So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.
Let's decode what actually happened here.
Axios reported that Trump exploded at Netanyahu. Called him "fucking crazy." Said "you'd be in prison if it weren't for me." Said "everybody hates you now."
The journalist is Barak Ravid again, we talked about it. Israeli. Based in Washington. Covers the Netanyahu-US relationship for Axios, and every latest deals to calm the markets.
This is the same journalist who wrote the exact same type of story about Biden. There is literally a book chapter about this pattern. It is called "Fuming Biden." The same reporter. The same format. The same function. Different president.
Now watch the response.
Mark Levin, a close ally of both Trump and Netanyahu, did not deny the story. He demanded an FBI investigation into who leaked it. When your defense is "this should never have leaked" instead of "this never happened," you have confirmed the call happened.
But here is the part that matters.
Why would Levin, a friend to BOTH men, confirm the most explosive account of their relationship ever published?
Because it serves both.
Trump gets to look tough. Not Netanyahu's puppet. Willing to put Israel in its place. His base loves it.
Netanyahu gets cover. He "paused" the Beirut strike, but not because Iran threatened him. Because his "friend" asked him to. His base loves it too.
And look at what actually changed on the ground. Nothing.
Israel cancelled the Beirut strike. But the ground invasion of Lebanon continues. The IDF is still miles deep. A soldier died today from a Hezbollah drone. Netanyahu's office said: "position unchanged."
The performance was perfect. Trump gets the headline. Netanyahu gets the cover. The deal gets another 48 hours of "progress." Markets get a reason to breathe.
And the war continues exactly as planned.
This is the same playbook. Every time public opinion turns against the war, a story appears showing the US president is "furious" with Israel. It creates the illusion of restraint while changing nothing.
Biden was "furious" for 14 months. The war never stopped.
Trump is "furious" now. The ground invasion is expanding.
The visible game is: Trump controls Netanyahu.
The real game is: both men are performing for their audiences while the machine moves forward.
Nothing has been signed. Nothing has stopped. The war is not winding down. It is being managed.
Neither one controls the other. They walk arm in arm. Know that.
If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.
We are a sovereign country.
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@1914ad I use and like both. River charges a 0.25% spread and always a 1% fee.
Strike uses a sliding scale for fees and doesn’t disclose the spread but it’s always lower.
Strike’s lower spreads and fees make it better for smash buys. River better for full service banking.
If you’re totally new to the Bible and wonder why it repeatedly says the Jews killed Jesus, what happened was:
Despite not being in charge, per se, the Jews used their disproportionate influence, power, and political clout to threaten and manipulate the majority culture to use its government as a proxy to murder their enemy.
Sound familiar?
But there’s another reason. Before the Roman prefect caved to the Jews, he had already regretted it (Matthew 27:24). Before the Roman centurion finished executing Jesus, he had already confessed He was God (Mark 15:39). And before three centuries was up, the entire Roman Empire had converted (Edict of Milan, 313 AD; Edict of Thessalonica, 380 AD).
And to this day, the Jews still reject Jesus, ban Jews who convert to Christianity from migrating to Israel, and in the fourth cup of their fabricated, contrived “Passover” meal, drink to the damnation of Rome for converting to a Christian empire and say a prayer asking for their eternal damnation.
It’s no wonder Jesus asked a prayer from the cross to forgive the Romans, and not the Jews (Luke 23:34), and the first sermon in church history began, “Men of Israel…this Jesus, whom you crucified…” (Acts 2:22-23, 36).
Tell your grandmother no more Avocado Toast for breakfast. No more Starbucks!
She needs to cancel the subscriptions, pack a lunch.
I bet she has a new iPhone.
It's kind of typical of Boomers to realize they have a market problem (high property taxes), and rather than try to solve the market problem, their immediate reaction is to instead give themselves a special legal carveout while making the problem worse for everyone else.
property tax should be waived for young parents with children and should be doubled for seniors to pay for the schools for the children of those young parents. This is a moderate political position
I am 95% done with a deal to buy a new house. The remaining 5% of negotiations are focused on the price and whether the owners are actually willing to sell
This is nonsensical drivel. Bitcoin’s hash power can do nothing but produce Hashcash SHA256 hashes that fall above or below the current difficulty target. If you produce a hash below the difficulty target you can add a block to the ledger and get the block reward for doing so.
These hashes have no other purpose and certainly aren’t doing anything to protect critical military infrastructure.
Palestinian Christian Roland Bassir stands on a hill overlooking his quarry — and his brother's — in the Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank. He has not been able to work it in months. Israeli settler terrorists have seized control of the area, threatening to kill him if he returns to the quarry he has owned for 20 years.
For more than two months, Israeli settler terrorists have been attacking the Christian village of Taybeh daily. They have recently established a new illegal outpost on village land.
Bassir, and every resident of the last entirely Christian village in the West Bank, is calling on the world, churches, and Christian leaders to intervene and stop the ethnic cleansing campaign and land theft carried out by Israeli settlers and the Israeli government.
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I don't know if you noticed the difference in cake mixes. They used to be 15.25 oz now 13.25 oz. This was posted in a baking group I'm in....
"We’ve talked about the change in the weight of the cake mixes. A friend of mine contacted Betty Crocker about it because a cookie we make with the cake box mix has been flopping lately. Betty Crocker representative called her back and said add 1/4 cup of flour to get it back to original weight. I have not tried it yet but thought I’d share with you all."
> Go to gas station
> Tank isn't empty but may as well fill up in case prices go up more
> Mind wanders as it rises near 45 bucks
> Think about our movie-quoting Secretary of War taking a break from murdering schoolchildren to visit Kentucky in an attempt to unseat a sitting Republican member of congress
> Notice an old crusty sticker of Joe Biden on the gas pump pointing at the total price
> The sticker says "I did that"
Thomas Massie has supported me -- and stuck with me -- from the very beginning.
I will NOT turn my back on him.
If that offends you, change your tampon!!!