F**king Mondays: World War III? Trump On Trial, Left Wing Racism, And America Is Insane
It’s that time of the week again!
It’s that time of the week again! Welcome to another edition of “F**king Mondays!” In the round up today:
World War III? Not quite.
Israel and Iran have been fighting a proxy war for many years now, but over the weekend, the conflict took a potentially dangerous turn. In response to Israel killing three top Iranian commanders in Syria earlier this month, Iran fired hundreds of missiles and drones directly at Israel.
Social media and the global stock market freaked out immediately on the news, and many people confidently asserted this was the beginning of World War III.
For long time observers of Israel, Iran and the Middle East, the finer details pointed to something far less exciting. Iran had loudly proclaimed it would be striking Israel, and then notified its neighbors of the planned attack 72 hours in advance. Israel and her Western allies then intercepted almost all of the drones and missiles and sustained minimal damage.
While the number of drones and missiles was substantial, the Iranians are well aware of Israel’s extremely sophisticated defensive capabilities and knew there would be little chance of doing real damage. After the attack failed, Iran then declared their “defensive” attack was over. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has no intention of continuing defensive operations, but if necessary it will not hesitate to protect its legitimate interests against any new aggression,” foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on social media.
If Iran had genuinely wanted to inflict damage, another attack would have followed. Their aim instead was to signal to Israel and the rest of the world that they can’t be pushed around. This meant a performative strike that had almost no chance of success.
Israel will of course respond to the strike, but a counter attack will be carefully calibrated to deescalate and return the conflict to previous levels of aggression.
The situation in the Middle East is extremely volatile right now, but the prospects of a widening conflict is small — at least for now.
Trump is on trial
Today, Trump is on trial in Manhattan for the $130,000 payment his lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. He is facing 34 counts of falsifying his business records, and by the looks of things, they aren’t going well. Reports The Daily Beast:
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office wants the judge overseeing the first trial against a former American president to start it off with a lunging attack, asking the court to personally sanction Donald Trump for his verbal onslaught against witnesses in the case.
Shortly after noon, assistant district attorney Christopher Conroy formally asked the judge to fine Trump “$1,000 for each post that violates the court order,” “direct the defendant to take down the offending posts,” and “remind him that further violations could result in jail time.” He then elicited laughter in the courtroom when he noted that one of the offensive posts was made “at 9:12 this morning.”
“It’s entirely possible it was done in this courthouse,” Conroy said.
Our advice? Grab the popcorn. It’s going to get a lot crazier than this.
This is not liberalism
I’m thinking of making this a feature in the “F**king Mondays” column because much of the left is in serious danger of turning into something very, very sinister. This was from “Race2Dinner” founder and good friend of The Banter Saira Rao:
Rao’s claim to fame is charging white women insane amounts of money to be told they are racist while having dinner with her. Her social media activity is a truly frightening and a testament to what happens when left wing identity politics isn’t kept in check.
Rao’s response to Iran’s attack on Israel is also illustrative of the far left’s near total detachment from reality. She not only brought up Hochul’s race for no reason, but labeled her a “Nazi” and a “Zionist,” The belief that Jews should have a homeland in historic Israel is of course not compatible with the belief that Jews should be exterminated. But then identity politics adherents have designated Jews “white oppressor” status, so it is fine to ignore their history and label call them and anyone who supports Israel a “Nazi”.
Predictably, Rao has designated Iran “oppressed” status, no doubt due to Iranians’ skin color (even if most Israelis are actual darker). This is also odd given Iran is a fascist theocracy with a terrifying track record of grotesque misogyny, persecution of sexual minorities, and systemic racism. In comparison, Israel is a haven of tolerance and racial equity, but according to Rao, none of this matters because Jews are “white” and must be in the wrong.
Rao’s hatred of white people and Jews is so pathological she posts mantras about it on Twitter:
According to the far left, Rao is an “anti-racist.” To sane people however, Rao is just a plain old racist.
Americans are insane
A recent New York Times/Siena College poll found the following:
Under Trump, America descended into endless nightmare of racial turmoil, devastating sickness, and criminal scandal unlike anything the nation had ever seen. While Trump was passing tax cuts for billionaires, millions of Americans were lining up at food banks for the first time, The former president was impeached twice, tried to overturn the election, then incited a violent insurrection in the US Capitol.
When you compare that with Joe Biden’s America in 2024, the difference is stark. Not only has Biden overseen the end of the pandemic with a highly successful vaccination campaign, we have seen a huge jobs boom, a surge in the stock market that dwarfs Trump’s, no scandals (other than fictitious ones), and a return of America’s standing in the world. Americans have more access to cheaper health care than ever before, and tens of millions of people have and will benefit from his student loan forgiveness program.
George W. Bush presided over one of the dumbest wars in human history, and it took electing a man even worse than him to partially rehabilitate his image a decade later. Americans have not only forgiven Trump for almost ending democracy in under four years, half of them are willing to put him back in office at the end the year.
It is true that attention spans have decreased significantly in the age of social media, but this is ridiculous. Do we need some sort of intervention?
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According to some extreme left wing liberals the American civil war never ended, every state in the south East, including Georgia, should be wiped from the face of the earth and according to these extremist they deserve it because of their leaders idiocy It’s also become acceptable to define the entire south east as one big racist community even though there are more white supremest in California than any state, not bashing CA just making a point.
These the states that gave us Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and and not in a vacuum. I’m from NC and along with my family there are life long democrats.
These south is fair game to any self righteous extremist on the left. No ones worth saving although even Texas is 46% democrat at this point and others follow.
Also they need to brush up on the red state map which goes up to the Canadian border. These are the ones, these extremist, that are calling for civil war actually saying they want chaos, they want the death of all these Americans and it’s okay because after all it’s the south but last time I looked it was part of our United States of America. We need these states to go blue but they would have them dead, truly dead and they identify as democrats. I see racism all over the country so where would this civil war take place?
Ignorance is the most wicked, the most dangerous animal in our country. These extremist are ignorant.
As always, a lot to digest here (which is the goal of course). Props to Iran for going out of their way to ensure nobody got hurt with their little cock swinging show. Iran, Israel, and Hamas all need a time out. Give em some crackers, apple slices, and juice and tell them to think about their actions for a moment. That's all that's happening here. Damaged men with bruised egos, trying to one up and dominate each other -- while countless civilians die, starve, or get maimed in the process. That's all Putin is doing as well, spreading his seed all over Europe. Same here at home, instead of cohabitating and collaborating for the benefit of all, which is what centrists do, extremists are up for an all or nothing death match. Meanwhile, why would that racist shrew you spotlighted today stop her attacks, you reprinted and amplified her messages, she's winning. Much like Azealia Banks who releases more tirades on X than songs on Spotify.