The leadership of Hamas kept the futile, and worse than futile, war they started going for two long years, when they had clearly lost in the first few months. They played their only point of leverage, the hostages, for two years, until only twenty were left alive, and multiple thousands of the ‘Palestinians’ they claimed to want to liberate were killed. They lost and lost and lost, and now, with somewhere around a hundred or so Hamas terrorists huddling in one of their reinforced tunnels, with no way out, and no way to get supplies in, they face the choice of starvation or surrender, yet are bravely and boldly resisting emerging and surrendering their weapons.

And so we come to The Philadelphia Inquirer’s hard-left columnist Will Bunch, who hates President Trump with a white-hot passion, and is thoroughly consumed by #TrumpDerangementSyndrome, essentially doing the same thing. Oh, nobody is in danger of starving to death like the Hamas rats in the tunnel, due to the government shutdown, but our good friends on the left keep telling us that they will. Now, with an agreement in which the filibustering Senate Democrats finally allow the continuing resolution to come to a vote, and reopen the government, the columnist waxed wroth on Bluesky, skeeting:

Instead of No Kings, I hope the next protest is No Caves that gets 7 million people to surround their offices

Primary every one. No $$$ for them or any committee that funds them. Boo them in airports. Make their existence hell on earth

Hey, I sort of agree: keep SNAP shut down, do not fund Obaminablecare, do everything possible to reduce welfare as much as possible. I’d like to see TSA back to work fully, because my wife and daughters have a pre-Christmas trip to London planned, and I’d hate to see that be a problem, but better that our family ‘suffer’ in that way than we pay out more in welfare and food stamps.

At least as of this writing. 8:30 PM EST, Mr Bunch has not included the same thing on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — but he’s mostly abandoned his Twitter account, preferring the mostly liberal echo chamber to a site where more people will challenge him. I did challenge him on Bluesky, but I’m sure I’ll be one of only few who will.

I will admit to picturing the distinguished columnist typing away in anger at his spittle-flecked keyboard. 🙂

Of course, it’s easy for Mr Bunch to want to continue the shutdown. A long-time columnist for the newspaper, he is doubtlessly paid enough that he doesn’t rely on SNAP to put food on the table, and he was able to help his son Jesse Bunch get a coveted job at the Inquirer. His health care coverage is surely not through Obysmalcare, but the newspaper by which he is employed. If the shutdown continues, Mr Bunch and his son won’t be among those feeling the pain. The most vocal leftists are like that.