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So if today were “Juneteenth” you’d be all in favor of slavery reparations too?

Trump is not going to lose support among this group as long as he keeps up the deportations and anti DEI stuff.

Even though I dislike his current foreign policy, which seems out of George W. Bush or John McCain's playbook, Trump is still far preferable to the alternatives precisely because he's taken a strong stand against open borders and DEI, which are much more important existential issues for America than Mideast policy.

At the end of the day, I don't really care that much about Gaza or Iran one way or the other, except insofar as a war with the latter raises my gas (and eventually food) prices. I do care about keeping Third World riffraff out of the country and putting an end to anti-white hiring practices by government, academia, etc.

The term "genocide" is overused. Genocide means a desire to completely annihilate an entire ethnic group to the last man, woman, and child if possible. Israel did not attempt to do this in Gaza - they simply bombed indiscriminantly without regard for collateral damage, but there was no effort to exterminate.

Lots of other ethnic and tribal wars where lots of civilians get killed or expelled are labelled "genocide" even though they are not. A quarter century ago, Kosovo was called a "genocide" even though the death toll of Kosovar civilians was in the thousands, not much higher than that on the Serbian side.

Shouting "genocide" is usually just cheap propaganda to start another war or some other intervention abroad.

He said that Italians disliked Jews. However they hated Germans with a passion and would do anything to screw them over. But to know... they didn’t like Jews at all.

Your father's observations contradict the talking points of the ADL and other hysterics, who like to claim that any less than worshipful attitude towards Jews is a straight path to another Auschwitz. A person might not want Jews playing golf in his country club or marrying his daughter (just as many Jews wouldn't welcome gentiles into their private clubs or be thrilled when gentiles marry their daughters), that doesn't mean that such a person wants to persecute or murder Jews, no matter what Alan Dershowitz or Jonathan Greenblatt may say.

Correction. They [isolationists] WERE part of the MAGA coalition that elected Trump. They were smart enough to glom onto the winning side. What choice did they have? Kamala?

There's a grain to truth to what you write, though not in the way that you intend.

I voted for Trump in every election since the 2016 primaries, not because I think he's an infallible demi-god, but because the alternatives (starting with Jeb Bush and ending with Kamala) would be thousands of times worse. If you equate "not thinking Trump is an infallible demi-god" with "Trump derangement syndrome", that's your prerogative. I prefer to think and speak for myself rather than having Trump do the thinking and speaking for me, which means that sometimes I'll agree with his policies and statements, sometimes I disagree. That must be part of your definition of "derangement" too.

It's not a "deep web" myth. The 1992 TV movie, Stalin, portrays his wife as Jewish. Of course, Stalin hurls anti-Semitic slurs at her. It seems every Hollywood film about Communism portrays Jews as Communism's greatest victims.

Stalin's second wife was Russian. Their daughter, Svetlana, married a Jewish man, so Stalin's grandchild was half-Jewish.

It gets tiresome to hear shrieks of "anti-Semitism" anytime somebody questions America's joined at the hip relationship with Israel. I've repeatedly pointed out to these hysterical types that I generally far prefer Israel to most of its Arab/Muslim neighbors, I simply think that Israel should be fighting its own fights, but to no avail.

All of these shrieks of "anti-Semite" and "Jew-hater" are just another form of political correctness, no different from Democrats who cry "racism" when you point out that blacks commit violent crime at sky-high rates compared to other races.

For balance, we can also have a biopic of Nelson Mandela starring Brendan Gleeson.

Maybe Israel should demand that Rome give up all the Jewish treasure they looted in their early days. Maybe they should start making Rome pay taxes on all the lands the Church appropriated through the centuries. Just a thought.

This is as bizarre and pointless as American blacks demanding slavery reparations, if not more so. Anyone can play the "my distant ancestors were victimized by your distant ancestors/predecessors" game and it's always a scam, like all victim politics.

Zinoviev, Kamenev and Radek. The Jewish big three of the Bolsheviki.

You forgot Trotsky, who was second only to Lenin in creating the Bolshevik Revolution, and who was in many ways more radical than Lenin.

one of the good guys in Europe.

The only uncompromising, MAGA-allied nationalist in a European Union nation just lost an election to a Brussels and Soros-approved Eurocrat. That leaves Europe with different shades of black running the show.

[I] Just hate people like you

Nice self-rightous rant there. I'm very happy to hear that you hate me. If I can incite hatred from subhuman vermin like you, I know I'm doing something right. Now good day to you, little rodent.

Vance is stuck with Jared Kushner due to Trump’s nepotism. Kushner and Ivanka were the most malign influences in Trump’s first term. I was really hoping they would both go away in his second, but unfortunately, we’re still straddled with the dim-witted Peewee Herman clone as a “special envoy” with Iran, Russia, the Gulf Arab states etc.

Scott Adams was ostracized for saying what he said, but the evidence keeps showing he was right.

There were even greater luminaries who were "cancelled" and ostracized just for stating the facts, e.g. the late James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA double helix structure.

This term has been such a mixed bag and I’m increasingly concerned about him and the team around him. I’ll watch speeches or debates from 2016 and he’s clearly not as sharp as he was. Time comes for all of us. I voted for him 3 times and still think he was the best option but hoping we get to the end of this term without major issues

Like you, I voted for Trump in every election since the 2016 primaries, not because I thought he was an infallible messianic figure, but because he was and remains preferable to the alternatives: Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Nimrata Randhawa, Kamala Harris.

I haven't been thrilled with many of Trump's policies and cabinet selections (to say nothing of his sometimes strange rhetoric), particularly in this term, but at least we have someone in office who doesn't outright hate white, middle or working class men as the Democrats do or blatantly stab us in the back as Bush Republicans did.

When the Boers landed the area was essentially uninhabited. WHen the Boers built the country into something prosperous, then the natives started showing up, looking for a piece of the pie (food, jobs).

The irony is that most of the black south Africans who hail from various Bantu tribes (Xhosa etc) aren't any more "native" than the Boers. The only "native" South Africans were the !Kung bushmen, a hunter-gatherer tribe that was displaced by both the herdsman Bantus who came from the northeast in Africa and later by the Boers.

So the ANC has no legitimate historical claim to being native or having priority to any of the land or resources.

Opposition to Reconstruction in the post-Civil War South was largely driven by the same concerns. One doesn’t have to agree with all of the post-bellum Southern state’s tactics to recognize that they had a point.

More like 1-D checkers.

White separatism was the only way South Africa could have remained prosperous and functional. If the blacks were a small minority, it could have possibly worked, but not with them making up 80% of the population.

Blacks are a relatively small minority (12-13%) in America, and our racial and socioeconomic situation is just barely working, particularly in urban areas where they start to become a majority or a plurality. As to a nation with a black majority and white minority, it could have order and prosperity, or it could be "democratic" by enfranchising the blacks - it can't be both.

When it’s black racism, no one in Hollywood our MSM cares.

Oh, they care alright - they're actively supportive. The ANC regime is held up as a model for all of Africa, not despite but because of its persecution of Afrikaner landowners. And what is Black Lives Matter but a "Kill Whitey" rally with somewhat improved PR?

The whole Democratic party today, particularly its "progressive" wing, is built around anti-white policies - with exceptions made, of course, for wealthy white donors from Hollywood, Wall Street, or Silicon Valley.