And the one immigrant has been a citizen longer than Trump’s wife.
Because it is their country, and they are just taking it back.
/s
Bipartisan support for House resolution condemning Trump’s racists tweets.
Yea:
All Democrats
4 Republicans
1 Independent (Amash)
Nay:
Rest of Republicans
Agreed, most people are not republicans.
They were aided in that decision, probably, by the fact that “go back to your country” is so frequently uttered by those committing hate crimes, during the commission of those crimes.
ProPublica has a discussion here:5 Things You Need to Know About Hate Crimes in America — ProPublica
Search “hate crime” and “go back to your country” and many more examples will appear.
I don’t agree with Willliam Hurd’s politics, but he deserves some props for his vote on the resolution and for calling the president out as a racist and bigot on national TV.
Granted, he’s black and he represents a racially diverse district. But not all the Republicans are douchdicks.
4 out of 197 Republican congresspeople = 2%. So around 98% douchdicks.
Yes, that is very depressing.
I noticed that, too (on NPR), and did a little happy dance. The word was used as matter-of-factly as if they’d said today was Tuesday.
Judy Woodruff reported the remarks as racist on PBS. Which they were, of course. It ain’t like when Faux uses a buzzword, this is a simple statement of true fact.
…well it did change the meaning. And in a world where ‘the squad’ are being attacked and where members of the Trump administration are openly lying about things they have said I think its more important now than ever before to get the facts right.
It added context. As did the other words that she said that you ommited. AOC has no hesitation calling racists racist. When asked by Anderson Cooper if she thought Trump as racist she flat out said “yes”, he was racist. So if she intended to call Pelosi racist she would have called her racist, not just “imply it.”
You can see the context of the reply. They got the “cold shoulder” from the House Dems at the start, but accepted that as part of “how the game is played.” But from their point of view: Pelosi has not called out other elements of dissent in the same manner in which she calls out their dissent. And the dismissive tone that she took in the Maureen Dowd article exemplified this.
‘Newly-elected women of colour’ is about as accurate description of “the squad” as you can get. So no: I don’t think Cortez was implying Pelosi was racist.
Chicago Tribune, which has a quite conservative editorial board, is using this headline:
House Democrats, over strong GOP opposition, vote to condemn President Trump’s racist tweets
I don’t understand why you (and others in this thread) seem unwilling to consider the possibility that by making the ‘face of the Democratic Party’ that of its most progressive members, Trump may instill enough fear in enough voters to make them vote for Republican senators (even if they aren’t also going to support Trump).
Here are a NYT piece and one from the CBC going in to the ploy in more detail.
Here are the numbers to support you.
“Support for U.S. President Donald Trump increased slightly among Republicans after he lashed out on Twitter over the weekend in a racially charged attack on four minority Democratic congresswomen, a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll shows.”
Good lord. That is the most depressing thing I’ve heard in many months — and that’s saying something.
Wow. I … I need to sit down …
Seriously, this is bad. Like, 1934 Germany bad.
It occurs to me that this could be an opportunity for the gentlewomen to visit their respective ancestral homelands, report on conditions there and tie those conditions to specific policies of this administration. AOC would have a ball with this, I’m sure.
one of the 4 GOP who voted yes, Brooks, is not running for re-election next year.
Rob Reiner suggested on twitter this morning that, if there are Apprentice tapes with Donald uttering the N-word, Republicans should be working towards their release to help get the base really fired up.
*Telling minority Americans to “go back where they came from” is a racist statement
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Total agree: 65%
Total disagree: 18%
Republican agree: 45%
Republican disagree: 34%
Independent agree: 67%
Independent disagree: 12%