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Ex-Trump Aide Says Trump’s Use of ‘Riggers’ Isn’t a Racial ‘Dogwhistle – It’s a Bullhorn’
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I mean... It's one letter off.
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Can we refer to Trump as "that rigger guy" from now on?
i’d honestly like to remember it but i also don’t want to say it. not only is it racist, it’s fucking stupid.
like the people that say libtards or magats, we get it. you don’t wike the bad peeepow. you godda caw dem bawd names so you can feew gewd.
this is just a more fucking racist version of the stupidest childish playground tacitics of name calling that both sides of the isles’ idiots can’t help but say.
that being said, gravy seals and meal team 6 are great and hilarious. it’s just stupid shit like democRAT. oh ho ho! it’s got rat in it? MY FUCKING FIVE YEAR-OLD NIECE COMES UP WITH MORE CREATIVE INSULTS.
Rats are lovely and kinder to their own than we are.
I just don't know why he doesn't just come out and say it. Who does he think he's fooling?
Brought to you by the "let's go Brandon" people.
It's about pissing us off and making us waste time explaining how they're being shitty
He wouldn't lose a single supporter. Probably gain a ton.
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a perfect letter
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Eh ... I'm not convinced.
We have an inexhaustible supply of real and unambiguous crimes and other offenses that we can pin on him.
I think it unnecessarily muddies the water to even bother with something this ambiguous.
The guy is on trial for RICO charges, and in all likelihood will see seeing a 5-year prison sentence for ORGANIZED CRIME in trying to overthrow a lawful election.
Let's just keep talking about that. And these fact that we have it on tape that he was asking the Georgia Secretary of State to "find" exactly the number of votes Trump needed to overturn the election he lost.
Yeah I agree. trump is racist AF, we don't need to strain and stretch to make him racist even in the event that he isn't being 100% racist.
I don't have any faith that he'll see a jail cell. I wish I could be like you.
The RICO charge carries a mandatory 5 years that can't be pardoned and can't be paroled. And RICO is stunningly easy to get a conviction on. It was built to catch mob bosses who directed activity but didn't get their hands dirty.
Until the RICO charge, I didn't think he'd see prison either... but now... looks pretty good.
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Hah I thought it was for those that rigged (allegedly (falsely)) the election. A group of riggers. Who rig.
How naive of me. This is worse
I caught on to the use of "riggers" when I noticed it was only black election workers that they were going after.
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I’m not sure Trump is bright enough to use a dog whistle. He’s more of a shoot them in the middle of 5th avenue guy.
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I hate when people talk like this
The fact that he’s introducing race into this prosecution surprises me, it’s disgusting, it’s textbook Donald Trump, but it comes as no surprise.
So surprise or no?
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Rigga, please.
I read that in Scooby's voice
Well he ís the only brown character on the show.
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He is racist, but not clever in any way, I think he meant a made up word in his bullshit accusation, I don't think he was trying to be racist here.
Someone else said it and he repeated it, or someone else wrote the tweet. It was absolutely intended to be racist.
Yall know rigger is a real word right? Like, I work with a group of people explicitly called riggers. They rig stuff up. Use cranes, chain falls, shit like that?
Trump is using a dogwhistle though.
Yeah it’s also a common term in the bdsm community for people who like tying people up. But he definitely isn’t referring to them.
Some people don’t get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to dog whistles.
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A Taxonomy of Right-Wing Dog Whistles -The Atlantic
They accuse one side of “They want to take your pickup truck. They want to rebuild your home. They want to take away your hamburgers.” - while on the other side, they themselves want to take nothing serious, just your freedom and democracy,
He’s obviously racist AF, but I doubt this is a dog whistle. Guy is too fucking stupid and impulsive to attribute some kind of intent to his word vomit.
He's stupid in a lot of ways, but he's popular as a speaker for a reason, and he has done a lot of dog whistling in his life. This is just the most blatant. I do think it is intentional.
He's popular as a speaker because he "tells it like it is", which roughly translates to "he says the quiet racist parts out loud". I agree that this probably isn't a dog whistle. Or, it probably wasn't. It definitely is now, and I fully anticipate seeing someone wearing a shirt that colorfully uses the word "rigger".
This is where I’m at. He makes up stupid fucking words all the time. But those that follow him will absolutely run with it to “own the libs.” I’m not even sure they would’ve picked up on it if it were a dog whistle. Maybe in the context of the rest of the trial it reads that way, but I haven’t been following the shit coming out of his mouth. But strictly because there’s been a big deal made of it, it’s now ripe for those dimwits utilizing it “as a joke,” and then it’ll just turn into another in a long list of things that IS a dog whistle with some modicum of deniability
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he’s popular as a speaker for a reason
I think he has a natural talent to listen to what gets a rise out of people, what gets a reaction, and then copy that in his own way. What he says, once transcribed to written form, is often not very intelligent. It's his mannerism and even his unique makeup and hair - that people listen to far more than his actual meaning. I find people who think Trump is a great person often have serious difficulty interpreting and understanding hard sciences like chemistry and physics... and are influenced by advertising techniques in particular ways.
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Must just be a big coincidence his supporters started posting this kinda shit afterwards. 'Dindo Riggers' could mean anything!
Doesn't take too high of an IQ to come up with this dog whistle.
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I live in a very protected part of the world. I once thought the N word was "No", and that was why people hated it so much.
Ya know, the first time I read that I thought an aide must have swapped his N and R keys. But I was just making a little joke about it.
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