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

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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.

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

Do you call the George Floyd protests “deadly racial justice riots?” Even though most were peaceful several turned deadly. Are we going to attribute the 184 officer suicides in 2020 to the stress from those?

Look, im not trying to say January 6th wasn’t a ridiculous horrible riot. It was. and it was tragic.

But I don’t see how you can honestly not see the extreme double standard in the pushed narrative.

DP...most of the people convicted for murder, arson and looting during the Flloyd summer were actually right wing instigators.

MOST? No, some—yes. But not most.

That doesn’t answer my question though, even if it were true.

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This was his plan all along and he is getting the press coverage he has been starved of.

I realize he was completely incoherent at times, but he was looking for an opening to test this idea of questioning whether VP Harris is "actually" black. His statement did not answer the question asked. First he plays stupid by asking for the definition of DEI and then he sees his opening and goes on a tangent guaranteed to get media coverage.

It sounds insane (and it is), but he is in search of his "birth certificate" "people are saying" moment.

The VP handled it beautifully, call out the disrespectful antics and move on. Do not give it airtime. he is not worth it, she is focused on the future of the country. He is focused on staying out of jail.

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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.

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.

What does that have to do with Harris?

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Anonymous wrote:This was his plan all along and he is getting the press coverage he has been starved of.

I realize he was completely incoherent at times, but he was looking for an opening to test this idea of questioning whether VP Harris is "actually" black. His statement did not answer the question asked. First he plays stupid by asking for the definition of DEI and then he sees his opening and goes on a tangent guaranteed to get media coverage.

It sounds insane (and it is), but he is in search of his "birth certificate" "people are saying" moment.

The VP handled it beautifully, call out the disrespectful antics and move on. Do not give it airtime. he is not worth it, she is focused on the future of the country. He is focused on staying out of jail.

He’s getting press coverage but it’s the same flavor of coverage Biden got after the debate.

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Anonymous wrote:God what a freaking loser this orange clown is. The people voting for him on the right are either (1) low-IQ racists, or (2) wealthy folks who enjoy tax-cuts and are OK with the country being handed lock-and-key to an aging and mentally incompetent demagogue.

Ding, ding, ding! We have the right answer.

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Anonymous wrote:Jamaica has it own history with the transatlantic slave trade. Why is this so hard to understand?

Is her “Jamaican” dad 100% Black?

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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.

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.

She's not implying anything about her family history. She's a woman of mixed race, Black and Indian. She's married to a Jewish man of probably European descent. Who is pretending anything?

She attended Howard University, a HBCU, and was a soror in AKA, a black sorority. I think she gets to decide how "black" she is.

Going to an HBCU does not infer or prove anything about your race or ethnicity.

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Anonymous wrote:This was his plan all along and he is getting the press coverage he has been starved of.

I realize he was completely incoherent at times, but he was looking for an opening to test this idea of questioning whether VP Harris is "actually" black. His statement did not answer the question asked. First he plays stupid by asking for the definition of DEI and then he sees his opening and goes on a tangent guaranteed to get media coverage.

It sounds insane (and it is), but he is in search of his "birth certificate" "people are saying" moment.

The VP handled it beautifully, call out the disrespectful antics and move on. Do not give it airtime. he is not worth it, she is focused on the future of the country. He is focused on staying out of jail.

It's just such a dumb fight to pick. But he's going to have to increasingly go unhinged to get media cycles going forward. It's not to his advantage.

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Republicans are the queen of identity politics.

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Anonymous wrote:Jamaica has it own history with the transatlantic slave trade. Why is this so hard to understand?

Is her “Jamaican” dad 100% Black?

So when people look at Harris now, they're going to say "wait a minute, she's not really black". That's Trump's plan?

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And what’s a Black Job? He never answered that. He never answers anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Jamaica has it own history with the transatlantic slave trade. Why is this so hard to understand?

Is her “Jamaican” dad 100% Black?

How many African Americans are 100% Black, PP?

And why would so many AA's whose families have white ancestry? Hmm. Think real hard about that one now.

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LOL

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Anonymous wrote:LOL

My money is on Junior. He has such great political instincts.

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Anonymous wrote:And what’s a Black Job? He never answered that. He never answers anything.

Apparently, a job that an illegal immigrant fresh in the country has no problem performing.