“The useful idiot is not exactly stupid. This is the first and most important thing to understand. Stupidity would be a defense. The more precise diagnosis is what we in Poland call pół-inteligent – the half-wit. Not the bottom of the intelligence distribution, which is too obviously lost to be useful. Not the genuine top, which tends to develop the inconvenient habit of following arguments wherever they actually lead. The sweet spot: smart enough to absorb a complex ideological framework, to deploy its vocabulary with confidence, to feel the social rewards of appearing sophisticated – but not quite sharp enough to interrogate the framework itself. Enough horsepower to run the program. Not enough to question who wrote it. The pół-inteligent is the useful idiot’s technical specification. And the specimen is typically convinced – this is crucial – that it is among the most independent thinkers in the room. The delusion is important. Remove it and the whole architecture collapses.” ~~ Krzysztof Szczawinski

“The DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), having lost their court battle to force the U.S. to withdraw support from Israel, have now created an entirely new battleground: JFK Airport. They are trying to pressure workers on the tarmac and at the airport to stop loading any goods to Israel. This would include passenger luggage, as well as any cargo such as computer or technical equipment, weapons being shipped by the U.S. government that have been bought by Israel, etc. These are the same people who put Zohran Mamdani and others in office; are seeking to make Abdul El-Sayed a senator, God forbid; and are the wing of the Democratic Party that Nithya Raman claims in her quest to become the mayor of Los Angeles, and in all cases, one of their foundation stones is antisemitism and a hatred for Israel and Jews.” ~~ RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY

“The cities become a magnet for two kinds of people. The highly educated elite who can afford $3 million houses, and then public housing. Who’s squeezed out is the entire middle class. If you’re a cop or a firefighter and you work in Palo Alto, you can be commuting 3 hours both ways just to have a house and afford a family.” ~~ Marc Andreessen

“I don’t give a fuck what Black people care about. Let’s go back to a better time, when lynchings were happening.” ~~ Hasan Piker

“The guy who told us that God is non-binary, relied on heretical false gospel accounts to call for abortions, and formed a mutual admiration society with a “TransQueer,” “Latinx” theologian has suddenly gone missing. Has he joined a progressive monastic order that calls for a vow of silence from virtue-signaling? Or has his GOP rival Ken Paxton scared him off so much that he can’t campaign anymore?

Of course, what we’re hearing from the Talarico Revival Tent is that the patron saint of bad theology has the flu. Maybe the doctor has prescribed rest, fluids, and a temporary moratorium on explaining the Sermon on the Mount to Republicans. If that’s the case, I’ll pray for you, James. I mean, I’ll pray to the real God, not the heretical woke deity you’re trying to pawn off on us.” ~~ Chris Queen

“I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become to cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing become the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone.”  ~~ John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten The Sex Pistols

“Females deliberately drink themselves blotto in order to lower their sexual inhibitions, voluntarily participate in sex, and then, after the regrets set in, deny their agency and put exclusive responsibility for their drunken encounter on their male partner, on the grounds that they are helpless to take care of themselves.” ~~ Heather Mac Donald

“Robert Nozick explains socialism’s attraction to intellectuals: they don’t care about the “working class”. Rather, they resent capitalists for earning more money than them, despite their apparently inferior merit. They’re disappointed meritocrats, not suffering laborers.” ~~ Russ Greene

“Rove and his ilk claim that taking sides against us is mandated by their principles. What principles? We understand what the principles of our alleged betters in the conservative (sic) movement really are. They’re not a set of rigid standards that must be adhered to at all costs and hazards; they’re a joke, a ploy to manipulate the rubes, moral Calvinball for people who demand our respect and obedience yet hold us in utter contempt.” ~~ Kurt Schlichter

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There isn’t anything to read between the lines here. The people who refer to the United States as the “Great Satan” and have vowed to destroy us would feel more comfortable with Charles Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries in charge of Congress. We don’t have many dots to connect in this one.  President Trump and the America he believes in are existential threats to the Iranian psychopaths. A weakened Executive branch and a Congress controlled by Democrats are no threat whatsoever to the Iranian mullahs who have been fomenting and funding terrorism since the Carter years.  Someone please explain “undecided” voters to me again. ” ~~ Stephen Kruiser

“Ireland as a country has been something of a recent disappointment. For a people who fought for so long and bravely to have their own country, they seem content to be ruled by an elite hell-bent on cultural self-erasure. Mass immigration, erosion of free speech rights, an acceptance of a Woke that would make a New England college town council proud. For a nation that was occupied by a colonial power for centuries, it chooses to spend less than 0.5% of its GDP on defense, implicitly free-riding on NATO and its former colonial overlord. Not a serious place. Yet it can virtue-signal with the best of them and it has come firmly on the side of those waging a genocidal war in Gaza – and by that I mean Hamas.” ~~ Chicago Boyz