Levon Zevon -KAFIR-

Merkel becomes the 1st person to receive the European Order of Merit, the EU’s new top honor for people who have contributed the most to Europe’s development. In her speech, she urged EU leaders to regulate speech on social media She says it’s the only way to “ save democracy”

Bezos went on CNBC yesterday and said "You could double the taxes I pay and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens." And all the bureaucrats and socialists lost their minds. Promise the teacher a raise. Tax everyone. Launder the money through Washington. Then blame the billionaire. We aren't morons Ro, we've seen this before. Bezos said the bottom half of earners should pay zero federal income tax. A nurse in Queens making $75K hands the IRS $12K a year. He said cut it to zero. She keeps her full paycheck. No bs refund, paperwork or shady government program. Simple. They won't do it. And you should ask yourself why. They don't ACTUALLY want to help anyone. They just want to pretend they tried and get your votes while making you hate the ppl they scammed. They want the money to flow through Washington, the city, every ponzi department and consultant and charity so each one can wet their beak. By the time it reaches the teacher it's maybe $100, if that... And then they'll blame the billionaire who hasn't paid their "fair share." Right Warren??? Lets take a gander at Mamdani's education budget. NYC spends $42K per student per year, 3x the national average ($15K). Highest in America. Florida pays $9K. NYC spends more per pupil than most people pay for private school or college. Its frickn insane. The budget has gone up every year, enrollment has gone down. With all that money only 3 out of 10 kids can read in the 8th grade. Cuba can read better english and they speak spanish lol. So where is the money going? Def not to teachers. but shh, ro doesn't want you to know that. A starting teacher in NYC makes $65K. Mamdani's city spends $42K per kid, runs a $40B budget. You could pay every teacher six figures with that money and have 12 kids per a classroom. But thats too logical. It goes to administrators. Consultants. Overtime. Unions. Friends and family businesses. Pensions for people who left a decade ago. Studies about studies. Buildings that take ten years to renovate. Everyone else but the kids, teachers and actual schools THERE IS ENOUGH MONEY. Politicians decide where the money goes. Teachers are underpaid because of how government spends money. Not because Bezos doesn't pay enough. Then they stand outside a billionaire's apartment with a camera and tell you he's the problem. That's the SCAM. Ro Khanna says tax billionaires to fund $60K teacher salaries. NYC already spends enough to fund $100K teacher salaries. The money's there, Ro. Your people are the ones who won't give it to her. Federal level is the same story. DOE spending up 649% since 2000 and kids aren't any smarter. GAO found $186 billion in improper payments last year. $3 trillion in errors since 2003. It’s criminal. Stop taxing the nurse. No bureaucracy. Just let the woman keep her full paycheck. Outrage is deflection. They'd rather she pay. Because her keeping her own money doesn't fund the machine and they lose the one thing that keeps the whole racket going: a billionaire to blame.

Tom doing the lord’s work here. No more OKC fan excuses. Your dude is a mathematically confirmed flopper…

Democrat Senate Candidate Graham Platner had a Nazi-symbol tattoo controversy. Deleted Reddit posts. Anti-police rants. Communist branding. Now he is accused of mocking a Purple Heart recipient shot 4 times in Afghanistan. And the 28 Democratic veterans in Congress? Silent.

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Massie: I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv

Some of you might have noticed that there have been repeated attempts to create a "two-state solution" in Eretz Israel (or "Palestine" if you want) and that it never works. The primary reason it never works is that the "Palestinian" side of it and its terror groups reject it. The reason they reject it can be found in the 1988 Hamas Charter explicitly, which declares that they recognize the entire region as having been set aside as Islamic Waqf since the seventh century. This is a doctrine within Islam and Sharia and, as you should expect, the Muslim Brotherhood and its derivatives take it extremely strictly and literally. The doctrine of waqf is probably 98% of the reason why the Middle East is the way that it is with regard to the (modern) state of Israel, but almost nobody ever actually seems to recognize this. The doctrine of Waqf is roughly an Islamic land trust, although the "owner" of that land is taken literally to be Allah once it has been declared waqf. Since Allah "owns" it, it is fully "Dar al-Islam" (land of Islam) in a fully irrevocable, permanent, and inalienable way. No one can have any ownership of the land, but certain Muslims in good standing can hold stewardship of it. No one else can. It cannot be sold. It cannot be traded. It doesn't matter if it is conquered by a thousand armies. The land is viewed under Sharia as inalienably Islamic and belonging to Allah. The doctrine sees land under waqf as having been subdued or purified under Islamic doctrine. The land has been returned to its pristine state, in some sense. It is therefore regarded as an unholy defilement for anyone to make any claim upon the land, no matter how legitimate, old, or under any circumstances. To sell the land as a Muslim steward, especially to a Jew, is to incur a fatwa against you and your family (a capital offense). To occupy the land is the same. People who believe this in the way the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, etc., believe it, believe these things literally. They believe they have a holy obligation to murder anyone involved in what they see as a desecration of Allah's pristine Dar al-Islam land, and they act upon it. There is no possibility of compromise, partition, sharing, or any other such thing with people who believe this doctrine in this way. None. Ever. Under any circumstances. Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc., believe that in the late 7th century when the Muslim Caliph conquered all of Syria-Palaestina ("Palestine") and declared it waqf (specifically in part so Jews could never return), that was final and irrevocable. The case is closed. There can never be so much as a serious discussion of any change. Therefore, when the Allies, particularly British and French forces, conquered the Ottomans in 1917 and issued the Balfour Declaration, effectively taking control of the land as conquered territory under their management ("British Mandate Palestine" and "French Mandate Syria"), they had absolutely no legal standing to do so under Sharia, from the Islamist perspective. They could conquer people but not Allah or his irrevocable claim on the land. When the League of Nations ratified the Mandates in the following years, the same. When the United Nations attempted to issue a partition in 1947, the same. When Israel declared independence in 1948, the same. When the Arab armies attacked and lost the next day, this did nothing to strengthen their case for legal occupation of the land. When a million attempted partition and two-state solutions were proposed only to be rejected by the Arab Palestinians every time, this is ultimately why. Almost all the rest is window dressing and taqiyyah. The issue is seeing the land as Islamic Waqf under Sharia, to which the Muslim Islamists have submitted. The Muslim Brotherhood (thus Hamas, etc.) doctrine on submission is that you fully accept all of this as I have stated it or you are not a real Muslim at all. You are apostate, and your life is in danger, if not forfeit, unless you will change your ways, perhaps under duress. Do you understand? Either you think this way, or the MB and its affiliate terror organizations do not recognize you as a Muslim to begin with, so your opinion is as irrelevant and moot as a Westerner, a Christian, an infidel, or a Jew. If you are taking the "Palestinian" side in these conflicts or see Israel as intrinsically the aggressor, provocateur, problem, etc., in the region, you are implicitly endorsing the Sharia and the doctrine of waqf that is the overwhelming primary reason for those beliefs. Full stop. You're supporting a view only intelligible under Sharia. Waqf, the idea of Allah owning land in religious trust, is a uniquely Sharia doctrine. It does not exist anywhere else. Israel obtained nearly all the land in Eretz Israel legally. The Allied Forces (that's us, fam) beat the Central Powers in WWI, including the Ottoman Empire, and took the entire region from them. All international law recognized it, including the League of Nations and later United Nations, and no serious challenge to that legal reality was ever made. Zionists bought land there, often from Ottoman landlords, and slowly moved in. Almost all immigration was legal with the only illegal immigration being during WWII when the British limited legal immigration in order to appease the Mufti. When Britain withdrew in 1947, the United Nations suggested the partition, and only the Arabs rejected it. Under every system of law that might apply except Sharia, the people we recognize as Israelis today moved in legally. It was not "settler occupation" except under Sharia. We are not under any obligation to recognize Sharia, or, therefore, waqf. We do not need to care what they believe about ownership of that land under their religious-political doctrine, especially since they try to hide the ball behind displacement, Arab nationalism, and some claimed right to self-determination (which they lost in wars that they always started, with the exception of WWI, which the Central Powers including the Ottomans started). The fig leaf they hide waqf behind here is this claim to self-determining pan-Arab nationalism, but what it actually means to have self-determination is to be able to determine the land is irrevocably theirs under Sharia because of waqf. If you don't recognize Sharia as legitimately binding international law, then you don't recognize the "Palestinian's" claim on the land of Eretz Israel, including Judea or Samaria (the "West Bank"), or Gaza for that matter (which was held by the Egyptians). Thank you for your attention to this matter!