[Bee] NEW YORK — Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was tragically killed Tuesday night during a police raid at Columbia University in which hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested.
"They came at me with tear gas and racism," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters. "I am now literally dead."
According to sources, Ocasio-Cortez was in Washington, D.C. at the time.
"They kept shouting, 'Where is she!? Where is she!? I need to kill her with guns!'" she continued. "I hid under a table, but wood can't protect you from the Jew police state."
Experts confirm that if Israel were not trying to defend itself from attacks from Hamas, protestors would never have taken over Columbia University, the police would never have raided the campus, and Ocasio-Cortez would still be alive. The New York representative is now reportedly seeing a psychotherapist to help her cope with her own death.
Ocasio-Cortez is survived by her fiancé Riley Roberts and a French bulldog named Deco.
WASHINGTON—As mounting campus protests and arrests over the Israel-Hamas war threatened his fragile electoral coalition, advisors to President Joe Biden assured him Friday that this would blow over once all Gazans were dead. “Just lie low, let a few thousand more bombs drop on densely populated areas, and you’re golden, Mr. President,” said senior communications advisor Anita Dunn, promising the depleted Biden that in a matter of months, there would hopefully be no one left to protest for in the besieged Palestinian territory. “I know things might seem bleak now, sir, but all you need to do is hold the course giving Israel billions in military aid, and this will most likely all be a distant memory by November. After that, it’s smooth sailing ahead. What are the activists going to be angry about then? A bunch of rubble and mass graves?” Dunn went on to stress that with any luck, there soon wouldn’t be any student protesters left alive, either.
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[Daily Caller] How the MIC and the Neocons Keep America Losing
It is painfully apparent to anyone of sound mind and judgment that there’s something gravely wrong with America’s current military capacity and our ability to project power in the world. The WWII-era fighting force composed of fourteen million GIs with a muscular industrial base backing them up is almost unimaginable today. In the last three years, five different US embassies have been hastily evacuated: Sudan, Afghanistan, Belarus, Ukraine and Niger. Americans are held hostage in Gaza; commercial shipping traffic is blockaded and our ground and naval forces are shot at daily with impunity. How did America go from winning the Cold War and becoming the sole global superpower in the 90s to the state of disarray that we find ourselves in now?
One reason is financial. All warfare has an underlying economic basis and a nation’s military power reflects its economic structure. Today in America the "exorbitant privilege" of the US dollar and the unlimited printing press of fiat currency it enables means current US defense spending is essentially covered by debt: indeed at least 30% of the current national debt consists of military overspend from the so-called Global War on Terror. This reality has created an absence of strategic discipline, and a military policy that prioritizes a tiny guild of contractors feeding an obese top-heavy structure rather than winning wars.
The roots of the current situation reach back to the election of Reagan in 1980. Reagan started a pivot from 35 years of containment to a more aggressive approach, covered by deficits. Channeled economically, politically, culturally, socially and through covert action these measures helped to bring an end to the Soviet Union, but at a critical strategic cost. Partly as a consequence of the central economic role that the USSR had come to play for the US defense industry, the opportunity to positively engage with Russia after 1991 was rejected by the dominant neoconservative faction and their military-industrial complex allies in Washington. Originally Trotskyites, the Neocons had taken root in the corporatist wing of the Republican Party and gradually increased in influence, to eventually become dominant in the Washington Beltway foreign policy and emblematic of its mentality of continuous warfare funded by an unlimited fiat printing press.
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The real root of our current situation is Gramsci's "long march through the institutions" and that fact that USA's basic thinking and language usage is now poisoned.
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[REGNUM] Ten years after the tragedy in the Odessa House of Trade Unions, people do not gather there to lay flowers. Two years ago this was already expressly prohibited. “In order to avoid provocations,” on May 2 this year, even lessons in Odessa schools will be held remotely, the regional military administration has taken care of this.
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I was reading some of widows of the men who died in the trade union were denied their husbands pensions because they jumped from the roof rather than burn alive. Declared their deaths suicide.
whole thing was amusing but my fav part was about 5 minutes into the video where J K-S wants pizza without cheese or tomato sauce
[MEGYNKELLY] Megyn is joined by the hosts of The Fifth Column – Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch – to discuss the irony of Ivy League students demanding food and water and pretending they’re in need of “humanitarian aid,” their high-maintenance requests, the ridiculous character that is Columbia University protest leader Johannah King-Slutsky, and more.
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I can but quote the comment I saw earlier on X.
'I haven't been this disappointed in a Slutzky since Caroline Ellison.'
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Tucker should look up the Sack of Manila in 1945 which killed more than either of the bombs. The Philippines were scheduled for independence before the Japanese conquered it in 1942. The same Japanese military that told its own citizens to kill themselves rather than be take alive on Saipan.
Tucker is of the mushy mind set that war can be made 'nice' and 'manageable'. How many conflicts have we resolved since 1945? War is brutal, destructive, barbaric. Try avoid. If not, win and don't hold back.
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Tucker went from pretty sharp scalpel to "Joe Rogan does all my thinking" in record time.
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People on my side ... on the Right, you know, have spent 80 years defending dropping nuclear weapons on civilians. Like, are you joking? That's just like prima facie evil. ... It's wrong to drop nuclear weapons on people. And if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil.
I read a book called The Court of the Red Tsar which is an unauthorized biography of Joe Stalin. In it, the opinion is expressed that Truman dropped those bombs on Japan more as a warning to Stalin than anything else. If you look at it that way, it may have been effective in preventing the Red Army from advancing any further into Western Europe after they sacked Berlin.
Further, and I'm not certain about the correct numbers, when Curtis LeMay dropped napalm on Tokyo, it killed more people than both of the atomic bombs.
The argument is made that the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki convinced the Japanese to surrender unconditionally thereby preventing the loss of millions of lives that would have resulted from an American invasion of Japan.
But I wonder about a few things. Why did we have to invade Japan when their navy was defeated and we could have just blockaded them until they were willing to make some kind of a deal? Why did Roosevelt even care about what Japan was doing in Manchuria? What business was it of his and what were the Japanese doing in Manchuria that the British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese hadn't done with their colonies in Asia? Isn't is possible that the Japanese could have prevented Mao Tse Tung from getting control of China?
I hate communism as much as anybody, Democrats scare the crap out of me and I think Joe Biden is more likely to get us into a nuclear war than any president we've had since Truman. When I think about these things I wonder if Tucker might be right.
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@4 The Western/Soviet line of contact in 1945 was significantly east of what would become the Iron Curtain.
In 1945 the US withdrew to the previously agreed upon
zone borders in exchange for the Soviets permitting the also previously agreed upon establishment of the Western sectors of Berlin.
West-Berlin of course was not militarily defensible while the withdrawal from Thuringia, and other parts of future East Germany weakened Western Europe's strategic posture.
Which is why Churchill, by then freshly out of office, was opposed to this exchange.
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Why is Russia helping Iran wage war against Israel?
[REGNUM] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again turned to the United States for help. This time he does not need a weapon, but protection. And not from an Iranian strike or the actions of the Houthis, but from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“House Speaker Mike Johnson demanded that the International Criminal Court stop its “abomination.” Did you think this was a belated reaction to the discovery of 160 Ukrainian children alive and well in Germany with their guardians? Those same children for whose genocide the ICC accused the Russian President and Children's Rights Commissioner Lvova-Belova? No, you shouldn’t have thought that,” says IA Regnum editor-in-chief Marina Akhmedova.
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