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It takes a family.

[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.

[C S @outrunthemob]

@CarlosRivasMD @KissMyCarol My son did a similar test his IGA was elevated >6k. He has been doing a sublingual immunotherapy for his peanut allergy in which he takes peanut serum nightly. I stopped it thinking this was driving that number any insight into how harmful such an elevated secretory IGA is?

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[C S @outrunthemob]

@LuvXmaiko Veronica/Vera

[C S @outrunthemob]

@unseen1_unseen Is criticizing the Israeli government anti-Semitic?

[Clayton J Baker MD @cjbakermd]

My early grades for Trump’s HHS nominations:

Director @RobertKennedyJr : A+
CDC head (Welton): A-
FDA head @MartyMakary: C-
Medicare @DrOz: D-
Surgeon General @DoctorJanette: F

Your thoughts?

@ChildrensHD @MdBreathe @ShannonJoyRadio @julie_kelly2 @FLCCC @Fynnderella1

[C S @outrunthemob]

@DoctorJanette @realDonaldTrump 🤦🏼‍♀️🤬

[C S @outrunthemob]

@FLVoiceNews @VoteRandyFine So increase security for one religion and not another? This has to be illegal.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Fucking lunatics.

[C S @outrunthemob]

@hodlberry Just got another order delivered. Tried some new stuff, love it!

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

This is why I’m anti-war…

Have you ever held a dead or dying child?

I have.

Have you ever told someone their beloved family member is dead?

I have.

Have you ever pulled dead or injured people, including children, from rubble?

I have.

Have you ever heard the screams of traumatized or injured people?

I have.

Have you ever had to provide care for bullet wounds, amputations, or internal bleeding?

I have.

Have you ever done these things while your life is also in danger?

I have.

I don’t want anyone else to have to see what I’ve seen.

There are few people in society that can emotionally handle that type of experience and even those people don’t leave unscathed.

Being anti-war is not a passive position.
It’s a difficult position to hold in a world that is increasingly hostile to the point where war seems inevitable while the consequences are deliberately hidden.

There are just wars.
I just haven’t seen any in my lifetime.

And eventually, everyone becomes anti-war when they lose family or friends because some political or religious losers can’t get along.

If you don’t think you can handle the scenarios above, you should be anti-war too.

Don’t put the dirty work off on some young kids that wanted an education.

Peacemakers have a tough job.
I’m here for it.

[C S @outrunthemob]

@IanJaeger29 Yup

[C S @outrunthemob]

@NikkiHaley @Disney You really are insufferable

[C S @outrunthemob]

@VICENews vice news…what an odd place to see an endorsement of my governor!

[C S @outrunthemob]

@RollingStone @washredacted That’s exactly what happened and this is just making the case the entire media is owned

[C S @outrunthemob]

@RepAdamSchiff @RepSwalwell 🤡

[Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful]

The last thing you see before being hunted for sport on a private island

[C S @outrunthemob]

@btmrsgarden @ClaraAndFritz has really great products! I’ve ordered several times. My face can sometimes break out with straight tallow balm although it’s really good for hydration. So I usually use the counterpane night cream on my face that is made with with tallow by @ClaraAndFritz

[C S @outrunthemob]

@JohnKasich You are a 🤡

[C S @outrunthemob]

@DanCrenshawTX So glad that’s over! Now go ahead and fund endless wars and launder money through Ukraine