Did you know that you’re a figment? Did you know that your neighbors, the kids that your kids play with, you’re dentist, the teller at your bank, aren’t really there? They’re just an illusion. A phantasm. Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord has declared it so, and so it must be because a Trumpkin said so while discussing the furor over a speech by Alt-Nazi leader Richard Spencer at Texas A&M.
“This guy [Spencer] is so far on the fringe of American politics. He has nothing do with Donald Trump. I don’t care how much he talks about it. And Donald Trump doesn’t want anything do with him,” Lord said.
Addressing Trump’s vague disavowal of the white nationalist movement that supports him, it was pointed out that “People of color who are watching take a different perspective–” only to have Lord interject.
“There are no people of color in this country, “Lord bluntly stated. “There are only Americans.”
Yeah, nothing to do with Trump except for throwing up the Nazi salute and screaming “Heil Trump” while at a conference in Washington. And, oh yeah, the fact that Trump’s chief strategic advisor has spent the last few years publishing articles rationalizing, justifying and normalizing Spencer’s movement not only as not a at all Racist, but also part of the new Conservative mainstream that has replaced the Tea Party.
You thought the Tea Party gave the GOP a headache? Wait until you get a load of the alt-right.
Moreover, the young warriors of Generation Trump are increasingly winning over their parents. Middle-aged people cheering about being “on the Trump train”? The alt-right did that. Now Ryan, and others like him, face a dynamic new conservative insurgency that is at odds with many of the Establishment’s cherished beliefs.
The alt-right knows that when attacks happen on American soil following immigration from cultures that hate America and loathe western values, aided and abetted by cucks like Paul and his cohorts, that Ryan will be the first to solemnly call for God’s blessings on Americans, perhaps with a tear in his eye.
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It is this type of hypocrisy that the alt-right rejects completely. Globalist Paul says Trump’s Muslim ban isn’t in America’s interests, which he defines through the profits of a slim number of mega-corporations, rather than, I dunno, Americans staying alive and not living in fear of waking up to another Orlando massacre.
So when he said Spencer has nothing to do with Trump, he doesn’t— except he has everything to do with what Trump’s chief advisor has spent the last few years advocating as the center of the new modern Conservative movement.
It seems to me that the people who claim, as do the alt-Nazis, that Muslims should be banned from America simply for being Muslims, or someone who stands by idly as his father proclaims “I don’t rent to Niggers” or someone who says “Mexicans are [mostly] Rapists & Criminals”, and that Mrs Khan must not have spoken during the DNC because her “faith wouldn’t let her”, that a Judge’s judgement and integrity can’t be trusted because of his “heritage”, that black people are “inherently lazy”, how he doesn't like them counting “his money”, that they have “never had it worse” — when they sure as shit did have it worse during Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Bush Recession — that they will get “shot in the street” and someone who repeatedly retweets bigoted posts and memes from white supremacist sites — certainly isn’t thinking that there are no people of color in America.
Obviously he knows there are and he really doesn’t seem to like or respect them very much, or at all.
Lord has a long history of talking his ridiculous nonsense that the only people who “racist” are people who complain and attempt to combat racism. Or to put it another way Democrats.
For him the Dixiecrats who rebelled and ran Strom Thurman in their own party against Truman after he desegregated the Military never happened. Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” didn’t happen. That Millions of black people who had previously been Republicans for decades after Lincoln didn't all switch party affiliation to Democrat, and the southern conservatives who had been Democrats and voted for the likes of George Wallace or Thurman didn’t nearly all switch to the Republican party after the Civil Rights and Voting Rights act where signed by Johnson.
He still thinks it’s 1954, politically. That pretty much nothing has changed since then.
Panelist and Clinton supporter Maria Cardona then unloaded on Lord.
“Jeffrey, the reality is the following,” she began. “You as a white American have had a very different experience in this country than me as a Latina. I’m sure people do not come up to you to say you should be deported, your children should be deported because they’re anchor babies.”
After a smirking Lord told Cardona, “Your party has yet to apologize for slavery,” she continued saying Trump needs to address racism head on.
Uh, yeah, about that Apology thingy. That actually happened in 2008.
On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crow laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society.
Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, drafted the resolution. Cohen explains the apology's long journey for Congressional approval and the significance of its timing.
It’s simply not true that the only “racists” in America are the people trying to keep track of all the nearly one thousand incidents of violence, harassment and intimidation that people of color have been receiving since the victory of President-Elect Pepe. It’s not true that simply acknowledging that the concept of race exists both biologically and culturally, is “racism.” That’s just recognizing reality. Trying to pretend that blondes aren’t blondes or brunettes aren’t brunettes isn’t going to change how people react to either. Racism is something more than just admitting we all have differences, it’s pretending or arguing that those differences are more important than anything else we have in common. Like being human.
One of the worst things about this election is not only that we’ll have to deal with out-and-out racism occurring on our streets with people screaming “Trump Trump Trump” to terrorize people of color and the rising potential of racial abuse under color of authority, we have to listen to fucking frackholes like this fatuous jizz wipe who will blatantly claim that up is down, blue is red, gravity makes things fall upward, that Nationalism isn’t just as much of an “-ism” as Racism with all the same destructive potential, and that Donald Trump did not openly and clearly endorse, embolden and enhance the alt-Nazi movement of people like Spencer.
Not even when that’s exactly what Spencer says and it’s exactly what Trump’s chief strategist has been publishing on his website for the last few years. If anyone should know, it’s them.