Long-time GOP operative Justin Evans said Michelle Obama would be the Democrat candidate most feared by Republicans as former President Donald Trump's opponent in the November presidential election, the Daily Mail reported.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday resulted in dozens of congressional staffers walking out of their offices in protest.

WASHINGTON, DC—The once-reviled act of undermining democratic institutions, has been given a stunning facelift. It appears that insurrection, historically frowned upon in the American political landscape, has now been officially declared as “in” – all thanks to Rashida Tlaib. It all began on a sunny afternoon when Rashida Tlaib, known for her fiery rhetoric and unwavering determination, decided that it was her turn to spearhead an insurrection. But there was a crucial difference this time; it was led by a Democrat. In this thrilling era of political transformation, insurrection has been given a fresh coat of paint and a fancy new name: “protest with gusto.” And when Tlaib is involved, it’s the most fashionable form of protest one can partake in. Fashion-Forward Revolutionary Wear: No longer do insurrectionists don combat boots and battle gear. The trendiest insurrectionists sport the latest in vegan leather and ethically-sourced hemp clothing, ensuring they stay comfortably chic during their rebellious acts. The Selfie Revolution: Forget about causing chaos; the new insurrectionists are all about capturing the perfect selfie during their endeavors. Hashtags such as #Insurrectionista and #RevolutionRunway are dominating social media. Because why change the system if you can’t look fabulous while doing it? Protest Cafés: Tlaib and her fellow insurrectionists prefer plotting their strategies in quaint, locally-sourced cafes with soy lattes in hand. They discuss the subversion of the political establishment over artisanal avocado toast and fair-trade coffee. Vegan Tear Gas: Traditional tear gas is a no-go. The contemporary insurrectionist prefers cruelty-free alternatives, ensuring their dissent is in line with their strong stance on animal rights. Inclusive Uprisings: Unlike the exclusive insurrections of old, this new wave is all about inclusion. Rashida Tlaib’s insurrection welcomes people from all walks of life, regardless of dietary preferences, pronouns, or political ideologies. It appears that insurrection has been transformed into a fashion statement, championed by a progressive leader. The message is clear: Insurrection isn’t just a tool of the masses anymore; it’s now a symbol of social and political chicness. The question remains, however, if this new trend of insurrection is here to stay or if it’s just a fleeting fad like bell-bottoms or pet rocks. Only time will reveal whether this stylish spin on insurrection will revolutionize political engagement or eventually fizzle out. Originally published October 18, 2023. The post BREAKING: Insurrection is okay again appeared first on Genesius Times.

LEE'S SUMMIT, MO — A local church faced a challenging task in filling an open position on the staff after its youth pastor announced his retirement from ministry to become a professional foosball player.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden carved a few minutes out of his completely wide-open schedule Wednesday to address the nation about his decision to step away from the presidential race, citing his desire to spend more time at home sniffing friends and family.

July 22 marked what would have been the 84th heavenly birthday of Jeopardy! icon Alex Trebek. In honor of the occasion and in tribute to his decades-long legacy in the world of television, Trebek has been honored with his very own postage stamp by USPS. Trebek hosted Jeopardy! for 37 seasons, from its 1984 revival and overhaul until his death in 2020. Trebek was 80 years old when he died after a strenuous battle with pancreatic cancer. For his work on the game show, Trebek has eight times over won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host. Here is how else his remarkable career is being honored. Alex Trebek is the inspiration behind a new postage stamp released on his 84th heavenly birthday Trebek’s decades-long history with television is in the spotlight once again / Steve Crise. ©ABC / Courtesy Everett Collection On July 22, the United States Postal Service released a new Forever postage stamp that celebrates all things Alex Trebek. The sheet of stamps features the signature blue Jeopardy! background framing the game show’s clues. In identical font as in the show, each stamp has clues worded in the same way. RELATED: ‘Jeopardy!’ Honors Alex Trebek In This Very Special And Nostalgic Way They are divided into categories: Entertainment, Game Show HOsts, Famous Alexes, and Forever Stamps. All of them bare the same question: “This naturalized U.S. citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons.” The answer can be found in font that looks similar to handwriting a contestant might use to submit their answer: Who is Alex Trebek? Forever stamped across history 84 years ago, a legend was born. We are thrilled to celebrate the dedication of the @USPS's Forever stamp honoring Alex Trebek today pic.twitter.com/mqTBWHAb6v — Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) July 22, 2024 “84 years ago, a legend was born,” the official Jeopardy! page captioned a social media post announcing the collaboration. “We are thrilled to celebrate the dedication of the @USPS‘s Forever stamp honoring Alex Trebek today.” The stamps are now available to buy 73 cents apiece or as a sheet of 20 in the gameboard format, the latter of which costs $14.60. His family knows he would have been honored by such a tribute / ©Parade Deck Films/courtesy Everett Collection His widow, Jean Trebek, feels that he would have deeply appreciated such a gesture. “His life had such a beautiful impact on so many people around the world,” she said. “And it’s just a real honor for my family and I to be here with all of you to acknowledge that. Alex would have felt overwhelmed with humility and joy to receive such a distinctive tribute.” For all his stardom in the U.S.., Trebek was, as his new postage stamps imply, not born here. He was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1998. Alex Trebek has been honored with a postage stamp released on his 84th heavenly birthday / ImageCollect RELATED: The Late Alex Trebek’s Children Are Highly Successful—Meet His 3 Kids Click for next Article The post ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Alex Trebek Honored With New Postage Stamp Released On His Birthday appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Dana Daly

If you want to know who rules over you, all you have to see is a congressional hearing. The now former U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is the perfect face for the unaccountable swarm government—smug, stern, contemptuous, vacant, and incompetent. If anything, it showed how impotent the Congress is. This woman should have been fired, and worse, in custody by now for dereliction of duty or negligence, or even worse, conspiracy.  Instead she resigned, after stonewalling the Congress for over a day and refusing to provide any information or accountability, and after threats from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) over perjury. That is a kay-fabe. The rot remains, just as the swarm will now select another head from the Hydra to be its face. The system will be perpetuated as designed, under the panoptic and mythical umbrella of democracy.  A lot of commentators commented on the lack of honor in Cheatle, or in any other bureaucrat, including Anthony Fauci or Alejandro Mayorkas. True. Japanese officials during the Second World War committed seppuku for far less than the security lapse that allowed a would-be assassin to take a shot at the former President Donald Trump. We don’t live in those days where honor meant something in a public servant. But this is not about honor. This is much more than that.  Michael Anton once said in a lecture about the “national security state” that the most difficult question in front of the political scientists today is to answer what type of government we live under, and where the accountability lies. The design of a massive bureaucracy is to ensure there is no hierarchy and no single point of responsibility and accountability. Swarm government is unaccountable by design.  Early parts of the 20th century showed how messy public opinion is and how destructive democratic passions might be. A consistent effort since the Second World War has been to erode the power of the demos and bypass the volatility of it all. But on the other hand, we don’t live in the age of empires, either. The result is this syncretic form of government, where democracy is tweaking the corners, when the real power remains out of sight. The phrase “deep state” doesn’t encompass it, as that would mean that there is a cabal of people who sit in dark rooms deciding the destiny of the masses.  The Russians and the Turks have a genuine “deep state.” This is worse than that. Expansion of the midwit bureaucracy has led to essentially a directionless autopilot. A swarm. Vibe politics at its peak. There are people who get credentialed in colleges, come join the Borg, and continue to exist, grow and maintain sinecures. That is it. One random failure of a director resigning does not change any of this dynamic. They cannot speak in normal languages; just watch the hearing again. All replies are in managerial bureaucratese. Again, that is by design—to obfuscate and evade.  The most important sentence of the entire show was from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who said, “This whole thing is a waste of time.” It is. That doesn’t mean the damage is irreversible. But under the current set-up, such a hearing is another circus attraction, without any real power. To reverse this rot, the entire security architecture of this country needs to be reformed, and new institutions need to be created with a linear hierarchy and business-like pyramid model. DEI, quotas, and other affirmative action agendas need to be torched. Agencies must be streamlined towards pure meritocracy and nothing else.  But one isn’t sure the people in Congress, despite their sudden fear of security lapses, actually wants to take back that much power of governing away from the hands of those to whom they themselves have delegated power for over half a century.  The post Director Cheatle’s Resignation Does Not Change the Rot appeared first on The American Conservative.

Politics Netanyahu: Time for a Mideast NATO?  The Israeli prime minister suggested a more extensive and concrete regional entanglement for the U.S. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the House rostrum Wednesday afternoon in his fourth address to Congress.  Netanyahu’s speech laid out his vision not only for Israel and Gaza after the war but the broader Middle East, in which he sees a conflict between “barbarism and civilization,” the former epitomized by the Iranian regime. Netanyahu beat the drums of war against the Iranian regime from the start—first mentioning Hamas, Israel’s actual battlefield enemy, more than 20 minutes into his speech—and proposed a NATO-like alliance to counter Iran. Netanyahu’s entrance was met with a standing ovation. Minutes of applause prevented House Speaker Mike Johnson from calling the chamber to order as members of Congress ignored the gavel. When Johnson introduced the prime minister, another minute of applause broke out. “We meet today at a crossroads of history,” Netanyahu told Congress shortly after his speech began. “Our world is in upheaval. In the Middle East, Iran’s axis of terror confronts America, Israel and our Arab friends.” “For the forces of civilization to triumph, America and Israel must stand together,” Netanyahu later continued, then seemed to borrow a stump-speech line from former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley: “Because when we stand together, something very simple happens: We win, they lose.” Netanyahu then spent a substantial part of the first half of his speech recounting the brutal and savage October 7 attacks. Accounting for differences in population size, the devastation of October 7—more than 1,200 dead—was “20 9/11’s in one day,” Netanyahu said.  “These monsters, they raped women, they beheaded men, they burnt babies alive,” the Israeli prime minister added. “They killed parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents. They dragged 255 people, both living and dead, into the dark dungeons of Gaza.” Throughout his description of the October 7 attack and its fallout, Netanyahu affirmed Israel’s resolve to get remaining hostages back to their country of origin. Israel, according to the prime minister, is “actively engaged in intensive efforts to secure their release.” In comments that might sow discord among Democrats amid the pivot from a Biden to Harris campaign for president, Netanyahu thanked Biden for his continued support.  “President Biden and I have known each other for over 40 years. I want to thank him for half a century of friendship to Israel and being, as he says, a proud Zionist. Actually he says, a proud Irish American zionist,” Netanyahu told lawmakers. “I thank President Biden for his heart-felt support for Israel. After the savage attack on October 7, he rightly called Hamas ‘sheer evil.’ He dispatched two aircraft carriers to the Middle East to deter a wider war, and he came to Israel to stand with us during our darkest hour, a visit that will never be forgotten.” But many in Biden’s party do not share the president’s views on the war in Gaza—including, perhaps, his preferred successor, Vice President Kamala Harris. Throughout the speech, some members remained seated, refused to clap, or engaged in silent protests (such as Rep. Rashida Talib (D-MI) who held up a small fan-like sign that read “WAR CRIMINAL”), the inside of the chamber seemed to portray a united front for supporting Israel in the ongoing Gaza war.  Nevertheless, that united front was predicated on a substantial boycott from Congressional Democrats and other high profile absences. Harris was on the campaign trail, so Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) took the vice president’s seat behind the rostrum. More than 50 members of Congress announced they would be boycotting Netanyahu’s speech—around the same number that boycotted Netanyahu’s speech in 2015. Prominent boycotters from the Senate included Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Tim Kaine (D-VA). From the House, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Jim Clyburn (D-SC) were among the ranks of prominent boycotters. There was one Republican boycotter, too. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced he’d boycott the speech on X. “Today Congress will undertake political theater on behalf of the State Department” Massie posted. “I don’t feel like being a prop so I won’t be attending.” Outside the Capitol complex, large groups of protestors gathered to call for Netanyahu’s arrest and accused the prime minister and the Israeli government of war crimes. As the speech neared, some of the protests became increasingly tense and violent in some cases.  Netanyahu’s visit to the United States this week has been met with frequent protests. Since Monday, protestors have gathered outside the Watergate Hotel where the Israeli delegation is staying. Protests there also became violent, and pro-Palestine infiltrators allegedly managed to get into the hotel and release maggots, crickets, and other bugs in Israeli delegation meeting rooms. Others dyed fountains red. Capitol police on Tuesday reportedly arrested about 200 protestors from Jewish Voice for Peace. Their sit-in took over the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building for hours. The group itself claimed that actually 400 people, including 12 rabbis, were arrested. Netanyahu had harsh words for the protestors in DC, on college campuses, and beyond, as well as their supporters on Capitol Hill. “Anti-Israel” protestors “should be ashamed of themselves,” the prime minister claimed. “Clarity begins by knowing the difference between good and evil. Yet incredibly, many anti-Israel protesters, many choose to stand with evil.” And the prime minister seems to believe Iran is funding this “evil” movement. “For all we know, Iran is funding the anti-Israel protests that are going on right now outside this building,” Netanyahu claimed. “Not that many, but they’re there and throughout the city.”  These protestors, said Netanyahu, are “Iran’s useful idiots.” Republicans in the chamber cheered loudly. The prime minister also seems to believe that Israel is currently at war with Iran. “Iran understands that to truly challenge America, it must first conquer the Middle East—and for this it uses its many proxies, including the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas. Yet in the heart of the Middle East, standing in Iran’s way, is one proud pro-American democracy, my country the state of Israel,” Netanyahu said. “For Iran, Israel is first, America is next. So, when Israel fights Hamas, we’re fighting Iran. When we fight Hezbollah we’re fighting Iran. When we fight the Houthis, we’re fighting Iran.” Nevertheless, the front lines remain in Gaza. The big question for Netanyahu and his government is what happens to the small strip of land on the Mediterranean coast after the war is over. “My vision for that day is of a demilitarized and de-radicalized Gaza,” Netanyahu told Congress. “Israel does not seek to resettle Gaza, but for the foreseeable future, we must retain overriding security control there to prevent the resurgence of terror, to ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.” To make that vision a reality, Netanyahu called on more fast-tracked U.S. aid. “Fast-tracking US military aid can dramatically expedite an end to the war in Gaza and help prevent a broader war in the Middle East,” Netanyahu claimed. “Today, as Israel fights on the front line of civilization, I, too, appeal to America: Give us the tools faster, and we’ll finish the job faster,” he reiterated. Netanyahu also suggested NATO-like regional security, of course led by the United States and then Israel, for the entire region. “America forged a security alliance in Europe to counter the growing Soviet threat,” Netanyahu claimed. “Likewise, America and Israel today can forge a security alliance in the Middle East to counter the growing Iranian threat.”  The prime minister seemed to walk back the intensity of this prospective alliance, however, by claiming it would be a natural extension of the Abraham Accords signed under President Donald Trump, which were primarily diplomatic and economic, not defense-oriented. Nevertheless, Netanyahu proposed that this Middle-East NATO be called the “Abraham Alliance.” While Americans have long sought a way out of the Middle East, Netanyahu seems keen on keeping America in. The post Netanyahu: Time for a Mideast NATO? appeared first on The American Conservative.

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