Bit of a limbo week before a hopefully quiet and blessed Thanksgiving week for everyone.
It’s always difficult to put my finger on the pulse of the living, breathing organism that composes society, markets, and life.
It felt like a quiet week, but that might have just been me focusing on thing that move the needle for me personally, and limiting my access to the Octagon known as Twitter and social media.
Either way, felt like a bit of a Groundhog week.
The lunatic left and their compatriots the occupying invaders are still loudly making noise and fracturing alignments on the left and right.
On the left, we’re seeing the continued blowout of long held alliances as liberal Jews realize they created Frankenstein’s monster….and it’s a suicide pact to stick to your previously held (idiotic) beliefs (see Rapaport).
It’s welcoming to see some liberal jews finally give up on their idiocy and realize they’ve contributed mightily to the chaos and hellscape we find ourselves in through their support of immigration, DEI measures, and 12 years of Obama/Biden which has resulted in our nation facing an existential crisis.
On the right, we see the Candace Owen/Ben Shapiro tiff, and kudos to the Daily Wire for handling that correctly.
There are still far too many people on the right who harbor anti-Semitic views, or fail to grasp that the side of ‘Israel’ is the side of humanity, progress, Democracy and Western Civ. They’ve let their hatred for Jews color the reality that there’s only one ‘side’ in this battle, and it’s the side that believes in Constitutional principles and human and God-given rights.
Regardless, kudos to Jeremy Boring at the Daily Wire who resisted calls to fire Candace Owens. While I disagree vehemently with Candace’s somewhat naive take around the Gaza Conflict which basically amounts to this👇
I do agree with her right to say it. Here’s Jeremy with a simple yet powerful response on Twitter to calls for Candace's dismissal from the Daily Wire.
Had the Left embraced this approach instead of doing everything in their power to cancel people who refused to call a man a woman, or questioned the wisdom shutting down schools for 2 years and forced vaccinations of an untested, experimental shot maybe wasn’t the best way to handle a virus that didn’t affect kids whatsoever, they might have avoided their own downfall.
Markets Update
As 2023 draws to a close, there appears to be a collective effort to delay facing reality, especially in the realms of markets and finance.
A phenomenon known as the 'Christmas Effect' is commonly observed in financial markets, typically providing a year-end boost to stock prices. This effect is partly driven by tax planning strategies; many sellers prefer to postpone selling until January.
The logic is simple: why sell in November or December and face a tax bill in just four months (April 2024), when deferring the sale to January means taxes aren't due until 15 months later (April 2025)?
Additionally, bankers and traders, with an eye on their bonuses, may engage in some modest market f*ckery. This is particularly feasible with smaller cap stocks or less liquid assets. By inflating these values in the final week of the year, they can influence the market positively to calculate more favorable bonuses.
Therefore, the recent rally we've witnessed might persist as the year concludes.
Feel free to enjoy it, but don’t get fooled.
This is not a time to put money to work, it’s a time to make some sales into this lift.
This period shouldn't be seen as an opportunity for aggressive investment but rather a chance to strategically sell during this uplift.
Despite a seemingly optimistic short-term outlook, with the Federal Reserve possibly pausing rate hikes and a slight moderation in inflation, under the hood we still have a host of problems.
Tailwinds vs. Headwinds
For the past 40 years, the equity markets have enjoyed substantial tailwinds. The Baby Boomer generation, the wealthiest in history, has served as a robust engine, pouring capital into stock markets during their peak earning years.
Furthermore, we've experienced an unparalleled bond bull market, with interest rates plummeting from 18% in the '80s to virtually 0% for the last decade. Low-interest rates foster capital formation, enabling both businesses and individuals to borrow and flourish, thereby fueling sectors like real estate.
Adding to the windfall, China has been instrumental in keeping inflation at bay as the world's manufacturing giant. The global market has also expanded significantly, thanks to the fall of the Soviet Union, leading to a 'peace dividend' as countries redirected defense spending towards modernization.
Cheap energy, low interest rates, low inflation, globalization, booming stock and home prices.
Sadly, many of those tailwinds haven’t just stalled - they’ve reversed, transforming into significant headwinds.
Short-term and long-term interest rates have surged and are now trading ~ 5%, marking their quickest ascent in decades. The average 30 year mortgage is 8%. That's a killer for home buyers.
The Fed has made clear they are going “higher for longer”, meaning they will continue to raise interest rates and keep them there for a lengthy period of time until they feel comfortable about the inflationary crisis we’ve endured since the beginning of the Biden Presidency (a combination of moronic public policies, years of Federal Reserve mismanagement, Covid idiocy and a completely unnecessary war in Ukraine we pushed for and have prolonged).
Russia, China and the BRICS nations are actively challenging the U.S. dollar.
The U.S. is $34 trillion in debt and running multi-trillion annual deficits for as far as the eye can see.
The commercial real estate sector is a well known donut and losses will exceed $2 Trillion.
China and the US are now in a technology & trade war with the US limiting sales of chips and other key technological components to them while China embargoes rare metals that we need to build those chips and electric vehicles.
Moreover, the retiring/dying Boomers are withdrawing money from the stock markets to pay for their living expenses. ‘Demographics is destiny’ is a maxim that bears repeating.
All of these are ‘headwinds’ that the US economy and especially stock markets must contend with.
The consensus now is that the fears of a recession are gone, and we’ve mutated into ‘soft’ landing or ‘no landing’ (no recession).
Here’s a picture of a Bloomberg Terminal top stories from Tuesday this week.
Talk about a ‘consensus’.
It’s never easy being a contrarian, but I’ll take the other side of this trade.
My thesis remains the same. At some point the bigger macro factors matter.
The brunt of the interest rate hikes by the Fed usually take 12-18 months to really kick in. We’re about 18 months into this rate-hike cycle now.
I think we’ll see weakness in Q12024 and downright ugliness in Q2. I expect the Fed to give up on inflation somewhere around May/June and begin cutting.
But don’t hold your breath. If we’ve learned anything over the past 25 years it’s that the Fed is reactionary, and almost always late. Whether it was recognizing the massive real estate/debt bubble that led to the GFC, or the tidal wave of inflation that was called ‘transitory’ by the Fed for most of 2021 - The Fed comes late to the party, every single time.
Keep an eye on oil (my favorite global macro tell), stay nimble, and raise cash.
Christmas in stocks to real estate and elsewhere won’t come until mid-year 2024, when there will be opportunities galore.
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Down below, we hit the release of the J6 Tapes, Rapaport’s ‘Apology’ and Elon gets into trouble again for telling the truth.
Speaking of Elon, while his resurrection of Twitter is the most important free speech event of the 21st century, there is still serious problems with throttling and shadow-banning certain accounts, ahem mine included.
Do me a favor if you’re a Twitter guy. Hit follow and turn on notifications for my posts. Let’s see if we can break this throttle together.
Either way, it’s still better than Facebook and Instagram, where using the wrong pronoun can get you suspended or banned. I’m rapidly approaching double-digits on that front. Hope I have more than 9 lives…
J6 Tapes…
Two years late but better than never, Speaker Mike Johnson released about 40,000 hours of additional J6 Tapes.
If the mainstream media was composed of actual, real journalists instead of Mockingbird sycophants, they would have loudly protested the entire J6 farce from the start. Besides the fact that the crowd was obviously crawling with federal agents and informants who were the principal troublemakers (Ray Epps & Co.), the fact that we only saw the Jan 6 excerpts that Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff wanted us to see, while they hid everything they didn't want us to see (like the below clip), corrupted everything from the start.
J6ers have been painted with the same broad brush. Many - if not the overwhelming majority - committed no violence. They entered a building and intended to engage in peaceful demonstration. And many believed the police were allowing them into the building because they opened the damn doors and ushered them inside!
Here’s just one of a series of snippets from the recently released batch that confirms much of the above:
J6 defendants have long argued that the initial entrants were peaceably escorted into the building by Capitol Police, and therefore had no reasonable expectation that their conduct was unlawful. This video and numerous others that were suppressed for almost 3 years, confirms it.
And here’s an interesting one where Capitol Police uncuff an arrested ‘protestor’ and then fist bump him. This is damn peculiar unless you view it logically - this was just one of the dozens of friendly ‘agents’ whose mission was to infiltrate the crowd, engage in violent behavior and push the mob to enter the Capitol and confront police.
Were there other members of the protest that got carried away and engaged in riot-like activity and should have been prosecuted? Absolutely. But they’re a very small minority and certainly their behavior didn’t differ markedly from recent protests where Pro-Palestinian protestors took over government buildings including the Capitol and DNC, and weren’t charged (hell, they weren’t even given a stern talking-to).
Grandmothers and other peaceful patriots strollin’ through the Capitol at the invitation of police is hardly an Insurrection "worse than Pearl Harbor" according to Laughing Diversity Hyena Kamala Harris.
The truth is only a handful of J6ers belong in prison for a year or two max. The rest should go free today.
Should a Republican candidate win the 2024 election, they ought to commit to pardoning all those individuals on the very first day of their presidency. These people have suffered greatly due to prosecutions driven by political motives rather than grounded in factual evidence.
Postscript: In the first video above, the newly released footage shows Matthew Perna (seen in red sweatshirt) walking calmly in the Capitol shooting video.
Matthew pled guilty to initial charges, believing he may face 6-12 months in prison.
Only after pleading guilty did the DOJ inform Matthew that they would seek a TERRORISM enhancement to his sentencing, which would raise his sentence to a potential 9 years in federal prison.
4 days after receiving news that the DOJ would push for this sentencing enhancement, Matthew went into his garage, put a rope around his neck, and hung himself.
Elon & Roscoe
This week, Elon Musk faced familiar accusations as several Jewish and Leftist organizations tried to depict him as antisemitic.
The controversy stemmed from Musk's tweet, responding to a campaign that featured a character named 'Roscoe from Arkansas,' depicted as a young, white boy with an affinity for Hitler. Below is the commercial in question.
While it’s a regrettable truth that a segment of white individuals who identify as ‘Christians’ hold distorted views of both history and contemporary events, leading to profound anti-Semitic sentiments, it's important to recognize that, on a per capita basis, anti-Semitic attitudes are much more prevalent among Black and Arab communities. This assertion is supported by various surveys and statistics from the FBI regarding hate crimes.
The frustration expressed by certain segments of white and right-leaning Americans towards these portrayals is understandable. They perceive a persistent narrative that disproportionately focuses on them as the primary source of antisemitism, similar to the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt falling back on the bogeyman of ‘white supremacy’ to explain the rise in antisemitism against Jews that occurred right after the Hamas invasion when it was obvious that the people ripping down hostage posters and assaulting and menacing Jews weren’t white kids from Arkansas.
It was the same psyop narrative that was behind the absurd, “Stop Asian-Hate” campaign of the previous two years when it was abundantly clear that it wasn’t MAGA Hat wearing Trump fans behind a series of attacks against Asians, it was underclass Blacks.
This narrative also defies what every American can see with their own 2 eyes over the last month. Let me tell you, I haven’t seen a lot of ‘Roscoe’s from Arkansas’ chanting ‘Gas the Jews’ and Globalize the Intifada, but I’ve seen plenty of Muslims, Blacks and pink-haired baristas with nose rings.
Anyone who sincerely believes Elon Musk is an antisemite needs to listen to Ben Shapiro eviscerate this ridiculous take. Musk slightly misinterpreted a tweet taking the ultra woke ADL to task (a organization that has betrayed its founding principle and chief mission to become a left wing advocacy group rather than merely fighting antisemitism), and the Legacy Media which sees Musk as a mortal threat to their narrative chokehold and used the opportunity to pounce and label him a racist.
The only place we have consistently seen the Hamas atrocities on line is Twitter, which under its former owners and in conjunction with the Biden Regime would have censored them as inappropriate thus defaulting to Gaza Health Ministry propaganda and MSM parrots. The Regime players all know this and that he’s been a foil to their plans for Total-Information Control and thus have done everything possible to target Elon for destruction.
The truth is that his contribution to the world has significantly enhanced free speech and opened up avenues for information dissemination, theoretically aiming to facilitate public debate from all perspectives to uncover the truth (although the practical dynamics of social media often mean that nuanced and accurate discussions are overshadowed by provocative, bombastic takes).
Twitter Community Notes are the first time we have one place to see both sides of an issue, and where both right and left get called out for inaccuracy. For those paying attention, Twitter exists upstream from traditional media. The news and conversation there is nothing like the one sided view you get on Fox or MSNBC.
Here's the video of Shapiro’s discussing the Musk brouhaha:
The bottom line, the complexity of this situation underscores the need for a more nuanced understanding of the sources and manifestations of antisemitism in contemporary society.
If it was up to me, I’d like to see a couple of things that would go a long way….
Acknowledgement by both sides that while there are generalities we can draw, claiming broad assertions as indomitable truths that ALL Jews or ALL Arabs or ALL whites or ALL blacks are one thing doesn’t lead to a better understanding of realities on the ground or solutions for addressing them.
Some mea culpa or acknowledgement by Leftist Jews that they bear some responsibility for the events of Oct 7 and the virulent rise of antisemitism and the Red Menace here at home (Rapaport below is close, but no cigar).
Based on recent polls however, #2 may be wishful thinking…
On the bright side, Elon also offered his thoughts on the next election stating that all 50 States should mandate Voter ID. Good to see the most important man in America agrees with the most obvious and sane take out there - mandatory Voter ID. Now.
After that, the only thing we’re missing is an IQ baseline or other productivity test (ie, not on welfare, pay taxes, or own land) and raising the voting age to 21. But let’s at least start with ID shall we?
Back to the protests and violence we’ve seen at home, here’s one of the more important articles I read this week.
The key takeaway to understand is that none of what we are seeing happening is organic. It’s part of a decades long deliberate campaign by subversives to divide, demoralize and destroy America and Western Civ.
These people have been working for decades on this plan, so if you think we can just ban Tik-Tok or remove the SJP charter at colleges and it will fix itself quickly, you’ve got another thing coming. It took 30 years to build this Bizarro America (the opposite of what this country once stood for). It will take another decade of concerted effort to begin reversing the ill tide.
Rapaport Apologizes and Begs Forgiveness
Not really, but he did perfectly illustrate the cognitive dissonance and deep confusion running through every liberal Jewish person’s mind these days as they watch their political worldview evaporate under reality’s harsh gaze and their ‘allies’ viciously turn on them.
Case in point. Here’s a quick video of the #1 Trump Hater and TDS victim Michael Rapaport admitting the unthinkable - that he would actually vote for Donald Trump over Joe Biden if this sh*t keeps up.
Remember, Rapaport built his entire post-acting career around being the loudest and highest conviction anti-Trump screecher out there.
Now, he’s finally recognizing the obvious - the path leftist Jews have set for themselves and the broader country is suicide.
Newsom Takes out the Trash
In a story that didn’t get a ton of coverage, CA Governor Newsom invited CCP ‘President for Life’ Xi to San Francisco.
While the dynamics of the world’s most leftist sociopath breaking bread with the world’s most right-leaning sociopath was interesting, the most curious part of the whole affair for Americans was how SF was literally transformed overnight from a zombie infested, fentanyl dumpster into the SF of old.
We’ve been told for years now that the crime, drug and homeless problems in our cities were unfixable despite spending tens of BILLIONS of dollars every year.
The best (and frankly most admirable) part of it was Newsom decided to just tell the truth instead of lie about the whole thing.
“Yeah, we had an important guest over for dinner so we cleaned up a bit.”
I’m paraphrasing what he said but that’s the gist.
It just goes to show you and it’s proof that it’s all intentional.
Whether it’s the open border, the crime and drug infested cities, or the terrorist sympathizers ‘protesting’ on college campuses and elsewhere…it’s easy to end it all tomorrow, if the will and desire is there.
Don’t let them tell you it’s unfixable. Put Trump back in office (and God willing he hires the right people this time) many of these problems will get fixed “overnight”.
Just like ISIS. Recall Obama pampered ISIS for over 4 years until Trump dealt with the disease in under 6 months.
All it takes is a bit of courage and the will. Let’s get it done.
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Mainstream Media Starts Admitting the Truth re: Ukraine
The War Street Journal finally admits that its long-standing narratives - portraying a triumphant Ukrainian counteroffensive, impending political turmoil in Moscow, and a collapsing Russian economy - are mere "Magical Thinking." Essentially, this is an admission that their coverage has been at best misleading and at worst fraudulent.
As I told you over a year ago, there was ZERO chance this would end any other way without risking an actual nuclear conflict and WW3.
A few weeks ago, I referenced a Time Magazine article that marked the beginning of a significant shift. The advocates of NATO's proxy war have now evidently shifted to a "Defeat with Dignity" strategy. If they’re lucky, they’ll be able to salvage a part of the peace deal that was on the table in March of 2022(!) that was a reasonable out for all parties before the US and Great Britain nixed that deal.
Sadly, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men in the prime of their life had to die in this Great Game to satisfy the US and NATO. Now, Ukraine is a shell of its former self and will be a hollowed out nation for generations to come.
Perhaps they should resettle the Palestinian Islamofacists that support Hamas in Ukraine if the rest of the Arab world still doesn’t want them. They’d get along famously with the pockets of hard-core Nazis that pollute certain areas of the country.
Lee Kern - Palestinian Society Needs a Reboot.
Throughout my adult life, I have predominantly supported the 'two-state solution' concept. Historically, Israel has extended close to a dozen proposals aimed at establishing a sovereign state for Palestinians, aka descendants of refugees who arrived in the region long after it was established as a Jewish homeland (for more than a 1000 years). These peace proposals, as I've detailed in previous correspondences, were notably generous, offering Palestinians 99% of everything they demanded.
However, these offers were consistently rejected. The underlying reason, as most rational people have come to understand, is a prevailing sentiment among certain factions that any resolution which doesn't culminate in the total eradication of Israel and its Jewish identity is deemed unacceptable. This perspective, in my view, has transformed these individuals into indoctrinated, hate-filled instruments in a larger geopolitical game, rather than genuine seekers of peace and coexistence.
Short of a unilateral imposition of a two-state solution by Israel and leading Arab nations (everyone except Iran and Syria mostly) that delivers security for Israelis to live without the fear of rockets raining down or marauding tribes of savages raping and burning civilians while also granting Palestinians sovereignty over their own land (as they had with Gaza since 2005) will fail.
If you think there is hope for a 2-state solution when one of the states has 13 Nobel Prizes (with Jews being 22% of all total recipients despite composing less than .01% of the global population), is an ardent supporter of human rights, stands up for women and sexual freedom and has extended an olive branch for 75 years….while the other side has an average IQ of 68, thinks Hamas and other Jihadists are heroes, and loves honor killings, beating women and throwing gays off buildings, then you’re delusional.
Lee Kern sums up the real issue. Hint: It’s not Israel, or Jews, or the West:
“Palestinian society is disgusting and toxic.
Some of you will be upset when you read those words.
But it is PRESENTLY a disgustingly racist society.
Like Nazi Germany was.
De Nazification took place in Germany after the war. It was a slow process unrooting Nazism from culture and institutions.
Something similar has to take place in Gaza.
For decades Palestinians have been brainwashed in schools, media and mosque.
They have been made into sociopathic racists who can commit the atrocities we saw on October 7th.
Charities, NGOs, the UN and the West have indulged this.
Palestinian racism is not a byproduct of the conflict - it is a cause.
Their racist intent is what drives things.
Their racist rejection of two states & desire to destroy Israel is why there is no peace.
Any calls for two states are premature and delusional right now.
An equivalent of denazification has to take place in Gaza.
Even more immediately: Hamas must be destroyed.
As long as that Islamic fundamentalist rape gang of terrorists is a part of the Gaza Strip - a toxic culture of racism and jihadist violence will persist.
Look at the figures below.
At present, Palestinian society is absolutely awful. A hateful racist culture.
It will be slow and take effort - but it doesn’t have to be like this.
Unless you are a bigot who thinks Palestinians and Muslims are incapable of decency, you will understand and support any mission to tackle the TAUGHT hatred within their culture, which is the foundation that must be put in place for any stable peace to be achieved in the future.”
This is the first Palestinian public opinion poll that I've seen since Hamas's October 7 operation to rape, massacre, and abduct Israelis. 75 percent of Palestinian respondents said that they support Hamas's October 7 operation to rape, massacre, and abduct Israelis.
It will take a concerted effort from all parties to overcome the generations of hatred and brainwashing. Any ‘solution’ without targeting the root cause of the troubles is destined for failure.
Anonymous Letter from a Carleton Uni Professor
Anonymous, eloquent letter, written by a University Professor who teaches biblical studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. I am re-posting it (verbatim).
The most remarkable thing about this letter is it could have been written at any time over the past 20 years regarding the woke, inter-sectionalist “decolonizers” inhabiting college campuses and academia across the land. Administrations, professors and the left shut its eyes to the cancer they helped create. Glad it’s finally opening.
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Dear Students,
I have spent the last 25 years showing you the beauty of all of the literary, cultural, philosophical, & artistic heights of the human spirit over the course of human history. Teaching you has been the most wonderful & satisfying of callings. I never wanted to do anything other than meet with you, discuss ideas with you, discover & rediscover human insights, truths, & wonders. I never regretted my career path, never hated my job, & never doubted my legacy. I felt privileged & honoured to show you how to analyse, to think critically, to weigh evidence, & to understand people & ideas, contexts & complexity, deeply & thoroughly. I thought my work was helping to make the world a better, more humane, more thoughtful place.
You have broken my heart. No: shattered it, irreparably. I don’t know how I will ever set foot in a classroom again. I don’t know how I will ever see you the same way. I know now that I was deluding myself that I ever had any impact, would ever leave any positive legacy, that my work ever made any difference.
I watch you all on social media, in the streets & the quads, marching in solidarity with a movement that seeks only to wipe me out. To exterminate me, my children, my parents, my entire family & community. I know, some of you think you’re trying to help the oppressed. You think that my kind is the white colonialist racist kind that you hate. But I thought I taught you how to evaluate arguments. I thought I taught you the importance of understanding context, both historical & rhetorical. I thought that I taught you that the world did not operate according to dichotomies, like black & white, oppressor & oppressed, villain and victim. I thought I taught you about complexity, about judgment, & to examine your sources & not to take anyone’s statements at face value.
Zionism is the Jewish right to self-determination in our ancestral homeland. Israel is that ancestral homeland. Jews are the indigenous peoples of that land; not the only indigenous peoples of that land, to be sure. But Israel is the only land to which we are indigenous. After 2000 years of longing, the result of the Holocaust – a Nazi movement which sought to ethnically cleanse the world of Jews by systematically exterminating us – was that the international community granted us a sliver of that ancestral homeland. It was to be shared, partitioned into a Jewish state & an Arab state. The Arabs rejected the partition & attacked the Jews when they declared the state of Israel in 1948. The Jews won. Arabs who remained in Israel became citizens with full rights & freedoms. 20% of Israel’s population today is Arab. They fight in the army, they are doctors, lawyers, members of Parliament & supreme court judges. There is no apartheid. Israel’s Jewish population consists of Jews from Arab lands, whose parents or grandparents were kicked out when the state of Israel was formed, & of descendants of refugees from Eastern Europe, Holocaust survivors who had no homes to return to. Some are more recent refugees from Europe, Russia, & the Americas who either returned to Israel for religious reasons or because the Jew-hatred in their communities grew too excessive & they decided to emigrate, to head for the one place in the world Jews can go if their neighbours or governments turn against them.
The West Bank & Gaza strip – along with refugee camps that still exist in Lebanon, Syria, & Jordan -- were the places that the Arab nations who attacked Israel at its founding told the Arabs living in Palestine (later to be known as Palestinians) to flee. It was supposed to be temporary, because the plan was to “push the Jews into the sea.” When the plan didn’t work out, all of these states refused to absorb the Palestinians. They wanted to keep them in camps because they still planned to annihilate Israel & the Jews that lived there & then the Palestinians could return. The West Bank was in Jordan & Gaza was in Egypt until 1967, when the Arab states tried again to push the Jews into the sea. Their failure this time ended with Israel capturing these territories. When Israel tried to exchange land for peace & give Gaza back to Egypt, Egypt didn’t want it. And so the territories remained in Israel. In 2005 Israel pulled out of Gaza & left it to govern itself. Most of the West Bank is also self-governing, but not all because of the high number of suicide bombers & other threats to Israel’s existence fomenting there, so Israel hasn’t been able to fully remove itself. The current awful Israeli government has allowed religious fanatics, “settlers,” to build settlements there, which makes everything worse.
And you see what I did there? I criticized Israel’s government. I can do that, & still support the existence of a Jewish state in our ancestral homeland.
When you say “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” this is a call to ethnic cleansing of Jews from their homeland, from the only state in the entire Middle East that would look remotely familiar to you in terms of basic rights & freedoms & a democratic system if you were to visit the region. When Hamas supporters – like those who led you all in a rally on my home campus today – talk about Jews as “occupiers,” they don’t mean Gaza. They mean the whole state of Israel. They want Jews eradicated from the entire land. Hamas actually wants us gone from the whole world, as they have stated many times. Who are the Nazis now?
But here I am, teaching again. I can’t help myself. I wish that you cared what I had to say. I wish that some knowledge, some context, some understanding, could reach beyond the slogans & chants for my death that you are repeating mindlessly & endlessly as you march to the beat of hatred across the tattered remains of my broken soul.”
The good news is that most people are waking up and see these Bolshevik subversives for what they are - an existential threat that deserves no quarter.
The battle of our time will be to reverse the damage that the Left has done to our institutions and country over the next decade.
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Parting Words….
That’s it for this week folks! Hope you enjoyed and see you next week. -MK
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