Jay Weber Show transcript 5-10-24 6:10am
Okay-now-This! Is interesting.
It’s ‘anecdotal’, but it’s interesting: two infamous ‘never Trumpers’ are saying on social media that President Biden’s betrayal of Israel- in blocking weapons shipments there-when Israel is close to wiping out Hamas as a major Islamist terror organization-
Is causing them and their fellow ‘never Trumpers’ to reconsider Donald Trump.
Wow.
This is Jonah Goldberg and John Schindler reacting to Biden’s move to block weapons shipments-which-by the way- was resoundingly unpopular on his own side of the aisle and across the country. This was yet another politically consequential blunder by Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken and their teams-
And should be added to their history of ‘always being on the wrong side of major foreign policy decisions’....as Obama’s defense secretary bob gate so aptly described them to be...over the last 40 years.
Folks- Johnah Goldberg is an ‘o-g’ when it comes to never Trumpers. He was right there with Bill Kristol - digging in in the summer of 2016, after trump was nominated, insisting that they were conservatives who would never, never, vote for the guy.
They basically started the ‘never Trumper’ movement.
I notice that Goldberg-himself-isn’t saying that he’s so disgusted by Biden that he’s finally willing to vote Donald Trump-
But he went out of his way to post on x : a lot...i heard from ...a lot...of very staunch never Trumpers....and they are done with Biden.
They and other staunch trump haters are even starting to soften-and are starting to understand that-if our choice in fall is: back to trump...or more of Biden -or worse-Harris- and the hateful socialists running this country the call is ‘Trump’.
And it’s not just Biden’s age and confusion and obvious mental unfitness for this job-its’ the never-ending storm of bad and anti-American policy decisions that are coming from this white house.
Now? As the capper? Six months before the next election? Biden and the dems are abandoning the Jewish people and one of our greatest global allies since World War II?
Biden’s moves are indicating that- today’s democrat party- is turning ‘pro-Arab’ -as part of their official party platform-and is moving to protect Islamist terrorists and those who fund them?
How can-any? -American vote for that?
Here was another interesting moment yesterday: when house speaker Mike Johnson admitted that he had the exact same reaction that i did, when he heard Biden say he was freezing the weapons shipments to Israel.
Did you catch this?
I said yesterday: i initially assumed it was doddering Joe misspeaking, and that the white house minions would come out a few hours later and walk it back. Reshape it to mean something different: no, the president was not abandoning Israel...
We have such a doddering dope as a president- I initially thought: they’ll walk this back. I waited two, six, then twelve hours to see if it was a mistake.
Nope.
But speaker Johnson said the same thing!
His take was: i thought it was a senior moment that they’d walk back!!
My point here would be: how dysfunctional is it to have a president who can’t be taken at face value? Can’t be taken at his word-in the moment-because it might just be his confusion or dementia talking?
We are really going to do this for another four years.
It’s one thing if a show host in Milwaukee isn’t sure what the president really means-
It’s something entirely different if dc lawmakers and foreign leaders and diplomats-aren’t sure that they can take what our president is saying ‘at face value’.
It is pathetic that this man is still in charge.
But- Mike Johnson used that term ‘senior moment’...and it went viral immediately. It has me thinking that Johnson has unintentionally injected a phrase into the presidential race between now and November.
It's a common phrase that’s been around forever, but for all of our talk, and focus on joe Biden’s age and obvious mental failings...i believe Mike Johnson is the first elected leader in a high profile position to attach that label to something president Biden said:
I thought it was a ‘senior moment’.
That’s going to stick-and naturally find its way into more coverage related to this election, folks.
Look-200-million voting Americans know Biden is mentally and physically unfit for this job. All Johnson did is ‘say it out loud’ from a high perch for the first time.
If republicans are smart-and if there are any real news reporters that exist, anymore, every decision joe Biden makes between now and November fifth- is going to be questioned: did he really mean that? Or was that a senior moment?
Johnson also said ‘he’ felt betrayed by the Biden white house, because, just the day before, he was reassured that Biden’s team was still behind the Israeli effort to clear out Rafah...as long as it was a slower, more orderly process that worked to preserve civilian lives-
And then- it wasn’t.
Joe did a stumbly interview with CNN-and then ‘it wasn’t.’ total policy change without notifying anyone outside the white house.
And as the lefty media outlets would put it: republicans pounced. But so did Biden’s fellow democrats.
Yeah. Hamas is still holding five u-s hostages and about 140 total. The truth is- most of them are already dead-
Hamas has already made that clear-and here’s joe Biden giving Hamas terrorists ‘hope’ that they can survive this and may even end up back in control of Gaza after this is over.
Oh-
And here’s a litmus test on whether Biden is doing the right thing: the only real support he got for this weapons blockade was from the shrieking antisemites who call themselves ‘the squad’.
The only people happy with this were the few congressmen who have long-time Palestinian and even terrorist ties: like Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar and Jamaal bowman
To that point-and as proof of just how fast we all ‘forget’ in this age of never-ending news cycles:
it’s amazing that we all need to be reminded of this...but i did, too...
I’d forgotten this. Yesterday-an editorial i ran across reminded us: it’s been four weeks. Four weeks. Since Iran engaged in a massive and direct drone and missile attack on Israel.
Remember?
350 drones and missiles were launched at Israel-by Iran and its’ proxies-all at once-within a four-hour window, or so.
Thankfully, iron dome and jet fighters knocked them all down.
But people: It’s been four weeks! Since Iran escalated this dramatically by launching a massive missile attack on Israel....and Joe Biden is abandoning the Jewish state like this.
What. A scumbag.
Israel needs to be ready- now- to take on ‘all comers’ if need be. There’s still a threat that Hezbollah will be ordered to launch a more major attack against Israel- by Iran’s mullahs.
Israel says it has enough munitions ‘in reserve’ to deal with that- and Bibi said again yesterday-we will ‘go it alone’ if we have to. If Biden abandons us.
But- Bibi and Israel should never. Never. Find themselves in that position.
Israel cannot and will not relent-and Joe Biden should be ashamed of his place in history, here.
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