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Author, The Catmage Chronicles. "Harry Potter for cat lovers." https://nitter.gq/t.co/QZPftvspHn Am Yisrael chai.

Richmond, VA
Joined April 2012
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Landed in Charlotte, NC. I rarely sit on the right side of the plane. I did today. And had the pleasure of seeing the plane's shadow. Which had been separated since we went airborne, rejoin us as we landed. I didn't expect it so no photo. But it was wonderful.
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In a world of Cyborg or this rabbi, I choose to be with CP. The reaction to the despicable Philly bike boycott proves him right.
This is a self fulfilling prophesy.
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History will remember two men as the ones who exposed the empire of lies: Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele. For decades, the same class of experts, NGOs, think tanks and international institutions told us two things were impossible. That you could kill inflation without destroying a country. That you could kill violent crime without "addressing root causes" for another 30 years. Milei took the first one. Argentina, December 2023: inflation over 200% a year, 25% in a single month. A central bank printing money to fund a state that had become a vote-buying machine. Every economist on TV predicted a social explosion if anyone touched it. He cut the number of ministries in half. He balanced the budget in his first year. Monthly inflation went from 25% to under 2%. Poverty, which peaked at 52.9% right after the devaluation, fell to 28%, the lowest since 2018. It's not a straight line, poverty ticked back up this year, and he says so himself. But the point is proven: the "impossible" was possible all along. The lesson is brutal. Endless money printing was never a technocratic necessity. It was a hidden tax on the poor, quietly paying for the people who designed the system and lived off it. Bukele took the second one. El Salvador, 2015: 106 homicides per 100,000 people. The most violent country on earth outside a war zone. Gangs ran neighborhoods, taxed every bus driver and every street vendor, and decided who lived and who died. El Salvador, 2025: 1.3 per 100,000. Lower than the United States. Every international expert said it couldn't be done. The NGOs called it barbaric. Salvadorans re-elected him with over 80% of the vote, because they're the ones who used to bury their kids. And now his helicopters are in Haiti, pulling his own soldiers out of gang territory, telling the gangs: we finished with ours, we can finish with you. So ask yourself the real question. If it was this simple, why didn't anyone do it? Because an entire ecosystem lived off the problem. Inflation funded the state that funded the clients that funded the elections. Crime created fear, and fear created demand for programs, consultants, studies, panels, subsidies and "experts" who never had to deliver a result. In Latin America it was the gangs. In the West it's mass immigration with no integration and crime with no consequences. Different symptom, same business model: the problem is never solved because too many people are paid to manage it. Milei and Bukele didn't just fix two countries. They published the proof. Every politician who still says "it's complicated" now has to explain why a guy with a chainsaw and a guy with a baseball cap did in two years what they couldn't do in forty. Thank you Javier Milei. Thank you Nayib Bukele. The world is going to heal with your solutions. Europe is next. We're waiting.
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If you don't see me for a while, that's because I'm taking a break. All I would do is doomscroll here. And I have my annual writers conference next week. So I have plenty to do. If you're in the Las Vegas area, look up Reader Nation to meet a ton of indie authors and buy their books!
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ביום שבו נפטר מנחם בגין, ב-9 במרץ 1992, רבים הופתעו לגלות כי בשונה מהמצופה, ציווה בגין כי יקברוהו בהר הזיתים, בצמידות לקבריהם של לוחמי המחתרות, מאיר פיינשטיין ומשה ברזני. בשביל להבין את צוואתו של בגין ז"ל, צריך לחזור לליל ב' באייר תש"ז, הלילה שבין 21 ל-22 באפריל 1947. הייתה זו שעת לילה בתא הנידונים למוות שבמגרש הרוסים בירושלים. שני בחורים כבני עשרים ישבו שם: האחד, מאיר פיינשטיין, ירושלמי, אשכנזי, לוחם האצ"ל. השני, משה ברזני, יהודי יליד בגדד, לוחם הלח"י. פיינשטיין נפצע קשה ואיבד את ידו במהלך פעולת האצ"ל בתחנת הרכבת בירושלים, שבה נתפס בידי הבריטים. ברזני נתפס במהלך עוצר כשברשותו רימון יד. שניהם נידונו למוות על ידי הבריטים, והיו אמורים למחרת בבוקר להיות מובלים אל הגרדום. אבל התוכנית שלהם הייתה אחרת. באמצעות חומר נפץ שהוברח לכלא בתוך תפוזים, הם קיבלו שני רימונים מאולתרים.... התכנון היה שכאשר יגיעו התליינים להוביל אותם אל הגרדום, יפוצצו את עצמם יחד איתם. הם החליטו שאם הם ילכו, לא יובילו אותם כצאן לטבח, אלא הם ילכו כלוחמים בבחינת "תמות נפשי עם פלשתים", כשמשון הגיבור בשעתו. אך בלילה שלפני ביצוע גזר הדין הגיע אליהם הרב יעקב גולדמן, רב בתי הסוהר, כדי לשהות במחיצתם ולהתפלל איתם. במהלך השיחה שוחחו השניים עם הרב על מוות, על קידוש השם, ואף ביקשו לברר את דעתו ההלכתית על אדם השולח יד בנפשו כדי שלא ליפול בידי אויביו. הרב לא ידע שהם מתכננים לפוצץ את עצמם. אבל השניים כבר ידעו מה בכוונתם לעשות. וכשנודע להם כי הרב מתעקש לשוב בבוקר וללוות אותם אל הגרדום, הם נחרדו. הם הבינו שתוכניתם עלולה לסכן את חייו. הם הפצירו בו שלא יבוא. ניסו לשכנע אותו שכבר עשה די למענם. אבל הרב התעקש. הוא הבטיח שיהיה לצידם עד הרגע האחרון... והם הבינו שאינם יכולים לאפשר זאת. באותו הלילה מסרו לרב את התפילין שלהם, מסרים אחרונים למשפחותיהם ואפילו סוכריות שביקשו שיחלק לחבריהם בכלא. פיינשטיין גם העניק ספר תנ"ך עם הקדשה אישית לסמל הבריטי תומס גודווין, שנהג בהם בהגינות. ולפני שנפרדו, שרו השניים עם הרב את "אדון עולם אשר מלך". הרב יצא מהתא, כשהוא מבטיח לשוב עם שחר. אבל השניים כבר ידעו שלא ימתינו לבוקר. ברזני ופיינשטיין, שאיבד את אחת מידיו, נצמדו זה לזה. חזה אל חזה. כשהרימונים בין לבבותיהם... וברגעיהם האחרונים, כששניהם חבוקים, החזיק ברזני את פתילי הרימונים, ופיינשטיין הדליק סיגריה והצית באמצעותה את הפתילים. הפיצוץ הרעיד את בית הסוהר. שני הלוחמים נהרגו יחד, בטרם השיגם התליין. אחד אשכנזי. אחד עיראקי. שני בחורים צעירים משתי מחתרות שונות, שבחרו לעמוד יחד גם ברגעיהם האחרונים. בגין זכר את הסיפור הזה כל חייו... וכשהבדרן דודו טופז לעג לתומכי הליכוד בעצרת המערך ב-27 ביוני 1981, וכינה אותם "צ'חצ'חים" ו"שין גימלים", בגין הגיב למחרת, ב-28 ביוני, בנאום שנחרט בזיכרון הלאומי: "בני עדות המזרח שלנו היו לוחמים גיבורים, גם במחתרת!" בגין סיפר על פיינשטיין האשכנזי ועל ברזני העיראקי. על שני הלוחמים שעמדו בפני הגרדום. על הרב שהתעקש ללוות אותם, ועל הרימונים שהצמידו ללבבותיהם כדי שלא לפגוע בו. ואז הרעים בקולו: "אשכנזי? עיראקי? יהודים! אחים! לוחמים!" זה היה נאום פוליטי, ללא ספק. אבל זו הייתה גם זעקה אמיתית מהנשמה. וכשבגין נפטר, אחת עשרה שנים אחרי אותו נאום, נותרה בקשתו שהפקיד עוד בחייו בידי איש אמונו, יחיאל קדישאי: להיקבר בהר הזיתים, ליד מאיר פיינשטיין ומשה ברזני. וכך היה. מנחם בגין נקבר בהר הזיתים, לצד רעייתו עליזה, ובסמוך לקבריהם של שני הלוחמים. לא בחלקת גדולי האומה. לא לצד ראשי ממשלות ונשיאים. אלא ליד שני בחורים כבני עשרים. אשכנזי ועיראקי יהודים. אחים. לוחמים.
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I am either going to the movies or watching one at home tomorrow night. Not going to obsess over the elections. I voted on Saturday, red all the way down, and also picked up some library books, as that's where the early voting was. I may read, watch movie, read some more, watch some more. You all have fun. I turned down an invitation to watch the election with my (hopefully) Congressman. Probably not going to be on X tomorrow night, either. Peace of mind: What is it? Also, before achieving that peace of mind: Fuck el-Sayed and all the Dems (especially the Jewish ones) who support him, and bravo to Haley Stevens for putting country before party.
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People who speak different languages perceive and understand the world differently. We speak Arabic, and we can see how dangerous Abdul is the moment he opens his mouth and speaks Arabic. Monolingual Americans can’t see what we see. Listen to us. This is far more serious than being on the right or the left.
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Loving this.
BTW, the benchwarmer made his HS HOF. 🏉🏀🏆😅
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This is the best one yet. I really like it.
WHEN THE DUST SETTLES I wrote this song because something has been weighing heavily on my heart. Now that the dust has begun to settle, I believe many of us, in Israel and throughout the Jewish world, are only beginning to understand the depth of the trauma we have endured. October 7th was not a spontaneous act of violence. It was planned, prepared and carried out with unimaginable cruelty. And what followed was another wound. Imagine being violated, raped, slaughtered, burned alive, watching your families destroyed and your loved ones taken hostage, only to wake up the following day and witness people celebrating your suffering, justifying the atrocities and directing hatred toward you. Imagine surviving the horror, only to discover that the world is prepared to condemn you for having survived it. That is a darkness I struggle to comprehend. And now, as the dust settles, we are left not only with the memories of what happened, but with the painful realization of how deeply hatred can take root, how easily lies can spread, and how quickly compassion can disappear. I did not write this song for the world. I wrote it for us. For the Jewish people. For the people of Israel. For the mothers, the fathers, the children, the survivors, and every Jewish soul around the world who has carried these years in their heart. Not to remind us that we are victims, because that is not who we are. But to remind us of what we have endured, what we have witnessed, and what we must never allow ourselves to forget. There is an evil in this world darker than many of us can comprehend. But there is also a flame within our people that thousands of years of persecution have never managed to extinguish. And that flame is still burning. Am Yisrael Chai. עם ישראל חי. WHEN THE DUST SETTLES Lyrics, Music & Artistic Direction: Yehuda Meitav
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It's a beautiful thing.
Abdul El-Sayed CRASHES OUT and Abruptly ENDS his press conference over one Haley Stevens questions "None of this matters" Reporter "YES, it does matter" Abdul walks out. His campaign has IMPLODED.
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Country over party. Good for you, Haley.
I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.
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If you are stressing or upset for any reason, may I recommend Ludovico Einaudi's "In a Time Lapse"? I own it, it's available digitally, and you can find it in full on YouTube. "Experience" is the track that most people have heard. I love this album.
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All over Europe, and they want the coming to America version to happen soon.
You’re not watching “student protests”. This is a communist revolution. These are not liberals who want free healthcare. They want to destroy western civilization.
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Can't remember who first person here who mentioned that Goo Goo Dolls wrote Iris for City of Angels, but ever since I've wanted to watch that movie. Well, I voted today and my local early voting place is the library. Found the DVD for a buck at the sale and watched it tonight. Pretty good. Lousy ending. Very sexy scenes with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan. Also, wow, I'd forgotten how good Meg can be. Bonus actors: Dennis Franz and Andre Braugher. I really liked the depiction of angels in the film, particularly how they liked to gather. Made a lot of sense to me. Now to go listen to Iris a few dozen times. Thanks, whoever you were.
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Maybe I should have voted early.
In just these past two weeks we have seen: 1. Widespread civil unrest and riots in France. 2. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Albania. 3. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Italy. 4. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Spain. 5. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Portugal. 6. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Belgium. 7. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Serbia. 8. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Georgia. 9. Widespread civil unrest and an apparent judicial coup in Poland. 10. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Czechia (including an attempted takeover of the Parliament building). 11. Widespread student protests in Greece. 12. Targeted student protests in Indonesia. 13. Localized violent protests in India. 14. An apparently fraudulent election in Brazil where the presumed presidential election winner was forced to flee the country under threat of arrest by his opponent. 15. The uncovering of a Color Revolution plot in the USA led by embittered former USAID employees and ex-military members. That’s a lot to be happening all at once, don’t you think? And the USA is having midterm elections next week. You know, if I was a conspiracy-minded type I might be connecting some dots here. 🧐
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I did vote early. Place was packed. And the Republican staffer I spoke to seemed very positive those were mostly Republicans. We'll see next week. Democrat staffer was dressed as a penguin. Because of course she was.
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When "idiot" just isn't enough, you combine it with "mid." This was on purpose, and describes Dave Smith to a T.
Replying to @ParanoidPol
I don't think a midiot like him will ever get anything. He is so clearly stupid.
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So much of left-wing antisemitism sounds like "Vatican city needs to be destroyed." "what do you mean I'm attacking Catholics? I didnt even mention Catholics".
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