Map of life expectancy at birth from Global Education Project.

Monday, July 15, 2019

The Immediate Emergency

I can't say it any better than Tom Sullivan, but I will say it more succinctly.

It should not be news to anyone that the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW is a vulgar racist, and that his essential appeal to his cult following is that he channels their bigotry. That he became the Republican nominee is the consequence of decades of Republicans playing to racists more subtly, beginning with Richard Nixon's so-called Southern Strategy. The current party standard bearer has been saying the quiet parts out loud since he announced his candidacy, so what is new now?

Well, the blatant crudity of "Go back where you came from" is a real step further. Not that it matters a whole lot, but four of the five women who were the subjects of that moronic taunt were born in the United States. One of them is in fact Native American, so presumably she wouldn't have far to go in any case. Another is African American, and doesn't even know what country her ancestors come from because her heritage was erased by enslavement. The only one who was not born in the U.S. came here as a refugee, was given asylum, and naturalized as a citizen.

What this says to the cultists is that people who are not of European ancestry are not "real Americans." The plan is, obviously, to run the 2020 campaign on this premise, that the Republican party represents those "real Americans," white people, while the Democrats consist of non-Americans and race traitors. We know this because Republican politicians, without as far as I can tell a single exception, have remained silent.

We know where this leads, because we saw what happened in the country of Donald J. Trump's ancestors beginning in 1933. This is real, folks.

4 comments:

Don Quixote said...

Yes, it is real. All my friends and acquaintances who voted for Shitler--why did you choose not to listen to Eva Schloss?

https://www.newsweek.com/holocaust-memorial-day-anne-frank-refugee-crisis-donald-trump-420312

As author Stephen King says, next come the armbands.

Anyone who still supports Shitler, and cannot see that he is a lunatic--and that's insulting to the Moon--is suffering from cranial-rectal inversion and needs to see a doctor. Preferably a psychologist or psychiatrist.

Mark P said...

We're the frogs in the pot put on to boil. Most of us won't realize what's happening until it's too late. All I can hope for is that there is some decent people still around to pick up the pieces.

Don Quixote said...

I still hope that there will be an intervention, in any form whatsoever. I wonder if Nancy Pelosi's staff are even aware that Allan Lichtman--let's face it, as good an oracle as any and better than most--says Shitler will be re-elected if not first impeached.

I don't know what they're waiting for. Never been a better, more appropriate opportunity to air the dirty laundry of this most disgusting, repulsive person in public.

Chucky Peirce said...

Remove Trump from office and the new President will be Mike Pence, a man whose public image is still wet clay that can be molded to whatever shape is most likely to be elected in 2020.

He can also claim he will avenge the savaging of Donald Trump by those rabid Democrats.

Donald Trump is clearly an asshole and can easily be attacked by showing how badly he has failed to deliver on his campaign promises; and in many cases actually made the situation worse that he had promised to fix.

What has Mike Pence promised?