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Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 04:54 PM Jun 2018

Dinesh D'Souza Under Fire After Retweeting Posts With #BurnTheJews and #BringBackSlavery Hashtags

Source: Law & Crime

A conservative author and filmmaker recently pardoned by President Donald Trump is under fire after retweeting a Twitter post with the hashtag #burnthejews.

Dinesh D’Souza pleaded guilty to using a “straw donor” in order to make an illegal campaign contribution to a U.S. Senate race in 2012. In 2014, D’Souza entered his plea and was eventually sentenced to five years probation, eight months in a halfway house and a $30,000 fine. On May 31 of this year, President Trump issued a pardon, saying D’Souza “was treated very unfairly by our government.”

Fast forward one month. D’Souza is currently promoting a new film which compares Trump to Abraham Lincoln. In service of that self-promotion, D’Souza retweeted a Twitter post by user @RedManDan84. Twitter subsequently suspended that account, but not before multiple users made screenshots of D’Souza’s retweet:




"@DineshDSouza literally retweeted a post with #burnthejews"



Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/race-relations/dinesh-dsouza-under-fire-after-retweeting-posts-with-burnthejews-and-bringbackslavery-hashtags/



Words fail me.
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Dinesh D'Souza Under Fire After Retweeting Posts With #BurnTheJews and #BringBackSlavery Hashtags (Original Post) Julian Englis Jun 2018 OP
In other words: What most Trumpkins talk about when they don;t think anyone's looking. sandensea Jun 2018 #1
Now this is one immigrant PatSeg Jun 2018 #2
D'Souza did the nation an unintended favor. sandensea Jun 2018 #3
And he gets a pardon..................... turbinetree Jun 2018 #4
A Brahmin nazi. Mc Mike Jun 2018 #5
He is a christian JI7 Jun 2018 #9
I didn't know that, but was referring to highest social class caste rather than Hindu religion. Mc Mike Jun 2018 #10
No, he claims to be a Christian padah513 Jun 2018 #11
Boston Brahmin. Upper class snob irisblue Jun 2018 #16
If D'Douche is a Christian... Dave Starsky Jul 2018 #28
He was the president of a Christian college jberryhill Jul 2018 #29
Which is absurd, but proves nothing. Dave Starsky Jul 2018 #30
Can't even tell if this dbag is that deranged, pandering to those who are, or trolling for attention RockRaven Jun 2018 #6
Combo... JHB Jun 2018 #17
everyone should report @redmandan84 to twitter for TOS violation Takket Jun 2018 #7
This is the scum that Trump pardoned and TED CRUZ worked to get that pardon JI7 Jun 2018 #8
Have I read somewhere that a criminal can only be pardoned once? erronis Jun 2018 #12
Has he looked in the mirror and realized he had very dark skin? kimbutgar Jun 2018 #13
Naw, it's always been his 'good immigrant' selling point JHB Jun 2018 #18
Clarence Thomas needs a mirror also Demovictory9 Jul 2018 #22
Does this guy look in a mirror and see a white person? Perseus Jun 2018 #14
Some people are just fucked up. JI7 Jun 2018 #19
What a dick! Initech Jun 2018 #15
Who is surprised by this? Gothmog Jun 2018 #20
Ahhhh anti-Semitism rears its head again. Behind the Aegis Jul 2018 #21
F him. area51 Jul 2018 #23
His excuse? RhodeIslandOne Jul 2018 #24
Kick. What a clod. ck4829 Jul 2018 #25
Just doing what will please the boss. The price of an unpresidential pardon njhoneybadger Jul 2018 #26
But Bibi has embraced this administration (KKK, At Right, White Nationalist Iliyah Jul 2018 #27
the more miserable life is for Jews elsewhere DBoon Jul 2018 #31
What a goofball Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2018 #32
Goofball is far too kind of a word for someone who is this bigoted and regressive. Julian Englis Jul 2018 #33

PatSeg

(47,496 posts)
2. Now this is one immigrant
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 05:01 PM
Jun 2018

I'd have no problem deporting. What kind of vetting did he receive when he applied for citizenship?

sandensea

(21,636 posts)
3. D'Souza did the nation an unintended favor.
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 05:01 PM
Jun 2018

It's now that much harder for Republicans to deny that this is, in fact, customary thinking for them.

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
4. And he gets a pardon.....................
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 05:04 PM
Jun 2018

President Trump issued a pardon, saying D’Souza “was treated very unfairly by our government.”

I agree words also fail me...........................

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
10. I didn't know that, but was referring to highest social class caste rather than Hindu religion.
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 05:44 PM
Jun 2018

Why I didn't say 'hindu nazi'.

Of course, the other nazis didn't make distinctions when eliminating people, based on who converted to the 'right' religion.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
28. If D'Douche is a Christian...
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 08:34 AM
Jul 2018

Then I'm the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

He can call himself whatever he wants, but it means nothing.

Unlike Evangelical assholes, I've actually read the Bible at least a couple of times. I don't recall in the Gospels where Jesus said "Burn the Jews". Maybe it was in The Sermon on the Mount, and I missed it.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
30. Which is absurd, but proves nothing.
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 11:27 AM
Jul 2018

As you'll recall, he had to quit after only two years because he showed up at a conference with "his new fiancee" while still married to his wife.

Blatant hypocrite religious types abound, and always have. Even Jesus had no patience for them.

RockRaven

(14,972 posts)
6. Can't even tell if this dbag is that deranged, pandering to those who are, or trolling for attention
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 05:12 PM
Jun 2018

or some combo.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
17. Combo...
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 08:02 PM
Jun 2018

....and no "some" to it. Those are three separate channels, and all of them are pushed up to the max.

Takket

(21,575 posts)
7. everyone should report @redmandan84 to twitter for TOS violation
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 05:16 PM
Jun 2018

oh................. and upon further view... it has already been suspended.

erronis

(15,294 posts)
12. Have I read somewhere that a criminal can only be pardoned once?
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 06:01 PM
Jun 2018

Or are these pay-as-you-go type things?

I think that once pardoned the perp can't refuse to testify on its misdeeds. But does this extend to all future misdeeds?

Once the dump pardons itself, is he covered in a cloak (cloaca) of immunity - free to kill anybody he wants?

Where are our Founders when we want them to answer these questions? A few scraps of paper that need to be interpreted by a partisan congress or a politicized SCOTUS?

kimbutgar

(21,157 posts)
13. Has he looked in the mirror and realized he had very dark skin?
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 06:36 PM
Jun 2018

And if things continue and they start attacking people with dark skin his ass will be kicked someday.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
18. Naw, it's always been his 'good immigrant' selling point
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 08:07 PM
Jun 2018

He knows he'll be the last one strung up, because he's thoe one they point to as proof they're not racist.

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
14. Does this guy look in a mirror and see a white person?
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 07:05 PM
Jun 2018

I am just wondering...he is not white, I would like to see him at a bar in the south...it really doesn't make sense.

Lets make it clear, that even if he was white, that vitriol has no place anywhere, it is disgusting, but I am always baffled by people like him who for some unknown reason become republican when republicans only want them for a while, just like a tool, when its convenient, then he will be shoved to the side as republicans have in the past, repeatedly, with non-whites who supported them, like a pair of shoes, and the moment they look old, in the garbage they go.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
21. Ahhhh anti-Semitism rears its head again.
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 12:51 AM
Jul 2018

I wonder how many times it will have to do this before people, other than Jews and a few people who love us) will actually start to get concerned.

DBoon

(22,366 posts)
31. the more miserable life is for Jews elsewhere
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 12:44 PM
Jul 2018

the more Bib can push his own version of nationalism in his home country

Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)
33. Goofball is far too kind of a word for someone who is this bigoted and regressive.
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 03:07 PM
Jul 2018

Unless you equate goofball with a Nazi zealot.

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