Re: [Salon] Jim Jordan Cold Open - SNL - YouTube

[Todd Pierce <todd.e.pierce@icloud.com>]

I’d meant to include here as “contrast,” between "Old,” and “New,” The American Conservative, as this is what they used to publish on the subject of Victor Davis Hanson, which I was fully in agreement with then, and today:

2005 - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/its-all-greek-to-victor-davis-hanson/

2006 - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-political-hack-like-no-other/

2007 - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/hanson-is-baffled-which-doesnt-really-surprise-me/



And this after their “Come to Trump Moment,” which I fully disagreed with then, and continue to today:

2019 - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-classicist-makes-the-case-for-trump-victor-davis-hanson/

Which helps explain my criticism of that magazine since that change took place beginning some time before 2015, with these organizations becoming increasingly their source of writers and editors: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1o4BAyd7GU
Victor Davis Hanson | Nationalism Good and Bad: Lessons from History

Hillsdale College


and this one: 
https://www.claremont.org/events/victor-davis-hanson-receives-statesmanship-award-at-2006-churchill-dinner/?act=eventArcDetails&eId=victor-davis-hanson-receives-statesmanship-award-at-2006-churchill-dinner


> On Oct 24, 2023, at 1:30 PM, Todd Pierce <todd.e.pierce@icloud.com> wrote:
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> Taking a look at the list of books on the Mideast that was shared earlier today, “Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump,” caught my eye, given Trump has been declared by various right-wing organizations as a Leader of “Right-wing Peaceniks.” Knowing of Trump’s valiant efforts to bring peace to the Mideast, as some have claimed, I was naturally curious how he did that!” Though the book “Blind Spot” only gets to Trump’s “Peace” in the Epilogue, let me share that with people here, not to take away any sales of the book:
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> <Epilogue.pdf>
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> What other American President had the courage to give Netanyahu and the Israeli “Extreme Radical Right,” everything they asked for! Which the Epilogue lists pretty  correctly: Move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem, the gift of the Golan Heights, even with that being illegal; greenlighting the Settlers, their Movement, and their rampages and violence upon Palestinians; and joining with Netanayhu in waging what the NYT pointed out was their “clandestine war against Iran,” not to mention withdrawal from the JCPOA. All reasons they wanted Obama out, and Trump in! And did all the “Cognitive Warfare” election interference possible in achieving that!
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> So it was with pain that I watched this mockery of Trump’s chosen Speaker of the House, Jim Jordan, by those “Libs” at Saturday Night Live. With it just like Saturday Night Live to ridicule a good “Zionist American” like Jim Jordan, as they did so often with the same of his Patrón, Donald Trump.
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-BpHdYFK8&t=348s
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> So to repair Jordan’s reputation and standing, here are major reasons all here should call Congress and demand Jordan be anointed Speaker!
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> 1. https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/02/rep-jim-jordan-visits-israel-and-tours-temple-mount-with-former-knesset-member-who-is-later-arrested.html
> BLUF: “Israel is America’s closest ally and great friend,” it said. “Great to travel there this week with @RepMikeJohnson, visit historical and holy sites and meet with Prime Minister @Netanyahu.”
> and: "Media in Israel reported Glick was arrested after bringing Jordan and Johnson through the site, for being “provocative,” as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency put it, or “walking too slow,” as JewishPress.com reported.”
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> Being “provocative” I’m sure was not a problem for Jordan, with his courage to stand with Netanayhu! Like all the Right-wing Peaceniks! Who to a man or woman are  all in for Israel’s annihilation of Gazan’s/Palestinians/Iranians, as I’ve heard repeatedly and endlessly on "Right-wing Peacenik TV” as Israel could nit have had an even better “friend” as House Speaker, than “Jim Jordan!” Except for any other “Freedom (for Israel) Caucus” member than Jim Jordan!
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> Talk about Jordan’s resilience, and loyalty, to Netanyahu; it’s all here: 
> https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/ohio-congressman-jim-jordan-has-faced-a-rocky-road-on-his-bid-to-become-the-next-speaker-of-the-house/
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> https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/jordan-statement-attacks-israel
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> https://rsc-hern.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-johnson-former-chairman-jordan-meet-israeli-pm-netanyahu-jerusalem
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> On the subject of “Right-wing Fanatics,” oops, I mean “Right-wing Peaceniks," here’s another favorite of the National Conservatives (NatCons), and of the “new” The American Conservative magazine: 
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> https://nationalconservatism.org/nt_author/hanson/
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> and his pitch here for Trump: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-classicist-makes-the-case-for-trump-victor-davis-hanson/
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> So instead of the “Strongman Trump,” we have the “weak” Biden, so we don’t get this:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0cgViEcc8
> BLUF: Why did Hamas attack now?
> Israel & Palestine | The Politics of War | Victor Davis Hanson
> "Hanson argues that Israel is in a unique position to retaliate unencumbered by American opposition, due to the bi-partisan support it currently has in the US. However, he contends that conflicts like this, and others such as the war in Ukraine, would probably not have transpired had President Trump still been at the helm."
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> And the constant theme I hear on Right-wing Peacenik TV is that Biden has to “get out of the way” of Israel, so they “can have their way” with the Palestinians, of Gaza, and the West Bank, and Iran, and anyone Iran (and Russia and China) has ever backed. It’s a “Trifecta” for war, from these “Peaceniks!” And for what Yoram Hazony and the Natcons have so diligently worked for since Hazony worked for Netanayhu, and escalated as “National Conservatism” for export to Europe (see Meloni) and the U.S. (I won’t name names). 
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> Though to be fair to the libertarians who so diligently work for “tax impunity” for the Oligarchs like Charles Koch who’ve worked so hard with his money to silence BDS, and profit off our wars as a member in good standing of the Military Industrial Complex as Koch Industries, here’s a critical view of Yoram Hazony and his NatCons: 
> https://www.cato.org/commentary/about-national-conservatism-statement
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> And to be fair to the author of this piece, and CATO, she does drop a line supporting U.S. support of the war in Ukraine, as one would expect of an employee of Charles Koch: "Ukraine’s defense against Russian invasion” . . ."
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