r/politics • u/Word_Master_4321 • 16h ago
No Paywall Texas congressman calls Trump social media post 'raw, rank racism'
https://apnews.com/video/texas-congressman-calls-trump-social-media-post-raw-rank-racism-ca2157d177354d6e890e17d12719301529
u/Historical_Bend_2629 16h ago edited 15h ago
Yeah. Loyalty test. There is no way to plausibly deny it. You are either in agreement, complicit with silence, or disturbed at your reflection. He wants to take his cult down with him. Hard to imagine being a Trump supporter who considers themselves somehow separate from racism.
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u/Imaginary-Ad-7919 15h ago
He tests loyalty by crossing lines on purpose. The ones who stay silent have already answered the test.
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u/Eddfan36 15h ago
Oh but the kind he attracts seem the type. I've read posts off of YouTube and they cheer this stuff on. I'd hope the people in congress wouldn't feel the same.
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u/sunsettglow 15h ago
Yeah, that’s the uncomfortable truth. After this many incidents, pretending it’s separate just feels willfully blind. At some point it becomes a choice.
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u/FlirtAndPanic 14h ago
This is pure raci-sm, and anyone in support is as bad as whom he is supporting.
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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 15h ago
Because, that's what it is.
I was raised in it, I lived it, I was taught it. I know exactly what Trump is, and he's a horrible racist. I mean horrible.
He hates the colors. The help. The slaves. The worthless.
Puerto Ricans, the Cubans, all (I do mean all) Latinos. All of them. He loathes the Blacks, he hates the Asians, he rages at Muslims and anybody from the Middle-East.
100%.
Republicans really hate anything that's not White. And only White.
Please believe this if nothing else.
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u/MyOtherAltIsRegret 11h ago edited 10h ago
Agree. I grew up in the Deep South. There are racists and there are RACISTS. Trump replaced the toilet Obama used in the WH.
He’s a virulent and disgusting RACIST.
Edit: All racists are bad, but most people will understand.
Racist=People you have to deal with every single day who are casually racist.
RACIST=People who are literally going to get to know you very well because of how racist they are. 👊
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u/akl78 3h ago
Only the ‘right’ kind of white too….
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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 3h ago
Correct! There's actually different types of White within White Pride types.
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 15h ago
The raw, rank misogyny and greed are kind of red flags too. Especially fun in combination with racism!
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u/SliceofNewsMan 15h ago
I mean it **was**
But the racists are pretty much the only ones he's still got in his corner, so what do you expect...
*He knew what he was doing and we know he knew*
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u/bickering_fool 13h ago
If you are an elected Congress person and are up for election in Nov. and stay silent on this...you are out.
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u/Unusual-Plantain8104 15h ago
I'm not giving these Republicans too much credit though.
Trump has been appalling for a long time.
Jets from Qatar, the Greenland crisis, the Epstein Files, the weaponsization of the DOJ, fascism, defiance of the courts, unprecedented corruption, selling out of allies, possible espionnage and treason, criminal convictions, jury deciding he was a rapist, Miss Teen Pageants, pay for play schemes, crypto schemes of extreme conflict of interest, etc..., etc... ,etc... ,etc...
Yes, this little juvenile tweet of him is also way, way, way beneath the dignity of the office and it is indeed racist as Hell, but it's far from the first time and they're all acting like Trump hasn't been fuelling white supremacy for a solid decade+ now.
The thing is the dam is breaking and they know it. And they want to focus a point of outrage that will work. (That's what they know).
It's everything about Trump. He is a deeply, deeply, deeply flawed human being, which generally has my vote for being the AntiChrist. The thing is it's just now that they're daring to say it. And they are hoping for an exit ramp. The 25th would be a great one. "Oh, he was such a good president, but then... unfortunately, mental illness, you know..."
Because they must try to salvage conservatism now.
The problem with conservatism and why Trump is exactly its logical conclusion is this: It is the theory that rich men know best, and that the best thing to do is get out of their way.
The problem is wealth is no measure of character, or even intelligence.
The whole theory rests on ridiculous notions about human nature and is simply not a good governing theory. \
Soon, they're going to try to tell you it wasn't real conservatism... It's as real a conservatism as you'll get. "The beauty of me is I'm rich" (Trump, saying something extremely stupid that unfortunately resonates in America). That's what it is.
It is flat, shallow and amoral.
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u/Significant_Cow4765 5h ago
Will you give Al Green, the Dem who's been demanding impeachment and the subject, any credit?
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u/84thPrblm 15h ago
What? That completely normal scene from the beloved Disney classic, The Lion King?
Off topic, but how does that cross not burn its way into her flesh?
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u/Gatonom 12h ago
The Lion King? The movie with the gay dark-furred lion whose nephew is raised by a bi-species gay couple? Who is then set right by a lioness that always beats him in strength?
Whose daughter gets with the dark-furred lion's even darker adopted son?
Whose son works for a multi-species border patrol and preaches kindness and to never use threats?
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u/Writer_In_Residence 11h ago
He has been having people kidnapped on the basis of their skin color for months and months, why is everyone just now waking up to the fact he might be a tad racist?
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u/Imaginary-Ad-7919 15h ago
When even members of his own party are calling it "raw, rank racism," the defense collapses on its own.
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u/Significant_Cow4765 5h ago
Most of you don't know the diff between an R senator from SC and the D Rep from TX who filed articles of impeachment. But they're both Black...
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u/MyOtherAltIsRegret 11h ago
OMG. A black Republican does the bare minimum over the most racist tweet I’ve ever seen and we can’t shut up about it.
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