So John Bolton might become Trump’s secretary of state?
But that Hillary was such a hawk. It’s great that we are rid of her and will now get the super dovish Bolton.
Dumb asswipes.
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So John Bolton might become Trump’s secretary of state?
But that Hillary was such a hawk. It’s great that we are rid of her and will now get the super dovish Bolton.
Dumb asswipes.
Bolton would be a better choice for Secretary of State than Rudy Guilani.
Guilani, being a very good law-and-order man, should become the new Attorney General.
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“Bolton would be a better choice for Secretary of State than Rudy Guilani.”
That is like saying syphilis is better than gonorrhea.
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Sing it, sister!
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I only want Jews to keep out of it all, but apperantly it’s too much to ask:
\ Trump team has asked for son in law Jared Kushner to have top secret clearance for Presidential Daily Brief no precedent for that
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/15/trump_wants_son_in_law_kushner_to_get_presidential_daily_briefing.html
And look at what is written under the photo of Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and Trump’s daughter on Slate:
“Who’s in charge of the country? This guy and a couple other dudes.”
I almost wish Trump was more antisemitic instead of being all around populist with zero brain.
Btw, Jared is surprisingly handsome and European-looking, the latter being relatively unusual for Israeli Jews.
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This isn’t Israel. For most Jews in America, being Jewish is not their #1 identity. It’s not even a very important thing.
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\ This isn’t Israel. For most Jews in America, being Jewish is not their #1 identity. It’s not even a very important thing.
I am sure it’s important enough for those 33% of American population (your estimation), consisting of racists, who would have voted for Trump no matter what.
\ Imagine if you said that all Jews are ugly.
I would’ve posted a few photos of pretty Israeli Jews. 🙂
\ Am I the only one who gets creeped out at el’s routine phrenological descriptions of Jews?
Look, I am a single woman, close to his age, and I rarely find men attractive. OK? Also, Trump is ugly, and I subconsciously expected his son-in-law would be similar. So I commented on his looks. You and Clarissa were the ones to connect “surprisingly handsome” to his Jewishness.
Jared reminded me of Daniel Radcliffe, a half-Jewish actor who played Harry Potter in all HP movies. (And is also handsome.) Or am I mistaken?
As for European-looking, many Israeli Jews aren’t. As a single woman, I do pay attention to how men look and am more attracted to some “types” than to others. Is it a problem?
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The core of Trump’s campaign was racism against Mexicans and Muslims, not Jews.
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\ \ This isn’t Israel. For most Jews in America, being Jewish is not their #1 identity. It’s not even a very important thing.
Look at the attached photos:
Anti-Semitic propaganda was mailed to me at my home. This is not normal.
http://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/11/15/13637936/anti-semitic-propaganda
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This is extremely fringe.
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Am I the only one who gets creeped out at el’s routine phrenological descriptions of Jews? This fucking obsession with what Jews ‘traditionally’ look like, what are ‘typical’ Jewish facial features, ad infinitum. Jesus.
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Imagine if you said that all Jews are ugly. 🤔
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‘Surprisingly’ handsome!
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Maybe he’s also shockingly generous for a Jew, who knows. 😆
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\ During their private White House meeting on Thursday, Mr. Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country, and Mr. Trump seemed surprised by the scope, said people familiar with the meeting. Trump aides were described by those people as unaware that the entire presidential staff working in the West Wing had to be replaced at the end of Mr. Obama’s term.
After meeting with Mr. Trump, the only person to be elected president without having held a government or military position, Mr. Obama realized the Republican needs more guidance. He plans to spend more time with his successor than presidents typically do, people familiar with the matter said.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/14/trump_reportedly_appeared_not_to_understand_scope_of_presidency_during_obama.html
You know, the worst danger is not Trump being ignorant now, but being unable to learn and shoulder the responsibility despite all guidance. I guess, that’s why he is so eager to let Jared and everybody else deal with stuff. The problem is Jared and many others around Trump also seem uncapable.
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Of course, absolutely. This is a high demand job, and Trump simply wants to be admired and not do any work. He will farm it off to people he considers loyal and they will spend all their time trying to prove who’s more loyal. The good news, though, is that national governments are increasingly irrelevant, so who cares.
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Fucking Neocons (especially ones with child molestor mustaches) need to be kept as far away from foreign policy as humanly possible. Every country they touch turns to shit and the miserable losers never learn from it.
The one tiny hope I had for Trump was purging the neocons and evangelicals out of the Republican party (or into marginalized corners thereof).
I was hoping he’d lose but shake up the party enough so that they became something a sane person could vote for (in practical political terms I’m probably closest to being a Rockefeller Republican, who were squeezed out in favor of the bible thumpers).
All is ashes and dust….
Giuliani would be slightly less terrible.
The problem with electing outsiders (of Washington DC) is they don’t know anybody and don’t have the experience to evaluate people….
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His running mate was Pence. That tells us all we need about the place of Bible thumpers in this administration.
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Now now, he’s an expat, don’t you know? Maybe the breaking news of Trump selecting Pence hasn’t reached him yet.
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By the next election, Trump will fail even to try to deliver on all his promises but we’ll hear that the problem is that he isn’t a real Republican and doesn’t understand true Republicanism. Now if we elect a real Republican, all our problems will be solved. Just like we’ve seen with Bush. They all worshipped him but now it’s all “Oh I never supported him.”
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Is this an anti-semitic photo on a progressive website or am I paranoid?
http://digbysblog.blogspot.co.il/2016/11/meanwhile-in-most-powerful-nation-on.html
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“Is this an anti-semitic photo on a progressive website”
Criticising people who are Jewish (even in extremely harsh terms) is not anti-semitism.
Claiming that the reason they deserve criticism is because they’re Jewish – yeah that’s anti-semitic. The article doesn’t seem to do that. I can easily imagine any incompetents of any race or ethnic group or religion being compared to the three stooges (cultural icons of a typical type of aggressive stupidy).
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I did not know what “The Three Stooges” was. Thought the person on the left was a generic Jew.
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Well, he is a Jew(Larry Fine), just not a generic one:
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blockquote>The Three Stooges began in 1928 as part of a raucous vaudeville act called “Ted Healy and His Stooges” (also known as “Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen”, “Ted Healy and His Three Lost Souls”, “Ted Healy and His Racketeers”, and “Ted Healy and His Three Stooges”.[1]) Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz) joined Healy’s act in 1921, and his brother Shemp Howard (Samuel Horwitz) came aboard in 1923.[2] In 1928, violinist-comedian Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg) and xylophonist-comedian Fred Sanborn also joined the group.[3] In the act, lead comedian Healy would attempt to sing or tell jokes while his noisy assistants would keep “interrupting” him, causing Healy to retaliate with verbal and physical abuse.
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Hey, welcome to the Neverland Express that will take you on a thrilling ride through American politics and into the Wide World at Large for the next four years. (Oh, take any vacant seat, it doesn’t really matter, as long as you make certain that your safety belt is buckled good and tight.)
Expect some excessive G-forces from all the constant hard-right turns, and ignore the annoying but barely audible buzz near your left ear as harmless gnats from the vanquished Democratic Party keep trying to pull their forces to the far left, but are caught up in the much more powerful right-veering force field from the Republican juggernaut. For your own safety, remember to put on your virtual-reality headsets and static-erasing earphones when instructed.
The world will look vastly different at the end of the ride, but if you’ve kept your seat belt fastened as instructed, you should still be in your seat and able to gape at the amazing new world view at the 2020 station. Whether the tiny gnats will have died from the centripetal force, or will have congealed into a legitimate opposing force that actually needs to be swatted down remains to see seen.
You might even want to buy another ticket to take you all the way to the Amazing Future at the yet-to-be-constructed 2024 station. You definitely won’t recognize any of the futuristic wonders outside that station after such a fantastic eight-year ride!
So buckle up!
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“The one tiny hope I had for Trump ”
There’s another tiny hope you had for Trump, don’t be shy. You’ve been talking about it for years now.
Weren’t you whining about Asian professors just the other day? Looks like you have an ally in Bannon who uses the same (coded) language as you.
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/798864752546025472
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Trump’s Asswipes
I thought for a split second it was a post about one of many products the dude was shilling.
Wait…
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I’d much rather he did that, to be honest. He seems to like selling shitty products.
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There is no buyer’s remorse, though http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-transition-is-mess-and-trump-base.html
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It’s only been a week since the election.
Everything looks like Dunning-Kruger, and when you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Besides, don’t you keep repeating we truly keep finding what matches our world-view? Republicans have been blabbering about how incompetent and terrible government is ad infinitum.. So either they think this is wonderful and better or they just confirms their worldview that government can’t do anything right.
🙂
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