Sunday, July 05, 2026
Saturday, July 04, 2026
Great American State Fail Occurrences, July 4, 2026
Trump Speaks! The "to-show-that-I can-do-anything" must go on! Started 11:00 pm, fireworks and cross-burning to follow! 😂
8:22 pm:
8:22 pm:
Evacuation ordered at National Mall as storms gather ahead Trump's America 250 speech
“Freedom 250 will share updates on programming and doors reopening,” Freedom 250 spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said in a statement that encouraged participants to seek shelter at museums and federal buildings near the National Mall. Washington’s metro system also said several of its underground stations were available for shelter.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plans to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary of independence with a rally on the National Mall were complicated on Saturday by severe storms that gathered near Washington, forcing event organizers to order an evacuation.
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...signs at the Great American State Fair posted an alert shortly after 7 p.m. ET encouraging participants to leave the area. As the order to evacuate was played over loudspeakers on the National Mall, some people appeared to be standing in place, talking with those around them and not exiting the area, while others were walking toward exits. National Guard troops told people to leave.Oh my God, Trumpie!!! ROFLOL
2:56 pm:
ANOTHER 🦊 Propaganda Report on Great American State Fail!
2:45 pm:
"Heavier attendance"!😂
2:45 pm:
July 4 heat delays America 250 celebration as (State Fair guests share love of USA😂)
Families sheltered in museums and rode the Metro to stay cool until gates reopened
FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE, THIS IS WHO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE
Trump White Supremacists Invade Washington to Celebrate Their Country
photo Reuters via Wally
July 4, 2026, 4:14 pm:
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May 23, 2026, 7:54 pm:
Q: What is the difference between the American people and a bucket of shit?
A: The bucket.
May 14, 2027
A: The bucket.
May 4, 2026:
"The American people got what they voted for, they elected him."
April 27, 2026:
“The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result. An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership..."
-German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
Today:
Which is the Toilet People who you would want to bar entry into your country, the people to the north who elected Mark Carney, the people to the south who elected Claudia Sheinbaum, or the people in the middle who elected a 34-time convicted felon?
April 1, 2026:
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AMERICANS! THEY'RE LAUGHING AT YOU! IRAN IS TROLLING YOU!
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The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran.
Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘Open for Business,’ we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!). This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year 'Reign of Terror'.
-The Toilet Peoples President. The instantiation of who the American people are, for all the world to see.
Toilet People! Iran "Bursts Out Laughing At" at Bum Trump and You
"Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
America is built on those worn out. not able to make a living elsewhere, and homeless. Americans are combined wretched refuse of others gathering hopeless on others' shores, taken in by this new country that needed bodies, able or not, intelligence and morals irrelevant. America has accumulated 200 years of garbage and are thrilled to elect one of their own. Garbage does not take itself out and toilets do not flush rhemselves. A new species of humanity, the ignorant, easily fooled Toilet People have taken root, flowered and spread their pestilent seed all across the land. Americans are the worst of the worst, laughed at by Iran, at the United Nations, by the world, who would flush them if they could, and may yet.
They are "marks", easily fooled, ignorant dullards. The world sees.
Bruh, did you see all the splosions? America, fuck yeah!
Because American marks might be fooled by this, but the world’s political, military, and economic leaders wouldn’t be.
The world LAUGHS at them:
[The president chosen by the American people twice] also jabbed at Ireland’s President Catherine Connolly, when asked about her criticism that the U.S. and Israeli operations have been “deliberate assaults on international law.”
“Look, he’s lucky I exist,” Trump said of Connolly, who is a woman.
Associated Press, March 17, 2026
The Iran war is "a big chess game at a very high level — very high-level chess, the highest.”😂
Not since the swiss-cheese brain of Idi Amin has any nation's leader been so mocked for his cognitive deficits. Never has a people so convincingly proved themselves too stupid to make democracy work than has the American people. They chose (twice) the Caddyshack president, The Apprentice president, the Saturday Night Live regular. Americans truly are the "wretched refuse" of humanity, as their national statue is inscribed. The world would be a cleaner, safer place if these Toilet People and the Toilet Nation they comprise were flushed from the surface of the Earth.
March 3, 2026, 2:41 pm:
“Look, he’s lucky I exist,” Trump said of Connolly, who is a woman.
Associated Press, March 17, 2026
"Big hitter, the Lama"
Not since the swiss-cheese brain of Idi Amin has any nation's leader been so mocked for his cognitive deficits. Never has a people so convincingly proved themselves too stupid to make democracy work than has the American people. They chose (twice) the Caddyshack president, The Apprentice president, the Saturday Night Live regular. Americans truly are the "wretched refuse" of humanity, as their national statue is inscribed. The world would be a cleaner, safer place if these Toilet People and the Toilet Nation they comprise were flushed from the surface of the Earth.
Trump says US may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’
(...and always have been)
Pressed for answers on Iran, Trump is betrayed by his limited attention span
Monday offered the president an opportunity to explain and justify the war he’d started. He appeared far more interested in the White House decor.
Feb. 21, 2026, 6:17 pm:
"There's hatred there."--Brady Tkachuk, Team USA on Team Canada, who play for the Olympic gold medal tomorrow.
It is who we always have been.
As the Chief Justice put it, "Having just fought a revolution motivated in large part by taxes imposed on them" by the King of England without their consent...
The most absurd cause of revolution in the history of humanity. Born in a temper tantrum, die in a temper tantrum.
And on...
[Trump's racist Obama meme is] something which had, for many years, been confined to the dustbin of history, while still very much a part of the vocabulary of white supremacists.
But something has changed.
Maybe it's social media, maybe it's something else, but something has changed. We are in a new reality where, for more than 12 hours, Trump's White House thought this was OK.
sky.com (UK)
Trump: "I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine. Nobody knew that that was at the end."
Trump said he looks at "thousands of things" when he spoke to reporters on Air Force One en route to Palm Beach.
Trump to make "really long speech to show that I can do anything"
...the Salute to America 250 Celebrations & Fireworks - is due to begin at 19:00 local time, with Trump expected to speak a few hours later at approximately 21:45 [9:45 pm Normal Eastern Colonies Time].
He has promised to make a "really long speech" at the Fourth of July festivities, despite the heatwave, "to show that I can do anything".
Jaylen Brown trade, you have questions? The Athletic has no answers*
*Update: THE SPHINX WILL SPEAK. Brad Stevens, prez of basketball operations, Beans, and Bill Chisholm, owner of Beans, will hold press conference on Debacle Monday (July 7, the date Debacle becomes official) at 4 pm. I have not received my invite yet.
July 3, 7:27 pm:
The quality of the package the Celtics received...
Pause. That would be Paul George John Ringo and four individuals now in high school; The same PGJR who was SUSPENDED FOR TWENTY-FIVE GAMES by the NBA in 2026; the same PGJR who is THIRTY-SIX YEARS OLD; the same PGJR who has played ONE FULL SEASON in the last SEVEN due to multiple injuries; the same PGJR who has played an average of FORTY-NINE GAMES in those last seven. Unpause.
...and the timing of the deal, with three seasons left on Brown’s contract, left some around the league wondering why the team seemed to feel so much urgency to move Brown now.
Why are we going to speculation from "some around the league" about what the "Celtics" "seem" to feel? The "Celtics" are still in the league, right? Did you ask some around "the team" if and why they felt "urgency" to trade Jaylen? Maybe the urgency was to get PGJR before he hurt himself again?
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[Paul] George [John Ringo] only has two more years left on his contract, one fewer than Brown, but a league source also said the trade was not driven by finances.
(That is going to be contradicted below.) Did you ask Brad Stevens if the trade was "driven by finances"? No, right? Because he's not talking so you have to go secondary sources.
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In the days leading up to this week’s deal with the Sixers, it is quite telling that two of the reported suitors — Denver and Portland — had shown no interest in meeting the exorbitant asking price that Boston had previously put forth. Front office executives all around the NBA had been talking about the unreasonably high bar they’d set, how the Celtics expressed a strong desire to land as many as four first-round picks.
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A Blazers team source said the Blazers were never enamored with Brown, even before Boston made it known he was available on the trade market. Two factors went into the Blazers’ disinterest: Their analytics viewed him as a negative player and the Celtics’ asking price was too high. “We were never aggressively looking to trade for him,” a team source said. “And particularly not at their price.”
The cool market suggested the existence of a significant gap between the general perception of Brown, who finished sixth in MVP voting this season, and the way he is seen within the NBA.
...advanced analytics never shined too brightly on Brown’s game. Even more pointedly, a current general manager, speaking anonymously to comment on internal team discussions, told The Athletic in the wake of the trade that he doesn’t view Brown as a top-50 player in the NBA.
For all of Brown’s individual accolades, the Celtics over the years consistently saw no dropoff, statistically speaking, when he left the court. Even in the Boston front office, some believed Brown’s impact did not match his reputation.
Over the years, Brown had sometimes voiced that he didn’t believe analytics could capture everything he contributed on the court. He seemed well aware that some of the numbers weren’t favorable to him...
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Stevens always seemed to place a high value on Brown, making him the highest-paid player in the NBA in 2023 after arguably the most disappointing playoff series of his career. But the market seemed less sold that Brown was worthy of his current contract.
As several front office executives shared with The Athletic, the most significant suppressor to Brown’s market was his massive salary. He is owed a combined $182 million in the next three seasons...
Isn't "massive salary" a component of "finances"? Who gave Brown that massive salary oh that's right Brad Stevens.
In today’s NBA...the prospect of paying more than one player that much money can be disastrous for a team’s depth.
That is the contradiction mentioned above. The "Heat" trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo is being judged by this view also. I don't buy it in Miami's case. Philadelphia didn't buy it in the case of Brown's trade.
So when it came to Brown’s market, it’s clear rival executives didn’t believe he was valuable enough to justify the contract. Or, more specifically, that what he brought to a team outweighed the fact his presence would make it challenging to provide top-tier supporting talent. What’s more, some rival executives said they believed Stevens was at a negotiating disadvantage because he had never truly shopped Brown to the entire league in the past.
Now, are you Athletics going to get to WHY Stevens had never tested Brown's market value before? There's a lot of filler in this article, Athletic. It's reported elsewhere that Brown's Twitch stream and "this was my favorite season" were the tipping points. I don't buy that either, by the by.
As for the notion that Boston should have waited, and perhaps revisited a deal down the road if they couldn’t mend fences with Brown, the possibility of the star making a formal trade request was seen by rival executives as the sort of thing that would put more duress on the Celtics.
Doesn't make this fire sale reasonable. Stevens gets paid the big bucks to operate rationally under "duress." Hell, he is under so much duress now for having traded Brown that his children have been threatened and he has deleted his social media feed. Fans have compared him to Fire Nico Harrison (he ought to formally change his name to Fire Harrison.)
Since 2022, when he and the Celtics were able to move past the team’s willingness to trade him for Kevin Durant, he had ascended in his career. It wouldn’t have been as easy for the organization to mend the relationship with Brown this time.
Too much "duress", Brad? Oh bullshit.
Based on how the Celtics operated, they seemed to understand that.
So Stevens did not tell the Athletics that, that's these sports pencils' conclusion.
With Tatum out for most of last season, Brown took the reins — and something shifted.
“I think this has been my favorite season so far,” Brown said in December, “being able to get an opportunity to lead a group.”
He didn’t get enjoyment just because he took over as the No. 1 option with the team’s star sidelined. He loved seeing his younger teammates succeed alongside him. He took pride in the way the organization exceeded all realistic expectations after losing half of its rotation in the offseason, including three former All-Stars in Al Horford, Kristaps Porziņģis and Jrue Holiday, plus an injured All-Star in Tatum. Brown saw beauty in how quickly the Celtics jelled after going through so many changes.
“It just doesn’t happen,” Brown said late in the regular season. “I’m very proud of this group that we’ve been able to come together and find chemistry and the product looks like it looks. It could have looked completely different.”
So, it WASN'T that statement. Okay, Athletics, you're up.
Only small hints of possible trouble began to emerge. As Brown consistently expressed how much he was savoring the season, what went unsaid was that the Celtics’ formula would need to change significantly again once Tatum came back,
Pause: Why? The won an NBA title TWO YEARS AGO with the Two Jays; they won 56 games this season with One Jay. So you slip Tatum back in. What the fuck needs "to change significantly"? Unpause.
...and that, after a career of accepting smaller roles than he believed he could handle, Brown could have some reservations about sliding back into one.
"Could have some reservations": No won told the Athletic Supporters that. That again, is their intuition, not facts.
As much as Boston thrived after Tatum returned in March, going 13-3 with him during the regular season, Brown let it be known that the adjustment wasn’t always easy for him.
“It takes humility and it takes some understanding,” Brown told reporters on March 16. “I think JT is extremely important to us for what we want to do. Obviously, I’m having a great season, but then I have to just think, what’s the big picture? And sometimes that’s not easy, but I always put the team first and what the bigger picture is first.”
You're quoting Brown as if your quote supports your intuition. IT DOES NOT! How much more honest can a player be? OF COURSE it wasn't easy for Brown, "but I always put the team first and what the bigger picture is first.” What, did you expect him to say it was "easy"?
Over the years, Brown had a habit of doing just that. Still, the Celtics began to have questions about whether he would remain fully bought in moving forward, according to league sources. Internally, they wondered whether they could keep everyone on the same page basketball-wise, as they had always managed to do in the past.
Okay, since "league sources" told the Athletics that, yes, it's second-hand, but at least it's not the Athletics' intuition. This then makes me think Stevens got paranoid. All of this article is positive: Brown did not request a trade, never told Stevens privately that he wanted a trade (that we know of), Brown and Stevens had been through this before with the KD trade, they moved on AND WON A FUCKING CHAMPIONSHIP, but "the Celtics began to have questions". (?) That's paranoia, not rationality.
Some around the league believed Boston had a potential problem brewing when Brown spoke so glowingly of the experience he had...when Tatum was sidelined for 66 games. Not helping the external perception of the situation, Tatum’s trainer, Drew Hanlen, posted several times on social media about how well the Celtics played when the ball was in his client’s hands.
See what the Athletic Supporters did? Not able to get ANY intel out of Stevens or the org to make the inexplicable explainable, they are turning to "league sources", to "Some around the league believed" the org. had a "potential problem"--and to Jayson Tatum's TRAINER!
“Last night, (Tatum) had a usage rate of 39.4%,” Hanlen posted on X on March 30. “Celtics are really tough to beat when Tatum’s usage is over 33%.”
...Hanlen didn’t necessarily speak for Tatum, who was less than 100-percent physically and never complained about his touches, but it was the first time since Tatum’s rookie season that he finished with a lower usage rate than Brown.
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As recently as this week, the Celtics were giving indications they were still willing to bring Brown back if they didn’t find a trade they were willing to accept. If that had happened, they would have needed to confront any lingering issues about the trade negotiations. They would have also needed to make sure everyone was aligned from a basketball perspective.
Contributing to concerns about the situation, the Celtics believed that Brown went off script too often during playoff games as Boston blew a 3-1 first-round lead to Philadelphia, according to a league source. Over the final three games of that series, the Celtics were outscored by 57 points with Brown on the court. Though he scored 33 points in a Game 7 loss, he shot 12 for 27 from the field and finished the series with more turnovers than assists. Afterward, despite the loss, he stated how much he appreciated the style the Celtics played in that game, which was played without Tatum on the court. He thought they had played faster and freer.
“Tonight, I wish we played that style and trusted that style more, even throughout the playoffs, even through wins and through losses,” Brown said. “Obviously it’s not always the easiest decision, but I wish that style for our team was how we empowered the rest of our group, and you saw tonight how everybody came out and they played their tail off. I wish we trusted that more.”
Though far from unforgivable, those comments could have been viewed as a criticism of head coach Joe Mazzulla. They could have been taken as a hint that Brown preferred how the Celtics played without Tatum. Regardless of what Brown intended, as he ended the best season of his career, some around the NBA wondered whether his words suggested the possibility of future friction between him and his organization.
"Could have been", "could have been", "some around the NBA WONDERED...POSSIBILITY...FUTURE FRICTION...[Brown] and his org.": Do you see what bullshit this is? "Regardless of what Brown intended": DID BRAD STEVENS EVER ASK JAYLEN BROWN WHAT HE "INTENDED"? It is as if Brad Stevens is dead and there is no way to get answers to that question and all of this speculation.
One week before the trade, Stevens emphasized how much the organization had always appreciated Brown.
“I think the one thing that I want to make very clear is how valued he’s always been,” Stevens said after the first round of the NBA Draft. “He’s been amazing. He’s been an amazing teammate. Great person to be around. Whether that run ends 10 years from now when he retires or before, there’s a lot to celebrate.”
Ironically, Brown might have foreshadowed the end of his Celtics tenure eight years ago.
Oh my God, now we're going back eight years to look for clues to answers to questions from an event that happened TWO DAYS AGO!
While speaking at Harvard, he spoke about a paper he had read in college at Cal about the difference between identities players see for themselves and the identities a coach — or in this case, an organization — gives to them. Brown said friction begins when those identities clash.
Oh, you've found the Rosetta Stone, Athletic Supporters. Did Jaylen have his palm read too? Maybe a Ouija board?
Friday, July 03, 2026
Public Occurrences July 3, 2026
How the Heat Is Upending Plans for America's 250th Birthday
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Nearly half of Americans surveyed don't know what America 250 commemorates
The Atlantic
8:20 pm:
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Giannis
Nearly half of Americans surveyed don't know what America 250 commemorates
10:05 pm:
Hell Arrives in Washington
The Atlantic
8:20 pm:
Great American State Fail Shut Down for Heat, Trump Cools it in South Dakota
Oh my God, poor thing lolol
Thursday, July 02, 2026
Epic
Hunter Biden
@HunterBiden
I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
No President in History has ended the same war so many times.
Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.
No President has ever done this before.
And he is nowhere near finished ending it.
It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
5:43 PM · Jul 2, 2026
5.3M Views
@HunterBiden
I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
No President in History has ended the same war so many times.
Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.
No President has ever done this before.
And he is nowhere near finished ending it.
It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
5:43 PM · Jul 2, 2026
5.3M Views
Great American State Fail
Dancers Barely Avoid Death as Great American Stage Fails
Great American Trumphal Arch Oozes Fat
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Donald Trump's Great American State Fair Features a Cow Named Melania
President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair has so far gathered some unfavorable reactions, from inclement weather forcing cancellations to music artists dropping out of their headlining slots.
However, the president might be pleased to hear about one particular attendee: a cow named after his wife, first lady Melania Trump.
However, the president might be pleased to hear about one particular attendee: a cow named after his wife, first lady Melania Trump.
He might be.
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Melania Trump; a cow.
(Caption by People Magazine)
"We were trying to come up with patriotic names for the 250th year of America, and we thought Melania would be a good idea because it's the first lady's name and the hair colors kind of match," the student explained. "It just fit."
It was a good idea. Thank you Piper.
Public Occurrences July 2, 2026
TRUMP TRIES TO BUY HIS WAY OUT!😂
Washington offers a cash release but Tehran insists on charging tolls to pass through the waterway
I have not seen a trade panned this widely since...
Brown was a great fit for the Celtics, on the court, off the court.
Jaylen never did anything to tatter those Celtics uniforms. ...As Celtics go, he was one of the really great ones.
...with one last phone call, Stevens pulled off the (literally) mean trick of making the 76ers better and the Celtics worse.
...February 1, 2025.
What the Hell Is This Jaylen Brown Trade?
Boston has some explaining to do. The Celtics-76ers blockbuster just doesn’t add up.
Wednesday, July 01, 2026
BEANS JETTISON JAYLEN BROWN TO PHILA. FOR PAUL GEORGE JOHN RINGO
Phil. hands over two first round draft picks and two seconds to get the 2024 Finals MVP.
I am SHOCKED by Brad Stevens. Beans is worse off now than they were at end of 2025/26 season when they won 56 games and were eliminate by Seven Foot Sixers. Horrible trade by Stevens.
...swapping Brown for George makes the Celtics worse. It clearly makes them worse. Crucially, it lowers their playoff ceiling...
It's utterly strange that the Celtics would willingly take such a giant step back. This is the most successful franchise of the decade: In the 2020s, Boston ranks first in regular-season wins and playoff wins, and it's the only team to both win a championship and make another Finals.
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Clearly, the Celtics decided that their relationship with Brown had soured past the point of no return, following various small mishaps and the rumors that he'd be included in an Antetokounmpo trade. But even in a deal-him-at-all-costs scenario, this return is mighty underwhelming.
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Half a decade ago, George would have been a solid cornerstone in a Brown trade, but at 36 years old, he has declined significantly from his peak.
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Brad Stevens has nailed almost every move -- big and small -- since becoming the Celtics' president of basketball operations. It almost feels wrong to question his expertise. But if this was the best return the Celtics could find for Brown, then it's difficult not to think that they should have tried to patch up that relationship, rather than drastically reduce their 2026-27 title odds and not even save much money in the deal.
The entire process of this trade, from its impetus to its ultimate execution, is baffling.
I agree 100%.
Melat Kiros
I don't know why Lefties cannot adopt my reasonable, "nuanced" (a Jewish friend's characterization) stance on This Israel, viz, Netanyahoo has committed genocide and war crimes; no Palestinian state; end all Toilet Nation funding and arming of This Israel; intervene only to save This Israel from extermination. See? Simple lol.
It is pathognomonic of Toilet Nation politics that once one moves off dead center and leans either left or right, the lean sometimes leads to complete loss of balance and the turd falls with a splat onto the floor as if it were obeying Newton's law that a body in motion stays in motion. This interesting political phenomenon is captured by the maxim, "Scratch a liberal, find a communist; scratch a conservative, find a fascist."
I don't know why lawyers (my friend above and Ms. Kiros are lawyers), both those who are pro-Israel and those who are pro-Palestine, can't address their disagreements as they are trained to in an individual criminal case where the relevant facts are delimited by the four corners of the complaint; where prior bad acts evidence of the accused or the complainant for explanatory "context" is exceedingly rare; where a reductio argument is thereby prohibited and an endless trial avoided. Just the facts, ma'am.
The charging document at bar is confined to the actions of defendant Hamas on one date only, October 7, 2023.
Now, to the lawyer for defendant Hamas.
Melat Kiros was a lawyer at a New York law firm. She was fired in November, 2023 for refusing to take down her blog post that was in response to an open letter written by 100 top law firms (including her own) to the deans of elite law schools. The law firms' letter was 283 words long. Eleven of those words were enough to tip Ms. Kiros over:
"Over the last several weeks, we have been alarmed at reports of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism and assaults on college campuses, including rallies calling for the death of Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel. Such anti-Semitic activities..."
Ms. Kiros wrote a 1,999 word response, the opening paragraph of which contains the sixteen words bolded below:
"This letter rightfully rebukes the anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and bigotry of all kinds that has spiked in recent weeks, but then goes on (to my confusion) to cite “calls for the elimination of the Israeli state” as anti-Semitism."
She's confused. Ms. Kiros is confused that calls for the elimination of the only Jewish state in existence are deemed anti-Jewish.
Blink.
The entire sentence is 39 words long, leaving Ms. Kiros only 1,960 to write about...what? Second paragraph:
"Anti-semitism has fittingly been called “the longest hatred.” It has been so for thousands of years and has led to the death and suffering of millions of Jewish people around the world. To conflate such bigotry with the geo-political question of Israel’s legitimacy is one of the greatest travesties in this conflict."
I'm confused: How did we get from "elimination" to "legitimacy"? Is she using those terms synonymously? There are absolutely not synonyms, they are not even close. An "illegitimate" child is not "eliminated": euthanized, put to death, exterminated. And the other way around, to question Israel's "legitimacy" (if you would define a nation-state's "legitimacy" Congresswoman-to-be, that would be he'pful) is not ipso facto to call for its elimination. So I don't know what she's talking about.
Be that as it may, that's another 52 words. She has only 1,908 left!
This is how she begins her third paragraph:
"Take, for example, the accusation of apartheid."
OBJECTION!
Sustained.
Paragraph fo':
"There are deep, historical, and religious wounds that plague this conflict and cloud our ability to judge it clearly..."
Objection.
Sustained.
"Historic Palestine was promised by a brutalizing imperial power..."
Come sidebar.
Counsel for the defendant admonished.
"Colonialism, as we so intimately know, cannot take place without violence against its indigenous people."
Pause for contempt hearing.
"Instead of acknowledging their plight as a direct result of Israel’s occupation..."
Found in contempt of court.
"Corruption that led to the slaughter of 15,000 Palestinians, the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians, and the capture of 78% of Palestinian land in 1948."
Sentenced to seven days incarceration.
"Corruption that uses the excuse of “security concerns” to justify Israel’s apartheid..."
"Violence corrupts the soul, and it does so by breeding more violence. There has never been, in the history of the entire human race, a people whose land was violently taken from them, whose freedoms and rights were relegated to second-class citizenship, and whose very existence was systematically threatened by its occupier, who did not resist with violence in kind."
Jail sentence increased to 10 days.
"The most shameful chapters in our global history have always resulted from one group’s inability to separate another group’s identities and experiences from our shared humanity."
Huh?
"There is no justification for the attacks on Israel on October 7th, just as there is no justification for the disproportionate and collective punishment being waged on the Palestinian people by the Israeli government in retaliation, but it cannot be forgotten that violence does not occur in a vacuum."
Jury excused. Defendant Hamas asks leave of Court to make ore tenus pro se motion.
Permission granted.
Defendant Hamas avers that Melat Kiros has just "shot me in the head", argues that she is per se ineffective and asks Court to discharge Ms. Kiros, declare a mistrial and appoint new counsel.
Granted. Granted. Granted.
Judge modifies original contempt sentence to an increased 30 day minimum commitment to mental health facility.
Legitimates and Illegitimates of Denver, we give you YOUR NEXT CONGRESSWOMAN, MELAT KIROS!
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