WATCH: Son of Hamas Co-Founder Demolishes Islamist Terror Apologist So Thoroughly He Leaves Her Mouth Gaping in Shock

By Cullen Linebarger Apr. 4, 2024

A terror apologist stood no chance against Mosab Yousef, the son of a Hamas commander during an episode Tuesday on Dr. Phil.

Yousef, also known as the Green Prince, grew up in the West Bank and his father was a co-founder of the Hamas terror group. He served as a Palestinian ex-militant until 1997 when he defected to Israel.

He worked as an undercover agent for the Shin Bet until he immigrated to the United States in 2007.

Yousef leans on his experience to expertly point out there is no difference between Hamas and the Palestinians on the West Bank because they support Hamas and are giving them cover. When the activist accused him of promoting colonialism, he responded by pointing out she had no authority to represent Palestinians and that she was promoting the cause of Hamas.

She was further left stunned when he responded yes to her question regarding whether Hamas and Palestinians are the same, not listening to his point at the beginning.

Yousef then dropped the hammer on her when she refused to condemn the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

The destruction was so thorough her mouth was left gaping in shock.

Transcript:

YOUSEF: Now we have the problem of the pro-Palestine who are actually giving Hamas cover. They are participants in the crime. In fact, since October 7th, I personally don’t differentiate between Hamas and so-called Palestinians because, actually, there is no Palestinians.

There are tribes. There is the tribe of Hamas, and there is the tribe of Islamic Jihad, and there is the tribe of Khalil, and there is the tribe of Nablus, and each one has different interests, and all of them are conflicted. If they did not have Israel as the common enemy, they would kill each other. This is the reality of so-called Palestine.

ACTIVIST: Do you realize that’s common colonial rhetoric?

YOUSEF: You don’t know what Palestine is. In fact, the keffiyeh that you are wearing, this is just a statement to show that you really lack the authenticity to represent the case, and what’s so-called “the cause,” this is a human problem. The cause must die.

I think enough is enough, and now it is proven, you are helping Hamas to prove it to the world that Palestine depends on the destruction of the State of Israel, and this is not acceptable, and we are not going to agree to it.

And I tell you something, for the next 10 or 20 years, the Palestinian people will pay the bill that Hamas has cost today, and most likely today.

ACTIVIST: Do you think Hamas and Palestinians are the same? They’re one and the same?

YOUSEF: After October 7th, yes, there is no difference.

ACTIVIST: Really?

YOUSEF: The vast majority of the Palestinian people support Hamas.

ACTIVIST: Really?

YOUSEF: This is a fact, this is proven by statistics…You can’t not even condemn Hamas and say that was they did on October 7th was the act of a savage group. You don’t have that power.

ACTIVIST: Sir, I condemn the question.

YOUSEF: You only speak on the authority of Hamas propaganda

ACTIVIST: No, why do you say that? I’m speaking on the authority of Hamas propaganda? What I’m…

YOUSEF:Because if you were a decent human, you could say that the thousands killed on October 7th, that was a crime against humanity, it was a genocide!

The data also proves Yousef is dead on target when he says the vast majority of Palestinians support Hamas. Polling shows that 75% SUPPORT the Hamas Terror attack on Israel, and 76% have a favorable view of the Islamist Terror Group.

Peace will remain impossible in Israel until Hamas is gone and the Palestinians reform their attitudes toward the Jewish State.

https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1775870570589986874

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/watch-son-hamas-co-founder-demolishes-islamist-terror/

Biden Regime Introduces Regulations to Block Trump’s Plan to Expunge The Deep State

by Ben Kew Apr. 5, 2024

The Biden regime is already putting in place plansto stop President Donald Trump from firing members of the deep stateshould he take back the White House this November.

The Office of Personnel Management, the principal agency overseeing federal government employees, has introduced guidelines preventing career civil servants from being reassigned as political appointees who can be terminated more swiftly from their positions.

This move is a response to Trump’s ‘Schedule F’ directive in 2020, which sought to reclassify the role of tens of thousands of federal employees, essentially making it easier to fire them.

In a White House statement on Thursday, Biden said he was introducing “the final rule to protect nonpartisan civil servants” that would “protections for 2.2 million career civil servants from political interference, to guarantee that they can carry out their responsibilities in the best interest of the American people.”

He continued:

Day in and day out, career civil servants provide the expertise and continuity necessary for our democracy to function. They provide Americans with life-saving and life-changing services and put opportunity within reach for millions. That’s why since taking office, I have worked to strengthen, empower, and rebuild our career workforce.

[This is] a step toward combatting corruption and partisan interference to ensure civil servants are able to focus on the most important task at hand: delivering for the American people.

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman, Republican JamesComer, argued the ruling would allow federal employees to be unaccountable:

OPM’s final rule is yet another example of the Biden Administration’s efforts to insulate the federal workforce from accountability. The federal workforce exists to serve the American people, yet many Americans have a deep and growing distrust of the federal bureaucracy.

The Biden Administration’s rule will further undermine Americans’ confidence in their government since it allows poor performing federal workers and those who attempt to thwart the policies of a duly elected President to remain entrenched in the federal bureaucracy. We need more accountability for the unelected federal bureaucracy, not less.

Such a plan is ultimately designed to prevent Trump from firing the sort of deep state actors that successfully undermined his first term in office.

If Trump returns to the White House and wants to overturn the regulations, he would need to draft new rules through the Office of Personnel Management. This lengthy process would entail soliciting public feedback on any proposed alterations and also open him open to legal challenges.

Trump has repeatedly stated that he will seek to unravel the influence of the deep state over the course of his second term. “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,” Trump said back in 2022. “The deep state must and will be brought to heel.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/biden-regime-introduces-regulations-block-trumps-plan-expunge/

Link to OPM

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/04/opm-issues-final-rule-schedule-f-protections/395463/

>>20681808

OPM issues its final rule for Schedule F protections

The federal HR agency finalized its rule offering protections for career civil servants meant to safeguard against the potential reemergence of the Trump-era Schedule F policy.1/2

Carten CordellApril 4, 2024 05:00 AM

The Office of Personnel Management issued the final version of its regulation meant to safeguard the civil service from the return of a Trump-era policy that sought to convert most federal employees to at-will workers.

The new regulation — which will be published in the Federal Register for public inspection on Thursday— seeks to provide 2.2 million federal employees with defined protections that would make it difficult for a future administration to re-apply the Trump policy, known as Schedule F.

“We are confident that our final rule is the best reading of civil service statutes and is grounded in the civil service in the statutory language, congressional intent, legislative history and decades of applicable case law and practice,” said OPM Deputy Director Rob Shriver on a press call. “The rule is strong, it will help to ensure the rights employees earned as envisioned by Congress when it enacted the Civil Service Reform Act in 1978 and expanded and strengthened those protections through subsequent enactments.”

The regulation has its roots in an October 2020 executive order from the Trump administration that created a new job category for federal employees in policy-related positions, dubbed Schedule F, that would exempt them from civil service protections and make them easier to remove.

President Joe Biden rescinded the executive order in January 2021 before it could be fully implemented, but nine days before Biden took office, the Office of Management and Budget received OPM approval to move 68% of its workforce into Schedule F.

OPM officials began working on new regulations to make it difficult to reintroduce Schedule F policies in September 2023, receiving more than 4,000 public comments.

"Today, my administration is announcing protections for 2.2 million career civil servants from political interference, to guarantee that they can carry out their responsibilities in the best interest of the American people," said Biden, in a statement. Day in and day out, career civil servants provide the expertise and continuity necessary for our democracy to function. They provide Americans with life-saving and life-changing services and put opportunity within reach for millions. That’s why since taking office, I have worked to strengthen, empower and rebuild our career workforce. This rule is a step toward combatting corruption and partisan interference to ensure civil servants are able to focus on the most important task at hand: delivering for the American people."

The final rule states that an employee’s civil service protections cannot be taken away by an involuntary move from the competitive service to the excepted service; clarifies that the “employees in confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating positions” terminology used to define Schedule F employees means noncareer, political appointments and won’t be applied to career civil servants; and sets up an appeals process with the Merit Systems Protection Board for any employees involuntarily transferred from the competitive service to the excepted service and within the excepted service.

The move comes in an election year where Trump is seeking a return to the White House, and GOP allies, and rivals, have sought to revive the policy if elected.

“If another administration were to disagree with the policiesthat are reflected in this regulation, first,they would have to follow that full rulemaking process themselves,” said a senior administration official when asked about potential attempts to revive Schedule F. “They would have to justify how a different rule would ensure that decisions to hire and fire were based on how well federal employees served the American people, as is required by the merit system principles that are enshrined in the law, rather than on their political allegiance.”…

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/04/opm-issues-final-rule-schedule-f-protections/395463/

>>20681821

2/2OPM (Kash helped with forming this policy, I’m sure him and others have a way to challenge this)

Biden administration officials said that the regulation is the strongest protection the White House can provide to safeguard against Schedule F, though there have been similar GOP efforts on Capitol Hill last year to codify elements of the policy.

A senior administration official said the White House would welcome legislation to further strengthen civil service protections, but that the new regulation was “firmly in line” with existing policies in the current law.

The final rule was largely well-received among stakeholders and groups advocating for good governance.

“Today’s final rule is a necessary step to prevent partisan abuse of the civil service rules and a return to the failures and corruption of the spoils system of the 1800s, said Max Stier, president and CEO of The Partnership for Public Service, in a statement. "Those rules do, however, need to be updated. Agencies and the administration should continue to explore ways to make our federal government more responsive, transparent and accountable to the American people. 

“Streamlining processes for hiring, performance management and accountability, and preparing managers to support the workforce through the talent lifecycle are just some of the ways the federal government can better serve while adhering to merit principles," he added. "The Partnership stands ready to work with Congress, agencies, administrations of both parties and anyone interested in taking on these important tasks.”  

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and House Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Ranking Member Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., both applauded the rule in a statement.

"The president’s job under the Constitution is to take care that all the laws of the people are ‘faithfully executed,’not demolished at the whim of a despot, Raskin said. "A nonpartisan civil service is essential to governmental effectiveness and fairness because who you vote for should never affect your rightful access to government benefits and services. This regulation will work to protect a civil service that implements the laws of the people and protects the rights and benefits of the people against partisan manipulation."

Mfume said he was pleased the final regulation was adopted, "Civil servants are the nucleus of our federal workforce and provide the continuity needed to keep our government operating efficiently," he said. "I applaud the Office of Personnel Management for working with my congressional colleagues and me on this rule, because hardworking public servants deserve to be protected from the volatility of electoral politics."

The regulation is expected to go into effect on May 9.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/04/opm-issues-final-rule-schedule-f-protections/395463/

Jan. 6 Law Student Beats Charges at Rigged Trial – Wins 5 of 9 Charges – Will Prepare for Appeal 1/2

by Jim Hoft Apr. 5, 2024

As the verdicts for J6 defendants continue to come down from the benches of these Kangaroo District Courts in DC, there is one defendant who is choosing to see all of his verdicts as a win and is looking forward to his appeal.

James Grant was found guilty of 5 out of the 9 counts charged against him for his attendance on January 6th, 2021. Grant’s verdict came down on Friday, February 2nd, 2024, while he and his co-defendants Ryan Samsel, Paul Johnson, Stephen Randolph and Jason Blythe sat in front of Judge Jia Cobb. The courtroom was filled with attorneys, US Marshals, friends, family, and journalists from both sides. The judge was quick and to the point while giving her verdicts for the 5 defendants with the entire proceedings not taking more than an hour. Judge Cobb was lenient on the 3 defendants, not yet remanded to jail, by allowing them to stay released until she reviews briefs from both sides on why or why not they should be detained before sentencing. Her decision on the briefs for Johnson, Randolph, and Blythe should be heard soon, and her sentencing of the five defendants will be June 13th, 2024.

Grant turned to Jenn Baker of CondemnedUSA.com to pass along the letter below to The Gateway Pundit readers.

Hello America,

My name is James Grant. I should be starting my third year of law school right now, but instead I’m starting my third year in jail for the Capitol Riot.

I just went to trial in Washington D.C. for charges stemming from January 6th. I got my verdict back on Friday, and in my opinion, I won. Here’s why:

1) I beat 4 of 9 charges, all of which were felonies.

2) I was found not guilty of 111(b) — or Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, my biggest charge.

The government was insistent that I plead guilty to this assault. The only plea offer I received required that I accept full responsibility for Sergeant Caroline Edward’s injuries — which I was completely exonerated of at trial. I wanted to take responsibility for my role in January 6th, so I pled guilty to 2 misdemeanors before trial. However, I could not morally plead guilty to something that I know in my heart I didn’t do. As much as I dreaded a trial against the federal government, I knew I would always live to regret pleading guilty to a crime I didn’t commit. I’m sure I don’t have to mention that most January 6th defendants who go to trial have not had much success. So, I definitely think this was a win.

3) The only 111(b) that I was found guilty of — respectfully speaking, should be overturned on appeal.

The police officer in this case was specifically asked if a weapon was used in this incident, and she responded that no weapon was used — let alone a deadly weapon. I’m not sure why I was convicted of this charge, but I am hopeful that I can receive relief from an appeal.

4) I was found not guilty of 3 other serious felonies, including Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon.

The court found that prior knowledge of Vice President Pence being in the building was a necessary element in these offenses, and that was not proven. Some of these charges carried up to 10 years in prison.

5) I was convicted of the infamous 1512: Obstruction of an Official Proceeding.

I presumably received this charge for entering the Capitol building. However, the Supreme Court is set to hear this case and will rule on it before June ends. If the high court rules that the statute requires more than entry into the building, this charge should also be dismissed. It’s also worth noting that during January 6th, I helped stop a rioter from breaking a window on the Capitol building. However, I was unable to find footage of this before trial. Video evidence of this could help acquit me of the 1512 charge.

6) I could potentially beat more charges after appeal and ruling by the Supreme Court.

If the Supreme Court rules favorably on the Obstruction (1512), and my appeal on the 111(b) Assault is granted, I could potentially beat 6 of 9 counts — leaving Civil Disorder as one of the few remaining counts. So while things went fairly well at trial, this case is far from over…

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/jan-6-law-student-beats-charges-rigged-trial/

>>20681836

2/2(Pray for all innocent J6ers)

Even though I may not agree with all of the decisions, I want to extend my thanks to the court for its professionalism in handling this case. I am grateful to Judge Cobb for her thorough deliberation — as well as her clerk and all courtroom personnel. I would also be remiss if I did not thank my attorney, Robert Feitel, for his excellent and exhaustive representation. To be honest, after years of status hearings, ex-parte hearings, and trial — it will almost feel odd not see these people regularly.

The January 6th ordeal has understandably been a nightmare for me and those I love. As I stated earlier, I lost my law school scholarship (or more accurately, never showed up for classes because I was in federal custody). I was unable to even inform my school that I would be unable to attend.I’ve had multiple bank accounts closed without my permission. I have been internationally slandered by the media — having my reputation destroyed by hit-piece news articles that never even reached out for comment.Funds have been raised on my behalf and stolen from me.I am writing this letter while still in federal custody at the D.C. Jail. I would like to thank Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit, Treniss Evans and Jenn Baker from CondemnedUSA and especially, YOU the readers and supporters of TGP. I will be preparing for my appeal, and I need your help! I humbly request your support through donations and/or sharing this story to raise awareness, if possible.

Your help at this time means everything. God Bless you all.

James Grant

Political Prisoner #386739

DC-CDF/ CTF “The Gulag”

Www.GiveSendGo.com/FreeJames

The Gateway Pundit previously wrote about James Grant – another persecuted American.

In the wake of his verdict, Grant is keeping a positive attitude and is ready to appeal his case. However, as the adrenaline and hopium fades away, he will still be in the confines of the DC Gulag awaiting his sentencing. He will continue to be a political hostage of this weaponized Department of Justice and the Biden Regime. Grant will continue to wake up every day behind bars. He has lost the future he has dreamed of because he stood up for OUR future. He has been lied about in the MSM, has had money raised for him only to be stolen by the person who raised the funds, and like a lot of J6ers has lost support of friends and family.

It’s very important that we do not mistake a positive disposition with the needs or internal pain of someone. Grant is someone who always has that positive outlook and a love of fun to get him through the real struggles endured every day while he still wears an orange jumpsuit and hears the echo of the cell doors closing behind him.

To help James please go to Www.GiveSendGo.com/FreeJames

Jenn Baker

CondemnedUSA

J6 Advocate/ Journalist/ Podcaster

Rumble- https://rumble.com/c/JennBaker

@JennBakerMJB – X / Gettr/ Truth/ Telegram

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/jan-6-law-student-beats-charges-rigged-trial/

Concerns raised over universities signing over students’ private FERPA data to voter data companies

JAMES SAMUEL - DREXEL UNIVERSITY

APRIL 3, 2024

A RELATIVELY NEW REPORT OUTLINES HOW UNIVERSITIES NATIONWIDE HAVE SIGNED OVER STUDENTS’ PRIVATE FERPA DATA TO A THIRD-PARTY VENDOR THAT REVIEWS THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO HELP STUDY COLLEGE STUDENTS’ VOTING TRENDS.

The nine-page report describes how a national voting study run out of Tufts’ Institute for Democracy in Higher Educationgets university administrators from across the country to agree to release students’ Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, where its kept, to a voter data company.

“This is an extraordinary violation of student privacy and is not consistent with FERPA,” said Heather Honey, an investigator with Verity Vote, in a recent interview with The College Fix.

Verity Vote is an organization that works to ensure government transparency, including election integrity issues, she said, and published its findings on the student voting issue in July 2023.

At issue isTufts’ institute’s National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, launched during the Obamaadministration in response to a “call to action,” the report states.

But as recently as February, the U.S. Department of Education encouraged-colleges and universities to take part in the study to “use their own campus reports to see where there are gaps among their students in registering, and all schools can use the national dataset to determine target populations.”

The study is “a service to colleges and universities interested in learning their students’ aggregate voter registration and turnout rates in national elections since 2012,” as described on its website.

“NSLVE data are the result of matching student enrollment records with public voting files,” the FAQ section states.More than 1,200 campuses participate in the study.

For a university to participate, its leaders sign a two-page contract that statesadministrators are allowing the National Student Clearinghouse to release their students’ FERPA data to a “third party vendor,” a company not named in the contract, according to the 2022-2033 reauthorization form.

“The third party vendor of choice from inception until recently hasbeen Catalist, the Democrat’s exclusive voter data provider. Tufts maintains a relationship with Catalist but also has an agreement with L2 Political for analysis of the NSC data,” the report states.

The report alleges that campus leaders “may have been duped into authorizing disclosure of highly sensitive private student data to a partisan private corporation that works exclusively with Democrats and progressives under the guise of a dubious ‘study exception’ to FERPA’s prohibitions against sharing of the data.”

Tufts University spokesman Peter Collins told The College Fix via email on Tuesday the institute switched to L2 in 2018.

The report also argues the release of thedata does not fall under FERPA’s exceptions, which must fall under one of three categories: to “develop, validate, or administer predictive tests”; “administer student aid programs”; or “improve instruction.”==

The two-page contract that the universities sign states the data is needed to improve instruction:

“NSLVE offers colleges and universities an opportunity to measure the voting and registration rates of their students, to use such information to study the effectiveness and improve the instruction of its educational programs, and to increase student civic learning and engagement in democracy. IDHE shall also use the Institution’s de-identified enrollment data for publishing aggregate reports regarding student civic learning and engagement in democracy which do not identify Institution.”..

https://www.thecollegefix.com/concerns-raised-over-universities-signing-over-students-private-ferpa-data-to-voter-data-companies/

>>20681860

2/2(Obama is behind every plan to destroy “higher learning” and pushing radicals out of college, to destroy the democracy they reportedly love and adore)

However, the Verity Vote report argues that “[m]easuring the success of voter registration or[Get Out The Vote] activities does not logically fit into any of the study categories … of FERPA.”

“Voter registration is not a requirement

• for student aid,

• it does not improve academic instruction

• and it does not assist with predictive tests.”

Asked about the Verity Vote argument, Collins said the study does improve academic instruction and thus falls under the exception.

“NSLVE data and reports are used as a way of measuring something that is akey part of higher education’s role in the U.S. – educating for democracy,” he said. “NSLVE serves as a proxy measure for student political learning, and it is one of the only ways to do so.”

He cited campus campaigns that educate for democracy year-round, “not just during an election season, and using elections as that ‘teachable moment’ for students as responsible citizens in a democracy.”

“We do other research on learning conditions for civic learning. We help campuses understand and use their NSLVE reports, but we always stress the educational value of this information,” Collins said.

While the contract states the data will be deleted within one year, Verity Vote argues there is “no mechanism to verify deletion of the NSC data from the vendor’s database.”

The report also flags the fact that the voter data company, which for years was the self-described “progressive” Catalist before L2, essentially gains access to what is known in voting lingo as EBUs, or eligible but unregistered voters. In the case of college students, studies show that’s primarily Democratic voters.

The voter data companies take the personal information of the students and turn it into de-identified aggregated student voting data, which is then used in the Tufts study and given to universities, ostensibly to help them improve education.

“Tufts reports that the student files are de-identified by removing names, identification numbers and month and day of birth. However, this is superficial de-identification, the collection of attributes retained in the data can be used to identify individuals just as the cookies on your browser can be used to identify you,” the report states.

It points to an Office of the Director of National Intelligence report, declassified in June 2023, that “reveals how de-identified data can easily be re-identified with minimal attributes.”

Collins told The Fix the university and the institute do not receive students’ personal identification data, that the information is removed by L2.

Tufts’ relationship with the voter data companies is “simply to access a voter file, which is already a matter of public record,” he said.

“We do not ask for or receive any information, for example, such as phone records. Nothing about a public voter file is partisan. We do not receive any data on party affiliation.”

https://www.thecollegefix.com/concerns-raised-over-universities-signing-over-students-private-ferpa-data-to-voter-data-companies/

5 Apr, 2024 05:26

Pro-Ukraine images found on cellphones of Moscow terror attacks suspects – investigators

New evidence suggests a possible link between the conflict and the Crocus City Hall massacre, officials have said

Images extracted from the cell phones of the terrorists who killed more than 140 people at a concert hall outside Moscow point to a possible link to the ongoing Ukraine conflict, investigators said on Friday.

On March 22, four Tajik nationals opened fire inside the packed Crocus City Hall music venue and then set the building on fire. A total of 145 people were killed and more than 500 were injured in the attack.

The suspected assailants were detained the next day while trying to flee to Ukraine by car, according to the authorities. More suspects were arrested in the following days, most of them of Tajik origin.

The jihadist group Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) has claimed responsibility for the attack. The head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, however, suggested that the US, UK, and Ukraine may also be linked to the attack, possibly using Islamists as proxies. Ukraine and its Western backers have denied any involvement.

In an update on the case,Russia’s Investigative Committee (IC) said that images related to the Ukraine conflict were found on the cell phone of one of the terrorists. They include photos of Ukrainian soldiers and a photo of a man wrapped in the Ukrainian flag standing in front of a destroyed building. An image of a soldier standing on a tank and holding the Ukrainian flag contains the caption “The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

“This data may suggest a connection between the terrorist attack and the [Ukraine] special military operation,” IC spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said. She added that investigators are checking whether “Ukrainian security services and international Islamist terrorist groups” were involved in the planning and funding of the concert hall massacre.

Petrenko added that, on the morning of February 24, 2024, one of the suspects sent “his handler” photos of the entrances to the Crocus City Hall and of nearby roads. She noted that the date coincides with the start of Russia’s operation in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022.

The IC previously said that it had found evidence of suspects receiving money and cryptocurrency from Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/russia/595446-new-evidence-moscow-concert-massacre/

https://rumble.com/embed/v4kzz4e/?pub=4

>>20681982

Not at all, its been their playbook for years, first Ukraine denies it, then they come months later, yeah that was us! They can’t help themselves, they have to brag. And Budanov in charge of IC there said last week they have many more plans.

Even having the thought Ukraine didn’t do it, is inaccurate due to their admittance after the fact.

5 Apr, 2024 13:14

Ex-NATO deputy chief warns against Ukrainian membership

The country will not necessarily make the bloc stronger and may cause a global war, Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo has said

NATO has significantly benefited from the Ukraine conflict, but allowing the country to join is not advisable, according to Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, former deputy secretary general of the the US-led military bloc.

Moscow has cited NATO’s unchecked expansion in Europe as one of the key points of contention with the US and its allies. Its increased presence in Ukraine since a 2014 coup in the country is among the causes of the present hostilities, according to Russian officials.Kiev claims it is protecting Europe from Russia and therefore deserves a place in the bloc.

The Italian diplomat, who served in NATO from 2001 to 2007, and briefly acted as its head during the transition from Secretary General George Robertson to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said he did not believe that allowing Ukraine to join was “the best response” under the circumstances.

”There is no need at all to have Ukraine as a NATO member. I’m not sure that it will support the strength of the alliance – and also because it is controversial,” he told the British tabloid Sun.

If Ukraine becomes a NATO member, then immediately you change the character of the war – it will be a war of Russia against NATO countries.

Moscow perceives the Ukraine conflict as part of a US-led proxy war against Russia. NATO is a geopolitical tool, according to Russian officials, which Washington uses to enforce its goals on European members. The Americans intend to continue hostilities “to the last Ukrainian,” the Kremlin has claimed.

Minuto-Rizzo asserted that the conflict has made NATO stronger by invigorating it and pushing two previously neutral Western nations – Finland and Sweden – into its ranks. Collectively, the 32 present members have far more weapons, soldiers and funding than Russia does, he pointed out, so there is no threat of Moscow initiating a direct conflict.

”I can’t understand why Russia would invade Romania or Poland for instance,” he said. Kiev and its backers have maintained that by arming Ukraine, the West is defending itself from Russian aggression.

But Russia could “upgrade” hostilities, for example, in response to a deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine, potentially resulting in a world war, Minuto-Rizzo added.

Regarding President Vladimir Putin, the former official characterized him as moderate and willing to compromise, in contrast to some other Russian politicians. In 2021, Moscow offered the West a diplomatic way to defuse tension over NATO expansion and Ukraine, but the appeal was rejected by Washington.

(Some NATO members want a terrorist group to do their dirty work for them. Ukraine will not be allowed in NATO, many states say its impossible due to its ongoing corruption.)

https://www.rt.com/news/595474-nato-ukraine-minuto-rizzo/

4 Apr, 2024 23:29

‘Take no NATO prisoners’ – Medvedev

All Western troops in Ukraine will be treated as enemies, the former Russian president has said

Bounties should be offered for the killing of NATO soldiers if they are deployed to Ukraine to fight against Russian troops, former President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.

In a post on social media, Medvedev lashed out at Kiev’s Western backers, arguing that they are “taking the world for fools” if they believe that sending foreign forces to Ukraine would not lead to a dangerous escalation. If NATO soldiers do end up in Ukraine, they will not be limited to non-combat roles, he claimed.

“They will become part of the regular forces that are fighting against us. That is why they will have to be treated only as the enemy,”Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote. “We should take no prisoners! The highest rewards must be given out for every killed NATO soldier.”

Russian businessmen and activists have previously set bounties for the destruction of Western-made tanks in Ukraine.

The idea of having NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine has been floated by French President Emmanuel Macron, who said that “all options are possible.” He stressed, however, that Paris has no such plans at the moment.

During a rare phone conversation between defense chiefs on Wednesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu warned his French counterpart, Sebastien Lecornu, that sending French troops to Ukraine would have disastrous consequences for Paris.

Moscow has warned that deploying NATO troops to Ukraine would put the bloc on the brink of a full-blown conflict with Russia. President Vladimir Putin warned earlier that it would be “one step shy of a full-scale World War III.”

(Medvedev says the things Putin cannot.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/595440-no-nato-soldier-prisoners-medvedev/

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/04/melania-trump-is-back-set-to-hold-event-for-log-cabin-republicans-00150717

MAR. 31, 2024

Is Trump Really Making Big Gains With Black and Latino Voters? (Panic Showing) 1/2

Among the many sources of fear and panic for Democrats during this fateful election year have been claims that key elements of the Democratic Party base, particularly young voters and people of color, are abandoning Joe Biden for, believe it or not, Donald Trump. The reported young voter trend away from Biden is probably more understandable given how this group has been impacted by inflation-related reductions in real wages, high interest rates, unaffordable housing costs, and the failure to forgive student loans (though that was the Court’s doing, not Biden’s). Younger voters also tend disproportionately to wind up being nonvoters, and in their case the big trend is less toward Trump than toward non-major-party candidates (like RFK Jr.).

But among non-white voters, the polls keep showing shocking gains by Trumpat Biden’s expense, as Ron Brownstein observes at CNN:

Both national and battleground state public polls consistently show Trump, at this point, drawing more support from Black and Hispanic voters than any Republican nominee since at least 1960. When The New York Times/Siena College, NBC News, Wall Street Journal and CBS News/YouGov all released national polls a few days apart earlier this month, each of them found Trump winning from 20% to 28% of Black voters and 45% to 48% of Hispanic voters. That’s far more than the 12% of Black, and 32% of Hispanic, voters he won in 2020, according to the Edison Research exit polls conducted for a consortium of news organizations including CNN. (The Pew Validated Voters study found Trump winning slightly fewer Black, and slightly more Hispanic, voters in the 2020 election.) A CNBC poll released Tuesday showed Biden drawing just 57% of all voters of color, compared to 71% in the 2020 exit poll.

But Trump’s apparent strength among Black voters is harder to rationalize — and perhaps even to believe. As Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz explains at Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, some skepticism toward the polls is in order, based on his comparison of six major national polls with recent election results:

On average, Donald Trump received 18% of the vote from Black voters who expressed a preference for either Trump or Biden in the six national polls. If that result were to hold up in November, it would represent by far the highest level of Black support for a Republican presidential candidate in the past 60 years … No GOP candidate since Richard Nixon in 1960 has won more than 13% of the Black vote with only Nixon in 1972 and George W. Bush in 2004 topping 10%. The average level of Black support for Republican presidential candidates in the 10 elections between 1984 and 2020 was just under 6%.

So was there some big pro-GOP trend among Black voters in the 2022 midterms that helps explain what’s happening now? Abramowitz doesn’t find one:

Leaving aside the Ohio gubernatorial race in which a very popular Republican incumbent won a landslide victory over a weak, underfunded Democratic challenger, the average level of support for Republican candidates among Black voters in 2022 was about 10%. This is very similar to the average level of support for GOP House, Senate, and gubernatorial candidates among Black voters over the past few decades.

Abramowitz suggests some ofthe eye-popping numberswe’ve seen this year for Trump among Black votersmay represent an illusion based on limited samplesthat can and should be addressed by surveys oversampling Black voters to get a more accurate look at what’s happening.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-polls-black-latino-voters.html

>>20682326

2/2

But as Brownstein argues, whatever level of support Trump has among Black or Latino voters could be driven down with some targeted messaging from the Biden campaign and the Democratic Party. Trump is providing the ammunition for this kind of counterattack with his own racially and ethnically offensive rhetoric, which he’s ladling out in bigger servings than he did even in 2016:

Even as polls show Trump posting unprecedented Republican numbers among Hispanics,he is promising the largest deportation drive of undocumented migrantsin American history, including the creation of detention camps and the use of the National Guard to participate in mass round ups; military action against Mexico, including a naval blockade, to combat drug cartels; the end of birthright citizenship; and the possible reinstitution of his policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border.

Activists working in the community say thatvery few Hispanic voters knowthat Trump is proposing any of this …

The situation with Black voters is similar. Even as Trump is posting historic numbers among Blacks, he has proposed, as a condition of receiving federal funds, toprohibit school districts from discussing “critical race theory” in classrooms, and to require local police departments to implement the “stop and frisk” tactics that civil rights leaders say unfairly target young Black men. (Yes I’m sure minorities will be very, very concerned if CRT is removed! KEK)

In the end, a vote is a vote, and both Abramowitz and Brownstein note that any losses Biden is suffering among non-white voters are being at least partially offset by his continuing strength amongwhite voters, particularly the very-likely-to-vote college-educated group.

If, as Republicans hope, non-white voters (including Asian Americans, a smaller but growing group that is often not polled at all) turn out to be the crucial swing vote in 2024, it’s far from clear they will tilt toward the candidate whose vision of a restored American Greatness is soconsistently exciting to white supremacists.

(Not once do the blue idiots say anything about the Economy is the biggest problem America has.)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-polls-black-latino-voters.html

>>20682326

The democrats are freaking that the black slaves are leaving the plantation! Its called Freedom you idiots!

>>20682345

The panic is delicious though

>>20682289

She is old hat. Hell is waiting for her

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Withdraws Political Support for Joe Biden in 2024, Says He Regrets Endorsing Biden in 2020(VIDEO)

By Jim Hᴏft Apr. 5, 2024 9:00 am

In a recent interview with FOX News’ Will Cain, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, once an avid supporter of Joe Biden, has expressed regret over his 2020 endorsement and stated he will not be endorsing Biden for the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

Johnson, along with everyone who supported Joe Biden, is complicit in the destruction of the US today.

Johnson has been a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump and was seen as part of the broader Hollywood contingent that supported Democratic candidates.

In 2020, Johnson posted a video on Instagram criticizing then-President Donald Trump‘s response to the protests after George Floyd’s death.

He demanded “change” in America and expressed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, which was responsible for the looting and destruction of cities.

“Our country is crippled and on its knees, begging to be heard and pleading for change. Where is our compassionate leader? The leader who unifies and inspires our country at our most painful time when we need it the most. The leader who steps up and takes full accountability for our country and embraces every color in it. The leader who picks our country up off its knees and says you have my word – we got this – and together, change will happen. Where are you? Because we’re all here. Maybe one day that galvanizing leader will emerge. Either way, the process to change has already begun,” Johnson wrote in his caption.

Fast forward to 2024, and The Rock is now taking a step back from his previous political stance.

In his interview, Johnson shared his current views on the state of the nation, “Am I happy with the state of America right now? Well, that answer is no. Do I believe we’re going to get better? I believe in that. I’m an optimistic guy, and I believe we can get better.”

Reflecting on his previous endorsement, Johnson said, “The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was what I thought was the best decision for me at that time.”However, he continued, “Am I going to do that again this year? That answer’s no.”

(https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1776230142404162011

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/dwayne-rock-johnson-withdraws-political-support-joe-biden/

(I bet the Diddy raid freaked him out)