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[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

The situation unfolding right now is the perfect example of why the majority of the American people have either outright rejected or are at least requestioning the US-Israeli relationship.

Currently, there is an obvious divergence between the US interests and the goals of the Israeli government.

We desperately need a deal to end this disastrous war and save the global economy. Trump obviously wants that at this point and has already said Israel was forbidden from attacking Lebanon. (You may recall every pro Israel account on here claiming this as proof that Trump calls the shots). The ceasefire that the President of the United States of America wants depends on Israel not attacking southern Lebanon.

So, Israel announces they’re doing it. The best Trump can say is no boots on the ground and he won’t even hold on that.

This is a country whose very survival let alone ability to conduct any of these elective wars is completely dependent on US tax payer money, and support. We unconditionally support them even as they undermine our nation.

This is beyond intolerable. You can call all of us every name in the book but it’s just too obvious.

[Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes]

If you vote against foreign aid to Israel and call out AIPAC, then the Jewish lobby will spend $20 million to primary you, get the President to endorse your opponent, and destroy your reputation with a phony scandal.

If Massie loses tomorrow, you know Israel still owns Congress.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against Iran.

A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity.

Thanks to President Trump’s restraint during his first term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from Middle East quagmires for good. We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that sone D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

Dave Smith is cooking! 🔥🔥🔥

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Today, at @RobertKennedyJr's HELP hearing, I made it clear that we need medical freedom.

There's such a belief in submission.

"Submit to the government. Do what you're told."

There is no discussion. There ought to be a debate.

RFK Jr. has my vote. MAHA!

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

If there was ever any doubt as to who bears responsibility for the COVID pandemic, Biden’s pardon of Fauci forever seals the deal.

As Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee I will not rest until the entire truth of the coverup is exposed.

Fauci’s pardon will only serve as an accelerant to pierce the veil of deception.

Ignominious! Anthony Fauci will go down in history as the first government scientist to be preemptively pardoned for a crime.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

I'm sure most of you have figured this out, but for those that haven't:

The biolab, black-ops, money laundering operation, known as Ukraine, is likely to lose support under the Trump admin

As a result, NATO and the US state dept are trying desperately to provoke Russia into a response that dramatically escalates the war and make exiting it near impossible

For three years, the Biden administration slow rolled increasingly provocative measures. From surveillance assistance to shirt range munitions to black-ops troops and training, to F-16's to HIMARS to land mines to ATACMS. Now, they are considering sending them nukes.

Every step of the way, Russia drew a new red line. Every step of the way, the Biden admin pretended they would go no further. Every step of the way, the neocons in America and NATO used Russia's sanity as an excuse to become more insane.

"Look, they said this was a red line. They didn't launch nukes, so let's go further."

I don't need to explain how dangerous that game is and where it inevitably leads. At some point Russia will respond and it will be catastrophic.

Peace negotiations have been on the table since days after the war began; agreed to in principle by Ukraine and Russia while nearly a million Ukrainian and Russian men (who are now dead) were still alive. Scuttled by Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Boris Johnson.

Hopefully Putin holds off and hopefully Trump follows through on negotiating peace early next year. In the meantime, I hope everyone is reassessing our membership in NATO.

It's arguable whether the institution was ever interested in peace but it couldn't be more clear that NATO is now the war making existential threat to humanity that they would have you believe Putin is.

[Duncan Trussell @duncantrussell]

On behalf the parents of the world I’m issuing an official Fuck You to the geriatric war pigs who managed to bring our planet to the brink of nuclear war. I hope you forget to bring fresh diapers to your bunkers and spend your last few miserable days wearing shit stained trousers.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

“And tonight I’m also making another Promise to protect Americans from Government tyranny”

“As your President- I will never allow the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency”

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

With JD Vance and Elon Musk, Suddenly Ideas Are Back in this Campaign

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Department of Government Efficiency

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

I think at this point the most compelling reason to support Trump, other than the obvious of stopping Harris, is that it will be the final death blow to the corporate media, which deserves to die a thousand painful deaths after lying us into 20+ years of catastrophic wars and covid tyranny.

If the entire media apparatus told the American people that Trump was a Nazi, Russian spy, end of democracy for 8 years and they still turn around and reelect him, they’re done.

Not only that, but the narrative writes itself: Rogan won Trump the election! She refused and he accepted and that was the difference.

Us libertarians are not going to get everything we want this election, like usual, but destroying the war criminal’s propaganda apparatus is not too shabby.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

If you want to avoid nuclear war, I strongly urge you to vote for Donald Trump. In fact, I would go so far as to say that a vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for nuclear war.

[PBD Podcast @PBDsPodcast]

Great point by @ComicDaveSmith

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That is indeed their plan

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

RFK JR. GOES THERE:

He says @ElonMusk should be a HERO to the Democratic party, but “somehow he became a villain because he was actually the only platform that would allow free speech on his platform.”

Kennedy says the reason why the Democrats now hates free speech is because the party “does not believe in the people.”

“If you don't believe in free speech, it means because you don't trust the people. You don't trust them to figure it out on their own, to have information on which they can base their ideas and their notions and their beliefs. And their votes... And really, it's exactly the opposite of democracy.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just want to reiterate that this platform really is meant to support all viewpoints within the bounds of the laws of countries, even those of people with whom I vehemently disagree and personally dislike.

If that doesn’t seem to be happening, please yell at me (ideally on 𝕏).

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

Bret Weinstein Reacts to RFK Jr & Trump Joining Forces: 'This is Absolutely Monumental'

"This was not a simple endorsement of Trump. This was an endorsement of retaking the White House and using that position to restore the Republic to its proper course...I think the modern Democratic Party is an existential threat to the republic. And although I am a Democrat, I've been a Democrat my whole life. The party that I see in front of me today is literally the inverse of the party I signed up for...There is no conceivable scenario in which I would vote for Kamala Harris."

@BretWeinstein @patrickbetdavid @PBDsPodcast @RobertKennedyJr @realDonaldTrump

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

An attempted assassination, followed by a coup. It makes you wonder what’s next. Dave Smith has some ideas.

(1:03) Dave Smith’s 2024 Predictions
(8:34) Who Is the President Right Now?
(12:39) The Greatest Scandal in American History
(19:34) The Deep State Coming Out of the Shadows
(33:30) The Trump Assassination Attempt
(43:25) Tim Walz’s War on Nicotine and Testosterone
(54:38) Jeffrey Epstein
(1:09:37) What Should Trump Be Running On?
(1:34:12) Joe Rogan, Donald Trump, and Bobby Kennedy
(1:57:19) Foreign Wars and NATO
(2:00:16) How Does Dave Feel About the Future?

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