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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am one of the 79% of Jews who vote Democratic
No treasonous, lying, orange, grifter/moron is going to tell me how to vote, and the whole Russian military isn't going to wedge me.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,998 posts)Our loyalty is ALWAYS going to be questioned and challenged. History isn't repeating...it never fucking stopped!
crazytown
(7,277 posts)https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2018/01/19/chris-rock-never-scared-2004-full-transcript/
Sorry to hear you down / fed up Behind the Aegis. I don't have the words.
Behind the Aegis
(53,998 posts)That is one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite comedians.
I am really frustrated and angry with some of the things I am seeing. It is bad enough the leader of the Free World is pushing an ancient myth about Jews, then to have salt thrown in our wounds by people who are supposed to be supportive; just pisses me off.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)The battle has already been fought, so we thought. Now a know-nothing orange Russian ass-et is stoking the fire again. Who told him this would be a winning strategy? We have to get ADULTS back into the WH and the government before it is too late. The people have been fooled for too long by the gop. Where are the real patriots in that party? So far, they all meekly follow Agent Orange and Moscow Mitch like mindless puppets. We have to take this country back to SANITY before it is too late.
llashram
(6,265 posts)Stephen Miller? Maybe? Jared Kushner? Ivanka? Maybe? Hell, there are so many haters in this administration, hard to know.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)tremendous help if tRump had a BRAIN. He just takes "advice" from any air-head who is speaking at the moment. "Straight shooter" my left foot. He is a puppet for anyone who he considers "smart". Dumbest leader EVER not just of this country, but of any country in the entire world. Total disgrace.
mercuryblues
(14,544 posts)that put it this way. trump's decisions and opinions are based on the last person he spoke to. Just look at how he was willing to support gun control reform. Then he spoke to Lapierre and all of a sudden we have enough gun control legislation.
Fox news knows this and they tailor their shows to get what they want.
When I read his tweets dehumanizing Jewish people, of course it was Miller. When he exclaimed he was the chosen one it came from the evilgelicans fundies. We know that trump needs constant praise and the fundies are more than willing to give it to him, to get what they want.
What their ultimate goal is to bring on the End Times they fervently preach about. Now think about how The fundie prophesies are to unfold to usher in their belief in the End Times. Israel being a central component. I suspect this comes from Pence repeatedly calling him the chosen one as a way to get what he wants. It doesn't matter to trump who praises him, as long as they do.
When there are 2 groups that are in direct conflict with each other, he lies to them both, to get what he wants. When there is one group, like Jewish people, who vote for Democrats he degrades and dehumanizes them. This is his effort to get the groups that praise him to galvanize their support of him and elevate their praise.
Each round of this ups the ante. It is easy to spot, when you see what he is doing.
I noticed the pattern is the republican primary debates. Several republicans would start holding trump's feet to the fire. trump would drop a few select bombs (usually lies) about a rival and then the rest would start fighting amongst themselves. trump would lean back and smile. For him, creating division is how he creates wealth and power for himself.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)I hate that have to say this.... be safe
Gothmog
(145,628 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)I will never forget his bumper sticker (on his Volkswagen) "Recall Walker" during the Wisconsin uproar about Scott Walker.
Gothmog
(145,628 posts)PCIntern
(25,595 posts)sandensea
(21,677 posts)They know a fascist when they see one.
Mossfern
(2,564 posts)those Orthodox who support him.
sandensea
(21,677 posts)I suppose they like hearing Cheeto endorse every Likudnik excess and abuse Bibi comes up with on any given day.
Is that the kind of Israel they want? Led by a thug?
I dare say most Jews around the world don't.
Mossfern
(2,564 posts)All the more so because the direct beneficiary of his assassination is still in the saddle today.
IronLionZion
(45,544 posts)that involved pogroms and immigrating to America or Israel
sandensea
(21,677 posts)One of my great-grandmothers was a Russian Jew.
She was 13 when her family was forced off their land at gunpoint and bayonets (the Tsar was still in power). Remember the eviction scene in Fiddler on the Roof?; I was told it was very much like that - but far more brutal.
For the 73 remaining years in her life, she never quite healed from the trauma.
I see the same kind of opportunistic brutality today, in the way Cheeto treats Central Americans. I strongly suspect he'd do the same to every other group he - and his Chumpkins - dislike, if he could.
IronLionZion
(45,544 posts)This is not how it begins. This is many steps along the way.
sandensea
(21,677 posts)All the more so because - as the fat bastard knows so well - most of his Chumpkins believe every ethnic/religious minority in this country is "disloyal."
"They don't look or act American," as many put it.
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)Cary
(11,746 posts)JI7
(89,276 posts)the fact they still wont support him and people like NAdler and Schiff who are going after him are Jewish is pissing him off . "after all i did for you" .
he was already an anti semite but he wanted everyone to behave like Kanye with him even though he is a racist that hates black people.
He thinks everyone "owes" him.
LakeArenal
(28,855 posts)apnu
(8,759 posts)Reads: "don't wedge me bro"