Cedric

Compassion, kindness and love must have boundaries. In excess, they become cruelty, laxism and libertinage.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

These are all common sense!

[Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone @Mottel]

Truly a tremendous sight to see that putting on tefillin has become this incredibly powerful sign of Jewish pride. That people, perhaps those you wouldn't suspect, are actively encouraging their friends to take part in this mitzvah.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Remember the time an Israeli police officer protected a Muslim mother and her child in Jerusalem with his own body and even gave the child his helmet as missiles were flying above?

This is the real Israel, not the "apartheid" lie they keep pushing.

Can we make this go viral?

[Cedric @cedrico26]

@tobi @grok what are vms?

[Cedric @cedrico26]

@everestchris6 SKILL

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

When I was a law student in Ottawa, the local Chabad ran Friday night dinners out of a rabbi’s living room. Students everywhere. Total chaos. Total warmth.

I wasn’t religious. They didn’t care. They just welcomed me.

Years later, Lindsay and I helped build a Chabad center on that campus.

Chabad shows up for Jews everywhere. With love. With pride. With zero judgment.

No matter where you are in the world, if you’re Jewish, there’s a Chabad rabbi and rebbetzin opening their home for you.

That is extraordinary. And I’ll always be grateful.

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

This was 10 year old Matilda.

Happy, care free and enjoying a day out at Bondi Beach with her family for Hanukkah.

Shortly after this video was taken, terrorist Naveed Akram aimed his rifle at her and shot her dead as she tried to run to hug her father.

[Justine Brooke Murray @Justine_Brooke]

You're not angry enough.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Sorella, family friend of Rabbi Eli from Sydney who was gunned down:

“We have a big menorah outside our home, and we’ve become that home in Randwick that all the neighbors know. And we keep it up all year because since October 7th especially, the community needs that.
So much positive feedback… When ‘someone finally made it out of Bondi’] got home at night, our sons’ children were crying. They said, ‘Please turn off the menorah. Our home’s going to be a target.’
My husband and I looked at each other. No way! We’re not going down like this. We don’t turn off menorahs. We don’t hide our kippas. We stand proud and loud.

But our children were crying. They said, ‘Please, Mom, Abba, turn that menorah off.’ And so I looked at them as a mother…

A Christian neighbor came past. I was in the hospital with Kayla She said yesterday, ‘My daughter drove past your house. The menorah is off!’ And she just sobbed. She said, ‘No, Mom, they’re turning off their menorahs. The evil can’t win.’

So when she came and said that, my husband called me. I said, ‘No matter what, that menorah goes back on.’ We don’t turn off the menorahs. We don’t stop shining light.

That would be Rabbi Elie’s message today, I could promise you. If he was standing here today, he’d say we do not go down in darkness. We shine light. That’s the only way to push out darkness.

We look for each other. We spread goodness. We spread kindness. That’s what we do. That is all that we know, and every Jew knows this. We have a Jewish spark of God inside us, and that’s our job. That’s why we’re here to try and do good.
So we won’t go down in darkness. We will shine, and we’ll shine again.”

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

The Jewish community came to Bondi to light the second candle of Hanukkah and is singing songs of peace, because this is who we are, a peaceful people who just want to live freely.

[Daniel Negreanu @RealKidPoker]

To all my Jewish friends across the world, know that you are beloved by the sane.

You are a strong and brilliant group of people who make the world a better place.

Happy Chanukah 🕎

[Rabbi Brian Samuel @rabbriansamuel]

Happy Chanukah to all.

Stay strong.

#Bondi

[sophia aram @SophiaAram]

L’affiche du rassemblement qui vient d’être la cible de l’attaque terroriste sur la plage de #bondibeach à Sydney.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

We and the @PershingSqFdn are going to set up a reward system for heroes. As a society, we don’t do enough to take care of the heroes in our communities. We would like to address this failure and do so systematically.

I will report back once we are up and running.

[Daniella Greenbaum Davis @DGreenbaum]

A 10 year old girl is among the dead in Bondi. For those government leaders who seem confused let me specify - a ten year old JEWISH GIRL simply practicing her RELIGION during a JEWISH HOLIDAY CELEBRATION has been murdered.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was murdered in the terrorist attack in Sydney during Hanukkah, leaves behind a wife and four children.

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

A witness to the massacre in Sydney alleges that four police officers were at the shooting in Bondi Beach and didn’t react for at least 20 minutes, not firing back at the terrorists who were continuously shooting and reloading their weapons.

[Tim Smith @Jude3Rev2217]

@BillAckman “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

(Warning: long rant)

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.

And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.

Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts:

Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.

Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:

These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.

These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.

And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.

> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)

> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)

> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)

> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)

In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.

> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)

> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)

All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.

Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.

If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.