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  • @Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    “I think it’s disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. I love the Black population of this country, I’ve done so much for the Black population of this country,” Trump said.

    He’s a parody of himself. If there wasn’t a real threat behind his existence, I’d happily do nothing but laugh at the ridiculousness of his claims.

    • @lolrightythen@lemmy.world
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      38 months ago

      Are you referring to the good ole days? Back when Bernie was getting the shaft and it was impossible for Trump to win office?

      I doubt that I’d have believed the outcome.

    • Flying Squid
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      1028 months ago

      I like how he said there were “black jobs.” I guarantee you that before someone asked him what black jobs were, he was thinking of things like doorman, shoe-shine boy, bellhop, maid…

        • FuglyDuck
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          498 months ago

          Sorry. That’s politically incorrect. The appropriate term for the modern age is “convicted prisoner”

            • EleventhHour
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              Funny you say that.

              I was in a nasty argument with my mom last night about her use of the racist slur “illegals”. I told her that people can’t be illegal. She replied that shes not a racist and that they’re illegal because they broke the law. I shot back, “oh, so, since you got that speeding ticket, that makes you an illegal?” “No! They committed a felony!” So I said, “oh, so Trump is a 34 times illegal then?”

              She said, “that’s different!”

              “Why? Because he’s white? See, that’s why you’re racist.”

              She screamed, “fuck you!” and hung up the phone.

                • EleventhHour
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                  338 months ago

                  She texted me later, saying I was following a “Marxist script”. I texted back, “oh, yeah? What script did Marx write that said brown people were ‘illegal’, but white people weren’t? Was it in the letter to Lincoln praising him for freeing the slaves, or in Das Kapital? Because I must have missed it. Why don’t you send me a copy of where you read that.”

                  She blocked me.

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1228 months ago

    He compared the 2021 insurrection to the protests in Minneapolis and other cities in 2020 following the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and to more recent protests at the Capitol last week by demonstrators opposed to the war in Gaza. Trump falsely claiming that no one was arrested in those other demonstrations and that only his supporters were targeted.

    As Trump made the comparison, a man in the back of the room shouted out: “Sir, have you no shame?”

    None. Literally none at all.

    • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      “Haven’t you been paying attention? No, I have no shame. Nobody has less shame than I do, everyone is saying it.”

      That might be one superlative I’d actually believe if he said it.

  • @morphballganon@lemmy.world
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    “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said while addressing the group’s annual convention.

    There’s some other good stuff in there but that’s the one that stood out to me as new.

  • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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    278 months ago

    Wow who could have seen this one coming? Trump used this platform they gave him to spread racist evil shit. What a PR disaster for them and a PR Boone for Trump.

    • @flerp@lemm.ee
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      78 months ago

      The people who are into evil racist shit already know everything he has to say on that front. The people who aren’t into the evil racist shit but only watch other specific sources that don’t show it, don’t normally get to see that side of him.

      • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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        First of all anyone who doesn’t know Trump’s into evil racist shit by now is unreachable and that seems like a moot point to me. But again the message of this event is not in the people who watched it. It’s the victory of Association. Trump to his base; see the blacks had me in to tell them the truth and now they know how it really is. That’s going to be the message. And there are going to be a few racist that he’s going to reach with this who might not have voted before. People who weren’t inspired by the idea of voting against old man Joe Biden are going to be paying a little more attention now.

        Liberals and leftists have never understood this about conservative politics. Conservatives completely control narratives. Actual events actual facts never matter. That’s exactly why for instance they wanted that audio testimony of Joe Biden when they already had the transcripts. Same exact thing. It’s not about what’s actually said it’s about the easy picture the easy sound clip the easy message. You can’t give them easy openings. You have to make them work for it. When they have to sell their people on facts and arguments and policies they fail.

    • @Nurgle@lemmy.world
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      I’m not sure this was quite the boon for Trump. He hasn’t faced anything but soft ball Fox News reporters for years, and just made headlines for pitching a fit after being interviewed by actual journalists

  • cum
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    18 months ago

    I was worried that assassination attempt would skyrocket his approval. Glad to see it’s still dropping and he’s continuing to look like an idiot.

    • SeaJOP
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      28 months ago

      Right wing media stopped covering it when they found out the shooter was not a Democrat. They switched to focusing on the Secret Service.

  • SeaJOP
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    588 months ago

    Not exactly a great strategy to win over black voters…

    • Lemminary
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      378 months ago

      I can’t believe there are Black and Latinos voting for this orange turd. And some of them are my ignorant immigrant family. Like, hello??

      • @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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        Latinos, especially older ones that escaped authoritarian regimes that pretend to be communist, I get. They are terrified of communists and socialists, which is how the Republicans paint Democrats. It’s almost like triggering PTSD for some of those folks.

        • Lemminary
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          88 months ago

          Yeah, and I wish that were it! Honestly. I totally get it, too. But in our case, my die-hard MAGAt aunt and her son both crossed the border illegally. They’re not old or uneducated. Our government has never been authoritarian or communist during her lifetime. Like, she even has another gay son, ffs. I don’t get it. lol

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        108 months ago

        Ignorant racists with a poor understanding of government and history come in all colors.

  • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    598 months ago

    “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said

    “I didn’t know about this thing, so it didn’t happen until I knew about it” is a concept my child needs to learn about, not a presidential candidate…

    • TheHarpyEagle
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      28 months ago

      I would beg someone to explain code switching for him, but I doubt he’d care.

    • @norimee@lemmy.world
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      338 months ago

      He doesn’t understand how sombody can be more than one thing. Because everyone around him is so one dimensional.

      Indian mother and a black father and still American? How is this possible?! Its nearly as if she fell out of a coconut tree.

      • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        If only it were that sweetly naive.

        He is a fascist. He does not believe a person can be all three of those at once.

  • Flying Squid
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    “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said while addressing the group’s annual convention.

    What an utter waste of DNA. And that was only the start of all the racist shit he said.

    • @NekoRogue@slrpnk.net
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      48 months ago

      This also feels like it’s implying some transphobic stuff, while also trying to paint the dems as mentally ill. “They don’t know what gender they are, now I guess they don’t know what race they are either!”

      • Flying Squid
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        148 months ago

        I think you give that moron way too much credit. I think he honestly believes telling black people that Kamala isn’t black will work.

    • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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      468 months ago

      I don’t know, is Trump a flaming sack of shit or a racist liar?

      😱 Something can be two things at the same time??? Like a billionaire and a fraud??? Or a candidate and a felon???

      • Flying Squid
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        378 months ago

        A thought:

        If Trump thinks that Kamala Harris should claim she’s Indian because she has an Indian mother, then Barack Obama should claim he’s white for the same reason.

        Too bad no one in the press will bring that up to him.

    • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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      268 months ago

      Translation:

      “Don’t bother going out to vote for her, black people, she’s not actually black.”

      If she wins, black Americans will have saved our asses AGAIN.

      • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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        68 months ago

        Black Americans have consistently been one of the greatest aspects of this country so that tracks.

      • Flying Squid
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        58 months ago

        Which is interesting considering the criticism they gave Biden for the “you ain’t black” comment four years ago.

        • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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          Well-deserved criticism. The sentiment of “You’re voting against your best interests” was correct, but the phrasing was terrible.

            • @samus12345@lemmy.world
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              138 months ago

              I think there is a difference, but I’ve seen your arguments with people on here and know I’m far outmatched! I’m gonna be like Trump debating Kamala and chicken out.

    • SeaJOP
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      I’m reminded of Jon Stewart the other day:

      Two races in one person‽ If these people ever saw a Pizza Hut-Taco Bell, they’d lose their minds!

  • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    118 months ago

    What’s really amazing is that he doubled down on this.

    Trump cannot admit he’s wrong. That’ such an attractive personality trait, isn’t it…

  • fmstrat
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    58 months ago

    The FOX reporting of this event is just sad.

    “Sir, have you no shame?”

  • IninewCrow
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    108 months ago

    The hilarious part of all this would be to see America actually elect this idiot. Say what you want about him but he’s running to lead the most powerful country in the world.

    The fact that he is even a contender says more about America than anything.

    I stopped laughing at Trump a long time ago … I now point my finger at the American population.

    I have hope for the US because of Harris but if Trump wins it, the world will never look at the US with any bit of respect (if there ever was any left) ever again.

    • classic
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      228 months ago

      Gerrymandering helps skew things in favor of Republicans

    • MrScottyTay
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      118 months ago

      I’m often reminded of the saying

      Imagine how dumb the average person is and realise that half the population are more stupid than that

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          Intelligence (and I don’t mean IQ but intelligence as an abstract trait) is probably normally distributed just like the vast majority of other biological traits, so the mean is the median

        • MrScottyTay
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          28 months ago

          I mean… Median is a type of average, just because I wasn’t being specific doesn’t mean I was wrong

      • Jay
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        48 months ago

        To be fair people like the orange turnip and his followers are heavily tipping the scales in that direction all by themselves.

    • SeaJOP
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      128 months ago

      The hilarious part of all this would be to see America actually elect this idiot. Say what you want about him but he’s running to lead the most powerful country in the world.

      I disagree with your sick sense of humor.

      • jackeryjoo
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        68 months ago

        “People will die in a mass genocide if America elects this megalomaniac dictator. But they deserve it for Americans being self-centered idiots.”

        There. Fixed the OP for you.