Credit for pushing back! "What the fuck did you just say‽"
Sad when a Democrat is the only one talking back to these people. Ben Shapiro is doing his best but he's just one man and can't control all of MAGA. They're called woke right (Netanyahu calls them woke Reich and that's a witty nickname that should catch on.
It will if people start repeating it and that's something that everyone can do!
A bit lengthy, sorry. Go take a look so you’ll understand what I’m on about. Not really a rant, despite the image, just a lot of words.
Substack post of a brief Instagram video. I would have said honours were even in the film clip — the young Jewish lefty, after complimenting Mr. Fishback for being a good guy, went in expecting to find Jew-hate among his followers. The young Fishback fan offered an obscure and ineffective insult in return, and both seemed satisfied with the nothingburgers they’d achieved — but without seeing the entire conversation in context, there’s no way to know.
James Fishback is an interesting man: very much self-made, his mother was a Colombian immigrant and his 4th gen. Floridian father became a bus driver after his landscaping business went bankrupt, which he blamed on an influx of Haitians after the 2010 earthquake. Fishback himself dropped out of Georgetown University’s international finance program when hired by a private hedge fund, followed by forming his own investment fund a few brief years later. Frustrated, he said, by the leftwing biases of his high school’s debate club, while still in college he created the Incubate Debate league to provide training and tournaments at the middle school and high school level — presumably from a balanced or conservative approach, a noble desire indeed.
On the other hand, he appears to have either inherited the antisemitism prevalent in the Latin world or is willing to coddle it to get voters, being fashionably suspicious of AIPAC and blaming Israel for the problems in Gaza, suggesting a possible parochialism to his outlook and experience despite playing with the big boys, if real. He appears to have turned to the Florida governor’s race after there was no role for him in the Trump administration, and he is clearly not the type to start at the bottom and humbly work his way up in politics, any more than he did in finance. Influencer he may be, but it appears that he is very far from the front runner in this race, the more so because young men, even when they have strong opinions on politics, are notorious about forgetting to actually vote.
Ben Shapiro is absolutely not the only one on the Conservative side to push back against Jew hate. President Trump, Secretary Marco Rubio, Senator Ted Cruz, Governors Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbot, Victor Davis Hanson — they and many other Republicans and Conservatives push back openly and often. But it’s the haters that benefit from bot-magnification of their voices, an advantage somewhat negated by X’s recent “accidental” location revelations, and poll results that show many of the real fans on the conservative side are amused but not influenced by their favoured, carping influencers. Mr. Fishback, it seems to me, is running a vanity campaign while trying to figure out what to do with his excess energy that will make the world a better place beyond the debate thing — tikkun olam as the Jews say. I think that as he and the young, conservative boys and men he speaks to mature a little, they will realize they have much stronger logic tools than the simplistic negatives of Jew-hate as a shortcut for the very real problems they recognize and are fighting to fix. Like saying f*ck every third word, it’s not actually the sign of edgy manliness the young imagine.
“I think we don’t need them. I think we don’t like them,” Trump tells The New York Times in an interview last week, whose full transcript was published on Sunday.
Asked if he condemns those in the conservative movement who have been espousing antisemitic views, Trump says, “certainly.”
“If you talk about the antisemitic views, there’s been nobody better for us. As an example, I just got the Israel award, which is the biggest award they give. It was just given to me. First time it was ever given to anybody outside of Israel,” he says.
Asked if he’ll condemn the far-right shock-jock and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, Trump says he doesn’t know who he is. One of the interviewers reminds him that he dined with Fuentes along with Kanye West in 2022.
“I had dinner with him, one time, where he came as a guest of Kanye West. I didn’t know who he was bringing. He said, ‘Do you mind if I bring a friend?’ I said, ‘I don’t care.’ And it was Nick Fuentes? I don’t know Nick Fuentes.”
Trump is then pressed on Paul Ingrassia, who he appointed deputy general counsel of the General Services Administration, even after a series of his offensive text messages, including one expressing sympathy for Nazism, were made public.
“I don’t know that. It’s possible. I have thousands of people working here,” Trump says.
“I have a daughter who’s married to a Jewish person. My daughter happens to be Jewish, beautiful, three grandchildren are Jewish. I’m very proud of them. I’m very proud of that whole family. I am the least antisemitic person probably there is anywhere in the world,” he adds.
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What the fuck is a tikkun olam? Sounds like Indian food.
Trump is already being called a tool of Jews because of that Israel prize. He should have declined it, it didn't help at all.
But Trump already accepted the FIFA Peace Prize which was a total joke. He's a narcissist and just can't resist praise, no matter who it comes from.
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Tikkum Olam first appears, to my knowledge, in the 4th chapter of Mishnah tractate Gittim regarding being sure a divorce is valid by requiring witnesses (however the witnesses requirement is a scriptural requirement)
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Your knowledge surpasses mine on this subject as so many others Lord Garth. Now we are all better informed.
President Trump was called a tool of the Jews by the Jew haters long before any prizes were announced. He still supports a congregation that started as a prayer group meeting in the basement of one of his father’s apartment buildings when he was a boy, has been friends with Bibi Netanyahu since he first visited Israel in the 1980s, and of course his daughter Ivanka converted and son Eric married a classic Nice Jewish Girl, Lara Yunaska.
Thx. However your point about Kabbalah is certainly correct. The issue of Tikkum Olam was made a center piece based on the writing of isaac luria and the 'shattering of the vessels' during the creation of the universe.
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That’s exactly the story I was thinking of, Lord Garth.
#8
So not about clicks?
Or is this still about clicks?
I get confused, sorry.
Jokes aside. There are reasons people are increasingly Antisemitic. And it is not Jew Hate, it is lack of opportunity. White American Heritage Youth do not have the opportunities we had, and the DEI programs do not favor them like they favor the jews. Regardless if your think that is true or not, that is how they perceive things.
How do I know this? Simple. I ask them on Twitter and Reddit.
This is what the youth are seeing and what they process. That is how we got here.
#9
Disingenuous Jooorong, jejune
Loonie king of the Joooz: "What's 'tikkun?'"
You could look in a book,
Kooky Vaushnik Canuck...
Or ask Herb "Herb" McCoy. [cue his tune]
#10
So not about clicks?
Or is this still about clicks?
Some, definitely. Some of it is bots, some pushed by China:
I24: “China has scaled back the use of bots and coordinated messaging to push anti-Israel narratives. Beijing appears to be easing its rhetoric as it seeks to position itself between both sides” - Carice Witte pic.twitter.com/8nHUiIcsCC
Some is fashionable edginess on the left on right by people who never bothered to think more deeply than that, and will have different fashionably edgy thoughts next week, now that AOC et al suddenly announced that chanting about Hamas in front of a synagogue is completely beyond the Pale.
And some of it is legitimately frustrated young people choosing an easy explanation, one of whom giggled as he told his father he firebombed the oldest synagogue in Mississippi. How many will still profess Jew-hatred a year or two from now as the Trump administration and Republican governors forbid DEI and the economy improves?
#1
Gee, it's so ironic that the hotbed of Socialism has reduced so many to indentured servitude to pay for their worthless college education certificates.
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^ "You spend more time in HR's office than you do in your own!"
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Pump the brakes. There are MANY corporations who once required any degree to step on the first rung of the management ladder. In the last ten years they have moved away from that model.
[National Review] The scandal that derailed Tim Walz’s political career this week has been sitting out in the open for years and was in fact known to Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign when they decided to elevate the formerly obscure Minnesota governor to the national political stage.
The vice president and her closest advisers quickly cycled through a list of running-mate contenders and ultimately decided on a cheery, little-known Midwestern chief executive who, she believed, could balance out the ticket without dragging her down. Walz had a strong family unit and was seen as having a mostly clean and uncontroversial background. The word "folksy" became a go-to descriptor for campaign reporters. As one former Harris campaign staffer recalled, out of all the prospective vice-presidential candidate contenders, Walz was simply the candidate who put Harris and her inner circle most at ease.
Appearances aside, it’s very rare, perhaps unheard of, for a politician to make it through nearly two terms as a state governor without accumulating some baggage. It was no different with Walz. In vetting the governor, Harris’s team accounted for the fact that there was at that point significant evidence in the public record of "funds being misused," a former Harris campaign staffer told National Review. But the scandal that would destroy Walz’s gubernatorial reelection campaign was not seen as significant enough to automatically disqualify him from serving as first in line to the presidency, raising new questions about Harris’s political judgment as she weighs her own electoral future.
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In vetting the governor, Harris’s team accounted for the fact that there was at that point significant evidence in the public record of "funds being misused," a former Harris campaign staffer told National Review. But the scandal that would destroy Walz’s gubernatorial reelection campaign was not seen as significant enough to automatically disqualify him from serving as first in line to the presidency, raising new questions about Harris’s political judgment as she weighs her own electoral future.
Or put another way, nobody wanted to put their backside on the line to tell Harris this guy had potential problems.
Had they gone with Josh Shapiro, the blowout wouldn't have been anywhere near as bad, and in fact may have gone the other way. But Harris didn't want a Jew on the ticket.
#2
Obama wanted someone less smart then himself. Biden wanted someone less smart then himself. Kamala wanted someone less smarter than herself. It's call pattern recognition.
#5
In her own drunken slur of words she chose Timmy because he said he did not want to become President and only was committed to her winning the election.
#12
welfare scam - that must have been seen as a positive
cozy with the CCP - another positive
lied about his military rank - yet another positive
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Timmy, raised an unreal amount of money shortly after being selected. That’s what he brought to the table. Probably could not have done that without the unique financial structure of Dem politics in Minnesota.
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Money poorly spent. Keep spending it...poorly
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Hamas’ attack on October 7th might have been the domino that lead directly to Iran’s potential downfall. 10/7 caused a change in the rules. Israel and the United Staes crippled Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, and Syria over the course of 2 years and then pummeled Iran’s... https://t.co/Vx4vNBu779
… then pummeled Iran’s regime in June. These factors plus a devastated Iranian economy crippled by western sanctions due to nuclear weapons pursuits have brought us to here. Wow. This is great and all, but it's not going to happen by itself.
It's going to need ground troops and the IDF is right there next door. You only win by making the other poor bastard die for his country!
Maybe the IDF can "accidentally" drop a bomb on Tucker Carlson's new residence in Qatar on the way. Maybe the Mossad can make sure he's there at the time. It would be coincidence, but a welcome one.
The IDF has been rehearsing their plans. All they need is for people to get out of the way so they can do their thing.
Poor Mr. Carlson. Remember when almost everyone on the right adored him? Maybe he has a worm in his brain, too.
[FoxNews] A study published in the February 2026 edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports focuses on a Late Eneolithic necropolis in the Thracian region of eastern Bulgaria.
The subject of the study is the skeleton of a man who died between the ages of 18 and 30. He was more than 5 feet, 7 inches tall and lived between 4600 and 4200 B.C., during the Late Eneolithic.
Upon analyzing the skeleton, researchers identified severe cranial and limb injuries — including puncture wounds on the man's skull.
Those wounds suggest an attack by a large carnivore — and interestingly, the wounds appeared to have healed, meaning he survived the encounter.
[CrisisGroup] The world was careening into a dangerous new era well before Donald Trump’s return to the White House. But the risks are getting higher rather than lower in his second term thus far.
Lancing boils, left and right. Stretching the metaphor, lanced boils leak all sorts of ickiness.
by Comfort Ero and Richard Atwood
The past year has seen fighting rage on in many wars around the globe. U.S. President Donald Trump has put himself centre stage in many trouble spots. He has brought fresh energy to peacemaking, after years in which diplomatic efforts to end conflicts had been flailing.
But Trump has not calmed global turmoil – in many cases, he has made it worse. His deals have brought respite to some battlefields but no lasting peace. Meanwhile, his lawlessness and spheres-of-influence risk giving licence to other states tempted by adventurism.
The year ahead seems likely to be as bloody as the one drawing to a close. Here are the International Crisis Group’s Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2026.
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Hmm...seems to have left out the United States. Given the intent of a unfortunate number of people's refusal to accept lawful elections and long standing law, we have an incline of what may soon be coming.
#2
I saw International Crisis Group when they opened for the Pet Shop Boys in 1982
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The surest way to stop wars is to break a few heads. Trump understands that. It's like dealing with crooked labor unions. Talk-talk doesn't work. Trump knows that, and knows how to respond. I expect the world to be a more peaceful place four years from now.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A bit lengthy, sorry. Go take a look so you’ll understand what I’m on about. Not really a rant, despite the image, just a lot of words.
[FoxNews] A study published in the February 2026 edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports focuses on a Late Eneolithic necropolis in the Thracian region of eastern Bulgaria.
