Trump and the star don’t matter because Democrats supported slavery 150 years ago.
This is typical of those things where the “wiggle-room” is not only built into the original but used to attack the people who point out the problem. “But we didn’t mean that. You’re the one with the problem for thinking we did.”
“Dog whistle” doesn’t cut it anymore. I suggest “Weasel Whistle”.
“… a lot of people are afraid to say: Osama bin Laden is an Uncle Tom!”
“Good GOD! I can’t even figure out who that’s offensive to!”
- Saturday Night Live
We’ve apparently reached a point where satire is no longer possible.
Or foghorn.
It’s hard to say really. Trump has lost some business, but if he can capture 20% of 35% of 35% (or 1% of 35% of 35% if he’s running investment scams), then he has acquired a decent market base.
Jeet Heer provides some useful background. Trump retweets stuff from white supremacists a lot. They form a core of his base. This latest bigotry should not be viewed in isolation: [INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Indeed, Trump’s twitter feed is a hub of white nationalist activity that extends beyond accounts like @whitegenocideTM, so much so that according to research done during January 2016 by the Twitter analytical firm Little Bird, 62 percent of those re-tweeted by Trump during that month follow multiple white-supremacist accounts.
The Star of David image in question originally appeared on June 15 on a now-deleted racist account called @FishBoneHead1. A week later, it appeared on /pol/, a den of the alt-right. The nature of @FishBoneHead1 can be gauged by a tweet the account sent out in which a photo of Washington Post reporter Ruth Marcus was altered to grotesquely enlarge her nose. [/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT] Now pause for a moment. Trump is followed by a lot of people. How often has he mistakenly retweeted something sympathetic by an anti-Trumper? I’m pretty confident that he or his staff does at least a quick review of posting history before he forwards this stuff. We can tell by the error pattern.
Jeet: The Method to Trump’s Twitter Madness | The New Republic
That is my opinion, too. He and his staff are stupid.
I am fairly certain that Jeffrey Lord is unhinged.
ETA: The ONLY exposure I have had to him is as Trump’s surrogate on CNN.
New Trump hat slogan:
“Not racist. Just stupid.”
Because a fucking anti-semite filled it in and didn’t care that it’s not usually filled in?
Because fucking anti-semites don’t know and don’t care that it’s usually two overlapping triangles?
Because a fucking anti-semite…are you getting the point yet?
So he can get his material tweeted out by people like Trump?
The source of the image was traced to an anti-semitic message board. Duh.
Ryan seems to think that as long as he keeps admitting that Trump is a shameless racist bastard, it’s okay to support him.
I wonder if he will pay us for that?
Yep.
Followed by:
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They keep getting harangued for it until they finally retract it anyway, but only after the damage is done.
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They don’t learn from that experience and do it again.
Trump may not be anti-semitic, but he is recklessly happy to welcome and enable those who are instead of standing up to them, and that’s incredibly irresponsible as well as wrong.
This seems to me to be a particularly good point (and one that should receive wider exposure). Trump should not be getting a pass on this via the theories that this was ‘a mistake’ and that responsibility lies not with Trump but with some random staffer.
Scottie Nell Hughes, Katrina Pierson, Kayleigh McEnany, and John Phillips seem rather hinge-challenged, too.
And of course we now have Corey Lewandowski getting popping-veins indignant over every criticism of his beloved Trump on CNN.
(The news shows must be providing quite a feast for diagnostic psychology fans.)
Ryan has every reason to believe Trump will clean things up:
"The point is, I think he’s got to clean this up. My understanding is that this was done by staff, not by he himself. But more importantly, they’ve got to clean this thing up.”
…Any day now.
Does Trump even really wanna win? This was supposed to be the year the GOP broke the Dem stranglehold on the Jewish vote and the Hispanic votes; Trump has blown that to pieces.
“This wasn’t done by me, but my staff” lacks legitimacy even in corporate America, let alone the White House.
If Trump was a contestant on The Apprentice, Trump would be firing him.
Especially Mc-inane-y. She was just another Trump mouthpiece to me until her tirade calling Hillary an enabler of Bubba and destroyer of women he associated with. How a woman could possibly really think that way is beyond me.
Now I just want to throw the nearest handy thing at the screen whenever she comes on. Thank whatever gods there be for the Mute button.
Note that the logical consequence of that philosophy–that women who stay married to men who stray, are by definition bad and awful “Enablers”–is that the ONLY virtuous and respectable thing to do if infidelity occurs, is to divorce.
Conveniently, this philosophy makes Trump himself one of the most virtuous and respectable persons alive!
Didn’t it have more to do with her disregarding Bill’s rape and sexual harassment accusations than his infidelity?