Hundreds gather on the Common for impromptu rally against Nazis

Since they were carrying flags with swastikas on them and giving Nazi salutes, I'm pretty much okay with calling them Nazis even if that's not the only group of failed white supremacists they identify with.

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Mike Godwin says it's OK to call them Nazis.

Lie. But for those unfamiliar:

What those commies at Fortune have to say about the matter.

In point of fact, Trump has been a notorious racist his whole life. The old Kraut in the sheet told him never to rent to blacks, and he went downhill from there.

...and the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville was erected nearly 60 years after the end of the Civil War.

You apologists for white supremacy love to make everything contemporary when it suits you and ancient history when it doesn't, don't you? You are a shameless bigot and you are fooling no one.

Not all books are worth reading. For example, Mein Kampf. And most salacious celebrity biographies, written to cash in, are also not worth it.

However.

You are quoting a celebrity biography, ghostwritten with the fired valet of Frank Sinatra, written in 2003-- 45 years after JP Kennedy's death, 60 years after the time the alleged incident occurred.

Joseph Kennedy suffered his first confirmed stroke in 1961 and had complete aphasia within months. People close to him suspected he may have had a stroke, or some other neural debilitation, a few years earlier-- roughly, the late 1950s. That is one of the reasons he did not publicly participate in his son's presidential campaign, as he was sometimes confused, feeble, or forgetful. He was rarely alone when outside of the family homes during this time, and it is very unlikely he was hanging with Sinatra. The book you quote was "written" by the guy who served as Sinatra's valet from 1953 until the late 1960s, so we're talking about a possible 5 year period in which this exchange could occur.

So. What are the chances that Joe Kennedy, Irish-American social climber, in the middle of the 1950s, before frozen pizzas were a thing and before pizza chains were ubiquitous, would even know how to make a "joke" that relied on putting pizza in an oven? And would tell it in front of Frank Sinatra's valet? And the valet would recognize who Joe Kennedy is? And would remember it 60 years later?

You are free to go wade through the Joseph Kennedy collection at the JFK Library. You will find a lot that would make most people wince-- maybe not you, but most people.

But I'll bet $20 you won't find that joke or anything like it. It simply doesn't make sense. It's not the sort of joke he would have made. Hell, it's not the sort of antisemitic comment he would have made. He was one of those anti-semites who grappled to find the illusion of intellectual and historical validation for his antisemitism, like Roald Dahl or Winston Churchill. Just like so many racists and bigots do now, sometimes by quoting Breitbart, then doing a quick google search to find a different questionable source for the quote.

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
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His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

I'm curious...you have it straight from Caroline's mouth that she dropped 'Schlossberg' from her name because she wanted to avoid 'any trace of Jewishness'? Wouldn't the more logical explanation be that she was trying to capitalize on the Kennedy brand? Why would someone eager to 'avoid any trace of Jewishness' marry a Jew?

Rather than acknowledging your rabid support for the living, active white supremacists now in residence in the White House. So, not the anti-Nazi side.

...is the day you wear your BPD uniform to do it in.

CAN'T WAIT.

Does the phrase 'Nixon's Southern Strategy' mean anything to you? You realize that many racists jumped the Dixiecrat ship after Kennedy and Johnson secured voting rights in the Southern states, integrated schools, eliminated Jim Crow laws and passed the Civil Rights Act? Byrd repudiated his membership with the KKK publicly and tried to redeem himself through public service. But alas, from you, no forgiveness for Democrats.

You seem to think if a Democrat said something remotely racist 50 years ago they should be accused of hypocrisy and the ignominy of having their memorials (that includes tombstones according to you apparently - I can't find a public memorial to Kennedy Sr) torn down. But surely what public figures must be judged upon are their public actions and legislative record rather than any private beliefs, as hypocritical as they may seem to you?