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From today's Daily Beast "Cheat Sheet" ~ the lout must have missed a few doses of his meds ~ :ey ~ Sooz

'Total Catrastrophe'
Trump’s Tirade: Tells Dem Congresswomen to Leave U.S.
Barbie Latza Nadeau, Correspondent-At-Large
Updated 07.14.19 10:46AM ET / Published 07.14.19 9:15AM ET

Without mentioning names, President Donald Trump suggested that “progressive Democrat Congresswomen” not born in the United States should go back home in a series of early Sunday morning tweets. The president has lately engaged in a war of words with Ilhan Omar, the Democratic House member from Minnesota who was born in Somalia. In his tweet, he only referred to congresswomen “who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all).” He accused them of “viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.” He then suggested that they go back and “fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came” before coming back to “show us how it is done.” He ended the tirade with a reference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s own struggle with progressive voices of the Democratic Party. “I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!” This is not the first time Trump has questioned whether a political foe is truly American. He led the birtherism charge against President Barack Obama for years.

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Trump doesn't get it. They're in a broken country now and they're trying to fix it. Also three of the four he was ranting about were born in the United States. What he really means is "you're black or brown so you don't belong here."


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Trump doesn't get it. They're in a broken country now and they're trying to fix it. Also three of the four he was ranting about were born in the United States. What he really means is "you're black or brown so you don't belong here."


True, but he may have just stepped over a line. While he may have gotten a high five from his bigoted and ignorant followers, he insulted a lot of people who are not lily white, and a lot of lily white people who find his remarks deeply offensive.


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I read somewhere that AOC responded that the DiC's swipes at them were because he knew they were not afraid of him ~ I give her response :st :st :st ~ Sooz

Why it matters that Trump urged reps to ‘go back’ where they came from
07/15/19 08:00 AM—Updated 07/15/19 08:12 AM
By Steve Benen

About a month ago, House Democratic leaders brought a border bill to the floor for a vote, with the hopes that their members would rally behind it. For the most part, Dems backed the proposal and it passed with relative ease. There were, however, a handful of exceptions.

Four first-year progressives – Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) – balked at their party’s bill, signaling a fissure between the left and the Democratic leadership.

Yesterday morning, “Fox & Friends” aired a segment on the four women lawmakers. Just minutes later, Donald Trump thought it’d be a good idea to share some thoughts on the subject.

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“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run.

“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough.

“I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!”

For many years, “go back to where you came from” was the kind of ugly rhetoric one might expect to hear from the angry drunk at the end of the bar. Now the overt racism has been embraced by the sitting president of the United States.

Indeed, for Trump, it’s performative racism. This president’s cringe-worthy record on race is not new, but occasionally, the Republican chooses to flaunt it. Subtext becomes text. Dog whistles become bullhorns. His tolerance for subtleties sometimes disappears and his bigotry becomes plain and unapologetic.

From Trump’s perspective, hateful and divisive rhetoric helped elevate him to the nation’s office, so he sees value in sticking to the same script, confident in his ability to stoke racial divisions in order to hold onto power.

But as demoralizing as it was to see such a display from a sitting American president, it’s important to emphasize that the moral rot of Trump’s message runs deep.

Indeed, three of the four congresswomen Trump targeted were born in the United States. If he’s of the opinion that they came from countries “whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world,” the president was inadvertently referring to his own country.

Of course, even if these Democrats were immigrants and naturalized citizens, as Ilhan Omar is, the idea that they should leave the country because Trump doesn’t like their criticisms is indefensible. There is no justification for the president questioning their patriotism, loyalties, or the legitimacy of their citizenship.

But in the Republican’s mind, that’s not the case. For Trump, progressive women of color aren’t quite as American as he is.

He’s wrong, but he doesn’t care.

Perhaps he should. Even if the president is indifferent to propriety, there are strategic considerations at play: the divisions among Democrats matter, for example, and they may very well play an important role in the 2020 election, but nothing can bring Democrats together faster than rallying together in opposition to Trump’s racist attacks.

Postscript: As best as I can tell, the president’s Republican brethren have had very little to say about Trump’s latest racist display. That their cowardice is predictable doesn’t make it any less offensive.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-it-matters-trump-urged-reps-go-back-where-they-came


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Any question of his bigotry has now been erased. An apology or a mea culpa after his first tweets might have given some arguing room for his bigotry but doubling down on it this morning simply embeds it in concrete. The silence out of the GOP about is deafening. The entire party is now tarred. They might as well just resdesign their elephant with a pointy hood. The same applies to any Americans who still support him.


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Any question of his bigotry has now been erased. An apology or a mea culpa after his first tweets might have given some arguing room for his bigotry but doubling down on it this morning simply embeds it in concrete. The silence out of the GOP about is deafening. The entire party is now tarred. They might as well just resdesign their elephant with a pointy hood. The same applies to any Americans who still support him.

My feelings near exactly, jim! ~ the DiC has yet again proven himself to be irredeemable, which he does often and is no longer surprising ~ he uses "shock tactics" as his go-to diversion ~ but what is even more alarming to me personally is "the silence out of the GOP", which you aptly describe as "deafening" ~ the following Steve Benen commentary snaps things into perspective ~ Sooz

Why GOP leaders chose silence when confronted with Trump’s racism
07/16/19 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen

[Video, The Rachel Maddow Show, 7/15/19, 9:00 PM ET, "Racist Trump spectacle distracts from other damaging Trump news", accessible via the end link.]

Yesterday morning, as the nation was coming to terms with the latest example of Donald Trump’s racism, the Charlotte Observer published an editorial with a headline that read, “Are you OK with a racist president, Republicans?”

The newspaper’s editorial board described the president’s antics as “dangerous” and “destructive,” before insisting, “[A]t the least every Republican lawmaker in Congress should declare as much about their president’s outburst.”

As Eugene Robinson noted, that obviously did not happen.

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“Trump is a racist” does not exactly qualify as breaking news. But the silence from prominent Republicans is staggering – and telling. It amounts to collaboration – perhaps “collusion” is a better word – with the president’s assault on diversity and pluralism.

In the coming campaign, you will hear Republican candidates at every level claim to be colorblind and embrace all Americans regardless of race or ethnicity. Do not believe them. Their failure to speak out now tells us everything we need to know about their true feelings.

In fairness, there were some exceptions. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), the vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference, didn’t issue a formal statement condemning Trump’s antics, but when asked specifically if she considered the president’s comments racist, the Iowan conceded, “Yeah, I do.”

But her Republican brethren in the GOP leadership – from both chambers – were far more circumspect. Members like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had an opportunity to stand up for core principles such as decency and respect, but by all appearances, they were simply too afraid to lead.

Their reticence served as a painful reminder: it really is Donald Trump’s party now.

In practice, Trump operates from the assumption that the key to electoral victory is maximizing racial resentments and reaping the benefits of some Americans’ worst and most divisive instincts. In effect, the president sees value in ripping the country apart, confident that he and people like him will be left with the biggest chunk.

Greg Sargent raised a related point yesterday that stood out for me:

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As Jacob T. Levy observes, Trump’s repetition of racist and white nationalist tropes is laying waste to the norm, recently observed in both parties, according to which elites signal to white voters (at least nominally) that they should be better than our history.

In so doing, Levy notes, Trump is “changing what Republican voters think it means to be a Republican.” He’s changing their expectations of how Republican politicians should behave.

In that context, the reluctance of GOP lawmakers to condemn Trump’s latest racism becomes a lot more significant.

Quite right. It’s certainly true that many Republican leaders and high-profile members are afraid, not just of Trump’s ire – note the president’s recent hysterics in response to Paul Ryan’s modest rebukes – but of his followers and their expectations.

Party officials who believed they’d help set the party’s direction in the Trump era now realize that power is in the hands of one man: a hapless amateur whose rhetoric on race is too often indistinguishable from the angry, racist drunk at the end of the bar.

Republicans aware of their party’s demographic challenges – the party is increasingly dependent on older white voters, in a nation that’s becoming increasingly diverse – no doubt realize that Trump is making a risky electoral bet. But instead of pushing for a smarter strategy, most GOP leaders have effectively surrendered and accepted defeat.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-gop-leaders-chose-silence-when-confronted-trumps-racism#break


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A snippet from an article entitled:

There's a sobering truth to Trump's racist tweets that we don't like to admit

....But Trump's recent tweets could show that he understands America better than his critics realize.

These two Americas have long co-existed.

One is the country represented by the Statue of Liberty, and its invitation to poor and tired immigrants "yearning to breathe free."

The other is the one that virtually wiped out Native Americans, enslaved Africans, excluded Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century and put Japanese Americans in concentration camps.

From the rarified perch of the White House, Trump's racist tweets tap into the id of this other America.



And here's what's so frightening about this: It is not a big stretch to say that when a leader uses the kind of language that Trump uses against minorities, it may increase the chances of violence being used against them.

I recall what Mark Naison, a historian at Fordham University, told me after the Charlottesville violence in 2017 when talking about Trump's racial rhetoric.

He says most Americans don't realize how dangerous it is for a leader to talk about fellow citizens as if they're the enemy. But some people from other countries know.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/us/trump ... Stories%29

**Sorry for all the blank space below. I deleted all the extraneous crap that followed my copy and paste job, but the space didn't go away. Sigh.


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roseanne wrote:
**Sorry for all the blank space below. I deleted all the extraneous crap that followed my copy and paste job, but the space didn't go away. Sigh.

Fixed it for you, roseanne ~ :fl

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There's a lot of truth in the article roseanne posted from above ~ but reality is that there is no way to change any of that history ~ nor should we ~ what we should be doing is to acknowledge that history but make clear that it is history, not current mindset ~ and we should adopt the heart-felt reminder/promise of "NEVER AGAIN" ~

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sooz06 wrote:
roseanne wrote:
**Sorry for all the blank space below. I deleted all the extraneous crap that followed my copy and paste job, but the space didn't go away. Sigh.

Fixed it for you, roseanne ~ :fl

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Thanks!


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These women are rock stars! ~ LOVE their truth-telling! ~ :st :st :st ~ Sooz

WATCH: Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez give the perfect response to the ‘complete hypocrisy’ of Trump’s attacks
written by Cody Fenwick / July 15, 2019

Following President Donald Trump’s racist broadside over the weekend, the four Democratic congresswomen who have become the focus of his wrath held a press conference to respond to his bigotry.

Reps. Ilhan Omar (MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Rashida Tlaib (MI), and Ayanna Pressley (MA) spoke to reporters about the impact and meaning behind the president’s tweets demanding that they “go back” to their countries. It was a racist attack on any level, but particularly absurd given Omar was the only one of the group who wasn’t born in the United States. Trump, like many of his right-wing allies in the media, argued that the congresswomen’s criticisms of the country and his administration’s policies mean they’re anti-American and ungrateful.

The lawmakers argued that the president’s racism is a distraction from his destructive policies, particularly regarding the environment, health care, and the abusive conditions in which immigrants have been held by the Department of Homeland Security.

Near the end of the press conference, Omar and Ocasio-Cortez offered comments that succinctly cut to the heart of the obvious prejudice and hypocrisy in Trump’s attacks — and the weakness they reveal.

“Every single comment that we make is from a place of extreme love for every single person in this country,” said Omar. “It is part of the mandate of why we ran for office and why we got elected.”

She continued: “Now when people say, ‘If you say a negative thing about the policies in this country, you hate this country,’ to me, it sort of speaks to the hypocrisy — and Alex and I were talking about this — when this president ran and until today, he talked about everything that was wrong in this country and how he was going to make it great. And so for him to condemn us and to say we are un-American for wanting to work hard to make the country be the country we all deserve to live in — it’s complete hypocrisy.”

Ocasio-Cortez then came to the lectern, delivering the closing answer of the press conference.

“Weak minds and leaders challenge loyalty to our country in order to avoid challenging and debating the policy,” she said. “This president does not know how to make the argument that Americans do not deserve health care. He does not know how to defend his policies — so what he does is attack us personally. And that is what this is all about. He can’t look a child in the face and he can’t look all Americans in the face and justify why this country is throwing them in cages. So instead, he tells us that I should go back to the great borough of the Bronx and make it better. And that’s what I’m here to do.”

Watch the video below:


https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/watch-ilhan-omar-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-give-the-perfect-response-to-the-complete-hypocrisy-of-trumps-attacks/


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Go Nancy ....

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=418969005371412


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Kellyanne Conway Asks Reporter His Ethnicity While Defending Trump’s Racist Rant
The White House adviser tried to spin Trump’s racist rhetoric against Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley.

By Jenna Amatulli

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway attempted to defend President Donald Trump’s racist Twitter rant against progressive Democratic congresswomen by asking a reporter his ethnicity.

At a press gaggle outside the White House on Tuesday, Breakfast Media reporter Andrew Feinberg asked Conway about Trump’s comments over the weekend, in which he said the representatives should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

Conway responded: “What’s your ethnicity?”

When Feinberg pushed back on that question, she responded, “I’m asking you a question. My ancestors are from Ireland and Italy,” and went on to insist that the question was relevant.

“No, it is [relevant] because you’re asking about ... [Trump] said ‘originally.’ He said ‘originally from.’ And you know everything he has said since, and to have a full conversation,” argued Conway.

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Kellyanne crossed an obvious line ~ she should have been fired immediately ~

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but he didn't say "originally from", did he?
and why would that matter, even if he did?


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The GOP is blindly following/supporting/protecting an obviously corrupt-on-every-level "leader" who embraces the concept of "divide and conquer" ~ :ey ~ Sooz

House Democrats vote to condemn Trump's "racist comments" aimed at progressive congresswomen
The feud started after Trump told four lawmakers to "go back" to where they came from.
Shira Tarlo / July 17, 2019 1:19AM (UTC)

The House of Representatives voted Tuesday on a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump's spate of "racist comments" directed at a group of newly elected congresswomen of color.

The White House and Democrats in Congress have been embroiled in a public feud since the president tweeted Sunday that a group of progressive congresswomen "who originally came from countries where governments are a complete and total catastrophe" should "go back and fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."

Trump did not mention the lawmakers he was criticizing by name, but his comments were widely interpreted as targeting four freshmen lawmakers known as "The Squad," which includes Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. The four legislators are U.S. citizens and only Omar, who arrived to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia, was born abroad.

The resolution twice refers to "racist comments" by Trump but does not call the president a racist. It says the president's remarks have "legitimized fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color."

Trump's comments about the congresswomen have provoked a political firestorm on Capitol Hill, where Democrats and some Republican lawmakers have rebuked the president for his remarks and denounced them as racist.

In his first public comments since the war of words began, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters Tuesday afternoon that "the tone of all of this is not good for the country" but declined to describe the president as racist.

"I think there's a consensus that political rhetoric has gotten way, way overheated all across the political spectrum," McConnell said, adding that Trump and members of Congress need to "contribute to a better level of discourse" and that everyone involved needed to "lower the incendiary rhetoric."

When asked by reported what he would do if someone told his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who is an immigrant from Taiwan, to go back to her country, McConnell noted she came to the country legally.

He said Chao "came here at age eight, legally, not speaking a word of English and has realized the American Dream."

"Legal immigration has been a fulfilling of the American Dream," McConnell added. "The new people that come here have a lot of ambition, a lot of energy, tend to do very well and invigorate our country. My wife's a good example of that."

"I'm obviously a big fan of legal immigration. It's been a big part of my family for a quarter of a century," he continued.

Earlier on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said at a press conference that he did not believe Trump's tweets were racist.

"I believe this is about ideology. This is about socialism versus freedom," McCarthy said, noting that the outspoken congresswomen "talked more about impeachment than anything else" at a press conference on Monday where they responded to the president's tirade.

"This is more from their base, it's about politics, and it's unfortunate," McCarthy said. "We should get back to the business of America."

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the no. 3 Republican in the House, said at the news conference Tuesday that she wanted to make clear the Republican Party's "opposition to our socialist colleagues has absolutely nothing to do with their gender, with their religion or with their race, it has to do with the content of their policies."

Also on Tuesday, Trump tweeted that the four congresswomen "have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate" and asked why the House wasn't "voting to rebuke the filthy and hate laced things they have said?"

In a tweet shared later Tuesday morning, Trump argued that his tweets "were NOT Racist. I don't have a Racist bone in my body!" He also stated his belief that Congress should instead take action on "the filthy language, statements and lies" allegedly shared by the four congresswomen.

Asked Monday if he was concerned that his tweets were being called racist, the president responded, "It doesn't concern me because many people agree with me."

He also accused the four congresswomen of being "anti-America" and said that the lawmakers could leave if they were unhappy with the state of things.

"If you hate our country — if you're not happy here, you can leave," the president said outside the White House. "You can leave. You can leave right now. Come back if you want. Don't come back — that's OK, too. But if you're not happy, you can leave."

He also mentioned Omar by name, falsely claiming the congresswoman praised the terrorist organization al Qaeda while further accusing her of "hating Jews." Trump also brought up comments Omar made earlier this year about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which prompted immediate outrage from conservatives and spurred an increase in death threats against the congresswoman.

Omar and her colleagues issued a scathing rebuke to the Trump's attacks in a joint press conference Monday, calling his tweets "blatantly racist" and the "agenda of white nationalists."

Ocasio-Cortez addressed Trump's latest tweets Tuesday, writing on Twitter, "You're right, Mr. President — you don't have a racist bone in your body. You have a racist mind in your head, and a racist heart in your chest."

https://www.salon.com/2019/07/16/house-democrats-vote-to-condemn-trumps-racist-comments-aimed-at-progressive-congresswomen/


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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just DESTROYED Mitch McConnell and his Republican cohorts for allowing Trump's vicious racism. She is on

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrat ... live_video


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READ: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Lists ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’ as ‘Unlawful Conduct’ in the Workplace
It’s there in black and white.

Evan Brechtel

Days after President ’s racist tweets telling four American congresswomen of color to “go back” to their respective countries, Trump and his followers are searching for every semantical and ideological escape hatch to prove the comments aren’t racist.

It’s not going well.

Some claim that they’re not racist because Trump told them to return to the United States after they’ve fixed the problems in their original countries while some tried claiming that he was telling them to go back to their home districts where they were elected.

Right.

As for Trump, he insists the tweets aren’t racist at all…and neither are his bones.

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

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.....

Things got awkward, however, when Nick Ramsey, producer of MSNBC’s 11th Hour, tweeted out an example of an unlawfully racist remark listed in the government’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website (under “Harassment Based on National Origin”) that sounds an awful lot like what Trump said about the congresswomen:

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... from the @useeoc website.https://bit.ly/2amuRGm

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The EEOC enforces civil rights laws in the workplace, so this is as close to a “textbook definition” of racism that one can get from the federal government.

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Hey @senatemajldr @GOPLeader @RepLizCheney @realDonaldTrump It’s literally a racist comment as defined by our GOVERNMENT


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'Nuf said ~ :ey ~ Sooz

Bruce Lindner wrote:
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July 18 at 5:41 AM ·

Remember at Obama rallies, whenever he’d mention Mitch McConnell or Mitt Romney, how people would boo? And Obama would tell them; “Don’t boo. Vote!”
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Well, we’ve come a long way, baby. And the direction we’re headed is terrifying.
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The president of the United States singled out a 37 year old black mother of three BY NAME, a sitting member of Congress who’s already been getting death threats, and focused the hatred of an almost all-white North Carolina crowd directly at her.
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Did he personally lead the chant? Nope. But he didn’t do anything to stop it, because that was what he was hoping for.
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Fox News wasn’t having any of it though. Laura Ingraham exclaimed; “The President is on fire tonight!”
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Tucker Carlson followed up with a guest who said (I shit you not), “We need to retire the phrase ‘people of color.’ It’s racist.” To which Carlson concurred “What does it even mean?”
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We’re in a bad place, folks. Really bad. And things won’t just magically snap back to Hope & Change when we finally do dispose of this gutter trash.



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Actually he whipped it up.

At the beginning it was kind of half-hearted.


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More smoke and mirrors ~ :ey ~ Sooz

Behind the scenes, Trump feared resolution condemning racist message
07/22/19 09:20 AM
By Steve Benen

[Video, The Rachel Maddow Show, 7/16/19, 9:38 PM ET, "Democrats look for bipartisanship in condemnation of Trump racism", accessible via the end link.]

On occasion, Congress can move quite quickly. It was eight days ago, on July 14, when Donald Trump, inspired by a Fox News segment, published a series of tweets urging four American congresswomen of color to “go back” to “broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

One day later, Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) introduced a resolution condemning the president’s racist missive. The day after that, it passed. The New Jersey Democrat spoke with Rachel the night of the vote and she noted that the White House lobbied congressional Republicans on the resolution, suggesting he cared about the non-binding outcome.

“Of course he cares,” Malinowski replied. “He wants us to think he doesn’t, but of course he does.”

The Washington Post published an interesting behind-the-scenes report over the weekend, and it left little doubt that the author of the resolution was right.

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The White House vote-counters initially feared as many as 50 Republicans might defect to support the resolution, and Trump ordered an all-hands White House effort to keep the GOP caucus together. White House aides told allies on the Hill that it was okay to criticize Trump, as long as they didn’t vote with Democrats.

Trump was obsessed with the vote tally and received regular briefings. Aides fed him a constant stream of lawmaker reactions and put him on the phone with several lawmakers. He told his team to tell any wafflers that he loves America and that they needed to pick sides. Trump called McCarthy to cancel an immigration meeting planned at the White House on Tuesday.

“Stay there and fight,” he told McCarthy.

Remember, Trump invested this time and effort in opposition to a symbolic measure that he knew would pass anyway. In the process, he made a few things abundantly clear.

First, even when the president feigns indifference, Trump hates criticism and fears the implications of Republican divisions, especially as they relate to him and racism.

Second, if the president were to invest these kinds of efforts into actual governing, his presidency might be more successful.

Third, the lobbying and arm-twisting had the intended effect. Even when confronted with an eloquent resolution condemning obvious racism, 98% of House Republicans were told to vote “no,” and at the White House’s insistence, they did exactly that.

And finally, if Trump was “obsessed with the vote tally” on a non-binding resolution in one chamber, I shudder to think how manic he’d become if House Democratic leaders agreed to pursue impeachment proceedings.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/behind-the-scenes-trump-feared-resolution-condemning-racist-message


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PostPosted: 07/22/19 9:30 am • # 22 
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"Third, the lobbying and arm-twisting had the intended effect. Even when confronted with an eloquent resolution condemning obvious racism, 98% of House Republicans were told to vote “no,” and at the White House’s insistence, they did exactly that."

That is reprehensible - those republicans have sold their souls and any humanity they had - though at this point it is questionable they had any to begin with. Seems for all their supposed religious and family values they are more afraid of trump than their maker.


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That is reprehensible - those republicans have sold their souls and any humanity they had - though at this point it is questionable they had any to begin with. Seems for all their supposed religious and family values they are more afraid of trump than their maker.

And yet in another thread today you wished they would see Grabem for what he is. You think the devil is going to give them their souls back? Anyway it seems to me their long wished for rapture has occurred. Only glitch is they went the wrong way.


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The phrase "the emperor has no clothes" jumps into my mind ~ :ey ~ emphasis/bolding below is mine ~ Sooz

Trump says congresswomen ‘can’t get away with’ speech he doesn’t like
07/22/19 08:00 AM—Updated 07/22/19 01:09 PM
By Steve Benen

In theory, if Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) were as awful as Donald Trump claims, he wouldn’t have to lie about them. If the president were right, and the progressive congresswomen of color had extensive records of ugly rhetorical attacks against the United States, the Republican would go after them by pointing to things they actually said.

It’s just not working out that way. The more Trump targets the members of “the squad,” the more fact-checkers point out that his attacks are rooted in fiction.

Under the circumstances, shouldn’t the truth be good enough? Doesn’t the president’s dishonesty fundamentally undermine the rationale behind his entire offensive?

Complicating matters, Trump added a new twist to his campaign during brief remarks to reporters on Friday afternoon.

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“You can’t speak about our country the way those four congressmen – they said, ‘garbage.’ They say things about Israel that’s so bad I’m not even going to repeat them right now.

“They can’t get away with that act.”

First, the “garbage” quote has obviously been wrenched from context and was never directed at the country or its people. Second, no American president has ever been as deeply critical of the United States as Donald J. Trump.

But what I got stuck on was the assertion that the president doesn’t think members of Congress can “get away with” speech he disapproves of.

Trump’s authoritarian instincts have been thoroughly documented in recent years, and rhetoric like this should probably be added to the catalog. When a president starts talking about not letting Americans “get away with” rhetoric he deems unpatriotic, it’s worth pausing to take note.

During the same Q&A on Friday, a reporter reminded Trump, “Mr. President, they have a First Amendment right to say what they want about our country. That’s what the Constitution guarantees. Do you see not agreeing with you as the same thing as hating the country, sir?”

Trump replied, “Yeah, they have First Amendment rights but that doesn’t mean I’m happy about them saying. And when they say bad things about us, we can certainly feel – and again, we have First Amendment rights also – we can certainly feel what and say what we want.”

At face value, this makes a fair amount sense. When some elected officials state their views, opposing elected officials can criticize those views, and vice versa. It’s part of how the political discourse is supposed to work in a free society.

But in context, Trump isn’t doing the public conversation any favors. The president has denounced made-up quotes, urged Americans to “go back” to foreign countries for having the audacity to criticize him, and declared that those whose speech he deems unpatriotic “can’t get away with” their choice of words.


A First Amendment champion he isn’t.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-says-congresswomen-cant-get-away-speech-he-doesnt


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