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onandup

(701 posts)
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 07:40 PM Jul 2024

'DEI,' 'Colored,' 'Jezebel': MAGA Attacks on Kamala Harris Are Getting Ugly

MAGA REPUBLICANS ARE subjecting Vice President Kamala Harris to a barrage of racist and sexist attacks as she has stormed out in front as the likely 2024 nominee in the wake of Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race.

In just the past 48 hours, Harris has been targeted by resurgent “birthers” who claim she’s not a natural-born citizen and by Trumpy Bible-thumpers who claim she’s a biblical “Jezebel” — a reference to a temptress who misled the faithful into idolatry and sexual depravity. GOP Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said that “100 percent, she was a DEI hire” insisting of Biden’s choice of Harris: “When you go down that route, you get mediocrity.”








https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maga-republicans-racist-sexist-attacks-kamala-harris-1235065295/
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Leghorn21

(13,926 posts)
2. Naw, on, they've been at this for YEARS; attacks on VP Harris are nothing new, they've just been low key
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 07:48 PM
Jul 2024

My throat burns with hatred for these foul slimy scumbuckets

I just …………… can’t

Takket

(23,079 posts)
3. two questions i'd live to ask every magat...... 1. Do you think Kamala Harris is a DEI hire?
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 07:49 PM
Jul 2024

2. What does DEI stand for?

guessing you'll get a "aaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyYUP!" slack jawed answer to the first, and a blank state of confusion for the second

B.See

(5,834 posts)
6. No doubt the answers are
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 07:54 PM
Jul 2024

1. Yes
2. "Minority" which in THEIR sick fuck mentally AUTOMATICALLY means "unqualified." ...

as if a failed "businessman" (used lightly of course) who bankrupted a casino, and tv "reality" show host, EVER was.

Mr. "I hardly knew what NATO was."

flying_wahini

(8,106 posts)
4. They are just making themselves look bad. Not her.
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 07:53 PM
Jul 2024

Glad the Rolling Stone is airing it out in public. It will turn people off of them a lot quicker.

Blue Owl

(56,647 posts)
5. Let 'em blow their own leg off trying to shoot themselves in the foot
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 07:54 PM
Jul 2024

Proceed, motherfuckers.

kacekwl

(8,461 posts)
7. Keep it up dummies.
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 08:00 PM
Jul 2024

The only women who will vote for trump are the ones who want him to grab um by their pussy.

sop

(15,156 posts)
8. Jason Miller said on NBC that he had identified a core Harris vulnerability: "She wants to ban plastic straws."
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 08:09 PM
Jul 2024

Sean Hannity told his audience that Harris had committed to banning the straws, proclaiming: “I love my plastic straws. I hate paper straws.”

There it is folks, the Republican plastic straw attack. Oh, the horror!

Timeflyer

(3,267 posts)
9. Note to self--"Jezebel Spirit" sounds like a great name for a cosmetic line. Dibs on that name!
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 08:13 PM
Jul 2024

Sal_NV

(606 posts)
10. Good, let them spew their racist, misogynist shit,
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 08:15 PM
Jul 2024

all it will do is piss off the sane R's, especially the women, the undecided Independent's and really, really energize the Dem base.

Carry on you worthless Trump cultists, you're actually doing us a favor.

Reader Rabbit

(2,700 posts)
12. "Jezebel"? What century are they living in?
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 08:35 PM
Jul 2024

Seriously. Even my grandma didn't use "jezebel" anymore, and she died 20 years ago!

Seriously, though, MAGA reaction is no surprise, and their misogyny will only galvanize women even more. I'm going to enjoy watching them shoot themselves in the foot over and over.

Dulcinea

(8,739 posts)
14. "DEI hire"
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 08:37 PM
Jul 2024

They call her that because they can't call her what they REALLY want to call her.

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