So David Duke — yes, that David Duke, the former KKK Grand Wizard and current Trump superfan — has a new theory about who was responsible for slipping a paragraph of Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech into Melania Trump’s RNC speech on Monday.
Well, actually, it’s a very old theory, which to folks like Duke seems to explain basically everything in the world that they don’t like: Jews did it.
In a post appearing on the neo-Nazi Internet tabloid The Daily Stormer, Duke declares that Melania’s “plagiarism” — he puts it in scare quotes — was too obvious to be anything but “intentional sabotage and treachery.” You know, the sort of thing that the evil JEWS allegedly do all the time.
Nobody could have been so stupid as to make about five or six common quotes out of Michele Obama’s Demo convention speech just a few years before and put it Melania Trump’s speech and not think it would get exposed!
This is a con job, sabotage, political character assassination plan from the get go! …
I would bet a gefilte fish that this was sabotage. I would also bet a bagel it was orchestrated by an Israel Firster who wanted to damage the American Firster.
Damn, now I want a bagel. A nice fresh toasty bagel, smothered with chive cream cheese.
What’s more, Duke alleges, the EVIL JEWS somehow possessed Melania’s voice and FORCED her to tell reporters that she wrote most of the speech herself.
[I]t seems as though the operative set up Melania, by leaking it to other Jewish media insiders who repeatedly asked her about the speech before she gave it prodding her to suggest that she came up with most of it but was helped a little by the speechwriter.
Sorry, I don’t have anything to add here. I’m still thinking about bagels.
The whole thing is patently ridiculous anyway. Let’s see, Melania and Trump are pummeled for plagiarism for copying the common language of a Michelle Obama speech written by another speechwriter. One speechwriter plagiarizes another. Who the hell cares anyway?
Of course, that’s easy to answer. A vicious corrupt lying Zio Media who are going all out to destroy Donald Trump just as they are setting out to destroy this nation with a flood of immigrants in their bid to divide-and-conquer!
Zio Fingerprints are all over this one.
Zio? Are anti-Semites today so lazy they can’t even be bothered to type out the word “Zionist?” Seriously, I expect a little more effort from a former Grand Wizard.
Speaking of ponies, I’ve finally started watching the show. It doesn’t seem to be on any of my streaming services but I’ve been catching episodes here and there on TV. So far, Twilight Sparkle and Rarity are my favorites.
Thanks to everyone here for talking it up so much I had to finally check it out. The feminist hive mind got to me!
Everything is a jewish conspiracy to David Dookie. I wonder if he can be convinced that the fact that he is talking about it is yet another conspiracy by da jooz. Maybe i can sabotage him by agreeing with him while also introducing more and more bizzare elements.
Is it just me or does Cameron look like Paul McCartney in that picture? And the guy on the far right is serving me some 80s James Spader realness!
That doesn’t really narrow it down!
And lox. Lots of lox. I love cream cheese and salmon…
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Oh gawd, I miss salt beef bagels (with enough mustard to make you sneeze)
When will the media finally tell the real story? Michelle Obama used a time-machine to plagiarize Melania’s speech!
Well the Trump campaign just had an unknown ghostwriter named Meredith McIver fall on the sword* making by my count:
4 conflicting stances on who wrote it,
2 on whether it was plagiarism
& 2 more on whether it’s ok if she did
*but not really tho, statement claims she offered to resign and was told no.
Am I the only person upset by his misuse of gefilte fish? You would bet a JAR of a gefilte fish, not A gefilte fish. There are no pre-ground fish out there that are of the species gefilte.
This whole convention is depressing the hell out of me.
I was hoping for a fight for the soul of the party, but now it’s just a bunch of sad clowns in a dilapidated bandwagon variously hopping on, falling off, getting run over and trampling bystanders.
Too awful to be funny, not awful enough to be terrifying, too stupid to take seriously, too important not to pay attention to.
Is that photo of Duke ‘shopped, or is his head really that tiny? Maybe the vacuum left by his lack of compassion and critical thinking has sucked his skull in?
I like a nice bagel (sesame, please!) when I’m having a fish plate at my favorite Jewish deli (I greatly prefer smoked whitefish, pickled herring and barbecued cod to lox). I have to drive for two hours to get there, but sooooo worth it!
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@leftwingfox
There is opportunity to make it constructive.
After the last election the R’s looked at what went wrong and that effort came to the conclusion that they cant’ win elections without minority groups and that they need to do better in that area. Naturally given the current makeup of the party (that resulted from the more reasonable elements being ejected from the party or choosing to leave) those results were pretty much ignored. Part of the reason they were ignored was because of people like the ones this post is about.
While it’s important to not assume victory, it’s hard to see how they can possibly win given the current situation. When they lose someone will want to assign blame and continuing to laugh at and snipe at such irrationally paranoid, conspiratorial, and bigoted people and reasoning of people that clearly prefer the Rs and influence them in political behavior.
Laugh. Laugh and point because between groups humor is often a weapon designed to identify mistaken reasoning.
@brony: I’m not worried about Trump winning, not really. Between structural issues, campaign mismanagement and the general distaste even republicans have for him, I’m relatively confident it’ll be a Hillary landslide in Nov.
What I’m far more concenrned about is the positive feedback cycle this election is having in empowering the Alt-right and driving the GOP into further radicalism. I fear we’ll be dealing with fascism as a mainstream political force for years to come.
Sesame seed, poppy seed…bring on the bagels. And the lox, which is just Lachs in German. Same fish, same salt, same yum. Matzos make good snacking crackers, also.
Re: Pigfucker and Boris the Perambulating Haystack — ain’t no amount of tailcoat and polish that can make THOSE wankers shine. Or Nigel Farage, either.
My money’s on Pinko Pie.
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But seriously, what is wrong with Dr Duke’s head? Is that photoshop?
@alan
I guess you know all about the Bullingdon club. A nasty club for nasty bits of work, who like setting fire to fifty pound notes in front of homeless people! Piggy CaMORON and BloJo both are ‘alumni’. You’ll find Nate Rothschild in that pic as well, not sure which one, and one of the Goldsmith lads.
@leftwingfox
That is worth being concerned about. Dealing with that radicalism will be important. I’m pointing out that laughing is part of dealing with it and that it does double duty of making one feel better and hacking away at the BS motivating the radicalism and fascism.
That is one of the parts of humor that many don’t think about much. It’s why opposing racist, sexist and other xenophobic and bigoted humor is important. It’s also why “it’s just a joke/sarcasm/satire/trolling” is an excuse. If one’s reasoning is good that can and must be turned back on them. It’s a part of how social change occurs as well as how the status quo is maintained.
I don’t mean to dismiss your concerns, but only to point out that there are ways of dealing with the situation that can solve more than one of them. It’s too awful and terrible not to be funny. Play is practice for serious things (sports and war, gambling and anticipation related to probabilistic reward, more…).
As a midwesterner, I prefer my bagels with cream cheese. Although, to be fair, I’ve never tried lox so maybe I’d like it.
I hesitate to say that Trump can’t win. Not just because I don’t want to jinx it, either.
The media said he couldn’t win all through the primaries; there was always something in the wings to take him down. And now he’s the nominee. Now they’re saying he can’t win, he doesn’t have the core demographic, he’s too much of a clown. He’s not a politician, he’s a showman.
(Nixon was an actor, too)
538 has pushed their estimation of Trump winning up from the basement to around 38%, and they placed him at almost zero odds of winning the republican nomination to begin with. The data driven people have been screwing this up from the start (and I’m very data driven).
I don’t trust any of the old prediction models. This election is terrifying.
@WWTH,
@ Virgin Mary
I think that actually is a Bullingdon Club photo, judging by the outfits.
Oh, and glad you’re about. I was wondering what you might think about Theresa May adopting Ed Milliband’s programme pretty much word for word (employees on boards, caps on executive salaries etc.).
I know Ed probably isn’t quite your sphere politically, but just find it interesting that he was considered really left wing but now the Tories have just snaffled up his policies and nobody has batted an eyelid.
Hambeast:
Now you know why they wear those pointy hoods!
Moggie: Oooo, good one!
‘Zio?’ Yeah, I love the Shin Megami Tensei series too, I kinda wish–
–oh. Oh.
@dreemr
Oh, don’t I know it. I have Celiac disease so if I want a good bagel I have to make it myself. Some of the frozen ones are decent, but only one place I know of near me makes gluten free, they keep them in the freezer so they’re not fresh, and they make them in the same area as the regular bagels, so there’s risk of cross-contamination. But at least I’ve found a good recipe for fresh homemade gf bagels. 😀
…damn, I might have to make bagels this weekend.
Anyway, I bet he isn’t even a real wizard. He wouldn’t last five minutes if he tried that shit around Ridcully.