Trump is Racist

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Joni Ernst says Trump's speech is racist.  We need to see GOP come out wt the Dems to censor him. 

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/453188-member-of-senate-gop-leadership-says-trump-tweets-are-racist

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Asked if she thought Trump’s comments were specifically racist, Ernst acknowledged, “Yeah, I do.”  

She reiterated that view when asked on another occasion by a CNN reporter if she found Trump’s comments racist.

“Uh, yeah. They’re American citizens,” she said, referring to Trump’s suggestion that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), who all identify as racial minorities, go back to the counties they’re from.

Of that group, only Omar, a native of Somalia, was born outside the United States.  

Ernst also called the comments “not constructive” and “not helpful.”

Like other Republicans, she said Trump should focus on policies instead of personal attacks.

“Let’s focus on policies and we can debate those policies because I personally think the GOP has a stronger platform to talk about. That’s what we should be focusing on,” she said.

 

 

[TGHusker]

Anti-defamation league says Trump's words come out of white  supremacist manifesto.  They would know a racist when they see one.

If cult followers can't see the truth after this, there is no hope they will ever.  Trump is standing in Times Square and shooting someone and they applaud.

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-defamation-league-blasts-trump-for-invoking-support-for-israel-to-defend-this-racism-184805174.html

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In an op-ed published Tuesday for NBC News, ADL president Jonathan Greenblatt did not mince words, calling Trump’s rhetoric “ripped straight from a white supremacist manifesto.”

“Trump’s language was absolutely and unquestionably racist despite his denials to the contrary,” Greenblatt wrote.

The ADL, a civil rights organization founded to “stop the defamation of the Jewish people,” also noted on its website that Trump’s attack on the Democratic lawmakers “was greeted with enthusiasm by white supremacists and other extremists.”

Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, for instance, applauded Trump on his website, the Daily Stormer.

“Man, President Trump’s Twitter account has been pure fire lately. This might be the funniest thing he’s ever tweeted,” Anglin wrote. “This is the kind of WHITE NATIONALISM we elected him for. And we’re obviously seeing it only because there’s another election coming up. But I’ll tell you, even knowing that, it still feels so good.”

The ADL was not the only U.S. Jewish group to decry Trump’s attacks on the congresswomen. Israel Policy Forum columnist Michael Koplow wrote that invoking Israel to defend Trump’s “vile racism” could ultimately cause more harm than good

 

 

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[TGHusker]

Does this sound like Trump?
 

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The president of the United States was both a racist and a very difficult man to get along with.

He routinely called blacks inferior. He bluntly stated that no matter how much progress they made, they must remain so. He openly called critics disloyal, even treasonous. He liberally threw insults like candy during public speeches. He rudely ignored answers he didn’t like. He regularly put other people into positions they didn’t want to be in, then blamed them when things went sour. His own bodyguard later called him “destined to conflict,” a man who “found it impossible to conciliate or temporize.”

 

 

 

History seems to repeat itself.  The song "Won't Get Fooled Again" unfortunately doesn't apply to history as foolish people do foolish things continually.  Like electing Trump.  Of course the president noteD below is Andrew Johnson who became president due to Lincoln's assassination.  Lincoln's choice to replace his VP wt Johnson in the 1864 election turned out to be a great failure in judgment.     It is easy to replace "Johnson" with "Trump" in the quotes below.  We don't need much of an imagination to do so.

Some interesting quotes from this article
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/13/andrew-johnson-undermined-congress-cabinet-david-priess-book-222413

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Johnson also made his racist views clear in statements like this one to the federal commissioner of the Public Buildings Service: “Everyone would, and must admit, that the white race was superior to the black, and that while we ought to do our best to bring them . . . up to our present level, that, in doing so, we should, at the same time raise our own intellectual status so that the relative position of the two races would be the same.”

“Is there no way,” declared leading radical senator Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania just months after Johnson’s inauguration, “to arrest the insane course of the president in Washington?” He even mused that by taking actions more properly lying with Congress—like treating southern states as legitimate entities, even as most legislators considered them still occupied territory—the new president was setting the stage to be “crowned king.” Leading legislators urged the president to call Congress into a special session, or at least delay controversial moves until it was scheduled to convene in December. Johnson obstinately ignored them. By the winter of 1865–1866, the president had proved himself “already more disposed to be the political partisan of the Southerners than the ally of those who had elected him,” according to Adam Badeau, a confidant of Army General Ulysses Grant.

 

 

 

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For the first time in the history of our country,” wrote the New York Independent, “the people have been witness to the mortifying spectacle of the president going from town to town, accompanied by the prominent members of the Cabinet, on an electioneering raid, denouncing his opponents, bandying epithets with men in the crowd, and praising himself and his policies. Such a humiliating exhibition has never before been seen, nor anything even approaching to it.”

 

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Particularly distressing to Grant, Stanton and many others around them was the increasing violence in the South between emboldened former Confederates and former slaves asserting their rights. Already by the end of 1866, the president “became, if not treasonable in intent, yet unpatriotic in action,” Badeau noted, probably representing Grant’s views. “He fostered a spirit that engendered massacre, and afterward protected the evil-doers. He spoke, both with Grant in private and openly to the public, as if the Congress elected by the faithful States was an illegal body. He suggested to men’s minds that he might be plotting to allow the Southerners to return to their places in spite of the North.”

 

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One power he still held was that of the federal pardon. And pardon he did, issuing many more of them than all other presidents to that point, combined—overwhelmingly for those who participated in the rebellion against the Union. Johnson even pardoned a few of the men convicted in the conspiracy to kill President Lincoln. He anticipated his old party would show some appreciation for the pain he had caused to Republicans by giving him the presidential spot on the Democratic ticket for the coming election against Grant. The party convention dashed those hopes by instead choosing Horatio Seymour, a man who didn’t even want the nomination.

Why wait until the end of a term to remove a president? Methods ranging from the deft to the downright unsavory have undermined presidents’ authority, seen so clearly in Andrew Johnson’s case. Most of the same mechanisms used to undermine him remain in others’ toolkits today, which means it’s equally true now as it was under Johnson: You don’t have to formally eject an unpopular or unfit president from the White House if you can use various other means to limit the damage he is causing to the country.

Excerpted from How To Get Rid of a President by David Priess

 

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[TGHusker]

15 hours ago, QMany said:

 

Unbelievable - no AA or Latino's appointed.      There is no hint of being diverse as our culture is. 

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This OPED says it is time for Obama to speak out.  I say Amen but also for Jimmy Carter, GWB and Bill Clinton to speak out - all as former presidents have a moral obligation to use their voices to condemn Trump's speech.    Trump isn't one of them and never will be.  Trump doesn't belong in the presidential club and would never fit in.   He's a scumbag, low life crashing the King's court.  He is no Cinderella but the ugly older sister passing himself off as belonging but his character gives him away.   I'm beyond being sooooo disappointed in the current GOP leadership and rank and file Congressional members who sit quietly by as Trump burns our democracy.  Evil triumphs when good men and women do nothing.  

 

https://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/It-s-time-for-Obama-to-speak-up-14097546.php

[Moiraine]

53 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

This OPED says it is time for Obama to speak out.  I say Amen but also for Jimmy Carter, GWB and Bill Clinton to speak out - all as former presidents have a moral obligation to use their voices to condemn Trump's speech.    Trump isn't one of them and never will be.  Trump doesn't belong in the presidential club and would never fit in.   He's a scumbag, low life crashing the King's court.  He is no Cinderella but the ugly older sister passing himself off as belonging but his character gives him away.   I'm beyond being sooooo disappointed in the current GOP leadership and rank and file Congressional members who sit quietly by as Trump burns our democracy.  Evil triumphs when good men and women do nothing.  

 

https://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/It-s-time-for-Obama-to-speak-up-14097546.php

 

 

I don’t want either Clinton to open their mouths. 

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4 republicans vote yea.  guess who trump will rage tweet about tonight?

 

The 4 Republicans who joined Democrats in vote condemning President Trump’s racist tweets: • Rep. Hurd (TX) • Rep. Upton (MI) • Rep. Fitzpatrick (PA) • Rep. Brooks (IN)

 

 

[Moiraine]

[QMany]

 

[QMany]

 

Just read these rules (and dates) the Republican-held Congress had to slip in to try to protect their monster. 

[QMany]

 

Shame his time got cut off, that list is tenfold.

[TGHusker]

13 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

I don’t want either Clinton to open their mouths. 

I can appreciate that.

[NM11046]

1 hour ago, TGHusker said:

I can appreciate that.

I'm fine with all of them opening their mouths - or none of them.  Obama can't say anything unless they all do, the GOP will string up anything that comes from a previous pOTUS that is a Dem.  If Mr. Bush is silent we should't hear from any of them, it won't help anything.  

 

Now if all the P's and VP's and Cabinet officials signed a letter or did a promo that would resonate, but it needs to be across party lines.

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21 minutes ago, NM11046 said:

I'm fine with all of them opening their mouths - or none of them.  Obama can't say anything unless they all do, the GOP will string up anything that comes from a previous pOTUS that is a Dem.  If Mr. Bush is silent we should't hear from any of them, it won't help anything.  

 

Now if all the P's and VP's and Cabinet officials signed a letter or did a promo that would resonate, but it needs to be across party lines.

True - need a united front that this type of language, attitude, action (like so many of his) is not representative of who we are as a people or what we aspire to be.  GWB was never a fan of Trump - so I'm sure current GOP trump supporters would just say he's a part of the deep state..    But getting former VPs, former Cabinet members involved also would send a stronger message.