Yes they did. Donald Trump & his father both; they would mark the black people’s applications with a small c(I guess it was for colored.) They did not rent to black people. I say that would be a racist action in my book.
Look at his lying tweet less than an hour after he disgraced himself before the journalists! In the tweet he deliberately claimed again that she had insisted she was only of Indian origin not Black! Truth eludes him even when proven that she always proudly declared she was Black!
I trust the political video spots will be adequately saturated with these moments. Now democrats, let’s not gum it up with issues we can’t win on. We have been gifted with the worst candidate in history. The ketchup bottles are being tossed in Mar-a-Lago. We stand a chance achieving super majorities in Congress. Let’s let them disintegrate.
I wrote my book on Don-old because he was the gift that kept on giving. If you will recall, every day every week was a new controversy. Let’s allow him to sink in his own quicksand of Stronzo (Italian for shit.)
Some of the Democratic ads should be history lessons of Don-old's first term. For me, every morning was waking up wondering what new <expletive deleted> thing he tweeted overnight. Compare his term with Biden's term. How many cabinet people had been fired from each? How many had criminal charges? Anyone for bleach in their veins?
One short development is about to throw a rench into the gears of public opinion. The Middle East war is now going to drag the USinto possibly attacking Iran. Until yesterday there was some hope for containment but no longer. Iran will attack Israel in a big was and Isreal will counter attack. This is what Nitinyahoo wants in order to stay in office. He may have purposely assassinated the president of Hamas.
This once again brings me to the unpopular opinion that the British Belfor Declaration of 1917 was a huge mistake to declare an official homeland for European Jews. Palestine had already been populated with Arabs living there for thousands of years. This has become the consequence of poor colonial interference.
There will be no victors but as usual, the Arabs will pay the greater price. And if Turkey comes to the aid of Palestinians as they threat, it’s a brand new ballgame possibility the breaking up of NATO.
Getting away with that still is absolutely corrupt. Of course he made copies of those documents and I will bet has already made millions selling them to his friends/our enemies.
"I wish to personally express my sincerest gratitude to whomever it is on the Trump campaign who convinced Trump it was a good idea to have him appear before the @NABJ. Whoever you are, you are a true patriot, and your country is in your debt."
Trump is an extreme narcissist and their whole MO is to puff up how they look to others. Although he may seem to “have no shame,” he cares deeply when we have grounds to call him out. People are tired of his meanness and divisiveness - so let’s do it in a classy way like Kamala has been doing
Actually, there was a movie made in the 60's called "Kisses for My President" in which Polly Bergen played the POTUS. Her husband did not like being called "The First Gentleman" or "The President's Husband."
When Kamala moves to the White House, I wonder what her husband's "title" will be.
She is strong and I doubt if she even cares how he pronounces her name. I imagine her thoughts are on countering his bs and speaking truth and freedom & how she will inspire people to reverse our backsliding that started under tfg when he came down the escalator (?). Biden started it; she will continue the work.
Hair HItler threw Larry King off the topic by accusing him of bad breath years ago.
Douchbag von Clownstick repeated his BS diversionary bully tactic again yesterday by maxing out his rudness demanding a definition.
He was doing the same thing to President Biden.. There is one person that can rip the stinking diaper of the Orange spray tanned/ fake rug and destroy this menace once and for all.
VP Harris will vapourize the Orange menace during the debate.
Dear Dianne.....Go for it. So far Alfred E Newman and the "usual gang of idots" from MAD have been my "spiritual" protectors. ( I have not been deleted.....yet). Amazing news the President Biden pulled of the historic prisoner exchange..........just think...he listened to the poster childe for BS through the debate and had those prisoners in Russia on his mind. WOW!!!!!
Love MAD Magazine. I always wanted the publishers to get someone to make a movie about Alfred E. Newman, the two pies, and the other idiots. Having a "fold" thing at the end would be a nice touch, too.
Today I heard on a news channel that of the 7000 units rented to residents in NY through Daddy Drumpf and his protege Donny, only 7 were rented to black people.
The direct evidence in the NY racial discrimination case nailed Trump Sr [wr] & Jr. [wr] by using their own self incriminating coded notations writing down a "c" for 'colored' tenants.
Elizabeth, I agree. I'm pretty sure that he has a huge repertoire of passive/aggressive/infantile put-downs from which to choose, depending on the person he's attacking that particular day.
My late Southern mother would say that Trump purposely mispronounces Kamala's name ' to get a rise out of her." In other words, he wanted to get her angry about what he said.
In this case, he pissed off (sorry, Mama) not only Kamala Harris, and us, but more than 21,000 people who made comments in the Washington Post last evening.
In a recent forum, there was discussion about how he's all about "showmanship." I changed my mind since then, after the disgusting way he spoke to the Black journalists, and especially when this hypocrite told everyone within earshot that he claimed to loved Blacks.
He reminds me more of the host or emcee of a "roast" where jokes and insults are "dished out" to the recipient. The person at the front table assumes that the insults are really people just kidding about him or her.
When Trump's at a rally or being interviewed, he seems to think that it's not just to be worshipped by everyone there, but to "roast" a person or persons. The problem is that HIS victim of the day is not sitting at the front table, and most likely is hundreds of miles away, and knows that the slime is NOT joking.
Would say more but we just got a severe storm warning.
Finally....Diaper Don has been classified as an extreme case of Narcissitic Personality Disorder. Empathy does not exist in a deviant like Orange. . Definatly...he is messing with the Vice Presidents name.....any attention..,.positive/negative is a heroin injection or smoking a joint of crack for "it". The entire world shoul go NO CONTACT with this slithering ,slimmy worm.
The details are scant, but Trump's father, Fred Trump Sr was either detained or arrested for participating in a KKK rally in Queens in 1927. The rotted apple never fell very far from diseased tree.
Anyone who was living in NY at that time remembers, with great clarity, the DOJ suit against the Trumps for refusing to rent to POC. They were required to operate their rental business under a consent decree for quite some time.
And then there’ the full page ad he took out in The NY Times, calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5. Not long afterward, they were found to be factually innocent. Someone else actually committed this horrific crime. Trump refused to accept that.
He’s been a racist his entire life. Never tried to hide it.
We do, AND all of those who he refused to allow to live in those apartments. The apple didn't far from the tree with Trump was (unfortunately, for those of us who believe in democracy) found in a stagnated, slimy ditch, after being spawned by such kind and great parents. I love sarcasm!
@ Louise. As president he tried to starve "shithole" Black neighborhoods.
"Immigrants stealing black jobs," He is the poster boy for illegal sanctions for using illegal immigrant workers on his jobsites. At Mar a Lago, other properties uses temporary white Balkan visa workers to displace Americans,, Black, white or brown
I remember that; I was a kid and thought: in this day & age- what assholes!!!!
I also remember Ivanna saying Loudly that he’d raped her (marital rape Is A Thing) AND I’ll bet that added Lots to her alimony!!!
The Heritage Foundation and other rich, fascist organizations
pro-Trump sycophants are currently planning making lists of people by scouring the records& social media accounts of people they can Fire or Imprison! That’s another MUSK move to help Fascism & Govt Help HIM and Other rich!
They ARE doing what Joe McCarthy (with Trump family lawyer Roy Cohen in That shit-show) disparaging innocent people! Trump’s using Cohen’s favorite tactics: sue, counter sue, disparage & delay, defame others & it started in the 50’s!
These people are for SOCIAL PROGRAMS and PROTECTION OF THE RICH!! Only them.
NOTHING, NOTHING in the way of Social Programs For The Protection OF The REST OF US - WE the PEOPLE. No social security because THEY can’t “afford” to put money into the pool for the Workers! No health care either, which is why they’re trying to Force Women to give Birth (they’ll need some workers and cops to protect them, or keep their properties looking like spectacular castles, and of course cannon fodder for their wars). No FDA (salmonella and tainted food anyone?). Nothing. NOTHING for the average folk!
All and ONLY for the rich. Rich Saudis, Rich Russians, Rich, Richer, Richest: Koch’s, Mercers, Murdochs Harlan Crow…The Richest across the globe.
As the French ELITES once said: let them eat cake… and the French citizens declared: off with their heads.
“Black jobs” was a comment that slid easily out of Trump’s mouth. But these journalists would not let him get away with it. What, exactly, is a “Black job”?, they asked him. Then, when he said something ridiculous, there was an audible groan, or laugh, from the group. It was SO REFRESHING to see his lies NOT NORMALIZED. They called his bluff. We need to see this more and more.
Did you hear his answer? "A Black job is anybody that has a job."
Then it was on to his next firehose of BS.:
Q: How do you turn it around? What's your plan for the black community when it comes to money?
A: So, first of all, it's very hard to hear for whatever reason, because of the fact that they have bad equipment, because I guess you know, this woman was unable to get the right equipment.
But it's very hard for me to hear you, but I can hear every other word. It's very difficult, actually,
But so I don't know if they can fix it or do something with it, but I'll do the best I can with it. If I came onto a stage like this and I got treated so rudely, is this woman true?
My goodness? And I'm fine with it because she it does it. She was very rude, sir, very rude. That was a nasty That wasn't a question. She hadn't asked me a question. "
For the white right, it's not racist if it stops short of lynching, night-riding, and cross-burning. I'm 100% glad that this event was recorded because the mainstream media are forever editing Trump to make him sound, if not "normal" exactly, then at least coherent. A dose of the unexpurgated version should wake some people up.
What we can hope for is Journalist's of every color will not be cowed by their "corporate overlords" and will insist they stop protecting this monster. Sinclair is the worst & in my liberal university city they own 2 stations + handle the news for the FOX affiliate. The ABC affiliate is owned by Noted black entertainer Byron Allen. I hope he will push his Allen Media stations to start telling the truth.
Sinclair demands strict adherence to their right wing propaganda giving the affiliates exact scripts to follow.
I hear plenty about Sinclair but have no direct exposure to it. In a way this is a blessing, but in another way it's a big hole in my consciousness, so firsthand reports like yours are important. I'm not sure I could stand regular exposure to Sinclair, or Fox for that matter, because WaPo (which I subscribe to) and the NYTimes (which I dropped after 2016) piss me off quite enough.
It’s likely that you are being “directly exposed” to Sinclair without even realizing it. They are not a single station like Fox - they own and operate hundreds of local stations across the country. Sinclair Broadcast Group is the largest owner of stations affiliated with Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC and others. These stations are required to include in their nightly newscasts stories produced by a team of reporters in Sinclair Corp headquarters. Judd Legum (Substack “Popular Information) wrote last week about one lead anchor who resigned “over concerns about the accuracy and right-wing bias of the content he was required to present on air.”
Very possible! I'm not entirely "off grid" when it comes to corporate media, but I don't have a TV, or cable, and I rely mostly on the written word, online or in print. At the same time I know that "herd instinct" is a thing in journalism, and that reporters on the ground are influenced (directly or not) by those around them as well as by their higher-ups.
The sad and worrisome fact is that this Trumpist brand of racial exclusivism and racial exclusionism seems so normal to them. The threat of being excluded and the illusion of power by means of exclusion of 'others' has an irrational force on their choice-making. The vary narrow relationship circle into which they draw themselves provides the illusions of self-protection and self-assertion.
All of this is social pathology based on learned if incorrect assumptions about surviving in a remorseless competitive anomic social environment.
It seems to me that it is important to remember two facts of living (or factual for me, anyway):
as kids we did not approach other kids nor our 'adult' community in this way but we did approach each other with an initial social mutuality;
as kids we questioned the need to exclude and to make enemies of others;
then, as kids we were 'put in our place' in ways that taught disrespect, contempt, and social marginalization.
My point, as I know you are aware, is that these adult Trumpists represent a genuine minority among minorities in America. They represent themselves as the 'most excluded', the most misunderstood and mis-treated of all Americans. They argue that they cannot survive and be fairly counted in in a society that is actively diverse, equitable in authoring and offering protections (for exercising personal responsibility) for all, and inclusive in respect of participation in all aspects of social living and civil society governance.
We can do well to not see our selves as 'opponents of'. We, though often among the silent majorities, constitute an humanist majority, in fact super-majority in America and in the world. We see the reality of cooperation by means of in and conscious use of the plural and democratic principles of constitutional American governance. Actively pursuing this reality is what, if we persist through time and conscious effort, effects a personal dispelling of prejudice by learning from the myriad benefits of personal experience of inclusive cooperation.
In all of my experiences, the more basic our reasons of mutual cooperation are, the more mutual benefit and security are the tangible and durable results.
So let's communicate the message of democratic cooperation, of social mutualism to the Harris et al campaign in order to inform it with Americans' experiences of the benefits and of the potential benefits to be achieved by means of them.
This “senior citizen” in Alabama can hardly believe the outright lies coming out of this 78 yr old’s mouth. He is only 5 years younger than me. The joy in voting for lovely Kamala has me looking forward to November!
But we need to point out their error. We NEED TO DO THAT not only for those who say the words but those who are harmed by those but for ALL OF US—WE ARE ALL HARMED BY BIGOTRY IN ANY FORM AND AT ANY TIME!! ALL OF US. EVERYONE!
Thank you to the three black female journalists who interviewed Trump. It’s about time that we had some journalism with integrity. They didn’t back off 1 inch and didn’t let him get away with his bullshit like the pathetic bothsidesism MSM. That was refreshing and it took courage to confront that bastard. May we have some more of that?
He’s showing his self to us. We need to believe and accept how truly horrible this human is. Maya Angelou said it so perfectly. I’m so heartened with the appearance of Kamala in our sights now and in our future. But not resting yet by any means. We have work to do but now I feel hopeful!
The good thing is that both CNN and the NYT covered Trump’s comments in detail and they were appalled. They acted as if it was normal Trump but this time they called him out for not just being racist, but old , stupid, and lazy.
Trump still believes he can go anywhere and bamboozal everyone. But he is slower at making up lies on the spot, he clearly has no information, and these journalists blew him away. All he could say is that they are nasty. Not effective.
It was not easy because one of my schoolmates had been lionized recently in it. However, one morning I opened it to see the enormous orange slime’s face w a headliner; that finally did it. Also WAPO a bit later.
Republicans have a very weak candidate and his staff doesn’t dare to put him in front of an audience outside MAGA world. That’s how the media needs to start covering him. Watch his polls decline while Kamala’s polls overtake his and keep climbing!
Trump has consistently accused others of the bad behavior which he himself does. He hasn’t changed. Accusing Kamala of using people is him projecting his own poor behavior on her — no evidence, just a baseless accusation.
“Projection” is a reach for a reasonable explanation when there is none! He is just plain stupid, dumb, ignorant and full of hate. He does not deserve a reasonable explanation for his behavior.
I thought it was insane that he was invited today, and after hearing him spew I thought “let him speak, that plan is working” Time to put a woman in the White House and Kamala will be amazing
This was bad even for him. Getting more and more unhinged by the minute. That what happens when he is scared . And people can still want this thing back in office. Think we can ever get these people deprogrammed??
No not the MAGAs. There is a psychological component that keeps committed MAGAs committed. They are liberated in their minds. I have had discussions with them in the past. When an individual crosses that line no matter what happens, belief protects the believer from the insecurity of doubt. In a way, they are not unlike us and we know we are right. The human mind is sometimes a terrible thing to behold. We are watching it play out in the world of politics.
NO NO NO!! Just use the MUTE button for the Orange Invective Spewer. Maybe record a passage or two if you want to create a harsh lesson for a problem nephew.
For ,LA use the RECORD and REPLAYREPLAYREPLAY buttons!
As for us, we recorded every time Nancy Pelosi appeared during The Great Drought of Intelligence.
So the federal government taking Trump to court years back for not renting to black people? Nobody remembers? We remember!
Yes they did. Donald Trump & his father both; they would mark the black people’s applications with a small c(I guess it was for colored.) They did not rent to black people. I say that would be a racist action in my book.
His people are as bad, trying to protect him. He’s nothing without his support. What a disgrace; what a disgusting man.
Look at his lying tweet less than an hour after he disgraced himself before the journalists! In the tweet he deliberately claimed again that she had insisted she was only of Indian origin not Black! Truth eludes him even when proven that she always proudly declared she was Black!
I believe they hustled him off the stage when the journalists brought up Project 2025. Little wonder.
That's what I've heard and read as well.
One of his people should tell him how to pronounce the Vice President's name. Maybe this would help: , La
How about calling him Don-old?
I trust the political video spots will be adequately saturated with these moments. Now democrats, let’s not gum it up with issues we can’t win on. We have been gifted with the worst candidate in history. The ketchup bottles are being tossed in Mar-a-Lago. We stand a chance achieving super majorities in Congress. Let’s let them disintegrate.
I wrote my book on Don-old because he was the gift that kept on giving. If you will recall, every day every week was a new controversy. Let’s allow him to sink in his own quicksand of Stronzo (Italian for shit.)
Some of the Democratic ads should be history lessons of Don-old's first term. For me, every morning was waking up wondering what new <expletive deleted> thing he tweeted overnight. Compare his term with Biden's term. How many cabinet people had been fired from each? How many had criminal charges? Anyone for bleach in their veins?
One short development is about to throw a rench into the gears of public opinion. The Middle East war is now going to drag the USinto possibly attacking Iran. Until yesterday there was some hope for containment but no longer. Iran will attack Israel in a big was and Isreal will counter attack. This is what Nitinyahoo wants in order to stay in office. He may have purposely assassinated the president of Hamas.
This once again brings me to the unpopular opinion that the British Belfor Declaration of 1917 was a huge mistake to declare an official homeland for European Jews. Palestine had already been populated with Arabs living there for thousands of years. This has become the consequence of poor colonial interference.
There will be no victors but as usual, the Arabs will pay the greater price. And if Turkey comes to the aid of Palestinians as they threat, it’s a brand new ballgame possibility the breaking up of NATO.
Brilliant. Going to start using this. Thanks
I like calling him Old SCIFless for his mishandling of highly classified national security documents
Getting away with that still is absolutely corrupt. Of course he made copies of those documents and I will bet has already made millions selling them to his friends/our enemies.
George Conway often reminds us that mocking trump relentlessly is the strategy that will take him down. In George I trust.
"I wish to personally express my sincerest gratitude to whomever it is on the Trump campaign who convinced Trump it was a good idea to have him appear before the @NABJ. Whoever you are, you are a true patriot, and your country is in your debt."
George Conway
Haha yes, 100%! Thanks for sharing
He did seem very clueless there, and as stupid as ever.
Trump is an extreme narcissist and their whole MO is to puff up how they look to others. Although he may seem to “have no shame,” he cares deeply when we have grounds to call him out. People are tired of his meanness and divisiveness - so let’s do it in a classy way like Kamala has been doing
I love this. Don-old
Doug emhoff says he can just call her madame president.
I'm good with that.
Actually, there was a movie made in the 60's called "Kisses for My President" in which Polly Bergen played the POTUS. Her husband did not like being called "The First Gentleman" or "The President's Husband."
When Kamala moves to the White House, I wonder what her husband's "title" will be.
He'll go from being the Second Gentleman to the First Gentleman.
He mispronounces it on purpose…a typical micro aggression. He knows how to say it. He does it to dehumanize her.
She is strong and I doubt if she even cares how he pronounces her name. I imagine her thoughts are on countering his bs and speaking truth and freedom & how she will inspire people to reverse our backsliding that started under tfg when he came down the escalator (?). Biden started it; she will continue the work.
Trump is doing that on purpose. He said so. He said he doesn't care how he pronounces her name.
Hair HItler threw Larry King off the topic by accusing him of bad breath years ago.
Douchbag von Clownstick repeated his BS diversionary bully tactic again yesterday by maxing out his rudness demanding a definition.
He was doing the same thing to President Biden.. There is one person that can rip the stinking diaper of the Orange spray tanned/ fake rug and destroy this menace once and for all.
VP Harris will vapourize the Orange menace during the debate.
I'd just LOVE to "pronounce" the name that applies too Trump, but it would be inappropriate in Joyce's Substack.
Dear Dianne.....Go for it. So far Alfred E Newman and the "usual gang of idots" from MAD have been my "spiritual" protectors. ( I have not been deleted.....yet). Amazing news the President Biden pulled of the historic prisoner exchange..........just think...he listened to the poster childe for BS through the debate and had those prisoners in Russia on his mind. WOW!!!!!
Love MAD Magazine. I always wanted the publishers to get someone to make a movie about Alfred E. Newman, the two pies, and the other idiots. Having a "fold" thing at the end would be a nice touch, too.
Maybe one day they will.
Nothing will help,Linda, because he is just a vile human!
This is NOT a human - this what TRUE EVIL looks like.
As Louise L. pointed out, he's doing it deliberately. It's an insult - "you're not important enough for me to get your name right."
On the other hand - I prefer too ignorant to pronounce it correctly! That feels much better.
Today I heard on a news channel that of the 7000 units rented to residents in NY through Daddy Drumpf and his protege Donny, only 7 were rented to black people.
You go that right Rhonda !
The direct evidence in the NY racial discrimination case nailed Trump Sr [wr] & Jr. [wr] by using their own self incriminating coded notations writing down a "c" for 'colored' tenants.
I am using my own code for white racists [wr].
! 😜
Perhaps the 7 black people identified as Indian/sarcasm font
He doesn’t want to know. He is disparaging her.
He knows damn well how it’s pronounced. It’s just one of his many “subtle” passsive/aggressive/ infantile put-downs.
Elizabeth, I agree. I'm pretty sure that he has a huge repertoire of passive/aggressive/infantile put-downs from which to choose, depending on the person he's attacking that particular day.
I once heard her say to pronounce with the cadence of "caramel". Accent 1st syllable.
He does it intentionally.
He probably does it on purpose, another way of showing his disrespect.
You are being kind . . .
My late Southern mother would say that Trump purposely mispronounces Kamala's name ' to get a rise out of her." In other words, he wanted to get her angry about what he said.
In this case, he pissed off (sorry, Mama) not only Kamala Harris, and us, but more than 21,000 people who made comments in the Washington Post last evening.
In a recent forum, there was discussion about how he's all about "showmanship." I changed my mind since then, after the disgusting way he spoke to the Black journalists, and especially when this hypocrite told everyone within earshot that he claimed to loved Blacks.
He reminds me more of the host or emcee of a "roast" where jokes and insults are "dished out" to the recipient. The person at the front table assumes that the insults are really people just kidding about him or her.
When Trump's at a rally or being interviewed, he seems to think that it's not just to be worshipped by everyone there, but to "roast" a person or persons. The problem is that HIS victim of the day is not sitting at the front table, and most likely is hundreds of miles away, and knows that the slime is NOT joking.
Would say more but we just got a severe storm warning.
Finally....Diaper Don has been classified as an extreme case of Narcissitic Personality Disorder. Empathy does not exist in a deviant like Orange. . Definatly...he is messing with the Vice Presidents name.....any attention..,.positive/negative is a heroin injection or smoking a joint of crack for "it". The entire world shoul go NO CONTACT with this slithering ,slimmy worm.
I think he says it intentionally.
He does it on purpose, trying to make her name and thus her foreign
The details are scant, but Trump's father, Fred Trump Sr was either detained or arrested for participating in a KKK rally in Queens in 1927. The rotted apple never fell very far from diseased tree.
Old Man Trump
Woody Guthrie 1954
I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project
Beach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
I'm calling out my welcome to you and your man both
Welcoming you here to Beach Haven
To love in any way you please and to have some kind of a decent place
To have your kids raised up in.
Beach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
I would have liked to see him asked if he would like to finally apologize to the Central Park 5.
That's a good one. Well done.
He said they were guilty even after they were exonorated
WOW - That would have been great!
Pure and simple: Donald Trump is a RACIST!
Anyone who was living in NY at that time remembers, with great clarity, the DOJ suit against the Trumps for refusing to rent to POC. They were required to operate their rental business under a consent decree for quite some time.
And then there’ the full page ad he took out in The NY Times, calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5. Not long afterward, they were found to be factually innocent. Someone else actually committed this horrific crime. Trump refused to accept that.
He’s been a racist his entire life. Never tried to hide it.
We do, AND all of those who he refused to allow to live in those apartments. The apple didn't far from the tree with Trump was (unfortunately, for those of us who believe in democracy) found in a stagnated, slimy ditch, after being spawned by such kind and great parents. I love sarcasm!
@ Louise. As president he tried to starve "shithole" Black neighborhoods.
"Immigrants stealing black jobs," He is the poster boy for illegal sanctions for using illegal immigrant workers on his jobsites. At Mar a Lago, other properties uses temporary white Balkan visa workers to displace Americans,, Black, white or brown
And the slippery bastards never had to admit fault, they just had to pay millions out to the people they had discriminated against.
That is downright disgusting. No wonder he still gets away with that kind of stuff.
I remember that; I was a kid and thought: in this day & age- what assholes!!!!
I also remember Ivanna saying Loudly that he’d raped her (marital rape Is A Thing) AND I’ll bet that added Lots to her alimony!!!
The Heritage Foundation and other rich, fascist organizations
pro-Trump sycophants are currently planning making lists of people by scouring the records& social media accounts of people they can Fire or Imprison! That’s another MUSK move to help Fascism & Govt Help HIM and Other rich!
They ARE doing what Joe McCarthy (with Trump family lawyer Roy Cohen in That shit-show) disparaging innocent people! Trump’s using Cohen’s favorite tactics: sue, counter sue, disparage & delay, defame others & it started in the 50’s!
These people are for SOCIAL PROGRAMS and PROTECTION OF THE RICH!! Only them.
NOTHING, NOTHING in the way of Social Programs For The Protection OF The REST OF US - WE the PEOPLE. No social security because THEY can’t “afford” to put money into the pool for the Workers! No health care either, which is why they’re trying to Force Women to give Birth (they’ll need some workers and cops to protect them, or keep their properties looking like spectacular castles, and of course cannon fodder for their wars). No FDA (salmonella and tainted food anyone?). Nothing. NOTHING for the average folk!
All and ONLY for the rich. Rich Saudis, Rich Russians, Rich, Richer, Richest: Koch’s, Mercers, Murdochs Harlan Crow…The Richest across the globe.
As the French ELITES once said: let them eat cake… and the French citizens declared: off with their heads.
Old Man Trump
Woody Guthrie 1954
I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project
Beach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
I'm calling out my welcome to you and your man both
Welcoming you here to Beach Haven
To love in any way you please and to have some kind of a decent place
To have your kids raised up in.
Beach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
We remember trump and the so-called Central Park Five. Trump continued to insist they were guilty even after DNA evidence exonerated them.
The MAGAS are a car of thoughts that has no reverse gear. They drive into a blind alley, then can't back up or turn around.
It happens all the time; then they just bail out of the stranded idea car, and get into a new one.
“Black jobs” was a comment that slid easily out of Trump’s mouth. But these journalists would not let him get away with it. What, exactly, is a “Black job”?, they asked him. Then, when he said something ridiculous, there was an audible groan, or laugh, from the group. It was SO REFRESHING to see his lies NOT NORMALIZED. They called his bluff. We need to see this more and more.
Fine journalism from smart women. Oh how that must irk CFDT.
Absolutely!!!
He didn't mean chimney sweeps?
He said "A Black job is anybody that has a job."
Did you hear his answer? "A Black job is anybody that has a job."
Then it was on to his next firehose of BS.:
Q: How do you turn it around? What's your plan for the black community when it comes to money?
A: So, first of all, it's very hard to hear for whatever reason, because of the fact that they have bad equipment, because I guess you know, this woman was unable to get the right equipment.
But it's very hard for me to hear you, but I can hear every other word. It's very difficult, actually,
But so I don't know if they can fix it or do something with it, but I'll do the best I can with it. If I came onto a stage like this and I got treated so rudely, is this woman true?
My goodness? And I'm fine with it because she it does it. She was very rude, sir, very rude. That was a nasty That wasn't a question. She hadn't asked me a question. "
Amen🙏❤️
For the white right, it's not racist if it stops short of lynching, night-riding, and cross-burning. I'm 100% glad that this event was recorded because the mainstream media are forever editing Trump to make him sound, if not "normal" exactly, then at least coherent. A dose of the unexpurgated version should wake some people up.
What we can hope for is Journalist's of every color will not be cowed by their "corporate overlords" and will insist they stop protecting this monster. Sinclair is the worst & in my liberal university city they own 2 stations + handle the news for the FOX affiliate. The ABC affiliate is owned by Noted black entertainer Byron Allen. I hope he will push his Allen Media stations to start telling the truth.
Sinclair demands strict adherence to their right wing propaganda giving the affiliates exact scripts to follow.
I hear plenty about Sinclair but have no direct exposure to it. In a way this is a blessing, but in another way it's a big hole in my consciousness, so firsthand reports like yours are important. I'm not sure I could stand regular exposure to Sinclair, or Fox for that matter, because WaPo (which I subscribe to) and the NYTimes (which I dropped after 2016) piss me off quite enough.
It’s likely that you are being “directly exposed” to Sinclair without even realizing it. They are not a single station like Fox - they own and operate hundreds of local stations across the country. Sinclair Broadcast Group is the largest owner of stations affiliated with Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC and others. These stations are required to include in their nightly newscasts stories produced by a team of reporters in Sinclair Corp headquarters. Judd Legum (Substack “Popular Information) wrote last week about one lead anchor who resigned “over concerns about the accuracy and right-wing bias of the content he was required to present on air.”
Very possible! I'm not entirely "off grid" when it comes to corporate media, but I don't have a TV, or cable, and I rely mostly on the written word, online or in print. At the same time I know that "herd instinct" is a thing in journalism, and that reporters on the ground are influenced (directly or not) by those around them as well as by their higher-ups.
"... I don't have a TV, or cable..."
I'd estimate you are off-grid about 90%.
Thank you, Ms Sturgis, for these observations.
The sad and worrisome fact is that this Trumpist brand of racial exclusivism and racial exclusionism seems so normal to them. The threat of being excluded and the illusion of power by means of exclusion of 'others' has an irrational force on their choice-making. The vary narrow relationship circle into which they draw themselves provides the illusions of self-protection and self-assertion.
All of this is social pathology based on learned if incorrect assumptions about surviving in a remorseless competitive anomic social environment.
It seems to me that it is important to remember two facts of living (or factual for me, anyway):
as kids we did not approach other kids nor our 'adult' community in this way but we did approach each other with an initial social mutuality;
as kids we questioned the need to exclude and to make enemies of others;
then, as kids we were 'put in our place' in ways that taught disrespect, contempt, and social marginalization.
My point, as I know you are aware, is that these adult Trumpists represent a genuine minority among minorities in America. They represent themselves as the 'most excluded', the most misunderstood and mis-treated of all Americans. They argue that they cannot survive and be fairly counted in in a society that is actively diverse, equitable in authoring and offering protections (for exercising personal responsibility) for all, and inclusive in respect of participation in all aspects of social living and civil society governance.
We can do well to not see our selves as 'opponents of'. We, though often among the silent majorities, constitute an humanist majority, in fact super-majority in America and in the world. We see the reality of cooperation by means of in and conscious use of the plural and democratic principles of constitutional American governance. Actively pursuing this reality is what, if we persist through time and conscious effort, effects a personal dispelling of prejudice by learning from the myriad benefits of personal experience of inclusive cooperation.
In all of my experiences, the more basic our reasons of mutual cooperation are, the more mutual benefit and security are the tangible and durable results.
So let's communicate the message of democratic cooperation, of social mutualism to the Harris et al campaign in order to inform it with Americans' experiences of the benefits and of the potential benefits to be achieved by means of them.
But it won’t unfortunately!
This “senior citizen” in Alabama can hardly believe the outright lies coming out of this 78 yr old’s mouth. He is only 5 years younger than me. The joy in voting for lovely Kamala has me looking forward to November!
I'm also a senior woman from Alabama - I can't wait to vote for Kamala!
I, too, am an Alabama senior waiting to vote for Kamala.
DITTO!
Me too. Happy. Loving , la's surge on TT. Young people are not holding back.
Joyce. The surprise is his followers believe him. Like Hitler. Mussolini. Stalin Putin.
A free press is imperative to a democracy. Keep reporting Joyce. The country needs honest/ factual news to reduce the followers.
But we need to point out their error. We NEED TO DO THAT not only for those who say the words but those who are harmed by those but for ALL OF US—WE ARE ALL HARMED BY BIGOTRY IN ANY FORM AND AT ANY TIME!! ALL OF US. EVERYONE!
Thank you to the three black female journalists who interviewed Trump. It’s about time that we had some journalism with integrity. They didn’t back off 1 inch and didn’t let him get away with his bullshit like the pathetic bothsidesism MSM. That was refreshing and it took courage to confront that bastard. May we have some more of that?
I hope ABC doesn’t do anything to Rachel Scott. Remember how Chuck Todd lost his job after Trump complained to NBC?
They should give her a big fat raise!!
I never liked Chuck Todd, but I don't think he deserved to have trump cost him his job.
In addition to being racist, Trump’s remarks suggest that he has a limited IQ. Very limited.
Exacerbated by evident cognitive decline. He's lost it (whatever "it" he ever had).
Never had much to start with from what some family says. I will go with that it fits.
Not to mention misogyny. Would he have spoken to Black male reporters that way? I don't think so.
He'd be afraid they might take him out behind the barn and beat him up.
He’s showing his self to us. We need to believe and accept how truly horrible this human is. Maya Angelou said it so perfectly. I’m so heartened with the appearance of Kamala in our sights now and in our future. But not resting yet by any means. We have work to do but now I feel hopeful!
The Republican party as a whole is racist. Tom Cotton supported Trump in an interview today. They might as well put on their white hoods.
Maybe we need a national campaign to dress these idiots up so they physically look the part. Imagine them getting hoods delivered to their offices! :D
White hoods to cover their tin hats.
The good thing is that both CNN and the NYT covered Trump’s comments in detail and they were appalled. They acted as if it was normal Trump but this time they called him out for not just being racist, but old , stupid, and lazy.
Trump still believes he can go anywhere and bamboozal everyone. But he is slower at making up lies on the spot, he clearly has no information, and these journalists blew him away. All he could say is that they are nasty. Not effective.
The NYT repeated the lie in the headline, unlike The Guardian.
“Trump Questions Harris's Racial Identity, Saying She Only ‘Became Black’ Recently”
versus
“Trump repeats lies and attacks Kamala Harris’s racial identity at panel of Black journalists”
That is why I ditched the NYT
As I did. And NYC was my home town.
It was not easy because one of my schoolmates had been lionized recently in it. However, one morning I opened it to see the enormous orange slime’s face w a headliner; that finally did it. Also WAPO a bit later.
The Guardian is so much better.
And pay for The Guardian
Yup x 2.
Thank you Kathy E Gill for pointing that out
And one interview away from calling those women journalists "uppity".
It's about time the NYT shunned the light on his "bad" side
Thank you Professor. Oh boy oh boy oh boy, I can’t wait to vote. ☮️❤️
Republicans have a very weak candidate and his staff doesn’t dare to put him in front of an audience outside MAGA world. That’s how the media needs to start covering him. Watch his polls decline while Kamala’s polls overtake his and keep climbing!
Trump has consistently accused others of the bad behavior which he himself does. He hasn’t changed. Accusing Kamala of using people is him projecting his own poor behavior on her — no evidence, just a baseless accusation.
Projection and more projection.
“Projection” is a reach for a reasonable explanation when there is none! He is just plain stupid, dumb, ignorant and full of hate. He does not deserve a reasonable explanation for his behavior.
Projection is the only thing he truly excels at.
There was Birtherism for Obama;
now, it's questioning Kamala Harris' Blackness
because, he says, 'she did'.
Round and Round we go into alternate realities.
Round and Round we go on Trump's broken synapses.
He's sick and wrong and very weird!
Very WEIRD. In fact, he’s a WEIRDO!
Agreed, Fern.
WEIRD
Weird and a sign of a bad campaign’
So wierd!
Did anyone say weird and wired.
I thought it was insane that he was invited today, and after hearing him spew I thought “let him speak, that plan is working” Time to put a woman in the White House and Kamala will be amazing
Yeah, like giving him an AK-47 and watching him shoot himself in the foot over and over with Black voters.
All voters.
I wish.
This was bad even for him. Getting more and more unhinged by the minute. That what happens when he is scared . And people can still want this thing back in office. Think we can ever get these people deprogrammed??
No not the MAGAs. There is a psychological component that keeps committed MAGAs committed. They are liberated in their minds. I have had discussions with them in the past. When an individual crosses that line no matter what happens, belief protects the believer from the insecurity of doubt. In a way, they are not unlike us and we know we are right. The human mind is sometimes a terrible thing to behold. We are watching it play out in the world of politics.
That's how Christianity works. Any religion, actually.
"this thing" !
Unlikely
Looking for the Fast Forward button to November...
NO NO NO!! Just use the MUTE button for the Orange Invective Spewer. Maybe record a passage or two if you want to create a harsh lesson for a problem nephew.
For ,LA use the RECORD and REPLAYREPLAYREPLAY buttons!
As for us, we recorded every time Nancy Pelosi appeared during The Great Drought of Intelligence.
The Great Drought of Intelligence -- very apropos, and I like the term!
Same here.
Me too!