In this video of interviews with Trump supporters, you will see and hear the wildest false theories on Earth. And they just keep coming.
Q: If Donald Trump doesn’t win what are you gonna do?
#MAGA Woman #1: I think I’m gonna die. You like our country the way it is now?
The economy has had the fastest recovery from an economic recession in history thanks to the American Rescue Act. Unemployment is at its lowest sustained level historically since 1969 after (re)creating 14 million jobs. GDP is at a near-historic high of 4.9%, Biden cut the deficit by a historic amount of $1.3 Trillion, the Stock market is on the rise, inflation is down to 3.7% and dropping to 2% while wages are growing at 4.3%. This drop will also bring down interest rates soon. Medicare can negotiate prescription drug prices. Insulin is capped at $35. We have the lowest uninsurance rate for medical care in history. The country is embarking on a once-in-a-century Infrastructure Project, and chip manufacturing which has brought back 250,000 manufacturing jobs as well as dramatic new initiatives in Clean Energy which has grown greater than coal, while oil production and exports are at an all-time high. And lastly, Biden has issued executive orders protecting LGBTQ rights, abortion rights and addressing police reform.
Yes, I like the country the way it is now.
And I’d prefer that it continued improving rather than backsliding. Pound by pound, issue by issue America was never as potentially “great” as it is right now.
#MAGA Man #1: … like Obama for all the things that are true about him that is not in the mainstream media. Like his favorite beau Michael. Oh, I mean Michelle. I could go on - there’s no sense in going further than that.
Q: And his wife?
Man #1: You mean the person he cohabitates with yes.
Q: The mother of his 2 daughters?
Man #1 (Shakes head) Ok. Say what you want but I don’t believe that either. I don’t believe that Michael had children.
Q: Michael who?
Man #1: The one you call Michelle Obama.
Q: That’s his wife…
Man #1: Ok. I think we can suspend this conversation because I don’t agree.
Q: You don’t agree that’s his wife?
Man #1: I agree that’s just me. [Continued] But I don’t she passes physically to be a man - er to be a woman, I’m sorry.
Q: What gives you that thought?
Man #1: Lots of reasons to believe that.
Q: You think Melania trump is a man?
Man #1: No.
Q: Why would you think Michelle Obama is a man? Man #1: (smiles) Uh.
Q: I’m genuinely curious.
Man #1: Do a little research, just do a little research.
Q: That’s like out there.
Man #1: What’s out there is the fact that her walking out in a skirt and there’s an obvious bulge where there shouldn’t be one, and it’s not contained. Dancing on stage with Ellen Degeneris there’s an obvious disparity in, um, her gender.
Michelle Obama is a woman. She’s always been a woman, she was born that way. She’s just tall.
This is nonsense, ranking right up there with the idea that Hillary Clinton eats babies.
Maga Man #2: I think they’ve been after him so long that all of this is a witch hunt like he described. I don’t think there’s anything that Trump’s done wrong. I think that the desperate opposition is just after him. I mean they started out, they’ve been after him 8 different ways. They’re gonna keep after him until they can get him in jail.
MAGA woman #2: This politicization of the Justice Dept. I would say they suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Q: There are people that think that you suffer from it.
Woman #2: (Laughs) Yeah, but they don’t have an argument they just don’t like Trump.
People have good reason for not liking Trump, but in this case, he’s up against 91 charges because he committed 91 (and counting) crimes. He did steal classified documents then lied about it in order to keep them. He did try to reverse the results of the election with fake electors and sent a violent mob to the Capitol to intimidate Mike Pence into using those electors and reversing the election results. He did falsify the values of his properties to increase the amounts banks would loan him and decrease the amount of his taxes.
His charity was fake. His “university” was fake. He openly admitted to committing sexual assault, he’s a rapist. He’s a criminal.
However, the truth is that the FBI has repeatedly protected Trump starting with agents and former agents out of the New York office, including Jim Kallstrom who was leaking information about the Clinton investigation to Rudy Giuliani. One of the main reasons that James Comey revealed the Anthony Weiner emails to Congress 11 days before the election was the fact that he expected it to be leaked by Kallstom and Giuliani (And in fact, Giuliani did hint that “some pretty big surprises” were coming on Fox News) That revelation — even though it led nowhere — gave Trump the boost he needed to edge out Clinton in 2016. He probably wouldn’t have gone to the White House without help from the FBI. There were also so many agents who were fans of Trump — they themselves called it “Trumpland.”
Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.
Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record, have described a chaotic internal climate that resulted from outrage over director James Comey’s July decision not to recommend an indictment over Clinton’s maintenance of a private email server on which classified information transited.
“The FBI is Trumpland,” said one current agent.
The DOJ Inspector General’s office investigated Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for bias because they texted each other and were critical of Trump. He found that they did their jobs legitimately and didn’t let political concerns affect them.
The OIG identified several separate acts that created an appearance that political bias could have influenced certain actions or decisions. The FBI accepts that text messages exchanged over FBI-issued devices by certain FBI employees, primarily Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, demonstrated extremely poor judgment and a lack of professionalism. The FBI also accepts that the content of these messages, critical of political candidates, brought discredit upon those exchanging them and harmed the FBI’s reputation. Similarly, the FBI accepts that the decision to allow Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson to be present during the interview of former Secretary Clinton was inconsistent with typical investigative strategy and created an appearance that political bias could have influenced this decision, especially when viewed in the light of messages exchanged between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page.
Despite the appearance of bias created by these actions, the OIG found no evidence that bias affected any investigatory decision or action. As determined by the OIG, there was no evidence of bias or other improper considerations in former Director Comey’s instruction to complete the MYE investigation “promptly.” Likewise, the OIG considered multiple decisions and actions taken by the MYE team related to obtaining evidence, interview timing and procedures, and the use of consent or immunity agreements. No evidence of bias or other improper considerations was found by the OIG in the MYE team’s: use of consent, rather than subpoenas, search warrants, or other legal process to obtain evidence; decisions regarding how to limit consent agreements; decision not to seek personal devices from former Secretary Clinton’s senior aides; decisions to enter into immunity agreements; decisions regarding the timing and scoping of former Secretary Clinton’s interview, or to proceed with the interview with Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson present; and, the decision to obtain testimony and other evidence from Ms. Mills and Ms. Samuelson by consent agreement and with act-of-production immunity.
When Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein assigned Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate Trump - he only allowed him to investigate criminal actions and didn’t let him do a counterintelligence investigation of Trump’s many links to Russia.
According a report by The New York Times’ Michael S. Schmidt, Rosenstein directed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to limit the scope of his inquiry to possible crimes, not national security threats. Rosenstein made that order without telling the FBI, which had launched the investigation because counterintelligence investigators thought Trump’s links to Russia posed a potential national security threat, the report said. […] Andrew McCabe, who was the interim FBI director after Trump fired James Comey and who urged Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel to take over the investigation he had launched, told Schmidt he believed Mueller’s team was looking into counterintelligence matters. “I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team,” McCabe said. “If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that.
“It was first and foremost a counterintelligence case,” McCabe added. “Could the president actually be the point of coordination between the campaign and the Russian government? Could the president actually be maintaining some sort of inappropriate relationship with our most significant adversary in the world?”
So all the time that everyone thought Mueller was investigating “collusion” with Russia (which isn’t a crime) he literally wasn’t doing that at all because Rosenstein wouldn’t let him. He was only investigating criminal acts — and he couldn’t indict Trump because OLC rules didn’t allow for the sitting President to be charged with a crime.
He did however find that 5 Trump associates lied under oath about their communications with Russians, 25 Russians were indicted for hacking and election interference and he also found 10 instances of obstruction by Trump, but AG Bill Barr decided to drop the election interference and obstruction cases, and then lied about the conclusions of the Mueller report.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sharply rebuked Attorney General William Barr’s handling of the special counsel’s Russia report, saying Barr had made “misleading public statements” to spin the investigation’s findings in favor of President Donald Trump and had shown a “lack of candor.”
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton delivered the criticism in a 23-page order in which he directed the Justice Department to provide him with an unredacted version of the report so that he could decide if any additional information from the document could be publicly disclosed.
The scolding was unusually blunt, with Walton saying Barr had appeared to make a “calculated attempt” to influence public opinion about the report in ways favorable to Trump. The rebuke tapped into lingering criticism of Barr, from Democrats in Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller himself, that he had misrepresented some of the investigation’s most damning findings.
On top of all that Special Counsel Jack Smith is no partisan. He had previously prosecuted Democratic Senators John Edwards and Bob Menendez.
The argument that the FBI is just “run by Democrats” who are simply out to “get Trump” is literally ridiculous. They’ve repeatedly protected Trump from investigation and prosecution. He should have already been indicted for the 10 cases of obstruction and being “Individual #1” on the Michael Cohen case, but the DOJ and FBI let the statute of limitations on that run out. They let him get away with that scott free.
Q: If Trump were to lose a second time, what do you think the reset would have to be for Repubicans.
MAGA Man #2: Things would get so bad it would almost be in a communist type of zone, where we might not be able to farm anymore.
What the actual fuck is he talking about? Trump’s wrong-headed tariffs against China were devastating to the farming community.
Agriculture exports to China dropped by more than half last year. In 2017, China imported $19.5 billion in agricultural goods, making it the second-largest buyer overall for American farmers. In 2018, that dropped to $9.2 billion as the trade war escalated, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
This year [2019], China’s agricultural imports from the U.S are down roughly 20%, and U.S. grain, dairy and livestock farmers have seen their revenue evaporate as a result. Over the last 6 years, farm income has dropped 45% from $123.4 billion in 2013 to $63 billion last year, according to the USDA.
Anyhoo...
MAGA Woman #3: I’m talking about our world view, everybody is laughing at America. Because we have the weakest President we’ve ever had in our history. He likes everybody but America.
If she means “weak” because of Afghanistan, it was actually Trump who negotiated our surrender to the Taliban by leaving the Afghan government out of the negotiations. It was also Trump who abandoned our allies the Kurds in Syria, and who repeatedly tried to drop sanctions against Russia even though they were still illegally holding territory in Crimea, which gave them a green light to invade Ukraine.
And it was Trump who was literally laughed at by the UN even though he wasn’t telling a joke.
Trump: In less than 2 years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. Crowd: (Laughs)
Trump: America is… so true. Didn’t expect that reaction but that’s ok.
Trump and his ridiculous grandiose delusional bragging is the laughing stock. In contrast, Biden strongly said “Never bet against America” during the 2016 Democratic Convention.
Biden: Given a fair shot, given a fair chance. Americans have never let their country down. Ordinary people like us, can do extraordinary things. We’ve had candidates before who tried to get elected by appealing to our fears. But they’ve never succeeded because we do not scare easily.
We never bow, we never bend, we never break when confronted with crisis. We endure, we overcome and we always, always, always move forward.
That’s why I can say, with absolute conviction, that I am more optimistic about our chances today than when I was elected as a 29 year-old kid to the Senate.
The 21st Century is going to be The American Century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America. And God willing Hillary Clinton will write the next chapter in that journey. We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line.
This guy “doesn’t love America?” That is nonsense.
MAGA Woman #3: Well, because he’s crooked. He’s gotten a lot of money, millions over the years with his son Hunter.
There is no evidence that Joe Biden profited from his son’s business deals. None. Devon Archer testified to this, he said that Joe never discussed business with Hunter or his partners. Shockingly, right-wing media forgets to mention this.
Also, Joe Biden has been literally one of the poorest people in Congress.
Biden said people may look at him and say he has "a mildly expensive suit on" and that "he's vice president of the United States of America," but nevertheless, "this is the poorest man in Congress," Biden told the crowd. "He still makes a lot of money as vice president of the United States, and I do, by the way, I do."
"I don't own a single stock or bond. … I have no savings accounts," he said. "But I got a great pension and I got a good salary."
"I've been really, really fortunate," Biden said.
Biden's net worth is estimated to be between $39,000 and $800,000 according to the Center for Responsive Politics. President Obama is estimated to be worth between $3 million and $8 million.
The median net worth for a member of Congress was $442,000 in 2012, according to Roll Call.
If he didn’t grab at the cash that flows through Washington over 50 years, why would he do it now?
MAGA woman #3: But the thing of it is Russia, China, everybodies laughing because we have no strength of the America of 10 years ago.
10 years ago, in 2014, Joe Biden was Vice President. Russia is now suffering under crippling sanctions as a result of their invasion of Ukraine, and the Ukraine Army is grinding them down to a nub. Secretary Blinken just took a trip to China to help repair our relationship, and that seems to be progressing well, so far. Yesterday officers from China visited the Pentagon in the first direct military-to-military talks in 4 years.
Compare that to Trump himself earning as much as $200 Million for Foreign companies while in the White House.
Trump’s financial disclosures, filed as recently as July 2020, show Trump reported earning over $47 million from foreign business interests in 2019. The president continued to hold at least $73 million and up to $150 million in foreign assets through a revocable trust at the end of 2019, evidence suggesting Trump has continued to profit from foreign business interests to an even greater extent than the New York Times’ review of Trump’s tax returns exposed.
The New York Times’ reporting shed new light on Trump’s taxes and business dealings during his time at the White House, revealing an unprecedented level of foreign business entanglements for a sitting U.S. president. Trump reportedly earned at least $73 million in 2017 and 2018 from his properties abroad, according to the review of Trump’s tax returns. But Trump’s refusal to release his actual tax returns leaves gaps in disclosure, and financial disclosures analyzed by OpenSecrets reveal that Trump continued to profit from foreign business interests even more than the Times reporting shows.
And they claim that Biden is corrupt?
Q: Would you ever date a Democrat?
MAGA Man #3: Hell no.
Q: What if she was the greatest girl, the kindest, nicest…beautiful… had the same sort of social values, she just voted for a Democrat?
Man #3: I could date her but I couldn’t marry her. I mean c’mon.
He could hit it, but he wouldn’t put a ring on it? Classy.
Q: What does woke mean?
MAGA Woman #4: Woke means, to me, it’s like policies in the schools, companies that are forcing people — basically — to just go along with the tide.
You mean the tide against being a bigoted asshole?
Woman #4: When a lot of people don’t even want it, but they don’t want to fight.
Q: So like LGBTQ rights is that like forcing people to…
Woman #4: Not rights. I mean like I said everybody should have rights, but like it’s really being forced upon children in school, like the things that are being taught to them - like their having parents don’t have rights, the rights of parents are being diminished and the rights of the government and school system are being expanded, and so our kids are in danger. Kids are getting mutilated and making choices …
If you had a 10-year-old kid would you let them get a tatoo? You’d be like “Should I get a tatoo?” Sure, get a tattoo on both arms. No, you wouldn’t do that we’re letting kids decide, at like young teens, like 12-year-olds, change your life forever. Cut off your body part.
Q: Gender reassignment?
Woman #4: Just all those things, all those things should not be encouraged.
Nothing this woman said is true. No one is “cutting off body parts” for 12-year-olds. Medical guidelines for gender reassignment surgery don’t allow for procedures for people under 18 except for very rare and extreme circumstances. And even then the cutoff is 16-17 years old with parental consent.
Transgender and non-binary people who begin transitioning during childhood or adolescence work closely with parents and health care providers — including mental health providers — to determine which changes to make at a given time that are age-appropriate and in the best interest of the child. At all stages, parents, young people and medical professionals make decisions together, and no permanent medical interventions happen until a transgender person is old enough to give truly informed consent.
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Transgender and non-binary people typically do not have gender-affirming surgeries before the age of 18. In some rare exceptions, 16 or 17 year-olds have received gender-affirming surgeries in order to reduce the impacts of significant gender dysphoria, including anxiety, depression, and suicidality. However, this is limited to those for whom the surgery is deemed clinically necessary after discussions with both their parents and doctors, and who have been consistent and persistent in their gender identity for years, have been taking gender-affirming hormones for some time, who have undergone informed consent discussions and have approvals from both their parents and doctors, and who otherwise meet standards of care criteria (such as those laid out by WPATH).
In all cases, regardless of the age of the patient, gender-affirming surgeries are only performed after multiple discussions with both mental health providers and physicians (including endocrinologists and/or surgeons) to determine if surgery is the appropriate course of action.
Kids are not being “taught” this - this is what current medical and psychological science has found. There are more than just XX and XY chromosomal pairs, pairings can include XO, XXY and XXX. The introduction and level of hormones during development can wildly change the development of gender-based organs. It’s even possible for someone with XY chromosomes to develop with completely female organs if they don’t receive proper amounts of testosterone. Gender fluidity is a scientific fact. Intersex persons exist, they’re real.
This is not happening with 12-year-olds, that would be totally against the medical guidelines — restricting this care for those who need it, as many states are attempting, is far more likely to lead to depression and suicide by those patients.
The suicide attempt rate among transgender persons ranges from 32% to 50% across the countries. Gender-based victimization, discrimination, bullying, violence, being rejected by the family, friends, and community; harassment by intimate partner, family members, police and public; discrimination and ill treatment at health-care system are the major risk factors that influence the suicidal behavior among transgender persons.
The attacks against this form of care are based on myth and conspiracies, not science or medicine. Yes, the kids are in danger - from uninformed people like her.
Q: They went after Richard Nixon, they went after Bill Clinton and now the courts in several different states are finding different things about Trump is there anything that could happen with him inditment-wise that would say “alright, this disqualifies him for president?”
MAGA Man #4: Not for me, I’m with him ‘til the finish.
Q: Thank you.
Man #4: He could stand on the front steps of the White House and commit murder I’m still with him.
Well, he did allow almost 500,000 Americans to die from COVID.
Q: Explain that to me, that’s amazing.
Man #4: He’s the only man we’ve had in my lifetime that’s stood for America as President. I was a George Herbert Walker Bush man and all that, but ain’t nobody compare to Donald Trump. He loves this country and that’s why I love him.
Q: Well, I’m going push back a little bit because Im guessing you’re a couple of months older than me, looking back at some Presidents like Eisenhower, like LBJ, like Gerald Ford, Reagan, Bush — who you mentioned — what about them didn’t stand for America in the way Trump does?
Man #4: Y’know, I think it’s got to do with the times we’re living in. America’s being assaulted, open borders, uh, all the issues, we all know the issues.
President Biden has arrested and expelled an all-time record of over 4 Million people at the border. The border is not “Open.”
Man #4: An nobodies stood under the attack the Trump’s stood under. And look what’s he’s done he’s hung in there.
You’re telling me that Hillary Clinton wasn’t investigated and attacked? Bill Clinton wasn’t investigated and attacked? Barack Obama wasn’t investigated — how long were people, including Trump, looking for his birth certificate — and attacked? I mean, people said he wasn’t even American, that he was “racist” and that he was a “Muslim.” Joe Biden isn’t being investigated and attacked right now? He’s got 2 Special Counsels investigating him.
Man #4 : He’s for us, he loves this country. I’m gonna support him to the end, I hope he wins, we need him.
Why do I get the feeling when he says “us”, “we” and “America” — he really means white people? Maybe that’s just me.
Q: Last question because you gotta go in, what would he have done differently than President Biden that would have made you think he was a better president?
Man #4: President Biden, um, y’know President Biden to me if he had not been a career politician he might have been better. He’s live in Washington all his life.
He’s lived in Delaware. He took the train home from Washington every week for 50 years.
Man #4: I think we need term limits, I think we need to stop all these old people from running Washington DC. It’s corrupt.
Q: Well, Trump - there isn’t a huge difference in age.
Trump is 77. Biden is 81. They are 3.5 years apart.
Man #4: I should rephrase that, the old people that have been in Washington, all their life.
Ok, well, that’s alright then.
Q: Say one nice thing about Joe Biden.
MAGA Women #2: I can’t.
Q: So, you just don’t like Biden.
Woman #2: Oh, because I’ve look at Biden when he was… he’s just totally corrupt how can you look beyond the corruption to say that this man could be a statesman representing the United States.
Yeah, it’s not like Biden owned a DC hotel that had foreign governments pay him $7.8 Million but since his company couldn't be bothered to figure out who the foreigners were he only paid $458,000 thousand back to the government as donations intended to offset the foreign money. It would be terrible if he did that.
Woman #2: The whole issue of his getting $millions with Hunter Biden, the media didn’t cover it at all. Why didn’t they cover that?
Because it didn’t happen. Biden has released his financial statements and his tax returns going back decades. People can look for themselves. It literally did. not. happen. If it had, James Comer would have found the smoking cashier’s check by now. Biden barely has $1 million in the bank, if that.
Q: So what do you trust?
Maga woman #1: I trust Donald Trump. What really annoys me is everyone remembers that one little blip - that Billy Bush put out there when he first started to run.
Q: About grabbing the…
Woman #1 : Yeah.. yeah.
Q: Well, it was pretty memorable.
She means when he admitted to sexual assault. After that, over two dozen women came forward to confirm they had been sexually assaulted by Trump. A court has found him liable for sexual assault and defamation.
Woman #1: Well if they remember that why don’t they remember the things that he did do?
Like increasing the deficit by $2 Trillion? Like throwing away the pandemic response plan, then completely blowing the response to Covid-19? Like repeatedly threatening to pull out of NATO? Like trying to cut sanctions on Russia multiple times, even though they were still occupying Crimea? Like ruining the Iran Nuclear deal? Like demanding that Saudi Arabia cut their oil production to increase oil prices? Like losing 250,000 jobs because of his tariffs against China?
Why don’t people remember any of that?
Q: Well he’s been indicted in 4 different cases and 91 charges.
Woman #1: None of that stuff is true. You now it’s not.
You couldn’t get past the grand jury and initial hearings if some of it wasn’t true. The cases would have been thrown out for lack of probable cause.
Q: I don’t know if it’s true. I’m just a journalist that sees.. how do you explain all these charges?
Woman #1: Well, it’s all made up. Yep. They’re all made up.
Q: So the interference case in Georgia, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro who worked for Donald Trump as lawyers, they just pleaded guilty…
Woman #1: I don’t believe that either. Nope, nope.
She doesn’t believe that 2 of Trump’s lawyers have pleaded guilty to lying about the 2020 election and trying to overturn it with fake electors? This isn’t an issue of “belief” — it’s a matter of fact. It’s not up for debate.
The latest guilty pleas from two key allies in Donald Trump's high-profile Georgia election interference case put new pressure on the former president and raise questions about whether his once-loyal associates may one day flip on him.
Two attorneys, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, pleaded guilty to related crimes this week and agreed to testify against other defendants. They had been charged with playing separate roles in an alleged multi-pronged conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Coming after a third defendant, Scott Hall, pleaded guilty in September, their deals bolster the weapons in prosecutors' toolbox, and may pressure other defendants to flip -- a move that would raise the legal stakes for Trump.
Q: So when they say…
Woman#1: I never turn on the news, I never turn on the TV.
Q: Where do you get your information?
Woman #1 : Telegram.
Q: Are there any liberal or progresive voices on Telegram?
Woman #1: I don’t know.
Q: Don’t you think it’s important to have different points of view?
Woman #1: Y’know I’d like to sit down with a liberal and have them tell me what so good about what’s going on now, but they won’t talk to you about it.
And you’d be surprised by that when your reaction to documented facts you don’t like is “Well, it’s all made up. I don’t believe that. Nope, nope?”
Q: What issue would you like to talk about?
Woman #1; I’d don’t know, what do you think is so great about what’s going on right now?
Q: I think what is great is that people in the United states right now have more oppurtunities than anywhere else around the world.
Woman #1: When was the last time you paid for a loaf of bread?
Q: I just went to the store the other day and I was glad to see that inflation is down.
Woman #1: (Laughs) Oh ho, no no.
Q: Unemployment is down. My 401k is doing great.
Woman #1: (Shakes head)
Q: You’re 401k is doing great. The markets are awesome.
Woman #1: (Shakes head) No. I can’t even.. see that’s why I can’t talk to a liberal.
Because apparently, you can’t accept facts. Inflation is down. the stock market is doing great. The price of a loaf of bread may not ever come back down frankly, because that would require deflation as the result of a recession, but wages are up. Things are on the upswing.
Q: If we can’t talk to each other what are gonna do?
Woman #1; (Walking away)
They’re gonna walk away. They’re going to ignore the truth even if you give it to them on a silver platter.
There are things that are real in this world, and there are things that are fantasy and lies. What would be the point of talking to you when you don’t know the difference? It would be pointless and fruitless.
This is the level of delusion we’re dealing with when you talk to MAGAs. They believe nothing but nonsense. They fully embrace a pile of ridiculous lies.
These people want to be the ones in control. These people want to set the rules and the policy for this nation.
We know that Right-Wing and social media have strategically disinformed these people. It’s not an accident that they have these views, but they have a choice in whether to believe this stuff or not. And they wilfully choose to believe it because it scapegoats others, and leaves them — white people — smelling like a rose and responsible for nothing.
Biden was absolutely correct, this is the “Second Lost Cause.”
Chris Christie, who just suspended his campaign, is absolutely right. Trump is unfit. And anyone who refuses to admit he’s unfit is also unfit. All his criticisms of Trump were absolutely correct. He told the truth, unvarnished and unrestrained. And look how Republican voters reacted to that truth? They recoil from it like a hot stove. There’s nothing that Christie could say to cut through their love for Trump.
They love Trump because he’s just as deluded and deranged as they are and he caters to their racist bigoted paranoia.
They’ve loved him ever since he slithered down the escalator and proclaimed “Mexicans are Rapists” without a shred of evidence. Now he says they're coming from “mental institutions” also, without evidence. Because they don’t need evidence, they just need hate and fear. They’re a pack of ignorant cowards. There’s no point in sugar-coating it. There’s no reason to deny it.
He tells them the lies they want to hear. He tells them everything is everyone else fault. He points his finger at gays for pedophilia and trans for mutilation. He points his finger at African Americans over crime, CRT, DEI and “reverse racism”. He points his finger at Latinos for “poisoning our blood”, Muslims over terrorism, and Jews over globalism. He attacks women for being “too woke.” He's basically calling Nikki Haley an “Anchor Baby” because her parents were born overseas, but his mother was a Scottish immigrant, his grandfather was a German immigrant, and 4 of his 5 children had a mother who is an immigrant. [He’s like Voldemort with his “Pure-Bloods, Half-Bloods and Mud-Bloods”] He calls his opponents “Vermin” as if they aren’t even human beings.
He believes and echoes every crackpot conspiracy under the sun. He’s a fucking racist kook.
And so are they.
And I don’t take accusations of racism and bigotry lightly. I don’t throw that around randomly - because it can be damaging, it is insulting, it is usually unfair and far too often it’s totally wrong.
I know, quite well, that Trump and most of his followers would reject the claim, they would vehemently argue that they aren’t “racists.”
They don’t use the N-word or anything. They don’t discriminate against anyone (or realize that they do.) They would argue “You’re just trying to play the ‘Race Card.’”
They may even believe that’s true. But y’know what the difference is between an avowed racist who openly admits how they feel and a person who claims they aren’t racist but still *AGREES* with every bigoted policy, claim and idea that an admitted racist would espouse?
Nothing.
How different is what this dramatized White Supremacist from American History X— played by Edward Norton— saying from what MAGAs are saying?
Hell, actually, he says it better than they do. What he’s saying about the King riots is exactly what they say about the Floyd riots. What he says about Rodney King’s beating isn’t any different from the excuses they make for the death of George Floyd.
This is how these people think. It’s exactly the same.
What they believe about themselves, doesn’t matter — what they do matters.
Even if someone doesn’t think they’re a racist, supporting Trump is a racist action. Supporting him supports implementing his wildly racist policies like his bigoted Muslim ban, his fight to whitewash history in our schools against teaching accurate African-American history, DEI and CRT — which doesn't teach kids to hate whites at all — his dangerous and discriminatory border policies, his attacks on Jews as “globalists”, his calling Covid-19 the “China Virus” which incited violence against Asians, and his battle against “wokeness” which is really just openly admitting that you support bigotry and violence against women and LGBTQ citizens.
It doesn't matter what someone thinks their motives are — it doesn't matter if they truly think they’re legitimately under attack and have to fight back and use that narrative as their excuse — because the people who can’t admit the truth to themselves may even be worse than those who do admit it, and they can be even more dangerous. Those are the people who used lies about the election and their frustration about the Floyd riots to attack the Capitol but they still deny their own motives as trying to get "payback". Those are the people who now whine that Capitol Rioters are being treated *worse* than Floyd Rioters even though that simply isn’t the case.
They've gone apeshit over the fact that two Floyd rioters were given probation for burning down a Wendy’s. It doesn't matter that this was the result of a plea deal for first offenders and that there’s a third offender who's been sentenced to five years on Federal charges. The first two have likely received reduced sentences in exchange for testifying against the third — just like members of the Proud Boys were offered plea deals that they turned down instead of accepting lesser sentences in exchange for testifying against Enrique Tarrio. They’re desperate to feel they’re being treated unfairly to justify their actions, but excuses after the fact don’t much matter. They just want to act out.
I know that many Republicans like to tout their support for the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but at the same time, these are the people who have gutted the Voting Rights Act which is allowing dozens of states to implement discriminatory Voter suppression and Gerrymandering initiatives that dilute the Black vote. These are the same people who fight against the enforcement of the Civil Rights Act against bias and discrimination in industry and housing. They argued in 2020 that voter fraud was happening in predominantly black cities such as Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta without any real evidence at all. Just because those voters were black, they were automatically “guilty” of some crime somehow. No proof or evidence was needed.
They claim to believe in Dr. King’s ideals, they embrace his words about judging people by their character rather than their race, but they are totally against the tools and process of actually doing that, protecting people from discrimination, and implementing the ideas and policies he marched, fought and died for. They love to talk the talk, but they can’t walk the walk.
Even the idea of “Make America Great Again” is largely a racist slogan that claims we need to go back to the times when White Men were on top of everything and unchallenged. When exactly was the time that “America was Great” while minorities weren’t being slammed?
When was that? During Jim Crow? During segregation? While COINTELPRO when the FBI was killing and framing innocent people? Before the riots at Stonewall? Before Kent State? After the Trail of Tears? While the KKK was lynching people left and right? After the Tuskegee experiment? After the Chinese Exclusion Act? After Operation Wetback? After the mass incarceration of the War on Drugs? After the internment of Japanese citizens? After the Dixiecrats ran Strom Thurmond against Truman on a segregation platform? When Goldwater opposed Civil Rights? During the Southern Strategy? After the Wilie Horton ad? After “super predators” and three strikes? Before women could vote? Before African Americans were considered citizens, or even people? Was it great after the Homestead Act which granted land stolen from Native American tribes exclusively to White Americans? Was it great as Native American children were herded into boarding schools where their culture, then language - and often their lives - were stripped away? Was it great while the Department of Agriculture was discriminating against Black farmers by unfairly denying them loans? Was it great while big banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America wrongly steered Black homeowners into subprime mortgage loans that exploded on contact? Before an unarmed Rodney King, an unarmed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Michael Brown, an unarmed Tamir Rice, an unarmed Adam Toledo, an unarmed Philando Castille, an unarmed Darren Crawford III, an unarmed Armaud Arbery, an unarmed Walter Scott, an unarmed Patrick Lyoya and an unarmed George Floyd were brutalized and killed by police and bigots in the street, most of them having not committed any crime at all? Was it before Obama was elected?
When exactly was that “Great” time?
Frankly, if you aren't White, straight, male and Christian, it's never been all that great. What’s been “great” has always been the potential for things to improve, what's been great has been the promise of “life, liberty and equality for all” even if that promise has never been completely fulfilled. It's only been slowly getting better little by little, and Trump and his people only want one thing.
To tear all that down. To take it all back to what it used to be.
To make America White Again.