Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
The US is not paying Iran anything under this deal, and the people who keep saying this like @ChrisMurphyCT -- or, worse, who are saying that the US is paying Iran $300 billion, like @amyklobuchar -- are outright lying.
The money that flows to Iran's is Iran's money: that the US froze and refused to give back but will now release under the deal. The $300b is the maximum Iran can get. That's not from the US or from Americans, but from a private fund financed by the Persian Gulf dictatorships and their oligarchs.
These are just Democrats trying to prove to AIPAC and the pro-Israel lobby that they're more hawkish on Iran than Trump/Vance.
The investigation started under Biden, Gavin. Your own former chief of staff just pleaded guilty to wire fraud, false tax returns, and lying to federal agents.
But sure, scream ‘Trump fishing expedition’ while your inner circle gets nailed for grifting.
Californians ‘deserve to know’ why their state is a failed experiment in high taxes, homelessness, crime, and business exodus under your watch.
Nice projection, slick. The rot is coming from inside the house.
@XavierBecerra In case voters can’t read between lines. When he says “every” family he plans to allow your taxpayer dollars to fund illegal immigration programs HURTING AMERICANS. Americans will fund illegals housing, healthcare, childcare & more. CA must vote @TeamSteveHilton to save CA 🇺🇸
Mayor Bass, branding voters who want encampments removed from school grounds and more cops hired as the MAGA agenda is textbook loaded language and a thought terminating cliché. This is the language of non thought that psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton identified in his study of communist thought reform.
You traveled to Fidel Castro’s Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade in the 1970s, and you publicly called a longtime top member of the Communist Party USA your friend and mentor. Now you use the exact same smear tactic Lenin, Stalin, and Castro used: label your critics, shut down debate, and avoid accountability for LAs failures.
This isnt progressive governance. It’s authoritarian narrative control. Angelenos deserve real solutions, not recycled propaganda.
Dear New Jersey ICE Protestors:
The Democrat Party has organized all of this so one or more of you get killed. They want martyrs with better optics than the lady who tried to murder an ICE agent with her truck.
Fair warning. You are their useful idiots.
Toodles,
CP
Oh, Hillary. Hillary, Hillary. You ignorant slut.
As the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton, YOU’RE military aide — the officer who carried the nuclear football in and out of the White House every single day — I saw the “people’s house” up close alongside you. @HillaryClinton
Spare us the sanctimonious lectures. And turn on your replies, coward.
When you and Bill left in January 2001, your staff ransacked the place. Remember?
“W” keys ripped off every keyboard. Phone lines cut. Desk drawers glued shut. Obscene voicemails and vulgar graffiti left behind.
Presidential seals and silverware stolen. Furniture damaged. The GAO confirmed the vandalism and theft. It wasn’t “transition friction” — it was a disgrace.
You trashed the People’s House on your way out the door and now you’re clutching pearls over Trump?
I remember, Hillary. I was there. Remember?
The hypocrisy is Olympic-level, Ms. Clinton. And you know it! You of ALL people know it!
The American people have long memories. Especially this one! Me!
We remember who actually looted the place. Shut up and color.
When American POWs tried to sneak her notes with their personal information to tell their families they were still alive, she gave them to the North Vietnamese. Some of them were beaten to death. You are both commies and you can both fuck off.
Stop.
Step back.
Consider that you just libeled President Trump.
Consider that you are a propaganda victim.
Consider that what you just said is wholly unrelated to objective reality.
Consider that you are a brainwashed stooge, a low IQ victim of evil indoctrination.
Help yourself before you fall too deeply into the dark abyss of irrational hatred.
Last night Rep. Tim Burchett stormed out of committee.
Here's why:
"A backroom deal was cut to let Democrats control what we do."
RINOs and establishment swamp dwellers DO NOT have voter’s interests at heart. Behind closed doors, they’ve been handing power to the party that just got demolished at the ballot box.
Burchett had enough.
So should you.
This is why the base is furious.
You have been in office since I was 17 years old. Your career is nothing more than failed impeachments. The day you leave office everyone will immediately forget you ever existed.
You inspire no one. Stand for nothing - and have no influence outside of the msnow greenroom.