Wake Up, People — Israel Isn’t the Problem

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Wake Up, People — Israel Isn’t the Problem

📅 Posted on: June 21, 2025
✍️ By: Old, Bold, and Bald

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There’s a dangerous trend sweeping the Western world right now, and it’s not just the latest TikTok dance or the next weird way to drink overpriced coffee. No — this one actually matters. It’s the bizarre, misplaced sympathy for a regime that openly calls for the destruction of Israel while actively developing nuclear weapons. And it’s being fueled by a liberal media echo chamber that’s more concerned with optics than truth.

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🇮🇱 Why I Stand With Israel

Israel isn’t perfect — no nation is. But it is a beacon of democracy, stability, and innovation in a neighborhood where freedom is in short supply.

Small country, big target. Israel’s surrounded, yet still thrives.

They don’t start fights — they finish them. They value free speech, religious freedom, and the right to exist. That’s more than you can say for the ayatollahs in Tehran.

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☢️ Iran: The Real Threat

Iran’s regime isn’t just developing nuclear capabilities for fun. They’re not stockpiling uranium to light up their cities. They want leverage. They want power. They want destruction — and they’ve made that crystal clear.

Let’s not pretend we don’t know what this means.

They back terror groups with our own money, thanks to naïve deals pushed through by weak-kneed politicians who think being nice to dictators wins you peace prizes.

Spoiler: It doesn’t.

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📺 The Liberal Media Is Selling You a Lie

The people crying “Free Palestine” while waving flags of groups that throw gays off rooftops and indoctrinate children with hate — they’re not informed. They’re indoctrinated themselves — by headlines written in editorial rooms full of latte-sipping ideologues who've never faced a rocket or worn a uniform.

When truth becomes inconvenient, narrative wins. Until it doesn’t.

They ignore context, distort facts, and present emotional fiction as objective truth. And the worst part? People believe it.

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🚨 Here’s the Bottom Line

• Iran must give up its nuclear program. Not negotiate. Not “slow down.” End it.

• Israel has the right — and responsibility — to defend itself.

• The West needs to pick a side. And if you're still confused, go live in Iran for a week. Then we’ll talk.

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✊ Stay Old. Stay Bold. Stay Bald.

Don't fall for the noise. History has seen this movie before — appeasement, denial, and then disaster. Let’s not play that role again.

And to the keyboard warriors sipping oat milk and tweeting Hamas talking points: Maybe sit this one out. Grown-ups are talking.

Give Me an Emoji, Dammit!

 You know what grinds my 60-year-old gears? The fact that in the year 2025 — with AI smarter than half of Congress, Teslas doing figure-eights in parking lots, and my coffee pot talking to my fridge — Twitter (or X, or whatever Elon’s calling it this week) still only lets you react to a post with a heart. Just one, solitary, painfully earnest little heart.

Look, not every post deserves love. Some deserve a laugh. Some raised an eyebrow. Some a facepalm so intense it should come with a chiropractor referral.

What I want—no, what we deserve—is emoji reactions. I’m talking:

• 😂 for the tweets that made me choke on my coffee

• 🤦‍♂️ for the ones that make me question the human gene pool

• 💀 for the truly unhinged posts that are so off-the-rails, I have to respect the chaos

• And maybe 🤬 for when someone decides to be loud and wrong in the same sentence

Facebook’s had this since the dinosaurs roamed the News Feed. LinkedIn — a place where people lie about hustle culture for likes — has more expressive options than X. What gives?

Is it that they think the single red heart will keep the rage machine humming? Keep us from defusing tension with a simple “haha”? Because believe me, I’d much rather emoji-laugh at some blowhard’s meltdown than pretend I "love" it. The heart, in this case, is a lie.

I say it’s time we storm the algorithm. Demand a real range of reactions. Bring some humanity back into the hellsite. Or at the very least, let me acknowledge that someone’s meme made me do the old man snort-laugh without having to reply like a boomer.

Until then, I’ll keep hitting that heart ironically, grumbling like a man who remembers when emojis were called “smilies” and internet arguments ended in AOL chatrooms.

Stay bold, stay bald,

Old, Bold, and Bald 🧓💥👨‍🦲

ICE Raids, Riots, and the Rule of Law: What Happened to Common Sense?

 Let’s call a spade a spade. I’ve been around long enough to know when the wheels are coming off the wagon—and folks, they’re wobbling hard right now.

ICE raids in Los Angeles are back in the news, and like clockwork, out come the protestors, the chants, the signs, and, sadly, some rioters—trashing property and blocking streets as if that’s how democracy works. They’re screaming about “rights,” “justice,” and “resistance,” while conveniently ignoring one tiny detail: the people they’re defending broke the law just by being here.

Now, before someone starts frothing at the mouth and calling me every name in the politically correct book, let me be clear—I’m not against immigrants. I’m the grandson of one. But my ancestors came here legally, stood in line, signed the papers, and worked their butts off. They didn’t sneak in under cover of night and then demand constitutional protections that aren’t even legally theirs to begin with.

So here’s the question: what “right” do people who are in this country illegally think they have to stay, to protest enforcement of the law, and to be protected under a Constitution meant for citizens and those here legally? Are we just rewriting the rules now based on feelings and hashtags?

You want to protest? Fine. It’s a free country—for Americans. You want to burn flags and riot? Not fine. That’s not protest—that’s anarchy. And when you riot in defense of something that’s illegal by definition, you’re not making a moral stand—you’re lighting a match next to the rule of law and daring it to burn.

We can’t have a country that picks and chooses which laws to enforce based on who’s yelling the loudest or crying the hardest. We either have borders or we don’t. We either have laws or we have mob rule. And frankly, I didn’t spend sixty years respecting this nation’s laws just to watch them get trampled by people who were never supposed to be here in the first place.

So to the rioters: you’re not brave. You’re not righteous. You’re not fighting for justice. You’re demanding special treatment for people who broke the rules. And that’s not how America is supposed to work.

You want change? Fine. Change the laws. But until then, spare us the lectures, the Molotov cocktails, and the moral grandstanding. Because at the end of the day, being loud doesn’t make you right—and being illegal sure as hell doesn’t make you entitled.

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Stay strong, stay sharp, and don’t let the nonsense wear you down. Most importantly: Stay Grumpy!
—Old, Bold, and Bald