“I am deeply troubled that some of our student-athlete parents were subjected to racist slurs during last night’s game. This is absolutely unacceptable and disgraceful behavior, and such hateful language has no place anywhere in our society.”
—Vanderbilt Athletic Director Storey Lee, on the behavior of redneck white trash at the College World Series Monday night. (Vanderbilt was playing Mississippi State, so go figure.)
“You know the system is broken when Republicans only needed 51 votes to cut taxes for the rich, but we need 60 votes to defend the fundamental right to vote.”
—US Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California)
“Trump sent the National Guard to the border, denied them to the nation’s Capitol when it was under attack (by him), and tried to invoke the Insurrection Act to put tanks on the streets against Americans. That’s what coups looks like.”
—Anonymous tweet
In reference to the capitol rioters in his new book, Landslide, Michael Wolff says Trump was confused by “who these people were with their low-rent ‘trailer camp’ bearing and their ‘get-ups’, once joking that he should have invested in a chain of tattoo parlors and shaking his head about ‘the great unwashed’.” And that folks pretty well sums it up about how T…p feels about his supporters.
I’d say it’s that uncanny ability to get people so different from him to worship him that makes him such a great cult leader and con artist, but I think that’s giving him too much credit. It’s clear by now they’re mostly bigots who want someone to worship and validate the garbage they believe and feed them more lies.