This jerk makes my blood boil.
He also made some bollocks up about Scottish people not being allowed to pray at home. Minor in the scheme of things but still total rubbish.
Insane and despicable. The rest of the world needs to take a stand against America while they can. And I am an American.
Maybe send the USA ambassador to Germany back to the US for a spell? Time out?
My blood is boiling and my gut is leaking and my head is exploding. All body parts in chaos.
He is either completely unaware of history in that part of the world, he’s hopelessly tone-deaf, or he’s terminally stupid. Probably all three.
It’s not tone deaf, it’s his intent. It’s straight from the Trump playbook, attack! attack! attack!
Accuracy? Pft, who needs that?
They are clearly aiming for mayhem and chaos, enrage everyone, on all sides. Including those that elected them.
I admit I’m kinda scared to see where they’re going to strike next.
I think he may just be a Nazi himself.
Or option 4 he is in fact a Nazi.
So it’s O.K. for a Nazi to marry a woman of Indian (or more specifically Telugu) ancestry?
OTTOMH HP Lovecraft was described by one of his friends as a “hysterical racist”. He married a Jewish woman. During one of his many rants about the Jews, she reminded him that she was Jewish. He said that he no longer considered her as ‘belonging to those mongrels’.
Being a raging bigot does not mean you can’t also be a hypocrite.
Straight dope from the horse’s mouth:
Transcript courtesy of RealClearPolitics
ETA: I recommend reading the transcript alongside context from CNN: Vance uses half-truths to lecture a European audience well aware of the threat of authoritarian rule
~Max
Remember: no perceived grievance held by Donald Trump – no matter how contrived or how petty – ever goes unredressed:
Extra points to the German Ambassador for being Spot On.
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Aside from all the barely hidden ‘Christianity is the One True Faith and they are trying to ban it!’ sentiments, the above quote by itself is enough to make me panic
After his speech Mr. Vance went to his hotel where he met the Nazi Alice Weidel, top AfD candidate in the upcoming Bundestag elections. She is married to an Indian woman too, Sarah Bossard, they have two adopted children. I have been told the myth of the Aryan race states that its origin was in India/Iran or something. So no contradiction there. And if there was a contradiction (which there isn’t) it only shows how those superior beings are able to believe several different truths at the same time. Very enriching. Only the best of the best of the best can do that with a straight face.
Oh, I did not realize he had said that Elon Musk would only last a few months. This must be good news, right?
The Vice President was referring to Mr. Musk’s publicity stunts with the Alternative for Germany party in the runup to the German election later this month.
Such as,
~Max
The word Aryan comes from the name of the Indo-Aryan subbranch of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. Telugu is a Dravidian language. The Dravidian languages were already in India before the Indo-European speakers invaded India somewhere between 1800 B.C. and 1500 B.C. Thus a Telugu person is definitely not an Aryan person. A Telugu person would hate the Aryan people for invading their land. A Jewish person may be actually closer in ancestry to a Aryan (i.e., Indo-European) person than a Talugu person, since the origin of the Afro-Asiatic languages and the Indo-European languages was closer to each other than the Indo-European languages and the Dravidian languages.
The only people who have refused to eat food that I have prepared or even sit on a couch in my house have been South Indian Brahmins. They believe I am ritually impure. But white people are fine.
The idea that Indian people will have a cultural aversion to racial superiority theories is laughable.
While this is true, a determined hypocrite will overlook it and just choose the nation-state.
I would wager, though, that a white man with a non-white wife is less of an issue than the reverse, and that he is assuming his prominence will protect his children, who will of course marry heterosexual white people.
Responding to further above: expelling the ambassador, or at least calling him in, is a great idea.
To clarify, Alice Weidel is a white woman with a non-white wife. She is the ‘moderate’ face of the far right German party, the AfD. The AfD does not promote Nazi ideology (Nazism is illegal in Germany, in contrast to the U.S.). The AfD has been described as populist, xenophobic, nationalist, Euroskeptic, pro-Russia, etc. Two former party leaders left the AfD, denouncing it as becoming too extremist and totalitarian. Polls show the AfD is the second strongest political party going into this month’s election. They are expected to win up to a fifth of the seats in the German parliament.
Other political parties in Germany refuse to include the AfD in a governing coalition because of the parallels between the latter and Neo-Nazism. This so-called “firewall” (AP News explains) is what the Vice President was attempting to paint as “anti-democratic”.
~Max
A determined hypocrite will overlook anything, including marrying a member of gender 17 of species 707,482 of planet 23 of star 235,728,089 in the Andromeda Galaxy. They wouldn’t marry a member of gender 24 of species 707,482 of planet 23 of star 235,728,089 in the Andromeda Galaxy.though. That would be sick.