Jordan Grant

Finally didn’t bottle it

I think President Trump made an unwise decision in endorsing Ken Paxton today because Paxton could lose the Texas Senate seat to Talarico. I hope enough Texas Republicans thank the president for his advice and vote for @JohnCornyn during early voting now and next week. GOP needs him and the seat.

"This country is in moral decay, and we need to fix it" say the people supporting a corrupt serial adulterer for the Senate in Texas.

I thought the sad and evil part was the murder

Disgusting and evil

Still seems like one of the best trades for both teams and players in recent memory.

You're not a serious person if you think Obama ranks higher than the General who won World War II.

Some of us on the right were and continue to be critical of Trump because of where he falls short of our principled views and/or policy preferences. It bothers us that Trump isn't concerned about the national debt, that he supports harmful tariff policies, that he abuses pardon powers etc. None of that prevents us from supporting his administration when they do good things that are consistent with our principles. It certainly doesn't prevent us from cheering on border enforcement, encouraging a strong national defense/counter-terrorism strategy, or supporting better tax policies. Other people formerly on the right have made opposing Trump the central principle of their political ideology. They determine all of their policy views based on Trump's current policy preferences. Then there is another group that determines all of its views based exclusively on Israel now. Again, their guiding principle is driven exclusively by opposition/hate. Both of these groups are now increasingly allying themselves with left-wing extremists because their guiding political principle is centered on things that have nothing to do with policy outcomes or what's good for America. Even if they sometimes call themselves "America First". You will notice that we aren't the ones who changed any of our views. We aren't the ones suddenly pretending the threat from Islamic terrorism is overblown, that communism isn't that bad, or that Democrat extremism isn't a problem. We aren't the ones coordinating messaging with the left. We aren't the ones allying ourselves with Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur, Anna Kasparian etc., or making excuses for open bigotry on the left. The mistake that some people have made is to assume that the group doing those things, which is now driven exclusively by hate (whether of Trump, Israel, Jews etc.) is still part of the right's coalition. They certainly aren't reliable elements of it, and there is no need to pander to them. Let them try to get power within their new coalition, while the right should focus on recruiting people who are driven by wanting competence and policy wins, not motivated exclusively by hate.

I’m actually a big proponent of moving on from the history. The reality is that Israelis and Palestinians live there now. Israel is a legitimate state that isn’t going anywhere. And acceptance of that fact is critical to any future peace. But the consistent pattern if you do want to focus on the history is: - Arabs refuse to live peacefully next to Jews. - They start a war trying to wipe out Jews. - They lose that war. - They complain that it’s unfair and a crime for them to have lost. - Then they start plotting the next war. If you want to break that pattern, you don’t do it by trying to rewrite history to convince them that their refusal to accept Jewish neighbors and Israel was justified. Or pretending like the consequences of the wars they keep starting are all due to the other side. You do it by convincing them to move on. Arab countries like Jordan, Egypt, UAE etc did exactly that. It’s why their populations aren’t suffering from constant war.

“ Nakba” is what Muslims call getting their asses kicked in the war they started in 1948 to wipe out the Jews the day after Israel declared independence. They rejected partition, invaded with five armies, lost, then spent decades playing victim while expelling 850k Jews from Muslim lands (that were mostly Christian lands before they killed or ran them off too). Selective memory isn’t history, Mr. Mayor - it’s propaganda.

There is a reason this isn't being covered. It's because no one wants to admit that the problem is that education has become dominated by left-wing activists and the strategies working to reverse this trend are coming from red states: x.com/AGHamilton29/s…

Don’t know @JeremyDBoreing at all. Have no idea what went on at DW. I barely know what goes on at The Blaze. But what he says here about bad leadership is failing to act is cash money homey. Seen it a million times. Always better off making wrong decision fast so you still have time to course correct, then waiting too long to make the right decision and miss a moment that never returns. General rule of life — solve your problems with aggression/initiative.

The Arab Secretary General in the lead up to the Arab attack in 1948. How psychotic do you have to be to want to have the United States honor this?

The attacks on Ben are amusing, ridiculous attempts to stop the incoming tide of center-right domination of the ideas debate. Looking out 25 years, the conservative commentariat has: @GuyBenson, @Continetti, @bdomenech, @michaeljknowles, @SethAMandel, @NoahCRothman, @christopherrufo, @bethanyshondark, @benshapiro, @whignewtons…and that’s just the starting nine and a DH. Starting rotation includes @charlescwcooke, @jimgeraghty, @elilake and @AaronBMacLean and the bullpen and bench are full too, as is the Triple A league etc. Th @realDailyWire @WSJ opinion section, @NRO, @TheFP and more platforms continually hire and promote talented writers and talkers backed by young editors like @BrentScher and @jackbutler4815, keeping the public intellectual pipeline full of traditional Constitution-loving, rule-of-law embracing, deeply read and very funny superstars, most of whom are people of deep faith and thus full of high purpose. The agnostics are welcome as are converts. The defenders of the ideas of the West are thriving. The left and the fringes on both edges of the horseshoe —not so much. It is a desert there, its inhabitants reduced to having to denounce our ally Israel as the price of admission and to rage against the Constitution at regular intervals. Try coming up with a lineup and rotation for that “club.” We know the names of their old and increasingly decrepit and discredited platforms, kept afloat by inherited wealth providing subsidies or Wordle and recipe revenues, but is a bleak landscape on the left. Very bleak. So the attacks on any or all of the lineup like those this week on Ben bounce off their targets and serve only to underscore a dominance on ideas (old ideas, presented by fresh minds with grace and humor), and the emergence of new and prospering platforms like The Daily Wire and The Free Press. As the older generation rolls off into retirement or their reward, the intellectual rebellion founded by William F. Buckley has matured into a vast and greatly fortified commonwealth of talented and young brains devoted to freedom and the good. That’s a wonderful thought as we head into the summer of celebration of our collective 250th birthday.

This is insane nonsense. Even putting aside the historical revisionism and lies about what happened both 78 years ago and recently (very similar lies in that both cases involve Arabs starting wars because they can’t tolerate living next to Jews, losing those wars, and then claiming victim status), the supposed refugees being described are people who grew up and were born in completely different countries. Most of them have 0 connection to the land being described. Palestinians are the only group in history treated under this definition of refugees. The hundreds of thousands of Jews who were expelled from Arab countries after ‘48 aren’t referred to as refugees. No one discusses the right of those Jews to return to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon etc. The entire purpose of these lies is to encourage a perpetual conflict that prevents any chance of a permanent peace because it is premised on denial the existence of the current state. These lies end up hurting Palestinians because they encourage the delusion that they are entitled to the land that makes up modern-day Israel and thus must keep sacrificing both Palestinians and Israelis to secure that entitlement.

Palestinianism is the inversion of history where failing at genocide gets treated as a tragedy. Think about how deranged that is. To spend 78 years claiming it was a “disaster” that they didn’t successfully commit genocide. It’d be like the Germans having a “Nakba” day.

Asking Claude what would have happened had the Arab armies been successful in destroying Israel at its founding Prompt: Try project what would have happened in 1948 had the Arab military coalition been victorious in fighting Israel. Response: The counterfactual isn’t really speculative at the level of intent — the Arab leadership stated their war aims explicitly and behaved consistently with them where they did prevail. What was actually said and signalled. Arab League Secretary-General Azzam Pasha told Akhbar al-Yom in October 1947 that the coming war would be “a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades.” The political head of the Palestinian Arab cause, Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, had spent the war in Berlin: he met Hitler in November 1941, helped raise the Handschar SS division, broadcast calls to “kill the Jews wherever you find them” on German radio, and — per Dieter Wisliceny’s Nuremberg testimony — discussed extending the Final Solution to Palestine with Eichmann. He was back in the region by 1946 and was the dominant Palestinian political figure in 1948. Qawuqji’s ALA insignia (a dagger through a Star of David) and his own Wehrmacht service were not idiosyncrasies; they were continuous with the Mufti’s program. What happened where Arab forces did win. Gush Etzion fell on 13 May 1948. At Kfar Etzion, 127 defenders were killed, many after surrendering — survivors describe villagers and irregulars shooting people who had laid down their arms. The Jewish Quarter of the Old City surrendered to the Arab Legion two weeks later; the Legion was relatively disciplined, but every one of the 58 synagogues was subsequently destroyed or desecrated, the Hurva blown up, and the Mount of Olives cemetery’s tombstones torn up for paving and latrines. No Jew was permitted to live in Jordanian-controlled territory for the next 19 years. The 1929 Hebron massacre — 67 Jews murdered in a single day, the ancient community ended — was the working template, and Husseini had been its political beneficiary. Projection for the 650,000 Jews of the Yishuv. With the Mediterranean behind them, British policy still hostile to Jewish immigration in early 1948, and the Arab states refusing exit corridors, there was no realistic escape route. The likely sequence: agricultural settlements overrun and their populations killed in Kfar Etzion–style massacres; mixed cities (Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Safed) subjected to urban pogroms once defensive lines collapsed; Holocaust survivors in the DP-camp transit population — perhaps a third of the Yishuv was European refugees from the previous five years — killed a second time. The Mufti would almost certainly have been installed as the political authority over whatever Palestinian Arab state emerged, with his Berlin-era network in senior positions. Behind that, the regional consequences were already in motion: the Farhud (Baghdad, 1941, ~180 killed), Aden (1947, 82 killed), Aleppo (1947, the ancient community effectively ended), the Cairo bombings of 1948. Roughly 850,000 Jews were expelled or forced out of Arab and Muslim countries between 1948 and the early 1970s despite Israel’s existence as a refuge. Without that refuge, those communities would still have been destroyed — they just would have had nowhere to go. The plausible end-state is the elimination of organised Jewish life between Morocco and Iran, and a diaspora reduced to the Anglosphere and a battered Europe, with no political vehicle to speak for it. The honest caveat: scale is the unknown. Whether the death toll among the Yishuv would have been in the tens of thousands or the hundreds depends on variables (Arab Legion discipline vs. irregular conduct, speed of collapse, whether any evacuation by sea was possible) that the documentary record can’t settle.

Not to mention the Arab exclusion of Jews I. The same period. Wars have consequences after they started one to wipe out the nascent Jewish state. Not to mention Arab attacks went back to 1930s…

Full respect to Senator Santarsiero for being will to stand up to his base on the issue of antisemitism masquerading as "anti-zionism".

MITCHELL MARNER ARE YOU KIDDING?! Undisputed GOAL OF THE PLAYOFFS 😵😮‍💨