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“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou

This is how they play with the dog-whistle.

Let it be out long enough for the white supremacists to notice and then apologize.

trump has deleted the racist post showing the obamas as apes, which leaves karoline leavitt out to dry for defending it to the hilt earlier.

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2orsuabrdskjpuglpru77po2/po...

Though distasteful, the video has Biden for instance as a non-human primate as well[]. It's not just black people made to be into monkey or ape-like animals, and by no means were all black people portrayed as non-human primates (one was a hippo, for instance). I didn't even know it could be considered racist until the media told me it was supposed to be.

[] https://x.com/xerias_x/status/1981716010483753013

BBC report on the disappearing video.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8r8y78g10o

It’s always a distraction. Look behind the curtain.

It seems like Trump tries very hard to associate himself with things racists do/like, etc.

...and look at some comments here, every day I get confirmation that Trump supporters will defend everything, there's no coming back.

Thankfully they are <40% of US voters now. Yes, that's a depressingly large number but having a ~40% core group of MAGA and everyone else being thoroughly disgusted by Trump means the bottom is falling out for Republicans.

Recent Texas Senate election (SD-9) saw Democrats winning by 17 points (Republicans won the district in 2022 by 60-40). Abolishing ICE is now the more popular opinion (46 to 43 in some poll).

We'll see how much damage the beast will inflict before it's finally slain.

Anyone else doing this would be instant political suicide. For Trump, it's just another regular weekday.

This is one of those moments you realize all of the Overton Window talk is not partisan nor alarmism.

"I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. not one decent cell in his body..."

   - Jeffrey Epstein