Posted on 07/13/2023 2:32:27 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Former US President Donald Trump was under fire on Thursday over a campaign fundraising email depicting the Jewish financier and philanthropist George Soros as a puppet master controlling the Biden Administration from the shadows.
A crude graphic dispatched to supporters from Trump’s campaign to return to the White House in 2024 showed the 92-year-old Soros with an outstretched hand dangling Biden from a set of puppet strings. An accompanying text had Biden saying, “I thought when I got to be President, I’d get to give orders. But, I take more orders than I ever did.” A large Chinese flag is placed in the background behind Soros.
While the graphic contains no obviously Jewish images or symbols, Jewish groups and several commentators pointed out that the display is essentially a “dog whistle” — invoking age-old antisemitic tropes about shadowy Jewish control of finance and media through the person of one of the best-known Jewish financiers in the world. Soros, who survived the Nazi Holocaust as a child, has increasingly become a central hate figure for nationalist conservatives around the world, particularly in his native Hungary, where the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long promoted the anti-Soros campaign now being emulated by Trump.
In a tweet responding to the Soros image, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described it as not “just disturbing, it’s indisputably dangerous and reprehensible.”
Let’s be clear, these are antisemitic tropes about Jewish power and are a gateway into hardcore antisemitic conspiracy theories,” the ADL declared, noting as well that the Trump campaign continues to send fundraising emails “that feature language and imagery of George Soros controlling puppet strings and secret globalist cabals.”
Others commenting on the image included Alex Hearn — a British journalist and member of the group Labour Against Antisemitism (LAS), which has pushed back against antisemitism on the far left of the British Labour Party. Hearn argued that while criticism of Soros is not antisemitic per se, Trump’s graphic utilized “an idea popularized by the Nazis…’a secret shadow president behind the curtain pulling the strings’.” In a further tweet that showed the image of Soros alongside antisemitic caricatures from the previous century, Hearn commented: “It is the fantasy of the evil Jew secretly running the world by undermining countries. That is why it looks so similar to Nazi propaganda.”
Attacks on Soros and the alleged impact of his financial heft have been a regular feature of Trump’s campaign. A fundraising email sent in February decried Soros as a “left-wing billionaire” who “thinks he can single-handedly BUY Joe Biden’s second term.” The following month, an email from Trump appealed to “patriots“, claiming: “I’m now being ATTACKED for exposing George Soros and the millions and millions of dollars he’s spent to BUY the White House. But let me be perfectly clear: I WILL NOT BE SILENCED for calling out the billionaire puppeteer who has wreaked havoc on our borders, our justice system and our nation.”
While Trump’s term in office was marked by an unabashedly pro-Israel policy that included moving the US Embassy in the Jewish state from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, his association with far right figures and willingness to adopt far right memes has alarmed many in the Jewish community. Last November, Jewish groups including the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) slammed Trump for hosting the antisemitic hip-hop mogul Kanye West and his sidekick Nick Fuentes, an outspoken Holocaust denier, at his Mar a Lago resort in Florida.
In 2019 — three years before his meeting with Trump — Fuentes used the “analogy” of “baked cookies” to dispute the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
“How long would it take you to make 6 million? Hmm, I don’t know, it certainly wouldn’t be five years, right? The math doesn’t seem to add up…. I don’t think you’d result in 6 million, maybe 200,000-300,000 cookies,” he said.
“In a tweet responding to the Soros image, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described it as not “just disturbing, it’s indisputably dangerous and reprehensible.””
That settles it for me. If the ADL was offended by the cartoon of Soros, it must have been O.K.
Decriminalization of currently illegal drugs is a controversial but mainstream position.
Almost 40 years ago I was given an employment lie-detector test by a famous investment bank, and I was asked “Do you use any illegal drug except for marijuana?” I answered honestly that I used nothing including marijuana, and passed the test. Afterwards I reflected that some of the partners of that famous bank were probably recreational pot smokers.
And by the way, can you cite the language in the US constitution that gives the federal government the power to prohibit drugs?
I can’t find that language, and since it took a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, I think it doesn’t exist.
I think that like abortion, prohibiting or allowing drugs is a matter for the states to decide. I think that people are wise not to use them, but shouldn’t be jailed for being unwise.
Yep
You go Trump. Soros is a fake Jew.
Sure. Most people are fine with looting the public Treasury too. Enjoy your national Portland, Oregon society. An entire nation that looks like San Francisco. It’s coming. Needles and human waste on your sidewalk and stairwells from coast to coast.
Correct. The ADL was shanghaied by commies years ago and certainly does not speak for most Jews, especially observant ones. And the Washington Report article by an obviously self-hating Jew is pure garbage published by a muzzlime-steeped rag.
Soros is one of the most evil people to have ever been born. He informed on fellow Jews during WWII, ratting out their hiding spots to the Nazis so that he could materially benefit from their then confiscated possessions. Not satisfied with this heinous crime, Soros has continued throughout his miserable and overly long life to disrupt various economic systems, thereby greatly enriching himself. Thus bankrolled, he has contributed to anti-Jewish, anti-American, and anti-law organizations. He has contributed to bought-off district attorneys' campaigns, ensuring their laxity of prosecuting criminals. He is like a one-man world crime and evil wave. Unfortunately, he has sons who will continue his horrible work after him. Interestingly, his heir apparent, Alexander, has been a very frequent WH visitor. Obviously the Big Guy is collecting his share of Soros payoffs.
That’s right.
My thoughts exactly.
Public intoxication, whether by alcohol or drugs, is a crime. If crazy leftists in San Francisco and Portland Oregon refuse to enforce their laws, that doesn’t imply that the remedy is to arrest people who are using drugs in their own homes. One thing has very little to do with the other.
Soros was hardly even acknowledged before, by liberal press, much less that he’s a Jew.
So they bellyache now suddenly about this Jew, but not the other Jews on the correct side who get picked on.
Typical.
Their audience is the pack of NPC’s who have voted democratic the last decade. Braindead.
It isn’t! Gyorgy Schwartz doesn’t deserve any respect!
When questioned by reporters whether fascism would come to America, Huey Long allegedly replied: “Of course fascism will come to America, but here we’ll call it antifascism.”
Thanks for the quote. As a student of history, I’ve come to believe that in today’s world, fascism and communism are one and the same, and since Trump rode down that escalator in 2015, they have been very active in trying to destroy him, and this country.
“since Trump rode down that escalator”
This has happened before. Back in 2001 the democrats were caught with their pants down. Janet Reno’s wall and clinton failed to kill bin laden. All these things were uncovered and the democrats sensed their vulnerability. Remember when they were singing god bless america on the capital steps. That must have tasted like a bag full of crap to them. They became very aggressive after that and actively sought to destroy the bush presidency. Then obama came along... he is the democrats aggression. They have gone full fascist mode now and anyone who stands in their way will be destroyed. That is their current mode of operation.
They are ants infected by a brain fungus that drives them to madness with the singular goal of spreading that infection. It’s scary times we live in.
You ain't kidding. I'm lucky in that I grew up in the 50's and 60's. I'm on the tail-end of my life, and I'm glad that neither of my sons wanted to have kids, because I'd have been a basket case all these years worrying about grandchildren, and what kind of lives they would have in this day and age. I feel bad for all the hard-working, America-loving, God-fearing people today, and what they will have to contend with as the years go by.
Yes, you can find Nazi propaganda using the image of puppets. A rather common concept.
Doesn't mean Disney is a Nazi company
Nor are you a Nazi if you drive a VW Beetle.
BTW, if anyone wants the Pinnochio puppet, it's on EBay for $8,499, unless it's sold.
Soros was a fricken actual Nazi collaborator who wholly rejects Judaism and hates Israel and the Jewish people.
This is such predictable garbage.
File this under “leftists accusing you of doing what they actually do” and move on.
So tired of apikorosim like Soros playing the Jew card.
The only time they claim Judaism is when someone makes a legit criticism.
No, Soros, you sold your birthright for a bowl of lentil soup.
Not “Jews” but 10,000% true of apikorosim like Soros.
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