J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs

SFF writer, and genre fiction fan.

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

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[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@Newsweek Kyle should sue Newsweek into bankruptcy. False light gaslighting is defamation.

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

DIG DEEPER: After the clash between @SecScottBessent + @SenRonWyden I ran "Adam Wyden" through the DOJ Epstein Files portal:

29 hits including this April 2016 "thank you email" via Epstein’s assistant

Video clip @theblaze

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@AwakenedOutlaw Umm, that's not how spoiler alerts work.

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@SteveHiltonx @FoxNews I hope my ballot voted for you. 😇

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

I am curious about how my ballot voted... 🤔

[Tyler Bindi @TripleNetTyler]

Went to vote today for the California primaries

The guy next to me called over an election worker because his ballot didn't include the LA mayoral race

The worker checked and told him it was because his registered address was in Malibu, which is outside the City of LA

The guy then asked if he could provide another address

To my surprise, the answer was yes

So he gave the worker an LA address, they voided his previous ballot, issued a new one, and suddenly he was able to vote for the mayor of LA

How is voter ID not mandatory in all 50 states?

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@realBrandonGill Sounds a bit like too big to fail...

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@Devon_Eriksen_ @UnderCoercion That last line, bro...

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@JonathanTurley Umm, this is why the Senate should not be involved with budget matters. 🤷‍♂️

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@ARKloster @apouranion @ClickingSeason @Popehat That's a name I have not heard in a very long time...

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@ChrisMartzWX During the COVID19 Scam doctors published data that categorically disproved claims that masks help prevent the spread while claiming the data said the opposite.

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@JeffClarkUS On the bright side, the CA Court just handed him all the elements for a federal case against CalBar and the state itself.

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@ChrisMartzWX It's snowing in April, and it's obviously AGW. Obviously!

[RazörFist @RazorFist]

@monsterhunter45 As much as possible, I try to win every war by deploying my Navy at the bottom of the ocean.

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

14 year old: I got my first part-time job!

Society: Congrats, don’t forget to pay taxes

17 year old: I want to join the military

Society: Hell yeah, go for it

18 year old: I can’t afford college

Society: Here’s a predatory loan you’ll pay back for 40 years, and you can’t bankrupt.

18 year old: I want to vote

Society: Absolutely, you should honestly be voting at 16!

19 year old: I want to become a porn star and have those images of me on the internet forever.

Society: Your body, your choice

20-year-old with 6 years of work experience, a deployment in Afghanistan, and $300k in debt: Can I have a beer and a cigarette?

Society: WHOA!!!!! absolutely not, your brain isn’t fully developed!

[Ironhead841 @Mt2Aguy]

For no good reason, I just wanted to post a pic of a Viper Mk 1.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Part One: The History of the Iran War

Thread.

1) In this series, we’re exposing the truth, the reality of the evil that prevails in the Middle East, from someone who lived it for decades as a US Air Force pilot and has seen it up close and personally. I’ve served in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Oman, and Pakistan. I will provide you the absolutes (and some handy talking points) about today’s conflict, exploring the foundations of the State of Israel, the true nature of the region referred to as “Palestine,” the reality of Hamas and Hezbollah, and the ultimate nexus that is Iran.

We’ll explore the complicity of the American Left, their anti-Semitism, their underwriting of terror globally, and their glee in opposing everything American. Today, we’re looking at the history of Israel and its right to exist.

Never, in the history of the region, has there been a nation of “Palestine.” The region referred to as Israel has been many things: the Kingdom of Israel, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Mandate among them. But it’s never been a nation of Palestine. Let me repeat that: There’s never been a Palestinian state. And there weren’t “Palestinians” until the 1960s, as we’ll explore later. There has been, and is, a nation of Israel.

Here’s the factual chronology of the history of Israel:

Prior to the two world wars of the last century, the region now known as Israel was mostly uninhabited, uncultivated, and swampy. In other words, the Arab landholders of the region didn’t want it. It was cheap real estate that only the Jews saw value in. So, between WWI and WWII, Jews began purchasing land — legally — from absentee landlords living in Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Paris, and elsewhere. Jews, hoping to avoid confrontation with their Arab neighbors, purchased land largely unpopulated and inexpensive.

The State of Israel was created peacefully, orderly, and legally through the United Nations. In fact, the area was not created from “Palestinian lands,” since there were none, but those of the Ottoman Empire, who had ruled the area for 400 years.

The Turks lost ownership of the region as a result of aligning themselves with Germany during WWI and the post-war realignment that took place as a result.

It was also after WWI that the present states of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq were created by the countries of England and France as they diced up the area as spoils of victory in war and created state boundaries for the first time in the region.

The new Arab states didn’t want fellow Arabs and the inhabitants who would later be called “Palestinians” to migrate to their territories. As we speak today, they still refuse Palestinian immigration.

In 1947, the UN partitioned a portion of the remaining lands into a two-state solution: a state of Israel for the Jews and a state for the then-homeless Arabs abandoned by their Arab neighbors. The Arab Higher Committee called for Arab Muslims to leave the area so they could launch an attack. The leaders of the newly formed Arab states rejected the UN’s mandate, didn’t buy the establishment of a Jewish state, and immediately launched a war intended to extinguish Israel in 1948…and they lost. Israel has, essentially, been at war ever since. If you’ve ever visited, Israel is on war footing 24/7, 365. And remains so today, as is evident with the Hamas attacks on innocent civilians on October 7th.

In 1967, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan again attacked Israel in what is known as the Six-Day War, and Israel again prevailed. In the war’s aftermath, Israel occupied the captured territories of Sinai, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, although they chose not to officially annex them in hopes of ameliorating the local Arab population.

Continued.

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

Point and laugh.

It's comical how desperate these anti-Trump politicians get when he starts succeeding at something.

It's also ludicrously predictable.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

Trump is escalating a devastating, illegal war, threatening massive war crimes and targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran. In the last 48 hours alone, the rhetoric has crossed every line. Pete Hegseth is complicit.

I’ve called for the 25th Amendment and am introducing Articles of Impeachment against Hegseth.

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@dandinohill @ScottforFlorida So utterly done with the Republican chest pounding on X. What do they expect us to do about it?

Stop talking and do it.

[J.P. Chandler ~ Writer of What-Ifs @Chandlej]

@WesternLensman We are now in "commie harder" phase of Marxist failure.