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Somebody felt disrespected.

It might be a “loss leader.” An item a store sells at a loss, in order to get people to enter the store and hopefully buy other stuff as well. Or to get people into the habit of entering the store; or maintain their habit of entering the store.

Funny how this does not explain the persecution of Christians by them...

Perhaps because Christianity IS an exclusive religion. Christ is the ONLY true path.

Many New Age groups in the U.S. espouse "all religions are true, all religions are one." Yet they hold an animus to Christianity (an animus they do not have toward other monotheistic faiths like Judaism or Islam).

The Cross is salvation to believers and judgment to non-believers. I think non-believers can sense that.

No one (except a democrat) is above the law

The cyclist was almost certainly a Democrat.

The DEA agent might -- or might not -- be a Democrat.

Jew $$$$$ or pro hamass votes? Make up your mind fjb!

Which is why such reports are dishonest. They're politically motivated. The "findings" are determined by political considerations, and then rationales are provided to justify the "findings."

Crime-action shows of the 1970s seem cheesy today largely because of the improved production values for TV in the ensuing decades.

Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice far surpassed the cop shows of the previous decade (the former introducing that annoying documentary shaky-cam, and the latter embracing music video aesthetics).

Then David Lynch raised the TV bar (both creatively and production wise) with Twin Peaks, followed by such innovative TV epics as The Sopranos, Lost, and Game of Thrones

Sitcoms didn't evolve so extensively, though after the BBC's The Office, many now also use documentary shaky-cams.

I’ve been around for a while and one thing I’ve noticed is that liberal parties tend to allow themselves to be defeated in order to allow conservative parties to wear the blame of what liberal parties did.

As long as the Deep State owns both parties, it doesn't care which party is "in control." I fact, it's good to change the "dominant party" now and again, to create the illusion of democracy. Let the people think their votes matter.

A lot of the non-sitcom TV shows were shot on the Universal lot. Always the same streets. And all those car chases in the same Los Angeles canyons.

I loved The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman when they first aired .Over a decade ago, I bought the DVDs. Hadn't seen the show in over 30 years.

Jamie Sommers helps a scientist defect from East Germany. They have a car chase in dry canyon country (obviously Los Angeles, not East Germany). An East German helicopter chases them with a machine gun (though no machine gun is visible on the helicopter). We cut to the helicopter's interior -- and see rice paddies below -- obviously stock footage from Vietnam. And the same exterior shot of Stasi hq is used three times -- with the same people walking by the building.

In his 1981 nonfiction book, Danse Macabre, Stephen King lambasted that episode for its ending ... the couple turns out to be named Adam and Eve.

King said that ending was already a sci-fi chiche in pulp magazines long before The Twilight Zone ever did it.

Trump and Kennedy are also to speak.

I wonder, will there be any Libertarians speaking at the Libertarian Party convention?

I loved Adam-12 when I was a kid. But when I watch shows from the 1960s and 1970s now on YouTube, they look so cheesy and cheap.

When I was a kid, I remember watching:

Gilligan's Island, The Munsters, I Dream of Genie, F-Troop, Medical Center, Marcus Welby M.D., S.W.A.T., The Rookies, Streets of San Francisco ... to name a few.

I was quite the TV addict.

The worst thing about the "message" Twilight Zone episodes was that they were often so heavy-handed.

Like the town where the sun didn't come up, because everyone was so full of "hate" that they vomited it up. (As explained by the usual kindly and wise black preacher.)

Or "The Monster Are Due on Maple Street and The Obsolete Man.

Or the evil rich man who built a fake bomb shelter to trick people who'd hurt him into begging to be let in.

I watched Bonanza reruns in the 1970s. In retrospect, I recall some woke episodes.

There was one in which Hop Sing, the Cartwright's Chinese cook, wanted to marry and white woman, and learned that interracial marriages were forbidden.

Another episode in which Hoss befriends a retarded man, who suffers bigotry and suspicion because of his mental condition.

There were some others. They slipped liberal messages into Bonanza and other shows from the 1960s. The Twilight Zone (which went on the air in 1959) had many explicitly liberal messages.

They just don't seem so bad in retrospect, because they were more Martin Luther King type liberal messages, instead of the ultra-left messages of today.

Part of that history most Christian are not taught in school is in most every part of “Christian” Europe, until Napoleon’s “universal” laws, Jews lived all over Europe but could not be full fledged citizens anywhere.

Israel Shahak writes that the rabbis preferred it that way, because Jews (especially their rabbis) had certain privileges before Napoleon. Jews lived in self-governing ghettos, with their own laws and courts. Rabbis could even impose the death penalty on Jews who broke their religious laws, and sometimes did so. It was all very insular and Old Testament.

It was like those ultra-Orthodox communities you see in Brooklyn today, only more so. Rabbis had real legal authority over their people prior to Napoleon.

Prior to Napoleon, gentile nations recognized rabbinical jurisdiction over the lives of most Jews.

The "emancipation of Jews" also meant the diminishment of rabbinical authority and Jewish autonomy. Jews were now free to mingle among gentiles, but they were subject to gentile, secular authority, as never before.

the Jews never being a large nation or having an empire were rarely in as good a position to weaponize their anti-Christianity ...

Oh, they got even in other ways. They opened the gates of Toledo to Muslim invaders, and collaborated with Muslims during the latter's long Spanish occupation.

Many Jews abused their power with relish when given the opportunity, such as when they acted as tax collectors for Polish aristocrats. Or as bankers. The Merchant of Venice trope had its real life inspirations.

And of course this culminated in the Holocaust ...

True. But decades earlier, Bolshevism attracted a disproportionate number of Jewish leaders, who used their positions within the atheist regimes of Soviet Russia and Hungary to exact bloody revenge upon Christian clergy and nuns, arresting, torturing, and murdering thousands of them.

Again, there were real life inspirations for the "Judaeo-Bolshevism" trope.

Anti-semitic tropes don't spring from nowhere. All stereotypes have some basis in reality.

“The earliest Christian generation in Jerusalem consisted almost entirely of Jews. These people believed in Jesus as the Messiah, but saw themselves as true Jews.

John saw believers in Jesus as the ONLY true Jews. This is what he meant by "those who say they are Jews but are not" (Revelation 3:9).

Talmudic Jews (who rejected Jesus) likewise considered Christian Jews no longer Jews, which they made official at the Council of Jamnia at the end of the 1st century.

By then, each side was accusing the other of being false Jews.

Christians are today blamed for turning their backs on "the mother religion," but Talmudic Jews likewise drove away Christian Jews from the 1st century onward.

Feminists will scream "Its not about race! It's about toxic masculinity!"

All these have become rogue states ... This has always been a plan to destroy Israel.

All these have increasing Muslim populations, thanks partially to Jewish NGOs, activists, politicians, and media and tech oligarchs, who've promoted diversity in order to prevent European nationalism from every again threatening Jews with another Holocaust.

There have been nationalist groups that have resisted Third World migration. But they are quickly censored, suppressed and arrested for "hate speech."

Muslims.

Hitler had it all wrong.

No, he didn't.

Hitler knew Muslims were violent savages. That's why he wished Europe had been converted to Islam.

Hitler believed that Islam would strengthen Europeans. Then, due to their "racial superiority," European Islamists would subjugate and enslave the Arab Islamists.

That was his theory.

Yet we can’t deport migrants who are harming Americans.