Public Occurrences August 20, 2026

Netanyahu posts Mamdani’s face alongside Middle Eastern enemies list in campaign push

Lede by The Independent

"They Want Netanyahu to Lose, Don't let them Win."

Iran's Mojtaba Khamenei (wounded in U.S.-Iz assassination of father), New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in front, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem

AIPAC Makes it C.T.E. Again, Loses Again

Aisha Wahab, NOT a Democratic Socialist, won former Rep. Eric Swalwell's seat by 6% over fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez.  

At a candidate forum, Wahab was asked if Iz' actions in Gaza were a genocide and answered (correctly) "yes", while Hernandez said Iz had "gone too far" (lol). That was enough to draw AIPAC's dollars ($6.3M)  and ire.

AIPAC was founded in 1954 explicitly as a pro-Israeli genocide org.

That's over $42 million AIPAC has spent in just two losing races this season, $36M against Abdul El-Sayad in the Michigan Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate and now in California's 14th Congressional District.

Manitoba Premier: TACO a "bad person"

“Everybody knows the American president by now, he’s erratic, he’s irresponsible, and he’s not to be trusted. And this is the person that we were supposed to make a deal with, and we’re going to make additional concessions for it. That’s why I say you can’t make a good deal with a bad person, because who’s to say it’s not going to be undone?

"I think we should fight. I think Donald Trump is very weak. I think America is weaker around the world today than it was a year ago. He’s about to get slaughtered in the midterms and the cost of living is the number one issue and he’s completely out of touch with the cost of living of Americans.

"We’ve got the upper hand. They are back on their heels right now. They are coming to us for a deal right now."

[Wab Kinew, Manitoba Premier] said he preferred to keep fighting, noting the U.S. Republican president’s tendency to levy extremely high import taxes and then retreat. He mentioned what’s known as “TACO”, an acronym...that stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out.”


9:08 am:

                                                           Fantasy:

Reality:

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Reality:

                                                                             Cause:

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Here is the latest:

• Oil prices rise.
• Stocks slip on Wall Street.
• Bond rally fades.
• Gasoline prices tick up.

 Twee T.