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Trump posts racist video depicting the Obamas as monkeys
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Yes, I voted for him. No, I’m not entirely happy with him. No, this sadly doesn’t surprise me.
Sigh
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we see much less racism than we do in America.
We had to fight to get black people basic rights. There had to be laws passed to outlaw racism in housing, voting, education, etc. Can you imagine what would happen to a head of state in Europe, if he depicted a former head of state and his wife as apes?
Show me one of their leaders who depicts white people as apes. Many of them, being Muslims, make no distinction between races. Some of them are religious bigots. Americans tend to lump religious bigots with racism, because in America, racists are so often also religious bigots.
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When a head of state depicts a former head of state and his wife as apes, it's not trivial. In most civilized nations, he'd be driven from office for such a disgusting display of hate and ignorance.
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The president of the United States posting a flagrantly racist meme is bad enough but his absolute refusal to admit any culpability whatsoever is a true national disgrace - although we are swimming in those these days. We know at this point Donald J will not apologize.
This is the president that did this. The most powerful man in the nation who is supposed to represent all of us as a nation.
If it were an accident, then why was it left up after it had been brought to the president's attention? Because he wanted it kept up - no other reason.
There's not much more to say about this national disgrace of a presidential action. Sure, it's not as bad as handing Ukraine over to Putin or the genocide of Gaza, but it is deeply personal to many here.
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<Looks at the MAGA sphere losing its mind over an Olympian saying they are conflicted about representing the US>
Yes, yes. Just don't look in the mirror. You might catch a reflection of the ginned up outrage that appears to be the sum total of what is running the MAGAverse these days.
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We know he's not sleeping during those hours that he's making posts (unless someone else is making them, which is a different category of problem).
If Trump is not sleeping because of some commonly occurring age-related physical problem like an enlarged prostate that decreases the capacity of the bladder and hinders complete bladder emptying, then that implies a mental or psychological problem...and is again a different category of problem.
A number of years ago, I was barely sleeping an hour in the night without being forced to get up. My physician checked my prostate and exclaimed, "Wow!" He sent me to a urologist who said, "If that was a buck, you'd mount it." My prostate is twice the volume of a normal prostate. I've since had a procedure called "Urolift" which allows me to fully empty my bladder.
If that is Trump's problem, then I would say, "Yeah, buddy, welcome to the club."
But if he's up at all hours of the night madly sending out tweets for some other reason, that's a different issue.
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He must be exhausted all the time or somehow full of energy. Considering his age, I’m surprised he’s up so late.
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Well, aging prostates do tend to get one up at all hours.
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I'm usually in bed by 10 PM and up by 6 AM. Mrs. Barbarian is more like 12 PM and 10 AM. She had to do mornings before retirement; now she gets to do it on her schedule. Works for us.
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Trump hasn't disciplined or fired staffer he says posted video with racist image of Obamas
"Have you fired or disciplined that staffer who posted the video from your account that included the Obamas?" a reporter asked the president on Thursday as he took questions at an unrelated event at the White House."No I haven't," Trump said.
[originally WH press sec Leavitt defended the post.]
But by noon last Friday, a White House official claimed a "staffer erroneously made the post."
Later that night, Trump maintained he "didn't make a mistake" and that he didn't see the entire video before he gave it to "the people" to have it posted to his account.
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