Trump posts racist video depicting the Obamas as monkeys

askesis · Friday at 8:26 PM

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves- Eric Hoffer

Akita Suggagaki · Friday at 8:31 PM

askesis said:
No

On this forum one can never know.

We have had some pretty crude presidents. In my time Nixon and Johnson come to mind. But they could put on a respectable persona. Even Clinton. But Trump keeps going lower and lower.

The Barbarian · Friday at 8:32 PM

GoldenBoy89 said:
I don’t think Trump hates Obama.

He can't stand knowing that Obama is his superior in every way. Obama is physically, intellectually, and morally, Trump's superior. It will eat at him forever.

The Barbarian · Friday at 8:33 PM

Akita Suggagaki said:
On this forum one can never know.

We have had some pretty crude presidents. In my time Nixon and Johnson come to mind. But they could put on a respectable persona. Even Clinton. But Trump keeps going lower and lower.

His ongoing mental decline becomes more and more obvious.

The Barbarian · Friday at 8:37 PM

DaisyDay said:
Are they gonna make some poor staffer take the blame by name? Hope not.

Before he entered politics, Trump routinely blamed lawyers for criminal actions. But it just pushes the rot back a step. Why would he hire someone out of a cesspool like that, to be a staffer with access to his personal social media account?

GoldenBoy89 · Friday at 8:45 PM

ThatRobGuy said:
Certainly in poor taste...no doubt.

But then again my progressive cousin just posted this on FB 3 days ago

Is your progressive cousin also the President of the United States?

ThatRobGuy said:
Which is also leveraging a "decades old trope" that conservative white people from the south are into "cousin relations".

Yeah that’s totally the same thing as a centuries old trope of blacks being depicted as apes. Let’s not forget who the real victims are here and always and forever. White people. Black guy gets a racist depiction and we gotta be reminded someone, somewhere at some time made fun of whites as well.

ThatRobGuy said:
So if we're going to be outraged, we need to have a consistent set of standards.

No we actually don’t. You can just call out the bad things when you see them and not play this stupid scales game you seem to always default to.

ThatRobGuy said:
And wasn't it Obama who did the whole "bitter clingers" routine to describe southern conservatives? "they're clutching their guns and bibles"...that would be a trope as well, would it not?

Yeah and I believe he got a lot of flak for that, did he not?

ThatRobGuy said:
The "invoking tropes, provided it's punching-up instead of punching-down" ruleset isn't going to win anyone over.

I don’t think anyone is trying to win over the racists laughing at the monkey Obama memes.

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN · Friday at 8:55 PM

essentialsaltes said:
Overzealous staffer stole the tweeter out of Trump's hands and did it!

“A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down,” a White House official told MS NOW.

I don't believe it. It's just damage control.

askesis · Friday at 8:56 PM

Akita Suggagaki said:
On this forum one can never know.

We have had some pretty crude presidents. In my time Nixon and Johnson come to mind. But they could put on a respectable persona. Even Clinton. But Trump keeps going lower and lower.

Trump is a symptom. Trump is a reflection of his die-hard supporters and of those who grudgingly support him. They all must admit their error so we can start to repair. I'll be back in a week or so to check and see how that's going. My prayers are with you.

Chesterton · Friday at 9:06 PM

I just saw a recent headline from CBS Evening News that said Trump faces backlash over racist video portraying the Obamas as apes.

The Barbarian · Friday at 9:16 PM

Palmfever said:
Evolutionists believe their ancestors were monkeys.

Monkeys are too evolved in their own way to be human ancestors. This is one of the strangest and most persistent misconceptions YECs have about biology.

ThatRobGuy said:
Which is also leveraging a "decades old trope" that conservative white people from the south are into "cousin relations".

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So some truth to the stereotype.

The Barbarian · Friday at 9:19 PM

Then, there is this:
On Friday morning, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the clip as harmless. In a statement to The Independent, she said, “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King.”
“Please stop the fake outrage,” she added.

Trump’s ‘racist’ post depicting Obamas as ‘apes’ is deleted amid immense backlash

The White House dismissed the clip as harmless, though it was later deleted

www.independent.co.uk

Three more years of this to look forward to...

Bradskii · Friday at 9:27 PM

ThatRobGuy said:
So if we're going to be outraged, we need to have a consistent set of standards.

If? What do you mean 'if'? Although we know that you're not outraged. You think it's 'poor taste'. Which is what you might say if someone belches in church.

In any other western democracy any politician doing this would be forced to resign his position immediately. Please, don't lose focus on this. It's not 'bad taste'. It's utterly despicable. It's beyond shameful. But this is the man. This is who he is.

Absolutely indefensible.

Akita Suggagaki · Friday at 9:44 PM

askesis said:
Trump is a symptom. Trump is a reflection of his die-hard supporters and of those who grudgingly support him. They all must admit their error so we can start to repair. I'll be back in a week or so to check and see how that's going. My prayers are with you.

Oh. I agree. He won. We as a nation put him there.

askesis · Friday at 9:55 PM

Akita Suggagaki said:
Oh. I agree. He won. We as a nation out him there.

It is all of us. We are one nation under God. I once acted like it was okay to support him because difference is important...I'm kidding. ^_^

I've always known he was a disaster and horrible. I remember the 90s.

ThatRobGuy · Friday at 10:52 PM

The Barbarian said:
So some truth to the stereotype.

There are plenty of stereotypes that are rooted in a little bit of truth, that doesn't make them any more socially acceptable to say out loud

ThatRobGuy · Friday at 10:56 PM

GoldenBoy89 said:
I don’t think anyone is trying to win over the racists laughing at the monkey Obama memes.

Evidently, the full video depicted a bunch of different people with their faces on various animals from the Lion King

So if the video would have swapped Michelle Obama and Chuck Schumer, so that he was on the gorilla and she was on the zebra, would that have eased the suffering?

In the video Biden was a monkey and Harris was a turtle...

Desk trauma · Friday at 11:05 PM

ThatRobGuy said:
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Evidently, the full video depicted a bunch of different people with their faces on various animals from the Lion King

So if the video would have swapped Michelle Obama and Chuck Schumer, so that he was on the gorilla and she was on the zebra, would that have eased the suffering?

In the video Biden was a monkey and Harris was a turtle...

Yes, if it was different it would have elicited different responses. However we’re not in that alternate universe where that video was composed and posted.

Pommer · Saturday at 12:18 AM

Akita Suggagaki said:
Making America Great. This is now normal. If a kid in junior high did it the result would be detention. But not in America today. He is a role model and champion.

Freedom of speech includes speech that’s never actually ever been seriously thought about before uttered (or written or drawn).

The fact that the person in charge of the account thought that this represented ~~His Majesty’s~~, the President’s views on “what’s funny and appropriate “, has probably more to do with youth and inexperience.

An underling screwed up?
Yeah, okay, once in a while this happens.

Slowly sliding into “non-story”, for me.

Pommer · Saturday at 12:22 AM

askesis said:
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves- Eric Hoffer

This is how we know that we’re “insane” but just insane enough to carry-on living on this planet for (at least) one more human generation. Lying to oneself is easy and we all do it, by necessity, it’s the outrigger to “reality”.

Pommer · Saturday at 12:28 AM

Akita Suggagaki said:
Oh. I agree. He won. We as a nation out him there.

askesis said:
It is all of us. We are one nation under God. I once acted like it was okay to support him because difference is important...I'm kidding. I've always known he was a disaster and horrible. I remember the 90s.

If we as a Nation, cannot find the common-ground we had had for the last 150 years, to lurch on, two steps forward and one step back, over “Trumpism”, then we don’t deserve to have one Republic, let alone two, (or more).

We’re made of sterner stuff, we’ll be “okay”.
Hang in there.

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