Elliot Resnick

If you think Israel is the problem, by all means ally yourself with the Arab countries. It didn't work a single time you tried it in the past but, hey, just because it didn't work the last 80 years doesn't mean it can't work now.

To argue that a man like Abdul El-Sayed won because of the Iran war or gas prices is utterly insane. If American schools and the media didn't brainwash people to hate this country, he would have lost 90%-10%.

Bill Clinton once said you can tell if a person is a conservative or a liberal based on his reaction to the 1960s. I believe you can tell if a person is a red-blooded American based on his reaction to Trump renaming the Defense Department the War Department.

Democrats are appalled when Trump calls the press "the enemy of the people." Which is why I was delighted to discover that General William Tecumseh Sherman – whom I think most people would agree was a patriot – also called the press a "public enemy." And then there's this gem of a quote from him, which Trump can surely identify with: "if I ran for president, I'd wake up some morning and find all over the papers that I'd poisoned my grandmother. Now you know I never saw my mother's mother, but the newspapers would say I killed her, and *prove* it."

An interesting line I recently read in "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens: "Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts."

Wow, I wasn't expecting to see this title. This is the first frum book I've ever seen that challenges the self-esteem craze. It's about time.

Is Killing Innocents Christian? @TuckerCarlson doesn't think so, but a very long Chrstian war tradition suggests otherwise. Read my thoughts in The American Spectator: spectator.org/is-killing-inn….)

Tuesday marked five years since I – and hundreds of other Americans – stormed the Capitol building in an effort to stop the certification of a highly suspicious election. Conventional wisdom deems us hooligans, at best. "What was the point?" people ask. "What did you think you would accomplish?" It's funny. No one asks about the point of the current protests in Iran considering that previous rounds of protest have only ended in failure and death. No one asks about the point of the storming of the presidential residence in Sri Lanka in 2022. No one asks about the point of radical protests against judicial reform in Israel in 2023. For that matter, no one asks about the point of constant unruly leftist protests in America. For everyone understands that protests make a statement, create a mood, and exert pressure on the political class. If the protests are illegal or unruly, the effect is multiplied. It shouldn't be, but facts are facts. Leftists have been protesting phantom racism for years. But did they ever achieve more than they did in the aftermath of the George Floyd riots? No, they did not. Thomas Jefferson's statue wasn't removed from New York's City Hall in 1990 or 2000 or 2010. But it was removed after the George Floyd riots. The same is true of the Theodore Roosevelt statue that used to stand outside Manhattan's Museum of Natural History. On a more practical plane, only after the George Floyd riots did New York Mayor Bill de Blasio eliminate his city's undercover crime unit. Only after the riots did Hollywood establish race quotas for Oscar-eligible films. And likely only due to those riots do we have a lightweight like Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice. People might say: But what did the January 6 protests accomplish? Congress certified the suspicious election results anyways. And if we wanted Trump to stay in the White House – well, he returned to White House in 2025 and is doing more than he would have done had he served his second term starting in 2021. True. But we had no way of knowing that on January 6, 2021. Congress certifying the election results wasn't inevitable. On January 2, seven U.S. senators had issued a public call to establish an emergency election commission – like the one set up in the wake of the contested 1876 election – that would get to the bottom of the questions swirling around the election before Inauguration Day. Pressure from the January 6 protest could have strengthened their hand. The protest could have also strengthened Trump's hand had a decent portion of the Republican party and conservative movement supported him and not immediately thrown all January 6 protesters under the bus. Trump could have said to the Democrats, "Look, I didn't want any of this. But clearly the people are furious and things are starting to spin out of control. Work with me. Let's come up with a compromise. Let's set up an independent commission to audit the election results. I will try to tell my people to calm down, but I need to give them something. Help me out." That's exactly the strategy the left used in the summer of 2021 as they let rioters take over American cities. They essentially said to the right, "Look, we don't really agree with street violence, but we understand the masses' righteous indignation, and we're not going to try to quell these riots until the root causes are addressed." "But Trump became president anyway!" Yes, he did. But that wasn't inevitable in 2021. Had Biden not been an utter trainwreck and Harris such an underwhelming candidate, Trump could have easily lost in 2024. Then what? Would our efforts to ensure proper election results in 2021 still have seemed crazy? Incidentally, just the other week a lawyer representing Georgia in court publicly acknowledged that the state illegally certified 315,000 ballots. And then we have the head of an official Wisconsin election commission who thinks his state's results were fraudulent. So was the election indeed stolen? I don't know. But I do know that enough questions were hovering over it that Congress had no right to proceed on January 6 without a proper audit. And I know too that when you are a crowd of hundreds, and the entrance to Congress – the place from which highly suspicious election results are about to be certified – is a few hundred feet away from you and guarded by just 10 unimposing law enforcement officials, you have to be insane not to utilize the opportunity to walk into Congress to register your protest. Not every protest is successful. But even the unsuccessful ones put the political class on alert and thus influence the future. They also serve as an inspiration for future activists. That's why the current protests in Iran are a net good. Hopefully they will succeed. But even if they don't, no one will have died in vain. For the government will act differently in the future and the protests will inspire others to protest again when the time is right. Finally, I will say this: We never know the future. We only know the moment in front of us. Edmund Burke allegedly said a long time ago: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." On January 6, 2021, I – and thousands of others – saw a grave evil being committed. So we acted. As patriotic Americans, we couldn't have done otherwise. @CarsoJ6 @JohnStrandUSA @mericanaf7 @MarkFMiddleton @GeriPerna @drsimonegold @Savsays @alexbruesewitz @TzniusTifa @IsabellaMDeLuca @LauraLoomer @VinceEEllison @realDonaldTrump

The shooting in Australia was unfortunately predictable. When you lie incessantly about Israel and give anti-Semitism free reign, this is what happens. Elected officials: How about telling the truth and according Jews the same respect you give blacks and aborigines?