Revolution for Thee but Not for Me

Talk’s cheap. Lifestyles aren’t.

There is a story in an 800-year-old book by a well-known Jewish, philosopher rabbi. In it, he tells of a man who sailed to a distant land, where he hoped to do some business and make money. While he was there, he met a fellow of a different religion and they had a discussion about God and truth. The traveler said, “God can provide a person with an income from anything and anywhere He so pleases.”

“Your actions stand in opposition to your words.”

“What do you mean?”

“If things were as you claim, then you would have had no reason to travel here to make money. God could have provided you with an income in your place of residence.”

The fellow did not answer. He ran back to his boat and headed home. At least he realized that his claimed beliefs and his actual life did not overlap completely.

 

There has been much in the news about the children of top Iranian officials living the life in the Great Satan, otherwise known as the United States. We have learned that the apparently injured and disfigured new chief mullah has millions in real estate holdings all over the world. While one must always be careful to assume that children are identical in their views and beliefs to their parents, it would seem strange that the relations of General Soleimani live in LA but do not denounce the violent ways of their now vaporized uncle. It has been a staple of progeny of the dictatorial elite to live the life in the West. They take money absconded by their parents and live like Hollywood royalty: big houses, fast cars, travel, jewelry, parties. Dictators taking a country’s wealth and giving to their offspring is nothing new. That the State Department is starting to throw out some of the spoiled relatives living in the U.S. is something new.

But is such hypocrisy so rare? How many Hollywood grandees tell us of the evils of guns while they make movies with plenty of shooting and personally have bodyguards with more weapons than the badly depleted U.K. army? How many pro-open border billionaires live in airtight security that would not allow a single illegal alien access to his or her lair? How many millionaires screaming for reduced energy consumption to “save the planet” fly on private planes and have gas-guzzling SUVs take them from place to place? Most honest people cannot live with internal contradictions for very long: like a volcano, the magma percolates up and up until it shoots out with great gusto. How often have people who have preached one thing eventually admitted—often with tears and shame—that they lived exactly the opposite of what they claimed? For our Iranian officials’ kin, they have no problem living it up in the West. Let those poor folks gunned down by the Basij live their lives in the misery that is modern Islamic Iran.

Our American “contradictors” espouse the wonders of Socialism while being multimillionaires and having houses dotting the country. Shouldn’t socialists live like socialists? Nope, that’s for the saps on the other side of the microphone. Bernie Sanders, one of the bigwigs among the “Democratic Socialists” that include AOC and Hizzoner Zohran Mamdani, once explained his very high private plane travel costs: his efforts are so important that he needs to travel this way to get from rally to rally. Don’t we all feel that we are so important that we should not be stuck in some traffic jam or get behind a stoplight that never seems to turn green? But then reality hits us: we’re stuck just like everybody else around us. But I don’t mind the wealthy using their money to avoid traffic jams or the ugly side of an airport. If God has given you dough, use it and enjoy it. Just don’t lecture us about the virtues of a life that you refuse to live. Don’t tell us that generating carbon dioxide is bad while you create wheelbarrows full of it on your private planes. Again, enjoy your flight with all of its amenities. If you want to reduce “greenhouse gases” because you believe in the tripe sold by Al Gore and his buddies, then swear off private planes and exclusive travel. But they never do. They live large as they demand that we live small. If I could make a barbecue inside a gas-guzzling pickup truck being loaded onto a fuel-wasting transport plane, I would do the same. The green climate nonsense is a scam, and I feel no need to offset miles or worry about my car generating gas that helps trees and plants grow.

Long ago, they taught us that pure utilitarianism fails because it does not take into account moral considerations. Many in the Weirdo Right follow in the antisemitic footsteps of the Arabic State Department and British Foreign Office of yore. “Look at Israel shooting and killing everybody—Gazans, Lebanese, Houthis, Syrians, and Iranians. Wouldn’t it simply be easier if there was no Israel and then there would be nobody with so many enemies?” The problem is—again with contradictory undertones—that Israel was born of land purchases and war. If one rejects Israel’s right to exist as a modern nation state, then why should we accept the United States or any other country born of war or revolution? There are always Jew-only standards applied only to Israel: Israel is accused of genocide when it is the only country in history to send phone/SMS/drone/paper messages telling people to move before destroying a building. Israel is accused of starving Gazans though plenty of food was let into Gaza, much of it stolen by Hamas. Rashida Tlaib (D, Ramallah) continued to accuse Israel of bombing a Gazan hospital even after it was definitively shown that the projectile fell in the parking lot and it was Palestinian Islamic Jihad that admitted (through an intercepted phone call) that they fired the rocket. Hypocrisy toward Israel is always rooted in rank antisemitism, however much people try to soothe their pathetic consciences by saying that they are only anti-Zionist or the like. The Me Too frauds who never came forward until their careers in Hollywood were made claimed to believe all women, until Israeli women described the horror of Hamas’ actions against them. Eye-witnesses, forensic evidence, and even terrorist confessions meant nothing. Me Too ends where You Jew starts. Hypocrisy even on the subject of sexual assault is in vogue among those whose IQ is 1/10th of what they believe it to be.

Donald Trump was elected in 2016 and again in 2024 (and probably in 2020...we may never know) because what you saw was what you got. He wasn’t like Hillary or Joe Biden who invented accents depending who their audience was. He wasn’t like Kamala because he could actually complete a sentence and did not pretend that there was no problem at the southern border. Americans have a very strong sense of honesty and fairness. A Hollywood star crying over “climate change” and then going home to a well-heated, 32-room mansion gets no love from Americans who are happy when the month ends with a positive bank balance. Americans want politicians who live like they talk and Donald Trump is known to bring McDonald's food to the White House when entertaining say college football champions. One of the reasons why the billionaire lefties hate Trump is the same as why tens of millions of Americans support him: he is as advertised. He said that he would close the border and he did; he said that he would bomb the well, you know, out of Iran and he has. Donald Trump is the antidote to today’s lefty elite hypocrisy.