One of the Lowest Moments of tRump's presidency

[bodysong]

Opinion

The Post's View Opinion

Trump’s racist tweets are one of the lowest moments of his presidency

July 15, 2019

PERHAPS (pRESIDENT) TRUMP

was trying to distract his base from the fact that his promised
immigration raids did not occur over the weekend.

Monday was sentencing day on state charges for the neo-Nazi
who rammed his car into a group of protesters in Charlottesville,
killing Heather Heyer, a reminder of another low moment in
Mr. (tRump’s) presidency. But his Sunday tweets are among
the most despicable comments from any president in recent
memory — with the only competition coming from other
comments by Mr. Trump. Sadly, the poison by now is no
more surprising than the cowardly complicity of the
Republican Party.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...7f4e9c-a71a-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html

Jeffrey Epstein Bonding postponed

July 15, 2019

Victim's lawyers Brad Edwards and David Boies tell the media
the decision on July 14, 2019 on whether to release sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein on bail while he awaits trial in the Southern District
of New York has been postponed.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article232696552.html#storylink=mainstage

David Boies and Bradley Edwards speak to the news
media alongside two of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers
following the Epstein bond hearing Monday,
July 15, 2019, which will be continued Thursday.

Have people stopped talking about Jeffrey Epstein's party with tRump,
and 28 models, at Mar A Lago ?

 

[bodysong]

Fact check:

Trump falsely accuses Ilhan Omar of praising al Qaeda

Facts First:

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has not praised al Qaeda
or said she can hold her "chest out" when thinking of
al Qaeda.

Trump was inaccurately describing remarks she made in
2013 about how one of her college professors acted when
he discussed al Qaeda.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/trump-falsely-accuses-omar-al-qaeda-fact-check/index.html

Daniel Dale Verified Account
@ddale8

Trump on his racist tweets so far: - "Didn't mention names" -
Omar and others "hate our country" - "A lot of people love"
his tweets - "If you're not happy here, then you can leave" -
Pelosi made a "very racist statement" by saying Trump wants
to make America white again

10:04 AM - 15 Jul 2019


Daniel Dale Verified Account
@ddale8

Told that three of the members of Congress he's talking about
were born in America, and asked where they should go back to,
Trump said, "Well, they're very unhappy. I'm watching them,
all they do is complain. So all I'm saying is, if they want to leave,
they can leave."

10:33 AM - 15 Jul 2019

 

[bodysong]

After having spent much of Monday defending his remarks,
(tRump) tweeted again just minutes before the press conference began.

We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country.

IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE!

It is your choice, and your choice alone.

This is about love for America.

(tRump) also made reference of his loyal supporter Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who earlier Monday backed the
president’s racist tweets on Fox & Friends, calling the
congresswomen in question “communists.”

“I’m saying that they’re socialists definitely,” the (pResident)
said. “As to whether or not they’re communists, I would
think they might be.”

However, Trump appeared to miss the point of Graham’s
minor criticism of his tweets, in which the senator implored
Trump to “aim higher... focus on their policies.”

“I disagree with Lindsey. These are congressmen.
What am I supposed to do, wait for senators?
No. So I disagree with Lindsey on that...
he said ‘aim higher,’ shoot higher. What am
I going to do, wait until we get somebody else
in a higher position, higher office?
These are people that hate our country.
They hate our country.
They hate it,
I think, with a passion.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...-you-can-leave

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...b02a5a5d5d0686

Republicans are quiet as Trump urges minority congresswomen
to leave the country

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.54cd8367cc27

Not Lindsey Graham. (FOX TV hosted the spew.)

Not Rep. James Comer (R) Kentucky.
(Comer was on PBS, seeking to put a spin
on all of the sickening spew from tRump's
fingers and mouth.

According to James Comer, tRump did not mean what he said,
posted, and repeated, over and over, again.

Comer said it on PBS, and his snake belly crawling is on tape, too.
__________________

 

[bodysong]

Maryland Republican Rep. Andy Harris is yipping at tRump for a doggie treat.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/house...y-explaining-how-they-are-clearly-not-racist/

How low can you crawl ?

 

[bodysong]

Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines is crawling
after tRump, close to the ground.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/gop...rican-anti-semitic-radical-dems-trashing-u-s/

 

[bodysong]

After saying nothing for 36 hours, Sen. John Cornyn called Trump's
comments an "unforced error." Three GOP House members from Texas
issued more stern denunciations as most remained silent, feeding a
sense that Trump's unbreakable support from the party's base has
intimidated other Republicans.

Newt Gingrich is cheerleading tRump's racism on FOX TV.

 

[bodysong]

Sen. Ted Cruz did not weigh in, and his office did not respond to a
request for comment.


Haley Byrd Verified Account
@byrdinator

Ted Cruz pointedly ignores questions from reporters
and says he doesn’t comment on Trump’s tweets.

3:13 PM - 15 Jul 2019

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/pol...astise-trump-racist-tweet-gop-texans-keep-mum

 

[bodysong]

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Vice President Mike Pence's
Chief of Staff Mike Short, slithered in the dirt, writhing and twisting
away from the truth.

 

[bodysong]

Rep. Ralph Abraham is sliding on the soggy ground, on his belly,
joining the rest of the tRump enablers.

Contrary to Claims He “Gave Up” His Medical Practice, Congressman
Ralph Abraham Misses Votes to See Patients At His New Clinic


Bayou Brief
@bayoubrief

Contrary to Claims He “Gave Up” His Medical Practice,
Congressman Ralph Abraham Misses Votes to See Patients
at His New Clinic

(link)

1:41 PM - 15 Jul 2019

Contrary to Claims He “Gave Up” His Medical Practice,
Congressman Ralph Abraham Misses Votes to See Patients

Louisiana has a long and sordid history of embracing politicians
who bend – and sometimes even break – the rules. Mayors and
sheriffs, judges and legislators, attorneys general, insurance
commissioners

Bayou Brief Bayou Brief @bayoubrief

 

[Dumpington]

To the liberal Democrats who hate Trump, EVERY WEEK is the worst week in the Trump presidency! It's a stale refrain that means NOTHING anymore!

Those four congresswomen he tweeted against hate the U.S. and everything about this country. Trump basically told them that if they fixed the sh*tholes that they originally came here from, they could remain there instead! And it's TRUE!

If Trump's America is such a horrible place, WHY do so many people want to remain here illegally? WHY do so many people want to sneak into this country illegally? The truth is, Trump's America is an AWESOME place, but you'll never hear liberal Democrats admit that! They are the political party of Megan Rapinoe & Colin Kaepernick, and EVERYBODY who despises the United States!

You want to see a SH*THOLE country, go check out Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's SOMALIA - even the Somalians don't want to be there! So why not fix the place up, get rid of Islamic Sharia Law, and the pirates, and the lawless violence? But, no, Ilhan Omar would rather come here to America and then b*tch about everything here!

THIS is exactly why the Democratic Party will never beat Donald Trump! The liberals don't celebrate the United States or it's freedom or its prosperity! No, liberals celebrate homosexuality with pride parades & rainbow flags! Liberals show their hatred for the U.S. by tearing down U.S. flags and putting up Mexican flags instead!

Seriously - they did exactly that at a detention facility in Colorado - taking down the American flag and replacing it with a flag representing Mexico! I repeat, if Mexico is so great, WHY NOT STAY THERE? But no, Mexico is ALSO a sh*thole, which is why so many people there would rather come here to Trump's America instead!

 

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PoliticusUSA
@politicususa

A reporter asked Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) if he would
call Trump’s tweets racist, and Romney responded by
running away from the questioner.

(link)

2:06 PM - 15 Jul 2019

David Rothkopf
David Rothkopf Verified Account

@djrothkopf Replying to @politicususa

Remember when you had to be lying on the ground to do the worm?


2:09 PM - 15 Jul 2019

 

[LincolnDuncan]

Opinion

The Post's View Opinion

Trump’s racist tweets are one of the lowest moments of his presidency

July 15, 2019

PERHAPS (pRESIDENT) TRUMP

was trying to distract his base from the fact that his promised
immigration raids did not occur over the weekend.

Monday was sentencing day on state charges for the neo-Nazi
who rammed his car into a group of protesters in Charlottesville,
killing Heather Heyer, a reminder of another low moment in
Mr. (tRump’s) presidency. But his Sunday tweets are among
the most despicable comments from any president in recent
memory — with the only competition coming from other
comments by Mr. Trump. Sadly, the poison by now is no
more surprising than the cowardly complicity of the
Republican Party.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...7f4e9c-a71a-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html

Jeffrey Epstein Bonding postponed

July 15, 2019

Victim's lawyers Brad Edwards and David Boies tell the media
the decision on July 14, 2019 on whether to release sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein on bail while he awaits trial in the Southern District
of New York has been postponed.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article232696552.html#storylink=mainstage

David Boies and Bradley Edwards speak to the news
media alongside two of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers
following the Epstein bond hearing Monday,
July 15, 2019, which will be continued Thursday.

Have people stopped talking about Jeffrey Epstein's party with tRump,
and 28 models, at Mar A Lago ?

Maybe so far the worst but he's and downward trajectory soon to be a nose dive

 

[phrodeau]

Members of Congress can’t just leave as Trump suggests. They are under contract and oath to serve their terms.

Republicans in Oregon left for Idaho a few weeks ago. The cops were sent out to haul them back.

 

[Dumpington]

phrodeau writes: "Members of Congress can’t just leave as Trump suggests. They are under contract and oath to serve their terms."

And WHY would Trump want them gone? Seriously, those four freshmen House Democrats are the "poster girls" for this president's 2020 re-election! Everytime they open their mouths they create new Trump-voters!

"Republicans in Oregon left for Idaho a few weeks ago. The cops were sent out to haul them back."

That's nonsense, phrodeau - Oregon police have no jurisdiction in Idaho! You need to think these things through before you post them. Several years ago, Democrat state legislators in Wisconsin did the exact same thing, running away to Illinois to avoid attending a legislative session in Madison, thus preventing they're being enough legislators to call a vote. There's NO national police force that can be summoned in these situations.

Now if the Democrats in the U.S. Senate pulled a stunt like this to avoid voting on President Trump's next U.S. Supreme Court nomination, I suppose they'd have to flee abroad, perhaps to Mexico (or even Iran), beyond the president's reach. And yes, I could certainly see some HOUSE Democrats doing that, although I can't seriously imagine Chuck Schumer running-off to Canada.

 

[phrodeau]

Thanks for the fact-free rebuttal to the facts in my post. It fits your pattern.

 

[Dumpington]

phrodeau writes: "Thanks for the fact-free rebuttal to the facts in my post."

Yeah... you claimed that Oregon police could go into Idaho and force state legislators to return to Oregon - THAT was a "fact-free" statement, phrodeau!

Mark Davis posted a great column on Townhall explaining why the Democrats (and their media allies) refuse to report honestly regarding President Trump's tweets! This president doesn't trust the media to report what he says, and so he TWEETS his message out personally. And yes, he prefers the punches of a brawler to the scalpel of a surgeon as he takes aim at critics. This style is precisely why he won, and it may figure prominently in his re-election.

Whether he was attacking his 2016 primary opponents or specific attacks that arose on a day-by-day basis, Trump's tweets have proved effective, sometimes working better than other times. But it's not going to change. That makes it important for supposedly smart people to try to figure out what’s going on—not just when the president launches a pre-dawn posting raid, but when the reactions miss the mark entirely.

Anyone paying casual attention to Donald Trump has noticed that if he goes after someone, his content can contain a mixture of laser focus and schoolyard taunt. This is what led to “Lyin’ Ted,” “Sleepy Joe” and “I like people who weren’t captured.” It yielded deprecating references to Marco Rubio’s height, Carly Fiorina’s face and Nancy Pelosi’s mental stability. This is what he does. Everyone is free to love it, hate it, tolerate it or ignore it, but after four years of Trump as candidate and president, there is no longer any excuse for mischaracterizing it.

The point of the “Go back where they came from” Twitter salvo was to highlight the loyalties of the congresswomen currently enjoying the affectionate label of “the Squad.” The Trump assertion is that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to fight for illegal immigrants over the larger interests of the country, with accompanying observations about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s focus on Somali refugees and Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Palestinian roots, with trails leading from those specifics to an overall view of America that he finds annoyingly derisive.

Trump's suggestion was not the banishment squealed about by dishonest media outlets. His offer was to apply their chosen solutions among the populations he feels they are fighting for, presumably to learn how undesirable those strategies would be in America, and then to return, presumably chastened. This is classic Trump. “The Squad” knows it. The media knows it. The nervous Republicans being badgered to condemn him know it.

Yet still, we are buried in reflex cries of racism, with accompanying analysis that this time he has really hurt himself. The first is baseless, the second merely dumb.

We all KNEW the Democrats would launch the racism charge; it’s all they seem to have. I suppose I should expect no better from a media culture sworn to destroy him. But as news networks hemmed over whether to say “critics called the tweets racist” (which is true) or “the tweets were racist” (which is malicious mind-reading), there was insufficient attention to whether there was a reason to believe it.

There is none. This is a president that loves supporters of all races, and goes after critics of all races. His battles are about politics, policy and core beliefs. Those who support him could not care less about the sloppy assertion that these particular critics came from other countries (true of only Omar). But amid a crowded and sometimes incoherent rush of 2020 presidential hopefuls, the left has clearly chosen to maximize this moment as further evidence that Trump is cut from the cloth of the Klan and the Third Reich.

It is all just so much meaningless noise.

Squad member Rep. Ayana Pressley led off a Monday news conference by calling the Trump tactic a “distraction,” issuing a call not to “take the bait.” It is hard to imagine a grander exercise in bait-swallowing than a four-woman news conference airing every grievance they could wedge into a half-hour of free TV.

During their spotlight moment, we heard Pressley refuse to acknowledge the Trump presidency, calling him merely “the occupant of the White House.” Rep. Omar recoiled at “the garbage coming out of his mouth.” Please, someone, tell me again, how he is so mean to them.

The left calls him Hitler, accuses him of rape and attacks his family. He swings back in his chosen fashion, but the outrage is reserved only for his tactics. Lather, rinse repeat. No minds are changed. Trump will not lose his base over this, and the Democrats will not realize new waves of support. The postures of both sides are baked into the casserole we will chew on until November of next year.

But as anyone paying attention will notice if they have eyes to see, Trump does not choose targets by race, but by the positions they take in opposition to his agenda. Those standing in his way may feel the heat of a thousand tweets, and some of them may contain factual hiccups and indelicate words. But the notion that they are born of racial animus is a concoction crafted by desperate foes.

 

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New York Times Opinion Verified Account
@nytopinion


Distraction by outrage is one of President Trump’s favorite
tactics. Whenever things aren’t going as he wants, he feels
moved to compensate with a remark aimed at refocusing
the spotlight.

(link)

8:30 PM - 15 Jul 2019

Opinion |

How Do You Not Give Donald Trump What He Wants?

The president distracts with outrage.

If only Republicans would supply some of it.

The New York Times The New York Times @nytimes

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Verified Account
@AOC

Authoritarians rely on mass distortion of reality to
further concentrate their power, and they will take
advantage of anyone and anything to meet that end.

(link)

8:07 AM - 16 Jul 2019

Daniel Dale Verified Account
@ddale8

Those are not Omar’s or Ocasio-Cortez’s poll numbers
in their districts or in the country. Trump was referring
to a poll of...white likely voters with 2 years or less of
college.

Axios published it without saying who did it or provided it,
and without full details.

(screen grab of Trump rant about polling info)

7:07 AM - 16 Jul 2019

Daniel Dale Verified Account
@ddale8 Replying to @ddale8


This is at least the second time Trump has pretended
that numbers among white voters are the only numbers.
He’s also done it with 2016 election results, repeatedly
claiming that he got “52%” though that was only his
number with white women (in the Republican party)

7:11 AM - 16 Jul 2019

 

[bodysong]

Meet the Press Verified Account
@MeetThePress


"Pelosi called the comments racist, she did not call the president
of the United States a racist on the House floor. ... But even that
is too much, it seems, for House Republicans," @kasie says on
#MTPDaily.

Another vote will happen tonight to restore
her speaking rights.

2:12 PM - 16 Jul 2019





Karen Rubin
@KarenBRubin Replying to @MeetThePress
@MSNBC and 3 others


Let me get this straight: #Republicans are charging .
@SpeakerPelosi used inappropriate language
accurately describing #Trump comments as racist,
but not #TrumpUnfit
who attacked 4 #USCongresswomen?

#TrumpUnfit #clearandpresentdanger

#ImpeachTrumpNOW #voteGOPout
@TheDemocrats

2:29 PM - 16 Jul 2019


Julie Davis Verified Account
@juliehdavis

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer just gaveled the House back in
and ruled that Pelosi's comments about Trump's tweets
violated the rules.

"Characterizing an action as racist is not in order."
House now voting on Collins motion to strike them
from the record

1:47 PM - 16 Jul 2019

 

[bodysong]

Lisa Desjardins Verified Account
@LisaDNews

TO SUMMARIZE: -

Pelosi called the president's comments racist -
GOP filed an old-school objection, which requires
the person in qstn to stay on the floor -
But Pelosi left the floor - So did a frustrated
Rep. Cleaver, who was in the chair -
NOW the full House is voting on this

2:03 PM - 16 Jul 2019

Jamie Dupree Verified Account
@jamiedupree Replying to @jamiedupree

Majority Leader Hoyer rules the Speaker's words
are out of order. House now voting to strike the words

1:48 PM - 16 Jul 2019

Ilhan Omar Verified Account
@IlhanMN

This is what he doesn’t want us to remember, but we do.
His “locker room” talk is now Oval Office talk.

Lets stop dismissing him and start holding him accountable.

(link)

8:26 AM - 16 Jul 2019 from Washington, DC


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Verified Account
@AOC

Hey Mr. President, remember when you bragged about
sexually assaulting women, talking about feeling their
breasts and genitals, because “when you’re a star they
let you do it?” And then you imposed DOE policies
to make it harder for sexual assault survivors to
report assault?

(link)

5:32 AM - 16 Jul 2019

 

[bodysong]

Ramsey Touchberry Verified Account
@ramsberry1 Replying to @ramsberry1

Pelosi on House voting later today to formally condemn
Trump in resolution-"This is, I hope, one where we will
get Republican support. If they can't support condemning
the words of the President, well that's a message in and of itself."

8:11 AM - 16 Jul 2019

Lisa Desjardins Verified Account
@LisaDNews


Re: why there are rules banning personal attacks
on the president. That's a big question.

Has to do with the office of president.
And also, this incident pre-Civil War.

senate.gov/artandhistory/…

2:18 PM - 16 Jul 2019

Ellen Dibble
@EllenDibble Replying to @LisaDNews

The perp rep. kinsman of one attacked, died soon after,
at age 37 (hmm), & Senator Sumner of MA, struck
while affixing franks to copies of his speech,
with a dog-cane since he wasn't considered enough
of a gentleman to call to a duel, he continued to serve
for another 18 years...

2:30 PM - 16 Jul 2019

Caning of Sumner (Boyer, 2008)

(Textbook)

On the day before the sack of Lawrence, Republican senator
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts delivered a bombastic and
wrathful speech, "The Crime Against Kansas," in which he
verbally whipped most of the U.S. Senate for complicity in slavery.
Sumner singled out Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina…
Two days later, a relative of Butler, Democratic representative
Preston Brooks of South Carolina, strode into the Senate chamber,
found Sumner at his desk, and struck him repeatedly with a cane.
The hollow cane broke after five or six blows, but Sumner required
stitches, experienced shock, and did not return to the Senate for
three years. Brooks became an instant hero in the South, and
the fragments of his weapon were "begged as sacred relics."

A new cane, presented to Brooks by the city of Charleston,
bore the inscription "Hit him again."

Paul S. Boyer, et al., eds., The Enduring Vision:
A History of the American People, 6th ed.
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008), 409.

http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/16527

June 19, 2019

Republicans send list of prohibited insults of President Trumpypants

 

[Deleted member 3041612]

I did have something here. It was overlooked, so the message was modified and moved.

 

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Heather Caygle Verified Account
@heatherscope

RESOLUTION condemning Trump's comments was adopted.
All Democrats voted in favor, four Republicans
(and independent Amash) voted in favor.

Six Republicans didn't vote.

3:52 PM - 16 Jul 2019

The Democratic-led House has voted to condemn
(Orange pResident sitting on Oval Office chair)
tweets telling four Democratic congresswomen
of color to “go back” to their countries of origin.

Tuesday’s vote was 240-187 and was solidly opposed
by Republicans. It came after Trump and top congressional
Republicans denied he is a racist and urged GOP lawmakers
to oppose the Democratic measure.

PBS

Phil Elliott
Phil Elliott Verified Account
@Philip_Elliott

House Vote on Trump's Racist Tweets in Chaos
Over 1801 Rule.

With ⁦@aabramson

(link to Time magazine)

3:50 PM - 16 Jul 2019

How a Resolution Condemning Trump's Racist Tweets
Fell Into Chaos Because of a Rule From 1801

House rules are guided by "the Jefferson Manual," bars "
references to racial or other discrimination on the part
of the President"

TIME TIME @TIME

Rep. Doug Collins, the top-ranking Republican on the
Judiciary Committee, objected to (Pelosi's) remarks,
arguing that they fell outside Jefferson’s Manual and Rules
of the House of Representatives by calling the President’s
comments racist. Pelosi said she had run her words by the
parliamentarian, but that did not pass muster with Collins.
Members huddled on the floor, trying to discern the next steps,
as veteran aides buried themselves in their phones looking
for explanations or precedent.

232 Democrats sided with her while 190 Republicans sided against.

https://time.com/5627826/house-trump-racist-tweets-vote/

 

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Lindsay Wise
@lindsaywise Replying to @repcleaver

.@repcleaver:

"And we were about five minutes away from this being historic
and we move on and when they (Republicans) decided to go
for taking down the words of the Speaker.
I kind of felt like I had been used."

"They for whatever reason escalated.
And I was sitting up there."

4:59 PM - 16 Jul 2019

Lindsay Wise
@lindsaywise Replying to @repcleaver

.@repcleaver said the parliamentarian had written out
a script for him to read that said Pelosi's remarks were
out of order. "And I started reading it and I just thought,
oh no I'm not going to do that. I wasn't even looking at
the words. I was just standing up there fuming
"
5:05 PM - 16 Jul 2019


Lindsay Wise
@lindsaywise Replying to @repcleaver

.@repcleaver: "I just got to the point where I just didn't
want to be involved in it. I didn't want my grandchildren
to see me involved in that mess..."

5:07 PM - 16 Jul 2019


Lindsay Wise
@lindsaywise Replying to @repcleaver

.@repcleaver: "And just think about that. We're ruling
the Speaker out of order for her language. Just think of the
irony of that. We're in there because of the language of the
(pResident.).

This was a very, very dark day for me."

5:07 PM - 16 Jul 2019

Pelosi said that she had her remarks cleared by the Parliamentarian
prior to reading them.

Was this the same parliamentarian that instructed Rep. Cleaver to
read out the script ?


Dozens signed on to a censure resolution filed by Rep.
Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), who called Trump’s comments
“opprobrious” and deserving of serious rebuke.

Censure, he said, would put Trump alongside President
Andrew Jackson, who was censured by the Senate in 1834.

“We should put him where he wants to be — with a president
who was racist, who had slaves, and led to the Trail of Tears
against Native American Indians,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ory.html?utm_term=.9381afa4ed5f&noredirect=on

 

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yay OK yes, here! yes yes yes

The Silent Republicans of the Donald Dumpster Fire Disatsters

It seems that the Republicans that have aligned themselves with
Trumpypants are faced with choices-

Seamy Silence of the Republicans

Shady

Sordid (arousing moral distaste and contempt)

Seedy

Sleazy

Slimy

Squalid

Scummy


"...each time President Trump hits a new low — a racist outburst,
a vulgar tweet, shabby treatment of women — commentators
invariably state that this one will be the tipping point, the time
when Republicans bail on the man who is undermining their
party, and conservatism, and American values. Each time,
such expectations meet the same fate: Wrong!

And this time, sure enough, the Silence of the Republicans has been profound.

July 12, 2017

Dana Milbank

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...158ca6-6742-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html


Dana Milbank Verified Account
@Milbank

After another low, it’s clear:
Trump has no bottom

(link)

5:18 PM - 15 Jul 2019

Opinion |

The racism stops when Trump goes back to the place
from which he came

The president’s racist words might be exactly
what his opponents needed.

The Washington Post The Washington Post @washingtonpost

July 15, 2019

Dana Milbank

"...with each of Trump’s successive racist outbursts,
it should become more difficult for at least some of
these Republicans to stomach the white nationalism
Trump promotes."

This is surely why Republican officeholders have
been almost universally silent about Trump’s latest
ugliness, and GOP leaders have been shamefully mute.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...da67aa-a741-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html

 

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Lindsey Boylan
@LindseyBoylan

NO FALSE EQUIVALENCE

There is no equivalence between those seeking a
more equitable and just society and those who are
indulging their worst impulses.

Moral clarity means seeing racism, hate, and bigotry
for what they are and not pretending there's a
"both sides" to everything.

6:39 AM - 18 Jul 2019

Lindsey Boylan
@LindseyBoylan

#SendHerBack #LockHerUp

Notice how these chants are always about women?
Trump is spewing a toxic brew of racism and misogyny.

1:09 PM - 18 Jul 2019