This week, in an interview with three women journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, Trump wondered aloud about Harris’s race: “Is she Indian or is she Black?” he asked, quickly adding, “I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t. Because she was India...
So, back in the Runup for 2020, and when I still hoped a certain uncle wasn’t a full on cultist, I was trying to explain just how “unpresidential” and how scandalous he was as a president.
During the conversation, I pulled a picture of Trump in tan suit pants from somewhere, and threw some pixelation like they do on cops, and stuff.
That was all I did to, just pixelated his pants.
Then I showed them, saying “he’s so bad you don’t even question if this is real.”
The stared at the picture then totally thought he was just having some kind of wardrobe malfunction and that people totally lose their pants on stage… all the time
The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth. A leader who doesn’t respond with hostility and anger when presented with the facts. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strength.
The "undecideds" are not looking for measured, reasonable "we go high when they go low" type responses - that's not the mindset for this moment, unfortunately (even if it's the decent thing). They are looking for her to dismissive tell him he's weird and move on. Because he is and she should.
Realize the weight of this moment, we can stand on principle as the ship sinks, or we can save the boat from sinking and then hopefully work back to civility from there.
Betting that when he drops it, Fox News will cover it up like, "Ah it was just locker room talk!" Or "How come you can say Cracker but you can't say N word what's the problem?"
It is a tactic that has long been part of the underside of American politics: presenting an opponent as somehow ‘other’ or ‘not one of us’ — someone who cannot be trusted or truly known. But, it is a different time.
I thought it was great seeing US journalists acting like journalists again, and asking actual real questions. They should have pushed even more so for him to actually answer the question. Don't go to the next question until the current question has been answered, even if it takes the entire night
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