Bullshit Trump Says

[PhDeac]

Junebug loves being able to type out "house negro" and feel righteously indignant while doing so. This made his entire week.

Oh yeah. Republicans love to make baseless racial accusations of people making baseless racial accusations.

He’s probably just projecting.

 

[DistrictDeacon]

I literally just had a client, a well off if not quasi-wealthy, otherwise intelligent woman and business owner tell me that Trump is our Wall, our Rock put here by God stemming the tide of Socialism. The only thing standing between us and utter ruination.

Spoiler: She's actually not that intelligent.

 

[BarcaDeac]

pictured: never Trumpers like sailor and junebug doing everything they can to get their party back

 

[DDA]

Junebug - second request, what have you personally done as a #nevertrumper to change your party? Or work against trump? Honestly curious to see what this cohort actually does, other than write op-Ed’s, because I haven’t seen anything effective. Do you write or call your Republican congresspeople? Donate to Never Trump Republicans? Help lobby for Never Trump policies? What do you do?

 

[WakeForestRanger]

A bit of white genocide and threatening to militarize the border from the "President". Ho hum I guess.

 

[avalon]

 

[DeaconSig]

Internet high-five!

Enjoy your week.

 

[Gooner]

I wish Junebug showed the same moral indignation regarding racists as he does for those calling out racists.

Ph wasn’t claiming the GOP trotted out Tim Scott as the GOP Resident Black Person. I’m sure Tim Scott did the op-ed of his own volition. The GOP isn’t exactly overflowing with black members of Congress, so if they want to maintain a hold on the very few black ultra-conservative voters who aren’t total Trump rubes, they had to have some explicit response to overt white supremacy from a serving Representative. That’s not Tim Scott being a [racist term that Junebug was so happy to say because he has a black friend who said it once], that’s him being as cold and calculating and morally spineless as the rest of the GOP.

 

[Shooshmoo]

But it’s good to know that racist language only matters when pubs do it.

Sorry, you don't get to do this any more. That ship has sailed (it was never really in the dock). Thanks for playing.

 

[Highland Deac]

With judicial appointments obviously.

And not just any judicial appointments, but judges who will overturn decades of landmark progressive rulings and "return power to the people (states)" so they can return to discriminating against all types of minorities, with no federal judges to stop them! Progress!

 

[Gooner]

Let me just make sure I understand: your position is that Scott wrote the op-ed to shore up the black conservative vote? Is that your position?

Lol at the bait, good job good effort. I’m saying that the GOP has to try and pretend it’s not the party of white supremacy if it wants to maintain the few voters that aren’t Cult 45 members and/or also white supremacists. I used black conservative voters as an example of one group that may be included in that. And Scott, being the amoral toe-the-line invertebrate politician that the rest of the GOP is came out and wrote an op-ed as was his party duty. My point was that Scott is not some “break glass in case of overt racism in the party” that you made him out to be (and you did that, not Ph), I’m saying he is an active and willing participant in the downfall of American institutions. He was just doing his part.

 

[WFFaithful]

Let me just make sure I understand: your position is that Scott wrote the op-ed to shore up the black conservative vote? Is that your position?

Dancing goalposts

 

[Highland Deac]

A bit of white genocide and threatening to militarize the border from the "President". Ho hum I guess.

Ah, Pat Buchanan. One of the original right-wing white supremacist talking heads, from the 90s TV show Crossfire. The guy who ran against the elder Bush in the 92 GOP primaries because Bush wasn't reactionary or white supremacist enough for him. The guy who, at the 92 GOP Convention, first used the words "culture wars" to describe our modern politics. The Buchanan who has repeatedly said through the years that whites are committing race suicide by not having enough white kids and allowing too many brown-skinned immigrants into the country. The Buchanan who has said that maybe we need to add some Canadian provinces as states to increase the percentage of whites in the population. Now, why would our POTUS mention such a person in connection with building a wall on the Mexican border? It's almost as if the wall isn't really about stopping illegal immigration, but something else entirely. Maybe something to do with race. Hmm.

 

[birdman]

He’s trying to change it from within. Why is that less noble than threatening to leave?

It is way to late for the “change from with in caucus” to be writing op-eds in the “fake news”, “enemy of the people” Washington post.

 

[PhDeac]

I think Tim Scott wrote that of his own volition. Of course, plenty of Republicans were hoping he would. Their understanding of race and especially racial politics is limited to the "black friend" defense. Scott is the highest ranking black Republican and he's ostensibly their "black friend." Republicans can point to Scott's op-ed as the definitive GOP response and it absolves them of having to write their own response or take any action against King or to exorcise white supremacy from the GOP.

Scott has an interesting position in the GOP. He's the junior senator to one of the biggest blowhards in Congress. Yet he's pretty quiet. People know him because he's black. Otherwise, he'd just be another back bencher. And that's fine. I assume he keeps his thoughts within his party and works hard promoting his beliefs and what he thinks is best for the party. It's interesting that he doesn't seem to do high profile work promoting black conservatism. At least not that I know of. I haven't seen him spew any of that "Democrat plantation" nonsense that white guys like to say. Just seems to be a good man who is misguided.

As far as the "abhorrent" statement I made before, there is no Native American in the GOP on the level of Tim Scott. I think if there was, he or she would have written an op-ed similar to Scott a long time ago and it probably would have shut Trump up. But since there is no high profile Native American Republican (a Native American friend), the rank and file is scared to wade in those waters. So they remain quiet. My post pointed that out. Junebug for some reason thought it was abhorrent as embracing white supremacy and evoking the slaughter of Native Americans as a joke.

 

[Milhouse]

You insinuated that the GOP “trotted out” Tim Scott to write an op-ed against King because he was black, and that Scott obsequiously complied like a good house negro. The implication is that Scott obviously isn’t smart enough, nor does he have a strong enough will, to do something like that on his own. He’s just doing what his masters tell him to do. This is no less offensive than RJ calling Clarence Thomas an Uncle Tom. At least RJ had the self awareness to try to backtrack by claiming he meant Uncle Thomas and not Uncle Tom, whatever that means.

But it’s good to know that racist language only matters when pubs do it.

this is so fucking awesome. instead of, you know, responding to the actual words ph wrote you instead talk about "insinuations" and "implications" that fit what you want it to. so fucking awesome.

 

[Gooner]

this is so fucking awesome. instead of, you know, responding to the actual words ph wrote you instead talk about "insinuations" and "implications" that fit what you want it to. so fucking awesome.

Holy shit, Junebug made Milhouse write the wordiest post I’ve ever seen from him.

You done fucked up, June.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

i can't tell if Junebug is the best or the worst

 

[PhDeac]

You know you’ve touched a nerve when even the deaf/mute chimes in.

Ph’s words were that the pubs “trotted out” the resident black man, who willingly complied. If that isn’t an accusation of Uncle Tomism, I don’t know what is.

And Junebug mocks the disabled while trying to get a gotcha on the black guy.

What’s funny about this is Scott’s response wasn’t even a “house Negro” response. Such a response would have provided way more cover and would have given King and his ilk a better way to save face. It probably would have even been tacit approval.

 

[Colonel Angus]

But it’s good to know that racist language only matters when pubs do it.

Correct. Don't forget that homophobic, anti-semitic, and misogynistic language doesn't matter either just as long as it comes from the left.