This morning, I wake up and the cable and Internet are back up and so I turn on my computer and get on the news to see what I missed (via Tom McCarthy at The Guardian).
Goaded on by the president, a crowd at a Donald Trump rally on Wednesday night chanted “send her back! send her back!” in reference to Ilhan Omar, a US congresswoman who arrived almost 30 years ago as a child refugee in the United States.
Trump used the 2020 campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, to attack Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan – calling them “hate-filled extremists”. The group, which calls itself “the Squad”, has been the focus of racist attacks by the president this week, kickstarted by tweets posted Sunday in which he said the lawmakers, all women of color, should “go back” to other countries.
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Dear America:
I am a White Guy. Even to me, this is straight-up fucked-up racism going on.
trump is a goddamned racist.
Every trump voter cheering him at that rally were goddamned racists.
Every media pundit on television and radio and print and Internet defending this crap are goddamned racists.
Every Republican elected official excusing this crap are goddamned racists.
There is no more hiding from this fact that ever since the 1960s, when the political dynamics changed after the Civil Rights and Voting Acts both passed, that the Republicans shifted their conservatism to accept and promote racist bullshit. The apologists love to yell and scream "But Robert Byrd was in the KKK," but goddamn them Byrd is dead now and the Klan is voting Republican today. David Duke is a publicly gushing fanboy of trump, you sons of bitches. I've said this before: Today's Republicans are NOT the Party of Lincoln, they are now the Party of Calhoun. Goddamn them.
What trump is doing today should scare every honest American, every man woman and child who believe in the melting pot of immigration and civic harmony, every human being on the planet.
We have goddamned racists in charge of the White House.
To every American who's eligible to vote but hasn't registered: WHAT THE HELL. REGISTER TO VOTE. VOTE FOR EVERY DEMOCRAT ON THE BALLOTS. WE ARE SCREWED BY A REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT IS RACIST AS FUCK. GET OUT THE GODDAMNED VOTE FOR 2020. I AM NOT JOKING.
None of this shit is funny. Vote, damn you.
What the hell, Republicans.
1 comment:
On the other hand, he seemed sort of bothered at the rally when a guy held up a picture of him with Jeffry Epstein.
-Doug in Oakland
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