one of the participants in Trump's self-aggrandizing MMA birthday party on the grounds of the White House uttered a racial slur against former First Lady, Michelle Obama.
The sitting POTUS who gave himself that party to celebrate turning 80 never distanced himself from what his guest uttered, never condemned that slander, never rebuked the racist who said it.
When people complain that "not everything is racist," they are refusing to see the reality in front of their noses.
Trump is a racist, and those who support him, accept and cater to that racism are, IMO, just as indecent as he is.
According to Yahoo! News, this is what the camera caught just after Hokit vomited his smear against former First Lady, Michelle Obama.
See that smirk? This is how the Convicted Felon-in-Chief will be remembered:
When America needed a leader with moral strength, dignity, and decency, we Americans ended up with a failed human being, Donald J. Trump.
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A failed human being with no moral compass. Supported by a party and cult lacking in ethical and moral standards.
The malignant narcissist racist is a reality because for the past 20 years both the democratic and republican parties failed to actually hear the people and systematically adjust a broken system that in reality serves only the capitalist class of multi multi millionaires and billionaires.
And so we have created a division in the country that opened the doors for a populous fascist leader who has exploited the division to enrich himself and his families unethical businesses. At the same time widening the gulf between the haves and the have not. Benefiting his elite multi multi millionaire and billionaire buddies.
As the sun begins to set on the American Experiment in self rule the nation has only itself to blame.
I am reminded today that gravity works.
Been swimming in the socials about that comment made about Michelle Obama and the folks I follow did not disappoint.
Yes to acknowledging the racism in the room - everyone had their own perspective as to how it hit with them but to a person they all got the memo - no hysteria as what was said was "a ten year old 'joke' a child keeps telling because they got a reaction that one time". The energy I read was more lame than shame, mostly because MAGA doesn't do shame. How can they? They're racist and all the other 'ists and 'isms used by intelligent beings to label behaviors that were accepted back in the day but have passed their use by date decades ago.
I looked at the events here/now and now with Shaw's post this morning... well, my first thought was skud has some thinking to do.
I hope they can break through the ingrained racism taught to each of us by our society. I hope they have the necessary help to maintain themselves as watching one's understanding of life crash into pieces on the floor is never an easy event and it gets worse the longer the lie is believed.
Added note: The algae infused reflecting pool made quite the impression on MAGA tourists. Over budget, less than optimal outcome... who knew reflecting pools were so difficult (echoing the who knew health care, diplomacy, and other tasks originally called easy only to discover they were harder to achieve in reality)!
Les, I blame Citizens United and Reagan's Trickle Down theory as to why our country split in two. Up to then it was 50/50 as to which way the US was headed but those two events sealed the deal in my opinion.
What gives me hope, as always, are the young ones. I've been calling them kids but I was reminded how much I DESPISED being called a kid when I was clearly an adult (of twenty two, but who's counting?).
What are they saying? Well, they are challenging everyone. If you are an established Democrat you are not safe, contrary to previous years where it was believed once in you stayed in. Nope, say the young ones, we need junk yard Dems at the helm, ready to do the Nation's Business. Ideas and plans to achieve them are their currency. They watched as Zohran Mamdani campaigned and won on the ideas they themselves hold dear.
Josh Johnson had a bit about Zohran getting into office and almost immediately started to get things done. No spoilers as his punchline still has me laughing and I watched his show on the youtubes almost a week ago.
The young ones give me hope as they see our current racist system is in need of an upgrade, an overhaul, or best yet, makeover!!!!
I actually agree with you Grey One. The young adults are the only hope America has of saving itself.
However, I'm not sure but what by the time they have the numbers to turn things around this nation won't have already alrrived at full authoritarianism. With all its support structures and institutions fully in place.
Only time will tell.
Grey... in Skud's defense, he has been very open with his disgust for Trump as of late. I've even noticed he has lowered his penchant to also slam Obama or Biden at the same time. Of course, sometimes it does get lumped in the "all politicians are scum" critique, but I'll take it.
Trump is what he is. He, to the joy of his supporters, does not like all this "political correctness". He seems to believe it's a free country where you can say what you want, and then people can judge for themselves what they want to do.
But speech for him, and indeed for many, should have no limits.
Whether someone believes that is good, I'll leave to them. But yesterday on CNN, a MAGA supporting commentator said he did not like the comment and thought it was horrible. When asked why Trump would not condemn it, he said he believed the WH had made a no condemnation and no apology policy on all statements.
When asked if that should include even racist statements, he had no answer.
But what should we expect from the people who send emails and enjoy laughs together of cartoons of black ppl with big lips eating watermelons, and other caricatures mocking people of all cultures?
Les mentioned... "As the sun begins to set on the American Experiment in self rule..."
I think we've been here before. I reckon if we listened to ppl o the eve of the Civil War and the run up to WWII, we'd see a lot of similar rhetoric. In fact, in the 1950s, we had a very vocal group citing our "drift from God", and how it was negatively impacting us. That 1950s attitude is what added "In God We Trust" to our money and also inserted God into our pledge of Allegiance.
All to say, we recovered from those eras when many felt all was lost. We may not this time, but, there's still hope. Because we've done it before.
My point, Dave, is really that the American Empire peaked around 1978. Every since RWR the empire has essentially been in decline. trump, and his MAGA rhetoric (and delusions) is just another symptom of America's decline.
I'm not saying we'll collapse into ruin. But we will experience the issues AND problems of every past declining empires.
I only hope what emerges is a more equitable and significantly fairer society. I hope this for my grandchildren and great grandchildren that I'll never meet.
Only time will tell.
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