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Trump has normalized overt racism.
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dalton99a
(81,468 posts)spanone
(135,830 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)paleotn
(17,912 posts)there's a two word moniker for people like her.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I am as southern as they come and I can think of the obvious response of How Nice. Which along with Bless your Heart is Southern for Fuck You.
But a distinct southern Moniker? Drawing a blank.
I mean, Damn Yankee does not really work cause we have them just as bad.
Not looking for an argument. Just curious. I have always been intrigued with the variety of English we speak here in the South. Especially the tremendous variety from different regions.
Totally non related. Do you use the word tumped? As in I tumpted it over. It was common in Louisiana and Arkansas but I never hear it in the eastern part of the South
Have a nice evening.
paleotn
(17,912 posts)around here it meant a caucasian person who revels in ignorance and stupidity. It is based on demonstrated moral character or what was expected based on one's family history. More precisely, the lack of moral character. Thus, simply being poor had little to do with it. It was used to describe both poor and those of means. Poor people could be considered good, honest folks, so the moniker did not apply. My grandparents thought it most definitely applied to the likes Hank Williams Sr. It's a pejorative that's sometimes misunderstood outside the south, so I won't type it outright, but the first word is a color. The second is what you toss in a waste bin.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)for office and hammer it home.
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts).
Nah! The dark and dank shit hole is a manifestation of her mental state.
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SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,337 posts)During the run-up to the other day of infamy, 2016-11-08, I kept telling my kids that the orange ass was taking us back to 1968 (and then had to explain about all the riots and troubles around the country) and before. We seem to have zipped through the McCarthy era. When in this hell are we now?!?
Is it the 1920s now? Who taught these shit-for-brains people?
bdamomma
(63,845 posts)they want us to head back to the 1920's, throwing us back to the depression era. It won't stop us to get this POS out.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)before these pesky civil rights and immigration laws were passed. Things were great for a certain type of person and bad for everyone else.
33taw
(2,440 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)And actually at one point they were 90%.
treestar
(82,383 posts)that their era of glory involved such high taxes. They likely don't know/remember.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Don't know anything..about anything..
33taw
(2,440 posts)It is like their minds cannot adjust to full length sentences.
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)How sweet it would be to hit today's greedy billionaires with that for what they've done to us.
DBoon
(22,363 posts)Wiemar Germany in the 1920s
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)"The richest 1 percent of Americans now takes home about 20 percent of total income, and owns over 40 percent of the nations wealth. These are close to the peaks of 1928 and 2007." - Robert Reich, Sept. 2, 2018.
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This horrid, racist and ignorant woman reflects far too many people now boldly spewing their hate.
It's like a contagious infection or disease that's revived and raging to dangerous levels. And untreated.
Old Crank
(3,573 posts)Obama administration. Watermelon pics on the White House lawn, Michele and ape, kids monkeys. Eight years of this crap. Did any one with any power in the GOP ever once step up and condemn it?
That is who they are top to bottom.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Old Crank (I want that name), and it's really not who they all are top to bottom. Thank all the gods.
Remember the incredible shrinking Republican Party? We like to think those still capable of some decency shouldn't vote with the others if they aren't racists, but it's not so simple for them. They have a lot of things they've been trained to care about, with most of their energy devoted to opposing anything they see as liberal.
Not that I'm making any excuses for ANYONE who's been voting right. Those have all adopted the moral and intellectual corruption that has taken over the right -- top to bottom.
Oh, yeah, who could ever forget the Obama years? Trolling for assassins 24/7 on Fox and other right-wing media, until they were called on it. On political forums chortling fake outrage that Michelle was such a slob that she dropped food all down her chest at a state dinner, humiliating America before the world. And amazingly real outrage when she suggested we feed our children salad.
But only from some. Blame the internet for giving these nasty creeps an audience most of their neighbors won't provide.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)n/t
GarColga
(124 posts)Just sayin'.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)I get that sports is lucrative for the men who play sports, but a large amount of white wealth has been built on the backs of the men (including black men) who play those sports. Phil Knight would not be worth around $35 billion if not for black men playing sports. Most likely men like Jerry Jones would still be wealthy without black men, but men like Roger Goodell and the men that came before him would not have gotten $44 million per year salaries without the help of black men. Even when the men who buy these team are wealthy before they are wealthy black men help increase their wealth. I highly doubt cities and states would be willing to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to build stadium if it were not for the billions of dollars that black men help to bring into sports leagues. So, another question is what will white men do when black men stop playing sports for them, making them rich, and increasing their wealth?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)How about all non- white men stop playing football, baseball and basketball( for example) for 1 week (well 1 month for football HA )
Let's see what happens..
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)Even back in 1920. Man o man what a shit.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)OrlandoDem2
(2,065 posts)and its only intended as a dog whistle. This lady goes straight to overt racism.
Shocked. Not shocked by GoP behavior.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)dhill926
(16,337 posts)when she has to find a real fucking job....
TexasTowelie
(112,150 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)you could end up like me?"
pangaia
(24,324 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)nightwing1240
(1,996 posts)Only hit rec for visibility. The sad part is that as disgusting and vile this woman's statements are, there are millions that agree with her. Stuff like this just makes one want to go out and beat the crap out of anyone that voted for that orange menace. Fuck the repukes!!
Perseus
(4,341 posts)if the black NFL players decided to form their own league? Resign from the NFL. let an all white league go at it and see where that goes. It would make it interesting, at the end of the season they could have a final between the two leagues.
trump has brought all the white trash in and out of the swamp, they come out to spew hate, then they go back to their swamp.
WhiteTara
(29,704 posts)What hate and ugliness in her heart.
Jarqui
(10,123 posts)I have better things to do with my time than waste it on a person like that
DinahMoeHum
(21,784 posts). . .by Dave Zirin, The Nation magazine sports editor and podcaster
https://twitter.com/EdgeofSports
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...I refer to him, but accompanied by an extended middle finger rather than a thumbs up.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)I hope more of these assholes will be showing a little leg before the midterms.
raging moderate
(4,304 posts)These people are monsters.