The DIE Squad represents the worst of America. They have turned their districts into crime infested squalor. Bowman should have been expelled for pulling a fire alarm before a vote. Omar openly boasts about helping Somalia, not the country she has been elected to represent. Tlaib voted present when all other reps condemned Hamas using rape as a weapon of war. AOC and Pressley’s sanctuary districts are collapsing under the weight of illegals, who will become their new voters.
In my view the "Squat" is primarily a group of race hustlers who exploit and sell victimhood to their constituents while voting party line DNC fascist/globalist at every turn. They are prime examples of the well paid DEI virtue signalers whose job is to capture legitimate "we the people" social/financial/cultural/political concern and prevent the conversation that would put actual solutions on the table. Their job is to hold the American national dialogue hostage. They are classic 20th Century poseur Marxist utopian ideologues who line their pockets by serving criminal DNC/CCP/WEF/EU Davos totalitarianism.
I'm in Bowman's district, which spans Westchester County and the Bronx, and he has lost a lot of support. Latimer has been around forever and knows everyone. It's unlikely Bowman will survive the primary. He's a good politician - by good I mean that he is likeable in person, not that he is in tune with his constituents - and I am happy that his reign will end.
I hope ypou are right. I moved out of NYC to Westchester hoping to get away from LooneyLiberals only to find out that BullshitBowman was my Congressperson. His only skill seems to be lying about pulling fire alarms.
The squads ideology is both a philosophical and strategic failure. It is based on Identity and its currency is measured by grievance. The squads cohesion is its grievance. When one faction of their coalition- Asians for example- gain success the coalition fractures and fails. The only unifying force is their grievance and victimhood.
That is why Trump is gaining votes among minorities and DEMS are losing to a corrupt insurrectionist.
The corrupt insurrectionist is another false narrative. I don’t like Trump & his speech on Jan. 6 was stupid and ignorant, but there was no insurrection. Don’t let your hatred of the man confuse your vision. We are dealing with multiple false narratives these days. Tucker & Russia is one. Biden’s ability to serve is another. Israel’s claim to the land being falsely begun in 1948 is another. How many more? That the Covid shot is a real vaccine? That regular Americans are not under surveillance ? That mainstream Americans living between the two coasts are idiots? Sigh. If only squad members were our only problem. Our next election is already more fit for joking than for reality. Who is in charge?? That’s what I would love to know…
Yup. Especially considering the fact that 70 % of Israelis are people of colour, and Arab Israelis have more individual rights and freedoms than they would in any other Arab country, which is why they overwhelmingly would choose to stay in Israel. Lol. People's stupidity never ceases to amaze.
Israel hasn’t gone far enough. They were brutally attacked on 10/7 and they are honor-bound to wipe Hamas/Gaza (same thing) from the world. I used to think a two-state solution would work. Hamas/Gazans have proven that it won’t. Israel is the only civilized country in the Middle East. There is a reason the rest of the ME don’t want the poor little put-upon Gazans within their borders.
I agree with your assessment. When Trump refused to concede, I swore I would never vote for the man again. (Ashamed to say that I voted for Hillary in 2016, but saw the light when MSM wackos went completely off the rails.) But if my only choice is Trump or Biden, I will vote for Trump, even if the government succeeds in its effort to put him behind bars.
Why are the legal scholar talking heads not demanding the 25 th Amendment be invoked? The President is supposed to be a CEO - one person elected by and responsible to we the people. Who has their finger on the nuclear football? We need to know. The presidency was never intended to be a cabal of unelected ministers. This is a real constitutional crisis.
"The corrupt insurrectionist is another false narrative. I don’t like Trump & his speech on Jan. 6 was stupid and ignorant, but there was no insurrection."
I Do Like (for the most part) Donald Trump. When I 1st heard of the Jan 6 rally I said this was a BAD Idea. And nothing good was going to happen.
"That mainstream Americans living between the two coasts are idiots?"
This goes back to The 1970's? How many movies/tv shows have we seen where small town America was a hive of corruption?
Insurrection is correctly applied. There was a well organized and thought out strategy, from a pressure campaign on local officials to fake electors in order to throw the election back to the states House of Representatives.
And finally political violence to stop the certification. He knew people were armed and called them to violence Gas lighting J 6th as anything less may feel good but it doesn’t change what happened.
You are absolutely right. Just because it was awful and painful does not make it a false statement. It was an insurrection, dim witted, and ill conceived, but still an insurrection.
The word "narrative" is itself academic double speak. Some descriptions are true and some are false, "narrative" is the scam word for making true and false descriptions seem the same... just stories. Liars love that word because it eliminates the truth.
Sure... they might lose "minorities." In addition to Asian-Americans, and some more entrenched (been here 10 years) Hispanic-Americans, you now have a set of black men starting to defect (some because of the ghetto cred, some because they made it on their own terms and reject grievance politics).
But, for every voter they lose, they import 3 more from across the border. They quite simply *do not care* about their constituents' well being; they care about power and money.
"Insurrection" refers to an armed military campaign to overthrow the government. You know that isn't what happened, and are choosing to spread division, grievance, and deceit.
You all are hyper-ventilating about something Trump has not been charged with. Smith is too smart for that, for the same reason you raised, Anthony: was it an insurrection is contestable, but “interfering with Congress”; “attempting to deny the people their votes” is not…and Trump will go down for it. It’s the ol’ Al Capone routine: they eventually got him for tax evasion not gangsterism and multiple murder but he still went to jail. So will Trump.
I think it is great when someone who presents themselves as someone from the left uses the description of insurrectionist. It plays well to the base, but the base elects no one. So keep using the term.
Every time you do more voters realize the Dems are not the party to vote for. And in an election whether neither candidate is wanted, it is slip ups like that, that can help folks make up their minds who to vote for. And that isn't the side that has only false fears to run on. three years of democracy, despite being the wrong term, enough is enough.
We are well on the way to joe's America which has no relation to who we are. Time to take the country back.
As important as the issue of rejecting Hamas is, I would like to see an in-depth article regarding the actual bills the “Squad” has brought before the House that have passed. For example, from my understanding, AOC has engaged in no real legislating. Besides blocking Amazon’s expansion into her district she seems to be an echo chamber of racial divisiveness and false illegal immigration narratives.
That's because they are NOT about actual governing. Their Progressive Ideology is about Chaos and the destruction of liberal western society. They favor/support anything that leads to this.
Thing is they (MAY?) have moved to fast or started to buy into their own propaganda, and people are starting to Wake Up.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
I am a conservative. I’ve been a loyal Republican voter for 30 years. The Republican Party has its own group of performance artists very similar in style as the Squad with equal levels of legitimate legislative output and seriousness: Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebart. Marjorie Taylor Green to name a few. If the Democrats are now trying to rid themselves of the Squad, it will be a few years before Republican voters do the same.
Elon Musk nailed it in as few words as linguistically possible: The democrats are the party of evil, the republicans are the party of stupid. October 7th maybe the Democratic Party’s wake up call. The Republican Party will eventually need one too to rid itself of these unserious, narcissistic jackasses.
Robert, are you kidding me?! The Squad are in the minority party in the House. They (and the Democratic Party) can’t initiate anything. How about asking, what legislation has the majority party achieved in this Congress? Yes, that’s the Republicans. Starting with helping Ukraine! Their blocking is a national disgrace and shame.
"Normal" varies with age groups. I am 77 and my personal concern is crime. After having my purse snatched in a "good" neighborhood, I worry about a simple trip to the grocery store. Mailing checks is a gamble. Stealing checks and acid washing them is a big operation in my city. You cannot jog or walk the dog without concern. The Defund the Police crowd is a bunch of privileged morons.
“the notion that Ceasefire Now represents the will of the American people is pure fiction. We have to make sure we don’t play into that false narrative.” Truth! I am not a democrat and am barely hanging onto a republican identity. One thing is clear to me however: most Americans fully support Israel and understand what has happened in Gaza is fully the fault of Hamas. We can read exactly what Hamas has to say about this here in back issues of The Free Press. I wish all squad members were facing re-election in November. This is the season for all “normies” to use voting to speak our minds on this very very important issue. I believe we will be heard.
I think Americans are very fickle. Their opinions turn on a dime. And with so many loud voices against Israel, it seems unlikely that Israel can count on our continuing support.
Not only Americans. Parliament had a proposal for an immediate cease fire in Gaza. The return of the hostages appears to be no longer part of the cease fire demand. The Guardian, SNP, and some members of the Labor party are supporting this “opportunity.”
They would. They already did on the first day of the war. They did before the war. They're flat, one-note, no longer thinking, ignorant, stubborn, anti-Israel, as yet personally unsynged by DEI and their own illiberalism. They're a bore and a parody of themselves. But unfortunately, they have a voice.
Hamas is a death cult. It is in their founding documents. Martyring their own children for "jannah" does not break Sinwar's heart, that I promise you. He will gladly kill every one of his own people guided by his perverse and intentional misunderstanding of his own religion. Hamas must be crushed utterly.
It's simple. The Left hates Jews, especially religious Jews. That so many American Jews vote for the Left is a tragedy, but another story. There was a time when the majority of the Democratic Party was squarely on the side of Israel. This is no longer the case. the Dems need to purge the party of these antisemites. Yes, anti Israeli sentiment is antisemitism.
The more observant the Jewish community , the more conservative I have found . Many once left secular Jews have had a jarring wake up call since 10-7 and are leaning right now. The term JINO ( Jew in name only) is being used to describe the very fringe lefties who start their X posts with “ as a Jew” ...
Unfortunately I think this article underestimates the depth of antisemitism as has been the case throughout history. Because this depth is hard to fathom, it is much more easily denied. The chronic persecution of the Jews would have not occurred without the tacit acquiesce of the silent majority. Of course this is seen most acutely among the Palestinian populace that supports Hamas but in the same vein by nearly the entire world including countries that have nothing to do with the Gaza war such as South Africa who are focused not on their national interest but on preventing the Jews from defending themselves . In fact, October 7 occurred because of the Palestinian $ support of the US and rest of the world. Are you saying that until October 7 it was not known this was a genocidal movement? The Squad were anti-Israel long before October 7 yet were elected and rose to national prominence inspite of this. How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see? It took a Holocaust to see this, but only for a few decades. The article is making the case that it’s different this time. Let’s see.
Leon, it would be much easier to unequivocally support Israel (pre- and post-October 7) if its government were not led by a shameless criminal in Netanyahu and two of its key cabinet members were not extremist fanatics who lead the settler movement; and if the Israeli government had not, for years, been tacitly supporting Hamas in Gaza (and silently encouraging Qatar to fund it with billions of dollars) in order to undermine the authority of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, so they could say there is no one to negotiate with about a Palestinian State. October 7th was horrific and everyone should condemn Hamas for it, but no one has completely clean hands here.
Will, leaving aside the veracity of your statements. Leaving aside whether whether a poor Israeli government is anywhere near as heinous as the Palestinian movement. Leaving aside all the times Israel offered peace only to have the other side reject it, there is this:
If there were no Netanyahu one would be invented. He represents an acceptable way to hate the Jew.
That’s the game. That’s the beast of antisemitism. Jews are either too militant in Israel or were too passive during the Holocaust. If not thieving bankers then Communists. If it’s not one thing it most assuredly be something else. This is how the world’s oldest hatred has survived.
Leon, I must respectfully disagree. Bibi is not a convenient invention for the antisemite; he and his extremist mates are an unfortunate reality. Yes, the Palestinians have missed their chances for peace - as I'm sure you know, the most tragic was Arafat's rejection of the Barak/Clinton Taba Accords in 2001. Just imagine if he'd said Yes: the Palestinian State today would be about 23 years old and living in peace alongside Israel. But here we are. Israel today has the chance for a two-state solution backed up by all of the Arab states, by the U.S. and all the West, with money and recognition from Saudi Arabia, if it can only confront its own settler extremists while the Arabs and the Americans confront Hamas and the Islamist extremists. No one suggests this is easy; the settlers are mostly ultra orthodox Jews who are a contradiction at the heart of the State since its founding, that is, the preferred position for the religious, and the settlers believe they have a God-given right to Eretz Israel (what everyone else calls the West Bank), and they will not surrender it willingly or even peacefully. They have already assassinated one Prime Minister who dared negotiate a peace. Israelis have kicked this can down the road for over 75 years because it's hard, really hard, but until they confront it, there will be no peace. It's not only Hamas who are to be condemned here. If Israel will not or cannot grasp this chance, we will find ourselves mired in these ruins in another 75 years.
Do you honestly believe that a two state solution will be roses and friendship? That ship has sailed and then was torpedoed and sank. Why should anyone believe that a Palestinian state would suddenly say “yeah all that “river to the sea” stuff? Forgive and forget. All that destroy Jews wherever they are in the Hamas charter. That was a typo.” Any Palestinian state will dedicate itself to the destruction of the other state in the area and I don’t refer to Jordan or Syria or Lebanon or….
That is why I used to think a two state solution would work but no longer believe that. How can there be peace with any group of people that state “wipe out the Jews” as a goal? And don’t think for one second they would stop at Jews. I have a version of that stupid “Coexist” shirt that has blood splattered all over it that says “You can’t Coexist with people who are trying to kill you.”
I completely agree with you. After the “light show” at Big Ben this past week, it is very likely that Jews everywhere and anywhere in the world would be targeted. The intimidation has already started as these massive pro-Palestinian rallies prove.
Israel's response to the horrific events of October 7 and their aftermath (have we already forgotten the hostages still being subjected to unknown, unspeakable treatment at the hands of these savages?) is now being described variously as "over the top" and having "gone too far." These are squishy, touchy-feely, meaningless terms that have no place in discussions of the strategy and tactics of war. What exactly constitutes "over the top" and "too far" in response to the rape, murder, kidnapping, and torture of innocents?
Our open borders have virtually guaranteed that we will eventually see an October 7-style attack here on our own soil. Let's see what Americans will "feel" is "over the top" and "too far" then.
I did notice that no one is saying "disproportionate" this time. It would mean using shovels to behead civilians, raping then murdering then gang raping again.... It always meant targeting civilians, breaking truces and using your own civilians as human shields.
Exactly, Elias Sion. Frankly, I'm sickened almost as much by the aftermath of October 7 as by October 7 itself. All was forgotten by October 8, it seems. I listen to NPR (National Palestinian Radio) every day, for my sins, to find out what kind of poison people are being fed, and it seems that every single day there is crying and rending of garments and hand-wringing about the "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza, and not one single word -- not one word! -- about the hostages. If I were in charge, their names would be read aloud on air every single day until they come home.
I suppose one day soon I will wake up and no longer be shocked by the antisemitism of the progressive left of the Democrats but that day isn't today. What happened to the party that championed itself compassionate? That stood up for victims of sexual assault?
It was all a lie. I should have known. I'd seen the hypocrisy first-hand, the cowardice especially, the empty virtue signalling, and yet somehow I thought people were acting in good faith. I'm an idiot too.
"As long as we send weapons & a blank check, we’re more than complicit in the nearly 30,000 lives lost"
Anyone who can quote this Hamas- reported casualty number while conveniently omitting the fact that it includes 13,000 known terrorists plus an unknown number killed by their own thousands of misfired rockets, is utterly morally bankrupt and has a serious problem with latent (or overt) Jew-hatred.
The Squad members have always been racist and anti-American. I guess as long as you just blame whites for everything that's OK. But you can't bully the Jews.
The fact the "squad" made it this far in the American political landscape is a travesty and a testament of our times. None of them have personally accomplished anything before being voted in. None of their houses were in order before they sought to change the world. When you don't know anything, you get drawn in by utopian ideologies. Marxism's warm, fuzzy, seductive glow remains powerful even after all these years and failed experiments, hundreds of millions of corpses notwithstanding.
Is The Squad really all that important that we have to care whether they're there or not? Take a step back and one will see that all they are, are obnoxious loudmouths. They're Twitter politicians and provocateurs. They don't work at passing any bills, or even sponsor any that have any realistic chance at passing. They don't even vote farther to the left than The Establishment, except when they know their votes won't cause any real damage and their incendiary (but useless) vote would amass outrage. And at the end of the day, Nancy Pelosi is right about one thing: The Squad is just a few votes. They don't make any real difference. And Glenn Greenwald is also right that they always vote in locksteps with the Dem Establishment. They're not the fringe they claim to be. They're just actors.
The real problem is there are people out there who actually vote for them.
Forgive my candor but the normies are still not just stuck in their slumber... they're comatose. They will continue to vote their party line as evidenced by an incumbency rate in the House and Senate that remains 90%+ and has so for decades. Dislodging a few at the extremus is notable but hardly meaningful in the context of addressing the chaos and discord being sown today. "Misinformation" aka censorship is proceeding apace and you have gov't and media industry in bed together. An FBI that uses warrantless searches of personal information/communications of Americans under FISA, along with purchasing data on individuals from companies who provide data aggregation services. The use of the justice system that has different rules for different people based on their political clout or connections is growing clearer and clearer as is the growth of DEI or DIE programs at universities and especially within law degree programs... can't wait to see how that unfolds in our courts down the road. AG's elected that promised to take on a specific person as a campaign tactic and win office. Releasing violent - REPEAT - offenders without bail only to read the news that they've been re-arrested again (and released again. Then there is the blatant disregard for federal statutes via executive orders by administrations who object to the specifics of a statute... see immigration, student loan forgiveness... These are not issues of political parties, these are fundamentals of a constitutional republic that are being trampled by those who know better... Normies will still elect the same crop of political hacks to office and normies will whine like they always do.
Don't forget that most districts are safely gerrymandered so that there is no real competition to be had. Would I vote for a moderate Republican over a far left Democrat--yes, but I'm not going to vote for a right-wing Republican who, for example, claims that embryos from IVF are "people"--it's just a bridge too far.
The DIE Squad represents the worst of America. They have turned their districts into crime infested squalor. Bowman should have been expelled for pulling a fire alarm before a vote. Omar openly boasts about helping Somalia, not the country she has been elected to represent. Tlaib voted present when all other reps condemned Hamas using rape as a weapon of war. AOC and Pressley’s sanctuary districts are collapsing under the weight of illegals, who will become their new voters.
No matter how much MSM pearl clutches about Moscow, they can’t ignore that the decay of our cities has been an intentional choice: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/throwback-thursday-cities-fupaz-boblee
In my view the "Squat" is primarily a group of race hustlers who exploit and sell victimhood to their constituents while voting party line DNC fascist/globalist at every turn. They are prime examples of the well paid DEI virtue signalers whose job is to capture legitimate "we the people" social/financial/cultural/political concern and prevent the conversation that would put actual solutions on the table. Their job is to hold the American national dialogue hostage. They are classic 20th Century poseur Marxist utopian ideologues who line their pockets by serving criminal DNC/CCP/WEF/EU Davos totalitarianism.
I like to call them The Squawk.
I'm in Bowman's district, which spans Westchester County and the Bronx, and he has lost a lot of support. Latimer has been around forever and knows everyone. It's unlikely Bowman will survive the primary. He's a good politician - by good I mean that he is likeable in person, not that he is in tune with his constituents - and I am happy that his reign will end.
I hope ypou are right. I moved out of NYC to Westchester hoping to get away from LooneyLiberals only to find out that BullshitBowman was my Congressperson. His only skill seems to be lying about pulling fire alarms.
Perdue needs workers in the chicken slaughterhouses and NYC need cash-cash “employees” in its services businesses. C’mon in. The water’s fine.
The squads ideology is both a philosophical and strategic failure. It is based on Identity and its currency is measured by grievance. The squads cohesion is its grievance. When one faction of their coalition- Asians for example- gain success the coalition fractures and fails. The only unifying force is their grievance and victimhood.
That is why Trump is gaining votes among minorities and DEMS are losing to a corrupt insurrectionist.
The corrupt insurrectionist is another false narrative. I don’t like Trump & his speech on Jan. 6 was stupid and ignorant, but there was no insurrection. Don’t let your hatred of the man confuse your vision. We are dealing with multiple false narratives these days. Tucker & Russia is one. Biden’s ability to serve is another. Israel’s claim to the land being falsely begun in 1948 is another. How many more? That the Covid shot is a real vaccine? That regular Americans are not under surveillance ? That mainstream Americans living between the two coasts are idiots? Sigh. If only squad members were our only problem. Our next election is already more fit for joking than for reality. Who is in charge?? That’s what I would love to know…
Please add to this list: Israeli genocide, Israelis as white supremacist colonizers, and apartheid state.
Yup. Especially considering the fact that 70 % of Israelis are people of colour, and Arab Israelis have more individual rights and freedoms than they would in any other Arab country, which is why they overwhelmingly would choose to stay in Israel. Lol. People's stupidity never ceases to amaze.
Israel hasn’t gone far enough. They were brutally attacked on 10/7 and they are honor-bound to wipe Hamas/Gaza (same thing) from the world. I used to think a two-state solution would work. Hamas/Gazans have proven that it won’t. Israel is the only civilized country in the Middle East. There is a reason the rest of the ME don’t want the poor little put-upon Gazans within their borders.
As a lifetime member of this group, I welcome you to join. Maybe we can grow this group into a formidable voting block. 😎
Our motto could be; “Do unto Progressives before they do unto us”
I agree with your assessment. When Trump refused to concede, I swore I would never vote for the man again. (Ashamed to say that I voted for Hillary in 2016, but saw the light when MSM wackos went completely off the rails.) But if my only choice is Trump or Biden, I will vote for Trump, even if the government succeeds in its effort to put him behind bars.
Me too...TOO! Yes I voted for Hillary too, but AOC and her squad cured me of my dogmatic slumber.
Why are the legal scholar talking heads not demanding the 25 th Amendment be invoked? The President is supposed to be a CEO - one person elected by and responsible to we the people. Who has their finger on the nuclear football? We need to know. The presidency was never intended to be a cabal of unelected ministers. This is a real constitutional crisis.
"The corrupt insurrectionist is another false narrative. I don’t like Trump & his speech on Jan. 6 was stupid and ignorant, but there was no insurrection."
I Do Like (for the most part) Donald Trump. When I 1st heard of the Jan 6 rally I said this was a BAD Idea. And nothing good was going to happen.
"That mainstream Americans living between the two coasts are idiots?"
This goes back to The 1970's? How many movies/tv shows have we seen where small town America was a hive of corruption?
Insurrection is correctly applied. There was a well organized and thought out strategy, from a pressure campaign on local officials to fake electors in order to throw the election back to the states House of Representatives.
And finally political violence to stop the certification. He knew people were armed and called them to violence Gas lighting J 6th as anything less may feel good but it doesn’t change what happened.
You are absolutely right. Just because it was awful and painful does not make it a false statement. It was an insurrection, dim witted, and ill conceived, but still an insurrection.
The word "narrative" is itself academic double speak. Some descriptions are true and some are false, "narrative" is the scam word for making true and false descriptions seem the same... just stories. Liars love that word because it eliminates the truth.
Sure... they might lose "minorities." In addition to Asian-Americans, and some more entrenched (been here 10 years) Hispanic-Americans, you now have a set of black men starting to defect (some because of the ghetto cred, some because they made it on their own terms and reject grievance politics).
But, for every voter they lose, they import 3 more from across the border. They quite simply *do not care* about their constituents' well being; they care about power and money.
"Insurrection" refers to an armed military campaign to overthrow the government. You know that isn't what happened, and are choosing to spread division, grievance, and deceit.
You all are hyper-ventilating about something Trump has not been charged with. Smith is too smart for that, for the same reason you raised, Anthony: was it an insurrection is contestable, but “interfering with Congress”; “attempting to deny the people their votes” is not…and Trump will go down for it. It’s the ol’ Al Capone routine: they eventually got him for tax evasion not gangsterism and multiple murder but he still went to jail. So will Trump.
I think it is great when someone who presents themselves as someone from the left uses the description of insurrectionist. It plays well to the base, but the base elects no one. So keep using the term.
Every time you do more voters realize the Dems are not the party to vote for. And in an election whether neither candidate is wanted, it is slip ups like that, that can help folks make up their minds who to vote for. And that isn't the side that has only false fears to run on. three years of democracy, despite being the wrong term, enough is enough.
We are well on the way to joe's America which has no relation to who we are. Time to take the country back.
"...an Associated Press survey last month found that 50 percent of Americans say Israel’s response has 'gone too far'"
Until Hamas has been wiped out, they have not gone far enough.
As important as the issue of rejecting Hamas is, I would like to see an in-depth article regarding the actual bills the “Squad” has brought before the House that have passed. For example, from my understanding, AOC has engaged in no real legislating. Besides blocking Amazon’s expansion into her district she seems to be an echo chamber of racial divisiveness and false illegal immigration narratives.
That's because they are NOT about actual governing. Their Progressive Ideology is about Chaos and the destruction of liberal western society. They favor/support anything that leads to this.
Thing is they (MAY?) have moved to fast or started to buy into their own propaganda, and people are starting to Wake Up.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Winston Churchill. Nov. 10 1942
I am a conservative. I’ve been a loyal Republican voter for 30 years. The Republican Party has its own group of performance artists very similar in style as the Squad with equal levels of legitimate legislative output and seriousness: Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebart. Marjorie Taylor Green to name a few. If the Democrats are now trying to rid themselves of the Squad, it will be a few years before Republican voters do the same.
Elon Musk nailed it in as few words as linguistically possible: The democrats are the party of evil, the republicans are the party of stupid. October 7th maybe the Democratic Party’s wake up call. The Republican Party will eventually need one too to rid itself of these unserious, narcissistic jackasses.
Great comment. I too would like to see a deep dive into what policy they have enacted (if any).
Robert, are you kidding me?! The Squad are in the minority party in the House. They (and the Democratic Party) can’t initiate anything. How about asking, what legislation has the majority party achieved in this Congress? Yes, that’s the Republicans. Starting with helping Ukraine! Their blocking is a national disgrace and shame.
"Normal" varies with age groups. I am 77 and my personal concern is crime. After having my purse snatched in a "good" neighborhood, I worry about a simple trip to the grocery store. Mailing checks is a gamble. Stealing checks and acid washing them is a big operation in my city. You cannot jog or walk the dog without concern. The Defund the Police crowd is a bunch of privileged morons.
“the notion that Ceasefire Now represents the will of the American people is pure fiction. We have to make sure we don’t play into that false narrative.” Truth! I am not a democrat and am barely hanging onto a republican identity. One thing is clear to me however: most Americans fully support Israel and understand what has happened in Gaza is fully the fault of Hamas. We can read exactly what Hamas has to say about this here in back issues of The Free Press. I wish all squad members were facing re-election in November. This is the season for all “normies” to use voting to speak our minds on this very very important issue. I believe we will be heard.
I think Americans are very fickle. Their opinions turn on a dime. And with so many loud voices against Israel, it seems unlikely that Israel can count on our continuing support.
They have my unwavering support.
Not only Americans. Parliament had a proposal for an immediate cease fire in Gaza. The return of the hostages appears to be no longer part of the cease fire demand. The Guardian, SNP, and some members of the Labor party are supporting this “opportunity.”
They would. They already did on the first day of the war. They did before the war. They're flat, one-note, no longer thinking, ignorant, stubborn, anti-Israel, as yet personally unsynged by DEI and their own illiberalism. They're a bore and a parody of themselves. But unfortunately, they have a voice.
Neither the American People or Cease Fire Now get a vote. Only the Israelis get a vote. The rest of the world can pound sand.
Hamas is a death cult. It is in their founding documents. Martyring their own children for "jannah" does not break Sinwar's heart, that I promise you. He will gladly kill every one of his own people guided by his perverse and intentional misunderstanding of his own religion. Hamas must be crushed utterly.
It's simple. The Left hates Jews, especially religious Jews. That so many American Jews vote for the Left is a tragedy, but another story. There was a time when the majority of the Democratic Party was squarely on the side of Israel. This is no longer the case. the Dems need to purge the party of these antisemites. Yes, anti Israeli sentiment is antisemitism.
The more observant the Jewish community , the more conservative I have found . Many once left secular Jews have had a jarring wake up call since 10-7 and are leaning right now. The term JINO ( Jew in name only) is being used to describe the very fringe lefties who start their X posts with “ as a Jew” ...
The Left hates all religion, especially Judeo-Christian, unless it’s a religion that is at war with Judeo-Christianity….the enemy of my enemy…
Unfortunately I think this article underestimates the depth of antisemitism as has been the case throughout history. Because this depth is hard to fathom, it is much more easily denied. The chronic persecution of the Jews would have not occurred without the tacit acquiesce of the silent majority. Of course this is seen most acutely among the Palestinian populace that supports Hamas but in the same vein by nearly the entire world including countries that have nothing to do with the Gaza war such as South Africa who are focused not on their national interest but on preventing the Jews from defending themselves . In fact, October 7 occurred because of the Palestinian $ support of the US and rest of the world. Are you saying that until October 7 it was not known this was a genocidal movement? The Squad were anti-Israel long before October 7 yet were elected and rose to national prominence inspite of this. How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see? It took a Holocaust to see this, but only for a few decades. The article is making the case that it’s different this time. Let’s see.
Leon, it would be much easier to unequivocally support Israel (pre- and post-October 7) if its government were not led by a shameless criminal in Netanyahu and two of its key cabinet members were not extremist fanatics who lead the settler movement; and if the Israeli government had not, for years, been tacitly supporting Hamas in Gaza (and silently encouraging Qatar to fund it with billions of dollars) in order to undermine the authority of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, so they could say there is no one to negotiate with about a Palestinian State. October 7th was horrific and everyone should condemn Hamas for it, but no one has completely clean hands here.
Will, leaving aside the veracity of your statements. Leaving aside whether whether a poor Israeli government is anywhere near as heinous as the Palestinian movement. Leaving aside all the times Israel offered peace only to have the other side reject it, there is this:
If there were no Netanyahu one would be invented. He represents an acceptable way to hate the Jew.
That’s the game. That’s the beast of antisemitism. Jews are either too militant in Israel or were too passive during the Holocaust. If not thieving bankers then Communists. If it’s not one thing it most assuredly be something else. This is how the world’s oldest hatred has survived.
Leon, I must respectfully disagree. Bibi is not a convenient invention for the antisemite; he and his extremist mates are an unfortunate reality. Yes, the Palestinians have missed their chances for peace - as I'm sure you know, the most tragic was Arafat's rejection of the Barak/Clinton Taba Accords in 2001. Just imagine if he'd said Yes: the Palestinian State today would be about 23 years old and living in peace alongside Israel. But here we are. Israel today has the chance for a two-state solution backed up by all of the Arab states, by the U.S. and all the West, with money and recognition from Saudi Arabia, if it can only confront its own settler extremists while the Arabs and the Americans confront Hamas and the Islamist extremists. No one suggests this is easy; the settlers are mostly ultra orthodox Jews who are a contradiction at the heart of the State since its founding, that is, the preferred position for the religious, and the settlers believe they have a God-given right to Eretz Israel (what everyone else calls the West Bank), and they will not surrender it willingly or even peacefully. They have already assassinated one Prime Minister who dared negotiate a peace. Israelis have kicked this can down the road for over 75 years because it's hard, really hard, but until they confront it, there will be no peace. It's not only Hamas who are to be condemned here. If Israel will not or cannot grasp this chance, we will find ourselves mired in these ruins in another 75 years.
Do you honestly believe that a two state solution will be roses and friendship? That ship has sailed and then was torpedoed and sank. Why should anyone believe that a Palestinian state would suddenly say “yeah all that “river to the sea” stuff? Forgive and forget. All that destroy Jews wherever they are in the Hamas charter. That was a typo.” Any Palestinian state will dedicate itself to the destruction of the other state in the area and I don’t refer to Jordan or Syria or Lebanon or….
That is why I used to think a two state solution would work but no longer believe that. How can there be peace with any group of people that state “wipe out the Jews” as a goal? And don’t think for one second they would stop at Jews. I have a version of that stupid “Coexist” shirt that has blood splattered all over it that says “You can’t Coexist with people who are trying to kill you.”
I completely agree with you. After the “light show” at Big Ben this past week, it is very likely that Jews everywhere and anywhere in the world would be targeted. The intimidation has already started as these massive pro-Palestinian rallies prove.
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Israel's response to the horrific events of October 7 and their aftermath (have we already forgotten the hostages still being subjected to unknown, unspeakable treatment at the hands of these savages?) is now being described variously as "over the top" and having "gone too far." These are squishy, touchy-feely, meaningless terms that have no place in discussions of the strategy and tactics of war. What exactly constitutes "over the top" and "too far" in response to the rape, murder, kidnapping, and torture of innocents?
Our open borders have virtually guaranteed that we will eventually see an October 7-style attack here on our own soil. Let's see what Americans will "feel" is "over the top" and "too far" then.
I wonder if people today would worry about the "humanitarian crisis" in 1945 Berlin.
I did notice that no one is saying "disproportionate" this time. It would mean using shovels to behead civilians, raping then murdering then gang raping again.... It always meant targeting civilians, breaking truces and using your own civilians as human shields.
Exactly, Elias Sion. Frankly, I'm sickened almost as much by the aftermath of October 7 as by October 7 itself. All was forgotten by October 8, it seems. I listen to NPR (National Palestinian Radio) every day, for my sins, to find out what kind of poison people are being fed, and it seems that every single day there is crying and rending of garments and hand-wringing about the "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza, and not one single word -- not one word! -- about the hostages. If I were in charge, their names would be read aloud on air every single day until they come home.
But I guess that's just me. :-(
Why doesn't our President refer to them at every single opportunity? There can't be that many voters in Dearborn....
I suppose one day soon I will wake up and no longer be shocked by the antisemitism of the progressive left of the Democrats but that day isn't today. What happened to the party that championed itself compassionate? That stood up for victims of sexual assault?
It was all a lie. I should have known. I'd seen the hypocrisy first-hand, the cowardice especially, the empty virtue signalling, and yet somehow I thought people were acting in good faith. I'm an idiot too.
"As long as we send weapons & a blank check, we’re more than complicit in the nearly 30,000 lives lost"
Anyone who can quote this Hamas- reported casualty number while conveniently omitting the fact that it includes 13,000 known terrorists plus an unknown number killed by their own thousands of misfired rockets, is utterly morally bankrupt and has a serious problem with latent (or overt) Jew-hatred.
Is it time to speak the truth about Islam?
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Many Muslims are Islamists, who are savage and brutal. Islamists' key impulse is hatred.
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Islamists not only hate Jews, Christians, ... but the men have contempt for all women.
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And non-savage Muslims will never condemn the savage Islamists - whatever they do.
(Non-savage Muslims risk being killed for apostasy, if they criticize savage Islamists.)
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That leaves Islam as being a religion largely comprised of savages and weaklings.
The Squad members have always been racist and anti-American. I guess as long as you just blame whites for everything that's OK. But you can't bully the Jews.
The fact the "squad" made it this far in the American political landscape is a travesty and a testament of our times. None of them have personally accomplished anything before being voted in. None of their houses were in order before they sought to change the world. When you don't know anything, you get drawn in by utopian ideologies. Marxism's warm, fuzzy, seductive glow remains powerful even after all these years and failed experiments, hundreds of millions of corpses notwithstanding.
Is The Squad really all that important that we have to care whether they're there or not? Take a step back and one will see that all they are, are obnoxious loudmouths. They're Twitter politicians and provocateurs. They don't work at passing any bills, or even sponsor any that have any realistic chance at passing. They don't even vote farther to the left than The Establishment, except when they know their votes won't cause any real damage and their incendiary (but useless) vote would amass outrage. And at the end of the day, Nancy Pelosi is right about one thing: The Squad is just a few votes. They don't make any real difference. And Glenn Greenwald is also right that they always vote in locksteps with the Dem Establishment. They're not the fringe they claim to be. They're just actors.
The real problem is there are people out there who actually vote for them.
A really good take, OX.
Forgive my candor but the normies are still not just stuck in their slumber... they're comatose. They will continue to vote their party line as evidenced by an incumbency rate in the House and Senate that remains 90%+ and has so for decades. Dislodging a few at the extremus is notable but hardly meaningful in the context of addressing the chaos and discord being sown today. "Misinformation" aka censorship is proceeding apace and you have gov't and media industry in bed together. An FBI that uses warrantless searches of personal information/communications of Americans under FISA, along with purchasing data on individuals from companies who provide data aggregation services. The use of the justice system that has different rules for different people based on their political clout or connections is growing clearer and clearer as is the growth of DEI or DIE programs at universities and especially within law degree programs... can't wait to see how that unfolds in our courts down the road. AG's elected that promised to take on a specific person as a campaign tactic and win office. Releasing violent - REPEAT - offenders without bail only to read the news that they've been re-arrested again (and released again. Then there is the blatant disregard for federal statutes via executive orders by administrations who object to the specifics of a statute... see immigration, student loan forgiveness... These are not issues of political parties, these are fundamentals of a constitutional republic that are being trampled by those who know better... Normies will still elect the same crop of political hacks to office and normies will whine like they always do.
Don't forget that most districts are safely gerrymandered so that there is no real competition to be had. Would I vote for a moderate Republican over a far left Democrat--yes, but I'm not going to vote for a right-wing Republican who, for example, claims that embryos from IVF are "people"--it's just a bridge too far.