I remember when Obama got elected thinking “Republicans will have a hard time trying to smear this squeaky clean guy” and I was right—they had a hard time but found a way, because they always have to be on permanent angry. Remember the “terrorist fist jab” when he fist bumped his wife? Remember “how dare your wife recommend vegetables for kids”? If you start from the premise that you have to hate the guy, you are stuck with that weak ass shit.
Trump can’t stand that Obama is superior to him by every measure of manhood and despite being black shows no deference to him. (Note how he tolerates Byron Donalds, for instance, who does show such deference). And Trump, while not being our first bigot president, is certainly the president most consumed by his bigotry, because it clearly is eating away at him.
I'm afraid Trump's racism is becoming the new normal, thanks to the constant barrage of hateful sordid dogshit that comes out of his mouth, complicit Republicans, the MSM that kneeled to Orange Zod on day 1, and voters who have grown tired and/or desensitized to the chaos.
We've come full circle to before the days of the '60's civil rights era, when the 'Moral Majority' decided that their Big Issue was abortion, because their 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 Big Issue, rolling back the Civil Rights Act and reinstituting Jim Crow was simply not palatable politically.
The racism 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, all Trump (and many, MANY others in the Republican Party ) has done is give them permission to pull the Klan Robes out of the closet where they were hidden and wear them openly again.
@Stephen, I clocked this issue back during the Covington Catholic controversy.
Like most of our daily news cycle, most people saw whatever their tribal biases needed them to see — a racist kid harassing an innocent old Native man, or aggressive counterprotestors against brave young teens standing up for the unborn.
What *I* saw was the same shit-eating smirk of privilege, contempt, and arrogance that plagued my six years at a similarly elite Catholic secondary school.
That was when I started to be concerned. Not about that specific group from that specific school, but about all of the kids who grew up in the same sort of privilege I did. I was raised as a Republican and a devout Catholic, and went to that march once or twice myself with my church youth group. For a brief window in my young adulthood, I almost succumbed to the various prejudices and burgeoning propaganda that had suffused my whole environment.
One thing that helped me was having teachers and authority figures around who, whatever their beliefs, held us to a high standard of our own beliefs. Being “right” about politics was worthless to them if you couldn’t be a decent, humble, *good* person to others, whether you meant it or not.
It still scares me just how much nonsense we’ve tolerated in the past decade alone. We’re going to be de-Baathifying America for a LONG time even if we successfully get through this. And we should absolutely NOT repeat the mistakes of the failure of Reconstruction, by allowing a second Lost Cause lie to be spread in the aftermath.
"I grew up in rural South Carolina in the 1980s. I’m sure most of my teacher were Republicans and quite a few probably held racist views. However, they still believed it was inappropriate to express those views publicly."
This was even unthinkable where I was growing up in the North. Back then out-and-out open racism was something you wouldn't expect from a politician. Even in the Oughts this was a thing (remember the guy from Virginia, Allen was it? who did the "macaca" comment and that did him in.
The thing is now, this sort of racism was already known about the pricktator. But he was the first politician to wholly, openly unlock full on sadopopulism. Sadopopulism is the tactical nuke of politics because it always ends badly; it always ends in eliminiationist rhetoric which then transitions into atrocities (some of which we see now.)
This is who Trump has always been. From the start of his rise in the public consciousness he was first known for discriminatory actions. Rather than fight the first case, they paid the fine. He just got better at hiding it but it’s always been there. Dare I say that he cannot accept anyone who is more successful than him and a Black man really rubbed his ass raw. This petty jealous man saw Obama as everything he was not: Smart, funny, appealing and especially liked and accepted by the cool kids. Add on the Nobel and it tipped him to absolute envy. He feels betrayed (because everyone should bow down to him) and seethes with jealousy.
Now, couple this with failing mental faculties and there is no longer a filter. The further removed he is from reality, the less he cares (as if he ever really cared) about how it is perceived. He truly really thinks that this is what the public wants. The teeniest pushback only gets his staff to remove the crap from his posts. As he said, no I’m not going to apologize.
President Obama holding the office of the presidency may have been what got trump to run for president, especially after Obama mocking trump's birtherism to his face at the 2011 WHCD, and as we learned later, while Seal Team 6 was turning OBL into fish food. However, trump was too chicken to run against Obama in 2012, because, he's a chicken, and he knew that he would lose to Obama. He couldn't risk it, so waited until 2016. They aren't touting "trump 2028" anymore (don't know if it's his obvious poor health, or his unpopularity, or both), but when they did, many on the left retorted with "fine, we will run Obama again!" Hey, maybe it was that - trump not wanting to face Obama in a presidential race match-up!
Don't forget that President Obama openly mocked Trump to his face during the Correspondents Dinner. I remain convinced that that humiliation fueled his subsequent fixation on getting even with Obama, and has led to every racist and personal attack on both of the Obamas since that night.
I definitely remember that. And you could see the hate boiling off that monstrous man. Obama's ribbing was absolutely lighthearted too, considering that the fucking pricktator was openly claiming Obama wasn't even AMERICAN. Making fun of a narcissist is like declaring war on them.
What's really weird (well maybe not) is that Seth Meyers also teed off on him, but the pricktator hasn't gone after Meyers with this level of vitriol. So I can only presume he doesn't see Meyers as a threat—he has gone after Stephen Colbert WAY harder.
Didn't read your comment before posting mine, and you are right. But the best way to get even with Obama would be to beat him in a presidential race, but trump was too chicken to run against him in 2012. So he is regulated to posting and saying racist memes about the Obamas. trump is so pathetic.
I remember when Obama got elected thinking “Republicans will have a hard time trying to smear this squeaky clean guy” and I was right—they had a hard time but found a way, because they always have to be on permanent angry. Remember the “terrorist fist jab” when he fist bumped his wife? Remember “how dare your wife recommend vegetables for kids”? If you start from the premise that you have to hate the guy, you are stuck with that weak ass shit.
Trump can’t stand that Obama is superior to him by every measure of manhood and despite being black shows no deference to him. (Note how he tolerates Byron Donalds, for instance, who does show such deference). And Trump, while not being our first bigot president, is certainly the president most consumed by his bigotry, because it clearly is eating away at him.
I'm afraid Trump's racism is becoming the new normal, thanks to the constant barrage of hateful sordid dogshit that comes out of his mouth, complicit Republicans, the MSM that kneeled to Orange Zod on day 1, and voters who have grown tired and/or desensitized to the chaos.
We've come full circle to before the days of the '60's civil rights era, when the 'Moral Majority' decided that their Big Issue was abortion, because their 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 Big Issue, rolling back the Civil Rights Act and reinstituting Jim Crow was simply not palatable politically.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/
The racism 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, all Trump (and many, MANY others in the Republican Party ) has done is give them permission to pull the Klan Robes out of the closet where they were hidden and wear them openly again.
@Stephen, I clocked this issue back during the Covington Catholic controversy.
Like most of our daily news cycle, most people saw whatever their tribal biases needed them to see — a racist kid harassing an innocent old Native man, or aggressive counterprotestors against brave young teens standing up for the unborn.
What *I* saw was the same shit-eating smirk of privilege, contempt, and arrogance that plagued my six years at a similarly elite Catholic secondary school.
That was when I started to be concerned. Not about that specific group from that specific school, but about all of the kids who grew up in the same sort of privilege I did. I was raised as a Republican and a devout Catholic, and went to that march once or twice myself with my church youth group. For a brief window in my young adulthood, I almost succumbed to the various prejudices and burgeoning propaganda that had suffused my whole environment.
One thing that helped me was having teachers and authority figures around who, whatever their beliefs, held us to a high standard of our own beliefs. Being “right” about politics was worthless to them if you couldn’t be a decent, humble, *good* person to others, whether you meant it or not.
It still scares me just how much nonsense we’ve tolerated in the past decade alone. We’re going to be de-Baathifying America for a LONG time even if we successfully get through this. And we should absolutely NOT repeat the mistakes of the failure of Reconstruction, by allowing a second Lost Cause lie to be spread in the aftermath.
This is what I've always said about the worst thing Trump has done for our country: he's made open racism acceptable again.
"Democrats had practically been controlled opposition during the Reagan/Bush years"
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Your mom breaking out the Rich Little zinger is peak '80s/'90s.
"I grew up in rural South Carolina in the 1980s. I’m sure most of my teacher were Republicans and quite a few probably held racist views. However, they still believed it was inappropriate to express those views publicly."
This was even unthinkable where I was growing up in the North. Back then out-and-out open racism was something you wouldn't expect from a politician. Even in the Oughts this was a thing (remember the guy from Virginia, Allen was it? who did the "macaca" comment and that did him in.
The thing is now, this sort of racism was already known about the pricktator. But he was the first politician to wholly, openly unlock full on sadopopulism. Sadopopulism is the tactical nuke of politics because it always ends badly; it always ends in eliminiationist rhetoric which then transitions into atrocities (some of which we see now.)
This is who Trump has always been. From the start of his rise in the public consciousness he was first known for discriminatory actions. Rather than fight the first case, they paid the fine. He just got better at hiding it but it’s always been there. Dare I say that he cannot accept anyone who is more successful than him and a Black man really rubbed his ass raw. This petty jealous man saw Obama as everything he was not: Smart, funny, appealing and especially liked and accepted by the cool kids. Add on the Nobel and it tipped him to absolute envy. He feels betrayed (because everyone should bow down to him) and seethes with jealousy.
Now, couple this with failing mental faculties and there is no longer a filter. The further removed he is from reality, the less he cares (as if he ever really cared) about how it is perceived. He truly really thinks that this is what the public wants. The teeniest pushback only gets his staff to remove the crap from his posts. As he said, no I’m not going to apologize.
President Obama holding the office of the presidency may have been what got trump to run for president, especially after Obama mocking trump's birtherism to his face at the 2011 WHCD, and as we learned later, while Seal Team 6 was turning OBL into fish food. However, trump was too chicken to run against Obama in 2012, because, he's a chicken, and he knew that he would lose to Obama. He couldn't risk it, so waited until 2016. They aren't touting "trump 2028" anymore (don't know if it's his obvious poor health, or his unpopularity, or both), but when they did, many on the left retorted with "fine, we will run Obama again!" Hey, maybe it was that - trump not wanting to face Obama in a presidential race match-up!
"He remains the worst of us."
Precisely why Putin made him President.
Don't forget that President Obama openly mocked Trump to his face during the Correspondents Dinner. I remain convinced that that humiliation fueled his subsequent fixation on getting even with Obama, and has led to every racist and personal attack on both of the Obamas since that night.
I definitely remember that. And you could see the hate boiling off that monstrous man. Obama's ribbing was absolutely lighthearted too, considering that the fucking pricktator was openly claiming Obama wasn't even AMERICAN. Making fun of a narcissist is like declaring war on them.
What's really weird (well maybe not) is that Seth Meyers also teed off on him, but the pricktator hasn't gone after Meyers with this level of vitriol. So I can only presume he doesn't see Meyers as a threat—he has gone after Stephen Colbert WAY harder.
Oh yeah.
Didn't read your comment before posting mine, and you are right. But the best way to get even with Obama would be to beat him in a presidential race, but trump was too chicken to run against him in 2012. So he is regulated to posting and saying racist memes about the Obamas. trump is so pathetic.