Would they accept it?

Of course theyd accept my anonymous donation.

Would they accept it if they knew where the money came from?

I'm still trying to figure out the logic. Nazis are virulent antisemtics as it appears to be a foundation of their belief system. Trump's son in law, daughter (a convert and probably his favorite kid), and grandchildren are Jewish. It's very illogical to me, it just seems people want to call him a name and so Nazi is the flavor of the week. I'm opening to hearing the logical argument that he is one, but it will have to be convincing in that his family is Jewish.

I cant speak for them.

How many of your dollars do you guess have been in the pockets of criminals? At least some of it has, And yet you spent it and couldnt tell the difference.

Why are you assigning agency to money? Do you do that with other inanimate objects?

If a criminal is given $5 for doing something illegal, but he later changes the $5 in for some coins, are the coins now tainted? What about the $5 bill he traded to the bank?

The other side of that is why do you think so many white supremacists enthusiastically support Trump? They believe Trump is "theirs." Why would they think that? When his immediate family is Jewish, etc?

It is the value that is represented by the fiat that is tainted

Another quandry that i do not understand

Who here is calling Trump a Nazi, or Nazi sympathizer?


No one of course but it makes for a good distraction and a nice way to come to the defense of Trump without appearing to defend him.


But don't forget, they think Trump is an idiot...

I'm curious if that's a reply to me or a general reply

General reply, sir. Directed at no one in particular. Despite the fact that all of you voted for one or the other of those two fine folks. Yes, only I kept my honor clean in this regard. ;-)

Not just you BK. I voted for neither either ;)

My take on it is this.

Trump isn't far removed from legitimate white supremacists. He hired (and just fired) an architect of the alt-right. Breitbart.com isn't transparently white supremacist. But it's not far removed from transparent white supremacy, i.e. Stormfront. Just go into Breitbart comment sections, and there's some real ugly stuff in there. Remember that the alt-right Deplora-ball to celebrate Trump's election had to explicitly ban Nazi salutes.

So both sides see the infamous politician's "dog whistle." Supremacists think he's doing a wink-wink at them. Left-wing Trump critics think the same.

It was the same for Obama. Obama had associations with (though didn't directly hire) Bill Ayers, a former left-wing extremist with the Weather Underground, the Rev. Jeremiah Right, who used some plainly anti-Semitic rhetoric. And he tried to appoint Van Jones, who advocated for a convicted cop killer and had other ties to leftists groups pretty far up there on the militant scale (though now is a pretty milquetoast CNN commentator). Some on the left saw this as the left-extremist dog whistle and thought Obama was going to go full Panther in the White House. Some on the right thought the same (go look in the threads from 2008 in this forum portending the End of American As We Know It). But Obama was pretty clearly not an anti-Semite, nor an overt black supremacist. He didn't go full Panther by any stretch. In the same way Trump is pretty clearly not an anti-Semite, nor an overt white supremacist. He's a buffoon, but he's not Richard Spencer by any stretch.

So completely imaginary.

If you have $1 million from a criminal

And $1 million from a saint...

Which pile of money is incapable of doing as much good as the other?