Here are some quotes by Fuentes:
"Liberate Ukraine from the Great Satan and from the evil empire in the world, which is the United States."
Fuentes:
After the Afghan government fell to the Taliban while American forces were withdrawing in August 2021, Fuentes posted on the Telegram messaging service:
"The Taliban is a conservative, religious force, the US is godless and liberal. The defeat of the US government in Afghanistan is unequivocally a positive development."
Fuentes wants the United States to be a White, Christian country and has specified that it is not a "Judeo-Christian" country.
In a documentary for the BBC, broadcast in 2022, Fuentes told the interviewer, Louis Theroux, that he believes it would be better if women did not have the right to vote.
"Ye criticized Trump for not doing enough to help pay the legal bills of those arrested in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots; and he also told Trump he might run for president against him and said Trump should instead be his running mate — all of which angered the former president, who attacked Ye’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, according to two dinner participants and Ye, who blasted out a 'Mar-a-Lago debrief' video to his 32.2 million Twitter followers the next day."
“Trump is really impressed with Nick Fuentes,” Ye said in the video.
"Fuentes said that he praised Trump as 'my hero' and criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his potential GOP primary challenge to Trump, but he also told him to his face at the dinner that the one-time 2016 insurgent was in danger of becoming a scripted establishment bore who could lose in 2024."
MT Greene appeared with Fuentes at a political conference, and now she's pretending she doesn't know him:
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Monotheistic religions are natural vehicles for extremism to hitch a ride with. By their very nature they are hierarchical and are always autocratic when the government is theocratic. Fuentes and Trump are two peas in a pod. They "get" each other.
Trump ain't religous or spiritual in any way shape or form. But he is an autocrat and loves power. Religion + Government = misery.
Here's the definition of cowardice and spinelessness:
"The former president, who is running for his former office, invites to his home one of the most notorious antisemites in the United States, who brings along a well-known Holocaust denier. So far, to my knowledge, the only member of Donald Trump’s cabinet to publicly condemn his former boss by name is Mike Pence. Nor, with a handful of exceptions, have top Republicans or the major organs of right-wing media, and even for them the indictment is mainly that Trump was sloppy about vetting his guest list."
And here's a reminder of Trump's history of bigotry:
"Remember when, during the 2016 campaign, he said he couldn’t expect to get a fair trial in a fraud case from a judge with Mexican heritage and Paul Ryan, who was then the speaker of the House, called it a “textbook definition of a racist comment”? Ryan endorsed him anyway."
Trump's birtherism should have disqualified him, but the Repubs were fine with it.
Also: “Globalist,” another dog-whistle word for “Jew,” became a slur used by the right.
Finally: "...the bigotries Trump has unleashed are not spent and cannot be ignored. And they won’t be defeated until they are unequivocally denounced by whatever is left of honorable conservatism."
The above quotes are taken from a column by Brett Stephens, a Conservative op-ed writer for the New York Times, and a secular Jew.
BTW, for skudrunner's elucidation, Ilhan Omar was soundly reprimanded for her remarks against Israel by the US Congress -- including Speaker Pelosi.
To the best of my knowledge, Rep. Omar never called for the death of Jews, blamed them for all the world's ills, warned about them taking over America, nor talked about the murdered Jews in the Nazi's ovens as "cookies." Nor did Omar called for the institution of a caliphate for all of America. FUENTES DID ALL OF THAT. Just substitute "Catholic" for "Islam."
I do not equate criticism of Israeli policies as anti-Semitic, as I do not equate criticism of American political policies as anti-American.
skud wants to imply that what Omar and Tlaib have said in the past is the same as what Fuentes and Ye are saying now in the present, and what the mobs chanted while marching in Charlottesville: "Jews will not replace us!"
That chant came from a group that Trump, the then POTUS, said were "very nice people."
America was racist at the time of its founding. Racism is an entrenched American cultural reality. Conservatives and tRumpublicans make up the majority of racists in America. Although there are certainly some racist liberals.
It seems like another rightwing turd has bubbled to the top of the conservative cesspool.
Trump just can't quit that. And everyone saying he's done wrong just pushes him to go even deeper.
According to what I have read his campaign is not doing well which is good for all. I do disagree with Leslie in that republicans make up the majority of racists as it seems to be evenly divided.
Not looking for agreement skud. Simply stating truth.
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