Obama said it far better than Trump did.
We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments; leaders who demonize those who don’t look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as sub-human, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people.
Yes we should. Looking squarely at you, Donald Trump.
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13 responses to “Troubled individuals who embrace racist ideologies”
Well hell; that’s most of his platform. Get rid of that and all you’ve got left is the nepotism ,corruption, and environmental degradation.
YNNB:
Nepotism, tick; corruption, tick. And the man himself is a living breathing environmental degradation in his own right.
Ya know, instead of electing a Dictator, you guys should have made Obama King.
We all know that Trump’s speech was written for him, not by him, but the quality of expression in Obama’s shows a mind capable of holding a thought longer than a goldfish. :-)
But then, I recall, Obama made a similar speech full of high minded thoughts and sympathetic rhetoric after Sandy Hook. But when rubber met road, he could not deliver, he didn’t seem prepared to expend any of his or the Dems political capital on making real, meaningful, life saving change.
John Howard was Australia’s Prime Minister during the Port Arthur massacre. I despise and oppose almost everything Howard stood for, his attacks on the poor and vulnerable, his easy sleep walk into Bush’s wars, his declaration of “core and non core” but I will always commend his quick action in the aftermath of that shooting and his resolve to drag the national, state, and territory governments in to prompt and effective action.
Sadly, many are trying to undo that legacy.
Also, Obama once wore a tan suit and saluted while holding a cup of coffee, so…
Trump has responded, and you’ll never guess where he got his source material.
What is it with that annoying (STUPID!) habit of adding parenthetical explanations of common, easily understood words? Are those the words that his aides have to explain to him? (“You see, Mr. President, when unemployment is low, that means more people have jobs. That’s a good thing, not a bad thing. Unemployment isn’t like ice cream–you don’t want to have more scoops. It’s more like golf scores…. Yes, Mr. President, you can go golfing now…. Yes, Mr. President, you’ll get three scoops today.”
Also – “during his reign” – IT WASN’T A REIGN.
Godalmighty.
Fair go, OB. Trump knows his market. It likes primary colours, no big words, easy-peasy thinking; stuff like that. It is vital (IMPORTANT!) if his message (PACK OF IDEAS!) is to get across (UNDERSTOOD!) the way he wants it. (ALSO IVANKA!).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/06/ivanka-trump-condemns-white-supremacy-but-her-actions-tell-another-story
Good catch. Though amazingly he managed to spell it correctly.
And Obama was in office for 8 years. 32 mass shootings in 8 years works out to four a year. (I know y’all can do the math, but Il Douchebag needs it done for him.) We’ve had 255 already this year, and we’re not even 2/3rds through the year.
(My #8 was in response to Ophelia’s #6.)
Omar, one way to tell someone is not a Trump voter is if they can use the word “puce” correctly in a sentence.
I suspect this is probably a mis-comparison. I’m not implying any wrongdoing or malice on your part. But I think we should double-check that those numbers are comparable, that we understand that our data sources are using the same definitions and that they’re comparing apples to apples. I’ve seen so many disputed numbers that, before, I didn’t realize were being compared inappropriately to each other.
(Omar @ 7 – it was Maroon who said that, not OB.)
Josh,
The definition I’ve seen used for mass shootings is shootings that result in at least four deaths and/or injuries. Using that definition, I don’t doubt that Ttump’s* figure of the number of mass shootings in the Obama years is a huge underestimation. But the fact that he used that to condemn Obama underscores his idiocy.
Ophelia, thanks. You’re a gracious host.
*Trump just misspelled his own name and Twitter cannot stop laughing.