Weird. She just held it there. Who is this?

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Maybe I'm reading too much into this. Time for a walk.

[GusBob]

1. Isn't that the sign for asshole?

[brush]

5. Who is she? Sure looks like she's flashing that white power sign., and she's sitting right behind...

him and in camera range.

It seems to be purposely done.

[joshcryer]

10. They do shit like this on purpose to distract.

She probably thought "man if I did the sign that people are upset about it'd be HILARIOUS and people would post about it EVERYWHERE!" I'm sure this is making the rounds on FB as we speak.

[brush]

14. She a long-time. right wing, repug apparatchik. Why would you think she's doing it for a joke?

That's some seriously, devious, racist sh_t to be joking about.

[RhodeIslandOne]

20. There's some question as to whether the sign itself is a false flag trap by right-wingers

Seeing as it's a common gesture for almost anyone to make an "OK" sign, some have theorized the right is trying to get a meme going to "own the libs" by laying the seeds that it somehow means "white power" when it really doesn't, or at least, not until the alt-right decided it did.

[brush]

26. Where have you been doing this whole white power movement uptick. Most people here know they've...

co-opted the once "ok" sign into their white power sign, just as they did the PePe the frog character.

It's not in dispute at all except for those who want it to be.

[RhodeIslandOne]

37. They co-opted something that's common and they should not be allowed to!!!!!

They could have co-opted "thumbs up" too. Would you have automatically started screaming at people for that too? What about a handshake? How about blinking? What fucking gesture are you going to say "NO!!!! YOU DON'T GET TO OWN THAT!!!"

The alt-right is playing mind games on us. They are taking common everyday things in hopes that when we see them, we try to label them as racist and look like idiots. Did you know they wanted to do it with the rainbow flag??? Do you think we should condemn the rainbow flag pre-emptively right now just because they thought of making it a white power symbol???? Obviously if they thought it up, it must now be a white power symbol, right? And we must condemn it, right?

By the way, none of this has to do with me denying what she's doing. She's clearly "throwing up a sign" to someone for attention. Steven Miller, Bannon, who the fuck knows. No one holds their arms like that. She's probably getting excited at the idea Twitter is calling her out so she can laugh it off and gaslight everyone that's not what she's up to. I see someone already posted she's the granddaughter of Polish Jews. She can milk the outrage and get a huge laugh off of it at the same time. These are sick, sick people.

[brush]

38. She got doxxed. Let's see if she laughs once the consequences come down.

[Me.]

51. Details Please

[brush]

54. Have you not watched as all the cell phone racists who've called the cops on AAs just living life...

have gotten doxxed because their victims have turned their cell phones on them and recorded their racism and unloaded the videos to the internet?

Many soon lost their jobs after twitter detectives, mostly on black twitter, discovered their identity quickly and doxxed them. They soon lost their jobs after being exposed.

Let's see if that happens to this white power sigh flashing dimwit who seems to think she's outsmarting people.

[Me.]

58. AaH

And yes I have watched but whether or not she will get doxxed/or be in any way affected by people who likely share her views/or care is quite another matter

[brush]

59. She's already been doxxed. We'll see if there are consequences.

[Me.]

60. The Consequences Is What Makes It Such

so we'll see, as it seems to me she was quite aware that she was being watched, how could she not be.

[Vermijelli]

50. You're right. What's next, the peace sign?

Would we then abandon that one, too?

[AnotherMother4Peace]

68. She's identifying herself as a racist, & communicating that racists in the white house.

[joshcryer]

22. Like the other person said, it's a false flag type thing.

I doubt that she sits in a circle conspiring with other super high level ultra nationalist pro Hitler types to take over the world.

But the idea that the "signal" is out there is enough to district and muddle the waters.

Of course the idea that they're feeding it means that they ideologically are racist motherfuckers, but it just shows their callous nature more than anything. It's like when they purposefully wave to a crowd and let the Hitler salute linger for just a tiny bit. They know when you watch the video of it it'll look plain as day, but someone will take a picture of it, and they'll laugh about it.

It's mind games. They've been doing this shit for years.

But yes it is 100% intentional.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

16. Zina Bash. Trump advisor.

[Faux pas]

2. Just another

scum sucking pig?

[Achilleaze]

3. Ahh the familiar darkside right-wing KGOP republican a-hole gang sign

beneath contempt.

[hlthe2b]

4. Zina Bash

The woman sitting behind Judge Brett Kavanaugh is becoming a Twitter star as she has been accused of smirking when Democrats speak and looking “smug.” The woman has been identified as Zina Bash, 36. Bash was sitting directly behind Kavanaugh during the first day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 4. The hearing has been subjected to protests from sitting Democrats on the committee as well as vocal protesters who have tried to shut down proceedings. Some protesters have even invoked the popular Hulu TV series, The Handmaid’s Tale.

Bash is a seasoned judicial and political mover in the nation’s capital. She has worked in D.C. since 2007, for Kavanaugh as well as Senator John Cornyn. In addition, Bash was a director on Ted Cruz’s ill-fated presidential campaign in 2016.

https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/zina-bash/

[Leghorn21]

7. Thanks, hit. nt

[Sanity Claws]

15. I wonder whether she did it while Cruz was up

Looks like a signal to him.

[mountain grammy]

41. Thanks..

in other words she's a deplorable who could be giving her gang a signal or just fooling around. None of these people have an ounce of decency, so it's perfectly reasonable to assume she's up to no good, but who knows?

[hlthe2b]

43. Well, she did work on Immigration issues with Stephen Miller et al, so I'm betting there's something

intentional going on. Even if it is merely to get some attention and "misdirection"

[Leghorn21]

6. Hope twitterville can find out...ewwwww

here’s Cassandra Fairbanks and Mike Cernovich from back in the day. ewwwwww

[JHan]

8. oh , another deplorable, in you go!

[dewsgirl]

52. +1

[Skidmore]

9. She used to work for Cruz

but this is her husband.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/West-Texas-new-chief-law-enforcement-officer-12830214.php

[Anon-C]

11. I don't think you are reading too much into it at all.

Stephen Miller's done it as glaringly. They know what they're doing...good catch.

[honest.abe]

12. Give her a black hat and a broom and you've got a Trumper version of wicked witch of the west.

These people are so weird.

[Sanity Claws]

17. I find her at the most, ordinary looking

More realistically, her smug look makes her very unattractive.
I bring up her looks because she supposedly was considered one of the 50 most attractive people in D.C. That's a low bar but she doesn't make it, in my book.
I also saw a tweet asking who is that beautiful woman behind Kavanaugh.
I don't see it.

[honest.abe]

23. Attractive?? Lol.

If one likes evil psychos.

[alfredo]

35. "Washington is Hollywood for ugly people." Paul Begala

[PatSeg]

48. I saw that Tweet too

I don't find her all that beautiful for pretty much the same reason you mention. The facial expressions are a real turn off.

[demmiblue]

13. #NotOK

[Lee-Lee]

29. You realize that picture started as a 4 Chan troll of liberals, right

They literally made the entire “OK sign is white power” up and created those fake ACLU pictures to troll the left.

[LanternWaste]

36. And yet the trolling was picked up by the right

instituted as real (if even as an inside joke), and from there, it has become what it now is: a combo of both plausible deniability and ally-indicators for racists.

[Kingofalldems]

39. Ain't working.

[Kingofalldems]

42. Trolling you say?

[RhodeIslandOne]

18. Who holds their arm that way?

She also seems to be smirking.

[smirkymonkey]

19. Very nasty looking woman.

Talk about a face badly in need of a smack.

[Cha]

27. I'm gonna go with she's letting the world know

"I'm an asshole"

[dalton99a]

69. +1. Nasty, arrogant, obnoxious, ugly character.

I see no "beauty" in her

[Roland99]

21. Brazen

[Cha]

24. Zina Asshole is not helping her stupid cause.

[Cha]

25. Yeah, we see you Asshole.

[CatMor]

28. Seems awfully childish to me.

[AmandaRuth]

30. worked on immigration policy for rump

she knew exactly what she was doing. i am purposely not writing her name, but thank her for the info about herself, her party and her boss.

[lunasun]

61. +++ exactly !

[Blueplanet]

31. More information about Zina Bash

Father: Dr. Lawrence Gelman, Texas anesthesiology; Dr. Gelman's Book, “The Fall From Grace” Dr. Gelman has a Youtube video.
Mother: Maria Esperanza Gelman Mata
https://everipedia.org/wiki/dr-lawrence-gelman/

Trendsmap.com info: ]https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1037033721235263488

[Leghorn21]

34. Thanks and welcome to DU, Blue! - just found this as well:

AG Paxton Names Former Supreme Court Clerk Zina Bash Senior Counsel on His Executive Leadership Team
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 – Austin

Attorney General Ken Paxton today named Zina Bash senior counsel on the executive leadership team of his office. Previously, Bash served in the Trump administration as Special Assistant to the President for regulatory reform, legal and immigration policy.

“Zina is an outstanding and higly-respected attorney whose extensive legal and policy experience in both the public and private sectors will make her a valuable addition to my executive team,” Attorney General Paxton said. “I’m confident Zina will work every day to uphold the rule of law and improve the lives of Texans.”

Over the years, Bash has held a variety of positions in business, law and government, including as deputy director of policy and communications for U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign and senior counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee in U.S. Senator John Cornyn’s office. She also practiced law as an appellate attorney at international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and was formerly executive vice president of operations and business development at Doctors’ Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg.

Bash earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a law degree from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. She was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and to Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Bash was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and grew up in McAllen. Her husband, John, currently serves as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, the top prosecutor of federal crimes in the region that includes Austin.


https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ag-paxton-names-former-supreme-court-clerk-zina-bash-senior-counsel-on-his

[oasis]

45. Kick for this shared info. Thanks. nt

[lunasun]

62. Oh tea party dad book ! Well no doubt before and not now

Into the basket you go kavanaugh buddy pal

[Lee-Lee]

32. You folks know the whole "OK sign white power" thing is a troll from 4chan, right?

Some of y’all are falling for it so hard your reposting the fake ACLU warnings they made up.

This looks like more trolling aimed at the same thing- to make people think on the left look stupid for falling for a totally made up claim about that being racist.

https://www.adl.org/blog/no-the-ok-gesture-is-not-a-hate-symbol

[Voltaire2]

33. Life imitates farts.

It began with the farts on 4chan. Like Pepe, it has transitioned from goof to not goof.

[Kingofalldems]

40. Wow, twice in one thread.

Are you lecturing us?

[hlthe2b]

44. May have started that way, but seems alt right has embraced it...

Stephen Miller's cronies...

[lunasun]

63. Just joking you can tell :(

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[ProudLib72]

46. I think she may saying he's an asshole

[lunasun]

64. Why work for him?

[Gothmog]

47. Kavanaugh's assistant Zina Bash giving the white power sign right behind him

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Link to tweet

[k8conant]

55. Why does she do this if her father is of Polish Jewish descent and her mother Mexican?

There is no excuse like a bad excuse.

[Gothmog]

57. Stephen Miller is a racist and white supremacist even though he is Jewish

[lunasun]

65. Miller 100% Jewish . His family had to escape hate in Europe

[mythology]

49. Snopes verdict is that the claim that the OK sign is a white power symbol is unproven

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/intern-white-power-hand-gesture/

According to the prominent anti-hate group the Anti-Defamation League, the idea that the hand gesture signifies white supremacist sympathies started as an Internet hoax:

The “OK” hand gesture hoax originated in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced “Operation O-KKK,” telling other members that “we must flood Twitter and other social media websites…claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy.” The user even provided a helpful graphic showing how the letters WP (for “white power”) could be traced within an “OK” gesture. The originator and others also suggested useful hashtags to help spread the hoax, such as #PowerHandPrivilege and #NotOkay. “Leftists have dug so deep down into their lunacy,” wrote the poster, “We must force [them] to dig more, until the rest of society ain’t going anywhere near that s***.”

People are often eager to believe what they want to believe.

[Caliman73]

56. Here is a slightly different take on the sign.

Does not settle the debate, but it actually gives more context than the ADL did in May of 2017 when they put out their statement on the OK sign.

https://lifehacker.com/is-this-an-innocent-ok-sign-or-a-white-power-symbol-1825575794

[Leghorn21]

53. Fwiw, she was on trumps transition team

Zina Bash was a member of Donald Trump's presidential transition team, a group of advisors tasked with recommending presidential appointments for the incoming administration.[1]

Bash was a member of Donald Trump's presidential transition team. The transition team was a group of around 100 aides, policy experts, government affairs officials, and former government officials who were tasked with vetting, interviewing, and recommending individuals for top cabinet and staff roles in Trump's administration. She was part of the Department of Justice landing team.

https://ballotpedia.org/Zina_Bash

[Hav]

66. Yes, I think too much is read into this particular case

She might be a deplorable but this is getting ridiculous. Even ignoring the question whether it is indeed a sign used by white supremacists, in this case, it's not even the supposed gesture. The thumb and index finger don't meet and form the supposed p and only two of the other three fingers are extended.
I tried this pose. It's not even unnatural or uncomfortable.

[IADEMO2004]

67. Is it real? Doesn't look right.