I’m not sure what Ivanka Trump converting to Judaism for marriage has to do with The Donald’s views on the subject (though I don’t think he is an anti-Semite either).
Iran released the hostages because it was invaded by Iraq and needed money. They delayed the release until after Carter left office because he had supported the Shah. Reagan had nothing to do with it.
Isn’t this sort of like, “I can’t be a racist. Some of my best friends are Negroes”?
I think thump is too ignorant and uneducated to be a bonafide anti-Semite. He would have to know something about history, world religions, and even a little geography. Anyhoo, Jews tend to be in favor of education, social programs (tikkun olam), charitable giving, and other liberal stuff. That’s reason enough to hate them without knowing much more.
I keep hearing this, but which prophecy? It’s not like the US Embassy is going to be the Third Temple.
Wait, maybe if Trump really IS “the Abomination of Desolation”… :eek:
If the evangelicals get a Third Temple built, are they going to worry about whether anyone’s got a red heifer they can “borrow”?
I think most of the problem with that as a generic defense against racism is that we assume that in fact none of that person’s best friends are negroes. Instead, there is exactly one colored family at his country club, and he speaks to them once or twice a year, plus he likes to think that he’s “friends” with the lady who cleans his toilet and the guy who picks up the garbage, in that he mostly knows their names.
In the case of Trump, we know with fairly good certainty that many of the people he is actually closest to and respects most in the entire world (granted, a very short list) are Jews.
I can well believe that Trump buys fully into some of the stereotypes about Jews, but many of those are, particularly to someone like Trump, positive stereotypes. Greedy and ready to screw you over at a moment’s notice? Just the kind of person Trump wants working for him (as long as they’re only screwing over his enemies, not Trump himself) (but of course they couldn’t because he’s the best screw-over-er in the history of screwing over).
In addition, one of the few even remotely coherent policies that Trump has staked out seems to be strong support for Israel. Strong, stupid, and shortsighted, but he’s certainly not someone who believes in biblical end times, so it’s a bit hard to see why he’s be both anti-semitic and strongly pro-Israel.
Now, please stop making me defend him.
Yeah, he really wants little big-nosed men in yarmulkes counting his money.
Not just a red heifer, but a perfect red heifer! Flawless! You think they can be finicky about kosher? Also, they can be quite stiff about the notion of trying to manipulate God to your timetable.
Anyway, some years back, read about an effort to breed the perfect red heifer, using standard agricultural procedures. Militant fanatics at Texas A&M, if I recall. Turns out…again, if I recall…that red heifers were fairly rare in ancient times, but not unheard of. But nowadays, heifers that are mostly red are rare, but all have some other colors. So, if that is correct, then a perfect red heifer would have been a rare and wondrous thing, but now? A hundred times more so.
I think it’s complicated. In high powered New York real estate / finance circles, Trump is a distinct minority as a non-Jew. And his crassness and ostentatiousness made him a bit of a laughingstock among those same people. And he hated it although he didn’t understand it. And because he didn’t understand it, he fought it by making the signage bigger and more golden. Which just made it worse. By contrast, Cohen Brothers - another large NYC real estate company, “brands” its buildings with a half inch wide clear stripe with word COHEN printed on it in white on the glass entry doors of their buildings.
So the low key Jewish old money types of New York business have always looked down their noses at Trump and his big gold plated Richie Rich displays of wealth and it pisses his thin-skinned ass off. He simultaneously wants to “get back” at them and wants to be accepted by them. And he roller-coasters between the two and constantly sends mixed messages.
This is pretty convincing, IMHO.
But do you think Trump considers her to be “really Jewish”? After all, she wasn’t born Jewish. There’s certainly no rational argument that Trump is not racist. I could see him considering Jews to be a particular race and his daughter not really being Jewish even though she married a Jew.
Paywalled. Can you quote a few highlights?
It was all about appearance, and the American public saw it happen when Reagan took office. Ergo, he got credit. Trump will have fuck-all to do with Korean peace if it ever happens, but he’ll make sure he gets credit for it.
If you don’t want to pay, why not? Not a challenge, just simple curiosity. It’s really cheap-- $1 for the first month or something. Do you have a good reason?
My own reason is that, although I could even sign up without paying to be able to read that one article, I don’t want to go through a process which tends to be more complicated than opening a bank account is in most countries, just so someone can send me spam or sell my email to a third party. Oh, but you can use a fake account, you say - see “complicated pain in the ass process”.
Same here.
Still no WH apology for the McCain insult.
Same here, compounded by impatience. If I could just feed a dollar into my optical drive, ok, but if it takes longer than a minute… *pfft! [dismissive hand gesture, where I wiggle my fingers for maximum sparkliness]
i already have a lot of subscriptions to stuff i read every day. I don’t want to add another.
BTW, I contribute to the SDMB, do you? Not a challenge, just simple curiosity. It’s only $10 per year.