{"id":28651,"date":"2024-04-28T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=28651"},"modified":"2024-04-27T22:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T02:52:43","slug":"stupid-in-high-and-low-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/stupid-in-high-and-low-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid in High and Low Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putting aside Trump (meaning his trials and the Supreme Court\u2019s review of them and the various election stories) I guess the big story this week are all the campus protests for Gaza.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From what I can see, really lame leftists on various campuses across the country are building encampments and screaming obscenities about Israel in particular and the Jews and the military in general and demanding peace or death or both or neither for Palestinians, Israelis, College presidents, soldiers, Joe Biden or everybody.<\/p>\n<p>I watched some pretty hilarious footage of what happens when Georgia, Indiana, Arizona, Illinois and Ohio state troopers are told to arrest really lame leftist protestors.\u00a0 I tell you it does my heart good to hear these dopey kids screaming and crying and cursing at the police as they\u2019re being slammed to the ground and zip-tied and dragged away.\u00a0 Even some of the loopy leftist professors got into the act.\u00a0 One dopey woman who said she was a professor slapped one of the cops in the head and got the deluxe treatment.<\/p>\n<p>So, what can I make of all this?\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m guessing that anything that makes it less likely that Zoomers will vote for Joe Biden is a very good thing.\u00a0 I also think that the Israelis had better decide whether they want to finish off the threat from Hamas in Gaza or not.\u00a0 If they end the fight without taking complete control over Gaza they will be back where they started and can anticipate the same kinds of attacks in the future.\u00a0 But I admit it\u2019s a difficult situation when the whole world is accusing you of \u201cgenocide\u201d and even your main supporter, the United States begins wavering.\u00a0 My advice to Netanyahu is hurry up and finish the mission.\u00a0 Of course, that\u2019s easier said than done.\u00a0 The Israelis are going to have to transfer the entire population of Gaza into a refugee camp and search each person and all their possessions one by one and then purge the Gaza strip of all weapons and contraband and then begin resettling them.\u00a0 And then they\u2019ll have to permanently patrol the whole enclave to prevent Hamas from returning to power.\u00a0 That\u2019s a daunting task.\u00a0 But when you\u2019re dealing with implacable hate, extreme measures are inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Americans are finding out how the Left treats their various constituencies.\u00a0 You think that they\u2019re your friends until some other more important cause or constituency comes between you and them and then they attack you as if you\u2019re as evil as Trump himself.\u00a0 They\u2019ll attack you personally and vilify you in the public space and allow terrible people to say and do terrible things to you and your friends.\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s the reality.\u00a0 We all have to pick sides in this extremely binary political system.\u00a0 And if you vote for Democrats you can expect at some point to get more of this behavior.\u00a0 This is what they are, up close and personal.<\/p>\n<p>The talk is about whether the Democrat Convention will be under siege from the same protestors as the colleges.\u00a0 I have to admit I\u2019d find that immensely entertaining.\u00a0 Can you imagine if they storm the convention floor and take Joe Biden captive?\u00a0 Could he regale them with tales of Uncle Bosey and Corn Pop and how he spent thirty years in a South African prison before becoming Nelson Mandela?\u00a0 It boggles the mind.\u00a0 Joe Biden and the Gaza protestors in a struggle session.\u00a0 That much stupid all concentrated in one place would threaten the very fabric of space-time and could trigger a moron supernova.\u00a0 Sounds like a good time will be had by all this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting aside Trump (meaning his trials and the Supreme Court\u2019s review of them and the various election stories) I guess the big story this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[328,4297,4434],"class_list":["post-28651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-antifa","tag-gaza","tag-leftist-lunatics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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