Things That Pissed Me Off This Week

Let me just start with a strong suggestion that if you've not seen the season premiere of South Park, I urge you to stream it any way you can. Right now, Season 27 Episode 1 is available to view on Comedy Central.  I don't have to say anything about it...just watch it and make your own decision. For the record, I am not not a South Park fan, but I will make an exception for this.

If you've never heard of the British think tank, the Henry Jackson Society, you might want to check them out. Especially Andrew Fox who writes on the Middle East. His paper with Salo Aizenberg, Hamas's Human Shield Strategy in Gaza is a superb analysis on the use of civilian populations and tunnels as a defensive strategy. Fox has spent significant time in Gaza and has seen the reality up close. 

He is worth listening to. Recently, Fox delivered a lecture on the rules of war which is, quite frankly, a must hear. The speech was delivered at the Nordic Israel Congress in Oslo last May and although the intro in Norwegian, the speech is in English. It is, to say the least, enlightening. Mr. Fox is a former office in the British Army and is neither Israeli nor Jewish. Go grab a cuppa something and listening to him talk about war. He talks about responsibility, something no one wants to talk about in regards to Hamas....and that pisses me off BIG TIME. 

How the world has managed to accept Hamas as the victims in this war is beyond me. I keep coming back to the expression that the only good Jew is a dead Jew. We, the Jewish People, are blamed, excoriated, persecuted, and massacred until the only way to survive is to fight back....and then we are blamed for fighting back. 

And the hostages are still hostages.

You gotta hand it to Hamas; they have the best PR machine ever assembled. They have deceived the entire world. But then again, they're fighting Jews so the only way they can win is with controlling the PR narrative. At that, they are champs. 

Meanwhile, back in the states, between the weather and the mass shootings, it's been a really shitty week. And it's only Monday night. Three today alone, including a guy who walked into a midtown Manhattan skyscraper with a rifle and started shooting.

So far in July, there have been 65 mass shootings. 

Here are the stats: 

Total shootings: 296 – 

Shootings per day: 1.42 – 

Killed: 334 – 

Wounded: 1228 

Go. Look for yourself. Oh, and most are Shooter Unknown. 

These are devastating statistics. But wanna know what really pisses me off? 

No one is talking about gun violence. It's as though it has been shoved to the side.

And all those pro-life people? They're basically full of merde because if they were really pro-LIFE and not simply pro-birth, this would be a totally hot button issue for them. Yet, they remain silent. Maybe because their mouths are continually full of shit.

And the big story about Feckless President Felon is that he was caught cheating on his own golf course. Just watch the caddie on the right.

[Note: Since I posted this video, there has been speculation that it is fake. It very well may be, but on the other hand there are a lot of reasonable news sources that used it. If it proves to be fake, I will report accordingly.]

Of course, just as he cheats at golf, he cheats We, the Taxpayers by charging us for his use of his club for presidential meetings. As per The Washington Post:

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met Monday morning with the president near the fairway to hash out a trade deal and discuss the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. On Sunday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the contours of a trade deal at the private club.

The meetings provide the latest example of how Trump uses his presidential power not only to govern, but also to help his family businesses. The engagements provide publicity for the courses and funnel taxpayer funds to the Trump Organization, as the U.S. government pays to lodge staff and security details at the properties.

Can you say emoluments clause, boys and girls? It's worth a moment to read the Brennan Center for Justice's explanation of the emoluments clause. Even if President Cheater is skirting the letter of the law, this is what We, the Jewish People would call Marit Ayin: 

the concept in Jewish law which prohibits certain actions which might appear to be in violation of Jewish law, even if they are actually permissible, in order to prevent onlookers from drawing false conclusions.

Appearances do matter. Even if a significant portion of this country refuses to recognize that. On the other hand, it could be that he believes the law no longer applies to him personally since SCOTUS saw fit to expand his powers.  And that pisses me off. 

I would continue my screed, but the thunder-bumpers are now overhead and the lights have flickered. I wanna get this out the door now.

The weather-dweebs promise the violent weather siege will end tomorrow. I can only hope.

The Wifely Person's Tip o'the Week

When the weather-dweebs are using words like golf-ball hail

and straight line winds,

it's okay to bring your fancy-shmancy pots 

into the house as a protective measure.

I did.