The Weirdo Right thinks that they can have MAGA lite.
The Fugu or pufferfish is a delicacy in Japan. The challenge in preparing it is in removing the portions that include the deadly poison (tetrodotoxin) for which the fish is well known. Only licensed experts are allowed to prepare this fish. Failure to handle it properly means no one to tip the waiter.
Joe Kent, the former head of counterintelligence for Tulsi Gabbard, is the newest member of the Weirdo Right. His indignant resignation letter rewrote history and accused Israel of being responsible for the death of his wife at the hands of ISIS in Syria. That’s quite a feat for the Israelis—to play both sides of the tennis court, supporting ISIS while actively fighting ISIS. He went on to blame Israel for the Iraq War, though then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon expressed his disapproval of the project, as he knew that Iran was the real threat. He now blames Israel for magically goading Donald Trump into attacking Iran, his definition of Iran not being a threat to the U.S. extending two weeks forward and no more.
What’s strange with Kent and the other members, who, of course, are lining up to interview their new friend, is that his and their views were quite different not that long ago. He said in front of the Senate not long ago that Iran was the major source of world terror and was a threat to the U.S. He strongly encouraged going after the country’s ballistic and nuclear programs. When his wife died, he made no mention of Israel as being a culprit in the terror attack that led to her death. What goes on with Kent, Carlson, and Owens, who all previously spoke in a different tongue regarding Israel, Iran, Donald Trump, and MAGA? The answer is that the leaders of the Weirdo Right want to treat MAGA like Fugu.
If you were to ask the folks who cannot stop making antisemitic and anti-Israel comments if they are against Donald Trump’s tax cuts, my guess would be that they support them. If you asked them about closing the border and ejecting illegal alien criminals, I would suppose that they would be for that, too. So, if you asked them about any issue like homeschooling or a strong U.S. military that did not implicitly or explicitly involve Israel, they would choose the MAGA approach and reject the Democrats’ alternative. But when an issue like the Iran War, foreign aid, or weapons to fight Hamas comes up, they simply spin on their heads and denounce the president’s position. They hate Israel, and many of their comments go far beyond “anti-Zionism” and fall straight into old-school antisemitism. Canadace Owens mustered her four neurons the other day and said that they weren’t going to be controlled by “these Bolshevik descendants.” No doubt, just by coincidence, Hitler often called the Jews “Bolsheviks.” And Tucker with his “hummus eaters in Jerusalem,” who could be eating hummus in Jerusalem if not the Jews? And Mr. Kent, who served his country for many years, suddenly finds that Israel or Jews or the Jews in Israel or Israeli Jews caused ISIS to kill his wife in Syria. Tucker and Kent opined that Israel may have tried to kill Trump and Charlie Kirk. All of our new Weirdos accept MAGA that does not relate to Israel, while anything related to Israel brings out an antisemitism that is couched in attacks against Bibi Netanyahu or the IDF or “Zionists.” When Owens claimed that Israel was responsible for the 3,000 dead on 9/11, was she predating Kent and blaming those Jews for helping Al Qaeda get 19 hijackers onto four planes?
The question is why these former Israel-neutral or supportive people have become so virulently anti-Israel, to the point of claiming that Bibi Netanyahu can push around bullheaded Donald Trump? The answer, apparently, for most of them is a type of Christian religious belief that has at its core an antisemitic component that cannot be removed like Fugu poison. Carlson ran to interview Carrie Prejean as soon as she attacked Jews on the White House religious liberties committee. Joe Kent barely got the ink to dry on his “Israel is Evil” letter before being invited over to Tucker to share his thoughts. These people, except for the twerp Fuentes, have made no apparent move toward the Democrats. They want MAGA. Not MAGA decaf but rather MAGA de-Israel. They are not opposed to Donald Trump’s other policies, and they are all into JD Vance, with Tucker’s son ensconced in his office. But they don’t like the Israel and Jewey part of it and would like to get rid of both. Prejean has already declared that the Catholic Church is the “true Israel,” while Carlson is demanding DNA tests to determine if a person has enough matzah coursing through his veins to make him a Real, Live, Genuine Descendant of Abraham to merit having a piece of the Holy Land. They all swear they are not antisemites, but gosh darn it, they don’t like those Zionists or Christian Zionists or the IDF or Israelis in general.
Their hatred of Israel knows no bounds. We give them THREE BILLION DOLLARS! Yeah, but it is almost completely spent in the U.S. We get NOTHING from Israel, though all intelligence and combat knowledge are shared with the U.S. military and manufacturers of American weapons systems like the F-35 (an Israeli scored the very first kill with the plane). Israel is home to big U.S. companies like Intel, Apple, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. The latter plans a massive expansion of its presence here in the country. These people never say boo about China and its Uyghur slaves, or Turkey holding half of Cyprus, or Russia attacking Ukraine and droning civilians. Their ire is only at Israel. Carlson said that Israel was one of the ugliest and most dangerous countries in the world, no question. Does that mean that it’s one of the most dangerous of ugly countries or one of the most ugly of dangerous countries? My Harvard and Wisconsin degrees don’t help me to fathom his deep thoughts.
Donald Trump understands the value of Israel as an ally, and for his entire life has been a good friend of the Jewish people. An acquaintance related that he went to the “shiva” (traditional seven days of mourning after death) for a well-known New York real estate developer. The only other person present was Donald Trump. When they finished, Trump got up and said in English the traditional blessing one says to mourners upon taking leave from them. In the elevator, my friend asked Trump how he knew the blessing by heart. “Son, I have been to more shiva houses than you have in your life. I just came from Joan Rivers’ place.”
So Trump will not dump or abandon the Jews or Israel, as he sees them as good. The Weirdo Right will continue to scream “Genocide in Gaza!,” “Tens of thousands of children MURDERED!,” “Israel dragged the U.S. into the Iran War!,” “Iran was no threat to the U.S.!,” though President Trump and Marco Rubio have clearly made the case why Iran was aiming to assemble a nuclear warhead on top of a ballistic missile addressed to the U.S.A. The small heads over at Weirdo Right will claim that such a weapon would not be available this week or next, so we had no reason to attack the murderous mullahs. For five decades, they have screamed, “Death to America.” They were finally approaching the ability to turn a slogan into action, and Donald Trump stopped them cold. Choose American success and not those who love to hate the Jews.