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Trump appeals to racists to defend him from impeachment (Original Post)
RAB910
Sep 2019
OP
Racist rants will insure deplorables stick with him until he dies They love to hate He is their hero
lunasun
Sep 2019
#2
randr
(12,409 posts)1. Very astute observation
One that I hope is noted on this weekends talk shows.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. Racist rants will insure deplorables stick with him until he dies They love to hate He is their hero
virgogal
(10,178 posts)3. Huh? AOC is white.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)7. She's Latina.
Trump doesn't count Latinxs as white.
NickB79
(19,233 posts)8. Puerto Rican, I believe
virgogal
(10,178 posts)10. Yes,but white.
Not a person of color as it said in the OP.
NickB79
(19,233 posts)11. White implies Caucasian
Whereas Puerto Ricans are a mix of Native Islanders, Spaniards and African slaves.
My Puerto Rican wife, who's often mistaken for being part African-American due to her dark skin and curly hair, has cousins who have blonde hair, fair skin and blue eyes.
Puerto Ricans are not white.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)13. Trumps racist base do not consider he white.
Not by a long shot.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)4. And yet BiBi still supports him . . . .
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)5. Trump campaign launches anti-impeachment blitz on Facebook, targeting four minority congresswomen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/27/trump-campaign-launches-anti-impeachment-blitz-facebook-repeating-falsehoods-about-four-minority-congresswomen/
Trump campaign launches anti-impeachment blitz on Facebook, targeting four minority congresswomen
The presidents campaign spent as much money on Facebook ads on a single day as it typically spends in a week, a digital firm says.
By Isaac Stanley-Becker and Tony Romm
September 27 at 4:46 PM
Trump campaign launches anti-impeachment blitz on Facebook, targeting four minority congresswomen
The presidents campaign spent as much money on Facebook ads on a single day as it typically spends in a week, a digital firm says.
By Isaac Stanley-Becker and Tony Romm
September 27 at 4:46 PM
empedocles
(15,751 posts)6. Very high priority for 'con campaign - panic level?
nolabear
(41,959 posts)9. And now people are clamoring for Savage and AOC Plus 3 T-shirts.
Id wear them.
lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)12. "Do nothing" pretty well describes the (R)s Obama had to deal with.
They were notorious obstructionists.