2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So when Republicans call Bernie a "Communist Jew," [View all]mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)There's a scene in Pitch Black in which the sort-of-hero Riddick fights a really horrific monster and rips it to shreds.
And then he says something to the effect of "didn't know who it was fucking with."
Well, {offensive language warning} you really don't want to piss off an old commie socialist red Jew from Brooklyn. Seriously. These are people who have been fucked over for millennia and saw their own families destroyed by the Nazis (and the commies and the Inquizition and, and, and). Sure, they are nice people, mostly and really good Americans BUT when the right goes after Bernie it is not a question of neo-liberals or conservatives vs Sanders. It becomes a question of the right attacking someone most Jews in NYC are proud of. Sort of like the political version of the old-time Dodgers. Really not a good idea. Of course, everyone likes to think they are assimilated into the larger population and lots have points of view I would never support but the truth is, literally, most of my friends are Jews and lots of them are from Brooklyn.
"Never again" is not an empty cliche for lots of these people. Really piss them off and that other movie scene comes to mind. The one in Fargo? The one with the wood chipper?
Maybe we've had too many white bread candidates (before this President) but nobody is going to swift boat Bernie, least of all that poser from Queens, Chump.
Nope, the way I see it, if we get past Hillery and the Establishment (sounds like a 60's band) the rest should be a piece of cake (preferably Junior's Cheesecake with strawberries).
You are allowed to think I'm full of shit but lets see how this one plays out.