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Posted on 09/18/2024 5.00 AM

JCM 9/15/2024 5:20:45 PM


Posted by: JCM

vxbush 9/18/2024 5:38:43 AM
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No clue if this is right or accurate, but it feels like it should be


Here’s what happened in Lebanon:

1. Mossad intercepted a purchase order from Hezbollah for several pagers. Pagers allow them to communicate without being tracked.

2. Mossad went to the factory and added a heat sensitive explosive to the pagers. When the pagers turned on, the batteries heated and activated the explosive.

3. The pagers got distributed to terrorists who had their balls exploded. It was funny. Yes, some big holes and a couple standbyers may have gotten burned. But this wasnt intended to kill anyone.

4. This was an intelligence operation. Everyone who got exploded (~1200) will seek medical help. Mossad will then collect their names and data and create a massive Hezbollah terrorist network map. This was smart and cool and targeted the bad guys.

Sometimes Israel can go a bit too far. This wasn’t it. It was targeted, smart and hilarious. They named it “Below the Belt” operation. I’m ok with it. No civilians were caught in any serious crossfire here. I’m not a blind defender of Israel But I’m not gonna cry to see islamic terrorists who hate the West and would kill me in a heartbeat having their balls exploded right beneath them. Once again, All things accounted for, The overall result was smart and great.
vxbush 9/18/2024 5:42:33 AM
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Twitchy has a great collection of replies to Tlaib's angst about the exploding pagers. 
vxbush 9/18/2024 5:50:01 AM
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Act Blue is the political laundering operation for Big Democrat Donors. Not proof, but there have been enough shady news about small donations from donors who, when asked, stated categorically that they never donated that I feel pretty confident in this assertion. James O'Keefe did some work on this a few years ago and tracked down a number of people who said they had donated in years when FEC records showed they donated in the past year. 
vxbush 9/18/2024 5:57:22 AM
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Excellent point in this paragraph from PJ Media

It appears the attempted assassin is a man named Ryan Wesley Routh. The UK's Daily Mail reached out to his son, Oran, for his thoughts. When they contacted him, Oran stated that he hadn't been aware of the assassination attempt until the moment they asked him for comment.

In other words, a foreign newspaper was able to identify and locate the shooter's son (who, for all anyone knew at the time, might have been involved) before our gazillion-dollar-budget FBI, Secret Service, or vaunted intelligence community did. And this was after they'd let another leftist get within shooting distance of the former president. And this was after it was a vigilant citizen and Florida police, not the feds, who identified and arrested the would-be assassin.

That alone is noteworthy, but notice the followup:

But upon hearing that his father was the suspected assassin, 35-year-old Oran stated that his dad "hates Trump, as every reasonable person does." That's how Oran wanted to present himself and his father to the world. No apology, no call for privacy for the family, no pleading to see how the investigation unfolds, not even the obligatory lip service against political violence. Just a crude statement of hate. 

So many Democrats feel completely justified to hate Trump, despite their "hate has no home here" yard signs. Read the link for more of Oren's justifications. 

vxbush 9/18/2024 6:06:29 AM
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The headline of this article is: Why Does President Trump Continue to Surround Himself with Morons, Nutjobs and Basket Cases?

My first thought when I read that was, "In this day and age when everyone feels completely justified hating Trump and his supporters, who but the crazy cakes folks are going to be willing to put themselves out and work for him?"

The article then goes on to note all of Trump's successes, but completely forgets about all the businesses he started that weren't successful. The LA Times put together the list of his real estate deals that flopped, but that's not the only way he has tried to make money. Like a lot of people, he gets paid to use his name on products. It's not that he's developed the products, but he is like an actor doing a paid endorsement in essence for having his name on the product. And some of them have flopped, spectacularly. I'm thinking of his steak business that crashed and burned. 

What Trump is a risk taker. He's willing to take risks and try to do things when most people run away from certain risks. This PJ Media article doesn't even consider that.

vxbush 9/18/2024 6:11:56 AM
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According to PJ Media (again--I'm noticing a theme here), the Washington Post is blaming Trump for the latest assassination attempt because he didn't listen to the Secret Service pointing out how he could get shot from the roads near the golf course. 

So I cannot help but be reminded of how the Secret Service has worked much harder to keep Obama safe, despite his many times golfing. 

The goal is the blame the victim:


vxbush 9/18/2024 6:22:04 AM
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In #1 vxbush said: No clue if this is right or accurate, but it feels like it should be. 

Reuters has posted an article claiming that Israel planted explosives inside the pagers and cited a senior Lebanese security source. I can't help but ask: if the source knew this, then why didn't the source prevent this beforehand? The article also increases the size of the attack to almost 3,000 people and claims two children have died. No names of children or pictures have been added to the story, so I'm dubious of that claim. (And why would a child have a pager, hmmm?)

vxbush 9/18/2024 6:23:33 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 7:

Oh--and at no point has anyone asked a question as to why Iran's ambassador to Lebanon had a Hezbollah pager except we weirdos on the right. 

vxbush 9/18/2024 6:26:53 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 8:

Gateway Pundit has pictures of one such pager in their article. 

vxbush 9/18/2024 6:27:17 AM
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Arizona admits that nearly 100,000 non-citizen 'voters' wrongly listed on voter rolls amid lawsuit.

Occasional Reader 9/18/2024 7:10:33 AM
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Laugh all you want, Zionists, but the mighty forces of Hizballah have just taken a COMMANDING lead in transgender inclusion among their senior ranks.
Occasional Reader 9/18/2024 7:13:19 AM
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Someone should publish a companion piece to Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza, titles Ball-less in Beirut.
JCM 9/18/2024 7:14:18 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 10:

2020 Arizona.

Biden - 1,672,143

Trump - 1,661,686

Difference? 10,457.





Occasional Reader 9/18/2024 7:26:12 AM
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In #7 vxbush said: I can't help but ask: if the source knew this, then why didn't the source prevent this beforehand?

'Israel's spy agency Mossad, which has a long history of sophisticated operations on foreign soil, planted explosives inside pagers imported by Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.


I don't read that as a claim that the Lebanese security source knew this beforehand


vxbush 9/18/2024 7:30:43 AM
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In #11 Occasional Reader said: Laugh all you want, Zionists, but the mighty forces of Hizballah have just taken a COMMANDING lead in transgender inclusion among their senior ranks.

HAH! 

*snort*

vxbush 9/18/2024 7:32:32 AM
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In #14 Occasional Reader said: I don't read that as a claim that the Lebanese security source knew this beforehand. 

I guess I can see that. But Israel isn't saying anything, so I wonder when and how the source knew this. 

Occasional Reader 9/18/2024 8:03:46 AM
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Oh, dear.  And now, Hizballah walkie-talkies are going "boom",  too. 
Occasional Reader 9/18/2024 8:07:41 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 17:


Tomorrow it'll be Hizballah fax machines going boom; by Sunday, it'll be their carrier pigeons.

vxbush 9/18/2024 8:24:06 AM
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In #18 Occasional Reader said: Tomorrow it'll be Hizballah fax machines going boom; by Sunday, it'll be their carrier pigeons.

And then their writing quills, and then.....

Yesterday. my husband was listening to a news report from Israel that had a much smaller number of casualties than Hezbollah gave. I want to say it was around 1500. But Reuters still has the 3000 count figure. I don't recall which news organization it was, though. 

Occasional Reader 9/18/2024 9:22:42 AM
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Breaking news: in order to prevent further, Zionist attacks, Hizballah operatives have all been ordered to stay home tomorrow, and console themselves by eating a delicious breakfast cereal that was recently ordered in mass for them.



vxbush 9/18/2024 10:05:22 AM
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In #20 Occasional Reader said: Hizballah operatives have all been ordered to stay home tomorrow, and console themselves by eating a delicious breakfast cereal that was recently ordered in mass for them.

An excellent choice. We need some more explosive cereal names, though....

buzzsawmonkey 9/18/2024 10:22:06 AM
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It occurs to me that those people who are in charge of our national security are actually far more concerned with their perpetual sinecurity.

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