How badly is @Tesla doing that they need to axe the keycard? How the hell do you valet? Tesla was about innovation. Now it’s just low budget. I’m on my 2nd and definitely my last Tesla lease. Really disappointing.
@Delta Welcome to the @Delta shitshow. They cancel the flight. 60+ minute hold time only to be disconnected after 40 minutes each time. They rebook me on flight 9 hrs later and am put in back of plane. Why do these airlines get bailouts when they don’t give a sh*t about their customers?
@PatriciaHeaton Watch the podcast on this. It’s excellent. POGROM IN AMSTERDAM - with Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Omer Bigger https://t.co/kLWVsGd2Sv via @YouTube
@WholeFoods what’s up with the Observe Ramadan signs everywhere and not one Passover sign? The store isn’t on a college campus so what gives?#wholefoodsmarket
@JetBlueCheeps@JetBlue How much money could @jetblue possibly save by limiting the DIRECTV channels in coach while mint still has them all? Coach is down to about 7 channels. Why bother? #shittyairlines
@Tesla help! @TeslaInsurance has disappeared from the app. Wait time to speak to someone is over 60 minutes and worse, phone disconnects after waiting on hold. How do I get insurance back on the app or speak to someone?
@HawleyMO Why don’t you address the new practice of airlines charging a steep fee for just about EVERY seat on the plane after you’ve paid full fare for the ticket. @jetblue@AmericanAir@Delta
Kamala Harris once fought an antisemite in my father Elie Wiesel’s defense. He was attacked by a white supremacist in 2007 who wanted him to renounce his memoir, Night. Harris prosecuted the attack as a hate crime, and the perpetrator served time.
Does she still fight antisemitism today as resolutely? Let's review the data.
Vice President Harris spoke truth to her own base when she called out the “brutal terrorist organization Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate… Israel and kill Jews.” But then she “studied the maps” and warned Israel not to go into Rafah. Had Israel listened, Yahya Sinwar would not be dead and Hamas would not be crippled militarily.
When activists pronounced her openness to an arms embargo against Israel, Presidential Candidate Harris corrected them publicly. But she said nothing earlier this month when the White House threatened an arms embargo on Israel over aid continually stolen by Hamas.
She silenced angry crowds accusing Israel of genocide two months ago, then failed to repudiate a heckler last week who used the phrase. Instead she said “what he’s talking about, it’s real”, leaving many scratching their heads.
Even worse, Harris tolerated the lie that Israel purposefully causes excessive collateral damage. “As Israel defends itself, it matters how,” she said last December. “Too many innocent Palestinians have been killed… innocent civilian lives should not be intentionally targeted”.
For the Vice President to publicly mention Israel and the intentional targeting of innocent civilians in the same breath is dangerous and ill-advised. By entertaining these accusations, she ignored John Spencer’s, chair of War Studies at West Point, forceful assertion: Israel has "done everything the US military has ever done in the history of urban combat and things that we've never done" to mitigate civilian casualties. Holding Israel to impossible standards -- overlooking how America prosecuted every urban battlefield from Nazi Germany and Axis Japan to Al Qaeda after 9/11 -- falls into an antisemitic Hamas trap.
What Harris is facing has precedent. President Roosevelt stepped with extreme care as isolationist, peace-at-all-costs voters demanded we abandon Britain to the Nazis during his 1940 Presidential election campaign. Pacifying domestic opposition is part of the job. Questioning a close allies’ integrity as they fight for their lives is morally and strategically wrong.
Recent polls show that Americans overwhelmingly support Israel, blame Iran and Hamas for the conflict, and believe any ceasefire must include the surrender of Hamas.
Is Harris ready to affirm, to all audiences, that Hamas and Iran -- not Israel -- are responsible for this war and all of its brutal consequences?
That victory is preferable to compromise with terrorists who murder, rape and refuse to surrender the hostages?
That the actual requirement for long term peace is that the Palestinian people, who have turned down a state multiple times, must abandon hate?
Harris has only days left to put flip-flopping behind her. Tonight marks the first Yahrzeit, or Jewish memorial anniversary, of October 7th’s initial victims. The Tree of Life anniversary in Pittsburgh, with its swing voters, falls three days later.
She can offer moral clarity in these somber moments.
She can pledge, if elected, that applicants to her several thousand political appointments will -- in line with her husband’s National Antisemitism Policy -- be comprehensively vetted for calls to Intifada and other antisemitic hate speech.
She can show unflinching resolve to defeat our adversaries in the Middle East and extinguish antisemitism at home.
That is her path to earn the respect -- and votes -- she seeks from undecided voters who believe that standing up against terror, and for our allies, defines what it means to be Presidential.
Singers from across the world unite to put together a raw, acapella rendition of Hatikvah. 🎶🇮🇱🎶
“To remind us that together, no matter where we are in the world, the Jewish people can always find strength and unity, especially through the universal language of song.”
G’mar Chatimah.
@beccatgmusic@yomarkjean@thenicoleraviv@mordywein @sapirofficialmusic @EdanTamler@thisisver
"Coates is not a journalist so much as a composer—one who uses words not to convey the truth, much less to point a constructive path forward, but to create a mood, the same way that a film scorer uses notes. And the specter haunting this book, and indeed all of his work, is the crudest version of identity politics in which everything—wealth disparity, American history, our education system, and the long-standing conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors—are reduced to a childlike story in which the “victims” can do no wrong (and have no agency) and the “villains” can do no right (and are all-powerful)."
https://t.co/FXT027HPyB