Originally published at: DHS Includes ‘White Supremacist’ Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A video posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security included a brief flash of a character who has become associated with violent racist and neo-Nazi content online. The clip, which was published on Thursday evening, features text that says “LIFE AFTER ALL CRIMINAL ALIENS ARE DEPORTED” and “the future is bright” alongside a…
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Also, Seth Meyers hates Mack Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5edVttzSUE
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The first time the orange nazi slob got elected people (on both sides) said “Oh I don’t think this is about racism.”
Ahh, if only we could return to those innocent, quaint times.
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The Anti Defamation League tracked racist and extremist statements associated with the late activist Charlie Kirk’s group, Turning Point USA. After he was shot and killed last month, Kirk has become a martyr in MAGA circles and, on Wednesday, FBI Director Kash Patel cut ties with the group that had provided the FBI with research and data on hate groups for decades.
Gee, what made the ADL think Turning Point had anything to do with hate?
And can’t we just ignore all that kind of thing and get back to shooting missiles at small boats in the Caribbean?
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He’s still going after universities and reports of antisemitism on campus, even while appointing documented pro-Nazi jagoffs to high government positions.
Again, not so much a government as a Fascist Coup.
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The clips are a show of desperate longing for a world when white men ruled the country, politically, economically and culturally, you know, sort of a lost cause kind of vision. A world when white men didn’t have to be concerned about those other people, the good old days for good old boys.
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You do realize that constantly reporting on every fucking sleazy Nazi move simply does their job for them by amping up the nonstop drumbeat of doom by making it feel like the attacks never stop. And no, they don’t. but if all you’re going to do is point them out without further context it’s like someone in a foxhole constantly screaming that they’re shooting at us. That’s not helpful. Be helpful instead.
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It’s hard to keep all this weird stuff straight. Just wear the swastikas. It all means the same thing. And, if you’re so proud of who you are, why be so elliptical and sneaky? Just go full Nazi.
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Unclear what was unhelpful about this piece of reporting.
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Hopefully The Cure will protest the misuse of “Friday I’m in Love”
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When are the ADL and the SPLC going to list the DHS as a hate organization?
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Dear Lord, he’s been in office 256 days, including today, and this is where we are as a country. We’ve got 396 days until the mid-term election, on my b-day so mark your calendars.
*Turning and turning in the widening gyre *
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
*The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere *
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
*The best lack all conviction, while the worst *
Are full of passionate intensity.
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I came on here to say basically the same thing. Why bother with nuance, subtlety or deniability at this point?
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Having some degree of plausible deniability is one reason memes and cartoon imagery have gained traction in white supremacist circles. And now, some of those same memes and images are popular on the Trump administration’s social media.
This is about speaking in code. For example for many years, as proven by the overwhelming support of White Evangelicals for Donald “grab her by the ……” Trump, “values” in front of the word voter was code for race.
To some extent, Trump has dropped the code and that has given him ownership of the base of the Republican Party. That is when discussing Donald Trump what must not be forgotten is that Donald Trump’s base created Donald Trump and not the other way around.
But to expand beyond his base of White Christian racist men Trump still needs coded messages least he looses some White women who may be taken aback by blatant racist appeals but are otherwise ambivalent to racism.
So to keep his base that gives him control over the Republican Party happy, Trump must still speak racist. But to avoid making those who dislike overt racism but are otherwise ambivalent to racism, he and Republicans still use coded messages like “Moon Man” to keep his base riled up without offending some others.
As the article says, this is all about “plausible deniability.
So here is my plausible deniability; I do not know if Trump and other Republicans are racists but I do know Trump and other Republicans are very good at acting or playing racists on TV.
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Referencing visual symbols that are used by racists to promote racism is racist.
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It’s hard to keep all this weird stuff straight. Just wear the swastikas. It all means the same thing. And, if you’re so proud of who you are, why be so elliptical and sneaky? Just go full Nazi.
Just wait, that’s coming
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Why do they show clips from the past to illustrate that “The future is bright?”
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Welcome back! Missed having you around!!
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Your life will improve if you block that troll. I did.
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I’m sure he’s really just a symbol of economic distress. /s
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