2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRNC forced to close online convention chat after anti-Semites turn it into a Jew-bashing hatefest
You can live stream the Republican National Convention on the RNCs official YouTube page, but you cant chat about it live anymore.
Why, you ask? Because the Republicans have now disabled the live chat window on the page after it got overrun by anti-Semitic Trump supporters.
As former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle gave a speech promoting inroads that Republicans have made with Jewish voters, as well as ripping the Democrats for allegedly being more hostile to Israel, Trumps alt-right followers flooded the page with anti-Semitic vitriol.
Among other things, the Trump fans wrote Press H for Hitler, JOOS, BAN JEWS, OY GEVALT, and KIKE.
Some screen caps follow below:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/rnc-forced-to-close-online-convention-chat-after-anti-semites-turn-it-into-a-jew-bashing-hatefest/
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)It's what they do.
Behind the Aegis
(53,986 posts)No, I am not surprised by this. I am sure some others are. The very idea a Jew would be attacked with anti-Semitic remarks?! Unheard of!
People are really showing their true colors.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Will try to find where I read that
Behind the Aegis
(53,986 posts)No need for sources, I have seen this before. The hatemongers are pulling out all the stops. One of the reasons Trump is so popular is because he appeals to peoples' bigotries and doesn't make them feel ashamed of it, but rather encourages them to embrace it in "Making America Great Again."
villager
(26,001 posts)Even if things turn out "right" in November, certain vicious genies won't so easily be stuffed back in bottles...
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Even more so than Yahoo comments (which, surprisingly, have been cleaned up to a large extent in the past few years, it was way worse before, but it's still bad, mind you).
nolabear
(41,991 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 18, 2016, 06:07 PM - Edit history (1)
If Trump were to win, they'd believe they'd have government on their side.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)to organize a nationwide general strike?
I'm not kidding.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)eventual Trump Presidency, a lot would depend on the make-up of Congress. If Republicans hold the House and Senate, we're totally screwed and a nationwide general strike, while an excellent idea, probably isn't going to happen. This country is much too far from its union roots for any such thing to occur, sadly.
What we'd need to do is do everything possible at a grass roots level to take over the House and Senate in 2018.
I kind of want to suggest that Hillary form what amounts to a shadow government, but that might not be such a hot idea.
Our best hope would be that if Trump were to win, that even the worst of the Republicans would quickly understand how incredibly ill suited to the job he is, and impeach him very quickly. Not that Pence would be a great President, but he'd be marginally better because he at least already understands how the government works.
gordianot
(15,243 posts)The hornets nest has been stirred.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)yardwork
(61,703 posts)glennward
(989 posts)I learned from one of my close friends who is white that she is so befuddled about the hate for black people among her family and friends who have never even met a black person and some have actually never seen a black in person.
yardwork
(61,703 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)I can't even imagine what it would be like if he won. I don't want to imagine the hellscape that would ensue.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)They'll come for all of us. No one will be spared. He's a "law and order" with supporters who are incredibly angry and stupid. What could go wrong?
There was another politician who got power legally with a small minority of the votes and small group of very passionate followers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany#Nazi_seizure_of_power
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Or at least, pro-Netanyahu.
Well, he was the last time I checked. He changes positions more frequently than a rooftop weathervane in Kansas during a storm!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Are they out for dinner? Or a joint?
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)for identification purposes--------------
Qutzupalotl
(14,327 posts)You done been deputized!
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)Honk-------------for a political revolution Bernie
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Big_K
(237 posts)6chars
(3,967 posts)http://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/GOP-embraces-Trumps-America-First-slogan-despite-Jewish-concerns-460756
article from today provides more background on this angle of the Trump campaign
Onyrleft
(344 posts)Right wingers not nice to Jews? Has there ever been any historical precedent for this?
There is also historical precedent on the left, so let's not get too comfortable.
The only example I've heard in regards to a left-wing state (if you want to define it as such) persecuting Jews (more precisely Jewish culture) would be the Soviet Union in Stalin's last years. Whether that was the case or not, anti-Semitism officially remained a crime throughout the history of the USSR, and under Stalin there was an expansion in Yiddish culture in the 1920s and 30s, the establishment of an alternative Jewish homeland in the form of Birodbidzhan, and Soviet recognition and support for the State of Israel upon its founding: https://archive.org/stream/SovietButNotRussian/Soviet%20But%20Not%20Russian#page/n154/mode/1up
6chars
(3,967 posts)yardwork
(61,703 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)Gods help us.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,327 posts)Maybe someone should tell them, but I think I'll just sit back and watch.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)What's next for the haters, attacking Disney's "Frozen"?
sarae
(3,284 posts)That tells you all you need to know about the Republican party. Biggest racist scumbags on the face of the earth.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Same old, same old.
Wraith20878
(181 posts)Shocked I tell you
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)She just got fired from her $200K job as "operations manager" for Gov. Bruce Rauner (R-IL Now Has Two-Thirds Of A Budget). During her term as governor of Hawai'i, the repukes lost seats in the legislature in every election, leading to the bizarre Senate leadership contest in which two of the three remaining repukes (out of 25!) ran against each other, only to discover that the deciding vote was out of state and couldn't be found!
That being said, kama'aina (local Hawai'i people, which I was when I took the username; now you know ) seldom if ever engaged in Jew-bashing and are likely appalled at this development. The popular Lingle parlor game was to spin her four long-ago marriages and lengthy stretch of singledom into evidence that she's gay.
lark
(23,155 posts)Why other racists, obviously.