James Baker

Loyal. Grateful. Benign. Tolerant. Questioning. Inquiring. Adaptable. +

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

If you ask the average Gazan if they want Israel flattened, they would without hesitation say yes.

If you ask the average Israeli whether they want Gaza flattened, they would immediately call you an extremist and walk away.

If you ask the average Arab living in Ramallah whether he thinks Jews should be able to walk around freely, he might actually physically assault you.

If you ask the average Israeli whether he thinks Arabs should be able to walk around freely, he would look at you confused and ask you why that’s even a question.

If you ask the average Arab in Jenin whether he wants all Jews dead, his response would be “obviously“.

If you ask the average Israeli whether he wants all Muslims dead, he would probably report you to the police.

If you ask 99% of Israeli society whether they want peace with their neighbors, they would not even understand the question because the answer is obviously yes.

If you ask the average Arab whether they want peace with Israel, again, they would probably physically assault you and call you a dirty Zionist.

If you ask the average religious Israeli what he wants for his children, he would tell you how he wants them to grow up and make the world a better place.

If you ask the average religious Muslim what he wants for his children, he would tell you that he wants him to die as a shahid, but not before killing as many Jews as possible.

If you ask the average Israeli how he thinks his country should be run, he would respond that he wants a liberal democracy with freedom for all.

If you ask the average Muslim how he thinks his country should be run, he would say Sharia law.

If you go to an average Israeli march or protest, you will see many people waving flags, singing songs, and embracing.

If you go to an average pro-Palestine march or protest, you will see violence, anti-Semitic chants, and a whole lot of hate.

If you hear a Christian saying “Praise the Lord“, you say “Amen”. If you hear a Jew saying “Baruch Hashem”, you smile. If you hear a Muslim saying “Allah Akbar”, you better run for your life.

If you ask a person who identifies as Palestinian to show you any history of his people, any archaeology, any inventions, any proof that Palestine ever existed, he would either call you names or actually assault you.

If you ask an Israeli to show you any history of his people, he will show you deep roots, endless contributions to the world, Nobel prizes, and breakthroughs in every area of life.

Tell me again who is the obstacle to peace.

Tell me again who is responsible for all the chaos in the West today.

Tell me again who is guilty of genocide and apartheid.

You’ve been duped.

Radical Islam is hands-down the most serious challenge to the continuity of Western civilization.

Wake up.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

All those years ago, JFK knew. And he said it out loud. No wonder he was assassinated. Listen to this speech. He lays it out precisely & it is exactly what we are still facing today.

“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice.”

Read that again. Monolithic. Ruthless. Conspiracy.

This wasn’t some fringe radio host. This was the sitting President of the United States, on live television, telling the American people that a shadow network of power — operating through intelligence agencies, media complicity, and institutional capture — was working against the republic itself.

And then he said the quiet part out loud:

“Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”

Sound familiar?

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

108 years ago today, a red-headed farmer from Pall Mall, Tennessee did something in the Argonne Forest that still doesn't seem real.

Alvin York grew up dirt poor, a hard drinker and brawler, until a religious conversion in his twenties changed his whole life. When the draft notice came in 1917, he asked to be exempted as a conscientious objector. His church opposed war and so did he. The Army said no.

His battalion commander spent hours going through the Bible with him, trying to convince him that a man could fight and still be right with God. York went home on leave, prayed on it for two days on a mountainside, and came back ready.

On the morning of October 8, 1918, York was one of 17 men sent to slip behind German lines and knock out machine guns near Chatel-Chehery, France. They surprised a group of Germans and captured them. Then the machine guns on the ridge above opened up. Six Americans were killed instantly and three more went down wounded, including the sergeant in charge.

That left Cpl. York in command of seven men, most of them pinned flat guarding prisoners.

So York went to work. Every time a German gunner raised his head to fire, York shot him. He'd been shooting turkeys in the Tennessee hills since he was a kid and he was not missing at that range. When six Germans charged him with bayonets, he drew his pistol and dropped all six, starting with the last man and working forward, so the ones in front wouldn't realize what was happening.

A German officer, Lt. Paul Vollmer, emptied his pistol at York and missed every shot. Watching his men fall one after another, Vollmer finally called out in English and offered to surrender the whole position if York would stop shooting.

York agreed. Then he used Vollmer to order other German positions to give up as they marched back through the woods.

By the time he reached American lines, York had killed 25 men and was herding 132 prisoners in front of him with a handful of survivors.

When a general told him he'd heard York captured the whole German army, York said "No sir. I got only 132."

He was promoted to sergeant and received the Medal of Honor. New York threw him a ticker tape parade. Companies offered him a fortune to endorse their products and he turned almost all of it down. He went home to Tennessee, married his sweetheart, and spent years raising money to build a school for kids in the mountains who had no shot at an education.

When Hollywood finally made his story in 1941, he agreed partly to fund a Bible school. Gary Cooper won the Oscar for playing him.

The man who didn't want to go to war became the most famous American soldier of it.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Best explanation of Greed!

[🇺🇸The REAL Lady De’Plorable🇺🇸 @LadyRedWave]

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[John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr @realJohnJohnJr]

🚨🚨ELON: "One of the biggest fraud holes we've uncovered ... is that the government can give money to a so called nonprofit ... They then give themselves ... insane salaries, expense everything, buy jets and homes ... on the taxpayer dime ... This is happening at scale."

[ShipofTheseus @JewishSpaceLazr]

Imagine this world….

[David Burke 🇺🇸 @ConservativeTht]

“I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza.”

“Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians, they wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable." ~ Bill Clinton

[Imam of Peace @Imamofpeace]

A Statement of Conscience on October 7

I will not start by saying ‘as a Muslim’ or ‘as an imam’, but as a human being.

On October 7, over 1,200 innocent people were killed in a single day. Families were shot in their homes. Young people out dancing were hunted across open fields. Over 250 people, including children and the elderly, were dragged into Gaza as hostages. I think of a mother hiding in a safe room with her baby’s mouth covered. I think of a father listening as the line went quiet. I think of families who waited month after month for someone to come home, only to receive a coffin. I didn’t need my faith to recognize the evil of what happened. My heart told me first.

But I’m a Muslim and an imam, and I owe the world one honest sentence: what was done that day was a crime against God. God teaches that whoever kills one innocent soul, it is as if he had killed all humanity.

This day has an author: Yahya Sinwar. He planned it, ordered it, and knew what would follow. Every death of that day and war he started rests on him and Hamas leaders who sat in tunnels and foreign hotels and called slaughter a victory. It rests on every Palestinian leader who cheered, excused, handed out sweets, or said nothing. They chose this. They own it.

But Sinwar did not invent himself. He was the fruit of a tree planted almost a century ago by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas named itself in its founding charter as the Brotherhood’s branch in Palestine. The Brotherhood’s poison is slow. It arrives through study circles, youth camps, charity boxes, and kind words to lonely young men. Drop by drop, it teaches him that his religion is a political party, his neighbour is his enemy, the Jew is the cause of his sorrow, and God is pleased by rage. By the time the gun arrives, the soul is already taken.

I have seen this poison in mosques where sermons became rallies and young men could recite slogans but not sit still for a verse on mercy. Every people that let the Brotherhood in has paid in blood and ruined generations. It has never built anything it did not first set on fire.

Behind Hamas stands another hand: the IRGC. It was the IRGC’s money, weapons, and training that turned a hateful idea into an army. One calls itself Sunni and the other Shia, and they may curse each other’s creeds, but they are united in what they worship. It is not God. It is power. The same IRGC that armed the killers of October 7 shoots Iranian girls for showing their hair, hangs young men for asking to be free, and has left graves from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut. They speak in God’s name. So did Pharaoh speak in the name of heaven.

So let me say this clearly. Hamas and the IRGC are not merely enemies of Islam. That would be too small a charge, as if their crime were only against us. They are enemies of God. God is the Giver of life, yet they deal in death. God calls Himself the Most Merciful, yet they have made cruelty a sacrament. God honoured the children of Adam, yet they look at a child and see a target or a shield. To murder what God created and sign His name to it is the oldest blasphemy.

And we Muslims have been too quiet. Some of us were afraid. Some told ourselves it was not our business. Some, God forgive them, felt something other than horror that morning and never confessed it. Silence was the soil this poison grew in. I will not add to it.

So on this anniversary, let us say plainly what our scripture already says. The Jews are not our enemies. They are our cousins in Abraham, and their dead were created by the same God who created us. Today belongs to them: the murdered, the hostages, and families who still set a place at the table. To them I say: I am sorry for what was done to you by men who used the words of my prayers. You’re not alone in your grief or remembrance.

The enemies of God are those who murder in His name. We know their names. It is time we said them from our own pulpits, in our own voices, before they speak for us again.

Imam Tawhidi

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

@DualityXrp All it took was ending USAID.

[Mr Charlie Ward @mrcharlieward0]

🚨🚨THE GLOBALIST ELITE WON’T TELL YOU THIS, but the science is clear.

A University of Nebraska study PROVED that cows positively influence the environment, due to the fact that the pastures used to feed them absorb more carbon than the livestock emits, DEBUNKING the narrative against the cattle industry.

Cows produce more oxygen than the methane and carbon they emit.

The MACABRE IDEA of eliminating cows is one of the lies from Psychopath Gates. That man needs to be arrested. HE IS A SERIOUS DANGER TO HUMANITY.🔥

[Senator Jacky Rosen @SenJackyRosen]

Ahead of the third year since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, @SenRickScott and I passed a bipartisan resolution to honor the memory of those Americans who were murdered or taken hostage.

The hostages’ families demonstrated remarkable courage during a time of intense grief and anxiety by being steadfast and fierce advocates for the return of their loved ones and all those held hostage, and this resolution also honors them.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Everyone is sharing the satellite pictures of Rafah and calling the rubble the whole story. Nobody is showing you what was under it.

This is Rafah. The red lines are the tunnel network Hamas built under the neighborhoods, and the video marks where it runs under stadiums, under mosques, under schools, under UNRWA compounds, under hospitals, under civilian homes.

The overhead is an illustration. The shafts and the corridors are not. The IDF filmed inside them. Concrete arches, bunks, stored gear, a city under the city, dug so the people above it could be used as the roof.

That’s why the blocks came down. You can’t leave a fortified tunnel grid under a border town and call the houses above it civilian. Hamas put the war under the kitchens and the classrooms on purpose, then sent the pictures of the kitchens and the classrooms around the world.

The satellite image is the surface. The reason is underneath it.

Gaza wasn’t destroyed because Israel felt like it. It was destroyed because the Islamic army that started the war built its base under the people it claims to defend, and then refused to come out.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

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[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

If you're having a hard time understanding what's happening in France right now, just watch this clip from Lioness. It articulates this situation perfectly. We're watching a 50-year war on our institutions, driven by the Red-Green alliance using an army of "useful idiots" to tear down the West from within. THIS IS WHAT THEY ALWAYS DO. France is just showing us what the end of that road looks like.

America, look at the upcoming midterms. From Senate seats to local school boards, the DSA is executing this blueprint step-by-step.

France is what happens when you let them in. We stop them at the ballot box now, or we're next.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Have to admit, he has a point….

[Handre @Handre]

Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010, guaranteeing you cheaper insurance, more competition, and the ability to keep your doctor. Premiums for individual plans more than doubled between 2013 and 2017. Deductibles climbed so high that millions of technically "insured" Americans still skipped medical care because the out-of-pocket costs were prohibitive.

The government mandated what your insurance must cover, forced healthy young people to subsidize older high-risk pools, and then expressed genuine surprise when prices spiked. Prices always tell the truth.

The 2009 stimulus, officially $831 billion, operated on the Keynesian assumption that government spending creates wealth. Government spending transfers wealth, first taxing or borrowing it from the productive sector, then routing it through political channels where efficiency is nobody's personal concern. The "shovel-ready jobs" Obama later joked about produced no measurable acceleration in recovery. The recession that followed 2008 should have cleared in 18 months, as previous sharp downturns historically did when left alone. The Obama recovery took a decade and delivered the weakest GDP growth of any post-war expansion on record.

Dodd-Frank, signed in 2010, weighs 2,300 pages. Community banks spent compliance budgets they never had, and roughly 1,900 small banks vanished between 2010 and 2016. The big institutions that actually caused the 2008 crisis absorbed the regulatory cost with ease and used the new complexity as a competitive moat. Regulations written by large players consistently protect large players. The middle-class small-business owners who needed credit found fewer lenders willing to offer it.

Obama also expanded drone warfare to seven countries, assassinated American citizens without trial, and extended the surveillance state through a reauthorized PATRIOT Act, which undermines any libertarian's case that the Democratic Party is less hostile to civil liberties than its competition.

Then there was Cash for Clunkers, which destroyed 690,000 working cars in 2009 by crushing them with sodium silicate. Mechanics lost parts inventory. Buyers on a budget lost affordable transportation. Prices for used cars spiked. You paid more so dealers could move new inventory.

A generation of voters watched the government spend $5 trillion across two terms, nationalize health insurance markets, regulate finance into oligopoly, and print money through three rounds of quantitative easing that inflated asset prices and rewarded those who already owned property. You paid higher premiums, earned lower real wages, and watched your savings earn nothing in a deliberately suppressed interest-rate environment. The bill always arrives later. You see the ribbon cutting and the document signing, but you feel the damage to your pocket only years later.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Elon nailed the double standard.

If we shipped 100,000 Americans to Greenland, elected an American prime minister, and voted the place into the U.S., the left would lose their minds. Do that to Europe through mass immigration and they call it progress.

Same playbook here. Import the votes. Change the country. Then act shocked when the natives notice.

Europe is the warning. November is the off-ramp.

Vote Republican. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Unite_Republicans_Lets take back America. @Sunkized01]

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[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Ever notice that despite being a vanishing global minority at 8% of the population, white majority countries are the only places where “diversity” is pushed?

-India is 100% Indians
-China is 91% Han Chinese
-90% of Saudi Arabia is Arab
-85% of Africa is black

No one ever talks about the need to “diversify” any of these places.

Why is it only forced in the U.S. and European countries?