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Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D.
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Pradheep Shanker, MD. Radiologist, AI innovator Contributor, National Review
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Apr 25 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Here is what a lot of people don't understand about India/Pakistan...

Indians don't think about Pakistan until tragedy strikes.

Pakistan, on the other hand, is always focused on India.

This is a slightl oversimplification... But not a huge one. India is focused on beginning a modern world power, that wants to be a leader amount the nations of the world. They have their regional problems, but that's not what drives them.

Pakistan wants to focus energy about Kashmir and other border disputes.
Apr 3 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Almost makes you wonder how MAGA thinks we became the richest and most powerful country in the world.

Guess what: it wasn't because of our policies in the 50s, or even 60s.

American hegemony reached it peak AFTER THE 80s ...and beyond.

But these clowns can't answer why. Don't believe me? Here you go:



In 1990, our per capita GDP was almost identical to Germany, France, UK, and Japan.

Today...we are MUCH HIGHER.

Why? MAGA can't answer this. ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-pe…Image
Nov 7, 2024 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Every couple decades or so, a political party complete deludes itself, is tone deaf, and then self immolates.

That is what the Democrats just did.

The fact they did this in the face of a threat from Trump just goes to show how stupid our political elites always are. Trump won for a simple reason: He is politically smarter than Dems politically. Its the same reason Clinton, Bush, Obama won in the past; he is just better at politics than his opponents.
Nov 6, 2024 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
Who is responsible for the Democrats' complete face plant?

5. DEI/Woke
4. Media
3. Antisemitic Left
2. Kamala Harris
1. Joe Biden Nobody is more to blame than Joe Biden.

He promised to be a bridge to the future.

Instead in his arrogance he thought he could be a modern FDR, a transformative figure. What a joke.
Jun 24, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
My problem with Biden's response to the vast surge in antisemitism on his watch is that his statements have been fine, but followed up with almost zero specific action by his administration. He has done as little as Trump did after Charlottesville. Frankly, Biden and AG Merrick Garland have acted far, FAR more aggressively against conservative groups.

See how they responded to critics of schools. They were right to do this...but we've seen nothing of the sort against anti-semites. Why?

apnews.com/article/educat…
Jun 17, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Democrats are really, truly going to be stupid enough to let Donald Trump win, aren't they?

They are completely oblivious and trying to lose.

Let me count the ways: 1. Biden's age.

This is pretty obvious at this point. They are denying the reality of Biden's physical and mental decline. Voters see it.
Jun 15, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The problem is that Biden is always wandering. This is not a unique moment. The media knows this, but since they are so dishonest, they have no credibility at all.

We are not having an honest discussion about Biden's health, period. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/… Again, which major publication has talked about this?

Certainly not @washingtonpost .

Jun 13, 2024 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
They still can't admit they 100% got it wrong. They weren't even a little bit correct. They were as wrong as calling the Earth flat. Image "The issue was always whether the material was part of a foreign effort to influence the election — as had occurred four years before."

Um, no.

The issue was whether the media including @pbump and @washingtonpost would investigate it properly.

They didn't. They failed.
May 4, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Anyone saying these are peaceful protests would have said the same about Nazi protests in the early 1930s. I am not being hyperbolic about this either.

If you go back into Nazi History, where did it start? It started with the SA (Brownshirts) pushing for isolation of unwanted groups (mainly Jews) on college campuses.

This is literally the same tactic.

sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-…
Apr 1, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
This is basically Khanna's entire political career.

He is well spoken. He is smart. He is ideologic.

But he doesn't have a clue how to fix most of the problems American's are facing. "Khanna occupies an ideological space to left of Biden but just to the right of progressives like Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who identify as democratic socialists."

This is true. The problem is he still has no answers to the big questions.
Dec 17, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I think one thing a lot of people don't realize is Palestine isn't alone as a British protectorate that was never an independent country before the Brits left.

India ALSO DID NOT EXIST BEFORE PARTITION IN 1947. There was no 'India', in any real terms. India was divided by numerous British protectorates or provinces. There was no 'India', as a nation. This was basically true of Palestine as well...there was no independent Palestine before division. Image
Nov 17, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I think this article largely misses the point. The reason that they are struggling is that this undermines what they've taught about racism and bigotry for 50 years.

Why Colleges Are Struggling To Crack Down on Antisemitism via @politicopoliti.co/3ucgtsE Reality is that it was always easy: Whites and those in power were the bigots. Those that were 'Almost White' (Jews, Asians) were lumped in.

But in this episode, its largely 'brown' people like myeslf that are the bigots, and their targets are Jews (who are viewed as White).
Oct 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Again, if you are destroying other people's posters, then you are trying to suppress those people's free speech.

At that point, if you get shamed in public, and your family and employer know who you are, I have ZERO sympathy for you.

You want to go and protest, go ahead. I would never hire anyone that acted like this. Neither should you.
Oct 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome to my TedX talk.

Understand this:

"SCREAMING 'FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA' IS CALLING FOR THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF JEWS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST...AND IS NOT MUCH DIFFERENT THAN NAZI OR KKK CHANTS."

Thank you for coming to my TedX talk.

And no, we don't have to accept the Palestinian narrative on this, anymore than accepting KKK's narrative on stuff.

Palestinians have a right to their own country. They have been denied that right for too long.

But what they absolutely don't have a right to? ETHNIC CLEANSING.
Oct 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Christians did a huge amount of colonizing over the Millenia, no question.

But the next biggest group to blame? MUSLIMS.

Their colonization in Northern Africa, Europe, India and the rest of Asia as colonizers had huge repercussions. I mean, if you want to talk about colonizers, then most of Northern India, Pakistan, Afghanistan (which was Hindu at one point) etc needs to be under discussion.

How stupid would that be?
Aug 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
They did let Hirohito remain in power.

That said, unconditional surrender of both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan allowed the America to build a better World for the future. We are better off for it. @VanWagoner history.howstuffworks.com/historical-fig…
Jul 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is incorrect. The pandemic clearly created NEW LARGER INEQUITIES...so much so that there is probably a new wealth gap developing that will make the old wealth gap look like a joke. I mean, if doubling the wealth gap is 'no big deal', then this statement is fine.

But that is what we are potentially looking at going forward.

Again, there are studies showing this.

)%20for%20non%2Ddisadvantaged%20primarybudgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2021/5/…
Jul 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Your reminder that wealth inequality is largely a garbage metric.

The bottom 10% in America are richer than a lot of countries middle class. What we really care about is not inequality, but overall financial well being.

We have problems with that too... Not not because of wealth disparity.
Jul 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is your reminder that as awful as the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were (and they were absolutely horrific in human costs, short and long term), they almost certainly cost fewer lives in toto than the invasion of Japan would have, in both military and civilian lives. Just to compare... In 1945, Japan/Okinawa had 500k civilians and about 120k soldiers. The US ultimately had 500k fighting men.

USA KIA 12,500
casualties 50k

Japan KIA 110k
Civilians 150k dead (or 1/3 of the pre-war population)
Jun 15, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
My dad came to this country with literally less than $100 in his pocket.

Maybe...just maybe...you are making the wrong life choices.

And I say that as someone trying to be empathetic. My dad had an undergrad degree in Engineering...from India. That is it. He came here, in 1969 (when people his color was still treated the way those people were treated back then), came to DC, got a job and paid for his M.S. at George Washington.
Jun 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Why does Biden hate the LGBTQ community?

(Using literally the same standard people attacking me for saying the same thing this morning...) This is going to backfire on the White House, and I'm buying more popcorn to enjoy the whole show...