Politically charged
CNN is doing a live update thing on Trump and racism.
House Democrats said they are staying focused on their policy agenda and will call out President Trump’s tactics to “deflect” and divide the country.
Rep. Katherine Clark said at a news conference Tuesday Democrats are going to continue to speak out against racist attacks.
“This president with his racist attacks is showing us that he is not concerned with anything but further enriching those who are already rich and powerful. And his plan is to distract us, to divide us, so they can pickpocket us while we’re not looking,” Clark said. “That’s what we are speaking out against. This attack on American values, this attack on trying to be a country that is the United States of America, not the divided states.”
Well he does want to keep enriching those who are already rich and powerful, though not nearly as much as he wants to keep enriching himself. But let’s not treat the racism as a mere distraction: he wants to keep performing noisy belligerent ignorant racism from his platform as president of the US, too. It’s not a tiresome chore to him, it’s fun. He loves it.
Meanwhile the Republicans are trying to push it behind the door.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was just asked about President Trump’s racist tweets about four progressive Democratic congresswomen and those representatives’ response to the attacks.
McCarthy said the Democrats’ response has been politically charged.
Ah, politically charged; were they indeed. How very shocking. Of course it’s not at all politically charged for Trump to scream that they should get out of the country.
McCarthy says “We should get back to the business of America.” Certainly we should, but we can’t just ignore the Top Dog screaming racist insults from the podium over and over again.
Trump, meanwhile…
Our Country is Free, Beautiful and Very Successful. If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019
It’s not good for heads of state to tell citizens to get out. That’s not what Trump is supposed to be doing.
Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body! The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game. Republicans should not show “weakness” and fall into their trap. This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements and lies told by the Democrat…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019
They were, and he does.
So he is an invertebrate!
(Bonespurs notwithstanding.)
“So he is an invertebrate!”
Could be but not necessarily – his statement also works for one who has about 206 racist bones in his body.
As for the GOP leadership they’ve pretty much demonstrated that they would rather see the whole thing burn to the ground, than lose a seat in Congress.
I was listening to part of that, I think (my husband had it on, I was at lunch and didn’t see, only heard, so if this comment was not in the broadcast you mentioned, that is why. It might have been something else).
I am tired of racism being called “cultural anxiety”. I am sick to death of sympathy for the people here in the center of the country who elected this asshole President to the expense of all of us. I am sick of hearing my friends, my colleagues, even those who vote Democrat, say that the electoral college has problems but is important because, and I quote, “I don’t want to have to live in a country that is ruled by people in the coastal cities.” I’ve started repeating it back to them interpreted: “So you want to live in a ‘democracy’ which is ruled by the minority, not the majority, and you are saying that it’s irrelevant that maybe those people in the coastal cities don’t want to live in a country ruled by people in the rural midwest.”
Pundits claim that the midwest is feeling slighted, ignored, put down, inferior. Nope. They are empowered, and know they are superior. They are superior because they don’t accept immigration, because they don’t have black people in their communities, because they don’t have book learning (even when they do, they don’t admit it). They are angry because other people, people who do not look like them, are allowed to have the same rights they do. It isn’t because they don’t have jobs; hell, the government has subsidized this area so thoroughly that we had very little to worry about in the 2008 recession; we danced along. Oh, we had losses, yes, but minor compared to the coastal cities that get back much less in taxes than they pay, because it is going to the heartland – the ignored heartland that gets much more than the cities. Cities are decaying? That’s not because they have people from a lot of cultures, it’s because they have to pay for the midwest, and then get repaid by the election of a boorish, egotistical, bloated, hate-filled incompetent. And he’s not the first. Every Republican president starting with Reagan has been inept. Their followers want it that way.
Of course, no one will tell the truth, because they saw what happened to Hillary Clinton. Basket of deplorables? That’s mild to what they call her.