Republicans warn ICC prosecutor: If you target Israel, we'll target you

It's too bad they didn't do it for former President Donald Trump in his current case, but a dozen Republican senators on Monday warned the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan not to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, just a few days after Khan cautioned against attempting to sway the court.

That was red meat for the senators led by Tom Cotton (R-AR) who said in a letter, "Target Israel, and we will target you. Such actions are illegitimate and lack legal basis, and, if carried out, will result in severe sanctions against you and your institution.”

Sens. Mitch McConnell (minority leader), Rick Scott, Tim Scott, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio also signed the letter, amid increasing concern in Israel that the Muslim-dominated UN court could issue arrest warrants for senior political and military officials over their defense of Hamas in Gaza after they invaded Israel. Rather than allowing Hamas to continue killing Israelis, Israel fought back and killed Hamas terrorists, and did so with aplomb. 

But as the war approaches seven months, the ICC is looking to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.

While the US and Israel officials tried to dissuade the ICC from issuing arrest orders, Khan said the ICC "welcomes open communication" with government officials and non-government bodies, but they will only engage with them if they stick to the script, that is, as long as it's “consistent with its mandate under the Rome Statute to act independently and impartially.”

“That independence and impartiality are undermined, however, when individuals threaten to retaliate… should the office, in fulfillment of its mandate, make decisions about investigations or cases falling within its jurisdiction,” he added, demanding that “all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence its officials cease immediately.”

In spite of the symbolic crotch-protecting and shoulder rolling by the ICC, the senators wrote that the ICC “is attempting to punish Israel for taking legitimate actions of self-defense against their Iranian-backed aggressors. In fact, in your own words, you witnessed ‘scenes of calculated cruelty’ conducted by Hamas in Israel following the October 7 attacks.”

Khan, who is no fan of the, you know, Jews, visited the Jewish State last December at the request of the families of the hostages Hamas kidnapped on October 7. During his visit, he toured some of the communities  the terrorist scumbags attacked during the October 7 massacre of the innocent. He saw Kibbutz Be'eri and Kibbutz Kfar Aza, among others, and heard testimonies from survivors of the Hamas slaughter of men, women, children and babies. 

“These arrest warrants would align the ICC with the largest state sponsor of terrorism and its proxy. To be clear, there is no moral equivalence between Hamas’s terrorism and Israel’s justified response,” the senators wrote.

The mere fact that Khan and the ICC is even considering to arrest these Israeli leaders, is without doubt of their alignment and anti-Semitism.

It's only the Jews that are judged by a different standard.

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MA Air National Guardsman, the kid with top secret clearance because why?

Boston -- The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, Jack Teixeira is in federal custody and will face a judge Friday. The 21-year-old enlisted young man is being charged under the Espionage Act for allegedly sharing classified military documents on an online gaming forum. 

Homeland security so called expert questions Teixeira's access to classified documents

"We talk a lot about what we classify. Once it's classified, we now need to start talking about who has access to it," former Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Juliette Kayyem said, as she questioned the military's oversight and Teixeira's access to sensitive information.

Teixeira is an Airman 1st Class in the Guard's 102nd Intelligence Wing with an E-3 ranking, meaning he is very low in the military hierarchy and had very little time in the military. 

"Someone had confidence in him, that possibly they did a background check," Kayyem said. "Why are they not capturing this really weird behavior online?"

WBZ asked that question directly to Army intelligence officer Lt. Col. Paul Lushenko, the Deputy Director of Cornell's Tech Policy Institute.

"There's any number of ways this E-3 in the Air Force at 21-years-old could have gathered this information. Potentially deceiving his authorities to gain access to information in classified spaces," Lushenko said, which implies his authorities are idiots.

Attorney General Merrick Garland described the alleged traitor's behavior as bravado not ideology, despite sharing information about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues. This is because Attorney General Merrick Garland is quick to excuse behavior that smacks of anti-Americanism and award behavior that supports the left's agenda.

"We know that there is a whistleblower mentality with people like Edward Snowden. Regardless of that this is a violation of national law," Lushenko said, in what may seem like a minimization of traitorous behavior.

Teixeira being arrested

Sources say Teixeira will remain in FBI custody Thursday night and will make an appearance in federal court in Boston Friday.

Meanwhile, Teixeira's arrest begs the question as to how this low man on the totem pole could have such high-level access to highly classified material. For example, he leaked critical information about the war in Ukraine and Chinese relations which he posted on a chat app called Discord.

Garland said that Teixeira is being investigated for the "alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information."

"It is treason," former Bush 43 chief speechwriter Marc Thiessen told "The Story" on Thursday, "The idea that a 21-year-old kid can expose sources and methods of how we spy, how we have penetrated the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, because apparently we've exposed the fact we know they have a new hypersonic missile that can reach the United States, that they exposed our penetration of the Russian Defense Ministry, that could affect the war in Ukraine. I mean, the incompetence is stunning.

"And it wasn't, unlike Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, it wasn't ideological," Thiessen added. "It was some kid trying to show off to his friends in a gaming chat room and has literally affected global national security by doing so. How this happens is just beyond me."

Sen. Tim Scott, (R-SC), told "America Reports" the leak is a "massive, catastrophic occurrence that should never have happened."

"We're talking about imperiling likely American lives," Scott said. "We're talking about weakening our relationship with our allies, emboldening the strength of our adversaries and revealing plans about attacks and coordination for Ukraine and other allies."

The big question is who vets these people who have such sensitive access? Joe Biden?

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Scott Nevins removes board membership from social media after racist tweet targeting Tim Scott

Scott Nevins, a progressive racist scumcrumpet who calls himself a comedian, said that Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) was "uncle Tom'ing it for his life" referring to the rebuttal Scott gave to Co-President Biden's speech to a joint session of Congress last week.

Nevins came under fire for his racist remark and decided to scrub his board membership on an AIDS health organization from his Twitter and Instagram bios, probably to avoid being cancelled.

[H/T Fox News]

"Sen [Tim Scott] is uncle Tom’ing it for his life. So sad," Nevins wrote last week before deleting it. "South Carolina should be so ashamed."

Actually, when a Black person becomes a huge success and is elected to the U.S. Senate, the only people who should feel ashamed, but never do, are the ones who are upset that the Black person thinks differently than they do and refuses to stay on the Democrat plantation.

On the contrary, South Carolina should be proud to have elected Tim Scott and Nevins should learn from this disgusting racist display.

Following the racist post and his subsequent apology to avoid being canceled, Nevins removed his mention of being a board member for AIDS health organization DAP Health., although they still list him as a board member, according to the website.

In a statement to Fox News on Monday, DAP Health said the personal opinions of board members did not reflect the organization's "opinions or policies." 

Nevins apologized for the tweet in a separate post, saying he was trying to do an "ironic joke" about Scott using the racial slur in his speech. This should tell us just how funny Nevins is.

"Tonight I tried to do an ironic joke about Sen Tim Scott using the term 'Uncle Tom' in his rebuttal," Nevins wrote. "While I was shocked by his lack of self awareness, I should not have used that term myself, even in reference. That was not right. I apologize."

So, he was shocked by Tim Scott's lack of awareness? No, he was shocked that he was slammed for his racist comment.

How about Nevins' lack of awareness after using the same  racial slur when he called both former HUD Secretary Ben Carson and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott uncle Toms, both of whom are Black.

It's amazing how the left gets away with their overt racist comments and demonstrations while pretending they care about the evils of racism.

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The racist left goes after Tim Scott but forgot they wore blackface

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) went after the leftist idiot Joy Behar from "The View" after she brainlessly said that Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) doesn't "understand" systemic racism. She didn't actually explain the term, but that's how progressives try to win arguments. 

Rep. Donalds' asked "why the hell are we even listening" to her in the first place.

I would take it further and ask why the hell do we listen to any of these progressives who act like they're more virtuous than conservatives when we really know they're not. In fact when it comes to real racism, they win the prize.

The left pretends that they are tolerant, yet whenever a Black person doesn't go along with their ideology they insult them and often use racial slurs, as they did to Senator Scott, calling him an "Uncle Tim," in reference to the racist term "Uncle Tom," meaning any Black person who "acts" like a White person. Some even referred to Scott as an 'orio,' or a person who's black on the outside and white on the inside.

The thing Scott said that enraged the left to the insanity point was that "America isn't racist." He didn't imply that there was no racism in America, but as a nation, we aren't racist. 

Then there's idiot number two, Jimmy Kimmel. 

Kimmel went after Senator Scott referring to him as a token for the Republican Party and mocked him as being forced to "let the American people know the Republican Party isn't racist."

"An amazing thing happened after the speech," Kimmel said Thursday. "Every Black Republican Senator got together to let the American people know the Republican Party isn't racist." The joke is that the GOP has only one Black senator. But if Kimmel weren't an ignoramus and looked deeper, he would have discovered the Democrats have only two Black senators. 

Not much of a difference.

But how does Kimmel explain the number of progressives, including Joy Behar, who have worn blackface or have made racist comments? Of course, if you're on the left, you can apologize and be forgiven--that's never the case with conservatives, but fortunately, it's a rare occurrence in the first place. 

Below are some photos of progressive entertainers and one governor, who wore blackface. This is by no means a complete catalog of leftists who have done so, but like 200 politicians at the bottom of the ocean--it's a good start.

Jimmy Kimmel in Black and White

And of course, Joy Behar cannot be forgotten. She is also guilty of wearing blackface as part of a schtick before she became a low-information talk show host.

And among these racists who like to pretend they're better than you is comedian Sarah Silverman:

Then there's Luann de Lesseps from "Real Housewives From New York" doing a Diana Ross look.

Then there's Jimmy Fallon, yet another Jimmy progressive who also wore blackface and now acts superior, like Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, who was photo of him in either a KKK costume or blackface, made headlines. He had denied that either person was him but hey, c'mon man--it's his damn graduation photo.

Northam and Company

Here's Jimmy Fallon [below] in his racist days of comedy.

So let's close with a quick look at real systemic racism. I see it in two instances currently in practice: affirmative action and the admission practices of Harvard University and possibly other academia. In both cases, the racism favors Blacks and other people of color while discriminating against Whites. In the Harvard case, Asians are discriminated against due to their higher entry exam scores.

What other institutions in America practice systemic racism? I'd be curious to know that if you tell me in the comment section.

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Dems admit mistake in selecting old fart to rebut Trump

Dumocratic officials admit they made "a mistake" in choosing former Gov. Steve Beshear (D-KY-jelly) to deliver the party's response to President Trump's congressional speech, a prominent House member told the leftist network MSNBC on Wednesday.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (no relation to Beaver) has represented Missouri since 2005 and chaired the Congressional Black Caucus. He spoke a day after Mr. Trump's speech on Tuesday saying that his party chose the wrong guy to represent their pot party.

"I don't mind saying when we make mistakes. And that was a mistake," Cleaver said.

Beshear, 72 (and looks it) delivered a widely mocked speech in a diner during which he claimed to be a Republican at one point. The people in the 'Peanut Gallery' looked like they wanted to crawl away.

When Cleaver was asked what Democrats were thinking when they selected Beshear, Cleaver replied: "The problem is, you're asking about thinking, and that didn't happen."

Yes, thinking and feeling are two different things.

Cleaver called for younger, more diverse candidates such as Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond, and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, who shares the same surname of liberal heroes, Raul and Fidel and some of the same values.

At a media dinner Wednesday night where Congress members performed joke-filled monologues, Richmond ad-libbed a joke about Kellyanne Conway who was photographed kneeling on a sofa in the Oval Office this week.

Earlier in the program, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) joked that "a whole lot worse" had happened on that sofa in the 1990s.

Richmond responded: "Tim, you kind of opened the door," he said. "I really just want to know what was going on there, because, you know, I won't tell anybody. And you can just explain to me that circumstance--because she really looked kind of familiar in that position there. Don't answer--and I don't want you to refer back to the 1990s."

The Democrats have long been calling the GOP the party of "old white men." If you look at who they ran against Trump, and who leads each party in the House and Senate, you may come to a different conclusion.


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