Donald Trump just shared an AI video to Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys
Donald Trump just shared a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys
The president shared the video on Thursday just before midnight.Brian Linder | blinder@pennlive.com (pennlive)
like this
Midnitte
in reply to Chris Remington • • •like this
tiredofsametab and yessikg like this.
calliope
in reply to Midnitte • • •This was literally the guy who started his entire political career in earnest by calling in to Fox News and talking about how Obama wasn’t “American” because he’s black. Trump found his political fame because he advocated the “birther” conspiracy.
It’s honestly crazy that anyone could be surprised. He’s been up front about his racism for fifteen years now.
conspiracy theories asserting that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)like this
andyburke and Quantumantics like this.
alastel
in reply to calliope • • •Midnitte
in reply to alastel • • •Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue
Oliver Laughland (The Guardian)mitrosus
in reply to Midnitte • • •Vodulas [they/them]
in reply to mitrosus • • •I'm so tired of this refrain. 49% of 64% of US voters voted for him, but even that is an oversimplification. The reality is that in some regions it is hard to vote. Waiting in line for hours. It is not a national holiday, so no pay for taking time off to wait in line. Polls often have limited times, and people in the US work too much just to stay alive. And that does not even take into account electoral college bullshit. The right has done so much to make voting hard or even impossible for some.
The US is vast and diverse, which makes hand waving dismissals like this even more frustrating.
JillyB
in reply to mitrosus • • •Massive_Pickle
in reply to Chris Remington • • •photonic_sorcerer
in reply to Chris Remington • • •Haha, they're black, like monkeys!
Fuck, we haven't really progressed all that much as a spieces, have we?
Lembot_0006
in reply to photonic_sorcerer • • •photonic_sorcerer
in reply to Lembot_0006 • • •like this
elgordino likes this.
Lembot_0006
in reply to photonic_sorcerer • • •photonic_sorcerer
in reply to Lembot_0006 • • •like this
emmanuel_car and classic like this.
Lembot_0006
in reply to photonic_sorcerer • • •photonic_sorcerer
in reply to Lembot_0006 • • •belated_frog_pants
in reply to photonic_sorcerer • • •Onyxonblack
in reply to belated_frog_pants • • •like this
classic likes this.
photonic_sorcerer
in reply to Onyxonblack • • •kureta
in reply to Onyxonblack • • •djsoren19
in reply to kureta • • •the issue is that it seems quite likely that humanity will always have a subset of the population that lords over the rest of them, and that subset has a vested interest in keeping tribalism alive.
Sure, you can be an optimist and dream of a future that is radically different to how human culture has existed in recorded history, but the realistic expectation is that the widespread education that would need to take place just...won't.
grandel
in reply to photonic_sorcerer • • •darcmage
in reply to Chris Remington • • •I'm sure this stunt is his attempt to distract us from something. This guy has to be the best at being the "racist senile old man" I've ever seen. I don't think he plans anything but he plays the media like a fiddle to get attention any time he wants while avoiding all accountability.
I've never understood why anyone ever took him seriously and I've known people who thought he was intelligent which immediately made me question their judgement on everything.
like this
andyburke and Atelopus-zeteki like this.
artyom
in reply to darcmage • • •like this
Atelopus-zeteki, andyburke, classic and yessikg like this.
definitemaybe
in reply to artyom • • •Why not both?
That's basically the Republican playbook, in general:
Focus all your messaging on "wedge issues" that appeal to your (prejudiced) base, then pass laws that enrich the wealthy at the cost of their base. Deflect. Blame others. Distract. Lie. It's all distraction, and it's all vile.
I reject your false dichotomy. It's also not 4D chess; it's business-as-usual Conservative politics, and the Republicans are some of the best in the world at it because they now own most of the traditional media and the tech platforms used by "influencers" and most alt media.
juliebean
in reply to darcmage • • •like this
Atelopus-zeteki likes this.
MediumSizedSnack
in reply to darcmage • • •like this
Atelopus-zeteki likes this.
luciole (he/him)
in reply to darcmage • • •Guttural
in reply to darcmage • • •0xtero
in reply to Chris Remington • • •like this
andyburke, emmanuel_car and yessikg like this.
Morgan
in reply to Chris Remington • • •orca
in reply to Chris Remington • • •like this
Atelopus-zeteki, Quantumantics, tiredofsametab and yessikg like this.
Flax
in reply to Chris Remington • • •Midnitte
in reply to Flax • • •like this
Atelopus-zeteki and yessikg like this.
ChristerMLB
in reply to Chris Remington • • •like this
Atelopus-zeteki and yessikg like this.
ExistingConsumingSpace
in reply to Chris Remington • • •slacktoid
in reply to ExistingConsumingSpace • • •So something I found interesting was about 20 years ago when I was a wee young lad, I was curious about racism, cause it seemed so alien to me how can you hate someone just cause of some physical attributes.
I found myself in some dark corner of the internet where people were talking some vile shit about black and brown people, and it broke my brain, I think this was even before reddit or 4chan.
Then couple of years back a friend of mine was talking about the shit people say on Twitter now, and I was not phased one bit, cause I had already heard it 20 years ago.
That space has always been there where people go mask off, it's just grown to a lot more spaces off late.
Some people need to touch grass, maybe even smoke it.
ExistingConsumingSpace
in reply to slacktoid • • •slacktoid
in reply to ExistingConsumingSpace • • •That is wild but yeah that makes sense all races have that dog in em lol. Especially ones that have experienced colonialism I feel.
The Internet for real has done that. I dunno why people felt like they have to say slurs, but like I also feel like some people don't really care to look beyond the surface and are very as long as it doesn't affect me I dont care. Which truly pisses me off. General apathy just generally pisses me off.
Like you can say use stats to say x group of people do more crime and end there or look into the underlying factors that lead to that and its just so lazy and uncurious.
palarith
in reply to Chris Remington • • •angelmountain
in reply to Chris Remington • • •1945: the US defeats the Nazis
80 years later: just kidding, the US became the Nazis.
What are you doing about it? We all know how it's going to turn out.
leriotdelac
in reply to Chris Remington • • •Wut. This is beyond insane, but not beyond Trump.
Please, Americans, be safe. As a Russian, I see all the signs of very familiar shit. This insanity is engineered, and when the feeling of normalcy is blurred, things will go south very fast.
Edit:typo
68silver
in reply to Chris Remington • • •