US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee claims that anyone who opposes Trump’s war with Iran is being blinded by Satan. Like, the actual, literal devil character from the Bible.
During an incredibly sycophantic recent interview on The Anchor Podcast, Huckabee was asked by the host if he believed European opposition to the US war on Iran was the result of mental problems.
“I think it’s a spiritual issue,” Huckabee replied.
“I know it sounds a little funny for an ambassador to be talking like this, but look, I see this as spiritual darkness, spiritual blindness,” adding that “Satan has blinded the minds of those and has captured their thinking.”
This is the same raving lunatic who said Israel is like America’s “wife”, and who got in hot water earlier this year for saying it would be fine for the Israelis to forcibly annex the territory of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia in addition to the Palestinian Territories because the Bible says so.
It says so much about American politics that this nut job has been elevated to such a high position in the US government. The US empire is a giant armageddon cult with nukes.
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As children die in floods because of Israel’s humanitarian abuses in Gaza, Saturday Night Live is using this moment to push the spiritually exhausting fake narrative that anyone who humanizes Palestinians must secretly hate Jews.
“Abdul El-Sayed made history as the first Muslim elected to the senate — well, first OPENLY Muslim,” SNL’s Colin Jost quipped in front of a photo of Barack Obama during the show’s Weekend Update segment.
“El-Sayed hinted that he would like to see Chuck Schumer replaced as senate majority leader, but if I had just gone through the campaign he did, I don’t think my first move would be get rid of the Jewish guy,” Jost said.
El-Sayed was aggressively smeared as an antisemite throughout his senate race due to his support for Palestinian rights and his criticisms of the state of Israel.
Palestinians in Gaza are being flooded out of their tents while Saturday Night Live tells jokes that sound like they came out of the Babylon Bee to silence their supporters.
SNL is such disgusting empire smut. It’s not just the American news media that’s propaganda; it’s all mainstream entertainment.
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It’s crazy how the western world went “it’s bad that our governments are backing a genocide in Palestine” and a few loud Zionist Jews said “this discussion should obviously center us and our feelings at all times and in all ways” and the west went “ah yes true, good point.”
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I’ve never seen a logically sound argument that it’s anti-semitic to deny that Jews have an extra special connection to the land of Israel. It’s where their religion comes from, so in that sense they have the same connection that Christians have, but beyond that the only arguments to be made are claims based on nothing but blind religious faith.
You can tell me that Israel is mentioned all the time in Jewish prayers and Jewish scriptures etc, but that’s just telling me about Jewish religious beliefs. Telling me I’m an anti-semite if I don’t accept those religious beliefs as true is exactly the same as telling me I’m an anti-semite if I don’t stay in my house and pray on Saturday. Jews can believe whatever they want to believe, but it violates my freedom of religion to demand that *I* believe what they believe. That’s the same as telling me I’m Islamophobic if I don’t wear a hijab.
You can tell me that all Jews everywhere are descended from the biblical Israelites, but that’s (A) another blind-faith belief based on nothing but religious assertion and (B) irrelevant since all westerners can trace their heritage back to many different countries they aren’t allowed to lay claim to.
So there’s really no case to be made. And yet “antisemitism” watchdog groups throughout the western world assert that it is an antisemitic offense to deny that Jews have a unique connection to the land of Israel. They have no argument. They are wrong.
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I sometimes see hear debates in feminist circles about why men are so disproportionately violent and abusive compared to women and what makes them act that way, but I don’t really think it’s that much of a mystery.
Like so many other questions about the illnesses of our society, the answer is “because of war.” Society conditions men to be cruel because for thousands of years civilizations around the world have needed men to go kill people in wars for the powerful. They were ordered to do horrific things to men, women and children using blades, spears, arrows and bludgeoning weapons, so everything kind and gentle in them needed to be snuffed out in order for them to do these things. We still have the vestiges of the culture which shaped men in this way living on in our civilization today.
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Huckabee is a brainwashed brainwasher.
It's a pretty awful national establishment that gives anyone like him a position of influence or even just a soapbox.
As for men, violence and war--sure, Caitlin, you got that covered. But plenty of awful women are out there too who have done or promote awful things in positions of power. Pointing at you, Hillary, Albright, Condoleeza. Call it Stockholm Syndrome, if we must.
Huckabee is not concerned for a single second about murdering innocent people on a large scale. All he cares about is that we do not condemn the murderers or, worse, stop the ongoing carnage.
Who is evil?