dagblog - Comments for "Trump: Constitutional Process is My Lynching !"

Yeah, the guy in that ad died

ocean-kat — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 05:58:28 +0000

In reply to That's Kumbaya hippie girly

Yeah, the guy in that ad died of lung cancer. Like a real man should.

That's Kumbaya hippie girly

artappraiser — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 05:47:07 +0000

In reply to bunch of drug smoking hippies

That's Kumbaya hippie girly man type. Just sayin'. Gotta make the Rockies great again, get back these types:

bunch of drug smoking hippies

ocean-kat — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 05:26:19 +0000

In reply to I thought Colorado had the

bunch of drug smoking hippies in Colorado. We need a wall to keep em in.

double dare ya, impeachers;

artappraiser — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:50:01 +0000

In reply to Trump: Constitutional Process is My Lynching !

double dare ya, impeachers; constitution/schmanztitution:

White House Threatens to Veto Bill Requiring Campaigns to Report ‘Illicit Offers’ From Foreign Governmentshttps://t.co/2fDCyOoSFX pic.twitter.com/eXG4oQgsnO
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) October 24, 2019

I thought Colorado had the

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:32:31 +0000

In reply to Speaking to an energy

I thought Colorado had the Rockies. Should send a recording of "Sweet Betsy from Pike".

Speaking to an energy

artappraiser — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:58:19 +0000

In reply to Trump: Constitutional Process is My Lynching !

Speaking to an energy conference in Pittsburgh, Trump is delivering an (unintentional) comedy routine pic.twitter.com/u1OSUiXSBh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 23, 2019

Here's Trump, during an official White House event, urging people to urge him to shred the Constitution by chanting "16 more years" pic.twitter.com/GQgP8q3zEZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 23, 2019

Here's video of thishttps://t.co/fo1VtniPEw pic.twitter.com/vjUx4p4qAg
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 23, 2019

TRUMP: "We're building a wall in Colorado. We're building a beautiful wall. A big one that really works." pic.twitter.com/tVgO95VIdW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 23, 2019

I think my favorite part is when the Pennsylvanians in attendance rise to their feet to give a standing ovation to the Colorado wall. https://t.co/l8IbeS1poe
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 23, 2019

Republicans never miss a

rmrd0000 — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:13:27 +0000

In reply to oops, looks like some

Republicans never miss a chance to mishandle things when it comes to issues of race. Trump is a white nationalist. He said that Obama was not born in the United States. He told women of color to go back to where they came from. He calls black athletes SOBs. He evoked imagery of white victimhood by saying Biden kissed Obama's gluteus maximus. When Republicans say "both sides do it" under these circumstances, it energizes a significant portion of the Democratic base.

Trump said it: This is the big one for a few reasons. One is that Trump is president of the United States, so his words carry more weight than those of a member of Congress. He’s also white, and the majority of lynching victims were black. For the most powerful (white) person in the world right now to compare his plight of an impeachment inquiry, where lawmakers are following very real evidence, to the gruesome, death-by-torture mob mentality that claimed the lives of thousands of powerless black men was especially dissonant. It was Trump’s extreme victimhood on display, and it’s possible he truly believes he has been wronged on a par with lynching victims, writes The Fix’s Eugene Scott.

But perhaps the most notable reason Trump’s lynching comments drew a major outcry was because the president no longer gets the benefit of the doubt that he is innocently using offensive language. He has a history of making racially inflammatory and even outright racist statements. Demonizing people of color and stereotyping black communities have been part of his campaign since day one. He also has a well-documented lack of empathy for people who are struggling.

“It’s not just: 'Oh, a Republican said it so therefore it’s 10 times worse,” Steele said. “No, if anybody days it, it shows a lack of appreciation of history and a lack of sensitive to how it impacts African Americans. Now having said that, what makes it much more difficult for someone like Trump is his own history when it comes to this type of language and the attitude regarding race. And so he’s given less quarter, less room to make that mistake, because his history is long and deep on the subject, going back to the Central Park Five."

“Yes, I said those words, but context matters,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) told Rieger. "There is a difference when that word is used by someone of my experience and perspective, whose relatives were the targets of lynch mobs, compared to a president who has dog-whistled to white nationalists and peddled racism,” Meeks said. “This is the birther president, who called African nations s---holes and urban cities infested. Those he called ‘very fine people’ in Charlottesville were the kind of people who lynched those who looked like me. So, yes — there are certain words I am more at liberty to invoke than Donald J. Trump.”

Combine all this, and it’s hard to believe that Trump did not mean to draw a direct contrast between what’s happening to him now and the real lynchings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Especially when one of his top supporters in Congress, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), clarified that for Trump, this is “a lynching in every sense of the word.”

Trump just doesn’t get the credit afforded other politicians that he was using language derived from political discourse rather than deliberately invoking America’s racist past.

Of course.

Flavius — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:50:23 +0000

In reply to Sally and George won't want

Of course.

Republicans have always been good at ridicule. And sometimes----------

"Not with content with attacking me....my son Elliott.....my wife Eleanor....(voice sinking) they ,,,,even ,,attack,,,, my little dog Fala"

FDR;s punch line was lost in the laughter of the audience of Teamsters Convention .

Or.....

The early issues of Ms. Magazine was similarly ridiculed and responded with a cover portraying ,,,,,,,

"Do you know why the Woman's Movement lacks a sense of Humor ? "

" Not sure. If you hum a couple of lines I'll see if I can pick it up."

Because we're right - and we are- we don't have to be righteous.

......

but Richard Wolffe @ The

artappraiser — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:23:52 +0000

In reply to oops, looks like some

but Richard Wolffe @ The Guardian thinks The president’s increasingly risible attempts to paint himself as a victim are alienating even his most loyal supporters.

oops, looks like some

artappraiser — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 07:50:37 +0000

In reply to Clarence Thomas should sue

oops, looks like some smartass White House spinmeister or Fox news talking head could have suggested it to him, too, based on this. With the internet, the "they both do it" thing is so much easier. Oh well:

NEW

At least five House Democrats called Bill Clinton’s impeachment a ‘lynching’ in 1998, according to a Washington Post review.https://t.co/scFYSAvmSO
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) October 22, 2019