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This week: Ceasefire deal, the Rape of the Locke, Hitler's big comeback, foiled coups, and chicks without dicks.

1. A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has been secured before Trump’s second inauguration, and Trump is touting the deal, while Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden, as President, is responsible for the terms agreed upon by both parties. Biden himself had, um, thoughts.

   

   There is some split on the part of the pro-Israel faction in the U.S., with some horrified by the deal — which they see as an Israeli surrender of sorts — and others more content with the deal, which they believe is will not stop Israel from finishing off Hamas in Gaza. First, the terms:

   The three-phase ceasefire deal promises the release of dozens of hostages held by militants in Gaza and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, and it will allow hundreds of thousands of people displaced in Gaza to return to what remains of their homes. It also will flood desperately needed humanitarian aid into a territory ravaged by 15 months of war.

   The prime minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, said the ceasefire would go into effect on Sunday and that its success would depend on Israel and Hamas “acting in good faith in order to ensure that this agreement does not collapse.”[…]

   U.S. President Joe Biden touted the deal from Washington, saying the ceasefire will stay in place as long as Israel and Hamas remain at the negotiating table over a long-term truce. Biden credited months of “dogged and painstaking American diplomacy” for landing the deal, while noting that his administration and President-elect Donald Trump’s team had been “speaking as one” in the latest negotiations.

   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not commented on the announcement.

   Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro, writing on X, is content with the agreement:

   Notes on the hostage deal:

   1. It is a hostage deal, NOT an end of war deal. Phase I allows for the release of 33 hostages; it is not clear how many are alive, but some reports suggest 23.

   2. Again, the ceasefire is almost certainly temporary. It is not a permanent end to the war. Phase II is, in my opinion, highly unlikely ever to materialize given how many hostages Hamas retains and given that Hamas will never disarm or agree to exile.

   3. The deal does not force Israel to alter deployment along the Philadelphi Corridor (border between Gaza and Egypt).

   So, what does all of this mean?

   First, that some hostages will come home alive. This is an unmitigated good. It would have been excellent to get more hostages out, but that option was presumably unavailable given Hamas' radical intransigence and the waning health of many of the hostages.

   Second, that the war will continue until Hamas has no control over Gaza. Trump's nominees have said as much; so has the Israeli government. The Trump team squared this circle. The Biden team undoubtedly wanted a permanent end to the conflict as a condition of hostage release. Team Trump presumably told Hamas that wasn't going to happen, and that this was the best deal they were likely to get.

   Others, however? Aren’t buying it:

   

   Time will tell. Certainly, part of the reason this deal got done was that Trump wanted to show that his election changes the dynamics within the Middle East. And I’m sure at some point we’ll hear from MAGA comparisons to Reagan’s victory over Carter convincing Iran to release the US Embassy hostages.

   But this deal leaves hostages behind, including Americans, and as others have suggested, I don’t think the US would ever accept this kind of deal itself.

   To me, this is not solely about Israel; it’s about the US inserting itself into the defensive wars of sovereign nations.

   Time will tell, I suppose. But you might consider letting Biden have this one, Donald.

2. 206 House Democrats voted against protecting females in female sports, requiring a slim Republican majority to pass the 'Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,' which prevents biological men from competing in women’s sports.

   The House passed the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," which could change Title IX protections and ensure only people assigned female at birth participate in women and girls athletics, on Tuesday on a vote of 218-206-1.

   Two Democrats voted in favor of the House GOP's signature legislation: Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez. North Carolina Rep. Don Davis, a Democrat, voted present. The three bucked House Democratic leadership in doing so.

   Republicans are now touting this bill as bipartisan even though only two Democrats crossed the aisle to vote in favor of the bill.

   "Today was an improvement. It's bipartisan," Johnson said about the bill at his victory presser. "We had two Democrats join us."

   Title IX is a federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education programs. The landmark legislation led by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., ensures that women are protected in female sports that are operated, sponsored or facilitated by a recipient of federal funding.

   ABC News and other legacy media outlets that dress to the left, had no problem describing the moribund Lankford Border Bill as “bipartisan” when Republicans ultimately killed it, under pressure from then former President and presidential candidate Trump and much of the GOP base.

   But as the nostrum goes, without double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

   What strikes me about this rollback of changes to IX protections advanced by the Biden Administration is that, despite such cultural issues playing a large part in many voters abandoning the Democratic Party, only two Democrats were willing to go against their caucus in one of the easiest, most common-sense pieces of legislation they could possibly have put before them (kudos to them, by the way). So. “Woke” may be dying, as we keep hearing. But it sure as shit ain’t dead yet — and it’s looking increasingly like we’re going to have to take a shovel to its head, then drive a stake through it’s heart.

   Probably wouldn’t hurt to burn the thing, for good measure, as long as we’re just kinda standing there over the corpse.

3. Pimp, pornographer, pedophile, sex trafficker, alleged rapist, and Candace Owens spiritual touchstone, Andrew Tate, has announced he wants to run for UK Prime Minister under the newly formed BRUV Party. Not content to fuck young women he’s beaten and forced into porn, he has grander plans now: fucking all of Great Britain!

   

   Many on the Woke Right have been rallying behind Tate, who they assure us is one the good pornographers. Still, despite what has been of late a full-blown campaign to rehabilitate the bug-eyed faux alpha, it hasn’t been sticking, with heavy criticism being levied by rank-and-file online conservatives at those conservative “influencers” who have been trying to soft-pedal Tate’s moral depravity by explaining that, because Tate appeals to young, disaffected males (and Trump Counsel Alina Habba!), he’s represents the inevitable result of a broken system that has marginalized men — a strong and charismatic personality who is fighting back and who can teach us the how to fix that broken system, mostly by strategic use of sexual torture and the Muslim Pimp Hand.

   True conservatism. MAGA, y’all! Come get you some!

   The cynical among us, of course, have a different view for why Tate is mounting a political challenge: he knows that he’s going to be convicted on a host of charges, ranging from statutory rape and sex trafficking to sexual assault and rape — and he is angling to use his political campaign to deflect from his troubles with the law, presenting himself as a victim of lawfare by those trying to stop him from making Great Britain Great Again. Already, in an act of great humility, Christian conservative Benny Johnson platformed the self-styled poon master, who compares his trouble with Romanian and British law to the lawfare waged against Donald Trump by US Democrats and uniparty operatives.

   He’s nothing if not a schemer, Tate. As someone noted the other day (and I’m paraphrasing here), Andrew Tate is the simplest IQ test in the history of ever.

4. The coming coup. Did OMG’s James O’Keefe just preemptively disrupt another Deep State op to block Donald Trump’s second Administration? This seems like it should be a bigger story than it has been today.

   

   Per O’Keefe:

   “Top Pentagon Advisor Jamie Mannina has just been FIRED per email to @OKeefeMedia from Joint Staff Public Affairs Spokesman Joseph Holstead. Mannina was caught on OMG hidden cameras revealing plans “with a Couple of Retired Generals to Explore What We Can Do” to to ‘Protect People from Trump’.

   If this is on the up and up, it seems downright criminal that the only person I could find platforming O’Keefe today was Alex Jones.

   I guess the rest of the conservative “influencer” sphere is too busy digging into how much money AIPAC spent on lobbying, or how much we’ve learned about Hitler was simply wrong and unfair — with the future of our country under National Socialism an idea whose time has come to consider!

   

   You’re doing great, fellas! The coalition Trump built — which brought in more Jewish voters, more Hispanic voters, more Asian voters, and more black male voters — looks at how you hope to govern going forward and just can’t wait to climb on board the racial purity train! ‘Merica!

   — of course, if you stop to consider who benefits from this push to Balkanize and tribalize the United States, you’ll eventually realize that it’s the status quo, the uniparty, the WEF and the WHO, et al.

   Meanwhile, antisemitic edgelords get wealthy maneuvering you toward your future role as serf.

   Good deal for them. For the rest of us? Not so much.

5. When you hear the term “Heritage Americans,” bristle. You’re about to get splashed with emo victimhood, and it smells nothing like teen spirit and more like canned tuna. To wit: Chris Rufo ran afoul of these entitled soft turds by promoting — not by name but in effect — the Protestant work ethic and the idea of upward mobility and generation over generation wealth. These planks of American Exceptionalism ares now being spun — purposely — as “forcing American white youth to settle for ‘beaner’ jobs, rolling burritos at Chipotle their whole lives” — a Potemkin promise promoted by “Boomers”. Like, I suppose, Matt Walsh:

   I have not seen anyone claim that anyone should be “content” with fast food work. I have seen people argue that when you’re just starting out in the world, you might have to take a low paying job that isn’t very fun at first. Almost all of us did the same when we were younger. That’s supposed to be the starting point. I haven’t seen a single person suggest that it should be the goal or endpoint.

   Walsh was excoriated by the Tate / Woke Right Axis of Blood and Soil Americanism for his turgid and antiquated “cuck” thinking. After all, “Heritage Americans” deserve something far better. Because, like, they’re white and stuff. Gab CEO Andrew Torba went so far even as to portray the Protestant work ethic as a Jewish trick designed to fool poor put upon whites.

   This is, of course, absurd — and derived from a romanticized version of America that seems to exist in the heads of many “trad value” Woke Right activists polluting the GOP and MAGA right now.

   The Woke Right is embracing and adopting the idea of DEI in an attempt to secure reparations for “Heritage Americans.” They’re doing this by way of demanding jobs claim they “deserve.” And the sole reason they deserve these jobs. they’ll explain, is by virtue of their great great great great great grandparents having landed here, seasick, corseted, and white as a Queens’s ass.

   

   These people aren’t even on the right. They are leftists. This is the Woke Reich. Only instead of Queer pride being their mantra, they use whiteness or the “right” form of trad Christianity. It’s critical race theory repackaged by white racialists. Or, as we used to call them back in the 1900s, progressives.

6. Two words: objective correlative (click the pic if you haven’t seen it in its most perfect form. Trust me.)

   

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