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Hamas Breathes a Sigh of Relief all the Propaganda, None of the Danger

Posted: October 18, 2023 by datechguy in Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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Batman: (To himself as the Joker uses a girl as a human shield and puts a gun to her head) No Joker, you’re playing the wrong game, the old game. Tonight you’re taking no hostages, tonight I’m taking no prisoners.

Batman the Dark Knight Issue 3

When I first heard about the Hospital in Gaza being hit in passing at work my first thought was: Israel Has reached their Dark Knight moment. The moment when they are not playing the old game anymore. A Hamas HQ in a Hospital doesn’t mean a thing to them anymore. If Hamas is there Israel will kill them.

For Hamas such a situation would mean that there is no longer anywhere that is safe for them. No amount of hostages would save them, Yeah they would play the propaganda card but no amount of propaganda would save them, and with all the various middle east countries saying they want no part of the Palestinians of Gaza (which tells you all you need to know about them) it meant they would get their chance to be the martyrs that they claimed they always dreamed of being and I suspect the thought scared them shitless.

But when I got home I got the facts. Apparently an Islamic Jihad rocket fell short and hit the Hospital which produced a bunch of secondary explosions (why it’s as if the Hospital was a gigantic ammo dump or something) and killed a bunch of people. I suspect quite a few of them Hamas.

And Hamas now can breathe a sigh of relief, because now they have the best of both worlds:

  1. Israel still being blamed for the attack giving a propaganda card they can play with the Muslim world that will believe anything they say against the Jews anyways.
  2. Israel not actually crossing the line indicating they are willing to pay any political price to kill them.

Now I actually think that Israel is ready to cross the line and had decided to starve them a bit more before moving in and want them in the maximum state of exhaustion because you can’t stay on full alert for an invasion forever, particularly when your leadership is being decapitated at the same time. When Israel comes they’re going to come big and terrible.

But at least for now Hamas and their sponsors in Iran can breathe a sigh of relief that the end that I believe is coming is not yet a confirmed fact.

At least not yet.

Update: I guess I mixed up my Hospitals in terms of the Hamas Base From Hotair:

Besides, if Israel wanted to target a hospital, it would have been Al-Shifa in Gaza City. Why? Hamas has its command headquarters in Al-Shifa, an open secret for more than a decade. The Washington Post wrote about it in 2014 during the last major Israel-Hamas conflict. Guy Benson also wrote about it here nine years ago, linking a Tablet blast against the media for ignoring it — even though reporters routinely met with Hamas propagandists at Al-Shifa:

…And if I’m DeSantis I’m Pushing this Video Far and Wide

Posted: August 31, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, media, politics
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Yesterday I mentioned that If I was a Trump supporter I’d be pushing the Tucker interview with Orban because of his (correct) statements about the Trump foreign policy which was great if you want peace, but not so great if you want graft for one’s friends.

Now in the aftermath of the hurricanes that hit Florida it’s DeSantis’ turn. He skipped campaign events to head back and take charge which is both the right and the smart thing to do and the wheels are in motion.

The first thing that jumps out at you is that the media seem to be determined to ignore the storm aftermath, this is likely due to the comparison to Biden after Maui to wit:

But the real kicker is this video:

You loot, we shoot. If governors of blue states took this attitude a few years ago US history would have been quite different.

If I’m the DeSantis campaign I distribute this far and wide and by the way, have you noticed how quickly the aftermath of the hurricane became a complete non-story.

Why? Because there is no way to spin it that makes DeSantis look anything but good so Hurricane idalia? That’s old news.

#unexpectedly of course

The Class Action Suits Will Follow

Posted: January 15, 2023 by datechguy in media, medicine, the courts, Uncategorized
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This is huge:

A coalition of outspoken critics and skeptics of the mainstream narratives on COVID-19 has brought an antitrust lawsuit against some of the world’s largest news organizations, accusing them of working in collaboration to suppress dissenting voices surrounding the pandemic.

This is at the Zerohedge (via Insty) The story continues:

“By their own admission, members of the TNI have agreed to work together, and have in fact worked together, to exclude from the world’s dominant internet platforms rival news publishers who engage in reporting that challenges and competes with TNI members’ reporting on certain issues relating to COVID-19 and U.S. politics,” the complaint reads.

The revelations of the Twitterfiles combined with the continuing number of “unexpected” and “excess” deaths particularly among the young and healthy are really going to drive this suit.

When you see parents outside the courtroom with pictures of their dead kids that’s going to have an impact and if this suit succeeds the class action suits that will follow are going to be tremendous, not only by families of the deceased and the crippled but by those who have lost jobs and livelihoods because of the false narratives advanced and the suppression of truth.

I imagine there are lawyers licking their chops at the thought of it. Bezos has very deep pockets.

If Only Ashli Babbitt Was a Black Democrat Protesting Kavanaugh….

Posted: January 6, 2022 by datechguy in culture
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Today is the anniversary of Ashli Babbitt a US Airforce vet, being killed by a Capital Police officer in the US capital building.

I want you for one moment to imagine that Ashli Babbitt was not a supporter of Donald Trump and a person who, like me, believes the election of 2020 was stolen.

Imagine for a moment that instead she was a black Democrat who was protesting the elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and picture just for a moment what the narrative would be on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, the AP, Reuters , Newspapers like the NY Times the Washington Post and being pushed on every tech platform out there.

Today would be a day of mourning and remembrance, there would be glowing articles in the papers about her service to her country, her family would be on all the cable and morning shows, activists would be beating their breasts about the injustice of an unarmed woman slain for the mere crime of trespassing on the Capital that is in effect her property as an American. Her face would be everywhere and activist would especially decry that the Capital officer who pulled the trigger was never charged. None of us would be made to forget this name.

But alas for Ashli Babbitt and her family she did not have the right political opinions and thus her death as well as the death of several other protestors will be memory holed today because none of these deaths fit the narrative that our betters wish to push.

So there will only be those like Sarah Hoyt who will remember this day for what it is and mourn for the America that people like my Father and Uncles fought for that has been thrown away by those seeking power for their own ends.

Closing thought; I suddenly find myself thinking of Molly Norris the Seattle Cartoonist who is still in hiding over Islamic death threats. The non reaction to this twelve years ago to the targeting of a liberal cartoonish was a precursor to what we are seeing now.

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