Former KKK leader David Duke backed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)’s antisemitic statement Sunday that the U.S. Congress supports Israel because its members had been paid to do so. He tweeted on Monday:
So, let us get this straight. It is “Anti-Semitism” to point out that the most powerful political moneybags in American politics are Zionists who put another nation’s interest (israel’s) over that of America ??????
Omar is openly anti-Zionist, opposing Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. Duke regularly frames American politics — particularly its foreign policy towards Israel and the broader Middle East and North Africa — as procured by Jewish interests at the expense of America’s national interest.
Duke broadly aligns himself with the “Palestinian” national movement, framing Israel as a state born in sin that “commits ethnic cleansing” against Levantine Arabs. Despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calling on Omar to apologize for “deeply offensive” and “hurtful comments,” she made no mention of removing the Minnesota congresswoman from committee assignments.
In 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump repeatedly condemned David Duke despite attempts by CNN’s Jake Tapper to link him with the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard. Omar subsequently offered an apology for her tweets, while still describing AIPAC as “problematic.”
I never agreed with Dr. Duke's views on Israel. Where do the members of the far left on this board come down on this issue? And do you realize that you're on the same side as David Duke? Strange bedfellows indeed.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
canpakes wrote:David Duke has admitted liking pizza. As do I.
Which one of us has to give up liking pizza, and why?
So canpakes, Ilahn Omar (D), and David Duke are all in agreement on this particular issue. David Duke doesn't have to be wrong about everything, right?
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
canpakes wrote:David Duke has admitted liking pizza. As do I.
Which one of us has to give up liking pizza, and why?
So canpakes, Ilahn Omar (D), and David Duke are all in agreement on this particular issue. David Duke doesn't have to be wrong about everything, right?
It would be hard for any person to be wrong about everything. But the issue is more complex that pointing out that ‘neither likes AIPAC’. Do you agree with that, or do you only seek validation for Duke based on an assumption about what ‘all liberals’ supposedly believe because of an opinion by Omar?
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
canpakes wrote:David Duke has admitted liking pizza. As do I.
Which one of us has to give up liking pizza, and why?
So canpakes, Ilahn Omar (D), and David Duke are all in agreement on this particular issue. David Duke doesn't have to be wrong about everything, right?
This gets at something I find deeply problematic in American politics - the view that it's a My Team v. Your Team arrangement where there are two sides locked in a zero sum game. This leads to all sorts of problems.
As to the OP, Democrats have been coming out publicly condemning her statements. Perhaps that is the take away you should grab onto, Ajax. Having principles, and letting them Trump partisan politics, is a good first step in having a functioning democractic society.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
honorentheos wrote:This gets at something I find deeply problematic in American politics - the view that it's a My Team v. Your Team arrangement where there are two sides locked in a zero sum game. This leads to all sorts of problems.
As to the OP, Democrats have been coming out publicly condemning her statements. Perhaps that is the take away you should grab onto, Ajax. Having principles, and letting them Trump partisan politics, is a good first step in having a functioning democractic society.
Do you you share this attitude toward the Russia investigation?
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"
honorentheos wrote:... Having principles, and letting them Trump partisan politics, is a good first step in having a functioning democratic society.
Do you you share this attitude toward the Russia investigation?
I certainly do. It would be great to hear more Republicans in congress disowning the Trump nonsense about (Republican) Robert Mueller's sober and methodical enquiry being a 'witch-hunt', don't you think?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
canpakes wrote:David Duke has admitted liking pizza. As do I.
Which one of us has to give up liking pizza, and why?
whichever one of you equates that liking pizza with hating jewish people.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
