World Leaders Tear Trump To Shreds For Spewing '1950s Racism'

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/07/15/world-leaders-tear-trump-to-shreds-for-spewing-1950s-racism.html

Posted on Mon, Jul 15th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
World Leaders Tear Trump To Shreds For Spewing ‘1950s Racism’


Republicans might be silent in the wake of Donald Trump’s new racist attacks on four congresswomen of color, but world leaders have quickly come together to denounce them.

According to The Washington Post, politicians from across the globe are slamming Trump for his “1950s racism.”

British Prime Minister Theresa May might be just days away from leaving office, but she took time out of her day to criticize Trump.

“The prime minister’s view is that the language used to refer to these women was completely unacceptable,” said one Downing Street spokesman, according to The Post.

Another British politician took to Twitter to condemn Trump’s bigotry, calling it “1950s racism straight from the White House.”

Link to tweet

The First Minister of Scotland said of Trump’s attacks, “The President of the United States telling elected politicians — or any other Americans for that matter — to ‘go back’ to other countries is not OK, and diplomatic politeness should not stop us saying so, loudly and clearly.”

The mayor of London and one of Trump’s most outspoken critics, Sadiq Khan, tore into Trump, too.

“I’ve heard it from racists and fascists. Never from a mainstream politician,” he said, according to the same Washington Post report “Here you have the president of the U.S.A. using that same sort of language.”

Closer to home, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also chimed in on Trump’s racism, saying, “That is not how we do things in Canada. A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian, and the diversity of our country is actually one of our greatest strengths and a source of tremendous resilience and pride for Canadians. We will continue to defend that.”

Trump is an international disgrace

From the UK and Canada to Germany and Belgium, the advanced world stepped up and condemned racism – something the Republican Party here at home has shamefully failed to do.

No matter which party held the White House, the United States has historically been seen as the moral authority around the world – a country that has strived to advocate for equality.

With a racist in the White House and a GOP unwilling to put country over party, the United States no longer has that authority, and other world leaders are stepping up to fill that moral leadership void.

[Wounded Bear]

1. His base thinks that is a good thing...

[durablend]

2. Pretty sure no complaints from Putin

[FakeNoose]

6. We have to stop caring what his effing base "thinks"

... when in actuality they don't think anything. They react like Pavlov's dog, when Chump rings the bell.

[study war no more]

8. in fact, it makes them like him more

I don't get it but they lap this stuff up. It's a way to energize his base. Pure and simple. They love simple soundbites that they can repeat over and over again without worrying about facts or logic.

[gratuitous]

10. Then let them defend it

I really want to stay on this subject for a while. This novelty cigar of a distraction blew up in Trump's insipid face, and I want the news cycle to concentrate on his soot-smeared visage for a while. Keep calling out the racism; it seems to be a label that actually bothers his base. They don't mind pussy-grabbing or deplorable, but they sure hate concentration camps and being called racist. It also has the advantage of being 100% true. Anyone can see it, and people of integrity will call it what it is. People of no integrity will deny, deflect, and dissemble. They should be ignored.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. His base and the GOP seem to think rump's ignorant racism seem to be okay or not racist...

and this is a part of America I don't want to ever support or reach out to. Never. I and all of us will stomp their asses (pardon my language) into the ground come Nov 2020, when they see once and for all what we stand for and mean.

Why hasn't twitter take down the offending racist account(s)?

[Scurrilous]

4. K&R

[LeftTurn3623]

5. I wish the media

would report this more on the news so Americans would understand how wrong it is to say what he did.

[Moostache]

7. KellyAnne Conway's take...

Conway replied that he should be talking about them because “we’re sick and tired of many people in this country” who are being represented by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (R-MI).

“They represent a dark underbelly in this country of people who are not respecting our troops, are not giving them the resources and respect that they deserve,” she fumed. “We’re tired of people not kneeling for the flag out of disrespect. We’re tired of some of these women palling around with terrorists!”

Just try to unpack that and get your head around the bigotry and hate it conceals...

“we’re sick and tired of many people in this country”
Oh, believe me, we KNOW that Republicans are sick of people in this country....one's that won't EVER vote for them? They try to deny them their very rights to vote...one's that oppose their faux-moralism and desire to control women's bodies? They propose hideous legislation and enforce invasion molestations of patients by unwilling doctors (see Missouri as case in point for this atrocity)...migrants and immigrants and asylum seekers who might object to being referred to as 'invaders', 'rapists and murderers', 'not welcome', etc.? Lock THEM up (since they failed abysmally to 'lock her up' I guess).

"...not respecting our troops..."
HUH? Where the everloving fuck did she come up with THAT lame ass position?

"...not giving them the resources and respect they deserve."
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? This country is awash in constant military ceremonies at baseball, football, hockey and other sports' games. There are constant reminders to "support the troops" and the military budget is an obscene percentage of the total budget already. Besides that, NOT ONE OF THE FOUR Congresswomen Trump attacked (and is STILL on about today in day 3 of this national embarrassment) said ANYTHING at all to disparage the military AT ALL...

“We’re tired of people not kneeling for the flag out of disrespect."
I am going to ASSUME this is either a mis-quote or she mis-spoke and meant the OPPOSITE, because the last time I checked, the standard "honor America" is to rise and remove one's hat (anything beyond that is NOT specified as 'respecting the flag' to anyone but Trump and his bizarre predilection for molesting innocent flags near by his girth).

An aside - this is just more Trump playbook 101 when he is in a bind....double down on racism and faux-patriotism and hope the dupes remain unfazed by it. First it was NFL players, then it was USWNT player Megan Rapinoe and now its (apparently) Democratic congresswomen and/or Democrats in general?

"We’re tired of some of these women palling around with terrorists!”
Much like the caveat that anyone who resorts to Hitler comparisons first loses the argument, I believe that anyone who EVER recites Sarah Palin one-liners loses everything forever - the argument, credibility, standing as a moral person...you name it!

[babylonsister]

11. She's great at flipping the script,

but we know better. I suspect world leaders and many in the military do, too.

[Wednesdays]

13. KellyAnne's entry into the

"How Many Strawmen Can I Possibly Stuff Into an Argument" contest!

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Who's the Goebbels figure who came up with that?

[SCVDem]

9. Faux news talking points

Every single one.

Don't you love how those who never raised their hand to serve are so damned concerned with what they know nothing about?

This racism is widespread in all of our military branches and it starts with a lack of leadership at the top.

[triron]

12. Well so long as Lindsay, Vlad or Kim don't say anything wrong, Trump will be happy.