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.
They went from zero to fully mask-off in less than 24 hours. I’m amazed at the quickness of it.
If you were in a red state during the Obama campaign/presidency you wouldn’t be surprised.
Yeah, the overly racist shit that popped up all over rural NV was pretty disgusting.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’d almost say they’re the default.
I’ve personally seen the “Genocide Joe” voices smoothly transition into “unhinged prosecutor” in no time flat.
I’d say that they’ve been mask-off for quite a while tbh.
Stayed mask off through the worst of covid, only put masks on to protest like little proud boys.
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
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…
He is also a convicted felon and has a civil judgement of being a rapist.
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.
operation wetback
Come again?
Also, why did my keyboard let me swipe “wetback”? Racist-ass keyboard.
An Eisenhower-era deportation program that set up the current dynamic of militarized deportation and border control.
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. -
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.
Where I come from, if you speak like the GOP does you’d get shot at.
Do you guys have any vacancies?
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.
Republican Missouri secretary of state candidate Valentina Gomez just went on an unhinged rant attacking Vice President Kamala Harris on X, where she called her a “little wh*re,” as conservatives posted misogynist memes and jokes about Harris.
“Kamala Harris slept her way to the top, and Tulsi Gabbard already destroyed and exposed her in 2020. Kamala is just another DEI hire, and President Trump is going to eat her alive,” she said in a video.
I hate to break it to you but you’re never going to be racist or sexist enough to be fully accepted by them…
lol A token GOP minority female is calling Kamala a DEI hire. FFS
This psycho was just in the news for attaching her Democratic opponent for “raising a groomer” because one of her grandkids is trans. She makes Marjorie Taylor Green look polite by comparison, and the shame of it is that, given how state-level politics have been trending in Missouri, she’s got a decent shot of winning in the general just because of the magic ®.
I’m originally from Missouri. There are a fuckton of racists there that will be cheering this on.
I also grew up in Missouri, though I live in Kansas now, and I know several people who fit that description.
The thing that kills me about Missouri is that it used to be a competitive state for moderate Democrata, but the rural chunks of the state fell victim to right wing populism during the Tea Party wave in 2010 and now there’s a whole generation of Missourians whose defining political characteristic is rancorous hate for “liberal” city people. Kansas’ politics aren’t great, either, but at least the rural voters care about farm issues here… In Missouri, particularly south of I-70 where the only real industry they ever had was lead mining, all that’s left is the hate they’ve been fed from right wing assholes.
Knowing republicans, is she projecting? 🤔
Nah. This lady clearly didn’t sleep her way to the top.
- She’s not a whore
- There’s nothing wrong with being a whore
Usually in my experience, the people who call you a whore want to fuck you the most
Oh, like how they obsessed over AOC’s feet?
She also doesn’t not appear to be especially little.
Yeah, but “average-sized whore” doesn’t have the same ring to it.
My guy, the GOP is so full of hate that they’d have to ascend to get to misogyny.
This is a female GOP candidate as well. Like, WTF.
Dwarkin isn’t the most well liked feminist on by any side, but she did write a whole book about that sort of thing.
Keep your powder dry. “Little whore” is going to seem mild compared to what’s coming.
Harris has to run a smart campaign. A competence revolution. An adult is there to take the wheel.
Take some Obama racism, mix with some leftover Hilary misogyny, bake for 15 minutes, and ta-da! Anti-Harris campaign all set to be consumed by your average cousin fucking maga voter!
Descends into? As if they haven’t been drowning in misogyny for decades
Lmao, i was going to comment, ‘descends? My sibling in satan, they’ve always been there’
(even the Satanists don’t want anything to do with them)
I read that hearing Morgan Freeman…
I literally just decided to read up on the ‘my brother in christ’ meme, then I see this, I think I’m in the matrix lol. What a great evolution / remix :)
I’d also challenge “unhinged” - the oppressive systems we all live under are designed to make this shit the norm, they not only breed and encourage racism, misogyny and the rest, but reward those with the privilege and sense of entitlement it gives who do them “best”, it’s why people in such positions can and do say such things, and suffer absolutely zero consequences.
(to be clear, I’m not condoning the behaviour or saying it’s ok in any way, just that these people are not “unhinged”, they are acting exactly in the way white supremacist patriarchal capitalism normalises and encourages them to)
“Further into”
This is excellent. They have absolutely nothing of substance to use as ammunition. They will have only their bigotry and absurd conspiracy theories as we head into election season.
Biden is a national treasure for this.
I went sleuthing last night. Skimming some pertinent imageboards/forums, looking for the spin they’d be going with. I encountered sheer panic and they got nothing, except misogyny/racism and the lame claim she isn’t a mother. That’s it - for now.
E.g. on /pol/ they were trolling themselves with a supposedly deceased Biden because he went AWOL for 5 days or something. LMAO.
misogyny/racism and the lame claim she isn’t a mother.
So… their problem now is that the new DNC front-runner also doesn’t fit with their worldview? You’re right, they really don’t have anything. What were they going to do if Biden died? The lack of foresight here isn’t surprising, but it certainly is impressive in its consistency.
That is outstanding! Thank you for getting your hands dirty for the additional insight and comedy!
Yeah, I dont see how this will do anything but put off the moderate republicans the MAGA cultists will go more extreme but those are lost anyway, but I assume there are plenty of registered Republicans who will be put off by the GOP tactics
This shows that the GOP is playing angry white man identity politics. If you aren’t that you aren’t welcome
Don’t know if we do cake days here, but awesome username and happy cake day! I imagine you’re a fellow reddit refugee :P
Thank you! Yes, I am a Reddit refugee. Please have some cake. I couldn’t possibly eat all of this.
This is the same candidate who filmed an ad where she is running with a bulletproof vest, a pistol and a rifle down the streets and then says “in America you can be anything you want, so don’t be weak and gay” and tagged Andrew Tate on it.
It seems she’s amping up the Marjorie Taylor green strategy of saying the most outrageous offensive shit to trigger the libs and rally her bigoted base.
$5 says she calls Kamala’s VP pick a pedophile.
If you need a fiver you can just ask, buddy
I could use a fiver my dear pal.
Bet you $5 you don’t
Thats very subjective, i could use a fiver friend. So i take that bet
Is this before or after you give him $5?
Pretty sure she’s secretly trans like all projecting gops.
Matt Walsh of all people calling someone a “thoroughly unimpressive human being” is so jarringly ironic it’s hard to process
Matt who?
Misleading headline. Whatever it is they are “descending” into, they passed through misogyny quite a while back.
So normal GOP stuff?
lol come on guys that’s so lazy. Like sure, it’s offensive, but I’m sure she’s genuinely more entertained by the fact that she’s living rent-free in the heads of the racist and sexist portion of America.
And I would like to add: fuck you, trumpians. I am fucking enjoying having the shoe on the other foot. We’ll still give you hurricane repair money or whatever, but I am LOVING that you’re getting even a fraction of what the rest of the country and the world experienced for four fucking years.
… eight ish? or idk what youre referring to
I assume the Trump reign.
Sadly, I’ve seen more than one “Joe and the Ho” bumper sticker over the last 4 years.
Nothing new here. The GOP is the undisputed king of projection. Maybe they were projecting off Melania.
Melania is a terrible person but connecting this to her via the word “projection” means you think she is a whore, which is–wait for it–misogyny. I’m tired of hearing this shit from the same people who say they’ll vote for Kamala. Do better.
I understand what you’re saying and I agree with it emotionally but it’s thanks to that do better mentality that they’re able to keep everything under control.
