Plus, it’s not like this is anything is new. Trump’s been calling people to his office (Kanye, MLK Jr.’s son, etc.) and using them for photo ops for months now. Everyone that leaves thinks they made a difference, because Trump’s a con man and made them believe so. Instead, he used them for cred. Yeah, they all got…
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I don’t think there’s any such thing. When’s the last time there’s been a Black Republican who wasn’t shucking and jiving and basically being the token for these racist white Republicans?
My vote is you decline the invite. Showing up is normalizing this man and an administration that has deliberately disrespected HBCU students and their families.
Every time I look at that picture, I just smh. The need to showboat strikes again. Some people need to learn to quell their urge to be seen, & suppress their need for starfucking (Dump is hardly a star, but there are always a handful who just want a picture with so-and-so, optics be damned). Out of all those clowns,…
That look when you know the house is more comfortable than the field.
I wonder how the invitation should have been handled? Does one actually go into the lion’s den and hope that he actually benefits rather than mauls you? What do you do when you are there and when you leave? Do you refuse the picture? Do you say something like “We are glad to meet with the President of the United…
It’s easy as fuck to look “presidential” when you’re just standing at a podium reading someone else’s words and there’s no chance in hell that anyone will be able to ask you a question about anything you just said. Especially when you compare it to the shitshow that has been every press conference you ever had.
The bar is so ridiculously low. I get people oin the right being excited by thr fsct thast he didn’t go full press conference melt down. But, he should be getting the amount of praise he has.
Odds the state legislature amends it in the next year?
based on the news coverage above, their defense was that they were driving around as part of a fundraiser, they had POC’s in their caravan, and that people in the party approached them.
See also: total bullshit.
This is the silver lining in this awful story for me. I am completely amazed that Georgia pursued this case, used these laws to convict, and actually gave hefty sentences to these assholes.
From another article on CNN:
The reporting on this (obviously not here) in other outlets has made me insane. It says things like “confederate flag couple sentenced to prison time” or whatever, completely ignoring the fact these people terrorized and waived a gun at children at a birthday party!! I’ve seen so many comments like “yes, it’s bad, but…
Wait. That was their defense? That they weren’t the ones who threatened the partygoers? Man, fuck y’all. You rolled up six or seven cars deep into a mostly African-American neighborhood with Confederate flags flying from every single vehicle. You purposely went out looking for a fucking conflict, and when you noticed…
Also, maybe I’m reading the article incorrectly, but didn’t she actually do the stuff she is saying she would never do?
thats because racism has not only been legitimized, its been deemed patriotism.
“I would never ...” = “I didn’t realize there would be consequences for my actions.” Which is why we are seeing an uptick in racist and anti-Semitic acts; people are getting the message that they can get away with it.
Could DeVos make a better argument against the proliferation of charter schools than the one she demonstrates so clearly every time she opens her mouth to argue in favor of the proliferation of charter schools?
This entire administration is so cringe-worthy. I am having the hardest time not hoping for all of his supporters’ chickens to come home to roost when this woman dismantles the public education system. And its only because I know so many innocent people are going to be affected by Mango Mussolini’s stupidity and…