Political Thread in memory of David Reid. (R.I.P.)

[The Bedlington Terrier]

We all hate Jews (not Leeds!)

Israel Just Called China Antisemitic. Yes, Really.

Israel has officially classified China as an antisemitic state and is calling on the world to impose a comprehensive political and economic boycott against Beijing.
Take a moment. Breathe. Then consider what is actually happening here.
China is the largest buyer of Iranian oil and provides Iran with critical economic support. Washington has already sanctioned Chinese refineries for the crime of trading with Tehran. And now Israel, a state currently engaged in an active war against Iran with full American military backing, wants the world to also boycott China politically and economically.
This is not a principled stand against hatred. This is geopolitical warfare dressed in moral language.
The antisemitism label has become the most overworked instrument in modern diplomacy. Criticise Israeli policy: antisemitic. Refuse to endorse a blockade: antisemitic. Buy Iranian oil legally on the open market: antisemitic.
At this rate, the word will soon mean nothing beyond "country that declined to do what Israel wanted."
Consider the audacity of the ask. Israel wants nations to boycott a country of 1.4 billion people, the world's second largest economy, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and the manufacturing backbone of global supply chains. For what? For condemning a war that has killed hundreds of Iranian civilians and calling for a ceasefire.
Imagine this from the same Israel, a state notorious for her unspeakable genocide in Gaza and unrestrained killing of civilians in Lebanon calling for sanctions on another nation.
China's foreign ministry condemned Israeli and American strikes on Iran and declared its support for Iran in defending its sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
That is not antisemitism. That is a foreign policy position shared by most of the world.
Good luck with the boycott, Israel. You will need it.

So here is the question: when the antisemitism charge is applied to 1.4 billion people for opposing a war, what exactly does the word mean anymore?

[sinkov]

Even the Evil Orange Emperor cannot sue for third party exposure for stuff that's already in the public domain. I actually wrote "Donald Trump has not been criminally convicted of s-e-xual assault or rape". Try and keep up old chap.

The ABC hack lied about Trump, I've seen more lies from your good self about Trump in the last year than I've had hot dinners, still you'll be alright, he has bigger fish to fry than halfwits on English football forums, and anyway I won't tell him.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The ABC hack lied about Trump, I've seen more lies from your good self about Trump in the last year than I've had hot dinners, still you'll be alright, he has bigger fish to fry than halfwits on English football forums, and anyway I won't tell him.

Half-wit? Who said, “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”

After telling the CBS News interviewer that only “horrible people” would ask him about that, the president said: “Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”

O’Donnell did a double take and said: “Oh you think – do you think he was referring to you?”

“I’m not a pedophile. Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m not a pedophile,” Trump replied. “You read that crap from some sick person? I got associated with all stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things.”

Trump has repeatedly made the false claim that the partial release of documents from the federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, the late child *** offender he socialized with for nearly two decades, had “exonerated” him and implicated only Democrats. In fact, a large number of documents have not been released and a number of Republicans have faced questions over their relationship with Epstein, including Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick.

The president then attacked O’Donnell again, saying: “You should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things.”

Trump was apparently happy enough with his answer to O’Donnell’s question that the exchange was included in a highlight reel from the interview posted on the White House’s YouTube channel.

Despite the president’s anger at being asked about what he took to be a description of him, which has become common among his critics amid widespread anger at his long friendship with Epstein, an FBI affidavit in support of a criminal complaint against Allen, filed in federal court on Monday, quotes the same part of the manifesto as part of its case that the suspect planned to assassinate Trump.

According to the affidavit, Allen sent a note to family and friends by email shortly before he attempted to charge into the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night in Washington, is which he described his motivation as follows:

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.) While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

As numerous critics of Trump were quick to point out on social media, the judge in the 2023 civil trial in which Trump was found liable for ***ually abusing and defaming E Jean Carroll, wrote that the jury did, in fact, find that Trump had raped Carroll, in the way that word is understood in “common modern parlance”.

While no evidence has been released by Trump’s justice department to show that he took part in Epstein’s ***ual assault of minors, Trump did tell New York magazine in 2002 that he was aware that the friend of 15 years he called a “[t]errific guy”, and “a lot of fun to be with”, had a reputation as someone who “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side”.

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[The Bedlington Terrier]

Has the Orange Buffoon no sense of humour?

US President Donald Trump called for comedian Jimmy Kimmel to be sacked for likening First Lady Melania Trump to an "expectant widow," in a joke made days before a shooting at a dinner attended by the president.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Cole Allen’s manifesto in full:
Hello everybody!
So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.
I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”
I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)
I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.
I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.
I don’t expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.
On to why I did any of this:
I am a citizen of the United States of America.
What my representatives do reflects on me.
And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.
(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I’ve had to do something about it.)
While I’m discussing this, I’ll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I’m not military so too bad.)
Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest
Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they’re wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren’t*
Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)
Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security
National Guard: same as Hotel Security
Hotel Employees: not targets at all
Guests: not targets at all
In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)
I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.
Rebuttals to objections:
Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.
Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.
Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.
Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.
Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn’t about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be “inconvenient” for people who aren’t the victim?
This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.
Objection 3: You didn’t get them all.
Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.
Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this.
Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack
Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.
I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)
Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.
Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.
Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.
Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.
Thank you to the many acquaintances I’ve met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.
Thank you all for everything.
Sincerely,
Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen
PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.
Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.
What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.
No damn security.
Not in transport.
Not in the hotel.
Not in the event.
Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.
I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.
Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.
Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed s–t.
Actually insane.
Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.
Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.
[Note: A “Ma Deuce” is a Browning M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun, a US military staple for nearly a century, usually tripod-mounted.]

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Don't you just love Jimmy...

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel just defiantly went NUCLEAR against Melania and Donald Trump’s hypocrisy a day they called for his head—and he did NOT hold back in a monologue for the AGES!
It all started with a roast. Last Thursday, days BEFORE the botched attack on her husband, during a comedic sketch imagining the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Kimmel took a jab at Melania Trump, saying, “Look at Melania, so beautiful… Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” A sharp line? Sure. But clearly a JOKE—one Kimmel later explained was about their age difference (and their creepy golddigger/sugardaddy dynamic that EVERYONE in America can PLAINLY see.)
Melania Trump, however, erupted. She hysterically blasted Kimmel publicly, claiming, “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.” She went further, insisting that “People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” even calling him a “coward” and pressuring ABC to punish him. Donald Trump moronically piled on, hilariously calling the joke a “despicable call to violence” and demanding Kimmel be “immediately fired.”
Umm... okay, calm down, Trumpies! Donald, you’ll blow your toupee!
Then tonight, Kimmel came back—and absolutely DISMANTLED them. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination,” he said. “And they know that. I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence, in particular.” Then, with surgical precision, he added: “But I understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over the weekend.... And probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house.” LOL!
Then Kimmel went in for the jugular: “You know how sometimes you wake up and the First Lady demands you be fired? I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do. And I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with YOUR HUSBAND about it.” The audience erupted—and for good reason. Because no one in American politics has normalized cruelty, dehumanization, and dangerous rhetoric more than Donald Trump HIMSELF!
Kimmel didn’t stop there. When Trump allies idiotically tried to blame his joke for the real-world violence that followed DAYS later, he torched that argument too: “If you want us to believe that a joke I made three days before this dinner had any effect on anything that happened, then maybe someone should look into THIS psychic lady, too...” He then showed a clip of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt talking about the WHCA dinner a few hours before the event, where she idiotically “bragged” to a reporter that there would be “shots fired” at the dinner.
Kimmel joked, “You know who’s gonna be furious when she hears that? White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.” ZING!
Kash Patel also caught some strays. “Speaking of Kash Patel, Kash Patel's the head of the FBI but somehow he wound up outside afterwards...I don't know, calling his Uber driver? Trying to get his mom to come pick him up. He seemed kind of lost.”
Kimmel also clarified what should have been obvious from the start: The Melania widow joke “It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am.” Yeah, we know, Jimmy, don’t worry. Only the MAGA sheep are PRETENDING they think it was more than a joke, and no one takes them seriously.
And of course, Jimmy also riffed on Trump’s disastrous (and now infamous) 60 Minutes interview over the weekend: “General rule of thumb, you know an interview isn't going great when you have to say 'I'm not a rapist' and 'I'm not a pedophile,'” LOL!
Jimmy concluded his monologue by schooling right-wingers on America’s bedrock principles: “By the way, I should point out Donald Trump is allowed to say what he wants to say, as you are you, as am I as are all of us because under the first amendment we have a right as Americans to free speech,” he said to raucous applause from his studio audience.
Let’s be honest about what’s happening here. Melania Trump is suddenly outraged about “hateful and violent rhetoric” while standing next to the man who has spent years calling his opponents “vermin,” “enemies of the people,” and worse—while repeatedly stoking anger and division for political gain. The hypocrisy isn’t just obvious—it’s staggering.
Kimmel said it best the last time Trump tried to cancel him: “You almost have to feel sorry for Trump. He tried his best to cancel me, instead he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired BIGLY!”
Please like and share to support Jimmy Kimmel as he boldly CONTINUES to call out the Trumps' hypocrisy, despite their threats!