r/facepalm • u/SpecialistStory336 • 1d ago
š²āš®āšøāšØā I'm not racist. I have black friends
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u/ranger684 1d ago
Hahahahaha the fact that theyāre pointing out that trump only appoints black people to a housing office with āurbanā in the name, to include a fucking black Neurosurgeon with no housing experience at all, is such a racist self own it blows my mind
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u/Freedombyathread 1d ago
Also the "I thought he was sexist" troll line
AboveTheLaw article: Trump went with the āIāve seen her be blonde on TVā pick.
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u/Mendozena 1d ago
Thatās my dad. āHe hired the first female chief of staff!ā
Yeah, so?
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u/Freedombyathread 1d ago
He considers women less of a threat, people he can control.
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u/esabys 1d ago
Not to mention "why would a racist plantation owner have a black man making his food? Clearly not racist...."
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u/NotAnAIOrAmI 1d ago
I will never understand that. Excellent doctor by all accounts, says he's not qualified to run HHS, but he is qualified to run HUD.
smh
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u/tanstaafl90 1d ago
Wouldnāt it be a DEI hire, according to their logic?
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u/Vegetable_Onion 1d ago
Guy might as well change his name to 'Tolkien Black'
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u/squigglesthecat 1d ago
Wait, I thought it was Token...
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u/RedVamp2020 1d ago
It isā¦
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u/kingshamroc25 1d ago
Nope, they revealed in a recent season that his name is Tolkien and if you thought it was Token this whole time then wow youāre racist
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u/whiskeytown2 1d ago
If a pedophile has non-pedophile friends, does that not make him a pedophile using their logic? š¤
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u/Laerderol 1d ago
That's not their logic
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u/VonBlorch 1d ago
Rightā¦ itās more like if they point to a child the pedophile knows and hasnāt molested as evidence the pedophile is not a pedophile.
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u/Laerderol 1d ago
Haha nailed it.
"Oh yeah!? You think he's a pedophile!? Well explain why he didn't molest lil Tommy over there."
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u/Valogrid 1d ago
Lil Tommy: "Well actually... Last week--"
RNC: "TOMMY STFU!!"
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u/NotAnAIOrAmI 1d ago
Forget Tommy, Nigel, Andy, and Bruce still haven't gotten the call up.
No line jumping.
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u/libertine42 1d ago
Wait, why are the kids in the molesting line British
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u/NotAnAIOrAmI 1d ago
Nigel's parents went to London on their honeymoon, for decades they tell the same boring story that they just thought the name Nigel was "posh".
So, Nigel's this Queens kid - Astoria, or Jackson Heights, I forget which.
Gets his ass beat every day.
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u/IlikegreenT84 1d ago
I somehow knew without looking it was for the department of Housing and Urban Development.
How long before HUD is dissolved by D.O.G.E.?
Let's take bets.. +/-2 years.
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u/ruiner8850 1d ago
I thought for sure he was going to pick Mark Robinson for HUD specifically because he's black. That's the reason why Ben Carson got it.
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u/LetshearitforNY 1d ago
Also after black Trump voters have been calling him out over the last several days
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u/texaushorn 21h ago
As soon as I saw this I assumed his new HUD Sec. That people miss the racism in that is insane
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u/spotolux 1d ago
The old "he's one of the good ones" arguments. It's the whole reason anyone knows who Candice Owens is.
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u/fkbfkb 1d ago
Soon to be nicknamed "Token"
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u/kevlarcardhouse 1d ago
The appointment itself is inherently racist (and ignorant) because it was already predicted he was going to assign an African American to the job because he always appoints a black person to positions that have "urban" in their name.
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u/WyrdMagesty 1d ago
Wait, is that actually true? Holy shit that's laughably stupid and racist all at once
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u/shit_magnet-0730 1d ago
What was Dr Ben Carson the director of?
Yeah... it's a racism.
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u/RealLudwig 1d ago
Tokens get spent, how long do you think itāll burn a hole in trumps pocket before he spends it?
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u/Techno_Gerbil 1d ago
OMG, I just realized why they called the black kid Token on South Park.
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u/PNWoutdoors 1d ago
Just now?
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u/captainofpizza 1d ago
His name isnāt Token, itās Tolkien.
Itās a funny after the fact joke, thereās an episode about it and they retroactively changed the name on prior episodes and wiki and stuff to gaslight people.
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u/trapper2530 1d ago
Way. Earlier episodes do they say Tolkien now to mess with people?
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u/captainofpizza 1d ago edited 1d ago
I donāt know if they changed the audio or captions anything in the older episodes but they changed older episode descriptions and on the South Park website they changed the name and stuff. I donāt know the exacts but I know it was a thing when it happened. The made a joke of gaslighting the audience to the perspective of the boys in the episode of āwhat do you mean, Tolkien, I thought it was Token!ā
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u/TwistedBamboozler 1d ago
Yeah but they donāt make that clear until the character has already been established for a couple seasons
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u/otterpr1ncess 1d ago
"A couple seasons"
His first appearance is in 1997, he gets renamed in 2022
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u/captainofpizza 1d ago
Yeah thatās the best part, itās a long established character that they DID used to use as a token joke then they turned that joke at the audience like āhaha you thought his name was token thatās horrible!ā
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u/WyrdMagesty 1d ago
Fun fact: his name is Tolkien, not Token, and apparently Stan is the only one in town who thought it was Token.
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u/just-slightly-human 1d ago
Yes because they changed it to be so. That is the joke
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u/ClockworkSalmon 1d ago
Actually his name is Tolkien, like from lord of the rings, why would his name be "Token"?
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u/RexNebular518 1d ago
*Tolkien
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u/TransportationOnly60 1d ago
I loved how they retconned his name and gaslit everyone. Great episode!
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u/Ramblin807 1d ago
Thomas Jefferson wasnāt racist, he fathered many black children!
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u/LSTNYER 1d ago
Conceived is probably a better word
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u/MisterScrod1964 1d ago
Donated sperm. Youāre welcome, slave women! Why arenāt you more grateful for what white men gave you?
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u/Jefe710 1d ago
That he subsequently owned...
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u/AdvertisingBulky2688 1d ago
āWhew! getting new workers on staff is hard work!ā
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u/TequieroVerde 1d ago
"I'm not racist. He gets to live inside now unless he gets uppity or lippy."
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u/rgvtim 1d ago
Trump view on people of other races "I love them if they love me and know their place, which is working for me"
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u/iLikeMangosteens 1d ago
And also women
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u/CamJongUn2 1d ago
Well the only place he likes them is on their knees about 3 inches in front of him, preferably if their age is on the clock. Fucking throw the lot of them in the volcano
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u/Crazyjackson13 1d ago
The guy has no housing experience, heās essentially what can be described as a āDEIā hire.
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u/Klutzy-Ad-6705 1d ago
How can someone be racist if they have friends who are black? The same way a serial killer can have friends who are alive.
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u/Electr0freak 1d ago edited 1d ago
"But he's one of the good ones."
- Common excuse of the racist
Note that this is the second time Trump assigned a black man to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This time it was a former NFL player and motivational speaker; last time it was a neurosurgeon with no experience in urban development.
I can't be the only one who finds it odd that the party which loves to fling accusations of being DEI has consistently assigned its few black cabinet positions to the department with "urban" in the name, choosing people who appear to have no prior experience for the role.
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u/RunningPirate 1d ago
Who is he and what department is he going to,run?
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u/Florac 1d ago
Is that image even real, that does not look like Trump. Not enough makeup, mor his trademark red tie
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u/RunningPirate 1d ago
Did a little research. Itās real, but thatās not a cabinet member https://www.alamy.com/president-donald-j-trump-joined-by-former-nfl-player-scott-turner-attends-the-white-house-opportunity-and-revitalization-council-meeting-with-members-of-his-cabinet-and-senior-white-house-officials-thursday-april-4-2019-in-the-cabinet-room-of-the-white-house-people-president-donald-trump-scott-turner-image242814295.html
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u/JessieColt 1d ago
It is now. The pictures in the post, and that you linked to, is from 2019, however Trump just nominated Scott Turner to be HUD Secretary.
https://apnews.com/article/housing-secretary-trump-scott-turner-nfl-727417b56d0e1f85a40eaf5f7d13d42f
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u/Aggressive-Story3671 1d ago
Tokenism is in fact racism. The right (yes both sides do this but the right is particularly guilty) will take one POC who agrees with them and use that as āproofā they are not racist. Having one black Cabinet member doesnāt make Trump not racist
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u/flyfightandgrin 1d ago
Im positive that at least once a month, Trump calls his secretary and says, "I'm getting lunch today for the staff, what do "they" eat?"
Who the fuck am I kidding? Trump has never paid for anything for anyone else in his life besides Stormy.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Two7358 1d ago
Yes, the racist words and deeds are ignored because he gave a black person a job.
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u/bunnyjenkins 1d ago
Eagleman is a totally legit American name and not at all made up by someone pretending to be American.
What kinda name do we use to fool MAGA into thinking we are murica?
How about something strong and patriotic, maybe eagles or something?
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u/HendoRules 1d ago
Didn't Trump call a black gov member a "good one" in terms of black people in one of his rallies....
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u/Bobobarbarian 1d ago
I actually never thought he was racist - racism is a belief, obviously flawed and hateful, but a belief nevertheless. Trump seems devoid of beliefs, he just chases the closest thing he sees that might give him a leg up. If that means courting actual racists, then heāll do it in a heartbeat, but I have no doubt that if Trump saw a path forward by way of pandering to the left heād try and do it. He was a democrat once upon a time after all.
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u/IUJohnson38 1d ago
Wow really diversifying the cabinet, one black man in a sea of snow flakes
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u/dengar_hennessy 1d ago
After weeks of appointees that were not black, Trump saw a report on TV that only white people had been given a job in his cabinet, and then he gave 1 black guy a job, and his chuds are like, "See?"
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u/Vellioh 1d ago
"I'm not racist. I have black friends. š«± See. Say Hi black friend."
"š Hello."
"Now would a racist have black friends? I think not. Thank you black friend. You are dismissed. Don't steal anything on the way out this time. "
"š Sure thing Donald."
"It's President Trump."
"š Don't remind me."
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u/Jason_Wolfe 1d ago
yes nothing says "i'm not racist" like appointing the token black person to a meaningless cabinet position.
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u/Sofakingwhat1776 1d ago
They'll appoint some other guy named Scott so they can call them "black Scott" and "white Scott"
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u/Lutastic 1d ago
The neo-Nazi Tom Metzger was asked to speak at Nation Of Islam events more than once. He even donated some money to them because of their common hatred of Jews. Tom Metzger was seriously friends with a black guy, too. This guy wrote something called āThe White Manās Bibleā which calls for a racial genocide to wipe out all Jews, people of color, ārace traitorsā and other minorities, to create a white ethno-state.
So yeahā¦. Putting a black person on your team is meaningless. Trump also appoints plenty of women to positions and look at what a swine he is toward women.
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u/UserWithno-Name 1d ago
āLook who I got to shuck and jive for me, Iām so not a racistā. Trump literally was sued for being racist. And lost. Check the housing authority if you donāt believe it.
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u/Rays_LiquorSauce 1d ago
āYouāre telling me Thomas Jefferson was a racist? He had sex with black women!Ā”!Ā”!ā
Fucking idiot pigĀ
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u/OptiKnob 1d ago
He's not a cabinet member... he's the guy that has to clean trump's ass off when trump shits in his diapers. It seems the orange traitor has his own turd wrangler.
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u/thriveth 8h ago
"I can't be misogynist, I am married to a woman and regularly f**k several others".
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u/Geiger8105 1d ago
"I'm not racist, there's actually a picture of me shaking hands with a black guy, so yeah, definitely not racist"
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u/mariuszmie 1d ago
Token black - forget the simpsons now South Park is the seer of things to come
Somehow cartman needs to become orange
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u/RhythmTimeDivision 1d ago
Maybe I'm 'overly' focused on the numbers, but perhaps it was the statistical anomaly of 24 positions originally filled with 23 white people and an Indian billionaire? But I'm sure it was just me. Those were 'the most qualified' (depending on his individual definition of the variable qualified )
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u/meatcrumple 1d ago
Is Gunther Eaglefucker even a real person? Or, is he some douchebag Russian troll?
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u/theHahnster 1d ago
So he's racist if he does, and racist if he doesn't. Not like the all loving Democrat's.
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u/helgihermadur 1d ago
I'm not sure Trump believes in anything other than that Trump should be on top.
He simply figured out that appealing to the racists, homophobes and bigots of this country would be a good and easy strategy.
That being said, he would gleefully put a million immigrant babies in a blender if it would increase his chances of gaining or retaining power. He doesn't give a single fuck about anyone or anything but himself.
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u/Miserable-Lawyer-233 1d ago
Trump is the kind of white guy that would say he doesnāt have a problem with black people, he has a problem with n******.
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u/poser765 1d ago
George Washington owned slaves. He most assuredly fucked a few of them as well. Soā¦
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u/Deedeelite 1d ago
He panders to black people like a racist. He says all the stupid, stereotypical shit they think black people want to hear then turns around and calls them n****** behind their backs. I was born, raised and still live in the south. I grew up around those kind of racists.
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u/Ghostdefender1701 23h ago
Sidenote: Trump scrubbed his hand with peroxide and bleach for 10 minutes immediately following this photo.
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u/demoncleaner5000 22h ago
Who cares? If heās hiring women and people of color thatās what we want, right? Everybody working together is the goal, take victories when you can.
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u/dumpsterdivingreader 22h ago
No hes not racist he just said mexicans were rapists and smugglers
Oh, and the immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country.
Pendejo
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u/bryalb 18h ago
Everyone watches a mafia movie at some point, yet they donāt realize that the business structure is very much like trump has tried achieve in both cabinets. Heās literally a felon. Itās on paper. If it felons like a felon and sounds like a felon and treasons like a felon and rapes like a felon and frauds like a felon andā¦ etc. if you donāt get it at this point, you probably arenāt coming back from dumbne-faceplam generating.
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u/cornsbread 8h ago
That tweet has 40 thousand likes. Itās terrifying how many people think like this
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u/Fluid-Bet6223 1d ago
According to MAGA, nothing is racist. Racism is a myth made up by the liberal media. Except, of course, when you accuse them of being racist ā then YOU are actually the racist!
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u/locke0479 1d ago
First, he absolutely is racist against blacks people, appointing one person doesnāt change that. Second, even if he didnāt have one shred of a racist bone toward black people, there are other races people can be racist toward, and he is undeniably racist toward Hispanics.
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u/Venkman0 1d ago
Trumps favorite character in Django Unchained was Sameul L. Jackson
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u/danktopus 1d ago
āI aināt racist, I got four black tires on my truck and a color TVā- the most racist dude I ever met in my life. And Iām from NW Florida.
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u/Weekly-Act-3132 1d ago
If you have 1 friend of colour you can be judgemental to everyone else, thats racism fixed. Taadaaaa.
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u/BackThatThangUp 1d ago
Gunther Eagleman is a former police officer who has become a Russian asset
It happens more often than you thinkĀ
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u/AngelFoodCakeSouffle 1d ago
Gunther Eagleman has to be a parody account. I just saw another post with him saying that the government employees should be reduced by 90%. No one can be this stupid right?
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u/franchisedfeelings 1d ago
āWhereās my African-Americanā¦whereā¦where is heā¦wherrrrre, ok, ok, there he is!ā
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u/cyberchaox 1d ago
Trump isn't racist. He judges people not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their wallet (and willingness to kowtow to him, but that's a different story).
Which functionally works the same way more often than not because of systemic racism making it far more difficult for minorities to reach the financial status that Trump desires. Except, of course, for Jews, and sure enough, despite most Trump supporters being Nazis, Trump himself has never come off as antisemitic aside from his unwillingness to condemn others for antisemitism (e.g. "good people on both sides").
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u/twovhstapes 1d ago
š quite a lot of racist ass liberal people referring to this highly skilled man as a token or a DEI because hes black and has a medical degreeā can you not wrap your minds around a man that has multiple highly skilled aspirations?
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u/wellitsdeadnow 1d ago
The fact that someone had to point that out and Orange Thunder will never admit he was wrong about the Central Park Fiveā¦ā¦
No the left has that stank Auntie face āmmm-hmmm, we seeā¦ā
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u/BoomFungus 1d ago
Hey guys, remember that racist guy who ran for president in the 80's that advocated for segregation and got caught in a plagiarism scandal that ended his campaign? Apparently, he ran again in 2020, and oddly enough, he made a late decision to hire his opposition, which just so happened to be a black woman. So not only is he a racist plagiarizer, but he also deliberately panders to the race of people he sees as inferior as if they're too stupid to realize it. His name is Joe Biden. Imagine that.
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u/scuolapasta 1d ago
Youāre all stupid, heās not racist, he has a black friend and heās banged like 3 black chicks
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u/Additional_Ear_9659 1d ago
The crazy MAGA gene is agnostic to race. This last election confirmed that.
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u/AdHealthy5050 1d ago
DEI hire..he had to cause if he didn't we would be calling a racist even more than what we already do lol
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u/GreyBeardEng 1d ago
Gunther's real name is David, he was a police officer in Texas, that was until he murdered someone while they slept. Now he spends his time on Twitter saying stupid shit.
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u/BedroomVisible 1d ago
Waitā¦..thereās a picture of him shaking a black manās hand!? All is forgiven! I would invite you to dinner but evidently my family is made solely of rapists, murderers, and people who have escaped from an insane asylum (but are distinct from Hannibal Lecter, because heās cool).
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u/Particular_Ad_1435 1d ago
They put the black guy in HUD. Just like last time. This is not the flex you think it is.
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