That would be Nikki "The US has never been a racist country" Haley to you. Oh the irony.
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'The party of racists wouldn't eat my face.'
Nimbra? He really is stupid. Nimrod was right there... Nimrata "Nimrod" Haley. Would've probably had a whole news cycle devoted to it
Nimrod, before being an insult, was a biblical figure, a grandson of Noah, a great hunter. Which is why Bugs calls Elmer that sarcastically. But IDK how many evangelicals have read enough of the Bible to know that or get upset about it.
That's hilarious! You said "read."
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Apparently according to the wiki entry, it’s Daffy Duck that calls Elmer ‘Nimrod’, while Bugs later calls Yosemite Sam ‘Nimrod’:
The usage is often said to have been popularized by the Looney Tunes cartoon character Bugs Bunny sarcastically referring to the hunter Elmer Fudd as "nimrod" to highlight the difference between "mighty hunter" and "poor little Nimrod", i.e. Fudd. However, it is in fact Daffy Duck who refers to Fudd as "my little Nimrod" in the 1948 short "What Makes Daffy Duck", although Bugs Bunny does refer to Yosemite Sam as "the little Nimrod" in the 1951 short "Rabbit Every Monday".
You know that, and I know that, but Trump's base certainly does not.
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I mean, Nimrat is even easier. I'm kinda surprised he didn't go with that and start comparing her face to a rat.
Lol, this was 100% expected, for anyone familiar with old-school racism:
Step 1: Call someone by their "ethnic" name, giving it full emphasis (if spoken, with a slight pause and/or slightly louder tone; if written, with repetition and odd or unnecessary placements) while making sure to notably mispronounce or misspell it.
Step 2: Repeat, mispronouncing or misspelling it just as badly but differently.
Step 3: When called on it, protest how hard it is to say and how hard you were trying to get it right.
Note Step 2, because this is what gives the game away. It takes some thought to get it wrong several times over, far more effort than needed to get it right once. I have had the sweetest old ladies pull this in my presence, and later when I called them out on it privately had them erupt in fire and fury because [insert all possible justifications for privately downgrading entire races here].
This is just the start. It will get worse.
Surely people haven't forgotten how he would (and still sometimes does) emphasize Barack Obama's middle name.
As a deranged Republican once said about Obama, "he's a Muslim...and an atheist".,
Trump is constantly name calling his opponents. Why do they never call him names? Like call him Drumpf or senile or something? His followers love name-calling, so why not?
Donny diapers feelings would be hurt if he could read.
Are you talking about Donald Tiny Hands Trump?
Drumpf was never an effective insult. I can get behind bone spurs though.
Cadet Bone Spurs
As he should.
I hope he goes full hog on attacking Indians and Hinduism, as that's a pretty important demographic for the GOP.
Be interesting to see how that would play out.
I hope he goes full hog on attacking Indians and Hinduism, as that’s a pretty important demographic for the GOP.
Indians and Hindus in the US are often Republicans?
They are not according to Pew (https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/religious-tradition/hindu/#social-and-political-views). Also she is not Hindu.
- She is not Hindu
- Hindu Americans are literally one the most non-GOP religious groups. Source - https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/religious-tradition/hindu/#social-and-political-views
Says the guy named after a duck.
This guy likes to make fun of names but he married a Melania and named children Ivanka and Barron. They all sound foreign. He probably mocks their names their faces.
I've always thought of Barron like oil Baron.
Memorizing real arguments would be to strenous for his poor little brain. Racism comes to him naturally, though.
I said this in another thread the other day, but I'll reiterate it here...
All these idiot Republican presidential candidates who are twerking for Trump really don't get it. They think that they will win him over and curry his favor but fawning over him. But Trump already sees them as his enemies because they dared to enter the race in the first place. And if he gets into power they will be some if the first lined up against the proverbial wall.
This article is just more proof of that point.
I mean he knows his base.
People will become bored with the same old playback, except for the cultists
Conservatives never get tired of jokes that punch down.
He can tell them the same joke over and over again. As long as the punchline demeans a vulnerable class in some way, they will cheer every time. That's just who conservatives are at their core.
This is lame. The only thing I enjoy about Trump is his weak ass attempts to come up with nicknames. You can’t just use someone’s real name.
To be clear, the nicknames themselves aren’t the funny part. Ron DeSanctimonious was so lame, I thought he’d lost his fastball. But then he came back with Meatball Ron and I was like, “Ah! Le mot juste!” They’re all so stupid that they’re unintentionally funny. “Low energy Jeb.” “Lying Ted.” “Sleepy Joe.” It’s like movies that are so bad, they become funny.
Yeah, but Trump is nothing if not lazy. Xenophobia is the even-lower-hanging fruit, so Trump's gonna go with that every time. Just ask "barackHUSSEINobama."
Nimbra, LMAO
Get fucked Nikki. Eat shit and reap what you sow.
Better promise to pardon him again, that should make him respect you.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley ‘s birth name, the latest example of the former president keying on race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals.
Trump’s post was an escalation of recent attacks in which he referenced Haley’s given first name — though he’s misspelled it “Nimrada” — and falsely asserted she is ineligible for the presidency because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born in 1972.
“I’ll let people decide what he means by his attacks,” Haley told reporters in New Hampshire on Friday when asked about Trump’s false assertions that her heritage disqualifies her from the Oval Office.
Pastor Darrell Scott, a Black man who has led a diversity coalition for Trump’s previous campaigns, defended the former president’s latest attacks as “slings and arrows” that come in election season.
Scott said Trump “has a compassionate side that most people don’t see” and defended his aggressive approach as a “goose-and-gander situation” for a public figure constantly “under attack for everything.”
“These are the rantings of an incredibly, almost pathetically insecure man who has demonstrated over his entire career his racism and bigotry,” said Setmayer, who is multiracial and calls herself a former Republican and now a conservative independent.
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Nimbra is a funny sounding name tbh
Have we already forgotten Kimbra?!