I don't know why Leavitt responded like that. If I hadn't read what she said, I would have assumed Trump shared the video because of the material that took up the first 97% of the video. Look at it here. It's somber technical material about tampering with voting machines in the 2020 election. I would have assumed that he never even saw the discordant image of the Obamas as apes that is spliced in at the very end, in the last 2 seconds.
I would have speculated that some sneaky person spliced that image in to trick Trump supporters into passing the video along unwittingly and becoming targets for accusations of racism.
Who sticks around for the full 62 seconds? Well, maybe some people do, and then when the Obama image pops up, they probably think What is this bullshit? It doesn't belong. Who put this here? Those people probably don't share the video. Those who share probably didn't watch until the end, and I would suspect that the sharers, those dupes, were prominent enough that eventually Trump saw it and shared it, shared it without watching to the very end, just assuming it was more of the usual stolen-election stuff.
But Leavitt's defense undercuts my assumption. She's just: Ooh, it's a meme. Don't you know memes? As if the existence of the full-scale "Lion King" video — a very stupid video — justifies cutting out one offensive image and pasting it in anywhere.
Leavitt is not Trump, and maybe she tosses off whatever notion she comes up with and she had no idea what went on in Trump's mind. Maybe my assumption is closer to the truth. I don't know. But I do think that if my assumption is wrong it's a better story than what Leavitt came up with.
ADDED: Who spliced in the offensive image? I've speculated that it could be a Trump opponent setting people up for an accusation of racism. But it could be a Trump supporter seeing it as a way to draw new attention to the old question whether the 2020 election was stolen. A very stupid way, but stupid people are out there.
UPDATE: Trump has taken the video down, quite appropriately. The "very stupid video" link still works.
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Diversity demographics.
Trump has to keep the election issues in the public discourse, as he's banking on the evidence of his claims to eventually come to light.
If he doesn't, and there is simply a long period where the issue fades from the public's mind, all the evidence will be dismissed as "something that happened long ago, but isn't relevant to the political discourse today."
Democrat looking up from her collection of George W. Bush "Chimpy McHaliburton" memes.... 'How DARE Trump post a picture comparing Obama to an ape? Evil!"
Then they go back to their Chimp pictures of GWB, and say how moral they are for opposing demeaning pictures of presidents....
Damn evolutionary creationists, their Diversity dogma aped by empathetic embryos. Such a "burden"... uh, burden of state. Abort. Sequester your bigotry and progress no liberal.
After they get down with their pleasuring themselves to their collection of GWB as a chimp, they go to a birthday party where kids are singing "Happy birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you look like a monkey and smell like one too!" The democrat claps and cheers. Then posts a screed about how evil it is to compare someone to a monkey.... as long as it's Trump doing the comparing. The Democrat's beloved 9 year old niece (Since our democrat would NEVER do something like have a kid.... that's what planned parenthood is for!)--the kid can compare others to monkeys all the day long! OrangeManBad!
These are the same people who keep saying Stephen Miller looks like Heinrich Himmler. While claiming not to be antisemitic. So hey, the Right can do racially-tinged satire and claim not to be racist. I say this as a biracial man. CC, JSM
Nobody cares about your stupid feelings anymore.
People need to grow up. Barrack and Michelle are evil people who produced absolutely nothing of value that anyone wants and they were given millions of dollars by corrupt oligarchs.
Barrack Obama is a traitor. Michelle is just a completely worthless person. There are millions of people who are harder working and have contributed more to society who democrats shit on every day in blatantly racist ways.
Democrats are trying to start a race and gender war.
Ann has been shitting on white men all her life.
Just remember you all made this happen. What comes next is on you.
Remember George Allen and the Macaca Incident? CC, JSM
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2006/08/george-allen-macaca-story.html CC, JSM
I agree Ann's explanation is the most likely - but the media would not accept an explanation like that. Don't you think the NYT quickly came to same conclusion as Ann did, and still opted to run with the racist story?
Cringy. As to the defense you have to wade through the 2020 election stuff you know that part will be left on the cutting room floor as it goes viral.
Just want to ask for clarity, does the video confuse the NYT into thinking the Obama’s are apes?
What's the problem with an allegedly gay man being compared to monkeys? We are told ad nauseam that homosexuality is rife in bonobos, a type of monkee/chimp... and Obama is famously gay curious, at minimum. So why would he be upset by being compared to a "homosexual species?"
The reason that you can't portray blacks as apes is that everybody has to pretend that they don't notice that blacks resemble apes in facial structure, when in fact they do. In particular blacks notice it and you don't want them thinking anybody else notices.
It's like why you can't discuss average black IQ. It's a pretend not to notice thing.
Racism is violating that rule of politeness, in pointing out to blacks that what they notice is noticed by other people too.
There are rules of satire, you see. One rule is that you can never, ever, ever, portray another human as an ape, but only if they're black. The reason? Because it reminds Democrats of what racists they are, according to both their present behaviors and their past track record. They're racists of the worst stripe, the kind that thinks they'll feel better about themselves if they compensate for any differences they don't want to admit, but keep reinforcing anyway.
That said, if we are comparing the political scene to Lion King, I think it is a mistake to put Obama in the monkey role. As I recall, the monkey was pretty wise and a good guy. Obama is much, much more suited for the role of Scar.
I’ve never seen such behavior (rolls eyes)
Anyway…
For those with an ounce of sanity left, what more do you need?
Kevin, what disappearing evidence are you referring to?
Not surprised to the see the apologists out in force ... and no one else.
Mark: Was the Democrats comparing George W. Bush to a chimp for the last 20 years morally an issue? Do you condemn it? If you don't, then you have zero room to say anything at all about this. Unless you want to admit you think Obama is ape-like?
Trump needs to be more careful. Trump's handlers need to aid Trump in being more careful.
#1 daily TO-DO: Do not give the liar left ammunition.
Like they haven't been calling Trump racist since he rode down the escalator? That horse left the barn long ago. If you can't see that calling Trump racist makes him stronger, maybe you aren't seeing the America I see.
The stronger the seething gets, the better chance you have to find someone doing something stupid or wrong to share with the world and make your argument. Everyone has an X account and a phone. Make them scream. We've all noticed by now.
Of course it's ugly. So are the times, and the Times.
Said it before about the gaza redevelopment AI video, and I'll say it again, this is another example of a time I wish Trump wouldn't shitpost. Bad optics, without rationality or cost/benefit analysis.
“Whether the 1960 election was stolen is a long-standing debate, with credible claims of voter fraud in Illinois and Texas that could have flipped the result, though never definitively proven to have changed the outcome. While Richard Nixon was urged to challenge the results, he chose not to, fearing a constitutional crisis.”
Trump needs to give 2020 a rest. Nixon didn’t get mad about 1960, he just got busy getting even.
The video showed Biden as a mandrill eating a banana.
Never forget: Trump was a Democrat. Democrats have always made personal ugly attacks against their political enemies, and not a single one of them ever says that is wrong. Democrats have called every Republican, including Eisenhower, Hitler and a Nazi. When a black Republican runs for office, we are right back to 1857 and Democrat racism. Mark and the rest are just fine with it.
Now that Trump is on the right, he's still acting like a Democrat. And Democrats cannot handle being targeted. "How dare Trump fight back! Why can't he just accept being called a racist Nazi bigot woman hater like Dole, Romney, Reagan, and the Bushes? Trump's mean and fights back! It's breaking the country apart!"
Why would you assume such things?
Tik Tok. YouTube offers something of similar design that empathizes with our high data density media environment.
Your link goes to "Not Found" on Truth Social. Did they take it down?
My first thought was maybe Trump account was hacked.
Vance knows how bad this is.
Why else post 5 times in a half hour, each one with a yet more desperate attempt to yell squirrel?
No one is wasting their time with your bullshit, Vance. Get your own blog.
Haven't seen the video, but I think Kevin's first post got it right.
"Trump needs to be more careful. Trump's handlers need to aid Trump in being more careful."
And *Leavitt* needs to be more careful. Don't just say the first bullshit that comes to mind. If you're going to MAKE UP reasons, then you have to go on to defend those reasons. The better explanation of what happened became harder to push after she interposed her memes-r-fun notion.
Democrats: "When we screech that Trump is a racist Nazi bigoted rapist abuser and he should be summarily executed along with every single one of his voters and laws should be passed outlawing the Republican Party, we totally mean that in a healing sort of way that unites the nation! Not like evil Trump!"
Who died and made Mark the moderator? Note his demand that I be silenced because he cannot answer the questions as to why he supported all of the "Chimp" memes from the left about GWB.
No reply from Mark, yet.
I wish God would strike anybody who pulls the racism shit out of their ass with lightning.
I would hope that Althouse also posts the videos of the left "protestors" screaming racist slurs like the N word at ICE agents in Minneapolis, just so we can see how Mark and Inga and the rest try to justify their parties immediate return to the Klan days of yore.
Well...it's no longer showing on Truth Social- through the link you provided. So I suspect the nasty pushback was loud enough.
When dealing with people who see racism in anything that moves, you either just get on with your day or don't utter a word.
Remember, Mark was and is juuuuust fine with this: "Clarence Thomas is a dirty porch monkey and as a trans woman I'm giving every one permission to use the n word on him."
--Said after Roe was overturned, even though Thomas didn't write the main opinion. Democrats loved, loved, loved that kind of stuff. Now the pearl clutching?
Mark, Italians everywhere have waited 55 years for your denunciation of anti-Italian racism.
Ya - let’s ignore this and get back to claiming the SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0. No racism there /sarc.
apes are proud noble creatures, I think of the obamas like the reptilian silurians (which of course new dr who ruined, in their miniseries)
Well, the politics and the hysteria aside, c'mon, is anyone going to deny that Michelle has an inescapable simian countenance? Just sayin'.
Ron Perlman has an inescapable simian countenance, too. Oh no...there goes the racism hook!
Quaestor, when did you stop beating your wife?
Our blog host ignores your stupidity and asks us to stay on topic.
What's your defense of Leavitt and Trump here?
All I get is crickets.
some have dubbed perlman, the shaved ape,
“Quest For Fire” Ron Perlman? About as simian-looking as one can be and still be classed as “human”.
People should be wary of aping creations published in the wild, especially when they are of protracted character.
Any resemblance to the 'C" in PoC? Was Diversity a motive?
The flak is heaviest over the target.
I think most people (even Democrats) know these people in the video are not really animals, but how many know that Trump and others in his administration are not really Nazis?
Apes don’t have 5 houses. Outrageous!
Are cartoon apes racist? When someone says “blatantly racist” he gives away the game. Just say racist. Adverbs detract most of the time.
much less devolved then bill hurt in altered states,
The inability of white men and conservatives of any race to effectively play the victim should be considered a disability with access to handicapped parking and other amenities.
“There's no profit in deceit
Honest men know that
Revenge does not taste sweet
Whether yellow, black or white
Each and every man's the same inside
It takes every kind of people
To make what life's about, yeah
Every kind of people
To make the world go 'round”
—— Andy Fraser
OTOH, the whole Michelle/Barack/ape thing is tempered by the fact that The Messiah simply looks like a dork.
Overuse of the race card by Democrats and their associated race baiters is a poor substitute for acknowledging and dealing with real issues in black communities, absentee fathers, crime, schools, welfarism, etc. Thoughtful people know Trump is not a racist, nor are his policies. What’s next? Cannibalism?
I have seen scenes of peach masculine gender males evolving from apes. Is this the media equivalent of evolution and inclusion?
I'm suffering from Trump fatigue. Three more years to go--yikes!
I actually find chimps interesting, would go to see them, and I don't think they wish me harm. This is proof that the Obamas are quite different.
A decidedly Diversitist depiction of the duplicitous duo in a parade of pride and prejudice. Abort. Sequester. And color no more.
You are not equal unless you can be ridiculed the same as everyone else. If you can't be, then it means you are considered weaker, less able, and to some degree a child needing protection. This is more proof that Trump is the Lion King. Nobody endures more ridicule on a daily basis.
Leavitt, probably without watching it herself, connected the video to Jeffries sombrero meme that actually worked against democrats very well. The Obamas as apes is a whole different story. Had Leavitt watched the video, it would have been obvious to her what happened. Trump was the victim of a tampered video. Whoever passed the video to Trump is now persona non grata. Or it could be that Trump is doing his own video scouting? If he is, it’s a miracle that it has taken this long for him to fall for something nefarious like this video.
“Quest For Fire” Ron Perlman? About as simian-looking as one can be and still be classed as “human”.
Huh, he was in that one? I didn't realize he was that old.
Was he the caveman who was lucky enough to be the beneficiary when Rae Dawn Chong invented blowjobs?
What's the big deal. A racist posts a racist video. It's cold in February.
This time around, most of the rage is a product of DEI rollbacks and the assault on race based college admissions. At least half a million women have lost their jobs in corporate America. Blacks have also been fired for incompetence but White women are the most vulnerable targets.
At this point I don't think Trump gives a shit if he's called a racist, and frankly neither do I. Leftists are going to call us that no matter what we do. Fuck them.
Trump get's called a Racist. The sun rises - Every. Single. Day.
day ending in y, next up
It's like manure. Ma and newer. RP printed in reverse is PR.
"Who spliced in the offensive image? I've speculated that it could be a Trump opponent setting people up for an accusation of racism."
Racism!! was the near-instantaneous response to the FBI raid on the Fulton County Board of Elections office. And it will be the theme of every closing argument given by every counsel for the defence of everyone brought to trial for election law violations in Fulton County, Georgia.
I'd rather be a chimp than a jackass.
"A very stupid way, but stupid people are out there."
Oh, "stupid", hey? Thinking that it's funny to portray the Obamas as apes is stupid".
I prefer to think that it's a dog-whistle. Trump wants all us right-wing racists to know, that while he must pretend he doesn't know -- He knows. Just like you do, Althouse. How many of your best students were black? Amy Wax noticed, and you must have noticed too. After all, you're not stupid. Name two things these legal eagles all have in common; Leticia James, Alvin Bragg, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Fani Willis. One of them is, they are abysmally stupid. Way too stupid to be good lawyers. And Obama was President of the Harvard Law Review. A "Constitutional scholar". Right. Sure.
Thirty-odd years of affirmative action has, in fact, affirmed something. Something that might have been false. But now we know it wasn't.
I would venture to wager less the 2% of those up in here give a flying frog about this. Just another day, there is no more shock or surprise just daily doings. Move along for now...:)
civility bullshit vs virtue signal
Courage is rare in a foxhole.
“I actually find chimps interesting, would go to see them, and I don't think they wish me harm.”
Given half a chance, chimps will tear your face off.
“Two escaped male chimpanzees attacked St. James Davis while he visited a former pet chimp. They tore off parts of his face (including cheek, lips, nose, and an eye), along with fingers, genitals, and other severe injuries. He survived but was permanently disfigured. (CA 2005)”
Remember the concern in NYT when Islamists and their consorts called Jews “apes and pigs?” Me neither.
he got inside the cage, that seems foolish,
Unforced errors add up.
"Given half a chance, chimps will tear your face off."
Yeah. Think what they would do if they had guns.
Is it fair to assume white people are racists?
Would you rather be called a chimp or a racist?
I'm all grown up, so I don't care which mistake you make, but one can cost your target plenty, and the other might get them some benefits.
There are NO APES in LION KING... STOP the gaslighting,, 12 hours post left up WTF
Wince said...
The video showed Biden as a mandrill eating a banana.
2/6/26, 10:55 AM
It should have been an ice cream cone.
Is it the type of primate that makes it racist? Would it have still been racist if they were other types of animals? (My takeaway from the Obama years is that any mocking of them is racist, even if you mock other political people the exact same way with no push back.)
#1 daily TO-DO: Do not give the liar left ammunition.
Do you think they need ammunition to create lies? They create them out of nothing. At least when they have "ammunition", the reporting can be compared to Trump's statement, and what usually happens is the media is caught overplaying its hand in trying to make its case.
I understand Eva, but I think chimps are still way behind on the damage done to the world.
Kevin, what disappearing evidence are you referring to?
Not sure what you mean by disappearing evidence, but I was thinking about the FBI's searches in Georgia which Trump is hoping will show clear evidence of voter fraud.
I understand Eva, but I think chimps are still way behind on the damage done to the world.
I've seen the movies and they definitely catch up!
I find it ironic indeed that the race card is being thrown so readily at Trump given that Michelle Obama—a black woman who has become a multi-millionaire just by being a Democrat apparatchik—kvetches about race (and the burden it has placed on her) all the time.
If the shoe fits, sweetie, wear it.
"I'd rather be a chimp than a jackass."
I'm fairly certain that neither chimps nor jackasses are dissatisfied with being chimps and jackasses. Any organism must sometimes observe, that present circumstances are unsatisfactory. But to find the fault in one's own essential nature, rather than in transient external circumstances, is a peculiar form of despair. And despair is seldom productive. It ain't natural.
The NYT's can't stop lying about the 2020 Election. judas priest its like reading 1933 Soviet Press. "
"The brief clip, set to 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight,' was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about anomalies in the 2020 presidential election"
Yeah, its a "Conspiracy Theory" - held by about 50 percent of the USA. LOL.
Touche', Kevin.
Think what they would do if they had guns.
There's a video clip I've seen occasionally for years, showing a platoon of soldiers in some African shithole who had a chimpanzee in their camp for a pet or mascot, dressed in human clothing. They amused themselves by handing it a loaded AK-47. The chimp figured out how to use it pretty promptly, though thankfully not very accurately, and the soldiers had to flee for their lives in a manner that is surely more comical in a video than it was in reality. I'm pretty sure this is a valid clip that long predated AI slop.
As for showing Obama and Michelle as a couple of Gorrillas, its probably a meme designed to draw attention to the tweet. If you're POTUS or an ex-POTUS, you'll get mocked and attacked viciously. If Obama can't take it, let him retire from public life.
I'm not interested in protecting a multi-millionaire black Ex-POTUS from "mean tweets".
’What's the big deal. A racist posts a racist video.’
I’m curious: if all the races are the same then why is the video racist? Wouldn’t an ape trope apply equally to all races? Was it racist when the left compared Bush to a chimp? If not, why not?
Shorter Libtard: Wah, wah. Black folks.
Blatantly, subjectively scientific. Perhaps a Rainbow of albinophobic connotation would satisfy the politically congruent appetite as a fetal sacrifice. Woe are the wicked supplications, applications.
The rapid fire paralyzes the left as they fire back aiming at the same holes that have already proven non-fatal over and over.
"Is it fair to assume white people are racists?"
By no means! While the essential facts of race realism were once widely understood, it has become the fashion to dissimulate regarding those facts, so that each new generation of white people must find out for themselves. How long it takes to kill that particular mockingbird depends upon where you grow up.
Muhammed Ali repeatedly called Joe Frazier a "Gorilla." Racist!
Extra penalty for posting during Black History Month.
Alec Lace
@AlecLace
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2h
🚨 NEVER FORGET:
Democrats melt down over a Lion King parody video...
...but stayed completely silent when a white liberal in a monkey mask threw an egg at Black conservative Larry Elder.
Silence. No condemnation.
Fake Outrage and Hypocrisy
https://x.com/AlecLace/status/2019810982789546091?s=20
Anyone remember Inga refusing to condemn Democrat Governor Northam of Virginia for posing in blackface and in Klan outfits? Because it's (D)ifferent when Democrats do it!
Snowflake
Was an albino ape held captive on the plains of Spain.
And he deleted it, showing that even crazy Trump has more sense than the comment section here.
Hey Vance, you never told me when you stopped beating your wife? Why won't you answer?
rapid fire paralyzes the left
A meme gun.
There’s a complementary psychological mechanism at work that might be even more insidious: the illusion of perceived control. In 1972, researchers ran a beautifully simple experiment. Two groups were exposed to identical bursts of painfully loud, unpredictable noise. One group got a button they were told could stop it. The other group just had to sit there and take it. Here’s the thing. The group with the button never once pressed it. Not once. But they reported significantly less stress, and showed greater resilience. Just believing they could make it stop was enough.
Americans still believe they have that button. Elections. The 25th Amendment. Congressional oversight. Judicial review. The whole architecture of democratic accountability is sitting right there on the desk they think. Reassuring. Untouched. (increasingly decorative). This is what makes any normalization of stupidity so durable. It’s not just that each incremental crazy move recalibrates what counts as“normal.” It’s that people tolerate the recalibration because they believe the system still has that self-correcting mechanism built in.
We can always vote them out. The courts will step in. The Constitution holds. The button is still on the desk. But someone has quietly disconnected the wiring behind it.
People don’t just fail to notice the deviance accumulating. They actively permit it because they believe they still have agency they no longer functionally possess.
The noise keeps getting louder and nobody reaches for the button because hey, it’s right there if we ever really need it.
Smilin Jack: "Trump needs to give 2020 a rest. Nixon didn’t get mad about 1960, he just got busy getting even."
Yes and what did Nixon get for his forbearance? Both parties broke off Watergate in his ass. No one thought about how it would be better to settle an executive crisis quietly, in the middle of Cold War nuclear hair-trigger parity. No one gave him any points for what he did in 1960.
And then when it was the Dems' turn, suddenly it was all about protecting their guy.
Trump remembers. And unlike Nixon, he was also criminally prosecuted and shot. So he's going to keep 2020 alive as long as he can. CC, JSM
Kak, your essay describes both sides. CC, JSM
The Obamas are nasty people and do not deserve anyone's sympathy.
A REALLY insulting meme would be Star Wars-based, with Michelle as Chewie and Barack as C-3PO. Cuts much closer to the truth. CC, JSM
Schumer could be Palpatine and Biden could be Jar Jar Binks. CC, JSM
'selected not elected' how long did the Dems go on for that, then there's 2004 when they blamed Diebold, oddly they didn't do that after the Secretary of State project got underway, in 2006
Trump could be the Mandalorian, with JD strapped to his chest as Grogu. CC, JSM
the Neimodeans from the sequel trilogy,
sorry prequels
A pogressive process of liberal character? Maybe, a fetus... feature, baby. #HateLovesAbortion
Kak, your essay describes both sides.
Indeed it does. And not just as it pertains to elections. Our ancestors would have taken up arms and had a second Revolution if they could see what today's politicians are doing to us. We sit complacently on well stocked arsenals of weapons and never pick them up because we know we can overthrow the whole bunch of them by armed violence if it ever becomes necessary. Will that situation hold forever?
Mark: I "Never started" beating my wife, so I never had anything to stop.
Which appears to be a foreign concept to you. But hey, I actually believe you don't beat your wife, because I cannot imagine you actually got a woman to say "I do."
I note you are openly refusing to condemn leftists calling Justice Thomas a "porch monkey." You refuse to condemn leftists calling George W. Bush a chimp for the last 25 years. You refuse to condemn leftists in the streets reenacting the Klan against black and hispanic ICE agents. You support Northam's blackface and Klan robes.
But it's Republicans who are the racists, in your view.
1. Virtually no one here on the right, including Althouse, can even entertain the idea that the Obama meme was racist. Even though the author of the video went to the effort of cutting and splicing in a way that increased its racial impact. Lots of "The Obamas are bad and deserve what comes their way" and "the Dems do it too." Also a lot of "bad judgment by Trump and/or Leavitt."
2. Also, an almost complete indifference to the reality that the substantive claims in the video are false and misleading, and have been debunked many times, through litigation and investigations in the states involved. Indeed, the claims in the video are closely connected to the defamation lawsuit that Fox settled for nearly a billion dollars rather than defend the truth of the claim at trial.
3. Bottom line: folks here, sadly including Althouse, have priced racism and falsehood into their evaluations of Trump so that they have lost the capacity to name what is right in front of their eyes.
Bloc Lives Matter (BLM)
Donald Trump’s posting and unposting of racist videos of the former First Lady and President gives us more insight into Biden’s mental deficiencies.
’Virtually no one here on the right, including Althouse, can even entertain the idea that the Obama meme was racist.’
Why do you believe it’s racist?
Yes, Diversity (e.g. racism) is a liberal and progressive condition, albeit politically congruent ("=") in select communities. Lose your religion. #HateLovesAbortion
Never apologize!
Are the Obamas sorry for being the baboons that ran this nation into the ground?
An apology would negate the idea that it was carelessness.
What was the consequence for pressing the button in your cited experiment, Kak? If there is no consequence it makes no sense that a person wouldn't press the button. Or was there a reward for not pressing the button?
It seems like a whole lot of people really, really don't want to press that button regarding what happened in the 2020 election. And they don't want anyone else to press it, either.
The way to dim Diversity is to stop coloring bloc lives matter.
#HateLovesAbortion
Perhaps characterizing humans as apes through correlation was also a myopic choice with forward-looking repercussions. Not a wicked salutation, just poorly considered.
Just when the racism card was loosing currency.
Unforced error.
2. Also, an almost complete indifference to the reality that the substantive claims in the video are false and misleading, and have been debunked many times, through litigation and investigations in the states involved. Indeed, the claims in the video are closely connected to the defamation lawsuit that Fox settled for nearly a billion dollars rather than defend the truth of the claim at trial.
Whatever you do, don't press that button!
AI: Historic Political Unforced Errors
"Nixon's Taping System (1971): Richard Nixon's decision to install a secret voice-activated recording system in the Oval Office eventually provided the "smoking gun" evidence that led to his resignation.
Dewey's Overconfidence (1948): Thomas Dewey stopped polling weeks before the election, assuming a victory was guaranteed, only for Harry Truman to pull off one of history's biggest upsets.
Reagan’s "Hot Mic" Joke (1984): During a soundcheck, Ronald Reagan joked, "We begin bombing in five minutes," unaware his mic was live. The comment caused global panic during the Cold War.
George H.W. Bush’s Watch Check (1992): During a town hall debate, Bush was caught checking his watch while an audience member asked a question, making him appear dismissive and out of touch.
The "Amercia" App (2012): Mitt Romney’s campaign released an iPhone app with a glaring typo: "A Better Amercia," which became a symbol of campaign sloppiness.
Recent & Contemporary Errors
DOGE’s "Accidental" Cuts (2025): The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, admitted to accidentally canceling Ebola prevention aid and mistakenly sharing Social Security numbers in public files.
Rick Scott’s Tax Plan (2022): Senator Rick Scott released an 11-point plan that suggested tax increases for low-income Americans, giving Democrats a potent talking point right before the midterms.
Martha Coakley’s Sports Gaffe (2010): Running for a Senate seat in Massachusetts, Coakley mocked the idea of shaking hands at Fenway Park and misidentified a Red Sox legend as a Yankees fan, alienating local voters.
Alison Lundergan Grimes' Obama Answer (2014): Despite being a delegate for him, Grimes refused to say if she voted for Barack Obama during a campaign interview, a move widely panned as an awkward and transparent dodge.
Common Categories of Unforced Errors
The Kinsley Gaffe: When a politician accidentally tells the truth they weren't supposed to admit.
The Cultural Misstep: Showing ignorance of local customs or social boundaries (e.g., George W. Bush’s unsolicited massage of Angela Merkel).
The "Gotcha" Moment: Failing to recall basic policy facts when questioned by the media."
Give the evil splicer a banana! Everything in this world sparks outrage over racism. I hardly dare buy a black jacket since I'm an old white guy--straight too--so that irritates the alphabet people.
Beasts, If you can't appreciate why that usage is racist, I invite you to ask any AI bot to explain it to you. I don't have the time.
The question is who is going to step up and volunteer to explain what really happened?
Somebody from outside the White House and somebody with gravitas? Somebody who would be willing to take one for Trump?
I don't know that such a person even exists.
Next idea.
’Beasts, If you can't appreciate why that usage is racist, I invite you to ask any AI bot to explain it to you. I don't have the time.’
I won’t ask an AI bot for the answer because an AI bot didn’t make the claim - you did. Either you can defend it or you can’t. Crawfishing away due to an alleged time constraint is cowardice.
Unforced errors: Obamacare, for one. Displaying albinophobic colors on the Whitehouse. Ethnic Springs. Iran-Hamas Affair. Diversity, Equivocation, and Inanitiies. Political Congruence. The "burden" judgment and label of human lives deemed deplorable. Palmerism revisited. Green schemes. Children in cages. And more.
Nothing in recent memory, including this, is as clearly racist, as current, or as substantial as the Democrats' continued insistence that Blacks are not able to get an ID to vote. Their reasons include assuming Blacks are too stupid, unable to move about, can't use the internet, and other provably false and highly racist assumptions about an entire group of people based on their skin color alone, but you go ahead and rage about a cartoon. You do both these things for the very same reason: politics is your only true value. You wish Trump was even half as racist as the Democrat party, the party of slavery, and Jim Eagle.
Stephen said...
"Virtually no one here on the right, including Althouse, can even entertain the idea that the Obama meme was racist."
What am I, chopped liver? Although it isn't really clear to me how depicting the Obamas as apes is exactly ----- racist. Would it be racist to depict them as alligators? How about chrysanthemums? Single-celled microorganisms living in colonies on rocks? It seems to me, that idiots like you have been getting away with calling everything under the Sun "racist" for a long time. And you have somehow managed to affix a morality tag to the word, so that everyone shies away from it. But WTF? The fact is, there are huge apparent differences between races. That they are genetic is evident from the fact that the are inherited. The "progressive" pose is that these differences are confined to trivial aspects of physical appearance. But how likely is it, that natural selection would operate on physical appearance, but not on mental capacities and tendencies, which are critical to human survival and flourishing? Hey, look, I'm gonna go follow me some Science. Anyone care to join me?
“Two escaped male chimpanzees attacked St. James Davis while he visited a former pet chimp. They tore off parts of his face (including cheek, lips, nose, and an eye), along with fingers, genitals, and other severe injuries.”
Wow. Is that the guy they named the St. James Infirmary after?
"blatantly racist". Heh. As opposed to subtly racist? Obliquely racist? Elliptically racist? Notionally racist? Hermeneutically racist? How many different ways can you not spell the N-word?
Evolutionary creationism was an unforced error that underlies modern Critical Diversity Theory with roots in liberal lineage.
Beasts, I actually do have work to do and it's more important than answering a question you should know the answer to.
I asked ChatGPT the following question: a friend has just asked me why portraying blacks as apes or monkeys is racist. What is the best response to this question?
Here is Chat GPT's answer, which I adopt as my own, because it's close enough to my thinking.
Portraying Black people as apes or monkeys is racist because it draws on a long, specific history of dehumanization that was used to justify slavery, segregation, and violence.
For centuries, racist pseudoscience and propaganda explicitly depicted people of African descent as closer to animals than to fully human beings. Those images weren’t neutral insults; they were arguments: “These people are less human, so it’s acceptable to exploit, brutalize, or exclude them.” Cartoons, advertisements, scientific texts, and political propaganda all used ape imagery to deny Black people intelligence, morality, and equal standing.
Because of that history, the comparison isn’t just offensive—it reactivates a narrative that strips people of humanity. Even if someone today claims they “don’t mean it that way,” the meaning doesn’t reset. Symbols carry their past with them.
A useful way to explain it is this distinction:
Calling someone an animal in general is a crude insult.
Calling Black people apes specifically invokes a racial ideology that has been used to harm real people for generations.
That’s why the comparison lands differently than, say, calling a white politician a pig or a snake. One taps into a systemic, historically weaponized idea; the other doesn’t.
You can also add:
Racism isn’t only about personal hatred or intention. It’s also about participating in stories and symbols that society has already loaded with meaning, especially when those symbols have been used to deny a group’s basic humanity.
So what do you make of these arguments?
You want an unforced error? How about facilitating the import of thousands of Chinese nationals and terrorists of military age into the nation's interior and having no idea where they are now. You limit "unforced errors" to mostly political mistakes, because that's all you really care about. This one mistake I describe is possibly deadly for millions of Americans. That's what a real mistake looks like.
Anyone remember Inga refusing to condemn Democrat Governor Northam of Virginia for posing in blackface and in Klan outfits?
No Drago, that never happened.
What are the odds that two human beings would speak in identical styles? Drago is alive and well folks. For whatever reason, he killed off poor Drago and was back full time as “Vance”.
N-erd? Greek... damn AI. Uh, geek has a similar connotation, but disparate denotation, and both are blatant blocs of Diversity. Oh, for the days, warming on the sandy beaches of Lesbos and blue and warm waters.
This shows up on Instapundit now and then: "If you hear the dog whistle, you're the dog." Think about it...
’So what do you make of these arguments?’
I reject them. When you make excuses for a subset of the population based upon their race then you deny their agency and humanity, i.e., you’ve deemed them as weaker and less capable than other races. I find your attitude, as displayed in those arguments, to be disgraceful, and proof that you embrace the racism you pretend to disdain.
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Democrats were calling ice agents n*****s yesterday now they care lmao 🤣 🥴
https://x.com/0hour1/status/2019807098037817540?s=20
Wow. Is that the guy they named the St. James Infirmary after?
Saints' names as first names are an oddity found almost entirely among the British upper classes. They often have odd pronunciations too. Some toff given a name like "St. John Percival Whortleberry-Fotheringham" will pronounce his forename as "Sinjin". It's an affectation meant to make you think they have been pronouncing it in the Norman French style since their ancestors came over with William the Conqueror in 1066.
Inga, your refusal to condemn Northam's blackface is legendary! I challenged you for over a year to condemn it, day after day, and you wouldn't. Our debates over that are part of blog lore, so much so that when I asked Gemini AI about you posting at Althouse it brought up your refusal to condemn Northam's blackface! And that was back in 2019 and 2020. And it included my name, so your sudden "Drago is Vance!" is just sheer lies. I've been here for a long, long time. And so have you, and so has your refusal to condemn anything a Democrat does.
But ok, if it 'never happened.' then you can clearly and unequivocally condemn it now, right? Will you condemn Democrats who called Justice Thomas an Uncle Tom and a 'porch monkey?" Will you condemn Democrats for their last 25 years of calling George Bush a Chimp?
Surely a fine, morally superior being as you proclaim yourself to be will have zero problems calling out racist Democrats.
Right?
"So what do you make of these arguments?"
Ummm. Quoting AI is racist. Pass it on.
Another of this type: British aristocrats may have the name "St. Claire" or "St. Clare" but it will be pronounced "Sinclair". Their more lowly descendants will spell it that way too, but not the nobility and more striving sort of gentry.
See Mark and Kak and Inga having the vapors over this... all while they cheer on and celebrate and praise things like this from their allies: https://x.com/KimKatieUSA/status/2019554747414638827
Calling black ICE officers the "N word" is absolutely fine and dandy with our "non-racist morally superior leftists!" People like Mark and Inga and Kak love this kind of thing, because nothing is more racist than a white leftist confronted by a black person who disagrees with them.
We know why it WAS a slur, but why is it one now? It's unfounded believability was what made it a slur back then. Enough people did think it was possible then for it to be effective. If Blacks have really made the progress we say, and proven themselves equal, it should be no different than calling them an octopus or a Martian, and be EQUAL to calling a Caucasian a chimp. Still an insult but not racial, unless you still believe the races are not equally human?
Stephen said...
"Beasts, I actually do have work to do and it's more important than answering a question you should know the answer to."
a) That's a lie.
b) Would you call Beasts "Beasts" if you knew he was black? Wouldn't that be racist? Blatantly racist? Obscenely racist? I know, I know, they call each other that, but that doesn't make it OK when you do it. Sit down, clutch your pearls, and shut up.
"Apes don't assassinate their presidents, gentlemen!" - "Human Nature" - script by Charlie Kaufman
@Iman: Chimps are vicious bastards. They consider human eyes a delicacy. No, I made that part up.
But Travis the chimp attacked Charla Nash and bit and tore off her nose, lips, eyelids, much of her mid-face and jaw structure. He severed or mangled both hands and gouged out or destroyed both of her eyes. (2009 CT)
Stay away from chimps - that’s my motto.
Vance, these endless calls for people to denounce random things are stupid.
Enjoy never getting an answer and just clogging the discussion with your endless steaming loads.
Barack and Michelle should have been depicted as dung beetles- just to avoid being called a racist by Stephen, Inga, and Lefty Mark.
Like any other form of intelligence, AI can be as racist as it's taught to be. It's not above us in wisdom, only speed. It's a faster form of racism, or whatever else you teach it.
What other images of professional consensus engender extreme emotive palpitations? The popularity of pronounced pronoun dysphoria has ebbed and waned. Diversity (i.e. class-disordered ideologies), too, has been dashed upon the rocks. Pro-Choice is a many splendored wicked solution.
What if the cartoon was made by a black person? It may have been. Would it still be racist. If not, would it suddenly become racist when a white person reposts it?
Anthropogenic Intelligence? Automated Intelligence assembles and regurgitates through a Viterbi sieve, interfaces with anthropogenic primitives, is neither discerning nor creative, but prone to prejudice, prevarication, and probable perpetration.
Mark said...
"Vance, these endless calls for people to denounce random things are stupid."
Uh-oh, once again, stupid rears her stupid head.
Look, Mark, I think we can agree that endless calls for people to denounce random things are, uh, well, uncalled-for. But what about endless calls for people to denounce racist things? Surely, you would not wish to suggest that one could ever sufficiently denounce racism? That maybe shouting "RACIST-RACIST-RACIST" as loud as you can might have outlived its utility? Mark, are you becoming fatigued? You know what happens to the first one to stop clapping.
I'm told by people on the left that whites are racist and there's nothing they can do about it. If that's so, wouldn't everything they say be racist?
’Would you call Beasts "Beasts" if you knew he was black? Wouldn't that be racist? Blatantly racist? Obscenely racist?’
Maybe calling myself Beasts is intrinsically racist!! Dang…
Charla Nash got a face transplant but is blind and lost the use of her hands. I think she has prosthetics in place if her hands.
The Obamas selfie identify as Asses. Inglorious Donkeys who bray with Democratic consensus. Any ape appelation is a universal judgment and label of scientific seance and consensus. A double-edged scalpel with social significance.
Trying to understand how the left can be so incensed by this, calling it blatant racism, yet be perfectly fine being against the SAVE Act because POC and women will find it too difficult to register legally if that were signed into law. Have they no agency to function as genuine adult citizens? Forget that everyone needs IDs for everything anyway, including proving your citizenship at times (real ID), this racism and misogyny from the left is far deeper and far worse than that blip of a clip mistakenly included on a reels grab.
Whether something - a book, cartoon, etc. - is racist is an objective test. Whether it was created by a black person is not relevant.
What I don't understand is why none of the racist commentators here will own their racism. After all, you are all anonymous. Don't be such pussys.
Drago/Vance, oh really? How strange you would ask Grok and not post what Grok actually said. So I’ll ask Grok myself.oh surprise1 Drago /Vance lies once again! Isn’t it a sin to lie in your religion?
“The Althouse blog (althouse.blogspot.com), run by Ann Althouse, is a long-running personal/political blog with an active comments section. A frequent commenter there uses the name “Inga”.
The incident involving Virginia Governor Ralph Northam occurred in early February 2019, when a 1984 medical school yearbook photo surfaced on his page showing one person in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan robe/hood. Northam initially apologized as if he was in the photo, then retracted that and denied being either person in the image (though he admitted to a separate incident of wearing blackface that year to impersonate Michael Jackson).
Searches for relevant discussions on the Althouse blog, including site-specific queries for terms like “Inga” combined with “Northam” or “blackface,” turn up comments threads from around that time period (and later ones referencing Northam). Inga was an active participant in various political threads on the blog during 2019.
However, there is no evidence from available blog archives, comment excerpts, or related discussions that Inga specifically refused to condemn Northam’s blackface incident (or the yearbook photo).
• Inga’s visible comments in searchable excerpts lean toward defending Democratic positions or criticizing Trump/Republicans in other contexts,but nothing directly ties her to a refusal to condemn Northam on the blackface scandal.
• No direct quotes, post titles, or archived comments show Inga defending Northam on this specific issue or explicitly refusing to condemn the act/photo.
Public searches and available snippets do not confirm the claim that Inga refused to condemn it.Blog comments can be voluminous and sometimes moderated or hard to index fully, but based on what’s accessible, the specific allegation doesn’t appear substantiated.
Grok
"What if the cartoon was made by a black person? It may have been. Would it still be racist. If not, would it suddenly become racist when a white person reposts it?"
Oh! Oh! I know this one!
Black people can't be racist, and white people can't not be racist. Duh. Ask me a tough one. What if someone is Asian? A slanty-eyed gook, maybe? What's it racist to depict them as? Betcha don't know!
"Whether something - a book, cartoon, etc. - is racist is an objective test. Whether it was created by a black person is not relevant."
Everybody here knows that's false. Exhibit A: The N-word.
"Whether something - a book, cartoon, etc. - is racist is an objective test."
This might be the most ridiculous assertion I will read this month.
Is it racist to depict Whoopi Goldberg as a hippo? Was it anti-semitic to depict Chuck Schumer as a zebra? Hillary Clinton as a hog?
"Maybe calling myself Beasts is intrinsically racist!! Dang…"
Depends on your race. If you're white, that's racist.
However, let's play Jim53IQ's game- tell us, Jim, what animals is it ok to depict the Obamas as that isn't racist and give us a list of ones it is racist to depict them as.
Funny... I cited to Gemini, and Inga tries to hide behind Grok. Grok isn't finding it, true.
Here is the quote from Gemini.
The "Inga-Northam" controversy is a well-documented piece of "Althouse lore" among the blog's regulars.
The core of the dispute involves Inga (a regular liberal-leaning commenter) being challenged by Vance (a regular conservative-leaning commenter) to apply the same standards to Governor Ralph Northam that she applied to Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Here are the primary threads and the nature of the quotes where this "litmus test" played out:
1. The Origin: "The Northam/Kavanaugh Pivot" (February 2019)
When the Northam yearbook scandal first broke, Inga was vocal in the comments. Her stance was generally that while the imagery was offensive, it was an old issue that shouldn't necessarily trigger the same immediate "cancellation" as other contemporary allegations.
The Post: Is it possible that Ralph Northam is doing exactly what he should be doing...?
The Argument: Inga frequently argued that Northam's "evolution" on race made his past actions less relevant.
The Quote (Paraphrased): Inga often asserted that "the people of Virginia should decide" rather than outside observers—a stance that Vance later used to mock her previous "Zero Tolerance" position during the Kavanaugh hearings.
2. Vance’s "Hypocrisy" Litmus Test (April–May 2020)
A year later, during the Joe Biden/Tara Reade allegations, the debate resurfaced. Vance used "The Inga-Northam Test" to illustrate what he saw as partisan double standards.
The Post: The Joe Biden/Tara Reade hypocrisy test.
The Vance Critique: In the comments, Vance repeatedly tagged Inga, asking her to reconcile her defense of Northam with her "Believe All Women" stance.
The Interaction: Vance would often post variations of: "Inga, you still haven't explained why Northam gets a pass while Kavanaugh was 'guilty until proven innocent' in your eyes."
3. The "Still There" Analysis (May 2020)
Ann Althouse herself eventually wrote a post reflecting on why Northam survived, which reignited the Inga vs. Vance feud.
The Post: Northam is still Governor of Virginia...
The Quote from Inga: Inga’s defense often boiled down to: "I'm not defending what he did, I'm defending the process." * The Rebuttal: Vance and others (like "Rance" or "Dr. Weevil") countered that her "process" only seemed to apply when the politician in question was a Democrat.
/End Gemini quote. Note that for whatever reason, a couple of these posts no longer exist on Althouse. But Gemini is a google ai, and google owns Blogger, so they still have it.
You are lying, Inga, and anyone who has been here for more than a few years knows it.
’What I don't understand is why none of the racist commentators here will own their racism. After all, you are all anonymous. Don't be such pussys.’
You haven’t proved anyone or anything racist, other than by unsupported assertion. Don’t be a rhetorical pussy.
"Is it racist to depict Whoopi Goldberg as a hippo? Was it anti-semitic to depict Chuck Schumer as a zebra? Hillary Clinton as a hog?"
Damn, these are getting tough. I may have go back to school for some Racism Studies.
Let's see, Whoopi, yes. She's black. Chuckie, well. He's not black. But if you're white, still racist. And Hillary should be depicted as a sofa, since she dresses like one. But not intrinsically racist. Perhaps obsequiously racist.
’Depends on your race. If you're white, that's racist.’
I identify as race fluid and three-spirit polyracial.
Yawn. The Cartoon is kinda cute. If it offends anyone they are a hyper critical, brain washed fool, looking for something to get offended about. That said Trump might not have even seen it? It might also be a deliberate huge distraction.
From an email that I sent to some friends in November of 2020:
"Accusations that the Dominion equipment miscounts votes have been around for some time. In 2019 three democratic senators, including Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren – wrote the Federal Election Commission complaining that:
“In 2018 alone "voters in South Carolina [were] reporting machines that switched their votes after they'd inputted them, scanners [were] rejecting paper ballots in Missouri, and busted machines [were] causing long lines in Indiana." In addition, researchers recently uncovered previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in "nearly three dozen backend election systems in 10 states." And, just this year, after the Democratic candidate's electronic tally showed he received an improbable 164 votes out of 55,000 cast in a Pennsylvania state judicial election in 2019, the county's Republican Chairwoman said, " [ n ]othing went right on Election Day. Everything went wrong. That's a problem." These problems threaten the integrity of our elections and demonstrate the importance of election systems that are strong, durable, and not vulnerable to attack.”. (citations in text omitted)
The most exhaustive review of the Dominion equipment that I have been able to find is in an October opinion by a US District Court judge in Georgia, less than one month before the election. The parade of horribles established by plaintiffs in the case with respect to the Dominion software clearly appalled the judge.
The Plaintiffs’ national cybersecurity experts convincingly present evidence that this is not a question of “might this [electoral disfunction] actually ever happen?” – but “when it will happen,” especially if further protective measures are not taken. Given the masking nature of malware and the current systems described here, if the State and Dominion simply stand by and say, “we have never seen it,” the future does not bode well. Page 146
With the limited period of time remaining before the election, the judge did not feel it appropriate to do more than provide limited relief to the Plaintiffs who objected to use of Dominion equipment. However, the future may have arrived early, if not for Georgia, then in other states."
The Judge was Amy Totenberg who I believe is Nina Totenberg's sister. I have not followed the case since 11/2020 but here is a url for the opinion in October 2020. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ga-voting.pdf
My apologies, Drago/Vance said he asked Gemini AI, not Grok, so here it is Gemini’s answer. Drago/ Vance is a liar.🤥
“According to searches of the Althouse blog archives from February 2019, the commenter "Inga" frequently participated in discussions about Governor Ralph Northam's blackface controversy. There is no specific, widely quoted statement found where "Inga" explicitly refused to condemn the photo []. You can find more commentary on the Althouse blog.”
Oh, wait! The question for Chuckie wasn't racist, it was anti-semitic! God, I used to do that in school all the time. I'd be sitting there in the mid-term, and I'd get halfway through calculating the magnetic field of a rhomboidal current in the presence of a biprismatic monopole, and realize I was in English Lit, and I was supposed to be comparing and contrasting a sonnet and a bonnet. The blue books I've wasted!
Anyway, yeah, OK, Chuckie and a zebra. Uh. I don't think so. Maybe if the zebra has a long, hooked nose? Curled, grasping fingers? Look, just blast off and stick a star of David on 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. And one of those little hats.
It's funny that the left wants us to admit Racism, when for years they have been calling us RACISTS and White Supremacists. Do you get it yet?? We don't CARE anymore. Call us what we want, We don't give two shits what you are crying about anymore.
Townhall has an article by Matt Vespa about this issue.
He claims it is a HOAX!
jim5301 said...
What's the big deal. A racist posts a racist video. It's cold in February.
It is only racist if you associate black people with Gorillas.
The only racist people here are democrats.
Inga said...
My apologies, Drago/Vance said he asked Gemini AI, not Grok, so here it is Gemini’s answer. Drago/ Vance is a liar.🤥
You have always been a racist piece of shit. You are just too stupid to understand what democrats are.
That is why all of your posts are so contradictory and you have to have different standards for democrats and republicans.
You can't maintain the same standards because you are a dishonest racist.
Hoax? An Artificial Illusion with Anthropogenic Imploration aping a scientific audacity of correlations. Was it a Google medium?
TickTock, are you trying to suggest that the possibility that America's elections have been systematically subverted and in fact stolen is of more importance than the possibility that Donald Trump -- the sitting President of the United States of America -- intentionally depicted Barack Obama and the man he married as a pair of blue-assed baboons?
Dude, you aren't just fatigued, you're fucking narcoleptic!
Mark said...
Quaestor, when did you stop beating your wife?
Our blog host ignores your stupidity and asks us to stay on topic.
What's your defense of Leavitt and Trump here?
All I get is crickets.
The defense is that the only people who are offended by this are racist pieces of shit that associate black people with gorillas.
Trump and Levitt aren't racist pieces of shit like you.
Peachy said...
Trump needs to be more careful. Trump's handlers need to aid Trump in being more careful.
#1 daily TO-DO: Do not give the liar left ammunition.
A Desantis supporter has thoughts on how to lose to democrats gracefully.
Feels good about herself.
Mark said...
Not surprised to the see the apologists out in force ... and no one else.
Don't worry Mark.
You have cowards like leland and Peachy backing you up.
There are still republicans that play along with your stupid little games.
So …Trump brought one of the Benghazi perpetrators back to the U.S. to stand trial today.
And … someone screwed up a video in a Trump social media post so that it looks like Trump is a racist. (He is not.)
Which one of these two events will get the most airtime on the television news tonight?
Quod erat demonstrandum
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