Giuliani called into The Daily Beast and went on what appears to be a truly magnificent hour long "interview". He says there's really only a 50/50 chance that the guy he's been working with is a Russian Spy. That Soros is behind everything. . And that he plans to continually drip info up until the election.
Beyond the usual insanity, the pop out for me was that Trump and numerous GOP members, including Ron Johnson and Jim Jordan, were briefed thoroughly on the laptop, including being given files. All well before the release.
Rudy is a fucking idiot and the media should just ignore him. I'm seriously worried for him, he doesn't seem well when I hear him
Trump considers him a trusted ally and he keeps making a spectacle of himself so yeah: keep the cameras on him so he can continue to be the equivelant of thermite plasma on trump's administration.
I understand him talking is good for the left. Dude puts his feet in his own mouth then shoves his face up his ass. But I kind of feel bad for him. If I was one of his grandkids I'd have an intervention with him.
If this was a case of grandpa's dementia being an embarassing family secret that would be one thing, but this is the president's personal lawyer spreading conspiracy theories and being played like a fiddle by russian intelligence.
I’m legit worried that putting a Biden sign in my yard would be seen as an invitation for violence. Same for bumper stickers.
That's where I am. I live in a rural area surrounded by Trump signs. I'd love to throw a bunch of signs on my property, but I feel like Trump supporters are largely violent and armed and white and my family is... not any of those things.
I don't think it's worth the risk and especially with the recent revelations of the police supporting those same violent terrorists, even if I had camera footage of any problems the likelihood of them doing anything is low?
Pet theory about politics number I dunno anymore: both bullshit and racism are luxury goods for swing voters. It's stuff they want to indulge in, but only if the country is not a tire fire.
Basically the appeal of the Leopard Eating People's Faces Party is that they promise to eat other people's faces and not yours. When they get elected and your face has an angry leopard's jaws attached to it all of a sudden, the appeal fades away.
I don't think history really supports the idea that during periods economic misery appeals to racism become weaker to people who are already open to ideas of racial villains.
I think the easier argument to make is that there's lot of white americans who are OK with the casual like, soft racism of "black people are just complaining but actually everything is fine" or "immigration is too easy now" or "actually it's white men who have it the hardest in America!", etc etc. Or even like, "I'm not racist but I don't want to live near lots of black people because [racism]." Stuff where like it's racially motivated, but it's also not just straight-up racial animus, either.
Unspoken, subtextual, dogwhistle racism is one thing. But Trump just puts it all out on the table by doing stuff like refusing to condemn white supremacists, and making it obvious he refuses to. Even your average racist white guy still enjoys watching a klansman get punched in the face. When Trump makes veiled references to taking America back to the good old days, the non hardcore deplorable folks like that. But he keeps shooting himself in the foot by making his racism too blatant for people to ignore.
I agree with your first paragraph but I don't feel the last 12 years at all point to your second paragraph being true. I think American racism is so prevalent and ingrained that Trump would be leading in the polls if he wasn't such a shit administrator. "He's not hurting the people he should be hurting" doesn't indicate that being too racist is the problem.
I know folks are gonna disagree with me because everything always has to be as bad as possible, but I think public polling supports my argument. When trump says something blatantly racist, his numbers go down. Eventually they tend to recover, because average voters have at best a 1 month memory, but the fact that trump gets penalized for his blatant racism is pretty well supported.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Pet theory about politics number I dunno anymore: both bullshit and racism are luxury goods for swing voters. It's stuff they want to indulge in, but only if the country is not a tire fire.
Basically the appeal of the Leopard Eating People's Faces Party is that they promise to eat other people's faces and not yours. When they get elected and your face has an angry leopard's jaws attached to it all of a sudden, the appeal fades away.
I don't think history really supports the idea that during periods economic misery appeals to racism become weaker to people who are already open to ideas of racial villains.
I think the easier argument to make is that there's lot of white americans who are OK with the casual like, soft racism of "black people are just complaining but actually everything is fine" or "immigration is too easy now" or "actually it's white men who have it the hardest in America!", etc etc. Or even like, "I'm not racist but I don't want to live near lots of black people because [racism]." Stuff where like it's racially motivated, but it's also not just straight-up racial animus, either.
Unspoken, subtextual, dogwhistle racism is one thing. But Trump just puts it all out on the table by doing stuff like refusing to condemn white supremacists, and making it obvious he refuses to. Even your average racist white guy still enjoys watching a klansman get punched in the face. When Trump makes veiled references to taking America back to the good old days, the non hardcore deplorable folks like that. But he keeps shooting himself in the foot by making his racism too blatant for people to ignore.
I agree with your first paragraph but I don't feel the last 12 years at all point to your second paragraph being true. I think American racism is so prevalent and ingrained that Trump would be leading in the polls if he wasn't such a shit administrator. "He's not hurting the people he should be hurting" doesn't indicate that being too racist is the problem.
I know folks are gonna disagree with me because everything always has to be as bad as possible, but I think public polling supports my argument. When trump says something blatantly racist, his numbers go down. Eventually they tend to recover, because average voters have at best a 1 month memory, but the fact that trump gets penalized for his blatant racism is pretty well supported.
Public polling certainly supports your argument. It isn't even just him saying something racist. Any time the public (NOT his frothy base, normal people only here) are exposed to Trump, they want to see and hear less of him and disapprove of him more. This is why it is good to let Trump speak endlessly at debates and at town halls and at interviews that aren't on Fox.
For the mayor of Halifax, and for my municipal councilor. Which is slightly less exciting than voting for the forces of "Eh, mostly good, I guess?" vs. "Screaming Voidstorm of Hate," but that's life in 2020. I ended up voting for the incumbent mayor, because he's generally not terrible, and his biggest threat on the ballet is a terrible human being. But I am pleased to vote for my local candidate, Iona Stoddard. She's one of very few women of color running in any district in the election, she supports LGBTQ+ causes, she's labor friendly, and FWIW she's the only candidate who actually came door to door and met me. From what I've seen of her so far, she seems great, and I kinda hope that she moves to provincial or federal politics.
Civics is not a consumer product that you can ignore because you don’t like the options presented.
Can you even imagine him fleeing to Russia and being the poor sad sack GRU interrogator who has to debrief that fucker? Keep his attention long enough for meaningful intelligence but filter out the 'HIllary eating baby' brain worms?
Then somehow translating it to coherent Russian?
This has actually been a big problem - international press has big problems translating his nonsense word salad, so he actually sounds less batshit crazy in non-English media.
It was more than just media, other governments translators were having the same issue. Japanese translators were losing their minds early on in Trump's administration. If they translate verbatim, they just look like their translation skills are poor. If they cleaned up what trump is saying, there are major diplomatic and political repercussions. Imagine having to tell your countries leadership and immediate manager "It's not my fault, he is just that incoherent" in a way that the other sides translators don't find out you have just insulted their leader.
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Next level of triggering red county enacted. Four cameras locked on to this bad boy, come at me.
Is this a response to previous hooligans or just an expectation of forthcoming hooligans?
Bit of both but I refuse to be intimidated and as a white well off man I am about as privileged as it gets, it I can’t even have the courage to do the bare minimum in my position then what even am I as a person? As for the cameras the town is small enough and I have enough connections to not only track down someone, but make their life very miserable if I so choose, from the court system to church, to city council. Basically, I’m their worst nightmare, privileged in the ways they are but instead of using all the fuckery tools they use on the less privileged, I will absolutely use their own tactics against them.
Can you even imagine him fleeing to Russia and being the poor sad sack GRU interrogator who has to debrief that fucker? Keep his attention long enough for meaningful intelligence but filter out the 'HIllary eating baby' brain worms?
Then somehow translating it to coherent Russian?
This has actually been a big problem - international press has big problems translating his nonsense word salad, so he actually sounds less batshit crazy in non-English media.
It was more than just media, other governments translators were having the same issue. Japanese translators were losing their minds early on in Trump's administration. If they translate verbatim, they just look like their translation skills are poor. If they cleaned up what trump is saying, there are major diplomatic and political repercussions. Imagine having to tell your countries leadership and immediate manager "It's not my fault, he is just that incoherent" in a way that the other sides translators don't find out you have just insulted their leader.
If you repeat Trump’s words plainly in English they don’t make sense. He talks in innuendo, in inference, in appeals to common prejudice.
I’ve been hearing Trump is doing better than expected in the Hispanic community. I wonder if hearing him translated into good Spanish makes him sound more reasonable.
Pet theory about politics number I dunno anymore: both bullshit and racism are luxury goods for swing voters. It's stuff they want to indulge in, but only if the country is not a tire fire.
Basically the appeal of the Leopard Eating People's Faces Party is that they promise to eat other people's faces and not yours. When they get elected and your face has an angry leopard's jaws attached to it all of a sudden, the appeal fades away.
I don't think history really supports the idea that during periods economic misery appeals to racism become weaker to people who are already open to ideas of racial villains.
I think the easier argument to make is that there's lot of white americans who are OK with the casual like, soft racism of "black people are just complaining but actually everything is fine" or "immigration is too easy now" or "actually it's white men who have it the hardest in America!", etc etc. Or even like, "I'm not racist but I don't want to live near lots of black people because [racism]." Stuff where like it's racially motivated, but it's also not just straight-up racial animus, either.
Unspoken, subtextual, dogwhistle racism is one thing. But Trump just puts it all out on the table by doing stuff like refusing to condemn white supremacists, and making it obvious he refuses to. Even your average racist white guy still enjoys watching a klansman get punched in the face. When Trump makes veiled references to taking America back to the good old days, the non hardcore deplorable folks like that. But he keeps shooting himself in the foot by making his racism too blatant for people to ignore.
I agree with your first paragraph but I don't feel the last 12 years at all point to your second paragraph being true. I think American racism is so prevalent and ingrained that Trump would be leading in the polls if he wasn't such a shit administrator. "He's not hurting the people he should be hurting" doesn't indicate that being too racist is the problem.
I know folks are gonna disagree with me because everything always has to be as bad as possible, but I think public polling supports my argument. When trump says something blatantly racist, his numbers go down. Eventually they tend to recover, because average voters have at best a 1 month memory, but the fact that trump gets penalized for his blatant racism is pretty well supported.
Yeah, a lot of white people are okay with or actively supportive of polite racism. Even when it is substantively worse than saying the n***** word. But impolite racism is a bridge too far. It's why Steve King won't be rejoining Congress next year, but his replacement is likely to be even worse for black people.
Similar to the reason why wearing a suit makes nazis worthy of glowing news stories. He's wearing a tie so he clearly has opinions that merit open debate compared to that PhD black activist. I mean, they're wearing jeans.
Can you even imagine him fleeing to Russia and being the poor sad sack GRU interrogator who has to debrief that fucker? Keep his attention long enough for meaningful intelligence but filter out the 'HIllary eating baby' brain worms?
Then somehow translating it to coherent Russian?
This has actually been a big problem - international press has big problems translating his nonsense word salad, so he actually sounds less batshit crazy in non-English media.
It was more than just media, other governments translators were having the same issue. Japanese translators were losing their minds early on in Trump's administration. If they translate verbatim, they just look like their translation skills are poor. If they cleaned up what trump is saying, there are major diplomatic and political repercussions. Imagine having to tell your countries leadership and immediate manager "It's not my fault, he is just that incoherent" in a way that the other sides translators don't find out you have just insulted their leader.
If you repeat Trump’s words plainly in English they don’t make sense. He talks in innuendo, in inference, in appeals to common prejudice.
I’ve been hearing Trump is doing better than expected in the Hispanic community. I wonder if hearing him translated into good Spanish makes him sound more reasonable.
He's a (dime store) Caudillo. That appeals to a certain subset of people, because clearly he's talking about those other Latinx folks. You know, our neighbors down the street with the yappy dog that we hate.
Pet theory about politics number I dunno anymore: both bullshit and racism are luxury goods for swing voters. It's stuff they want to indulge in, but only if the country is not a tire fire.
Basically the appeal of the Leopard Eating People's Faces Party is that they promise to eat other people's faces and not yours. When they get elected and your face has an angry leopard's jaws attached to it all of a sudden, the appeal fades away.
I don't think history really supports the idea that during periods economic misery appeals to racism become weaker to people who are already open to ideas of racial villains.
I think the easier argument to make is that there's lot of white americans who are OK with the casual like, soft racism of "black people are just complaining but actually everything is fine" or "immigration is too easy now" or "actually it's white men who have it the hardest in America!", etc etc. Or even like, "I'm not racist but I don't want to live near lots of black people because [racism]." Stuff where like it's racially motivated, but it's also not just straight-up racial animus, either.
Unspoken, subtextual, dogwhistle racism is one thing. But Trump just puts it all out on the table by doing stuff like refusing to condemn white supremacists, and making it obvious he refuses to. Even your average racist white guy still enjoys watching a klansman get punched in the face. When Trump makes veiled references to taking America back to the good old days, the non hardcore deplorable folks like that. But he keeps shooting himself in the foot by making his racism too blatant for people to ignore.
I agree with your first paragraph but I don't feel the last 12 years at all point to your second paragraph being true. I think American racism is so prevalent and ingrained that Trump would be leading in the polls if he wasn't such a shit administrator. "He's not hurting the people he should be hurting" doesn't indicate that being too racist is the problem.
I know folks are gonna disagree with me because everything always has to be as bad as possible, but I think public polling supports my argument. When trump says something blatantly racist, his numbers go down. Eventually they tend to recover, because average voters have at best a 1 month memory, but the fact that trump gets penalized for his blatant racism is pretty well supported.
Public polling certainly supports your argument. It isn't even just him saying something racist. Any time the public (NOT his frothy base, normal people only here) are exposed to Trump, they want to see and hear less of him and disapprove of him more. This is why it is good to let Trump speak endlessly at debates and at town halls and at interviews that aren't on Fox.
The other side though is that every time Trump makes overtures of reaching across the aisle, like when it came out he was trying to get a deal with Pelosi on gun control or immigration, his numbers also drop. He's poisoned the well so much that doing things people actually want drives away the crazy people without being able to make up the difference in the soft opposition, because he's ensured that there is very little or no soft opposition. The smart political thing to have done a year or two ago would have been to tack to the center, but it would have to be sustained enough to be credible. His crazies aren't going to abandon him, even if they disapprove of him out transiently out of pure pissiness.
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Can you even imagine him fleeing to Russia and being the poor sad sack GRU interrogator who has to debrief that fucker? Keep his attention long enough for meaningful intelligence but filter out the 'HIllary eating baby' brain worms?
Then somehow translating it to coherent Russian?
This has actually been a big problem - international press has big problems translating his nonsense word salad, so he actually sounds less batshit crazy in non-English media.
It was more than just media, other governments translators were having the same issue. Japanese translators were losing their minds early on in Trump's administration. If they translate verbatim, they just look like their translation skills are poor. If they cleaned up what trump is saying, there are major diplomatic and political repercussions. Imagine having to tell your countries leadership and immediate manager "It's not my fault, he is just that incoherent" in a way that the other sides translators don't find out you have just insulted their leader.
If you repeat Trump’s words plainly in English they don’t make sense. He talks in innuendo, in inference, in appeals to common prejudice.
I’ve been hearing Trump is doing better than expected in the Hispanic community. I wonder if hearing him translated into good Spanish makes him sound more reasonable.
He's a (dime store) Caudillo. That appeals to a certain subset of people, because clearly he's talking about those other Latinx folks. You know, our neighbors down the street with the yappy dog that we hate.
My niece just married into a family like that from El Paso. They hate Beto and the new husband likes to chant Build the Wall to "make white people cry". It's very discouraging
Can you even imagine him fleeing to Russia and being the poor sad sack GRU interrogator who has to debrief that fucker? Keep his attention long enough for meaningful intelligence but filter out the 'HIllary eating baby' brain worms?
Then somehow translating it to coherent Russian?
This has actually been a big problem - international press has big problems translating his nonsense word salad, so he actually sounds less batshit crazy in non-English media.
It was more than just media, other governments translators were having the same issue. Japanese translators were losing their minds early on in Trump's administration. If they translate verbatim, they just look like their translation skills are poor. If they cleaned up what trump is saying, there are major diplomatic and political repercussions. Imagine having to tell your countries leadership and immediate manager "It's not my fault, he is just that incoherent" in a way that the other sides translators don't find out you have just insulted their leader.
If you repeat Trump’s words plainly in English they don’t make sense. He talks in innuendo, in inference, in appeals to common prejudice.
I’ve been hearing Trump is doing better than expected in the Hispanic community. I wonder if hearing him translated into good Spanish makes him sound more reasonable.
He's a (dime store) Caudillo. That appeals to a certain subset of people, because clearly he's talking about those other Latinx folks. You know, our neighbors down the street with the yappy dog that we hate.
My niece just married into a family like that from El Paso. They hate Beto and the new husband likes to chant Build the Wall to "make white people cry". It's very discouraging
It is not an uncommon thing for people who immigrated successfully to develop a mentality that is essentially about pulling up the ladder behind them.
Can you even imagine him fleeing to Russia and being the poor sad sack GRU interrogator who has to debrief that fucker? Keep his attention long enough for meaningful intelligence but filter out the 'HIllary eating baby' brain worms?
Then somehow translating it to coherent Russian?
This has actually been a big problem - international press has big problems translating his nonsense word salad, so he actually sounds less batshit crazy in non-English media.
It was more than just media, other governments translators were having the same issue. Japanese translators were losing their minds early on in Trump's administration. If they translate verbatim, they just look like their translation skills are poor. If they cleaned up what trump is saying, there are major diplomatic and political repercussions. Imagine having to tell your countries leadership and immediate manager "It's not my fault, he is just that incoherent" in a way that the other sides translators don't find out you have just insulted their leader.
If you repeat Trump’s words plainly in English they don’t make sense. He talks in innuendo, in inference, in appeals to common prejudice.
I’ve been hearing Trump is doing better than expected in the Hispanic community. I wonder if hearing him translated into good Spanish makes him sound more reasonable.
He's a (dime store) Caudillo. That appeals to a certain subset of people, because clearly he's talking about those other Latinx folks. You know, our neighbors down the street with the yappy dog that we hate.
Latin is not an actual demographic. Is a bunch of people from very different countries on small communities, that may or may not vote certain way. While most Latin folk on the US are Mexicans for the very obvious reason of sharing a land border, that's not all of them.
Can you even imagine him fleeing to Russia and being the poor sad sack GRU interrogator who has to debrief that fucker? Keep his attention long enough for meaningful intelligence but filter out the 'HIllary eating baby' brain worms?
Then somehow translating it to coherent Russian?
This has actually been a big problem - international press has big problems translating his nonsense word salad, so he actually sounds less batshit crazy in non-English media.
It was more than just media, other governments translators were having the same issue. Japanese translators were losing their minds early on in Trump's administration. If they translate verbatim, they just look like their translation skills are poor. If they cleaned up what trump is saying, there are major diplomatic and political repercussions. Imagine having to tell your countries leadership and immediate manager "It's not my fault, he is just that incoherent" in a way that the other sides translators don't find out you have just insulted their leader.
If you repeat Trump’s words plainly in English they don’t make sense. He talks in innuendo, in inference, in appeals to common prejudice.
I’ve been hearing Trump is doing better than expected in the Hispanic community. I wonder if hearing him translated into good Spanish makes him sound more reasonable.
He's a (dime store) Caudillo. That appeals to a certain subset of people, because clearly he's talking about those other Latinx folks. You know, our neighbors down the street with the yappy dog that we hate.
Latin is not an actual demographic. Is a bunch of people from very different countries on small communities, that may or may not vote certain way. While most Latin folk on the US are Mexicans for the very obvious reason of sharing a land border, that's not all of them.
I said Latinx, not Latin, which is a demographic group. And there's a reason I used that instead of Hispanic.
Voted in person today, Massachusetts. Never had to wait at all for early voting in this small town before, but combination of turnout and covid measures slowed it to two hours.
Voted in person today, Massachusetts. Never had to wait at all for early voting in this small town before, but combination of turnout and covid measures slowed it to two hours.
Oh fuck yeah it's finally started, I know what I'm doing with my morning tomorrow
Can you even imagine him fleeing to Russia and being the poor sad sack GRU interrogator who has to debrief that fucker? Keep his attention long enough for meaningful intelligence but filter out the 'HIllary eating baby' brain worms?
Then somehow translating it to coherent Russian?
This has actually been a big problem - international press has big problems translating his nonsense word salad, so he actually sounds less batshit crazy in non-English media.
It was more than just media, other governments translators were having the same issue. Japanese translators were losing their minds early on in Trump's administration. If they translate verbatim, they just look like their translation skills are poor. If they cleaned up what trump is saying, there are major diplomatic and political repercussions. Imagine having to tell your countries leadership and immediate manager "It's not my fault, he is just that incoherent" in a way that the other sides translators don't find out you have just insulted their leader.
If you repeat Trump’s words plainly in English they don’t make sense. He talks in innuendo, in inference, in appeals to common prejudice.
I’ve been hearing Trump is doing better than expected in the Hispanic community. I wonder if hearing him translated into good Spanish makes him sound more reasonable.
He's a (dime store) Caudillo. That appeals to a certain subset of people, because clearly he's talking about those other Latinx folks. You know, our neighbors down the street with the yappy dog that we hate.
My niece just married into a family like that from El Paso. They hate Beto and the new husband likes to chant Build the Wall to "make white people cry". It's very discouraging
It is not an uncommon thing for people who immigrated successfully to develop a mentality that is essentially about pulling up the ladder behind them.
Also, minorities aren't free from racism. Michigan's got populations of two different groups from Iraq - Muslim and Chaldean. Both historically skew Republican in part because Republicans hate the other.
It’s less Democrat and Republican than conservative and liberal. If republicans weren’t so virulently racist they could tap into the conservative side of all groups, but then they just wouldn’t be republicans gosh darnit
Pet theory about politics number I dunno anymore: both bullshit and racism are luxury goods for swing voters. It's stuff they want to indulge in, but only if the country is not a tire fire.
Basically the appeal of the Leopard Eating People's Faces Party is that they promise to eat other people's faces and not yours. When they get elected and your face has an angry leopard's jaws attached to it all of a sudden, the appeal fades away.
I don't think history really supports the idea that during periods economic misery appeals to racism become weaker to people who are already open to ideas of racial villains.
I think the easier argument to make is that there's lot of white americans who are OK with the casual like, soft racism of "black people are just complaining but actually everything is fine" or "immigration is too easy now" or "actually it's white men who have it the hardest in America!", etc etc. Or even like, "I'm not racist but I don't want to live near lots of black people because [racism]." Stuff where like it's racially motivated, but it's also not just straight-up racial animus, either.
Unspoken, subtextual, dogwhistle racism is one thing. But Trump just puts it all out on the table by doing stuff like refusing to condemn white supremacists, and making it obvious he refuses to. Even your average racist white guy still enjoys watching a klansman get punched in the face. When Trump makes veiled references to taking America back to the good old days, the non hardcore deplorable folks like that. But he keeps shooting himself in the foot by making his racism too blatant for people to ignore.
I agree with your first paragraph but I don't feel the last 12 years at all point to your second paragraph being true. I think American racism is so prevalent and ingrained that Trump would be leading in the polls if he wasn't such a shit administrator. "He's not hurting the people he should be hurting" doesn't indicate that being too racist is the problem.
I know folks are gonna disagree with me because everything always has to be as bad as possible, but I think public polling supports my argument. When trump says something blatantly racist, his numbers go down. Eventually they tend to recover, because average voters have at best a 1 month memory, but the fact that trump gets penalized for his blatant racism is pretty well supported.
I don't think that very many people actually like Trump. Most of his supporters have created a fake idea of Trump for themselves that's way better than the real one, and every time that Trump opens his mouth that illusion is temporarily shattered for some of them.
It’s less Democrat and Republican than conservative and liberal. If republicans weren’t so virulently racist they could tap into the conservative side of all groups, but then they just wouldn’t be republicans gosh darnit
The problem with that is that racism is the essence of conservatism. So if conservatives were accepting of conservatives of other races, they'd be liberals.
Why are four different local news stations running “Look at these strong Latinx women who are strong because they support Trump and stand up to people who would shut you down for supporting Trump!”
Why are four different local news stations running “Look at these strong Latinx women who are strong because they support Trump and stand up to people who would shut you down for supporting Trump!”
Our media has frequently gone out of its way to find trump voters, its the whole "ohio diner" syndrome. We'll find out if they were selling a false narrative or there really is a quiet Trump supporter wave hiding behind massively bad polling for their candidate.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I mean, it shouldn't be hard to find Trump supporters even if you trust the polling. They're 40% of the electorate. They're not rare unicorns, though they ought to be.
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If he keeps this shit up once hes out, can he be prosecuted for incitement?
He can be prosecuted for like a billion things if anyone has the will to do so.
Literally his entire immediately family minus one or two of his kids can almost certainly be credibly charged and convicted of malfeasance with nonprofit money in New York. Almost certainly some federal tax evasion charges, as well.
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If this was a case of grandpa's dementia being an embarassing family secret that would be one thing, but this is the president's personal lawyer spreading conspiracy theories and being played like a fiddle by russian intelligence.
Fuck him.
Is this a response to previous hooligans or just an expectation of forthcoming hooligans?
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That's where I am. I live in a rural area surrounded by Trump signs. I'd love to throw a bunch of signs on my property, but I feel like Trump supporters are largely violent and armed and white and my family is... not any of those things.
I don't think it's worth the risk and especially with the recent revelations of the police supporting those same violent terrorists, even if I had camera footage of any problems the likelihood of them doing anything is low?
I know folks are gonna disagree with me because everything always has to be as bad as possible, but I think public polling supports my argument. When trump says something blatantly racist, his numbers go down. Eventually they tend to recover, because average voters have at best a 1 month memory, but the fact that trump gets penalized for his blatant racism is pretty well supported.
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For the mayor of Halifax, and for my municipal councilor. Which is slightly less exciting than voting for the forces of "Eh, mostly good, I guess?" vs. "Screaming Voidstorm of Hate," but that's life in 2020. I ended up voting for the incumbent mayor, because he's generally not terrible, and his biggest threat on the ballet is a terrible human being. But I am pleased to vote for my local candidate, Iona Stoddard. She's one of very few women of color running in any district in the election, she supports LGBTQ+ causes, she's labor friendly, and FWIW she's the only candidate who actually came door to door and met me. From what I've seen of her so far, she seems great, and I kinda hope that she moves to provincial or federal politics.
It was more than just media, other governments translators were having the same issue. Japanese translators were losing their minds early on in Trump's administration. If they translate verbatim, they just look like their translation skills are poor. If they cleaned up what trump is saying, there are major diplomatic and political repercussions. Imagine having to tell your countries leadership and immediate manager "It's not my fault, he is just that incoherent" in a way that the other sides translators don't find out you have just insulted their leader.
They've also been getting murdered in unsafe rural areas for longer than that.
Bit of both but I refuse to be intimidated and as a white well off man I am about as privileged as it gets, it I can’t even have the courage to do the bare minimum in my position then what even am I as a person? As for the cameras the town is small enough and I have enough connections to not only track down someone, but make their life very miserable if I so choose, from the court system to church, to city council. Basically, I’m their worst nightmare, privileged in the ways they are but instead of using all the fuckery tools they use on the less privileged, I will absolutely use their own tactics against them.
If you repeat Trump’s words plainly in English they don’t make sense. He talks in innuendo, in inference, in appeals to common prejudice.
I’ve been hearing Trump is doing better than expected in the Hispanic community. I wonder if hearing him translated into good Spanish makes him sound more reasonable.
Yeah, a lot of white people are okay with or actively supportive of polite racism. Even when it is substantively worse than saying the n***** word. But impolite racism is a bridge too far. It's why Steve King won't be rejoining Congress next year, but his replacement is likely to be even worse for black people.
Similar to the reason why wearing a suit makes nazis worthy of glowing news stories. He's wearing a tie so he clearly has opinions that merit open debate compared to that PhD black activist. I mean, they're wearing jeans.
He's a (dime store) Caudillo. That appeals to a certain subset of people, because clearly he's talking about those other Latinx folks. You know, our neighbors down the street with the yappy dog that we hate.
The other side though is that every time Trump makes overtures of reaching across the aisle, like when it came out he was trying to get a deal with Pelosi on gun control or immigration, his numbers also drop. He's poisoned the well so much that doing things people actually want drives away the crazy people without being able to make up the difference in the soft opposition, because he's ensured that there is very little or no soft opposition. The smart political thing to have done a year or two ago would have been to tack to the center, but it would have to be sustained enough to be credible. His crazies aren't going to abandon him, even if they disapprove of him out transiently out of pure pissiness.
My niece just married into a family like that from El Paso. They hate Beto and the new husband likes to chant Build the Wall to "make white people cry". It's very discouraging
It is not an uncommon thing for people who immigrated successfully to develop a mentality that is essentially about pulling up the ladder behind them.
Latin is not an actual demographic. Is a bunch of people from very different countries on small communities, that may or may not vote certain way. While most Latin folk on the US are Mexicans for the very obvious reason of sharing a land border, that's not all of them.
I said Latinx, not Latin, which is a demographic group. And there's a reason I used that instead of Hispanic.
Oh fuck yeah it's finally started, I know what I'm doing with my morning tomorrow
Also, minorities aren't free from racism. Michigan's got populations of two different groups from Iraq - Muslim and Chaldean. Both historically skew Republican in part because Republicans hate the other.
I don't think that very many people actually like Trump. Most of his supporters have created a fake idea of Trump for themselves that's way better than the real one, and every time that Trump opens his mouth that illusion is temporarily shattered for some of them.
The problem with that is that racism is the essence of conservatism. So if conservatives were accepting of conservatives of other races, they'd be liberals.
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Oh, yes, that won’t lead to any fucking stupid bullshit.
Or was “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” not fucking blatant enough for that bright orange shitgibbon?
I can has cheezburger, yes?
He can be prosecuted for like a billion things if anyone has the will to do so.
Literally his entire immediately family minus one or two of his kids can almost certainly be credibly charged and convicted of malfeasance with nonprofit money in New York. Almost certainly some federal tax evasion charges, as well.