Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

If Wednesday night's batshit insane "Send Her Back" chanting at Trump's North Carolina rally (as he nodded along and stifled a smile) showed us one thing, it's that republicans are now in a (to them) glorious full racist meltdown. They hardly even pretend to hide their racism anymore, and those like the propagandists at FOX "News" who push racism and then claim what they just said or did isn't racist have been encouraging racism for years. It would be hard to believe that anyone is happier about the storm we're in than Rupert Murdoch, unless his name is Trump. Neo Nazi's know they have sympathetic partners in FOX and Trump and they are letting their freak flags fly.

It's not like any Republicans in the media or among the voters every really did hide their racism, at least not completely. They may have thought so but now they don't even bother with the pretense or they will deny that what is obviously racist is racist, with a smirk of course. The racism has always been there to see. It's just that now, even more than before, Republicans are proudly and even more loudly proclaiming it. Trump's rallies are now the stuff of lynch mobs. The doors to the Republican Party closets have been blown off their hinges by a wind that howls right out of 1963 Mississippi and Alabama.

I don't know who the racist FOX "News" goon in the above picture is but, really, does it matter? You could just plug in virtually any FOX "News" goon. Sure, some airhead defenders of the white supremacist network who might claim to be Independents or even Democrats, will point to Shep Smith and claim "Not him, he's ok. They'r not all bad." But, let's get real, if you're happily riding in the back seat, you're still going along on the ride to whatever mayhem the cretin behind the wheel is driving to. The rhetoric that the White House, FOX "News" and the rest of the Republican notables is engaging in is the same as the "rotten apple" rhetoric that led us to Oklahoma City, Jackson State, Kent State, and the bodies of 3 civil rights workers being buried in an earthen dam.

One, FOX a-hole named Chris Stirewalt even recently tried to minimize republican racism by shrugging it off and saying-

Democrats will tell you every Republican is racist. Republicans will tell you every Democrat is a socialist.

Talk about your false equivalencies! Think about that one. Play it over in your mind. To Herr Stirewalt, being a racist is as acceptable as being a socialist. I'd love to see him say something like that in a crowd in Denmark, or even at a Social Security office here in the good old U.S.A. for that matter.

Well, to Republicans, being a racist is perfectly acceptable. In fact, it's encouraged and, as I've said here for years, being a racist is among the qualifications to join the Republican Party. This was well-evidenced by Tuesday's House vote on a resolution to condemn Trump's racist tweets and remarks in the White House Rose Garden. Only 4 out of all of the House Republicans voted against the resolution and they will henceforth be ostracized. The rest fiercely made their embrace of Trump's racism and their own a matter of public and congressional record. This is the Republican Party in 2019 and, horrifically, the future.

Another Republican goofball who has embraced his racism, is North Carolina $enator Thom Tillis who met Trump at the airport and was thrilled to ride with him to the rally. Thursday morning, the morning after the now infamous rally, Tillis ran as fast as he could to the FOX cameras where he enthused about all of the support for Trump in North Carolina as exemplified by crowds along the route to the rally and at the rally itself. Among other statements, he played the "fake news" card claiming media "obfuscation" of recent events and joining in with a FOX "News" blonde bozo who appeared to be right out of a Nazi S.S. central casting call as he whined to Tillis that the people in the rally arena "are being characterized as racists." Aw, poor baby! Gee, now why would people characterize racists as racists? This has been a standard tactic at FOX that they've really stepped up in recent days. Just like the White House, at Fox, whatever actions or statements by republicans that are racist just aren't racist. It's Queen of Denial Journalism 101. It's getting so bad that I expect the next time I put FOX "News" on, they'll all be looking at a picture of a lynched black man hanging from a tree and saying "that's not racist." It's FOX. It's who they are, from Rupert Murdoch on down. These are the people who turned over their shows to birtherism when Barack Obama was running for and then serving as president. These are the people who dismissed the circulating pictures of President Obama dressed as a witch doctor with a bone in his nose while the healthcare bill was being put together as not racist. That just wasn't enough for them and they will continue to escalate and escalate and escalate.

Here's Tillis joining in on the whining-

We've gotta shift the attention back to some of the positions they're taking that are extreme. Now the media here on Capitol Hill only wanna talk about parsing the president's words. I'm not gonna answer a question of them (sic) unless they come back and talk about the things that actually lit this candle and it's the extreme positions taken by A.O.C., Omar, and the so-called gang.

Yeah, there you have it. Tillis thinks the media's time would be better spent reporting the so-called "extreme" views held by the 4 congresswomen of color that republicans are focusing so much hate upon these days. Right. As if there's nothing extreme in saying that they should go back to where they came from. Hey Thommy, how about you tell that to the president's wife and her family! Go ahead. We're waiting asshole!

A parting note: On most Sunday's, I devote the Midnight Meme Of The Day! to a subcategory I call "Sunday Thoughts." Events, however, are overrunning us. I will point out, though, that tonight's meme does contain a cross and the KKK is as Republican Jesus-like as penny loafers and Mike Pence's khakis, and has been since Nixon took the racist dixiecrats, with the notable exception of former klansman Robert Byrd, into the Republican Party back in 1968. Byrd, however, unlike the rest, repudiated his former ways. Don't hold your breath waiting for that from any modern day Republicans. They have a true white supremacist messiah in Donald Trump now and it is him in whom they place their trust, no other, and certainly not the Constitution.