Trump Invokes The Ghastly Racist Trope Of Genetic Inferiority

Originally published at: Trump Invokes The Ghastly Racist Trope Of Genetic Inferiority

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. ‘Bad Genes’ In a campaign that Donald Trump has centered on race ever since the biracial Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, the former president continues to ratchet up the toxicity of his rhetoric as…

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First, with Ernie and a cauliflower from the farmer’s market.

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The soul of fascism right there. Genetics were the Germans claiming science for their wanton self love, vicious ignorance and murderous, monkey-like behavior.

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Girl kitty in the bushes!

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Cruciferous yes… Cabbage no.

Ernie is a good looking boy

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Why do the Republicans ignore climate change and allowing weapons of war to be sold to civilians? You would think this could pick up some votes in the next month.

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hehe :slight_smile: yep

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Hate is the point. They thrive and feel empowered by hate. Weapons are a symbol of their power to them. And weapons mean “they can pull the trigger” and feel powerful.

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So DeSantis is threatening to jail people who run abortion ads? Given the legislation in Fla about not mentioning climate change, I wonder what he would do if someone ran an infomercial about the impact of heat on the Gulf of Mexico.

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I was saying just this yesterday.

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Draw a straight line between Trump’s increasingly insane bullshit between now and election day and you absolutely end up with violent Nazi rampages before November with this greasy fat asshole promising to end the violence, but only if he wins.

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11th! And the requisite images of our dog Penny bravely confronting—and dare I say—triumphing over a Halloween cat decoration makes it hard to stay humble.


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I can’t say I did Nazi that coming.

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Confuse-a-dog!

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“Before total war, Nazism was a pot-pourri. Racialism… and nationalism… jostled shoulders with the socialistic revolutionary conservatism of many members of the Mittelstand (middle class). Romantic ideas came from right-wing youth groups. Hitler could utter the gospel of anti-capitalism to workers and the gospel of profits to businessmen. [It was] a rag-bag of inconsistent and incoherent ideas.”
Walter A. P. Phillips, historian

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Weirdest looking cabbage I’ve ever seen. You might not want to make it with your corned beef for St. Patty’s Day unless you want a whole lot of laughter about your knowedge of which veggies is which.

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The boofster didn’t get investigated……shocking……,

https://archive.is/JRQeD

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There’s this.

And there’s this.

All I can say is that this election is going to very weird and I’m not going to make any assumptions about the outcome.

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i miswrote :wink:

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“To threaten this the state’s lawyers shoehorn a law that makes it a misdemeanor to create a public health nuisance – like maybe…”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510

Fuck these people. I almost welcome the fact that we’re going to have to put them in their place the old fashioned way at this point.

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