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Botany

(70,490 posts)
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 01:54 PM Dec 2022

Repost: So the media/GOP is just now catching onto TFG's Racism & Antisemitism

Last edited Sat Dec 3, 2022, 02:30 PM - Edit history (2)

Oh please what a dose of codswallop. His bigotry has always been there to see. On Oct. 12, 2018 TFG went to
Lebanon, OH for a rally and during that rally he stood up in front of God, all of those slack jawed MAGA people,
and the TV cameras and praised good old Gen. Robert E Lee for his skills and blamed rich internationalists aka
"the Jews" for paying for a caravan of migrants coming up through Mexico to the Texas border.

Trump's praise of Bobby Lee in Lebanon, OH was no accident because that area of OH is home to the Klan in OH
and all kinds of right wing racist thoughts and people. You used to be able to see a barn off of I-71 north bound
side that had with a confederate flag painted on its roof and that place was 100% KKK. Also many of the people
arrested for violence at the "Unite the Right" white power/neo nazi rally in Charlottesville, VA in 2017 were from
or had connections to that area of S.W. OH including the person who ran over and killed that young lady. Also
the idiot who shot @ the FBI office in Cincinnati after the raid on Merde a Logo was from that area too. Trump
and his people were well aware of that and they were playing up to American racism with his speech in Lebanon, OH.

As per TFG's antisemitism during that same speech where he blamed rich internationalists (the Jews) for paying
for "dark people" to come to America and that talk helped to fuel the sick mind of a domestic terrorist to attack on
The Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, PA shortly there after.

These dark forces are what Trump sees as his real base, his playing up to them did not just start with last
weekend's dinner @ Merde a Logo with those 3 loathsome shits, and Trump has every intention on trying to start
some violence with his racist, antisemitic, and Christo Fascist followers when he is hopefully brought to justice for
his countless crimes against the American people and the world.

sorry to

Trump in Lebanon, OH Oct. 12, 2018

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Repost: So the media/GOP is just now catching onto TFG's Racism & Antisemitism (Original Post) Botany Dec 2022 OP
WORD DamIfino Dec 2022 #1
LIKE republianmushroom Dec 2022 #2
It's scapegoat time orthoclad Dec 2022 #3
TPTB, much of the media, and the world wide fossil fuel industries are all on the same page. Botany Dec 2022 #4
I remember Jimmy Carter orthoclad Dec 2022 #5
Does this help? Botany Dec 2022 #12
He failed to achieve their agenda malaise Dec 2022 #10
Yep! orthoclad Dec 2022 #13
The Orange guy GoldandSilver Dec 2022 #6
What is this rant based on? Behind the Aegis Dec 2022 #7
"What is this rant based on?" Botany Dec 2022 #8
"So the media/GOP is just now catching onto TFG's Racism & Antisemitism" Behind the Aegis Dec 2022 #9
Thanx! Botany Dec 2022 #11
He's literally threatening to overthrow the government on his BS site. Initech Dec 2022 #14

orthoclad

(2,910 posts)
3. It's scapegoat time
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 03:02 PM
Dec 2022

TPTB (aka The Powers That Be, aka oligarchy, aka ruling class )* have used him for power, but now he's a liability, so it's time to sacrifice him, and bring a new figurehead forth. His endorsees did poorly in the midterms, the election deniers lost steam, and there's a ready supply of equal or greater fascists in reserve that can seize his followers "energy".

*I hate using these trite terms, but: Jimmy Carter said we're living in an oligarchy, and any analysis of the unequal distribution of wealth, especially generational hold on wealth, shows a clear ruling class.

Here's a simple, clear graph from the Congressional Budget Office, current to 2019:
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58533
?itok=fh64bNke
(my previous posts of this graph from wiki stopped at 2013)
The top 10% is crushing the bottom 50%. A sizable chunk of that 50% has negative wealth. Their debt exceeds their assets. Lotta desperation for the oligarchs to exploit.

Botany

(70,490 posts)
4. TPTB, much of the media, and the world wide fossil fuel industries are all on the same page.
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 03:49 PM
Dec 2022

Last edited Sat Dec 3, 2022, 09:58 PM - Edit history (1)

No bout a-doubt it and their goals are to keep republicans in power. Even a short look @ TFG in 2015 & '16
would have exposed his deep links to organized crime, Russia, and his crooked nature but instead we heard
HRC and her emails 24/7.



BTW Joe Biden is doing the best job as President I have seen in my lifetime despite everything against him.

orthoclad

(2,910 posts)
5. I remember Jimmy Carter
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 04:08 PM
Dec 2022

and solar panels for the White House.
He got a similar treatment: there was more news about that pic of him repelling a potentially rabid animal than the solar panels got.

Your graph looks interesting, but it's tiny for my old eyes. Is there a link? Thanks

GoldandSilver

(186 posts)
6. The Orange guy
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 05:25 PM
Dec 2022

gets off on manipulating people. He knows the thugs are dumb, so dumb he can keep them as pets or bodyguards according to whim.

He strokes the scum of the earth, not because he actually likes them, but because he knows how to use them like puppets.

He got a couple of well known nasty nerds to come to his resort to put on a show, to start a buzz, to cause a stink, to get his name in the news. He feeds the haters while soaking up the limelight - what a boon for him!

I’m always amazed at how stupid people can be. He just feeds them a little shit and pats them on the head and they follow along like little puppy dogs hoping for another treat. He’s identified his his “base” (and so have you) and they are only too happy to do his bidding. Wink wink, nod nod - like it’s a private joke just for them. They can’t see they are the butt of his own private joke.

Behind the Aegis

(53,951 posts)
7. What is this rant based on?
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 05:55 PM
Dec 2022

Was there an article I missed?

Frankly, I think some are using the former Squatter-In-Chief's anti-Semitism as a distraction, and personally, an attempt to draw attention away from anti-Semitism by making it about "why wasn't HE held to task," thereby, once again, making anti-Semitism not the real topic.

The media reported on it and many shut it down as "unimportant" or defended him (his Jewish daughter and grandkids), or flat out didn't care not because of who he is but because of the bigotry being expressed, anti-Semitism.

Botany

(70,490 posts)
8. "What is this rant based on?"
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 07:31 PM
Dec 2022

My knowledge.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-122wlowpT2g/UYgUZqQEePI/AAAAAAAABxA/sYCxylfxU1Y/s640/Rebel+Barn+1861.jpg

The KKK barn in Lebanon, OH

And you can google Trump Lebanon OH 2018 and see for yourself. BTW Trump stiffed the City of Lebanon, OH
for what they did when he came to town.

Behind the Aegis

(53,951 posts)
9. "So the media/GOP is just now catching onto TFG's Racism & Antisemitism"
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 09:32 PM
Dec 2022

It was THAT I was questioning, NOT the information.

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