Mike Bender

Digital media, sports and music fan

[Evil Jake @eviljakerocks]

To my NYC neighbors: #mamdani is a textbook anti-semite by even the Obama State Department standard. That Brad Lander thinks this is ok kind of proves the point on him as well.

With a machine gun literally stationed outside my kid's school last week, I pray that sanity prevails.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

If socialist parasite Zohran Mamdani wins the NYC Mayoral race, it will be catastrophic for Jews.

New Yorkers - vote June 24th like your life depends on it.

[Tali Goldsheft @TaliGoldsheft]

Save NYC:
Do not rank Zohran Mamdani.

Pass
It
On

[Mike Bender @mbenderny]

@DanGambleAI Got it at -144. Odds moved crazy fast

[Mike Bender @mbenderny]

@DanGambleAI 152

[Mike Bender @mbenderny]

@DanGambleAI Nothing better than a quick cash! Thanks @DanGambleAI

[Mike Bender @mbenderny]

@DanGambleAI In Dan we trust!

[Mike Bender @mbenderny]

@DanGambleAI Locked and loaded on FanDuel

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Every year on 9/11, I watch ESPN's "The Man in the Red Bandana," which tells the story of Welles Crowther, a former college lacrosse player who saved a dozen people in the South tower.

If you've never seen this, take 13 minutes and watch it now.

[Mike Bender @mbenderny]

@JetBlue $50 for a checked bag is highway robbery.

[David Marcus @davidmarcus]

I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.

Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it.

My journey has been a gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election. It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding from there.

In 2017, a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise $100M from Silicon Valley founders and executives. The aim was to use these funds and know-how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate, outdated 2016 campaign. We met with DNC leadership, who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund; a single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech. In the wake of one of their most shocking failures, they didn’t want the help.

The next series of realizations began in 2019 while I was at Meta, right after we announced the Libra white paper. I testified before the Senate and the House and subsequently spent significant time in DC, engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members, regulators, and two White House administrations. At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the People. However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control. This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up. I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project’s goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network. I found myself remarkably aligned with them.

Then COVID came, revealing more. While I don’t subscribe to the most malicious vaccine conspiracy theories, I do take offense at the censorship machine put in place to hide the origin of the virus from the NIH-funded Wuhan lab and all dissenting voices on vaccinations and lockdowns. At that time, I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship.

This trend of spinning and manufacturing a parallel reality to serve the Dem agenda, solidified by complicit mainstream media, hit home with the Hunter Biden laptop story, the coordinated vilification of President Trump and his followers, and President Biden’s cognitive decline — depriving voters of a voice in a proper primary. These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership. You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally.

This version of the Democratic Party is sidelining moderates and centrists and has adopted an increasingly leftist ideology. This drift to the left has dictated policies from which I’ve found myself estranged.

On the domestic front, there has been a total departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success. This shift is also causing us to fall behind due to an anti-innovation regulatory climate, notably on crypto and soon AI — two non-linear technological breakthroughs that will likely determine tomorrow’s leading countries.

On foreign policy, the administration is exacerbating tensions with Russia through an aggressive NATO expansion narrative focused on Ukraine and prolonging an unwinnable war. This is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, the world hundreds of thousands of lives, depleting the U.S. military arsenal and risking World War III. On Iran, this administration is continuing a misguided Obama-era plan to bring Iran closer to the West by unfreezing Trump-era sanctions, thus giving the Mollahs’ regime the ability to fund terrorism and pursue its anti-America, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish agenda. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was also handled disastrously. We’re leaving a door open for China to invade Taiwan by coming across as weak. Most importantly to me, concerning Israel, the administration is enabling Iran to fund Hamas and Hezbollah, restraining Israel in its fight against its enemies, thus prolonging another conflict, which is costing more lives on both sides and allowing unprecedented levels of antisemitism to rise at home.

I believe we need a President who is unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s platform.

Naturally, I disagree with President Trump and the GOP on some issues, particularly women’s reproductive rights. While I’ve come to learn that extreme views exist in both parties, I firmly believe that women should have the unalienable right to make their own decisions on this polarizing topic. President Trump confirmed he was against a national abortion ban and supported the Supreme Court’s decision on maintaining access to mifepristone, which was reassuring and a sign that the party was moving closer to the center.

It’s impossible to close this post without mentioning President Trump’s recent assassination attempt. The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together.

Some claim that reelecting President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees. However, the alternative — having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad — might present a more significant threat. Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen.

In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

I can think of 8 reasons why Kamala Harris and my fellow Democrats should go to the Prime Minister of Israel’s address today:
1. Hersh Goldberg-Polin
2. Keith Siegel
3. Omer Neutra
4. Judith Weinstein
5. Gadi Haggai
6. Edan Alexander
7. Sagui Dekel-Chen
8. Itay Chen

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Pro-Palestinians on social media are in panic mode over this new documentary film "Pogrom(s)" which explores the atrocities committed by Palestinian Muslims in Israel on October 7th (the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust). Just recently, Hamas sympathizers mass reported this trailer on YouTube. It took a long time to get YouTube to re-upload the video which was unjustifiably censored.
So please stop everything you are doing right now and watch this trailer before pro-Palestinians get it removed from here as well.

After watching the full documentary I can testify that it completely destroys the Palestinians' false narrative about the conflict.
With this extraordinary documentary the brilliant filmmaker Pierre Rehov exposes the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7 while providing accurate, fair and unbiased information about the conflict's background.

It has recently come to my attention that Pierre Rehov and his team need our help to promote the film. You can watch the full documentary right now before its official release, for just $5.99. This contribution will help to promote this important film despite the anti-Israel backlash and the attempts of Pro-Palestinians to censor it.
If you are interested in watching the full documentary right now, please visit the following link: https://t.co/FN3L8UurMc

As mentioned, this trailer triggered pro-Palestinians and Hamas sympathizers. They managed to get it removed from YouTube as they struggle to maintain their false narrative about the conflict in the Middle East. So please don't stop sharing this post until everyone sees it!
In addition to watching the full documentary, I also highly recommend following the filmmaker here on X (formerly Twitter): @rehoov

[Ari Ingel @OGAride]

The boycott movements worst nightmare …

A youth choir made up of Israelis and Palestinians has advanced through the audition round of the “America’s Got Talent” TV show after a rendition of Phillip Phillips’ “Home” that visibly moved all four judges. 

Describing themselves to the judges after their performance, one of the Palestinian members of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus says they’re “a group of Palestinians and Israelis. We believe through music and through working together and talking to each other, we are taking a step forward into building that amazing future where there is justice and there is freedom and there is equality and there is inclusion.”

Go get em!!!

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

I saw an announcement that Jamaal Bowman had won renomination.

Turned out, it was a false alarm.

[Dan Senor @dansenor]

👏 👏 👏

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

NY congressional district 16 - today is the day we can remove antisemite Jamaal Bowman OUT. OF. OFFICE.

[Debra Lea @thedebralea]

🚨🚨🚨 New Yorkers, it’s our time to shine. Vote OUT Jamaal Bowman. Jamaal is antisemitic, incompetent, & cares more about foreign wars than issues in his own district. SEND HIM PACKING!! Polls are open THIS Tuesday from 6am-9pm. VOTE VOTE VOTE 🇺🇸🗽

[Adam Richman @AdamRichman]

Fellow NY’ers:
Tomorrow….

VOTE LATIMER

VOTE LATIMER

VOTE LATIMER

VOTE LATIMER

VOTE LATIMER

@JamaalBowmanNY is trash.

For me - @LatimerforNY is the clear choice for a NY rep who isn’t unhinged, prone to spewing antisemitic nonsense & willing to pander to whatever movement is trending at the moment.