The joke here is that the Trail of Tears was a genocide. Get it? Get it? https://t.co/6wC5uwKnTa
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 9, 2019
A couple of middle-aged Democrats in Virginia get outed for their yearbook photos, and suddenly the lamestream media forgot all about the GOP’s multigenerational Southern Strategy…
"how fucking dare you accuse him of knowing basic middle school facts about American history. My sweet strong muscly President is dumber than hammered turds and that's why I love him!" https://t.co/HDlzPAQyOu
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 10, 2019
*I* don’t think the Oval Office Occupant came up with that analogy on his own either, but he surely awarded Stephen Miller an extra frozen rat for explaining it to him. And he’ll keep gleefully repeating ‘Trail of TEARS! hur dur snurf‘ at his rallies until Mueller or the Grim Reaper haul him off the public stage permanently.
The same week in which the political world has united around the notion that posting a black face pic on your yearbook is a cause for resignation, the president makes a joke about Native American genocide, his son cheers it, and it will likely be viewed as par for the course.
— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 10, 2019
For a candidate they say has no chance at all, the president and many people around him sure spend a lot of time talking about Elizabeth Warren
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 9, 2019
I wonder what all caps genocide joke Trump would use on Bernie Sanders.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 9, 2019
Huge jump in Indigenous voter turnout likely cost the GOP big races in Montana, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kansas and sent the first two Native women to Congress and near as I can tell no one in DC media has loudly connected it to the President regularly slurring Native Americans.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 10, 2019
I bring this up because it seems to have been internalized that Trump's particular racism against Native Americans either 'doesn't matter' or, from the Cillizza crowd, is even "effective." But I think case can be made he & the GOP have already paid a direct political price for it
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 10, 2019
Some seem to think this is harmless, like Native Americans disappeared in the 1880s or something. There are over 5 million Native Americans today, roughly equivalent to the number of Jewish Americans.
— Seth Masket (@smotus) February 10, 2019
The Repubs have carefully molded themselves into the Party of Bigotry, and now the bigots are in charge of the party. Trump is the GOP is Trump, and BabyDick is their prophet:
A great illustration of how Republican hands are tied: they lose 40 seats in the House because voters reject Trumpism, but take no steps to move from him bc their remaining members (and leaders) are in mostly Trumpy districts
The president won Wyo by 40https://t.co/t3f46diWoz
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) February 10, 2019
“Guys, us Republicans will totally vote for the racist again if you don’t do what we want.” https://t.co/IVpEAEQCaQ
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) February 10, 2019
joel hanes
200 accesses to imasdk.googleapis.com per *minute*
What the everlasting fuck is going on ?
Ruckus
And here I thought that they were holding on to their racist hearts like it was the mother lode.
West of the Rockies
Lynn Cheney is a very drab, smug individual.
SFAW
@joel hanes:
I have no idea what that means (in a detailed sense), and I don’t need/want you to ‘splain it to me, but for a long time, something keeps causing Chrome to continually access who-knows-what, and it eventually sucks up memory (I think) and frequently crashes the page. It doesn’t seem to be doing that on this page, however — maybe you’ve exorcised the demons?
ETA: Spoke too soon: it keeps calling a doubleclick.net routine or page or script or whatever. [Hey, I’m a hardware gut — what do I know?]
GxB
@ 1 joel hanes
I finally broke down and installed NoScript just for BJ today. Haven’t had connection issues since and that effin connetix player that needs to be launched into the sun is now fucking gone altogether. Side effect: reply function no longer works, edit functions gone, and formatting isn’t too pretty – cest la vie.
Worth it.
Wonder if it’s possible to make a NoTrumf plugin?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Well, Twit, I mean, Brit. What else could he mean by “TRAIL”? Why else would he emphasize that particular word? What, like trail as in a “western” sense? Traveling the Oregon Trail? How could Trump be so stupid not to understand what people might think, even if I grant your premise? I’d like to know Hume’s answer to this.
Mike J
@joel hanes: Video ads. Run uBlock Origin and don’t allow that nonsense.
Villago Delenda Est
@West of the Rockies: She’s every bit as evil as her undead sire.
Jay
https://mobile.twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/1094377570223689730
Mike in NC
Stephen Miller must own an amazing collection of kiddie pornography, which even Steve Bannon is jealous of.
Duane
@Villago Delenda Est: Liz Chaney doesn’t worship Satan.
Satan worships her.
Aleta
Media is acting like Republicans are hammering on a deep issue of importance to everyone. Most white Americans are indifferent to the issues NAs care about. The media is predominantly indifferent to NA issues too. So WTF. If they think NA heritage is important they would report on it instead of Warren.
smike
@Duane:
“Likey” button engaged.
Aleta
Field of Vision, 7 minute short film directed by Marshall Curry (Oscar nom)
https://vimeo.com/237489146
akryan
No shit. We go after our own hard for a 34 year old yearbook photo, which we really should because consistency matters, but the GOP has not a peep about a Trail of Tears pun. The media doesn’t do story after story after story about it either. We’ve just accepted that everything he says sounds like something a comment on Breitbart article. It’s so normal that no one is shocked by it anymore, not that Republicans ever were. We run Al Franken out of the Senate after he apologized for some pretty minor indescretions and asked for a full investigation of him. Jim Jordan overlooks sexual abuse as a college coach and they make him a leader in the House. They elect a guy who assaulted a reporter and joke about it just being “Montana justice”. Any Democrat would have been called on, by Democrats, to drop out of the race if they did that even if what only a few days from the election. I could go on forever about the double standards they give to Trump. We care about character, they don’t, and that makes it asymmetric warfare. When we behave by one set of standards and they behave by a much lower one, it lends to the bothsiderism the media is so addicted to because they can always say “well, look at the Democrats who have been in trouble,” when that’s only because we hold our own to a much higher standard.
Aleta
@Aleta: Editing won’t work.
The name of the film is A Night at the Garden.
Ryan
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: I will admit I missed the reference too. Had Warren been nicknamed Cryin’ Elizabeth Warren, I would have seen it immediately.
rikyrah
@Aleta:
Tell it.
They would report on the issues and problems facing Native Americans
Ryan
@Duane: Well, she is his literal offspring.
Ryan
@Aleta: They report on it because she is female and has impeccable email management practices in place.
Jay
@Aleta:
The Media are not your friends.
The Media are not interested in policy.
The Media are your enemy.
The Media are Nazi’s.
Aleta
@Ryan: They’ll be telling us everything she does is wrong (T set this up for them, labeling her wacky) for a year and beyond. But we don’t have to get used to it.
hervevillechaizelounge
@akryan:
Not only does the media normalize republican racism but they never bother to ask native American or POC republican-enablers about it.
Will reporters continue to write innumerable articles featuring native Americans angry about Liz Warren”s tone deaf DNA test? Fuck yeah. Will these same reporters ask these same angry native Americans how they feel about Trump’s genocide joke? Not on your life.
When that evil Liz Warren is vanquished and the Trump regime confiscates all the reservations to build golf courses my schadenfreude will runneth over.
Jay
@hervevillechaizelounge:
99% of Indigenous Peoples pissed at Warren, arn’t American.
Just Chuck
@GxB: Click the NoScript button in the upper right of your toolbar, and set balloon-juice.com and stackpathcdn.com to “Trusted”. Leave everything else at defaults. That should get the editing features back and leave the rest of the rogue scripts disabled.
I also recommend uBlock Origin — the defaults seem to do pretty well. When you do that though, do send a fiver or two at JC’s way with the paypal link.
Just Chuck
@Jay: So Maddow is a Nazi, eh? Christ, dial it down, there’s more loons here than a lake.
trnc
I sent a news tip to NPR asking if they will cover the DT genocide tweet the way they covered 30 year old blackface pics?
trnc
@hervevillechaizelounge:
In fact, according to a story I read recently (can’t look for the link right now), there weren’t that many NAs upset about Warren getting the DNA test. The media found one or two and hyped them endlessly.
Tata
If you follow Native Americans on social media, you can hear them speak for themselves. This is not that hard.
Did you know there’s a whole, vile thing where white women dress up for Halloween as dead Native Americans and take selfies? You wouldn’t think that level of depravity would be standing room only, but it is.
Aleta
@hervevillechaizelounge:
You’re angry at msm reporters for who they talk to and what they write. (You could include who the media co.s hire. + Who the editors assign to those stories.)
But you conclude how happy you’ll be when “Trump regime confiscates all the reservations.” ?
You haven’t read all of the online NA opposition to Trump since 2016?
Your conclusion, turning the blame on NAs for how the msm report on them, without any other explanation, comes across as illogical, uninformed and a racist projection.
Aleta
@Jay: You’ve said that before without a link or how it’s relevant.
You don’t have to be a US citizen to criticize things that happen here or our gov’t officials. (I think you know that : ) — are you Australian or am I mistaken? )
Especially so for indigenous issues, since borders and relocations were imposed on tribes and families w/o their agreement.
Aleta
@hervevillechaizelounge:
Could be you’re trolling for Trump but, benefit of the doubt:
I guess what I’m trying to say is, you can’t use the msm’s framing of the issue or the explanations of their white reporters to argue against criticism of Warren. It’s especially illogical if you understand and despise all the flaws of the msm.
Quote what a NA leader has said and respond directly to that. Like Tata said above, you’d need to read their independent press and twitter and social media to do that.
Attacks on NAs in general just follow Trump’s fascist game plan.