Category: Enemy

Trump Remains His Own Worst Enemy. Here’s Why.

MATT MARGOLIS | 2:08 PM ON JANUARY 07, 2024
SEE: https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/01/07/trump-remains-his-own-worst-enemy-heres-why-n4925281; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
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Donald Trump wants to replace the poorly named Affordable Care Act with something better, and I’m all for it. Obamacare not only managed to send premiums skyrocketing, but made coverage so much worse. I can’t say enough bad things about it. The only time I ever saw my premium go down was during the Trump administration, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence. The biggest spike in premiums occurred in November, when I found out that if I renewed my plans as is, it would cost me nearly $300 more a month.

I’m sure I’m not the only person who experienced sticker shock this year. And when you add the pain of inflation into the mix, it seems likely there will be renewed hunger to fix the broken system Barack Obama made for us.

And yet the discussion about appealing Obamacare got sidelined on Friday when Trump was speaking in Iowa and not only blasted the legislation but also John McCain, who inexplicably saved it in July 2017, despite campaigning on the promise to kill Obamacare and replace it with something that actually worked.

Criticizing the late John McCain for his inexplicable and detrimental vote is absolutely fair, but Trump managed to make a heaping mess of his criticism. The first thing I heard about that rally was that Trump said, “Obamacare is a catastrophe; nobody talks about it. Without John McCain, we would’ve had it done. John McCain, for some reason, couldn’t get his arm up that day."

When I saw this quote, I cringed.

In 2008, the Obama-Biden campaign accused John McCain of being out of touch and old-fashioned because he didn't know how to use a computer or send emails. The ad backfired because the issue wasn't so much that McCain didn't know how to use them, but that his war injuries made it impossible. McCain's war injuries were well known at that point, having been discussed by the media years prior. His injuries prevented him from combing his own hair or typing on a keyboard, among other daily activities many people take for granted. As the Boston Globe noted in 2000, he couldn't "raise his arm above his shoulder."

There was no excuse for such an insensitive attack, and certainly Donald Trump should know better than to allude to McCain's injuries that way.

Naturally, it prompted a response from John McCain's daughter, Meghan McCain.

“My dad was an American hero,” she wrote in a post on X/Twitter. “An icon. A patriot that will be remembered throughout history. I cannot buy a bagel without someone approaching me about how much they loved and miss him."

Related: Is This Trump's Biggest Unforced Error of the 2024 Campaign?

Even if we give Trump the benefit of the doubt that he didn't know that McCain's injuries prevented him from being able to raise his arms, it was still a sloppy way to address the issue. Now the media is scrambling to push the narrative that Trump was mocking McCain's injuries from his time as a prisoner of war rather than discussing the faults of Obamacare. In a way, it's hard to blame them, because that's exactly the impression I got from seeing the quote.

Trump needs to be much more disciplined going forward because these are the kinds of mistakes he can't afford to make in such a consequential election.

American Muslims for Palestine Director: A ‘Jewish Person’ is ‘Enemy Number One’

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REPUBLISHED, SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/american-muslims-for-palestine-director-a-jewish-person-is-enemy-number-one

AMP’s co-founder also created Students for Justice in Palestine.

The Biden administration was forced to condemn CAIR after its boss, Nihad Awad, who had a history of supporting Hamas, attended the American Muslims for Palestine conference and bragged about how happy he was about the Oct 7 attacks.

Awad claims that his remarks were taken “out of context.”

Now here’s Taher Herzallah, Outreach and Grassroots Organizing Director for AMP, talking about how Jewish people are the enemy. “Anybody who has any relationship or any support or identifies himself as a Jewish person or as a Christian Zionist then we shall not be their friend, I will tell you they are enemy number one and our community needs to recognize that.”

I’m guessing this one will also be described as “taken out of context.”

The AMP conference included Awad, Herzallah, and Hatem Bazian, the co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, as well as AMP, who pretty much single-handedly made antisemitism the norm on college campuses.

Also present were Lena Masri, CAIR’s Civil Rights Director, and Fatima Mohammed: whose deranged CUNY Law grad speech went viral.

See if you can spot the pattern here.

Taher Herzallah is just quoting the Koran.

“O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends with one another. He among you who taketh them for friends is one of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.”

(Koran 5:51)

So this hatred of Jews or Christians didn’t emerge on Oct 7 or 1967, 1948 or during any recent period. It was always there. It’s just more out in the open now.

California: Muslim cleric says Jews are ‘the enemies of mankind’

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/california-muslim-cleric-says-jews-are-the-enemies-of-mankind;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).

“California imam Dr. Sayed Moustafa al-Qazwini: The Jews Killed Their Prophets, Have a Sense of Entitlement, Are Liars; The Enemies of Gaza Are the Enemies of Mankind, Humanity,” MEMRI, November 17, 2023:

California imam Dr. Sayed Moustafa al-Qazwini said in a November 17, 2023, Friday sermon streamed at the Islamic Education Center of Orange County on YouTube on November 17, 2023, that the Jews have killed their prophets, have a sense of entitlement, and are liars. He said that Allah had forewarned the Jews against lying and fabricating, but the Jews justified targeting hospitals in Gaza, by claiming these are centers of Hamas, and then leading a disinformation campaign of lies and fabrications for which they can’t find proof. He prayed that Allah grant victory to the people of Gaza against its enemies, and he added that the enemies of Gaza are the enemies of Mankind and the enemies of humanity.