"How should Trump double down on racist tropes to win an election" is just typed up as campaign strategy 101 by @adamnagourney on the front page of @nytimes pic.twitter.com/sqmxhNIj9b
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) August 22, 2020
I’m speechless.
— aarrgghh (@aarrgghhv2) August 22, 2020
Yutsano
You know what Cole? You really should read your own blog one of these days.
Hunter Gathers
“Racial Slurs – honest, tough language or offensive stereotypes? ” a 12 part series by the NYT.
“Why can rappers use it but the President can’t?” diner patrons ponder in Squirrel’s Anus Arkansas
“Black people, why are they so loud and why a conservative comeback is possible” by David Brooks
“Black people scare us just as much as a marginal tax increase and why we are endorsing Trump” the NYT editorial board
Sister Golden Bear
FTFNYT delenda est.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Yutsano: Ya know, I just read a post on this on…(checks browser history)…Balloon Juice.
debbie
Stupid article, but Kamala Harris is still in for a bullshit bumpy ride. I hate Rush Limbaugh.
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BruceFromOhio
I heard Balloon Juice was a top-10000 blog. This is why.
craigie
It’s bigfoot a go go
mrmoshpotato
@Hunter Gathers:
How far is Squirrel’s Anus from Sisterfuck, Arkansas?
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: Don’t even have to click to sarcastically comment that it’s good to see Rushbo will die trying to redeem himself.
mrmoshpotato
I love how this post’s title gives no hints about the contents. It’s pure “Oh what the fuck have the assholes done now?!”
Steeplejack (phone)
@BruceFromOhio:
Almost top 10,000. But we’re tryin’!
Keith P.
“Holy Fuckballs” to a stupid NYT headline??!?!??? I figured this *had* to be a post about Kellyanne Conway leaving the White House.
sdhays
@mrmoshpotato: Closer than you might think.
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
I’ve said for a while, that if we have any sort of truth(/reconciliation/retribution/revelation) commission, the high editors of the major newspapers need to be forced into the commission under oath. If those editors decline to show up, send out the marshals, if they refuse to swear, imprison them for contempt of congress.
It clears the first amendment, no laws are being passed, but the leaders of those institutions need to publicly defend their decisions in front of everyone. If the editors lie to congress under oath, that’s a completely different thing.
mrmoshpotato
@Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]: Do we get to beat the CNN board with all the empty podiums?
Brachiator
@Hunter Gathers:
David Brooks bought a meal for a black man at an Applebee’s, just to watch him dine.
LeftCoastYankee
The press loves pushing the Willie Horton as the only factor of Bush’s comeback in ’88, because it’s pretty obviously fucking racist (not that they said so then), and it makes them less complicit in being rubes in Atwater’s deluge of ratfucking bullshit.
Other R bullshit aided and abetted by the media from ’88:
Also didn’t help Dukakis that all the (quite extensive) ratfucking of the Democratic field during the primaries originated with his campaign. He did not have deep and broad support from his opponents (as Biden now does) in the general election.
I’m not saying that the Willie Horton crap wasn’t epic racist bullshit, but Atwater’s gang was able to get the press to regurgitate an extraordinary amount of bullshit during that campaign. Never really sure why Dukakis’ campaign lost it’s hardball edge in the general….
short version: NYT lazy/don’t know history
Martin
Look, I’ve got Cole’s back on this one. Any front page article worth its shit is going to be continued on page 17.
Welcome to page 17.
Mai naem mobile
I signed up on my local Next Door a few months ago. It’s mostly lost pets/referrals for skilled trades/yard guys/house cleaners etc. I live in a blue dot area in AZ. We had an incident over a year ago where a 14 yr old kid got shot running away after getting caught breaking into a car. The kid was carrying an airsoft gun. It was ruled a homicide but the county prosecutor declined to file charges. Anyhow the city paid out $2M several weeks ago. The new mayor(first black mayor for the city) has set a Public Safety Advisory Board to look into policing overall and see what can be done to make things work better and this was announced on Next Door. What followed this were just some ugly posts from what sounded like Trumpers. Ofcourse they don’t use the n word or anything but lots of blue lives matter/’you only see racism ‘ garbage. This is the only post I’ve ever seen on this Next Door get ugly. And then mysteriously two different people came in posting about kids being killed – I think one was in NC and the other in WA – by shock surprise – blackity blackity black guys out of jail on bail. They’re working really hard on pulling another Willie Horton.
John Cole
well fuck
Martin
But the NYT much prefers the days when it was much easier to pick stories and advertise to a nicely uniform white racist populace. When a Willie Horton ad dropped, they knew exactly what side the public would be on, but now it’s hard.
Brachiator
@debbie:
I’m glad that the people interviewed ultimately said that Harris and the Democrats need to shake this nonsense off and go after the Republicans and bring them down.
Limbaugh is scum. Isn’t he supposed to be ill? Stupid way to spend whatever time is left to him.
cmorenc
@debbie:
A year and a half from now, Kamala Harris will be alive and VP and Rush Limbaugh will be dead and will have found out what the penalty in the afterlife is for having been a complete asshole in life.
Quinerly
Anyone posted about the strange interview that Falwell Jr gave “confessing” that his bizarre behavior lately has been because of an affair his wife had 8 years ago with the 21 yo pool boy? Me thinks he is trying to get ahead of something a lot more damaging. Michael Cohen’s book is coming out…
Ruckus
@mrmoshpotato:
A taint away.
Quinerly
@Quinerly: link
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/exclusive-falwell-says-fatal-attraction-threat-led-to-depression
Anne Laurie
Glad you agree with me on this one, Cole!
Since it’s officially After Dark, I will add that my own personal conspiracy theory, back in 1988, was that the Repubs were running their first tentative online vote-fvckery campaign. Of course all my politically-minded friends were shocked I could even consider such a thing, because this was America and surely non of the dozens or hundreds of conspirators necessary for such maneuvers would even consider such an authoritarian move…
We were all so much more innocent, then.
Brachiator
@Quinerly:
Damn. Falwell Jr is throwing his wife under the pool boy?
Stupid, and a cowardly thing to do.
oatler.
@Brachiator:
Like Norman Mailer said about the characters in Naked Lunch, they’re divorced from eternity.
NotMax
IMHO, an oft ignored (and crucial) alteration of the landscape from 1988 to today is the jump in the numbers who are unaffiliated with or reject organized religions.
From late 2019:
Don’t have comparative numbers from 1988 at hand but would confidently surmise they were in the single digits.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Quinerly: From an affair his wife had 8 years ago?
Sure Jerry we believe you.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator:
Sounds like she’s already been there.
Ivan X
Looks like someone got a memo, or maybe they just heard Cole cursing. They’ve changed the subhed to say “For Biden, a cautionary tale. For Trump, a negative strategy for rebounding in a race.”
Which isn’t really that much better. It’s just less obviously offensive.
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Give him a break, his entire life was one lie after another for donations, why should this incident be any different?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Brachiator:
Allegedly Falwell went public because the pool boy has been trying to blackmail them.
Sister Golden Bear
@Quinerly: It’s not an affair if you’re also participating in it….
HumboldtBlue
Another unarmed black man is shot in the back. Seven times.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Steeplejack (phone):
Falwell might be trying to get ahead of some even bigger story that is looming in the background.
Redshift
@Mai naem mobile: I got an email of a new post on my local Next Door with the tantalizing truncated text:
By the time I clicked through, it had already been deleted. Dunno if it was actually an obnoxious GOP post, or if it was someone trolling Republicans, or what.
Redshift
Oh, also, I had a print copy of The Epoch Times dropped on my doorstep a couple of days ago. I didn’t even know they had a print edition. Could be related to having put up a Biden sign recently, or could just be random.
mrmoshpotato
@Redshift: Got a charcoal grill? Buy a chimney starter.
Anne Laurie
Yes, but ‘The woman tempted me.. ‘ is one of the few Bible verses these guys actually design their lives around. When in doubt, blame the chick — that makes it everybody’s fault, ergo nobody’s fault!
Brachiator
@Steeplejack (phone):
A Daily Beast article notes the following.
So he responds to the threat by getting photographed on a boat with a woman and his pants unzipped?
Talk about Southern Gothic.
And Falwell may have been involved in a business deal with the pool guy.
What a mess.
RaflW
Any threads talking about the Kenosha, WI cops shooting an unarmed black man tonight? It is the same fucking story over and over. And over and over.
Damn.
brantl
@Redshift: Make sure it isn’t full of dogshit and matchheads, along with the bullshit that’s printed in it.
RaflW
@Brachiator: He is trying like mad to get out in front of the real story. He has a Linsey Graham problem, surely.
And while I can understand not being up on the unsavory details of a fast-falling evangelical star, he was definitely involved in a business deal with the pool boy. And a different, shady deal involving Liberty assets with the personal trainer (also an attractive and unattached young man).
Ruckus
@HumboldtBlue:
@RaflW:
Just read an update, man is in the ICU and is expected to recover.
That’s about as shitty as it gets, shooting that guy with his 4 young kids in the car. We don’t know what happened other than the shooting, any possible cause why, but my first reaction was not fucking again. And again and again……..
I’ve watched it a number of times, nothing makes sense about this at all. Which makes me wonder, what the ever loving fuck.
Mai naem mobile
@Redshift: the Next Door thing just bothers me because it just opened my eyes to what I thought was my little blue bubble.
Re: Epoch Times – They sell the Epoch Times print version at my CVS. I was honestly shocked the first time I saw it. Its at the front of the store in a small display with one or two other magazines ,not in a bigger aisle display with a bunch of other magazines. I’ve never even noticed a National Enquirer at this store!
Alison Rose
@John Cole:
I nominate this for a rotating tag.
Brian
@Mai naem mobile: I first saw that rag years ago as a free drop off at my laundromat. And if you watch broadcast TV, there was a big ad blitz a few weeks ago featuring a clean-cut young man (white, of course) talking about stories the epoch times carried that the mainstream media won’t touch or some such nonsense. Haven’t seen any of them lately.
Sebastian
@Mai naem mobile:
You should see NextDoor here in Los Angeles, especially Venice Beach. Holy shit, a cesspool of fascists who want to burn down homeless encampments and worse.
today I called out a guy, telling him that arson was still, you know, a felony and his response was to post a picture of Augusto Pinochet meme with “need a lift?”. Yes, free helicopter death flights.
Make no mistake, there are a lot of people who will not only stay passive when goons round you up, they’ll cheer them on or even join them.
Remember, the cruelty is the point. It is up to us to identify these individuals and no longer ignore their existence.
patrick II
@Alison Rose:
I agree. A phrase this eloquent has to be saved.
Bill Arnold
@Redshift:
Have received Epoch Times in the mailbox at least once.
Frankly, they need to be destroyed. Here’s a current and typical headline:
“Outbreak of CCP Virus at Maine Wedding Reception Increases State Case Count”
J R in WV
@John Cole:
Cole:
I love your headline for this thread, thanks for being up front about how you feel about this racism bullshit. Of course it isn’t the only corrupt thing the Trumpistas are doing to be reelected, but it is one of the more hateful things.
Ignoring the weather event in Iowa, the wildfires in California, the dueling hurricanes about to hit the Mississippi Delta, those are all hateful too, and will cause huge loss of property and life, and should also be in a massive ad-buy by the Democratic party.
ETA:
Also, regarding Limbaugh and his spew of hatred and racism towards Senator Kamala Harris, it is who he is. Just because he has a usually fatal case of lung cancer doesn’t change the fact that he is a despicable racist. He can’t stop, it is who he is.