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The sooner we recognize that these red Republican MAGA hats like the one being worn by the critter above are the new white KKK hood, the better. The rodent may be cute, but there is nothing cute about today's Republicans.
Trump has an idiot savant's gift for marketing and he knew from the time he glided down his Trump Tower escalator to launch his campaign on a platform of xenophobia and racism that he couldn't be so overt as to wear the pointy white hood that he probably inherited from his father. No, instead he needed a new symbol for the same old racist attitudes, but he needed one that could be worn out in the open. Hence, the MAGA hat, the hat that has become an essential part of any Republican wardrobe.
For the hat, Trump even pointedly chose a slogan that has echoes of the Klan slogans of the 1920's, the Klan's peak years when tens of thousand of Klan members marched through the streets of Washington. The slogan Trump chose has even word for word echoes at that. To drive his sick bigotry essence home, he tied it to an even more infamous and popular KKK slogan, "America First!" In a May 2016 tweet, he said:
In trade, military and everything else, it will be AMERICA FIRST! This will quickly lead to our ultimate goal: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!Trump isn't the first politician of either party to use either slogan. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton occasionally uttered the phrase "Make America Great Again" in speeches, but neither man used "Make America Great Again" as a slogan or buzz phrase so heavily, so effectively, or with such deliberate anti-immigrant, white supremacy meaning. Trump, in fact, trademarked "Male America Great Again" in 2012. In 2008, Clinton hypocritically, yet correctly, pointed out-
If you're a white southerner, you know exactly what it means, don't you?The choice of the word 'Again' dredges up feelings of grievance and longing for a world long gone. The Teabagger political element is often heard saying they want "their country" back, often when addressing the topics of immigration or race, or even just tangentially related to them.The choice of the word 'Great' is also key when it comes to reaching Trump's targeted demographic, regardless of where they live. Today's Confederates live in every state as we continue to fight the Civil War. It's just that now the Civil War is, ironically, a war without borders. 'Great' is vague enough that it means whatever the beholder wants it to mean, which is usually, when it comes to Republicans, 'white' of course. "Great" can pointedly ignore many of those who think America has been great for them. Such people have already decided their voting preferences one way of the other. But, 'Great' also eliminates those who, have, in their personal experience, felt the sting of being ostracized through bigotry and kept from the opportunities and benefits of living in America. They know that a Trump-style America not only dashes what dreams of 'Great' they may still have, they know it will never hold even a glimmer of a dream of 'Great' for them. Trump isn't really trying to reach them either. He is only interested in manipulating those with specific grievances; grievances embraced by those looking to place blame for their misfortunes on "others" and those who have a bigoted axe to grind about them.
Tonight's meme tells a story. If you do think that mice or rats might be cute, think again. They are great carriers of disease, especially if they're wearing that little red republican hat. The FOX "News" logo? Think of it as the new national flag of Confederacy. The last one, from from 1863, featured what most people consider to be the Confederate flag (but is actually the Confederacy's battle flag) set against a field of symbolic solid white. See below. The flag's designer, Savannah newspaperman William Tappan Thompson, pushing and promoting his design, proudly declared-
As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race: a white flag would thus be emblematic of our cause.In Thompson's day, it was a Republican president who freed the slaves. Most of the Democrats, at least those known as Dixiecrats, were the racist bad guys for the next 100 years, until John Kennedy started speaking out against racial discrimination in 1960 and Nixon put together his infamous "southern strategy" in 1968. I'm sure that would confuse William Tappan Thompson but I have no doubt that he would love Donald Trump and today's Republican Party.
Happy Martin Luther King Day, to all.
Labels: GOP racism, KKK, Martin Luther King Jr., memes
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 12:01 AM
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don't be silly. trump is of german extraction (Drumpf). his pappy bequeathed to junior shithead a brown shirt and a swastika armband.
but yes, it is becoming apparent (even to americans, with their profound limitations) that the red hat is the new brown shirt/white hood. It was obvious when the first box of hats arrived from that factory in china and were distributed to white shitstains in 2016.
Watching that smug punk smirking in the face of the Native American veteran the other day is plenty of proof that those who wear Trump's headgear do so to hide the fact that the object it covers is completely empty. But what gets accomplished by going over the same tropes repeatedly?
We have passed the point where discussing what to do about such slime has become necessary. Can we make some progress on that front?
the media to the rescue of the student Nazis. Now the media is saying it's Mr. Phillips' fault? (apologies if I got the name of the native American viet-nam vet wrong)
Goebbels is smiling in his grave, for certain.
are all cat'lick schools just full of total assholes now? or is it just that one.
I wonder if those boys were smiling as smugly when their priests were raping them.
5:57, Noah is not being silly. Drumpf's father was arrested at a KKK event in New York in 1927. The president says that's not proof that his father was KKK but he got his views on race somewhere.
"...are all cat'lick schools just full of total assholes now?..."
As a recovering survivor of the Schools of the Cult of Rome, said institution are completely in the business of generating Republican assholes like those entitled punks.
This is a feature and not a bug.
Last month I was given a gift of a MOFA (Make Orwell Fiction Again) hat--virtually identical to the blood red deplorable MAGA cap sported these days by despicable creatures north, south, and west of the Mason/Dixon line. I wore it for a few blocks in my old 'hood (polar opposite to the white KKK hood) in the People's Republic of Central Square in Cambridge MA.
It felt amusing in a surreal and theatrical way since, when all else fails, one can always resort to humor. But I had to take it off for fear of being mistaken for one of "them." No one to my knowledge acknowledged it during my stroll in either a positive or negative way since everyone was focused on getting to their destination. And that was OK with me. Just having someone glance up for a split second ... before acknowledging the actual message ... turned my stomach and I didn't want to ruin their day. Which is how I would have felt seeing someone sport a red cap emblazoned with four white words.
Excellent image Noah of the Fox news bait enticing a poor lost racist soul. Perhaps the rodent should have been a lemming.
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