There was a thread on DU a while back about a RW chain email comparing Trump to an exterminator

[ck4829]

That I think is begging to get a second look.

Ah, here it is...

"Like many citizens, I've wondered and tried hard to understand why Pres. Trump has such a remarkable following. (It's obvious why he probably should not)! Then a friend sent me this raccoon story. It makes no difference about your political leanings, this is just a good explanation of WHY... (or it's as good as any I can come up with).

If you really want to know how most people feel, and this applies to both democrats and republicans, read below. It says it all.----

You've been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement. You want them gone immediately. You call the city and 4 different exterminators, but nobody can handle the job. But there is this one guy and he guarantees to get rid of them, so you hire him. You don't care if the guy smells, you don't care if the guy swears, you don't care if he's an alcoholic, you don't care how many times he's been married, you don't care if he has a plumber's crack, you simply want those raccoons gone! You want your problem fixed! He's the guy. He's the best!

Here's why we want Trump. Yes he's a bit of a jerk; yes he's an egomaniac; but we don't care. The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republicans and Democrats can be two-faced and gutless, and illegals are everywhere. We want it all fixed! We don't care that Trump is crude, we don't care that he insults people, we don't care that he has changed positions, we don't care that he's been married 3 times, we don't care that he fights with Megyn Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell, we don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslim terrorist.

This country became weak and bankrupt, our enemies were making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo, and Hasid is a special group with special rights to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in; " AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED ". And Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want.

We're sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and sick of illegals. We just want this thing fixed . Trump may not be a saint, but we didn’t vote for a Pope. We voted for a man who doesn't have lobbyist money holding him back, a man who doesn't have political correctness restraining him. We all know that he has been very successful, he’s a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he's also not a politician, not a cowardly politician. And he says he'll fix it. And we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong or looked at and called a liar. Also, we don't care if the guy has bad hair. We just want those raccoons gone, out of our house, NOW .

You are welcome to pass this on. Thousands of people who haven't voted in 25 years seem to be getting involved. And the more people get this email the more that will understand why Trump was elected. The raccoons have got to go!"

This chain email needs to updated to include the fact that your house now has a pandemic running through it, your neighbors (Russia and North Korea) are laughing at you, you've got a cop with his knee on your neck, you've got 30-year old "boogaloo boys" telling you to "open up", parts of your house are burning down, and that so-called best exterminator ever is now hiding in a bunker, blaming everyone else, and saying "I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY AT ALL!"

Man, what exactly did that exterminator do?

[malaise]

1. They voted for him because their exterminator promised to exterminate

black and brown people and put women in ''our place''.

Fuck him and his goons.

[handmade34]

2. seems the raccoons are

merely an hallucination or figment of imagination... and that exterminator is all too happy to exploit your delusions and take your money

[unc70]

3. Raccoons is a racist slur

In this case it is thinly disguised use of coon.

[ck4829]

6. Very much so

[Mister Ed]

7. Far worse than a slur. I think it's a deadly threat.

I sometimes heard that term "coon" when I was young, and I never understood it. "What do raccoons have to do with black people?", I wondered. I couldn't see what the connection could be.

And then, one day when I was in my mid-thirties, it suddenly dawned on me. I remember where I was and what I was doing when it came to me out of nowhere. "Oh. Ohhh," I said out loud, feeling sick inside.

A raccoon is an animal hunted by night.

The terrible scenes swiftly swept across my mind's eye: word being passed in town that there would be a "coon hunt" that night. The carload of grim-faced men, with guns and ropes. The unspeakable horrors that followed.

No, I realized, it never was a mere insult. It was a dark, vicious, menacing threat. A threat all too well understood by those who issued it, and those whose ears it fell upon.

[ck4829]

8. Chilling

[DBoon]

4. "Illegals" are now vermin to be exterminated?

Where have we seen this before?

[ck4829]

5. The dehumanization is extremely disturbing I must say