A Cheap ‘Rape’ Smear on Trump

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Let’s begin by saying I’m not a fan of Donald Trump, personally or politically. The first time he spoke at CPAC, Trump made a lot of protectionist noise in regard to China that struck me as both ignorant and irresponsible. Protective tariffs are just bad economics, as every intelligent person has understood since Adam Smith made the case against mercantilism in The Wealth of Nations. Tariffs are taxes, and the purpose of taxation is to produce revenue for the government. A protective tariff, by contrast, is not intended to produce revenue, rather it is intended to reduce foreign trade, which tends to benefit manufacturing interests at the expense of consumers and agricultural interests. Protective tariffs are usually accompanied by a system of domestic subsidies and regulations that beget crony capitalism. Whatever our economic problems, protectionism is not the solution, and so Trump’s China-bashing anti-free-trade rhetoric was distasteful.

So I’ve never been a fan of Trump-as-politician, but what the Daily Beast has done is as distasteful as a protective tariff: Resurrected a two-decade-old claim by Trump’s ex-wife Ivana that he “raped” her in 1989. This claim was made in their divorce and published in a 1993 book.

So what? When a rich man’s wife divorces him, she always accuses him of awful things. It’s a shakedown: “Give me the money I want or I’ll drag your name through the mud and make an ugly spectacle of it.”

Who knows if it’s true? And who cares? Ivana got her money and Trump moved on with his life. It’s over. Ancient history.

This doesn’t mean I’m in favor of Trump’s candidacy, but there was no point in the Daily Beast dragging this old mess out now.

 

305 comments

  1. Nope, not at all. I only know about the religion founded by Jesus Christ which teaches “there is neither Jew nor Greek.” Your religion of Jew-worship is anti-Christ and has nothing do with Christianity. You can either worship God or worship the Jews (who murdered God – 1 Thess. 2:14-15), but not both.

  2. Actually, the origin of the term is what a cuckoo bird did: kill the offspring of other birds and then surreptitiously get those birds to raise the cuckoo’s young. That’s what cuckservatives do: they betrray the interests of their own people to serve foreign masters. This whole website appears to be dominated by such cucks.

  3. Let me guess, you make fun of liberals who call people racist when they can’t think of anything to say.

    I guess every Christian until the 19th century was a horrible liberal anti-semite for telling the Jews they need to accept Jesus.

  4. If we are calling spades spades, does that mean you call yourself a leftist progressive in RINOs clothing?

  6. So you revel in your ignorance, then.

    The only person I worship is Jesus, who is a Jew. You don’t know Jesus, or more to the point, He doesn’t know you.

  8. How about you explain how calling me an anti-semite for not unconditionally supporting people who reject Jesus Christ is any different than liberals who call you racist for not supporting Obama?

  9. Why do you think anyone on the right who disagrees with cuckservatism is a “white nationalist”? I mean, how do you even know what color this person is? I wish you could see how unhinged you look by calling everyone who disagrees with you “white nationalist”. I think even most liberals, leftists and progressives would look askance at that.

  10. What does Genesis have to do with Christianity? You DO understand the difference between the Old dispensation and the New dispensation, right? The old law was fulfilled 2,000 years ago and you can’t pour new wine into old wineskins – but I wouldn’t expect an idolater to know anything about that.

  11. ^ Old Testament Promise to Abraham and his descendants (The twelve tribes of Israel, including the Judeans, not the Edomites/Caananite Talmudists or their descendants)

    New Testament fulfillment:

    “Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised,
    barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
    Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” (Colossians 3:11-12)

  12. He’s probably never read the New Testament, Attila. The Israel-worshipping conservacucks hue exclusively to the barbarities of the Tanakh. Of course the Old Testament has many valuable aspects, but it is not a moral guide for Christian people.

  14. And let us not forget that virtually every pre-enlightenment theologian, and many post-enlightenment theologians spoke negatively towards the Jews’ rejection of Jesus Christ, among other things they did.

  16. Unfortunately, “Jews” did dominate the porn studios. That was a very well known fact. It is poisonous, but it is one that was not deniable. When you out it in terms of porn “traffic” it is different because internet Porn is not so dominated. It has also hurt the porn studios.

  17. The attitude you have some here to exemplify shows a lack of any sort of Christian spirit about you.

  18. So why do you apologize for a group who hate and blaspheme Jesus Christ, and insist they don’t need Jesus? Doesn’t sound very Christian to me.

  19. You don’t have the slightest idea of what Christianity is. You clearly have no idea how the Old Testament fits into Christianity, nor do you have the slightest idea of the position of Israel. Just based on your posts I could assemble a much longer list, but I’m not a troll, nor will I feed one. You’ll be added to the list of trolls for the alert on this thread as well.

  20. Nonsense about foreign trade? Right, working class jobs don’t matter to academics, and the rest of the professional class of cucks over here, so it’s not surprise you would answer that way. Just about anything that get’s in the way of your free market fundamentalism, even when downright destructive is verboten to the cuck. Same goes for your Zionism. Say whatever you want about the current about the POTUS, but at least he didn’t fall prey to Zionist Neocon interventionist demands on Israel.

  24. If that meant what you thought it meant, Romans chapters 9-11 are meaningless. You need to learn that prooftexting is not exegesis.

  25. The guy whose only argument seems to be “you’re a racist” like some half-wit lefty is calling me “intellectually vapid”. DERP. What’s happening is inevitable. The GOP/Tea Party stands for less than nothing, and constantly sells out it;s own constituents to either Israel, or Neoliberal economics that benefit the super rich.

  26. The Roman Catholic Church repudiated the Bible at the council of Trent. That, my ignorant friend, is the historic catholic church you are pushing.

  28. Christianity calls all to parktake in Christ’s Church, his earthly Kingdom, and to accept Jesus Christ.

    Zionism is based on the belief a) that the Old Covenant still exists and overrules the New Covenant, b) that the explicit command that there is neither Jew nor Gentile, but we are all one in Christ Jesus, is actually not true despite being the most core teaching of the New Testament, c) that the Talmudic Jews are descendants of the Israelites (when in reality they descend from the Talmudic pharisees of Jesus’ time, who were Edomites/Canaanites).

  29. What does Genesis have to do with Christianity? Really? You mean all this time we’ve been reading the Hebrew scriptures at Mass are a complete waste?

    And I guess Jesus simply misspoke when he said that he came to fulfill the Law, not abrogate it.

  30. Your view of descent is fatally flawed by completely disconnected from reality. The term “Jew” meant a practitioner of the religion of Judah. Christ practiced that religion before he was crucified. He condemned the Pharisees as heretics, and rightly so. However, he never questioned that their descent was Hebrew. And if you are right, then the scriptures you quote were written by liar, Paul, who was a Pharisee.

  33. I can understand why Trump divorced Ivana, but it was still not a good idea. He lost quite a bit in that divorce.

  34. It’s been about a year since I was jolted awake, the very first step was when I discovered the theological corruption of Zionist mentality. It’s been one heck of a ride since then. Deus Vult!

  37. Real Christians are, false dispensationalist “Christians” insist Jews are still “God’s chosen people” and don’t need to repent or accept Jesus.

  38. If my initial encounters with the people who use the term weren’t with people who fit the more unseemly mold, I’d have to agree it’s actually a pretty good and rather apt term.

  39. Uh oh! A commie “list” you say! You crypto-commie cucks really have me running scared. I have no doubt that some apparatchik running this forum will ban me for breaking your precious crypto-marxist political frame with frank discussion of the pathetic state of conservative politics in America. There is only one legitimate “Israel” and that is the Body of Christ – the collective ecclesia of Christian believers. If you believe anything otherwise, you’re not a Christian. You’re an idolater who worships the flesh of a counterfeit people (Rev. 2:9, 3:9).

  40. That’s what happens with trolls here. They wear out their welcome pretty quickly and Wombat blocks them.

    As I pointed out on another thread, there are many here that would be sympathetic to what you say, but coming in like a run away freight train and spewing acid will earn a backlash anywhere you act in that fashion.

    You also need to learn what the term cuckservative actually means. It doesn’t mean what you think it does. I posted a link in this thread earlier to an article that delves into its origin. The term does not apply to anyone on this board, nor to the owner.

  41. Yes, nonsense about foreign trade and recognizable nonsense to anyone who has ever studied international trade. Protection for discrete sectors only improves the prospects for workers in those sectors. There are welfare losses for every other sector of the population and those welfare losses translate into reduced employment.

  42. The Bible is dispensational. It’s one aspect of the word that can not be escaped. People that run around flinging the ‘H’ word as indiscriminately as you do are most often hold an aberrational theology themselves, if they aren’t rank heretics in actuality.

  43. ful·fill
    fo?ol?fil/
    verb
    1.
    bring to completion;

    com·ple·tion
    k?m?pl?SH(?)n/
    noun
    the action or process of finishing something.

    He didn’t “abrogate” or break it. He said He wouldn’t and He didn’t. He fulfilled it.

  44. You will find yourself banned because of your behavior. Nuff said.

    You are an utter ignoramus theologically and you are aggressive in your ignorance. Consequently, there’s nothing to argue.

  45. Research the origins of the Talmud, it didn’t come from the Israelites. Also, Paul was a convert.

  46. Yep! god gave all that prophecy about Israel returning because they all converted to Christianity. I have no idea where you got your “history” but it’s truly more like drug addled ruminations than anything else.

  48. I am part of the Church Militant. The “church” you belong to holds it’s membership rolls in hell.

  49. No dispensationalist would say anyone needs not repent and accept Christ, including Jews. You clearly do not understand what dispensationalism is.

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