Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how awful InsaniTEA can become. I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. There is no doubt that the RNC has brought out the crazies!
Alternet — Thursday was a night of troubled sleep throughout the land. In his long-awaited keynote speech, Republican nominee Donald Trump managed not just to confirm all of our worst fears about him, but to amplify them, make them 10 times darker and bigger, make them huuuuuuge! He got the fear job done. Better than anyone in the entire history of the country has gotten it done!
Let us just review what an amazing accomplishment this was. Rudy Giuliani kicked things off, commanding everyone to be much more terrified about crime, ISIS immigration and Black Lives Matter. Chris Christie roused the crowds with chants of “lock her up,” and “guilty as charged!” Ted Cruz delivered his same lizard-like stump speech, the one everyone assumed they’d be spared after he dropped out of the race. The accumulating horror was enhanced by the realization that the slick-backed Trump sons have themselves acquired a taste for politics and now feel qualified to bash teachers and environmental regulations, celebrate gun culture and espouse other tired conservative talking points.
Thanks to Nameless for providing the picture.
But Trump took the crown! He patted his Ivanka on the butt, and then surpassed them all in 75 minutes of continuous bellowing horribleness. The moon was nearly full. A smoldering heat dome would come to blanket much of the country. Darkness descended. And the next day, the mainstream media sunnily gave him credit for his shout-out to the LGBTQ community.
2. Rep. Steve King doesn’t even bother to disguise his racism.
It’s very possible that Iowa rep Steve King has zero concept of white supremacy. It is simply the water in which this fish swims in. So perhaps it should not have been too much of a surprise this week when the rabid anti-immigrationist, tea partying congressman just came out and said during a live appearance on MSNBC that white people have basically been superior to all others throughout history and invented everything worthwhile.
His comments came about after host Chris Hayes asked a question about the racial makeup of the GOP.
Charles Pierce of Esquire was there and said: “If you’re really optimistic, you can say this was the last time that old white people would command the Republican Party’s attention, its platform, its public face.”
That did not sit well with King. “This whole ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie,” he said, all buddy buddy. “I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”
Co-panelists were stunned. Hayes asked for clarification. Did he mean what it sounded like he just said?
He did.
We know this because, one, he said it really clearly, and two, he doubled down on his assertion of the superiority of the white European “subgroup” the next day. The man who tried to block Harriet Tubman from being on the $20 bill recently was 100 percent on-message for his party, as you'll see if you read on.
Republicans are so good at the fear game. This go around, Drumpf and others have whipped up a frenzie of fear which is unfortunate because they are turning neighbour against neighbour. Back in November 2015, according to Crooks and Liars, Trump said
“The real greatest resource is all of you, because you have all those eyes and you see what’s happening,” he told listeners in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
“People move into a house a block down the road, you know who’s going in,” Trump continued. "You can see and you report them to the local police.
“You’re pretty smart, right?” he asked his audience. "We know if there’s something going on, report them. Most likely you’ll be wrong, but that’s OK.
And of course, Steve "Cantaloupe Calves" King of Iowa is doing his best to increase fear and racism. This is the second of five appalling right wing moments this past week. Click through for the others.
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1. I've heard it said that surgery is a procedure, and anyone can be taught to perform a procedure. I don't quite believe that in general, but it does help explain Carson, doesn't it? But then, so would dementia.
2. Steve King. Yes. The other horror story. (OK, that's not quite accurate – Stphen King writes them, but he isn't one himself.) White people wouldn't even exist if it were not for brown and black people and their contributions, and the appropriate response is gratitude, not arrogance. But we'll never get that from Steve King.
3. Clearly Jeffrey Lord is confusing his name with a title. I wish we could dismiss him with that and ignore him, but of course we can't. Pitch sticks. It takes work to clean it up.
4. Well, now, i've been saying it's almost scary when this weekly list gets held down to five, because it suggests there are crazies out there lying low. Now that they are back out in the open, the only way to hold it to five is to lump the usual suspects together. Hey, you can't debunk them is you don't know about them, now can you? (And they still had to leave out Laura Ingraham.)
5. If these people screaming "Islamic terrorism" would be honest – and label ALL terrorism with a religious label – without regard to whether the terrorist claims to hold those views, but based SOLELY on the largest religious group in the terrorist's country of citizenship – and if this was done in such a way that all terrorism is in fact labeled terrorism – their heads would certainly explode. Perhaps that would be a good thing. On the other hand, there is a right way for an outsider to gently tell a religionist about problems in that religion – the way Gandhi did: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Flynn's way was the wrong way.
Ben Carson: He reminds me of….well, Ben. Not quite all there, rambling on. And on…
Qutie frankly, I don't know if the Clown Car is big enough for the IDs this week.
Thank you, Nameless for Drumpf's picture perfect poses! Thanks, Lynn for post.
Well, Steve King appears to be correct about whites contributing the most to civilization.
Melania Trump showed us exactly how, with her speech last Monday night … by stealing it from a black woman.
OOPS!
Good one. A definite "Oops"… lol!
Michelle Obama is the first person in history to give a speech at both the RNC AND DNC Conventions in the same year.
The crazies are out there, and seemingly, they are all Republicans.
1. Ben Carson: One of the many demented attention seekers in the Drumpf entourage, kept there by his owner purely for entertainment reasons and because they make him feel superior. Not that this particular one gives Drumpf that much needed extra jolt of superiority, because anyone can feel superior to Ben Carson.
2. Steve King: Drumpf's presumptive and now official nomination legitimizes racism and has all the closeted and not so closeted racists crawl out of their closets and from under their rocks. Take a good hard look at them and make plans for extensive fumigation when Hillary Clinton returns to the White House. Oh, and better have a backup plan ready in case she doesn't.
3. Jeffrey Lord: Drumpf already has an history-rewriter on his payroll, it seems. Well, perhaps not so much rewrite as inventing a whole new one based on a few "chosen" words from a completely different context and with complete opposite meaning. As a maker of a "new truth" Jeffrey Lord will go far with Drumpf as head of state.
4. David Duke, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Alex Jones: I'm sorry, I don't know where to begin…is this la crème de la crème of America's conservative politics?? But apparently these fine specimens weren't enough for the GOP, so Tennessee invited our Geert Wilders to attend the RNC, at Wilders' behest (Ketron takes Geert Wilders to RNC) and the GOP also has Britain's ex-UKIP leader Farage as a guest at the RNC. Apparently the GOP and Drumpf can't find enough neo-fascists of American make to sing their praise high enough.
5. Michael Flynn: What can I say about this Drumpf imitator that I haven't said in the four points preceding this one…?
After a night with no electricity, because of the storms that blew through New Jersey, yesterday afternoon, I am finally able to get back on line (Comcast was down) and almos be thankful that I could not watch the news, last night. Not to mean that I would have otherwise missed some of the DNC, but I could not see how Rumpfuck might have responded. I did not know about how the Phila. protests went, until this morning.
The 5 Appalling….are just what one, this one, at least, has come to expect from this cast of bloody buffons! As per Lynn's prior posting, democracy in this country has taken some serious hits , thanks to the GOPigs, and Rumpy. Thomas Jefferson, and his hope that Democracy would work, based on an educated electorate, must be having fits of pique, seeing how loudness, and mis-information spews from the right!
I missed most of it, for an assortment of reasons, but what I did see made the Democratic National Comvention in Chicgo in 1968 seem loving and honest by comparison.