Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Moderate rival nearly upsets Ilhan Omar in primary race pro-Israel groups sat out
Perhaps accordingly, pro-Israel groups such as AIPAC chose to stay out of her race. They poured millions into the campaign of Omar’s last challenger only to see the progressive Squad member win by 20 points. But their overall success in backing more moderate Democrats who defeated progressive candidates throughout the country indicates that they could’ve played a difference maker in Tuesday’s election as well.
Trump seizes on FBI search to fuel backlash
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/trump-fbi-search-stokes-backlash/index.html
The furor of the last few days also showed that any remaining hopes that Biden might have of making good on his inaugural promise to bring the country together probably fizzled as soon as FBI agents went through the gates at Mar-a-Lago.
And that's just a preview of the eruption that would test the fabric of American democracy if Trump were to be indicted in either of the Justice Department's probes.
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Trump complained U.S. generals lacked the loyalty German generals showed Hitler, book says
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/08/trump-praised-german-generals-loyalty-to-hitler.html
Former President Donald Trump complained to then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly that American generals were not as loyal to him as he believed German generals had been to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, according to a new book about Trump’s tenure in office.
“You f---ing generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump asked Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, according to an excerpt published online Monday in the New Yorker of the book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021.”
“Which generals?” Kelly replied.
“The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded, according to the excerpt of the book, which was co-authored by New York Times White House reporter Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser. Doubleday is publishing the book in September.
David Cicilline Rips Kevin McCarthy: FBI Director is Trump Appointee
https://www.newsweek.com/david-cicilline-rips-kevin-mccarthy-fbi-director-trump-appointee-1732275
"Kevin McCarthy's threatening response was completely inappropriate and reckless," Cicilline told Newsweek in a statement. "The search warrant at issue here was lawfully issued and approved by a federal judge and the search was overseen by an FBI director that was appointed by former President Trump."
"To suggest that this was some sort of illegal raid by the FBI is not only ridiculous but dangerous, especially after what happened on Jan 6th," he added. "Leader McCarthy should support the rule of law instead of peddling conspiracy theories and lies in order to curry favor with the disgraced ex-president."
Moses and Monotheism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_and_Monotheism#Summary
In Freud's retelling of the events, Moses led only his close followers into freedom (during an unstable period in Ancient Egyptian history after Akhenaten's death ca. 1350 BCE), that they subsequently killed the Egyptian Moses in rebellion, and still later joined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian who worshipped a volcano god called Yahweh.[4][11] Freud supposed that the monotheistic solar god Aten of the Egyptian Moses was fused with Yahweh, the Midianite volcano god, and that the deeds of Moses were ascribed to a Midianite priest who also came to be called Moses.[12] Moses, in other words, is a composite figure, from whose biography the uprising and murder of the original Egyptian Amarna-cult priest has been excised.[4]
Freud explains that centuries after the murder of the Egyptian Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud claimed that repressed (or censored) collective guilt stemming from the murder of Moses was passed down through the generations; leading the Jews to neurotic expressions of legalistically religious sentiment to disperse or cope with their inheritance of trauma and guilt. In many respects, the book reiterates the theogony that Freud first argued in Totem and Taboo,[13] as Freud acknowledges in the text of Moses & Monotheism on several occasions. For example, he writes:
What Sigmund Freud Knew (But Did Not Understand) About Jews
Sigmund Freud, the “father of psychology,” was thoroughly secular in his professed beliefs and practices. Throughout his writings he expresses a marked disdain, if not outright hostility, towards all religions, including Judaism. “Religion is a universal obsessional neurosis,” he once wrote, and described himself as a “godless Jew” and “one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.”
Was Freud right about anything?
https://www.livescience.com/why-freud-was-wrong.html
But Freud's theories are, on the whole, almost impossible to submit to the rigor of statistical analysis that legitimate science has to endure, said Crews. "That's because his ideas are hopelessly vague. How do you test for them? They're just phrases."
After Crusade Against Hillary Clinton Emails, GOP Silent On Trump Ripping Up Documents
https://sports.yahoo.com/crusade-against-hillary-clinton-emails-215938052.html
A constant theme of the 2016 election was the Republican belief that Hillary Clinton was a criminal because she used a private email server for government business as secretary of state.
“Lock her up!” and “Hillary for prison” chants and signs were mainstays at Donald Trump’s campaign rallies. Trump’s nickname for his Democratic opponent was “Crooked Hillary.”
Sure, there were other reasons that Republicans believed Clinton belonged in prison. But her emails were at the center of it all.
‘Lock Her Up’ vs. ‘But Her Emails!’
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/lock-her-up-vs-but-her-emails/
If Trump did this, he should absolutely be . . . well, what should he be? Certainly, he should be termed a grotesque hypocrite for arguing that Hillary should be “locked up” for a crime he committed himself. But, beyond that? Hillary was not, in fact, “locked up.” She wasn’t even prosecuted. I thought she probably should have been prosecuted, just as I think that, if there’s evidence that Trump did this, it would be reasonable to prosecute him, too. But that isn’t what has happened in this area when the person of interest is extremely powerful. So what next? Goose, meet gander.
The GOP convention's unofficial slogan: 'Lock her up'
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/hillary-clinton-republican-convention-chants/index.html
"In the past few weeks, we've seen the Justice Department refuse to prosecute her. Over the last eight years, we've seen this administration refuse to hold her accountable for her dismal record as secretary of state," Christie said. "So let's do something fun tonight. Tonight, as a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountability for her performance and character."
The chant was first heard the night before during a speech by Retired Lt. General Mike Flynn said: "We do not need a reckless president who believes she is above the law."
With Trump's theft of secret documents, the 'lock her up' crowd goes silent
Remember the "Lock 'er up" chants that Donald Trump led during his 2016 campaign for the presidency?
He and his energized followers were in a rage over reports of Hillary Clinton's private email account, which supposedly contained classified documents used in her work as secretary of state. The reports sparked an investigation by the FBI, which then led to the controversial actions of its director, James Comey, who found no evidence to charge Clinton, but just days before the election lectured her for her carelessness.
The Trump crowd, which long before had concluded that Clinton was a criminal for putting the nation's secrets in jeopardy, now demanded that she be imprisoned. Trump himself suggested she should be in jail.
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