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Remember Kim Gardner? The Soros-backed circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis, Missouri? — 24 Comments

1. A Soros-funded DA turns out to be ethically challenged? Imagine my shock.

2. And although Soros is many abominable things, “Holocaust collaborator” isn’t one of them,

   I suppose it would be accurate to describe Soros as a “collaborator with a Holocaust collaborator” or “Holocaust collaborator adjacent.”

   George Soros has explicitly rejected any affiliation with the Jewish people and the Jewish religion. The fact that Jewish progressives use the specious charge of anti-semitism against Soros’ critics shows just how progressivism is their religion, not Judaism.

3. Johann Amadeus Metesky:

   If you read the link, it’s the case that (a) Soros was raised by parents who had explicitly rejected being Jewish and in fact were anti-Semitic. So he had no Jewish background except genetically. (b) Soros was 14 at the time of his supposed “collaboration with a Holocaust collaborator,” and it occurred once and was of no consequence in terms of what Soros actually did, and it occurred when he was staying with that person and masquerading as a Christian.

4. Soros and Zuckerberg between them have done more harm than the Russians have managed to in the decades they’ve been trying.

   And no, S and Z aren’t Jewish in any discernible fashion. Their religion is leftism.

5. If I remember correctly, the “antisemite” rap on Soros arose from an interview in which he said something along these lines about his experience living with the Christian man who was protecting him: “I thought that if anyone should benefit from the process of confiscating property owned by Jews, it might as well be me.” That’s a rough paraphrase. You can see the interview yourselves.
   Watch this from the 7:30 mark until 10:10:
   https://ia801902.us.archive.org/14/items/George_Soros_1998_60_Minutes_Interview/George_Soros_1998_60_Minutes_Interview.mp4

   I perceive Soros as admitting that he has always been for himself (and his family) and his own desires, and doesn’t care who gets crushed along the way.

6. Ira M. Siegel:

   In an interview, Soros said his parents were anti-Semitic. I linked to it somewhere, but don’t have time to find the link now.

7. The idea that Kim Gardiner wants to run for the US Senate poses an interesting question: does Soros want his protegés to move up from the Attorney General positions he paid for them to contest?

   After all, it appears he paid for candidates to run for AG in various states with the intention of changing the manner in which the law is administered in those states. Will he get the same result if she moves to the Senate?

   I would say he will NOT get the same result, but perhaps all he wanted was to identify fellow travelers and get them voted into the political sphere, and he’ll be happy she’s moved up.

8. About Kim Gardner. Before being elected to the prosecutor’s office, she practiced law for about 5 years, giving it up 7 years before running for the prosecutor’s posiiton. Part of the time she worked in the prosecutors office and part of the time she was an associate at a modest local firm. She was admitted to the bar in September 2004. In the interval between when she completed her law degree and when she was admitted, the bar examination was administered 3x. That would suggest she skipped or failed it twice. NB, > 90% of those admitted to the bar required only 1 or 2 passes at the exam. Her undergraduate degree is from an HBCU; about 3% of their matriculants complete their degree in four years. She’s certainly persistent. She’s picked up three post-secondary degrees over the years. She also appears to have considered giving up law for nursing. I don’t think the voters of St. Louis City have cadged themselves a lively legal mind.

9. The idea that Kim Gardiner wants to run for the US Senate poses an interesting question: does Soros want his protegés to move up from the Attorney General positions he paid for them to contest?

   I think it’s the McCloskey’s who are considering a run, not Gardner.

   I think Soros is a Loki figure who generates ruin to amuse himself, and there’s been no more effective agent than prosecutors and secretaries of state. So, yes, he wants his minions in those jobs. Problem is some of his minions aren’t very deft. He needs a new minion in St. Louis City.

10. Soros collaborated with Nazis and helped them expropriate property of Jewish victims . he was a collaborator and then married a nazi

11. And the Holocaust collaborator Soros who then married a nazi, is Jew not only by the nazi definition , but also by our Jewish definition. He may be a traitorous nazi collaborator who then married a nazi , but he is a Jew

12. F: For the record, Kim Gardner is not now, nor has she ever been, Missouri attorney general. She’s not the type of person who could win a statewide race.

13. The key to grasping what motivates Soros is his father’s commitments. His father was convinced that nationalism – a virus that plagues Europe – was carried by language. Thus, he evinced a radical belief that only a post-national or international language like Esperanto was needed to bypass this defect of our culture.

    And so, George Soros is similarly anti-nationalist and nation destroying in the cause of a post-national internationalism. That is his religion, and it serves half of the Leftist cause to host him very well.

14. A note on spelling, since the word has appeared variously herein.

    The JP picked up on the AP story last month.
    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/antisemitism-or-anti-semitism-that-is-the-question-ap-changes-its-style-666350

    The Associated Press announced on Friday (4/23) that it has changed its listing of the words “anti-Semite” and “anti-Semitism” in its style guide to “antisemite” and “antisemitism,” removing the hyphen and the capitalization.
    …
    The term “anti-Semite” was invented in Germany in 1879 by Wilhelm Marr in his pamphlet “The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism” to refer to the anti-Jewish manifestations of the period and to give Jew-hatred a more scientific-sounding name.
    …
    According to the definition, “Anti-Semitism” has been accepted and understood to mean hatred of the Jewish people. Dictionaries define the term as: “Theory, action, or practice directed against the Jews” and “Hostility towards Jews as a religious or racial minority group, often accompanied by social, economic and political discrimination.”

    However, there is a debate as to whether the word should be spelled without a hyphen, as some argue that use of the word “Semitic” is misleading and confusing used in the context of Jew-hatred, as it led to the false assumption that there were racial groups corresponding to these two groups of languages.

    The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) also expressed concern “that the hyphenated spelling allows for the possibility of something called ‘Semitism,’ which not only legitimizes a form of pseudo-scientific racial classification that was thoroughly discredited by association with Nazi ideology, but also divides the term, stripping it from its meaning of opposition and hatred toward Jews.” The IHRA also noted that “in German, French, Spanish and many other languages, the term was never hyphenated.”

    Here is the relevant part of a long, quite interesting, look at the AP Stylebook announcements for the year.

    https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/associated-press-stylebook-2021-changes.php

    One new entry changes “anti-Semitism” to “antisemitism.” Froke said the “conversation bubbled up over the past year or two,” and cited a decision by the Anti-Defamation League, among others, to change its spelling as a big influence. The entry notes that critics of the hyphenated-and-capitalized style suggested “it could give credence to the idea that Jews are a separate race,” and also notes the racist motives behind calling Jews “Semites”: “The term was coined in the 19th century by the German writer Wilhelm Marr, who opposed efforts to extend the full rights of German citizenship to Jews. He asserted that Jews were Semites — descended from the Semitic peoples of the Middle East and thus racially different from (and threatening to) Germany’s Aryans. This racist pseudoscience was applied only to Jews, not Arabs.”

    Tracking back along the trail:
    https://www.adl.org/spelling
    (undated)

    ADL has adopted the spelling of “antisemitism” instead of “anti-Semitism.” After reviewing the history and consulting with other leading experts, we’ve determined that this is the best way to refer to hatred toward Jews.

    The word “Semitic” was first used by a German historian in 1781 to bind together languages of Middle Eastern origin that have some linguistic similarities. The speakers of those languages, however, do not otherwise have shared heritage or history. There is no such thing as a Semitic peoplehood. Additionally, one could speak a Semitic language and still have anti-Semitic views.*

    And in 1879, German journalist Wilhelm Marr coined “Antisemitismus” to mean hatred of the Jewish “race,” adding racial and pseudo-scientific overtones to the animus behind the word. But hatred toward Jews, both today and in the past, goes beyond any false perception of a Jewish race; it is wrapped up in complicated historical, political, religious, and social dynamics.

    While removing a hyphen by itself won’t defeat antisemitism, we believe this slight alteration will help to clarify understanding of this age-old hatred.

    * Where “anti-Semitic” means what we all know it means.

    Here are some of “the others” in addition to the ADL:
    https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/04/25/associated-press-changes-spelling-of-anti-semitism-to-antisemitism-joining-leading-experts/

    The acclaimed Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt has been campaigning for some time to adopt the non-hyphenated spelling. She told Israeli daily Haaretz last year, “The hyphen is over. We are way overdue when it comes to losing the hyphen. Its presence completely distorts the meaning of the word.”

    She said that the term is often misrepresented or misinterpreted as referring to all speakers of a Semitic language, when in fact it has only ever referred to Jews.

    “Why do I spell antisemitism without a hyphen?” Lipstadt has asked. “Because anti-Semitism is not hatred of Semitism or Semites — people who speak Semitic languages. Antisemitism is Jew hatred.”

    Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer agreed, writing in 1994, “Anti-Semitism is altogether an absurd construction, since there is no such thing as ‘Semitism’ to which it might be opposed.”

    The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance also supports the non-hyphenated spelling, stating that the hyphenated version “allows for the possibility of something called ‘Semitism,’ which not only legitimizes a form of pseudo-scientific racial classification that was thoroughly discredited by association with Nazi ideology, but also divides the term, stripping it from its meaning of opposition and hatred toward Jews.”

    Some disagreed at the time, including the AP Stylebook. Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor-in-chief of the New York Jewish Week, told the Israeli outlet, “Although the case for ‘antisemitism’ is strong, we are sticking with anti-Semitism because it appears to be the preferred spelling among most of the Jewish institutions we cover, and because it is consistent with our own newspaper’s practices going back decades.”

    This was the first story I read today, which led me to look up the ones cited above:
    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/08/opinion/canceling-anti-semitism/
    Jacoby does a good job of explaining, but the article has gone behind a paywall since I read it earlier today (article limit exceeded and it’s only the 10th!) so I had to find the other sources.
    However, I then discovered that Jacoby cross-posted his article here.
    It’s worth reading the whole thing.
    https://patriotpost.us/opinion/79766-cancelling-anti-semitism-2021-05-10
    “Without the hyphen, it becomes easier to recognize “antisemitism” for what it has always been: a generic, undivided word for the hatred of Jews. Obviously it doesn’t change the etymology of the word or eliminate Marr’s racist motive in using it, but it no longer legitimizes it, either.”

    Jacoby pointed out that one of the “benefits” of the -S formulation was that it allowed people who harangue and oppose Israel to pretend that they are only anti-Zionists (Israeli haters), not anti-Semites (Jew haters).
    A distinction without a difference, in most cases.

    I still don’t know why a Boston Globe columnist picked up on the change (maybe Paul knows something about that outlet’s POV).
    Or why the AP is suddenly being nice to Jews.

    While we’re on the topic –
    https://babylonbee.com/news/inconsiderate-jews-continue-to-be-alive-against-palestinians-wishes

15. I’m one of a growing number of people who use the terms “Jew-hater” and “Jew-hatred” instead of the euphemism coined by a Jew-hater to sanitize his Jew-hatred. It also avoids the issue of a fictional group of “Semitic” people.

16. Marr didn’t have to invent a neologism. There was a perfectly good German word for this. Judenhass = Hatred of Jews. Or, Jew-hatred. Forthright and accurate, without the bogus scientistic overtones. Like J. A. Metesky, I prefer plain speaking in these matters.

17. There’s that good German again. 🙁

18. We have Josh Mandel in Ohio, similar to Greitens. Didn’t have to make himself his high school QB, or President of OSU student body twice, or United States Marine, but he did. Could have just become another personal injury shyster.

    Then he got on City Council and and forced the Mayor to refund an unwarranted tax hike to the taxpayers. That tore it. Then he became State Treasurer.

    And boy howdy, do our spoiled harpies in the Cleveland Jewish community hate him, with the intensity of 10 billion microaggressions! {spoiler alert, I am in that community}. How dare he actually do things!

19. Kim Gardner and Kim Foxx (of Chicago) two real winners as D.A.’s.
    George Soros reminds me of the prototypical James Bond movie villain.

20. The problem is in one-party cities the Democrats can run just about anyone and still win. The real election is the Democratic primary.

21. For Leftists “Justice” means persecution of their political enemies. None of them care about the “people” of Saint Louis or the thug murder of Captain Dorn during the City riots. The savagery is all “For the Cause”. That proved to be real headache for Trotsky.

22. And the 14 year old Soros, “Din du nuffin”. That explains a lot of his “Urban” politics. The older gangsters always keep a minor around to hold the guns, before and after. “Dey be JuVie”. Looks like “Team Adolf” played the same game. It must be a “Socialist” thing.

23. I’ve been gradually re-reading Jonathan Raban’s Old Glory – a book about his trip in a small boat down the Mississippi in 1979. I first read this in 1985 as a much younger me, and re-visiting it has been a bitter-sweet experience.

    Well last night, I, err, he arrived at St. Louis MO. It was a right @#$%hole in 1979 fit for neither man nor beast, and there was zero doubt that our dusky brethren had made it so. This from a writer who was and still is (he’s doddering about in Seattle these days, I believe) to put it mildly, Progressive.

24. These are the kinds of lawyers the Left likes best.
    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/05/10/liberal-attorneys-odd-notion-that-the-first-amendment-may-not-apply-to-fox-n377920

    But they don’t always get sound off with impunity.
    https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/05/10/fccs-brendan-carr-issues-blistering-response-after-marilyn-mosby-tries-to-silence-baltimore-fox-affiliate-n377529?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=719

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