Uh, seems like Trump's visit to the NABJ is not going well...

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Anonymous wrote:Trump’s losing his MAGA base. lol

Pissing off Black voters is the last thing he should be doing right now. Starting to think his advisers are Dem plants. How did he even end up at this event?

High on his own supply. His advisors have been telling him he's making inroads into the black community. So he just went and winged it.

The thing is - there probably are a segment of black voters that might agree with him. But none of them were in that room and he should have been prepped for that. Telling a room full of black journalists that an AKA Howard grad "just turned black," well, that dog don't hunt.

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No - Trump's not saying, innocuously, "She's Indian". That'd be perfectly fine. No one would object to that at all. She IS Indian, and it is fine to say so.

What he is saying is different. He's saying: "All of a sudden she's Black? She didn't used to be Black, she said she was Indian." That's completely different. He's implying that she is lying about being Black, or at least, that NOW, when it is more important to claim a connection to Black Americans and the Black vote, she's mentioning that she's Black.

It doesn't work though, because she IS Black, as well as Indian.

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Anonymous wrote:When Kamala goes on Indian TV, she's Indian.

When Kamala rolls up in Atlanta, she's Black.

They call this code-switching and it's damn offensive!

Code-switching is never offensive. It's polite. As a mixed-race person, I can attest to that. When I return to my Asian country, I do not bring the mannerisms of my European country. That would be seen as uncouth. And the reverse would surprise my European relatives!

You don't even realize how IGNORANT and DUMB you are.

Total loser.

But she’s in the US, not her “home country’. This IS her home country

NP. It’s clear that you don’t understand that America is a multicultural nation. How easy for you that you are just white.

+ 1. White guys code switch too. You think JD Vance speaks the same way when he’s with his family as when he’s talking with donors? Of course not. Context always matters. Nearly everyone adapts their language and mannerisms to some degree depending on their environment and who they’re speaking with.

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Anonymous wrote:He's not going to win their votes so he is just using them to play to his base.

I don't think it's working because the interviewer isn't there to clean up his messes for him. Like, most Americans know that people died at the insurrection, since Fox News tried to pin those deaths on Biden. Without a sympathetic interviewer to gently remind/correct/hand him the talking points, he just sounds crazy.

I mean most people have heard the oft repeated claims about the “deadly insurrection”. But 3/5 deaths were from natural causes. One was a drug overdose, and the other was an unarmed protester/rioter.

The police suicides.. I can see how stress is a contributing factor but I really don’t think it’s intellectually honest to try and tie them directly to Jan sixth.

Just like how there’s always mental health warnings on media that includes talking about suicide, and just like how schools generally try quietly acknowledge a student who took their own life—because it’s documented that there can be a social contagion aspect. For instance in San Antonio in 2022 5 officers also died of suicide within a span of seven months. It’s sad and i’m not trying to downplay that.

I just think most people who are willing to think critically and do research understand that there’s been a large politicization and somewhat dishonest framing of how “deadly” the capital riot actually was.

People died during an insurrection in Modern Day America. If that’s not a problem for you, I don’t really know what to say.

+1
"Deadly Insurrection" in quotes? I think critical thinking should be in quotes for you.

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This is all he knows. Race baiting is what has brought him here so he continues to play that trick, he knows nothing grabs headlines better than good old fashioned race baiting.

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When will the GOP replaced Trump? He’s obviously too old and senile to keep going. I don’t think JD is ready. Who should replace Trump?

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Yeahhh... I don't think many people are going to look at that and go "yeah, he showed them" they're going to think, "What a jerk! Why can't he just answer a question?"

I'm a trump voter, but I'm sick of the theatrics. He COULD just go in and tell them the truth and we'll win. FFS, I cant' stand this shit.

So why the H*LL are you voting for him?!?!?!

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Anonymous wrote:Truth

No - Trump's not saying, innocuously, "She's Indian". That'd be perfectly fine. No one would object to that at all. She IS Indian, and it is fine to say so.

What he is saying is different. He's saying: "All of a sudden she's Black? She didn't used to be Black, she said she was Indian." That's completely different. He's implying that she is lying about being Black, or at least, that NOW, when it is more important to claim a connection to Black Americans and the Black vote, she's mentioning that she's Black.

It doesn't work though, because she IS Black, as well as Indian.

She may be Black but she doesn't have the same family history and upbringing that she's implying she has. Her father was Jamaican who moved here as an adult, her parents separated when she was 6 and she lived in Canada from age 12-18. Her experience is totally different than many AA's who have lived here for centuries and it's disingenuous on her part to pretend so.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truth

No - Trump's not saying, innocuously, "She's Indian". That'd be perfectly fine. No one would object to that at all. She IS Indian, and it is fine to say so.

What he is saying is different. He's saying: "All of a sudden she's Black? She didn't used to be Black, she said she was Indian." That's completely different. He's implying that she is lying about being Black, or at least, that NOW, when it is more important to claim a connection to Black Americans and the Black vote, she's mentioning that she's Black.

It doesn't work though, because she IS Black, as well as Indian.

She may be Black but she doesn't have the same family history and upbringing that she's implying she has. Her father was Jamaican who moved here as an adult, her parents separated when she was 6 and she lived in Canada from age 12-18. Her experience is totally different than many AA's who have lived here for centuries and it's disingenuous on her part to pretend so.

* typed by white guy in his basement

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Anonymous wrote:Truth

No - Trump's not saying, innocuously, "She's Indian". That'd be perfectly fine. No one would object to that at all. She IS Indian, and it is fine to say so.

What he is saying is different. He's saying: "All of a sudden she's Black? She didn't used to be Black, she said she was Indian." That's completely different. He's implying that she is lying about being Black, or at least, that NOW, when it is more important to claim a connection to Black Americans and the Black vote, she's mentioning that she's Black.

It doesn't work though, because she IS Black, as well as Indian.

She may be Black but she doesn't have the same family history and upbringing that she's implying she has. Her father was Jamaican who moved here as an adult, her parents separated when she was 6 and she lived in Canada from age 12-18. Her experience is totally different than many AA's who have lived here for centuries and it's disingenuous on her part to pretend so.

Harris has always been careful about saying she's black, and not that she's African American. It's not lost on her that her family's experience is not the same as that of many African Americans. Her personal experience as a Brown/Black woman, is that of every other Brown/Black woman. There is nothing disingenuous about it.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Truth

No - Trump's not saying, innocuously, "She's Indian". That'd be perfectly fine. No one would object to that at all. She IS Indian, and it is fine to say so.

What he is saying is different. He's saying: "All of a sudden she's Black? She didn't used to be Black, she said she was Indian." That's completely different. He's implying that she is lying about being Black, or at least, that NOW, when it is more important to claim a connection to Black Americans and the Black vote, she's mentioning that she's Black.

It doesn't work though, because she IS Black, as well as Indian.

She may be Black but she doesn't have the same family history and upbringing that she's implying she has. Her father was Jamaican who moved here as an adult, her parents separated when she was 6 and she lived in Canada from age 12-18. Her experience is totally different than many AA's who have lived here for centuries and it's disingenuous on her part to pretend so.

Harris has always been careful about saying she's black, and not that she's African American. It's not lost on her that her family's experience is not the same as that of many African Americans. Her personal experience as a Brown/Black woman, is that of every other Brown/Black woman. There is nothing disingenuous about it.

+1 looking for reasons to cancel someone, the same way they spent 8 years crying about it

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Anonymous wrote:Truth

No - Trump's not saying, innocuously, "She's Indian". That'd be perfectly fine. No one would object to that at all. She IS Indian, and it is fine to say so.

What he is saying is different. He's saying: "All of a sudden she's Black? She didn't used to be Black, she said she was Indian." That's completely different. He's implying that she is lying about being Black, or at least, that NOW, when it is more important to claim a connection to Black Americans and the Black vote, she's mentioning that she's Black.

It doesn't work though, because she IS Black, as well as Indian.

She may be Black but she doesn't have the same family history and upbringing that she's implying she has. Her father was Jamaican who moved here as an adult, her parents separated when she was 6 and she lived in Canada from age 12-18. Her experience is totally different than many AA's who have lived here for centuries and it's disingenuous on her part to pretend so.

That argument didn't work against Obama for either of his two terms.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truth

No - Trump's not saying, innocuously, "She's Indian". That'd be perfectly fine. No one would object to that at all. She IS Indian, and it is fine to say so.

What he is saying is different. He's saying: "All of a sudden she's Black? She didn't used to be Black, she said she was Indian." That's completely different. He's implying that she is lying about being Black, or at least, that NOW, when it is more important to claim a connection to Black Americans and the Black vote, she's mentioning that she's Black.

It doesn't work though, because she IS Black, as well as Indian.

She may be Black but she doesn't have the same family history and upbringing that she's implying she has. Her father was Jamaican who moved here as an adult, her parents separated when she was 6 and she lived in Canada from age 12-18. Her experience is totally different than many AA's who have lived here for centuries and it's disingenuous on her part to pretend so.

Harris has always been careful about saying she's black, and not that she's African American. It's not lost on her that her family's experience is not the same as that of many African Americans. Her personal experience as a Brown/Black woman, is that of every other Brown/Black woman. There is nothing disingenuous about it.

Obama's father was not from the U.S.

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Anonymous wrote:Harris in Texas gave a quick shout out to Trump at NABJ. It was a quick ding that provoked laughter. She didn’t need to say anything else. Similar to Hillary when Trump was convicted, “Anything going on today?”

She handled it perfectly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truth

No - Trump's not saying, innocuously, "She's Indian". That'd be perfectly fine. No one would object to that at all. She IS Indian, and it is fine to say so.

What he is saying is different. He's saying: "All of a sudden she's Black? She didn't used to be Black, she said she was Indian." That's completely different. He's implying that she is lying about being Black, or at least, that NOW, when it is more important to claim a connection to Black Americans and the Black vote, she's mentioning that she's Black.

It doesn't work though, because she IS Black, as well as Indian.

She may be Black but she doesn't have the same family history and upbringing that she's implying she has. Her father was Jamaican who moved here as an adult, her parents separated when she was 6 and she lived in Canada from age 12-18. Her experience is totally different than many AA's who have lived here for centuries and it's disingenuous on her part to pretend so.

That argument didn't work against Obama for either of his two terms.

They sure tried it though!