In-fight on the right!

It’s been rather pleasing over the last day or so to watch a couple of major figures on the right do what the left has always been good at, i.e. trying to tear strips off each other. Ben Shapiro has apparently been very unhappy with some of Candace Owens’ comments on the current Israel debacle:

…like that one. Incendiary stuff! And no, her boss did not like it, and this is where the discourse went:

I mean, Ben Shapiro has been unhinged for a while, Israel’s war against Palestine has just made him a bit more so than usual… but apart from that Candace has no place calling anyone unhinged; it was her, after all, who said Hitler would’ve been fine if he’d just limited his efforts to Germany. And that’s a concept that requires a special sort of fuckwit to express it seriously.

And Ben Shapiro knew that she was that special sort of fuckwit when he hired her. Which he did in 2021, two years after she said that thing about Hitler. Two years after it was known that she said it. Two years after a recording of her saying it was played at a Congressional hearing. In short, Ben Shapiro had to know that Candace had said this idiotic thing when he hired her. He must know now, cos if he didn’t at that time I’m sure he was duly informed. And he clearly hasn’t cared about that enough to, you know, get rid of her or NOT FUCKING HIRING HER TO BEGIN WITH.

Now that she’s dared to defy the official line about Israel being above reproach, though, suddenly Ben’s not happy with her (curious, though, that he’s telling her to quit rather than fire her). He was clearly OK with her being, you know, OK with Hitler if only he hadn’t presumed to conquer the rest of Europe. He’s not OK with her criticising the activities of the nation state of Israel. Apparently that bothers him more than the heinous treatment of Jews in the Third Reich. Almost like the state of Israel matters more to him than Jewish people…?

Maybe. I don’t know. But we do know he’ll only stand up for Jewish people up to a certain point:

Points to Ben for criticising Kanye’s antisemitism, but he was willing to look past it even so; Kanye being a pro-life conservative mattered more than him being a racist piece of shit who probably doesn’t think Ben is a real Jew. And when the orange cunt said this about American Jews, he agreed it was not only not even antisemitic but perfectly true.

And Ben being “Israel rather than the Jews” kind of would be in keeping with the American Christian right, which is all for Israel cos their book tells them the world has to end there, so Israel has to survive. The Jews don’t, of course, they have to convert, but Israel has to be looked after so Armageddon comes like the book insists it must. I can envisage Ben Shapiro being OK with that, maybe not so much the conversion thing, but again he’ll find a way to ignore that so he can keep in with the cool kids…

Until the crunch comes and both him and Candace realise they were never more than useful idiots for these scumbags and the Christian right they love so much hates them both and will cast them aside the minute they no longer need them. That day will hurt. And it should, because both of them will have thoroughly deserved it.