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Trump Holds Rally at “KKK Capital of Michigan” While Dems Party at The DNC

Hysteria | October 5, 2024



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  1. @ThatRedhedd

    October 5, 2024 at 9:06 am

    It'd be one thing if Trump misspoke 1 or 2 times. But when you take all of his actions & comments together, a clear pattern emerges — one that suggests that b•g•try isn't just political opportunism on Trump’s part but a real element of his personality, character, and career.

    From st•reotyp•ng a black reporter to pandering to wh•te s•premac•sts after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to making a joke about the Trail of Tears, Trump hasn’t stopped with the r•c•st remarks.

    Trump has called the c-virus the “Ch•n•se virus” & “kung flu” — rac•st terms that tap into the kind of xen•ph•bia that he latched onto during his 2016 presidential campaign; Trump’s own adviser, Kellyanne Conway, previously called “kung flu” a “highly offensive” term. And Trump insinuated that Kamala Harris “doesn’t meet the requirements” to run for president — a repeat of the birther c•nspir•cy theory that he perpetuated about former President Barack Obama.

    1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to Black tenants and lied to Black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discr•min•te to renters of color without admitting to previous d•scrim•nation.

    1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle, accused another one of Trump’s businesses of discrim•nation. “When Donald & Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Brown said. “It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.”

    1989: In a controversial case that’s been characterized as a modern-day ly•ching, 4 Black teenagers & one Latino teenager — the “Central Park Five” — were accused of att•cking & graping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running an ad in local papers demanding, “BRING BACK THE DE•TH P•NALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!” The teens’ convictions were later vacated after they spent 7 to 13 years in prison, & the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump in October 2016 said he still believes they’re guilty, despite DNA evidence to the contrary.

    1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a Black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yam•kas every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”

    1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred Black & female dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.

    1993: In congressional testimony, Trump said that some Native American reservations operating casinos shouldn’t be allowed because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”

    2005: Trump publicly pitched what was essentially "The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People." He said he “wasn’t particularly happy” with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering “an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.”

    2010: In 2010, there was a huge national controversy over the “Ground Zero Mosque” — a proposal to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, near the site of the 9/11 att•cks. Trump opposed the project. On The Late Show With David Letterman, Trump argued, referring to Musl•ms, “Well, somebody’s blow•ng us up. Somebody’s blow•ng up buildings, & somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff.”

    Trump launched his campaign in 2015 by calling Mexican immigrants “grapists” who are “bringing crime” and “bringing dr•gs” to the US. His campaign was largely built on building a wall to keep these immigrants out of the US.

    As a candidate in 2015, Trump called for a ban on all Musl•ms coming into the US. His administration eventually implemented a significantly watered-down version of the policy.

    He argued in 2016 that Judge Gonzalo Curiel — who was overseeing the Trump University lawsuit — should recuse himself from the case because of his Mexican heritage & membership in a Latino lawyers association. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who endorsed Trump, later called such comments “the textbook definition of a rac•st comment.”

    Trump's been repeatedly slow to condemn white s•premac•sts who endorse him, and he regularly retweeted messages from white s•premac•sts & neo-n•••s during his presidential campaign.

    He tweeted & later deleted an image that showed Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money & by a Jewish Star of David that said, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” The tweet had some very obvious anti-S•mit•c imagery, but Trump insisted that the star was a sheriff’s badge, and said his campaign shouldn’t have deleted it.

    Trump has repeatedly referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as “Pocahontas,” using her Native American heritage as a punchline.

    In a pitch to black voters in 2016, Trump said, “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?”

    Trump st•reot•ped a black reporter at a press conference in February 2017. When April Ryan asked him if he planned to meet & work with the Congressional Black Caucus, he repeatedly asked her to set up the meeting as she informed him that she’s “just a reporter.”

    In the week after white s•premac•st protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, Trump repeatedly said that “many sides” and “both sides” were to blame for the v••lence that ensued — suggesting that the white s•premac•st protesters were morally equivalent to counterprotesters who stood against rac•sm. He also said that there were “some very fine people” among the white s•premac•sts. All of this seemed like a dog whistle to white s•premac•sts — and many of them took it as one, with white nati•nalist Richard Spencer praising Trump for “defending the truth.”

    Trump reportedly said in 2017 that people who came to the US from Haiti “all have AIDS,” and he lamented that people who came to the US from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America.

    Speaking about immigration in a bipartisan meeting in January 2018, Trump asked, in reference to Haiti & African countries, “Why are we having all these people from sh•thole countries come here?” He then reportedly suggested that the US should take more people from countries like Norway. The implication: Immigrants from predominantly white countries are good, while immigrants from predominantly black countries are bad.

    Trump mocked Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, again calling her “Pocahontas” in a 2019 tweet before adding, “See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” The capitalized “TRAIL” is seemingly a reference to the Trail of Tears — a horrific act of ethn•c cl•ansing in which Native Americans were forcibly relocated, causing thousands of de•ths.

    Trump tweeted later that year that several black & brown members of Congress — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — are “from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and that they should “go back” to those countries. It’s a common rac•st trope to say that black & brown people, particularly imm•grants, should go back to their countries of origin. 3 of the 4 members of Congress whom Trump targeted were born in the US.

  2. @ThatRedhedd

    October 5, 2024 at 9:06 am

    You know how, when you apply for a job, the employer wants to talk to references before they hire you? Well, Trump's references (previous cabinet) are telling us that we should NEVER hire him – because he was a terrible employee. They say he's a malignant narcissist who can't take advice or feedback because he thinks he's never wrong. He doesn't acknowledge his own weaknesses. He's vengeful & mean-spirited. He's incompetent, rude, arrogant, dishonest, selfish, and sneaky. He hates accountability & will do anything he wants, regardless of consequences or harm to others, because he feels entitled & buys his way out of trouble. He's the epitome of an entitled weasel.

    They say he cares about Donald Trump & nobody else. A jury of average US citizens found him guilty of 34 felonies for falsifying records & misappropriation of campaign funds to covertly pay off the corn star he had an affair with.

    From 2005-2010, he ran a scam called Trump University. The victims of the scam, which used false advertising & high-pressure sales techniques to entice them, were sold expensive seminars & told they'd be mentored by real estate gurus who had regular, direct contact with Trump himself. The supposed "expert" investment techniques they were offered were mostly things you could find on the Internet, some of which was illegal in states where the seminars took place. Victims said the promised mentoring was worthless or nonexistent, that the instructors were unqualified & that they weren't handpicked by Donald Trump, as he claimed in company ads. After years of refusing to refund the thousands of defrauded students, 2 class-action cases & 1 fraud suit were brought against him, which he settled for $25-Mil, including restitution & fines.

    How's that for strong moral character? How does anyone hear that & say, "Yep! That's who I want running the country!" We have a DA/prosecutor/Attorney General with no criminal record running for president, but some would rather vote for the guy with 34 felonies & countless victims in the wake of his dishonest schemes.

  3. @ThatRedhedd

    October 5, 2024 at 9:06 am

    The moral & ethical limits determined by the anti-Roe mob are arbitrary & ignorant. The science conclusively establishes that a human fetus does not have the capacity to experience pain or sentience until at least 18 weeks, but usually not until 24 weeks. It seems logical, then, that a 6-week ab0rtion ban is unnecessarily restrictive. A logical limit (if one is insisted upon at all) should not be earlier than the 17th week. How could anyone place more value on a non-sentient being than a sentient one?

  4. @Lilangellie

    October 5, 2024 at 9:06 am

    I think we can save Adam Kinzinger, too. I am a California Democrat transplant born and raised in ruby red Kansas. Been a registered Democrat since I turned 18. Sometimes I really cannot believe how strong the cult of tRump truly is. It makes me sick! I am new to this channel and loving it. Vote BLUE!!

  5. @DerrickVara

    October 5, 2024 at 9:06 am

    I found your podcast the other day and love it! You two are great at what you do. Funny funny funny but super informative. New loyal listener and sharer. I look to see if you had an Instagram page for the show but couldn't find it.
    ❤😂❤

  6. @69kiwijon

    October 5, 2024 at 9:06 am

    Honestly I was pretty p'd off wanting Joe to step down and hand the torch to kamala, and did not expect him to, so when I saw him at the DNC the way he held himself and all the love going to him from everyone I couldn't help feeling guilty, guilty because he is a man that has devoted his life to his country he made some bad choices in the past but he stayed true to himself when I watched him I realized just how great a man is he, this is his last chance to run for a second term and he deserves it yet he put his country first knowing what Trump is planning and all the negative press attacking him being to old etc he could have run but no and.he will be remembered for his selflessness. I.wish he support Ukraine better because these crazy restrictions are costing tens of thousand more lives and the redlines doesn't work.Kyiv has shown.it is just rhetoric and crossed every one of them. I pray Kamala will stand up to putin because she hates bullies, and allows Ukraine the best chance for victory. Putin loves life and his riches he know using a nuke would be his end so it won't happen once Ukraine starts getting the upper hand stopping the planes from launching attacks on civilians the oligarchs will take putin out. Thank you ladies I love your shows

  7. @Volfan2

    October 5, 2024 at 9:06 am

    Chaney, Romney, Kinzinger are worth saving, but the MAGA drones don't support them because, well, they are normal Republicans before the party was totally taken over by slime balls and dingbat Karens.🤷‍♀️

  8. @craighohmann9534

    October 5, 2024 at 9:06 am

    The fix is in for trump to be president. Otherwise trump would be in prison for a very long time. Elected by the mostly corrupted Supreme court, Electoral College, gerrymandering and voter suppression. To elect trump.

  9. @macweenie

    October 5, 2024 at 9:06 am

    When I was in my late teens and a Mohawk sporting anti-establishment rabble rouser I found myself in Howell one night with a small group of the same. They were having some kind of Fall festival that night and the center of town was packed. The town itself looked like you had travelled back in time to the 40s and the hostility we all experienced by simply showing up was oppressive, it seemed as if every eye was on us at one point, whispered conversations were all around us. A small group of boys (roughly the same age) began trailing us and screaming insults. We figured that if we stayed much longer the verbal would turn physical and this town seemed, more than any place I had been before or after, like the kind of place where all of the male citizenry and some of the female would join in a communal murder/cover up just for kicks (no pun intended). I still poke the bear at 57 years old, but I choose the bear more carefully and sure as hell don’t walk into his lair.

  10. @ea5126

    October 5, 2024 at 9:06 am

    Such a big “contrast” a good candidate versus a bad candidate! Trump is clearly a “failure”, a danger person to put in the WhiteHouse to lead 🇺🇸 America 🇺🇸!

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