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Trump shares video with racist clip depicting Obamas as apes
- k310 8mo agotrump has deleted the racist post showing the obamas as apes, which leaves karoline leavitt out to dry for defending it to the hilt earlier. Source: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2orsuabrdskjpuglpru77po2/post/3me7f6kpjdk2m https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2orsuabrdskjpuglpru77po2/po...
- duxup 8mo agoIt seems like Trump tries very hard to associate himself with things racists do/like, etc.
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- xenospn 8mo agoIt’s always a distraction. Look behind the curtain.
- password54321 8mo agoTrump posts video of Obama as an ape Internet: "It is 4D chess!" You can't make this up.
- thunky 8mo agoThe idea is to keep raising the bar of absurdity higher and higher to prove that there are no consequences, making the next worse offense easier. All with the seal of approval from the entire power class. Maybe not 4d chess, but it's working pretty well.
- password54321 8mo agoI think you are thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window which might be true
- verdverm 8mo agoIt's definitely what they do, look to Trump influencers like Bannon and Miller
- cosmicgadget 8mo agoCan you please clarify this statement? It could mean a lot of things.
- sph 8mo agoIf people are talking about Obama, they're not talking about a certain financier.
- fifilura 8mo agoThis is how they play with the dog-whistle. Let it be out long enough for the white supremacists to notice and then apologize.
- moogly 8mo agoIs it really a dog whistle? Dog megaphone. Or maybe dog stadium PA.
- NekkoDroid 8mo agoWe really aren't talking about a dog-whistle here... This is a fog horn.
- verdverm 8mo agoFoghorn Leghorn was rather racist too
- password54321 8mo ago“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou
- krapp 8mo agoThis isn't even the first time Republicans portrayed Obama as a monkey. It was kind of a low-hanging meme for them during his presidency.
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- krapp 8mo agoYeah... no. You're not going to convince anyone that Obama and his wife were portrayed as apes, monkeys, what have you by the Trump administration as a compliment or that there was some kind of reverse racism against white people involved, or a sly jab at Trump's intelligence. I'm half convinced you're doing satire here, and you don't even believe it yourself.
- cosmicgadget 8mo agoThis is one of those moments you realize all of the Overton Window talk is not partisan nor alarmism.
- moogly 8mo agoAnyone else doing this would be instant political suicide. For Trump, it's just another regular weekday.
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- voganmother42 8mo agoWow, is there anything you wouldn’t work so hard to justify? Can you reference anything you perceive as racist?
- mothballed 8mo agoSure, for instance, SCOTUS justice RBG once wrote a minority opinion in Rice v Cayetano that it is OK to ban certain races from voting in certain public elections. Obviously, RBG was a flaming racist and thankfully her opinion was overruled. So yes I would say people like Ruth Ginsburg who didn't believe in the 15th amendment allowing equal voting rights with regards to race, are racists.
- BryantD 8mo agoLook at all those details omitted! This was an indigenous people treaty case, and when mothballed says "certain public elections" they mean "a single election for a position in Hawaii which was established in negotiations with indigenous Hawaiians in the 1970s. Not, however, a treaty obligation. I don't know that I agree with RGB here, but I don't find that to be a racist opinion.
- mothballed 8mo agoI love it. A video depicting both white and black people as non-human primates is more racist than literally using the might of the state to try and block excluded races from voting for a public office. This is part of the reason why the nominally anti-racist zealots are losing the battle. We want to live in a world where it's actually considered racist to exclude races in a public election, rather than one where it's not racist to exclude races from a public election but somehow more racist to post a multi-racial video depicting whites and others as non-human animals.
- k310 8mo agoBBC report on the disappearing video. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8r8y78g10o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8r8y78g10o
- belter 8mo ago"I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. not one decent cell in his body..." - Jeffrey Epstein
- yongjik 8mo ago...and look at some comments here, every day I get confirmation that Trump supporters will defend everything, there's no coming back. Thankfully they are <40% of US voters now. Yes, that's a depressingly large number but having a ~40% core group of MAGA and everyone else being thoroughly disgusted by Trump means the bottom is falling out for Republicans. Recent Texas Senate election (SD-9) saw Democrats winning by 17 points (Republicans won the district in 2022 by 60-40). Abolishing ICE is now the more popular opinion (46 to 43 in some poll). We'll see how much damage the beast will inflict before it's finally slain.
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