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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1h

yeah and..? Israelis voted Bibi, not us. here in the US, the global hegemon, most of us elected Dems in 2020 and they ended up doing what Israel wanted, lost to Trump in the process and it's all bad but understandable given Israel's reliance on US enabling and their PM being a Trump loving asshole?

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1h

so the Israeli PM singlehandedly runs America's MENA foreign policy but ever since he made Israel a pro GOP anti Dem partisan issue in American politics he seems to have even greater control when the Dems are in charge vs when Trump is, which makes Dems better by comparison bc he likes GOP more?

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 2h

Netanyahu's perfect American English magically hyotonitizes US politicians, science has been trying to find a cure for it for as long as it's been happening but sadly there's no progress yet...

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 2h

no one paying attention needed access to Biden & Harris to know they obviously weren't working tirelessly for a ceasefire, but in general I don't get the "dumb baby who gets fooled by grownups" type defense, like that's not good PR, it doesn't make anyone look good, much less politicians like AOC

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3h

I still think AOC was flat out lied to. the left got cut out of everything by Zients, she may not have known anything we didn't.

Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 4h

It's clear that when the US wants a ceasefire deal, one miraculously occurs. Makes the "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" stuff from last year even more disgusting.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 4h

It's clear that when the US wants a ceasefire deal, one miraculously occurs. Makes the "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" stuff from last year even more disgusting.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 4h

if anything this kind of MAGA influencers bit stands out for low effort no strategy...pizzagate guy leaning on Antifa killed Charlie fuels the Israel TPUSA angle w the online right & recalls their Epstein "files" photo op, Trump falls asleep then goes you deserve medals lol
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h

Trump hints that he's going to give Andy Ngo, Pizzagate Jack, and others at the antifa roundtable the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

"You have been amazing, you have been brave. You are real patriots. At some point, we will look into rewarding you with very important medals and honors."

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 5h

feanky I don't get this angle in 2025, Stephen Miller runs the Trump admin show now and he's the kind of Nazi who makes these freaks look like centrists by comparison

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 6h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 7h

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 6h

does NYT acknowledge a bunch of people dunking on Zohran with his father's old tweets lol

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

imagine a fraction of the various Zionist parastate stuff going on for decades being considered normal because it's for a good cause or whatever if it was about any other foreign state, even treaty allies that just mind their business and are nothing like Israel

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

really tho, not fair for Martin Brest's career to be cut short like that. he sounds cautiously confident about things in this Scent of a Woman press interview, not knowing then he'd only get to make a couple more movies.
charlierose.com/videos/3360

Martin Brest: I think what makes an actor truly great is that they not only give you a great performance and render a great entertaining rendering of a role, but after you see the character, you come away with an enlightenment about, at the very least, that kind of person, and at the very most, about a whole segment of humanity. An actor like De Niro or Pacino, they're capable of really teaching you about a whole type of person, even beyond just doing a great performance.
Charlie Rose: How are they different?
Martin Brest: In a multitude of ways. It would be hard to enumerate. Everybody's different, all artists particularly.
Charlie Rose: Why do you make so few films?
Martin Brest: It's too hard.

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

if bennifer want to keep getting divorced and remarried that's their business, but

It's kinda bullshit that Affleck and J Lo are doing great while Martin Brest is still in movie jail for Gigli, especially considering Martin Brest is the only one of the three to direct Midnight Run

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 1d

This became a stark and unavoidable truth when the country saw its own mini January 6th but around military bases re; their "right to rape prisoners"

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 1d

I am Jewish. Israel is a country where sexual assault and child murder are core tenets of the culture. This country should not exist. They act with such extremity because they know when you tell people what they actually do, it's so bad it registers as unbelievable.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

between their polling since last year showing the electoral risk of Dems not breaking with Israel (arrogantly dismissed by liberal Zionists only to be repeatedly vindicated by the usual pollsters before the election) and now these ads, IMEU has been doing good work.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

well yeah bc Jewish supremacy effectively supersedes American sovereignty & him being a Jewish US citizen doesn't count for much when siding w Palestine. US politicians talk about Israeli soldiers in captivity like they're US civilians, couldn't care less about actual US civilians murdered by Israel

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

zeteo.com

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

what makes Zohran both sides-ing all of Zionism & Israel like this in 2025 (w/o even mentioning Palestinians as a people) worse is that 1) he doesn't need to do this shtick for cynical political reasons and 2) it makes his historic Dem primary seem like a cold calculus using the Palestinian struggle

Zohran’s latest statement is disgraceful. It hides behind the language of morality while reinforcing the same frameworks that dehumanize Palestinians.

He begins by calling October 7 a “horrific war crime,” centering Israeli suffering as the starting point of the story. That framing erases the decades of siege, occupation, and systematic killing that led to that day. It makes Palestinian resistance seem like senseless violence rather than a response to unending colonization.

He follows with mourning for Gaza, but only after reaffirming that Palestinian resistance must first be condemned. This is what passes for “balance” in liberal politics: treating a colonized people’s fight for survival as a moral failure while describing their annihilation as a humanitarian tragedy

By calling for “diplomacy, not war crimes,” Zohran implies that both sides are equally guilty, softening the reality of a one-sided genocide into the language of “conflict.” He refuses to name power, which is the easiest way to protect it.

Invoking “universal human rights” sounds principled, but it empties the struggle of its political meaning. Palestinians are not asking for abstract ideals. They are demanding freedom, return, and liberation from a settler state built on their destruction.

At a time when Gaza is being erased, statements like this do not show courage. They show complicity.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

71yo guy yelling at his assistant about Yiddish racial slurs and sex worker jokes not being offensive per se in certain circumstances, but just writing "fuck" without censoring the word is too vulgar

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

from a Zionist pov, Bari's buyout & appointment at CBS seems more about power flexing & signaling generous rewards for Israel First crusaders than the rest of it. many other Zionists with more professional experience would do a better job influencing US public opinion to the extent that's possible.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 2d

nothing one can say to validate genocidal "anxiety" in good faith without buying into it. ppl genuinely concerned about antisemitism in America would normally be protesting US complicity & undermining of liberties for Israel in general & the complicity of mainstream Jewish institutions in particular

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 2d

disobeying Jewish supremacy should be illegal everywhere as far as people like Shai Davidai are concerned, but yeah no law was broken

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 2d

yeah instead of just facilitating Israel's genocide and doing domestic fascism in the name of Jewish safety we should probably nuke the rest of the Middle East to prevent a hypothetical Holocaust in America

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 2d

as the global hegemon & Israel's chief enabler, America gets more dedicated humiliation treatments, from Netanyahu bragging abt unconstitutional US laws & censorship to some Israeli who harasses US students with impunity mocking the mother of an American reporter who made a Twitter account for this

My son was in the flotilla. He is now in Israeli prison being mistreated. 22 Americans in all. Calls/messages to US Gov't officials are ignored. Many activists from other countries are already released. Needs national media attention.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 2d

don't know how widespread it is but it's so weird to see reports of Bluesky censorship being both more pro Israel and pro MAGA than Musk's app... this for instance is totally benign compared to all kinds of stuff about him that went viral on Twitter

John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · 2d

This is the image and the alt text that got Link permabanned from Bluesky servers

A reply with an image; alt text reads: 'Charlie Kirk sitting in a white T-shirt that says
"Freedom." A negative consequence follows!

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 2d

the New York Times deserves a big cut from this deal, they mainstreamed Bari Weiss for the same reason they hired Israeli nobodies to manufacture atrocity propaganda for Israel's genocide

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: Paramount is buying The Free Press for $150 million and appointing Bari Weiss, the news site's co-founder, as the editor in chief of CBS News. nyti.ms/4gUnu5D