What happened on Tuesday night was not a debate. It was an unprecedented and disgraceful debasement of the proud tradition of American political discourse. Donald Trump managed to embarrass himself (and the nation) to a degree that exceeds every other incidence of his doing so. And that's really saying something. He's validating a recent poll…
Category: Racism
The woman he may pick could paint the SC orange to hide the work of RBG. It must be stopped.
My sympathies to the family of Justice Gingsburg’s family. My further sympathies for our daughters and granddaughters, POC and the disabled. Meet Barbara Lagoa: He and DeSantis working hand in hand on this one. She is a real piece of work regarding voting rights. slate.com/… One of Trump’s Top SCOTUS Candidates Thinks Poll Taxes Are…
DHS Says White Supremacy is Country's Biggest Threat
DHS is drafting its annual threat assessment report, and Politico got hold of the draft: DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security. Two later draft versions of the same document —…
Trump Attacks the 1619 Project
In August 1619, the first known slave ship arrived from Africa on the American shore. That became the date for the start of slavery in the colonies and later the United States. The “peculiar institution” has been foundational to the country, from the structure of the Constitution to the Civil War to the systemic —…
RACIST President Trump Terminates Federal Anti-Racism Programs that Don't Exist
This has been another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Donald Trump. It began with a string of post-convention polls that show Joe Biden increasing his lead over Trump nationally, as well as in most of the critical battleground states. And it ended with an article that exposed his repugnant comments about fallen…
Trump DESPERATELY Pushes a Phony, Racist Narrative of Rampant Violence.
Psychotic delusions are tricky to interpret. For instance, it’s hard to tell if Donald Trump truly believes that he is a beloved national leader who is a shoo-in for reelection, or if he realizes that he’s toast but doesn’t want to suffer the humiliation of admitting it publicly. Either way it is confirmation of an…
Melania Wouldn't Use the Same Toilet Michelle Had Used
Seriously, there is no bottom for these people. (Pun sort of intended). Politico is reporting some of the highlights (lowlights) in Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s new book “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady.” One that jumped at me as reported by Taggan Goddard’s Political Wire was this piece…
You Don’t Have to Love Us, Just Don’t Shoot Us
I have lived a lot of years, and I have seen a lot of injustices. The “talk” that has been so widely spoken about in the media and by black mothers and fathers is a real thing. There was a time, when it was a mitigating factor but never eliminated the violence inflicted upon black…
Rubin Blasts NY Times for not Calling Trump a Racist
Jennifer Rubin gets a lot of flack here over the suspicion that she isn’t really on our side, she’s just against Trump, and will go back to screeching at us the way she screeches at him now. That’s possible, maybe even probable. But let’s not be so suspicious that we miss a few things. First…
Trump's Racism Could Cost Him the Election – In Fact, It has To Do So
Trump got himself elected in large part by playing on this country’s racism, exploiting resentment over Barack Obama for not only being the nation’s first Black president, but for being mostly successful at it. He made his opening political gambit with his “birther” claim that Obama was really born in Kenya, which was a racist…
The Washington NFL team is undergoing a 'thorough review' of its offensive nickname … finally
It’s always been offensive. It simply took this moment in history to get the ball rolling: x And here it is: the Redskins are undergoing a thorough review of the team’s name. And let’s be clear: There’s no review if there’s no change coming. Redskins on way out. pic.twitter.com/ZrS3cCvhMg— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 3, 2020…
A white Mississippi elections official is 'concerned' with 'the blacks' and their voter drives
Jones County Election Commissioner Gail Harrison Welch posted this nugget on her Facebook. Her defense is that she thought it was a private message. I’m a Election Commissioner in Jones County. I’m concerned about voter registration in Mississippi. The blacks are having lots events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved too. Thank you…
In Mississippi, There are “Blacks” and “People”
This was in the Hattiesburg (MS) American a couple of days ago, but just came to my attention: Mississippi election commissioner's social media comment about Black voters causes uproar A social media comment with racial undertones made by a Mississippi election commissioner sparked outrage across the state on the same weekend state legislators voted to…
Trump is Losing Because He is a Racist, Says Atlantic Article
Now this is fascinating. David Graham argues in the Atlantic that white voters are abandoning Trump, and they are doing so because of his attitudes about race: White Voters Are Abandoning Trump And they’re doing so for a surprising reason. It’s not the economy (Conman Trump continues to bamboozle 56% of the electorate into thinking…
replace your divots: Trump wants more street violence to gas, so Albert Pike will get re-erected
Made to order for whenever the national guard(s) and whatever federal riot squads are ready in DC to trash BLM demonstrators. Heck, the RWNJs could recruit anti-freemasonists to take this sculpture down, once the NPS puts it back up. Even the RCP has led a street demo against this sculpture. This resurrection is Trump’s virtue…
Krugman: Race is Why We Have a Weak Safety Net
Paul Krugman has a column out this morning: Tulsa and the Many Sins of Racism, about Bunker Boy’s choice of Tulsa and Juneteenth for his restart rally — choices Krugman is certain were deliberate. Being a Nobel laureate in economics, Krugman looks at the question of race relations from a largely economic perspective. One of…
and more Lincoln Project: “Tulsa”
up on their Youtube channel within the hour: x YouTube Video Note — the title is about the location of the forthcoming rally, & without any images of the 1921 devastation connects that choice with the history of racism that is an unfortunate part of our history and that Trump seems to want to invoke…
Trump says America will achieve racial harmony 'quickly' and 'very easily'
Yes, thank heavens the lifelong racist who wanted to murder the Central Park Five is on the job. (Okay, he probably wasn’t racist as an infant or toddler. Then again, who knows? Many people are saying he was. Many, many people. That’s what I heard, anyway.) x Donald Trump on confronting bigotry and prejudice in…
The always wrong Larry Kudlow claims there's no systemic racism in America
Hiring TV talking head (er, ass) Larry Kudlow as an economic adviser, which Donald Trump (in)famously did, is kind of like hiring a pro bass fisherman to remove your appendix. Correction: It’s like hiring a bad pro bass fisherman to remove your appendix. With a pair of salad tongs and an ice augur. Kudlow is so…