Thursday, August 6, 2026

Democrats Want to Close the Prisons, Except Not for People Like You

Democrats Want to Close the Prisons, Except Not for People Like You

by Kurt Schlichter

Democrats Want to Close the Prisons, Except Not for People Like You
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The current trend of Democratic Socialists of America goobers going on Fox and proudly coming out for all the weird and stupid things they support is akin to the phenomenon of a few years ago where you had furries publicly and proudly proclaiming their bizarre identity, except the people pretending to be cartoon foxes and wombats were less embarrassing. As dumb and creepy as it is to dress up as an anime marsupial and admit that their furry fetish tops “sincere people” and “long walks on the beach” on their list of turn-ons, at least the furry strange-os didn’t murder 100 million people over the last century. Of course, it’s probably only because their costumes don’t provide opposable thumbs to hold the guns.

It’s both amusing and horrifying to watch these DSA out n’ proud people in action. It’s pretty clear they never got the memo: you’re supposed to hide the most insane parts of your agenda so normal people can be suckered in. It’s like being inside a Trojan horse, which probably has a slightly different meaning to these perverts; you want to come across as someone vaguely relatable and then only reveal your true self when you come to power. But it’s hard for them to resist the limelight. They’ve never been in the limelight before. Look at these goofs. They are a hapless collection of weirdos, losers, and mutations, the kind of people who, in a civilized society, would’ve been bullied in middle school and high school into something near normality. Along the way, our society made the mistake of celebrating freaks, and now we’re overrun by them. Worse, in some places, we’re going to be run by them.

And that’s a problem. Socialism is bad. It’s strange that you have to say it, but people seem to forget most of the 20th century when socialism, the fantasy ideology of the evil, the envious, and the cruel, was both put into practice and thoroughly repudiated. The heaps of the dead are testimony to its inevitable result. They try to get around the truth of history by claiming that true communism has never been tried—yeah, I know there is supposed to be a difference between socialism and communism, but that’s like the difference between syphilis and AIDS; one is an inevitable gateway infection for the other, and you certainly don’t want either. But based on the world’s experience with this political pathology, true communism probably means 200 million dead. Maybe even more.

Some people who, for whatever reason, cannot accept the fact that other people are just plain evil will try to whitewash Marxism by arguing that it’s merely bad policy. See, it doesn’t work, they tell you, as if that’s the reason you don’t want to put it into practice. But it’s an inhuman and anti-God ideology that twists and perverts human nature to elevate lies and murder over truth and justice. As these creeps demonstrate, socialism is simply a means for losers to take from productive people what they’re too lazy and stupid to generate on their own. That’s why you never see one of these Marxists looking forward to the revolution where they get to be the guy digging the sewer line or manning a garbage truck; no, after the revolution, the cadres are going to be the ones composing genderfluid poetry or doing interpretive dances in their gardens, conveniently forgetting that the gardens wouldn’t be theirs, nor would anything else.

No, the evil of socialism is not a bug, but rather a feature. Remember, it’s driven by hate—hate of the normal, hate of the smarter, hate of the better, hate of your parents who just didn’t get you. And every single time it’s put into practice, we see the same thing. Since everything in socialism goes against human nature, you need an apparatus of repression designed to force people to accept what nature rejects. There’s not a socialist country without thuggish police. There’s not a socialist country where you can speak freely. There’s not a socialist country where you are free because your freedom defeats the whole purpose of socialism, which is ensuring your submission to the cadres.

We could go through all their policy prescriptions, from open borders to amnesty to free everything for everybody, thanks to the people like you who have to work to generate this bounty while the cadres are busy playing their lutes. Socialism is not about making lives better or creating prosperity or security or any of those things. It’s about jerks living out their personal psychodramas while they get off on making you miserable.

Nothing demonstrates that more than the idea of defunding the police and getting rid of prisons. After all, you wicked normal people deserve to have thugs, junkies, murderers, rapists, and other Democrat constituencies turned on you to make you pay for the crime of being you. You need to understand the deep hate that lives within all these people, and that’s why, in every single leftist sector of society, you see the actual criminals not merely being ignored but being idolized. The DSA types would free these barbarians for the express purpose of allowing those barbarians to hurt you, because you deserve to be hurt. You deserve to be killed. You deserve to be raped. Why? Because these freaks don’t like you and it amuses them to see you in pain.

But there’s a practical side to it too. The old Soviet Union understood it. Regular criminals were victims of society, and you, being the foundation of society, need to be victimized in return. If you were a regular criminal, you were treated infinitely better than someone who committed a real crime, that is, a political crime. If you opposed the regime, then you were a real criminal.

So all this stuff about closing the prisons is just nonsense. Same with defunding the police. The DSA types have no intention of ending prisons or ending the police. They just intend to change the target demographic from actual criminals to people like you who stand up and demand your rights. In the socialist paradigm, the only real crime is opposing the socialists. And they would not hesitate to lock you up or murder you if you get in their way.

Now, some people point to the social contract by which we give up our natural right to seek justice from those who wrong us in favor of the procedures we set up through our democratic government. This allows prosecution and punishment to be taken away from what are sometimes called vigilantes and given to our properly constituted government. And these folks critique the DSA prison-closing/police-defunding agenda by pointing out that we could just become vigilantes and do the justice dispensing ourselves. But of course, that would never happen, because the socialists would see vigilantism as an actual crime. Exercising power outside of the socialist structure is unforgivable. Oh, you can rape and molest and murder to your heart’s content, but cut into the party’s action? That’s when the gloves come off. That’s when the underfunded secret police are set upon you and haul you off to the unclosed gulag with the other uppity kulaks.

Socialism isn’t a bunch of 1960s ethnically homogeneous Swedes paying 55 percent in taxes to live moderately comfortably in clean and safe Stockholm. It’s Los Angeles in 2026 where a hobo is crapping on your lawn. It’s London in 2026 where you get arrested for tweeting unapproved things. It’s Spain in 2026, where a zillion Third World barbarians without shirts jump the border and run past cheering 20-something lefty girls in a grand de-reconquista.

We’ve actually been spoiled when it comes to defeating socialism. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan smashed the big socialist enchilada without firing a shot. The USSR collapsed under its own weight, but that was in large part because there was a counterexample, the glorious United States of the ’80s, a beacon to the rest of the world demonstrating that there was something better. But now, the socialists are hitting everything at once. They don’t want a counterexample hanging around out there. They don’t want people to know that there’s an alternative and to be able to peacefully undo their color revolution. We were spoiled, because we defeated socialism without much bloodshed in the big scheme of things.

But this time, we may not get off so easily. Socialists don’t always just give up. Chile overthrew the communists by throwing a bunch of them out of helicopters. The Spanish Nationalists defeated a communist-run revolution through years of fighting. Once the DSA-types get power, do you think they’ll just give it up if we ask nicely? Understand what kind of America these DSA types want. Understand that they will use the engines of government, including the courts and law enforcement, against you. Understand that there will still be crimes; it’s just those crimes will be saying what you think, praying how you want, and owning guns.

The last part is key. The last part is your backstop against perpetual tyranny. The last part is why they want you disarmed. So, buy guns and ammunition, because once the suckers and saps vote us into socialism, there is no voting our way back out of it.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/08/03/democrats-want-to-close-the-prisons-except-not-for-people-like-you-n2680504?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-fqhwedAhKS&utm_term=&_nlid=fqhwedAhKS&_nhids=ncn4ZIe0cNLGls

Spain and the Ignoring of History

Spain and the Ignoring of History

by Mark Lewis


Spain and the Ignoring of History
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Why don’t people learn from history? Well, there might be a multiplicity of reasons, but ultimately it boils down to one thing: people don’t learn from history because they don’t want to. They don’t like what it teaches; they think the consequences of disobeying the eternal moral and natural laws and principles God set in motion to govern this universe can somehow be avoided or don’t apply to them, so they continue to do the same stupid, self-destructive things that humans have been doing for thousands of years. And then they are shocked and dismayed when they suffer the same results that previous generations and nations have suffered. Humanity, frankly, is really not a very smart species.

Most people just can’t handle the truth. It simply costs too much. The truth is absolute; it’s hard and unbending, and it can’t be changed. It can be lied about, of course, but again, only with frequent serious negative consequences. But countless people don’t like truth, so they hate those who speak it to them, avoid them if possible, try to shut them up if they get on our nerves too often, or ultimately kill them if that’s the only option remaining. Does the name “Jesus” ring a bell?

My current diatribe is inspired by a lot of things, but mainly by the utter buffoonery of the current leftist Spanish government for ignoring their own history, and allowing countless barbarians to invade their country again (Spain, obviously, isn’t the only country in recent history to do such a reckless thing—including America—but they are in the news now because the innumerable hordes are presently pouring in virtually unopposed). You’d think if anybody would learn something from history, it would be the Spaniards. In the late seventh-early eighth centuries, barbarians overran Spain, and from 711-1492 these African and Middle Eastern Moors ruled Spain in their typical Middle Eastern fashion. The Spanish finally got them out, and then did about the only positive thing for civilization that Spain has ever done—sent Christopher Columbus on a voyage where he discovered the New World. And changed the world for the remainder of human history.

Or maybe he didn’t. Spain seems determined to turn the clock back to pre-Columbian days, as does much of the rest of Europe. But notice the dates there. It took Spain almost 800 years to drive the invaders out. Haven’t they learned anything from their own history? No, obviously, they haven’t because, well, in this case, they are basically inviting them in. That makes them even more blameworthy and irrational. But that’s the consequence of not learning from history, not wanting to learn from history, of thinking “things will be different this time,” though they never are. They are ignoring the dictum that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” (attributed to Einstein, but maybe he wasn’t the one who actually said it). It sounds more to me like a historian said it. A wise one, not a Leftist one.

Current Spanish snubbing of history is not just an ignoring of their own. What the Spanish are doing has been done too many times in history, always with fatal results. For just one example, historian Will Durant wrote, nearly 100 years ago, about the collapse of the ancient Persian empire (c. sixth-fourth centuries B.C.). Durant recounted the extreme diversity that plagued the Persian empire: “[It is not] natural that nations diverse in language, religion, morals, and traditions should long remain united; there is nothing organic in such a union, and compulsion must repeatedly be applied to maintain the artificial bond.” There must be something that unites a people if they are to continue together, unified as a nation. How can people with different languages, religions, morals, customs, traditions, etc. remain united unless something higher is offered to them? Or government tyranny cowed them into submission. But the compulsion Persia forced upon its diverse people was eventually collapsed by Alexander’s united armies and culture.

Spain (and, I fear, America) has welcomed these diverse, inorganic entities into its borders. When they came to Spain the first time, the nation fell to the Moors and didn’t recover for 800 years. Can Spain find something to bring these diverse peoples together this time? Leftists don’t even look for such; they just want power over others, and usually, eventually, get eaten themselves by the crocodile they turned loose on the nation.

Perhaps the stupidest maxim the Left has foisted on America in the last generation has been “diversity is our strength.” No, it’s not. Diversity divides; that’s a root meaning of the word. And when so many in the country are being taught to hate the country, it is difficult to see what will keep this “diverse,” divided America whole and united.

The Moors ruled at least parts of Spain from 711-1492. That’s longer than the 500+ years that they’ve been out of the country. It appears now there is perhaps a new Reconquista going on. Morocco is surely happy to get rid of the barbarians who are leaving their country, and the leftist Spanish government is too ignorant, or apathetic, of its own history to resist them. “We’ll control them.” No, they won’t—except possibly through totalitarian force. And that, too, will eventually fail when people get tired of being oppressed. 

Well, I guess those new Moors could wait till the next Democrat became President of the United States and then come to America. And be just as welcome. By people who are just as dumb as the Spanish government is, and who know, or care, as little about history as Spain does.

A wise man once said, “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do know history are doomed to watch others repeat it.”

Why do we never learn? Because truth costs too much.

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/08/03/spain-and-the-ignoring-of-history-n2680540?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-MG5ZNQDxvN&utm_term=&_nlid=MG5ZNQDxvN&_nhids=ncn4ZIe0cNLGls

OhOh, So Get a Load of the Judge Who Tossed Trump's NJ Lawsuit Over Its Voter Database

OhOh, So Get a Load of the Judge Who Tossed Trump's NJ Lawsuit Over Its Voter Database

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This guy is a piece of work. New Jersey finds itself in the spotlight of the election integrity battles. It follows a classic Trump moment: he gave a July primetime speech on this issue, the media claimed he was spreading lies, and then the president proved to be right. The Garden State had thousands of noncitizens on its voter rolls; about 400 of them had voted in previous elections. Both numbers should be zero. Gov. Mikie Sherrill received credit from her media circle for getting ahead of it. No, she didn’t. 

Trump revealed the details first, noting that more than 270,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. Jersey alone has 6,600 noncitizens on the rolls. That’s not possible—especially since it’s a state with automatic voter registration since 2018. Sherrill blamed Phil Murphy, said they’ll investigate, and declared they won’t share the information about the 6,600 “New Jersey citizens” with the Justice Department. Top DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon calmly said they’ll get it anyway.

Now, last Wednesday, July 31, some whack job judge, Zahid Quraishi, tossed the Trump administration’s lawsuit over access to the voter database with prejudice, and would it shock you if he’s a hard-core liberal (via NJ Globe):

A federal judge handed Gov. Mikie Sherrill and a broad coalition of voting-rights advocates a major victory Wednesday, dismissing with prejudice a Trump administration lawsuit seeking New Jersey’s complete voter-registration database, including confidential driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.

U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi granted a motion to dismiss filed by Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell, who also serves as secretary of state, and rejected the U.S. Department of Justice’s expansive interpretation of the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

“This Court disagrees,” Quraishi wrote in his 17-page opinion. “As a threshold but dispositive matter, the State’s computerized (voter-registration list) is outside the scope of Title III’s inspection provision.”

The dismissal with prejudice prevents the Justice Department from refiling the case under the same legal theory, although the Trump administration may appeal.

The ruling was also a significant victory for advocacy organizations and individual voters who intervened to support New Jersey’s refusal to turn over confidential voter information.

“We are grateful for the district court’s decision, which correctly found that DOJ’s demand for voters’ personal information lacked support in federal law. Every court to consider the question, now totaling seventeen district courts and a federal court of appeals, have unanimously rejected this clear federal overreach,” said Attorney General Jennifer Davenport. “We will continue to act in accordance with federal and state law and protect New Jerseyans’ privacy and people’s personal information.”

What do you expect from a jurist with this donation history? But even worse, this gobbledygook on Trump’s immigration agenda in February (via NYT):

A federal judge on Thursday said that the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey had lost its credibility and was intentionally violating immigration-related orders, the latest rebuke from a judiciary that has grown increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration.

The judge, Zahid N. Quraishi, added that if the Trump administration continued to make immigration arrests under a rationale that had already been found legally unacceptable, those arrests would most likely have to be justified through sworn testimony by administration officials.

That strict standard would reflect an extraordinary lack of faith in the government and would place an additional burden on it every time it made an arrest of that nature.

“Efforts by the court in this district to protect detainees’ rights have been largely frustrated by the government,” Judge Quraishi wrote, saying that officials from the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey had admitted to violating more than 70 orders from judges there. He added that he would “not stand idly by and allow this intentional misconduct to go on. It ends today.”

Again, he’s a little rogue judge who has also been issuing rulings beyond their purview. Who cares what he says, to be honest. Of course, Biden nominated him because he was a Muslim. That goes double for George Soros’ network; you don’t really want to be part of that crew unless you’re working toward a post-constitutional America. 

Elections have consequences. Biden was brain-dead for four years, but he got some Looney Tunes on the bench. We must contend with that and act accordingly. This is a long war. 

Again, what is New Jersey hiding here? I think you already know. 

https://townhall.com/news/mattvespa/2026/08/03/oh-so-get-a-load-of-the-judge-who-tossed-trumps-nj-lawsuit-over-its-voter-database-n2680551?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-TCDtU9zbHT&utm_term=&_nlid=TCDtU9zbHT&_nhids=ncn4ZIe0cNLGls

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Here’s Your TDS Headline Of The Year

 

We had to look twice at this headline in the New York Times to believe it.

“In Trump’s Economy, Job Gains Go to Women. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing.”

Huh? Is the Times complaining that men are being shut out of the workforce?

Maybe the subhead will clear things up?

Nope. It says “Despite the administration’s best attempts, the diminishing status of many American jobs is driving a spike in women’s employment.”

“Best attempts”? At what? Driving down women’s employment? Is that really something the Trump administration has been putting its “best attempts” to achieve?

The story tries to explain: “Even the Trump administration’s masculinist rhetoric — about how society has become overly feminine and should re-center male virtues — hasn’t slowed this shift. Of more than half a million jobs that the economy has added since President Trump took office last January, roughly 85% went to women.”

OK. But even if you accept this dubious premise that these job gains for women came despite Trump’s “best attempts,” how is this “not an entirely good thing”?

The story begins by highlighting the fact that, last year, Jen Pawol became the first woman to umpire a regular-season Major League Baseball game.

But it gainsays this achievement by saying that it really wasn’t anything to brag about, because it only happened after male umpires started retiring in the face of automation.

Then it goes on to say that pretty much the only reason women make gains in the workplace is when men abandon crummy jobs.

“The story goes something like this: A job gets worse in some way — say, it pays less or becomes more grueling or monotonous or generally less prestigious — at which point men become less interested in doing it. Employers then turn to women to fill the ranks,” writes the Times’ Noam Scheiber.

The 1,800-word article goes on to trace the history of the workplace since the industrial age.

We’re not going to quibble with Scheiber’s historical accuracy. Although we will point out that one aspect of the workforce that Scheiber manages to leave out of his account is the fact that the jobs men dominate today are hardly glamorous.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women hold the majority of jobs in three of the five major occupational categories it tracks. The two where men dominate are “Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations” (which includes jobs such as logging, trades, mining, mechanics, technicians, and are 94.4% occupied by men) and “Production, transportation, and material moving occupations” (which includes jobs like fish processing, tool operators, welders, boiler operators, and are 75.7% male-occupied).

And, as economist Mark Perry has pointed out, men completely dominate every one of the jobs with the highest fatality rates. When he crunched the numbers, Perry found that the average woman would have to work nearly 12 years for every one year of an average man to equalize the gender workplace fatality gap.

But sure. Let’s agree that it’s only when men decide a job sucks that women take over.

What does any of this have to do with “Trump’s economy”?

Absolutely nothing.

At least, nothing Scheiber can point to. In fact, Trump’s name never comes up again after the opening paragraphs.

This reminds us of the classic journalism joke about how major newspapers would cover the end of the world, with the New York Times’ headline reading something like: “World to End Tomorrow: Women and Minorities To Be Hardest Hit.”

For today’s journalists, if something good happens while Trump is in the White House, there must be something wrong with it somewhere.

So, we invite readers to use the Comment section below to dream up other such Trump-era headlines.

We’ll start with one contributed by Tom McArdle: “Under Trump, CDC Announces Cure of All Forms of Cancer. That’s Not an Entirely Good Thing.”

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board

https://issuesinsights.com/2026/08/01/heres-your-tds-headline-of-the-year/

RFK Debunks Sen. Warren's Hypocritical Attack on His Supposed Big Pharma ‘Conflict of Interest’

RFK Debunks Sen. Warren's Hypocritical Attack on His Supposed Big Pharma ‘Conflict of Interest’

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Reuters and Washington Post have a new deceptive report out claiming that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has financially benefited from a settlement with a top pharmaceutical company. But they left the crucial context out that showed he personally received not a dime.

Democrats are never ones for context. They love to have reasons to pretend they are destroying corruption when they are really going after personal political opponents. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), for instance, had her warpaint and Tomahawk out as she screeched, “Is RFK Jr.'s son getting a cut of a $50 MILLION settlement that his dad could have influenced? I'm investigating.” Naturally, she needs something to investigate to avoid investigating Anthony Fauci and the pharmaceutical companies that pushed COVID vaccines that we now know, courtesy of Fauci‘s journal, were quite ineffective and sometimes injurious.

Kennedy responded to Warren and the lefty media outlets at the same time. “The Washington Post editorial board accuses me of a conflict of interest that might bias me against Big Pharma, whose interests they apparently seek to protect,” he posted on X, highlighting the irony of media and politicians rushing to defend monopolistic businesses. “The alleged conflict comes from money I supposedly made from a settlement in a lawsuit against Merck for injuries caused by its Gardasil vaccine.”

He emphatically stated: “The problem is that I never received a penny from the Merck Gardasil settlement, and neither has my son nor anyone else in my family.” So Warren et al. are smearing Kennedy with — surprise, surprise — lies.

Kennedy explained further, “Before taking office, I relinquished any interest in potential Gardasil fees back to the Wisner Baum law firm, which publicly confirmed this during my confirmation process. Yet @SenWarren, @Reuters, and @washingtonpost editorial board — in their ardor to protect Big Pharma — continue to push a false narrative that makes Big Pharma the victim and me the mendacious villain.”

For yet more interesting context, according to a Fox News report from last year, Warren received a whopping $5 million from Big Pharma during her 2020 presidential bid. And the Washington Post freaked out when Kennedy proposed limiting pharmaceutical ads. Always follow the money.

Related: Fauci’s Diary, Elitist Arrogance, and Anti-American Oligarchies

That is precisely why the wokies are not going to take Kennedy's advice. “They should correct the record," the secretary recommends, "and spend more time examining the real conflicts that have long disabled the regulatory function of my Department, all of which I am now deconstructing.”

The media and political hacks who receive kickbacks and ad money and campaign donations from Big Pharma do not want reform. Kennedy described his work: “I’m firing corrupt regulators and dismissing the panels formerly populated by heavily conflicted ‘experts.’ We are dismantling the mechanisms of corporate capture that made this agency the sock puppet for the industry it was supposed to regulate. Why are Reuters, Warren, and WaPo inventing lies to besmirch the first @HHSgov Secretary in modern history to stand up to industry?”

We know the answer to that question. Money explains so much of the corruption in our media and government. Kennedy does not have a financial conflict of interest, but Warren very well might.

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/08/01/rfk-debunks-dem-attack-on-supposed-big-pharma-conflict-of-interest-n4955705?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Michael Knowles Is 100% Wrong on Mockery of Antisemitic Spain. Embrace the Power of Ridicule!

Michael Knowles Is 100% Wrong on Mockery of Antisemitic Spain. Embrace the Power of Ridicule!

Courtesy of Marissa Forte

Ah, the wise and noble nation of Spain: a place where nobody works, yet everyone takes naps. 

Lots and lots of naps, too. (Spain is the only European country with a national naptime.) It’s a very strange culture.

Seems the Spaniards are back in the news. You probably heard: About 60,000 illegal Muslim immigrants — which comes to roughly .00054% of the number of migrants that illegally crossed the U.S. border during President Joe Biden’s “leadership” — entered Ceuta this week, which is a small Spanish territory that sits on the border of Morocco.

Shortly thereafter, worldwide schadenfreude runneth amok.

After blessing the world with the Inquisitions, the raping, looting, and pillaging of North AND South America, the spread of syphilis, and a literary character who battles windmills (way to go, guys), Spain has cast itself as Europe’s moral arbiter of right and wrong. Which means, of course, that no European nation has been more brazenly pro-immigration, pro-socialism, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli, anti-capitalist, anti-Trump, and anti-America than Spain.

What qualified Spain to be Europe’s moral leader? What moral sacrifice has Spain made?

Beats the hell out of me.

Spain was a conscientious objector in World War I. It signed a neutrality/non-aggression pact with the Nazis in World War II. It was still a dictatorship ‘til the late 1970s. And despite being a member state of NATO, Spain hasn’t spent the 2% minimum on military readiness in over 30 years.

Instead of leading, Spain has been freeriding for more than a century!

Yet Spain still refuses to let America use its military bases (even when this puts our soldiers, Marines, and pilots at greater risk). The nation has been so obstinate, President Donald Trump ordered a halt to U.S.-Spanish trade

And its hatred of Israel is off-the-charts:

Which is why, after being overrun by Muslim illegals, so many Israelis took note of Spain’s hypocrisy:

Which triggered the ire of The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles:

And Knowles wasn’t the only one:

Wrong. Absolutely, completely, 100% wrong!

You don’t reason with dedicated propagandists, YouTube bigots, and conspiratorial numbskulls who see JOOOOS lurking behind every corner. There’s absolutely nothing that Danon or Netanyahu could’ve said or done that would’ve satisfied the anti-Israel mob.

Because Jew-hatred doesn’t run on reason. Nor does it run on logic or common sense.

It runs on ignorance and hate:

If someone didn’t reach his conclusion via reason, logic, or common sense, then you’re not going to change his mind by appealing to it. Your PR approach simply won’t work. It’ll fail every damn time.

You can’t reason someone out of an argument that they didn’t use reason to get into.

It’s sad but true. Even if Israel didn’t say anything about Spain, antisemites like Tucker Carlson would attack the Jewish nation anyway:

But you know what does work?

Ridicule, humor, and what Rush Limbaugh called “illustrating absurdity by being absurd.”

In other words, you wouldn’t reason with a flat-Earther. It’d be a waste of oxygen. There are no satellite photos, scientific textbooks, or geological data that’ll ever change his mind — because, if he were open to that kind of argument, then he wouldn’t be a flat-Earther in the first place, would he?

So instead, you laugh at him for being such a dumbass.

If pro-immigration Spain (and anti-Israel podcasters) want to blame Israeli Jews for Muslim Moroccans crossing the Spanish border, let ‘em. In fact, it’s better for us if they do, because they sound ridiculous.

And the more ridiculous they sound, the more vulnerable they are to ridicule.

Which is something Michael Knowles certainly understands, because he uses the tactic against Democrats:

Why, it’s almost as if punctuating an important truth with humor makes it more memorable! Who’da thunk it?

It’s PR 101: When you take unserious criticism seriously, you unduly elevate its legitimacy. And that’s the exact wrong tactical response.

For the love of God, stop giving bad-faith actors legitimacy that they haven’t earned and don’t deserve!

And embrace the power of ridicule.

‘Cause I’ve got PR news for you: Israel might not “win friends” by ridiculing Spain’s utterly ridiculous hypocrisy, but I GUARANTEE YOU, it’s influencing people. In fact, it’s one of the few things on social media since Oct. 7, 2023 that Israel has done right.

Related: Boy George Is Punk Rock, Ben Shapiro Is a Christ Figure, and the Absurdity of Gaza ‘Genocide’

The Jewish state should double down: It’s Israel’s smartest PR path forward.

After October 7, millions of Westerners hopped aboard the anti-Zionism bandwagon because it virtue-signaled how much they despised war, death, conflict, racism, hate, and “genocide.” That was the emotional incentive — and the “secret sauce” of today’s antisemitism.

(With the blood libel lie of a phantom Gaza “genocide” serving as today’s antisemitism’s beachhead belief.)

But they certainly didn’t join this bandwagon to be ridiculed or mocked. Nobody wants to look like an idiot, a hypocrite, a dolt, or a doofus.

They want the opposite.

Cause and effect: Change the incentive and you change the behavior. It’s the essence of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” — and the reason why Free Markets outperform socialist price controls, communism, and government-run monopolies. 

And that’s something Michael Knowles ought to understand.

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