How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:20 am
by planosteve
Of the 26 positions cabinet positions listed on WhiteHouse.gov, 9 of them are Jews. This is 35% of the cabinet. Jews are 2% of the US population, so they are overrepresented in this government by 17x.That's 17 times more than should be there
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Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:51 pm
by planosteve
And no matter who you vote for what your going to get is a whole lot of Jews!
Biden Administration
• David Cohen, Deputy CIA Director. Cohen returns to this role after filling it from 2015 to 2017. Cohen is the son of a prominent Boston Jewish physician.
• Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury. She is the first woman to fill this role; previously, she headed the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. A 2016 Trump attack ad featured three Jews, including Yellen, and reflected anti-Semitic tropes. She is a renowned labor economist.
• Merrick Garland, Attorney-General. Garland was blocked from becoming a Supreme Court Justice by then-Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, in the last year of the Obama presidency. After being nominated Garland spoke of his grandparents, who fled antisemitism in Europe and moved to the US.
• Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence. She was deputy director of the CIA under Obama, the first woman to hold this job. Her mother was a well-known Jewish painter, Adrian Rappin (Rappaport) and Haines identifies with Israel; she visited Israel with her non-Jewish father.
• Ron Klain, Chief of Staff. He was Biden’s chief of staff in his vice presidential days. Klain speaks of his childhood synagogue in Indianapolis, where he learned multiple Torah portions for his bar mitzvah, and of his commitment to raising Jewish children.
• Eric Lander, Director, Office of Science & Technology Policy. Lander is a leading geneticist. His position has been elevated to Cabinet level. Lander has spoken of being the subject of antisemitic criticism by James Watson, discoverer of the DNA double helix.
• Rachel Levine, Deputy Secretary, Health and Human Services. Levine grew up in a Conservative Jewish home in Massachusetts. She is the first open transgender person to be nominated for a position requiring Senate confirmation.
• Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security. Mayorkas, 60, was the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama. He was born in Cuba, to a Cuban Jewish father and Romanian Jewish mother who survived the Shoah. He has worked closely with Jewish groups in the past.
• Anne Neuberger, Director of Cybersecurity, National Security Agency. She is an Orthodox Jew, from Brooklyn, educated through college in Orthodox schools. She helped establish the US Cyber Command and led security efforts in the 2018 midterm elections. Her grandparents are Holocaust survivors and her parents were among the passengers on the Air France flight in 1976, kidnapped to Uganda and rescued in Israel’s Entebbe operation. She founded Sister to Sister, an NGO that serves single mothers across the US.
• Wendy Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State. She was born in Maryland to a Jewish family. Her father served in the Marines. She will be the first woman to be appointed Deputy Secretary of State. A career diplomat, she was the lead negotiator for the controversial Iran nuclear deal.
• Jeff Zients, COVID-19 Coordinator. He was born in Washington, DC, and was raised in Kensington, Maryland. His family is Jewish. From 2014 through 2017 he was the director of the National Economic Council. He will fill the crucial role of directing and coordinating efforts to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Rochelle Walensky, Director, Center for Disease Control. She and her husband are members of Temple Emanuel, in Newton, Massachusetts, a prominent Conservative synagogue. She is an expert on AIDS and HIV and served as Chief of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, and professor at Harvard Medical School.
• Jared Bernstein, member, Council of Economic Advisors. Under Obama, Bernstein was the chief economist and economic adviser to Biden.
• Douglas Emhoff, second gentleman, husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris. He is the first-ever husband of a US Vice President. He was born in Brooklyn, son of Jewish parents Barbara and Michael Emhoff. He grew up in New Jersey. He is an entertainment lawyer and teaches at Georgetown University Law Center.
This completes the 15 Jews in senior positions in the Biden administration. And, just for interest, here are the ten Catholics among Biden’s appointees, also a possible all-time high.
Foremost, Biden himself, a church-going liberal Catholic; Gen. Lloyd Austin, already been confirmed as secretary of defense; Deb Haaland, Interior; Tom Vilsack, Agriculture; Gina Raimondo, Commerce; Marty Walsh, Labor; Denis McDonough, Veterans Affairs; Jennifer Granholm, Energy; Xavier Becerra, Health and Human Services; and John Kerry, presidential envoy for climate.
To be fair, the Trump administration, too, had many Jews in senior positions.
Among them:
Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior advisor; Elliot Abrams Special representative for Venezuela, then Iran; David Friedman, Ambassador to Israel; Jason Greenblatt, Special Representative for International Negotiations, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Steve Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury; Stephen Miller, Senior Advisor, Policy; Gary Cohn, Director, White House National Economic Council; Reed Cordish, Assistant to the President, Intragovernmental and Technology Initiatives; Avrahm Berkowitz, Deputy Advisor to the President; Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General; Elan Carr, Special Envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism; Ellie Cohanim, Deputy Special Envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism; Jeffrey Rosen, Attorney General; Morgan Ortagus, Spokesperson, State Department; David Shulkin, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Lawrence Kudlow, Director National Economic Council; Ivanka Trump, daughter, Advisor to the President; John Eisenberg, National Security Council Legal; Ezra Cohen-Watnick, Acting Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; Len Khodorkovsky, Deputy Secretary of State and Senior Advisor to the US Special Representative for Iran.
It will be fascinating to watch how a strongly liberal Jewish-Catholic administration operates. There is considerable irony attached to it, because the non-religious, irreligious Trump, who famously held a Bible upside down, was and is fanatically supported by Evangelical Christians, who were and who remain a key part of his base.■
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:11 pm
by GRANDPA
It's 276 days to November 9th. I imagine scenes like this will warm your heart. How many synagogues in Ft Collins are you going to burn down?
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 5:37 pm
by planosteve
It's strange how some people mock information as "antisemitism" even though it is completely factual.
I guess to mention it is what is antisemitic for some odd reason.
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 5:44 pm
by Sangersteve
planosteve wrote:It's strange how some people mock information as "antisemitism" even though it is completely factual.
I guess to mention it is what is antisemitic for some odd reason.
Information with no purpose is just a distraction
What is the purpose of this information?
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:08 pm
by planosteve
Sangersteve wrote:planosteve wrote:It's strange how some people mock information as "antisemitism" even though it is completely factual.
I guess to mention it is what is antisemitic for some odd reason.
Information with no purpose is just a distraction
What is the purpose of this information?
To enlighten you to facts that you would never otherwise hear that explain important reasons that we would support the Gaza war.
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:26 pm
by Sangersteve
To enlighten you to facts that you would never otherwise hear that explain important reasons that we would support the Gaza war.
I don't care what someone's race or religion is.
You only care if they're Jewish.
Then you try to blame the Jew's for every problem.
Try looking at the ability to do a job.
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:40 pm
by planosteve
Sangersteve wrote:To enlighten you to facts that you would never otherwise hear that explain important reasons that we would support the Gaza war.
I don't care what someone's race or religion is.
You only care if they're Jewish.
Then you try to blame the Jew's for every problem.
Try looking at the ability to do a job.
I am pointing out the facts that you never hear in the main stream media. You can draw your own conclusions.
And I am pointing out the lack of objectivity. How many Arab heads of state have been invited to address a joint session of Congress? There are only 2 Arabs in the whole congress. None in the administration.
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:36 pm
by GRANDPA
Yeah, Hitler was just an author, and "Mein Kampf" was just a book.
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:53 pm
by GFB
planosteve wrote:Sangersteve wrote:To enlighten you to facts that you would never otherwise hear that explain important reasons that we would support the Gaza war.
I don't care what someone's race or religion is.
You only care if they're Jewish.
Then you try to blame the Jew's for every problem.
Try looking at the ability to do a job.
I am pointing out the facts that you never hear in the main stream media. You can draw your own conclusions.
And I am pointing out the lack of objectivity. How many Arab heads of state have been invited to address a joint session of Congress? There are only 2 Arabs in the whole congress. None in the administration.
Because..in general..Jews are great people..successful..intact families..love this country..very patriotic..and often times high morals and highly intelligent.
Muslims?
Uhh..no.
Be thankful.
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:07 pm
by planosteve
Judism is not a race. It's a religion. Anybody can be one. I thought everyone knew that!
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:28 am
by GFB
planosteve wrote:Judism is not a race. It's a religion. Anybody can be one. I thought everyone knew that!
All wrong.
And you’re a dipshit.
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:38 am
by planosteve
GFB wrote:planosteve wrote:Judism is not a race. It's a religion. Anybody can be one. I thought everyone knew that!
All wrong.
And you’re a dipshit.
Almost everyone.
Re: How Jewish is our Government?
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:22 pm
by jellowrestling
GFB wrote:planosteve wrote:Sangersteve wrote:
I don't care what someone's race or religion is.
You only care if they're Jewish.
Then you try to blame the Jew's for every problem.
Try looking at the ability to do a job.
I am pointing out the facts that you never hear in the main stream media. You can draw your own conclusions.
And I am pointing out the lack of objectivity. How many Arab heads of state have been invited to address a joint session of Congress? There are only 2 Arabs in the whole congress. None in the administration.
Because..in general..Jews are great people..successful..intact families..love this country..very patriotic..and often times high morals and highly intelligent.
Muslims?
Uhh..no.
Be thankful.
+1 Two Arabs is about my limit of tolerance. I'd like to see us import some more Jews, frankly.