[WIRE] A lot of the discussion you’ll hear about "identity politics" focuses on how immoral and destructive it is, and for good reason. Judging people on the basis of characteristics they can’t control is wrong.
Decent people understand that. But a lesser-known side effect of identity politics is that it leaves the people who believe in it — the daytime anchors of MSNBC, for example — completely bewildered by major political events. Identity politics makes its adherents significantly dumber; there’s no other way to put it.
Take the election of Donald Trump in 2016, for example. This was eight years ago, and by now, most of us have a pretty good idea why it happened. Trump, unlike Hillary Clinton, did not tell coal miners that he was going to put them out of business. He didn’t describe half the country as "deplorable," or extol the virtues of free trade in towns where all the good jobs have moved overseas. Instead, Trump’s message — not his skin color, or his gender, or any other aspect of his identity — resonated with tens of millions of Americans. Whether you disagree with his message or not, that should be obvious.
But somehow, it’s not obvious to MSNBC. As of this week, in the year 2024, they’re still very much unsure why Donald Trump won in 2016, and why he’s leading in every presidential poll today. Watch:
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...A friend of mine who worked as a strategic analyst used to say that the US is really now two nations - the 'A' country, which is the cities, and the 'B' country, which is everything else - especially the agricultural sector. And he would point out that most of the people in the B country were capable of survival without the A country...but without the B country, A's survival time would be measured in days.
And reading about the sudden demonization of the white rural American, I'm beginning to wonder if the A country hasn't finally figured out that they eat and work at the sufferance of the B country.
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Matches the reported central theme of the Vegetable-In-Chief State of the Union address: "NBC News: March 4, 2024, 3:00 AM PST
By Peter Nicholas and Mike Memoli
WASHINGTON — In his State of the Union speech this week, President Joe Biden will pose a question that he hopes will answer itself: Whose side are you on?"
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There are far more poor Whites than Blacks in this country. I don't see them looting and pillaging the local merchants. Don't tell me the crime is the result of poverty and disadvantages.
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[RIA] Europeans are only just beginning to realize what awaits them after the defeat of the Ukrainian regime in the adventure that the West pushed it into. French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejournet has already estimated that after the collapse of Ukraine, ten million refugees will pour into Europe. True, he did not explain what exactly frightens him about this figure, given the fact that millions of Ukrainian refugees are currently in European countries, quite legally, at the invitation of the Europeans themselves. Is Europe really not happy with Ukrainians now?
The time has passed when Europeans asked the Ukrainian authorities to at least formally show more respect for the Western countries that support them. Remember, in July last year, then British Defense Minister Ben Wallace advised this to Vladimir Zelensky after another boorish demand from the Ukrainian president regarding supplies to the Kiev regime. Three days later, Wallace was forced to announce his resignation and departure from politics.
Nowadays it is no longer a question of gratitude. Now the Ukrainians are directly and openly threatening their Western sponsors, blackmailing them, demanding continued support. Over the past few days alone, a number of threats have been made against the West from figures at various levels.
For example, militant Dmitry Korchinsky stated in his blog that Ukraine “unfortunately, chose the wrong allies.” According to him, it would be much more correct to have Iran or North Korea as allies, rather than the “decaying” West. And he openly called for changes in this very West, including by resorting to protests and pressure on European governments.
He stated: “Something needs to be done about this, brothers. If someone is watching me, do something about it. Your compatriots are dying at the front, it’s much easier for you than for them. The maximum that they will do to you is - it will be deported."
Another ideologist of Ukrainian terrorism, Yevgeny Diky, in the recent past an Aidar* militant, recently began openly threatening Hungary on the Espresso TV channel. He literally stated the following: “Even if we lose, we will have a battle-hardened army of millions that is retreating. And in the end the question will arise, where is the final line beyond which we should retreat? It seems to me that in this "In this case <...> a completely good plan would be to occupy Hungary and bring twenty million Ukrainian refugees there. And I would like to see what Orban’s 30,000-strong army, which has never fought a day in its life, would do in this situation.” Is this the “gratitude” in Ukrainian that Wallace was counting on?
Another Maidan activist, Mark Gordienko, spoke about his interview with French media, in which he expressed fear of “betrayal from the United States and the European Union.” And then a stream of consciousness followed from him, interspersed with curses and insults addressed to the “benefactors.” Gordienko promised the French that Europe would be filled with millions of Ukrainians who would “split into hundreds and thousands of combat cells” and organize a “gulyaypole” there.
“Give us weapons so we can fight off the Horde, or you will get so many problems that you will be happy to pay a hundred times more, but it will be too late,” the Ukrainian activist expressed a kind of “gratitude” to his French interlocutors.
And there are more and more such statements. One could brush them aside: they say, why quote marginalized people who do not make decisions? But the flow of these similar threats began with a kind of “go-ahead” that Zelensky personally gave! Last fall, in a sensational interview with The Economist magazine, the head of the Ukrainian regime spoke essentially about the same thing, simply using less harsh definitions. He already hinted at the “bad story” that Ukrainian refugees would start in Europe if aid to Ukraine was curtailed. So the current threats of Ukrainian figures of various scales are only a creative development of the words of their president.
Statements by high-ranking Kiev officials regarding the organizers of the protests of Polish farmers are also overt threats. What can we say about the threats that Polish politicians receive from Ukrainians who are not endowed with official status. They also hint to the Poles about a repetition of the Volyn massacre, during which Bandera’s supporters massacred Polish villages. “I cut the throats of Russians, I think I will do the same to you” - this is the text of a typical threat from Ukrainians, which was demonstrated to journalists by one of the organizers of the protests, Rafal Mekler.
Surely Ben Wallace was hinting at the wrong “gratitude” to Zelensky last summer. And Ukrainian nationalists at all times did not know how to “give thanks” in any other way. Westerners simply do not yet understand what kind of monster they have nurtured on their heads. They, as always, naively believed that by ideologically nurturing Ukrainian terrorism, they were creating an eternal problem for Russia. Just as they once thought that the Afghan dushmans they equipped would only be our headache, not imagining that they themselves would then fight this evil.
But Afghanistan is far from Europe. And Ukraine with its militants is very close. And the threat to flood the European continent with crazy Ukrainian Nazis who have survived the war and are angry with the whole world is not so groundless. And they know how to “give thanks”, Europeans will not find it enough.
[JPOST] Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... is calling for Ramadan to be a "month of terror" and seeks to escalate attacks in the West Bank and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . In a recent speech, Abu Hamza, the front man for PIJ’s al-Quds Brigades, said he wants Arab countries in the region and pro-Iranian groups to continue to "unify" various arenas and fronts against Israel.
This is the latest indication that terrorist groups plan to seek an escalation in hostilities over the next month. Hamza’s remarks were published by Beirut-based Al Mayadeen news channel, which is pro-Iranian and frequently highlights Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... and Hezbollah attacks.
This comes amid some hope for a hostage, prisoner, and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The US is pushing for such a deal. But Hamas has continued to make it difficult by refusing to hand over a list of names of the living hostages.
In other words, there won’t be a hudna any time soon.
Paleostinian Islamic Jihad is a proxy of Iran. It has gunnies in Gaza and the West Bank, and its leaders often reside in Damascus, where they sometimes leave to meet with their Iranian handlers in Tehran or to coordinate with Hamas and Hezbollah.
'Unity of the battlefields'
The terminology used by PIJ ahead of Ramadan is part of the terminology Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has used over the years to describe its strategy against Israel. This includes references to "unity of the battlefields," which is a term for "unity of the arenas" or "unity of the fronts."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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