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@DefiantLs Trumps not doing enough!!

JB Pritzker on the 18-year-old student murdered by an illegal alien in Chicago, “They are national failures.. A failure to have comprehensive immigration reform. A failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst.”

I live among these morons

Liberal academic @Musa_alGharbi's observations when he moved to Manhattan: "One of the first things that stood out to me is that there’s a racialized caste system here that everyone takes for granted. You have disposable servants who will clean your house, watch your kids, walk your dogs, deliver food to you... mostly minorities and immigrants and disproportionately women... And this is basically taken for granted in New York, that this is the way society operates. And yet... this is not how things are in many other parts of the country. Most other places, the person buying a pair of shoes and the person selling them are likely to be the same race — white — and the gaps between the buyer and the seller are likely to be much smaller. Even the most sexist or bigoted rich white person in many other contexts wouldn’t be able to exploit women and minorities the same way as the typical liberal professional in a city like Seattle or New York; the infrastructure simply isn’t there. It’s these progressive bastions associated with the knowledge economy that have these well-oiled machines for casually exploiting the vulnerable, desperate and disadvantaged. And it’s largely Democratic-voting professionals who take advantage of them. A few months after I arrived at Columbia, Trump won. I expected this to happen, but for most people, that was not the expectation. So here at Columbia, the day after Trump won, a lot of the students claimed to be so traumatized that they couldn’t do tests or homework. They needed time off. Now there are two things striking about that to me. First, these are students at an Ivy League school, overwhelmingly people from wealthy backgrounds — and even if they don’t come from wealth, they’re likely to be well-positioned... [but these] students seemed to view themselves as somehow uniquely vulnerable to Trump and his regime, as being especially threatened or victimized. And so they demanded all of these accommodations for themselves. Meanwhile, there was this whole other constellation of people [mostly minorities and immigrants] around them who seemed to be literally invisible to them. The people doing all the work on the campus... these ignored laborers — the people with the most at stake in this election — [were not] saying they needed time off because they were too traumatized. They showed up to work the next day and did their jobs. They weren’t making a scene, sobbing as they scrubbed rich kids’ mess out of the toilets. The juxtaposition was sobering... When I left campus, walking around the Upper West Side, or other affluent parts of Manhattan, similar scenes were playing out. Nor was New York City unique in this regard. Other knowledge economy hubs had similar scenes playing out. And the same drama that was playing out in Columbia was unfolding at colleges and universities across the country. This is precisely what I found so troubling, so difficult to shake off: It wasn’t about my own school. It was about this broader disjuncture between knowledge-economy elites, their narratives about the world, and the realities on the ground."

Yesterday marked the 8th anniversary of the ISIS terrorist killing of Colonel Arnaud Beltrame in France. He volunteered to exchange himself for a young female hostage held by a jihadist gunman at the Trèbes supermarket in Southern France. The jihadist slashed his throat before police stormed the building. He deliberately sacrificed his own life for a stranger. Hero of French and Western civilisation.

@SwipeWright Let these morons feed on eachothers life force for a change

What Cenk is doing here is the discourse equivalent of toxic waste. Brain rotted, conspiranoid, engagement grift. Many are seemingly unable to distinguish between a genuine truth seeker asking legitimate questions and this manipulative "I'm not making any accusations" posture.

@I_amMukhtar no

"I'm simply making the point, Piers, that if you define terrorism as targeting civilians in order to affect a political change. Then, by that objective definition, the US military and the IDF are more guilty of it than anyone else over the last 25 years."

@MsMelChen Open yourself to all the great Ironies of life. It is both heartbreaking and delightful!

Growing up means abandoning the childish fantasy that sees liberty as a natural phenomenon that emerges only once the State is minimized and individuals are simply left to their own enlightened self-interest. It means finally coming to terms that liberty is only possible within strategic bounds, built on a substrate of constraints.

@walterkirn @OrigenOfSpices looks like you just did Walter.

@OrigenOfSpices Sorry to see you questioning my judgment of my own professional life and reputation. I'm a lifelong journalist. I don't condemn honest mistakes.

Emily Kopp, the new editor in chief of Matt Taibbi's Racket News, lied about my movie project w/in a day or two of publicly taking the job. I didn't "co-write" anything with Jay B. And I have no financial "stake" in his reputation. I merely interviewed him to create a character.

🚨BREAKING - TORONTO POLICE DEPLOY NEW HEAVILY-ARMED COUNTER-TERRORISM OFFICERS TO THE STREETS citing "criminal extremism", attacks on synagogues and the US consulate Urge residents to remain CALM if you see them on the streets providing security.

Not an isolated phenomena. blind auditions for symphonies comes to mind.

@sarobertsonca High school level analysis from a highly touted Canadian leader.

Wab Kinew: "Let's just call it what it is. They started this war as a distraction from the Epstein files. There is no reason for this war ... they started this war as a distraction from a domestic political problem."

@MaxBlumenthal The Mullahs are categorically the worst people in the world.

CNN fired Marc Lamont Hill for calling to “free Palestine” off air The same network features Scott Jennings cheerleading Israel’s genocidal rampages on prime time

@avidseries Pope says god will punish airstrikers from heaven above

LMAO.

If ever, for even a second, Think Sachs is making sense about an issue, try to imagine what the outcome of this wish of his would look like.

@EndWokeness The absurdity.

Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden: Sheridan (18) was in "wrong place at the wrong time — she might've startled the migrant who kiIIed her"

imagine raising a beautiful baby girl who hugs you and loves you and then she goes off to college and gets shot in the head for no reason by some fucking retarded illegal and all the democratic politicians who are supposed to represent your family either ignore it entirely or go on social media to talk about how wonderful immigration is like imagine the betrayal and heartbreak

@ryangerritsen Do these guys make money for this? Its absurd if they do.

CBC just had to mock the interview between Rogan and Pierre. The least they could’ve done was make it funny. This is terrible. What’s sad is CBC viewers will believe the interview resembled this nonsense.

@krystalball Are you talking about "Hezbollah-land" in which a terrorist and Iran proxy pushed out the lebanese government and army, essentiaally occupying it for years? You didn't mind that did you twit?

Anyone gonna say anything about Lebanon’s right to exist?

@BretWeinstein How long seems to be the more salient question.

Lots of people are saying I’m an academic who doesn’t understand what the trades are. But I’ve done lots of construction. Framing, roofs, doors and windows, tile, wood floors, plumbing, and electrical. I’m a master of none. But I understand them. The trades are NOT safe from AI.