Jacobkrichefski

[Jacobkrichefski @Jacobkrich]

@VFTLpodcast @dannykellywords thank you so much for reading out my message on the @VFTLpodcast , I am @Jacobkrich and I heard it on Saturday my birthday. You completely made my birthday. I’m a long time fan of your work, and I love the pod. Thank you so much, I don’t have the words…

[Jeff @_Jeffery0]

“Bill Maher and Salman Rushdie Clash Over Islam: “There’s Been a Deadly Mutation”

Bill Maher: Turkey's President said, "Women are not equal to men, our religion has defined position for women, motherhood."

I can't imagine a Western government leader saying that.

What we've said all along, and have been called bigots for it, is when there's this many bad apples, there's something wrong with the orchard.

Salman Rushdie: There's been a deadly mutation in the middle of Islam.

This is not a random mutation.

Governments from the Sunni side, the Saudi government;

on the Shia side, the Iranian government have been putting fortunes of money into making sure that extremist mullahs are preaching in mosques around the world, building schools in which a whole generation is being educated in extremism.

But in a way, we're a side show. This is a project to seize power in the Islamic world.

Whether it's the Taliban, ISIS, Boko Haram, or Al-Shabaab, what they're trying to do is create a mindset which allows them to conquer the world of Islam.

Paul Begala: That's critical for Americans to realize. It's not about us. The real fight is not Islam versus the West, it's within Islam. It's between the terrorists and the tolerant. It's between Al-Qaeda and Malala.

Kirsten Powers: Yeah, but it is Americans who are being beheaded by ISIS right now.

Bill Maher: There should be a distinction, because obviously the vast majority of Muslims would never do anything like this. But they share bad ideas.

Sam Harris said, "Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas," and everyone went fucking nuts, but it is!

These two guys who shot up the cartoonist the other day were revenging the prophet.

A bad idea! Martyrdom, a bad idea! Women as second-class citizens, a bad idea! And unfortunately, the terrorists and the mainstream share a lot of these bad ideas.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

No Mark, what's appalling and fundamentally dishonest is your claim that you're NOT an antisemite. And I'll explain why.

The mistake you, as well as thousands of others, make is that your worldview is shaped entirely by what the hivemind dictates you should be outraged about. There's no logic, no reason behind it. It's simply as vacuous as jumping on a trend of sorts because it seems to be the cool thing at the time.

Contrary to the lie in your post, you have not criticised a government. You have been attacking an entire nation based on the pretence that they're committing a "genocide". And it's that accusation of genocide that comes from the aforementioned hivemind/trend-jumping I just referred to.

There is NO legally binding determination that Israel, its government or its forces have committed genocide. You're simply regurgitating a narrative, a trope that became a go-to in less than 48 hours after Israel experienced the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. A narrative which the perpetrators of October 7th openly admitted was their goal: to convince the West that Israel is carrying out a "genocide".

And therein lies the problem, Mark. You have absolutely ZERO ability to think for yourself. Your entire identity is based on a political affiliation with 'wokery', completely devoid of common sense or the ability to think critically.

You have specifically pushed studios not to work with Israeli movie studios or any businesses that happen to be Israeli-owned. That, my sir, is not you being critical of a government, but of an entire people. And yes, Mark, that makes you an antisemite.

I sincerely hope with every fibre of my being that your career implodes in the most aggressive way possible. Because it's the only way you cretinous mouth-breathers will learn that you're not on some divine moral pedestal.

[Daniel Schatz @drdanielschatz]

One of the most striking moments of Sweden’s election campaign came during Monday night’s televised party leaders’ debate, when Simona Mohamsson, leader of the Liberal Party and Sweden’s Minister for Education and Integration, appeared wearing a Star of David.

Mohamsson was born Simona Mohammed. Her father is Palestinian and her mother Lebanese, from a Shia Muslim background.

That made the gesture especially powerful.

Mohamsson explained her choice: “I wear the Star of David for the children who do not dare to in today’s Sweden.”

She confronted the Left Party over revelations that its MPs had sent letters of support to Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorist attacks killing Israelis.

“I think the Left Party needs to be held accountable for sending love letters to Hamas and spreading fear on our streets,” she said.

Her comments followed repeated controversies involving Left Party politicians spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and expressing support for terrorist groups. Since October 7, pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Sweden have featured antisemitic rhetoric and expressions of support for terrorist organizations such as Hamas, the PFLP and Hezbollah.

In the months after October 7, the country recorded nearly five times as many antisemitic hate crimes as during the same period a year earlier. A survey of Swedish Jews found that more than four in five felt unsafe wearing Jewish symbols, while nearly half had discussed leaving Sweden because of antisemitism.

Against that backdrop, Mohamsson’s Star of David became a pointed act of solidarity with Sweden’s embattled Jewish community: she chose to wear the very symbol many Swedish Jews now fear to display.

[Jacobkrichefski @Jacobkrich]

There are lots of opinions out there. Or you could listen to someone who understands the situation from both a boots on the ground perspective and an educated, qualified analytical position.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

I spent 16 years in the British Army, leaving the Parachute Regiment as a Major. I served three tours in Afghanistan, one attached to US Army Special Forces, as well as tours in Bosnia, Northern Ireland and the Middle East. I later taught military theory and leadership at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Academically, I have an LLB in Law & Politics, an MA with Distinction in War Studies & Military History and an MSc with Distinction in Psychology. I also hold postgraduate qualifications in Leadership & Strategic Management and Higher Education, and I am now completing a PhD in War Studies examining what Ukraine and the post-7 October wars can tell us about the future of warfare.

Since leaving the Army, I have spent a great deal of time going to the wars I write about. I visited Gaza twice in 2024, went inside captured Hezbollah tunnels in Lebanon, visited the Ukrainian front lines, and in 2025 became the first neutral researcher invited to observe the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution sites. My research has produced substantial reports on casualty statistics, human shields, information warfare, humanitarian operations and the tactical lessons emerging from Gaza. You can find them at @HJS_Org

I make no apology for advertising to you that this is an unusually strong background for analysing contemporary conflict. There are not many conflict analysts who combine command experience in war, formal study of war, law and psychology, experience teaching future Army officers, think-tank research and repeated fieldwork inside the conflicts they analyse.

Those different disciplines also catch different mistakes. Military experience makes it harder to mistake a map arrow for a feasible operation. War Studies forces tactical events back into their political and strategic context. Psychology matters when propaganda, perception and behavioural manipulation have become part of the battlefield. Law matters when almost every contemporary campaign is simultaneously fought through international institutions, courts and competing claims about legitimacy. Fieldwork is the final check because people who actually fight wars have a habit of complicating theories developed by chairborne researchers from several thousand miles away.

That is what I try to bring to my Substack. I am less interested in telling readers who “won” yesterday than in working out what happened, why it happened, what the participants were trying to achieve, whether they possessed the means to achieve it, and what the consequences are likely to be. Tactical success, military effectiveness and strategic success are not synonyms. Much bad analysis begins by treating them as though they are.

I will get things wrong. Anyone analysing wars in real time will. The promise I can reasonably make is that I will go to the evidence, go to the people involved where I can, change my assessment when the evidence changes, and tell you what I think rather than what my supposed political tribe would prefer me to think.

There is an enormous quantity of geopolitical commentary available for free. I think the combination behind mine is genuinely unusual.

If that is the sort of conflict analysis you want to read, please check out: https://t.co/YJdNYaoObl

[Jacobkrichefski @Jacobkrich]

This is so great

[Wolf 🐺 @PsyGuy007]

🚨 🇵🇹 ÉNORME : Le Portugal INTERDIT les BURQAS et les NIQABS dans les LIEUX PUBLICS, avec des amendes allant jusqu'à 4 000 euros.

Les hommes musulmans qui obligent leurs épouses ou leurs parentes à en porter une feront également face à 3 ans de prison.

Les burqas ont été décrites comme un « symbole de l'oppression des femmes et une menace pour la sécurité publique ».

🗣️ Soutenez-vous cette mesure ?

[Kosher @koshercockney]

If you’re ever confused, I stand with @BoyGeorge

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

Bill Maher TELLS the Thousands of Muslim Moroccan military-Aged Men invading Ceuta, Spain, to BUILD Up Their own country instead of invading Europe: 'Last month, more than 70,000 Moroccan migrants breached the border and poured into a part of Spain called Ceuta… I also understand why a lot of Europe freaked out about it.”

“When I see them interviewed, it’s always: ‘There’s nothing for me here, the economy sucks, I don’t see a future.’”

“What you need is not asylum. What you need is LinkedIn. Build something in the country you live in. You got a bad economy? You know that [g*y] cruise ship that couldn’t dock [in Muslim countries]? Do you have any idea how much money 2,000 drunk, g*y men would have spent in your beach town?”

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

Bill Maher: “Some things are too fundamental to change. The separation of religion and state… Democracy, not theocracy. Free speech, even about religion. Equal rights for women. LGBT. That’s America. And none of it—none of this is available in sharia law. Which a third of British Muslims want to see be the law in England.”

“You can’t have both. You can’t have England and sharia law. The left’s reaction to islamification is, the worst thing that could come from that is it will get right wingers elected.”

“Maybe, or maybe the worst thing that could come from it is in 20 years the UK is turning away g*y cruise ships.”

“Now, you can—and I’m sure some of you are—screaming ‘Islamophobia,’ but that’s just a bullsh*t word to cow people into not talking about this. This has nothing to do with ‘non-Whites’ becoming the majority. I don’t give a sh*t about that. I don’t give a sh*t about colors… I care about liberal values being replaced by ILLIBERAL ones.”

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

“Far more people are dying in Nigeria than in Palestine. Last year, 500,000 Christians were killed. But the activists are not protesting or saying anything. To me, that’s hypocrisy.” Well said.

[Stephen R. C. Hicks @SRCHicks]

Classic men-and-women humor from Dave Barry:

Let’s say a guy named Roger is attracted to a woman named Elaine. He asks her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time. A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, and again they enjoy themselves. They continue to see each other regularly, and after a while neither one of them is seeing anybody else. And then, one evening when they’re driving home, a thought occurs to Elaine, and, without really thinking, she says it aloud: “Do you realize that, as of tonight, we’ve been seeing each other for exactly six months?”

And then there is silence in the car. To Elaine, it seems like a very loud silence. She thinks to herself: Geez, I wonder if it bothers him that I said that. Maybe he’s been feeling confined by our relationship; maybe he thinks I’m trying to push him into some kind of obligation that he doesn’t want, or isn’t sure of. And Roger is thinking: Gosh. Six months.

And Elaine is thinking: But, hey, I’m not so sure I want this kind of relationship, either. Sometimes I wish I had a little more space, so I’d have time to think about whether I really want us to keep going the way we are, moving steadily toward … I mean, where are we going? Are we just going to keep seeing each other at this level of intimacy? Are we heading toward marriage? Toward children? Toward a lifetime together? Am I ready for that level of commitment? Do I really even know this person?

And Roger is thinking: … so that means it was … let’s see … February when we started going out, which was right after I had the car at the dealer’s, which means … lemme check the odometer … Whoa! I am way overdue for an oil change here.

And Elaine is thinking: He’s upset. I can see it on his face. Maybe I’m reading this completely wrong. Maybe he wants more from our relationship, more intimacy, more commitment; maybe he has sensed—even before I sensed it—that I was feeling some reservations. Yes, I bet that’s it. That’s why he’s so reluctant to say anything about his own feelings: He’s afraid of being rejected.

And Roger is thinking: And I’m gonna have them look at the transmission again. I don’t care what those morons say, it’s still not shifting right. And they better not try to blame it on the cold weather this time. What cold weather? It’s eighty-seven degrees out, and this thing is shifting like a goddamn garbage truck, and I paid those incompetent thieving cretin bastards six hundred dollars.

And Elaine is thinking: He’s angry. And I don’t blame him. I’d be angry, too. God, I feel so guilty, putting him through this, but I can’t help the way I feel. I’m just not sure.

And Roger is thinking: They’ll probably say it’s only a ninety-day warranty. That’s exactly what they’re gonna say, the scumballs.

And Elaine is thinking: Maybe I’m just too idealistic, waiting for a knight to come riding up on his white horse, when I’m sitting right next to a perfectly good person, a person I enjoy being with, a person I truly do care about, a person who seems to truly care about me. A person who is in pain because of my self-centered, schoolgirl romantic fantasy.

And Roger is thinking: Warranty? They want a warranty? I’ll give them a goddamn warranty. I’ll take their warranty and stick it right up their …

“Roger,” Elaine says aloud. “What?” says Roger, startled. “Please don’t torture yourself like this,” she says, her eyes beginning to brim with tears. “Maybe I should never have … Oh God, I feel so …” (She breaks down, sobbing.) “What?” says Roger. “I’m such a fool,” Elaine sobs. “I mean, I know there’s no knight. I really know that. It’s silly. There’s no knight, and there’s no horse.”

“There’s no horse?” says Roger.

“You think I’m a fool, don’t you,” Elaine says.

“No!” says Roger, glad to finally know the correct answer.

“It’s just that … It’s that I … I need some time,” Elaine says.

(There is a fifteen-second pause while Roger, thinking as fast as he can, tries to come up with a safe response. Finally he comes up with one that he thinks might work.) “Yes,” he says.

(Elaine, deeply moved, touches his hand.) “Oh, Roger, do you really feel that way?” she says.

“What way?” says Roger. “That way about time,” says Elaine. “Oh,” says Roger. “Yes.”

(Elaine turns to face him and gazes deeply into his eyes, causing him to become very nervous about what she might say next, especially if it involves a horse.

At last she speaks.) “Thank you, Roger,” she says. “Thank you,” says Roger. Then he takes her home, and she lies on her bed, a conflicted, tortured soul, and weeps until dawn, whereas when Roger gets back to his place, he opens a bag of Doritos, turns on the TV, and immediately becomes deeply involved in a rerun of a tennis match between two Czechoslovakians he has never heard of.

A tiny voice in the far recesses of his mind tells him that something major was going on back there in the car, but he is pretty sure there is no way he would ever understand what, and so he figures it’s better if he doesn’t think about it.

(This is also Roger’s policy regarding world hunger.)

The next day Elaine will call her closest friend, or perhaps two of them, and they will talk about this situation for six straight hours. In painstaking detail, they will analyze everything she said and everything he said, going over it time and time again, exploring every word, expression, and gesture for nuances of meaning, considering every possible ramification. They will continue to discuss this subject, off and on, for weeks, maybe months, never reaching any definite conclusions, but never getting bored with it, either.

Meanwhile, Roger, while playing racquetball one day with a mutual friend of his and Elaine’s, will pause just before serving, frown, and say: “Norm, did Elaine ever own a horse?”

[Jeff @_Jeffery0]

“Bill Maher CHALLENGES Charlie Rose on Islam: “Find Me a Moderate Muslim”

Charlie Rose: Would you come to this table and have a debate about this with a moderate Muslim?

Bill Maher: Find one, yes. Find one.

I saw Howard Dean on TV, and he said,

“I'm about as Islamic as they are,” distancing the vast numbers of Islamic people around the world from that. That's just not true.

Charlie Rose: It is true.

Bill Maher: It is not true, Charlie. There is a connecting tissue between

Charlie Rose: You mean, behind every Muslim is a future member of some radical

Bill Maher: Let me finish.

Speaker (Islam Net): How many of you agree that the punishments described in the Quran and the Sunnah, whether it is death, whether it is stoning for adultery if it is from Allah and His Messenger, that is the best punishment ever possible for humankind?

Who agrees with that?

Allahu Akbar. Are you all radical extremists?

Bill Maher: There are illiberal beliefs that are held by vast numbers of Muslim people.

Charlie Rose: Vast number of Christians, too.

Bill Maher: No, you know, that's not true.

Speaker (Islam Net): These are general views that every Muslim actually has. Every Muslim believes in these things. Just because they are not telling you about it doesn't mean they don't believe in that.

Bill Maher: Vast numbers of Christians do not believe that if you leave the Christian religion, you should be killed for it.

Vast numbers of Christians do not treat women as second-class citizens. Vast numbers of Christians do not believe that if you draw a picture of Jesus Christ, you should get killed for it.

But most Muslim people in the world do condone violence just for what you think.
Charlie Rose: How do you know that?

Bill Maher: First of all, they say it. There's a Pew poll of Egypt from a few years ago: 82%, I think it was, said stoning is the appropriate punishment for adultery; over 80% thought death was the appropriate punishment for leaving the Muslim religion.

Charlie Rose: Well, I do.

Bill Maher: So to claim that this religion is like other religions is just naive and plain wrong. It is not like other religions.

Charlie Rose: I don't think the Quran teaches them to do these kind of

Bill Maher: Well, you're wrong about that. The Quran absolutely has on every page stuff that's horrible about how the infidel should be treated.

[Jacobkrichefski @Jacobkrich]

Brilliant honesty. No reason we can’t have transparency. Hope the owners respect that.

[Veyro ✍️ @VeyroCFC]

Roberto De Zerbi has revealed in a recent interview that he wasn't happy with Tottenham decision to sell Djed Spence to Inter Milan.

Reporter: Roberto, were you in favour of Djed Spence leaving Tottenham for Inter?

De Zerbi: “No. I was not happy with that decision, and I made my feelings clear. I didn’t believe it was the right move for the club or for the player.

Reporter: Why do you feel so strongly about it?

De Zerbi: “Because Tottenham are not a club that should be selling players simply because there is a profit to be made. With the status of Tottenham, the priority should be building a team capable of competing at the highest level — not looking at every player and asking how much money we can make from selling him.

Reporter: So you believe Spence should have stayed?

De Zerbi: “Absolutely. I believe Djed still had something to give. If you keep selling players whenever an attractive offer arrives, eventually you lose the sporting identity of the club. That is what frustrates me most.”

Reporter: Do you feel the club made the wrong decision?

De Zerbi: “Yes. Very clearly. I respect the club, but I don't have to pretend I'm happy with every decision. This one, I wasn't.”

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Dennis Prager STUNS the Muslim crowd at Oxford Union.

"Gaza starts a war to kill as many Israelis as possible, and all you see on the BBC and Sky News are dead Gazans. It takes a frail mind to believe that you determine right and wrong by the number of dead"

He's 100% correct.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, went on Piers Morgan’s show and said what almost every other politician is too terrified to say.

She stated it clearly:
Islamists are members of a death cult.
Their goal is to murder and to die as human sacrifices for Allah’s sake.
They are not allies of Britain.
No amount of Labour appeasement will ever change that.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Today’s Spectator… made me laugh anyway. Rest in peace a warrior of sarcasm & wit. You will be missed

[James Hanson @jhansonradio]

Whatever your view on Israel’s actions in Gaza, no-one should be cancelled for speaking up for their Jewish friends and writing a song that condemns October 7.

Solidarity with Boy George.

https://t.co/43xXrxWpUw

[Jacobkrichefski @Jacobkrich]

Brilliant. Well done.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

In Sydney, Australian police kicked out a group of Muslims who had taken over and blocked a street to ‘pray’.

“Public streets are not mosques.”

That is how you handle it! Nobody does this shit in Muslim countries. They only do it in the West to assert dominance.

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

Sean, if I was only thinking of myself I would just say nothing. It would be much easier but the interesting thing for me is the verbal attacks from gay people. Proving to some extent that these accusations of community are just a farce. The question I would ask you is what are you doing because it seems performative and desperately trendy. You seem to have no mind of your own. You and I are not friends. I have nothing to explain to you but why don't you post what you truly think about Jewish people rather than having an ethereal conflict with me? As a gay man you say zero about Africa where gay people are experiencing great pain and hostility. 30 African countries have criminalised our community. Yet you stand up for a country that brutally raped and murdered innocent people and I promise you they would laugh at your support.
I have no beef with Palestinians and I pray as a buddhist that peace comes to the Middle East. Neither you or I will shift the needle and despite being told by 'gay magazines' that I am loosing my audience, I am driven by something much deeper and simple.
This young beautiful girl in the picture is May Hayat who was at The Nova Festival, her friend was murdered and she escaped. We are standing in front of wall of people who were killed. All of them are peaceful, dance music lovers who would dance to your music. If anyone should be ashamed it should be you. Shouting 'Free Palestine' might seem noble to you but history will show you how wrong you are. Even if I was only 'doing it' for Philip Sallon' who fucking hates me or Jon Moss who tried to bankrupt me, I would still do it.
At this point I should say I hate Netanyahu but I don't. What would you do if the people you were elected to serve and protect were slaughtered, raped and brutalised. Had they not been stopped on Oct 7, it would have been the best example of a genocide.
Why not shout about Ukraine because just like Isreal, Ukraine was attacked.
I am not anti muslim because I understand that what happened on Oct 7 was about as ungodly as anything can get. People are not bad because of what they are or what god they seven but because of what they do.
I don't know you, so you hating on me means zero.
You sent a message that was lacking in any intelligence and frankly you don't deserve a response. For a Pisces you appear to be lacking in perception and where is that innate kindness?
Before you respond, take a good look at this picture and maybe then you will understand why I'm doing it. In reality, I am doing nothing but having an opinion that differs from yours and some other people.
If you really had any kind of belief system or conviction you would already realise what I think is none of your business. How's that for a response Dorothy?

[Jacobkrichefski @Jacobkrich]

Brilliant well done Portugal. How sad that Britain is in such a parlous state it couldn’t do the same.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Portugal is banning burqas and niqabs in public places, with fines up to 4,000 euros.

Muslim men who force their wives or female relatives to wear one will also face 3 years in prison.

Burqas were described as a ‘symbol of women’s oppression and a threat to public safety.’

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Boy George is a true hero.