(Above – I’ll text something on the down-low in a few days…)
Talk about your profiles in courage… the Racist-in-Chief attacks your friend, calling your friend a racist who represents a “filthy place” where “no human being would want to live” and you wait to respond to this outrage for three news cycles before sneaking out a text to ex-senator frothy mixture to read on CNN so you won’t have to mouth a rebuke of drumpf yourself….
“Republican Rep. Mark Meadows on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, roughly three days after the president’s onslaught of tweets against the Maryland lawmaker began.
Trump in tweets over the weekend accused Cummings of allowing his congressional district, which includes much of Baltimore, Maryland, to become consumed by poverty and crime. Trump described Cummings’ district, which is majority African-American, as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and a “very dangerous & filthy place.” After facing accusations of racism over his tweets, Trump called Cummings a racist.
Meadows on Monday texted former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who’s now a political commentator for CNN, stating, “No one works harder for his district than Elijah [Cummings]. He’s passionate about the people he represents, and no, Elijah is not a racist.”
The Republican lawmaker added, “I am friends with both men, President Trump and Chairman Cummings, and I know them both well, and neither is a racist. And he offered to go to Baltimore with President Trump to see what they could do to remediate some of the problems they have there.”
Of course the purpose of this ploy was not to defend Elijah Cummings, but to set up the false equivalence that both Cummings and Trump were called racists and Meadows can clear that all up right now by attesting that both are not.
That and threatening Baltimore with a visit.
Hasn’t that city suffered indignity enough at drumpf’s hands already, Mark?
It must be wonderful to be like meadows and have no clue what’s going on around you.
Soooo Meadows is saying that there are very fine people on both sides…..
……where have I heard that before?
*scratches head*
When white men say of other white men that they aren’t racist, I think what they often mean is that when they’re spending time with their friend they don’t hear any overt racism.
And that makes sense. I personally hate McDonalds. I’d rather eat an over cooked expired TV dinner that had been in the freezer for two years. But I haven’t mentioned McDonalds to any of my peers this year. It doesn’t come up, despite my completely biased views against the restaurant. But the fact that I don’t openly discuss it doesn’t mean I’m not biased against McDonalds. It just means it might not be evident to my peers. Did any of you know I hate McD’s? No…but I totally do.
Understanding my (mostly irrelevant) bias in this area might require my peers asking me, having a conversation, or looking at my words or actions outside of interactions with them.
What Meadows is doing is insisting on using ONLY his direct interactions with Trump to judge him. Which is a fallacious way for an elected leader to judge the issue. If he were responsible (and ethical) he’d seek outside information. Which would include a lifetime of Trump harming, denigrating, insulting, slandering, and mocking people of color. Considering that data, it’s really absurd not to come to the conclusion that Trump is indeed racist.
Or to use another weird metaphor, because I’m in that mood today, it’s like someone dumps out a box of puzzle pieces and says “you’re never going to be,I’ve what this makes.” Then I say, “it’s the album cover for Dark Side of the Moon” I don’t need to assemble the pieces because that’s one of the most iconic images in music history, and it would be completely obvious even as a pile of pieces. Trump’s racism is inherently obvious, even as a pile of pieces.
Why am I so babbly today? I’m just really tired of the nonsense. He’s racist. Time for his allies to shut up, or be complicit in the racism.
Meadows knows he a racist POS, just like he knows many of the people who vote for both of them are racist. It is good for him politically to ignore this so he will.
Maybe…but in my experience the human mind is a strange and wonderful thing. It can convince itself that fiction is truth. If someone hypothesized that Meadows told himself over and over that Trump isn’t racist based on anecdotal evidence, and that he literally believes that…psychology certainly informs us that this is possible.
But that’s a bit too philosophical. Yeah…the whole GOP is probably just lying because it’s politically convenient.