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I wonder how Black elected republicans that are strong advocates for the party feel about being in a party where its members have to be told not to be racists and to have some of those members tell leadership to STFU.

On a different issue: I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Tim Scott's engagement has been cancelled.

#1 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2024-07-25 06:37 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

That will be a tough sell in an outfit like the GOP where open racism is always on the menu for MAGAt swine.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-25 07:20 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You can't beg people not to be who they are.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2024-07-25 07:39 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

What the Republican leadership is simply trying to do is remind people not to act like a hateful Democrat that attack others based solely on demographics, religion, skin color, ideology and opinion etc.

#4 | Posted by Robson at 2024-07-25 07:47 AM | Reply

The Republican Party has a problem, and that is the fact that Trump will lose the popular vote by at least six or seven million votes, his only chance is to win as he did in 2016, using the racist Southern Strategy to win through the Electoral College. Racism has to be a theme if only an undercurrent, until that election.

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-07-25 07:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Robson: I really hope you warmed up before that stretch.

#6 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-07-25 07:49 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

What the Republican leadership is simply trying to do is remind people not to act like a hateful Democrat that attack others based solely on demographics, religion, skin color, ideology and opinion etc.

#4 | POSTED BY ROBSON AT 2024-07-25 07:47 AM | FLAG: PPPPFFFTTTT

GFY
Nobody is buying that and you know it.

loser

#7 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-07-25 07:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#4 | POSTED BY ROBSON

You people are racists. The last twenty-four hours and the things you have said about Kamala have simply underlined that.

Be a better person, ROBSON. All these politics just boil down to that. People like you grew up to be no damned good.

But real Christians and real Americans believe in second chances. You don't want to grow old and die being what you are now.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2024-07-25 07:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What the Republican leadership is simply trying to do is remind people not to act like a hateful Democrat that (1)attack others based solely on demographics, religion, skin color, ideology and opinion etc.

By attacking Harris with transparent, self-applicable projections like these(?):

Trump ripped into the vice president, casting her as "Lying Kamala Harris," mispronouncing her name as he dubbed her "the most incompetent and far-left vice president in American history," and repeatedly declaring that she would "destroy" the United States, if elected.

Criticizing Harris for failing to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's joint address to Congress earlier Wednesday, Trump falsely claimed that Harris, whose husband is Jewish, is "totally against the Jewish people."

"It amazes me how Jewish people will vote for the Democrats when they're being treated so disrespectfully," Trump said.

"Three weeks, four weeks ago, she was the worst politician in America," Trump said. "Now they say, Isn't it amazing? Look at her. She's beautiful. She's so magnificent.'"

Throughout the rest of his speech, Trump railed against transgender athletes, briefly discussed his attempted assassination, reiterated his position in favor of exceptions for abortion restrictions, bashed Democrats' southern border policies, falsely claimed Harris wants to "outlaw red meat" and gave what has now become his standard shoutout to Hannibal Lecter, a fictional character from the movie "Silence of the Lambs."

It's fairly insane to criticize someone as being anti-Jewish when they're married to a Jewish person and are a beloved stepmother to his Jewish children.

Robson is firmly ensconced in his delusional Trump-created reality we refer to as Earth II. Every single point of contention he tried to assign to Democrats above all happen to be the very things Republicans say and do against Democrats every single day without fail. With Trumpian Republicanism, hate remains its foundational principle and dividing Americans into "us vs. them" and stoking fear of the dreaded "other" is the only way they know how to win in politics. The ends always justify the means which means lying, projecting, and gaslighting are simply tools winners employ to destroy their opposition.

In reality, those things are simply unsuccessful covers for those obsessed with retaining outsized power and influence in a world more diverse and experiencing dramatic change that the GOP would rather rail against than join in promoting as actual progress towards that more perfect union and away from our painfully brutal and complicated past.

#9 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-07-25 08:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

GOP Leaders Beg Colleagues to Stop Being Racist. Sexist

Meanwhile, this is what Kamala Harris and her campaign are doing.

Kamala Harris Instantly Uses Trump's Own Words Against Him

Speaking at a rally in North Carolina, Trump claimed that President Joe Biden is trying to put him in jail and "she's the one behind it" along with "radical left judges."

Trump was convicted in May on 34 felony charges in his New York hush money case. Neither Biden nor Harris has anything to do with the prosecution, but Trump has falsely claimed otherwise for that and the other legal cases he's facing.

"So think of it: They get me to that position, and then their campaign says I'm the prosecutor and he is the convicted felon.' That's their campaign," Trump said. "I don't think people are going to buy it."

Just hours later, Harris' team turned that prediction into reality in the simplest way possible. They took Trump's own words ('convicted felon'), then added the standard "I approve" messaged from Harris:

We approve this message pic.twitter.com/Kd1zKlqFmp" Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) July 25, 2024

#10 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-07-25 08:33 AM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 1

The last twenty-four hours and the things you have said about Kamala have simply underlined that.

Be a better person, ROBSON

They will act like the worst dregs of humanity while claiming they are Christians.

They hypocrisy is astounding.

#11 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-07-25 08:40 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

You progressives are the most racist people out there. If the black vote wasnt valuable to you, you wouldnt give a ---- about black people.

No one is racist anymore except progressives.

There are almost no Republican racists. There are Nazi's and Klan members, but they are small as a group. Liberals are doing their best to keep the racist tripe alive, even where there is none.

#12 | Posted by boaz at 2024-07-25 09:56 AM | Reply | Funny: 8

There are almost no Republican racists. T

#12 | POSTED BY BOAZ

MAGA is filthy racist.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2024-07-25 10:10 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

#12 | POSTED BY BOAZ

MAGA is filthy racist and they behave that way. That's all we've been getting from them since the rise of Kamala. They won't change. If they did their Klan-adjacent neighbors would shun them or burn them out.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2024-07-25 10:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Trump thought Biden was too much of a stubborn irishman to quit. Trump also uses the N word a lot according to hus nephews book.

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-07-25 10:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The republican leadership can lecture their party about this but Trump won't listen.

Everybody is counting on Trump to say whatever he wants.

#16 | Posted by eberly at 2024-07-25 10:21 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

I wonder what back-seat Barbie and her twin sister MTG have to say about this...?

#17 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2024-07-25 11:27 AM | Reply

You progressives are the most racist people out there. If the black vote wasnt valuable to you, you wouldnt give a ---- about black people.

No one is racist anymore except progressives.

There are almost no Republican racists. There are Nazi's and Klan members, but they are small as a group. Liberals are doing their best to keep the racist tripe alive, even where there is none.

#12 | Posted by boaz

So what's with all the confederate flags and nazi insignias at trump rallies and jan 6th?

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-07-25 11:30 AM | Reply

"There are almost no Republican racists."

------

I would venture to say that is because there are almost no real Republicans.

#19 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2024-07-25 11:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Trump won't listen"

Good thing no serious member of the GOP is going to humor racist and sexist attacks for very long

Even though just yesterday a gasbag on the DR claimed none of this is new for the GOP

#20 | Posted by ChiefTutMoses at 2024-07-25 11:53 AM | Reply

"You progressives are the most racist people out there. If the black vote wasnt valuable to you, you wouldnt give a ---- about black people."

How astute of you! Well it's a good thing progressives made sure they had the right to vote!!

If the white vote wasn't valuable you wouldn't give a frack about them..

If the Hispanic vote wasn't so valuable you wouldn't give frack about them ...

If the youth vote wasn't so valuable you wouldn't give a frack about them ...

If Big Oil CEOs were not billionaires Trumpy wouldn't give a frack about them either.

Welcome to democracy.

#21 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-25 11:55 AM | Reply

"Trump won't listen."

They should try speaking into the ear without the big tampon stuck to it.

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-25 11:58 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

#12 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Boaz is here to tell us, it's okay for republicans to be openly racist against Harris.

Hell, Boaz cheered on the racism and contributed to it while Obama was president.

Also, and I'm sure he remembers, stating Kamala Harris doesn't deserve the Black vote because she's "not Black". To which he clarifies to mean, not of direct African descent.

Conservatives of all races hate Black Americans.

It's their hate that unites them.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-07-25 12:11 PM | Reply

There are almost no Republican racists.

Stuff your gaslighting.

#24 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-07-25 12:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump Risks Losing Voters He Needs With Loaded Attacks on Harris
www.bnnbloomberg.ca

... Donald Trump's campaign is frantically revamping its strategy, scrapping moot plans to characterize ex-opponent Joe Biden as feeble and testing new attack lines on Kamala Harris, who is two decades younger than the Republican nominee.

With roughly 100 days until Election Day -- and less than two months before voting begins in some states -- Trump, 78, has little time to define a Democratic opponent who emerged just days ago. He auditioned new messages, with mixed results, this week on a call with reporters about the US-Mexico border, in TV appearances and his social media platform.

Trump has berated Harris, 59, for being the "worst border person in history," "dumb as a rock," and a "weak prosecutor" who "destroyed the city of San Francisco." He's mocked her laugh and floated two nicknames: "Laffin' Kamala" and "Lyin' Kamala." His allies have called Harris a "DEI" hire, short for diversity, equity and inclusion, and implied she became vice president because she is a woman of color.

Harris, for her part, has leaned into her prior role as a prosecutor, saying she knows "Trump's type," referring to his felony conviction and other legal troubles. ...



#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-25 12:20 PM | Reply

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

#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-25 12:22 PM | Reply

And now Trumpy is warning us that Kamala is going to get rid of all the cows!

Then once all the cows are gone she will get rid of all the people!

Don't know about you but that dire warning really moooved me.

#27 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-25 12:25 PM | Reply | Funny: 4

There are almost no Republican racists. There are Nazi's and Klan members, but they are small as a group. Liberals are doing their best to keep the racist tripe alive, even where there is none.

#12 | POSTED BY BOAZ AT 2024-07-25 09:56 AM | FLAG: PPPFFTTTT

ooooooo yeah it's a well-known fact republicl0wns are a "Big Tent" group that will take in all the miscreants showing your open-mindedness... and your desperation for votes... promising to grant the worst of our country their wishes.... but you don't really mean it because it's all about the votes... right? Yer swimming in Log Cabin transexuals and cheeks with deeks too. So what?

Well here is some news for you... Hillary got more votes than Trumpanzee. The plan is to remove your abilities to cash in on intentionally racist and sexist technicalities so you don't install another president who does not represent the majority.

nnnkay?

#28 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-07-25 12:27 PM | Reply

Oh and Biden got more votes than the incumbent who got the most votes of any incumbent in history. Bring everyone under your tent you want. It means nothing because you are not a cohesive competitor and you put all your eggs in one leader and one set of ideals.

You have no one to replace Trumpanzee and his band of hangers-on.

#29 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-07-25 12:31 PM | Reply

#12 | Posted by boaz

You are so funny. Either you aren't black or your conservative friends don't say anything around you.

I get it racism goes both ways, not going to deny that. I have met black folks that are some of the most racist I know but to say most Republicans aren't racy is knee slapping funny. Every virulent Republicant I have met is racist and has no problem showing it.

#30 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-07-25 12:35 PM | Reply

*aren't racist. Damned autocorrect...

#31 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-07-25 12:36 PM | Reply

Johnson seeks to quash "DEI hire"-type attacks on Harris
www.axios.com #26 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

As he should, not only due to how it undermines any possible legitimate criticism of the VP in lieu of dog whistle political rhetoric, but also due to how JD Vance benefited from affirmative action due to carve outs for veterans and people who claim an Appalachian affiliation in higher education admissions criteria.

#32 | Posted by GOnoles92 at 2024-07-25 01:23 PM | Reply

Gmafb!

Racism has been the white "goto" since forever and you have shown no interest in cleaning house.

Acting all brand new.

This is peak white americana.

#33 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-07-25 02:16 PM | Reply

@#32 ... As he should ...

For me, another aspect behind that headline is that Spkr Johnson had to say that to his party members.

#34 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-25 02:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

that he has to ask this says everything we need to know about the TP.

#35 | Posted by Tor at 2024-07-25 02:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

They might as well beg the grass to stop growing.

#36 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-07-25 02:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The JD Vance childless women plays right into the old Great Replacement propaganda. If white women don't sacrifice everything for motherhood, including staying in abusive marriages, the white race will be overrun.

To say the KKK is dead in the south only means they're not saying it out loud...yet.

#37 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-07-25 05:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 7

The GOP-led House called it quits early on Thursday, leaving for its August recess until September 9th after holding a -------- vote attacking Vice President Kamala Harris but without doing the planned job of funding large sectors of the government.

They'll have 13 scheduled work days to prevent the government from shutting down.

Here we go again with GOP BS. They can't even do the one job they're supposed to do.

#38 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-07-25 05:19 PM | Reply

LOL sorry, she's going to get shredded for everything anyone can shred her for. If you don't like it, nominate someone else.

#39 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-07-25 05:54 PM | Reply

LOL sorry, she's (Kamala) going to get shredded for everything anyone can shred her for

#39 | POSTED BY THEBULL

I think that we'll just ignore it. The way you ignore that Trump is a rapist and convicted felon, who defrauded people in a fake university and staged a coup against his own country.

#40 | Posted by Zed at 2024-07-25 06:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

39 | POSTED BY THEBULL

You know, Trump doesn't make you look too good.

#41 | Posted by Zed at 2024-07-25 06:06 PM | Reply

#4 | POSTED BY ROBSON

JFC you dumb

#42 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-07-25 06:43 PM | Reply

#12 | POSTED BY BOAZ

JFC you're even dumber

#43 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-07-25 06:51 PM | Reply

@#39 ... she's going to get shredded for everything anyone can shred her for. ...

So, the Republicans will try to shred a former prosecutor and Attorney General, while the Republicans have nominated an aging convicted felon and sexual predator for the Presidency?


#44 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-25 07:11 PM | Reply

Several bloggers on the Drudge Retort must be paid shills or else why would they waste their time here (and ours) rather than enjoy themselves on one of dozens of Right-Wing platforms?

Answer: $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

We should ask these Koch Brother shills what the going rates are. Beijing pays their narks pennies (the CCP term for them is "Wu Mao").

#45 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-25 08:03 PM | Reply

Every DEI comment gets more black GenZers signed up to vote, and every misogynistic remark gets more undecided women off the bench and out to vote for the Dems. Dotard doesn't have the time and he's not getting the earned media for any of these attacks to take hold. Nobody is taking his tiny Klan rallies live anymore, and I see the mainstream media is becoming more comfortable with fact-checking him in real-time. He doesn't have the energy for more than a couple of rallies per week. By the time we get to the debate, it'll be Kamala vs a blubbering lump of fat, IF he actually shows up. One thing I've noticed is that GenZ is giving Kamala a ton of earned media on the socials by editing her speeches into popular songs and then sharing them.

#46 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-07-25 08:44 PM | Reply

Might as well tell them to stop breathing.
And burning crosses...

#47 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-07-25 09:04 PM | Reply

It's shameful that a major political party (the GOP) even have to tell their elected members not to make racist or sexist comments.

#48 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-07-26 01:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#48 It's shameful that a major political party (the GOP) even have to tell their elected members not to make racist or sexist comments.

Yeah. So I am not the only one who noticed that.

Let me repeat it for emphasis, in bold...

It's shameful that a major political party (the GOP) even have to tell their elected members not to make racist or sexist comments.

#49 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-26 01:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If the black vote wasnt valuable to you, you wouldnt give a ---- about black people.

That doesn't make sense! It's equivalent to saying "if diamonds weren't valuable, you wouldn't care about diamonds". Or, if the Christian vote wasn't valuable, you wouldn't care about Christians.

It's valuable, so they care. So what? Don't you care about things that are valuable to you? Doesn't everyone?

#50 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2024-07-26 09:08 AM | Reply

The JD Vance childless women plays right into the old Great Replacement propaganda. If white women don't sacrifice everything for motherhood, including staying in abusive marriages, the white race will be overrun.

To say the KKK is dead in the south only means they're not saying it out loud...yet.

#37 | POSTED BY LEE_THE_AGENT AT 2024-07-25 05:13 PM | FLAG:

Couldn't agree more.

#51 | Posted by cbob at 2024-07-26 04:42 PM | Reply

They can't stop.
It's who they are...

#52 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-07-26 11:06 PM | Reply

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