100 days of Israel-Hamas war: AP looks at conflict’s impact on the region

Over 23,000 Palestinians dead, about 11,000 are children, most of the rest are women.  There are an estimated 2 million people homeless and displaced, with no shelter or food in the winter cold and rain.  Israel said it won’t stop, it says it will continue what it is doing all through 2024.  Their plan is for an incredible dense small area reservation tightly controlled by Israel, which hopes to force the Palestinians to become so desperate they will either overwhelm the Egyptian border or die off and leaving until there are no Palestinians left.  Israel has said they are working to force deport the all Palestinians from Gaza and the West bank.  This is a land grab genocide by Israel.   Different officials in the government admit it.  Bibi brags about knifing the US in the back as he has demanded more money, he laughs as he claims he prevented any attempt to form a two-state solution.  He is as racist against Palestinians as republicans are toward brown people.  Hugs.  Scottie

Now 100 days old, the latest Israel-Hamas war is by far the longest, bloodiest, and most destructive conflict between the bitter enemies.

The Text Messages Between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows

Thanks to https://poodyheads.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/the-text-messages-between-ginni-thomas-and-mark-meadows/ for the link.   Hugs.  Scottie

TX GOP Chair Worked For Funder Of Extremist Group

This goes along with my last post, Christian take over of the US pushed by Churches, leaders with money, and wealthy older people who see it as a way to enforce their bigotry to remain a white cis straight 1950s society.   I really want to emphasize the hard right bigotry and hate these billionaires have and the changes they are making to society.  They fund the very rabid right wing media that is trying hard to change all of our society and political leanings, increasing hate for LGBTQIA and hate against blacks / brown people.   They push a pro Christian white cis straight male in charge of society.    Dunn & Wilks also control influential legal, policy, & advocacy organizations. One of those orgs argued in court that pharmacies shouldn’t sell birth control. The lawyer who argued that case later became a federal judge. He banned the abortion pill.   And they’ve even created their own right-wing media bubble. Dunn & Wilks fund Texas Scorecard, the top far-right publication. Wilks owns the Daily Wire and bankrolls PragerU, a right-wing “education” platform they’re trying to force into our schools.   Prager U is now being used in red state public schools as instruction materials.  Florida pushes their message hard.  There is a serious push by really wealthy old Christian bigots to turn the US into a Christian Iran, a Christian Saudi Arabia, a Christian Afghanistan.  Do we the poor majority want to allow this?  Hugs.  Scottie

 
 

January 13, 2024

The Texas Tribune reports:

For more than three months, Republican Party of Texas Chair Matt Rinaldi has vigorously attacked critics of Defend Texas Liberty, and rebuffed calls to distance the state party from the powerful group over its ties to white supremacists. As he did so, Rinaldi was also working as an attorney for one of the group’s two billionaire funders, Farris Wilks, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Since 2021, Wilks has given nearly $5 million to Defend Texas Liberty, which last year was the state party’s largest financial supporter. With Rinaldi’s help, the group has sought to purge the Texas GOP of more moderate voices by bankrolling far-right causes and primary candidates. Publicly, Rinaldi has also been silent about Defend Texas Liberty as the Tribune extensively reported on ties between the group and other white supremacists and Nick Fuentes acolytes.

Read the full article. There’s much more. Give the tweets below a minute to fully load because they illuminate how deep this goes. The final tweet links to a grimly fascinating deep dive into Defend Texas Liberty’s leader.

 

 

Dunn and Wilkes made their billions from fracking.

Y’know that old saw that goes, “If you enter a room and there are 12 Nazis having dinner at the table and you sit down to join them, there are now 13 Nazis at the table”?

Rinaldi, Dunn, Wilks, Strickland and the rest of these guys are the ones who catered the meal.

Two billionaires funding right wing hate groups and Nazis. And both are pastors.

Who said that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then it is for a Richmond to enter the kingdom of heaven?

Who said the greatest commandment after loving God was loving your neighbor?

Who said not to store up treasures on earth?

no one of any importance whatsoever to modern fundamentalist Christianity. One could almost wish that they succeed turning Texas into a theocracy and the right wing state. Maybe they can leave the union.

I think it reveals that they don’t even believe their religious nuttery. They just want to use superstition and money to control EVERYTHING, and they also think they’re so smart that no one will pick up on the hypocrisy

The problem is they won’t leave the Union. They will just continue to spread their shit and disease to the rest of America. It’s happening now

Actually, they are heretic “Christians”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Wilks’ parents founded their own church (cult?), which denies Christian doctrines like the Trinity and the divinity of Christ, and gives primacy to the Hebrew Scriptures. While they seem to recognize Jesus as a prophet of some sort, they don’t seem to be bound to follow his teachings.

Is there a republican who is not an extremest at this point?

If they’re not actively Nazis, they’re Nazi adjacent or Nazi tolerant.

They are all Nazis.

And look! Wilks is the pastor of his own church cult.
Currently the Assembly of Yahweh (7th day) is a conservative Jews for Jesus-type congregation. It teaches that “the true religion is Jewish (not a Gentile religion)” and its members celebrate the Old Testament holidays rather than those related to the New Testament. The congregation considers the Old Testament historically and scientifically accurate.

So, a white supremacist group is funded by white supremacist billionaires. And the TX GQP chair closely worked with one of them.

That perfectly explains why the Texas GQP refuses to disassociate from Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis.

I’m beginning to think the klan has been very active in Texas for a very long time.

Sheesh. 😯

I’d take all of the left’s so-called “radicals” over ANY of the right’s extremists or Christian Nationalists.

 

 

 

Need good people to help like this one

UN Court Starts Genocide Hearing Against Israel Despite US Calling Case ‘Meritless’

A U.N. court began hearings this week on South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide — a bid to stop the conflict in Gaza and document what the Palestinian ally calls Israeli forces’ “genocidal conduct.” The U.S. calls the case “meritless.” Anita Powell reports; Patsy Widakuswara contributed.

A few more Majority Report clips. I love the show.

‘Shocking to hear someone say that’: Weissmann on Trump immunity claims reaching new low

Andrew Weissman, former top prosecutor at the Department of Justice, Lisa Rubin, MSNBC Legal Analyst and NBC News Justice Reporter Ryan Reilly who was inside the courthouse join Ali Velshi in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House reacting to today’s hearing in a Washington D.C. courtroom where Trump’s legal team made some of their most absurd claims about hypothetical crimes a President could commit while they are President which could be covered by Presidential immunity.

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