I spent so long building all this trust up only to have it fall down

[sovay]

I was going to make a post complaining about something in my writing life, but then I saw that the man in the White House plans to sign an executive order interpreting Judaism as a nationality and, oh, just for starters, when has defining Jews as a race of their own ever gone wrong before?

Fuck Christian Zionism. Fuck the pretext of one marginalized group's civil rights as an excuse to deny another marginalized group theirs. I don't dispute that the levels of anti-Semitism in this country are unignorably, escalatingly, lethally high. I don't dispute that they can be seen on college campuses, which take the pulse of the country as much as subway graffiti and its multiplying swastikas. But the man in the White House raised this firestorm for his own gratification; he is the last person I trust to put it down. He doesn't care about protecting American Jews. We don't vote for him. We could burn for all he cares. (He doesn't even believe we're American.) He just wants his special relationship with his fellow authoritarians in power in Israel. This is protection like a protection racket. And Armageddon for all.

[edited 2019-12-12 04:44 am (UTC)] It seems that the text of the executive order does not support the definition reported by the New York Times and therefore by me.

I believe the rest of this post remains valid.

Comments

[cynthia1960]

Absolutely. 45 is all about working with his fellow authoritarians to fuck everyone else over. And look at Modi in India denying naturalization to Muslims.

[dewline]

When I first read about that crap he was spouting at that one "not nice people at all" speech, I was thinking simultaneously "The frakkin' HELL‽‽‽‽" and "Here he goes yet again, dammit!"

You're absolutely right that he's whipping all this bad crazy up for his own sick and twisted amusement and benefit. Just like his father taught him to want. Damn him and his straight to either Leavenworth, Pelican Bay or the basement of the Hague. Whichever of the three works to hold them apart from civilized humans.

[vass]

Fuck it all.

[gwynnega]

Exactly.

[yhlee]

F***.

[conuly]

WHAT.

[conuly]

Sorry, trying to get past that first paragraph again. No, can't do it. What!?

[cmcmck]

And we now have anti Semitic socialists here.

Sound familiar?

Sigh :o(

[troisoiseaux]

I feel like the past three years have been an endless and dizzying cycle of "he can't do that! can he do that? no... he's, uh... he's doin... oh, hell, he's done it."

[oracne]

BURN IT ALL DOWN.

[kenjari]

This is making me yet again wish that descriptions of Trump and his regime as a dumpster fire were more literal and less metaphorical.

[kore]

I'm sure this has TOTES NOTHING to do with Jared Kushner's "Middle East foreign policy" (good God, who the fuck thought he would be doing diplomacy for this administration) or the criticism he just got for saying "Jews are driven by money and insufficiently loyal to Israel" and the fucking "Trump Heights" settlement idea!

Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street, a liberal Israel advocacy group, said the president’s order was a cynical effort to crack down on critics, not to defend Jews from bias. “It is particularly outrageous and absurd for President Trump to pretend to care about anti-Semitism during the same week in which he once again publicly spouted anti-Semitic tropes about Jews and money,” he said in a statement.

Fucking seriously.

[radiantfracture]

Well this is awful.