The Daily Jot: 2023-12-24

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

WELL GUESS WHO GOT CAUGHT WITH SOMETHING EXTRA ON HIS BLUE GAP DRESS?

FORMER PRESIDENT AND FOREVER NUT CASE DONALD TRUMP TOOK TO HIS VERSION OF TWITTER AND DID A BIG DUMP TELLING PEOPLE TO "ROT IN HELL." INSTEAD OF EXPRESSING OUTRAGE OVER THAT "CHRISTMAS DAY GREETING,' JONATHAN TURLEY -- ALLEGED LAW PROFESSOR BUT VERIFIED BIGOT -- DROPPED TO HIS KNEES, PULLED IT OUT OF TRUMP'S PANTS BUT BEFORE GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS TOLD AMERICA:

Trump's message of "May They Rot in Hell...Merry Christmas" is to holiday greetings what Die Hard is to Christmas movies: a matter of considerable interpretation for those of us stuck in the Peace-on-Earth or even just Ho-Ho-Ho mindset.

THE REPLIES CAME FAST.

1) For brief moments (there aren’t many) when I don’t feel embarrassed to have sought out

@JonathanTurley

’s class when I was in school, he goes out of his way to shame an institution I hold dear,

@gwlaw

, at every possible turn even on a holiday. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad

2) Did you have to take his junk out of your mouth before you posted this, or can you do two things at once?

3) You are pathetic

@JonathanTurley

, one is a MOVIE, the other is suppose to be a Presidential Candidate. You pathetic attempts to excuse anything Trump does is shocking.

4) You really are a loser Jon. An embarrassment to your University. How sad you really are….

5) Another fine addition to GW’s law school recruiting brochure…

6) As a fellow lawyer I can appreciate a solid defense. This isn’t one. At what point do you look in the mirror and realize you’ve sold out?

7) Easy to see why other lawyers call you MIKE LINDELL WITH TENURE

8) Who is blackmailing you and how young are the kids in the picture?

9) Does your soul ever ache from all the lying?

10) @GWU, having served as Public Affairs or PIO at multiple universities, you have a problem on your hands. Free speech is paramount in Universities, but even tenured professors can tarnish your brand. That's what Turley is doing. Defending the indefensible with nonsense for pay.

AND FROM THERE, IT JUST GOT WORSE.

REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS, SWIRLEY TURLEY HISSED, "THE JOKE'S ON ALL OF YOU! SANTA LEFT ME KNEE PADS FOR CHRISTMAS!"

AND JONATHAN'S GOING TO GET A LOT OF WEAR OUT OF THEM.

AND, JONATHAN, "THE JOKE'S ON ALL OF YOU!"?

NO, JONATHAN, THE JOKE IS ALWAYS YOU. YOU ARE THE JOKE AND YOU MADE YOURSELF THAT.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

REUTERS notes, "Pope Francis said in his Christmas message on Monday that children dying in wars, including in Gaza, are the 'little Jesuses of today' and that Israeli strikes there were reaping an 'appalling harvest' of innocent civilians." The comments meant nothing to Benjamin Netanyahu -- War Criminal and prime minister of Israel. THE IRISH TIMES notes, "In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Mr Netanyahu reiterated three prerequisites for peace: Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarised, and Palestinian society must be deradicalised."

The War Criminal knows full well that every bomb he drops, every life he takes only radicalizes the people in Gaza all the more. He's used collective punishment from the start because he is a War Criminal. Jake Johnson (COMMON DREAMS) reports:

In an unsparing Christmas sermon delivered from the occupied West Bank over the weekend, Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac decried the complicity of the church and Western governments in Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza, a nearly three-month military campaign that he called an "annihilation" and a "genocide."

"Leaders of the so-called 'free' lined up one after the other to give the green light for this genocide against a captive population. They gave the cover," Isaac, a Palestinian Christian theologian, said during a service titled, "Christ in the Rubble: A Liturgy of Lament."

"Not only did they make sure to pay the bill in advance, they veiled the truth and context, providing political cover. And, yet another layer has been added: the theological cover with the Western Church stepping into the spotlight," Isaac added. "Here in Palestine, the Bible is weaponized against us. Our very own sacred text... The theology of the empire becomes a powerful tool to mask oppression under the cloak of divine sanction."

With most of the territory's population struggling to survive under the intertwined threats of starvation, disease, and near-constant bombing, Isaac said that "Gaza today has become the moral compass of the world."

"If you are not appalled by what is happening, if you are not shaken to your core, there is something wrong with your humanity," Isaac said from Bethlehem, which Israeli forces attacked on Monday. "And if we, as Christians, are not outraged by this genocide, by the weaponizing of the Bible to justify it, there is something wrong with our Christian witness, and we are compromising the credibility of our Gospel message. If you fail to call this a genocide, it is on you. It is a sin and a darkness you willingly embrace."

And now the Israeli government is targeting The Red Cross. THE NATIONAL notes:

Israeli shelling has hit the Palestinian Red Crescent's headquarters in Khan Younis, it said on Tuesday.

Israeli strikes have been getting closer to the headquarters, adjacent to Al Amal Hospital, both which shelter 14,000 displaced people.

[. . .]

The Palestine Red Crescent said that artillery shelling targeted the upper floors of its headquarters in Khan Younis, causing several injuries among the displaced people.

At what point do world leaders start listening to their populations and end this assault?

THE GUARDIAN explains what's going on in the video above:

As he vowed to continue the war during a speech in parliament, relatives of the hostages interrupted him and called for their immediate return. “Now! Now!” they shouted.

Families who have been awaiting their loved ones’ return after 80 days in captivity booed the prime minister, as Netanyahu said Israeli forces needed “more time” to increase military pressure on Hamas, which he argued would help to secure the captives’ release.

Later, protesters gathered near the defence ministry headquarters in central Tel Aviv before a war cabinet meeting, holding posters demanding “Free our hostages now – at any cost!”

On Monday, the opposition leader, Yair Lapid, said Israel needed to “bring the hostages home now”, adding: “We are not doing enough.” His comments were met with applause from the families of hostages.

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