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Carol A. Heasley's avatar

I couldn’t agree more that Israel is a horrible country run by horrible people, like the Americans, who have gone about pillaging other countries and installing leaders who rape the people; I have studied the Jews culture and religion, following them for centuries to their slaughter of Palestinians to satisfy their misguided notion that the land is theirs. I have been to Israel, and I like their country and people just as I like my fellow American Jews, but their belief in the promised land for them is a myth.

Susan Tunison's avatar

So very sadly 😥 people cannot just share and get along!! There seems to be so very much cruelty and crushingly mean-spirited treatment of each other! 😔 😥 😞

Paul2's avatar

Israel's descent into evil began with Meir Kahane!

Millenia of antisemitism is no excuse for Israel destruction of Palestinians.

Our People are one, and need ecumenical peace, not division and violence! Such a world would not spawn devils like Netanyahu, or his puppet Hezbollah.

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Paul, I think you under-discerned quite a bit between the current sociopathic government and of course Netanyahu's successively pathological governments over 30 years and the destructiveness of the Israeli right wing in general, the over-empowerment of the ultra-Orthodox and other extremist groups with their hyperreligious blind Old Testsment thumping, the taught Palestinian cultures of Israel obliteration, the large segments of Israeli society against these bad elements and for two states, the surrounding national entities who desire no solution, and the intense intergenerational societal trauma on all sides.

Hound's avatar

Hard-core Christians follow the same stuff regarding the Jewish homeland and the rebuilding of the third temple and all that religious bullshit.

Here are some facts about shoes they’re only about 14 million of them left in the world because of Hitler. When it comes to contributions to humanity the Jews have done more than anybody else.

Here are some facts about Muslims. The number one biggest holocaust in the world was committed against the Hindus by the Muslims. They killed 30 million overtime because they didn’t want to be Muslims they wanted to be Hindus.

Be fair about it because all of the three religions of the world related to the god of Abraham are responsible for all sources of atrocities. Moses was a terrorist and the god of Abraham is a terrorist. We don’t know if Moses actually existed. We do know that Muhammad did exist and we do know that Muhammad was a terrorist and a pedophile big-time pedophile.

We also no Jesus probably never did exist. Jesus was probably created by the Roman empire. That turned the other cheek garbage was used by Rome to make people more docile. The new testament came quite a while after the alleged crucifixion and ascension into heaven by Jesus.

If you’re gonna bash religion and people of religions, bash them all.

I personally prefer the company of Jews and I’m not a Jew. I can also tell you that the non-secular Jew hates Netanyahu. I grew up with a lot of Jews his friends and when it came to these people were very irreverent because they knew it was bullshit. There are people who actually believe that God bullshit. And one of the biggest causes of war is the God of Abraham.

There were antisemites where I lived but not a lot and if you ask them why they hated Jews they couldn’t tell you why they just did.

I think I will probably be called and antisemite because I oppose Benjamin Netanyahu. I will be called and Islamophobe because I call out the bullshit of Islam and Muhammad. And I’ll probably be called a heretic by Christians because I’m not afraid to say the Christianity is bullshit too. Philosophically, I like the sermon on the amount but so much other stuff in the Bible in Old Testament is just evil shit.

I wish there was a world leader who would get out and say that religion is the cause of a lot of problems and if we got rid of religion particularly the Abraham religion the world wouldn’t suck quite as much. After we get rid of religion we should get rid of corporations and billionaires. They are the other cause of strife and torment and oppression.

When do people pick sides it shows just how ignorant so many of you are. Sometimes they’re all bad guys. Comparing which religion is more evil than the other one would be like deciding whether pig shit smells worse than dog shit. It’s a matter of opinion but they all stink to the high heavens.

MariElena's avatar

I am reaching the point where I no longer know what to say.

Nancy M's avatar

Yes, seriously.

Paul Palmer's avatar

Mary: Your comment that "Kent is a notorious anti-semite so he blames Israel" is a real lulu. Where have you been the last few years Mary? No one needs to be an anti-semite to blame Israel for being anti-human, a puffed up arrogant dealer of death for everyone else. There is nothing you cannot blame Israel for - it is a horrible country run by people as horrible as the American rulers and then some. Millions of Jews blame Israel for genocide and murder. Your comment smacks of the phony charge of anti-semitism for the slightest criticism of Israel. And what is so wrong about anti-semitism anyway? We are way past the spurious invocations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Dachau is just a memory. Instead we have Jews showing how actually and fully inhuman they are. I would hope we are all against semites of that stripe.

John Crowe's avatar

You’re way out of line, Paul. The Israelis have a horrible head of state, true, but so do we Americans. You shouldn’t blame all Israelis for what their jackass of a leader does, just as all Americans shouldn’t be blamed for what our jackass does. The R majority in Congress are making no effort to control the moron, and, in fact, they do whatever he wants. The same seems to be the case in Israel. I haven’t asked my friends there, but I suspect they’re waiting for next election just as eagerly as we are.

Sky Blue's avatar

ABSOLUTELY TRUE, John Crowe!

If somebody can't see that connection that their half asleep!

Good point!

Hound's avatar

American government is not run by Trump or Congress. The American government has run by the corporations because that’s who Trump and Congress works for.

Our government agencies like the FDA especially his own by corporations particularly the food and medical industries. When people talk about the so-called deep state what they’re talking about are the people who work on behalf of corporations. They may be lobbyist they may be influencers but they are the enemy. This isn’t the only country where this happens. It happens in Russia, in China and of course Israel.

Israel is especially problematic because it is there to enforce the will of the United States. That’s what it was originally now Israel is calling the shots.

The far Christian right wing are a crazy bunch of people who believe in religious bullshit or pretend to believe in it. They believe in that prophecy garbage about Israel rebuilding the temple and the antichrist being gotten rid of and Jesus coming with a sword and the tribulation and Armageddon and all that total bullshit. What we are seeing is a self fulfilling prophecy.

Sky Blue's avatar

I have nothing against Israelis....

But I DESPISE netanyahu!!

There IS a difference!

putin and netanyahu STARTED and PERPETUATED a WAR to stay IN POWER and OUT of PRISON!!

trump IS doing the SAME THING NOW with his TRUMP-EPSTEIN WAR in Iran!!

VOTE ALL GOP maga OUT!!

They simply CANNOT be TRUSTED EVER!!!

Hound's avatar

Trump is also taking a play out of their handbook. Part of this war for Trump is to stay in power I believe. It’s the tail wagging the dog. Netanyahu should be in prison because he’s a criminal and a thief and a crook just like Putin and Trump.

If this wanted to be settled quickly. A Jew in Israel will deliver to Iran Netanyahu‘s head on a platter. That could bring peace or at least a prelude to peace.

JBR's avatar

Not jews. The Israeli govt. Has nothing to do with religious affiliation. Netanyahu and Trump are both anti religious zealots. Israel is a victim of Netanyahu the way us is hostage to djt

Hound's avatar

We don’t know if he is or isn’t an antisemite so until anyone knows we should keep our opinions to ourselves. The left wing was calling him an Islamophobe and the right wing was calling him and antisemite.

You made a good when you said just because somebody opposes Israel doesn’t make them and antisemite. Antisemites hate Jews. But in these politically correct times disagree with Israel makes a person in antisemite and wanting to liberate the Iranian people makes somebody Islamophobic. I must be both because I think all of the Abraham religions suck.

It’s also important to remember that Mary Trump is a shrink and mental health practices are basically based on psychology which is not a science. It’s mostly theoretical bullshit.

Big people labels like ADHD which we all know most of the time means, just being a kid.

They use the label narcissistic personality disorder when before they came up with that one we just referred to those people as assholes.

Then they came up with the label sociopath and we used to call those people sneaky dangerous bastards.

Then they came up with histrionic personality disorder and we call those people drama queens and back then we used to put people like that in their place and step on them when they needed to be stepped on.

Then there borderline personality disorder and we used to call it crazy bitch or crazy bastard which ever the case may be.

Then there people who are hostile and didn’t really fit in and we called them weirdos or flaming assholes but today they’re called antisocial personality disorder.

If you notice the people who are the most fundamentalist about their beliefs tend to be the biggest assholes and idiots and liars. For instance there’s an extremist group in Christianity called the Ku Klux Klan. Muslims are all over the place with their all Akbar bullshit and their hatred for everything that isn’t Islamic and if they didn’t of Israel to fuck with they’d be killing each other for some bullshit religious reason.

Then we have the hard-core ultra orthodox Jews and they are equally nasty bunch of assholes but if you criticize them then you are an antisemite.

Zionism is not traditionally Jewish. It was created by some quack who was the first Prime Minister of Israel. His name was David Ben-Gurion. There are a lot of conservative rabbis and liberal Jews we will tell you that Zionism is a bunch of bullshit and inherently evil.

Criticizing Christianity doesn’t earn anyone the Scarlet letter because it’s OK and politically correct to bash Christianity but the other two Abraham bullshit religions are off-limits.

A way to demonstrate how worthless the mental health industry is in this country is simply to point out the fact that people are more bat shit crazy than they’ve ever been.

We can spend all day shit talking Donald Trump and it will solve absolutely nothing. It’s like medicine these days they will diagnose you but they won’t cure you because that would cost them money.

Think about the absurdity of Israel. They are surrounded by real antisemites and they knew that the people in the Middle East hated the Jews but they put Israel there anyway. How fucking stupid is that? There certainly are a lot of other countries particularly in the west would love to have Jews as their citizens but instead Israel gets created in the most asinine part of the world surrounded by maniacs who shout out Allah Akbar, fly airplanes into buildings and stone women to death. Imagine a neighborhood that is full of KKK members and then having a black family decide to move into that neighborhood. It’s the same thing with Israel it was stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid and a little bit more stupid.

Blacks avoid the Ku Klux Klan like the plague because it is a plague. Maybe in the last 20 years Islam has chilled out a little bit but you never know when they’re gonna get all nuts again.

Israel was put where it is partially because of some religious bullshit up upon more bullshit and because it’s a great enforcer for the United States in order to pay the United States into stealing oil.

I like Mary mostly but I think she’s probably going through menopause or something. Those women get really crazy when that shit starts. My mother put my father through hell and she started her change and it was never a change for the better.

JFurrocious's avatar

Dude, you should’ve stopped after your first sentence. You know, the one that ended with “we should keep our opinions to ourselves”, right before you launched into 21 paragraphs of your opinions. Just saying.

Nancy M's avatar

Whoa. Now they're coming after menopausal women too.

How about "MANopause?" Oh, it's a thing.

Hound's avatar

Where did you come up with that MANopause bullshit? Does it have something to do with the patriarchy.🤣

The amount of man hating in America is so laughable. I think it’s time for some facts that you probably will hate.

American women are four times more likely to have mental health problems than then particularly general anxiety disorder which can make them Super crazy. Then add PMS and PMDD and it’s like holy shit guy hang onto your hats it’s gonna be a bumpy night or a bumpy week or a bumpy two weeks.

American women are becoming the least desirable women in the world and not because of their attitudes that suck. Look at them. Most of them are obese. So if you want birth effects in your kids guys get a fat woman pregnant. If you want more histrionics deal with fat American women.

When we look at the childhood obesity epidemic who should we be blaming besides the government? Mothers of course. If they gave a shit about their kids they wouldn’t be raising fat kids, selfish hedonistic drama queen morons.

If you think about it the perfect woman is one with AIS. That’s because they are born with an X and Y chromosome but they develop like a female. They don’t menstruate it solves a lot of problems, bodies are mostly hairless which is pretty hot, They don’t have ovaries which solve a lot more problems such as getting knocked up and trapping a man. The next improvement is the trans woman. They are stable with their hormones at the transition. They don’t menstruate and they don’t have menopause.

Manopause Is it made up word. Men do lose testosterone as an age but it doesn’t make them crazy and stupid. They just mellow out a little bit. They don’t get osteoporosis or hot flashes or crazy mood swings. They don’t get breast cancer unless they’re real fat boys and that’s rare.

American women better step up their game. When you compare them to Asian and European women there’s no comparison whether it’s physical or behavioral.

Mary Trump is making money whining about her crazy uncle for a long time. I hope she wakes up to see that her crazy uncle is just a puppet with an IQ of probably around 90.

I would like to see if she has any proof that Joe Kent is a antisemite. Show some of his quotes that might indicate that. It looks like his resigning as the top counterterrorism person pissed off Israel and what most ignorant people don’t know is that there are 12 FBI counterterrorism agents that were fired who are filing a lawsuit against criminal Kash Patel. This will be good because there will be depositions and in a civil case unlike asshole Congress when they conduct an investigation or depose a criminal, In a civil lawsuit the lawyers can ask just about anything they want so they can grill Kash Patel In ways Congress.

Paul Palmer's avatar

Hound: I love your tour de force against psychology. I pretty much agree with you. A tower of theoretical bullshit. Psychologists like to think they are like Freudians and so they talk with people with problems and try to use conversation and verbal tricks which seem to rarely do much good. I have always thought that a verbal friend with empathy could do more good with talking to someone with problems. I guess that's a proposition that could use some scientific study. Maybe it's been done.

Jews seem to have done well in America. That would have been a more logical place for a Jewish Centrum than the Middle East. How about a new borough of NY? Or a new NYC?

I also like Mary mostly. I was amazed that she could write what she did. It seemed tonedeaf.

Hound's avatar

When I was a kid in second grade my parents sent me to the Catholic school for religious instructions. A lot of kids families couldn’t afford to pay the tuition at a Catholic school but we were Catholics. When I started it here in the shit the nuns were telling us Even when I was eight years old it sounded like bullshit to me. What bothered me the most was the fact that The way he described God they were describing a monster a terrifying monster.

I took courses in psychology in college And it just sounded like bullshit to me. There were the different schools of psychology behaviorism, Freudianism, Humanism Etc. And it sounded like bullshit.

There is Something called me rational emotive behavioral therapy Which actually works. Instead of some fool paying big bucks to talk to some shrink for sometimes years to sort out their fucked up neurotic shit, The rational automotive therapist confronts their craziness And they’re stupid thinking and pretty much asked him if all they think and how they feel is rational. Then they give them things to do to make them confront they’re crazy shit.

People are told a lot of bullshit early on in life and they take it his gospel truth. People are turned into thought slaves And they adhere to the clichés they’ve been told throughout life but with no proof that any of these clichés are true.

Mary Trump has made an industry around her crazy uncle. Everything she says is something people want to hear not necessarily what they need to hear. I think the time to shit talk Donald Trump is over. We need a solution to Donald Trump. The difference between men and women and how they think is that men want to solve problems and women want to talk about them.

Cynthia Gladstone Reemtsma's avatar

What are we doing SAVING other foreign countries when we are not even doing a thing to fix America? He is distracting from all the evidence that point to his pedaphilia and he doesn't care about anything else.

Hound's avatar

The orange menace hates everybody even Republicans well at least the moral and patriotic Republicans. He ordered the death of his own vice president on January 6.

The oil thing is a scam like it always is. There are three months worth of oil in the strategic petroleum reserves and in addition to that there are oil fields laying dormant that could be brought up to production very quickly. This whole thing is an excuse to do price gouging on everything because the news media the liars that they are will say that everything is more expensive because it cost more to ship things. That’s probably bullshit.

Anne's avatar

Mary, thanks for the great summary of the week. As a long time clinical psychologist (retired at age 86) I have always felt that saying NO to someone like Trump is absolutely critical. A firm NO is something this “out of control bully toddler president” has rarely experienced to hear -/snd

Mike Shuman's avatar

Hi Mary always enjoy your writing. In another topic; I cannot help but wonder if your uncle had Epstein killed because of what he could expose of trump’s behavior and actions regarding abuse and pedophilia?!

Wallis Weir's avatar

I am so disgusted in the human race right now

Anne's avatar

Mary,

It’s Anne again. I wasn’t quite finished with my comment. Donald needs some really firm NO’S. One does not even need to explain the NO. That would weaken it. It’s NO, period. He would never listen or understand the explanation anyway. But being very firm with the NO is critical. What a monster he is.

Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Thank you for the article, Mary. I find these remarks sycophantic given by the President. Especially concerning the death of Robert Mueller. All GOP members join in that President Trump was in appropriate behavior because of Mr. Mueller death as do Democrats. This was according to ABC News. We as a nation should be thankful for , Mr. Mueller generous service to America. He rescued his army friend on the field of battle in Vietnam. Then he came after suffering injuries from the war. It surprises me that Senate Democrats and Republicans have forgotten the 1973 law about the war powers act. The oil industry maybe trying to make money off the American people. Billionaire billionaires or oligarchs. Then we have the social sycophants influencing others to join whatever is left in the GOP. I’m looking forward to a better future for everyone in America, in the hopes that our economy gets better. I dislike seeing people hurt or dying in America’s death camps. I feel sorry for members of these peoples families. A person should never be cruel by stealing someone else’s valor at all. I hope and pray and send my condolences 💐 to The Mueller family. I would ask , Professor Krugman opinion in the matter of oil. He is a very intelligent person. He knows more about our economic situation and oil. Whatever he does not know he asks others to help and interview them. I have a hard time believing in politicians these days because they say one thing and don’t even try an attempt legislation, and I wonder if Senator Schumer stops them from getting legislation done. Many thanks for the article Mary. Have a nice weekend.

Nancy M's avatar

SOME Jews showing how actually and fully inhuman they are. Agree that the country of Israel is a horrible country run by people as horrible as United States (and then some).

Your comment is confusing.

Paul2's avatar

"My goal at The Good in Us is to stay above the fray, connect the dots, and bring you clear-eyed analyses and assessments that help you negotiate these chaotic times."

We shall prevail, thanks to brave voices.

Susan Tunison's avatar

Thankyou so very much Mary and appreciate your very knowledgeable posts! I am sorry unable to upgrade at this time. 😔