Pro Palestine protest in Westwood (9-24-24)

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Private Polls Show This Is Trump’s Election To Lose (9-23-24)

01:00 Private info shows Trump ahead
04:00 Harris & Trump & The New York Times Poll Puzzle, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLZScns6pGw
09:00 NYT: The Long, Strange Saga of Kamala Harris and Kimberly Guilfoyle, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/us/politics/kamala-harris-kimberly-guilfoyle-san-francisco-da.html
11:00 Harris vs. Trump: Polls, Policy & Perspiration, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmuvHQ7pf-w
14:00 Democrats deeply concerned about Kamala’s prospects
18:00 Trump live in Pennsylvania rips Oprah, Kamala.
24:00 We now see Israel’s strategy against Hezbollah
48:15 Israel v Hezbollah war is terrible for the Democrats
49:00 Chaos works against the incumbent party – the Democrats
50:30 Israel’s Unprecedented Operation Against Hezbollah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdTZTEQAvUE
53:00 Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the Central Intelligence Agency
Israel v Hezbollah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ONDliWRwU
55:30 Democrat cover-up of Joe Biden’s senility
1:00:00 Michael Walzer, philosophy professor, says Israel’s pager attack was a violation of human rights
1:04:00 Michael Walzar says the decisive moment in American history was when anglos allowed themselves to become a minority in what they thought was their country
1:08:40 Politico: The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook, https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/
1:11:00 Israel’s war on Hezbollah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ONDliWRwU
1:15:40 Kip joins to talk about the Middle East
1:21:00 If you are honest with yourself, you’ll detect when others are deceiving you
1:40:00 Sometimes you have to cut the trash out of your life
Dumb media tropes: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157502
New Yorker: Are Your Morals Too Good to Be True?,
https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157462
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/16/are-your-morals-too-good-to-be-true

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Will Israel Humiliate Hezbollah Into Submission? (9-22-24)

02:00 Israeli incursion into Lebanon ‘will drag US, Iraq into war’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhbyKgJrrBU
10:15 Israel-Hezbollah retaliations: ‘It could be war’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugaCRZp9FC0
17:00 Dumb media tropes: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157502
28:30 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid
41:00 Fahad joins (subpar audio for 25 minutes)
1:06:00 Dooovid returns, https://x.com/RebDoooovid
1:08:00 Dooovid is anti-Zionist
1:17:00 Richard Spencer of Times of London: Israel could humiliate Hezbollah into submission, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygbm7WebouM
1:19:30 Joe from Ohio used to serve in the 82nd Airborne division, served in Sinai after Camp David
1:26:00 Haitians in Springfield, Ohio
1:41:00 Israel commended for ‘most precise anti-terrorist attack’ against Hezbollah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89OZnLvb9Dg
1:45:40 Why is the left shedding tears over Hezbollah?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W1lfAeqROk
1:51:00 New Yorker: Are Your Morals Too Good to Be True?,
https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157462
1:53:00 Is there objective morality, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/16/are-your-morals-too-good-to-be-true
2:06:00 15 Harsh Psychology Facts That Will Make Your Life Better – Adam Lane Smith, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3BnroTQuOg
2:08:00 Evaluate Adam Lane Smith, myself and my dad on the Gurometer: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19PKXFn3qrzWr6nx622g9cEzyNBow0svQs_dN4fP3hjY/edit?pli=1
2:36:00 Elliott Blatt joins on being a non-conformist to stand out

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Common Examples Of Pathetic Thinking

I don’t like it when I notice the following in myself and in other people:

* Other people have it easy.
* That other group didn’t have to work for its success.
* People in power are bad.
* There’s nothing I can do to improve the quality of my life because I am a victim.
* X group has no importance. They’re barely human. When I grew up in Australia, I noticed the common attitude was that non-Australians don’t matter.
* The system is rigged against people like me.
* Because I’m a victim or because I’m special, the rules don’t apply to me.

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Dumb Media Tropes

Here are some annoying tics I notice in the news:

* “Israel fears escalation.” Israel has been the aggressor for months against Iran and Hezbollah. Israel welcomes a wider war. Israel doesn’t fear escalation as much as it fears the status quo.

* Israel had a spectacular success against Hezbollah, but what’s its strategy? Maiming and slaughtering your enemy and killing off their entire senior leadership is part of Israel’s strategy. When you impose a harsh price for attacking Israel, you reduce the incentives to attack Israel.

The left is leery of punishment for violent criminals. For non-leftists, punishment for violent criminals is a normal and natural response.

The left says revenge is primitive. As Dennis Prager notes, all punishment contains an element of revenge.

The Talmud says, “If you know someone is coming to kill you, get up early and kill them first.”

* For [X}, this is personal. New York Times: “For [Tammy] Duckworth, Preserving I.V.F. Access Is Personal”

Who cares if something is personal?

* “Are the pager attacks a violation of international law” International law makes it as difficult as possible to fight back against terrorists while developing as many rights as possible for terrorists because they are brown people fighting back against the oppression of white people.

* Taking celebrities at face value. The New York Times states: “Sally Rooney doesn’t care about her career.”

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