Blogging Through the Breakdown

That’s what Republican Congressman Andy Ogles said in response to an activist saying to him “I’ve seen the footage of shredded [Palestinian] children’s bodies, that’s my taxpayer dollars. You’re going to bomb those kids.” Rep. Ogles then replied, “I think we should kill them all.” The argument had more back and forth, and it began with Ogles talking to the activist about Hamas, but the video is worse than just reading the quote.

Axios is out with a new decree from their bosses report from the State Department, highlighting how the remaining people with any dignity left in their body in that God-forsaken building are scrambling to find a suitable exit ramp to stop Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza. The idea is actually a good one, because it’s the only way out of this mess that could do the one thing that could actually end this nightmare: give Palestinians a state* (*after the “war” in Gaza, of course).

This is the third iteration of what is now a tradition between me and my internet friends. I “met” (some of) this group of loveable weirdos first in a college football pool that had run for years in the 2010s, before going to work at Paste Magazine in 2016 under the pool’s commissioner, Golf Digest writer Shane Ryan—who writes an annual blurb about The Channels Cup in Golf Digest.

If you don’t know who Will Stancil is, then congratulations on aggregating a healthier feed than seemingly 90% of Twitter leftists, because for those of us enmeshed in online socialist politics, this man is everywhere. Whether you like it or not as a lefty, you follow him because he is an interminably online person constantly fighting with other interminably online people on the left who will inevitably tumble into your feed, even if you have him blocked because screenshots are forever.

I’m not going to recap the litany of evil that Henry Kissinger spawned across the globe here. If you want to learn more about why so many people revile what is supposedly a respectable elder statesman, read Rolling Stone’s excellent obituary with the most accurate title to describe Kissinger’s legacy that I’ve seen: Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies.