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Bestselling Co-Author, The Go-Giver Series. Speaker. Animal Lover. Free-Market Advocate. Money is an echo of value. https://nitter.cf/t.co/3gUCuaNqI1

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The single greatest "people skill" is a highly developed & authentic interest in the *other* person.
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Here is an excellent article by @Aizenberg55 well-worth reading and passing along to anyone you know who -- beyond all logic -- somehow actually believes Israel is committing a "genocide" in Gaza. {h/t @CerebralWisdom}
The genocide accusation requires proof of special intent. If Israel intended to destroy Palestinians as such why has it left Ramallah untouched and >98% of Gazan civilians alive after years of war vs Hamas? Invoking that genocide can mean "in part" does not answer the question.
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Indeed, very disheartening to witness the immense amount of plain "economic literacy" out there. Good intent plus bad decisions does not equal good decisions. Imagine if schools required reading books like Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson" or anything by Dr. Sowell. But...they won't. {h/t @Just_A_Bill_}
What’s terrifying about this clip isn’t their ideals…these sweet gals’ hearts are certainly in the right place. What’s terrifying is they have the civic, political, and economic literacy of a 9 year old. When a charlatan like Abdul comes along with the Jr High class president schtick of “no more homework and the vending machines are all free!”, they fall for it. I don’t know how you get to that age with ZERO understanding of supply chains, manufacturing, labor costs…but a lot of folks think that medicine and MRIs and hospitals just materialize out of thin air like unicorn farts. They’ve never built anything in their lives, so they have no concept of how things function…things are just…there. They think milk comes from the store. They think rich people don’t pay taxes, even though the top 1% fund 40% of government with their taxes already, and yet 40% of all Americans contribute ZERO federal income tax at all. These people don’t understand that you could tax the wealthy at 100% and it would only fund the government for 120 days. Then you’re screwed. Too many Americans simply have zero understanding of how anything works, and even though they’re living in the easiest times in human history, they think things are “terrible out there”. These commie scammers roll through and promise them things that sound great, but aren’t possible in reality, and have devastating consequences if tried…but because they don’t know anything, they fall for it. Sadly, so many of our politicians and their advisors are such atrocious communicators, there’s like zero countervailing narrative to push back on the commie gobbledygook, so we are gonna have to learn the hard way. Guys…we just had a sample of socialism: Covid. We all got universal basic income, and it ended up tripling our costs and they’ll never go down. Ever. That one brief little experiment in command and control government will haunt us the rest of our lives. Bleak stuff, man.
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The fantastic James Lindsay's perfect reply. Should be read by EVERYONE who has bought into the entire anti-Israel narrative. MP @ConceptualJames: For decades, Israelis tried to work with the Gazans, believing the impossible: that people who have declared that they want nothing more than to have Israel destroyed and Jews killed might be able to be persuaded to be friends by giving them land, money, resources, opportunities, and an infinite am...
I do. It's actually a really simple answer. Kids can understand it. I'll tell you the story now so you can be ready when you finally have grandkids, Mario Awful. For decades, Israelis tried to work with the Gazans, believing the impossible: that people who have declared that they want nothing more than to have Israel destroyed and Jews killed might be able to be persuaded to be friends by giving them land, money, resources, opportunities, and an infinite amount of patience. During those decades, huge amounts of humanitarian aid was sent to the Gaza Strip, which they used to militarize and to spend many years planning a savage surprise attack against the people helping them. Almost everyone in the world took up their cause, even many Israelis who lived right next door, even though the Gazans were taking advantage of all that help. They were offered everything but wouldn't accept it because all they wanted was Israel to be destroyed and Jews to be driven out or, preferably, dead. They were so fixated on that goal that nothing else mattered, and nothing else was good enough. They even used water pipes to build rockets and dug terror tunnels under their city and deep into Israeli territory to prepare for a surprise war. On an important Jewish holiday and their sabbath, the Gazans sprung their surprise attack. That was October 7, 2023. They launched over a thousand rockets at 6:30 am. The Israelis heard the sirens and knew they only had seconds to hide in their shelters from these attacks. By the way, every Israeli house has a bomb shelter in it because these kinds of attacks are so frequent. Also, every Israeli adult and child, little boys and little girls, knows from as soon as they can walk that when the sirens sound to go to the shelter because it is so important and so common. As the Israelis went, exhausted and sleepy, to their shelters to hide from the rocket attack, the Gazans sent a large armed force across the fence into Israel to do the most heinous things to the Israelis that you can imagine. Over a thousand were murdered. Things so horrible you cannot describe them to children happened everywhere. The Gazans celebrated and filmed themselves and put it on the internet, bragging and boasting about unimaginable horrors and murders. They dragged Israelis, including women, children, and babies and dead bodies, into their terror city and terror tunnels and started abusing and killing them slowly, using them and their corpses as collateral against the Israeli people and military. This lasted for over two years, with the last hostage's remains returned at the end of January 2026 after being taken in October 2023. The scale and nature of this attack is so horrific that it cannot be described politely, but its true evil wasn't just in the barbarity of its forces, which did unspeakable things to completely innocent men, women, and children everywhere they went, including many who openly supported them for years, but in how they took advantage of the trust and help they were given to do it. Gazans had spent years exploiting the goodwill of Israelis in the Gaza Envelope to gather intelligence, working as gardeners, housekeepers, taxi drivers, etc., to gather detailed intelligence of the neighborhoods and homes they would systematically attack starting on October 7. So many Israelis were betrayed at their trust and goodwill toward the Gazans, and by it. While they hid from those rockets in their shelters, Hamas terrorists systematically went through the carefully mapped streets of their neighborhoods, broke into houses, and shot them dead through the doors of their shelters, or crashed in through the walls from the outside using their own farming equipment to do it. Hamas terrorists knew the Israelis would be hiding from the rockets and knew where they'd be hiding, and they murdered them while they hid, deliberately, planned out in advance and for years. These people weren't just Israelis or Jews. They were innocents. In fact, as far as it goes, many of them were the greatest champions for the Gazans in Israel. Didn't matter. They were Israelis. They were Jews. They had to die in the most horrible ways you can think of. They had to be desecrated. They had to be taken hostage. It all had to be celebrated on video streamed live onto the internet to excite their radical friends around the region and the world. The horror is actually incomprehensible. Had this happened to Americans in the United States from one of its neighbors, the response Americans would have demanded cannot actually be comprehended. I stand in awe at how restrained and cautious and decent and good the Israelis have been, and it is to my slight embarrassment knowing that our own people, our own forces, wouldn't have managed a fraction of that decency, however much we would match the unparalleled effectiveness of these operations. That is, Mario Awful, I don't f*cking want to hear it, and neither do your grandkids. Respect them enough not to soil their minds with these lies, which are so evil that Hell itself would be slightly embarrassed to spread them. So, when Israel realized what had happened to them, what was still happening to them, how their trust, support, and patience had been taken advantage of in the nastiest and cruelest way human beings can possibly imagine, for zero good reasons and only unbelievably evil ones, they set out to make sure it would never happen again. They started a war of rescue and to end the military capacities of the Gazans, who were and still are governed by a radical terrorist group that even has in their charter that they want every Israeli driven out and every Jew that can be killed dead. Israel waged a patient war with the highest accuracy rate of any in the entire history of urban warfare, taking great pains and many casualties to spare innocent life, even when that innocent life openly supports the terror regime that governs them and wants them dead. The Gazans, however, had spent decades turning their entire city into a hidden military fortress, hiding weapons, entrances to terror tunnels, command centers, and every conceivable military target within civilian neighborhoods, including even homes, schools, hospitals, and houses of worship. Israel did what it had to do as carefully as it could be done. The devastation you see is the result of the evil of Hamas and the Gazans who support it having spent decades organizing their city to become a vast, sprawling military installation. The Gazans and their terrorist leaders took this organizational approach specifically for two reasons. One was to deter Israel from ever attacking or disabling their military installations at all. Even when the devastation seen here, that remained the case. Israel took great pains to minimize, including casualties, including complicated legal approvals, including warning both civilians and combatants in Gaza of incoming attacks against the installations, trying to save all innocent (and a lot of not-so-innocent) life. Another was to produce this propaganda, which Mario Awful, after having his account built to giant size by @elonmusk himself, spreads and promotes with foolish emotion-driven emojis and devastating lies of omission of these facts. Even as Israel dismantled the entire military capacity of Gaza bit by bit (which is what you see in the video here), they sent aid: more food, medicine, and other supplies than have ever been sent to a population controlled by an enemy military in the history of warfare, period. The terrorist leaders leveraged every bit of it against them, stealing it and starving their own people, creating propaganda campaigns about genocide and forced starvation, and even building more rockets out of raw materials including water pipes, which they then fired at Israel. Bit by bit, Israel dismantled as much of their military apparatus as they could and rescued or recovered all of their hostages, including among them Americans. The result is what you see. The result you see below is the most painstakingly moderate response a decent human being of even the slightest comprehension could possibly imagine, and yet that's what the Israelis have accomplished in Gaza. And they accomplished it while the world hated them for it, scrutinized everything not just for any legitimate breaches of perfection but for a litany of illegitimate accusations of things so voluminous that they could not even be recorded, except that they were in the relentless propaganda of social media, the global enemy propaganda channels, and even the mainstream press, almost all amplified and repeated by even allegedly good, decent conservatives who found these lies a perfect reason either to reveal their underlying but hidden hatred for Jews or to turn to that evil on false pretenses you are promoting, even now, even today. So when you sit down to tell your grandkids how humanity allowed Gaza to happen, tell them the real story. Humanity allowed Gaza to become a terrorist militarized city openly dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the murder and desecration of Jews and Jewish bodies by believing in some asinine humanitarian concept that defies all logic. It happened by creating a global political situation that, for reasons of Communist political correctness and soft-hearted and softer-headed compassion, refused to believe the simple reality of the situation. It happened because this delusion and misplaced trust persisted for decades while Hamas and its supporters turned Gaza into a terrorist military outpost that would simply have to be destroyed sooner or later, and then they pulled that trigger on themselves in the most obvious way possible on October 7, 2023, which stands as one of the darkest days of the last century. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it wouldn't take Hamas at its word. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it lied to itself for decades about the nature of the Islamic currents that motivate Hamas and "Palestinianism" more broadly. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it wouldn't address a problem correctly from the beginning, not least because it was terrified of being called racist and refused, nobly but stupidly, that human beings could be led by ideology and religion to the depths of evil and depravity that had captured the Gazans. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen, that is, because it refused to take Gazans at their word. Israel, starting in late 2023, finally woke up in the worst way possible to the need to STOP LETTING GAZA HAPPEN, the result of which your video depicts and the truth and moral of which you, like a demon, invert.
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Perfectly-stated! Well-worth the read! RP @nicolelampert: This is what it feels like when you are Jewish and you are in the middle of a crowd that starts chanting “Free Palestine”: your heart starts beating faster. Your hands grow clammy. Your legs start to shake involuntarily. Your body perceives danger; you are in flight mode. Even if, intellectually, your brain is telling you, “wanting a free Palestine isn’t the same as hating me” or “they don’t know I’m Jewish” or even “the police are there and will protect me,” that isn’t enough to stop the fear or wipe the genetic memories stored in your DNA about the danger of anti-Semitic mobs. Your body knows Jew hatred, and it knows to be afraid of it. Advertisement That’s why Jewish groups in America spoke up against Macklemore and his “Free Palestine” rant at an Ed Sheeran concert in America. Families who had gone to see a vanilla pop star who had seemed safe were suddenly confronted with people around them screaming “Free Palestine” led by the man on the stage who was singing about genocide and lauding the anti-Semites of Columbia University as heroes. It felt dangerous and uncomfortable because he was riling up hatred. That is not entertainment. Why should Jews and only Jews be expected to be put up with this? Why are we told to suck up the hatred when we have seen in Manchester, on Bondi Beach, in Washington and Colorado what it leads to? Full piece below 👇🏼
This is what it feels like when you are Jewish and you are in the middle of a crowd that starts chanting “Free Palestine”: your heart starts beating faster. Your hands grow clammy. Your legs start to shake involuntarily. Your body perceives danger; you are in flight mode. Even if, intellectually, your brain is telling you, “wanting a free Palestine isn’t the same as hating me” or “they don’t know I’m Jewish” or even “the police are there and will protect me,” that isn’t enough to stop the fear or wipe the genetic memories stored in your DNA about the danger of anti-Semitic mobs. Your body knows Jew hatred, and it knows to be afraid of it. Advertisement That’s why Jewish groups in America spoke up against Macklemore and his “Free Palestine” rant at an Ed Sheeran concert in America. Families who had gone to see a vanilla pop star who had seemed safe were suddenly confronted with people around them screaming “Free Palestine” led by the man on the stage who was singing about genocide and lauding the anti-Semites of Columbia University as heroes. It felt dangerous and uncomfortable because he was riling up hatred. That is not entertainment. Why should Jews and only Jews be expected to be put up with this? Why are we told to suck up the hatred when we have seen in Manchester, on Bondi Beach, in Washington and Colorado what it leads to? Full piece below 👇🏼
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Thank you, Mr. @billmaher! This is 3 min. of brilliance everyone accusing Israel of "genocide" should see. It wouldn't matter to them but they should still see it. RP @VividProwess: Bill Maher on the "genocide" lie in Gaza. There is NO genocide. This MUST go viral.
Bill Maher on the “genocide” lie in Gaza. There is NO genocide. This MUST go viral.
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Wishing my Jewish "Mishpacha" throughout the world LaShana Tova u’metukah. May the year 5787 be both good and sweet!
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11 minutes of absolute brilliance!!!!! All the history that an anti-Zionist needs to know (but still won't care): RP @emilykschrader: My full address at the Oxford Union on the debate motion: “This house believes Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine.”
My full address at the Oxford Union on the debate motion: “This house believes Israel never truly wanted peace with Palestine.” 🇮🇱
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What could've been! RP @BruerMorris RP @VividProwess: The amazing @lalshareef explains how Israel removed Jews from Gaza in 2005 to get peace, leaving behind greenhouses worth millions of dolars. The Palestinians looted the greenhouses, and Gaza was turned into a ter...
The amazing @lalshareef explains how Israel removed Jews from Gaza in 2005 to get peace, leaving behind greenhouses worth millions of dollars. The Palestinians looted the greenhouses, and Gaza was turned into a terror fortress. This must go viral.
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Ms. Ke's excellent question should matter. Unfortunately, it won't. RP @DavidM_Friedman: MP @EllaTravelsLove: Fun fact: When the PLO was founded in 1964, the West Bank was ruled by Jordan and Gaza by Egypt. Yet the PLO didn't demand the "liberation" of either. Its founding charter called only for the elimination of Israel. If this conflict had always been about creating a Palestinian state, why wasn't Jordan's control of the West Bank or Egypt's control of Gaza considered occupation? Sometimes history asks uncomfortable questions.
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GREAT article at @AishGlobal on the fantastic @BoyGeorge's brave stance re Israel and the Jewish people...as well as his terrific new song. Article at bit.ly/4flEgvu. He doesn't refer to it as brave but simply behaving like a human. Amazingly...that is now brave!
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The Babylon Bee finally did it...they (and Carl, the online expert) totally exposed my people for who we really are! RP @Next_andReady: RP @TheBabylonBee: The Babylon Bee Finally Exposes the Jews
The Babylon Bee Finally Exposes The Jews
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Agreed! Are you an adult actually siding with Hamas? Please take 2 min. to listen to this child. MP @MorEdge_Insight: One day I would love to know how this kid understood exactly what’s going on and how things work, while millions of alleged adults were so easily manip...
One day I would love to know how this kid understood exactly what’s going on and how things work, while millions of alleged adults were so easily manipulated and brainwashed by a bunch of idiotic propagandists and podcasters. The sheer number of uneducated muppets that appeared on the scene after October 7 is a new human phenomenon.
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Indeed, nothing new under the sun, is there? MP @CptAllenHistory: On This Day — July 18, 1290 King Edward I of England (“Longshanks”) ordered every Jew in his kingdom to leave or die. The Edict of Expulsion gave Jews (who had lived in England since 1066) until November 1 to depart. They could take what they could carry. Most tried to cross the Channel. Many were robbed by ship captains, stripped of everything, and thrown overboard. Those who survived swam ashore. This was the culmination of more than 200 years of growing hatred: blood libels, ritual murder accusations, forced badges, crushing taxation, synagogue closures, and pogroms. For more than 350 years, the expulsion stood until Oliver Cromwell quietly allowed Jews to return in 1656. “Tolerance” of Jews in diaspora lands was always conditional … and ultimately revocable. Only Jewish sovereignty offers real protection from the whims of rulers.
On This Day — July 18, 1290 King Edward I of England (“Longshanks”) ordered every Jew in his kingdom to leave or die. The Edict of Expulsion gave Jews (who had lived in England since 1066) until November 1 to depart. They could take what they could carry. Most tried to cross the Channel. Many were robbed by ship captains, stripped of everything, and thrown overboard. Those who survived swam ashore. This was the culmination of more than 200 years of growing hatred: blood libels, ritual murder accusations, forced badges, crushing taxation, synagogue closures, and pogroms. For more than 350 years, the expulsion stood until Oliver Cromwell quietly allowed Jews to return in 1656. “Tolerance” of Jews in diaspora lands was always conditional … and ultimately revocable. Only Jewish sovereignty offers real protection from the whims of rulers.
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RP @nicolelampert: RP @Mr_Andrew_Fox: For over two years, we told you: Hamas used hospitals for military purposes. The dead “journalists” were combatants. Hamas used child soldiers. That aid was being diverted by Hamas. Tens of thousands of the dead and wounded in Gaza were combatants. Hamas used human shields. And so many other things, all of which are now proven as incontrovertibly true. Yet, not a whisper to set the story straight from the global media who pushed the genocide and war crimes lies since 7th October.
For over two years, we told you: Hamas used hospitals for military purposes. The dead “journalists” were combatants. Hamas used child soldiers. That aid was being diverted by Hamas. Tens of thousands of the dead and wounded in Gaza were combatants. Hamas used human shields. And so many other things, all of which are now proven as incontrovertibly true. Yet, not a whisper to set the story straight from the global media who pushed the genocide and war crimes lies since 7th October.
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Enlightening interview between @RubinReport and @EinatWilf. If you want to truly understand the situation in the Middle East and the ultimate "why"...this is it! I haven't seen anything better! youtube.com/watch?v=LNqVSdSy… #
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A very false premise has taken hold -- that Jews in the diaspora are being hated on and attacked because of the "bad behavior" of Israel (untrue in itself). In reality, Israel is being falsely accused of "bad behavior" because the world has simply once again given into its propensity to hate Jews. This is a repeated pattern of history. When thinking about it *logically* it is rather amazing, as well as terrifying. But, again, it is reality. Please, don't buy into the "evil Israel" fallacy in order to explain away the world turning on the Jews.
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Thank you, Madam Ambassador. Exactly! RP @Dan_Diker: MP @NikkiHaley: Claiming Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinians is modern day blood libel — propaganda pushed as more horrific details emerge about Hamas’ systematic torture... (Please read her full post)
Claiming Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinians is modern day blood libel — propaganda pushed as more horrific details emerge about Hamas’ systematic torture on Oct. 7. For being Jewish — Hamas raped a woman and burnt half of her face off in front of her husband; shoved nails, metal, and sharp objects into Israeli women; forced family members to sexually assault each other so that if they survived they would be traumatized by the sight of each other; raped corpses; the list goes on. Distracting from these atrocities and smearing Israel while victims still fight for acknowledgment is sickening.
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EXACTLY Right! MP @HillelNeuer: They are not rationalizing violence against Jews because they believe Israel is doing evil; they are accusing Israel of evil in order to rationalize violence against Jews. The accusation itself becomes psychological license by which an...
They are not rationalizing violence against Jews because they believe Israel is doing evil; they are accusing Israel of evil in order to rationalize violence against Jews. The accusation itself becomes psychological license by which ancient resentment can masquerade as virtue.
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How/why does Free-Market Capitalism benefit the masses? Be sure and read his 4th & 5th paragraphs. MP @theobjectivist: The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not...
The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more. Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined. None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily. This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.
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She wasn't Jewish, but dared the Nazi's to kill her rather than agree to their monstrosities! RP @brandon_maly @MP @MrPitbull07: "I won't do it. Send me to the gas chamber if you want." Auschwitz, 1943. A French doctor stands before a group of terrified Jewish women. A Nazi o..
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