Brilliant insight about Gaza. Why don’t the Palestinians develop it?
Because their raison d’etre is to destroy Israel. They traumatize their children by taking them to ceremonies where babies’ coffins are displayed on a stage. They throw people who are opposed to Hamas off rooftops.
The few good people in these communities are terrorized into silence.
I confess I'm also laughing as Donald Trump telephones the world like a modern-day Diogenes trying to find a country that will take the Gazans. Egypt and Jordan aren't taking his calls, and Sudan keeps telling its secretary to say they're in a meeting. And Syria and Somalia are like, "Uh, yeah, uh, we haven't heard from him. So, uh, we don't know what you're talking about!" Meanwhile the message Trump keeps getting from both phone lines is, "Sorry, the user's voice mail is full. Please call back another day. Goodbye."
It's interesting that for all the clothes-rending and teeth-gnashing that goes on in the Middle East over the Gazans, no one is willing to take them in. The Arab League suddenly taking an interest in helping the Gazans develop the land themselves shows how desperate they are to keep them where they are, and not likely because "it's their land too." I just wish they'd tell us how they're going to bell the very big cat: Eliminating Hamas from this scenario.
Alright let’s try this again. An interesting article to be sure, Labia! I half agree with it and half disagree with it. I would agree with you President Trump is doing more than the out of touch and incompetent Democrats would’ve done if they were in power right now.
They made absolute fools of themselves at President Trump’s address to Congress. Al Green acted like a total horse’s rear end and got kicked out of Congress. Two Congress members walked out when President Trump brought up the price of eggs. They were totally disrespectful and were all on their phones when President Trump shouted out a volunteer firefighter who raised multiple children, Laken Riley’s family, D.J. Daniel a little boy who survived brain cancer, and a girl who suffered a brain injury competing against a Trans athlete.
It just goes to show you what we would’ve gotten had Kamala won. A party that virtue signals rather than takes action, doesn’t care about optics, is totally out of touch with the American public, and does nothing but talk a big game but can’t back it up. Or how about these sanctuary city Mayors who got absolutely annihilated by Republican Congressmen and women at a recent hearing for harboring illegal immigrants including criminals and terrorists in their cities? The Dems are totally incompetent and corrupt.
Donald Trump has wasted no time at least trying to get positive things done on behalf of the American people rather than just play games like the Dems are doing. He is kind of like a bull in a china shop but in a good way-taking a wrecking ball to the political establishment in this country. I’m very impressed with many of the policies he has enacted.
Signing the Laken Riley Act, banning gender-affirming care for minors, banning Trans people from competing in women’s sports, securing our Southern border and deporting the millions of illegal immigrants who snuck in, restoring Mount McKinley’s correct name, appointing an excellent cabinet, pushing the Europeans to pay more into NATO and rearm, and negotiating ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza are all huge wins for our country and the world.
At the same time, this is not to say I agree with everything he’s done. I don’t agree with his tariffs, abolishing the Department of Education, pulling out of the Paris Accords, banning the Associated Press from the Oval Office, banning all illegal immigrants from getting Social Security, and repealing LBJ’s executive order on affirmative action for example. I support the President but I’m not going to be a sycophant for him.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say he’s crazy. To be sure he is provocative but that’s just how he governs. He’s certainly not the first President to be accused of being unstable. People said the same thing about Andrew Jackson and Richard Nixon. That they wanted to be a king or a dictator, were crazy and paranoid, that they were reckless and didn’t know what they are doing, etc. Also, there is a method to Trump’s madness, he does everything with a purpose.
The tariffs he put on Canada are in response to taxes they’ve put on American products, to redress trade imbalances and pressure the Canadian government to help stop the flow of Fentanyl coming across the northern border. I’m skeptical of the claim only 0.2% percent of the drug comes through there as the media claims. In Panama, he didn’t really want the Panama Canal. He was putting pressure on Panama to pull out of China’s Belt Road Initiative which they did. The last example I would use would be Trump has no intention of having the U.S. run Gaza or transfer its population. What he’s trying to do is to get Egypt and Jordan to handle the situation in the region themselves.
It’s also worth noting that what Elon Musk and the DOGE are doing is nothing new. In the 1990s, Bill Clinton fired 377,000 government employees when he was in office and Barack Obama launched an initiative called “cut wasteful spending” during his Presidency. I would agree that Musk and the DOGE haven’t always gone about cutting government waste the right way. But overall what they are doing is all to the good.
I hear you though about being vigilant about Trump’s actions. If he goes too far or enacts a policy that is wrongheaded or misguided, I will call him out and use the power of my vote to make that clear to him and the Republicans. For example, if they cut Medicaid I would definitely heavily criticize the President for that, e-mail my elected officials and make my voice heard in favor of protecting Medicaid. I will push the President to stay true to his oath of office and stay on the straight and narrow.
Much, much better, Noah! Makes it so much easier to read, thank you. All I will say is that the fight with Canada is about one thing and one thing only: Coming after our resources. He's in no position to piss and moan about the 'terrible' tariffs; HE SIGNED IT in 2017. And called it the most perfect, beautiful trade agreement ever signed. It's also not about drugs; Canada is responsible for less than.2% of the fentanyl coming into the US and the US sends it to us too so you could argue we're just returning it ;P No, he has a big jones for rare earth minerals - just like Putin and Xinpeng. That's behind the minerals deal he's trying to cut with Zelenskyy. It's why he wants Greenland - they have a lot of rare earth minerals too. And now with this talk about not wanting to honour our countries' boundaries anymore--or our Great Lakes agreement---which currently favours the US--it's not about anything other than expanding his 'empire' and taking our natural resources. It's not about calling us back to the table to re-negotiate. Because that won't put an end to this. He's a goddamn wannabe dictator and he will NEVER acquire Canada unless he kills every last one of us. I will fight the US if I have to. He's as serious as Putin about expanding his territory. It ain't gonnna happen.
Out of curiosity: Are you yourself Jewish, Labia? Or at least of partial Jewish descent? I am.
But Yeah, if a permanent solution to Gaza can be found that removes Hamas from the picture for good and does not result in (involuntary) ethnic cleansing, then that would be absolutely great!
No, I'm not Jewish. I I have had a lot of Jewish friends in my life though. Defeating Islamic extremism, though, is going to take more than eliminating one or two groups. The cancer runs throughout the Islamic world.
I agree and disagree with much of what you say. I do think Trump is crazy and in fact a few days ago I was Googling on whether he was going fuzzy because, last week, during the North American tariffs pingpong game, certain things he was saying and doing struck me as just a bit weird...even for Donald Trump. Like, not the more predictable Donald Trump weirdness although I still can't quite put my finger on it. Just like...he doesn't necessarily know what he's doing. Declaring economic war on everyone seems like a really bad way to conduct foreign affairs, as does destroying the government. Still looking for a team with a machete rather than manicure scissors or a chainsaw. And, headed by someone who actually knows something about running a government.
Donald Trump is as serious as can be about acquiring other countries and territories. It's not a negotiating tactic. He's after rare earth minerals, NOT stopping the drug supply into his country (which are .2% from Canada, much more from Mexico). He needs rare earth minerals which Canada has a lot of. We take him seriously, as does Denmark and I'm not sure where Panama stands in all this. I'm prepared to fight for my country in the event of an actual war...and in the current event of an economic war, I'm doing what I can to buy Canadian and make note of what needs to be ordered over the Internet when i can't.
This is the WORST President America has ever had. He's even worse than Trump I. That said, I won't pretend he's not doing some good, however ham-handed he is most of the time. Let's just hope his insanity doesn't affect *you*.
Hey, your first paragraph—congrats! Now stop being a snot, and get to work editing your blather into something resembling sensibility. I really would like to read it.
Assuming you're as clueless about editing your comments as you are about writing them, the "Edit" function is found (on a computer, I don't use phones for Substack) in the menu that pops up when you click on the ellipsis ('...') at the far right of the Name and date/time posted line.
Brilliant insight about Gaza. Why don’t the Palestinians develop it?
Because their raison d’etre is to destroy Israel. They traumatize their children by taking them to ceremonies where babies’ coffins are displayed on a stage. They throw people who are opposed to Hamas off rooftops.
The few good people in these communities are terrorized into silence.
You called them on it.
I confess I'm also laughing as Donald Trump telephones the world like a modern-day Diogenes trying to find a country that will take the Gazans. Egypt and Jordan aren't taking his calls, and Sudan keeps telling its secretary to say they're in a meeting. And Syria and Somalia are like, "Uh, yeah, uh, we haven't heard from him. So, uh, we don't know what you're talking about!" Meanwhile the message Trump keeps getting from both phone lines is, "Sorry, the user's voice mail is full. Please call back another day. Goodbye."
It's interesting that for all the clothes-rending and teeth-gnashing that goes on in the Middle East over the Gazans, no one is willing to take them in. The Arab League suddenly taking an interest in helping the Gazans develop the land themselves shows how desperate they are to keep them where they are, and not likely because "it's their land too." I just wish they'd tell us how they're going to bell the very big cat: Eliminating Hamas from this scenario.
Alright let’s try this again. An interesting article to be sure, Labia! I half agree with it and half disagree with it. I would agree with you President Trump is doing more than the out of touch and incompetent Democrats would’ve done if they were in power right now.
They made absolute fools of themselves at President Trump’s address to Congress. Al Green acted like a total horse’s rear end and got kicked out of Congress. Two Congress members walked out when President Trump brought up the price of eggs. They were totally disrespectful and were all on their phones when President Trump shouted out a volunteer firefighter who raised multiple children, Laken Riley’s family, D.J. Daniel a little boy who survived brain cancer, and a girl who suffered a brain injury competing against a Trans athlete.
It just goes to show you what we would’ve gotten had Kamala won. A party that virtue signals rather than takes action, doesn’t care about optics, is totally out of touch with the American public, and does nothing but talk a big game but can’t back it up. Or how about these sanctuary city Mayors who got absolutely annihilated by Republican Congressmen and women at a recent hearing for harboring illegal immigrants including criminals and terrorists in their cities? The Dems are totally incompetent and corrupt.
Donald Trump has wasted no time at least trying to get positive things done on behalf of the American people rather than just play games like the Dems are doing. He is kind of like a bull in a china shop but in a good way-taking a wrecking ball to the political establishment in this country. I’m very impressed with many of the policies he has enacted.
Signing the Laken Riley Act, banning gender-affirming care for minors, banning Trans people from competing in women’s sports, securing our Southern border and deporting the millions of illegal immigrants who snuck in, restoring Mount McKinley’s correct name, appointing an excellent cabinet, pushing the Europeans to pay more into NATO and rearm, and negotiating ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza are all huge wins for our country and the world.
At the same time, this is not to say I agree with everything he’s done. I don’t agree with his tariffs, abolishing the Department of Education, pulling out of the Paris Accords, banning the Associated Press from the Oval Office, banning all illegal immigrants from getting Social Security, and repealing LBJ’s executive order on affirmative action for example. I support the President but I’m not going to be a sycophant for him.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say he’s crazy. To be sure he is provocative but that’s just how he governs. He’s certainly not the first President to be accused of being unstable. People said the same thing about Andrew Jackson and Richard Nixon. That they wanted to be a king or a dictator, were crazy and paranoid, that they were reckless and didn’t know what they are doing, etc. Also, there is a method to Trump’s madness, he does everything with a purpose.
The tariffs he put on Canada are in response to taxes they’ve put on American products, to redress trade imbalances and pressure the Canadian government to help stop the flow of Fentanyl coming across the northern border. I’m skeptical of the claim only 0.2% percent of the drug comes through there as the media claims. In Panama, he didn’t really want the Panama Canal. He was putting pressure on Panama to pull out of China’s Belt Road Initiative which they did. The last example I would use would be Trump has no intention of having the U.S. run Gaza or transfer its population. What he’s trying to do is to get Egypt and Jordan to handle the situation in the region themselves.
It’s also worth noting that what Elon Musk and the DOGE are doing is nothing new. In the 1990s, Bill Clinton fired 377,000 government employees when he was in office and Barack Obama launched an initiative called “cut wasteful spending” during his Presidency. I would agree that Musk and the DOGE haven’t always gone about cutting government waste the right way. But overall what they are doing is all to the good.
I hear you though about being vigilant about Trump’s actions. If he goes too far or enacts a policy that is wrongheaded or misguided, I will call him out and use the power of my vote to make that clear to him and the Republicans. For example, if they cut Medicaid I would definitely heavily criticize the President for that, e-mail my elected officials and make my voice heard in favor of protecting Medicaid. I will push the President to stay true to his oath of office and stay on the straight and narrow.
Much, much better, Noah! Makes it so much easier to read, thank you. All I will say is that the fight with Canada is about one thing and one thing only: Coming after our resources. He's in no position to piss and moan about the 'terrible' tariffs; HE SIGNED IT in 2017. And called it the most perfect, beautiful trade agreement ever signed. It's also not about drugs; Canada is responsible for less than.2% of the fentanyl coming into the US and the US sends it to us too so you could argue we're just returning it ;P No, he has a big jones for rare earth minerals - just like Putin and Xinpeng. That's behind the minerals deal he's trying to cut with Zelenskyy. It's why he wants Greenland - they have a lot of rare earth minerals too. And now with this talk about not wanting to honour our countries' boundaries anymore--or our Great Lakes agreement---which currently favours the US--it's not about anything other than expanding his 'empire' and taking our natural resources. It's not about calling us back to the table to re-negotiate. Because that won't put an end to this. He's a goddamn wannabe dictator and he will NEVER acquire Canada unless he kills every last one of us. I will fight the US if I have to. He's as serious as Putin about expanding his territory. It ain't gonnna happen.
Out of curiosity: Are you yourself Jewish, Labia? Or at least of partial Jewish descent? I am.
But Yeah, if a permanent solution to Gaza can be found that removes Hamas from the picture for good and does not result in (involuntary) ethnic cleansing, then that would be absolutely great!
No, I'm not Jewish. I I have had a lot of Jewish friends in my life though. Defeating Islamic extremism, though, is going to take more than eliminating one or two groups. The cancer runs throughout the Islamic world.
Islam has much deeper problems than just anti-Semitism:
https://akarlin.com/map-death-for-apostasy/
If you're not already familiar with it, this stack is an excellent accompaniment to that book. https://open.substack.com/pub/sashastone?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ulpkk
Thank you Steve, I thought Sasha's newsletter looked interesting so I'm giving it a whirl.
I agree and disagree with much of what you say. I do think Trump is crazy and in fact a few days ago I was Googling on whether he was going fuzzy because, last week, during the North American tariffs pingpong game, certain things he was saying and doing struck me as just a bit weird...even for Donald Trump. Like, not the more predictable Donald Trump weirdness although I still can't quite put my finger on it. Just like...he doesn't necessarily know what he's doing. Declaring economic war on everyone seems like a really bad way to conduct foreign affairs, as does destroying the government. Still looking for a team with a machete rather than manicure scissors or a chainsaw. And, headed by someone who actually knows something about running a government.
Donald Trump is as serious as can be about acquiring other countries and territories. It's not a negotiating tactic. He's after rare earth minerals, NOT stopping the drug supply into his country (which are .2% from Canada, much more from Mexico). He needs rare earth minerals which Canada has a lot of. We take him seriously, as does Denmark and I'm not sure where Panama stands in all this. I'm prepared to fight for my country in the event of an actual war...and in the current event of an economic war, I'm doing what I can to buy Canadian and make note of what needs to be ordered over the Internet when i can't.
This is the WORST President America has ever had. He's even worse than Trump I. That said, I won't pretend he's not doing some good, however ham-handed he is most of the time. Let's just hope his insanity doesn't affect *you*.
Let me introduce you to the...paragraph.
See? Very easy to use. Try it sometime.
Hey, your first paragraph—congrats! Now stop being a snot, and get to work editing your blather into something resembling sensibility. I really would like to read it.
Assuming you're as clueless about editing your comments as you are about writing them, the "Edit" function is found (on a computer, I don't use phones for Substack) in the menu that pops up when you click on the ellipsis ('...') at the far right of the Name and date/time posted line.