#Benjamin Shapiro

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call it bottom surgery, that 'man' just got torn a new one

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Golden Age Gals: Iris Little, A Real Life Mystery & Tangential Crime

About the time Constance and Gwenyth fade from sight, their youngest sibling comes into view.  While included in a couple of U.S. censuses and passenger records in various ports of call, the youngest of the Little’s brood, Iris, doesn’t really come into focus until becoming the 1934 Women’s Table Tennis Champion. At this tournament, or perhaps the one the year before, Iris met her future husband…

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Bro???? He fuckin blocked me??? What, for posting about hammers and cars???? Damn. Man has skin the thickness of a fucking molecule I hope for cactus enemas daily for him.

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every day I wish more that shad(iversity) ceases to be relevant and shuts the hell up

[plitnick]

Biden push for Saudi-Israeli normalization reflects misreading of domestic and international politics

Once again, the Biden administration is trying to bring home a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal. The problem is that, with typical cluelessness, fecklessness, and ignorance, the administration does not understand the political waters it is wading into. Both Saudi Arabia and Israel face major hurdles in trying to conclude this deal. The party which has by far the least to gain from it is the U.S.…

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I just remembered in the same conversation he mentioned liking Candice Owens and I popped a blood vessel explaining that she was too antisemetic to work at the Daily Wire

My dad as of late: Did you know Ben Shapiro is a jew?!

Me on the inside:

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I too used to think you should never call anyone a kapo, but unfortunately, Benjamin Shapiro

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How concerned do you think we should be about people who may not want to vote for a Harris-Shapiro ticket? Personally I think he’d be a great choice for VP, but I am worried about people who would smear him because of Gaza. I’ve read up on how his own views on it have changed and how he supports a two-state solution like pretty much any other Democrat and how he is against Netanyahu, but you just know how misinformation that appeals to people’s biases can stick.

well first off I don't think we should worry till we have a VP pick (statements that will be dated very soon) we don't know who Vice President Harris will pick, it might be Governor Shapiro, it might be Pete Buttigieg, Mark Kelly, Tim Walz, or Andy Beshear, and I think they're all great, all good picks, all worthwhile.

On Josh Shapiro himself, I've seen an alarming amount of, disinformation, lies, misinformation, and twisting about him, indeed over the weekend one of the most aggressive attempts to ratfuck a person in such a short period of time I've ever seen. I can't say for sure where it came from but it was an impressive weekend for misinformation, with a trans panic about a cisgender boxer in the Olympics and anti-immigrant race riots in the UK targeting muslims about an attack carried out by a British born teen. Both cases as it turns out go back to Russian misinformation (Boxer, Race Riot) Just something to keep in mind as we watch fake and misleading stories about Democratic elected officials pop up.

Any ways on Shapiro himself, He has a very progressive record, his views on Israel are the same as everyone else on the short list, and indeed Kamala Harris views too. In some ways as a Jewish politician he's felt more comfortable criticizing Israel and Netanyahu than Goyish politicians, there's a good article about this:

if someone is willing to vote for Harris with any other VP, but not Shapiro, even though he has the same views on Israel as the rest, and indeed none of them have called Netanyahu "one of the worst leaders of all time", well they just have a problem with a Jewish VP.

I'm not overly worried about it TBH, antisemitism is a huge turn off to normal voters, but its up to everyone normal to dismiss it and keep trucking.

I don't know who Kamala Harris will pick, but if its Josh Shapiro, I'll be thinking about this news story from 1986 every time he comes up:

Before he was 13 years old Josh Shapiro formed a national organization to fight to free a friend he'd never met before in person from an evil empire, and they did.

[nando161mando]

".@shane_burley1 Along with white nationalists and antisemitic conspiracy theorists, Musk's now eagerly engaging with the UK and German far right. Can his boosters from the Jewish right, from Netanyahu to Ben Shapiro, still provide the cover he needs?"

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Kamala Harris: Mystery Commander in Chief

How would the Vice President keep America safe in a dangerous world? The voters deserve some answers.

The Editorial Board --- Wall Street Journal

Kamala Harris is all but telling Americans they’ll have to elect her to find out what she really believes, as the Vice President ducks interviews and the media give her a free ride. This is bad enough on domestic issues, but on foreign policy it could be perilous. The world is more dangerous than it’s been in decades, and Americans deserve to know how the woman aiming to be Commander in Chief Harris would confront these threats.

Ms. Harris this week tweeted a photo of her sitting next to President Biden in the White House situation room discussing the Middle East. The point is to suggest she’s a co-pilot on Biden foreign policy.

This isn’t the credential the Harris campaign thinks it is, and the voters should hear directly from her what she thinks about the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, the failure to deter Russia in Ukraine, the Iranian nuclear program, China’s island grabs in the South China Sea, and more. The matter is all the more important because Ms. Harris conspicuously declined to choose a running mate who might lend foreign policy experience to the ticket.

Ms. Harris has given a few hints about her own views on the Middle East, and those aren’t encouraging. Her team spent much of Thursday walking back whether she told an anti-Israel group she’d be willing to ponder an arms embargo against Israel. She skipped Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress when our main Middle East ally is under siege. Did she pass over Josh Shapiro as her running mate because he would have enraged the anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party?

To the extent she has revealed a larger instinct on national security, it’s been wrong. She told the Council on Foreign Relations in 2019 that she’d rejoin the Iran nuclear deal as long as “Iran also returned to verifiable compliance.” But Iran didn’t comply and is now on the brink of a nuclear breakout.

Her 2018 Senate vote to “end U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen,” as Ms. Harris put it in a tweet, also hasn’t aged well. The Houthis the Saudis were fighting are now targeting commercial ships in the Red Sea almost daily and putting U.S. naval assets at risk. Does she think this status quo can persist—and what would she do differently?

Ms. Harris will surely argue that she and Mr. Biden reinvigorated the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after Vladimir Putin’s invasion in Ukraine. But absent a change in U.S. political will, the war in Ukraine isn’t on track to end on terms favorable to American interests. Her past enthusiasm for banning fracking—which her campaign is trying to walk back—also suggests she isn’t serious about checking Mr. Putin’s main source of war financing.

Ms. Harris would no doubt also tout the diplomatic progress the Biden Administration has made in Asia with Japan, the Philippines and others. Yet she whiffed on one of the single most important diplomatic questions in Asia: She opposed Barack Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that would have excluded China and boosted America as the region’s premiere trading partner.

Most important, will Ms. Harris build up the hard military assets required to deter China’s Xi Jinping and a consolidating axis of U.S. adversaries? “I unequivocally agree with the goal of reducing the defense budget,” Ms. Harris said as a Senator in 2020 after voting against a Bernie Sanders proposal to slash the Pentagon by 10%. That vote needed no explanation, but Ms. Harris wanted to make sure the left knew she was sympathetic. Does she still want to slash the defense budget?

Donald Trump often shoots from the hip on these subjects, and his favorable comments about dictators are witless. But his first-term record, especially on Iran and the Middle East, is far stronger than the Biden-Harris performance.

Americans shouldn’t have to read tea leaves to figure out if Ms. Harris would keep the country safe in a treacherous world.

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Sorry for posting Sinfest twice in a row, but it's a momentous day. In today's Sinfest, Republicans and Democrats literally kneel before "Zog", a triad of Benjamin Netanyahu, right-wing nutjob Ben Shapiro, and even more right-wing even more nutjob Lara Loomer. If you're wondering what these three seemingly random people have in common, I'll give you a hint: "Zog" is white supremacist slang for "Zionist Occupied Government".

Yes, that's right. I told you he'd do it eventually and I'd let you know, and now he's finally doing it and I'm letting you know. After a decade plus of "Bilderburger" jokes and (((Devils))) running the media, Tats is now explicitly saying that America is controlled by The Joos. He's fully mask-off now.

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“I personally believe Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the worst leaders of all time,” Shapiro told reporters in January, months before Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the Israeli leader to resign. At the time, Shapiro also pressed for an “immediate two-state solution,” something Netanyahu and his hard-right government stridently oppose. The anti-Shapiro campaign ignores these remarks but makes much of the governor’s comparison of campus Gaza protesters to “people dressed up in KKK outfits.” When he said that in an interview, however, Shapiro was distinguishing between bigoted extremists—such as the Columbia campus-protest leader who called for killing “Zionists”—and peaceful demonstrators, about whom the governor has said, “It’s right for young people to righteously protest and question.”

[takami-takami]

The fact that Benjamin Netanyahu is counting on a Trump presidency and that Israel in general favors Trump should speak volumes.

And at the same time, Harris has not deviated from Biden's policies and has given little indication she would do anything different from his policy with respect to Gaza— especially because she keeps invoking his name, saying "me and Biden are working around the clock for a ceasefire," like. You know damn well what that man did to Palestinians.

The fact that she has been forced to speak on it and pick Walz over Shapiro because of the protests is important, because it shows she can be moved. Now is the time to demand an American arms embargo to Israel and an end to weapons deals with the Israeli state.

This is crucial. If she does not deliver on this, she is showing complete alignment with Joe Biden's policies.

We have to show that we demand an END to the genocide, not a slight deviation from it. We demand to see Palestinians begin to rebuild on the soil and slowly heal from the trauma inflicted upon them. If we do not see a complete END to the cycle, we will not be satisfied.

If she can be pushed, keep pushing!

[plitnick]

What the Saudi-Iran deal means for Palestine, Israel, the U.S., and the Mideast

There were strong reactions to last week’s surprise announcement that China had brokered an agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to normalize relations once again. Most viewed it as a very positive development, although how much impact it will have and whether it will even ultimately last remains to be seen. Reactions were so positive that the US even had to put on a brave face and pretend it…