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#138825
This is a Time Magazine article from September 14, 2014:
On Tuesday, Vice President Joseph Biden referred to those who make bad loans to members of the military, to take advantage of them while they’re overseas, as “Shylocks.”...

"...Biden apologized for his language ...after the Anti- Defamation League declared it to be an anti-Semitic slur.....
But the vice president’s apology has confused some — perhaps because the term was, not too long ago, considered by many to be appropriate for public usage..."
#138827
Amazing! silly has actually pointed out that Trump had no excuse whatsoever for using this anti-Semitic language because it was an issue for Biden immediately before Trump ran for president the first time and it was clear that the usage was declared publicly to be an anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defamation League.

I commend silly for providing the evidence against Trump's false claim that he didn't know it was an anti-Semitic slur... :O

Now let's wait for Trump to apologize for his anti-Semitic language the way Biden had the good grace to do. What do you think, silly? Will Trump be as big a man as Biden?
#138832
Trump's claims that he wasn’t aware that "Shylock" is an antisemitic slur. Now I believe that claim as much as time when he claimed that he didn't know who David Duke was.

Trump is a New Yorker...and you are going to tell me that he doesn't know any Jewish bankers????
#138835
Now it seems that Elkin is engaging in slurs about Jewish bankers.

Mr Forbes made two crucial points:

1) This was a Shakespeare reference and thus flew over the heads of 8th grade dropouts such as Elkin.

2) Venice played a significant role in the development of modern banking, which of course included loans.
#138847
johnny, if you quote an anti-Semitic Shakespeare passage, it's still anti-Semitic, dummy. Just because Shakespeare wrote it hundreds of years ago doesn't make it okay to use when speaking about people today.

And secondly, it is utterly irrelevant that Venice played a significant role in the development of modern banking. What the fuck does that have to do with getting Trump off the hook for using anti-Semitic language, dimwit?

Neither of your silly diversions is in any way "crucial" to the point of this thread. Your childish self-importance is really incredible.
#138849
“I’m stopping wars. I’m stopping wars. And I hate to see people killed,” Trump claimed at the White House dinner on Monday.
The president did confirm plans to send more weapons to Ukraine. “We have to,” Trump said. “They have to be able to defend themselves. They’re getting hit very hard now. They’re getting hit very hard. We’re going to have to send more weapons,...” --The Daily Beast

I wonder what happened to Trump's other plan to end that war in 24 hours? (You know, the one that didn't include sending in more weapons.) Now that would have deserved a Peace Prize. But how would that make anyone money? Shipping in a bunch of new weapons to prolong the war is another way to go, I guess... :/


"No, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do,” Trump said. “Including Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Iran, whatever those outcomes may be, but the people know, and that’s all that matters to me!”<---- :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: yeah, right...

And if you believe that, Trump has a low mileage Tesla parked in his back yard to sell to you. ("It's all computer!"--translation: "I don't know how to drive it.") It will only cost you moderately more than he paid for it. (Undoubtedly he knows just the Shylock to finance it for you.)

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