I find the phrase “identify as” strange. Yoda might say, “No. Be or be not. There is no ‘identify as.'”
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AIPAC, the Israel Lobby: The Most Disgusting Liars in the World
Imagine cashing your paycheck at the end of a hard week lying that Israel is not deliberately inflicting a deadly famine on the infants and children of Palestine.
“Have a good day at work, Honey?”
“Yeah, it was a lot of fun figuring out ways to lie about the children our paymasters are murdering.”
“I think I’d like a tall glass of blood to drink with dinner tonight.”
James Carville Right About Something?
Damn right, this time:
Democrat Strategist James Carville: If Democrats Lose In November It’s Israel’s Fault
“This Gaza stuff, this is not just a problem with some snot-nosed Ivy League people,” he said. “This is a problem all across the country. And I hope the president and Blinken can get this thing calmed down because if it doesn’t get calmed down before the Democratic convention, it’s going to be a very ugly time in Chicago. I promise you that.”
End The Fed!
America’s corrupt inflationary monetary policy — oh, I mean social media! — is driving people out of their minds.
Applications for revenue-generating IRS jobs are ‘far below’ agency goals
Good. Everyone hates IRS employees.
No one should tolerate friends or family working for the IRS.
It would be wrong and bad to bully strangers. But if you have IRS or would-be IRS employees among your family and friends, you should ridicule them until they cry and quit or quit trying. If everyone did this, there would be no IRS and we would be free.
Wouldn’t that be great?
Trump: Another Special-Interest-Pandering Politician
Trump promises to slam a 100-percent tariff on [Update:] imported cars made in Chinese-owned factories in Mexico. He announced this not to a group of prospective car buyers but to a group of car makers. So what else is new? Car buyers, who outnumber the well-organized car makers but are not themselves organized, would have to pay more for cars they do not want if Trump got his way. That’s the point.
This is America first? No, it is not. It is “An Interest Group Whose Votes I Want” First versus everyone else. That’s always the case with protectionism. Stopping consumers from buying whatever they want helps some (in the short term) at the expense of the rest. Calling the favored group “America” is self-serving special pleading. Trump’s good at that. He thinks he knows better than you.
Trump is just another special-interest-pandering politician. Many people are fine with that because they misunderstand markets and dislike foreigners. But as Adam Smith taught us long ago, the wealth of a nation is determined by the people’s free access to the world’s products and not by how much they are cut off from those products. We produce to consume. We don’t consume to produce.
David Friedman cleverly points out that cars can be produced in two ways: the old-fashioned factory way and by, say, growing grain, loading it on ships headed to, say, Japan, and welcoming the returning car-laden ships. Both production methods are legitimate, and which one prevails should be left to free people making choices in a spontaneously ordered marketplace. Trump obviously never learned about the law of comparative advantage.
The New York Times Lies About Everything, In This Case, the Twitter Files
Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers are disgusting liars as documented by Matt Taibbi here.
Does anyone know anything else about these men? They ever done an important story that was true that you remember? Me neither. Just this, as noted by Taibbi:
Rutenberg two election cycles ago authored the seminal article on “oppositional” journalism in the Trump age. “Trump is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism” came out in summer of 2016, and was hugely influential. It said Trump was such a threat that the job going forward could no longer just be about reporting facts, but reporting facts that will “stand up to history’s judgment.”
So they lie. Both now after they die will only be remembered as dishonest propagandists on behalf of the National Security State, a disgrace to the United States of America and their families forever.