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DAVID S. GLOSSER August 13, 2018
Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration.
It begins at the turn of the 20th century, in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus. Beset by violent anti-Jewish pogroms and forced childhood conscription in the Czars army, the patriarch of the shack, Wolf-Leib Glosser, fled a village where his forebears had lived for centuries and took his chances in America.
He set foot on Ellis Island on January 7, 1903, with $8 to his name. Though fluent in Polish, Russian and Yiddish, he understood no English. An elder son, Nathan, soon followed. By street corner peddling and sweatshop toil, Wolf-Leib and Nathan sent enough money home to pay off debts and buy the immediate familys passage to America in 1906. That group included young Sam Glosser, who with his family settled in the western Pennsylvania city of Johnstown, a booming coal and steel town that was a magnet for other hardworking immigrants. The Glosser family quickly progressed from selling goods from a horse and wagon to owning a haberdashery in Johnstown run by Nathan and Wolf-Leib to a chain of supermarkets and discount department stores run by my grandfather, Sam, and the next generation of Glossers, including my dad, Izzy. It was big enough to be listed on the AMEX stock exchange and employed thousands of people over time. In the span of some 80 years and five decades, this family emerged from poverty in a hostile country to become a prosperous, educated clan of merchants, scholars, professionals, and, most important, American citizens.
What does this classically American tale have to do with Stephen Miller? Well, Izzy Glosser is his maternal grandfather, and Stephens mother, Miriam, is my sister.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/

surfered
(6,456 posts)Maybe he was bullied in school by some brown skinned person?
the nelm
(73 posts)malaise
(283,545 posts)Last edited Thu May 1, 2025, 03:28 PM - Edit history (1)
Hes hardly the first such person
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,583 posts)Google up stephen millers years in high school. Miller apparently went through some radical changes during this period including shunning a Latino student with whom he had a close friendship.
surfered
(6,456 posts)shanti
(21,743 posts)in Santa Monica?
Volaris
(10,839 posts)I can give you no confirmation that it's true (except that I did read it on the web somewhere), but if it is, it speaks volumes.
'Who hurt you, stephen?'
In this case, we know.
orleans
(35,956 posts)soldierant
(8,444 posts)Nothing to do with genetics - those I can think of off the top of my head are, f not disowned by their families, at least publicly contradicted by them. It's not just Miller. Theres RFK Kr, and Pail Gosar. And no doubt others.
BoRaGard
(5,200 posts)
kimbutgar
(24,971 posts)Born evil would be a perfect description of him. I think he is the reincarnation of an evil past person.
ananda
(31,598 posts)Maybe a psychopath from birth.
orleans
(35,956 posts)
markodochartaigh
(2,755 posts)n/t
Here's another:
SheltieLover
(67,177 posts)Is this a theme in tsf's admin?
I guess all the more powerful an embarrassment to the US on the workd stage to please pootin.
liberalgunwilltravel
(789 posts)Stephen Heinrich Himmler Miller is hiding in the bunker with his fuhrer, the better.
LittleGirl
(8,670 posts)Last edited Thu May 1, 2025, 06:06 PM - Edit history (1)
and it's shocking how racist some of my relatives are. I shouted at one and said, your grandfather would be ashamed of you. My grandfather and your grandfather were like blood brothers/cousins from the same village. They came here and were spat on just like you're doing to any brown skinned person and it's sickening. Grow up.
mtngirl47
(1,157 posts)I told relatives of mine that I am ashamed to be in this family.
LittleGirl
(8,670 posts)One cousin visited Italy and considered it a shithole country. That was probably the last time I spoke to him. I dont have people like that in my life.
CitizenZero
(920 posts)This is a funny and informative video on Stephen Miller's past. Just about 32 minutes long but worth watching.
SpankMe
(3,443 posts)This is a well-written, powerful piece.
Justice matters.
(8,329 posts)the fascists who parade chanting "Jews will not replace us" ...
Hitler's concentration camps redux.
JanMichael
(25,581 posts)The current version has been obliterated
DENVERPOPS
(11,965 posts)White supremacists know that, we should tell them at every chance......
elleng
(139,322 posts)rpannier
(24,702 posts)UTUSN
(74,020 posts)Godot51
(439 posts)He hates his roots.
He's ashamed of his heritage.
He thinks he is better than they were.
So he takes it out on today's immigrants
BigmanPigman
(52,947 posts)Nothing has changed. Nothing ever changes, unless it changes for the worse.
His relative told the public the same info in 2017. What has changed? No, really, what has changed? Certainly nothing for the better. The only things that change in the US political system are when horrible things are made even more horrible by the greedy, sadistic, hate filled, testosterone poisoned US political machine. Even the corporate Dem donors are as evil as the GOP these days. They all bow to their god...King Midas and the power of gold.