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Trump shares video with racist clip depicting Obamas as apes

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

This isn't even the first time Republicans portrayed Obama as a monkey. It was kind of a low-hanging meme for them during his presidency.

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...

This is how they play with the dog-whistle.

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

Is it really a dog whistle? Dog megaphone. Or maybe dog stadium PA.

We really aren't talking about a dog-whistle here... This is a fog horn.

Foghorn Leghorn was rather racist too

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

BBC report on the disappearing video.

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

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

Trump posts video of Obama as an ape

Internet: "It is 4D chess!"

You can't make this up.

The idea is to keep raising the bar of absurdity higher and higher to prove that there are no consequences, making the next worse offense easier. All with the seal of approval from the entire power class.

Maybe not 4d chess, but it's working pretty well.

I think you are thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window which might be true

It's definitely what they do, look to Trump influencers like Bannon and Miller

Can you please clarify this statement? It could mean a lot of things.

If people are talking about Obama, they're not talking about a certain financier.

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

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

Not just that, his base loves it. This is the stuff that gets them energized.

Obama wore a tan suit and people went nuts.

...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.

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

   - Jeffrey Epstein

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