The anti-semetic aspect of the tweet is the fact that it plays into the stereotype of money grubbing jews ... the Disney thing and many others that use a star are not pushing an agenda ... I am 100% sure that the person who tweets for Mr. Trump was aware of the symbolism ... I have worked in advertizing, graphics and printing my whole adult life ... nothing is random or benign!!!
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 6:00 PM, 'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum < [email protected]> wrote: > > My question for you is why you give credence to a Hillary-loving moron > like Kirchick? > > http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/another-neocon-endorses-clinton > > She's promising "free" college education and now socialized medicine for > anyone who wants it. And this idiot claims she's conservative. > > I guess he also missed the fact that the MORONS like him who claimed the > Trump campaign's use of a red six-pointed star was anti-Semitic have been > proven to be morons. > > > > When a leftwing company like Walt Fucking Disney used the exact same star, > I sure don't recall the hillary bots screeching, do you? > > It was the anti-Semites and MORONIC JEWS like Kirchick who jumped to that > conclusion when they saw a harmless 6-pointed star and money. It's no > different than when the same leftloons automatically think saying something > about welfare is racist (because THEY equate blacks with welfare). > > I laugh every time I see leftwingers show that they are the true bigots. > > > On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 4:50:53 PM UTC-4, Bruce Majors wrote: >> >> Why is it a defense that your guy is too stupid to know how the Internet >> works, but it isn't for the other guy? >> >> >> Is this email not displaying correctly? >> View it in your browser >> <http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=ac35ac66c4&e=95fdfeaa2b>. >> >> >> >> Jared Kushner, Shanda >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=8cd82db45a&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> >> How the scion of one tri-state crime family married into another, in a >> story equal parts ‘Sopranos’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’ >> By James Kirchick >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=084412ba09&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> July >> 11, 2016 >> >> Of the myriad ways in which Donald Trump has forced his pathetic >> assemblage of voters, political enablers, and media hangers-on to debase >> themselves, surely nothing has been so pitiful as the recent apologetics >> offered by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. In a piece >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=bce040f321&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> for *The New York Observer—*which he owns—titled “The Donald Trump I >> Know,” Kushner began by declaring, “My father-in-law is not an >> anti-Semite.” Displaying the sort of defensive rationalization employed by >> people who feel a need to preface their disquisitions on inner-city crime >> or immigration with the proviso, “I’m not a racist,” Kushner’s article >> radiated the desperation of a hostage tape—which, in a way, it was. >> Alongside banal attacks on the “speech police” and “the media” for holding >> Trump up to an “insane standard” of propriety, Kushner shared the story, >> “which I have never discussed,” of his ancestors’ victimization at the >> hands of the Nazis so as to ensure readers that he is ever-attuned to “real >> anti-Semitism.” >> >> The presumably “fake” anti-Semitism that his father-in-law has been so >> unfairly accused of peddling was highlighted >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=53ec6fc4c8&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> just >> a day earlier by one of Kushner’s own writers at the *Observer*, Dana >> Schwartz, in an open letter to her boss. Prompting Schwartz’s concern was a >> tweet by Trump, which, under the headline “Crooked Hillary–Makes History!” >> depicted the presumptive Democratic nominee in profile against a backdrop >> of raining dollar bills and a six-pointed star declaring her “Most corrupt >> candidate ever!” Internet sleuths quickly traced the provenance of the >> image to a white supremacist web forum. What followed was the usual >> rigmarole whenever Trump is caught red-handed uttering bigoted things, or >> retweeting bigoted things, or winking at bigots: a half-assed apology on >> the part of the campaign followed by immediate repudiation by the candidate >> himself. After taking down the original image and reposting it with a >> circle instead of a star, (alongside the totally-kosher hashtag >> #AmericaFirst, the anti-Semitic origins of which Trump cannot possibly, at >> this point, claim ignorance), Trump and his coterie effectively rescinded >> their earlier admissions of remorse by variously asserting that the star >> was innocuously lifted from Microsoft Shapes, is a “sheriff’s star,” and, >> most ridiculously, no different than the one appearing >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=2bccfd5c93&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> on >> the cover of a *Frozen*coloring book. >> >> We know Kushner is not oblivious to anti-Semitism. One of the first >> decisions he made as owner of the *Observer* was to fire the writer Phil >> Weiss, then beginning his descent from someone creepily obsessed with Jews >> into proprietor of an anti-Semitic hate site. (Ironically, Weiss was one of >> the few people aside from right-wing extremists to defend >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=a0180b459c&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> his >> old boss in Stargate.) Whether Trump himself fully grasped the implications >> of slipping a Magen David into a tableau of money and accusations of >> financial impropriety—indeed, whether he is, in his heart, an >> anti-Semite—is beside the point. More pertinent is the simple fact that >> Trump lifted the meme from a racist internet troll and has garnered the >> enthusiastic support of seemingly every anti-Semite and white >> nationalist in the United States. When it comes to questions like “Is Trump >> dog-whistling at racists or merely lifting iconography from a popular >> Disney franchise?,” I think I’ll take the word of David Duke over >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=1dff0f587d&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> that >> of Jared Kushner. >> >> The rest of Kushner’s article was incoherent, dishonest, or evasive. For >> instance, in the very same sentence where he attributes the star imbroglio >> to Trump’s “team” being “careless in choosing an image to retweet,” Kushner >> states that the whole controversy derives from the fact “that it’s the >> actual candidate communicating with the American public rather than the >> armies of handlers who poll test ordinary candidates’ every move.” Invoking >> the hackneyed anecdote of Pauline Kael’s expression of befuddlement at >> Richard Nixon’s victory, registered on account of her knowing only one >> person who voted for him, Kushner instructs Schwartz and her journalistic >> colleagues “to get out there and meet some of those people ‘outside their >> ken’ ” supporting Trump. Because if there’s one man who understands the >> frustrations of middle America—aside, of course, from Trump himself—it’s >> this dapper, Orthodox Jewish product of the Frisch School, Harvard College, >> and New York University’s law and business schools. “The worst that his >> detractors can fairly say about him,” Kushner writes of his father-in-law, >> “is that he has been careless in retweeting imagery that can be interpreted >> as offensive.” If you put aside Trump’s endorsement of violence against >> protestors, wanton disregard for the First Amendment, ridicule of the >> physically handicapped for the delectation of a braying mob, endorsement of >> nuclear proliferation, call to withdraw from NATO, envious admiration for >> all manner of anti-American despots and thugs (the latest being Saddam >> Hussein), remarks about a reporter’s menstrual cycle, clinically malignant >> narcissism, pig ignorance about the basic functions of government, proposal >> to ban Muslims from entering the country, racist attacks on a federal >> judge, etc. and *ad infinitum*… if, in other words, Trump was merely the >> joke vanity candidate we all thought he was a year ago, then, yes, perhaps >> his noxious Twitter account would be “the worst” thing about his disgusting >> and disgraceful campaign. >> >> Like smoking crack or joining the Communist Party after the Moscow purge >> trials, supporting Donald Trump makes you say and do stupid things you’ll >> come to regret. Distinguishing Jared Kushner’s submission to the genre of >> Trump defenses from those of other Trumpkins was its exploitation of the >> Holocaust. Kushner tells us that this is the first time he has shared this >> story of familial agony, an admission that, given the context, would be >> execrable enough even without his galling accusation that it is his >> father-in-law’s “detractors” who are “manipulate[ing] the public.” And >> Kushner revealed this heirloom of family suffering—which is hardly his own >> suffering—for what? To defend a man who plays political footsie with the >> former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan? >> >> *** >> >> To understand how Jared Kushner could reach such depths, one must first >> understand that not only is he the son-in-law of an abusive sociopath, but >> the son of one as well. Charles Kushner, a child of Holocaust survivors, >> inherited a family real estate development business and grew it into a >> billion-dollar empire with properties across six states. If one wants to >> rise from mere landlord to true real estate mogul, it is necessary—given >> the role that the legislative and judicial systems play in determining who >> may use property to what end, i.e. the value of property—to become a >> political power broker. And so Charles took a lesson from his future in-law >> Donald Trump: He invested heavily in politics, becoming one of the biggest >> Democratic donors in the country. His greatest investment was a young New >> Jersey politico named Jim McGreevy, who as governor, appointed Kushner to >> the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. >> Distinguishing Jared Kushner’s submission to the genre of Trump defenses >> from those of other Trumpkins was its exploitation of the Holocaust. >> >> Charles Kushner seemed to have an insatiable appetite for money and >> power, and recognized the role politics played at the nexus of both. To >> maximize his influence, Kushner circumvented federal campaign finance laws >> by funneling money to candidates and elected officials with donations made >> in the names of other people and through the over 100 separate real estate >> development partnerships he controlled. In one of this already absurd >> campaign’s more novelistic ironies, Kushner’s dirty dealings caught the >> attention of a young, ambitious federal prosecutor named Chris Christie, >> who opened up an investigation that called Kushner’s sister, Esther, and >> brother-in-law, Billy, as witnesses. Determined to prevent Billy from >> testifying, Charles set up a honey trap >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=6fad580f6d&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> for >> his brother-in-law in a motel room—fully equipped with video cameras—and >> paid a prostitute $10,000. Kushner then sent a tape of the assignation to >> his sister, who promptly turned her brother’s attempt at blackmail over to >> the authorities. >> >> Now charged with obstruction of justice and witness tampering in addition >> to campaign finance violations, Kushner pleaded guilty to all 18 felonious >> counts against him. He was sentenced >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=6fe826c310&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> to >> two years in federal prison, and had to pay one of the highest ever fines >> levied by the Federal Election Commission—all of which amounted to a slap >> on the wrist given the nature of his conduct, the mountains of >> incontrovertible evidence against him, and his lack of any evident remorse, >> despite pleading guilty. “What is truly extraordinary is that Charles >> Kushner has failed to accept full responsibility for his outrageous >> criminal conduct,” said Christie, who today is one of Trump’s closest >> advisers, alongside the son of the man he had arrested >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=4d5e0a5798&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> . >> >> Kushner was also implicated in the simultaneous downfall of his political >> protégé McGreevy, who became infamous for a live televised resignation >> during which he announced to the world that he was “a gay American.” Thanks >> to this cynical deflection, most today remember McGreevy as having done >> nothing worse than commit marital infidelity under the duress of his >> decision to marry a woman and live his life in the closet. But the main >> reason McGreevy was forced to step down from his post was that his former >> lover, an Israeli man named Golan Cipel whom he had put on the state >> payroll in a make-work job, was threatening to sue him for sexual >> harassment. >> >> So who was Golan Cipel? McGreevy had met Cipel several years earlier in >> Israel, and it was Charles Kushner who sponsored the young Israeli’s work >> visa to the United States, and then generously employed Cipel in one of his >> companies before the governor hired him. Some speculated >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=7d411d81f7&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> that >> Kushner, recognizing the blackmail potential of this arrangement, persuaded >> Cipel to threaten McGreevy with exposure. That would explain why, 10 >> minutes before McGreevy’s tearful confession, a lawyer representing Cipel >> called >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=2eeed18f46&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> McGreevy’s >> office conveying the message that the jilted lover would keep their affair >> secret if the governor fulfilled an odd request: grant a charter to Touro >> College allowing it to open a medical school in New Jersey—a medical school >> for which Charles Kushner had raised money and hoped to name after his late >> mother. (At the time, Kushner, through his lawyer, denied >> <http://jameskirchick.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b898a0a81dd7326f504aa05&id=39becc584b&e=95fdfeaa2b> >> any >> involvement.) >> >> With his father in the slammer, Jared became the nominal head of the >> family business, and he remained a loyal son. Unlike Andrew and Mark >> Madoff, who never spoke a word to their dad after turning him over to the >> feds, Jared regularly visited Charles in federal prison, trekking down to >> Alabama once a week, and defended him publicly. Jared’s role in this lurid, >> Jewish “Sopranos”-like clan explains how the scion of one tri-state crime >> family could fit so naturally into another. >> >> Jared and his wife, Ivanka Trump, are both the children of monumental >> assholes. But that’s where their similarities end. Jared’s whole life has >> been about being presentable, wearing a nice suit, and enduring the abuse >> of an older father figure, which is basically the role he now plays in the >> Trump clan. Who in his right mind would tolerate a lifetime of sucking up >> to Donald Trump and listening to the repulsive nonsense that spews from his >> mouth, particularly if he were heir to his own monumental real estate >> fortune? Unlike Ivanka, who clearly controls her own destiny, Kushner comes >> across as a whipping boy, eager to please and do as he’s told. >> >> Putting up with the antics of Donald Trump, then, is nothing new or >> challenging for Kushner, whose father actually served prison time for the >> sorts of things Donald Trump only brags about doing. In a way, Kushner was >> the perfect person for Ivanka to marry, as he’s precisely the sort of >> person who can tolerate the humiliation of being Donald Trump’s son-in-law >> without lashing out and forcing his wife to choose between her husband and >> her father, or having an affair out of rage and resentment, or otherwise >> blowing up the fortunate union that his beloved engineered in her own >> interest and presumably that of her children. >> >> Ivanka, by contrast, has proved her relative independence by helming her >> own successful fashion company and converting to Orthodox Judaism—which >> seems like the perfect way to keep her from eating dinner too often in her >> father’s home. Ivanka’s relationship to her family is not unlike that of a >> good Christian’s place in this fallen world; she is in the Trump brood but >> not of it. >> >> Ivanka has doubtlessly learned a great deal from the experience of her >> mother, Ivana, who was rooked into a stingy prenuptial agreement by Donald. >> The Czechoslovak former model channeled everything into her children; in >> marrying Jared Kushner, Ivanka pulled off the classical European dynastic >> achievement of unifying two large houses whose fortunes will go to her >> offspring. For that to happen, however, Ivanka knew that she would have to >> marry someone who would not disrupt her matriarchal power. Ivanka knows how >> to control her father, at least to the extent that he can be controlled >> (witness her decisive hand in the firing of Trump campaign manager Corey >> Lewandowski). The person she married also had to be someone over whom she >> could exert power. >> >> All this explains how Jared Kushner could shamelessly tout his status as >> the descendant of Holocaust survivors to vouch for the honor of someone so >> undeserving of it as Donald Trump. Whatever Kushner needs to do to comfort >> himself over his enabling this pox on the American body politic—whose >> political ascent is the single worst thing to happen to the United States >> since Sept. 11—he will do. He’s been training for this role his entire >> life, under the tutelage of his father and now his wife. 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