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[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Personal favorite section of Beethoven 5 is the coda to the opening sonata form movement. The concluding music that takes the ‘fate motive’ and gives you one last electric shock. Maybe having such things in my head is why I’ve never used cocaine.

[BocaMomma @BocaLaxMomma]

@pbpost Ecstatic. Relieved. Hopeful.

[BocaMomma @BocaLaxMomma]

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[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The US has no functional president and has not had one for months, and it's barely noticeable and barely matters because there's a permanent unelected machine that runs the government.

[Gerry Lynch @gerrylynch]

If you're going to share this photo, please give credit to @evanvucci who was risking his neck to get this shot, and his agency @AP. This will be in "100 photos that changed the world" books for generations to come.

[Lady Maga USA 🇺🇸 @LadyMagaUSA]

I know I speak for millions of gay people who are embarrassed by pride debauchery and who understand we’ve been overthrown by trans radicalism.

[Joy @missjoynicole]

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

- George Orwell, 1984

[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

Student: "Do you condemn the Israeli radical fundamentalists that call for the extermination of Palestinians?"

@benshapiro: "Of course I condemn that. Why wouldn't I? The fact that Palestinian supporters can't do the same thing with Hamas tells you everything you need to know."

[Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr]

The people who claimed that Trump would crash the economy and start WWIII have crashed the economy and started WWIII.

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

Nearly every legacy media outlet in the country eagerly swallowed a blood libel peddled by baby mutilating butchers just weeks after they committed a massacre because it allowed these "journalists" to recast Jews as the perpetrators instead of the victims. Just let that sink in.

[Alana Mastrangelo-Wrask @ARmastrangelo]

If you’re ever feeling bad about yourself, just remember: 30+ student groups at Harvard signed a pro-Hamas statement in response to 1,000 Israelis being slaughtered, and then the Ivy League university was too cowardly to condemn them, so said nothing, until nationwide backlash mounted, at which point they released a statement in which they made no mention of their student groups, so they continued receiving backlash, at which point they released a follow-up statement trying to distance themselves from their student groups. And now the students themselves are scrambling to take back their statement upon realizing that future employers don’t want to hire terrorist sympathizers.

The people who are supposed to be among our nation’s brightest aren’t actually intelligent at all.

[CSW Latinoamérica @CSWLatAm]

This Hamas Commander says this is not about land, not just Palestine. "The entire planet will be under our law, there will be no more Jews or Christian traitors." Only then, if everyone adopts his law, will there be peace.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

A 50th Anniversary War?

Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians—one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants, taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead?

And how were the killers able to enter Israeli proper in enough numbers to kill what could be hundreds and perhaps eventually wound what could be thousands?

a) Ostensibly, radical Palestinians wanted to stop any rumored rapprochement between the Gulf monarchies—the traditional source of much of their cash—and Israel, by forcing the issue of Arab solidarity in times of “war”, especially through waging a gruesome attack aimed at civilians and encompassing executions and hostage taking. Iran likely was the driving force to prompt the war—given its greatest fear is a Sunni Arab-Israeli rapprochement.

b)  Arab forces have had only success against Israel through surprise attacks during Israeli holidays, as in the Yom Kippur War (i.e., was it any accident that the present attack began 50-years almost to the day after the October 6, 1973 beginning of the Yom Kippur War?). And so they struck again this Saturday during Simchat Torah, coming at the end of a weeklong Jewish celebration of Sukkot—in hopes that others will join in as happened in 1973. (So much for the Arab warnings not for Westerners to conduct war during Ramadan).

c) Hamas may have reckoned that recent Israeli turmoil and mass leftist street protests over proposed reforms of the Israeli Supreme Court had led to permanent internal divisions and thus a climate of domestic distraction if not an erosion of deterrence.

But, more importantly, in a larger sense the Biden administration has contributed both to the notion that Hamas was a legitimate Middle East player, and to the perception that the U.S. was backing away from its traditional support for Israel—to the delight of Hamas—based on the following inexplicable policies:

1) In February Secretary of State Blinken had bragged that not only had the Biden administration resumed massive aid to the PLA cancelled by Trump, but cumulatively had transferred $1 billion—even as Palestinian authorities bragged that they would continue to pay bounties to the families of “martyrs” (i.e., those killed while conducting terrorists attacks against Israel).

And millions of American dollars also went into Gaza, run by Hamas—despite the Biden administration’s efforts to keep mostly quiet the resumption of such inexplicable support. In this regard, note the current shameful State-Department (“U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs”) website news release that was posted after today’s attack. It ended with this quite embarrassing, morally equivalent admonition:

“We urged all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.”

"All sides?" "Refrain from retaliatory attacks?”

So Israel is the moral equivalent of terrorists executing civilians and brutalizing their corpses? And the IDF then is not supposed to retaliate against these killers?

This Biden State Department insanity cannot stand. So expect some apparatchik to take down this Munich-like posting as soon as possible.

2) The Biden administration had recently released some $6 billion to Iran through a prison swap deal that saw South Korea hand over embargoed Iranian money to Qatar—despite Tehran’s  increased anti-Israeli rhetoric and its loud brag about the escalation. We should assume money for rockets (Hamas claims they have launched 5,000, and have received 100,000 of them via the Damascus airport) and weapons in general for Hamas were supplied by Iran, which again is likely the chief catalyst for this surprise attack.

3) Almost immediately, after his inauguration Biden mobilized to resume the bankrupt Iran deal. And in unhinged fashion he appointed the anti-Israeli bigot, pro-Iranian journalist Robert Malley as America’s chief negotiator. Note that Malley is now under FBI investigation for security breaches, involving disclosing classified U.S. documents and also for allegedly helping pro-Iranian activists and propagandists land influential billets inside the U.S. government.

In short, there was a general Hamas and Iranian perception that the Biden administration had resumed the discredited Obama madness of empowering Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. This discredited agenda was to “balance” the power of Israel and the moderate Arab Gulf governments to achieve “creative tension”, exacerbated by Biden’s loathing of the government of Benjamín Netanyahu (who has been snubbed by Biden and never invited for an official visit).

Note as well that the Biden administration has siphoned off key weapons and munitions from stockpiles inside Israel to transfer them to Ukraine. The so-called “War Reserve Ammunition—Israel" is all but depleted of just the sorts of weapons needed in the present crisis.

In this regard is there not a pattern here?

Upon the ascension of Biden and his woke military agendas, we saw the following: the complete humiliation of the U.S. in Kabul in its most shameful flight in 50 years and greatest abandonment of equipment in its history; followed by Vladimir Putin’s opportunistic invasion of Ukraine; followed by China’s new belligerence and escalating threats to Taiwan; followed by Turkey’s new de facto alliance with Russia and recent drone encounter with the U.S. air force in Syria; followed by the Hamas/Iranian inspired attack on Israel—with more to come unfortunately.

And will Biden finally get the message from the attacks on the Ukraine and Israeli borders, that borders matter and we too are being invaded, with the encouragement of the Mexican government and to the advantage of the cartels whose fentanyl exports kills 100,000 Americans a year?

What to expect in Israel?

Expect the following: the usual Hamas/terrorist selling and/or execution of Israeli hostages, the use of Israeli hostages as “human shields” in Gaza,  the bargaining/sale of the remains of Israeli dead, occasional killings of Jews inside Israel by Arabs who falsely believe there will be a winning Middle East-wide existential war against Israel. And finally, a devastating Israeli counter-response that will eventually earn a U.S. rebuke.

What should the U.S. instead do?

It should quit talking to Iran and restore full sanctions against it. It should cut off all aid immediately to all the Palestinians. It should undertake a 1973-like massive arms lift of key munitions to Israel and warn Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and others in the Middle East not to intervene or else, given that Israel will need several weeks to deal with Hamas and Gaza. And if it shows any hesitation or weakness, other terrorist groups will opportunistically jump in.

[Mrs.Mac @roaminggnomes32]

@JakeSherman 6 billion dollars…

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

If walls don’t work, what was this for?

[Congressman Wesley Hunt @RepWPH]

Saying the Pledge of Allegiance should not be controversial. It should be something we all agree on, Republicans and Democrats. Our pledge is for our country and for those who gave their lives to preserve it.

[Mayra Flores @MayraFlores4TX]

If we are pronounced dead when our heart stops, why are we not pronounced alive when our heart starts?

[RNC Research @RNCResearch]

Joe Biden has spent 282 days — 40% of his presidency — on vacation.

[Andrew Wilkow @WilkowMajority]

The people who are excited to see the #TrumpTaxReturns are the same people who ignored the #HunterBidensLaptop story.

[An0maly @LegendaryEnergy]

Absolute legend.

Celtics coach asked about the royal family. Listen to his response.