Donald Trump Launches Blatantly Anti-Semitic Attack against Hillary Clinton

[ludin]

Well if it wasn't common knowledge in social media that there is a faction of Trumpkins that are anti-Semitic you would have a point. It wasn't just a Star of David in the meme but it was used on top of a background of piles of money. And even his own followers on Twitter got the connotations the meme implied by their responses. It got ugly. Here's an example of a Trumpkin's response on twitter.

)))Viktor((( on Twitter: "@realDonaldTrump https://t.co/GoOAi1DcJG"

If you want to talk insanity, it is that words in this campaign no longer have meaning.

Stars and money mean Jewish.

Wow I mean just wow.
My point stands

 

[SheWolf]

Or it could be a sheriff badge, rather then a star of david

Why did the Nazis make Jews wear sheriff badges???

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Why did the Nazis make Jews wear sheriff badges???

So they could shoot the sheriff but not the deputy

 

[polgara]

Good evening Pol,
I had to take some time off from the forum.
My heart just aches for this country and currently my choices in this election to lead it are an orange incompetent clown and a crook.

Today's retweet by Trump is just another act of poor judgement which there already exists a heaping pile of the same.

But this tweet isn't the only thing Trump is in hot water over with the backlash he received being from social media.

Evidently his campaign sent out this month fundraiser letters to politicians in Iceland, Scotland, Australia and Britain.

Campaign donations from foreign nationals are prohibited by federal election law. So why would his campaign be soliciting donations from them?
Another act of incompetence? There's a group ready to file charges against the Trump campaign for breaking election law.

Perhaps the Trump people have set up a Trump Foundation for charitable purposes? It makes as much sense as everything else we've seen so far! :2mad: Do any of the players in this game have any shred of ethics left at all? How sad for our great country that it doesn't appear to...

 

[ludin]

Especially six point stars when placed on top of piles of 100 dollar bills.

Even Trump's money-counting "short guys that wear yarmulkes every day" would agree.

John Miller can verify this.

I have seen that star used in multiple items and posters. Jumping to a conclusion based on conjecture
Is what I expect from this moronic society anymore.

Stars on money omg the outrage.

:soap

(They didn't have a table flip)

 

[SheWolf]

LMAO I can't wait to hear the denials for this, it will probably go something like this

"The six pointed star has nothing to do with the Jews who I think are phenomenal people by the way, the Jews didn't invent the star of David which is a great star, the best star nobody knows stars like me. Look I have 14 million twitter followers and they send me very interesting things, the best things. So I sent it out and it got your attention didn't it? Hillary Clinton who is an awful person, by the way, crooked Hillary is what I call her, she and Barack Obama watched on the sidelines as our jobs went overseas to China and we were plunged into depression-level unemployment. Which I hear could be as high as 50% or 60%"

How did I do?

That actually sounded like Trump... :lol:

I realize Trump is a master at staying in the headlines, but what was the purpose of this??? If he could act a little decent until the convention, he could seal the deal. He is possibly going to blow his chances with this type of behavior. I seriously starting to wonder if the GOP will try to nominate somebody else at the convention.

 

[ludin]

Perhaps the Trump people have set up a Trump Foundation for charitable purposes? It makes as much sense as everything else we've seen so far! :2mad: Do any of the players in this game have any shred of ethics left at all? How sad for our great country that it doesn't appear to...

This is the worst election I can think of. I thought McCain/Obama was bad. That pales in comparison to this disaster.

 

[SheWolf]

His tweet which was a re-tweet from one of his supporters created a firestorm on twitter which caused him to edit the meme from a Star of David to a circle.

At the very least it shows poor judgement on his part. This isn't the first time he has re-tweeted stuff he shouldn't. Not too long ago he kept re-tweeting a tweet from a white supremist.

But I think it's troubling what kind of people seem to be supporting Trump.

Don't take my word for it. Spend a few minutes over at Breitbart. That place has gone to the dogs. It's nothing but Trump humpers and a good number of their posters are Jew haters. It's in their postings in the comment sections for all to read.

Ben Shapiro an orthodox Jew use to work for Breitbart but he quit. Since Breitbart died the place has turned into a cesspool. Shapiro has a website called The Daily Wire. I love his sense of humor. One day I was at his site and he posted all the anti-Semitic garbage off of Twitter from Trump humpers over a tweet Shapiro posted about the birth announcement of his son.
It was some of the most vile garbage I have ever read on the internet.

I heard about some Greek guy over there who is horrible and leading the alt-right movement.

 

[Socrates1]

Donald Trump Launches Blatantly Anti-Semitic Attack Against Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump Launches Blatantly Anti-Semitic Attack against Hillary Clinton

“Donald Trump tweeted a blatantly anti-Semitic image Saturday morning, causing an immediate backlash online and further confirming the Republican nominee is willing to sink to depths well beyond usual, acceptable bounds of politics. The tweet, posted at roughly 8:30 a.m., featured a picture of Hillary Clinton pasted over a backdrop of $100 bills with a six-pointed star — the Jewish Star of David — next to her face.

“Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” the star read.

....This is not a dog whistle. It’s not subtle. It is anti-Semitic imagery aimed at a candidate who isn’t even Jewish………………..

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.


Outrageous, shocking and a disturbing lack of judgment to say the least……….
Unbelievably…………(fill in the blank) because I am shocked speechless

You sure are reaching for anything ! We get the fact you dislike Trump but my God you are falling off the deep , deep end ! :lamo:lamo

 

[SheWolf]

He did say he wanted them to register in a similar manner to Jews in Nazi Germany

It seemed to be a successful registration program. Trump would only want the best... the best registration program eva.

 

[Paperview]

Why did the Nazis make Jews wear sheriff badges???

weird, huh?

[h=1]Holocaust Badges[/h] The Jews of Europe were legally compelled to wear badges or distinguishing garmets (e.g., pointed hats) at least as far back as the 13th century. This practice continued throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissnace, but was largely phased out during the 17th and 18th centuries. With the coming of the French Revolution and the emancipation of western European Jews throughout the 19th century, the wearing of Jewish badges was abolished in Western Europe.

The Nazis resurrected this practice as part of their persecutions during the Holocaust. Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Main Security Office, first recommended that Jews should wear identifying badges following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9 and 10, 1938. Shortly after the invasion of Poland in September 1939, local German authorities began introducing mandatory wearing of badges. By the end of 1939, all Jews in the newly-acquired Polish territories were required to wear badges. Upon invading the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Germans again applied this requirement to newly-conquered lands. Throughout the rest of 1941 and 1942, Germany, its satellite states and western occupied territories adopted regulations stipulating that Jews wear identifying badges. Only in Denmark, where King Christian X is said to have threatened to wear the badge himself if it were imposed on his country’s Jewish population, were the Germans unable to impose such a regulation.




The German government’s policy of forcing Jews to wear identifying badges was but one of many psychological tactics aimed at isolating and dehumanizing the Jews of Europe, directly marking them as being different (i.e., inferior) to everyone else...."


Holocaust Memorial Center

 

[Socrates1]

Donald Trump Launches Blatantly Anti-Semitic Attack Against Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump Launches Blatantly Anti-Semitic Attack against Hillary Clinton

“Donald Trump tweeted a blatantly anti-Semitic image Saturday morning, causing an immediate backlash online and further confirming the Republican nominee is willing to sink to depths well beyond usual, acceptable bounds of politics. The tweet, posted at roughly 8:30 a.m., featured a picture of Hillary Clinton pasted over a backdrop of $100 bills with a six-pointed star — the Jewish Star of David — next to her face.

“Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” the star read.

....This is not a dog whistle. It’s not subtle. It is anti-Semitic imagery aimed at a candidate who isn’t even Jewish………………..

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.


Outrageous, shocking and a disturbing lack of judgment to say the least……….
Unbelievably…………(fill in the blank) because I am shocked speechless

Could that be a sheriff's badge and it is YOU who harbors blatantly anti-Semitic views ? :shock:

 

[vesper]

Stars and money mean Jewish.

Wow I mean just wow.
My point stands

You are being facetious
It was clear to his Aryan nationalist followers how they interpreted the meme.

 

[imyoda]

You sure are reaching for anything ! We get the fact you dislike Trump but my God you are falling off the deep , deep end ! :lamo:lamo

It’s not a matter of like/don’t like Trump …………….I hope to show others who the real Donald Trump is and allow others to come to the same opinion………
………..Donald Trump is unfit, unqualified, with little experience and does not have the foggiest idea of what’s going on in this world
Donald also is a serial liar, an obsessive megalomaniac and suffers from narcissistic personality disorder…….
Trump also is impulsive, has little empathy for others, vindictive and has a lacks impulse control, and obsessive need to “get even” with folks he feels have done him wrong………..

All I am doing is posting news reports from responsible and reliable news sources to make folks aware of who Mr. Trump really is…….
Nothing I post is made-up or untrue………As I said……..this not personal…….


BTW

There is so much written describing Mr Trumps character and personality I often find it difficult to choose an item to post

 

[imyoda]

Could that be a sheriff's badge and it is YOU who harbors blatantly anti-Semitic views ? :shock:

No excuse will do or change what Trump has posted...........It is another demonstration of poor judgment and lack of impulse control which alone make him unqualified to be president

 

[eohrnberger]

Another instance of throwing **** up against the wall and see if it'll stick and gain some sort of poutrage. The author / editor's assertion is just silly.

 

[MaggieD]

Donald Trump Launches Blatantly Anti-Semitic Attack Against Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump Launches Blatantly Anti-Semitic Attack against Hillary Clinton

“Donald Trump tweeted a blatantly anti-Semitic image Saturday morning, causing an immediate backlash online and further confirming the Republican nominee is willing to sink to depths well beyond usual, acceptable bounds of politics. The tweet, posted at roughly 8:30 a.m., featured a picture of Hillary Clinton pasted over a backdrop of $100 bills with a six-pointed star — the Jewish Star of David — next to her face.

“Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” the star read.

....This is not a dog whistle. It’s not subtle. It is anti-Semitic imagery aimed at a candidate who isn’t even Jewish………………..

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.


Outrageous, shocking and a disturbing lack of judgment to say the least……….
Unbelievably…………(fill in the blank) because I am shocked speechless

If you are "shocked speechless" by a hexagram, there's something wrong with you.

 

[imyoda]

If you are "shocked speechless" by a hexagram, there's something wrong with you.

You sure got that right............


Yes and that's why I call 911........

EMS took me to the local hospital.......

And brought into the Emergency Room.........

A doctor who was the hospitals speech specialist.....

Who diagnosed the problem.......

The nurse gave me some medicine......

And in about 2 hours I was OK......

The doctor returned and taught me two exercises he wanted me to do daily for a week

As he left he told me........

There's a whole lot of this going around for some damn reason........

I didn't tell him about the Trump thingie.....

And called a cab to get home.......

 

[Roadvirus]

But this tweet isn't the only thing Trump is in hot water over with the backlash he received being from social media.

Evidently his campaign sent out this month fundraiser letters to politicians in Iceland, Scotland, Australia and Britain.

Campaign donations from foreign nationals are prohibited by federal election law. So why would his campaign be soliciting donations from them?
Another act of incompetence? There's a group ready to file charges against the Trump campaign for breaking election law.

If the Clintons can do it..... Remember ChinaGate?

Then we have the "donations" to the Clinton money laundering scheme Foundation.

 

[Roadvirus]

This is the worst election I can think of. I thought McCain/Obama was bad. That pales in comparison to this disaster.

At least it hasn't been dull.

 

[calamity]

At least it hasn't been dull.

lol...no doubt. One candidate spends three hours of her 4th of July Saturday answering questions by the FBI while the other sends out antisemitic tweets. What did the USA do to deserve this?

 

[imyoda]

lol...no doubt. One candidate spends three hours of her 4th of July Saturday answering questions by the FBI while the other sends out antisemitic tweets. What did the USA do to deserve this?

Ain't we so lucky.........

 

[Roadvirus]

I heard about some Greek guy over there who is horrible and leading the alt-right movement.

If you're talking about Breitbart, then you are talking about Milo Yiannopoulos.
If so, FYI: He's Greek/British, Jewish decent and gay.

He's also been shouted down many times by BLM asshats, SJW ******s and general idiots during speaking engagements, mostly at college ones.

 

[Dr. Talon]

Can I dissent here a little? My first impression was that it wasn't chosen with deliberately anti-Semitic undertones. At first glance, it looked like a simple comic-book style dialogue box, the kind used when a point is emphasized. It took me a second to realize that if I tilted my head a little, it resembles a Star of David. I'm not Jewish, nor an anti-Semite, so it wasn't my first instinct to connect the symbols. If I hadn't read the story, I might not have noticed at all.

It seems to me that there are two possibilities here:

1. This was an honest, inadvertent mistake. His staff put together a little campaign poster, which was supposed to be simple and easy, without much thought put into it. Without realizing the possible undertones, they innocently used this star-framing which connotes something exciting. Images work on our subconscious level. Stars are pointy, jagged, inducing feelings of unease - making them a perfect framing for the message "Hillary Clinton is corrupt!". Too few points looks amateur, minimal, and possibly child-like. Too many points looks cluttered, pretentious, and drowns the intended effect in distracting flamboyancy. Shorn of the religious and ethnic meaning, that star is aesthetically balanced, and hews a nice middle-ground. One thing I noticed is the star isn't standing right-side up - which would look almost immediately like a Star of David. It's actually tilted a little, and required me to tilt my head to see the intended meaning. As I said, at first glance, it looked like an ordinary cartoon dialogue box.

I find this to be the most likely answer. Some staffer slapped this together, received criticism, said "opps!" and changed the offending image.

Back when I was a journalism major, I had to take a diversity class. We examined a few cases of infamously insensitive headlines or stories. One of them was an ESPN editor who had his career ruined after he used the phrase "a chink in the armor" in a headline, referring to an athlete who'd had a tough time during a game. The problem was, that athlete was of Asian descent. The writer swore it was an honest mistake, and even my teacher, who was a staunch cultural liberal conceded that he probably meant no harm in using the phrase.

Frankly, I find the situation to be a little absurd. There seems to be a consensus that the writer wasn't being mean-spirited, and the phrase he used is a common colloquialism which normally has no negative undertones. However, he lost his job over what was almost certainly an honest mistake. It seems that any reasonable person would clearly understand the lack of offense intended, and the ordinary nature of the situation. However, we live in unreasonable times where PC ideologues with Jacobin zeal seek to graft artificial social standards onto ordinary situations and expressions - which they then police - are taken seriously. There's a difference between normal human courtesy and decency, and PC abstractions, but that's a whole other topic.

Something similar probably happened here.

2. However, I admit that a small part of me wonders if Trump doesn't deliberately pander to white nationalists. There's little evidence that he does. The vast majority of complaints about him are quite over-heated, and in different times and other places, would likely cause no controversy at all. However, he did once post those false racial crime statistics; and he did that weird thing where he seemingly was reluctant to repudiate David Duke, despite doing so before and after the interview. Now, allegedly, this. White nationalists are generally huge fans of Trump, although not necessarily because he shares their goals and outlook. Often, when a group is on the margins for a long time, they start supporting anyone who supports any of their issues, even if they do so for different reasons.

However, as I said, part of me does wonder. White nationalism is, unfortunately, a growing movement (thanks in part to situations like the ESPN editor I discussed earlier). Trump seems to have a natural intuition, and I wonder if he is aware of this, and is perhaps taking advantage of it. However, let's assume he is deliberately pandering to racists. What does he stand to gain from it? White racism is still a small movement. Does he really need to pander for the votes of the tiny number of people who are turned on by this sort of thing?

For the record, I'm far to the right of the mainstream, yet I fear the rise of white nationalism and the balkanization and racial tensions it will inevitably create if it becomes mainstream. If I thought Trump was seriously sympathetic to them, I would be quite turned off. However, I don't get that impression. I think that most people who claim this are mostly seeing what they want to see.

 

[CanadaJohn]

Golly, it's almost as if photographers are below the stage, like they are at pretty much every ****ing political gathering.

It must be pretty crowded there below the stage, with all the other lesser beings.