The main stream press often falls short of reporting the truth, even when it's painfully obvious. Perhaps it's so-called fairness doctrine, or perhaps it's not wanting to offend the corporations they depend on for advertising revenue. So usually what we get is diluted pabulum, more related to infotainment or infoganda than it is to information. But when that they actually do their job well, I'm delighted.
When Donald Trump attacked a federal judge whose parents were born in Mexico, Hispanic Americans were outraged. Other minority groups saw a pattern of bigotry. Democrats had a hard time concealing their glee. Republican leaders pretended they disapproved.
Well, to be fair, they did disapprove in a way — not because Trump believes the things he says, but because he says them so directly.
Far too many Republicans share this kind of racism and have for a long time. Trump has just dispensed with dog whistles and revels in his bigotry instead. But this is the party the Republicans have been deliberately and assiduously building for many decades, the party of division and intolerance. George H.W. Bush’s racist tactics in 1988 against Michael Dukakis — the Willie Horton ad in particular — seem almost genteel by comparison.
Today’s Republicans have stymied every effort at reforming immigration, at achieving true equality for women, at ending the scourge of racist drug laws and criminal sentencing rules. The Republican Party has generated a wave of laws designed to make it harder for black Americans and other minorities to vote. It’s not that Republicans don’t want to deport millions of Mexicans and ban Muslims from our shores. They just don’t like to talk about it in the open.
So when Donald Trump started to attack Mexicans, Muslims and anyone else who popped into his head, Republican leaders may have thought it was bad tactics. But all that talk this year about the “Republican establishment” being aghast at Trump for his outlandish ideas was nonsense… [emphasis added]
From <NY Times>
Hey Gray Lady!! I could have told you that!! This is what I've been saying for months!
Republicans are teaching their kids to hate young, creating Republican voters for life.
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Oh, no frikken kidding. I'm afraid I lost my temper with one individual this morning who posted a comment on an article abou Black Lives Matter to the effect that if we would all start seeing people just as people, not white or black, all our problems would go away.
In fact, we tried that. We tried it for fifty years, and what heppened? All the bigots stayed bigots – but now they could start yelling "special treatment" every time anyone pointed out that being a person of color might just have some disadvantages. And, sadly, they managed to convice courts that affirmative action was, in fact, "special treatment." Now we have probably the classiest President in my lifetime, and people are publicly telling him he lies; referring to him as "this animal we have for a president;" posting stills from "Bedtime for Bonzo" with the caption "Look! Ronald Reagan babysat for Obama!" And that's just the President. For those who are not the President, we have people of color getting killed in the streets by law enforcement – and I could go on, but I couldn't even begin to cover it.
Sorry for the rant, TC; you touched a nerve.
You go, Girl! I have had this rant more than once after a talk with my Republican Brother in law.
Rant on!!
We know it, they know it, and nothing is being done to rein this freak in. Very scary, indeed.
Thanks, Tom.
We are a tribal species….it's one of the defining primate characteristics. I wonder if we'll ever be able to overcome our innermost nature?
True – but also true that some of us are much less tribal than others – and/or some of us are much more fluid than others about what constitutes the tribe. It seems to be related to what part of the brain one uses.
NY T: “…claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment." Paul Ryan.
Let me get this straight, because i would sort of like not like to be ssort of wrong, big time, "Sort of like?? WTF then IS the definition of a racist comment?
Yes, as I commented elsewhere, Rumpy either never got, or, characteristically, decided that HE did not have to bother with , the GOP memo on surreptious bigotry.
Great cartoon! Nailed it!: Bring 'em up dumb, keep 'em dumb, and we'll "Make America Great, Again!"
Oh, Drumpf. Ya gotta make all that noise about anything you want to bitch about EVERY time you are in the stage! Just so FAKE!!! I swear he is gonna pop out one day and say "It was all a JOKE!" It's GOTTA be a joke!!! Just like all his companies that went belly-up!!!
Good one, TC! Hope all goes well!!!
Trump has encouraged racists and xenophobes to express their hatreds that were simmering beneath civility for years. I had no idea how many people that I know were racists until Pres. Obama was elected, and since the primary started with Trump making his outrageous statements, I have found more. The Republican party encourages this, too, in my opinion.
Derr Fuhrer Drumpf should talk about "handicaps". He suffers from being a narcissistic bigoted racist tyrant bully and really enjoys himself in that role and capacity. The only place suitable for him is in a mental hospital out of sight.
Drumpf is saying out loud all the while the GOP/TP gleefully wish they could do so but actually keep their thoughts in their number two hole and in their pants. No wonder they smell so bad. lol.
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Drumpf = racist, bigoted, xenophobic, misogynistic, narcissist
And by extension, those Republicans that follow him are the same. He is well beyond contempt and redemption!
None of us here had any doubts about it: " Given the cowardice of his fellow members of the party of Lincoln, Trump is, naturally, doubling down on running for racist in chief."
Andrew Rosenthal end his article with"" Supporters of Bernie Sanders who talk about voting for Trump instead of Clinton if their candidate finally decides to drop out should consider this latest episode, and Trump’s larger pattern, carefully. They should know they would be voting for a racist."
Now why haven't you told us that before, TomCat 🙂 😉 🙂
I haven't told you, the Pope is not Catholic, and bears never,. ever shit in the woods!