@JonahDispatch@JamesSurowiecki Every inch of my grandma Millie’s apartment was packed with chachkas and she was completely unpretentious and without any airs of being wealthier than she was (she owned a small linoleum store in Newark)
Forth Dimensional Chess:
Trump: ‘look, here’s the deal. We send Vance and Kushner and Witless I mean Witkoff out to make noises about how great everything is going -they may even believe it it doesn’t matter- and when the ‘ceasefire’ is violated we bomb them a little and they say we just got very encouraging signs from the Iranians and we get another two weeks in which the markets can rebound and we can do some re-arming. In this way we ‘train’ the markets. We go along this way, bombing and lying and see if we can’t just live like this indefinitely without a global finacial crisis. If so it becomes the new status quo and life goes on but Iran has no nuke, no ability to project power, no proxies and no economy. Did we get everything right away? No. Are the Iranian people free? No. But the world is better off and we lost a handful of soldiers. Americans don’t care if we are just bombing. Look at Libya and Kosovo. I can do this forever’
@k_tajbakhsh@behaviorben@EliLake It has always been thus. That is why the right is packed with liberals who refused to give up their principles and live as hypocrites.
I think this is wrong- Tucker said the Hummus thing but Fuentes has attacked those who blame Israel and believe a conspiracy is afoot to hide the real killer. After that appearance Fuentes attacked Tucker as well. It is TUCKER JD must forthrightly condemn and disown. Fuentes is easy to disown without disowning Tucker. Tucker hard. Fuentes is a serious threat but part of the reason is he is not as stupid as the other ‘groypers’.
I moved to Houston a yer ago and I am struck not only by the large numbers of Muslims but by my sense that many are Pakistani and extremely devout - Today I passed a bearded man with a zabida followed by a wife in full burka. Why are we doing this to ourselves? What good can come of inviting such men in large numbers to live among us?