The Hard White Wall of Hypocrisy

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So the Creature actually tweeted this:

I had never heard of Wayne Allyn Root. Turns out he is a nutjob opinion writer:

Root, a longtime conservative columnist and radio host, has promoted a wide range of false conspiracy theories, including that President Barack Obama attended Columbia University as a “foreign exchange student,” that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered by Democrats because he provided DNC files to WikiLeaks, that progressive donor George Soros hired the murderer of Charlottesville, VA, rally victim Heather Heyer, and that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2015 Obamacare ruling might have been the result of him being “blackmailed or intimidated.”

Root has nonetheless received direct access to Trump and his family, whom he has partied with at the president’s Mar-A-Lago resort.

Of course. Back to Trump:

“The last time ‘King of the Jews’ trended, things did not end well.” Charles Pierce

Fifty-three years ago, John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, and the Bible Belt erupted in outrage. Today? Not so much.

One of my Facebook friends says that for Dispensationalists, which conservative evangelicals often are, claiming to be as loved as Jesus in Israel puts Trump in serious Antichrist territory. I’ll take his word on that; I don’t care to look deeply into Dispensationalism. But will any of Trump’s evangelical supporters express concern about this? I’m not going to hold my breath until they do.

We need a cartoon of Trump and Franklin Graham throwing Jesus under a bus.

And then there’s the Greenland thing. Trump actually cancelled a visit to Denmark that was supposed to have happened around the first of September because the Danish prime minister told him flatly she wasn’t selling Greenland. Kevin Drum:

Can we finally start talking publicly about Trump’s mental state? This is the action of a child, not an adult in full control of his faculties. Everyone aside from Trump understood that his Greenland compulsion was a sign of cognitive regression in the first place, and this episode demonstrates that it was no passing fantasy. Trump took it seriously enough to treat Frederiksen’s comments as just another incitement to a feud with a political enemy.

The man is not well. I don’t care what you want to call his condition, but he’s not well. I can only shiver at the thought of what the folks who work regularly with Trump really think of him these days.

Greg Sargent thinks that it’s possible Trump is aware that Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Denmark in mid-September, and Trump is afraid the Danes will treat Obama better than him and make him look bad. But as a “most charitable” reason, that still smells out loud.

This is a fresh tweet:

No, moron, the other NATO countries do not owe us protection money. NATO is not the Mob.

Oh, and Trump is now starting a war with the auto industry. He can’t understand why they aren’t grateful to him for getting rid of Obama emission standards. Instead of just reverting to manufacturing smog-emiting cars, automakers are agreeing to abide by standards passed by California that are, essentially, the Obama standards. The Trump Administration declared that states cannot set their own standards, but that is being challenged in court. The auto manufacturers probably realize that once Trump is gone the next president will reinstate the Obama standards, so there is no point retooling. But Trump is pissed.

No, he’s not well. And perhaps the most dangerous thing the King of the Jews said yesterday was to call Jews “disloyal.” Dahlia Lithwick:

At a press conference on Tuesday, President Donald Trump released a tirade of nonsensical statements after he was asked whether the United States should reconsider its policies toward Israel after the country refused entry to two Muslim American U.S. congresswomen. His reply? “I can’t believe we’re even having this conversation. Where has the Democratic Party gone? Where have they gone where they are defending these two people over the state of Israel?” Trump said. “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”

Media accounts suggest it wasn’t exactly clear to whom Jews voting for a Democrat would be disloyal, but in context it appears that he was suggesting that Jews owe their first loyalty to Israel and that any choice to defend Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota—freshman Democrats who were first granted entry to Israel by the Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and then denied it after Trump suggested they be barred—is a choice not to defend Israel, where, according to Trump, Jews’ principal loyalty should lie.

This is not at all farfetched. Awhile back, in a speech to American Jewish Republicans, Trump referred to Benjamin Netanyahu was “your prime minister.” In Trump’s head, American Jews are not entirely American. This is dangerous. Some of Trump’s unhinged, gun-toting followers might take Trump’s “disloyalty” comments to mean that it’s time to shoot up another synagogue.

Jennifer Rubin notes that a number of prominent Democrats have criticized Trump’s words. And “Jewish groups — with the exception of the quisling Republican Jewish Coalition, which had the chutzpah to defend Trump — condemned the president,” she wrote.

However, we have yet to hear from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) or House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who claimed to be oh so concerned about anti-Semitism when the issue was statements by Omar. It comes as no surprise to anyone paying the slightest attention that their concern about anti-Semitism appears to be entirely situational.

Also, too:

He’s not well. Nancy Pelosi, please, do your job.

Update: Now he’s complaining the prime minister of Denmark was “nasty” to him. He’s escalating.

15 thoughts on “The Hard White Wall of Hypocrisy”

  1. When Trump is out of office and on trial, I want the judge to ask Trump if he thinks he's 'King of the Jews."  It would make the history books as epic satire.

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  2. tRUMP has said that he's loved trucks since he was a child.  And I'm starting to believe that tRUMP may be part-man/part-truck, because when he feels trapped, to escape or distract, he blows smoke.

    Yes, he's losing what little mental capabilities he may have had.  But he's still a world class bullshitter!

    And he's still shrewd.  And so, I believe the whole Greenland fiasco was created by someone on his staff to distract from his horrible week.

    As for "The King of Israel" thing, well, he will boast about any compliment he gets – no matter what it is, or how unrealistic it is!  Plus, since he changed the location of our embassy, he probably does look at himself as someone who's owed loyalty from Jews – no matter where they live.

    This boy is a real sick puppy!  He's a bigoted noxious sociopath.  AND HE NEEDS TO GO!

    ASAP!!!!!

    Paging SotH Pelosi.

    Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi!!

    Please pick-up the "Blue Impeach Phone!"

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  3. Trump only uses the word, "nasty" in reference to women–the sexist pig.  Have we ever had a bigger "whiner" for president?!  All he does is whine, bitch, and moan.  Talk about one dimensional . . .

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    • Trump isn't referring to a woman's temperament when he calls them nasty, he's calling them unhygienic. Much like some of the women he battled against in his own personal Vietnam experience.

      When you're a sexist pig like Trump who views women solely as objects to measure your sexual prowess and allure, then to call them nasty is a masked admission that those women have found you to be repulsive and reject you for who you are.

      • Spot on, Swami. Trump after a 2015 Republican primary debate criticizing Meghan Kelly, whom he decided had shown too little respect:

        "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."

        Yikes.

  4. I hear the chosen one is going to deliver a Sermon on the Amount.

    Come unto me all you who are heavy laden with cash and other tangible assets; I will relieve you of your burden.

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  5. Swami,

    TRUMP, "The Chosen One," is such a notably "stable genius," that we Americans will forever revere, respect, and love him, and his well thought out policies!

    (BTW:  Where are the men from the asylum in their wagon, carrying the butterfly nets and an XXXXXL straight-jacket?  Are they in their way?).

    25th Amendment, anyone?!?!?!?!?!?

  6. In one day: I am the chosen one( looks up)

    Trump is the king of the Jews and the second coming of God.

    Telling US Jews where their loyalty should be.

    Obviously unfit for job. Why do we have no mechanism to remove him?

    • We do, but the Founders, usually wise but not this time, never anticipated the day would come when a sufficient number of senators would put party above country.

  7. The only reason to impeach the Orange Traitor would be to force the Treason Party majority in the Senate to reveal themselves as de facto traitors before the November 2020 elections–because the Treason Party majority would never vote to convict their Dear Leader, lest the TP's Orc-horde of a base rebel, and perhaps even shoot the Rethug Senators.

  8. Yeah, this is extra creepy.  Trump extrapolates from the Jews he knows – Kushners, Adelsons, Epsteins & Co, other billionaire GOP donors – that all Jews support the Likud's lebensraum project, and care more about Israel than Humanity.  Luckily, that's not true. 

    His crazy TwitteRant on this is probably a win for the forces of Good, but it's dangerous.  The GOP has been dog-whistling this for years; now Trump blares it out.  This exposes rifts: among US Jews, between NeoCon & PaleoCon/Realist Republicans, between Dispensationalist and other Christians.  In each of these cases, Trump alienates more people than he attracts.  The dangerous part is that he excites the Armed Crazies; I hope Tlaib & the Squad have good security.

    I also hope Trump has good security.  Exposure of these rifts threatens both (Likudnik) Israel and the GOP.  For both, Trump could be more useful dead than alive.  Both would view Pence as a much more reliable tool, but they fear Trump's hold on his "base".  Both know how Trump has made the Democratic Party stronger and more progressive, and both fear a Democratic wave in 2020.  Trump would be more useful as a martyr than a candidate for reelection.  They have motive and means to bump off Trump & blame it on Democrats/Progressives; opportunities will arise.  It would likely trigger the Zombie Apocalypse (race war, Civil War II, etc), but that's an acceptable risk.

    I really hope I'm wrong about this.

     

  9. "Trump would be more useful as a martyr than a candidate for reelection.  They have motive and means to bump off Trump & blame it on Democrats/Progressives; opportunities will arise. "

    There is a ring of truth to this. I'm not sayin' it will happen but there's no failure in the reasoning behind it.

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