Oh thats funny I heard Tuberville was in the Klan.
… we can just play exactly the same game here.
We in fact should be.
Fuck decorum, antagonize these idiots untill they fuck up even harder.
They aren’t constrained by facts. We can leave facts to policy, tell everybody Tumortown fucked his sister, why not?
Just do it via a PAC that implies those things without literally directly saying them.
Or, ‘just asking questions’.
The rhetorical trick of the paranoid delusional, why not, they love it.
When Trump started his political career, it invited everyone to express their racism openly. Prior to that, they were adhering to the Reagan rules, which was instead to use racist dog whistles. (welfare state, street gangs, urban crime, and so on).
As the MAGA movement formed, open racism became a means of costly signaling. It tells your fellow MAGAs that you are one of them. It also tells the rest of us that you are racist.
Other signaling includes talking about liberals in the same manner one uses a racial slur, not only regarding them as a monolithic bloc¹ but also accusing them of outrageous wrongs, specifically acts of treason or betrayal of the country. This is much like blood libel, in which the accusations are not meant to be plausible, rather that fellow MAGAs are to pretend they are true. See also They’re eating the dogs.
Anyway, Tuberville had shown time and again in his career that he doesn’t care if he looks stupid, especially to anyone outside of MAGA, but that he is a staunch MAGA loyalist who will lick any boot and even sacrifice himself to stay adjacent to power.
Of course, when Trump or some higher up actually requires that he sacrifice himself his opinion may change. But he’s signaling that he’s a good, obedient dog to the end.
I also anticipate that when Trump dies or otherwise MAGA falls out of fashion (it’s certainly losing popularity already), Tuberville will try to pretend he was never really into all that MAGA nonsense, and none of his statements and behavior ever happened. And it will be up to the public to make sure neither he, nor any other opportunists like him, ever live it down.
¹ Liberals are not a monolithic bloc even if most of them share some common values. The same is true for conservatives, feminists, Methodists or any other significantly large demographic. – This is why the face-eating leopards always eventually come for your face no matter how true and loyal you are; in Fascism, the set of acceptable identity markers closes like a Fortnite perimeter and shuts you out.
There hasn’t been a time in my life, and I’m not young anymore, that American conservatism hasn’t been a racist movement.
The most racist element of that movement are at the end of their lives and the racist GOP know that. Unless they can cheat their way into total control, this is their last big push. That’s why they aren’t hiding it anymore.
I feel this in my entire body: I sincerely, deeply hope you are right.
Can you sue this motherfucker for defamation?
Yes but it will be dismissed with prejudice unless you have a tort. Probably, the politician will.
Dear Senator Tumorville,
Please describe, in excruciating detail, the things of America that you are afraid will be destroyed. Extreme detail… be specific.
If all they got is racism they don’t got much.
Unfortunately we live in a nation where they actually got total control of our federal government utilizing racism.
It may not be much, but it’s often enough.
to be fair, this had been working for several decades, they’re not gonna learn new tricks now
Create an enemy out of a minority by blaming everything bad on them with emotional arguments to make the audience angry so they stop thinking rationally. One of the standard techniques. It worked great for them so not much reason to stop.
yeah, though i was specifically talking about muslims
lol, Abdul El-sayed for president! Abdul El-sayed 2028!
honey our president is a terrorist. … most our government is ran by terrorists.
Hypocrisy is lost on MAGA. They believe it’s Trump versus Satan, that anyone not them is pure evil by fiat, and therefore any action of their own is justified, even when it is violent or heinous.
And because their peerless leader is pure goid by fiat, his own behaviors that are immoral or incompetent are disregarded as beyond the need for explanation.
This is common in cults of personality. It’s also super fragile if the leader dies without major effort to define an heir in advance.
And a rapist. And a felon. And likely a pedophile.
Republicans don’t know they’re the terrorists.
Ummm…
I forget the conversation that turned into an argument and the republican screaming at the democrat about trump derangement syndrome, while the democrat was talking real shit that mattered and was basically pointing out the flaws in which the republicans don’t see with their handling of I think it was either Gaza or the current middle eastern conflict something though and it blew my mind. It made me go you gotta be fucking with me how there’s real shit that needs to be talked about and discussed in a civil manner and because one side needs to have a perception of being correct it just turned into an absolute shit show.
I immediately said afterwards while shaking my head in a what the fuck did I just see manner and did a long deep sigh and said, “Thank goodness I stopped caring about politics.”
in my country if a politician posted something like that, would be sued for defamation and will 100% lose in court.
And they’d pretty much be forced to step down.
Yes, state control is completely arbitrary.
Those old american politicians. Their last recourse for anything is “They’re not white and they don’t think like me!”.
Their
lastfirst recourse…Then it is up to us pasty white folks who hate fascists and racists; to show that "hey, you might be the same shade of skin colour as me, but your personality and politics are if a shade of bullshit I detest. Tommy Tubervulle is a mongerel
Yep, I for one am glad that someone smart and with good politics won the senate primary and that it’s even better to have him be Egyptian American, considering that’s a group that faces discrimination and deserves representation.
John Adams told one of our earliest friendly nations (Morocco) that our country is just as much for Muslims as it is for Christians, and while I may have a lot of disagreements with the founding fathers I think they nailed that one on the head
deleted by creator
Extreme Racist: “People from ethnicities I don’t like are all ‘terrorists’”
stupid ignorant assholes representing his state of stupid ignorant assholes…
these politicians don’t appear out of nowhere, this is the best alabama can do!
and also, what kind of stupid fucking name is tommy tuberville? that is a fucking cartoon character name not someone a fucking adult would vote for!
Hey, Tommy has been accused of a lot of things. “Smart” was never one of those.
Yeah, our politicians should have backgrounds that are more related to politics. Like fucking college football coach.
