July 14, 2019: Trump Fails at Geography - Rep. Duncan Hunter Peddles anti-Islamic Nonsense

 

7/14/19: Sunday morning, a splenetic president decides to attack four members of Congress, all women of color. 

Time to tweet: 

So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......

 

....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....

 

....it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough.

Geography fail: one of the lawmakers was born right here in Cincinnati.

 

Reaction to this trio of tweets is – shall we say – less than positive among the general population. First, three of the women were born in this country. Second, most Americans still believe in the U.S. Constitution and checks and balances. Members of Congress are free to criticize a president. Third, the First Amendment guarantees free speech and expression to all. 

Fourth, many Americans sniff racism in the tweets – Trump attacking people of color again – “crime infested places” often being code for, “dark-skinned people are always dangerous.” (See: 7/16/19.)

 

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TRUMP’S MOOD does not improve when a new batch of leaked cables from the British ambassador in Washington has him describing Trump’s decision to abandon the Iran deal as “diplomatic vandalism [emphasis added]” to spite his predecessor. 

Trump and his advisers, the ambassador explains, had no “day after” strategy on what to do once they killed the deal. (See: 9/15/19.)

 

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IN OTHER NEWS, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) tries to stave off defeat in the 2020 election (if he’s not already in jail for misusing campaign funds) by putting out an anti-Islamic mailer to raise campaign funds. 

On one side, we have a picture of the terrorist attack on the 1972 Olympics. Hunter’s opponent in 2020 will be Ammar Campa-Najjar, whose deceased grandfather is alleged to have had ties to the attackers. It shouldn’t matter, since his opponent is not responsible for what happened half a century ago. Still, for context, we should mention that Campa-Najjar is a Christian. On the back we have this “warning,” designed to create maximum paranoia among the grossly uninformed. “Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ammar Campa-Najjar ... these three radical Democrats want you to forget their anti-semitism or family-terrorist ties!” 

Hunter adds, “But as a Marine I’ll never forget the 1983 Beirut bombings and the 1972 Olympic murders!” 

It is worth noting that Campa-Najjar was born in 1989. I think we can assume he hasn’t “forgotten” the attacks.

 

Meanwhile, Hunter and his wife are accused of misusing campaign funds as recently as 2016. Rep. Hunter has blamed Mrs. Hunter, but prosecutors recently submitted evidence showing Rep. Hunter used some of the funds to carry out a series of five affairs. 

Since polygamy is allowed under Islamic law, you kind of wonder...did Rep. Hunter ever think of converting?

July 16, 2019: Trump Aims Racist Attack at Four Lawmakers of Color - and White House Aide Jason Miller Needs Some Condoms

 

7/16/19: President Trump’s tweets aimed at four Democratic members of Congress, all women of color, calling on them to “go back where they came from” are not going over well with most Americans. True, many Trump fans loved them – which is part of the problem with many Trump fans. 

Pollsters say 7 out of 10 Americans believe the attacks were offensive. That includes 45% of Republicans who said his tweets were “racist.” It also strikes many of those polled that telling four women to “go back where they came from” was stupid, since three were born in this country. 

The family of Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), one of the lawmakers, has been in this country far longer than Trump’s.

 

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FOR ONCE, a few GOP lawmakers find it in their souls to criticize the Hater-in-Chief. Asked if she found Trump’s tweets “racist,” Sen Joni Ernst responded, “Yeah, I do.” Rep. Will Hurd of Texas agreed that the president’s words were “racist and xenophobic.” 

Sen. Mitch Romney said if a measure to condemn the president reached the Senate floor, he’d support it. “A lot of people have been using the word [racist],” he told a reporter. “My own view is, that what was said and what was tweeted was destructive, was demeaning, was disunifying and, frankly, was very wrong. It’s clearly destructive and it has the potential to being dangerous as well.” 

Meanwhile, Rep. Ralph Abraham, for one, was happy to back the president. “I’ll pay for their tickets out of this country if they just tell me where they’d rather be.” 

Other Republicans sought cover by criticizing the four women first, then daintily criticizing Trump – as if a president’s words from the Bully Pulpit don’t carry more weight than the words of four new members of Congress. Sen. Tim Scott admitted that Trump had engaged in “unacceptable personal attacks and [used] racially offensive language.” Rep. Chip Roy was correct in saying Trump “was wrong to say any American citizen, whether in Congress or not, has any ‘home’ besides the U.S.”  Rep. Fred Upton said both sides were wrong, but admitted he was “appalled by the President’s tweets.” Rep. Elise Stefanik made it clear she disagreed with the four Democrats on policies and rhetoric, but added, “the President’s tweets were inappropriate, denigrating, and wrong. It is unacceptable to tell legal U.S. citizens to go back to their home country.”

 

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“As Jews, we’re all too familiar with this kind of divisive prejudice... the president is echoing the racist talking points of white nationalists.” 

Jonathan Greenblatt

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Trump couldn’t admit he was wrong and went on to defend his language, saying without evidence, that the four women “hate our country.” All four, he said, again without evidence, had talked of “evil Jews.” 

Trump tried to defend himself by saying the four were anti-Israel. But the Anti-Defamation League, an international Jewish organization that has long fought anti-Semitism and racism, blasted his position. 

“As Jews, we’re all too familiar with this kind of divisive prejudice,” Jonathan Greenblatt, League CEO and national director, responded. “While the ADL has publicly disagreed with these congresswomen on some issues, the president is echoing the racist talking points of white nationalists and cynically using the Jewish people and the state of Israel as a shield to double down on his remarks.” 

Cynical racism? 

That’s the Trump brand.

 

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“The worst president in the history of this country.” 

LONGTIME Texas judge Elsa Alcala announces that she has had enough. She is leaving the Republican Party. “It has taken me years to say this publicly but here I go,” she said in a Facebook post. “President Trump is the worst president in the history of this country. Even accepting that Trump has had some successes – and I believe these are few – at his core, his ideology is racism,” she continued. “To me, nothing positive about him could absolve him of his rotten core.”  

Worst president ever? 

Presidential historian Jon Meachem is blunt in his assessment. “And what the president’s done here is, yet again, because he did it after Charlottesville and I think he did it, frankly, when he was pushing the birther lie about President Obama,” Meachem explained to Newsweek, “is he has joined Andrew Johnson as the most racist president in American history [emphasis added].” 

(Meachem later makes it clear he means the most racist since the Civil War, which ended slavery.)

 

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IN NON-RACIST news, Jason Miller, former communications chief for the 2016 campaign and the Trump transition team admits in court that “he hired numerous prostitutes and visited ‘hand job’ massage parlors as recently as a few months ago.” Miller is suing the website Gizmodo for defamation, after a reporter posted a story – based on court documents – saying that Miller had slipped an “abortion pill” to a Florida strip club dancer he impregnated. 

In initial court hearings, Miller puts some dents in his defamation case when he admits visiting “happy ending” massage parlors as recently as this past spring. He can recall having sex with an “escort” in 2015 and again in the early months of 2017. By that time, Trump had named him communications director for his administration. Miller’s chances for a plum position were quashed when the “Fake News” folks began turning up evidence that he had been conducting multiple affairs while working on the 2016 campaign. At the time, Miller’s wife, Kelly, had been pregnant.

 

A final dent to Miller’s position came when defense attorneys quizzed him about those affairs. “Your mistress got mad at you because she thought you were sleeping with … your [other] mistress; correct?” an attorney for Gizmodo inquired. 

Yes, the plaintiff agreed. 

And did we mention that Miller impregnated one of his mistresses, who did at least go on to have his child. 

Can someone get the guy a box of condoms!

August 8, 2019: President Trump and the White Supremacists Who Love Him

 

8/8/19: Let’s start with a simple story and work our way up the ladder of horribleness that is life in Trumpistan.

 

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“He has effectively normalized the opinion among the masses of goyim that you can believe that America is a white country, for white people – and that brown people are our guests and if they don’t like being guests then they have to go home.” 

A white supremacist explains the appeal of President Trump

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First, a Montana man is in trouble, as a local TV station explains: 

A man accused of attacking a 13-year-old boy for not removing his hat during the national anthem at a rodeo was released without posting bail, despite having a criminal record.

 

His attorney said his client believed he was acting on orders from the commander in chief [emphasis added].

 

Curt Brockway, 39, was released Monday, but that release comes with a list of the following conditions: He is required to wear a GPS, he cannot have any contact with the victim, the victim’s family or witnesses; and he can only leave his parents’ home for work, doctor appointments and court appearances.

 

The mother of the victim said her son is traumatized and is in recovery. The boy was airlifted to a hospital with a concussion and a fractured skull after the attack.

 

The attorney for Brockway said Wednesday his client is a U.S. Army veteran who believed he was acting on an order from President Donald Trump.

 

…Brockway told a sheriff’s deputy that he asked the boy to remove his hat out of respect for the national anthem before the start of the county rodeo, Mineral County Attorney Ellen Donohue wrote in the document describing the attack. The boy cursed at Brockway in response, and the man grabbed him by the throat, “lifted him into the air and slammed the boy into the ground,” Donohue wrote.

 

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David Duke dressed for Halloween or a lynching.

An “essential first step.” 

MORE GENERALLY, the discussion for the day continues to revolve around guns, nuts with guns, white supremacist nuts with guns, and nuts who love white supremacists nuts with guns. The president and the Republican Party are stuck playing defense, with Democrats running for president either hinting or insisting that Trump is a white supremacist. 

There are a lot of Democrats in the 2020 race and they’re ganging up on poor Don. 

It doesn’t help his case, to say as the president recently did, that, “I am the least racist person in the world,” when we keep finding out that avowed racists love what Trump says and does. 

On 8chan, the secretive website where racist speech thrives and the El Paso killer went for support, one commenter described Trump’s recent attacks on four Democratic women of color as an “essential first step.” 

First, the president normalizes racism, making it clear he doesn’t have to put up with shit from brown and black individuals.

 

Next: 

[He makes clear that] it is ok for him not to want to be swamped by brown scum that clearly despise him, that these invaders have stepped well out of line making demands of us, and that if they don’t like the way we run things they can go the hell back. These are the ideological seeds from which actual revolutions begin. When someone with perceived authority like Trump comes along and says them, it carries weight with many people. The jewish media is right to be terrified of these ideas becoming normalized.

 

Of course, Trump, and fans of Trump, and Tucker Carlson, and fans of Carlson, could always insist that Carlson was correct in arguing that white supremacy wasn’t an issue… 

Then, presto! 

David Duke rears his head (you can’t always tell when he rears his head because Duke favors pointy hats and white sheets: 

“Tucker is RIGHT!” White Supremacy is a ZioMedia Conspiracy Theory!” the former Grand Wizard and sometimes GOP candidate for office tweets. “The term is itself a lie. Millions of White activists are NOT ‘supremacists’ We seek NOT to oppress or destroy any race! Human Rights for all - EVEN FOR WHITE PEOPLE! Stop antiWhite racism!”

 

Was white supremacy a problem? Was Trump tapping into the hate? You can read what the Anti-Defamation League says. Again, the man who runs the Daily Stormer supports Trump and Trump fans who chanted that dark-skinned U.S. citizens should go back where they came from. 

As the ADL explains: 

Andrew Anglin again praised the President, writing on the Daily Stormer the day after the rally: “Telling those women to go back to their countries is by far the most racist thing he’s ever said – especially since one of them was a black American, descended from slaves. And by refusing to apologize, he has effectively normalized the opinion among the masses of goyim that you can believe that America is a white country, for white people – and that brown people are our guests and if they don’t like being guests then they have to go home.”

 

Anglin was most excited to see that Trump had included Rep. Ayanna Pressley, an African American born in Cincinnati, in the group of four. “So this is not some half-assed anti-immigrant white nationalism. Trump is literally telling American blacks to go back to Africa.” 

If you go looking for evidence of a certain synergy between “Least Racist Person You Know” Trump, and really racist persons who wear their racism like badges of honor, you find there are quite a few links in the chain.

 

Right Wing Watch, picked out a few Twitter gems: 

Paul Ray Ramsey, a white nationalist who is known as “Ramzpaul” online, tweeted that the progressive congresswomen were “elected from their fellow tribesmen who were imported into America” and only love the United States for “the wealth that they can loot.” He added that “they dance with glee with the thought of eliminating us.” Patrick Casey, the leader of the white nationalist organization Identity Evropa (which has rebranded under a new name), wrote on Twitter that although he still has reservations about the Trump administration’s current policy trajectory, “Trump escalating his attacks on these four horrid women – women who simply do not belong in America, let alone in our government – is more than a little satisfying.”

 

…But not everybody’s happy. White nationalist Matt Parrott ruefully wrote that Trump “doesn’t create white tribalism” with racist tweets, but rather “exploits the white tribalism [emphasis added, unless otherwise noted] which has been bubbling up and boiling over long before he even rode down the gilded escalator.”  

(Blogger takes break to go vomit.)

 

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ONE WHITE NATIONALIST who said he was no longer interested in Trump – or events in El Paso – or the four members of Congress with dark skins – would be Matthew Heimbach. Heimbach was only recently released from jail after serving 38 days for a probation violation.  

His probation status was the result of a guilty plea involving Heimbach’s harassment of – you can probably guess – a black protester at a Trump rally in 2016. 

Once known as the “affable, youthful face of hate in America,” the former head of the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP) has fallen on hard times, as has his now-defunct party. 

In the way of much-needed “comic relief,” let the website Talking Points Memo tell the sad story of a hater’s downfall.

 

Well, several haters: 

But TWP’s disarray truly broke into public view in March, when Heimbach was arrested at his home in the Paoli, Indiana trailer park that doubled as TWP’s headquarters. The embarrassing details were laid out in the police report for all to see.

 

The white nationalist leader is married to Brooke Heimbach, step-daughter of TWP’s chief spokesman Matthew Parrott. But he was carrying out an affair with Parrott’s wife, Jessica Parrott, and was caught out when his wife and then-spokesman watched them canoodling through the Parrott’s trailer window.

 

The scene devolved into chaos, with Matt Parrott and Matthew Heimbach brawling. After police arrived, Heimbach went after his wife, kicking the wall, grabbing her face, and throwing her violently onto a bed – all in full view of their two young sons, as Brooke Heimbach told the arresting officer.

 

Matthew Heimbach was taken into custody and charged with felony domestic battery in the presence of a child under 16 and one misdemeanor count of battery.

 

On the police report, all four listed their professions as “white nationalists.” 

(Blogger takes second vomit break.)