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heads up that The Real News¹ is currently abuzz with the idea that some kind of scandal involving #Israel blackmailing #RFKJr with sex stuff is about to break.

(i have no idea if that's true or not but sometimes where there's smoke there's fire with these guys and even i have been a little taken aback by RFK doing things like declaring anti-semitism a disease / public health emergency)

on a related note i wonder whether "the left" has caught on yet the extent to which Real News purveyors have become ragingly anti-israel in the last year or so, the same way they are anti-ukraine but maybe even more so. none of this is surprising - after all #Putin dislikes both Israel and #Ukraine - but it's starting to cause a real rift in the right.

¹ conspiracy theorists, #MAGA nutters, groypers, #tucker, etc.

youtube.com/watch?v=XHJIRWZRjI

Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-MS)
said Friday #Pete #Hegseth
"made a rookie mistake in Brussels",
referring to Trump's Secretary of Defense's comments that Ukraine must give up territory to Russia

"I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing #Tucker #Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool," Wicker said,
referring to the pro-Putin broadcaster.
politico.eu/article/senate-arm

POLITICO · Senior Republican senator ‘puzzled and disturbed’ by Hegseth’s Ukraine remarksBy Joe Gould

"#tucker was, is, and will always be a prize pillock!"

🤦‍♂️ " Why is #Putin my enemy? He hasn't done anything to me. I have no reason to be angry with #Putin" - #Carlson

The absence of a strong reaction to aggressive actions convinces aggressors of the weakness of democracies and pushes them to further expansion. In the mid-20th century, similar statements about #Hitler and the isolationism of the #Americans led to #Pearl_Harbour.

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

Dominionist leaders attending the youth-focused
Turning Point USA #AmericaFest conference in Phoenix over the weekend
portrayed Donald Trump’s election as a "spiritual warfare victory",
and urged Christian-right activists to “occupy” more territory by building a bigger Republican majority in Congress. 

The AmericaFest speaker lineup included Trump,
other MAGA politicians,
right-wing commentators like #Tucker #Carlson,
and dominionists like #Lance #Wallnau.
House Speaker Mike Johnson cancelled a planned appearance after becoming the target of MAGA rage over a bipartisan budget deal that was attacked by Elon Musk. 

In recent years, #TPUSA founder #Charlie #Kirk has made a public shift from promoting a kind a snarky, irreverent libertarianism
to embracing an aggressive Christian nationalism that characterizes much of the MAGA movement today. 
Broadcasting from AmericaFest’s media row on Thursday night was “FlashPoint,”
a show launched by televangelist #Kenneth #Copeland’s "Victory Channel" in the fall of 2020
that has been a platform for pro-Trump propaganda and prophesying.
One panelist was Pastor #Rob #McCoy, a spiritual mentor to Kirk, who told viewers that he had been at TPUSA’s headquarters on election night,
and that when Pennsylvania was called for Trump, Kirk started weeping and said, “All glory to God.”

A recurring theme from the show’s host #Gene #Bailey and his panelists was that Trump’s victory is no reason for the church to relax.
Wallnau said that conservative evangelical Christians are the key to keeping the political pendulum swinging to the right in the midterm elections two years from now

peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/s

People ForSpiritual Warfare and Dominionist Ideology at TPUSA’s AmericaFestDominionists at TPUSA's America Fest portrayed Donald Trump's election as a spiritual warfare victory and urged religious right activists to occupy more territory in the next midterm elections. 

#TodayILearned
#TIL
That in #western countries #men are much more likely to commit #suicide than #women, yet women express suicidal thoughts more.

#China is one of the few major exceptions where Male:Female suicides are 8:10.

The #USA has a fairly high suicide rate, and is 3:1 male to female.

One more - In #Russia the suicide #rates are very very high. #Tucker forgot to mention that.

Gender differences in suicide - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_d

en.wikipedia.orgGender differences in suicide - Wikipedia
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Attendees, with white-and-red gift bags and lanyards, knew to be closelipped when approached by hotel interlopers
or by the Times reporter, who was not invited to the closed-press festivities.

But a copy of the agenda listed remarks by several tech billionaires, including the Anduril co-founder #Palmer #Luckey and the venture capitalist #Marc #Andreessen, who spoke about his support for deregulating technology
and the mixed reaction in Silicon Valley to his endorsement of Mr. Trump, according to attendees.

There were tech up-and-comers, too:
Donald Trump #Jr. announced at the welcome dinner that he was entering venture capital.

And days before the president-elect chose Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. for health and human services secretary,
Mr. Kennedy spoke extensively about his public-health work to a standing ovation.

Ms. #Wiles also led a session on “2024 Election Analysis,” where she gave a preview of Mr. Trump’s first days as president.

“It’s the domestic ‘Davos in the desert,’” said the Rockbridge backer #Omeed #Malik, referring to the annual business conference in Riyadh, and Donald Trump Jr.’s new business partner.

➡️Rockbridge began with more humility.

Back in 2019, Mr. #Vance, then best known as the author of “Hilbilly Elegy,” and a conservative media figure named #Chris #Buskirk began informally hosting a series of small dinners
that would eventually become called Rockbridge.

The group drew early support from the venture capitalist #Peter #Thiel and eventually caught the attention of Donald J. Trump, who spoke at a few meetings.

Once in the fall and once in the spring, Rockbridge began to gather at places like the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, Fla.,
or the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas for three days of political panels and business networking.

Speakers included people like #Tucker #Carlson; the Thiel protégé #Blake #Masters; the casino mogul #Steve #Wynn; the investor #David #Sacks; and #Woody #Johnson, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets.

Not all attendees have politics at the top of their mind.

Some are primarily interested in business, seeing Rockbridge as a conservative-tinged version of the elite Sun Valley conference.