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Netanyahu Is Eying The West Bank And Wants To Annex 30% Of Palestinian Land For Israel. Expect Hatred For Jews To Horrifically Increase Globally

Netanyahu is still eyeing the West Bank , regardless of the coronavirus disaster , wanting to annex 30 % of Palestinian land .
If Netanyahu and his ilk get what they want , this policy will end up affecting the lives of 110,000 Palestinians .
“ These territories are where the Jewish nation was born and grew , ” Netanyahu said when his new coalition government was about to be sworn in in May.
” [ Applying Israeli law to them ] won ’ t distance us from peace .
It will bring us closer.
” As the BBC reports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for annexation , Palestinian nationalists plan for an armed struggle against Israel .
With two factions of nationalism — Israeli zionists and Palestinian militants — you will see only more bloodshed .
Another thing that you will see is an extreme increase of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment at the global level .
On November of 2019 , in the German town of Einbeck , neo-Nazis from two groups — “ Comradeship Einbeck ” and “ the Right ” — provoked the staff on a tour of the Moringen concentration camp memorial .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ memorial with their thumbs up , wearing shirts that “ Fuck you , Israel ” with the Star of David crossed out .
There have been numerous events like this , from the years 2016 to 2020 .
During a Zoom talk on the Holocaust from the Israeli Embassy in Berlin , neo-Nazis disrupted the event by screaming , “ Jew , Jew , Jew ” and saying that all Jews must be destroyed .
According to Taz : In 2015 it was reported that the Israeli embassy in Berlin was getting around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ example of this can be seen here : The point is , hatred for the Jews is still in Europe , and is only going to get worse if Israel decides to annex the West Bank .
A couple of ideological narratives will become dangerous trendy if Netanyahu ’ s plan manifests .
One , since the plan is being backed by people within the Trump administration , anti-Israel voices and antisemites will say that the US is essentially a Jewish controlled country and thus is the enemy ; they will also point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ West Bank and decry the abuse of the Palestinians , stoking hatred for Jews .
We saw a taste of this in June of 2020 , in a Left-wing rally in Paris ’ s Place de la République , protestors accused Israel of massacring Palestinians .
They also screamed “ dirty Jews ” and waved placards reading “ Israel , laboratory of police violence ” .
The hatred for Israel is in both political spectrums in Europe — Left and Right – , and what Netanyahu wants to do will only fuel such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ annex the West Bank , and this may just be a catalyst to an explosion of global hatred for the Jews .
Holocaust denial has become more popular than ever before , and anger against the Jews is higher now than it ever has been since the first half of the 20th century .
Much of the hatred to Jews today is rooted in anger towards the occupation of the Palestinians ; if Israel annexes the West Bank , with the support of the US , then prepare to see a surge in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a country controlled by the Jews .
For decades , the “ Jew hatred ” that the world has been accustomed to is the anti-Israel rage of the Middle East .
When the Middle Easterner hates the Jews , it is common and something we have all heard about ; but when the European or the Westerner hates the Jew , watch out , for from this there is a fury that makes the Middle East looks nice ( the Iranians hospitably welcomed Jews who were fleeing the Germans during the Holocaust @ @ @ @ @ @ @ predict the rise of European antisemitism is crazy or far-fetched , people thought the same thing in the 1920s .
But , in 1922 , Hilaire Belloc ( who predicted the rise of Islamic fundamentalism ) predicted that the European would ferociously turn on the Jews and warned that to laugh off such a prediction was dangerous .
It is in light of this prediction and warning that we write this essay .
As we have been focusing on coronavirus , Netanyahu has been planning on doing a huge land grab .
Israel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chunk of the West Bank , under the pretext of the presence of Israeli settlements in the West Bank .
Kushner has been playing a major role behind this measure , alongside other figures who see the Trump presidency as their opportunity to accomplish their Zionist aspiration .
Hence why Israel ’ s Ambassador to the US stated that the annexation must happen “ now ” because there is a chance that Biden will win and if that happens the window of opportunity would be lost .
Annexing parts of the West Bank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. President Donald Trump ’ s “ deal of the century ” and was a central promise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’ s latest election campaign .
Benny Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi , former political rivals of Netanyahu but who are now his allies , have also expressed their support for the administration ’ s plan .
The plan to annex parts of the West Bank is in line with the plan of Trump and the rest of the Zionist establishment within American politics .
Trump ’ s Middle East plan , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which was unveiled on January 28th of 2020 , recognizes the vast majority of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory .
Right after Trump announced his plan that he claimed would pave the way to a “ two-state solution , ” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu , sharing the same podium with Trump , declared that his government was going to commence the plan to impose sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and all West Bank settlements , while promising that no new settlements will be built in the lands left to the Palestinians for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Palestinian state only if Palestinians meet a certain set of criteria determined by Israel and the United States .
The criteria is that Palestinians must have freedom of the press , free and fair elections and respect religious freedom ; they must have “ credit-worthy financial institutions capable of engaging in international market transactions in the same manner as financial institutions of western democracies with appropriate governance to prevent corruption and ensure the proper use of such funds , and a legal system to protect investments and to address market-based commercial expectations.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ do what is necessary to become a member of the International Monetary Fund .
The Palestinians must also remove anything from their education system that promotes hatred and violence against Israelis .
Failure to meet these requirements means that Israel would have the right to invade the supposed Palestinian state .
According to Jonathan Cook , the other preconditions that Palestinians must fulfill are as follows : In the same day of Trump ’ s announcement , the US Ambassador to Israel , David Friedman , told reporters that “ Israel does not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ we will recognize it.
” The ambassador , on January 29th of 2020 , also said that before any annexation of the West Bank is done , the Trump administration “ wants to form a joint committee with Israel to discuss the issue ” and that “ it is impossible to know how long this process will take…we need to ensure the annexation matches the map in our plan.
” Jared Kushner , Trump ’ s son-in-law , who has been one of the contrivers and pushers of this plan , said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accept the deal “ they ’ re going to screw up another opportunity like they ’ ve screwed up every other opportunity that they ’ ve ever had in their existence.
” There are reports saying that Netanyahu has been planning to press ahead with annexing 30 % of the West Bank .
Netanyahu wanted to vote on the annexing of 30 % but this was cancelled on February 2nd after getting mixed signals from Washington .
In May 17th of 2020 , Netanyahu announced that he would expand Israeli sovereignty over settlements @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is “ another glorious chapter in the history of Zionism ” .
The plan has already been triggering a ripple effect around the world , with numerous countries condemning it .
Turkey just recently bashed Israel ’ s plan as an “ extension of its occupation policy ” .
Turkey ’ s presidential spokesman , Ibrahim Kalin , said : “ The announcement of Israel ’ s newly established government at the oath-taking ceremony to annex the settlements in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley is an extension to Israel ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” He went on to express the typical Islamic reverence for Jerusalem : King Abdullah II of Jordan declared that any annexation of Palestinian territory would spark a “ massive conflict ” with his country .
He also said that the Trump administration would bear “ full responsibility ” for the “ occupation of the Palestinian people.
” Germany has also reacted negatively to Israel ’ s and the US ’ plan of annexation .
Just recently the German government released a statement alongside the Palestinian Authority condemning Israel ’ s plan .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ PA “ noted with grave concern the agreement between coalition parties in Israel to advance plans for annexation of occupied Palestinian territories as stipulated in the Israeli coalition agreement signed on 20 April , ” and affirmed that “ Annexation of any part of occupied Palestinian territories including East Jerusalem constitutes a clear violation of international law and seriously undermines the chances for the two-state solution within a final status agreement ” .
Once you leave North America , criticism of Israel is very common .
Germany has been a major hub for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treatment of the Palestinians .
Frustration with Israel has been growing within Germany with German politicians saying things that would shock American zionists .
For example , in 2019 , the major German publication Der Spiegel wrote an in depth article on the power of the pro-Israel lobby over German politicians .
The article was decried as antisemitic .
Within the article is a quote from prominent Christian Democrat Andreas Nick , in which he expressed his exasperation on the influence of the pro-Israel lobby on the German government : “ I have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ influence the Bundestag [ parliament ] … It is obviously ultimately a question of shifting the German position in the Middle East conflict in the interests of Messrs Trump and Netanyahu and thus splitting the EU on this issue.
” In July of 2019 , a Germany official named Cristian Clages , the director of the German Foreign Ministry ’ s representation for the Palestinian territories , sparked a storm of controversy after he ‘ liked ’ several “ antisemitic and anti-Israel ” posts on Twitter , including a tweet within a conversation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the dialogue David Duke says that ‘ Jewish racists ’ would have ‘ mutilated innocent Palestinians , raped and led through Jewish villages before they were executed , ’ to which the Palestinian user replies : ‘ * Zionists.
’ ’ ’ The German official , Clages , put a heart on the Palestinians reply .
More egregious than that was a post that Clages liked that shows “ a video of a two-minute mob attack on Israeli soldiers captioned with the words ‘ Hats off !
’ ” Clages liked a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , showing an obvious hatred for Israel .
A show of contempt for Israel is seen heavily amongst the German nationalists .
For example , the German politician of the nationalist Alternative for Deutschland party , Bjorn Hocke , bashed the placement of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin , telling a crowd of his supporters that “ Germans are the only people in the world who plant a monument of shame in the heart of the capital , ” and that “ We need nothing less than a 180-degree shift in the politics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an applause from his listeners .
The rethinking of the general view of German history is tied in with a revival of German militarism .
In 2013 , German intellectual Jochen Bittner , wrote an article for the New York Times , entitled Rethinking German Pacifism , in which he openly pushed for a revival of militarism in his country , and stresses that Germans must stop letting the past hinder their pursuit to military prestige : “ Germany should always remember its catastrophic military history .
But the Germany of today is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1914 or of 1939 .
Instead , that history has become an excuse for not doing the right things today.
” Like Bjorn Hocke , Bittner laments of how while “ Germany dwells on that past , the rest of the world has moved on .
… It is simply a too deeply ingrained pacifism , one that I blame the Americans for instilling .
The re-education efforts worked far too well on the Germans after 1945.
” One thing that we should expect is a phenomena that we have not seen in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Western hatred of Jews .
This may sound like a far-fetched prediction , but one could have laughed off such a statement in the 1920s , when few people knew that the German was going to unleash an animal fury on the Jews .
In 1922 , when the thought of a German genocide of the Jews did not even cross people ’ s minds , the Catholic thinker , Hilaire Belloc , firmly made the prediction that the German would slaughter his Jewish neighbor .
Contrary to the common accusation that he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warning against the rise of the Right-wing nationalist fury against the Jews .
Belloc warned about the rise of “ a large ‘ right wing ’ ” and described them as “ more restrained in expression ” , “ men who are not at all blinded by their hatred , though hatred has become their chief motive ” , and “ men who retain full capacity for organizing a plan of action and for carrying it out.
” ( Belloc , The Jews , ch .
vii , p. 155 ) .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violently against the Jews : “ The forces driving the men towards the Anti-Semitic camp are far stronger than the forces acting upon these old hobbies of women ’ s suffrage , of prohibition and the rest .
They are personal , intimate forces arising from the strongest racial instincts and the most bitter individual memories of financial loss , subjection , national dishonour .
For instance , any German to-day to whom you may talk of his great disaster will answer by telling you that it is due to the Jews : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fallen body of the State ; that the Jews are ‘ rats in the Reich.
’ ” ( Ibid , p. 157 ) .
Read these words and you can see parallels between then and our own times .
Observe what Belloc specifies : “ financial loss , ” “ national dishonour , ” — what do we see here but things that we are experiencing , and are going to experience more of , today : the economic woes of today , the economic collapse from which so much of Europe has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how it is leading to economic depression .
We are seeing the forming of the storms of the past ; the acrimonious cries , the thunder of the torrents ; the things that we can see about to happen , they are like bolts of lightening that one can see from afar as the storm travels to us .
The dark clouds of history , they are coming together , and the violent ways of our ancestors are looking all the more appealing , because man cares not about the evils of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the moment , reacting to the stimuli of his disposition , he only reacts with no reflection that what he is doing is entertaining the same demons that convinced his ancestors to do exactly what he is doing now .
“ The Anti-Semite ” , writes Belloc , “ has become a strong political figure .
It is a great and dangerous error at this moment to think his policy is futile.
” ( Ibid ) .
And today it would be just as much of a dangerous delusion to affirm that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 20th century could not happen again .
As shoebat.com has been warning since 2016 , Germany is elusively pursuing a policy of placing herself on the map as a global military superpower , working to eclipse the universal hegemony of the United States .
Within the global American security umbrella , there is an intense fixation on Iran as a major threat to American control .
This fixation on Iran is hinged upon the security of Israel which is , essentially , an American proxy and an extension of American power in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of the Iran Deal and pressured the Europeans to cease commerce with Iran in the name of defending the US ’ biggest Middle East ally , Israel .
The Europeans intensely resisted this and are continuing to resist this American push .
The Germans are adamant about continuing commercial ties with the Iranians .
This was seen when Heiko Maas , Germany ’ s Foreign Minister , called for the creation of financial channels in Brussels through which to continue doing business with Iran while bypassing American sanctions and being independent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of the Iran Deal and pressured the Europeans to do the same , the rhetoric coming out of Europe became much more intense .
In 2018 , the then head of the EU , Jean-Claude Juncker , responded to US pressure against the Iran Deal with the most hardline rhetoric that we have lately been seeing coming out of Europe : “ At this point , we have to replace the United States , which as an international actor has lost vigor , and because of it , in the long term @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Germany has thickened on account of the German Russian move to construct the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline , which will bring natural gas directly from Russia to Germany , essentially bypassing US allies Ukraine and Poland .
Russia is an ally of Iran and has historically sided with the Palestinians , and Germany is siding with Iran and the Palestinians against the United States .
When Germany rises to military prominence , and pursues to eclipse American world dominance , who in the Middle East will she side with and who will she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Turkey , as she did when Germany united in 1871 , and she will side against Israel since Israel is an extension of American foreign power .
Israel wants to annex the West Bank just like Russia annexed Crimea .
And what was the geopolitical results of Russia ’ s annexation of Crimea ?
NATO began backing Nazi mercenaries and fascists to fight against Russia and pro-Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine ( hence why McCain collaborated with the Nazi party in Ukraine , Svoboda , even with its leader , Oleh Tyahnybok ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military buildup under the justification of the Russian invasion of Ukraine , hence why Ulrike Merten , the president of Germany ’ s Society for Security Policy , a very influential militarist lobby within German politics , said that : “ Only the Ukraine Crisis 2014 led to a rethinking and the admission that it is not the best with the Bundeswehr.… The most visible sign is certainly the significant increase in the defense budget by 8 percent in 2016 .
This should be started as a development that increases the number of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the material improves through better maintenance , through the ‘ agenda attractiveness ’ recruitment and staffing be relieved.
” Other effects of the Russian annexation of Crimea is Turkey working to use the native Crimean Turks as a proxy against Russia ; and the United States telling Turkey to pressure the leaders of the Orthodox Church in Istanbul to allow the Ukrainians to have their own Orthodox Church of Ukraine , thus further enflaming Ukrainian nationalism and anti-Russian sentiment .
Russia ’ s invasion of Ukraine has also led to the Steinmeier Formula @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Russian agenda of creating a pro-Russian autonomous state within eastern Ukraine , thus fragmenting the country and advancing Russian expansion .
All of these things took place because of Russia ’ s invasion of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea .
Now , imagine what the geopolitical effects of Israel annexing the West Bank would be .
Turkey would become horrendously more aggressive towards Israel with a face of vicious Islamic and Turkish nationalism , and the anti-Israel sentiment within Europe would become dangerously toxic .

By Theodore Shoebat
Netanyahu is still eyeing the West Bank, regardless of the coronavirus disaster, wanting to annex 30% of Palestinian land. If Netanyahu and his ilk get what they want, this policy will end up affecting the lives of 110,000 Palestinians. “These territories are where the Jewish nation was born and grew,” Netanyahu said when his new coalition government was about to be sworn in in May.”[Applying Israeli law to them] won’t distance us from peace. It will bring us closer.” As the BBC reports:
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could annex parts of the occupied West Bank this summer. He says the move, stemming from US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, will write another “glorious chapter in the history of Zionism”. The Palestinians are defiant. They say they are pulling out of previous agreements, risking their own fragile governing authority. To them, the move means the loss of vital land for a future state and a death blow to dreams of self-determination. Much of the global community looks on with growing concern over what they see as a clear violation of international law, while warnings echo of a “hot summer” of boiling tensions.
As Israel works on setting plans for annexation, Palestinian nationalists plan for an armed struggle against Israel. With two factions of nationalism — Israeli zionists and Palestinian militants — you will see only more bloodshed. Another thing that you will see is an extreme increase of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment at the global level.
On November of 2019, in the German town of Einbeck, neo-Nazis from two groups — “Comradeship Einbeck” and “the Right” — provoked the staff on a tour of the Moringen concentration camp memorial. The neo-Nazis then posed in front of the memorial with their thumbs up, wearing shirts that “Fuck you, Israel” with the Star of David crossed out. There have been numerous events like this, from the years 2016 to 2020.
During a zoom meeting on the eve of #Holocaust Memorial Day by the Embassy of Israel in Berlin that hosted survivor Zvi Herschel, anti-Israel activists disrupted his talk posting pictures of Hitler and shouting anti-Semitic slogans. The event had to be suspended. 1/ — Jeremy Issacharoff (@JIssacharoff) April 21, 2020
During a Zoom talk on the Holocaust from the Israeli Embassy in Berlin, neo-Nazis disrupted the event by screaming, “Jew, Jew, Jew” and saying that all Jews must be destroyed. According to Taz:
Suddenly a babble of voices breaks out in English, many people speak and cheer. “Jew, Jew, Jew,” a voice keeps saying. All Jews should be destroyed. Then suddenly a swastika covers the video screen. “My name is Adolf Hitler,” says another voice. Then historical recordings of Adolf Hitler and cheering followers can be seen.
In 2015 it was reported that the Israeli embassy in Berlin was getting around 20 hate letters a day. An example of this can be seen here:
The point is, hatred for the Jews is still in Europe, and is only going to get worse if Israel decides to annex the West Bank. A couple of ideological narratives will become dangerous trendy if Netanyahu’s plan manifests. One, since the plan is being backed by people within the Trump administration, anti-Israel voices and antisemites will say that the US is essentially a Jewish controlled country and thus is the enemy; they will also point to Israel’s annexing of the West Bank and decry the abuse of the Palestinians, stoking hatred for Jews. We saw a taste of this in June of 2020, in a Left-wing rally in Paris’s Place de la République, protestors accused Israel of massacring Palestinians. They also screamed “dirty Jews” and waved placards reading “Israel, laboratory of police violence”.
Anti-racism protesters in Paris today shout "Dirty Jews!" pic.twitter.com/APQCep0da0 — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 13, 2020
The hatred for Israel is in both political spectrums in Europe — Left and Right –, and what Netanyahu wants to do will only fuel such hatred even more.
Israel wants to annex the West Bank, and this may just be a catalyst to an explosion of global hatred for the Jews. Holocaust denial has become more popular than ever before, and anger against the Jews is higher now than it ever has been since the first half of the 20th century. Much of the hatred to Jews today is rooted in anger towards the occupation of the Palestinians; if Israel annexes the West Bank, with the support of the US, then prepare to see a surge in antisemitism alongside vitriolic descriptions of the US as a country controlled by the Jews. For decades, the “Jew hatred” that the world has been accustomed to is the anti-Israel rage of the Middle East. When the Middle Easterner hates the Jews, it is common and something we have all heard about; but when the European or the Westerner hates the Jew, watch out, for from this there is a fury that makes the Middle East looks nice (the Iranians hospitably welcomed Jews who were fleeing the Germans during the Holocaust). If you think that to predict the rise of European antisemitism is crazy or far-fetched, people thought the same thing in the 1920s. But, in 1922, Hilaire Belloc (who predicted the rise of Islamic fundamentalism) predicted that the European would ferociously turn on the Jews and warned that to laugh off such a prediction was dangerous. It is in light of this prediction and warning that we write this essay.
As we have been focusing on coronavirus, Netanyahu has been planning on doing a huge land grab. Israel under Netanyahu wants to annex a huge chunk of the West Bank, under the pretext of the presence of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Kushner has been playing a major role behind this measure, alongside other figures who see the Trump presidency as their opportunity to accomplish their Zionist aspiration. Hence why Israel’s Ambassador to the US stated that the annexation must happen “now” because there is a chance that Biden will win and if that happens the window of opportunity would be lost. Annexing parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley is part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” and was a central promise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest election campaign. Benny Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi, former political rivals of Netanyahu but who are now his allies, have also expressed their support for the administration’s plan.
The plan to annex parts of the West Bank is in line with the plan of Trump and the rest of the Zionist establishment within American politics. Trump’s Middle East plan, called “Peace to Prosperity,” which was unveiled on January 28th of 2020, recognizes the vast majority of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory.
Right after Trump announced his plan that he claimed would pave the way to a “two-state solution,” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, sharing the same podium with Trump, declared that his government was going to commence the plan to impose sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and all West Bank settlements, while promising that no new settlements will be built in the lands left to the Palestinians for the next four years. The plan promises a Palestinian state only if Palestinians meet a certain set of criteria determined by Israel and the United States.
The criteria is that Palestinians must have freedom of the press, free and fair elections and respect religious freedom; they must have “credit-worthy financial institutions capable of engaging in international market transactions in the same manner as financial institutions of western democracies with appropriate governance to prevent corruption and ensure the proper use of such funds, and a legal system to protect investments and to address market-based commercial expectations.” The State of Palestine must also do what is necessary to become a member of the International Monetary Fund. The Palestinians must also remove anything from their education system that promotes hatred and violence against Israelis. Failure to meet these requirements means that Israel would have the right to invade the supposed Palestinian state. According to Jonathan Cook, the other preconditions that Palestinians must fulfill are as follows:
“Not only would it [the Palestinian state] have no army, but it would have to permanently accommodate a foreign army, the Israeli one. Palestine would have no control over its borders, and therefore its foreign relations and trade. It would be deprived of key resources, such as its offshore waters, which include large deposits of natural gas; its airspace; and its electromagnetic spectrum. It would be deprived of its most fertile land, its quarries, its water sources, and access to the Dead Sea and its related mineral and cosmetics industries. As a result, the Palestinian economy would continue to be entirely aid dependent. Proposed industrial zones in the Negev, accessible only through Israeli territory, could be closed off by Israel at a whim.”
In the same day of Trump’s announcement, the US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, told reporters that “Israel does not have to wait at all” and “we will recognize it.” The ambassador, on January 29th of 2020, also said that before any annexation of the West Bank is done, the Trump administration “wants to form a joint committee with Israel to discuss the issue” and that “it is impossible to know how long this process will take…we need to ensure the annexation matches the map in our plan.” Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, who has been one of the contrivers and pushers of this plan, said that if the Palestinians don’t accept the deal “they’re going to screw up another opportunity like they’ve screwed up every other opportunity that they’ve ever had in their existence.”
There are reports saying that Netanyahu has been planning to press ahead with annexing 30% of the West Bank. Netanyahu wanted to vote on the annexing of 30% but this was cancelled on February 2nd after getting mixed signals from Washington. In May 17th of 2020, Netanyahu announced that he would expand Israeli sovereignty over settlements in the West Bank, boasting that it is “another glorious chapter in the history of Zionism”.
The plan has already been triggering a ripple effect around the world, with numerous countries condemning it. Turkey just recently bashed Israel’s plan as an “extension of its occupation policy”. Turkey’s presidential spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, said:
“The announcement of Israel’s newly established government at the oath-taking ceremony to annex the settlements in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley is an extension to Israel’s occupation policy that ignores international law”
He went on to express the typical Islamic reverence for Jerusalem:
“Jerusalem is our red line. Jerusalem is our sanctuary. Jerusalem is our trust. Anyone who betrays the trust will be accountable before the history. … Muslim countries should take urgent steps on this issue and protect the Palestinian people and their lands against Israel’s occupation and annexation policy”
Kalin also stated on Twitter:
“We reject Israel’s plan to annex the West Bank and call for the world to take a stand against it. Occupation and annexation is a crime.”
King Abdullah II of Jordan declared that any annexation of Palestinian territory would spark a “massive conflict” with his country. He also said that the Trump administration would bear “full responsibility” for the “occupation of the Palestinian people.”
Germany has also reacted negatively to Israel’s and the US’ plan of annexation. Just recently the German government released a statement alongside the Palestinian Authority condemning Israel’s plan.
The statement said that Germany and the PA “noted with grave concern the agreement between coalition parties in Israel to advance plans for annexation of occupied Palestinian territories as stipulated in the Israeli coalition agreement signed on 20 April,” and affirmed that “Annexation of any part of occupied Palestinian territories including East Jerusalem constitutes a clear violation of international law and seriously undermines the chances for the two-state solution within a final status agreement”.
Once you leave North America, criticism of Israel is very common. Germany has been a major hub for media objections against the Israeli government over treatment of the Palestinians. Frustration with Israel has been growing within Germany with German politicians saying things that would shock American zionists. For example, in 2019, the major German publication Der Spiegel wrote an in depth article on the power of the pro-Israel lobby over German politicians. The article was decried as antisemitic. Within the article is a quote from prominent Christian Democrat Andreas Nick, in which he expressed his exasperation on the influence of the pro-Israel lobby on the German government: “I have never seen such a systematic attempt to influence the Bundestag [parliament] … It is obviously ultimately a question of shifting the German position in the Middle East conflict in the interests of Messrs Trump and Netanyahu and thus splitting the EU on this issue.”
In July of 2019, a Germany official named Cristian Clages, the director of the German Foreign Ministry’s representation for the Palestinian territories, sparked a storm of controversy after he ‘liked’ several “antisemitic and anti-Israel” posts on Twitter, including a tweet within a conversation between David Duke and a Palestinian. In the dialogue David Duke says that ‘Jewish racists’ would have ‘mutilated innocent Palestinians, raped and led through Jewish villages before they were executed,’ to which the Palestinian user replies: ‘* Zionists.’’’ The German official, Clages, put a heart on the Palestinians reply. More egregious than that was a post that Clages liked that shows “a video of a two-minute mob attack on Israeli soldiers captioned with the words ‘Hats off!’” Clages liked a comment praising an attack on IDF soldiers, showing an obvious hatred for Israel. A show of contempt for Israel is seen heavily amongst the German nationalists. For example, the German politician of the nationalist Alternative for Deutschland party, Bjorn Hocke, bashed the placement of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, telling a crowd of his supporters that “Germans are the only people in the world who plant a monument of shame in the heart of the capital,” and that “We need nothing less than a 180-degree shift in the politics of remembrance” to which he received an applause from his listeners.
The rethinking of the general view of German history is tied in with a revival of German militarism. In 2013, German intellectual Jochen Bittner, wrote an article for the New York Times, entitled Rethinking German Pacifism, in which he openly pushed for a revival of militarism in his country, and stresses that Germans must stop letting the past hinder their pursuit to military prestige: “Germany should always remember its catastrophic military history. But the Germany of today is a different country from the one of 1914 or of 1939. Instead, that history has become an excuse for not doing the right things today.” Like Bjorn Hocke, Bittner laments of how while “Germany dwells on that past, the rest of the world has moved on. … It is simply a too deeply ingrained pacifism, one that I blame the Americans for instilling. The re-education efforts worked far too well on the Germans after 1945.”
One thing that we should expect is a phenomena that we have not seen in a long time, the European and Western hatred of Jews. This may sound like a far-fetched prediction, but one could have laughed off such a statement in the 1920s, when few people knew that the German was going to unleash an animal fury on the Jews. In 1922, when the thought of a German genocide of the Jews did not even cross people’s minds, the Catholic thinker, Hilaire Belloc, firmly made the prediction that the German would slaughter his Jewish neighbor. Contrary to the common accusation that he was an antisemite, Belloc was truly warning against the rise of the Right-wing nationalist fury against the Jews. Belloc warned about the rise of “a large ‘right wing’” and described them as “more restrained in expression”, “men who are not at all blinded by their hatred, though hatred has become their chief motive”, and “men who retain full capacity for organizing a plan of action and for carrying it out.” (Belloc, The Jews, ch. vii, p. 155). He also predicted that the Germans will turn violently against the Jews:
“The forces driving the men towards the Anti-Semitic camp are far stronger than the forces acting upon these old hobbies of women’s suffrage, of prohibition and the rest. They are personal, intimate forces arising from the strongest racial instincts and the most bitter individual memories of financial loss, subjection, national dishonour. For instance, any German to-day to whom you may talk of his great disaster will answer by telling you that it is due to the Jews: that the Jews are preying upon the fallen body of the State; that the Jews are ‘rats in the Reich.’” (Ibid, p. 157).
Read these words and you can see parallels between then and our own times. Observe what Belloc specifies: “financial loss,” “national dishonour,” — what do we see here but things that we are experiencing, and are going to experience more of, today: the economic woes of today, the economic collapse from which so much of Europe has never recovered; the coronavirus crises and how it is leading to economic depression. We are seeing the forming of the storms of the past; the acrimonious cries, the thunder of the torrents; the things that we can see about to happen, they are like bolts of lightening that one can see from afar as the storm travels to us. The dark clouds of history, they are coming together, and the violent ways of our ancestors are looking all the more appealing, because man cares not about the evils of the past, but is rather caught in the moment, reacting to the stimuli of his disposition, he only reacts with no reflection that what he is doing is entertaining the same demons that convinced his ancestors to do exactly what he is doing now. “The Anti-Semite”, writes Belloc, “has become a strong political figure. It is a great and dangerous error at this moment to think his policy is futile.” (Ibid). And today it would be just as much of a dangerous delusion to affirm that the hysteria of the first half of the 20th century could not happen again.
As shoebat.com has been warning since 2016, Germany is elusively pursuing a policy of placing herself on the map as a global military superpower, working to eclipse the universal hegemony of the United States. Within the global American security umbrella, there is an intense fixation on Iran as a major threat to American control. This fixation on Iran is hinged upon the security of Israel which is, essentially, an American proxy and an extension of American power in the Middle East. The United States pulled out of the Iran Deal and pressured the Europeans to cease commerce with Iran in the name of defending the US’ biggest Middle East ally, Israel.
The Europeans intensely resisted this and are continuing to resist this American push. The Germans are adamant about continuing commercial ties with the Iranians. This was seen when Heiko Maas, Germany’s Foreign Minister, called for the creation of financial channels in Brussels through which to continue doing business with Iran while bypassing American sanctions and being independent of American control. Once the Americans pulled out of the Iran Deal and pressured the Europeans to do the same, the rhetoric coming out of Europe became much more intense. In 2018, the then head of the EU, Jean-Claude Juncker, responded to US pressure against the Iran Deal with the most hardline rhetoric that we have lately been seeing coming out of Europe: “At this point, we have to replace the United States, which as an international actor has lost vigor, and because of it, in the long term, influence”. American pressure against Germany has thickened on account of the German Russian move to construct the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, which will bring natural gas directly from Russia to Germany, essentially bypassing US allies Ukraine and Poland.
Russia is an ally of Iran and has historically sided with the Palestinians, and Germany is siding with Iran and the Palestinians against the United States. When Germany rises to military prominence, and pursues to eclipse American world dominance, who in the Middle East will she side with and who will she go against? She will ally with Turkey, as she did when Germany united in 1871, and she will side against Israel since Israel is an extension of American foreign power.
Israel wants to annex the West Bank just like Russia annexed Crimea. And what was the geopolitical results of Russia’s annexation of Crimea? NATO began backing Nazi mercenaries and fascists to fight against Russia and pro-Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine (hence why McCain collaborated with the Nazi party in Ukraine, Svoboda, even with its leader, Oleh Tyahnybok). Germany began to talk about boosting military buildup under the justification of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, hence why Ulrike Merten, the president of Germany’s Society for Security Policy, a very influential militarist lobby within German politics, said that: “Only the Ukraine Crisis 2014 led to a rethinking and the admission that it is not the best with the Bundeswehr.… The most visible sign is certainly the significant increase in the defense budget by 8 percent in 2016. This should be started as a development that increases the number of combat vehicles again, the readiness of the material improves through better maintenance, through the ‘agenda attractiveness’ recruitment and staffing be relieved.”
Other effects of the Russian annexation of Crimea is Turkey working to use the native Crimean Turks as a proxy against Russia; and the United States telling Turkey to pressure the leaders of the Orthodox Church in Istanbul to allow the Ukrainians to have their own Orthodox Church of Ukraine, thus further enflaming Ukrainian nationalism and anti-Russian sentiment. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has also led to the Steinmeier Formula by which Germany and France are advancing the Russian agenda of creating a pro-Russian autonomous state within eastern Ukraine, thus fragmenting the country and advancing Russian expansion. All of these things took place because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. Now, imagine what the geopolitical effects of Israel annexing the West Bank would be. Turkey would become horrendously more aggressive towards Israel with a face of vicious Islamic and Turkish nationalism, and the anti-Israel sentiment within Europe would become dangerously toxic.
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shoebat--2020-06-25--Shoebat.com Prediction Comes True As Census Shows Major Demographic Change

I have been writing about how , largely due to a refusal to have children , major demographic changes are coming to the US .
The largest is the arguable replacement of the “ non-white hispanic ” bloc with the “ Hispanic ” bloc as AP News reports .
For the generation of Americans not yet old enough to drive , the demographic future has arrived .
For the first time , nonwhites and Hispanics were a majority of people under age 16 in 2019 , an expected demographic shift that will grow over the coming decades , according to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Thursday .
“ We are browning from bottom up in our age structure , ” said William Frey , a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution .
“ This is going to be a diversified century for the United States , and it ’ s beginning with this youngest generation.
” At the same time , the number of non-Hispanic whites in the U.S. has gotten smaller in the past decade as deaths surpassed births in this aging demographic , according to the Census Bureau population estimates .
Since 2010 , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hispanic had dropped by more than 16,600 people .
But the decline has been escalating in the past three years , with the number of non-Hispanic whites dropping by more than a half million people from 2016 to 2019 , according to the Census Bureau population estimates .
In 2019 , a little under 40 % of the total U.S. population was either nonwhite or Hispanic .
Non-Hispanic whites are expected to be a minority of the U.S. population in about 25 years .
A natural decrease from the number of deaths exceeding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the U.S. , contributed to the population drop since 2010 for non-Hispanic whites , whose median age of 43.7 last year was by far the highest of any demographic group .
If these numbers hold for the 2020 census being conducted right now , it will be the first time since the first decennial census in 1790 that there has been a national decline of whites , Frey said .
“ It ’ s aging .
Of course , we didn ’ t have a lot of immigration , that has gone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ White fertility has gone down.
” In fact , the decrease in births among the white population has led to a dip in the number of people under age 18 in the past decade , a drop exacerbated by the fact that the much larger Millennial cohort has aged out of that group , replaced by a smaller Generation Z .
Over the past decade , Asians had the biggest growth rate of any demographic group , increasing by almost 30 % .
Almost two-thirds of that growth was driven by international migration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % since 2010 , with almost three-quarters of that growth coming from a natural increase that comes when more people are born than die .
( source ) Now I do not want to get into arguments based on race , concepts such as ‘ the great replacement ’ , or general racialism .
However , the fact is that a replacement is taking place because of the demographic changes , and this was entirely self inflicted .
All societies have a certain amount of work to be done .
People are needed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this work requires a large base of people who are probably going to be underpaid for their efforts .
This is why slavery will always exist , albeit in different forms .
It does not have to involve chains and whips , but can involve a monthly balance sheet and a credit card .
It also does not matter what the race is in question , because these concepts apply to all people throughout history in any place or time .
The problem with the US , like with many ancient societies , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be done , but a lot of people either don ’ t want to do the work , or can not do it because in order to live a ‘ normal life ’ based on demanded cultural standards , one can ’ t work those jobs and pay one ’ s bills .
The latter is not based on laziness or apathy , but mathematical calculations , and the only way to remedy it is to lower standards of living .
However , since most don ’ t want to do this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , one has to find a way to divide the labor .
This is where the Hispanic bloc comes in , although it does not have to be Hispanic per se because again , this is not a race issue , but an economic one .
Arguably , you could have a bunch of Europeans come in who , if they had the same conditions , would produce the same results .
The fact is that the Hispanic bloc has grown for two reasons : -Many of them work at below-average paying jobs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of them have children , and not large numbers , but about 2 per family , sometimes more Neither of these things above are exceptional for any people .
In fact , they are rather normal .
The problem is that the non-Hispanic white majority does not do this largely .
They are not reproducing , and many either refuse or simply can not work low-paying jobs and make it work because of economic reasons beyond their control .
The result of this is that a replacement is happening .
The Hispanic bloc @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because of anything sinister on behalf of either , but because of simple math .
If one does not have children and another does , eventually , one ’ s descendants will replace the one who does not as they will fill the vacuum where they once lived but are no more because they produced no children to fill said vacuum .
The same phenomenon is happening in Europe , except one can replace ‘ Hispanics ’ as a bloc with ‘ sub-saharan Africans ’ for France and Germany , ‘ Pakistanis ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ France and Belgium , and ‘ Central Asians ’ for Russia , one has the same situation .
Poland and other Eastern European nations ( save Russia ) do not have this problem YET , but it is very likely they will because of the same reasons- people are not reproducing , the population is declining , and there is a lot of work and nobody to do it .
Even Japan , who is known for her xenophobia and nationalism , has been forced to admit migrants because of the work issue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while different ‘ races ’ of people are involved in this , it is ultimately not a race issue , but a social and economic problem that can be fixed by simple choice yet people do not want to .
It is not the fault of people who migrant to fill a vacuum for work , and one has only oneself to blame if one does not want to have children , for the future always belongs to those who want families .
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I have been writing about how, largely due to a refusal to have children, major demographic changes are coming to the US. The largest is the arguable replacement of the “non-white hispanic” bloc with the “Hispanic” bloc as AP News reports.
For the generation of Americans not yet old enough to drive, the demographic future has arrived. For the first time, nonwhites and Hispanics were a majority of people under age 16 in 2019, an expected demographic shift that will grow over the coming decades, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday. “We are browning from bottom up in our age structure,” said William Frey, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. “This is going to be a diversified century for the United States, and it’s beginning with this youngest generation.” At the same time, the number of non-Hispanic whites in the U.S. has gotten smaller in the past decade as deaths surpassed births in this aging demographic, according to the Census Bureau population estimates. Since 2010, the number of whites who aren’t Hispanic had dropped by more than 16,600 people. But the decline has been escalating in the past three years, with the number of non-Hispanic whites dropping by more than a half million people from 2016 to 2019, according to the Census Bureau population estimates. In 2019, a little under 40% of the total U.S. population was either nonwhite or Hispanic. Non-Hispanic whites are expected to be a minority of the U.S. population in about 25 years. A natural decrease from the number of deaths exceeding births, plus a slowdown in immigration to the U.S., contributed to the population drop since 2010 for non-Hispanic whites, whose median age of 43.7 last year was by far the highest of any demographic group. If these numbers hold for the 2020 census being conducted right now, it will be the first time since the first decennial census in 1790 that there has been a national decline of whites, Frey said. “It’s aging. Of course, we didn’t have a lot of immigration, that has gone down,” Frey said. “White fertility has gone down.” In fact, the decrease in births among the white population has led to a dip in the number of people under age 18 in the past decade, a drop exacerbated by the fact that the much larger Millennial cohort has aged out of that group, replaced by a smaller Generation Z. Over the past decade, Asians had the biggest growth rate of any demographic group, increasing by almost 30%. Almost two-thirds of that growth was driven by international migration. The Hispanic population grew by 20% since 2010, with almost three-quarters of that growth coming from a natural increase that comes when more people are born than die. (source)
Now I do not want to get into arguments based on race, concepts such as ‘the great replacement’, or general racialism.
However, the fact is that a replacement is taking place because of the demographic changes, and this was entirely self inflicted.
All societies have a certain amount of work to be done. People are needed to do the work. Most of this work requires a large base of people who are probably going to be underpaid for their efforts. This is why slavery will always exist, albeit in different forms. It does not have to involve chains and whips, but can involve a monthly balance sheet and a credit card. It also does not matter what the race is in question, because these concepts apply to all people throughout history in any place or time.
The problem with the US, like with many ancient societies, is there is a lot of work to be done, but a lot of people either don’t want to do the work, or cannot do it because in order to live a ‘normal life’ based on demanded cultural standards, one can’t work those jobs and pay one’s bills. The latter is not based on laziness or apathy, but mathematical calculations, and the only way to remedy it is to lower standards of living. However, since most don’t want to do this, in order to maintain the standard, one has to find a way to divide the labor.
This is where the Hispanic bloc comes in, although it does not have to be Hispanic per se because again, this is not a race issue, but an economic one. Arguably, you could have a bunch of Europeans come in who, if they had the same conditions, would produce the same results. The fact is that the Hispanic bloc has grown for two reasons:
-Many of them work at below-average paying jobs that are needed to be done
-Many of them have children, and not large numbers, but about 2 per family, sometimes more
Neither of these things above are exceptional for any people. In fact, they are rather normal. The problem is that the non-Hispanic white majority does not do this largely. They are not reproducing, and many either refuse or simply cannot work low-paying jobs and make it work because of economic reasons beyond their control.
The result of this is that a replacement is happening. The Hispanic bloc is replacing the non-white Hispanic bloc not because of anything sinister on behalf of either, but because of simple math. If one does not have children and another does, eventually, one’s descendants will replace the one who does not as they will fill the vacuum where they once lived but are no more because they produced no children to fill said vacuum.
The same phenomenon is happening in Europe, except one can replace ‘Hispanics’ as a bloc with ‘sub-saharan Africans’ for France and Germany, ‘Pakistanis’ for England, ‘Maghrebis’ for France and Belgium, and ‘Central Asians’ for Russia, one has the same situation. Poland and other Eastern European nations (save Russia) do not have this problem YET, but it is very likely they will because of the same reasons- people are not reproducing, the population is declining, and there is a lot of work and nobody to do it. Even Japan, who is known for her xenophobia and nationalism, has been forced to admit migrants because of the work issue.
I cannot emphasize enough that while different ‘races’ of people are involved in this, it is ultimately not a race issue, but a social and economic problem that can be fixed by simple choice yet people do not want to. It is not the fault of people who migrant to fill a vacuum for work, and one has only oneself to blame if one does not want to have children, for the future always belongs to those who want families.
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shoebat--2020-06-25--US Sets Record Number Of COVID-19 Infections In One Day At Forty-Five Thousand

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The U.S. saw a record number of new coronavirus cases in a single day , with 45,557 diagnoses reported Wednesday , according to a tally by NBC News .
Wednesday ’ s cases top the previous highest daily count from April 26 — during the first peak of the pandemic in the U.S. — by more than 9,000 cases , according to NBC News ’ tracking data .
The World Health Organization reported its single-day record on Sunday , with more than 183,000 new cases worldwide .
Health experts said Monday that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Western states can be traced to Memorial Day , when many officials began loosening lockdowns and reopening businesses .
The Northeast has reported significant decreases in cases as authorities have maintained policies about social distancing and wearing masks .
Visitors who travel from U.S. hot spots who arrive in New York , New Jersey and Connecticut will be asked to quarantine for two weeks , their governors announced Wednesday .
Unfortunately , as many states struggle to contain the virus after having prematurely loosened restrictions , hospitals are becoming overwhelmed by patients .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ cases have been reported , available capacity for adult intensive care units is only 21 percent , according to state data updated Wednesday .
Only 12 percent of Arizona ’ s ICU beds are available , the state health department reported Tuesday .
Dr. Anthony Fauci , director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , praised California ’ s response and likened the battle against the coronavirus to a social justice crusade .
“ Californians have risen to the occasion on social issues so well in the past , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country on those things , ” Fauci told the “ This is an issue that really has social responsibility associated with it , ” he said .
( source )

Presented with no further comment from CNBC.
The U.S. saw a record number of new coronavirus cases in a single day, with 45,557 diagnoses reported Wednesday, according to a tally by NBC News.
Wednesday’s cases top the previous highest daily count from April 26 — during the first peak of the pandemic in the U.S. — by more than 9,000 cases, according to NBC News’ tracking data. The World Health Organization reported its single-day record on Sunday, with more than 183,000 new cases worldwide.
Health experts said Monday that the resurgence in cases in Southern and Western states can be traced to Memorial Day, when many officials began loosening lockdowns and reopening businesses.
The Northeast has reported significant decreases in cases as authorities have maintained policies about social distancing and wearing masks.
Visitors who travel from U.S. hot spots who arrive in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will be asked to quarantine for two weeks, their governors announced Wednesday.
Unfortunately, as many states struggle to contain the virus after having prematurely loosened restrictions, hospitals are becoming overwhelmed by patients.
In Florida, where more than 109,000 cases have been reported, available capacity for adult intensive care units is only 21 percent, according to state data updated Wednesday. Only 12 percent of Arizona’s ICU beds are available, the state health department reported Tuesday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, praised California’s response and likened the battle against the coronavirus to a social justice crusade.
“Californians have risen to the occasion on social issues so well in the past, you’ve been the leaders in the country on those things,” Fauci told the
“This is an issue that really has social responsibility associated with it,” he said. (source)


shoebat--2020-06-27--Republican Governments Are Leading Conservatives To Their Deaths With Covid-19

We are now seeing covid spikes in southern — Republican , really — states .
Thus , we are seeing the results of Trump ’ s push for states to reopen .
For decades we have been hearing from conservatives about how the Left wants to persecute and kill conservatives .
But , in this case , its Republican governments who are encouraging their people to live life like normal and to reopen businesses .
In this case , who is killing Republicans ?
Because of the southern states ’ insistence on reopening the economy and relaxing the covid mitigation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their populations .
Texas and Florida have now been forced to reinstate some lockdown measures as both states have restricted bars where a lot of people have gathered together to drink alcohol .
Greg Abbot , the governor of Texas , has decided to shut down all bars , while the government of Florida has banned the selling of alcohol in bars ( since that is the reason why people go to bars in the first place ) .
“ It is clear that the rise in cases is largely driven by certain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in bars , ” Abbott said .
With the latest spike in covid infections — especially in the south — the US ’ cases have surged to 40,000 cases a day .
Greg Abbot , according to the Chicago Tribune , “ not only resisted calls to order the wearing of masks but also refused until last week to let local governments take such measures.
” But these measures are being done too late , since the Texas government ignored warnings from health experts that reopening at such a time would be detrimental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Democrat who is the county ’ s top official , recounted : Texas ’ s covid numbers have boomed at a horrific rate , with 17,000 new cases being confirmed in the past three days , and with a record number of 6,000 cases on Thursday alone .
Florida did not move to ban alcohol in bars until the state ’ s covid numbers were at 9,000 a day .
One Florida local , Colleen Corbett , who is a bartender , even expressed her disturbance at how many young people have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was released : “ It was like they forgot there was a pandemic or just stopped caring , ” she said .
Other states that have been hit the hardest are Arizona and Arkansas — both Republican states whose governors showed their defiance to the lockdown by refusing to enforce the wearing of masks .
In fact , local governments within Arizona were prohibited from enforcing mask wearing by Governor Ducey .
But recently , Ducey suspended any further easing of restrictions , allowing local governments to impose restrictions to curtail the spread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actually signed a petition urging the governor to mandate masks .
Ducey has also directed business to develop policies in accordance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , which had previously only been recommended .
“ There will be enforcement , and they will be held accountable , ” the governor said .
Arizona did try reopening — against wisdom — but this has proven to be a disaster .
As the Washington Post reports : To quote Dana Marie Kennedy , the Arizona director of AARP : “ We have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ She also said : “ My level of frustration is high … We could have stopped this.
” As the Washington Post reports : “ Arizona is facing more per capita cases than recorded by any country in Europe or even more than the confirmed number of cases in hard-hit Brazil.
” This week , Arizona not only had a record number of covid cases for a single day — 3,591 on Tuesday — but also a record number for the use of impatient beds and ventilators for both suspected and confirmed cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ horrifying warning : hospitals could become so crowded that they will have to triage patients by mid-July , which means certain patients being sent home to make room for more .
“ If you ’ re in a bed , normally they ’ ll keep you for a few days , but they ’ re going to send you home with oxygen ” , said Will Humble , a former director of the Arizona Department of Health Services .
While Governor Ducey was obstinately against covid mitigation rules , he has now admitted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surge capacity very soon .
…This virus is everywhere ” .
After a month of being reopened restaurants are again shutting down .
This was only inevitable .
People , filled with rebellion , accustomed to a certain comfortable lifestyle , and not heeding to wise council , want to live life as though it is back to normal .
They really thought — and many still think — that if you reopen and let life be as normal , that life will just go on and people will live out their daily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has proven to be a fantasy of Right-wing claptrap .
They wanted the restaurants reopened because so many Americans can not cook to save their lives or are too lazy to cook .
Now the restaurants have to close down again because ( surprise !
surprise ! )
you can not live normally in the middle of a pandemic .
To quote Ross F. Goldberg , president of the Arizona Medical Association ” “ people thought it was back to normal times.
” And they were wrong .
People have to either suffer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suffer , to have the reality of covid sink into their heads .
“ I have to see somebody sick , directly related to me or close to me , in order for it to become like reality , ” said Joshua Kwiatkowski to the Washington Post .
“ So it hasn ’ t really , I guess , sank in.
” Kwiatkowski also admitted that he doesn ’ t want to wear a mask unless “ an Uber driver is feeling some type of way or a store makes you wear it.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a global crisis , and yet people still insist on pushing their own political ideas or spread their bizarre political factionalism .
Countries are even working to advance their own foreign policy , with Turkey wanting to expand in Syria and Libya , and Israel desiring to annex the West bank — in the middle of a pandemic .
Human evil never ends , be it in good times or in bad times .
Good times reveal the evil of people , for in times of comfort they will lavish themselves and still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appreciating the good times .
Good people will do good in good times , and they will do good in bad times .
While Turkey wants to conquer lands in the middle of a pandemic , the wicked amongst the American populace want casinos to conquer their wallets .
The wicked want casinos , and they don ’ t give a damn how many tens of thousands die ; their hands are gripping onto their dollars with itching fingers moved by a burning ache to spend them , to give money to mobsters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ return , addicted to games ran by companies that get rich off of their vain chimeras of getting easy wealth .
Nevada ’ s governor — who wanted the casinos reopened because she is a slave to mobsters — ordered the wearing of face masks in Las Vegas casinos and other public places , as if it will make a big difference with hoards of people who want drinks at a bar and will not be drinking with masks covering their faces .
Such is the insanity of these demented and voracious people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US is “ in a much better place ” than it was two months ago , since daily deaths from covid are at about 600 per day , down from around 2,200 a day in mid-April .
Some medical experts have said that they doubt that deaths will go back to those numbers due to advances in treatment and prevention , and since younger people — who are now the ones getting mainly infected — can handle the virus better than the elderly .
According to the Washington Post : “ Arizona has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people age 20 to 44 as it does in any other age bracket , according to state data.
” But infections are very high .
A count by Johns Hopkins University notes that cases per day have eclipsed the previous high of 36,400 , set on April 24th .
Moreover , an analysis by the AP has concluded that the cases per day in the US have risen on average about 60 percent over the past two week .
Responding to the obvious carelessness and indifference to one ’ s fellow citizens that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ urged Americans to be more mindful of their neighbors and take precautions to prevent the contagion from spreading .
“ A risk for you is not just isolated to you ” , said Fauci .
So far , covid has killed about 125,0000 Americans , in a country where people love to boast about how much they care about American life ( only if terrorism or the party they don ’ t like is the threat ) .
In addition , as we reported earlier , health experts believe that the deaths are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reopen , and this is the result .
The Right , for years , has talked about how the Left wants to persecute — and even kill — Republicans .
But in this case , who is killing Republicans ?

By Theodore Shoebat
We are now seeing covid spikes in southern — Republican, really — states. Thus, we are seeing the results of Trump’s push for states to reopen. For decades we have been hearing from conservatives about how the Left wants to persecute and kill conservatives. But, in this case, its Republican governments who are encouraging their people to live life like normal and to reopen businesses. In this case, who is killing Republicans?
Because of the southern states’ insistence on reopening the economy and relaxing the covid mitigation measures, coronavirus is now surging in their populations. Texas and Florida have now been forced to reinstate some lockdown measures as both states have restricted bars where a lot of people have gathered together to drink alcohol. Greg Abbot, the governor of Texas, has decided to shut down all bars, while the government of Florida has banned the selling of alcohol in bars (since that is the reason why people go to bars in the first place). “It is clear that the rise in cases is largely driven by certain types of activities, including Texans congregating in bars,” Abbott said.
With the latest spike in covid infections — especially in the south — the US’ cases have surged to 40,000 cases a day. Greg Abbot, according to the Chicago Tribune, “not only resisted calls to order the wearing of masks but also refused until last week to let local governments take such measures.”
But these measures are being done too late, since the Texas government ignored warnings from health experts that reopening at such a time would be detrimental. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, a Democrat who is the county’s top official, recounted:
“The doctors told us at the time, and told anyone who would listen, this will be a disaster. And it has been … Once again, the governor is slow to act. He is now being forced to do the things that we’ve been demanding that he do for the last month and a half.”
Texas’s covid numbers have boomed at a horrific rate, with 17,000 new cases being confirmed in the past three days, and with a record number of 6,000 cases on Thursday alone. Florida did not move to ban alcohol in bars until the state’s covid numbers were at 9,000 a day. One Florida local, Colleen Corbett, who is a bartender, even expressed her disturbance at how many young people have been flocking to bars after the lockdown was released: “It was like they forgot there was a pandemic or just stopped caring,” she said. Other states that have been hit the hardest are Arizona and Arkansas — both Republican states whose governors showed their defiance to the lockdown by refusing to enforce the wearing of masks. In fact, local governments within Arizona were prohibited from enforcing mask wearing by Governor Ducey. But recently, Ducey suspended any further easing of restrictions, allowing local governments to impose restrictions to curtail the spread of covid. A thousand medical professionals actually signed a petition urging the governor to mandate masks. Ducey has also directed business to develop policies in accordance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which had previously only been recommended. “There will be enforcement, and they will be held accountable,” the governor said.
Arizona did try reopening — against wisdom — but this has proven to be a disaster. As the Washington Post reports:
Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, is recording as many as 2,000 cases a day, “eclipsing the New York City boroughs even on their worst days,” warned a Wednesday brief by disease trackers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which observed, “Arizona has lost control of the epidemic.”
To quote Dana Marie Kennedy, the Arizona director of AARP: “We have failed on so many levels”. She also said: “My level of frustration is high … We could have stopped this.” As the Washington Post reports: “Arizona is facing more per capita cases than recorded by any country in Europe or even more than the confirmed number of cases in hard-hit Brazil.”
This week, Arizona not only had a record number of covid cases for a single day — 3,591 on Tuesday — but also a record number for the use of impatient beds and ventilators for both suspected and confirmed cases. Public health experts have given a horrifying warning: hospitals could become so crowded that they will have to triage patients by mid-July, which means certain patients being sent home to make room for more. “If you’re in a bed, normally they’ll keep you for a few days, but they’re going to send you home with oxygen”, said Will Humble, a former director of the Arizona Department of Health Services. While Governor Ducey was obstinately against covid mitigation rules, he has now admitted that hospitals are “likely to hit surge capacity very soon. …This virus is everywhere”.
After a month of being reopened restaurants are again shutting down. This was only inevitable. People, filled with rebellion, accustomed to a certain comfortable lifestyle, and not heeding to wise council, want to live life as though it is back to normal. They really thought — and many still think — that if you reopen and let life be as normal, that life will just go on and people will live out their daily lives without any serious problems. This has proven to be a fantasy of Right-wing claptrap. They wanted the restaurants reopened because so many Americans cannot cook to save their lives or are too lazy to cook. Now the restaurants have to close down again because (surprise! surprise!) you cannot live normally in the middle of a pandemic. To quote Ross F. Goldberg, president of the Arizona Medical Association” “people thought it was back to normal times.” And they were wrong. People have to either suffer, or watch someone they care about suffer, to have the reality of covid sink into their heads. “I have to see somebody sick, directly related to me or close to me, in order for it to become like reality,” said Joshua Kwiatkowski to the Washington Post. “So it hasn’t really, I guess, sank in.” Kwiatkowski also admitted that he doesn’t want to wear a mask unless “an Uber driver is feeling some type of way or a store makes you wear it.”
We are in the midst of a global crisis, and yet people still insist on pushing their own political ideas or spread their bizarre political factionalism. Countries are even working to advance their own foreign policy, with Turkey wanting to expand in Syria and Libya, and Israel desiring to annex the West bank — in the middle of a pandemic. Human evil never ends, be it in good times or in bad times. Good times reveal the evil of people, for in times of comfort they will lavish themselves and still work to complete evil goals while never appreciating the good times. Good people will do good in good times, and they will do good in bad times.
While Turkey wants to conquer lands in the middle of a pandemic, the wicked amongst the American populace want casinos to conquer their wallets. The wicked want casinos, and they don’t give a damn how many tens of thousands die; their hands are gripping onto their dollars with itching fingers moved by a burning ache to spend them, to give money to mobsters while receiving little to nothing nothing in return, addicted to games ran by companies that get rich off of their vain chimeras of getting easy wealth. Nevada’s governor — who wanted the casinos reopened because she is a slave to mobsters — ordered the wearing of face masks in Las Vegas casinos and other public places, as if it will make a big difference with hoards of people who want drinks at a bar and will not be drinking with masks covering their faces. Such is the insanity of these demented and voracious people.
Mike Pence recently said that the US is “in a much better place” than it was two months ago, since daily deaths from covid are at about 600 per day, down from around 2,200 a day in mid-April. Some medical experts have said that they doubt that deaths will go back to those numbers due to advances in treatment and prevention, and since younger people — who are now the ones getting mainly infected — can handle the virus better than the elderly. According to the Washington Post: “Arizona has three times as many positive tests among people age 20 to 44 as it does in any other age bracket, according to state data.”
But infections are very high. A count by Johns Hopkins University notes that cases per day have eclipsed the previous high of 36,400, set on April 24th. Moreover, an analysis by the AP has concluded that the cases per day in the US have risen on average about 60 percent over the past two week.
Responding to the obvious carelessness and indifference to one’s fellow citizens that too many Americans have, Anthony Fauci urged Americans to be more mindful of their neighbors and take precautions to prevent the contagion from spreading. “A risk for you is not just isolated to you”, said Fauci. So far, covid has killed about 125,0000 Americans, in a country where people love to boast about how much they care about American life (only if terrorism or the party they don’t like is the threat). In addition, as we reported earlier, health experts believe that the deaths are being undercounted.
Trump pushed for states to reopen, and this is the result. The Right, for years, has talked about how the Left wants to persecute — and even kill — Republicans. But in this case, who is killing Republicans?
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shoebat--2020-06-27--Trump’s Re-Election Polling Is Downright Awful

I have made clear that after having allowed for Trump to have his chance , it is pretty clear he has done a terrible job and it is not getting better .
Trump does not manifest “ strategy ” but rather incompetence and confidence as acting , and debt as wealth .
While the presidency is always a show and Trump an actor , not all shows can be hidden all of the time .
Polls do not necessarily indicate a winner or a loser of a coming election , but they do give an indication of where trends are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such as MSN News reports , the poll number for Trump are speaking for themselves , and they continue to drop against Biden .
On Wednesday morning , the New York Times released its latest national poll conducted in connection with Sienna College and it showed Biden with a massive 50-34 lead over Donald Trump .
As Nate Cohn , the Times ’ s polling guru , noted in discussion of the poll on Twitter , that lead is so large it ’ s essentially invulnerable to assumptions about the demographic composition of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has an extremely narrow 1-point lead with white voters , wins the 50-64 age bracket by 1 point , and is actually losing senior citizens by 2 points .
With numbers like that , basically any level of youth and non-white turnout where Biden enjoys huge advantages would be good enough to put him over the top .
The Times poll is particularly bleak for Trump , and even more worrisome for him , its underlying methodology which involves “ weighting ” the sample to party registration and not just demographic factors is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some of Trump ’ s other polls are better , none of them are exactly good .
The RealClearPolitics average says Biden is up by 10.1 percentage points .
The FiveThirtyEight polling average says Biden is up by 9.8 points .
The Economist popular vote model says Biden is up by “ only ” 8.4 points .
Of course , the real election is decided in the Electoral College , but with numbers like these , the Electoral College can ’ t save you .
FiveThirtyEight has the most detailed state-by-state breakdowns , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arizona , Wisconsin , Michigan , Pennsylvania , and Florida , augmented by narrow leads in North Carolina , Georgia , and Ohio and all tied up in Iowa .
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I have made clear that after having allowed for Trump to have his chance, it is pretty clear he has done a terrible job and it is not getting better. Trump does not manifest “strategy” but rather incompetence and confidence as acting, and debt as wealth. While the presidency is always a show and Trump an actor, not all shows can be hidden all of the time.
Polls do not necessarily indicate a winner or a loser of a coming election, but they do give an indication of where trends are leading. As many have noted, such as MSN News reports, the poll number for Trump are speaking for themselves, and they continue to drop against Biden.
On Wednesday morning, the New York Times released its latest national poll conducted in connection with Sienna College and it showed Biden with a massive 50-34 lead over Donald Trump. As Nate Cohn, the Times’s polling guru, noted in discussion of the poll on Twitter, that lead is so large it’s essentially invulnerable to assumptions about the demographic composition of turnout. Trump in the Times poll has an extremely narrow 1-point lead with white voters, wins the 50-64 age bracket by 1 point, and is actually losing senior citizens by 2 points. With numbers like that, basically any level of youth and non-white turnout where Biden enjoys huge advantages would be good enough to put him over the top. The Times poll is particularly bleak for Trump, and even more worrisome for him, its underlying methodology which involves “weighting” the sample to party registration and not just demographic factors is a relatively Trump-friendly approach. And while some of Trump’s other polls are better, none of them are exactly good. … The RealClearPolitics average says Biden is up by 10.1 percentage points. The FiveThirtyEight polling average says Biden is up by 9.8 points. The Economist popular vote model says Biden is up by “only” 8.4 points. Of course, the real election is decided in the Electoral College, but with numbers like these, the Electoral College can’t save you. FiveThirtyEight has the most detailed state-by-state breakdowns, and they show Biden comfortably ahead in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Florida, augmented by narrow leads in North Carolina, Georgia, and Ohio and all tied up in Iowa. (source)
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shoebat--2020-06-26--DC Statehood Bill Passes In House

DC Statehood Bill Passes In House

There is a license plate for those who live in Washington DC where it says “ Taxation without representation ” , signifying how DC is taxed but has no representation in Congress .
The issue of DC representation has been a contentious issue for a long time , but for the first times since 1993 , the issue of DC becoming a separate state has not only been raised in Congress , but has passed the House and is on the way to the Senate .
The House approved a measure to make Washington , D.C. the fifty-first state on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ D.C. statehood proposal has passed in either chamber of Congress .
The legislation passed 232 to 180 , with only one Democrat joining Republicans to vote against it .
The legislation , titled H.R .
51 , would create the State of Washington , Douglass Commonwealth , named after Frederick Douglass .
The district has a population of over 700,000 people , larger than the populations of Wyoming and Vermont .
D.C. residents have no voting representation in Congress .
Eleanor Holmes Norton represents D.C. in Congress as a non-voting delegate .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country that denies both voting rights in the national legislature and local autonomy to the residents of the nation ’ s capital , ” Norton said in a speech on the House floor ahead of the vote .
Norton also spoke about the importance of the vote in personal terms .
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There is a license plate for those who live in Washington DC where it says “Taxation without representation”, signifying how DC is taxed but has no representation in Congress. The issue of DC representation has been a contentious issue for a long time, but for the first times since 1993, the issue of DC becoming a separate state has not only been raised in Congress, but has passed the House and is on the way to the Senate.
The House approved a measure to make Washington, D.C. the fifty-first state on Friday, marking the first time a D.C. statehood proposal has passed in either chamber of Congress. The legislation passed 232 to 180, with only one Democrat joining Republicans to vote against it.
The legislation, titled H.R. 51, would create the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, named after Frederick Douglass. The district has a population of over 700,000 people, larger than the populations of Wyoming and Vermont. D.C. residents have no voting representation in Congress. Eleanor Holmes Norton represents D.C. in Congress as a non-voting delegate.
“The United States is the only democratic country that denies both voting rights in the national legislature and local autonomy to the residents of the nation’s capital,” Norton said in a speech on the House floor ahead of the vote. Norton also spoke about the importance of the vote in personal terms. (source)


shoebat--2020-06-26--Twenty Percent Of Ballots Rejected In New Jersey Amid Massive Voter Fraud Scandal

RealClearPolitics gives an interesting report into a situation taking place in New Jersey , where a voter fraud scandal is rocking the state in which twenty percent of ballots have been rejected as a result .
Following accusations of widespread fraud , voter intimidation , and ballot theft in the May 12 municipal elections in Paterson , N.J. , state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal ( pictured ) announced Thursday he is charging four men with voter fraud – including the vice president of the City Council and a candidate for that body .
With races still undecided , control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Paterson is New Jersey ’ s third largest city and the election will decide the fate of a municipal budget in excess of $ 300 million , in addition to hundreds of millions more in education spending and state aid .
In the City Council election , 16,747 vote-by-mail ballots were received , but only 13,557 votes were counted .
More than 3,190 votes , 19 % of the total ballots cast , were disqualified by the board of elections .
Due to the pandemic , Paterson ’ s election was done @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the city ’ s NAACP chapter , are calling for the entire election to be invalidated .
Mail-in ballots have long been acknowledged by voting experts to be more susceptible to fraud and irregularities than in-person voting .
This has raised concerns from President Trump and other Republicans about the integrity of national elections in November , which are expected to include a dramatic increase in mail-in ballots .
If Paterson is any guide , it ought to concern Democrats as well .
Over 800 ballots in Paterson were invalidated for appearing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a one mailbox where hundreds of ballots were in a single packet .
The bundles were turned over to law enforcement to investigate potential criminal activity related to the collection of the ballots .
( source ) I suspect this may be a foretaste of what is to come this fall .
For those old enough to remember the Bush/Gore election in 2000 , Bush ’ s victory was at best questionable .
Gore clearly won the popular vote , and the only reason why Bush won was because of a highly contested @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there were numerous ballot recounts that lead to a slew of sayings- “ pregnant chads ” , “ dimpled chads ” , “ hanging chads ” , “ tri-chads ” , and more -to describe the various ballots in question .
Eventually the election was given to Bush , but not without much controversy that still is a matter of discussion for some in as much as a historical capacity it still interests people .
Trump is , arguably , the “ king of controversy ” for his presidency .
There is scarcely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sort of scandal or nonsense that takes place which is more fit for reality TV than public discourse .
Yet this is what political life in the US 2020 has become .
Given the chaos caused by the virus , the crumbling global markets , the emerging global tensions , and all of the internal problems taking place , it is an ideal situation that in the name of said chaos , massive voter fraud might take place that could give Trump the votes he needs to get elected .
Trump needs all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poll numbers keep dropping , and the racialist talk is not helping him because people are in general sick of the nonsense and want a return to normal .
This is not 2016- this is 2020 , and the world is a very different place .
What will happen this fall ?
Will there be a repeat of Florida 2000 ?
One can not say for sure , but given Trump ’ s weakness in key areas , the potential political fallout , and the state of the nation , one can not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as Michigan , Pennsylvania , Ohio , and Wisconsin , there may be a lot of interesting things that take place at the ballot box .
If so , it would be reality TV at its absolute best , because it is really real and also , completely fake .
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RealClearPolitics gives an interesting report into a situation taking place in New Jersey, where a voter fraud scandal is rocking the state in which twenty percent of ballots have been rejected as a result.
Following accusations of widespread fraud, voter intimidation, and ballot theft in the May 12 municipal elections in Paterson, N.J., state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal (pictured) announced Thursday he is charging four men with voter fraud – including the vice president of the City Council and a candidate for that body. With races still undecided, control of the council hangs in the balance. Paterson is New Jersey’s third largest city and the election will decide the fate of a municipal budget in excess of $300 million, in addition to hundreds of millions more in education spending and state aid. In the City Council election, 16,747 vote-by-mail ballots were received, but only 13,557 votes were counted. More than 3,190 votes, 19% of the total ballots cast, were disqualified by the board of elections. Due to the pandemic, Paterson’s election was done through vote-by-mail. Community organizations, such as the city’s NAACP chapter, are calling for the entire election to be invalidated. Mail-in ballots have long been acknowledged by voting experts to be more susceptible to fraud and irregularities than in-person voting. This has raised concerns from President Trump and other Republicans about the integrity of national elections in November, which are expected to include a dramatic increase in mail-in ballots. If Paterson is any guide, it ought to concern Democrats as well. Over 800 ballots in Paterson were invalidated for appearing in mailboxes improperly bundled together – including a one mailbox where hundreds of ballots were in a single packet. The bundles were turned over to law enforcement to investigate potential criminal activity related to the collection of the ballots. (source)
I suspect this may be a foretaste of what is to come this fall.
For those old enough to remember the Bush/Gore election in 2000, Bush’s victory was at best questionable. Gore clearly won the popular vote, and the only reason why Bush won was because of a highly contested Florida election involving several counties in which there were numerous ballot recounts that lead to a slew of sayings- “pregnant chads”, “dimpled chads”, “hanging chads”, “tri-chads”, and more -to describe the various ballots in question. Eventually the election was given to Bush, but not without much controversy that still is a matter of discussion for some in as much as a historical capacity it still interests people.
Trump is, arguably, the “king of controversy” for his presidency. There is scarcely a day that goes by without some sort of scandal or nonsense that takes place which is more fit for reality TV than public discourse. Yet this is what political life in the US 2020 has become.
Given the chaos caused by the virus, the crumbling global markets, the emerging global tensions, and all of the internal problems taking place, it is an ideal situation that in the name of said chaos, massive voter fraud might take place that could give Trump the votes he needs to get elected.
Trump needs all the votes he can get. His poll numbers keep dropping, and the racialist talk is not helping him because people are in general sick of the nonsense and want a return to normal. This is not 2016- this is 2020, and the world is a very different place.
What will happen this fall? Will there be a repeat of Florida 2000? One cannot say for sure, but given Trump’s weakness in key areas, the potential political fallout, and the state of the nation, one cannot wonder if in key battleground states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin, there may be a lot of interesting things that take place at the ballot box.
If so, it would be reality TV at its absolute best, because it is really real and also, completely fake.
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