* The decision is good news. The bad news is that there was widespread fraud in the presidential elections of a First World European country with a seven-decade-old (OK, make it six-decade-old) stable democracy. What’s worse, nobody in the media and press thinks this stolen election is the scandal it is.
Milosevic was thrown out in a violent revolution after he lost popularity and had to resort to electoral fraud. And the stolen election was a leading foreign news story for several days in major international news outlets. Supposed irregularities in the Russian elections were dealt with in the international media, there was even a major opinion piece about Viktor Orbán’s gerrymandering, FFS, but a respected EU-member has a stolen presidential election, and… crickets.
A healthy democracy is one with no stolen elections. A less healthy, yet still functioning democracy has court rulings like this.
* I’m surprised that last paragraph didn’t go something like this:
It was the first time Austria had ordered a rerun of a national election since 1945, when the Nazis, who were led by Adolf Hitler, who was born in Austria, were defeated. Hitler was bad. Coincidentally, Donald Trump was born less than a year later, in June 1946. He is of German ancestry, Germany being right next to Austria, especially when it was Nazi Germany and led by Hitler, which was bad. Donald Trump is running for president of the United States, which is really really bad and horrifyingly Nazi-like.
* I don’t see how a party that won about half the votes in a national election can be described as “far-right.” Seems an abuse of the word “far.”
* I’ve noticed the same issue with language to describe Trump. That prompted a thought: do news sites use words like “far” or “extreme” to describe the right more often than the left. I did a few simple google queries to count references to “far right” and “extreme right” vs. “far left” and “extreme left.” He are the percentages of references to far and extreme that are used to describe the political right:
Time 93%
Huffington Post 93%
Google news 91%
LA Times 89%
USA today 82%
New York Times 79%
Yahoo 79%
NPR 79%
CNN 70%
Fox 34%
By this simple metric, Fox tilts right, but is the closest to the middle (50%). The LA Times sees about 9 times more right extremism than left, which says volumes about where the editors themselves are.
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Donald Trump poses a particular challenge to most Jewish organizations. His message stands in stark contrast to their groups’s positions on immigration, race or welfare, but the organizations can’t call him out on it due to federal tax rules limiting not-for-profits’s political speech.
Bend the Arc has the answer. Join the anti-Trump mobilization its operating through its political action committee and enjoy the legal cover provided by its unique tax status.
“We’re welcoming people to join us, no matter where they are today, so they can express their views about Trump,” said the group’s CEO Stosh Cotler in a June 6 interview as Bend the Arc activists gathered in Washington for their first national conference. “Many, many Jewish organizations share grave concerns about this, but only few of them have the 501(c)(4) status that can allow them to talk freely about it,” she added.
This tax status is one of several provided by the IRS to not-for-profit organizations. But while most Jewish groups, including this newspaper, are defined as 501(c)(3) under the tax code, a status that allows them to collect tax deductible donations but prohibits the group from actively endorsing candidates, Bend the Arc Jewish Action is among the few that are set up as 501(c)(4) and are allowed to engage directly in election politics, though under limitations.
Cotler’s invitation comes as the group launches its biggest effort to date aimed at defeating the Republican presumptive nominee. Under the slogan “We’ve seen this before” the group is organizing mass vigils on June 21, where activists will carry traditional Jewish yahrzeit candles in four major cities and will be joined by others online. The date chosen is the day commemorating the 1964 murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi: Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner, who were Jewish, and their fellow black Christian activist James Chaney.
Many Jewish communal leaders have been grappling with how to handle Trump and his campaign ever since the New York billionaire entered the political scene last year.
Some, like the Anti-Defamation League, have chosen to push the envelope and actively speak out repeatedly against Trump’s message when it came to Islamophobia, xenophobia, or about the support he received from anti-Semitic groups and individuals. Given the ADL’s clear mission statement regarding the need to fight these expressions, the group has felt it is on safe legal ground when criticizing a political candidate despite its tax status.
Others chose to walk around the limitations, by confining their comments to very specific statements made by Trump or by seeking a positive course of action, such as influencing the party’s platform language on issues of tolerance, or setting up educational events on immigration and race, instead of taking on the candidate directly.
Bend the Arc has now emerged as the leading Jewish PAC dedicating itself to protesting Trump’s candidacy and actively working to deter voters from supporting him.
In its conference held in Washington June 5-7, activists focused on the group’s main priorities such as criminal justice reform, women’s rights and LGBT equality, while at the same time spending time stressing how a Trump presidency would undermine all these priorities. The group brought some 500 activists from across the country to its first annual conference. At the conclusion of their three-day meeting, the energized medley of students, young progressives and retired hippies, took to Capitol Hill to lobby their representatives on legislative issues that could advance the progressive domestic agenda.
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I just put “Jewish groups” into Google News and got these results:
* British Jewish groups condemn hate crimes in wake of Brexit vote
The Jewish Standard-Jun 29, 2016
Jewish groups in Britain condemned the uptick in racist harassment and other hate crimes in the wake of the country’s vote to leave the …
* Anti-Terror Grants That Benefit Jewish Groups Rise by 55%
Forward-Jun 30, 2016
(JTA) — In a program that has benefited Jewish institutions, the Department of Homeland Security has awarded $20 million in security …
* US Jewish Groups Praise Supreme Court’s Repeal of Texas …
Haaretz-Jun 28, 2016
‘Jewish tradition teaches the importance of a woman’s ability to make her own healthcare decisions,’ rabbi says after court slams HB2 law as …
Jewish Groups Applaud Pro-Choice Supreme Court Ruling
International-The Jewish Week-Jun 27, 2016
* Supreme Court Immigration Ruling Leaves Millions in Limbo, Some …
Forward-Jun 25, 2016
Not all Jewish groups support the president’s actions, however. Though Morton Klein, the national president of the Zionist Organization of …
* Bay Area Jewish groups push for gun control measures
Jweekly.com-Jun 23, 2016
In the wake of the Senate this week failing to advance four bipartisan gun control measures, Bay Area-based Jewish groups are decrying …
* Jewish Groups Hail Passage of Massachusetts Bill Protecting Transgender Rights
Controversial measure, approved Wednesday by a vote of 116-32, allows people to use facilities such as restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.
* Jewish groups react to UK’s ‘divisive’ Brexit vote to leave EU
JNS.org-Jun 24, 2016
(JNS.org) Jewish groups and leaders in the United Kingdom swiftly reacted to voters’ decision to leave the European Union in the Brexit …
Jewish groups and Israeli leaders hail David Cameron – who …
European Jewish Press-Jun 25, 2016
* Jewish groups gear up for San Francisco Pride parade
Jweekly.com-Jun 9, 2016
Several Jewish organizations will send contingents to the annual Pride Parade on June 26 in San Francisco. The JCC of San Francisco, …
* Orlando Jewish groups respond to shooting with sadness, calls to …
Heritage Florida Jewish News-Jun 17, 2016
Jewish groups in Orlando responded to the mass shooting attack at the Pulse nightclub with messages of sadness and sympathy, and calls to …
* The occupation that killed Hallel Yaffa Ariel
Jewish Journal-Jul 1, 2016
Jewish groups who crave peace must call for an end to the occupation of Palestinian hearts and minds with vicious, genocidal, demonizing …
* Donald Trump deletes tweet showing Hillary Clinton and star of …
Jewish Telegraphic Agency-3 hours ago
Jewish groups, however, have been critical of what they say is the campaign’s slow response in disavowing followers, including former Ku Klux …
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I don’t get it. Why don’t Mexicans look to their own sophisticated history of public relations and political influence?
Jewish groups are happy to help the Mexicans because the Torah commands them to do so. Jews aren’t thinking about their own welfare in a multicultural society.
Most Jews I know feel a deep sense of kinship with Mexicans. The two groups have so much in common. After all, the average Ashkenazi IQ is about 110 and the average hispanic-American has a 90 IQ. Lots of room for fruitful dialogue there. Well, maybe not, but the coalition of the fringe can always join forces to attack America’s white core.
What Jew shouldn’t love living in a brown America? What’s not to love about America becoming more like Mexico?
Whenever I hear the term “Jewish groups,” I reach for my Torah.
Comment: “Jewish activism is effective because Jews are smart, rich, energetic and intense (or some combination of the four, at least). Mexicans are none of those things.”
Politico: The Republican’s insults inspire a PR strategy to update Mexico’s image, modeled on Jewish activism.
Donald Trump and his racially charged rhetoric may be divisive on many levels. But the Republican presidential candidate has been a catalyst for uniting two, seemingly disparate groups: Mexicans and Jews.
U.S. residents of Mexican descent, feeling besieged by Trump’s attacks on their culture and ancestral homeland, are ramping up ties to American Jewish networks and emulating Jewish models of political activism, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. And many Jewish activists are eager to help.
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Trump on Saturday was widely criticized for tweeting an image of Hillary Clinton next to a pile of cash and a Star of David shape emblazoned with the words “Most corrupt candidate ever.”
The growing bond comes as Mexico’s government pursues a public relations campaign designed to update the image of Mexicans and convince Americans that Mexico is more than just a country that happens to share a border with the U.S.
“The same way that Israel is a very strategic partner of the United States, Mexico is, too — that is what we are emphasizing,” Mexico’s newly appointed ambassador to the United States, Carlos Sada, told POLITICO. “Of course, there is a kind of wake up call when somebody attacks you.”
The American Jewish Committee, a major advocacy organization, has been a key partner in the Mexican diaspora’s surging interest in political activism.
The AJC houses the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs, which builds political alliances between Latinos and Jews. Although it has been around for more than a decade, the 2016 presidential campaign — in which Trump has called undocumented Mexican immigrants “rapists,” promised to build a massive border wall, and questioned the loyalties of a Mexican-American judge — has intensified interest in the institute’s work.
Dina Siegel Vann, the institute’s director, said the Jewish community, although smaller in number than the Mexican-American community, offered a model that, among other things, emphasizes the importance of coalition building. (There are roughly 6 million Jews in the U.S., and at least 33 million people of Mexican heritage. There also are 40,000 Jews in Mexico, and between 100,000 to 200,000 Latino Jews in the U.S., according to various studies.)
The Mexican community needs to polish its image to the point that “there has to be some sort of cost if you attack Mexico or Mexican Americans,” added Siegel Vann, who is Mexican-American and Jewish. “The moment that there’s attacks, that Mexicans are called rapists, there has to be some sort of national outrage.”
The institute hosts workshops to train Mexican Americans and other Latinos in political advocacy work — there’s one scheduled for July 10 in Washington, followed by a reception featuring Sada. The sessions, which train 35 to 40 people at a time, include discussions of case studies, such as how the push for comprehensive immigration reform fell apart, and tips for how to engage members of Congress — including when you have only two minutes on an elevator.
Mexico’s foreign secretary, Claudia Ruiz Massieu, delivered a keynote address at the AJC’s Global Forum last month. Without mentioning Trump by name, she slammed the “stench of bigotry” and “climate of intolerance” in the U.S.
“Those who want to make a political profit stigmatizing these people, be [they] Mexican, Jews, Muslims, people of color, Asians are wrong for this country was founded on the very principle, the self-evident truth that all men and women are endowed with the same unalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said.
Ruiz Massieu said that Mexico was ready to take its relationship with the AJC “to the next level.” As evidence, she pointed to the fact that also attending the forum were the leaders of all of Mexico’s 50 consulates in the United States as well as dozens of Mexican-American leaders eager to network with the Jewish group. The Mexican contingent attended seminars and other gatherings at the forum, including sessions on advocacy training.
In a response to the Trump phenomenon, the Mexican government earlier this year shook up its diplomatic corps in the U.S., including appointing Sada as ambassador. It also has reached out to business groups and expanded its cultural outreach in the U.S.
Mexican officials say the goal isn’t merely to shore up their country’s image — it’s to update it. Mexico is America’s third-largest trading partner, and millions of jobs in the U.S. rely on the relationship with the Latin American country, which has made many economic and educational advances in recent decades. But many Americans still see Mexico through the crude stereotypes of impoverished day laborers and drug gangs.
Private citizens in the U.S. Mexican diaspora, too, have upped their activism. In March, a group of business leaders set up the American Mexico Public Affairs Committee to lobby lawmakers and educate U.S. voters about the two countries’ relationship. The group is modeling itself after the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC — “That’s even the reason why we named it the way it’s named,” said Antonio Maldonado, AMxPAC’s president.
American Jews have a long history of political activism, especially on civil liberties, and Jewish organizations have been at the forefront of condemning Trump for his many comments about Mexicans, Muslims and other minorities.
The admonitions have had little effect.
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News: A COLD case detective starts researching a serial killer, and begins linking him to some of the most high-profile murder cases in American history.
The killer’s moves and motives line up suspiciously well with these murders, and so the detective keeps digging, writing him a letter asking for a confession. The killer soon writes back …
This sounds like the teaser for a terrible B-movie — or a terrific one — but this is the true, twisted tale of Edward Wayne Edwards, who, according to former FBI cold case taskforce detective John Cameron, may be one of the most prolific killers of all time.
Edwards was officially convicted of five murders during his lifetime, but Cameron believes he killed hundreds of times, setting up others for the murders along the way. The pair traded letters over a nine-month period, until Edwards died in 2011, aged 77.
Cameron claims Edwards was responsible for some of the most heinous murder cases over the past half-century, including the West Memphis Three murders, the Zodiac killings, the Teresa Halbach murder — as recently featured in the Netflix documentary Making A Murderer — and even the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey.
It all sounds rather fanciful, until you look at the evidence, and realise that Cameron’s theory makes a lot of sense. He first became interested in Edwards in 2010 after reading his 1972 autobiography The Metamorphosis of a Criminal: The True Life Story of Ed Edwards — ironically about how the former criminal had reformed — and realised more than a few dates and facts lined up with unsolved murders…
Cameron explains that Edwards was a ritual killer, with his murders occurring on dates that tie to the occult, Catholic holidays, US holidays, and important dates in his life, such as his mother’s birthday and the day of her death.
Teresa Halbach — the subject of Netflix documentary Making Of A Murderer — was murdered on Halloween, a date that looms large in Edwards’ legacy. He was living an hour from the murder scene at the time, and had previously killed in Wisconsin — a fact that may have gone undiscovered if it wasn’t for his daughter making a gruesome discovery and tipping off police.
“She watched a special on a 1980 Wisconsin double-murder and remembered her dad taking her and her brothers to the scene”, Cameron recalls.
“This murder ended up being his undoing and it occurred 65km from Avery’s Auto Salvage [where Halbach’s body was found].
Ed wrote about Wisconsin in his book and that was a clue that he had killed there. He killed people whose names were contained in his book. He killed in states he named in his book. The name Teresa is a big name in his book and Wisconsin so he would have spent two years preparing to kill Teresa Halbach in Wisconsin.”
Cameron also posits the name “Avery” was another link. “Steven Avery became the fall guy because of his name”, he claims.
“Paul Avery was the San Francisco Chronicle reporter who chased the Zodiac his entire career. Ed sent him what is known as the Halloween Card, which told Avery that there was a clue to his identity.”
The card contained the numbers 6-14-33: Edwards’ date of birth.
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* It’s really impressive how much out-of-control outrage the elite can get gin up over an argument that is so empty.
What is actually wrong with nationalism? What is wrong with citizens of a country seeking to keep the country mostly intact with respect to its peoples and culture?
I’ve asked that question in any number of places. I’ve never received what I would call a rational response.
The elites have many smears they use for nationalism — nativist, xenophobe, racist, bigot. But, apart from these entirely emotional terms, what is the argument against nationalism?
Their “arguments” always end where they start: with scare mongering, with pretending that any nationalistic attitude is and must be a precursor to hate and fascism. But on what rational basis can they possibly leap to such extraordinary conclusions? Were the US and England fascist, hate-filled countries until we had massive immigration? In the US, were the years between the closing down of immigration in the 1920s and its opening up in the 60s an ongoing devolution into authoritarianism and hate? Weren’t they instead a time a time when The Common Man was celebrated, a time of increasing prosperity for all and enfranchisement of all groups?
Really, what’s the argument? Why are the elites always reduced to talking about “fear of the other” (is there a more childish, or superstitious expression?), and “hate”, and other boogeymen of their own manufacture when the subject of nationalism comes up?
* Funny, whenever I’ve used the word “cosmopolitan” in the sense that the globalists like to think of themselves, I’ve been accused of using an old anti-semitic slur. Apparently, according to every single Jewish person I’ve ever had encounters with, “cosmopolitan” was an old code-word for “Jew”, slightly more noxious than calling someone a dirty kike or putting parentheses around their name. Perhaps I’ve just been dealing with the wrong Jewish people.
* I’m told it is a horrible anti-semetic slur now. This, of course, by Jews who tell me that any time I oppose anything any Democrat wants to do that I’m a Nazi or worse. (How the fuck I’m supposed to be worse than a Nazi I don’t know, but they insist upon it.) I guess that by saying “cosmopolitan” I’m micro-aggressing against them, because I might slip “rootless” into the conversation somewhere. You know, like saying “niggardly” is the same thing as calling for slavery.
* I guess it depends on how you define sophisticated. Ross distinguishes between a surface cosmopolitanism and a deeper one, but one could argue Obama is more of a deeper cosmopolitan, having lived in places like Indonesia, rather than having just been a tourist.
And I’m sure Obama could speak knowledgeably about the latest cultural phenomena.
But years ago, Steve wrote about Obama’s skill at articulating the arguments of his opponents. I think that’s less true today, as the Overton window has shifted to include more antagonistic opponents. I’m sure Obama could articulate, say, Marco Rubio’s views. But not Trump’s.
A temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration isn’t something Obama would be comfortable batting around in the salons of Georgetown. It’s something he’d dismiss with a “wrong side of history” or a “It’s not who we are”.
Same with Trump’s views on trade or immigration in general. So, in that sense, Obama isn’t sophisticated. As most cosmopolitans aren’t.
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Report: “If we broke up the big banks tomorrow,” Mrs. Clinton asked the audience of black, white and Hispanic union members, “would that end racism? Would that end sexism? Would that end discrimination against the L.G.B.T. community?,” she said, using an abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. “Would that make people feel more welcoming to immigrants overnight?”
At each question, the crowd called back with a resounding no.
* In other words, such utopian goals as ending racism, ending sexism, ending LGBT discrimination, and welcoming immigrants overnight (!) are touted as very important struggles in order to distract from economic/financial issues such as the power of large investment banks, etc.
Well done, Hillary.
* Thank god in heaven the reporter noted she spoke to “black, white and Hispanic” union members. Can you imagine if the reporter had only said she spoke to “union members”? How poorly informed that would have left us.
Oddly, I never see any Trump rally described as Trump speaking to white, black and Hispanic Trump fans.
* The Founding Fathers had designed weights and balances that, if their recommendations were followed (first of all, that on immigration), would have preserved freedom in the USA.
Once you have ample immigration, you have difference between peoples. Difference causes resentment (even the difference between homosexuals, disregarded by the many, and heterosexuals); resentment is a body of “anger energy” that awaits the best demagogue or demagoguery to turn into its arm. It’s a resource, like oil. It’s there to be used by someone.
The difference is, oilfields and seams can’t be created. Social anger can. So, they have this most precious of instruments of control and power, with the fantastic attribute that it can be created, apparently with no limit.
You don’t expect them to restrain themselves from creating and fostering resentment, feelings of entitlement and victimhood, do you?
* Her comment is the cleverest thing a skillful demagogue would say to the crowd she was addressing.
If you really don’t understand what it means, you must be someone who presumes good faith in the others, even if the others are people at the top of the power ladder.
* Well Granny may not be moral, ethical, honest, capable, experienced or consistent, but she certainly seems colorful. Sure she has a black heart and a dark soul which may or may not be in her possession, but that’s a good thing to her voting base isn’t it? She’s BAD, which isn’t the same as good, but appeals to who she wants to vote for her. The Low-Info Emo ignorant, imperceptive Anti-White bigots who hate success because its just unfair to losers and lazy bums.
Some people say black isn’t a color, because optical experts who understand the physics involved in the illusion of color to your optic nerves will tell you its imperceptive aspects violate the concept of color of which there are 256 hues, but that’s just racist isn’t it? When you think about it, everything is racist based on the color of your skin or the melanin content of your epidermis. And in this topsy turvy world of newspeak, obfuscation, dogmatic pseudoscientific beliefs and cultural marxism, the Truth is lost on those who find it hurts their feelings.
So, what difference at this point does it make?
* She is doing what she does best: condescend to the minority crowd while simultaneously lining her pocketbook with payoff money from Wall Street.
* He hired himSELF to play Hamilton! He is no dummy,like his countryman, Sonia Sotomayor. Hamilton was not Puerto Rican, BTW. He was also the dreamiest of the Founders. Chicks loved him. This Manuel guy is painfully homely. And, I’d wager,quite gay. I’d also include Jessie Williams in that category. (Gay).
* I recently went to a software conference where Congressman John Lewis spoke (why?). It was EXACTLY like that. The man received a lonnnnnggg standing ovation because nobody in the 90% white (9% Asian/1% other) audience wanted to be the first one to stop clapping. It was hilarious if you knew to notice it.
* I have an allergic reaction to rapping, so the little bits of it that I’ve seen sounded awful to me. But some people seem to like rapping, so that wouldn’t be an obstacle for them. Are all the people who genuinely like rapping stupid? Perhaps. I mean, the guys who review hip hop for the Village Voice or whatever aren’t stupid, but they might be faking their enthusiasm.
* It is obviously a cheap trick to distract from the fact that she is the choice for the mega rich, there are still left wingers out there that believe that they stand for the poor. The political narrative is shifting so fast however that I don’t think this will be needed at all in the near future, being left wing will for almost everyone mean being pro billionaire and pro non white.
* I always found it disturbing when white people loved rappers but I could never quite find the word to express my displeasure. Now we have the word cucked.
* The popularity of “Hamilton” should confirm what most people already suspect, namely that the Left and the financial elite are one and the same.
Trump is a “traitor to his class” by running as populist Republican and supporting the working class.
* While still in my teens I asked one of the several wisest and the single most capital-S Stoical men I ever met how a guy can tell whether a woman is a tart.
He thought for a moment and said, “Women sometimes fake orgasms. A tart fakes so many, she eventually doesn’t know the difference.”
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(CNN) Donald Trump on Saturday deleted a tweet critical of Hillary Clinton after he came under fire for evoking anti-Semitic stereotypes with a graphic that included dollar bills and a six-pointed star.
Before deleting the original tweet, which also contained the words “most corrupt candidate ever,” the presumptive Republican nominee tweeted the same graphic with a tweak: a circle instead of a six-pointed star, which evokes the Jewish Star of David.
The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment about the decision to use a six-pointed star and whether they were concerned about the potential for the imagery to evoke anti-Semitic undertones…
Abe Foxman, the director emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League, called the tweet “insensitive” but said he was reassured by the campaign’s decision to delete the tweet within a few hours.
“They realized it was edgy and could be abused. I’m not sure the intentions were there but there was certainly a lack of sensitivity,” Foxman said.
* Our 6th Infantry Division used the red, 6 pointed star as their shoulder patch from WW1 until 1994, when they were deactivated following the Cold War.
BTW, Trump’s twitter feed has replaced the star with a big red circle. So Trump backed down. He is better when he doesn’t back down.
* I laughed earlier today seeing the breathless Huffington Post on this. Just can’t get excited about these silly scandals any more, life’s short. My reaction was like yours, temporarily stunned that maybe had I missed the revelation this year that Hillary had Jewish ancestry? (Kerry had one of those in ’04.) Cuz that would be pretty sweet timing.
* In 1983 or 1984, all of us on the Procter & Gamble account got notified that P&G’s man-in-the-moon logo had nothing to do with Satanism (which none of us had ever heard before) and we.had.better.not.joke.about.it.
* It’s a six-pointed star on a background of money. The words in the star say “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever” and this charge is based on claims that she has taken money from “special interests”, wealthy political donors, Goldman Sachs, etc. You don’t have to be a paranoid Jew to notice the imagery and connotations here.
* Any other candidate, Democrat or Republican, and I’d buy the (((antisemitic dog whistle))) charge. Trump? Nah. He had no clue.
That’s really the beauty of Trump’s campaign: He’s immune to the crypto-Nazi charge that usually bedevils Republicans, because anybody who’s watched more than five minutes of a Trump speech can see that if the guy really wanted to trash Jews, he’d just come right out and do so. There are no subtexts or codes or dog whistles with this guy.
The very idea of Trump sitting around like Lee Atwater or Karl Rove trying to cook up some sotto voce race- or Jew-baiting angle is comical.
* I remember a few years ago a clothing manufacturer made a line of T-shirts for children, with horizontal stripes, and a yellow star-shaped sheriff’s badge. They were caught in a shitstorm of publicity claiming they were imitating (or mocking?) the striped pajamas and yellow star worn by Jews in concentration camps. Despite the fact that the stripes looked nothing like the vertical stripes of the camp uniform, and the T-shirt star actually had ‘Sheriff’ written across it! But the company nevertheless withdraw the shirts from sale.
* Huffpo hasn’t twigged this sort of thing is counterproductive. I suspect more Jews will vote for Trump than voted for Romney, because they realise that mo Muslims, mo problems.
* A person who has 50/50 chance of being the next President tweeting an anti-Jewish image created by an alt-right message board should indeed be our new normal. Why would anyone question it?
Alt-righters are people, after all (well, sort of).
* The image originated at 4chan /pol, and is pretty clearly intended to say she’s bought by the Jews. Trump probably didn’t see it that way when he tweeted it, of course.
* So what?
The left is blatantly, explicitly, unambiguously anti-white.
And the right is supposed to bend over backwards to not even give the appearance of possible anti-”Semitism”?
Are the few hundred openly anti-Jewish anonymous NEET /pol/tards living in their parents’ basements throughout the Anglosphere the single greatest threat we face as a civilization?
Will they come to dominate the earth if anyone retweets an ambiguous image?
One could be the single most Hebrewphilic person in existence and still notice and condemn the double standard.
Unless one considers Jewish interests and white interests to be fundamentally and diametrically opposed. In which case maybe the anti-”Semitic” have a point.
* I actually think this is a weak attempt to convince the alt-right crowd that You Are Not Forgotten. He actually called Israel a great ally in response to a heckler recently. The guy knows he has a mandate to deport *illegal* Mexicans and bar Muslims from entering, and that’s what he’s running on.
Antisemitism is kind of a nonstarter with the general public. Hollywood’s too good at what they do, and…what’s the last time *you* got mugged walking through the Jewish neighborhood? A lot of the behind-the-scenes cultural manipulation stuff is of interest only to cultural conservatives, the USS Liberty was a while ago (I’ve actually seen on more liberal comments sections: ‘A possibly mistaken attack 50 years ago? That’s the best you can do?’), there’s plenty of goyish blame to go around for the Iraq War, and with the current crop of ‘diversity’, people admire immigrant groups who actually try to assimilate and work hard and go to school. (You don’t see much resentment of Chinese-Americans, for example.)
Hell, non-Jewish people are trying to get on JDate. I wouldn’t wish Jewish women on anyone (OK, my mom is a nice person but she wasn’t born here), but there’s enough guys with cuckold fetishes and paying dominatrices that I guess there’s some niche appeal.
* I doubt Trump was trying to connect Hillary with Goldman Sachs money and with Jewry — but maybe he should have.
Hillary’s daughter is married to former Goldman, Sachs employee Marc Mezvinsky. Mezvinsky ran a hedge fund in which he tried to game the Greek financial crisis and lost 90% of his investors’ money. There is suspicion that Hillary tried to use her position as Secretary of State to get inside information on the Greek bailout to assist her son-in-law’s hedge fund.
Chelsea’s father-in-law, Ed Mezvinsky, did prison time for running a financial scam.
* That kind of graphic design (highlighting something inside a star for pizzazz) is so old-fashioned that I think it was intentional, although I don’t think Trump is “anti-Semitic”. I’m pretty sure the Curiel comments were intentionally provoking too. I think Trump plays a dangerous game. Curiel probably hurt him, while it’s not clear what he was trying to do here, so difficult to tell with this one.
Trump’s Star of David Hillary Meme Was Made by Racist Twitter User
The image using an anti-Semitic trope to attack Clinton appeared on 8chan after a vile Twitter user created it two weeks ago.
The meme Donald Trump put on Twitter on Saturday that has been called anti-Semitic for featuring a six-point star like the Star of David was first created by a racist Twitter account.
On Saturday, his campaign tweeted an image co-opting a graphic depicting Hillary Clinton proudly looking off into the distance with the words “History made” emblazoned across it. Except this version featured a background made entirely of money and prominently included what appeared to be a red Star of David with the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” written inside.
The earliest iteration of the questionable picture seems to have come from the Twitter account @FishBoneHead1, which tweeted the image on June 15.
From there, the image found its way to 8chan, a gurgling cesspool on the Internet that is currently devoted to celebrating the death of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. As Mic.com reported on Sunday, the image was posted there on June 22, featuring the file name HillHistory.jpg which could be a reference to the Neo-Nazi code "HH," short for "Heil Hitler."
Trump’s campaign quickly took down the meme after backlash but then put up a new image with a circle pasted over the star, whose points could still be faintly seen.
@FishBoneHead1 describes himself as a "comedian" who will "probably offend you if you are Liberal, Politically Correct, Feminist, Democrat." The account has created or shared several racist memes bashing Clinton, Muslims, and other minorities.
Another tweet from the same account includes a garish cartoon depicting a Muslim man carrying a severed head with an upside down sign reading "Refugees Welcome."
* Hey Jack, can you clue us in on all the other “Jewish things” out there.
We would all like to avoid being anti-semitic and it would really help to have an official list.
* The picture was obviously meant as another in a long line of winks to Trump’s alt-right fans, because he has to keep suckling at their teet for more votes, I guess.
It’s just major enough so they’ll notice it (and they have) and just minor enough so it’s not outright offensive-looking to all people.
Trump has done this through his twitter account roughly a dozen times now. Once or twice might be an accident. But these accidents just keep happening.
* You’re right, of course. It’s worth getting Jewish people all riled up (yet again), and getting himself labeled an anti-Semite, just to get the votes of a hundred thousand or so people who already refer to him as a god-emperor.
That makes total sense, and isn’t paranoid or ridiculous at all.
* If you actually went to the twitter feed of the guy who posted the picture, you would see that he’s simply a political troll, and anyone who took this tweet to be “anti-semitic” is just being trolled. It’s what happens on the internet.
Don’t get me wrong: there is such a thing as the alt.right. Sometimes the generally chauvinistic, nationalist tenor of the alt.right is anti-Semitic, and sometimes it is not, especially because there are plenty of Jews who buy into the chauvinist and nationalist point of view. If this picture used — I repeat, if — the Mogen David to troll Jewish sensibilities, it was not done to pursue some secret Nazi Protocols agenda. It was done to make fun of hypersensitive Jewish sensibilities. However, anti-semitism doesn’t mean that people have to respect the things that are sacred to you. To insist that that is the case is to buy into the whole justification for the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the need to shut down discussions about A because someone holds a belief B that is currently “unacceptable”, that prevents speakers, even pro-Israeli speakers, from holding talks on college campuses, which demands trigger warnings, safe spaces, a priori belief in all sexual assault claims, and much else besides.
In short, get over it.
* This is very unlikely to be an ultra-subtle anti-Semitic dog whistle, because Trump seems basically incapable of dog whistling. He openly says whatever idea pops into his mind, even if it gets him into trouble.
Back during the Bush administration, listening to the president’s speeches was like trying to read between the lines of Pravda. Bush would be giving a speech that was supposed to be about national security and he’d start rambling on about the Dred Scott decision.
In a Trump administration, I don’t think that’s going to be a problem.
* I think this issue is totally much ado about nothing. These people must be really desperate if they have to go to such lengths to build up a case of anti-Semitism against Trump, whose daughter not only married an Orthodox Jew but converted to her husband’s religion. You can disagree all you want with Trump’s political positions, but please spare me the silliness that Trump is somehow a racist or anti-Semitic.
* The thing about Trump, whom I have a love/hate relationship with, is he has some very obvious personal weaknesses, among them that he’s an extreme narcissist who creates an echo chamber around himself.
Like today, the news that for his running mate he’s considering:1. Newt Gingrich, the “I really am a secret Hillary plant and want to lose” choice. Here’s a refresh (2) on Gingrich’s popularity level.2. Mike Pence, the “go completely off-message and make it a referendum on social issues, which would be a losing strategy even if the notion of Donald Trump as pious moralist weren’t beyond ludicrous” choice. Also, he looks like a mugshot on the sex offender registry. And he’s not even popular in his home (red) state of Indiana.3. Chris Christie, the “Hillary won’t be indicted but your running-mate will” choice. Nevertheless manages to look like a sane pick compared to the other two, so of course he’s looking like the least likely.I mean, it’s really something for the most unpopular nominee in history to nevertheless manage to choose a running-mate who’s a liability, and its all because he’s too narcissistic to consider anyone who’s criticized him.So I don’t think it makes sense to view Trump’s actions as being motivated by a desire to appeal to the middle ground and win, so much as stroking his own ego. He clearly didn’t tweet the image as an intentional anti-Semitic dog-whistle, but the /pol/tard who created it and tweeted it at him in the first place did, and he carelessly sent it out again.I read someplace that Obama has to have 7 people look at one of his tweets before he sends it out — you don’t necessarily need to sink to that level, but you do need to have someone prevent this kind of stupid own goal from happening, after it’s happened dozens of times. And the reason it isn’t happening is because his aides are too afraid of offending him.
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