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Vice President JD Vance talked a bit about protesters harassing him while he was out with his toddler.

What I really want to know is where was the secret service? If there were people who might have been a threat to a sitting VP & his kid one might think that would be a reason for them to act.

But maybe that’s just me.

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I’ve noticed a big chance in the MSM over the last couple of months.

During the Obama years and During the Biden years when the Democrats had all three branches of government the MSM had absolutely no interest in any GOP position as they had no power. You could turn to any network and you would not find a GOP member of congress anywhere in sight as they had little power to change anything.

At the moment the tables are turned as the GOP has not only the White House but a majority in the senate and a small majority, albeit a small one, in the house. So on fiscal matters which require only a simple majority as has always been the case the Democrats can’t stop a united Republican majority from passing what they want you would think that the MSM would be talking to the GOP and reporting on their plans.

Amazingly they seem to have decided that the Democrats who are completely without power are the story and they’re talking about their plans to shut down the government, which is apparently no longer a crisis if they do it.

Funny how that works isn’t it?

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I must confess that I’m a bit confused about the sudden onset antisemitism that has hit Candice Owens. I find it particularly particularly odd as it seem to coincide with her discovery of the Catholic faith (a discovery that I approve of). You would think that this would cause one to be better disposed to the faith that the the Catholic church came from.

Tucker Carlson’s dalliance with the “blame the Jews” business or at least sympathy with their enemies has also seemed to coincide with a move toward the Christian faith (though not the catholic church). Again this is odd to me.

I’m wondering how much of this is due to grief they got from the Jewish left in the past and their distrust of them now (frankly I’d distrust people who have to be dragged screaming and kicking into opposing those who want to see them dead) and I’m also wondering if they as independent podcasters are dependent on funds that are coming from those who oppose Jews in general and Israel in particular after all that’s how those folks got their footholds in academica.

The real question to me isn’t so much their opinions, which they have a right to have, but this question: “Are their positions on Israel, Iran etc. etc. etc. Different than the positions they held say 10 or 15 years ago?”

If there is a significant change then the why becomes VERY interesting but frankly I’m not interested enough to research it, although I’m sure there are people out there who are.

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The sheer scale of the amount of money being spent on NGO’s by the US government and on actual government employees doing nothing by Doge.

It seems like a lot of the people whose jobs are at stake seem to be leftists who make a permanent living in NGO’s.

I’m thinking that it’s a lot like the British peers buying commissions for their 2nd, 3rd and 4th sons who were not all that bright.

But if you want to really figure it out, the thing to do is to consider all those leftist folks who took useless majors in college that make them unemployable in the private sector where the last thing employers want is someone who rocks the boat vs people who get things done.

A lot of money democrats have a lot of kids like this who want jobs that bring prestige and money the NGO’s provided this and the feds willingness to fund them gave them power.

In short they are the B Ark from Hitchhikers who are pretty much a useless part of the population who are now panicked about the idea that they might have to actually be productive for a living.

On the plus side they’ll have plenty of time for a bath.

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The folks at Columbia University seem rather put out that 30 million of federal funds are at risk due to letting the mob take over building and persecute Jews.

Nobody seems to realize that the Universities are making the same mistake that the Catholic Church made when they discovered priests going after boys.

If the church had exposed and prosecuted these men right at the start while it would have caused short term scandal it would have made it clear that this sort of stuff wasn’t tolerated and would have saved decades of grief and prevented a lot of evil.

Likewise the solution for the Universities remains pretty plain

1. Prosecute those who violate law
2. Expel those who commit violence, vandalism or impede students from study
3. Sue students & NGO’s who damage properties for the cost of repair

The solution is simple it’s a question of will