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I don’t agree with everything Mr. Sachs says, but he is a serious man and is worth listening to.
I agree that Tulsi Gabbard is a good pick and that the entrenched deep state hate her guts for the reasons he specifies.
“…What’s the big problem with this is obviously the murder. You should not murder people for no reason on the streets of Manhattan. This is obvious, although not as obvious as it should be. Some people are really struggling with that. But the second problem, and the deeper problem, is that it reveals the extent to which madness and nihilism have been baked into our culture. Someone who is an Ivy League graduate, someone who has a strong family network, someone who has wealth and health and opportunity ahead of him decides to go down this dark path. That’s why there’s a fascination about this case. If it was an unknown, anonymous vagrant who stabbed someone in the street, it’s a blip. But we’ve raised the stakes, because what this shows—and for those of us in the media who share the same kind of educational background as this individual, as both of these individuals—it creates this window that America’s elite is simultaneously failing to restrain the psychopathologies of too many young people, and that the elite ideologies—both the elite ideologies that are more conventional and the elite ideologies that are even more radical—offer no path of constructive action. In fact, they are preying on people who, for their own reasons, are feeling a sense of rage, a sense of destructiveness, a sense of passion. It gives them the keys and the language to act on that in highly symbolic ways, but nonetheless extremely destructive ways…”
Related:
Shock poll: 41 percent of young voters find killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO acceptable
The capture of America’s institutions by the wacky left and the self-segregation of these institutions into ideological fortresses that excrete all other dissenting ideas has had a profound negative affect on our great country and must be reversed.
“…Is there a politician more sanctimonious, more smug, than Ireland’s president, Michael D Higgins? His pompous scolding of Israel this week after it had the temerity to call out the anti-Israel animus of the Irish elites was a truly unedifying spectacle of false virtue and cant. Shaking with fury, every word bitterly spat out, he said it is a ‘gross defamation and slander’ to ‘brand a people’ anti-Semitic just because they ‘criticise Benjamin Netanyahu’. He seemed to be in the grip of a paroxysm of pique. I’ve never seen him quake and froth like this over anything else: not poverty, not homelessness, not war. Well, unless it’s a war being fought by Israel.
It’s hard to decide what was most grating in Higgins’s theatre of fury, which, as he knows, will have been lapped up by every scribe at the Irish Times, every patron of the wine bars of Dublin 4, every rich kid in a keffiyeh at Trinity. Let’s start with the fact that his windy invective was in large part misinformation. Israel has not accused the Irish people of anti-Semitism. It has accused ‘the Irish government’ of pursuing ‘extreme anti-Israel policies’. That’s why it took the decision to shut its embassy in Dublin: not because it thinks every Irishman is a Jew-hater but because it thinks Ireland’s ruling class is possessed of a curious abhorrence for the Jewish nation. Imagine accusing Israel of ‘slander’ even as you willfully twist its words…”
Related:
Seth Mandel:
“…Do you know when Israel’s embassy in Ireland was established? 1996…
…Ireland’s history with Israel is uniquely shameful among supposed Western democracies…
…Ireland has always treated Israel with special contempt. Decades after Eamon de Valera offered Germany his condolences on the death of Adolf Hitler, the country he helped found seemed permanently stuck in time. Ireland had to be dragged kicking and screaming into recognizing the Jews. The Israeli embassy barely predates the Good Friday Agreement…”
The American Irish diaspora appear to be a different breed. I know many. I married one (part-Irish anyway) and one of my best friends was Irish proven over and over through countless evenings of pulchritudinous imbibing of John Barleycorn.
Does Biden even know he’s doing this?
Politics is tough. He’s smack-dab in the middle of it. The omnibus did not sound good to me.
Related. Some Republicans are still Uniparty affiliated. Massie explains:
I think it is good to wake folks up that it will not be business as usual going forward. I think just a straight bill to keep basic functions funded until Trump can take charge. Johnson should be working on a normal budget with his colleagues in the senate and in consultation with the Trump people including DOGE.
Don’t forget the other reasons for the omnibus garbage can:
Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, March 6 rejecting claims Biden was slipping mentally.
“…Start your tape right now, because I’m about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I’ve known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it…”
