Tuesday, July 23, 2024

GOP Attacks Harris: "DEI vice president"

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., blasted Kamala Harris in a social media post Monday, calling her a "DEI vice president," using the initialism for "diversity, equity and inclusion" programs.

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Kamala is a DEI hire, but 200+ years of White men holding the office were what? Proof that no other race/sex is capable of filling the role?

#1 | Posted by censored at 2024-07-23 07:57 AM

(Should be) Kamala's response whenever a GOPer dares refer to her by using the anagram 'DEI':

"That's correct, I am DEI: a Duly Elected Incumbent.

I've been elected by the majority of voters 5 TIMES for 3 different offices, something my opponent has never accomplished even once (unless you count multiple citizen juries finding him guilty by majority in a number of courts of law). So I'm quite proud to be a living, breathing person who's EARNED my Duly Elected Incumbent status 5 times over."

#2 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-07-23 08:10 AM

DEI is the new N word.

They're not even trying to hide their racism anymore.

Congratulations GOP, you have become a -------- party.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-07-23 08:53 AM

DEI is the new N word. They're not even trying to hide their racism anymore. Congratulations GOP, you have become a ------- party. #3 | Posted by Nixon

I posted this just yesterday, but appears relevant here as well.

Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*****, n*****, n*****". By 1968, you can't say "n*****""that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me"because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this", is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*****, n*****". So, any way you look at it, race is coming on the back-burner. - Lee Atwater

Might was well set it up as a macro, since it'll probably be appropriate for 90% of the GOP's attacks on Harris for the next four months to eight years and four months.

#4 | Posted by censored at 2024-07-23 09:33 AM

More qualified than either clown on the GOP ticket.

#5 | Posted by morris at 2024-07-23 09:34 AM

"DEI is the new N word."

Interesting. Who invented this supposed new N word?

#6 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-23 09:49 AM

DeSantis pushed and pushed it in Florida.
It was the "dog whistle" that wasn't.
Crystal clear messaging here.

#7 | Posted by YAV at 2024-07-23 10:13 AM

Interesting. Who invented this supposed new N word? #6 | Posted by sentinel

When it's pronounced with a face wrinkled in disgust and horror, probably the GOP. Like when they transformed "welfare" from a social policy for caring for those in need into a code word for attacking Blacks.

Words can change in meaning based on usage. Similar to how we once referred to some mentally challenged individuals as e tahr ded because they were "slow," but now the term is a pejorative because of Jimmy Fallon.

#8 | Posted by censored at 2024-07-23 10:37 AM

Who invented this supposed new N word?

That is irrelevant and facetious.

Who cares?

Anyone with a functioning brain cell can see the racism on full display as clear as the signs with Obama photo shopped into an African witch doctor. It was clear when I saw a hillbilly in Disney proclaim in front of a couple of color "Ain't no N*****R going to be my president" at which point I informed security and they escorted him out of the property FOR LIFE. They don't tolerate hate and neither do I.

Period.

The racism and misogyny are gonna be on full display now.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-07-23 11:36 AM

@#6 ... Who invented this supposed new N word? ...

It is not who invented it, but how the current GOP has been using it.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-23 12:13 PM

I read elsewhere commentary from someone misinformed conflating ERGs with DEI. The critics of DEI rarely have real experience in a multigenerational, diverse workplace with folks from differing backgrounds.

#11 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-07-23 01:46 PM

Anything that challenges the White Male Patriarchy is a problem. Anything.
My greatest hope is that Prosecutor Harris wipes the floor with Harvard Hillbilly Huckster.

#12 | Posted by YAV at 2024-07-23 02:04 PM

If Kamala Harris Is a D.E.I. Candidate, So Is JD Vance (www.nytimes.com):

#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-23 03:11 PM

"When it's pronounced with a face wrinkled in disgust and horror, probably the GOP. Like when they transformed "welfare" from a social policy for caring for those in need into a code word for attacking Blacks."

Is using the word "welfare" now equivalent to using the N word? No? Then why make such a dumb comparison. Nothing is equivalent to the N word.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-23 03:23 PM

I told you this would happen. I mentioned it when she was announced the presumptive candidate this would be brought up.

As well as one other thing they're going to attack her about.

(But I won't mention because ---- me if I do.)

Republicans will hit her for not being qualified. (I'm not saying she isn't. That's what they're saying.)

Anyone who thinks Kamala is a slam dunk is seriously mistaken.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-23 05:25 PM

DEI is the new N word.

DEI is the new Affirmative Action.

Same connotation.

You weren't good enough for the job and only have it due to other factors.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-23 05:33 PM

Before anyone gets upset by anything I said.

Take one moment to think about Hillary Clinton.

Probably the most qualified nominee for president in my lifetime.

Didn't stop republicans from tearing her apart.

Didn't help her win.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-23 05:38 PM

Is using the word "welfare" now equivalent to using the N word? No? Then why make such a dumb comparison. Nothing is equivalent to the N word. #14 | Posted by sentinel

Dumb comparison?

"The Truth Behind The Lies Of The Original 'Welfare Queen' [...] In the popular imagination, the stereotype of the 'welfare queen' is thoroughly raced - she's an indolent black woman, living off the largesse of taxpayers. The term is seen by many as a dogwhistle, a way to play on racial anxieties without summoning them directly." www.npr.org

So, maybe not the N word to you. But to those of us who knew exactly what Ronald Reagan was referring to, and the emotions he was trying to conjure up ...

#18 | Posted by censored at 2024-07-23 05:44 PM

@#18 ... Dumb comparison? ...

Of course it is.

The Cult of Trump has not yet figured out how to respond to VP Harris as the new candidate for President, so they are falling back on their dog-whistle words to keep the base's attention while they figure out their next attack vector.



#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-23 05:51 PM

By equating dog whistles with the N word, you're watering the N word down to be nothing more than a dog whistle.

#20 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-23 06:29 PM

@#20 ... By equating dog whistles with the N word ...

I did not say that. Indeed, that seems to be the equivalence your alias is making.

Do try harder.


#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-23 06:38 PM

By equating dog whistles with the N word, you're watering the N word down to be nothing more than a dog whistle.
#20 | Posted by sentinel

I'm not watering down anything. See #4 above. Lee Atwater knew in 1982 (?) that they could no longer use the N word openly. So they used dog whistles. Just because you (claim) not to hear it or understand their meaning doesn't change the reality and their purpose.

#22 | Posted by censored at 2024-07-23 06:48 PM

"DEI is the new N word."
POSTED BY NIXON AT 2024-07-23 08:53 AM | REPLY | FLAGGED NEWSWORTHY BY CORKY, NEWSWORTHY BY LAMPLIGHTER

#23 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-23 07:26 PM

'By equating swastikas with Sanskrit or India, you are watering down Hitler's use of the symbol much more recently.'

LOL!

A proper use of, 'watering down'.

Republicans are calling her much worse in private among themselves, but DEI is as loud as they want to blow that dog whistle in public.

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2024-07-23 07:35 PM

Welfare Queen is derogatory.

But the n word is worse. Much worse.

You're willing to write "welfare queen", but not "******".

Again. DEI is today's term for affirmative action.

The biggest welfare queens are corporations.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-23 07:38 PM

Also. Welfare Queen is dated.

No one sure that term anymore.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-23 07:40 PM

Uses **

#27 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-23 07:40 PM

@#23

Yeah, and?

I gave a NW flag to a message that indicated that the GOP is using DEI as the new N-word.

I acknowledge that it is the GOP that is using the word in that fashion.

So I'll repeat...

I did not say that. Indeed, that seems to be the equivalence your alias is making.

Do try harder.

And I'll add...

Why is your alias so focused upon trying to draw that false equivalence?

Stated differently, instead of casting random, and incorrect, aspersions to others, what, exactly, is your alias trying to deny?

That the GOP is not using DEI as a dog whistle?






#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-23 07:44 PM

" Joe Biden says he is considering four Black women to be his running mate"

www.cnn.com

#29 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-07-23 09:22 PM

It was his primary consideration - skin color and sexual organ. That is the essence of a DEI hire.

#30 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-07-23 09:23 PM

" Pressure Grows On Joe Biden To Pick A Black Woman As His Running Mate"

www.npr.org

That's all that mattered.

#31 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-07-23 09:25 PM

I think Biden picked Harris because she was the only one with the nuts to go after him hard in the debate.

#32 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-07-23 09:25 PM

RacistRinger..... name has sort of a ring to it.

You can always tell when a Trumper is lying... they make excuses for other racists.

#33 | Posted by Corky at 2024-07-23 09:27 PM

"You're willing to write "welfare queen", but not "******"."

At least Snoofy had the balls to write it out. The idiots in this thread, who are giving the dog-whistling trolls the exact reaction they're looking for, don't even have that much consistency.

A dog whistle is not the same thing as using the actual ------- N-word.

#34 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-23 09:33 PM

#24 | POSTED BY CORKY

GFYS with your racist ignorance. The N-word was never an innocuous term that misappropriated, much less one that continued to have a positive meaning throughout most of the populated world.

#35 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-23 09:48 PM

#35

ROFL!

You are easier than Jeffy at a Kiebasa Tasting Party.

And prolly just as slow and fat.

#36 | Posted by Corky at 2024-07-23 09:59 PM

That's all that mattered.

You appear to come from an assumption that out of a universe of possibilities, that if the decision is to choose one that is black that that negates all the competence, skills, history, capabilities of that person. That all those mean nothing. You seem to be saying that since that one criteria was established and met, that that person can't possibly be competent, capable, intelligent, tenacious, or deserving of the position. You are saying they have no merit other than being black.

You do that because at your core you have biases, prejudices, and bigotry, perhaps unacknowledged. Are you capable of growth? Not from what I've seen.

You're saying a lot with that statement, and none of it flatters you.

#37 | Posted by YAV at 2024-07-23 10:22 PM

@#34 ... the idiots in this thread, who are giving the dog-whistling trolls the exact reaction they're looking for ...

So, has your alias gotten exactly what it was looking for?

... A dog whistle is not the same thing as using the actual ------- N-word. ...

I've been saying that all along.

So, why does your alias keep trying to make that equivalence?

Let me rephrase that question.

Troll much?



#38 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-23 10:40 PM

" You appear to come from an assumption that out of a universe of possibilities, that if the decision is to choose one that is black that that negates all the competence, skills, history, capabilities of that person. That all those mean nothing. You seem to be saying that since that one criteria was established and met, that that person can't possibly be competent, capable, intelligent, tenacious, or deserving of the position. You are saying they have no merit other than being black."

Funny. I never said any of that.

I simply pointed out that Biden LIMITED his pool of available talent by making race and genitalia the first criteria. Biden made it about race. Biden made it about sex. He didn't consider any other candidate who wasn't a woman and wasn't a minority.

That is why she's being labeled as a DEI hire, because that is exactly what she was.

#39 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-07-23 10:55 PM

I remember Biden saying he would put a black woman on the SC. I don't remember him saying he would pick a black woman VP. Got a link?

#40 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-07-23 11:03 PM

@#39 ... I simply pointed out that Biden LIMITED his pool of available talent by making race and genitalia the first criteria....

Got a link?

#41 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-23 11:06 PM

Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Since you guys brought this up, was Clarence Thomas a DEI hire or the most qualified jurist in America in 1991?

#42 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-07-23 11:10 PM

Gal Tuesday,

Please see #29.

#43 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-07-23 11:10 PM

How about ACB in 2020?

Sarah Palin in 2008? Palin and Harris are both around the same age. Who do you think was more qualified to step in as President if it came to that, Palin back in 2008 or Harris in 2020?

Is JD Vance the most qualifed VP pick Trump could have made? He's a DEI pick of a different kind when you get right down to it. Trump wanted someone yound, white, conservative and from the MidWest who would kiss his asterisk. He didn't say, hmm, who is the best possible VP I could make? Obviously Rubio is much more qualified. Burgum too for that matter.

#44 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-07-23 11:18 PM

Please see #29.
#43 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

I saw the article. People putting pressure on Biden to do something is not the same thing as Biden saying I promise to pick a black female VP and then doing so.

#45 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-07-23 11:21 PM

Murkowski on calling Kamala Harris a "DEI hire":

"Of course it's not appropriate, for heaven's sakes. What, are they just going to say if you're not a white male, it's a DEI candidate?"

"I'm sorry. No."

x.com

#46 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-07-23 11:29 PM

How can anyone not think this is racist bull pucky:

When asked about @KamalaHarris candidacy, @HagemanforWY calls @VP a "DEI hire."

"Intellectually, just really kind of the bottom of the barrel...I think she was a DEI hire. And I think that that's what we're seeing, and I just don't think that they have anybody else."

x.com

#47 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-07-23 11:34 PM

@#47 ... "Intellectually, just really kind of the bottom of the barrel...I think she was a DEI hire. ...

Wow, just friggin' wow.

Not attacking any of her many accomplishments, but attacking her personally.


#48 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-23 11:37 PM

The Gaslighter alias has been plonked for failing to pass the Turing Test.

#49 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-24 06:53 AM

She's from Wyoming and attacking somebody for "not being intellectual" ?!

#50 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-07-24 07:45 AM

A dog whistle is not the same thing as using the actual ------- N-word. #34 | Posted by sentinel

Yes, that is correct. You are stating pretty much exactly what Lee Atwater said in 1982, as quoted in #4 ("By 1968, you can't say 'n*****' that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff.").

So, in 1976 Reagan said "Welfare Queen." And today the GOP says "DEI hire."

And no, I won't be typing that word out. No idea why it's so important to you that I use a word that even Lee Atwater knew 40 years ago was no longer tolerable in society.

#51 | Posted by censored at 2024-07-24 08:25 AM

Clown, the Reichwing media machine demonized HRC starting during the 1992 Presidential run. It seemed they took more glee in savaging her than they did Bill. They hated her because she didn't want to be the meek little house frau baking cookies. She was an intelligent, outspoken woman with her own views. She was smarter than Bill but lacked his charisma and ability to explain complicated concepts to hillbillies. By the time she ran for POTUS in 2016, it had been 25 years of her in the GQP crosshairs as truly their favorite target. Even some Democrats believed some of the mud slung at her. Kamala has no such record of GQP hatred. It is incumbent on her campaign to do a strong media introduction to her as the brilliant prosecutor, the caring stepmother, the understanding boss, and the joyful warrior. That will inoculate her from the GQP lies about her, and allow her to brush aside this DEI BS as what it is, small, racist men who have amounted to nothing in their lives intimidated by a strong, intelligent, black woman. She, as the nominee, has activated the two most important parts of the Democratic coalition, black women (and men based on the Zoom call a day ago), and GenZ. That is the energy of the party, and every Dem I've seen on TV and heard on podcasts is fired up and ready for this fight. Plus, Dotard can give it, but so can Kamala, and her barbs about Fat Smellvis being a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist ring true. Her first campaign appearance at the top of the ticket in Wisconsin had to be moved on short notice to a high school, where she drew 3500. People were lined up around the block. There is a real excitement here; dare I say, Obamalike.

#52 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-07-24 10:24 AM

That is why she's being labeled as a DEI hire, because that is exactly what she was.

#39 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You maga maroons should definitely go with this "label".

In fact double and triple down on it.

I am sure that it will work out well for you. You don't need any votes from THOSE kind of people. Obviously. And Trumpy already has the neo Nazi white nationalist vote all locked up.

#53 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-24 11:16 AM

There is a real excitement here; dare I say, Obamalike.

#52 | POSTED BY _GUNSLINGER_

Her first rally gave me goose bumps. And we have four more months.

I can see why maga maroons are freaking out and desperately flinging their hateful spaghetti at the walls to see what will stick.

#54 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-24 11:21 AM

"Her first rally gave me goose bumps. And we have four more months."

Are you confident that it's sustainable?

#55 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-24 12:17 PM

She's been killing it for the past 2-3 months. I've been watching whenever I could find a rally. The difference today is this is Harris' message and she owns it. I don't see that diminishing before the election.

#56 | Posted by YAV at 2024-07-24 12:31 PM

We shall see.

#57 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-24 12:54 PM

It was his primary consideration - skin color and sexual organ. That is the essence of a DEI hire.

Nobody cares.

The American public is now deciding whether to hire her for President, and they can use any criteria they want. The only question is, will she be a better or worse President than the absolutely clownish piece of human filth nominated by Republicans.

#58 | Posted by JOE at 2024-07-24 12:58 PM

She's going to need the same resolve Obama had to rise above all the garbage that's thrown at her. If she falters and comes across like Clinton did as indecisive, annoying, or playing the victim, the media could easily turn on her and throw her under the bus.

#59 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-24 01:03 PM

#59 This is why i think a truncated campaign benefits Harris. GOP will eventually settle on a line of attack that sticks, but they won't have a year plus to drill it into everyone's heads.

#60 | Posted by JOE at 2024-07-24 01:08 PM

Clown, the Reichwing media machine demonized HRC starting during the 1992 Presidential run. It seemed they took more glee in savaging her than they did Bill. They hated her because she didnt want to be the meek little house frau baking cookies. She was an intelligent, outspoken woman with her own views. She was smarter than Bill, but lacked his charisma and ability to explain complicated concepts to hillbillies. By the time she ran for POTUS in 2016, it had been 25 years of her in the GQP crosshairs as truly their favorite target. Even some Democrats believed some of the mud slung at her. Kamala has no such record of GQP hatred. It is incumbent on her campaign to do a strong media introduction to her as the brilliant prosecutor, the caring stepmother, the understanding boss, and the joyful warrior. That will inoculate her from the GQP lies about her. And allow her to brush aside this DEI BS as what it is, small, racist men who have ammounted to nothing in their lives intimidated by a strong, intelligent, black woman. Her as the nominee has activated the two most important parts of the Democratic coalition, black women (and men based on the Zoom call a day ago), and GenZ. That is the energy of the party, and every Dem Ive seen on TV and heard on podcast is fired up and ready for this fight. Plus, Dotard can give it, but so can Kamala, and her barbs about Fa5 Smellvis being a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist are true.

#61 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-07-24 05:15 PM

" They hated her because she didnt want to be the meek little house frau baking cookies."

Nope. Those who hated her from the beginning did so entirely for partisan reasons. If she'd had a different letter next to her name, the R party would have been totally cool with her, and the D party would have hated her as much as Melania Trump.

#62 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-24 07:37 PM

Considering trumps genocidal views towards the disabled I'd be fine with any random american being elected instead of him.

#63 | Posted by Tor at 2024-07-24 07:53 PM

You appear to come from an assumption that out of a universe of possibilities, that if the decision is to choose one that is black that that negates all the competence, skills, history, capabilities of that person. That all those mean nothing. You seem to be saying that since that one criteria was established and met, that that person can't possibly be competent, capable, intelligent, tenacious, or deserving of the position. You are saying they have no merit other than being black.

Spot on description for Deplorable Trumping MAGAts, like BullBringer.

#64 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-26 04:16 AM

Funny. I never said any of that.

Well. There's this.

It was his primary consideration - skin color and sexual organ. That is the essence of a DEI hire.
#30 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

On top of being qualified for the job, Kamala Harris was also in the unique position of growing up in America as a black woman. Which gives her a different perspective of life in America.

But, for racists like you. You see her skin color and gender as the only factors which we being considered.

#65 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-26 04:22 AM

@#37 ... You seem to be saying that since that one criteria was established and met, that that person can't possibly be competent, capable, intelligent, tenacious, or deserving of the position. You are saying they have no merit other than being black. ...

Well, being Black seems to be the sole criterion for many in the GOP.

Much to Spkr Johnson's apparent dismay.

Johnson seeks to quash "DEI hire"-type attacks on Harris
www.axios.com


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