Joel Engel
@joelengel
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Long-ago journalist for the likes of the NYT and LAT. Current author/co-author of about 20 books who thinks sarcasm is the highest form of patriotism.
Southern Calif
Joined September 2009
A tale (almost) as old as time.
This anti-Jew stuff is really getting to me, managed to block most of it but its very persistent - can't imagine any other group being spoken about in such a vile manner.
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What's different this time is that it's happening in America.
We have arrived at a terrible destination! . Every day that passes, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we are seeing pre Holocaust levels of antisemitism across the west. When I was a child, growing up in NY, I heard about and even experienced some occasional antisemitism. I
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The difference between last century and this century:. Last century Dear Abby would've confined her answer to, "You're insane. Get out now.". This century, these two people advising her are just as nuts as she is.
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What's "however" doing here? You follow it with the definition of hearsay.
Two final points: it’s true that the Acosta statement re Epstein “belonging to intelligence” & being “above [Acosta’s] pay grade” was hearsay (reporter Vicky Ward hadn’t talked directly to Acosta). However she had spoken to a Trump team member who said Acosta said it & Acosta’s.
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RT @50YearsAgoLive: Ugandan dictator Idi Amin stages an opulent £2 million wedding to his sixth wife, 19-year-old stripper Sarah Kyolaba.….
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The next election is going to be interesting.
All Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip will be eligible for the first time to apply for asylum in France.
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There’s a tell word in here. Someone felt it was necessary to use to sell the process, but it actually implies the opposite by overselling: “extensive.”.
“Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons…Rather than ask Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version thru the autopen, which they saw as…routine”.
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I'll tell you why not. Because we have to pay for it for four decades or so. That leaves only one suitable punishment: auto-da-fé.
Arsonist detained by vigilant Runyon hikers. Why not life in prison for this man?.
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We live in California and would, after all these years, like to move to someplace normal. Does such a place still exist?.
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I've come to the conclusion that one of the biggest tragedies from the covid shutdowns is the death of so many arthouse theaters.
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Even better, all principal payments are 100% tax deductible up to $1 trillion.
Jews don’t have to pay interest on bank loans in America but everyone else does. I’m dead serious.
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You obviously never listened to talk radio callers.
I am very depressed. Until I came on X I really did not understand just how many Americans are completely lacking in basic reasoning skills. It's a wonder the lights are on and planes don't routinely fall out of the sky.
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Out of curiosity, Tom, what role do you think Hamas plays in all this?.
Netanyahu, his government, the IDF and you are doing a good enough job of that already.
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There is a politician who hasn’t ignored this and seems to have mostly conquered the problem. Unfortunately, President Milei lives in Argentina.
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Actor Mandy Patinkin doesn’t realize that by addressing himself to “Jewish people around the world to think about the consequences of what they’re doing and allowing to be done in Gaza” he’s justifying the calls to globalize the intifada—meaning, kill Jews everywhere.
Actor Mandy Patinkin makes an impassioned plea for Jewish people around the world to think about the consequences of what they're doing and allowing to be done in Gaza.
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Return to 1290 coming soon. Except this time it’ll be emigration, not expulsion.
“Stunned into silence.” . “…what really scared us was the increasing normalisation of far more extreme, personalised and sometimes life-changing impact directed at individuals purely and simply because they are Jewish.” @pennymordauntpm @LordJohnMann . The time for words is
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RT @JustineBateman: Oh, here comes the “explosion of material” the tech bros insisted AI would result in, by “democratizing creativity.” .A….
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In the pantheon with Joyce Carol Oates thinking Steven Spielberg had killed a triceratops; Andrew Mitchell insisting that “the sound and fury” was Faulkner, not Shakespeare; Marjorie Taylor Greene saying petri dish as “peach tree dish”; and Barbra Streisand’s Julius Caesar.
‘Law professor who doesn’t recognize one of the most famous Latin phrases in history’ is a pretty good representation of the state of the institutions.
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