The Definition of Insanity - Top Three Takeaways – October 18th, 2023
- The definition of insanity. That applies to much of what’s in the news today. Sending President Biden off to represent our interests and those of the Israelis overseas. Calls by the left in this country and around the world for an Israeli cease fire with a terrorist organization with a stated goal of “destroying Israel”. A Trump trial in New York. And this is also what watching the House of Representatives has become. Watching them do nothing but potentially expecting a different result. Yesterday’s failed vote for House speaker is all too familiar and all too dysfunctional but yet was highly predictable...as I said two weeks ago today: For the first time in American history a House Speaker has been voted out. And now here we are mired in a mess. While we wait and watch the spectacle to be... Here’s what isn’t happening. Any investigations into the Biden Crime Family or the Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. Ironically, a partial government shutdown wouldn’t have stopped investigative work by the House Republican Committees. The only action that can truly stop all functions of the House is what happened yesterday...and that will continue today and who knows for how long. While House Democrats are as happy as can be...the biggest winner of all is President Biden who’s currently not under congressional investigation. Each day lost in their investigative work is a day won by team Biden. There’s obviously also not any legislating for that matter and there are now just 41 days before another looming partial government shutdown deadline. As I said earlier this week. I respect the “no” vote on Saturday’s CR. I don’t respect the move to hand the Democrats the biggest possible victory they could have hoped for and that they voted for. There’s always a right way and a wrong way to do things. What we’re witnessing now isn’t the right way – unless you want to serve the interests of the current President of the United States. Evidencing the point... In the end Gaetz was only able to win the support of seven other Republicans. Matt Gaetz and his ego won out. The country, most especially actual conservatives, lost out. All that’s changed since then is that we’re now under 30 days away from another looming partial government shutdown, Steve Scalise has been blown out and potentially now Jim Jordan too. Oh, and a world that was already on fire due to the weakness of President Biden is now much more so – but now also without strong conservative leadership in the US House...or any leadership in the House which also projects weakness on the world stage. And my biggest concern remains what I warned about originally. There is a very real chance someone far less conservative, far less capable than Kevin McCarthy is eventually the next speaker of the House...whenever that may be. Just as eight Republicans teamed up with every Democrat to oust Kevin McCarthy – all it would take to replace him with someone of mostly the Democrats’ choosing would be the same. If the world feels a bit insane right now it’s because we’ve been in this feedback loop of watching similar people do similar things but with often the hope and even at times perhaps the expectation that we’ll get a different result. Speaking of which...
- We should not accept as a state, or for that matter as a country, Palestinian refugees. Governor DeSantis has now made news for two reasons pertaining to the Israel-Hamas war and he’s right about both. First, the quick decision to contract with Project Dynamo to evacuate hundreds of Floridians from Israel with more flights and more evacuations on the way. While some are attempting to find fault in this decision, Money in the state’s emergency management fund was used for a bill which to date totals $4 million. I don’t know how much bigger of an emergency Floridians could have than being trapped in desperate circumstances following a brutal terrorist attack and subsequent war. But the other reason our governor has been in the news is for saying this: We cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees. Not all of them are Hamas, but they are all anti-Semitic, none of them believe in Israel’s right to exist. None of the Arab states are willing to take any of them. Now, it’s rarely a good idea to refer to a large group of people under the umbrella of “all”...as in they’re all anti-Semitic. DeSantis can’t specifically speak to that, nor can it be supported with facts. As a result, those who are inclined to find fault with him, are finding that fault with him. But it is actually possible that’s the case, those who take exception to his statement can’t disprove what he said any more than he can prove what he literally said. More to the point, as I’ve recently illustrated –
- At least 75% of the Palestinian people definitively are anti-Semitic. And actually, are anti anything that isn’t onboard with their brand of Islam under sharia law. As I illustrated last week - What separates civilized Muslims in society from terrorists across societies is whether one strictly adheres to the law of Muhammad under sharia. But here’s the next uncomfortable truth. (A) Pew Research study found 80% of Muslims in Asia favor sharia law, along with 64% - 74% of Muslims in African countries and in the Middle East. And in the Palestinian territories – it stands at 75%. That means that at a minimum 75% of the Palestinian people are with Hamas, the group which had already been a designated terrorist organization for nine years at the time they voted them into power in the country...and thus at least three-quarters of them should never be allowed to visit this country let alone be brought in as refugees to permanently populate it. And no, when you have three-quarters of a population of people that are somewhere between outright supportive to at least sympathetic to terrorists, you don’t play around with who you perceive to be the rest. This is an important point and an important distinction I highlighted in the aftermath of Hamas’ terror and the onset of Israel’s war with them. Many are inclined to paint Palestinians as victims of Hamas thus making the case for why we should take them in as refugees. They’re not victims of Hamas. They’re with Hamas. And they’re the ones responsible for bringing them into power. And to end my takeaways where I started. Bringing Palestinian refugees to this country would yet again be the definition of insanity.