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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Whoa: DNI Gabbard Reveals Intelligence Community Conspiracy That Led to Trump's 2019 Impeachment

Whoa: DNI Gabbard Reveals Intelligence Community Conspiracy That Led to Trump's 2019 Impeachment

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents Monday that she says show the intelligence community, along with certain Democrat congresscritters — think California Sen. Adam Schiff (a representative at the time) and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (CA ‑11) — used to justify the ludicrous 2019 impeachment effort of Donald Trump.

Democrats incredibly tried to take down a sitting president over a phone call because they alleged that Trump had requested Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky look into Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, who had been conducting suspicious business activity in the Eastern European country. They further charged that Trump used presidential power to unlawfully pressure the Ukrainians.

Gabbard says the new documents show that the case was manufactured:

In her tweet, she points readers to a lengthy press release on the official ODNI webpage that goes into more detail on the efforts to convict a duly-elected president, and she pointed the finger directly at former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) Michael Atkinson, who Trump fired in 2020:

During his preliminary investigation into President Trump’s July 2019 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, former IC IG Michael Atkinson did not follow standard IG procedures and relied upon politicized, manufactured narratives – only conducting interviews with four individuals: the Whistleblower, the Whistleblower’s friend who was a co-author of the January 2017 Russia Hoax Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and close colleague of disgraced former FBI Agent Peter Strzok, and two character references who had zero firsthand knowledge of the July 2019 phone call.

Ah, yes, Peter Strzok, the slippery former FBI agent who was a foaming-at-the-mouth Trump Hater. Gabbard had more:

Despite a lack of any firsthand evidence, IC IG Atkinson proceeded to take actions to weaponize the Whistleblower process and exceed his statutory jurisdiction by ignoring Department of Justice guidance and relying on only second-hand testimony to ensure the whistleblower complaint was released to Congress, referred to the FBI, and leaked to the propaganda media.
Then-House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Chairman Adam Schiff and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi used this false, second-hand narrative to create media intrigue and ultimately spark the basis to impeach President Trump in December of 2019.

Whistleblower met with Democrats on House Intelligence Committee (then led by Adam Schiff) BEFORE reporting his allegations to the Intelligence Community Inspector General.

Remember Peter Strzok, the Smirking Anti-Trump FBI Agent? He Just Lost 1st Amendment Case Against the DOJ

Gabbard provides numerous details regarding Atkinson’s shenanigans, but her summary tells you the takeaway: these folks didn’t care about the rule of law, or the Constitution, or integrity; all they wanted to do was get Orange Man Bad at any cost. Emphasis hers:

“Deep state actors within the Intelligence Community concocted a false narrative that was used by Congress to usurp the will of the American people and impeach the duly-elected President of the United States,” said DNI Gabbard. “Inspector General Atkinson failed to uphold his responsibility to the American people, putting political motivations over the truth. And this, along with the politicization of the whistleblower process by a former CIA employee who was working hand in glove with Democrats in Congress, are egregious examples of the deep state playbook on how to weaponize the Intelligence Community. Exposing these tactics and showing how they undermine the fabric of our democratic republic furthers the critical cause of transparency and accountability and will help prevent future abuse of power.”

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has already weighed in, saying Monday that the whole thing was a hoax:

"As Director Ratcliffe made clear as a member of President Trump's impeachment advisory team in 2019, this impeachment was entirely baseless, unfounded, and brought in politically-motivated bad faith," CIA Director of Public of Affairs Liz Lyons said in a statement to Just the News.

It may seem like old news at this point, but the 2019 impeachment remains a stain on our nation. If voters inexplicably give Congress back to the Democrats in the midterms, and/or the presidency in 2028, we’re likely to just see a whole lot more of this criminality.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/04/13/whoa-dni-gabbard-reveals-intelligence-community-conspiracy-that-led-to-trumps-2019-impeachment-n2201246?utm_source=rsafternoonbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Boom: CNN Host Obliterates Dem Narrative About Removing Trump From Office

Boom: CNN Host Obliterates Dem Narrative About Removing Trump From Office

By Nick Arama

Iran doesn't have a lot of cards to play in the fight with the United States.

One of the few is that they seem to have folks on the left attacking everything President Donald Trump says or does in regard to Operation Epic Fury. That may give them thoughts. If they just hang in there, the Democrats' attacks on Trump may force him to pull back.

However, in another way, the Democratic reactions may have helped Trump and convinced the Iranians that Trump was going to drop "hell" on them as he promised. He had already been pounding them as it was. But you had people like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-11) calling on the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment because of Trump's "civilization will die" comment about Iran.

The Democrats' freak-out over some of Trump's language may have accidentally served his purpose of forcing Iran to the negotiating table. The regime put people out on their bridges - clearly, they thought Trump was going to follow through and were concerned. They know for sure he isn't the weak Joe Biden or Barack Obama, neither of whom seemed to know how to enforce red lines. Now, we'll see what comes out of the talks. That's still a question, since Iran isn't an honest actor.

But Trump is already showing a clever response to something the regime claimed. They reportedly said there were issues with opening the Strait of Hormuz - the point agreed to as part of the ceasefire - because they weren't sure where all the mines they put out might be. Trump's response was immediate - we're sending in ships to help detect where the mines are and work to ensure the safe passage in the Strait. Since Iran agreed to open the Strait, they can't object if he helps them out with their problem. He turned their excuse around on them, and used it to help clear the Strait.

New: US Navy Destroyers Lead Mine-Clearing Charge in Strait of Hormuz

In what might be the surprise of the weekend, it was CNN host Michael Smerconish who obliterated the Democratic narrative that Trump was demented/crazy and should face the 25th Amendment/impeachment.

Warning for graphic language:

“This window into prewar decision making was for the Americans,” Smerconish said about the NYT report. “It shows airing of competing views, some open to dissent, reliance on legal counsel, and a deliberative process. Not the impulsivity with which Trump is so often associated. There’s nothing in the times behind closed doors account of an unstable Trump.”
He continued, “At the same time that he was playing the madman card in public, you’d expect the guy that posts about a whole civilization dying would be simultaneously busting up the White House furniture. But there’s never been any reporting of Trump like that behind closed doors. In other words, it’s not that there’s a method to his madness, it’s that the madness is his method.”

Now while I won't necessarily believe everything in The New York Times report - it is after all the Times - I think the general overall tenor of it, as Smerconish describes it: open to dissent, consulting his Cabinet, and deliberative, is consistent with reports of how Trump operates.

Smerconish continued:

The Haberman-Swan reporting ultimately reveals, much like what Bill Maher saw at dinner, is that Donald Trump is capable of exactly what his critics say he isn’t: patience, process and genuine deliberation.
He went around the table, he heard the dissent. He consulted the lawyers. He made a hard call under enormous pressure. And 90 minutes before his own deadline, a cease fire materialized. That’s not nothing.
And it’s certainly not the behavior of someone who needs the 25th amendment invoked or warrants impeaching.

Smerconish then said Trump didn't need the "madman" mask - because the real man was more formidable. That's a big observation, and one that most on the left wouldn't get. But he's also sort of wrong for the reasons I said above - it's that madman move which likely moved Iran. They're used to playing all the prior presidents, but they appear off-balanced because Trump doesn't deal with them as the prior ones did.

Smerconish also spoke to Yale Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who has known Trump for years. And while Sonnenfeld is obviously critical of Trump and slipped in some shots at Trump in the process of his remarks, he also acknowledged that Trump is "absolutely strategic."

"Backstage, he is not temperamental," he said. "He is rational."

His best line? "Boy, he is not dumb!" Sonnenfeld pronounced. "He is dumb like a fox! He's very strategic."

Exactly. There's a reason Trump is where he is now, and has risen through any attempt to bring him down. Democrats fail against him because they fail to understand him, and keep using the same failed tactics for the last 10 years.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/04/11/cnn-host-obliterates-dem-narrative-about-removing-trump-from-office-n2201200?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

This Dem's Claim About Gas Prices Got Eviscerated by This Tweet

This Dem's Claim About Gas Prices Got Eviscerated by This Tweet

Matt Vespa

This Dem's Claim About Gas Prices Got Eviscerated by This Tweet — *AP Photo/David Zalubowski*

The Democrats are dying to make a cost-of-living argument against President Trump, though we suffered more under Joe Biden’s ineptitude and lack of care, but you knew this was going to happen. The price of gas has spiked, but the average is still lower than anything seen during the Biden Error.

Still, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) decided to post a ‘Trump caused the gas prices to spike because of the Iran war’ tweet. First, California has always had high gas prices due to its backward economic agenda from the clowns in Sacramento.

Trump's immoral and reckless war in Iran has shot up gas prices in my district to nearly $6 a gallon.
Stop the war, stop exporting our crude oil, and pass my windfall profits tax on Big Oil to give Americans a rebate for their gas bills.

He got brutally fact-checked by the US Oil and Gas Association over the weekend:

Several people have requested we comment on your post. We will quickly before we take Mrs. USOGA out for date night.
First - like you, we hope this war will end soon and things will return to normal. Until then - things will be what they will be.
But high gas prices in your district aren’t “Trump’s war”—they’re Sacramento’s doing.
California drivers pay nearly double the national average in state taxes, plus cap-and-trade, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, unique reformulated gasoline, refinery limits, and geographic isolation that blocks cheap imports.
That adds $1.00–$1.78+ over the U.S. average.
Here is our suggestion. Your proposed windfall profits tax will do nothing to bring relief to your overtaxed and underappreciated constituents.
Instead -suspend those state-level taxes first and bring California prices in line with the national average.
Put your state bureaucracy on a diet. They could stand to shed a few pounds.
Encourage California domestic oil and gas production and expand your refinery capacity instead of shutting it down.
Stand up to your Governor. You know he is wrong and you can be on the right side of things
And let's talk windfall profits tax.
They don't work. While you don't call it a windfall profits tax, California recently passed one and called it a "wealth tax" now you see high net worth individuals fleeing your state.
History proves it backfires.
The 1980 Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax cut domestic production 1–8% (hundreds of millions of barrels lost), boosted imports 3–13%, raised far less revenue than projected after deductions, created massive bureaucracy, and was repealed in 1988 because it discouraged supply exactly when America needed more.
That in turn led us to depend even more on Middle East imports for another 20 years right up until the shale revolution occurred. Kind of like how California is dependent on imports now.
Your repeated sponsorship of a new Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act would repeat the exact same mistake—shrinking U.S. output and raising costs.
Crude exports? They expand global supply, narrow price spreads (WTI-Brent) which is exerts downward pressure on world prices.
It is directly helping allies in Europe and Asia counter China's skirting sanctions and colluding with Iran to purchase crude at huge discounts.
Restricting exports would tighten markets, spike costs everywhere—including here—and hurt the consumers you claim to protect.
Finally we must also point out that
your voting record shows consistent opposition to our industry you want to tax. For example, you:
Voted against leasing more public lands and waters for oil drilling (2023, Roll Call 23).
Voted against reversing land-management protections to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling—multiple times, including 2025 Roll Call 295 and earlier efforts to halt ANWR development.
Opposed critical oil and gas leasing reforms and fast-tracking fossil-fuel infrastructure (2024 Roll Call 95; 2025 votes undermining LNG authority and blocking fracking bans).
Voted NO on NDAA provisions that would expedite oil/gas permitting (2022–2023).
You have a 99% lifetime League of Conservation Voters score—near-perfect opposition to domestic energy exploration, production and leasing.
You’ve led hearings attacking us and sponsored bills to repeal industry tax provisions.
Fine—own that record.
But please stop shifting blame to “Trump’s war” or federal policy while California’s own choices keep your constituents paying the highest pump prices in America.
Real relief comes from more American supply + streamlined permitting, not recycled 1980s taxes or more restrictions.
Energy abundance, not rhetoric, lowers prices and bolsters U.S. and allied security.
Mrs. USOGA has instructed us to put the phone away so we will do that.
Have a good weekend.

Damn, man.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/04/13/this-dems-claim-about-gas-prices-got-eviscerated-with-this-tweet-n2674334?utm_source=pjmediambvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

7 Sins vs. 7 Virtues: The Democrats Are on the Ugly Side of History

7 Sins vs. 7 Virtues: The Democrats Are on the Ugly Side of History

Kevin Downey Jr.

I was sitting outside our apartment, which I call the Atomic Bunker, enjoying a great cigar and a beautiful day, when I saw some liberal Facebook terrorist whining — again — about Sydney Sweeney.

What did poor lil' Sydney do this time to draw the wrath of some Facebook flunky woman? Sydney dares to remain a stun gun.

Democrats hate what they do not have: beauty, success, integrity, money, happiness; the list is inexhaustible.

A stark difference between most conservatives and liberals comes down to the seven deadly sins vs. the seven heavenly virtues, which are:

pride vs. humility;
greed vs. charity;
lust vs. chastity;
envy vs. kindness/gratitude;
gluttony vs. temperance;
wrath vs. patience;
sloth vs. diligence.

When one does not have what one desires, this leads people to a crossroads: work to get what one wants, or double down on being a never-wozzer, which is what losers do, and then attack those who work hard to succeed.

One can look at another man's sports car and want the same for himself. He now faces a choice:

work hard, save money, and buy his own;
do nothing to purchase his own (sloth);
throw a bucket of paint on the other man's car (envy);
or steal it (greed).

FACT-O-RAMA! It's easier for communists to tax the rich and steal the money for themselves than to go out and earn it.

The aforementioned Sweeney-hating Facebook flop is a woman I know from the comedy world. She's a borderline obese fatty acid (gluttony), and rather than cancel her membership to the Oreo-of-the-Month Club, continues to graze her way onto the express lane of the Hyperglycemia Highway. She likely buys her dresses from a designer called "Jabba the WHAT?" and shoehorns her lack of impulse control into her terrified Honda Civic before pounding (literally) the pavement.

The comedy rumor mill claims that she offers her physical abundance quite freely to men who are facing closing-time desperation at the bar (lust). She then brags (pride) that she is not fat, but that she is "body-positive," and that the list of chubby chasers she drags home, all of whom leave before the morning light exposes their shame, is proof that she's "got it."

FACT-O-RAMA! We refer to her paramours as "secret admirers." They sleep with her and then say, "Let's keep this a secret."

I'd like to point out that the only thing keeping a liberal from purchasing a sports car or losing weight and being attractive is themselves. But hard work is hard, and those Cheetos sing a siren song few Democrats can, or want, to ignore.

One of the worst traits I see in the comedy world is the sloths vs. the diligent.

Some comedians wake up every day and split their time between writing jokes, contacting venues for work, and going out most nights to perform, frequently for free, at "open mike" venues. The sloths sleep in, cling to a quiver of "hack" jokes, play video games, and hate the diligent comedians who headline comedy venues and get themselves on TV and/or radio.

Hating the successful is a twisted, mirror image. The lazy hate themselves, but lack the testicular grit to admit this. It's far easier to hate the successful and even say, "I am better than that diligent comedian, but....." then proceed to blame phantom outside sources for their failure; sexism, racism, and a vat of "phobias." But the truth is this: we are responsible for our successes and failures. And for the self-defeated, this is funereal.

It's terrifying to think that someone calls his or puddle of hateful inadequacy "Mommy."

For the ugly, broke, and talent-free losers, hate is easier than hard work. Bitterness is an energy. This is why the communists in the Democratic Party pander to malcontents.

"Bitterness is the revenge of the lazy." Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities.

I have been a New York City liberal. Today, I am (allegedly) a J6 MAGA type.

The greatest difference I have found between the left and the right is this: Democrats will pull down the successful, whereas conservatives will pull up those who are willing to work to succeed.

Communists celebrate loserdom. They assure fat broads they are pretty, because lies are easier to swallow than a well-proportioned salad. Then they attack Sydney Sweeney for her true pulchritude, which I assure you she works at. They spit on the Corvettes they wash at their day jobs. They call billionaire Elon Musk a "Nazi" as they blow their meager paychecks on beer and drugs, or as they call it, "self-medication."

Democrats teach their voters that they cannot succeed, because the the rich, the white, or the church oppresses them. This agitprop breeds rage (wrath), and its inevitable outcome is violence.

Democrats, Islamo-commies, and tyrants throughout history have learned that the greatest way to build an army of violent malcontents is this: Convince them that they aren't a bunch of fat, lazy, greedy, woefully underachieving damp squibs, but that those who heed an alarm clock oppress them.

https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2026/04/11/demcocrats-the-ugly-side-of-history-n4951690?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Islamic Republic Insiders Confirm the Rumors About Iran’s New Supreme Leader

Islamic Republic Insiders Confirm the Rumors About Iran’s New Supreme Leader

Robert Spencer

The Islamic regime is still in power in Iran, and that’s bad news for the Iranian people and the world at large. There is, however, good news: It is not at all clear who is in charge of the Islamic Republic of Iran at this point, and that could well herald the regime’s coming demise.

The new supreme leader, 56-year-old nepo baby Mojtaba Khamenei, still hasn’t appeared in public since he ascended to his exalted position, and now what Reuters described Saturday as “three people close to his inner circle” are confirming what has been rumored for weeks: Khamenei was severely injured in the airstrike that killed his father. He is so badly hurt that he may never be able to assume the full duties of his position, and all lovers of freedom can hope that his condition is a metaphor for the condition of the Islamic Republic as a whole.

The three insiders, who asked to remain anonymous so as to avoid ending up in Tehran’s notorious and blood-spattered Evin Prison, said that Khamenei was “still recovering from severe facial and leg injuries.” It seems that Mojtaba’s “face was disfigured in the attack on the supreme leader's compound in central Tehran and he suffered a significant injury to one or both legs.”

These “insiders” hastened to assure the world that these serious injuries didn’t mean that Baby Supremo wasn’t performing his duties. The younger Khamenei, they insisted, was “nonetheless recovering from his wounds and remains mentally sharp.” Mojtaba is even “taking part in meetings with senior officials via audio conferencing and is engaged in decision-making on major issues including the war and negotiations ‌with Washington.”

Well, maybe. Reuters noted that Khamenei's “whereabouts, condition and ability to rule still largely remain a mystery to the public, with no photo, video or audio recording of him published since the air attack and his subsequent appointment as his father's replacement on March 8.”

Yet we have heard from him, after a manner of speaking. Fox News reported Saturday that “despite his weakened condition, Khamenei vowed to put up resistance in a defiant written statement Thursday.” In this written statement, he supposedly said: "Iran is not seeking war but will not forfeit its rights and considers all resistance fronts as a unified entity."

Terrific, but Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was quick to point out not just that the emperor had no clothes, but that he hadn’t even been seen at all: "It was a written statement,” Hegseth pointed out. “Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders. Why a written statement? I think you know why. His father, dead. He's scared, he's injured, he's on the run and he lacks legitimacy. It's a mess for them. Who's in charge? Iran may not even know."

Certainly the Iranian leadership doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to answer that question. Reuters said that Iran's mission to the United Nations “did not respond to Reuters questions about the extent of Khamenei's injuries or the reason he has not yet appeared in any images or recordings, and “there has been no official Iranian statement on the extent of Khamenei's injuries.”

The Islamic regime did, however, admit that Khamenei was hurt: “a newsreader on state television described him as a ‘janbaz,’ a term used for those badly wounded in war, after he was named supreme leader.” Some say he has lost a leg. Nevertheless, one of the insiders who spilled the beans to Reuters remained optimistic, saying that “images of the supreme leader could be expected to be released within one or two months and that he might even appear in public then, although all three sources stressed he would only emerge when his health and the security situation allowed.”

It’s hard to imagine that all of this could be an elaborate deception from this most deceptive of regimes, as the mullahs would like nothing better than to present a hale and hearty supreme leader to a watching world. On the other hand, Mojtaba Khamenei could be dead, and all this talk about his facial injuries and how he lost a leg is just an attempt to buy time for a regime that has lost a great deal of its leadership in the American and Israeli airstrikes.

The longsuffering Iranian people, meanwhile, are keeping their spirits up: “Khamenei's absence is widely discussed on Iranian social media and in messaging app groups, when the country's patchy internet allows, with conspiracy theories widespread about his condition and ⁠who is running the country. One popular meme circulating online is a picture of an empty chair under a spotlight with the slogan ‘Where is Mojtaba?’"

Where indeed. We can hope, for the sake of the Iranian people, that soon the definitive answer will emerge, and that wherever Mojtaba Khamenei turns out to be, and in whatever condition, he is not wielding power in Tehran or anywhere else.

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/04/11/islamic-republic-insiders-confirm-the-rumors-about-irans-new-supreme-leader-n4951697?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

If I Want Your Opinion, I'll Give It to You

If I Want Your Opinion, I'll Give It to You

Alan Joseph Bauer

If I Want Your Opinion, I'll Give It to You — *AP Photo/Michel Euler*

Why do they hate the Jewish state so much?

Candace Owens has come out to write that there will never be peace in the world as long as Israel exists. That’s quite an accusation. There seemed to be some lack of peace in the 1940s before Israel was established. Maybe that was just the Jews before they could get reorganized into a state structure and cause even more problems.

Let’s imagine that the Jews buy Mars from Elon Musk and we all move there to avoid further Iranian rockets. What happens then? As I have written before, just as there has never been a state of “Palestine” (and the British-run Mandate doesn’t count, just as Bella Hadid doesn’t know how to), there would be no Palestine in the future. Sure, whatever clown is at the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) would declare a state as soon as the last Jews grabbed a rocket and headed to Mars-Israel. But that ersatz state would last about 10 minutes. Jordan would dash to retake Jerusalem, while Syria would grab the north down to Haifa. The Egyptians would come barreling up through the south to take Tel Aviv and the coast. So, you’d have about a decade of the Palestinians and these three countries fighting over borders. Israel disappearing would not bring peace to the Levant.

But let’s look at other less peaceful places in the world. Russia-Ukraine doesn’t really have anything to do with Israel, though I am sure that Tucker Carlson and Candace can find some definitive link. Muslims taking over Europe, which may well lead to civil war between the dwindling local whites and the growing immigrant population, also has nothing to do with Israel. The violence seen from blacks and illegal immigrants in the U.S. that oftentimes leads to “senseless” deaths of American citizens also cannot find a direct link with Israel. So Owens’ premise that Israel vanishing would make the world a better place seems to have no legs. So why does she want to get rid of Israel? And isn’t that kind of genocidey to say such a thing—we need to get rid of the 10 million residents of Israel for there to be peace? Say that about some African country or Gaza and see how long before the fat UN head puts down his Subway sandwich and demands a censure of you from the Security Council.

The reason why so many hate Israel, Israelis, and Jews has nothing to do with the formation and existence of the Jewish state. Jews purchased large tracts of lands in the Ottoman-held Land of Israel. You can still find pictures of Tel Aviv as a mound of sand just north of Jaffa’s port. The supposedly “native” Palestinians are mostly comprised of descendants of Arabs who came to the Jewish-held areas as they were being brought back to life in cities, kibbutzim, and moshavim by Jews who had returned to the land of their forefathers. Israel won a defensive war against a much larger combined army of Arab states; many states are formed through war, like the USA. Modern Israel’s claim to the land is purchase and victory in war, not what’s written in the Torah, though the locations match up. I remember walking through King Hezekiah’s water tunnel, exactly as described in the Prophets. And I saw with my own two eyes the place where the plaque commemorating the meeting up of the two digging parties (like Promontory Point in Utah where in 1869 the two railroads met up to make cross-country rail travel possible) was before the Turks squirreled it off to Istanbul.

The reason that certain groups of Muslims and Christians have a problem with Israel and the Jews is that in their mind, their religions cannot allow for the continued existence of a Jewish state and possibly the Jewish people. Do you remember when Barack Obama went to Egypt to effectively apologize for the U.S. treatment of Muslims? Where did he go immediately after his pathetic speech? Israel is just a quick plane ride away. But he went to Dachau—because dead Jews are beloved and treasured. Dead Jews make no noise, cause no problems, start or finish no wars. There are many who love dead Jews, and the biggest traffic jam I have ever seen in Jerusalem was on the day when a lot of “world leaders” came to town to celebrate the renovated Yad Vashem Holocaust museum. How fully we can embrace and appreciate dead Jews. They look so good in those pictures and we don’t have to hear their kvetching. Live Jews are their problem, and the growth and success of the modern state of Israel seems to drive certain branches of Christianity and Islam up a tree. Obviously, most Christians seem very happy with their religion and feel no animosity toward Jews or Israel. The same may be said of some Muslims, like those running the UAE. But we have seen people like Owens, Carlson, and Carrie Prejean express a hatred of Israel which they don’t seem to direct toward any other people or country.

Doesn’t China enslaving Uighurs merit nightly condemnation? What about Russia trying to take Urkaine? How about Australia, New Zealand, and England significantly reducing free speech by punishing people for their online comments? Nothing. Only Israel gets the daily negative treatment. Those protesting for Hamas (rapists and murderers) got going for Hezbollah, then Iran and now with a rickety ceasefire, are going back to protesting for Hezbollah (murdered a lot of Americans). Anything that is anti-Israel is kosher and good, even if one supports the worst of the worst. Carlson claimed that the holy Book of Esther details the “genocide” of 75,000 Persians, when in reality, the evil Haman wanted to wipe the entire Jewish people off the face of the Earth. In being given permission by the reigning king to fight for their lives, yes, they killed 75,000 people throughout all of the kingdom. But don’t the Jews also get to enjoy the right of self-defense, whether in the days of Queen Esther or when taking apart Hamas and Hezbollah, both of which have declared their goal to wipe the Jews off the face of the Earth? For today’s Jew haters, Jews enjoy no right to self-defense.

As long as there are Jews, there will be Jew haters. The more pathetic of them will couch their hatred in anti-Israel or anti-Zionism rhetoric. “Me, I don’t hate Jews. I almost ran one over yesterday but swerved out of the way. But those Israelis. As long as they exist, there will be no peace in the world!” When Hitler’s Brownshirts did a lot of damage on Kristallnacht, the German insurance executives told Herman Goering that they were going to go broke covering the damaged Jewish businesses. No worries! Goering put a one billion mark tax on the Jewish community to pay for the mess that they had made. On Octobern 8, 2023, the day after the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and before the IDF began its response, signs in the U.S. accused Israel of genocide. See, as long as there are Jews, they are to be blamed.

We are fortunate that we have many honest friends in the non-Jewish world, none bigger and more sincere than Donald Trump. Losers like Carlson and Joe Rogan will be rich but worthless. Their combined intelligence could be put in a can of tuna with a lot of room left for the oil added prior to closing. The Jewish people have faced their ilk for generations. The bad guys all vanished from history. And the same will be true for Megyn Kelly and the present generation of Jew Haters R Us.

https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/04/12/if-i-want-your-opinion-ill-give-it-to-you-n2674244?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-Q9zCekZ6af&utm_term=&_nlid=Q9zCekZ6af&_nhids=ncNAxFYQu4lNls