What are Republicans doing to Unify the country?

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This is really disturbing. How deep does this go? The Federalist Society, a reactionary group funded by anti-democratic billionaires has such an influence on our society. It helps network and advance careers of aspiring lawyers and judges. These guys aren’t even hiding their contempt for our country and system of government. Leonard Leo uses this flag too?

The Christian Nationalist Danger Behind the ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag

Justice Samuel Alito appears fond of insurrectionist symbols, and he isn’t alone.

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Yeah they won't be happy until we live fully under a full and true plutocracy. Getting the biggest piece of **** billionaire elected president was a crucial step to brainwashing the masses to allow them to continue to step all over people. The plan is well on track, too.

 

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Justice Alito’s Beach Home Neighbors Sound Off on That Jan. 6 Flag

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyLong Beach Island, New Jersey—About 45 minutes past the Garden State Parkway’s Judy Blume Service Area, itself precisely 24 miles southeast of the Jon Bon Jovi Service Area, the original Ron Jon Surf Shop appears, like a Jersey Shore...

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““We all have our biases, but the good judge fights against them,” Indiana University law professor Charles Geyh told the Times. “When a judge celebrates his predispositions by hoisting them on a flag, that’s deeply disturbing.”

The Appeal to Heaven flag is also a symbol co-opted of late by Christian nationalists seeking to create a Bible-based federal government. Because Alito authored the majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, a massive win for conservative Christians, his apparent decision to hoist the Appeal to Heaven flag stunned a large portion of the American populace—especially since the news came just days after photos emerged of an upside-down American flag flying outside of Alito’s primary residence in Virginia, another nod to Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement. (Alito, who has not commented publicly on the flag seen at his seaside vacation home, blamed the upside-down flag on his wife.)

Legal experts were highly disturbed by the brazen partisanship suggested by a supposedly impartial jurist seated on the highest court in the land, as were several of Alito’s neighbors who spoke to The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity so as not to create enmity with a person who is among the most powerful in the entire nation.

 

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That would be the side of Richard Spencer, endorser of Biden. The entire Charlottesville rally where that chant happened was organized by the same group who organized Occupy Wall Street. The sentiment carries through to today where the most Anti-Semitic students and environments are in the left-most college campuses. Illhan Omar has been censured for her Anti-Semitism.

It is hilarious see you try to use the brush against Trump whose daughter is married into a Jewish family.

The tiki-torch Anti-Semitic slimeballs are your peeps, not Trump's.

That’s ridiculous, and absurd. Hard to believe you weren’t laughing when you posted something that silly. Ask each one of those torch carrying individuals who they voted for. It wasn’t Biden. If they voted at all, they voted for Trump.

A frank conversation with a white nationalist - Reveal

A white nationalist welcomes President-elect Donald Trump as a politician fighting for white identity-based politics. He expects to move his organizat

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No, White Supremacist Richard Spencer Didn’t Seriously Endorse Joe Biden

It’s time to stop falling for transparent trolling by neo-Nazis. Here’s how to know when they’re misleading you.

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“Alt-right internet personality Richard Spencer is probably most famous for his 2016 victory rally at which he and his supporters offered Hitler salutes and declared “Heil Trump!” A year later, he helped organize and personally addressed the infamous “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where marchers chanted “Jews will not replace us.” Given this very public history, you would think that no one would have taken him seriously when he tweeted this yesterday:

And yet, countless credulous accounts—many on the pro-Trump right, but also some on the anti-Biden left—uncritically shared Spencer’s posting as though it was on the level.

That a disingenuous racist like Spencer would pretend to support Biden in order to get attention and undercut the former vice president is not surprising. What is surprising is how many people still fall for Spencer’s transparent trolling.

In reality, Spencer and other white supremacists have a long history of purposely adopting their opponents’ causes and pretending to back them in order to undermine them. That’s exactly what Spencer did in 2018 by pretending to support “Zionism,” when he actually has a long history of hate towards both Israel and Jews, and claims that the Jewish state and its supporters control America.“

 

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No, White Supremacist Richard Spencer Didn’t Seriously Endorse Joe Biden

It’s time to stop falling for transparent trolling by neo-Nazis. Here’s how to know when they’re misleading you.

www.tabletmag.com

“Alt-right internet personality Richard Spencer is probably most famous for his 2016 victory rally at which he and his supporters offered Hitler salutes and declared “Heil Trump!” A year later, he helped organize and personally addressed the infamous “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where marchers chanted “Jews will not replace us.” Given this very public history, you would think that no one would have taken him seriously when he tweeted this yesterday:

And yet, countless credulous accounts—many on the pro-Trump right, but also some on the anti-Biden left—uncritically shared Spencer’s posting as though it was on the level.

That a disingenuous racist like Spencer would pretend to support Biden in order to get attention and undercut the former vice president is not surprising. What is surprising is how many people still fall for Spencer’s transparent trolling.

In reality, Spencer and other white supremacists have a long history of purposely adopting their opponents’ causes and pretending to back them in order to undermine them. That’s exactly what Spencer did in 2018 by pretending to support “Zionism,” when he actually has a long history of hate towards both Israel and Jews, and claims that the Jewish state and its supporters control America.“

Okay, so you found someone on the internet who was willing to flat out lie to tell you what you wanted to hear. Richard Spencer is a creature of the left in his own words. He wasn't trolling by saying he was endorsing Biden. Richard Spencer wants to see the leftist platform advanced. Richard Spencer is a socialist. You can read lies from someone telling you what to think, or you can be not a sheep. From 2017, way before Biden was running or there was even an election happening, here is where Richard Spencer stands on political issues in his own words:

• @3:25 – Support for environmentalism and anger at climate change denial
• @3:45 – Wants massive expansion of public transportation
• @4:25 – Wants total student loan forgiveness
• @5:05 – Wants Medicare-4-All

Richard Spencer is a leftist and has always been a leftist. For a short time in 2016 and 2017 he was masquerading as being on the political right, but he wasn't right. He was "alt-right", as in a leftist pretending to be on the right. The natural home for all race obsessed people like Richard Spencer, Beverly D'Angelo, the NAACP, La Raza, Ibram X Kendi, BLM, etc., is the political left. It is not a fluke that super-left college campuses are coddling students who want to see Jews eliminated "from the river to the sea". There is a large chuck of the political left that has a serious affinity for Antisemitism, and racism writ large, if we're being honest. That included Biden supporter Richard Spencer, who in 2020 voted for Biden and against Trump.

 

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The tiki-torch Anti-Semitic slimeballs are your peeps, not Trump's.

As I see it, one presidential candidate, and the 45th president, gave permission for Americans to hate “the other”. It was Trump, not Biden who, in his rhetoric, in his behavior at his rallies, encouraged “hatred of the other”. Did not even have to be anti-Semitic himself. He was the candidate where anger at the status quo resided. Both in 2016 and 2020. Bigots of all stripes will be, and were, supportive of the candidate who encouraged anger at the system, anger at the status quo, and like many effective demagogues, acted the part himself. For this reason, I find it not at all believable to think the Charlottesville Tiki Torch brigade would vote for Biden.

Okay, so you found someone on the internet who was willing to flat out lie to tell you what you wanted to hear

Well, so did you. We all do, myself included. Look for confirmation of our positions, that is. Knowing this, or believing this, is one reason I have felt understanding any possible “nature” differences between liberals and conservatives, in the “nature vs.nurture” debate might help all of us understand, that if some of our differences are conditioned by differences in our brains, that would actually help us be kinder in our dialog, which let’s face it, is poisonous in tone, both on social media, and within the culture wars. To the point where each side sees the other as an existential threat.

We all respond to what we want to hear. I believe the Tiki guys were hearing that “hatred of the other” was fine and dandy in the America Donald Trump was promoting. Making it very hard for me to believe they gravitated naturally to Biden, rather than it’s only natural for them to vote Trump.

 

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I believe the Tiki guys were hearing that “hatred of the other” was fine and dandy in the America Donald Trump was promoting. Making it very hard for me to believe they gravitated naturally to Biden, rather than it’s only natural for them to vote Trump.

Then you, my friend, have blinders on. The news is full of stories right now about lefties on college campuses rhetorically, and occasionally physically, attacking Jews. It wasn’t the American political right pushing to withhold weapons shipments to Israel. That was Biden. There are currently two members of Congress who have been censured for their Antisemitism, both are democrats.

Trump has vowed to “immediately deport” any international students participating in the aforementioned anti-Israel protests on college campuses. Trump has been saying Israel has a job to do and they need to do it. Trump’s favorite daughter is proudly married into a Jewish family and Trump has been the most pro-Israel President in our nation’s history.

Without question, the center of Anti-Semitic Zeitgeist in 2024 America is firmly left of center. Most of it is even to the left of Biden. They are more likely to want to see Trump put up against a wall and shot than to see him elected to a second term.

 

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That would be the side of Richard Spencer, endorser of Biden. The entire Charlottesville rally where that chant happened was organized by the same group who organized Occupy Wall Street. The sentiment carries through to today where the most Anti-Semitic students and environments are in the left-most college campuses. Illhan Omar has been censured for her Anti-Semitism.

It is hilarious see you try to use the brush against Trump whose daughter is married into a Jewish family.

The tiki-torch Anti-Semitic slimeballs are your peeps, not Trump's.

You mean the daughter who wants nothing to do with him?

 

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The news is full of stories right now about lefties on college campuses rhetorically, and occasionally physically, attacking Jews.

I’m also running into stories of quite a few college teachers being terminated over pro Palestinian remarks in class…usually those without tenure..

https://www.chronicle.com/article/some-professors-face-punishments-as-colleges-crack-down-on-gaza-protests

Professors being fired from jobs for pro-Palestine speech, solidarity

Professors of fields such as politics, sociology, literature, health, regional studies, Middle East and African studies, and more across the US have been either suspended or fired for pro-Palestine speech.

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University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza

As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro-Palestine faculty members without tenure.

theintercept.com

Amid US campus movement, purge of pro-Palestine professors intensifies

As pro-Palestine demos sweep US university campuses, university authorities at the behest of Israeli lobbies have intensified the purge of pro-Palestine professors.

www.presstv.ir

 

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“Whenever my wife feels insulted by neighbors, the natural response isn’t to kick that neighbor’s ***. It’s to turn our flag upside down. Oh and at our other house, fly the flag that’s been used for years by Christian nationalists. Oh and skip out on Biden’s inauguration….

Please believe me that I like totally wasn’t pro Trump.”

 

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I’m also running into stories of quite a few college teachers being terminated over pro Palestinian remarks in class…usually those without tenure..

Yes they are, and that is good to see. I guarantee you that none of those professors being terminated for their support of those killing Jews are Trump supporters. All of them, every single one, is a lefty.

None of these lefty pro-Palestinian professors were getting released before Republican Elise Stefanik embarrassed the Presidents of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn, with two of the three losing their jobs over it. Now some sanity has been restored. It is heartening to see the core of the political left hasn't lost their minds, and are willing to enforce a line on lefty behavior that is beyond what is acceptable.

 

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Then you, my friend, have blinders on. The news is full of stories right now about lefties on college campuses rhetorically, and occasionally physically, attacking Jews. It wasn’t the American political right pushing to withhold weapons shipments to Israel. That was Biden. There are currently two members of Congress who have been censured for their Antisemitism, both are democrats.

This is true. I believe it’s largely due to present circumstances in Gaza, broadcast everywhere. I think its wrong that American Jews are being attacked over the Israeli governments response in Gaza to the 10/7 attack by Hamas. There will never be an excuse for it in my world. I don’t know how much is a function of college youth not even knowing what the Holocaust was, but there is no excuse good enough. Ever.

But, I certainly understand why Israeli’s response, at this distance from 10/7, and any sympathetic response from much of the world to 10/7, would recede and what has dominated the news since, thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians killed, would ascend in importance, and would certainly, and understandably, generate left leaning protest against Israel’s war on Gaza. It’s just not difficult to understand such a response.

Historically, American Jews have been at the forefront of left leaning protest movements in the United States. And, also historically, it is the right, and bigots like Henry Ford, hardly a leftist, who have led anti-Semitic sentiment in the United States.

So, where I must differ with your linkage of leftist and anti-Semitism is that college campuses, historically, have not been the epicenter of anti-Semitism in the United States. I agree with those criticizing the Israeli government, and I’m not in the least surprised that the Left would lead such protest. Or that it would include Jewish students protesting Netanyahu as well as non Jews. It’s an expected stance from the Left, and I do support those protests.

Attacks on American Jews is as wrong as it gets. But the protests themselves are understandable, to some of us anyway. Historically, though, anti-Semitism in the United States has not been the calling card of Leftists or liberals. And I do not believe the guys chanting “Jews will not replace us” were youthful college liberals. And I do believe it was Trump who granted approval of hate groups on the Right. Blessed them, so to speak. He was, and remains, the candidate encouraging bigotry, toward certain “others”, including fellow Americans by the sounds of his speeches at recent rallies.

 

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So, where I must differ with your linkage of leftist and anti-Semitism is that college campuses, historically, have not been the epicenter of anti-Semitism in the United States.

Maybe not in your day, but college campuses over the past decade have been hotbeds for anti-Semitism. Here is an article from about 10 years ago from UC Davis describing the treatment of Jewish students by other UC Davis students in the meeting where the UC Davis student government passed an anti-Israel divestment resolution, and subsequently the Jewish frat was spray-painted with swastikas.

After Anti-Semitic Vandalism, ZOA and 22 Other Groups Urge UC Davis Investigation - Zionist Organization of America

The ZOA and 22 other organizations today wrote to Linda P.B. Katehi, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, urging an investigation into the conduct of the hate group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and one of its members, Azka Fayyaz – who also is a student senator – and...

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At UC Berkeley, probably one of the leftmost college campuses in the country, they had effectively created Jew-free zones. One night a year ago, some students dumped shellfish on a Jewish fraternity on the evening before Shabbat, a Jewish holiday. This was *BEFORE* the October 7 attack and subsequent events. Your claims that this has been motivated by Israel's response is balderdash. The Anti-Semites were already there on the campuses. The claims of genocide in Gaza is just the new thing they're saying.

https://jweekly.com/2023/08/28/shellfish-dumped-on-uc-berkeleys-jewish-frat-house-on-first-shabbat-of-semester/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/does-uc-berkeley-really-have-jew-free-zones/

I can see how intense the desire you have to lump these awful people in with Trump supporters, but the reality is that the center of Anti-Semitic Zeitgeist in 2024 America is firmly left of center. Whatever things may or may not have been historically, the stance of things of here, now, today aren't debatable. They are Biden voters. Douglas Murry nailed it on Bill Maher's show a couple weeks ago when he said Biden with regards to Israel was motivated by seeking a two state solution, with those two states being Minnesota and Wisconsin which he needs to win to hold on to power.