The Perennially Inflamed

~ Clarissa

JD Vance Has Made His Choice

By Abe Greenwald

Vice President JD Vance didn’t mention Jews or Nazis in his remarks on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The statement he released yesterday noted instead “the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust,” and “the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history.” While these formulations seem vague and empty, they are actually very precise and loaded with meaning. Vance is sending a clear message to Tucker Carlson and his other Jew-hating friends. The message is: Don’t worry, guys. I’m with you. 

And he is. 

Honestly, the dude can catch no break. If he mentioned Jews, it would be “but why didn’t you mention Slavs?” And the Roma, and gays, and Catholics, and communists, and so on and on.

This nitpicky, pouty, perennially inflamed over being passed over and not having your pet grievance mentioned in every sentence is what I hated on the Left.

But guess what.

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5 thoughts on “The Perennially Inflamed”

  1. I despise this obnoxious, offputting behavior. This is how Israel being attacked by terrorists managed to lead to more sympathy for Palestine.

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    1. I quit being on the left at a huge personal cost because I didn’t want to be nitpicked, chided, name-called and speech-policed anymore. I’ll be damned if I ever agree to this again.

      I don’t even like JD but when I first saw his statement I thought, what a good, sensitive, kind statement. To see him dragged for it is deeply obnoxious.

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    2. This is how Israel being attacked by terrorists managed to lead to more sympathy for Palestine.

      lmao you literally did the Norm Macdonald joke here.

      Norm- “Friend of mind said he thought the worst part of the Cosby thing was the hypocrisy…. I disagree.”

      Jerry Seinfeld- “You disagree?”

      Norm Macdonald- “Yeah…. I think it was the raping.”

      No, it wasn’t “offputting behavior” that turned the world against them after Oct 7. It was mass murder.

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  2. I hated on the Left.

    Oh yes, the “left.” This is standard operating procedure for jews but let’s keep calling it “left.”

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  3. Great article on this fetish.

    https://coreyrobin.com/2015/02/13/i-the-holocaust-am-your-god/

    It’s all there. The Holocaust not as an event in secular history but as a leap into transcendence; it cannot be explained, it can only be circled, like a holy fire. Auschwitz is our Sinai, the ovens our burning bush. Like the Jews receiving God’s commandments, the Jews of the camps experienced a sacred mystery, received a secret message, which we can only approach at a distance, with awe and trembling. I, the Holocaust, am your God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

    Just in case the overtones weren’t clear, Molly Haskell, writing about the show in New York Magazine, threw in an explicit reference to the Second Commandment for good measure:

    How can actors, how dare actors, presume to imagine and tell us what it felt like! The attempt becomes a desecration against, among others, the Hebraic injunction banning graven images.

    No graven images of the Holocaust. I, the Holocaust, am your God.

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