Discussion: Trump Cabinet Member To Floridians: 'So Cotton-Pickin' Important' To Defeat Gillum

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“Hey, what’s so wrong about calling a spade ‘a spade’?”

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Purdue tells Florida that the election is “cotton-picking” important and that people should support DeSantis (who doesn’t want the populace to “monkey it up” by electing his opponent).

How white of him.

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Alternate Headline: “Dog Whistle Becomes Bull Horn!”

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“And that is why this election is so cotton-pickin’ important to the state of Florida."

Q. Was that a racist dog whistle?

A. Don’t you know the difference between an ultrasonic whistle and a 150 PSI train horn?

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He’s the Secretary of Agriculture, so naturally he’s just using 'cotton-picking" in the context of the cash crop’s importance to the State.

Shame on those uppity negroes for implying that the old white guy is a racist.

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His only regret is that he couldn’t be out on the campaign trail in his hood.

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Why is the agriculture secretary on the campaign trail? I know he is the former governor of neighboring Georgia but this seems like Hatch act stuff.

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“I hope you all don’t mess it up.”

You guys are taking care of that just fine. You don’t need any help.

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In case it was unclear to anyone, the Republican Party doesn’t give a damn about you and doesn’t respect you if you’re black, brown, female, or are an immigrant from a brown country. If you fit in any of these categories and still vote Republican, you have no self-respect. Nothing else matters when your very humanity is not recognized.

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…and yes…he knew EXACTLY what he was saying *wink *wink…so when he tries to walk back his obvious racism don’t believe him for a fat second…

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“And that is why this election is so cotton-pickin’ important to the state of Florida. I hope you all don’t mess it up.”

He was supposed to say “don’t monkey it up.”

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bumperstickers from the perdue camp:

he’s finger-licken’ bad

honkey if you love jesus

The happiest plantation on earth!

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What…nothing about “toxic green waves of guacamole” or “swamps of red salsa” or “an infestation of taco stands”?

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Sonny Perdue is a fat fuck who once made a big deal out of publicly praying for drought-ending rain – on a day with a reliable rain forecast. Stupid-ass white evangelicals ate it up. Such is our politics down here.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-saved-155-lives-on-the-hudson-now-lets-vote-for-leaders-wholl-protect-us-all/2018/10/29/554fd0e6-d87c-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.45a3b09e5d52

Right now, the majority party in the House and Senate are not fulfilling their oath of office. They are not acting as a check and balance. We must replace with those who will. I am talking to the American people. I’m saying, you are the ultimate check and balance.

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Ain’t no lions or tigers, ain’t no mamba snake. Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake

h/t Randy Newman

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Look back at the 2016 campaign and you will see a number of Obama’s cabinet secretaries out on the campaign trail — and the same goes for any previous administration.

Are these particular campaign engagements involving cabinet secretaries a violation of the Hatch Act? Not “if the costs associated with [said] political activity are not paid for by money derived from the Treasury of the United States.”

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President Donald Trump once said, "Black people are too stupid to vote for me," and suggested that all countries run by blacks are “s—holes,” Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen says in a new interview.

Also in the Vanity Fair sitdown, Cohen recalled Trump saying, "There’s no way I can let this black f-g win," when referring to a black contestant on the reality show “The Apprentice.”

“Only the blacks could live like this,” Trump once allegedly told Cohen when they were driving through a rough neighborhood in Chicago.

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Sonny Perdue called Tuesday’s vote “so cotton-pickin’ important.”

Perdue, feigning remorse: “My bad. I thought that Tom Cotton was up for re-election.”

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