Tag: unique voices

Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin on the killing in Gaza

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UPDATE: I hope and believe Trump is striving to sideline Jewish Supremist fanatics through diplomacy with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and others in the region. If Trump and GCC are successful, Israel will no longer be able to goad USA into wars-for-Israel or by themselves seize control of the Middle East and establish their Greater Israel fantasy. Instead, GCC plus others, with US backing, will become a collective hegemon of the Middle East and, ideally, focus on prosperity and peace rather than endless fighting. I know it’s a rough world but odds are not too bad, especially since Israel has lost so much respect and soft power over the past year. ABN

‘The Black Swan Election’: Trump’s Campaign Chiefs Tell Their Inside Story

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…Let’s talk about Trump as a cultural phenomenon because I think of two things. The McDonald’s drive-through and the garbage truck, both things that broke into the pop culture conversation, even beyond our world. Could any other candidate do that?

Fabrizio: MMA fights. Joe Rogan. We think of them as very specific things, but the symbolism — It says something about him that she couldn’t capture.

Where she’s doing the big speech or having the big debate, the conventional warfare, traditional campaign tactics. Donald Trump goes to the McDonald’s drive-through. But in the year 2024, when we’re all living on our phones, a big speech at the Ellipse vs. Trump at the drive-through, which is going to break through?

LaCivita: Donald Trump is a man who has made a large part of his living in a visual medium: TV. He understands that politics is a visual medium. And so he looks at everything through the prism of that. And your average candidate for public office doesn’t look at the world that way.

He’s also a celebrity.

LaCivita: Defined outside the realm of politics. He has his own persona and definition outside of politics.

And because of that, some of the stuff he says …

LaCivita: He gets away with, he does.

He’s not graded as a politician. He’s graded as a celebrity.

Fabrizio: I know this is going to sound counterintuitive, but when he says stuff that makes people go — (grimaces) — it only reinforces that …

LaCivita: … He’s not a politician, exactly!

…Is there one big thing that you think we’re missing in this campaign that was enormously consequential or at least significant?

LaCivita: You guys have written about the impact of the assassination attempt. But I don’t think people give enough credit to the fact that the world has a visual. It’s an iconic visual. But I don’t think people have given enough credit to that visual.

Him holding up his fist.

LaCivita: And what that visual means. And what the visual conveys. Not only about him, but the country as a whole. Americans get knocked down, but they always fight back. And that visual is as quintessential America as the fucking flag is.

Fabrizio: I am always amazed, I’ve learned not to be amazed, but he has this ability in most cases to put his finger on something. And you say to yourself: “Where did he come up with that?” But he just does. Then you test it and, holy shit, he’s right.

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Excellent interview. Fun read. Well worth reading. ABN

Kenneth Copeland’s unique style

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I am posting this because Copeland is a highly unique speaker. He is also a preacher and I post stuff on both speech and religion. This kind of video can be interpreted as insulting to Copeland but I am definitely not posting it for that reason and do not believe that is the only interpretation. This video also highlights Copeland’s dramatic and idiosyncratic speech and facial mannerisms, which to some degree are characteristic of some Christian preachers. I personally am on the side of all good religions and all good people. ABN

Arizona rancher describes life on the forefront of the border crisis

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‘That’s a rape tree,’ he said, pointing out the women’s clothes thrown into the thorny branches. 

‘Almost all the women who come across get raped by their guides, who then they throw their underwear in the trees.’

The trees have been spotted up and down the border. Academics talk of them as warnings or trophies in the brutal symbolism of violent gangs. 

17 dead bodies, rape trees and migrants crawling on his land: Arizona rancher armed with a Glock describes life on the frontlines of the border crisis as Republicans push bill to allow landowners to shoot trespassers