IT’S SO LONG SINCE THE US FOUGHT WAR FOR A VICTORY IN WE’VE FORGOTTEN HOW IT’S DONE (AND CAN’T RECOGNIZE A WINNING PLAN WHEN ISRAEL HAS ONE):  Israel Must Invade Rafah.

Again, Israel is fighting for all of humanity.

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOMETHING GOVERNMENT COULD DO:  Not Safe to Walk the Streets.

You know, like arrest criminals and keep them under lock and key.

MISINFORMATION IS A TERM OF ART DEPLOYED BY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES:  The misinformation of misinformation.

There is no such thing as “misinformation.” There’s lies and there’s truth. They never say “these are lies” they say “these are misinformation.” What does it mean? Information the regime doesn’t want you to hear. That’s it. Pure and simple.

I STILL THINK WE’LL PULL OUT OF THIS:  The United States of America is doomed.

The rest of the world, otoh…. They’re trying to pull back to sanity, I’ll give them that, and get rid of the horrible elites. But whether they manage it is … doubtful.

OPEN THREAD: Let’s see your best work here.

WEIMAR? BECAUSE WE REICH YOU! Jill Biden Outrageously Compares Florida To Nazi Germany.

While speaking to an audience of Democrats in California who had paid $100,000 a ticket to see her, Jill claimed that $100,000 a ticket [sic].

“History teaches us that democracies don’t disappear overnight,” Jill said, according to Daily Mail. “They disappear slowly, subtly silently. A book ban a court decision, a Don’t Say Gay law.”

“Before World War Two, I’m told, Berlin was the center of LGBTQ culture in Europe,” she continued. “One group of people loses their rights and then another, and then another, until one morning you wake up and you no longer live in a democracy.”

“MAGA Republicans are waging battles over our choices, our futures, and trying to drag us back to a dark and dangerous path,” Jill later added.

Social Media Users Fire Back

Unfortunately for Jill, however, social media users made it clear that they weren’t buying what she had to say.

“Enough with the Nazi references,” one user wrote. “Every time these people compare their political opposition to Nazis they diminish the horrors of actual victims of the Third Reich endured. This rhetoric is disgusting.”

“Did she mention Jews at all? I didn’t hear it. Is she trying to equate LGBTQ to the Jews murdered by Nazis?” questioned a second user, with a third adding, “No one is trying to ban books but not all books belong in the elementary school library.”

Given her husband’s advanced age and lack of control over his staff, I’m not sure why “Dr.” Jill would want to want to make Weimar-era references, when it reminds the rest of us of the (p)resident’s similarities to Paul von Hindenburg. (Not to mention confirming that the Biden administration sees Weimar not as a warning from history, but as a goal.)

On the flip side, when it comes to smears comparing DeSantis with Hitler, the Florida governor is in very good company these days: Churchill College panel claims wartime PM was a white supremacist leading an empire ‘worse than the Nazis.’

JOHN PODHORETZ: Joseph I. Lieberman, 1942-2024.

As a man in his private life and his everyday relationships, he defined the word “mensch.” As a Jew, he spent his life as a devoted follower of the obligations of Orthodoxy. As a public servant in Connecticut and Washington, he was never anything less than a man who served his state and served his country faithfully, rigorously, honestly, and with true honor.

It was one of the great blessings of my life that I got to know him over the past 20 years—to break bread with him, and celebrate the marriage of his daughter with him, and celebrate the birth of grandchildren with him, and honor him (for we do actually intend it as an honor) as one of COMMENTARY’s roastees. It is a mark of his amused and amusing character that he appeared at a COMMENTARY roast to pay tribute to the opposite number who had prevailed in that 2000 contest, Dick Cheney—and that Cheney returned the favor with comparable graciousness and high good humor when we roasted Joe two years later.

Indeed, the Lieberman-Cheney debate in 2000 was one of the last genuinely civil exchanges on the highest planes of American politics. And the memory of it stings—because we have spent the last quarter century doing what we can to rid Washington of exactly the kind of civility and respect Joe Lieberman extended across ideological and partisan boundaries.

Indeed, his career proved an early example of the nightmarish direction in which American politics was heading when, i