What he meant to say was: “Rice Traders”…Yeah, that’s the ticket!
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But of course…bizarro America, where the least qualified and those bent on destroying the departments they work for are nominated and appointed.
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DAMMIT!!! That’s cultural appropriation!
Us slanty eyed folks, demand that Mr. Mammoth hunter take this back, and pick a new phrase.
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Well, a “Clevis” is a
“U-shaped or forked metal connector within which another part can be fastened by means of a bolt or pin passing through the ends of the connector.”
Which immediately brings to mind
Let’s see if Senator Flake really stands by what he’s been writing in his book or if he’ll just cave and pass this pustule.
I can’t help but note how much he resembles Squealer at the end of Animal Farm (Napoleon had a more fierce look). Perhaps he is the real race traitor!
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Well, this is how you discredit academics even more. Brilliant propaganda.
Content-wise, a catastrophe. But spin-wise brilliant.
I assume you are not referring to all those climate scientists, but to so-called climate sceptics (aka reality deniers). Our did I miss your /s?
sigh As I said. Works.
Just FTR, this thread is quite bad already, but could we all try very hard not to just chew and vomit stereotypes in any direction, but just call out that the person in question quite probably is openly racist and influenced by right-wing conspiracy bullshit?
Did any journalist ask him about that since? Can someone find out if these statements can be hold against him, disqualifying him formally for the job? Surely nobody sane wants a racist in such a position, so what’s to be done about this?
I didn’t know that was “a thing” - I assumed he meant traitor but instead misspelled it in a way that suggested slavery.
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How is this a surprise? Trump always picks the best.
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Hmm…I guess there really is a central casting.
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I’m really curious how people manage to convince themselves that these people are not racists. Like, what even is the excuse. I think that every time I come across any media that has those people making claims there are barely any racists left. I just listened to the first episode of Conversations with People Who Hate Me, and I walk away with more questions about why people think the nonsense they think.
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A lot of people think it’s racist to believe things about others that are untrue.
So if they believe something about others that they think is true, they’re supposedly just being realistic. Which is why they often start racist statements with “I’m not racist, but…”
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Fine, I’ll accept ■■■■■ being dried up around here, but I’m never coughing up my right to phlegm!!!
I’m thinking this post back in June must have made someone running the BBS reach their, um, saturation point…
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He says anti-colonialist like it was a bad thing. I’m guessing that he thinks colonialist is somehow “pro-founding America”, without considering what the 13 colonies did about their colonial status at the first chance.
Ah, here’s where it comes from. It’s still idiotic.
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Clovis holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Alabama. That seems to be about it.
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Anyone recognize what his lapel pin represents?
Every time I see this guy I think of the Allfather from Preacher
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Because to most people, whether or not they or another are racist is an identity, rather than anything to do with racism as a process. They feel they are getting stuck with a pejorative label (oh, the irony) and avoid it out of tribalism. What I try to impress upon such people is that it is not what you are, but what you do.
Often there seems to be a feeling among bigots they aren’t acting from a socially-conditioned agenda, but are rather enforcing a “natural order”. If it was a natural order rather than their own weird rationalizations, I argue they would not need to do anything. But somehow, the fact that their natural order does not play out in society proves that it must be real, but that THEY (whoever The Other is) are thwarting it somehow.
I will need to check that out. How I (arguably) maintain my sanity is to remind myself that bigots don’t actually hate me at all, they hate a category, some rationalized ideal that they transfer onto me, they hate what I represent.
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Someone on my Twitter feed pointed out that all these people Trump trots out as the best and brightest seem to be coming straight out of a Coen brothers movie.
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