And I so don’t want to here about Clinton slime given that Kushner’s dad hired a hooked to blackmail Kushner’s uncle to make money. Like yeah Kushner shouldn’t be judged by his dad, but he seems to be very much enamored of his father’s playbook (and ya know the whole let’s judge Hillary for all of Bill’s sins).

Absolutely. It’s sliding scales of awfulness, not “this is okay”

So the upside of a Guliani/Christie type govt is that NY/NJ Republicanism tends to lean closer to moderate Democrat than tea party Republican, so that maybe wouldn’t have been the worst. That being said, it seems like the Republicans and Trump’s kids are trying their hardest to turn Trump into a standard issue…

Whoever posted the followup tweet and kept him mostly quiet the two weeks before the election.

But they really really do not care. Like at all. Most of them don’t have a twitter account, much less care what he says on his. Hell the outrage about the stuff he says on twitter just reinforces why they voted for him in the first place. Trust me they’re all posting the same sentiment as Trump on Facebook.

I think Twitter should take away his Twitter account for the national good. Also think someone on the White House media team should talk them into setting up the POTUS account such that every tweet needs to be approved by a rational person.

I’m just so tired. And it’s so much both sides. Like yeah the right with their tribalism, but the left too in their inability to work us into intersectionalism. This cycle it feels like the only reason antisemitism ever gets attention is ‘cause Jews are overrepresented in the media and so we get to write the…

I have some hope in the military ‘cause they’ve pretty much all said they’ll defer to the law, and General Hayden in particular didn’t mince words and said:

Honestly this past year has just made me sad as a Jew in this country. I always used to think antisemitism doesn’t really happen here, but this year with all the stuff on the right and the left makes me thinking like hell I don’t even want a Jewish president. Even if one wins and gets the White House, when they don’t…

As people of my faith, I’m straight up infuriated at both of them. But their role in the campaign and White House also scares me. 

If not, why would pointing to shit like this be a good point?

Trump strikes me as a benevolent antisemitism. Like he thinks Jews are great when it comes to the stereotypical Jewish things, but they’re not really his equals. He’s much the same with women-hires them cause he thinks (pprobably so) that of they’ve survived so long in construction they must be good, but doesn’t…

It’s why a lot of Jews were scared when Lieberman was running as a vice president. Hell, there was some of it floating around Obama ‘cause of Jack Lew and Rahm Emanuel, but they weren’t as omnipresent as Ivanka and Jared.

It terrifies me that Ivanka and Jared are the ones he reportedly listens to most ‘cause I fully expect them to get thrown under the bus and scapegoated to hell and back when he doesn’t magically reopen the coal mines (or if somehow can, when that doesn’t bring back jobs ‘cause they’re all automated to the hilt) or…

Mind telling the Intercept that? Like I can’t with them right now, even with the good points they’re making, ‘cause of how loudly they’re banging the Bernie would have won drum. I figure some of this is hands in the ears guilt about how much they pushed the “Hillary is evil and wikileaks* are good people” narrative,…

I’m just pointing to stuff like this every time someone says Bernie would have won. The antisemitism was pretty flagrant this campaign season and the “elite media” is a damn dog whistle that’s been trotted out by everyone who’s feeling even a little resentful, so on what planet do you think they would have gone for…

His entire cabinet list is a who’s who of incompetence and ethics violations. Climate people are worried cause he wants a climate change denier as head of the EPA.

Queens had large pockets that went for Trump, and for many reasons that the rest of the country did. And Staten Island straight out went for Trump. The changing trends in how the city voted very much mirrored the country; in my neighborhood the polling place needed a Russian translator cause this year they turned up…

What about Kristen Gillibrand? Well respected NY senator whose cause is military sexual assault and who will be 53 in 2020. (Though another New Yorker may not fly right now...)

I’m a millennial with a decent amount of leftist/Marxist/etc friends who were posting memes about how Bernie is a Democratic plant to soothe the radical left, so uh yeah I still think Bernie was more symptomatic of issues in the left than the root cause.