It is the very same monstrous thing that I once attributed to conservatives. But it had been inside me, and I could now see it inside others. This is something I still grapple with.
🚨Xavier Becerra was caught on tape calling for detained migrant children to be put in “an assembly line.”
But here’s the part of the “Becerra Tapes” no one is talking about:
“We're spending more than $1,000 a day for kids who may not even have the legal right to be here.”
Coming from the same guy who wants California to spend $20 billion on healthcare for illegal immigrants!
More details to come from this SHOCKING scandal. Stay tuned.
We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying, too...
But they are still lying.
Liar!
Why do you always say that all immigrants are illegal?
Shame on you.
The ruling is about illegal immigrants not the immigrants who come legally.
There is a difference.
We are in Texas. Just filled up for $3.59. In L.A. on Monday it was $8.59.
Californians: It's not the Iran war. It's not "Trump." It's Democrat policies that have given us the highest gas prices in America.
You can have $3.00 gas but you have to VOTE for it in November.
Now do the 259 homeless encampment fires that occurred during that same timespan, and continue, unabated, all night, every single night, in perpetuity. How much are they costing taxpayers? Notice the times of these fires? How many FFs are we losing because they can never sleep?
At one of Karen's shelters, this poor lady had her head bashed in by the staff and she was kicked out on to the streets with her two dogs. This is Karen and Nithya's "Inside Safe" program for you. Only gets worse from here, folks. Karen and Nithya hate these poor people.