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[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

We are 10 years into Trump Derangement Syndrome, and CNN has finally found its final boss: pool algae?! Sending reporters to take water samples of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is a level of mental illness only the mainstream media could achieve.

[Gordon Carrico, Jr. @GordonCarrico]

@elonmusk

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jones: I’m a second amendment absolutist. It is a right. Those rights come with restrictions. One of those restrictions is you have to have your ID and permit on you. Reports are he didn’t have either one. At that point, he’s not carrying legally.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

An ICE protester repeatedly shoved a megaphone into the ear of an anti-protester until the person snapped and began knocking the protesters down one by one.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Good point…👇

[Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 @saras76]

OMG I am fucking dead ☠️ 😂

Trump, Vance, and Jones on Jeopardy 😭

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

BREAKING 🚨 Arnold Schwarzenegger just ended CNNs Jake Tapper to his face "In New Mexico 45% of the people voted for Trump… zero is sent to the House 0 representatives for the Republican Party”

Would be a shame if this went viral on 𝕏

You know what to do 👇

[Eric @EricTheRed54]

@RealJamesWoods

[Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 @saras76]

Me driving past a "No Kings" rally

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

This is wild. A cat from Gaza didn't want to leave the IDF jeep, so the soldiers decided to take him to Israel and promised to find him a loving home that would take care of him.

"He's on his way to Israel. His life is going to change completely."

[Fusilier @firstfusilier]

I challenge anyone to factually contradict this statement. Anybody?

[Brit Hume @brithume]

If you are wondering what Republicans are talking about when they say Democrats want to provide free health care for illegal aliens, here is the explanation.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Debunking more of the lies being spread about Charlie Kirk.

This is about the Civil Rights Act.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Kimmel getting fired: This renders the First Amendment meaningless.

Chris Hayes on Tucker getting fired: He believed he could say anything no matter how disgusting and get away with it. Over time, that’s not going to work out well for you.

[gingerfish @gingerfissh]

@mattgutmanABC your defense of the assassin is proof he is a left wing extremist

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

1. False Analogy

Fallacy: She compares Gaza to a hypothetical America being bombed because of its government’s actions.
Why it’s flawed: The analogy ignores that Hamas deliberately embeds itself among civilians, stores weapons in hospitals, and openly uses human shields. No U.S. government has ever used its civilians as military shields while calling for another nation’s destruction. The situations are not parallel.

Refutation: Israel is targeting Hamas’s infrastructure and military command, not “Americans” vs. “Palestinians.” Civilian suffering is tragic, but Hamas bears responsibility for deliberately entangling them.

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2. Strawman

Fallacy: She frames the world’s position as “all Gazans deserve to die because of Hamas.”
Why it’s flawed: Neither Israel nor the U.S. has said “all Gazans deserve it.” Israel drops leaflets, makes phone calls, opens evacuation corridors, and coordinates humanitarian aid. The strawman is used to inflame emotion.

Refutation: The real argument is that Hamas must be dismantled to prevent further Oct 7-style massacres. Civilian harm is an unintended, tragic consequence, not the objective.

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3. Appeal to Emotion (Pathos over Logos)

Fallacy: She describes starving children, destroyed homes, and suffering in vivid imagery to stir outrage, while glossing over Hamas’s atrocities or responsibility.
Why it’s flawed: Emotional imagery substitutes for evidence. It ignores that Hamas hoards aid, steals food, and builds tunnels with concrete meant for schools.

Refutation: Compassion for innocents is justified — but emotional appeals must be balanced with facts. Compassion should extend to Israeli innocents as well, who are still under rocket fire and have hundreds of hostages underground.

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4. False Equivalence

Fallacy: She equates Hamas terrorists and innocent Gazans with innocent Israelis murdered on Oct 7.
Why it’s flawed: Israel did not massacre civilians in cold blood, livestream atrocities, or systematically kidnap children. Equating the two situations erases intent and moral distinction.

Refutation: Both Israeli and Palestinian innocents deserve compassion, but the actors and intentions are not equivalent: one side deliberately targets civilians, the other targets terrorists and takes precautions to minimize civilian harm.

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5. Oversimplification

Fallacy: She reduces the war to “U.S. taxpayers are funding genocide.”
Why it’s flawed: The $3.8 billion aid package is longstanding, overwhelmingly used for missile defense (e.g., Iron Dome that protects civilians from rockets), not “genocide.” She collapses complex military, strategic, and defensive aid into one loaded word.

Refutation: U.S. aid helps prevent wider war, strengthens deterrence against Iran, and supports systems that save both Israeli and Palestinian lives (Iron Dome intercepts rockets headed for civilian areas). Calling it “genocide” is factually and legally wrong.

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6. Begging the Question (Circular Reasoning)

Fallacy: She assumes Israel is committing “genocide” and then argues taxpayers should not fund genocide.
Why it’s flawed: Whether it’s genocide is precisely the contested issue. Repeating the claim as though proven is circular reasoning.

Refutation: By definition, genocide requires intent to destroy a people in whole or in part. Israel’s stated and demonstrated goal is the destruction of Hamas, not Palestinians.

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7. Moral Equivalence / False Balance

Fallacy: “God loves all innocent lives equally, so the conflict is morally symmetric.”
Why it’s flawed: Yes, all innocent lives are precious, but moral equivalence between Hamas (which started the war with mass civilian slaughter) and Israel (which defends itself against annihilation) is misleading.

Refutation: Protecting innocents should not require pretending both sides act the same. One side targets civilians; the other tries to protect its own while fighting a group that hides behind civilians.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

While I have been a critic of gerrymandering for decades, the faux outrage of Democrats in heavily gerrymandered states would make Captain Louis Renault blush... https://t.co/DgqcJ7vLzn

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

The family unit.

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

The most “conformist” woman in the world. 😂😂😂

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Biden?