We will never find out how low they will go.
Mike Pence held a rally in Michigan. He wanted to show his respect to the victims of the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. The “rabbi” invited to speak was not Jewish. He was a convert to Christianity and part of a group called “Jews for Jesus,” which seeks to convert Jews to Christianity.
But now it turns out that he was defrocked as a “rabbi.”
He was not only a fake rabbi, he was a fake fake rabbi.
There was a burst of semi-bewildered outrage this week when Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States, attempted to pay respects to the 11 Jewish victims of an explicitly anti-Semitic attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue two days earlier by appearing with a fake rabbi at his rally in Michigan on Monday. The “rabbi” in question, Loren Jacobs, subscribes to Messianic Judaism, a belief system that sees him spend most of his time essentially trying to convert Jews to Christianity. After all, if you think Jesus was the Messiah, you sound a lot like a Christian, and mainstream Jewish groups do not recognize Messianic Judaism as a Jewish faith.
It was, in general, a gesture of profound ignorance and disrespect. Jacobs, who reportedly attended “the Moody Bible Institute, a conservative Christian institute in Chicago,” invoked Jesus by name in his rally oratory and asked God Himself to back the Republican Party in the midterms. All God’s children, and all that.
But the tragicomedy only continued Wednesday, when NBC News came out with a stupefying new layer to the story. Jacobs is not, in fact, just a Fake Rabbi. He’s a Fake Fake Rabbi, which somehow doesn’t make him a real rabbi.
“Loren Jacobs, who was invited onstage by Vice President Mike Pence to speak at a rally in Michigan for a GOP congressional candidate, was defrocked 15 years ago, according to a spokeswoman for the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations.”
Whatever Pence’s intentions, he certainly did not pay respect to the 11 Jews who were massacred in Pittsburgh, who were real Jews.
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He’s rabbi adjacent. 🙃
An adjunct rabbi?
It’s an L.A. thing. Beverly Hills adjacent is where people who can’t afford it but want the glitz that is associated with Beverly Hills. It’s a way of saying, “it’s next to, but not the real thing.” Found this on a L.A. website if it helps: “Real-estate agents call this area ‘Beverly Hills Adjacent.’ This is geographically accurate; [it is] indeed right next to Beverly Hills. But Beverly Hills has higher property values, its own school district and its own police force. [Beverly Hills Adjacent has] houses with bars on all the windows. If someone tells you they live Beverly Hills Adjacent, they’re selling something.”
Interesting! Us Midwestern rural folk generally have no need for being “adjacent”.
Now I was an “adjunct” Spanish professor at UMSL for 12 years all for teaching dual credit courses at my high school which brought them in thousands of $$$$ a year.
Thanks for the lesson in Nuevo Valley Speak!
How a nice Jewish boy became a Christ Follower? A Catholic speakers bureau offers that title, provided by Phil Hemlich, whose father Henry Hemich died at age 96. This year, Phil Hemlich, a long time Republican, has announced he will vote for Democrats.
This is fitting tale about Mike Pence, a hypocritical, “holy rolling” right wing Christian.
There’s no bottom to the mendacity & stupidity.
There was a VP named Pence
Whose ego was huge, immense.
He perched on a fence
His opinions to dispense,
But few of them made any sense.
Love your nursery rhyme, Edd.
LOL. Funny!
Excellent! You deserve residuals for this.
And the fake rabbi story did not even get around to mentioning Pence’s utter disdain for public schools and for women’s rights. As a native Hoosier, former teacher,and women’s rights advocate I am embarrassed
Pence is not respectable to the Jewish faith. He was chosen by Trump. Need more be said. [Trump always picks the best.]
“I was a great student. I was good at everything.” – Donald Trump
“He’s a fucking moron,” Tillerson said so everyone heard.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
“If the American people keen to elect a clown president, for their historical record, since Donald Trump, indeed matches perfectly for that.”
― Ehsan Sehgal
There was a sleazy pol names Gingrich
Who exploited every glitch
To make himself rich
And everyone itch
To deplore the son of a bitch
( For details on Newt see the November Atlantic. Whenever I hear his name I am reminded of Karel Capek’s terrific 1936 s-f novel The War with the Newts.)
Ole Govenor Pence was not known for a strong attachment to reality and genuinely qualified individuals when he led Indiana. He is perfect as Trump’s VP. A phoney potus is perfect for Pence. Peas and carrots. Pence and Trump. Trump came to Indiana last Sat and yapped about his bad hair day’s potential to cancel his plans then falsely claimed that he had to be there due to the NYSE opening on day after 9/11. He was accompanied by the song “Happy” which Pharell Williams has not permitted him to use just following the slaughter in Pittsburgh. And both will be back in town on Friday night at a local high school. Double trouble.
This is KARMA at its best.
LMAO. It figures.
Perfect! A fake fake rabbi for a fake vice president under a fake president. Oh, Lord. Have mercy.
Beyond words.
I hope this humiliates Pence and causes Huckabee-Sanders to twist slowly in the wind.
My mama always told me to find the best in people, but with those two, I always come up short.
And people thought this current corrupt administration couldn’t go lower. Surprise, surprise.
File This Under : Adding Insult To Atrocity
well said
This… DeVos… must be something in the water in Michigan.
Just in Time for Christmas, Trump Tries in Talk to Out-Herod Herod
Donald Trump played sports in high school but dodged the draft because of “bone spurs” in his feet. Evidently, these putative “bone spurs” didn’t prevent him from playing basketball or football but were just too terrible for him to undergo basic training.
Big, brave patriot that he is, Trumpty Dumpty now turns his attacks on BABIES.
Yes, on BABIES fortunate enough to be born in the United States.
Just when I think that this man couldn’t be any more vile, any more loathsome, than he has already shown himself to be, he proves me wrong. It’s his one talent.
Ever wonder why the neo-Nazis LOVE Donnie Trumpf? There’s a simple reason: He fears and hates brown people, just like them. He is a racist cretin, just like them. As stupid as these people are, they recognize one of their own.
Trumpf, who supposedly HATES judicial activism, proposes to redefine the Fourteenth Amendment by Executive Order, knowing that this will go to the courts. Is he hoping to rely on the judicial activism of a Supreme Court remade in his image? Or is this just a cynical ploy to energies his exceedingly base base just before the midterm election? Either way, it’s vile.
cx: energize, not energies
How appropriate, because Mike Pence is a fake “Christian” and fake American.
I’m not sure I can even give him credit for being fake.
Trump is such a little man. People were ruthlessly killed and he thinks about himself and demeans the press. How low can he go?
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Internet Rips ‘Moral Monster’ Trump for Playing the Victim After Unwelcome Trip to Pittsburgh Synagogue: ‘How Dare You’ @alternet
“Melania and I were treated very nicely yesterday in Pittsburgh,” said Trump in a now-deleted tweet. “The Office of the President was shown great respect on a very sad & solemn day. We were treated so warmly. Small protest was not seen by us, staged far away. The Fake News stories were just the opposite-Disgraceful!”
In short order, Twitter was full of angry responses to the president’s decision to use a moment he was hardly welcome in to begin with to continue his vendetta against the free press:
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-pittsburgh-visit-tweet-outrage#.W9oR5Yx6dZ0.gmail
The “now deleted tweet” is like the attorney asking a question he or she knows will be overruled in court, but just wants to plant a seed in the jurors’ heads. The message goes to his minions and then they claim it never happened.
Keep in mind that should Trump be impeached, this is what we will get… Let’s get a complete change in leadership in 2020 and, in the meantime, get state and federal legislatures back on track next week!
This article para nailed it, re: Trump admin–
“”… juvenile incompetence… total disregard for doing some of the basic groundwork of governing the country, which includes thoroughly vetting people who appear with senior government leadership. Everything is just thrown together haphazardly… the vice president is very much a vector of this laziness and ignorant buffoonery masquerading as strength and conviction.”
bethree5: Oh, my goodness. Are you saying that Trump’s wonderful intuitive abilities are not living up to his standards of ‘fantastic’?
When Trump’s vocabulary and knowledge is limited and he doesn’t read, what can be expected? Yep, “Everything is just thrown together haphazardly.”
Trump’s favorite word is “I.” His fourth-favorite word is “Trump.” Eight out of his 13 favorite words are one syllable, and the two syllable words are simple — “very,” “China,” and “money.” His only three-syllable favorite word is “Mexico.”
As most of us readers know, Trump is ignorant and totally unqualified. He relates to some people as ‘one of them’. That isn’t saying much. I’d like to think better than that of people but the election on the 6th probably will prove that an ignoramus at the top with loyal sycophants in Congress is just fine.
Even the false things in this administration are false.
They use lies as sources of precedent.
Yes, they do! They build on the lies.
The Utter contempt of the GOP is astonishing.
2,000 people who came out at the last minute is not a ‘small protest’. Trump has to talk only about himself and how HE was treated.
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Analysis | Here’s the ‘small protest’ Trump says he didn’t see in Pittsburgh from The Washington Post
October 31
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Melania and I were treated very nicely yesterday in Pittsburgh. The Office of the President was shown great respect on a very sad & solemn day. We were treated so warmly. Small protest was not seen by us, staged far away. The Fake News stories were just the opposite-Disgraceful!
8:09 AM – Oct 31, 2018
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…By the time Air Force One arrived at Pittsburgh International Airport, the protest had swelled to about 2,000 people.
The demonstration had been organized at the last minute, as had Trump’s visit: The White House had not announced until late Monday that he would be visiting Pittsburgh — despite a request from the mayor and some Jewish leaders that he not do so until the shooting victims had been interred and mourned.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/31/heres-small-protest-trump-says-he-didnt-see-pittsburgh/?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.91f75bd036c8