| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today 20:42 - Jan 31 with 4976 views | ElderGrizzly |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 20:54 - Jan 31 with 4003 views | ElderGrizzly |
And then throw in some dictator level purging of law enforcement
“ The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials by firing FBI agents who had been engaged in investigations into Donald Trump, according to multiple reports.
Officials acting at the direction of the administration have spent the last week working to identify individual employees who participated in politically sensitive investigations for possible termination” | | | |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 20:55 - Jan 31 with 3996 views | Swansea_Blue |
Edited. Now we know the question, it’s a fair and reasonable reply.. If it was a statement then it would be a racist dog whistle.
This is the problem with social media. Things get twisted. [Post edited 1 Feb 8:27]
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:14 - Jan 31 with 3888 views | GlasgowBlue |
Do you have an unedited clip that contains the question she was asked? Because call me naive, but I took it that she is saying that most people would be praying to God for a safe landing and not what colour the pilot's skin was. |  |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:20 - Jan 31 with 3809 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:14 - Jan 31 by GlasgowBlue |
Do you have an unedited clip that contains the question she was asked? Because call me naive, but I took it that she is saying that most people would be praying to God for a safe landing and not what colour the pilot's skin was. |
I almost hate to say it but that was my take too. |  |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:29 - Jan 31 with 3744 views | StokieBlue |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:14 - Jan 31 by GlasgowBlue |
Do you have an unedited clip that contains the question she was asked? Because call me naive, but I took it that she is saying that most people would be praying to God for a safe landing and not what colour the pilot's skin was. |
Did you see what she said a couple of days ago?
“Doge and OMB also found that there was about to be 50m taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza,”
So this was entirely untrue, a total lie:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-condoms-gaza
SB [Post edited 31 Jan 21:30]
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:30 - Jan 31 with 3734 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:14 - Jan 31 by GlasgowBlue |
Do you have an unedited clip that contains the question she was asked? Because call me naive, but I took it that she is saying that most people would be praying to God for a safe landing and not what colour the pilot's skin was. |
Do you not think many Trump worshippers would say the answer is “both”? |  |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:31 - Jan 31 with 3707 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:29 - Jan 31 by StokieBlue |
Did you see what she said a couple of days ago?
“Doge and OMB also found that there was about to be 50m taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza,”
So this was entirely untrue, a total lie:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-condoms-gaza
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I'm not sure what any of that has to do with the question I asked or the conclusion I drew from the footage I watched. | |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:33 - Jan 31 with 3681 views | StokieBlue |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:31 - Jan 31 by GlasgowBlue |
I'm not sure what any of that has to do with the question I asked or the conclusion I drew from the footage I watched. |
It was a tangential point about the new press secretary and her relationship with the truth which I thought might go well in the thread, highlighting that everything she says needs to be fact checked.
Probably should have quoted the OP but no big deal.
SB [Post edited 1 Feb 10:07]
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 22:00 - Jan 31 with 3457 views | ElderGrizzly |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:14 - Jan 31 by GlasgowBlue |
Do you have an unedited clip that contains the question she was asked? Because call me naive, but I took it that she is saying that most people would be praying to God for a safe landing and not what colour the pilot's skin was. |
The question was:
“With all these DEI hires, it’s not safe to fly commercially is it?” - And of course it was a Fox question
Trump has also weighed in with the investigation will prove he was right all along on the cause. Without a shred of evidence.
As a reminder, he said the likely cause was race and gender yesterday. | | | |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 22:07 - Jan 31 with 3432 views | Illinoisblue |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:14 - Jan 31 by GlasgowBlue |
Do you have an unedited clip that contains the question she was asked? Because call me naive, but I took it that she is saying that most people would be praying to God for a safe landing and not what colour the pilot's skin was. |
I lean mildly to the right politically but we are way way past the point of giving anyone in Trump’s circle the benefit of doubt on anything. They are all lying scum. |  |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 22:22 - Jan 31 with 3294 views | ElderGrizzly |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 22:07 - Jan 31 by Illinoisblue |
I lean mildly to the right politically but we are way way past the point of giving anyone in Trump’s circle the benefit of doubt on anything. They are all lying scum. |
Lying and without irony with stuff like this:
Lara Trump saying people should be hired on merit
How did she get the RNC gig again? | | | |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 22:35 - Jan 31 with 3208 views | Nutkins_Return |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 21:20 - Jan 31 by BanksterDebtSlave |
I almost hate to say it but that was my take too. |
Trump is an awful human being and these people working for him have sold their souls....but she did clearly mean here the opposite of what the OP said in this instance. I agree I almost hate to say it and defend one of these cretins!!! Still it will probably only be 24 hours before they genuinely say something awful again and get away with it!!! |  |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 01:38 - Feb 1 with 2888 views | The_Romford_Blue |
Hate to stick up for anything Trump related but you’re clearly deliberately quoting the complete opposite to the context of which it’s meant. |  |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 07:23 - Feb 1 with 2590 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 22:00 - Jan 31 by ElderGrizzly |
The question was:
“With all these DEI hires, it’s not safe to fly commercially is it?” - And of course it was a Fox question
Trump has also weighed in with the investigation will prove he was right all along on the cause. Without a shred of evidence.
As a reminder, he said the likely cause was race and gender yesterday. |
Yeah, but Trump’s Press Secretary isn't being racist, openly or otherwise, by saying you pray the plane lands safely, you're not bothered about anyone's skin colour.
I personally don't pray for either, I pray they haven't run out of duck confit and champagne. |  |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 08:16 - Feb 1 with 2421 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 01:38 - Feb 1 by The_Romford_Blue |
Hate to stick up for anything Trump related but you’re clearly deliberately quoting the complete opposite to the context of which it’s meant. |
This is the sort of overreach that anaesthetizes people to what a truly grotesque, vile and evil scumbag Trump really is. | |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 08:24 - Feb 1 with 2371 views | Dubtractor |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 08:16 - Feb 1 by GlasgowBlue |
This is the sort of overreach that anaesthetizes people to what a truly grotesque, vile and evil scumbag Trump really is. |
I'm a bit in the middle on this. Do I think it's openly racist? No. Do I think it's a deliberate use of those words to keep the discussion about people's skin colour, and imply that Biden's government WAS more worried about skin colour than ability? Absolutely yes. |  |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 08:40 - Feb 1 with 2295 views | DJR |
I saw the press conference live and took the view that that clip was a dig at DEI but in the press conference she was defending Trump's premise, without evidence, that the plane crash was due to DEI which to me is defending the indefensible.
A more sinister aspect of the whole Trump approach to DEI is that it could be said to lead to the assumption (which those in MAGA will no doubt lap up) that any Federal employee from a diverse background (and that includes women) is not up to the job (whereas every white male is).
Putting it another way, there is an argument to be had about DEI (which I personally have no issue with) but it would be possible to cease these programmes without at the same time casting aspersions. But I suppose that is not the Trump way. [Post edited 1 Feb 9:13]
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 08:43 - Feb 1 with 2258 views | DJR |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 22:22 - Jan 31 by ElderGrizzly |
Lying and without irony with stuff like this:
Lara Trump saying people should be hired on merit
How did she get the RNC gig again? |
What? You'll be telling me next that RFK Junior is not up to the job. | | | |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 08:50 - Feb 1 with 2204 views | Axeldalai_lama |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 08:24 - Feb 1 by Dubtractor |
I'm a bit in the middle on this. Do I think it's openly racist? No. Do I think it's a deliberate use of those words to keep the discussion about people's skin colour, and imply that Biden's government WAS more worried about skin colour than ability? Absolutely yes. |
Yeah, I think it's the statement that it's openly racist. It's not. It's the usual dog whistling and implications that you need to question why someone without the majority skin colour is doing something, and whether they are as capable as the majority skin colour. And keeping skin colour as part of the narrative and associating it with wokeness and the previous administration. |  | | |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 09:07 - Feb 1 with 2122 views | LeoMuff |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 08:40 - Feb 1 by DJR |
I saw the press conference live and took the view that that clip was a dig at DEI but in the press conference she was defending Trump's premise, without evidence, that the plane crash was due to DEI which to me is defending the indefensible.
A more sinister aspect of the whole Trump approach to DEI is that it could be said to lead to the assumption (which those in MAGA will no doubt lap up) that any Federal employee from a diverse background (and that includes women) is not up to the job (whereas every white male is).
Putting it another way, there is an argument to be had about DEI (which I personally have no issue with) but it would be possible to cease these programmes without at the same time casting aspersions. But I suppose that is not the Trump way. [Post edited 1 Feb 9:13]
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I think that’s where we are leading, see trans military pilot has had to announce she wasn’t involved as many were speculating. 15 years experience as a pilot, and how does gender effect ability ? |  |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 10:02 - Feb 1 with 1912 views | PhilTWTD |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 08:50 - Feb 1 by Axeldalai_lama |
Yeah, I think it's the statement that it's openly racist. It's not. It's the usual dog whistling and implications that you need to question why someone without the majority skin colour is doing something, and whether they are as capable as the majority skin colour. And keeping skin colour as part of the narrative and associating it with wokeness and the previous administration. |
Whether the statement itself is in itself racist it's part of a wider racist/ableist/anti-LGBTQ discourse. |  | | |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 10:13 - Feb 1 with 1856 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 09:07 - Feb 1 by LeoMuff |
I think that’s where we are leading, see trans military pilot has had to announce she wasn’t involved as many were speculating. 15 years experience as a pilot, and how does gender effect ability ? |
It stems from a request from the family of the female pilot not to disclose her identity.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5281246/pentagon-jet-military-helicopter-co | |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 10:32 - Feb 1 with 1776 views | lowhouseblue |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 08:40 - Feb 1 by DJR |
I saw the press conference live and took the view that that clip was a dig at DEI but in the press conference she was defending Trump's premise, without evidence, that the plane crash was due to DEI which to me is defending the indefensible.
A more sinister aspect of the whole Trump approach to DEI is that it could be said to lead to the assumption (which those in MAGA will no doubt lap up) that any Federal employee from a diverse background (and that includes women) is not up to the job (whereas every white male is).
Putting it another way, there is an argument to be had about DEI (which I personally have no issue with) but it would be possible to cease these programmes without at the same time casting aspersions. But I suppose that is not the Trump way. [Post edited 1 Feb 9:13]
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linking dei to the plane crash in any way is indefensible and disgusting. but i'm not convinced that it would be possible to cease these programmes without at the same time 'casting aspersions'. the whole narrative against them in the us is that they are inherently unfair. this push back predates trump's second term - most significantly with harvard's defeat over affirmative action:
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-08/post-sffa_resource_faq_final_508.pdf
dei in the us was being pushed back regardless of trump. |  |
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| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 10:48 - Feb 1 with 1655 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 10:32 - Feb 1 by lowhouseblue |
linking dei to the plane crash in any way is indefensible and disgusting. but i'm not convinced that it would be possible to cease these programmes without at the same time 'casting aspersions'. the whole narrative against them in the us is that they are inherently unfair. this push back predates trump's second term - most significantly with harvard's defeat over affirmative action:
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-08/post-sffa_resource_faq_final_508.pdf
dei in the us was being pushed back regardless of trump. |
Once again, you criticise the right thing but then add a big "but".
You can plainly take the view that any sort of positive discrimination is something that, as a matter off policy, you choose not to purse, without quite deliberately and robustly saying that it has actively caused a plane crash and reduced air safety, which is plainly nonsensical.
This is fascistic othering of minorities and people with any sort of disability. We saw in the 40s where that ends up. | | | |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 10:53 - Feb 1 with 1605 views | lowhouseblue |
| Trump’s Press Secretary just being openly racist today on 10:48 - Feb 1 by redrickstuhaart |
Once again, you criticise the right thing but then add a big "but".
You can plainly take the view that any sort of positive discrimination is something that, as a matter off policy, you choose not to purse, without quite deliberately and robustly saying that it has actively caused a plane crash and reduced air safety, which is plainly nonsensical.
This is fascistic othering of minorities and people with any sort of disability. We saw in the 40s where that ends up. |
seriously, slow down, read what i posted again and see if your response makes any sense.
i described where policy, law and discussion in the us has reached and the now dominant public narrative - at no point do i express the views you claim. your desire to attack me seems to have outpaced your reading skills. you're actually being pretty offensive. | |
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