“We wouldn’t have any racism if blacks just stayed in their place!” /S
I wonder why Republicans think that Democrats and Leftists have “Trump Derangement Syndrome” but no other Republican president ever received that degree of ire.
TDS wasn’t real
While the symptom of a leftist freaking out whenever Trump does something was true, it’s not fair to call this irrational when what Trump was doing was legitimately terrible. It would be like telling the Jews that they had Hitler derangement syndrome.
I agree. My question was rhetorical. Of course right wing grifters are trying to normalize Trump’s fascist tendencies.
“We would have all stayed under our rocks if YOU hadn’t forced us to freak out by electing a black guy”.
“Trump gets into I think a psychological illness they have about Trump,” he said. “Trump derangement syndrome is real — so obsessive.”
The only people who suffer from TDS worse than the far left liberals who froth at the mouth at the mere mention of his name …are his supporters.
the far left liberals who froth at the mouth at the mere mention of his name
You mean the people who fear living in a theocratic dictatorship roughly twelve months from now? Yes, god forbid we’re a little upset at the idea.
If you hate the guy so much that any time his name is mentioned, even if it is something he did right, you have a problem. I don’t like him either, and I fear what he might mean for this country if elected again. . .but if his name makes you lose your shit you have a mental problem.
If you hate the guy so much that any time his name is mentioned, even if it is something he did right, you have a problem
This sentence is missing a clause. If you hate the guy… that you _______. What are people supposed to be doing because of this hate???
“froth at the mouth”
The right suffers from Trump Delusion Syndrome
“Far left liberal” is an oxymoron.
I love the hypocrisy. TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. Also that Obama guy…
And don’t forget how obsessed all these creepy weirdos are over the Hunter Biden hard drive…oops, I mean, his “laptop”.
Every accusation is a confession. The usual with that crowd.
I think it’s time we send Rudy to live on a farm upstate.
I live upstate and we don’t want him up here
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This leaky headed geriatric piece of shit can go fuck himself
My favorite thing about Rudy are his sexts with the assistant he was banging. They sound like someone who doesn’t really know how to talk dirty but the partner really wants it.
“Those tits… those are MY tits. You like my tits? That’s right, I own those tits. They’re mine. Those are my tits.”
Never ceases to amaze me how US politics is so full of incoherently babbling clowns.
Obama was mediocre but refreshing because he was actually present in many ways
As a non American I thought he was better than most you’ve had since, maybe Carter
Pretty accurate and also pretty sad.
Clinton did an OK job (with some things).
That’s what Monica said
Yeah, Obama was really popular on the international stage. But domestically, he was milquetoast at best. Still better than Biden by miles, but he was 100% a centrist who ran as a liberal. Hell, on the international stage, he was considered conservative. Because the USA’s political spectrum had always leaned pretty far right, so a moderate conservative seems liberal by comparison.
The issue is that the republicans adopted a party policy of “we don’t care what it is. If Obama wants it, we’ll oppose it.” Not because they were against whatever Obama’s policy was, but because they had spent so long vilifying him to their voter base. It was suddenly political suicide for a Republican to agree with Obama. After all, they had been telling their voters that Obama was a Muslim, a terrorist, a satanist, a communist, a socialist, unamerican, coming for your guns, and any other insults they could think up.
So when Obama won the election, they suddenly had to vehemently oppose a man who was… Slightly right of center? This meant the pendulum had to swing way past the moderate right and landed squarely in fascist territory.
If Obama had actually been any of the things they accused him of, they probably would’ve been more moderate when opposing him. But since he was a centrist, they suddenly had to pander to the racists, the misogynists, the xenophobes. Those groups had always been conservative… But Obama was the first time in a long time that conservatives started saying the quiet part out loud, and pandering directly to those groups.
Captures Obama really well, I think he is the best the Democrats can offer in the current political era, the ideal person to carry the brand of the center-right neoliberal ideology of the party. I posted Adolph Reed Jr’s take on him from 1996 in the comments which basically echoes this sentiment as well.
One thing that captures this is that America on the world stage basically is what it is, even someone like Obama, who was known to frequent pro-Palestinian talks and events, had to be pro-Israel in his role.
To summarize:
Obama pushed back race relations 40 or 50 years… because Republicans couldn’t handle him doing well.
So his racisism is Obama’s fault.
Yeah, he claimed whites only hate blacks now because Obama was their only experience with them
Ok i have enough bullshit fir today.
“Race relations” is itself a racist notion, the idea that a race is a real ontological entity and that people can be spokespersons on behalf of a race. This usually means meritocratic elitist race representatives dismissing notions of racial justice which threaten economic arrangements that sustain the system that causes racial disparities in the first place. “Race relations” is how you get things like entrepreneurial programs (half of all businesses fail in general) for racialized business owners instead of improved social services.
Thanks, Obama?
Well, how could it be anything else? Obama is so DIVISIVE.
Look, the country just wasn’t “ready” yet for a democratically elected, centrist, fiscally conservative, brown, America-first, pro troop, business friendly, candidate. There’s just something about him that was too radical for many people. 🤷
I bet it was that fancy Dijon mustard.
It was that goddammed tan suit. What kind of president could rock one of those? What kind of president has any style or fashion sense? It’s just un-American
My favorite part was how they would make up New Traditions just so they could accuse Obama violating them, when none of these violated Traditions were ever historically a thing. They were legitimately making things up just to be mad about them
Don’t forget the latte salute!
He’s as much a history buff as a computer security expert
I thought crazy pillow dude was the cybersecurity expert. He hosted those cyber symposiums after all. Clearly he must know something us lowly IT folks don’t.
Speaking of which, did he ever pay out that 5 million dollar prize for the guy who proved his election interference data was literally garbage files?
Last I knew, no. But I haven’t kept up with the case: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-lindell-5-million-contest-winner-federal-court/
I can’t imagine being so utterly convinced you have something that you’d offer a prize you don’t intend to pay for proving it false, AND THEN NOT EVEN BOTHERING TO VERIFY IT IS WHAT YOU SAY IT IS. I imagine someone sold him the data under false pretenses, because if Mike knew it was bullshit he might not have offered the prize. If that is the case, I wish that scammer all the best.
My favorite part- the money he owes goes to a Trump voter. Even that guy knew it was bullshit.
There’s also a chance he just grabbed some random files himself, declared they proved it, and thought that since he had no idea how to show or disprove that, no one else would be able to. The whole conspiracy mindset really leans into the “there’s no way to know for sure” aspects of reality and projects that in many areas where it doesn’t apply because general knowledge isn’t enough to figure it out.
Though the worst part is they can do this because there’s many cases where “experts” have abused the trust that used to be put in the scientific community, such as the ones behind the tobacco industry funded smoking safety studies.
What in the demented word salad hell did I just read?
I forgot how obsessed they got about Saul Alinsky. If there were a college major called “Being a Leftist,” his Rules for Radicals would be on the syllabus for the class on pre-internet organizing. But I’m pretty sure Fox News hosts said “Alinsky” more times during the Obama administration than all the DSA members combined.
It’s like if they were discussing Boston Celtics history and just kept mentioning Antoine Walker. (No disrespect to Toine. Or Alinsky.)
Remember when they got pissed at that Reverend guy that Obama may have saw once or twice for saying that 9/11 was “chickens coming home to roost” (by the way, he was 100% correct of course)?
Like, I wish Obama could have (publicly at least) stated that and still had a chance to win…
“You think it’s accidental; I know it’s Marxist planned and executed over a long period,” he claimed. “Open border is not coincidental. The open border comes right out of Karl Marx. It comes right out of [communist activist] Saul Alinsky, who, by the way, Saul Alinsky and his acolytes taught Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.”
This shit? The insane musings of high profile Republicans.
Ah yes. The communists were not known for building walls in Berlin.
“Mr. Reagan, tear down this wall!”
Ah yes, famed communist Obama, whose biggest accomplishment was shoveling huge amounts of cash to the health insurance industry in exchange for tiny concessions on the margins.
And who teamed up with Bush before his term started to give a shitload of money to wall st so the events of 2008 didn’t cause a transfer of wealth in the wrong direction. Who sat by as the banks foreclosed on a lot of people’s only homes. Or maybe it was communism that made the judges decide that banks had to have proof they owned the mortgage before they could take homes from people?
Who the eff are all these marxists, communists, socialists, etc., wielding all this incredible power in the US and how do they stay so hidden? Deep state? But isn’t the deep state mostly rich white guys pulling the strings?
The real communism was the capitalism we made on the way…or some shit
I heard someone ranting about Marxist banks at one point. Like, just tell me you don’t know what words actually mean am I right?
They’re so crafty that even the policy they’re passing is pure neoliberal dreck that’s to the right of Reagan. Nobody would suspect a thing!
Lead poisoning is a huge part of why the 60+ age bracket is acting so erratically now.
Stable genius with all the words…
You know they’ve digested too many Nazi talking points when they start breaking out Saul Alinsky and start trying to link him to prominent Democratic leaders.
i think Rudi is owned by a bunch of Russians, and he speaks for them and for other losers like them
The race relations Rudy is talking about is MAGA related and means segregation returns. We moved away from that. Magats don’t like that.
This feels like an onion article
Hey Rawstory, less reporting on what they say, more reporting on what they did, thanks.
Adolph Reed Jr has probably the best response to Obama from the left, a black political scientist himself who was still alive when Jim Crow laws were in effect in New Orleans and lived through the aftermath and written countless books on things like race relations and black politics. This was published in 1996:
“In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better.”
So, Obama was too presidential? He held the general appeal to be elected, so he wasn’t “my” type of activist? Instead of agitating for better race relations, he simply exercised to office of President, as an inspirational leader regardless of skin color, and set an example for all to follow? The horror
Would you say we are in an improved state today vs Obama’s time? America is in a degrading state right now and Obama was hugely influential in this system. Trump basically created his political brand in a similar fashion to Obama’s.
If you seriously think Obama was good explain how things are better now. You do realize about 13% of Obama voters supported Trump? Arguably Trump won because of former Obama supporters.
True, I agree that President Obama hasn’t done anything for the country lately. The guy is really slacking off. Thanks, Obama
He said on Pod Save America the other week that we have collective blame for what’s going on in Gaza. Do you have blame for that? I think of you more highly than he does apparently.
And what did he do, approved drones to kill kids at weddings and other civilian bombings and atrocities in Afghanistan, knowing full well how terrible it was going but not wanting to take the L? Come on you don’t need to stoop to the level of pretending this was a good person. He was a great brand and orator with mass public appeal that sold neoliberal capitalism as something new and different, the same economic arrangement that caused the situation you’re currently in was something he proudly promoted, and it led to fascism, just like what we were all saying at the time from the black left.
Wait wait - stay with me - he’s right. Because electing Obama caused people like him to be more overtly racist.
