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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn McCain's long-time aide and co-author responds to Rs in Congress re: Trump's RACIST Remarks
Seriously? Will it never be too much for Rs in Congress? Hes revolting and unAmerican, and hes implicating all of you, by your silence, in his utter indecency, and the damage its doing to our society. Speak up or take those flag pins off your lapels. Youre no patriot.
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John McCain's long-time aide and co-author responds to Rs in Congress re: Trump's RACIST Remarks (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2019
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More Republicans need to come forth!
BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)2. The Republicans lost control of their base a long time ago
Theyre quiet because most of their voters support Trump and everything he stands for.
irisblue
(32,971 posts)3. They won't
They are the party of Trump & Authoritian RW policies.
They got the judges they wanted.
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)4. Replace them with these:
Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)6. What do they have in common?
https://journalisms.theroot.com/putins-circle-considered-obama-the-n-word-1823832442
Excerpt...
Michael Isikoff, now chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones, also cite information indicating that Donald Trump, who had claimed that Obama was not born in the United States, vied with Putin in his hatred of the 44th president. They report on a controversial dossier that said Trump hired prostitutes to defile space where the American president and first lady had slept.
Putin and his inner circle had nothing but utter contempt for Obama and his administration much of it cast in racist terms, Isikoff and Corn write in Russian Roulette: : The Inside Story of Putins War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.
Putin and his top advisers routinely denigrated Obama and his national security team as weak and indecisive and then, contradictorily, blamed him for meddling in Russias internal affairs. In Putins presence, Obama would be called a monkey, and it was not uncommon for the American president to be referred to as the N-word.
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)7. Yep. Putin is a low-life racist thug:
Turkish, German and Ukrainian officials are cast as sycophantic stooges of the United States. While slamming Ankara at a December news conference for shooting down a Russian plane that violated Turkish airspace, Russian President Vladimir Putin opined that the Turks decided to lick the Americans in a certain place. Sergey Glaziev, a senior adviser to Putin, has called Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko a Nazi Frankenstein, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin compared Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to a rubber doll from a sex shop.
The ugliest vilification campaign, however, has been reserved for President Obama. Anti-Obama tweets come openly from government officials. Rogozin, while commenting on Obamas 2015 State of the Union address, compared Obama to a Tuzik, Russian slang for a pathetic small dog. Irina Rodnina , a well-known Duma member, tweeted doctored images of Barack and Michelle Obama staring longingly at a banana.
Nobody in Russia gets to freelance propaganda-wise. Thus, anti-Obama rants, even when coming from prominent individuals outside government, have Putins imprimatur. Russian media personalities, including Dmitry Kiselyov, the host of the widely viewed News of the Week TV roundup, often deliver racist slurs, as compiled by Mikhail Klikushin on the Observer Web magazine. Evgeniy Satanovskiy, a Russian academic and frequent guest on Kiselyovs program, recently also referred to Obama as a monkey, prompting derisive laughter and applause from the audience. Meanwhile, the famous nationalist comedian Mikhail Zadornov regularly deploys the term schmoe a slang Russian prison acronym for a person who is so debased he deserves to be defecated upon alongside Obamas name. Obama schmoe has become ubiquitous enough to be scrawled on the runway of Russias Latakia air base in Syria.
Russias print and electronic media channels carry stories depicting Obama as lazy and incompetent. Shops sell bumper stickers, posters, T-shirts and cardboard cut-outs with images of Obama as an ape and a chimney sweep. One Russian city held a contest inviting children to kick Obamas cardboard image. Obama has been burned in effigy on numerous occasions, and zoo animals have been named after him, including a black piglet at the Volgograd zoo.
The ugliest vilification campaign, however, has been reserved for President Obama. Anti-Obama tweets come openly from government officials. Rogozin, while commenting on Obamas 2015 State of the Union address, compared Obama to a Tuzik, Russian slang for a pathetic small dog. Irina Rodnina , a well-known Duma member, tweeted doctored images of Barack and Michelle Obama staring longingly at a banana.
Nobody in Russia gets to freelance propaganda-wise. Thus, anti-Obama rants, even when coming from prominent individuals outside government, have Putins imprimatur. Russian media personalities, including Dmitry Kiselyov, the host of the widely viewed News of the Week TV roundup, often deliver racist slurs, as compiled by Mikhail Klikushin on the Observer Web magazine. Evgeniy Satanovskiy, a Russian academic and frequent guest on Kiselyovs program, recently also referred to Obama as a monkey, prompting derisive laughter and applause from the audience. Meanwhile, the famous nationalist comedian Mikhail Zadornov regularly deploys the term schmoe a slang Russian prison acronym for a person who is so debased he deserves to be defecated upon alongside Obamas name. Obama schmoe has become ubiquitous enough to be scrawled on the runway of Russias Latakia air base in Syria.
Russias print and electronic media channels carry stories depicting Obama as lazy and incompetent. Shops sell bumper stickers, posters, T-shirts and cardboard cut-outs with images of Obama as an ape and a chimney sweep. One Russian city held a contest inviting children to kick Obamas cardboard image. Obama has been burned in effigy on numerous occasions, and zoo animals have been named after him, including a black piglet at the Volgograd zoo.
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/putins-anti-obama-propaganda-ugly-and-desperate
stopdiggin
(11,302 posts)5. he is losing Republicans
Not near as many, not near as fast .. But thanks for posting. And big thanks for Rs that ARE speaking out. We should be appreciative and hugely complimentary to the courageous few. Eh?