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Ron DeSantis uses ‘monkey’ to describe Andrew Gillum agenda; Democrats brand it racist

I've never heard "monkey this up" in my life. This is essentially a repeat of the "macaca" incident:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_(American_politician)

Now as then, the GOP, which has thoroughly transitioned into the White Nationalists Party, is gas lighting by saying the choice of words was an extraordinary coincidence and everybody is just being overly sensitive.

What I do like about all this, should this guy be one, is that the bigots had been feeling so emboldened that they weren't mincing words at all. This shows them kind of slinking back into the closet by doing their old routine of weasel wording their plausible deniability.
 
Democrats pounce.....

"don't monkey with" is a common phrase. Don't let that stop the outrage addicts from getting their daily fix though.

To your Democrats pounce comment, any Republican who supports Racist skkkum like DeSkkkumbag have already received their reward.
 
This tactic has been used extensively by Trump. Say something weird that very obviously means something negative but with the possibility it could mean something else. The passage sounds like something he memorized. They stuck socialist, tax increases, and bankrupting the state in there so everyone would hear it. The reaction we see playing out is exactly what was intended. I don't believe for a second this was innocent.
 
Yep. It's simply not-so-subtle coding my Trumpian and conservative republicans. It's got a long history that the snowflake Trump fellatrixes here simply can't accept, but all their wishing won't change reality.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...ey-racism-language-florida-governors-election

Interesting... So even Fox News was backing away from that comment.

Shortly after the remarks, Fox News host Sandra Smith made an on-air statement, saying that “we do not condone this language.” Smith also directed viewers to a statement that DeSantis’s spokesman issued shortly after the interview that attempted to clarify the remarks. Gillum will also make an appearance on Fox News later on Wednesday.​

I'd like to see that Gillum interview on Fox. If he's smart, he'll play like it was nothing like this:

 
Interesting... So even Fox News was backing away from that comment.

Shortly after the remarks, Fox News host Sandra Smith made an on-air statement, saying that “we do not condone this language.” Smith also directed viewers to a statement that DeSantis’s spokesman issued shortly after the interview that attempted to clarify the remarks. Gillum will also make an appearance on Fox News later on Wednesday.​

I'd like to see that Gillum interview on Fox.

It's just so incredibly obvious. A rabid Trump supporter, in the South, running against the first black major party candidate for gov in the state's history, using a term with easily over 100 years of racial connotations. Esp. after 8 years of Obama and his wife were compared to monkeys all the time.

"Oh, whoopsie. Pardon me. TOTALLY misspoke."

Yeah. Sure, buddy.
 
Interesting... So even Fox News was backing away from that comment.

Shortly after the remarks, Fox News host Sandra Smith made an on-air statement, saying that “we do not condone this language.” Smith also directed viewers to a statement that DeSantis’s spokesman issued shortly after the interview that attempted to clarify the remarks. Gillum will also make an appearance on Fox News later on Wednesday.​

I'd like to see that Gillum interview on Fox. If he's smart, he'll play like it was nothing like this:



The same thing will happen in Georgia with a Black Woman running for Governor.

Republican Race Wars are now on.
 
This tactic has been used extensively by Trump. Say something weird that very obviously means something negative but with the possibility it could mean something else. The passage sounds like something he memorized. They stuck socialist, tax increases, and bankrupting the state in there so everyone would hear it. The reaction we see playing out is exactly what was intended. I don't believe for a second this was innocent.

"When I said 'uppity' I was specifically referring to my opponent's policies. I was crystal clear on this."
 
"When I said 'uppity' I was specifically referring to my opponent's policies. I was crystal clear on this."

LoL... another innocent mistake, *wink* *wink*.
 
Typical faux outrage based on deliberate spin and hyperbole. We've seen it before, we'll see it again.

DeSantis should just ignore them.

Yeah, anything he would say would only contribute to this tar baby.



:mrgreen:
 
Let’s just call only racists — racists — trump = desantis = Every Repub running for office

Thanks, I’m gonna add this to my sig.
 
It's a conservative university, that doesn't mean the information provided is wrong, it just means you are not intellectually capable of responding to it and you proved it with this tirade.

I lived it. I know what happened. In the post Civil War it was the Democratic party who opposed the Republican's Reconstruction plans. The Democratic Party started coming into being seen by Southerners as not just a 'political party. But as a 'defender' of their way of life, and that way of life was the preservation as much as possible of white supremacy. Up until WWII the South was solidly Democratic. A politician in the South couldn't get elected to any political office of any import without being a Democrat. But when Truman introduced a pro-civil rights platform at the '48 convention a faction walked out. This faction of Southern Democratic defectors became known as "Dixiecrats", short for "Dixie Democrats". In the 60's these Dixie Democrats were opposed to the civil rights and the voting equality movements and integration. LBJ's signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the beginning of the big break and Johnson knew it. Later that night after the signing of the bill Johnson's special assistant, Bill Moyer, found Johnson sitting in his bedroom looking very downcast. When Moyer asked what was wrong Johnson replied; "“I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come.”. The defections Southern Democrats rose dramatically after the signing of that legislation. While the change wasn't total or immediate it. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" of embracing Southern racism sped up the completion of that change and by the 1980's the Republican Party's hold on the South was firm. Haymarket's post was fully correct.
 
Thanks, I’m gonna add this to my sig.

You can add that the Criminally Insane Traitor is starting RACE WARS also, X Factor!

Why do today’s Republicans, Conservatives and Libertarian Rightists Support these Race Wars and SS Waffen Rhetoric?
 
Racist? Nah, Democrats are seizing on a very poor choice of words when DeSantis told his audience that Florida would be monkeying up the state if they they voted for his opponent, who happens to be black. But, I do have to say that DeSantis seems to have the mind of a monkey himself to have made such a faux pas here. Yea, this was dumb. He should be feeding his own base, not that of the Democrats. LOL.

There was this man that called blacks as jungle monkeys, his name was President Richard Nixon. Conservative Republican, Senator Goldwater that ran in the 1964 presidential election, went to the White House and told Nixon he had to resign. I have studied Goldwater, I have understood Goldwater, I respect Goldwater. Sir, your not a conservative Goldwater Republican.
 
You can add that the Criminally Insane Traitor is starting RACE WARS also, X Factor!

Why do today’s Republicans, Conservatives and Libertarian Rightists Support these Race Wars and SS Waffen Rhetoric?

My sig only has so much room. The “race war” is in your head and you are quite the enthusiastic soldier.
 
Wow, here's another racist bastard using that "monkeying" term that far leftists have never heard in their life.


[video]www.c-span.org/video/?c4627187/obama-campaigns-2008-acknowledges-voter-fraud[/video]
'I come from Chicago, so, I want to be honest, its not as if it's just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections...'

Of course, pretty much any 3-syllable word confuses that group.
 
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I lived it. I know what happened. In the post Civil War it was the Democratic party who opposed the Republican's Reconstruction plans. The Democratic Party started coming into being seen by Southerners as not just a 'political party. But as a 'defender' of their way of life, and that way of life was the preservation as much as possible of white supremacy. Up until WWII the South was solidly Democratic. A politician in the South couldn't get elected to any political office of any import without being a Democrat. But when Truman introduced a pro-civil rights platform at the '48 convention a faction walked out. This faction of Southern Democratic defectors became known as "Dixiecrats", short for "Dixie Democrats". In the 60's these Dixie Democrats were opposed to the civil rights and the voting equality movements and integration. LBJ's signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the beginning of the big break and Johnson knew it. Later that night after the signing of the bill Johnson's special assistant, Bill Moyer, found Johnson sitting in his bedroom looking very downcast. When Moyer asked what was wrong Johnson replied; "“I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come.”. The defections Southern Democrats rose dramatically after the signing of that legislation. While the change wasn't total or immediate it. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" of embracing Southern racism sped up the completion of that change and by the 1980's the Republican Party's hold on the South was firm. Haymarket's post was fully correct.

ACtually, the video I posted shows everything you just said, is a lie. Have a nice day.
 
Racist? Nah, Democrats are seizing on a very poor choice of words when DeSantis told his audience that Florida would be monkeying up the state if they they voted for his opponent, who happens to be black. But, I do have to say that DeSantis seems to have the mind of a monkey himself to have made such a faux pas here. Yea, this was dumb. He should be feeding his own base, not that of the Democrats. LOL.

Ron DeSantis uses ?monkey? to describe Andrew Gillum agenda; Democrats brand it racist - Sun Sentinel

Hey, it's not like he used "'N'word" or "Jigaboo".
 
I lived it. I know what happened. In the post Civil War it was the Democratic party who opposed the Republican's Reconstruction plans. The Democratic Party started coming into being seen by Southerners as not just a 'political party. But as a 'defender' of their way of life, and that way of life was the preservation as much as possible of white supremacy.
Good God! How old are you??? :ssst::2razz:
 
My sig only has so much room. The “race war” is in your head and you are quite the enthusiastic soldier.

The RACE WAR from #45 was on full display Monday Night in front of ‘Mulligan Evangelicals’, as #45 threatened VIOLENCE if his tribal cult of Cucksters lost.
 
I lived it. I know what happened. In the post Civil War it was the Democratic party who opposed the Republican's Reconstruction plans. The Democratic Party started coming into being seen by Southerners as not just a 'political party. But as a 'defender' of their way of life, and that way of life was the preservation as much as possible of white supremacy. Up until WWII the South was solidly Democratic. A politician in the South couldn't get elected to any political office of any import without being a Democrat. But when Truman introduced a pro-civil rights platform at the '48 convention a faction walked out. This faction of Southern Democratic defectors became known as "Dixiecrats", short for "Dixie Democrats". In the 60's these Dixie Democrats were opposed to the civil rights and the voting equality movements and integration. LBJ's signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the beginning of the big break and Johnson knew it. Later that night after the signing of the bill Johnson's special assistant, Bill Moyer, found Johnson sitting in his bedroom looking very downcast. When Moyer asked what was wrong Johnson replied; "“I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come.”. The defections Southern Democrats rose dramatically after the signing of that legislation. While the change wasn't total or immediate it. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" of embracing Southern racism sped up the completion of that change and by the 1980's the Republican Party's hold on the South was firm. Haymarket's post was fully correct.

“We have lost the South for a generation,” President Lyndon B. Johnson told an aide after he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Not really, of course. Johnson didn’t say that.

I’ve examined more than a hundred uses of that quote, going back to what seems to be its first appearance in 2002 (as an indirect quote, one without quotation marks) and what seems to be its first appearance as a direct quote in 2004. That would be some 40 years after Johnson supposedly uttered it. Some falsely attribute the story to Johnson aide Bill Moyers, but not one writer or commentator using the quote includes a citation that tracks back to anyone who heard (or claims to have heard) LBJ say it. The quote directly contradicts earlier versions that appeared closer to the event. So it can be said with a high level of confidence that the quote is fake. There is simply no reason to believe it.

Yet it’s part of left-wing gospel.
https://capitalresearch.org/article...id-or-would-have-said-if-only-he-had-said-it/
 
And then most of the 20th century happened and the racist switched parties.

ahh yes. the robbers became the cops and the cops became the robbers. No one awake falls for that.

 
Professional politicians choose their words carefully.

It's unlikely that he wasn't aware of how it could be interpreted.
 
Racist? Nah, Democrats are seizing on a very poor choice of words when DeSantis told his audience that Florida would be monkeying up the state if they they voted for his opponent, who happens to be black. But, I do have to say that DeSantis seems to have the mind of a monkey himself to have made such a faux pas here. Yea, this was dumb. He should be feeding his own base, not that of the Democrats. LOL.

Ron DeSantis uses ?monkey? to describe Andrew Gillum agenda; Democrats brand it racist - Sun Sentinel
Read about his comments this morning. Pretty ffn dumb.
Have not read the rest of the thread replies. It is an old saying, that said it is a really ffn dumb choice of phrases to use when speaking of a Black man/woman.
Now has he made any comments in the past that were racist/bigoted?
 
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