I was in Istanbul in 01 and you could sense radicalism and anger coming out of the masques. I was there to see and draw/sketch the Hagia Sofia. The masques at the University were the most angry questioned us and followed us. They thought we were Mosad LOL because my traveling mates looked German . Next year they bombed the Synagogue (no Jews left anyway ) Peace and Free The Kurds!!!!
Hey Ethan, are you going correct the bullshit you've spread about the violence in Amsterdam. It was the Israeli visitors causing it, not Palestinian supporters.
To be brutally honest, the Iranian regime was only coddled thanks to the Obama administration and his holdovers in his unofficial third term. From Jake Sullivan to Rob Malley, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more hardcore group of terror-supporters. Every IRGC embed in DC needs to be rooted out and their clearances stripped.
History rhymes. About 30 years ago there was a big crisis among liberals that Rush Limbaugh and a few of his imitators had to be countered, and with some billionaire money they came up with "Air America," a syndicated suite of left-liberal radio talk and news shows, mostly talk. It was almost unlistenable and after a few years stations started to cancel it in favor of programming that people wanted to hear. It finally folded some years ago. The problem was the same as now--the format appealed to certain demographics who also had specific, conservative social or political leanings, so politically opposite programming in that format had no audience. The same as that a Trumpian populist talk show would likely be a poor fit for a baroque music program on NPR.
Anyway, there are plenty of leftist, progressive , and liberal shows on YT, including long form interviews. If nobody has the stature of Rogan it is because none of them have his particular magic, but that is something you can't force.
American Wars that are won by the US Military since 1945 are given away at table. Vietnam is an outstanding example, also the throwing away of victory in 2003 in Afghanistan and Iraq during the occupation. This isn’t a democracy as ideology problem but a consistent policy by the State Department that must be understood in the context of our internal power politics;
1. politics is power.
2. Any political difference is a struggle for power inescapably.
3. There is a natural tension between the elected and the unelected, not dissimilar to the tension between the religious and the secular in religious countries. In America the elected have legitimacy and the unelected have in truth the power. As the military is completely subordinate to the President (much of the government such as the CIA and the Civil Service are not) the military isn’t part of the permanent bureaucracy at all) the military falls under the control of the elected. Dangerously so from the standpoint of the unelected.
4. When wars are won both the military and the President become stronger.
5. Conversely defeats discredit and weaken the President and military.
6. A forced defeat especially after signing a peace treaty that hands victory to the enemy both discredits the military and President while showing all who has the real power- what proof of power is stronger than forcing the victors into defeat by telling them they must lose?
7. No, we’re not all 🇺🇸 on the same side.
So no, Israel can’t afford this nonsense. We can because it’s all far away. It’s a mistake however to think this has anything to do with dreams of democracy. It is politics.
"..such as creating their “own” Joe Rogan.."
That'll work out as well as their attempt at: "we'll create our own Rush Limbaugh left-based radio network!!".
But, let's hope/pray they blow another cool $1B on the futile project; like they have for the last 120 days.
The Left has spent the better part of the last 20 years excoriating, denigrating and demoralizing boys and men to dangerous and alarming degrees.
And they wonder why their not jumping into their arms with joy.
These people are utterly incapable of even the slightest genuine introspection.
As long as the Democrat base is predicated on identity politics they will be in the political desert
I was in Istanbul in 01 and you could sense radicalism and anger coming out of the masques. I was there to see and draw/sketch the Hagia Sofia. The masques at the University were the most angry questioned us and followed us. They thought we were Mosad LOL because my traveling mates looked German . Next year they bombed the Synagogue (no Jews left anyway ) Peace and Free The Kurds!!!!
“ any resumption of talk about a Palestinian state would need to go back to the Abraham Accords as its starting point.”
I sincerely hope Jared Kuschner serves in Trump’s administration again. His contributions were a brilliant and most historic game changer.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Hey Ethan, are you going correct the bullshit you've spread about the violence in Amsterdam. It was the Israeli visitors causing it, not Palestinian supporters.
To be brutally honest, the Iranian regime was only coddled thanks to the Obama administration and his holdovers in his unofficial third term. From Jake Sullivan to Rob Malley, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more hardcore group of terror-supporters. Every IRGC embed in DC needs to be rooted out and their clearances stripped.
Re "creating their own Joe Rogan."
History rhymes. About 30 years ago there was a big crisis among liberals that Rush Limbaugh and a few of his imitators had to be countered, and with some billionaire money they came up with "Air America," a syndicated suite of left-liberal radio talk and news shows, mostly talk. It was almost unlistenable and after a few years stations started to cancel it in favor of programming that people wanted to hear. It finally folded some years ago. The problem was the same as now--the format appealed to certain demographics who also had specific, conservative social or political leanings, so politically opposite programming in that format had no audience. The same as that a Trumpian populist talk show would likely be a poor fit for a baroque music program on NPR.
Anyway, there are plenty of leftist, progressive , and liberal shows on YT, including long form interviews. If nobody has the stature of Rogan it is because none of them have his particular magic, but that is something you can't force.
American Wars that are won by the US Military since 1945 are given away at table. Vietnam is an outstanding example, also the throwing away of victory in 2003 in Afghanistan and Iraq during the occupation. This isn’t a democracy as ideology problem but a consistent policy by the State Department that must be understood in the context of our internal power politics;
1. politics is power.
2. Any political difference is a struggle for power inescapably.
3. There is a natural tension between the elected and the unelected, not dissimilar to the tension between the religious and the secular in religious countries. In America the elected have legitimacy and the unelected have in truth the power. As the military is completely subordinate to the President (much of the government such as the CIA and the Civil Service are not) the military isn’t part of the permanent bureaucracy at all) the military falls under the control of the elected. Dangerously so from the standpoint of the unelected.
4. When wars are won both the military and the President become stronger.
5. Conversely defeats discredit and weaken the President and military.
6. A forced defeat especially after signing a peace treaty that hands victory to the enemy both discredits the military and President while showing all who has the real power- what proof of power is stronger than forcing the victors into defeat by telling them they must lose?
7. No, we’re not all 🇺🇸 on the same side.
So no, Israel can’t afford this nonsense. We can because it’s all far away. It’s a mistake however to think this has anything to do with dreams of democracy. It is politics.
Politics is Power.
The entire State Department needs to be cleaned out, top to bottom.
It has been nothing but a nest of permanently imbedded bureaucratic vipers, mostly anti-Semitic vipers at that.
P.S. And the entirety of the Pentagon top brass needs to go too!