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Delta Farce [2007)

Just when you think Donald Trump can’t get any more idiotic, he goes and insults the intelligence of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (calling him “the dumbest member of the Kennedy clan”).

https://t.me/real_DonaldJTrump/16737

In so doing, Donald Trump has signaled that he still believes his Operation Warp Speed vaccines to be “safe and effective” (they are neither).

Furthermore, Trump has signaled that he intends to alienate all those who voted for him in 2016 and/or 2020 and with whom Kennedy’s message (as brilliantly laid out in the book The Real Anthony Fauci) resonates (including yours truly).

But this problem (denying the awful truth of the COVID vaccines) has plagued Trump for the past four years.

Now Trump has a new problem:  Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first world leaders (along with Boris Johnson) to congratulate Joe Biden on his “victory” in 2020.

This pissed Trump off (as well it should have).

But Trump’s delusions don’t end with his safe and effective vaccines.

Donald Trump’s blind allegiance to Israel is a threat to American national security.

And sadly, RFK Jr.’s brilliance appears to begin and end with the vaccine issue.

RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are equally moronic and callous when it comes to blind faith in Israel and willful blindness regarding the disproportionate riposte (to put it nicely) Israel has leveled against Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. 

Trump and RFK Jr. don’t care about the 34,000+ dead men, women, and children in Gaza.

They only care about securing that juicy Israeli support.

Trump “loves America”, but he doesn’t have the balls or brains to admit his vaccines are worse than worthless.

He doesn’t have any moral backbone when it comes to telling the truth about those vaccines.

Trump “loves America”, but he doesn’t give a fuck about all the Americans who have been killed by his precious vaccines.

https://openvaers.com/covid-data

At least RFK Jr. sees that (and speaks about it…at great cost of derision to himself).

Then there’s Cornel West.

West is a genius when it comes to Palestine and Israel.

But a moron when it comes to the COVID vaccines.

West is getting even less traction than RFK Jr.

Wonder why.

Because he’s not kissing Israeli ass à la Kennedy?

Joe Biden, of course, may be even worse on the COVID vaccines than Trump.

Biden coerced millions of Americans to take these unsafe, ineffective vaccines.

Trump merely encouraged people to take them.

As for Israel and Palestine, Genocide Joe keeps arming Israel.

So Joe, like Trump, is a failure on both issues.

RFK Jr. and West are a failure on one of the two issues.

And a success on one of the two issues.

The only person to be getting any traction whatsoever from their anti-genocide stance is Jill Stein.

But the traction she is getting is very, very little.

I could be wrong, but it seems Jill Stein has not said jack shit about the COVID vaccines.

So she is basically just Cornel West with a bit more traction.

And West was far more vocal when it mattered.

Stein wasn’t able to register on the pro-Palestine radar (as far as I know) until a couple of days ago.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/4/29/us-presidential-candidate-speaks-out-after-anti-war-protest-arrest

So all of these candidates fail basic tests regarding intelligence (ability to do rudimentary research with integrity) and humanity (empathy for everyone…even the “out group” [Palestinians]).

RFK Jr., as it turns out, is BY FAR the smartest candidate, but he has no empathy for the 15,000 dead children in Gaza.

He has no empathy for the 7,500 dead women in Gaza.

He has no empathy for the 7,500 dead men in Gaza (were they all HAMAS militants?).

Two candidates are morons with empathy:  Cornel West and Jill Stein.

And two candidates (the two most likely to win) are heartless nincompoops:  Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

At this point, the only positive thing I can say about Trump is that he has the best position (of all these candidates) regarding the U.S. southern border.

Other than that, he is an utter failure (both morally and intellectually).

That being said, Trump is a marginal improvement over Biden if only these three issues are under consideration (COVID vaccines, Palestine/Israel, and illegal immigration/border security).

All of this foretells of a very bleak future for America.

The only hopes:

A.  Trump comes clean on the vaccines and recognizes the evil Israel has wrought in Gaza 

B.  RFK Jr. opens his fucking eyes to the genocidal slaughter of Palestinians at the hands of Israelis

C.  Cornel West buys a clue (good place to start is with RFK Jr.’s book)

D.  Jill Stein goes full-truth (all she has to do is visit OpenVAERS…is that so fucking hard for a “doctor”?!?)

E.  Joe Biden tells Israel to fuck off and apologizes for his totalitarian wielding of the COVID vaccines

All of these possibilities seem HIGHLY UNLIKELY.

If given the choice of all these candidates, I pick RFK Jr.

Genocide via vaccine has been a greater killer than even Israel has been in Gaza.

[only about 1% of vaccine adverse events and reactions (including deaths) are reported to the voluntary CDC/FDA VAERS system.  Likewise, it appears the system stopped accepting (quite a while ago) ANY REPORTS WHATSOEVER regarding the three COVID vaccines which were/are available in the USA.  Re: point #1, you must add a couple of zeros to the “reports of death” to arrive at an accurate number.  Not 37,000 but 3.7 mil.]

However, if the choice is between Biden and Trump, I would choose Trump.

That said, if RFK Jr. makes it on the ballot in Texas, I would be very tempted to vote for him.

Trump can’t cling to his beloved vaccines and to Israel both.

Both entities (COVID vaccines and the IDF) have been on a murderous rampage.

Trump is the moron.

RFK Jr. is the genius.

Too bad Kennedy apparently has no heart.

-PD

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Corner Store [2010)

I previously reviewed the Palestinian masterpiece خمس كاميرات محطمة‎‎ (Five Broken Cameras).

And we shall return to Palestine with another moving documentary.

Another masterpiece.

For this one we have a very perceptive American director to thank:  Katherine Bruens.

But all of it would be for naught if not for a shining example of humanity:  corner store owner Yousef Elhaj.

The occupation of Palestine can elicit such feelings of anger and disgust (as well it should).

But every once in a while a real kind spirit comes along.

And such kind spirits shame the despicable Israeli settlers and their vulture military even more so than the most vitriolic polemic.

Yousef Elhaj is such a person.

Sweet.  Hardworking.  Kind.  Quiet.  Patient.  Hardworking.

And (big surprise) a Christian.

Here we see a different perspective from 5 Broken Cameras.

I suppose we are used to assuming that all Palestinians are Muslims (and a vast majority are), but it is interesting to see things from a different perspective.

Elhaj’s life in Bethlehem (occupied West Bank) was just as crappy as that of any Muslim living there or in any other part of the criminally unrecognized Palestine.

Another important point…  Being Christian does not make Elhaj any less Arab.

Most importantly…  Peace in the Middle East is possible because of people like Yousef Elhaj.

He is really a jaw-dropping personage.

So much sacrifice for his family.

7:30 a.m.-midnight.

Seven days a week.

A little corner store on Church St. in San Francisco.

And to see life in Bethlehem.

To see the hell of walls and settlements which the Israelis have erected.

The settlements encroach.  The settlements surround.

Bethlehem is completely encircled by concrete structures which are too artless for even Frank Gehry to barf on.

That’s what settlements mean.

Don’t let the euphemism fool you.

“Settlements” are concrete apartment blocks built on stolen land.

That would be bad enough were it not for the ubiquitous (and racist) walls which stockade Palestine.

And yet we don’t see anger from Mr. Elhaj.

He isn’t shown at a protest.

He just wants his family to be alright.

And his main emotion upon seeing the decline of his home town of Bethlehem is sadness.

The Israeli gun towers.  Turrets to protect the settlers.  And to hell with everyone else.

The sadness as a business man is remarkable.

What made him leave in the first place.

Things weren’t just bad.  They were awful.

And so he has been away from his family for ten years.

He could have brought them to the U.S., but our immigration laws are not written to think of people as people.

Rather, our laws reduce people to statistics.

Quotas.

I can only figure that Mr. Elhaj (as bad as things were for him) actually had it better than Muslim Palestinians hoping to start a new life in America.  [Which is to say, Muslims in general are not in an enviable position at this time regarding their leverage in situations of immigration review.]

So let’s think about it…

Bernie Sanders might be a generally disposable candidate, but he’s gotten a couple things right.

When he talks about America’s strength being its diversity?  He’s absolutely right.

It’s trite.  It’s Democrat politics 101…but it is correct.

And Mr. Trump (whom I like)…  Wanna see what walls do?  Go check out Palestine.  Actually get in the open-air jail.  Don’t view it from a safe distance courtesy of the occupiers.

The walls are ugly.

Sad.

Pathetic.

Fearful.

Weak.

Mr. Elhaj has so much to teach us in this documentary.

You can succeed in America.

The opportunity is there.

It may not be pretty.

But when you’re coming from the hell of Bethlehem, it’s a walk in the park.

You do it all for your family.

Seven days a week.

For ten years.

 

-PD

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خمس كاميرات محطمة‎ [2011)

[5 BROKEN CAMERAS (2011)]

Israel is the most shameful country on Earth.

But America is not far behind.

Israeli soldiers are cowardly, repugnant beasts.

With their high-tech weapons.

It is the same for America.

The Jews of Israel who occupy the Palestinian West Bank are disgusting semblances of human life.

They need their walls.

They need to steal land.

Oh, sounds very progressive for the cause of Zion.

So very brave that these automata in their yarmulkes move in to the olive fields of Arabs.

They set the olive trees on fire.

That sounds like an outrageous claim.

But it is nothing compared to kidnapping children.

The Israeli military kidnaps children in West Bank villages.

Why?

To try and terrorize these subsistence farmers into ceasing their protests.

And why are these farmers from small villages protesting?

Because their land is being gobbled up little by little.

“Hey, I was using that land…by the way.”

Picking olives.

So the Israeli Humvees roll in at night.

Spielberg’s pathetic imagination could never conjure what documentary filmmaker Emad Burnat captured on film.

Israelis should be puking in the streets and smearing themselves with their own shit…in shame for what their military does in their name.

And America is not far behind.

Israeli soldiers with weak faces knocking on the doors in a West Bank village.

If there are children inside, the children are taken.

It is shock and awe…Stockholm syndrome…terroristic tactics of which Goebbels would have approved.

The weak Jews who move into settlements (concrete apartment blocks) on stolen land.

All they can yell is, “I’ll sue you.  I’ll sue you.”

How dare you film me as I move into my new patriotic Israeli home?

How dare you film the scramble of settlers eager to establish false legitimacy?

What kind sick people allow their military to shoot at children?

In this film.

Never a single gun among the Palestinians.

The only rocks they throw are when the Israeli stormtroopers roll through their village in an arrogant convoy.

But the children who are shot…

The incessant tear gas…

The stun grenades thrown at people…

These every day occurrences…rather, every Friday.

The villagers of Bil’in protesting a wall.

A nonviolent protest.

And every time (every fucking time) the Israelis disperse the crowd by means of violence.

People die.

People holding nothing but Palestinian flags.

Unarmed.

In the middle of fucking nowhere.

But it’s THEIR nowhere!

It’s where the olives grow.

“Hey…your wall has cut us off from the trees.  Our trees are now on your side of the wall.”

This film, 5 Broken Cameras, shows the struggle of a filmmaker who suffered more in making this film over five years than Jean-Luc Godard suffered making films over a lifetime.

And yet, Godard is the best of the Westerners.

The only one with a conscience.

He was in Palestine in the 70s.

No other filmmaker comes close to the integrity of Godard.

Except for Emad “The Real Deal” Burnat.

Immense credit is due to the Israelis who joined the struggle with their Palestinian brothers and sisters.

Co-director Guy Davidi was one.

Immense credit is due to Kino Lorber for releasing this film.

Immense credit is due to Hulu for currently streaming this film.

Last I checked, it was also available on Apple iTunes.  Great work, Apple!

Emad Burnat threatens to unseat Abbas Kiarostami as the most relevant Middle Eastern director.

Emad Burnat lays his cards on the table in a metaphorical game of poker with Abdellatif Kechiche.

There are real tears to be cried, do you understand?

I like a good lesbian fuckfest as much as the next bloke, but these are real tears, do you understand, Adèle Exarchopoulos?

We want to see beauty.  We want to see stories which mirror our pathetic little lives.

But 5 Broken Cameras shows you hell on Earth.

Palestine.

Norman Finkelstein is a two-face Janus (which is to say, a Janus).

And so am I.

But I am so out of fear.

I am human.

[Finkelstein attacked BDS for not boycotting 5 Broken Cameras.  That’s an intel op move.  Princeton.  Princeton.]

If you’re not afraid to post something, then it’s probably not important.

 

-PD

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