Who cares if there's a tape? Anyone with a modicum of brain power knows the truth already, and everyone else will just think it's fake news anyways. If even if the tape came out it would literally change nothing. This is just red meat for the media and we all should be focusing on more important and pressing things than the fact that the president is a racist.
Can't wait till they inevitably start trying to argue whether he said/meant to say "a" instead of "er."
Bar successfully lowered!She did it! Congrats Sarah. See, it's not that hard to not lie. You should try it more often
:lol
If it ever gets out, I can almost guarantee there will be a spin like that or ''Nigger is a word in the dictionary, who can blame the president for saying words that exist?''
Also, you know what, jobs and the economy aren't fucking everything. I'm so sick to fucking death of their defense on every possible thing being about how many new jobs there are.
"You're putting kids into concentration camps."
"Yeah but look how many new jobs we've made!!"
Alternative claims:
-It's not a big deal, he didn't use a hard-R
-he meant to say niggardly
I believe it
Well there is no tape yet so what are they going to report?How is this not massive news? it should be front page everywhere
If there's a tape I want Tom Arnold's face superimposed over the ResetEra logo for a week.
How is this not massive news? it should be front page everywhere
Can't wait till they inevitably start trying to argue whether he said/meant to say "a" instead of "er."
How is this not massive news? it should be front page everywhere
"But black people have the lowest unemployment rate since the 70s, how can Trump be racist?"
Pretty sure the Access Hollywood tape was an October Surprise. Wikileaks just happened to coincidentally start leaking Podesta's emails an hour after the Access Hollywood story broke.
It would have, but the media was too busy running victory laps, and pretending it was a lock instead of a close-ass race.
How is this not massive news? it should be front page everywhere
yea but nah, that shit can be weaponized like crazy against him and his base. it's a smoking gun for all the idiots who don't follow politics to know he is clearly racist. it would hurt him tremendouslyBecause when we get right down for it, everyone sane know's he's a racist and knows there's a 99% change he said this.
And, when we get right down to it, we know that audio of him saying the n-word will just embolden his base and have them all saying "see, he's just like us"
They never point out our household income. I wonder why...This should be further proof that many white Americans parade out the "black jobs" argument to:
1) minimize and silence real critique from people of color and their allies about the serious damage this country does every day to minorities.
2) portray black people as "ungrateful"
3) pat themselves on the back for other people's work.
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1029413672316227585Susan Hennessey
I'm going to make a prediction that may be naive and might be proven wrong soon enough. But I honestly believe that if a tape of the President saying the n-word is made public, he will be forced to resign or at a minimum not run for reelection.
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1029459203830759424Rick Wilson
Disagree. It will be the introduction of that word into the GOP's political vocabulary. It'll be shrugged off, forgiven, normalized, and then praised as a transgression that shakes up the system. Watch.
On the one hand, I understand why the tape is a big deal, but it must be really demoralizing for black people - if this tape ends up swaying opinion - that your need the most concrete, impossible to dispute, explicit kind of receipt to back up an assement of character that is so clear for anyone to see (who doesn't have an agenda to willfully misconstrue reality).
But I also realize that it is an important "chess-piece", in the sense that it's so damning as to not have any plausible deniability.
If the scattered reports are to be believed, Trump's team was wrestling with this very thing: how do we come up with a reasonable context in which the n-word would make sense being spoken by Trump?
So it's this situation that simultaneously feels like a pointless exercise, akin to doing a scientific report on whether or not water is wet, but also fills a valuable function, by virtue of how incredibly difficult it is to spin this into something it is not.
And that could be useful against a political movement that has made gaslighting and reality-distortion their go-to tool, in a way that is genuinely chilling to see play out.
I guarantee this will become part of the spin.
"If person X can say it, why not person Y?"
How is this not massive news? it should be front page everywhere
How is this not massive news? it should be front page everywhere