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tblue37

(67,304 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 06:36 PM Sep 29

J. D. Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE!

Shorter JD Vance: You are not allowed to criticize ICE.

Goes along with shorter Pete Hegseth: You are not allowed to criticize the military's action at Wounded Knee.

And shorter Donald Trump: You are not allowed to criticize me.

It's full-on authoritarianism, all the way down.

Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) 2025-09-27T17:35:03.517Z
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J. D. Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE! (Original Post) tblue37 Sep 29 OP
😐🙄 Docreed2003 Sep 29 #1
He's playing to Chump's antisemitic base. sakabatou Sep 29 #2
Will Secretary Kegsbreath award Medals thomski64 Sep 29 #3
J D Vance is so twisted I cannot fathom what the hell he is trying to imply. tetedur Sep 29 #4
Democrats were so against it they had a bipartisan Johonny Sep 29 #5
Gotta wonder how his in-laws perceive this. viva la Sep 29 #6
So what is the difference between ICE and the Gestapo? HappyH Sep 29 #7
I don't think they wore masks mr715 Sep 29 #9
Shut and go home, you impotent trash. nt GenThePerservering Sep 29 #8
When he said that tRump was 'America's Hitler'... SeattleVet Sep 29 #10
Fck you, antisemitic couch fcker mcar Sep 29 #11

tetedur

(1,371 posts)
4. J D Vance is so twisted I cannot fathom what the hell he is trying to imply.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 06:52 PM
Sep 29

In one of the replies someone said it better than I can:
Incorrectly invoking the very real blood libel trope to defend a gestapo is literally the most anti-Semitic thing James Bowman could do.

Johonny

(24,852 posts)
5. Democrats were so against it they had a bipartisan
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 06:53 PM
Sep 29

Bill ready to go until JD Vance and Trump squashed it, so not we're attacking random people on the street based on racial profiling.

viva la

(4,328 posts)
6. Gotta wonder how his in-laws perceive this.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:06 PM
Sep 29

His wife seems to have gone zombie. But her parents, the professors, the immigrants, the teachers of many international students, must be cringing.

What does he care, though. He might have Trump's approval for an additional month now.

HappyH

(117 posts)
7. So what is the difference between ICE and the Gestapo?
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:07 PM
Sep 29

I think the Gestapo was better dressed and better groomed.

SeattleVet

(5,761 posts)
10. When he said that tRump was 'America's Hitler'...
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:56 PM
Sep 29

it turns out that he was saying it as a GOOD thing.

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