Ken Goshen

Pursuing good art and bad puns.

[Robbie Hendricks @robbiehendricks]

Let me tell you something, comrade.

No American thinks we are exceptional because we are richer, stronger and more powerful than everyone else.

We are exceptional because we are American. It is our value system that built wealth, strength, and power.

It was the American values etched into the souls of generations of people in this country that built what we have today.

Those values are something you clearly cannot understand, or you choose not to, because they would require you building something of your own.

Our nation was founded by people who simply wanted a chance to build something for themselves.

It wasn’t about being richer than others. It wasn’t about being more powerful than others. It wasn’t about being stronger than others.

It’s certainly wasn’t built on what you propose, this hideous belief that you or anyone is somehow entitled to what other people built.

That is the antithesis of America. Your ideas would have been laughed out of America 250 years ago. You ran an entire mayoral campaign on seizing assets from others.

The sheer concept of expecting the government to force hard-working people to feed, house, and fund other able-bodied men and women would have been roundly ridiculed.

In fact, that is why people migrated to America. It was about freedom.

They fled oppressive government, they fled the type of tyranny you are promoting. Where their work was not theirs, where the fruits of their labor were taken from them.

They fled here not expecting a handout, but simply hoping for a chance to build something on their own. A chance to bet on themselves.

That dream is still vibrantly alive today for the those that choose to work hard and pursue it.

You, of course, sell that it is not possible. That it is a zero sum game. That the success of one group must therefore be at the expense of another group, which is a disgusting lie disguised as “promoting fairness”.

That is the opposite of our American value system.

In America, we believe in abundance. We believe in hard work. We believe in merit. We believe in earning things. We believe if you learn, work hard, and do your best, doors will open. And they do. Every time.

Those beliefs are what made America exceptional, and that is why America continues to be the greatest country in the history of mankind.

All despite men like you.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Palestinianism is a dumping ground.

A catch-all container for every resentful ideology, every broken theory, every radical cause.

Marxists, postcolonialists, jihadists, queer activists, anarchists, environmentalists, anti-capitalists, and antisemites, they all pour their agendas into it.

It’s the perfect host, just vague enough to absorb anything, just angry enough to justify everything.

Muslims use it to legitimize jihad and martyrdom.

Marxists use it to revive class warfare under the guise of anti-Zionism.

Postcolonial theorists use it to attack the West.

Intersectional activists use it to link Palestine to trans rights and racial justice in a grotesque logic of shared victimhood.

Academics use it to inject critical theory into international politics.

Antisemites use it to camouflage their hatred as humanitarianism.

Palestinianism is where incompatible ideologies suddenly find unity.

What binds them isn’t a coherent vision of justice, but a shared enemy: Israel, the West, the Judeo-Christian world, the structure, the order.

Palestinianism has become the dumping ground where failed ideologies go to be reborn.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Deborah Corso @ViadelCorso2266]

There exists a very long list of Arab nationalist leaders who openly and repeatedly  stated Palestinian identity was manufactured  only as a means to attack and destroy the state of Israel.

This is by no means a complete list:

●Awni Abd al-Hadi (1937): Testifying before the British Peel Commission, this prominent Palestinian politician and nationalist stated, "There is no such country as Palestine.

●Zuheir Mohsen, Senior PLO leader, 1977 stated: "The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity… Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons.”

• Feisal Husseini (2001): The PLO's top official in Jerusalem famously described the Oslo peace process in an interview with Al-Arabi as a sham and a ruse to destroy Israel. He literally  called Oslo a"Trojan Horse," suggesting the provisional statehood steps were strategic mechanisms meant to eventually liberate all of mandatory Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

●Yasser Arafat (1994): Shortly after signing the Oslo Accords, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gave a speech in a Johannesburg mosque where he compared the peace treaty to the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah—a historical ten-year truce signed by the Prophet Muhammad that was broken when the Muslim forces grew strong enough to conquer Mecca. This  evidences  viewing statehood negotiations and manufactured Palestinian  identity as a purely tactical maneuver.

• King Abdullah of Jordan: Throughout the 1948 and 1950 period, following Jordan's military entry and subsequent annexation of the West Bank, the Hashemite leadership actively absorbed the region. King Abdullah proclaimed himself the ruler of Palestine and promoted the integration of the local Arab population, firmly opposing the idea of an independent, distinct Palestinian state.

• King Hussein of Jordan: In the early years of the Palestinian national movement, Jordan's King Hussein firmly opposed the notion of a separate "Palestinian entity." In January 1960, he convened a conference of Hashemite loyalists to denounce the "despicable innovation" of establishing a distinct Palestinian state, as Jordan sought to solidify a broader, united Jordanian national identity following its governance of the West Bank.

• Azzam Pasha: As the Secretary-General of the Arab League during the period surrounding the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he viewed the Arabs in the region as an extension of a broader Arab nation. Historically, Mandate-era Arab leaders in the region often defined themselves culturally and religiously as part of the broader Ottoman system or as part of a "Greater Syria," rather than as a separate, distinct Palestinian nationality.

●Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar in the 1990s, rejected manufactured Palestinian identity for a broader pan-Islamic one, being that as more conducive  to oan-Arabism than over localized nation-states.

●'Palestinian' historian Muhammad Y. Muslih, stated- during the entire 400 year period of Ottoman rule (1517-1918), before the British set up the 30-year-long Palestine Mandate, “There was no political unit known as Palestine.”

●Azmi Bishara, founding leader of the nationalist Balad Party (with seats in the Israeli parliament since 1999). In a statement he made in 2002 he said: “My Palestinian identity never precedes my Arab identity…. I don’t think there is a Palestinian nation, there is [only] an Arab nation.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

Nothing animates people on this platform more than Jews and Israel. If you post anything critical of the Palestine racket, you’re guaranteed an avalanche of hysterical abuse, and the angriest people are the least informed.
Israel is the front line in a war between Islam and civilisation.
There is no difference between the ideologies of Hamas and the Islamic State. They share the same goal. To impose seventh century Islam on the world at gunpoint.
Hamas don’t want land. They want to kill Jews. Not only in Israel, but everywhere on earth.
They keep telling us that, but we don’t listen, as if we think they can’t really mean it.
They do really mean it.
We’ve seen what happens when these people get power over others. There is no limit to their cruelty. It is demonic. It is inhuman. It is evil.
If they had their way, October 7th would be happening worldwide until every Jew on earth was dead.

If you support the fiction of Palestine, everything you believe about this conflict is false.
You’ve been subjected to the most successful propaganda campaign in history, and you’re taking the side of Islam against civilisation.
There is no genocide in Gaza.
There is no apartheid in Israel.
No land was stolen.
No land is occupied.
There was no nakba.
There are no refugees.
There is no Palestine, and thanks to the ‘Palestinians’ there never will be.

[Ken Goshen @KenGoshen]

@MosabHasanYOSEF מה?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The communist doesn’t think to increase the quality of the grid. The communist demands that you decrease the quality of your life.

They make you ration the things that every other American gets to enjoy. Every single time.

[Ken Goshen @KenGoshen]

@YonatanAdiri יונתן היקר! מאוד נהנה מהפודקאסט. בפרק האחרון יש ניתוח אחד שגוי: הבחירה של הסוציאליסטים החדשים לא נובעת מקולות של המעמד הנמוך כמו שתיארת, אלא מקואליציה של בוגרי אוניברסיטאות מהמעמד הגבוה ומוסלמים. זה מסביר את האובססיה כלפי ישראל-נושא שמגבש בוגרי אוניברסיטה ומוסלמים.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

My political journey.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Some day the Supreme Court will be required to put the legal reasoning for their decisions in writing.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Socialism is a hatred of what actually is thanks to a preference for what cannot ever be.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Vance's sly insinuation that economic freedom is at odds with human flourishing is such an insane red flag

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

The CEO of @Uber just dodged (some might say lied) to @BretBaier. He said that the price differences people experience are purely about supply and demand getting safe drivers etc. This is simply not true. If I open the app and my wife or daughter open the app — from the same location at the exact same time going to the exact same destination — we will get different price quotes based on the algorithm’s guess about ability/willingness to pay. This “bespoke” pricing has its defenders — I am not one — but Uber shouldn’t pretend it’s not doing what it absolutely is doing: charging people more for the same product if they think they can get away with it, and then pretending it’s about mere supply and demand or safety. It’s not.

[James J. Marlow @James_J_Marlow]

Be honest, who knew that Hamas summer camps in the Gaza Strip for 13-17 year olds was about using real AK47s with real bullets and real military training, to attack Israelis?

Who knew, besides UNRWA?

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

The EU Parliament’s research arm just published a brutal assessment of Qatar.

Authoritarian state. Al Jazeera as a foreign policy weapon. Gas supply threats against Europe. Defense deals with Russia and China.

All while hosting the largest US military base in the region.

Read the full article from @EFischberger 👇🏽

https://t.co/0FqCwVDn2V

[Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער @gidonsaar]

Turkish FM @HakanFidan’s sickening words are textbook incitement to genocide.

Dehumanizing the Jewish people as an "unbearable burden" is the classic, horrific language of history’s worst eliminationist regimes.

The civilized world and Turkey's NATO allies must unequivocally condemn this explicit call for the erasure of Israel.

[Adam Rossi @rossiadam]

NYC had a nuclear power plant 36 miles away called Indian Point.

It supplied carbon-free safe power that would mean no one would need to turn up their thermostats.

But it was closed in 2021 by the degrowth Death Cult. Now NYC relies on fossil fuels for 90% of its power 🫠