longweekend58 wrote on Jul 20
th, 2019 at 9:31am:
SadKangaroo wrote on Jul 20
th, 2019 at 9:18am:
Johnnie wrote on Jul 20
th, 2019 at 9:03am:
Well 'the squad' went down like a lead balloon, what made them think they could succeed when the entire media and all the celebs failed, will they promise to leave the US when Trump is re elected.
Trump handled these turds well, he simply told them to leave the US.
Spin it all you like, that's not what happened.
I think part of the problem is that the alt-right (or the entire right) now rejects the notion of criticism of the US or of Trump and believes it to be something akin to a crime. The irony is of course that Trump has spent the last 20 years criticising the US and of course, President Obama.
But trying to get a trump supporter to see the hypocrisy is akin to arguing with a flat-earther - an experience in its own right.
Trump supporters have lost the distinction between country and president. They had no issues attacking Obama when he was President, criticising his policies (even if they didn't know that Obamacare and the Affordable Health Care Act was the same thing) and even disagreeing with his military decisions, but now that Trump is in office, he has on multiple occasions made it clear that the "fake news" media are unamerican and unpatriotic for reporting negative facts about him.
Not supporting Trump means you don't support the country, that's the line.
But the duty of a patriot is if there is an issue with the country, make it known, take a stand and try to fix it, especially for the elected representatives.
Right now a lot of Trump's policies are the problem. Putting country above President, above Party, that's what the true patriots used to do.
Now that gets you called unamerican and you're told to go back to the crime-infested country you came from (which for 3 out of 4 of them IS AMERICA, the 4th being an American Citizen for 20+ years). Unless Trump is simply talking about their ethnicity, then many of those he's attacking, their families have been in the US longer than his, so he should go back to Germany.
But this is Trump and his supporters, the same rules don't apply, and Trump isn't brown.
The racism used to be excused by his supporters and his apologists and being purely about illegal immigration. These 4 are all legal American citizens AND democratically elected officials. They ARE Americans. The problem with the tweets and the chanting crowds is now that excuse can't be used anymore.
It's not about illegal immigrants anymore, it's just pure racism.
The apologists and the Trumptards will continue to defend the indefensible but it will continue to get harder and harder until real lives are lost because of the rhetoric of a petty and weak man who can't stand up to 4 women who are smarter than he is.
He's just knocked over his King on all 4 dimensions of his chess game, of which he's been playing checkers all along anyway.