8/21/19: The president catches serious heat, including heat from leading Jewish-American groups, for saying Jews who vote for Democrats are “disloyal.”
This forces Trump to dig deep into his Twitter toolbox and find someone, anyone, to support his position.
They’d “cut your pee-pee off, I promise you!!!!!!”
Well, there’s always Wayne Allyn Root. “The Jewish people in Israel love him like he’s the King of Israel,” Root says of Trump. Trump promptly retweets Root: “They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore.”
One thing we can hope American Jews are not doing is listening to Root. For starters, Jews do not believe in a “second coming.”
Or a first.
Root is a nut. As CNN explains, he claimed the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas was a “coordinated Muslim terror attack.” He suggested that the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia was perpetrated by “paid actors & infiltrators hired by” Democratic megadonor George Soros – who just so happens to be Jewish.
Root is a fount of crackpot theories. He said Obama attended Columbia University as a “foreign exchange student.” Chief Justice John Roberts upheld the constitutionality of Obamacare because he was being blackmailed. The Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered by Democrats because he provided DNC files to WikiLeaks. He suggested after the Parkland shooting, that we could protect schools with armed drones. He told his devoted listeners – people like President Trump – that both Hillary and Barack had had gay or lesbian relationships. Root also argued that all liberal men are gay. And when it came to dating liberal women, watch out. Root warned listeners that if those women also had cats, they’d “cut your pee-pee off, I promise you!!!!!!”
So, protect your pee-pees! Root is just the kind of guy you
expect to find supporting Donald J. Trump.
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IN THE MEANTIME, the president appears at the 75th anniversary gathering of the AMVETS, a service organization for American veterans. During his speech, he singles out Woody Williams, in attendance, a man awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on Iwo Jima in 1945. But Trump isn’t done talking about heroes.
There was himself.
“That was a big day, Medal of Honor,” he says, regarding Williams’ courage. “Nothing like the Medal of Honor,” he continued. “I wanted one, but [White House aides] told me I don’t qualify, Woody. I said, ‘Can I give it to myself anyway?’ They said, ‘I don’t think that’s a good idea.’”
Holy hell. It’s a terrible,
terrible idea.
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ONE REPUBLICAN has had enough. Jennifer Horn, former two-term chairperson of the New Hampshire GOP, quits the party, saying there is no way she could endorse Trump for re-election.
In her resignation letter, Ms.
Horn notes that the president’s “regular verbal assaults against women,
immigrants, elected members of Congress … and his willingness to stoke racial
anger and unrest in order to advance his own political ambitions all subvert
the founding principles of our great nation [emphasis added].”
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THE EFFORT to deregulate everything continues – because we all know we can always trust Big Business to do right.
This week, Tyson Fresh Meats is proposing a change in the way meat is inspected at the company’s packing plant in Holcomb, Kansas.
What Tyson proposes is that its employees, rather than independent USDA inspectors, take first look at meat coming down the processing line. Tyson’s employees would identify unsuitable beef carcasses and trim defects. The company promises! Regular Department of Agriculture inspectors would later check every carcass that was allowed to go forward, for disease and contamination.
Of course, if the Tyson employees had trimmed away parts that would indicate a carcass was diseased…
Well,
President Trump, enjoy that next cheeseburger.
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LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, the president decided to call off a planned trip to Denmark after the Danish prime minister rebuffed his suggestion that her country sell Greenland to the United States.
Trump was in a pout and decided he wouldn’t go at all. Across the political spectrum, Danes express shock and disbelief. Trump’s cancellation was an “insult to Queen Margrethe,” who invited Trump and the First Lady last month. It was “very, very shocking,” said a conservative Danish leader. “The man is unpredictable,” said a more liberal Danish politician.
“Reality,” he added, “surpasses imagination.”
Don’t
we here in America know it!
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Queen Margrethe won't be meeting Donald. Or selling Greenland. |
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