lies, distractions, chaos, distruptive diahhrea, and of course, the Ellisons and Altmans and Adlesons and Jews in the Minyans Have their Eyes on their Prize — Debt Bondage and Penury Politics
The most terrifying aspect of Trump’s video is not its content but its context – the fact that it exists at all. That a U.S. president can openly advocate for what amounts to ethnic cleansing and present it as a real estate opportunity marks the complete moral death of Western “civilization.”
Something about the words “faggot” and “retarded” and “pussy” now allowable in the white man’s party?
DOGE said it cut $881 million at the Education Department. The real savings are much less.
“It’s clear that this was not put together with a great deal of care,” one researcher said about DOGE’s misleading cost-cutting math.”
The moral rot at the heart of late-stage capitalism has found its most grotesque expression in Donald Trump’s AI-generated fever dream of a “transformed” Gaza, posted without shame on his own Truth Social platform. Here, in three minutes of digital hallucination – broadcast to his millions of followers – we witness the complete moral collapse of America’s ruling class, their pathological detachment from human suffering, and their messianic delusions of recreating the world in their own twisted image.
The video begins, without irony or shame, amid the apocalyptic ruins of Gaza – a land where American-supplied bombs have possibly killed over 500,000 people, of whom at least half were children. This real-world carnage serves merely as the establishing shot for Trump’s perverted utopia. The message is clear: mass death is simply the necessary prelude to profitable development.
What follows is a pornography of power that would make Napoleon blush. Golden Trump statues rise from blood-soaked earth. Wealthy tourists frolic where Palestinian children once played. Casino lights flash above mass graves. Each frame screams the truth about our ruling class: they do not see human beings; they see assets to be seized and territories to be branded.
This is not merely a promotional video. It is a manifesto of capitalism, where the machinery of mass killing serves as the advance team for real estate development. The transformation Trump envisions – from a living, breathing Palestinian society to a sterile playground for the global rich – represents the ultimate fantasy of capitalism: the complete erasure of indigenous populations and their replacement with profitable ventures.
Rebuilding Gaza: What it would take to win this uphill battle
Israel’s bombing transformed Gaza into a rubble-strewn disaster zone, complicating efforts to rebuild
Jews, Never ever trust a JEW.
The Israeli military has killed more than 61,700 people and wounded another 110,000, mostly women and children. Many bodies are still buried under up to 50 million tonnes of rubble.
For now, there is no clear plan for reconstruction. Last week, President Donald Trump made comments about the United States “taking over” Gaza and forcing the expulsion of its people, in what human rights groups said is ethnic cleansing.
His proposal has been roundly rejected by international leaders.
True cost of reconstruction remains unknown
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has dropped at least 75,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza. More than 90 percent of homes and 88 percent of schools have been damaged or destroyed, not to mention the bombing of roads, hospitals, farms and water treatment facilities.
Israel has already threatened to return to bombing Gaza if Hamas does not release three agreed-upon captives by Saturday.
Israel has said it will not pay to fix the damage it caused in Gaza.
“Israel has dismissed the idea of compensation”, said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli government adviser. “Unfairly, Israel is also given a say in how Gaza should be run.”
Jerry Springer, who died from cancer Thursday at age 79, didn’t invent the sort of salacious spectacle he would become infamous for as longtime host of “The Jerry Springer Show.” But, as he expertly directed the show that aired five days a week for nearly 30 years, he became the most recognizable face of the genre. With his audience gleefully cheering on the trademark fights between his guests — chanting “Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!” — the bespectacled, well-dressed Springer presented himself as a sober presence in the rowdy crowd, ostensibly pleading for calm.
The bespectacled Springer presented himself as a sober presence, ostensibly pleading for calm.
But his show caused harm: both to the people he invited on to be mocked and exposed, and to the often-marginalized groups they identified with. His show even contributed to the increasingly coarse way we talk to and about one another. Though Springer expressed some reservations about his show’s legacy, it’s not clear he ever truly appreciated just how destructive it was, especially to younger viewers soaking it all in.
Never EVER trust a fucking Holocaust Industry JEW.
Jerry Springer and World Jewish Relief
In 2017, Jerry Springer graciously attended our Annual Business Dinner to speak with Emily Maitlis about his family history, the impact of the Holocaust on his family, and how World Jewish Relief saved his life.
“A general rule I always follow: if somebody saves my life, I’ll always show up at their dinner.”
Jews writing about JEWS? What’s new, Holly-Dirt?
A New Netflix Show About Jewish Host Jerry Springer Asks None of the Right Questions
“Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action” shies away from the complexities that the man who hosted the show embodied.
I was excited to discover that Netflix was making a documentary about “The Jerry Springer Show,” the controversial talk show hosted by the late Jewish broadcaster who died from pancreatic cancer in 2023. Knowing Springer was the son of German refugees, I had long waited for something to explore both the story of the fascinating man behind the iconic show, and the show itself, which broke the mold of what TV could be and changed American culture forever.
And yet, the two-part series, “Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action,” which is currently topping the streaming charts, left me wanting. While it certainly gives you a peek behind the scenes of “The Jerry Springer Show,” it’s ultimately salacious and moralizing, and left me feeling gross for merely consuming it, much in the same way I did when watching “The Jerry Springer Show” when it aired back in the ’90s.
One of the most fascinating documentaries about Springer actually aired on the radio more than 20 years ago. In a 2004 “This American Life” episode “Leaving the Fold,” Jewish radio producer Alex Blumberg, who grew up in Cincinnati where Springer was mayor between 1977 and 1978, traces Springer’s road from one of the most promising political voices in the country to a man remembered for hosting a brawl-filled show about incest and infidelity.
As the episode details, Springer was born in Britain in a London tube station in the midst of a German bombing. His family managed to escape in the nick of time, just months before the United States closed its borders to Jews escaping Nazi horrors — 27 of Springer’s relatives were killed by the Nazis. He made it to America when he was 5, where his family settled in Queens, New York. He studied law at Northwestern University and became the mayor of Cincinnati, winning his election despite an embarrassing prostitution scandal. After that, he went on to become a successful newscaster, the most popular one in his city, and a winner of 10 local Emmys, ending his broadcasts with that “take care of yourself and each other” tagline. And then, after that vaunted career, he became and will always be known for being the king of TV sleaze, creating “The Jerry Springer Show” that he never really managed to extricate himself from to revive the political career he always still dreamed of.
It was 1973, and Donald Trump and his father, Fred, were in trouble.
The U.S. Department of Justice had just sued them both and the family’s multi-million dollar business, alleging racial bias by the real estate organization.
The company had allegedly marked rental applications from people of color with a “C” and discriminated against them — and in the words of Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio, the government “had the Trump organization nailed.”
“There were multiple Trump employees that confessed that they had been instructed to divert Black applicants for apartments, to discourage them, to tell them that apartments that had been rented when they hadn’t been,” D’Antonio says in the above excerpt from The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump, which premiered on Sept. 24 and is now available to watch online.
The advice from the regular Trump lawyers on how to handle the crisis was clear: Settle the case and move on.
Donald Trump took a different path — one that would shape his approach to life, business and, ultimately, politics.
As the embedded excerpt from The Choice 2024 examines, Trump sought out Roy Cohn, the notorious attorney to Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the “Red Scare” in the 1950s.
Cohn’s cousin, David Marcus, says in the clip, “When they met, Roy said to him, ‘You might be guilty; it doesn’t matter. Go after the Justice Department. Don’t ever admit guilt.’”
Trump was “totally taken” by Cohn’s advice to “‘fight it. You’ll kill them. Just deny everything and fight,’” adds Ken Auletta of The New Yorker.
With Cohn as his lawyer, Trump countersued the federal government for $100 million, and said, “I have never, nor has anyone in our organization ever, to the best of my knowledge, discriminated or shown bias in renting our apartments.”
According to Marcus, Cohn’s cousin, “Donald Trump was on the ropes. There was no doubt they had discriminated. There was no doubt there was wrongdoing. And yet, Roy Cohn showed him that you can turn around a situation just by ignoring the facts and going after your attacker.”
From a legal perspective, the countersuit failed, and the Trumps ultimately signed a consent decree with the government in 1975 that required them to make their properties more accessible to minorities. The agreement did not include an admission of guilt.
“Roy went on the offensive and said this is a victory; Trump was vindicated,” Marcus says. “He knew before anybody else did that the court of public opinion is often more important than a court of law.”
The Choice 2024 draws a through line from that moment to the present, showing how Cohn’s playbook for the race discrimination suit became an enduring guide for Trump in handling future crises: Deny everything, fight back, and go on the offensive to declare victory.
“If somebody attacks him, he attacks them back, he says, ten times as hard,” says Peter Baker of The New York Times. “He’s not about diplomacy. He’s not about negotiation. He is all about the fight.”
The Choice 2024 is the newest installment of FRONTLINE’s election-year series The Choice, which has brought viewers in-depth, interwoven biographies of the two major-party U.S. presidential candidates since 1988. This year’s edition investigates the lives and characters of Trump and Kamala Harris as they seek the presidency, drawing on interviews with those who know the candidates best — and revealing key moments that shaped how each would lead the United States.
Never Ever Trust a Jewish Lawyer.
Historically, the largest Jewish land owners in the world, particularly in the region that became Israel, were considered to be the Rothschild family, who purchased vast tracts of land in Palestine through the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, contributing significantly to early Jewish settlement there; most notably through the “Sursock Purchases” from a Lebanese Christian family, acquiring large areas like the Jezreel Valley and Haifa Bay.
How can the US government criticize the racist practices of Israel, when it has never really confronted its own history of genocide and wars of extermination against the Native tribes of North America?
“Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho’ they differ in shape.”
– President George Washington (1789-1797)
“The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as war.”
– Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion (1948-54 and 1955-63)
The United Nations, for the first time on May 15, 2023, officially commemorated the Palestinian Al-Nakba, or “catastrophe,” a national trauma that began in 1947-48 and continues to the present.
Member states of the General Assembly voted in November to approve a resolution recognizing the suffering of generations of Palestinians who have been under Israeli occupation since Zionist militias forcibly drove hundreds of thousands of them from their towns and villages to establish a Zionist state in Palestine. The United States voted against the resolution and boycotted the event.
The Nakba and Israel’s ongoing colonization project is a story rarely told in history books and classes. For over 75 years, Washington has used every means at its disposal to keep the Palestinian catastrophe from the American public. The question is why?
The answer has much to do with how similar the two countries are with regard to their national ideologies and histories.
How can the US government criticize the racist practices of Israel, when it has never really confronted its own history of genocide and wars of extermination against the Native tribes of North America?
While the UN has taken the long-overdue step to rebut the Israeli narrative that has denied the Nakba, the United States has yet to pass a stand-alone resolution apologizing to the Native people of the continental US for 300 years of violence, maltreatment and neglect.
No historical analogy is perfect. But, to understand why America continues to remain complicit in perpetuating the Palestinian catastrophe, it is essential to examine the parallels between the US and Israel in how they have chosen to engage with the Native peoples.
Both the United States and Israel began with conquest and with the goal of possessing and colonizing already inhabited lands—to cleanse the land of its Native inhabitants. Both histories reveal trails of deception, broken promises, asymmetrical force and indigenous populations pushed to the margins of society by the conquerors. The language of force, the rhetoric of justification, and idiom of violence used are strikingly analogous. Both, for example, have portrayed their brutal colonization projects as “settlement(s)” and the colonizers as “pioneers“ and “settlers.”
The 17th-century Puritan ideology of divine mission set in motion the pretext for an historic land grab in North America. Early in that century, Protestant clergyman, Richard Hakluyt, called for settlement in the New World, exhorting Englishmen to “lay claim to the land and take it as our own.” He argued that in order to gain a foothold, settlements and towns, rather than trading posts and forts (as the French had established) must be planted.
Like Hakluyt, Israel’s leaders have always been intent on laying claim to all of Palestine. Through war, false and unenforced “peace” agreements, illegal land grabs, forced expulsions and arbitrary laws and decrees, Israel currently rules over 78 percent of the Palestinian homeland.
The two countries have used religion to legitimize their land grabs and to ethnically cleanse the indigenous populations. The driving force behind the dispossession of Native American and Palestinians has been the myths of chosenness and exceptionalism; notions that imply supremacy.
The writing, oratory, and political speeches of the colonists, are replete with references to the colonies as the New Canaan, the “shining city upon the hill,” and a country blessed by God. Those same references are expressed today by US officials and politicians.
John Rolfe, one of the original founders of the 1607 Jamestown colony, noted that the colonists are “a peculiar people, marked and chosen by the finger of God, to possess (the land), for undoubtedly He is with us.” And in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (founded in 1628), its founder, John Winthrop, spoke of the Puritan covenant with God and that “we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” The ideas of covenant and exceptionalism were internalized by America’s founders and are manifested in national policy to the present.
Like the religious sects from Europe that colonized North America on the belief that they had reached the Promised Land and that their culture and societies were superior to the Native Americans they encountered, Israel’s European founders, its officials, politicians and many of Israel’s Jewish citizens have expressed similar convictions.
In a 2014-2015 Pew Research poll, 48 percent of Israeli Jews said Palestinians should be transferred or expelled from Israel. And in a 2018 Haaretz-Dialog poll, when asked if they believe that the Jews are a chosen people, 56 percent of Israeli Jews said “yes.” The figure rose to 79 percent among self-identified right-wing respondents.
Though the leaders of the Zionist movement were essentially secular men, they used biblical references to establish land claims. Israel’s leaders have harnessed religious ideology to state power. They have co-opted the idea of divine election of religious Jews—that God had selected and entered into a covenant with his favored children to serve as a “light unto the nations,”—to advance their “settler” colonial movement. Jewish nationalists continue to use the Book of Genesis as their deed to the land of Palestine, claiming the “right” based on prior residence thousands of years ago.
By the 19th century, disease, warfare, massacres, and US removal policies had emptied the Indian population in the North. The fate of the Southeast Indian tribes was sealed when the US Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
As a result of then-President Andrew Jackson’s ethnic cleansing policies, an estimated 100,000 Native Americans from 18 tribes were forced from their lands in the Southeast and transferred to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) on land considered undesirable for the white man. Many perished as the US army marched them westward. On one march, the Trail of Tears, some 6,000 Cherokees died as they were made to walk 1,200 miles to Indian Territory.
Palestinians have faced similar hardships as Israel executes its ethnic cleansing policies. Palestinians have known many Trail of Tears since the Nakba. The more than 750,000 Palestinians and their progeny who were made refugees by the establishment of the Jewish state, have never been allowed to return to their ancestral homeland, while Israel’s law of return, allows Jews worldwide to emigrate to Israel anytime they want. Israel continues to cover Palestinian land with illegal Jewish “settlements,” and the infrastructure to serve them.
By the 19th century, Puritan beliefs of divine covenant transformed into the notion of Manifest Destiny, a term coined by New York journalist John O’Sullivan in 1845. He wrote that nothing must interfere with the “fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.” To fulfill their goal of national expansion, white Americans attempted to physically and culturally vanish the Native people.
The “settler-pioneers” justified the theft of Indian land on the basis of the “emptiness theory” and nonuse; judgments based on their white cultural understanding of capitalizing upon land.
By the late 1800s, virtually all Native Americans were confined to reservations, surrounded by hostile “settlers” and military forts, and had become economic dependents of the US government. Although they fought bravely, Native tribes were overwhelmed by the superior firepower of the US Army. Their defeat led to the loss of millions of acres of land and confinement to virtual prisons (reservations) spread across North America.
The US Congress in 1887 passed the Dawes General Allotment Act which opened up communal tribal reservation land to white ownership. By 1934, when the Allotment Act ended, about 90 million of 138 million acres of Indian land had become white-owned.
Jewish colonists have similarly portrayed Palestine as an empty land, ripe for the picking. Israel’s leaders declared that it was the duty of heroic Jewish squatters to
redeem the “unused” land from the desert, eschewing the existence of thriving Palestinian farms and businesses. Zionist mythmakers fostered the image of Palestinian Arabs as backward, mostly primitive nomads who had no sovereignty over the land.
In his 1923 essay, “The Iron Wall,” Zionist leader, Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940), argued that “Zionism is a colonizing adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force,” and that morality and conscience could not dictate Zionist policy.
In 1937, polish-born Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, in a letter to his son, wrote: “We must expel the Arabs and take their places….And if we have to use force…to guarantee our own right to settle in those places (Negev and Transjordan)-then we have force at our disposal.”
Israel’s’ current right-wing regime, like its predecessors, is engaged in carrying out Ben-Gurion’s vision of claiming the Negev. Tel Aviv is currently demolishing the homes of Palestinian Bedouins and transferring them to further uninhabitable lands in the Negev to make way for Jewish colonial “settlements.” The Bedouins are the only group of Palestinian citizens of Israel that still hold a sizable tract of land, despite the fact that Israel has, over many years, sought to move them to more arid areas.
Like the United States, Israel has carried out a policy of containment and concentration through superior military force. The imbalance of power between the Israeli occupier and the occupied has forced Palestinians onto two small reservation-like enclaves in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, about 22 percent of their historic homeland, over which they have no real authority.
Within these ever-shrinking noncontiguous enclaves, Palestinians are subjected to military checkpoints and patrols, widespread surveillance, arbitrary arrests, incarceration without trial, targeted assassinations, home demolitions, and daily harassment and humiliation by hostile soldiers and “settlers,” as well as other forms of state-sponsored terrorism.
Palestinians who struggle against occupation, which is their right under international law, are labeled terrorists and militants, while Israeli acts of violence against them are described as reprisals or defense.
In the American quest to conquer the West, a similar language was used. When the US cavalry won a military engagement against a tribe fighting for survival, it was described as a “battle,” but when Native Americans prevailed, it was a “massacre.” In today’s parlance, Apache leader Geronimo and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce would be called terrorists.
The history of the United States and Israel raises a compelling question: What would both countries be today if their forebearers had believed in working with, learning from and sharing the land with the indigenous people? Removing and inflicting injustices upon them has reinforced in both the US and Israel, political cultures of imperialism and supremacy.
The loss of home, dispossession and exposure to political and physical violence that has shaped the lives of Native Americans and Palestinians are crimes against humanity. But in spite of the hardships, trauma and attempts to erase them, Native American and Palestinians have survived and have grown stronger. Neither group has accepted foreign domination; and their culture of resistance continues to inspire.
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In “The White Republic and The Struggle for Racial Justice,” Bob Wing contended that the U.S. state is racist to the core, and this has specific implications for our movements’ work going forward, especially the need to replace this racist state with an anti-racist state. In this installment, Gerald Horne argues that we must reckon with the dynamics of settler colonialism if we are to understand white supremacy. “The attempt to build ‘class unity’ without confronting these underlying tensions often has meant coercing oppressed nationalities—Blacks in the first place—to co-sign a kind of ‘left wing white nationalism,’ Horne writes. OrgUp has published a number of other responses to Bob Wing’s article as well; we encourage readers to add your voice, and to check out the contributions from Bill Fletcher, Jr., Erin Heaney, Peter Olney & Rand Wilson, Van Gosse, and Barry Eidlin. This discussion then wraps up with some concluding thoughts by Bob Wing.
[Trump’s defense of the ‘very fine people’ at Charlottesville white nationalist march has David Duke gushing]
Thus, when Euro-Americans vote across class lines for faux billionaires, we are instructed that the reason is that the opposition did not meet their exacting progressive standards—hence, they voted for the right. (Once when I was explaining to a prominent left-leaning scribe that the citadel of the elite, the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and the citadel of the Euro-American working and middle classes, Staten Island, are the bastions of the right wing in Gotham, he demurred seeking to point out that the latter borough voted thusly because of liberal failings: and, yes, he had never heard of John Marchi, Staten Island’s decades long proto-fascist GOP boss, re-elected repeatedly.) Of course, this miscomprehension begs the question as to why descendants of the enslaved even in the same borough and nationwide—marinated in the ultimate class struggle of slaves versus slaveholder—vote against the right wing in extraordinarily high numbers.
This misanalysis also neatly elides the instructive 1991 gubernatorial election in Louisiana when well over half of Euro-Americans across class lines voted for a Nazi and Klansman, David Duke, for governor—who would have prevailed but for the staggering blow delivered to his onrushing campaign by the mailed fist that was the Black vote.
Here we are, Jews Aaron and Katie, with the funnies, on THursday. Jews.
From Elon Musk giggling about accidentally cutting Ebola prevention, to Hakeem Jeffries smirking that the “extreme left” protests him more than the far right, to the smuggest-and-slimiest-man-of-all-time Bill Maher snarking about the US having one single Palestinian member of Congress, you’re going to need to scrub your eyes out after this episode.
But where would we be without our favorite smug boy Brian Stelter (he’s a neo-Jew, through marriage and conversion, man oh man), a pundit who represents the very essence of what CNN is. We begin the show by watching his new take on why Americans aren’t rising up to protest Donald Trump’s alleged peace talks with Russia.
“It’s pretty obvious what’s happening,” he lectures on someone else’s CNN show (sadly, he lost his own a while back). “Some of this, I fear, is about illiteracy on the part of the voters, not knowing for example about the spending that’s going to Ukraine that’s actually funding American manufacturing plants. And by the time you do learn those facts, it’s too late.”
Fuck this Jew-Black Face Fucking Shit.
Jews and Jews Backers:
A plague on all our houses:
Chris Hedges
I want to talk about the way in particularly the Western world has responded. Not just the leadership, which of course has made any kind of descent to the genocide on college campuses and other places a criminal act and hounded professors and students who have stood up, but also the press. You note about the New York Times editors instructing their staff in an internal memo to avoid the terms refugee camps, occupied territory, and ethnic cleansing. How much does this portend the kind of moral bankruptcy within Western culture?
Pankaj Mishra
I would say, look, I don’t know about Western culture. I can speak very specifically about certain very prestigious, at least formally prestigious, legacy periodicals who have manifested a degree of not only moral but a sort of intellectual bankruptcy in confronting Israel’s actions in Gaza and elsewhere, of course, in Syria and Lebanon. The omissions, the suppressions, the evasions, the sheer accumulation of mendacity, of falsehoods—I just can’t think of a more terrible indictment of the mainstream press, such as we have seen over the last few months. And I really sort of fear that these periodicals are not going to be able to recover from this. This is a lasting damage to their credibility, to their legitimacy. And I say this as a concerned writer, as a contributor to some of these periodicals. How do you recover from something like this? There is no easy way back to some kind of intellectual and moral integrity. They also seem completely helpless at this point. Clueless, I think is the word. Before Trump, before this onslaught of the far right, they actually have really no responses to this. Every time Trump says something, he says, let’s ethnically cleanse Gaza, they come up with an article saying, but there is a problem in this plan that is the presence of Hamas in Gaza. So I think we are looking at a steady normalization of the most violent and extreme kind of rhetoric. This is what the mainstream press has to offer at this moment.
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