#White House Chief of Staff

[movieassholes]

Unanimous unwavering support for the President on this one. And I mean public! You're gonna stand there, shoulder to shoulder with him! He goes down? You go down!

Chief of Staff - Outbreak (1995)

[trendynewsnow]

Susie Wiles Outlines Plans for Trump's First Day in Office

Susie Wiles’ Vision for Trump’s First Day in Office In a significant gathering of Republican donors on Monday, Susie Wiles, the newly appointed White House chief of staff, disclosed her intentions regarding President-elect Donald J. Trump’s first day in office. According to two individuals present at the closed-door event, Wiles indicated that Trump would swiftly seek to reinstate several…

[mindrat]

-onald Re*gan nepotism at its most obvious

[memenewsdotcom]

Trump selects Susie Wiles as chief of staff

[navree]

i am going to shoot the domina showrunners in the head i have had enough

[snarp]

The central conflict of "Guilty Gear Strive" is based on the idea that, if a globally-known-to-have-been-hijacked American military aircraft crosses into Mexican airspace, Mexico will immediately declare war on the US.

Unexplained why this would be the case. Or why it would even be a significant problem in comparison to the ongoing potentially-world-destroying wizard battle. What the fuck is Mexico even going to do? Does the Guilty Gear writer think Mexico has nukes? Does Goku live in Mexico for real, in Guilty Gear

[sophieebridgerton]

ive watched five seasons of scandal in about as many days but i think thats where i call it . i dont want to watch the last two i remember precisely two (2) scenes and they are:

when fitz leaves the white house for the last time

the very last scene

and i dont need to see the rest again ! i'm good

[mr-snailman]

[sayruq]

Just days after US Army Major Harrison Mann resigned, the Biden administration has been hit with another major resignation, this time Lily Greenberg Call, special assistant to the Chief of Staff

An interior department staffer on Wednesday became the first Jewish political appointee to publicly resign in protest of US support for Israel’s war in Gaza.Lily Greenberg Call, a special assistant to the chief of staff in the interior department, accused Joe Biden of using Jews to justify US policy in the conflict. Call had worked for the presidential campaigns of both Biden and Kamala Harris, and was a longtime activist and advocate for Israel in Washington and elsewhere before joining the government. She is at least the fifth mid- or senior-level administration staffer to make public their resignation in protest of the Biden administration’s military and diplomatic support of the now seven-month Israeli war against Hamas. She is the second political appointee to do so, after an education department official of Palestinian heritage resigned in January.Her resignation letter described her excitement at joining an administration that she believed shared much of her vision for the country. “However, I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration,” she wrote. In an interview with the Associated Press, Call pointed to comments by Biden, including at a White House Hanukkah event where he said “Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who was safe” and at an event at Washington’s Holocaust Memorial last week in which he said the 7 October Hamas-led attacks that triggered the war were driven by an “ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people”. “He is making Jews the face of the American war machine. And that is so deeply wrong,” she said, noting that ancestors of hers were killed by “state-sponsored violence”.

The resignation letter:

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Donald Trump Appoints Susie Wiles as First Female White House Chief of Staff

Donald Trump Appoints Susie Wiles as White House Chief of Staff US President-elect Donald Trump has announced the appointment of Susie Wiles, the manager of his successful campaign, as his White House chief of staff. Wiles is widely recognized both within Trump’s inner circle and beyond for orchestrating a campaign that was notably disciplined and effectively executed. Throughout the campaign,…

[worldinyourpalm]

बाइडेन अगले चीफ ऑफ स्टाफ के रूप में जेफ ज़ीएंट्स को चुनेंगे | Jeff Zients will be chosen by Biden to be his next chief of staff;

सीजर जेफ ज़िएंट्स को अगले व्हाइट हाउस चीफ ऑफ स्टाफ के रूप में

मीडिया रिपोर्ट्स के मुताबिक, राष्ट्रपति जो बिडेन अपने पूर्व कोविड सीजर जेफ ज़ीएंट्स को अगले व्हाइट हाउस चीफ ऑफ स्टाफ के रूप में चुन सकते हैं।

वॉशिंगटन पोस्ट ने रविवार को बताया कि राष्ट्रपति जो बिडेन अपने पूर्व कोविड सीजर जेफ ज़िएंट्स को अगले व्हाइट हाउस चीफ ऑफ स्टाफ के रूप में चुन सकते हैं।

पिछले दो वर्षों में व्हाइट हाउस में सबसे महत्वपूर्ण कर्मियों की पारी में, रॉन क्लैन - जो तीन दशकों से बिडेन के करीबी सहयोगी रहे हैं और पहले से ही एक डेमोक्रेटिक राष्ट्रपति के लिए सबसे लंबे समय तक सेवा करने वाले प्रमुख हैं - के पद छोड़ने की उम्मीद है। 7 फरवरी को बिडेन का स्टेट ऑफ यूनियन एड्रेस।

ज़ीएंट्स, 56, अपने अधिकांश जीवन के लिए निजी क्षेत्र में एक शीर्ष कार्यकारी थे। सरकार में उनका पहला प्रवेश बराक ओबामा प्रशासन के दौरान हुआ, जहां उन्होंने अमेरिकी मुख्य प्रदर्शन अधिकारी और प्रबंधन और बजट कार्यालय (ओएमबी) के प्रबंधन के उप निदेशक के रूप में कार्य किया, सरकारी व्यय को कम करने और इसे और अधिक कुशल बनाने का काम सौंपा। उन्होंने OMB के कार्यवाहक निदेशक के रूप में भी काम किया। वह राष्ट्रीय आर्थिक परिषद के निदेशक भी थे और राष्ट्रपति के प्रबंधन सलाहकार बोर्ड की अध्यक्षता करते थे।

महामारी प्रबंधन और अमेरिका के टीकाकरण अभियान महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका

2017 में Zients निजी क्षेत्र में लौट आए, और Facebook के निदेशक मंडल में सेवा की और इसकी ऑडिट और जोखिम निरीक्षण समिति की अध्यक्षता की।

व्हाइट हाउस के कोविड-19 प्रतिक्रिया समन्वयक नियुक्�� होने से पहले ज़ायंट्स ने 2020 में बिडेन की संक्रमण टीम में काम किया, जहां उन्होंने महामारी प्रबंधन के लिए नए प्रोटोकॉल तैयार करने और अमेरिका के टीकाकरण अभियान को गति देने में महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाई। उन्होंने अप्रैल 2022 में पद छोड़ दिया। एक विदाई नोट में, बिडेन ने कहा कि ज़िएंट्स की तुलना में परिणाम देने में कोई बेहतर नहीं था। “जेफ ने लाखों अमेरिकियों को टीके, परीक्षण, उपचार और मास्क वितरित करने के लिए आवश्यक बुनियादी ढाँचे के निर्माण की योजना तैयार करने और उसे क्रियान्वित करने के लिए अपने दशकों के प्रबंधन के अनुभव को काम में लगाया … वह सेवा करने वाले और विशेषज्ञ प्रबंधक हैं। मुझे उनकी सलाह की कमी खलेगी और मैं उनकी सेवा के लिए आभारी हूं। ” डॉ आशीष झा ने तब ज़ायंट्स को नए व्हाइट हाउस कोविड -19 समन्वयक के रूप में सफल किया था।

ज़ायंट्स को क्लेन के साथ घनिष्ठ संबंध साझा करने के लिए जाना जाता है, जिन्होंने उन्हें कर्मियों में संक्रमण की निगरानी के लिए चुना था जो आम तौर पर राष्ट्रपति के कार्यकाल में दो साल तक होता है। लेकिन जबकि क्लेन एक अनुभवी राजनीतिक ऑपरेटिव रहे हैं, जिन्होंने पिछले दो वर्षों में अमेरिकी कांग्रेस के माध्यम से बिडेन के हस्ताक्षर वाले विधानों को आगे बढ़ाने में महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाई है, ज़ायंट्स की ताकत परिचालन और प्रबंधन क्षेत्र में है....

[gordoncstewart]

A Vapor that Vanishes

A Vapor that Vanishes

“For what is your life? It is but a vapor that appears for a little time and afterward vanishes away.”Letter of James 4:14b RGT A Vapor or a Mist The Letter of James’ answer to the question of who and what we are is unexpected by those trained to believe one’s life is more than a vapor that vanishes away. Other translations render ‘vapor’ (ατμις) as a mist or smoke that vanishes or disappears.…

[navree]

see i know it's bad that i see so much of myself in amy from veep but am i gonna necessarily do anything about it? probably not

[is-the-thing-actually-jewish]

is Jewish Voice for Peace actually Jewish? I've heard a couple different things about that but no sources

@gryphistheantlerqueen also asked:

Whooo boy. So this has been sitting in the inbox for a few months, I wrote up a draft, and then it just sat... until this past week, when some new JVP BS hit the fan and gave me the kick to finish it.

Sooooo...

Verdict: Not Actually Jewish

(updated verdict after finding out about the “self-managed conversion” and “teacup mikvah”) Jewish, technically, and that "technically" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, and is actively debatable without access to a detailed breakdown of JVP’s actual membership rolls. 

In general summation, JVP is a far-left radical antizionist group that is headed by a few visibly antizionist Jews and whose membership rolls are either a strong minority or outright majority of non-Jews, based on variable statistics that they've released. Although they claim that the “majority of their members and staff are Jewish”, this seems to be both statistically unlikely and actively suspicious due to their noted tendency to instruct even non-Jewish members to speak #AsAJew on social media, and their instructions to do “self-managed conversions”.  However, due to their title, they are very popular with people who want a Jewish Stamp Of Approval for demonizing Israelis and Zionist Jews as a result. In effect, they are Jewish in the same way that people like Candace Owens and Hershel Walker are Black—as self-tokenizing minorities who throw the rest of their ethnic group under the bus in exchange for power and political access.

And despite the claims that they are “inspired by Jewish values and traditions” (as put on their website) and “oppose anti-Jewish hatred,” JVP routinely engages in antisemitic rhetoric, up to and including blood libel and antisemitic conspiracy theories, and acts as a shield against non-Jews who also engage in antisemitic rhetoric so long as the non-Jews in question remember to shout "For Palestine!" first. This is not an exaggeration. 

The primary example of their in-house antisemitic rhetoric is their "Deadly Exchange" program, where they explicitly and conspiratorially blame Israel as being responsible for American police brutality and militarization. However, for all of their fearmongering and blame-casting on the subject—as if American cops needed outside help in brutalizing minorities or gaining military-grade handmedowns from the Pentagon, both of which are explicit claims of the "Deadly Exchange" program—they have a hard time actually identifying specific deaths associated with the international training seminars they're holding up as responsible.

One of the the closest they've come to a specific allegation is claiming that "former St. Louis County police chief Timothy Fitch trained with the Israeli military three years before Michael Brown’s killing and the Ferguson uprising." (Note: this was in a video that appears to have since been made private.) But Darren Wilson worked for the Ferguson PD, not the St. Louis PD, and Fitch retired months before the killing. So he was in a completely different police department, and this is the closest JVP comes to pointing to specific deaths or acts of brutality that they blame on Israel. Everything else is literal fearmongering--up to and including the classic conspiratorial tropes of "secretive Jewish governmental influence".

JVP has also happily supported the words of white supremacists like Richard Spencer, taking his “You could say that I’m a white Zionist in the sense that I care about my people," statement at face value, using it as the basis for entire articles where they compared Zionism to White Supremacy as a deliberate misrepresentation of the ideology that is common on the extreme political Left (you can compare that treatment again with how Candace Owens treats the word "Woke" on the Right). Even when the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" march happened, JVP wasted no time in comparing Zionism with the very ideology fueling the people chanting "Jews Will Not Replace Us," saying that Zionism is "Jewish racial supremacy" and calling for a universal condemnation of the ideology as a form of White Supremacy... which was the exact sort of message that many of those same White Supremacists would have happily agreed with.  So JVP is essentially siding with literal White Supremacists,  even as they claim that "Jews are not the primary victims of White Supremacy."

JVP also engages in Holocaust revisionism, such as with this lovely quote from Cecilie Surasky, the deputy director of JVP, “I believe it is critical to situate the genocide of Jews in a broader context, and not as an exceptional, metaphysically unique event. Some 6 million Jews died, but another 5 million people were also targeted for annihilation.”

(another quote, from an article by Surasky, which compares Netanyahu to Hitler.)

This is just straight revisionism of the entire Holocaust and the unique fixation the Nazis had on the Jews. Literally, even when they were losing, they were diverting resources from the war just to kill more Jews. Quote Hitler himself, "Jews must be prevented from intruding themselves among all the other nations as elements of internal disruption, under the mask of honest world-citizens, and thus gaining power over these nations." The very basis of the Nazi ideology paints Jews as an existential threat to the human race's peace and security—a far cry from JVP's claim that the Jewish suffering in the Holocaust wasn't unique or exceptional.

Additionally, JVP ignores or re-envisions Mizrachi Jewish history. They call the very term Mizrachi “Zionist rhetoric,” and refer to Mizrachi “immigrants,” (“Deadly Exchange,” pg. 16-17), and claim “the Israeli government facilitated a mass immigration of Mizrahim” (“Our Approach to Zionism”) as though those weren’t the direct result of the mass expulsion of and violence against Jews in MENA countries. These weren’t immigrants, these were refugees. 

And as for the question of “Are they Jewish?”, well...

Statistically, they are not representative of the Jewish population as a whole, 90% of whom identify as some degree of Zionist in the sense of “Supporting Jewish self-determination.”  One does not need to be Jewish to join JVP, as they proudly state on their website. Their membership rolls are also extremely obfuscated, and the fact that they encourage their followers, whether Jewish or not, to post and speak “as Jews” on social media makes it even more difficult to figure out what percentage of their membership is actually Jewish.  Furthermore, they have instructions for their members to engage in “self-conversions” that are not acceptable to Jewish law or tradition, and misuse/appropriate other sacred Jewish traditions to the point that “blasphemy” is an accurate description, with their instructions on the mikvah (a sacred bath) being outright offensive.  

(note that one has to be completely nude and bare of any adornment or makeup to use the mikvah, which is a pure pool of collected rainwater to be immersed in, for context on the above... misuse.  Trying to claim this as being “in line with sacred Jewish tradition” is like trying to claim to be Catholic while also saying that the Pope is the Antichrist and that using beer and a doughnut for the Eucharist is acceptable. For more information on mikveh, see: The Jewish Virtual Library, Aish, myjewishlearning, or Chabad.

There's also no altar.

The irony of asking people not to appropriate while doing this is astonishing.)

It’s also telling that they straight up say they are “claiming” the practice as their own.

Furthermore, JVP has hosted panels on “antisemitism” in the past... headed by people who are not only not Jewish, but who have been credibly accused of antisemitism in the past.  

JVP has also endorsed The Mapping Project Boston, which was a Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) subsidiary, listing every “Zionist” organization in Boston, Mass. This included Jewish schools, elder homes, community centers, disability centers, and more; all of them painted with scary and misleading “links” to non-Jewish organizations to insinuate Jewish control of the state and city governments, invoking age-old antisemitic tropes of a conspiracy of Jews as they did so:

(first image is the Mapping Project, the second is a 1938 Nazi political cartoon)

The Mapping Project also, and this is my personal favorite, accused Harvard University of doing “racist science” for engaging in archeological and genetic studies of Jews and Jewish history.  Tellingly, BDS actually disavowed The Mapping Project (albeit for bad optics, not for the rank antisemitism they were promoting)... but JVP has not, even though the Mapping Project’s entry for the ADL reads as follows:

Masquerading as a “civil rights” group, the ADL is a counterinsurgency and espionage organization whose mission is to protect the mutual interests of the US and Israeli governments, and to eliminate solidarity among oppressed peoples, especially concerning Palestine. The ADL spies on and criminalizes activists (using its connections to governments, police, schools, and corporations) while undermining their work by pushing its own state-sanctioned, pro-“Israel” agenda. And while the ADL claims to represent Jews and to fight “antisemitism” on their behalf, the organization has supported anti-Jewish state violence and sanitized Nazis. The ADL cannot be reformed: it must be dismantled and whatever resources it has should go towards repairing the many harms it has done. (Emphasis added.)

Of course, JVP has also engaged in similar conspiracy-toned antisemitic dogwhistles, such as this fun bit from their first Deadly Exchange video:

So clearly (to me at least), they have no problems with The Mapping Project’s tone and presentation.  

And this isn’t even going into JVP’s routine promotion of blood libel, their egregious double standards, their approving of pogroms, their active support for Hamas terrorists and demonization of Hamas’ victims, their attempted revisionism of Jewish history, their abject rejection of Jewish culture, and their other actions that show not just bias, but outright hatred for 90% of the world’s Jews.  

As one commentator put it, JVP as an organization is very much like Autism Speaks is to Autistic people--a thinly disguised hate group that views the people they’re supposedly speaking for as the problem, and themselves as promoting the Solution.  To this moderator, they’re the equivalent of the Association of German National Jews, who were also known as the Jews for Hitler; they wanted to abandon Judaism and embrace Naziism... and they got sent to the gas chambers anyway.  

Mod Joseph

Sources:

www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/jewish-voice-peace

www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Mikveh-Guide-for-Jewish-Voice-for-Peace-Outlined.pdf

(and also just... a general experience/exposure to them on social media, where even the most progressive actions taken by Israel, such as the recent ruling regarding queer Palestinians being able to claim sanctuary in Israel, being labeled as “pinkwashing”)