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kpete

(72,902 posts)
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 02:43 PM Aug 2020

Rude Pundit - RNC Night 4: "I Alone Can Fuck It All Up"

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The lawless, violent, depressed dystopia is here, now. Trump said in 2016, "I alone can fix it" when the truth is, no matter how much they try to paper it over with lies, he fucked it all up. And he fucked it up worse than Republicans usually fuck things up.

And the promise that he made last night is that he will continue to fuck it up. That's it. That's the platform. "You like how shitty things are? Well, this shitstorm in a shithole can continue for four more years."

What's frightening is how many people will fall for Trump's frankly retro invocation of socialism and crime in the streets (even as overall crime continues to be at incredibly low rates in most of the country). Fear of non-white people invading the pure white spaces is the driving force behind the Republican Party, as it has been for over 40 years.

But, see, it's not just through crime that they fear Black and brown people. Despite all the useful idiots protesting that Trump is not racist or the GOP does include them, what they really fear is the undermining of whiteness's central power role in the United States. That is the real crime. And for them, this loathsome, sweaty cretin who whines out his grievances is their last, best hope.

It was a terrible speech, delivered badly, to an audience of assholes while shitting all over the White House and the law. It was the rhetorical nadir of a movement whose only motivation is hatred of the Other.

And, frankly, the violent, angry way in which everyone spoke about the left makes me wonder what they have planned for us if they eke out, cheat, and steal a victory. It won't be peaceful. As you know.


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Rude Pundit - RNC Night 4: "I Alone Can Fuck It All Up" (Original Post) kpete Aug 2020 OP
quiet as it's kept llashram Aug 2020 #1
"the violent, angry way everyone spoke about the left makes me wonder what they have planned for us" hedda_foil Aug 2020 #2
Reassuring Blue-Collar Whites That There Is a Caste (African-Americans) Still Lower on the Ladder The Roux Comes First Aug 2020 #3

llashram

(6,269 posts)
1. quiet as it's kept
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 02:53 PM
Aug 2020

President Obama scared the shit out of these very people. How can one not miss how the very next administration after President Obama's is the most openly racist administration in modern American history. No coincidence.

hedda_foil

(16,986 posts)
2. "the violent, angry way everyone spoke about the left makes me wonder what they have planned for us"
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 03:00 PM
Aug 2020

And, frankly, the violent, angry way in which everyone spoke about the left makes me wonder what they have planned for us if they eke out, cheat, and steal a victory. It won't be peaceful. As you know.

The Roux Comes First

(2,278 posts)
3. Reassuring Blue-Collar Whites That There Is a Caste (African-Americans) Still Lower on the Ladder
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 03:10 PM
Aug 2020

That's why we vote "against our interests." Supposedly maintaining the status quo. As it was before the Civil War.

https://www.powells.com/book/caste-9780593230251

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