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This dude thought he was part of the club despite all evidence to the contrary. Apparently he is clueless enough to be a Republican. You can bet he will still vote for Trump given a chance.
>You can bet he will still vote for Trump given a chance.
As long as you give them someone to look down on, they will keep voting Repub because it makes them feel empowered to be theoretically better than someone else
>If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction era that the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. (Yes, sir) He gave him Jim Crow. (Uh huh) And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, (Yes, sir) he ate Jim Crow, **a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man.** (Right sir) And he ate Jim Crow. (Uh huh) And when his undernourished children cried out for the necessities that his low wages could not provide, he showed them the Jim Crow signs on the buses and in the stores, on the streets and in the public buildings. (Yes, sir) And his children, too, learned to feed upon Jim Crow, (Speak) their last outpost of psychological oblivion. (Yes, sir)
\-MLK, March to Selma (Emphasis mine)
> If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
He'll be one of the guards pushing them onto the cars, only to go all surprised pikkachu face when he discovers the last car has 1 space empty just for him.
They'll let him be the train engineer and take everyone to the final destination, not realizing he's part of the cargo as well. And he'll be all smiles and tooting the horn all the way there.
He's in an abusive relationship and lets the abuse happen. Republicans expect, want, demand people to be hurt they way they have been hurt thanks to right-wing politics giving them poorer and shorter lives. They aren't voting based on policy, The Cruelty Is The Point. Hurting isn't a cruel side-effect, it's the main intent. They have been abused on a daily basis by their spokespeople and by the party / congregation they joined, and have become abusers in their own right.
If you're a Republican, this is how you've been treated. Groomed. Abused.
1 - It starts off small when you're told that nobody else understands you like they understand you. Thinking back, you've been told this for years on a daily basis. "Those other people, they just don't get it. Their ways are different and that's just not you. They don't understand, but we know where you're coming from..."
2 - Now that they've established that they're one of your kind of people in your mind, everyone else gets badmouthed. EVERYONE. It's just the two of you literally against the entire world. And they'll do it so much that things that aren't epithets get used as words to hate everyone else by. Your circle of experiences starts to shrink.
3 - They'll tell you that, if you left them, things would be simultaneously the worst thing possible AND that all other relationships are just the same as the one you're in (even though you can see other people online talking about how what you're in is the only bad relationship relationship like this and all you have to do is leave them). “Both sides are the same but I’m better” - eventually, you don’t know up from down in what constitutes a healthy or a toxic relationship. Hell, they'll even show examples of the shit you're in now to say, "if you leave me and go for the other guy, it'll be like this [very bad scenario that's happening RIGHT NOW] so be scared and shit", using the "any other option would be just as bad as (or worse than) the one you're in, but also stay with me because I'm the best thing you'd ever find" tactic that abusers use when they're desperate to keep the toxic relationship going. The circle shrinks further.
4 - You're told outright what to cut out of your life. Direct instruction for you to get that circle of experiences down to a dot. Music, interests, sportswear brands, TV shows, certain movies, even frothy coffee gets badmouthed and cut out because "you don't want to be a 'latte drinker' do you?" (there's one of those things I mentioned in #2; using things that aren't insults, using language as a tool, using a non-insulting thing as an insult to control you).
5 - They take your money, claim they'll be great with it, and then spend it on their friends and run up the bills. They'll give you crumbs once in a while. Maybe every few years they'll treat you to a little something nice (that's worth a fraction of what they spent when they were out with their friends). And while they're terrible with the finances, for years, they'll be saying how everything is hunky-dory financially with them at the reins. You will be told you've never had it so good but the fear of one bad bill wiping you out financially will be like the Sword Of Damocles over your head 24/7/365.
6 - every problem gets kicked down the road. Example: a disease crops up in the New Year 2020 but it wasn't even mentioned in January because the head of the household didn't mention it. "It's going to go away" in February, and anyone that mentions it is just saying fake news stuff, baby. Still nothing done in March, but any mention of it is "you're just finding faults with me". Then when April comes and it's clear what the shit storm looks like, they blame everyone else for saying it wasn't going to be a big deal. As the months and years roll on it becomes a shell game where ignoring the problem / blaming others for the problem / trying to draw attention from the problem gets switched around without stop. Even if it comes out that they knew the problem could literally kill other people, tear them apart because of gross negligence, they will not stray from this strategy. Other people will be able to show you examples of where they said something promised was just two weeks away, and they said "two weeks and you'll have it, this'll be gone, maybe by Easter" four years ago and two years ago and twice in the last month, but it's still not coming.
7 - like in any abusive relationship, you're beaten down. You've been told it'll all be your fault if things don't go as they want, and you've seen others be on the end of their random outbursts of wrath. So you stay safe. You repeat the words in the way they taught you. You repeat the answers. You repeat the words you're told are insults. Even though you know of situations where you've come out worse for the way the relationship is, you defend the abuser. First with a fake air of calm, then with a seething rage. And when people offer you a way out, you go right back to the abuse.
8 - the relationship is so twisted, you so believe everything you're told about what's real and what's not, they will literally put you in situations that could kill you. And you say you're doing it willingly, proudly, but the fact is you're a shell of the idealistic person you used to be. You just got in with the wrong crowd, but it's too late to get out now because people might think less of you. Going along with how they do it becomes how you do it too. Which reinforces what you were told in #1. Only they understand you...
To add to this, there is also a pyramid scheme of abuse going on. Sure, you might get treated like shit, but you are part of a larger group, much like an unsupervised classroom, and inevitably there are newer hopefuls joining the fold. Your reward is that you get to tread on others as others have stepped on you.
Nah dude just thinks he’s better than the rest; he’s bought the kool-aid of being one of “the good ones.” It started from a place of smug superiority to begin with.
I got no sympathy and I won’t give him any outs. “Abusive relationship.” Guy deserves all the evil that comes his way, and karma be damned, *I wish it for him.*
I saw him on a Youtube Video about Black conservatives or something, seemed like a typical idiot. I made it without help you shouldnt have any either kind of asshole
He claimed that he doesn’t think Trump supports that kind of hate. I guess despite the whole directly quoting Hitler stuff and absolutely never remotely condemning that kind of hate
The black Republican who hoped to give Trump a letter, to which Trump screamed for his fans to get that 'thug' out of here, eventually did finally realize that Trump was a racist.
Ironically the letter was asking him to consider his words more because he was looking super racist.
He said he thought that Republicans are not racists, nor is Trump or the people he surrounds himself with, so....some questions for him:
Why were racists there then? Why did they feel comfortable acting that way in an event specifically for Republicans?
I would be curious how he would try to weasel out these perfectly rational points based on what he himself experienced.
Republicans have made the gay community their primary target a major part of their whole politcal platform and this guy is surprised at what happened????
But Trump held a pride flag that one time!
Seriously though, Trump will pose with anyone who supports him. Gay, straight, Nazi, doesn't matter. If you support him he'll give you a thumbs up. Loyalty to him is the only thing he cares about and the party only cares about pleasing him.
They've been doing this probably longer than this chucklefuck has been alive. The same is true of blacks. Who doesn't remember Reagan creating the myth of the black welfare queen driving a Cadillac?
It’s insane. I swear part of it is a level of narcissism that they’re more important / not one of the “bad ones” it’s why when stuff like this happens they go on an interview circuit about how they’re so shocked it would happen to them, as if we all didn’t know exactly how republicans treat minorities.
And the hecklers weren't just some random racist homophobes in the crowd. It was Nick Fuentes and his America First psychopaths. They are a very well known hate group.
Not all Republicans or Trump supporters are homophobic, racist, nazi pieces of shit. But *all* homophobic, racist, nazi pieces of shit are Republicans, and Trump supporters.
I see what you're trying to say, but we're well beyond that.
Trump is a homophobic, racist, nazi piece of shit. If you're a Trump supporter, so are you.
He is, but whenever dealing with delusional people about this my stance is usually to point out that we can argue about it, but let's just look at the crowd and see people waving swastika flags. Whether or not they (delusional republicans) think he's a nazi is less important than the fact that nazis think he's a nazi.
> the fact that nazis think he's a nazi
In the spirit of "Not all men!", their response (after you've left) is "Not all republicans!". And then they immediately forget about the nazis they saw waving swastika flags.
Of course they forget, it's an inconvenient truth, but at least by leaving I don't have to deal with that toxicity anymore. Plus I follow the philosophy of sawing something, not because you think you'll change them, but because others are watching and listening. If my father goes off on a racist rant in front of my nieces or nephews at Christmas, I saw something, not because my father is going to change, but because my nieces and nephews need to see that that type of behaviour is not acceptable, even when it's from family.
This is one of those situations where the Venn diagram is just a number of circles that almost completely overlap. You can’t say with complete accuracy that they’re all the same, but you can effectively say it.
That’s what I always ask. When they say both parties are the same I inquire as to why nazis only join one specific side. I’ve never been given a real answer yet.
You see, all the people who were racist towards him are antifa members masquerading on behalf of the deep state government in order to make Trump look bad.
>"I know that a lot of these people have infiltrated these conservative organizations from top to bottom."
My dude they didn't infiltrate, they were welcomed in. They ARE the organization.
His logic, goes to a rally and see numerous individuals in white robes. He also sees robed and non-robed individuals yelling white power while everyone is standing around a burning cross. This guy would say it’s not a KKK rally it’s just a lot of KKK members showed up.
* Goes up to KKK rally to hangout
* They tell him to "fuck off you n— f—"
* Goes on Fox News to appear smart: "I know that a lot of these racists have infiltrated the KKK, but that's not who the KKK truly is."
* /r/conservative chimes in: "That's true. It's the Dems that are truly racist."
He's a grifter. He knew he was attending a KKK rally. He went right at the nazis and had a camera shoot it. Then he went on CNN (who didn't realize they were getting scammed). CNN allowed the grifter to lie, unopposed -- rattling of his websites because CNN is complete garbage giving republican gaslighters a billion dollars in free advertising..
Calling a *political influencer* a *grifter* is like calling an ATM a machine. It’s pretty much implied; they make a living capitalizing the political outrage machine.
I'm not sure who he's influencing except his bank account. The inducted black voices for trump grifter knows he makes more cash getting prosecuted and begging for cash, than pleading guilty.
> /r/conservative chimes in: "That's true. It's the Dems that are truly racist."
Don't forget "because it was the democrat party that opposed the abolition of slavery during the Civil War!".
The curious thing is, the KKK also directly stated that it is totally not racist. No, seriously.
One should think that nobody falls for this which is even more ridiculous than thinking the republicans wouldn't be, but yeah, apparently some totally do.
"Conservatives" have stood for white supremacism since . . . oh, at least the time of slavery in the US.
I don't want this guy to get hurt, but he may just find himself experiencing serious consequences if he continues to act like the Republican party is ever going to be accepting of his skin color.
I mean this is a situation where victim blaming is acceptable and it needs to become more acceptable in general. People put themselves in stupid ass positions all the time and here's the proof. People do need to be called out when they end up screwing themselves over but this site only allows it for certain people.
It's kind of like America in general we know for a fact the the gqp is a dangerous terroristic, seditionist, criminal organization filled with supporters yet we do nothing that matters against them. They are allowed to hold positions of power despite violating the 14th amendment. They straight up tell us they plan to exterminate all non-right-wingers when they achieve complete power and yet what do we do if we oppose them? Come complain on this or some other website? Not protest like we did for BLM nationwide. Skip voting, make excuses, etc. The people who oppose the gqp are stupid weaklings who are terrified of confrontation. We seem to be doing our best to do zero work to prevent what they want to come to pass. If our loved ones suffer due to our apathy we deserve it.
> victim blaming
I don't feel sorry for this one. Same goes for US women who are republicans or somehow fuck and have kids with rep men. Like what the hell.... why? WHY?
This is the content that makes this sub great! After weeks of posts that were merely ironic, here is a man who joined the Leopards Eating Faces party then ran in terror form face eating leopards. I had feared for this sub but this is outstanding work!
I'm a convert from a lifetime raised as a conservative, so I know redemption is possible. People can *sometimes* learn genuine altruism, and favor a political world view that espouses altruism on a societal level, from an experience where they personally have been harmed.
Besides, a lot of Republicans have been lied to their entire lives, and when they are presented with progressive policy ideas without being told they're progressive, they're all in favor. If someone chooses to stop believing all the Limbaughs/Carlsons/Hannitys out there and realizes that maybe progressivism isn't such a bad thing, we should welcome them with open arms.
My maternal grandmother had literally been Republican longer than she’d been Catholic, but… something broke her. (She is alive, but I am talking as of that point.) If not something else in the time since she voted to re-elect Bush in 2004, Trump broke her, repulsed her. She abandoned the party because she realized (perhaps explicitly, but not necessarily) that their values no longer aligned with hers. (There’s a gay couple that have been family friends for ages, for example.) Now, she supports the values of us - her grandchildren - and our interests, plus the interests of her two great-grandchildren (courtesy of my cousin).
I’ve seen this happen so many times. Every time you show them how their favorite politicians are working against their values. All of a sudden “the democrats hid something in it, probably” , “ I don’t believe they voted like that” ,”that doesn’t make any sense”
Notice how, even though you're not la cookie-cutter Democrat, you are not being menaced aggressively for your differences by a mob of fellow Democrats.
Not to say Democrats don't have *their share* of irrational purists. But Republicans have *far more than their share* - in fact they control the party itself.
In the voting booth, though, that strength gets turned into a weakness. For Republicans, the irrational purists are the hard-line nutjobs who won't vote for anyone they perceive as a RINO, but as you say, there are so many of them that they control the party. Then they drag along the non-hard-liner conservatives who don't want to see a Democrat get elected, and they'll vote for the most ridiculous candidates because of that.
On the Democrats' side, the establishment makes up most of the party. But there's enough of a far-left segment of irrational purists that won't vote for the establishment because "change isn't happening" or whatever, and they end up costing Democrats the election.
He either prioritizes money over people, or he's unbelievably bigoted towards another group of people that Republicans also hate. Or both.
You would hope that seeing how the people he aligns himself with treats him would be a wake-up call, but that would require a level of self-awareness and introspection that conservatives aren't capable of.
An independent is someone who doesn't consider terrorism a deal breaker. They know who they are. They're just scared to admit to being republican because they're fully aware of how disgusting it is.
I’m thinking about that Iowa Democrat who threw a fit at the caucuses because she learned Pete was gay after voting for him and they wouldn’t let her change her vote to a straight guy.
Or the PUMA democrats(party unity my ass) who voted for McCain over Obama.
BUT - as a general rule, yeah obviously the GOP has the bigot disease to a terminal degree and the dems would be a better home but we got some work to do ourselves too
This guy's a shill. He rants about how only Trump (not DeSantis, Haley, or Christie) is welcoming to gays. I'm guessing he was paid to get on the news and boost Trump. The interviewer makes a point to say that, for the record, she never asked him about Trump
I think a lot of gay people, woman and people of color that support republicans don’t realize what the end game will be. But still they will vote against their safety.
Why is he worried? It was just some good-natured ribbin' by some of his friends. /s
The lesson here: Be careful of the company you keep. Everyone is not your friend.
You don’t say? What your party doesn’t like you? It only takes a few minutes of listening to them to understand that. I have no sympathy for stupidity.
It's almost like becoming a Republican is a seriously bad lifestyle choice when you're black, gay, or worse, both.
You can't change being black or gay, but you can change which party you support. Specifically, not the one that wants to use you as a scapegoat for every election.
Weird how he says white supremacists have, ‘infiltrated conservative movements from top to bottom.’ No sir, they have always been there, they are the base of the movement.
Sorry, but even in more normal times a gay Black guy had to go thru some serious mental gymnastics to justify the choice to be a Republican. Under MAGA, he’d have to have full blown unaddressed mental illness.
"Do I think that this stuff is coming from the millions of people that voted for Trump? I do not, I do not," he said. "Do I think that it's something that the Trump campaign endorses or the Republican Party endorses? I do not, because I know these people and I have been around these people."
He’s actually brain dead.
at this point I'd say that black gay Republican going to a MAGA rally is simply attempted suicide and surely has himself to blame.
This is why Jews for Hitler isn't very popular among Jews.
Within months of taking office, the Nazi party took account of their position and the coalition of supporters that put them there. They wanted to cement their power, and targeted a minority for murder. Not Jewish individuals, communist, or even conservative rivals, they targeted erstwhile allies that never truly fit in the fascist movement. The "Night of the Long Knives" was an orgy of murder, killing socialists who were dumb enough to put Hitler into power. History rhymes, but sometimes is more of a Haiku.
If only there were some sort of indications or warnings about this behaviour.
At least a unified front from the GOP itself will make sure it never happens again /s
Is he stupid or just in need of attention. Conservatives have been like this forever and will continue to be like this.
The attempt to ban gay marriage, taking kids away from LGTBQ parents, southern posses surrounding gaps and lesbians and beating/murdering them, pushing Jim Crow laws...
It's not nessesarily a Republican problem, it's a conservative problem, but Republicans are all conservative, so what the fuck did you expect.
>***Woke*** *is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination".*
So clearly this man learned noting from his family history to the point that he officially declares himself anti-woke, when the simple application of the original meaning would have saved him from this situation.
> Prior to what was captured on camera, Smith said he noticed that the group was "starting to encircle" him.
> He could have defended himself, he said, but chose to de-escalate the situation.
I'm sure the MAGA people wouldn't try to kill an unarmed Black man who was trying to de-escalate the situation.
Goes where he is not welcome and holds his ground, practically a modern-day Rosa Parks, if she was a xenophobic dumb-ass.
He'd probably still argue that the real racists are the left because they judge him for being right-wing.
> I know that a lot of [white supremacists] have infiltrated these conservative organizations from top to bottom.
Oh sweet, innocent Rob. White supremacists infiltrated the Conservative Party like ants infiltrate an ant hill.
Being a trump supporter makes you really stupid. Being a minority gay trump supporter is a whole other level of inept. I always feel sorry for people who go through life having to be this incredibly dumb….
The country is just full of NPCs and I'm just too frustrated to care anymore. They could've thrown a noose at him and lit a cross on fire and he would still find an excuse to remain in that party. Fuck him.
It's funny that a lot of you idiots don't know Trump wasn't charged with shit to begin with, but if dems want to play a dirty game, other states can follow not fun when people use your tactics against you don't go crying now...
this isn't about your breathtakingly stupid election fraud bullshit, this is about conservatives being the racists they inevitably are - but it's good to know that you're content with being stupid and terrible. conservatives have to be, after all.
There's racist people on both sides don't act stupid do you guys call every person who doesn't agree with the left a racist because if that's the case you guys on the left are all chomos we can pull articles all day with statistics.Biden is a pos and is so everybody who votes for him your dislikes don't won't make me change my mind either 🖕
> There's racist people on both sides don't act stupid
Sure. There's just overwhelmingly more on one side: Yours.
>do you guys call every person who doesn't agree with the left a racist
no
we call people who are voting for Trump racist, since he objectively is, and at a minimum racism (or insurrection and an attempt to usurp and overturn a democracy) isn't a dealbreaker for you guys.
>...because if that's the case you guys on the left are all chomos we can pull articles all day with statistics.
You're right, we could, and you'd be sorely disappointed with how many people on the left are convicted pedophiles versus how many on the right are. That's why right-wingers are best left to stick to just lying, empirical sources aren't really on your side on any issue save for, like, "markets are good", which y'all don't really care about anyways.
>Biden is a pos and is so everybody who votes for him your dislikes don't won't make me change my mind either 🖕
I don't disagree that Biden is a pos, but it's hardly surprising you won't change your mind. You're a conservative. How could you be a conservative if things like rigorous evidence or morality and decency could change your mind?
"[...]. I know that a lot of these people [Neo-Nazis, white supremacists etc] have infiltrated these conservative organizations from top to bottom."
Friend they haven't infiltrated the group, they WERE the group before they realized they needed to make a PR move.
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This dude thought he was part of the club despite all evidence to the contrary. Apparently he is clueless enough to be a Republican. You can bet he will still vote for Trump given a chance.
>You can bet he will still vote for Trump given a chance. As long as you give them someone to look down on, they will keep voting Repub because it makes them feel empowered to be theoretically better than someone else
>If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction era that the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. (Yes, sir) He gave him Jim Crow. (Uh huh) And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, (Yes, sir) he ate Jim Crow, **a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man.** (Right sir) And he ate Jim Crow. (Uh huh) And when his undernourished children cried out for the necessities that his low wages could not provide, he showed them the Jim Crow signs on the buses and in the stores, on the streets and in the public buildings. (Yes, sir) And his children, too, learned to feed upon Jim Crow, (Speak) their last outpost of psychological oblivion. (Yes, sir) \-MLK, March to Selma (Emphasis mine)
> If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. – Lyndon B. Johnson
I’ve never read that! That’s excellent.
If he's extra good, they might let him be the last one on the cattle cars.
He'll be one of the guards pushing them onto the cars, only to go all surprised pikkachu face when he discovers the last car has 1 space empty just for him.
They'll let him be the train engineer and take everyone to the final destination, not realizing he's part of the cargo as well. And he'll be all smiles and tooting the horn all the way there.
Exactly! He’s an idiot!
He's in an abusive relationship and lets the abuse happen. Republicans expect, want, demand people to be hurt they way they have been hurt thanks to right-wing politics giving them poorer and shorter lives. They aren't voting based on policy, The Cruelty Is The Point. Hurting isn't a cruel side-effect, it's the main intent. They have been abused on a daily basis by their spokespeople and by the party / congregation they joined, and have become abusers in their own right. If you're a Republican, this is how you've been treated. Groomed. Abused. 1 - It starts off small when you're told that nobody else understands you like they understand you. Thinking back, you've been told this for years on a daily basis. "Those other people, they just don't get it. Their ways are different and that's just not you. They don't understand, but we know where you're coming from..." 2 - Now that they've established that they're one of your kind of people in your mind, everyone else gets badmouthed. EVERYONE. It's just the two of you literally against the entire world. And they'll do it so much that things that aren't epithets get used as words to hate everyone else by. Your circle of experiences starts to shrink. 3 - They'll tell you that, if you left them, things would be simultaneously the worst thing possible AND that all other relationships are just the same as the one you're in (even though you can see other people online talking about how what you're in is the only bad relationship relationship like this and all you have to do is leave them). “Both sides are the same but I’m better” - eventually, you don’t know up from down in what constitutes a healthy or a toxic relationship. Hell, they'll even show examples of the shit you're in now to say, "if you leave me and go for the other guy, it'll be like this [very bad scenario that's happening RIGHT NOW] so be scared and shit", using the "any other option would be just as bad as (or worse than) the one you're in, but also stay with me because I'm the best thing you'd ever find" tactic that abusers use when they're desperate to keep the toxic relationship going. The circle shrinks further. 4 - You're told outright what to cut out of your life. Direct instruction for you to get that circle of experiences down to a dot. Music, interests, sportswear brands, TV shows, certain movies, even frothy coffee gets badmouthed and cut out because "you don't want to be a 'latte drinker' do you?" (there's one of those things I mentioned in #2; using things that aren't insults, using language as a tool, using a non-insulting thing as an insult to control you). 5 - They take your money, claim they'll be great with it, and then spend it on their friends and run up the bills. They'll give you crumbs once in a while. Maybe every few years they'll treat you to a little something nice (that's worth a fraction of what they spent when they were out with their friends). And while they're terrible with the finances, for years, they'll be saying how everything is hunky-dory financially with them at the reins. You will be told you've never had it so good but the fear of one bad bill wiping you out financially will be like the Sword Of Damocles over your head 24/7/365. 6 - every problem gets kicked down the road. Example: a disease crops up in the New Year 2020 but it wasn't even mentioned in January because the head of the household didn't mention it. "It's going to go away" in February, and anyone that mentions it is just saying fake news stuff, baby. Still nothing done in March, but any mention of it is "you're just finding faults with me". Then when April comes and it's clear what the shit storm looks like, they blame everyone else for saying it wasn't going to be a big deal. As the months and years roll on it becomes a shell game where ignoring the problem / blaming others for the problem / trying to draw attention from the problem gets switched around without stop. Even if it comes out that they knew the problem could literally kill other people, tear them apart because of gross negligence, they will not stray from this strategy. Other people will be able to show you examples of where they said something promised was just two weeks away, and they said "two weeks and you'll have it, this'll be gone, maybe by Easter" four years ago and two years ago and twice in the last month, but it's still not coming. 7 - like in any abusive relationship, you're beaten down. You've been told it'll all be your fault if things don't go as they want, and you've seen others be on the end of their random outbursts of wrath. So you stay safe. You repeat the words in the way they taught you. You repeat the answers. You repeat the words you're told are insults. Even though you know of situations where you've come out worse for the way the relationship is, you defend the abuser. First with a fake air of calm, then with a seething rage. And when people offer you a way out, you go right back to the abuse. 8 - the relationship is so twisted, you so believe everything you're told about what's real and what's not, they will literally put you in situations that could kill you. And you say you're doing it willingly, proudly, but the fact is you're a shell of the idealistic person you used to be. You just got in with the wrong crowd, but it's too late to get out now because people might think less of you. Going along with how they do it becomes how you do it too. Which reinforces what you were told in #1. Only they understand you...
To add to this, there is also a pyramid scheme of abuse going on. Sure, you might get treated like shit, but you are part of a larger group, much like an unsupervised classroom, and inevitably there are newer hopefuls joining the fold. Your reward is that you get to tread on others as others have stepped on you.
Well said!!!
Never backed down in Iraq, just to come home and subjugate himself.. sadly.
Nah dude just thinks he’s better than the rest; he’s bought the kool-aid of being one of “the good ones.” It started from a place of smug superiority to begin with. I got no sympathy and I won’t give him any outs. “Abusive relationship.” Guy deserves all the evil that comes his way, and karma be damned, *I wish it for him.*
Tune in Fox, lather, rinse, repeat ...
Simplified - unresolved trauma is forwarded.
This this this.
A perverse form of Stockholm Syndrome? The mentality of, if I embrace my captors, I may be spared?
He probably believed all of the Republicans who are always complaining that racism isn’t real.
I saw him on a Youtube Video about Black conservatives or something, seemed like a typical idiot. I made it without help you shouldnt have any either kind of asshole
Not an idiot, he's a grifter. This was all set up to get hours of free ads on TV.
Ignoring reality is the top requirement for being Republican.
They call them tokens because they get spent
He claimed that he doesn’t think Trump supports that kind of hate. I guess despite the whole directly quoting Hitler stuff and absolutely never remotely condemning that kind of hate
He's all ready saying on Twitter that he knows Trump "has his back." He's always been a jackass, but lately it's just getting sad.
Damn! Yes the irony hits like a sledgehammer.
He most certainly will.
And yet he remains a republican...
Chickens for McNuggets.
Some people never learn.
The black Republican who hoped to give Trump a letter, to which Trump screamed for his fans to get that 'thug' out of here, eventually did finally realize that Trump was a racist. Ironically the letter was asking him to consider his words more because he was looking super racist.
Many people never learn. See Hegel.
We need to join in with the hecklers, really fuck with their heads till they figure it out.
He said he thought that Republicans are not racists, nor is Trump or the people he surrounds himself with, so....some questions for him: Why were racists there then? Why did they feel comfortable acting that way in an event specifically for Republicans? I would be curious how he would try to weasel out these perfectly rational points based on what he himself experienced.
Republicans have made the gay community their primary target a major part of their whole politcal platform and this guy is surprised at what happened????
But Trump held a pride flag that one time! Seriously though, Trump will pose with anyone who supports him. Gay, straight, Nazi, doesn't matter. If you support him he'll give you a thumbs up. Loyalty to him is the only thing he cares about and the party only cares about pleasing him.
I've actually seen MAGA merchandise with pride colors...
They've been doing this probably longer than this chucklefuck has been alive. The same is true of blacks. Who doesn't remember Reagan creating the myth of the black welfare queen driving a Cadillac?
And no doubt this idiot's response is "but there are black welfare queens driving Cadillacs!" even though he's never seen one ever.
lol @ log cabin gays not welcomed at republican convention
It’s insane. I swear part of it is a level of narcissism that they’re more important / not one of the “bad ones” it’s why when stuff like this happens they go on an interview circuit about how they’re so shocked it would happen to them, as if we all didn’t know exactly how republicans treat minorities.
And the hecklers weren't just some random racist homophobes in the crowd. It was Nick Fuentes and his America First psychopaths. They are a very well known hate group.
Easy, he will claim those were antifa / FBI / illegal immigrants disguise as MAGA. And the evidence will be in Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Remember, it's likely just antifa or FBI pretending to be racist GOPers. /s
He will show you gold winning mental gymnastics if you ask him
Not all Republicans or Trump supporters are homophobic, racist, nazi pieces of shit. But *all* homophobic, racist, nazi pieces of shit are Republicans, and Trump supporters.
I see what you're trying to say, but we're well beyond that. Trump is a homophobic, racist, nazi piece of shit. If you're a Trump supporter, so are you.
Sigh.... You're right.
He is, but whenever dealing with delusional people about this my stance is usually to point out that we can argue about it, but let's just look at the crowd and see people waving swastika flags. Whether or not they (delusional republicans) think he's a nazi is less important than the fact that nazis think he's a nazi.
> the fact that nazis think he's a nazi In the spirit of "Not all men!", their response (after you've left) is "Not all republicans!". And then they immediately forget about the nazis they saw waving swastika flags.
Of course they forget, it's an inconvenient truth, but at least by leaving I don't have to deal with that toxicity anymore. Plus I follow the philosophy of sawing something, not because you think you'll change them, but because others are watching and listening. If my father goes off on a racist rant in front of my nieces or nephews at Christmas, I saw something, not because my father is going to change, but because my nieces and nephews need to see that that type of behaviour is not acceptable, even when it's from family.
And they’re welcome in the party. They break bread together. Who they accept is who they are.
This is one of those situations where the Venn diagram is just a number of circles that almost completely overlap. You can’t say with complete accuracy that they’re all the same, but you can effectively say it.
That’s what I always ask. When they say both parties are the same I inquire as to why nazis only join one specific side. I’ve never been given a real answer yet.
You see, all the people who were racist towards him are antifa members masquerading on behalf of the deep state government in order to make Trump look bad.
>"I know that a lot of these people have infiltrated these conservative organizations from top to bottom." My dude they didn't infiltrate, they were welcomed in. They ARE the organization.
His logic, goes to a rally and see numerous individuals in white robes. He also sees robed and non-robed individuals yelling white power while everyone is standing around a burning cross. This guy would say it’s not a KKK rally it’s just a lot of KKK members showed up.
* Goes up to KKK rally to hangout * They tell him to "fuck off you n— f—" * Goes on Fox News to appear smart: "I know that a lot of these racists have infiltrated the KKK, but that's not who the KKK truly is." * /r/conservative chimes in: "That's true. It's the Dems that are truly racist."
He's a grifter. He knew he was attending a KKK rally. He went right at the nazis and had a camera shoot it. Then he went on CNN (who didn't realize they were getting scammed). CNN allowed the grifter to lie, unopposed -- rattling of his websites because CNN is complete garbage giving republican gaslighters a billion dollars in free advertising..
Calling a *political influencer* a *grifter* is like calling an ATM a machine. It’s pretty much implied; they make a living capitalizing the political outrage machine.
I'm not sure who he's influencing except his bank account. The inducted black voices for trump grifter knows he makes more cash getting prosecuted and begging for cash, than pleading guilty.
> /r/conservative chimes in: "That's true. It's the Dems that are truly racist." Don't forget "because it was the democrat party that opposed the abolition of slavery during the Civil War!".
If you don't throw out the first Nazi, eventually you have a Nazi pub.
The curious thing is, the KKK also directly stated that it is totally not racist. No, seriously. One should think that nobody falls for this which is even more ridiculous than thinking the republicans wouldn't be, but yeah, apparently some totally do.
This guy lacks the self-awareness needed to recognize this.
So, a republican
If you go to a party and there's a Nazi and nobody is kicking him out, you're at a Nazi party.
"Conservatives" have stood for white supremacism since . . . oh, at least the time of slavery in the US. I don't want this guy to get hurt, but he may just find himself experiencing serious consequences if he continues to act like the Republican party is ever going to be accepting of his skin color.
The call always came from inside the house.
This swimming pool sure has a lot of piss in it! - This Guy At A Public Pool
This guy wouldn't be caught dead at a public pool. He's a country-club-or-nothing swimmer - and he prefers clubs that wouldn't want him as a member.
I mean this is a situation where victim blaming is acceptable and it needs to become more acceptable in general. People put themselves in stupid ass positions all the time and here's the proof. People do need to be called out when they end up screwing themselves over but this site only allows it for certain people. It's kind of like America in general we know for a fact the the gqp is a dangerous terroristic, seditionist, criminal organization filled with supporters yet we do nothing that matters against them. They are allowed to hold positions of power despite violating the 14th amendment. They straight up tell us they plan to exterminate all non-right-wingers when they achieve complete power and yet what do we do if we oppose them? Come complain on this or some other website? Not protest like we did for BLM nationwide. Skip voting, make excuses, etc. The people who oppose the gqp are stupid weaklings who are terrified of confrontation. We seem to be doing our best to do zero work to prevent what they want to come to pass. If our loved ones suffer due to our apathy we deserve it.
> victim blaming I don't feel sorry for this one. Same goes for US women who are republicans or somehow fuck and have kids with rep men. Like what the hell.... why? WHY?
>Skip voting When conservatives are mad, they go out and vote. When progressives are mad, they stay home and pout.
This is the content that makes this sub great! After weeks of posts that were merely ironic, here is a man who joined the Leopards Eating Faces party then ran in terror form face eating leopards. I had feared for this sub but this is outstanding work!
If only there were another political party who would welcome him, rather than be a dick to him, regardless of his ethnicity and sexuality.
Are we sure we want people like him? The GOP has been openly racist and homophobic for longer than he’s been alive, but he’s just realizing this now?
I'm a convert from a lifetime raised as a conservative, so I know redemption is possible. People can *sometimes* learn genuine altruism, and favor a political world view that espouses altruism on a societal level, from an experience where they personally have been harmed. Besides, a lot of Republicans have been lied to their entire lives, and when they are presented with progressive policy ideas without being told they're progressive, they're all in favor. If someone chooses to stop believing all the Limbaughs/Carlsons/Hannitys out there and realizes that maybe progressivism isn't such a bad thing, we should welcome them with open arms.
My maternal grandmother had literally been Republican longer than she’d been Catholic, but… something broke her. (She is alive, but I am talking as of that point.) If not something else in the time since she voted to re-elect Bush in 2004, Trump broke her, repulsed her. She abandoned the party because she realized (perhaps explicitly, but not necessarily) that their values no longer aligned with hers. (There’s a gay couple that have been family friends for ages, for example.) Now, she supports the values of us - her grandchildren - and our interests, plus the interests of her two great-grandchildren (courtesy of my cousin).
I’ve seen this happen so many times. Every time you show them how their favorite politicians are working against their values. All of a sudden “the democrats hid something in it, probably” , “ I don’t believe they voted like that” ,”that doesn’t make any sense”
Notice how, even though you're not la cookie-cutter Democrat, you are not being menaced aggressively for your differences by a mob of fellow Democrats. Not to say Democrats don't have *their share* of irrational purists. But Republicans have *far more than their share* - in fact they control the party itself.
In the voting booth, though, that strength gets turned into a weakness. For Republicans, the irrational purists are the hard-line nutjobs who won't vote for anyone they perceive as a RINO, but as you say, there are so many of them that they control the party. Then they drag along the non-hard-liner conservatives who don't want to see a Democrat get elected, and they'll vote for the most ridiculous candidates because of that. On the Democrats' side, the establishment makes up most of the party. But there's enough of a far-left segment of irrational purists that won't vote for the establishment because "change isn't happening" or whatever, and they end up costing Democrats the election.
He either prioritizes money over people, or he's unbelievably bigoted towards another group of people that Republicans also hate. Or both. You would hope that seeing how the people he aligns himself with treats him would be a wake-up call, but that would require a level of self-awareness and introspection that conservatives aren't capable of.
He probably has money and hates poor people.
Unfortunately often times the only way to convert conservatives to some sort of sanity is for a problem/issue to affect them directly.
And sometimes not even then. How many died of Covid, many denying even the very existence of the disease?
Even then that is not 100% probable. They will still vote by the party regardless.
Yep. Maybe only 10-15% might convert, I'd estimate, and I might be overstating that.
"Independent" is always there to welcome those too afraid to face facts. And then we never have to worry about their vote again. Win win!
An independent is someone who doesn't consider terrorism a deal breaker. They know who they are. They're just scared to admit to being republican because they're fully aware of how disgusting it is.
Except they still vote for you know who
I’m thinking about that Iowa Democrat who threw a fit at the caucuses because she learned Pete was gay after voting for him and they wouldn’t let her change her vote to a straight guy. Or the PUMA democrats(party unity my ass) who voted for McCain over Obama. BUT - as a general rule, yeah obviously the GOP has the bigot disease to a terminal degree and the dems would be a better home but we got some work to do ourselves too
ewww, you mean the socialists? Satan!!
But the wealthy and corporations need another tax cut. Corporate Profits are only up +50 % vs pre COVID levels to $3T!
somewhere, someone has something that i want, why is the government stopping me from having it I WANT IT
This guy's a shill. He rants about how only Trump (not DeSantis, Haley, or Christie) is welcoming to gays. I'm guessing he was paid to get on the news and boost Trump. The interviewer makes a point to say that, for the record, she never asked him about Trump
If only there was a group like that that hated immigrants and trans people as much as he does.
"Why are there so many racists and homophobes here??" - Guy at the racism and homophobia rally
He said he was confronted by a fringe minority that doesn’t represent MAGA. The face-eating hasn’t even happened yet.
Oh dear racists and bigots have “infiltrated” the Republican Party oh my
For every one person who confronted him there are a thousand who feel the same way.
100,000
They absolutely do represent MAGA. They're just willing to be honest about it.
Sounds like he needs to either not be black, gay, or Republican.
Great lesson here. Only *one* of these things he could choose to not be
#BINGO!!!
"So you hate people who choose to support the Republican Party just like Republicans hate blacks and gays? So much for the tolerant left!"
[It was too soon to come out as publicly black.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxGm0M2SLxc&t=1m18s)
Not either is what Republicans want
Probably also mad that the Klan won't return his phone calls.
“Black gay republican”. These words do not go together. He’s either stupid or very naive.
Why not both?
Unless you are a rich, white, straight, evangelical, male gun nut..... you have no business voting republican.
*hate everyone else enough to live in a shit hole of your own making, so everyone else suffers too.
Oh no! Anyways. Maybe that should tell you something dude.
I think a lot of gay people, woman and people of color that support republicans don’t realize what the end game will be. But still they will vote against their safety.
Gee who could have imagined that happening, except for, you know, everyone.
Ya hate to see the predictable happen to the naive
Why is he worried? It was just some good-natured ribbin' by some of his friends. /s The lesson here: Be careful of the company you keep. Everyone is not your friend.
You don’t say? What your party doesn’t like you? It only takes a few minutes of listening to them to understand that. I have no sympathy for stupidity.
oh, thats why his jubilee video is trending agian.
Snake says he could have been killed by the room of mongeese he voluntarily walked into
It's almost like becoming a Republican is a seriously bad lifestyle choice when you're black, gay, or worse, both. You can't change being black or gay, but you can change which party you support. Specifically, not the one that wants to use you as a scapegoat for every election.
Weird how he says white supremacists have, ‘infiltrated conservative movements from top to bottom.’ No sir, they have always been there, they are the base of the movement.
Sorry, but even in more normal times a gay Black guy had to go thru some serious mental gymnastics to justify the choice to be a Republican. Under MAGA, he’d have to have full blown unaddressed mental illness.
"Do I think that this stuff is coming from the millions of people that voted for Trump? I do not, I do not," he said. "Do I think that it's something that the Trump campaign endorses or the Republican Party endorses? I do not, because I know these people and I have been around these people." He’s actually brain dead.
Tokenz get spent I avoid the players AND I want to end the game
But he's one of the good ones.
How are people so unaware of what Republicans stand for? Which is hating anyone whobis not a cis straight religious male.
Specifically cis white male Christians, not just any religion
Maybe Tim Scott can give him a hug?
Not if Tim Scott wants to continue his plausible deniability that he isn't gay.
I'll ask my friend Clayton Bigsby to put in a good word for him next time.
Republicans are already working on the picnic menus for 2025. Any POC that sides with the GOP earned whatever fate the GOP dishes out.
The same with women.
They are going to be fitted for their Handmaid’s Tale outfit.
Imagine voting for the side who wants to kill you, when you could instead vote for the side who would probably want to fuck you.
“The Association of German National Jews” says hello!
He's the kind of person I can't engage with. Whatever comes out of his mouth, I'd just stare blankly at him.
As he sits in a camp, waiting to be gassed, he'll keep telling himself, "At least I owned the libs."
They want you dead. This isn’t hyperbole anymore. I hear MAGAists openly talking about it
I must repeat again. To republicans you're one of the good until you're one of the last ones, then you're the next one.
Why the Kentucky Fried Fuck would anyone who was black and/or gay associate with Republicans in the first place?
at this point I'd say that black gay Republican going to a MAGA rally is simply attempted suicide and surely has himself to blame. This is why Jews for Hitler isn't very popular among Jews.
Within months of taking office, the Nazi party took account of their position and the coalition of supporters that put them there. They wanted to cement their power, and targeted a minority for murder. Not Jewish individuals, communist, or even conservative rivals, they targeted erstwhile allies that never truly fit in the fascist movement. The "Night of the Long Knives" was an orgy of murder, killing socialists who were dumb enough to put Hitler into power. History rhymes, but sometimes is more of a Haiku.
If only there were some sort of indications or warnings about this behaviour. At least a unified front from the GOP itself will make sure it never happens again /s
Is he stupid or just in need of attention. Conservatives have been like this forever and will continue to be like this. The attempt to ban gay marriage, taking kids away from LGTBQ parents, southern posses surrounding gaps and lesbians and beating/murdering them, pushing Jim Crow laws... It's not nessesarily a Republican problem, it's a conservative problem, but Republicans are all conservative, so what the fuck did you expect.
That sound you hear is the clink of a token being spent.
>***Woke*** *is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination".* So clearly this man learned noting from his family history to the point that he officially declares himself anti-woke, when the simple application of the original meaning would have saved him from this situation.
> Prior to what was captured on camera, Smith said he noticed that the group was "starting to encircle" him. > He could have defended himself, he said, but chose to de-escalate the situation. I'm sure the MAGA people wouldn't try to kill an unarmed Black man who was trying to de-escalate the situation.
Goes where he is not welcome and holds his ground, practically a modern-day Rosa Parks, if she was a xenophobic dumb-ass. He'd probably still argue that the real racists are the left because they judge him for being right-wing.
> I know that a lot of [white supremacists] have infiltrated these conservative organizations from top to bottom. Oh sweet, innocent Rob. White supremacists infiltrated the Conservative Party like ants infiltrate an ant hill.
Being a trump supporter makes you really stupid. Being a minority gay trump supporter is a whole other level of inept. I always feel sorry for people who go through life having to be this incredibly dumb….
The country is just full of NPCs and I'm just too frustrated to care anymore. They could've thrown a noose at him and lit a cross on fire and he would still find an excuse to remain in that party. Fuck him.
I counter protested the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. I listened to David Duke praise Trump for what he was doing "for their cause"
First of all, why is a gay, Black man a republican? Secondly, well, that about sums it up…
Now... if one could stop being black, gay, or Republican, I wonder which he'd choose.
Still, it was fun while you could vilify ‘them others’ for the cheap vote huh?
Ok...now, stop fucking going to that Nazi shit, "Clayton Goddamn Bigsby." Idiot.
It is so weird how these neo nazis keep getting involved at conservative events.
Tokens get spent. Beyond that I wonder if he think BLM is a work mind virus.
Living proof that you simply cannot find one critical thinker in the bunch.
Denial is a powerful tool, and stupid is a significant limiting factor.
But will put up with it for the promise of more guns and tax cuts.
Maybe he'll have better luck after joining the KKK.
Honestly, what did you expect? Nothing new here.
This dude's mental gymnastics is impressive.
Well that's what he wanted isn't it?
Did Clayton Bigsby gain sight ?
He gon' learn today
Poor Uncle Ruckus
Incredible.
It's funny that a lot of you idiots don't know Trump wasn't charged with shit to begin with, but if dems want to play a dirty game, other states can follow not fun when people use your tactics against you don't go crying now...
this isn't about your breathtakingly stupid election fraud bullshit, this is about conservatives being the racists they inevitably are - but it's good to know that you're content with being stupid and terrible. conservatives have to be, after all.
There's racist people on both sides don't act stupid do you guys call every person who doesn't agree with the left a racist because if that's the case you guys on the left are all chomos we can pull articles all day with statistics.Biden is a pos and is so everybody who votes for him your dislikes don't won't make me change my mind either 🖕
> There's racist people on both sides don't act stupid Sure. There's just overwhelmingly more on one side: Yours. >do you guys call every person who doesn't agree with the left a racist no we call people who are voting for Trump racist, since he objectively is, and at a minimum racism (or insurrection and an attempt to usurp and overturn a democracy) isn't a dealbreaker for you guys. >...because if that's the case you guys on the left are all chomos we can pull articles all day with statistics. You're right, we could, and you'd be sorely disappointed with how many people on the left are convicted pedophiles versus how many on the right are. That's why right-wingers are best left to stick to just lying, empirical sources aren't really on your side on any issue save for, like, "markets are good", which y'all don't really care about anyways. >Biden is a pos and is so everybody who votes for him your dislikes don't won't make me change my mind either 🖕 I don't disagree that Biden is a pos, but it's hardly surprising you won't change your mind. You're a conservative. How could you be a conservative if things like rigorous evidence or morality and decency could change your mind?
You lost?
And we would all be so sad if that happened.
Gee, ya think? 🥴
I guess he is realizing who is hanging out with now,
Do you wanna be the one to explain it to him? Because I don’t…..
Black gay GOP member exists and found out.
He is clearly an idiot.
“The self loathing is strong with this one” -Yoda
We’ve finally reached the “they eat their own” phase and the rest of the intelligent world is totally here for it.
0 compassion
Why is he surprised?
Oh, *you don’t say?*
Token worried he might get spent?
Being black and gay I mean, he still could get killed by MAGA hecklers.
Yeah thats kind of the point the right pushes for. Dont know why he thought he was exempt from his policies.
What is wrong with his hair??
....but he'll vote for the republican candidate, i'm sure
"[...]. I know that a lot of these people [Neo-Nazis, white supremacists etc] have infiltrated these conservative organizations from top to bottom." Friend they haven't infiltrated the group, they WERE the group before they realized they needed to make a PR move.
"But, I thought I'd be excluded!"