It's not evangelicals, and it never was. While boomercons are the only group left with a (small) net positive support for Israel, this isn't for some esoteric religious reason based on a deliberate mistranslation of the Bible.
Their support comes from the fact that all of the media they take in paints Israel as a hapless victim that gets attacked by all of its neighbors for no reason. The only people they see saying otherwise are the people who also serve as apologists for every black murderer headed to the chair, so they (understandably) pay them no mind. It'll erode as their younger friends and relatives get more comfortable talking about why Israel is bad.
It's so obnoxious seeing redditlib influencers pretend we didn't just sit through four years of not a single Democrat mentioning Epstein. If there were a single non-nonce in the Biden administration, we'd surely have gotten some of those files by now.
The GOP establishment wants to hurt Trump, so they'll play along in the horse-trading here, but it's the entirety of Congress. Hopefully the good guys out there are able to pressure Trump into doing an about face on the issue. There's hope; after all, we aren't at war in Iran right now.
I don't think she's a scapegoat. She's clearly a bad egg, and if Trump/Vance wanted it covered up, they could've just not mentioned it. Trump clearly expected to be able to release the files and reap a huge PR reward. Someone's clearly told him he's not allowed to do that, and time will tell if he's able to navigate that effectively.
LLMs after the initial, unsupervised stage of training aren't some unknowable eldritch horror. They're an imperfect but useful enough model of the collective human subconscious.
Anyone who looks at that and is horrified, or angry, or feels the intense urge to control and circumscribe it, is a severe misanthrope and shouldn't be trusted with mankind's technological future.
In another timeline, a cyberpunk military staffed by ruthless corporate executives would've been incredibly kino.
Unfortunately, I have to assume they're putting in rotund, ambitionless box-checkers and seat-fillers.
Of course, even (or especially) "conservative" woman influencers are still feminists
Most of these women come from a casting couch - their pipeline isn't an ideological one; they didn't join YR after three semesters of debate club and model UN and then get jobs as congressional aides.
Essentially. He was also one of the no-votes on the BBB, though, for explicitly open borders reasons, and he endorsed mega-neocon DeSantis in the primary.
I like his AIPAC stance too, but he made a number of unforced errors that made it easy to create a wedge between him and Trump, and they've probably doomed his political career and his ability to fight against foreign lobbyists effectively. I'd love to talk to the guy and ask what on Earth he was thinking, there.
Massie made himself the heel in the recent BBB negotiations, openly complaining about border security funding. I don't like this either, but it almost feels like active self-sabotage on his part.
Even if Massie hated the bill, there is no way this Senate has any intention of passing it. He could've just said "Yeah, I support this bill and support closing the border" and let the slag from Alaska be the no vote instead, but instead his (very good) anti-AIPAC stance is now associated with open borders in the minds of the people watching him. I just can't see how any sane person makes a mistake like that.
Massie is a strange character. On one hand, the anti-AIPAC stuff makes him seem genuine. On the other, he endorsed DeSantis (the ultra-neoconservative nevertrumper choice) in 2024's primary, and he eagerly played the heel by opposing the BBB on open borders grounds (even if he hated the bill, he'd have to know that they weren't going to let it pass anyways, so he was burning political capital for nothing). Even the most fanatical true believer libertarian would have to understand at this point that he can get his personal utopia except for open borders or he can get a generic socialist hellhole because the people he let in want and vote for that outcome, so it's hard to assume good faith.
My conspiratorial side feels like his career is set up to try to create a wedge between noninterventionists and immigration restrictionists, and try to associate opposing AIPAC with wanting to let in infinity Guatemalans when, in reality, it's the AIPAC darlings that have always pushed amnesty behind the scenes. If he's sincere individually, then I'd guess that whoever convinced him DeSantis was a good guy is also behind his recent unforced errors. Everything would be so much better for him if he hadn't gone out of his way to burn bridges with the voters most supportive of his message.
On one hand, my expectation is that this is a repeat of the Syria strike. People get mad, neocons crow about it, but nothing major is done and Trump refuses to do a regime change war.
On the other, it's a travesty that Trump hasn't realized that appeasing the neocons gets you nothing. They hate him unconditionally, and every concession is just something they can use to separate him from his base and make him an easier target in the future. While Levin and his buddies certainly want more dead American kids in the Middle East for Israel, I think the fact that allowing U.S. involvement in an Iran regime change war would completely destroy Trump's legacy is at least half the reason they're salivating at this.
It's also up in the air what happens here since Netanyahu's political survival (and probably his freedom) depend on keeping Israel in a state of constant war, which means dragging the U.S. into a war with Iran seeing as they aren't winning the missile exchange and have no way to conclude it without real war. Either Netanyahu gets kicked out of office or the U.S. gets dragged into a war, at least in his mind.
These have been out of date for a while; 2014 was a political lifetime ago. Even young Republicans are net-negative on Israel nowadays.
IIRC America is (slightly) net-negative overall, carried by boomers. I'd imagine India is more pro-Israel, since that only cropped up in the last few years. Europe is probably more anti-Israel too, since young people are increasingly unwilling to fall for the things that worked on the boomers, like Israelis importing Muslims and then telling everyone who doesn't like Muslim immigration to support Israel.
America starts to signal that it's done putting up with Netanyahu, and suddenly the UK, France, and Canada find an excuse to start preemptively avoiding their inclusion in his next war. They're only "great powers" when America's coattails are in play.
More:
It's not sincere belief - they'd be living among the 'diverse' if they were believers. The people in power have a very old, very simple mindset - they are currently in power, there is a more capable group of people than them who they usurped, and they want to destroy that group before it can fix that problem.
It's amazing how everyone involved in this is so short-sighted. The nog could've gotten some random NGO job and sent far more money home (or used it for gold teeth, or whatever), and the subverters that put him in could've started by vetting incoming vibrants and trying to get them good PR, rather than shoveling rapists and murderers in as fast as their greedy little hands can.
'Unite' works for people acting in good faith. Normie conservatives, libertarians, and edgy kids are all fine. People like Ben Shapiro and Graham are saboteurs - their goal isn't to represent you, it's to manage your decline.
That's a pretty good litmus test. Unless someone has a skill or asset that makes them independently valuable (e.g. Trump having billions of dollars), getting the vax should completely discredit them as a political figure.
I'm not excusing it. I'm observing reality.
That's not remotely how it works. "Never fight back" is a suicidal strategy; if Trump had pushed back on the election fraud, it would have been a minor media narrative like "russiagate" instead of a successful regime change op.
Clearly, or they wouldn't have brought the issue back into the spotlight. The right course of action, which many people are taking, is to apply pressure by focusing on the bad actors trying to talk Trump into reneging on that campaign promise in the name of "stability".
Frustrating as it may be, this issue is an existential threat to the regime, so it isn't something that's going to be won without a fight. There's a fight now, that's an improvement, fight it smartly and things will get better.