The Grand Nudnik

Fainéant. Liar to Children. Pretentious Autodidact, Old Lefty
אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי, מִי לִי. וּכְשֶׁאֲנִי לְעַצְמִי, מָה אֲנִי. וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁיו, אֵימָתַי:

[The Grand Nudnik @MichaelButchin]

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[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

The shift in Cenk Uygur’s views over the past 20 years is genuinely insane.

Whose money and agenda is behind it? I’ll let you decide.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

NYC Mayor Mandani was angry about Israel eliminating Ahmed Wishah, an Al Jazeera “journalist” yesterday.

This is him. 👇

Does he seem an innocent “journalist” to you?

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump on the reflecting pool: "If you had a knife, you can't even cut it."

Also, Trump on the reflecting pool: "They cut it."

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A Justice Department lawyer just signed a memo saying disabled Americans have no right to live in their own homes. In the same document, she admits no court in the country agrees with her.

Read that again. A government official wrote down, in black and white, that her own argument is wrong by every legal standard of the last thirty years, and she made it anyway.

Here is what it means in plain terms.

Right now, 8.4 million people get help that lets them stay in their own homes. Aides who help them dress. Care that lets them work, see friends, raise their kids, sleep in their own beds at night.

This memo tells states they can cut all of it.

And if they cut it, where do those people go? Into nursing homes. Into institutions. Into facilities where someone else decides when you wake up, what you eat, who your roommate is, whether you go outside today.

A lawyer who has visited people locked in these places said their whole world shrinks to one hallway. That is the future this memo is opening the door to.

Keeping people in their own homes is cheaper. In one case, home care cost under $7,500 a year. The nursing home would have cost close to $50,000. The cruel option is also the expensive one. They want to spend more money to make people's lives worse.

So why?

Because last summer Trump signed an order to deal with homelessness by force, by sweeping people off the streets and committing them. He said it out loud during the campaign: the mentally ill belong back in institutions.

The only thing standing in the way was the law that says people deserve to live in their own communities.

This memo is how they get around it. And it landed the same week Republicans slashed Medicaid, giving every cash-strapped state the perfect excuse to start cutting.

A think tank drew up the plan. A lawyer wrote the memo. A president signed the order. Three signatures, and millions of people could lose the right to their own front door.

We are about to spend the summer celebrating 250 years of American freedom.
Some Americans are about to find out it doesn't include them.

[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

If you can watch this and tell me that Cenk didn’t take money from outside forces to push his current narrative, you’re delusional.

This is a complete 180 on the same exact topics.

[Michael Pope @OyVeyPope]

I asked Liam Cunningham for evidence supporting his claim that Israel is committing genocide under the legal definition of the term.

Not insults. Not slogans. Not appeals to authority.

Evidence.

His response was "fuck off" followed by a block.

Those with arguments use them. Those without often use insults and then run from the discussion.

[Ora Levitt 🇮🇱 חיילת צה"ל 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי @IDFsoldiergirl]

𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈-𝐈𝐒𝐑𝐀𝐄𝐋 𝐏𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐂𝐂𝐔𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍— 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝟖,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐎𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟕
The talking point is everywhere: Israel is “𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨” southern Lebanon, and any Hezbollah attack on #IDF soldiers there is therefore justified. One commentator put it in terms the pundits won’t engage with: “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 8,000 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘪 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 7𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴?”
That is the argument the #media refuses to sit with. Israel’s presence in southern Lebanon is not a conquest — it is the military consequence of eight thousand incoming projectiles fired at Israeli towns, kibbutzim, and cities from that exact territory. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝟖,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 at civilians and then call the counteraction an occupation.
Hezbollah spent years building an arsenal in southern Lebanon behind a civilian shield. It fired that arsenal into Israel’s northern communities, displacing over 60,000 Israelis who couldn’t live within range of the constant barrages. The Israeli military moved into southern Lebanon because that was where the rockets were coming from. International law recognizes the right of self-defense precisely for situations like this.
When critics say #Israel should leave, they are asking it to re-expose its northern civilians to the same territory used as a launchpad for 8,000 attacks. Israel’s answer is straightforward: 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐇e𝐳𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 and actually withdrawn — then we’ll discuss the territory.
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟖,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞. (Author: M.A. Rothman)

[Ahmed pak 🇵🇰 @Ahmedpak378456]

On June 4th 1967, I was a Jordanian. On June 5th 1967, I became a Palestinian.

The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum.

We were Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem.

Then, all of a sudden, we were Palestinians.

We removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.

When I finally realised the lies and myths I was taught, I felt it was my duty as a righteous person to speak out.

Walid Shoebat
Former Muslim and PLO Terrorist​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

[Juliet Moses @JulietMosesNZ]

It really is extraordinary that after the Gaza Flotilla members cosplayed at being “kidnapped” by Israel, and they achieved their objective of getting attention through sensationalist international headlines, 10 members from Spain, Poland, the USA, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Tunisia and Italy really have been kidnapped by the Libyan Arab Armed Forces and detained for weeks in apparently very poor conditions and no one cares.

[Jabotinsky Jew @CrazyVideosOnly]

🇮🇱 They call Jews "white European colonizers."

Here's what the DNA says.

In 2010, a study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics analyzed the genomes of Jewish communities worldwide and found that Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi Jews all cluster genetically with each other — and with modern Middle Eastern populations — not with Europeans.

Mizrahi Jews never left the Middle East. They lived in Iraq, Iran, Yemen, and Syria for 2,600 years, since the Babylonian exile in 586 BCE. No Europe. No colonization. Just continuous presence in the region their ancestors were exiled from.

Ethiopian Jews — the Beta Israel — carry Y-chromosome haplogroups tracing directly to ancient Israelite populations. They've been in the Horn of Africa since before the Common Era. Someone explain the European colonizer pipeline there.

The archaeological record backs it up. Hebrew inscriptions, ritual objects, and continuous Jewish habitation in the Land of Israel date back over 3,000 years. The Merneptah Stele, carved in Egypt in 1208 BCE, is the oldest known reference to Israel outside the Bible. It predates every modern nation in the region.

Half of Israel's Jewish population today is Mizrahi or Sephardic. Half. These are people whose families came from Baghdad, Aden, Casablanca, and Tehran — not Warsaw.

The "colonizer" narrative requires you to ignore the genetics, ignore the archaeology, ignore the Mizrahi majority, and ignore 3,000 years of documented presence.

That's not a political argument. That's just not knowing what you're talking about.

[TheJewishAlly @TheJewishAlly]

The accusation changes.
The target never does.
Save this.
Share it.

The pattern needs to be seen.
@HonestReporting

[Kosher Chutzpah @KosherChutzpah]

Killing buildings is not genocide.
Killing terrorists is not genocide.
Killing collateral damage is not genocide.

Killing 1,200 people in a few hours—and only being stopped by force—is genocide.

ISRAEL IS AT WAR WITH GENOCIDAL TERRORISTS.

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

It's pointless to haggle over whether "anti-Zionism" really amounts to "antisemitism." Even on its own terms, anti-Zionism is a hate movement, with a long history of violence, dispossession, and discrimination. What's truly incredible is that it has now managed to don the mantle of "progressivism." @adam_louis52328 in @TheAtlantic.

"In September 1948, a prosperous Jewish businessman in Iraq was publicly hanged in front of a cheering crowd of 12,000. The following day, close-up images of Shafiq Ades’s broken body ran on the front page of Iraqi newspapers in a triumphant and gruesome spectacle that celebrated the punishment of a “Zionist traitor.”"

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