oh weird, who could have imagined that these are the attitudes of the people around trump - ThreadSky

jamellebouie.net • 58 days ago

oh weird, who could have imagined that these are the attitudes of the people around trump

Reposted from Philip Bump

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4gabriel.bsky.social•57 days ago

🤦‍♀️😡

bakingfool.bsky.social•57 days ago

I can't think of a word disgusting enough to describe these Republicans. 😖

cristabel.bsky.social•58 days ago

Next up: “all right: why don’t we just say the nice white folks in red states get benefits and The Blacks don’t get shit.” This has been their platform since the 60s. “Fuck you, non-whites.”

savvycammom.bsky.social•57 days ago

They just figure this shit out?

danifroom.bsky.social•58 days ago

And every one of his supposedly regretful voters
https://bsky.app/profile/danifroom.bsky.social/post/3lkdqedt3oc2t

jenhamilton.bsky.social•58 days ago

It’s not just the people around Trump. Half of our country is simply racist and misogynistic and they are holding the rest of us back even if it means they’re holding themselves back as well.

jenhamilton.bsky.social•58 days ago

They’re poking holes in one end of the boat and laughing while others are drowning and the water is already up to their waists. Fucking idiots.

ghostoflittleseb.bsky.social•58 days ago

THAT PART, meanwhile I would want to help people in the sinking boat even if my boat was fine

satiricalplanet.bsky.social•56 days ago

Ah history, humanity’s favourite horror movie that we watch on repeat, somehow always surprised when the monster shows up again.

Congratulations, America! You’re on track to winning the “Ignore Fascism Until It’s Too Late” speedrun challenge.
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/when-warnings-go-unheeded-how-to

caerolle.bsky.social•58 days ago

The MAGAts just open express racism. Pure and raw. They are all disgusting human beings.

bluefugue.bsky.social•58 days ago

They have to be racists because someone once called them racist

clownings.bsky.social•58 days ago

I am not a journalist. I didn't take any journalism classes, can someone please explain why this person deserves anonymity?

rcinnc1.bsky.social•58 days ago

Nothing like telling everyone that he (Bump) benefitted from white privilege and is now readjusting his myopic shades with a full-throated commentary as a racist, with conviction.

ghostyspook.bsky.social•58 days ago

I’m just wondering if the lack of care for the va/veterans has something to do with the demos changing in the military

savvycammom.bsky.social•57 days ago

Nah. Republicans have never really cared for veterans. At least not when it matters. When the bills come due.

warofthebees.bsky.social•58 days ago

I would imagine just by the sheer population numbers, there must be more white people on government assistance than any people of color, right?

nicholeforsenate.bsky.social•58 days ago

JFC

beingsass.bsky.social•58 days ago

When I heard that last night I about screamed.

bamboozer2112.bsky.social•58 days ago

Relax! It's based on greed and the worship of their great god Mammon, never on compassion.

astro-kraken.bsky.social•58 days ago

100% sure they also pronounced it get-toe

steel-is-real.bsky.social•58 days ago

Racism never ever ended. What happened was it became the subversive form of political motivation for an entire party’s base over the last 50 years

rocketsfriends.bsky.social•57 days ago

Have you even said thank you, Jamelle?

jamellebouie.net•58 days ago

i am definitely not going to resent, forever, the dipshits who said i was “obsessed with race” for correctly identifying the animating beliefs and resentments of these people

mudsludge.bsky.social•58 days ago

I am honestly starting to think that some people don't understand that what someone tells you may not be their true motivation and to figure out what is you need to look at the patterns of their behavior

hellios29.bsky.social•58 days ago

The most infuriating part is that they still won't stop. Deep down they always knew. These are the people who they grew up with, work with and live with. If hearing it directly won't let them see it they just refuse to see it.

archcamcam.bsky.social•58 days ago

These people are addicted to not seeing how racism has benefited their lives because then they would have to look at all the opportunities they received and wonder if they were actually ever truly qualified or did they get here due to discrimination, gatekeeping and structural inequality

frankmale.bsky.social•50 days ago

& that's why they become NOT SEES?

archcamcam.bsky.social•50 days ago

INDEED

sarahbruhn.bsky.social•58 days ago

Exactly. Or looking for all the other reasons why Harris lost and conveniently leaving out racism and misogyny.

rephemeral.bsky.social•58 days ago

your points were obviously true; but they were deeply politically incorrect

robpollard45.bsky.social•58 days ago

That's a great phrase for it.

There are numerous centrist / left-of-center white male pundits on social media who get offended if you point out that voters' racism / sexism was a key factor in Harris' loss. They just pretend it's all about tax policy, transgender stances, and being "relatable".

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•58 days ago

There are also numerous left-of-left-of-center folks who get offended if you suggest that racism and sexism were key factors. THESE folks want it to be all about "Gaza" and "Liz Cheney". Nah. It was "borger exponsive" and "lady president I dunno man".

hellios29.bsky.social•58 days ago

Thank you! The idea that this is just coming from moderates is absurd.

pastella.bsky.social•58 days ago

I think it was both actually. Could say that Dems preferred Hilary over a Jew (I’ll never get over Bernie) as well….god forbid we have a non Christian president 🙄. Then factoring in, Americans would rather have trump (failed biz man) than a woman, a woman of color…cherry on top, she supported Israel

pastella.bsky.social•58 days ago

I say all this as a Jew who stays highly critical of Israel and the heinous treatment of Palestinians, mind you.

keeganc15.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yeah I wish I lived in a nation that has a well informed and deeply compassionate and empathetic electorate enough that the US sanctioned violence in Gaza and relations with the Cheneys sunk a Presidential bid. It sounds better then the stupid bigoted one we actually have !

robpollard45.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yeah, that's true.

It's really uncomfortable to sit with, but the fact is many voters -- including plenty of people of color -- are much more comfortable w a well-known guy running things, esp if he's white. They think the system is setup a certain way, and rich white guys know what levers to pull.

robpollard45.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's why Repubs have done better, in terms of polling, on the economy, for decades, even though Dems are demonstrably better (whether stock mkt, jobs, or GDP).

Ask the average American to picture someone successful in business, they look like Donald Trump or Mark Cuban, not Junior Bridgeman.

rennar.bsky.social•58 days ago

"you're obsessed with race" while trying to explain the racism of the right while their guy is literally going around defining the race and ethnicity of his nonwhite political opponents however he wants.

celtzo.bsky.social•58 days ago

Posts like these are one of the few things that make me wish for FB emojis. Specifically, the “I care” one. Liking the post seems so insufficient.

abobby77.bsky.social•58 days ago

The same folks that were always against any civil rights progress for Americans now are making gains undoing what they always desired. We need to stand strong for all Americans.

anonymousvc.bsky.social•58 days ago

It's just economic anxiety and not rcsm at all.

Yep, just good ol' fashioned economic anxiety.

frankmale.bsky.social•50 days ago

Yep, just good ol' fashioned eKonomiK anKiety.

cliosfanboy.bsky.social•58 days ago

MAGA: "We hate n-words!!!"
Black Commentator: "WOW, they are racist!"
White Moderate to BC: "Why are you so obsessed with race???"

hellios29.bsky.social•58 days ago

Oh there are some white leftists that do it too.

cliosfanboy.bsky.social•58 days ago

fair enough. I think the key word here is "white."

archcamcam.bsky.social•58 days ago

the mirrors just don't work

slip-sliding.bsky.social•58 days ago

Nope...YOU were RIGHT FUCKING ON!
(it has been THOSE dipshits' refusal to FACE reality that has led (in significant part) to the clusterfuck we are ALL now caught up in).
And their continued failure will seal our DOOM!
So...HEY, DIPSHITS!
WAKE THE FUCK UP!

salvadordalillama.bsky.social•58 days ago

the idea that there is a natural aristocracy that sets white people and men at the top of any comparison is the core belief of maga. that is why any real world outcome that contradicts must be attacked rather than accepted as evidence to the contrary.

frankmale.bsky.social•50 days ago

Speaking of evidence to the contrary,
have you seen the White Male Mediocracy
of the corrupt & cowardly, ignorant & incompetent
Trump/"GOP"?

mayorgumdrop.bsky.social•58 days ago

The alt right is by far the most “obsessed with race” political community in America. No other communities are doing fringe pseudo-ancestry.com race supremacy lineage myth-making about their family history. Everyone else is holding onto family history+culture. They weaponize myths of their heritages

bygay.bsky.social•58 days ago

As a first gen American, it is painfully obvious to me, that race is a bedrock issue at the bottom of every problem in this great country of ours.

egoldman.bsky.social•58 days ago

It was not the economy

kerricoombs.bsky.social•58 days ago

One look at Stephen Miller's rage-bespittled face and it should be obvious to everyone that these are the exact same kind of men as the killers of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

philipvernon.bsky.social•58 days ago

👏🏼

erikalyn.bsky.social•58 days ago

They're the ones obsessed with race.

bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social•58 days ago

but what is the alternative? not letting people vote just because they are too racist?

wait I think I've got something here...

profkfh.bsky.social•58 days ago

Now it’s going to be “if you had just said it nicer we would have listened” 😑

kevin7bsky.bsky.social•58 days ago

dogsdadbod.bsky.social•58 days ago

By the people who say "I don't see color" when they really mean "I pretend POC don't exist"

wovenstrap.bsky.social•58 days ago

Look what's the harm in saying the electorate is divided into voters of color and actual voters whose votes should count 43% more?

This is the vibe I get from just about every elected Republican.

marclhommedieu.bsky.social•58 days ago

"Yes, but we totally weren't racist until you started calling us out, and if you're going to say that then we might as well just go ahead and be racist, right? I guess that's what you wanted all along!"

haveyouanywool.bsky.social•58 days ago

You mean like federal employee is code for “minority hire”? These folks are so insistent on caste that they will politically harm themselves (by unnecessarily causing harm to “their” voters) in their efforts to privilege white people and to harm non-white people.

harryfinch.bsky.social•58 days ago

Whites don't like facing the truth that we're the problem. Nobody likes thinking they are the problem, but a quick look at voting patterns the last 50 years tells you that it's whites voting for bad candidates, crazy ideas, and lousy government.

ramblinboomer.bsky.social•58 days ago

Not me dude, white man here in his 70s from the south and I've forever said it's always been about race.

hellscapenavigator.bsky.social•58 days ago

my operating theory of deep US conservatism is they break government because a nominally inclusive government is intolerable, and if the government is broken, it will be easier to overthrow for a segregationist one. Deny your enemy their wonders. all the "small government" crap is cover story.

zolascola.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yes, definitely don’t. 😉

tr007.bsky.social•58 days ago

This is Steve Bannon.

woodsidehouston.bsky.social•58 days ago

One of my guilty pleasures in retirement is watching judicial parental custody disputes. I was shocked at the number of white people who rely on Medicaid for their children's healthcare. Not to pertinent to the subject at hand: The lack of grooming among these parents--especially the women.

dougom.bsky.social•58 days ago

That’s one reason I was absolutely livid about @slotkin.senate.gov mentioning Reagan in a positive light. Does she not know about his demonizing of “welfare queens”? Jeebus.

hellios29.bsky.social•58 days ago

Or Biden's entire political career of being an open white supremacist and neo-segregationist.

tancred1098.bsky.social•58 days ago

Well said.

joeangersiii.bsky.social•58 days ago

Anybody who doesn't acknowledge the entirety of the Trump Project as an exercise in bringing back segregation is either stupid, willfully ignorant, or secretly rooting for it.

joeahargrave.bsky.social•58 days ago

I resent not being taught in school that the reason we have a drug war, a private insurance health system, no affordable housing, and host of other terrible, oppressive and inefficient systems and policies was to ensure that black people didn't benefit too much from social democracy.

ghostoflittleseb.bsky.social•58 days ago

Also not being taught about black wall street or the Tulsa massacre

birchline.bsky.social•58 days ago

And the shape of gun laws, and medical education, and street trees, and the list goes on

bob1958.bsky.social•58 days ago

That right there!

katekimball.bsky.social•58 days ago

You have been right about this. It’s one reason I value your writing and posts here.

I think pretty much any observation on American politics or history that’s not “obsessed with race” is missing something.

Race lurks everywhere here, even if we who are white prefer to pretend otherwise.

telfo.bsky.social•58 days ago

And they are the same people who are incapable of ever even admitting they were wrong about anything. the Yglesias effect

kennywhatgives.bsky.social•58 days ago

It makes you think: Who’s obsessed with race? People will gaslight you and then ignore stories like this.

davidonstrike.bsky.social•58 days ago

Racism is their common denominator. The question is how much are they willing to suffer personally, in their quest for supremacy?

johnlynker.com•58 days ago

Trump thinks there'll be no more voters. He'll die or go full dementia. Vance won't pull off the dominance spell trump has maga under.

savvycammom.bsky.social•57 days ago

God, that would be a thousand times worse than Dan Quail.

annakaysama.bsky.social•57 days ago

Yep, that sounds about white.

crustycabs.bsky.social•57 days ago

The poor saps will STILL find a way to blame any cuts to services on the Dems,
Well I guess in reality, there are TEN they can blame

savvycammom.bsky.social•57 days ago

Wasn't it 9?

kevtherev.bsky.social•58 days ago

Good to know they aren't racist or anything...

🙄

montemerrick.bsky.social•58 days ago

Basically they’re still mad about and seeking revenge on Louverture in Haiti, and the civil war and reconstruction - just like musk is still mad about the end of SAfrican apartheid - in other words they’re demons

cvilletgr.bsky.social•58 days ago

I want the names of those persons in the Administration and the GOP for whom this news was a revelation.

ceciliachase.bsky.social•58 days ago

JESUS

segeier.bsky.social•58 days ago

Shocked! Shocked!

danad88.bsky.social•57 days ago

Yeah so shocked to see that...not.

sadareaman.bsky.social•58 days ago

It ain’t fucking subtle. Jeezus Christ.

riseagain26.bsky.social•58 days ago

There's never been a doubt since Charlottesville. Unapologetic racism.

chrisfumo.bsky.social•58 days ago

this was almost 10 years ago

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/08/donald-trump-boston-immigrant-attack-beaten-homeless-hispanic-man-should-be-deported-suspect-says.html

riseagain26.bsky.social•58 days ago

Scum of the earth...hopefully they get charged with a hate crime.

digitalmb.bsky.social•58 days ago

This was more than 100 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVQomlXMeek&t=95s

digitalmb.bsky.social•58 days ago

There's "never been a doubt" for over 100 years

White supremacy has been the same thing for over a century

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVQomlXMeek&t=95s

frittitailchaser.bsky.social•58 days ago

They don't think white people can be poor or use any govt help. When that's literally their majority voter base.

Absolute fucking insanity.

I want to shake the GOP till their teeth rattle.

rocknrollghost.bsky.social•58 days ago

No, because they've been getting away with telling them bullshit for decades.

eggheadpancake.bsky.social•58 days ago

Imagine thinking there aren't more white people on every form of assistance than there are black people. These republicans are out here hurting their maga voter base way more than its hurting us. But also imagine saying you're ok with hurting black people like it's ok. I hate it here.

ghostoflittleseb.bsky.social•58 days ago

The person on the MOST assistance is Elon musk

eggheadpancake.bsky.social•58 days ago

Exactly.