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[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is what I was waiting for.

Faced with a black/asian woman, the Republicans just aren't going to be able to help themselves - their hateful bigotry is going to keep rearing its ugly head.

The key moment is going to be when Candidate Lardbucket himself lets some of his own racism and misogyny fall out of his festering gob. That's going to be glorious.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (5 children)

They went from zero to fully mask-off in less than 24 hours. I'm amazed at the quickness of it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you were in a red state during the Obama campaign/presidency you wouldn't be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the overly racist shit that popped up all over rural NV was pretty disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Honestly, I more disappointed and surprised at more than a few older Dems I know saying they just “couldn’t bring themselves to vote a Black into the White House.”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The propaganda machine was full throttle on Biden is old and unfit, that as soon as switch happened Republicans were scrambling to grab onto the first thing they could come up with, of course racism and misogyny are the fallbacks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I've personally seen the "Genocide Joe" voices smoothly transition into "unhinged prosecutor" in no time flat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I’d almost say they’re the default.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I am too.

I fully expected it, but not this soon.

Looking forward to more though. Every one of these is just more votes against Trump.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My hope is not to change them. But it is to change their children. Or those adjacent. If we keep trying to change them, we will never win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We'll never change the base. Their investment in Trump and conservatism is more akin to religious faith than ideology, and just as with religion, to question it would be to undermine the basis for their (clearly unjustified) conviction that they're decent and moral.

I don't think we really need to worry about changing their children either. Their children are already changing, which is an awful lot of the reason for their egregiously anti-democracy panic. They recognize at some level that the tide of history is turning against them, and they can't stand it. They think they can stop that process through force and fraud, and don't seem to understand that all they can do that way is maybe postpone it a bit, or that bybtrying to save their justly dying ideology that way, they ensure that a day of reckoning will come - that they'll go down in history as not just an abandoned ideology, but a justly condemned one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd say that they've been mask-off for quite a while tbh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Stayed mask off through the worst of covid, only put masks on to protest like little proud boys.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

"they"

Little fish are taking these early bites. Don't play along.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I hear you and want to believe this too, but I am forever surprised at how much pro Trumpers are willing to ignore and just how many of them there are. His base will cheer him on and the rest will make excuses or turn a blind eye.

I hope I'm wrong

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're not. There has not been any room left for doubt for nearly a decade that he is anything but an opportunistic racist misogynistic queerphobic ableist christofascist grifter. Those who already support him will continue to cheer him on because he feeds directly in to their need to feel superior to "others", and no one still on the fence is going to suddenly have an epiphany..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He is also a convicted felon and has a civil judgement of being a rapist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Adjudicated rapist just doesn't have the same ring to it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's losing extremists to his VP pick having a immigrant wife and mixed race kids, and he's losing moderate with his VP pick who is an extremist.

He's soon to lose a huge amount of women over bodily autonomy, he's promised to build concentration camps for Latinos, he's literally citing 'operation wetback' as a mission statement. He's gonna really eat shit when he's the old idiot that can't talk right versus the average mental acuity displayed by an opponent who is too young to retire, and has public speaking skills beyond the average 12 year old.

This is blowing up so severely, he's already panicking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

operation wetback

Come again?

Also, why did my keyboard let me swipe "wetback"? Racist-ass keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

An Eisenhower-era deportation program that set up the current dynamic of militarized deportation and border control.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As soon as the US seized control of the north western Mexican states (Mexico has states) they have been wanting to rid the land of non white people, under Eisenhower 'operation wetback' was an offical effort to remove non white citizens to Mexico from the western states that were formerly Mexican, many legal citizens were essentially kidnapped and dropped in southern Mexico where they knew no one, didn't have the culture, didn't speak the language, and didn't have connections, often on boat trips against their will that provided no food or water if they could avoid it, a huge amount of people died on the ships or very soon after being forceably moved off the ships. The economic devistation from population decline in many effected towns and cities took more than a generation to recover.

 Mexico did request a cooperative effort to return Mexican nationals to Mexico, but rather than do this in a way that would make sense and not kill people, and focus on people with Mexican nationality specifically and not simply any Hispanic or part native person, the US decided the most fatal method was the way to go. Additionally citizenship would only be valid for white Americans. You know, Because they hate people who are even part native. 

 It was a deeply racist act of ethnic cleansing, and Donald Trump has said openly, in public, he wants this to happen again. Just as he said he wanted Japanese Internment Camps to happen for Muslim people, and I assume other non white populations.

 This is as heinous as if he demanded The Trail of Tears be once again used to ethnicity cleanse native people from the eastern US. It's absolutely INSANE that this isn't even a news story. 

 The press simply do not care to report on this clear open call to ethnic clensing, just like they never covered Texas refusing birth certificates for Hispanic children born on US soil, or the asylum seeker holding prisons where every non white woman was forcibly given a hysterectomy. You know, forced sterilization of a specific ethnic group. 

 The silence has been deafening. -
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

willing to ignore

Ignore? I have it on unfortunately good authority that at least a decent chunk of his base agree with what he is spouting and are loving how he “speaks the truth” or “says what they’re all thinking”. Sadly he’s enabling more and more of them to feel comfortable saying the quiet part out loud and acting on their impulses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where I come from, if you speak like the GOP does you’d get shot at.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Do you guys have any vacancies?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I have no doubt his base will ignore it at best, and an awful lot of them will cheer it on.

But the base doesn't matter. They'll vote for him absolutely no matter what.

What matters is all of the moderates and independents and such - all of the people who could go either way. They're the ones who are likely to decide that Trump and the republicans are just too foul to support.