The idea that Trump popularized the Great Replacement theory is flat out wrong. Fox News was preaching the conspiracy more than 20 years ago. I was a Fox News watching Republican back in the 2000s and they would frequently platform virulent racists such as Ann Coulter who would time and time again tell us that Democrats were diluting the white vote with Latino immigrants.
As for George Soros, that conspiracy theory became popular with the addition of Glenn Beck who would talk about Soros daily, along with Obama death panels, throughout 2009.
You guys really need to go back farther to cover the rot in the GOP.
I’d love to see an article, “Bannon or Trump: Who came first?” showing how both personas developed and the similarities. Just watched The Apprentice movie yesterday. They certainly seem to feed off each other.
Anti semitism is baked into the evangelical Christianity most modern day R’s claim to believe in. Their end times philosophy insists they have to purposefully foment religious tension in Israel so Jesus will come back. Jewish people who don’t convert won’t be raptured & will be left to suffer the tribulations with the rest of us. This isn’t a secret. John Haggee’s own organization CUFI advocates for this & has since at least the 90’s. He’s not the only one.
Oh, we Jews are so crafty! We control the world economy. Perfect space lasers and election-rigging thermostats (helped, of course, by Xi Finkelstein). Slyly plotted to control the biddable Kamala by husband’s suasion. Oh, we are insidious … we are perfidious … we are insatiable.
If Trump weren’t given a platform for this stuff it would be a nonevent. And, where has Ivana, his converted Jewish daughter been through all of this? Probably working the phones as a disingenuous albeit secret supporter of her malignant narcissist father.
Racism, antisemitism, and misogyny. Let's not leave that out. Where the far right is concerned, it's impossible to figure out where one leaves off and another begins.
When one joined KKK back in the 1920's it was considered respectable. It was normalized and celebrated. Just as many in our country are doing right now. I can throw a rock from my dirt road and hit a bigot's house. Blaming minorities is part of our elections. Always as been. We had open broaders at one time. However, when financial insecurities happened in government, the go to was to blame immigrants. Gaslighting is in the politicians handbook. I don't understand why people continue to be surprised when a malignant narcissist psychopath goes off the rails. He was already off the rails. He will step over dead bodies on his way to the top. As many leaders are currently doing in their own countries.
Based on what we’ve read here, what does this mean for the war in Gaza should there be another Trump presidency? He speaks out of both sides of the mouth so often that there doesn’t seem to be any policy about it at all.
One thing to keep in mind is that many (white) Christian evangelicals see the return of the Jews to Palestine as a necessary condition for the Second Coming. That helps explain where the rah-rah-Israel is coming from -- along with the fact that Netanyahu and Trump have a few things in common politically.
I'm no fan of Trump but I don't think his history of tremendous pro-Israel bias is compatible with genuine anti-semitism. I suspect he dislikes Soros because of his left wing supporting actions rather than anti-semitism. Similarly I think it at least arguable that his antipathy towards many American Jews is because he knows they historically (and indeed to this day) tend to vote for the Democrats. I can't help but wonder if a lot of the enthusiasm for keeping America as white as possible is becasue this is the demographic that most decisivley votes for the Republicans.
Do you think it's primarily about Soros? I don't. Consider his courting of the white Christian evangelicals. The GOP has been doing that at least since Roe v. Wade. The return of the Jews to Israel is a precondition for the Second Coming of Jesus -- but what supposedly happens to Jews *after* the Second Coming (if they don't convert) is not pretty. IOW support for Israel and antisemitism are not incompatible.
I'm not sure being rabid pro-Israeli government and anti-semitism do go together naturallly. But I'm 100% sure that Trump is no evangelical Christian. The evangelical Christians have sold out but Trump certainly hasn't picked up any piety - let alone Christian humility.
Who said Trump was an evangelical Christian? The white evangelicals have been gung ho for the GOP since Nixon. Trump will be and do anything if it'll get him more adulation. IIRC he got the U.S. embassy in Israel moved to Jerusalem. That was to make the evangelicals happy.
Our wonderful democratic nation has a variety of characteristics, social values, class structure, and an undying and burly/impregnable faith in freedom. Our country is a colonization and transmigration of people from around the world, and with a vast population of those who lived here before this peregrination - the American Indians. Our country and our government was founded on human moral standards, principles, code of ethics, laws, and morals. Without such morals and laws, it would be difficult if not impossible to live in a civilized society. Laws enforce the rules and without them there would no way to adjudicate disputes between people, businesses, and government. In this critical election year, half of the population of our country have abandoned and repressed our country’s laws and the values, principles, and our society’s rules of conduct. It is difficult to watch.
From 1924 to 1933, the Nazi Party transformed from a small, violent, revolutionary party to the largest elected party in Germany (The Holocaust Explained, The Wiener Holocaust Library) “Following his release from prison on 20 December 1924, Hitler convinced the Chancellor of Bavaria to remove the ban on the Nazi Party. The rest is history. Hitler decided to change tactics and instead focus on winning support for his party democratically and being elected into power. The Nazi Party changed from a paramilitary organization focused on overthrowing the republic by force, to one focused on gaining power through elections and popular support.” (Ibid) In a matter of only a few years, Hitler’s Germany murdered over six million humans and was the decisive and momentous force that began World War II which killed another fifteen million soldiers and innocent people - who were all fighting for freedom.
“Anyone who wants to understand Vladimir Putin today needs to know the story of what happened to him on a dramatic night in East Germany at least a quarter of a century ago. On 5 December 1989 in Dresden (Germany) a few weeks after the Berlin Wall has fallen, East German communism was dying on its feet. . . Crowds stormed the Dresden headquarters of the Stasi, the East German secret police suddenly seemed helpless. The KGB officer knew how dangerous the situation remained. He described later how he rang the headquarters of a Red Army tank unit to ask for protections. The answer he received was a devastating, life-changing shock. ‘We cannot do anything without orders from Moscow, and Moscow is silent.” That phrase has haunted this man ever since. Defiant yet helpless as the 1989 revolution swept over him, he has now himself become ‘Moscow’ - the President of Russia.” (Vladimir Putin’s Formative German years, BBC News, 27 March 2015, by Chris Bowlby) Putin arrived in Germany (the GDR) in mid 1980’s as a KGB agent. The incident described above was the formative experience that propelled Putin into power. When he arrived back in the USSR and Russia, much had changed. Gorbachev had transformed Russia in ways he did not understand or want to accept. Shortly thereafter, he watched the Soviet Union crumble and blamed the United States for this catastrophe. He vowed repayment and revenge. This retaliation would not come from bombs and war, but quietly from within.
Catherine Belton wrote Putin’s People. She said “This book began as an effort to trace the takeover of the Russian economy by Putin’s former KGB associates. But it became an investigation into something more pernicious than that. First research - then events - showed that the national kleptocracy of the Putin era was aimed at something more than just filling the pockets of the president’s friends. What emerged as a result of the KGB takeover of the Russian economy - and the country’s political and legal systems - was a regime in which the billions of dollars at Putin’s cronies disposal were to be actively used to undermine and corrupt the institutions and democracies of the West.” (P. 85-86, From Democracy to Democrazy, by Graham)
As of the 2020 national census, there are over three (3) million Russian citizens in the United States. These are not immigrants who wish to pledge loyalty to the U.S. Constitution and our form of government. These are RUSSIAN CITIZENS.
More importantly, Belton goes on to describe in detail the many Russians (all KGB operatives) tied to Donald Trump, who were part of an interconnecting web of black-cash networks created in the final years of the Communist regimes. Some of these Russians joined Trump in real estate deals, and some of these deals saved Trump from a 7th bankruptcy. The evidence of Russian interference in Trump’s presidential election races in 2016, 2020, and now in 2024 are solid confirmation and corroboration of his relationship to Russia and Putin. TRUMP IS THE RETALIATION “WITHIN” PROMISED BY PUTIN TO DESTORY THE UNITED STATES.
I spent about twenty years living and working in Russia and the surrounding area. I know that Trump was entrapped by Putin to work for Russia, because I was in Russia and myself was exposed to the Russian ensnaring process. I have been there and done that and manage to avoid the trap.
Donald Trump visited - for their grand opening and many times afterward - the Beverly Hills nightclub, casino, and restaurant in Moscow. (It is a club known for its corruption, naked women, and famous faces). My daughter managed this joint venture. Her witness testimony was silenced on July 16, 2016 when she died. Her death was ruled by the Tokyo Police a homicide by an unknown substance - possibly a poison. Russians are famous for using poison as a clandestine method of murder. This was the same timeframe when Donald Trump was silencing and bribing many women - his sexual partners - in order to strengthen and improve his image for the upcoming 2016 election. The Russians have openly admitted to 2016 election interference. (“Russian Interference in 2016 U.S. Elections,” FBI.gov)
Donald Trump has been convicted of fraud (bank, business, and tax records provided black and white proof). In other words, he lied on all his business records. In the last quarter of his presidency, our economy dropped 32.9% - the largest drop in American history. (GDP Drops at 32.9% Rate - The Worst U.S. Contraction Ever, NPR). He has been declared guilty of 34 counts of felony, and he has been adjudicated and legally labeled a sexual predator. He has instigated an insurrection against our government, and five Americans died while many, many more are now in prison - all in Trump’s feeble attempt to overthrow our government and stay in office. This is known as TREASON!
Donald Trump is not a moral person or an example of a leader for a civilized society. His narcissistic lifestyle shows he will do anything and everything to save his own butt from Putin’s wrath. Cassidy Hutchinson - who worked in the Trump White House - mentioned that “Trump is terrified of being poisoned.” (The Hill, October 5, 2023) This fact alone is proof of his submission to Vladimir Putin.
I wrote this Substack today as a warning to all Americans. Please do not vote for Donald Trump or put the will of Vladimir Putin in the U.S. White House AGAIN.
Hey! Just wait a minute—Donald Trump and antisemitism? How ‘bout all those superJews on his side? Stephen Miller? Mr. America for Americans only? (Jews, of course, are sometimes even included in this category … especially around elections.) Laura Loomer? Bibi (corrupt attracts corrupt)? Adoph? Do tell …
The idea that Trump popularized the Great Replacement theory is flat out wrong. Fox News was preaching the conspiracy more than 20 years ago. I was a Fox News watching Republican back in the 2000s and they would frequently platform virulent racists such as Ann Coulter who would time and time again tell us that Democrats were diluting the white vote with Latino immigrants.
As for George Soros, that conspiracy theory became popular with the addition of Glenn Beck who would talk about Soros daily, along with Obama death panels, throughout 2009.
You guys really need to go back farther to cover the rot in the GOP.
I’d love to see an article, “Bannon or Trump: Who came first?” showing how both personas developed and the similarities. Just watched The Apprentice movie yesterday. They certainly seem to feed off each other.
Anti semitism is baked into the evangelical Christianity most modern day R’s claim to believe in. Their end times philosophy insists they have to purposefully foment religious tension in Israel so Jesus will come back. Jewish people who don’t convert won’t be raptured & will be left to suffer the tribulations with the rest of us. This isn’t a secret. John Haggee’s own organization CUFI advocates for this & has since at least the 90’s. He’s not the only one.
Oh, we Jews are so crafty! We control the world economy. Perfect space lasers and election-rigging thermostats (helped, of course, by Xi Finkelstein). Slyly plotted to control the biddable Kamala by husband’s suasion. Oh, we are insidious … we are perfidious … we are insatiable.
If Trump weren’t given a platform for this stuff it would be a nonevent. And, where has Ivana, his converted Jewish daughter been through all of this? Probably working the phones as a disingenuous albeit secret supporter of her malignant narcissist father.
Racism, antisemitism, and misogyny. Let's not leave that out. Where the far right is concerned, it's impossible to figure out where one leaves off and another begins.
The worst kind of hate is Christian love.
When one joined KKK back in the 1920's it was considered respectable. It was normalized and celebrated. Just as many in our country are doing right now. I can throw a rock from my dirt road and hit a bigot's house. Blaming minorities is part of our elections. Always as been. We had open broaders at one time. However, when financial insecurities happened in government, the go to was to blame immigrants. Gaslighting is in the politicians handbook. I don't understand why people continue to be surprised when a malignant narcissist psychopath goes off the rails. He was already off the rails. He will step over dead bodies on his way to the top. As many leaders are currently doing in their own countries.
Based on what we’ve read here, what does this mean for the war in Gaza should there be another Trump presidency? He speaks out of both sides of the mouth so often that there doesn’t seem to be any policy about it at all.
One thing to keep in mind is that many (white) Christian evangelicals see the return of the Jews to Palestine as a necessary condition for the Second Coming. That helps explain where the rah-rah-Israel is coming from -- along with the fact that Netanyahu and Trump have a few things in common politically.
I'm no fan of Trump but I don't think his history of tremendous pro-Israel bias is compatible with genuine anti-semitism. I suspect he dislikes Soros because of his left wing supporting actions rather than anti-semitism. Similarly I think it at least arguable that his antipathy towards many American Jews is because he knows they historically (and indeed to this day) tend to vote for the Democrats. I can't help but wonder if a lot of the enthusiasm for keeping America as white as possible is becasue this is the demographic that most decisivley votes for the Republicans.
Do you think it's primarily about Soros? I don't. Consider his courting of the white Christian evangelicals. The GOP has been doing that at least since Roe v. Wade. The return of the Jews to Israel is a precondition for the Second Coming of Jesus -- but what supposedly happens to Jews *after* the Second Coming (if they don't convert) is not pretty. IOW support for Israel and antisemitism are not incompatible.
I'm not sure being rabid pro-Israeli government and anti-semitism do go together naturallly. But I'm 100% sure that Trump is no evangelical Christian. The evangelical Christians have sold out but Trump certainly hasn't picked up any piety - let alone Christian humility.
Who said Trump was an evangelical Christian? The white evangelicals have been gung ho for the GOP since Nixon. Trump will be and do anything if it'll get him more adulation. IIRC he got the U.S. embassy in Israel moved to Jerusalem. That was to make the evangelicals happy.
Our wonderful democratic nation has a variety of characteristics, social values, class structure, and an undying and burly/impregnable faith in freedom. Our country is a colonization and transmigration of people from around the world, and with a vast population of those who lived here before this peregrination - the American Indians. Our country and our government was founded on human moral standards, principles, code of ethics, laws, and morals. Without such morals and laws, it would be difficult if not impossible to live in a civilized society. Laws enforce the rules and without them there would no way to adjudicate disputes between people, businesses, and government. In this critical election year, half of the population of our country have abandoned and repressed our country’s laws and the values, principles, and our society’s rules of conduct. It is difficult to watch.
From 1924 to 1933, the Nazi Party transformed from a small, violent, revolutionary party to the largest elected party in Germany (The Holocaust Explained, The Wiener Holocaust Library) “Following his release from prison on 20 December 1924, Hitler convinced the Chancellor of Bavaria to remove the ban on the Nazi Party. The rest is history. Hitler decided to change tactics and instead focus on winning support for his party democratically and being elected into power. The Nazi Party changed from a paramilitary organization focused on overthrowing the republic by force, to one focused on gaining power through elections and popular support.” (Ibid) In a matter of only a few years, Hitler’s Germany murdered over six million humans and was the decisive and momentous force that began World War II which killed another fifteen million soldiers and innocent people - who were all fighting for freedom.
“Anyone who wants to understand Vladimir Putin today needs to know the story of what happened to him on a dramatic night in East Germany at least a quarter of a century ago. On 5 December 1989 in Dresden (Germany) a few weeks after the Berlin Wall has fallen, East German communism was dying on its feet. . . Crowds stormed the Dresden headquarters of the Stasi, the East German secret police suddenly seemed helpless. The KGB officer knew how dangerous the situation remained. He described later how he rang the headquarters of a Red Army tank unit to ask for protections. The answer he received was a devastating, life-changing shock. ‘We cannot do anything without orders from Moscow, and Moscow is silent.” That phrase has haunted this man ever since. Defiant yet helpless as the 1989 revolution swept over him, he has now himself become ‘Moscow’ - the President of Russia.” (Vladimir Putin’s Formative German years, BBC News, 27 March 2015, by Chris Bowlby) Putin arrived in Germany (the GDR) in mid 1980’s as a KGB agent. The incident described above was the formative experience that propelled Putin into power. When he arrived back in the USSR and Russia, much had changed. Gorbachev had transformed Russia in ways he did not understand or want to accept. Shortly thereafter, he watched the Soviet Union crumble and blamed the United States for this catastrophe. He vowed repayment and revenge. This retaliation would not come from bombs and war, but quietly from within.
Catherine Belton wrote Putin’s People. She said “This book began as an effort to trace the takeover of the Russian economy by Putin’s former KGB associates. But it became an investigation into something more pernicious than that. First research - then events - showed that the national kleptocracy of the Putin era was aimed at something more than just filling the pockets of the president’s friends. What emerged as a result of the KGB takeover of the Russian economy - and the country’s political and legal systems - was a regime in which the billions of dollars at Putin’s cronies disposal were to be actively used to undermine and corrupt the institutions and democracies of the West.” (P. 85-86, From Democracy to Democrazy, by Graham)
As of the 2020 national census, there are over three (3) million Russian citizens in the United States. These are not immigrants who wish to pledge loyalty to the U.S. Constitution and our form of government. These are RUSSIAN CITIZENS.
More importantly, Belton goes on to describe in detail the many Russians (all KGB operatives) tied to Donald Trump, who were part of an interconnecting web of black-cash networks created in the final years of the Communist regimes. Some of these Russians joined Trump in real estate deals, and some of these deals saved Trump from a 7th bankruptcy. The evidence of Russian interference in Trump’s presidential election races in 2016, 2020, and now in 2024 are solid confirmation and corroboration of his relationship to Russia and Putin. TRUMP IS THE RETALIATION “WITHIN” PROMISED BY PUTIN TO DESTORY THE UNITED STATES.
I spent about twenty years living and working in Russia and the surrounding area. I know that Trump was entrapped by Putin to work for Russia, because I was in Russia and myself was exposed to the Russian ensnaring process. I have been there and done that and manage to avoid the trap.
Donald Trump visited - for their grand opening and many times afterward - the Beverly Hills nightclub, casino, and restaurant in Moscow. (It is a club known for its corruption, naked women, and famous faces). My daughter managed this joint venture. Her witness testimony was silenced on July 16, 2016 when she died. Her death was ruled by the Tokyo Police a homicide by an unknown substance - possibly a poison. Russians are famous for using poison as a clandestine method of murder. This was the same timeframe when Donald Trump was silencing and bribing many women - his sexual partners - in order to strengthen and improve his image for the upcoming 2016 election. The Russians have openly admitted to 2016 election interference. (“Russian Interference in 2016 U.S. Elections,” FBI.gov)
Donald Trump has been convicted of fraud (bank, business, and tax records provided black and white proof). In other words, he lied on all his business records. In the last quarter of his presidency, our economy dropped 32.9% - the largest drop in American history. (GDP Drops at 32.9% Rate - The Worst U.S. Contraction Ever, NPR). He has been declared guilty of 34 counts of felony, and he has been adjudicated and legally labeled a sexual predator. He has instigated an insurrection against our government, and five Americans died while many, many more are now in prison - all in Trump’s feeble attempt to overthrow our government and stay in office. This is known as TREASON!
Donald Trump is not a moral person or an example of a leader for a civilized society. His narcissistic lifestyle shows he will do anything and everything to save his own butt from Putin’s wrath. Cassidy Hutchinson - who worked in the Trump White House - mentioned that “Trump is terrified of being poisoned.” (The Hill, October 5, 2023) This fact alone is proof of his submission to Vladimir Putin.
I wrote this Substack today as a warning to all Americans. Please do not vote for Donald Trump or put the will of Vladimir Putin in the U.S. White House AGAIN.
Elizabeth Graham, www.democrazy2020.org
Hey! Just wait a minute—Donald Trump and antisemitism? How ‘bout all those superJews on his side? Stephen Miller? Mr. America for Americans only? (Jews, of course, are sometimes even included in this category … especially around elections.) Laura Loomer? Bibi (corrupt attracts corrupt)? Adoph? Do tell …