The Doctor

My views are mine. I try to temper my snark I fail miserably We may agree on somethings Some of my views may enrage I question everything Sometimes better than others More speech is better than controlled speech I like jokes Even if they go against my views If funny

🧵Imagine this. It’s pitch black, May 1948. A car slips out of Haifa, heading east through tense checkpoints. Inside sits a woman wrapped in the flowing black robes of a Muslim wife. She doesn’t speak a word of Arabic. Beside her is Ezra Danin, dressed as her Arab husband, the one who’ll do the talking. A second car follows, its windows blacked out tight. Golda Meir is on her way to meet King Abdullah of Transjordan, and no one on the other side can know. The king wouldn’t cross the border. He wouldn’t even tell his own Arab Legion that Jewish visitors were coming. If things turned sour, she was alone. Capture could mean interrogation, or worse. Still, she went. Four days before Israel would declare independence, she had to look him in the eye and ask: would he keep his word? Six months earlier, in November 1947, they’d met more openly at Naharayim by the Jordan River. Abdullah had promised her then: if the UN voted to split Palestine, he’d stay out of any fight. He disliked the Grand Mufti, wanted peace, and gave his word as one man to another. Golda believed him. Now everything felt different. Word had come that he was joining the Arab League and massing troops. So she made the dangerous trip to Amman. The king who greeted her looked pale and worn down. “I spoke to you as a man alone,” he told her. “Now I am one of five.” Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, they had him boxed in. He offered a deal: drop the idea of a Jewish state. Take autonomy inside a bigger Jordan. In a year, merge everything under his rule. Golda said no, straight away. Why the rush, he asked. “We’ve been waiting two thousand years,” she replied. The Arabs, he said, could not wait any longer. She warned him plainly: break your promise and there will be war. The Jews would fight. He knew she meant every word. The meeting ended. War came five days later, the morning after Israel declared independence on 14 May. But Golda had been preparing for that moment long before. Back in January 1948, the Jewish leadership was broke and war was closing in. They sent her to America, hoping for maybe seven or eight million dollars. She aimed higher, twenty-five million. In Chicago, at a big Jewish federations meeting, she gave a speech she later called unscheduled and raw, straight from the heart. The room emptied its pockets. She came home with fifty million. After independence she went back and raised tens of millions more. That money bought arms, planes, and time. David Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary that one day history would say a Jewish woman got the funds that made the state possible. On 14 May she stood in a room in Tel Aviv and signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence, one of only two women among the signers. She later said it felt unreal, like stepping into the history books she’d read as a schoolgirl. She cried. The years that followed were remarkable. Ambassador to Moscow. Minister of Labour, building homes and roads for hundreds of thousands. Foreign Minister for a decade, reaching out to new nations in Africa and Latin America. Then, in 1969 at seventy, she became Prime Minister. All that time she carried a secret. Diagnosed with lymphoma in the mid-1960s, she told almost no one. She worked through pain, midnight treatments, exhaustion, because the country needed her more than she needed rest. 1/2⬇️

@NYCMayor claims that Easter is about sacrifice, but fails to mention that it was Jesus, in obedience to his Heavenly Father, made the sacrifice that gives us hope.

Governor Spanberger @SpanbergerForVA is to be congratulated for a boost in March gun sales. The more you try to violate people’s rights, the more they push back. @PolitiBunny guns.com/news/2026/04/0…

Democrats now believe Bush was the last good republican. Some of us are old enough to remember being told that he was an idiot warmonger worse than Hitler.

If you can, help Carl out.

@AlaskanCourtney Most people never draw their firearms. And they are happy that they don’t need it. However, that seldom time when they defend themselves, makes the other thousands of times of not needing one worth it all.

Disarming the law abiding only helps the criminals. This is not complicated.

@FrankLuntz We knew it all along. At least since the 1980’s. Act like Europe. Pay like Europe.

“Why California gas costs more: Higher taxes, labor and business costs, combined with environmental programs, regulations, and the state's unique fuel blend, drive up baseline prices.”

Why is that?

@lippyent @AlaskanCourtney

Sexy Saturday 🍑 ♥ 🔥!!

@walterkirn The law is slow to adapt to technology. Artists, creators, and innovators suffer first.

Apparently the US thinks it can thrive without imagination, creativity, and artistic ambition. Or maybe it no longer wishes to thrive? The cost will be higher than people imagine. Particularly once their imaginations are dead. A civilizational disaster looms.

I wonder if European countries realize that they have put NATO at the greatest level of risk since its inception? Perhaps these little countries should be completely responsible for their own security. After all, Europeans claim they wish our bases weren’t in their countries. Maybe these little world has outgrown NATO. I’m sure Russia will be happy to sell Europe its energy needs. But, I wonder if Europe will like the ultimate cost? It will be interesting to see if NATO can survive the decade.

@Martina Biden really let them down

Brutal. We helped make this happen.

@CHSommers Sad but true. Calling good evil and evil good is in itself evil.

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@GunFoundation @HarmeetKDhillon

🚨UPDATE🚨 The First Circuit just set the Second Amendment back decades in Beckwith v. Frey. In a shocking move, they claimed that "purchasing or acquiring" a firearm isn't actually covered by the "plain text" of the 2nd Amendment. This BEGS for Supreme Court review.

@GeorgeWept People love artificial outrage

Catholics don't traditionally have Mass on Good Friday. Plus, Catholics could attend the Good Friday service if they wanted to. They wouldn't get struck by lightning if they did. This whole thing is silly

This jerk! Why are you creating an uproar over NOTHING? Shame on you! x.com/i/status/20401…

A country divided in two Pretends to be one

@PaulleyTicks @SenseiOfSarcasm

BREAKING: Donald Trump meets privately with Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth to assure them their jobs are secure, amidst swirling rumors that they may be the next cabinet members to be fired.

@AntonioSabatoJr Ed Fendell click2houston.com/apollo/2019/07…

57 years ago Who shot the capsule leaving?

@wil_da_beast630 Does that mean she’s turned Gavin into a woman?

Divorce.