Post AkYVD5Aym4qeWQO2bY by sbourne@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AkYTxhMmupPGNd0isi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T11:35:13Z
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Can we agree that Trumps says the word "black" as in "Black people" strangely? I think one could do a supercut of him saying "black" as in the color and then "Black" as in people and they would be different words. (He also did this with the word "China"... which he almost hits like someone doing a very racist impression from the 30s)It's pretty blatant isn't it? Because I can be sensitive, and sometimes things jump out at me that others don't really notice.
(DIR) Post #AkYU8KMulI4eEr8d4S by noplasticshower@zirk.us
2024-08-02T11:36:30Z
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@futurebird I think it is blatant too
(DIR) Post #AkYUCAh0g7Z1O6N2R6 by StillIRise1963@mastodon.world
2024-08-02T11:37:08Z
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@futurebird Yep.
(DIR) Post #AkYUWFxinPglWSlSpk by Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to
2024-08-02T11:41:27Z
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@futurebird Yes. He says these words in a way that evokes a person daintily picking up a dirty rag held at arm's length, pinched between two fingers. He's a pig (imagine me saying that in the same fashion).
(DIR) Post #AkYUgJwupLoWmfBdD6 by Jennifer@bookstodon.com
2024-08-02T11:43:14Z
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@futurebird that was really obvious to me the other day in that interview. He put a good bit of condescension into his pronunciation. Like drew it out or something.
(DIR) Post #AkYUvARCTOgdd0Qo8u by IngridGoree@mastodon.world
2024-08-02T11:45:56Z
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@futurebird Yes, there is a…tone in the way he says both words. It gives me a creepy feeling, like he’s trying to flim-flam me. It’s weird and gross.
(DIR) Post #AkYVBHlH0lKcyYVRcu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T11:48:37Z
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This is why marginalized groups seem to "change what we are called" every 5 years or so. When people want to call you a slur whatever is acceptable can have a way to migrating into being a slur.I think someone has finally convinced Trump not to say "the Blacks" anymore instead he says "Black population" he can't seem to bring himself to utter the phrase "Black people."In the other direction his rhetoric is degrading the word itself. Languages are living things I suppose.
(DIR) Post #AkYVD5Aym4qeWQO2bY by sbourne@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T11:48:36Z
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@futurebird It's not just you. It's weird, in a bad way.
(DIR) Post #AkYVSjzBKLMXR1KpWa by samiamsam@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T11:51:52Z
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@futurebird i see/hear it too
(DIR) Post #AkYVap825f7zhYKTNQ by WearsHats@realsocial.life
2024-08-02T11:53:29Z
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@futurebird There are credible reports from people who worked closely with him and his father that they used the N-word in the office. That certainly aligns with them having to be court ordered to stop lying to Black couples about there being no vacant apartments for them. And then having to be court ordered a couple of years later to follow the previous order. When he says "Black," it's not the word he's using in his head.
(DIR) Post #AkYW5DbbeMDwIqeh2O by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T11:59:00Z
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@WearsHats I think we are hearing the irritation of a piggish man being "forced" to use "woke" language. (Such as saying "Black people" not "the Blacks"... and he hasn't even gotten over that one he says "the Black population" which I kind of hate?) I'm certain that people try to give him advice and he finds it all beneath him.So that explains the mocking tone.
(DIR) Post #AkYX7FEUfedlsoNIBc by WearsHats@realsocial.life
2024-08-02T12:10:13Z
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@futurebird Yes, exactly. He hates having to be corrected, or not being allowed to just do and say whatever he wants.He gets his news from Breitbart. He hired Steve Bannon to be his closest advisor and even created a new top-level White House position specifically for him. Bannon said his goal as EIC of Breitbart was to make it "The platform for the alt-right." (AKA neo-Nazis.)Having to show a modicum of respect to inferior people chafes at him.
(DIR) Post #AkYYZkaTmxBXBqoZxQ by SCampbell@mstdn.social
2024-08-02T12:26:55Z
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@futurebird It was really bizarre -stood out
(DIR) Post #AkYZgfyJRoBur9pRqa by SKleefeld@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T12:39:08Z
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@futurebird When Trevor Noah was still hosting The Daily Show, he regularly hit (and exaggerated) those weird pronunciations when he imitated Trump. If Noah's audience didn't have the ear for those pronunciations before, they definitely learned to hear them.
(DIR) Post #AkYfEdCqjflFtbdfeq by CuriousMagpie@mastodon.social
2024-08-02T13:41:34Z
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@futurebird I absolutely noticed and wondered that no one else mentioned it. I rarely keep the sound on when he talks so I thought it might be his version of normal for the word.
(DIR) Post #AkYkiKbWxea6f4AGcy by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-08-02T14:42:41Z
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@futurebird You could almost say what he is doing is . . . . weird.But yeah, you are right, and it is intentional.
(DIR) Post #AkYkytPJKg23EZLVfE by thekitmalone@hoosier.social
2024-08-02T14:45:51Z
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@futurebird I've noticed. He says it the way my great grandma used to say it.
(DIR) Post #AkYlCIGsCU3472n0Ns by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-08-02T11:43:58Z
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@StillIRise1963 @futurebird in many ways he seems stuck in the 1970s. I have a book by a reputable historian about the 1970s. It's called the Decade of Nightmares.Trump seems to think America is still there AND acts like a mob boss from that era--blatantly racist and unapologetically sexist. And yes to these words being pronounced awfully. I usually avoid watching/listening to him because of this. See also: Kamala.
(DIR) Post #AkYlCIvdkues9TrYvY by StillIRise1963@mastodon.world
2024-08-02T11:52:02Z
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@philip_cardella His rhetoric and style are a mix of a mob boss and a southern confederate. I try not to hear anything he says. @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AkYlCJiCqLVSa6aLcu by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-08-02T14:45:11Z
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@StillIRise1963 @philip_cardella @futurebird This is wise. I walk away/turn off/stop the video usually whenever he is talking. But I watched the NABJ interview because it was a good place to mine and weaponize some of that interaction.
(DIR) Post #AkYlCK8nFUm1uZ1a4G by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T14:48:15Z
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@ColesStreetPothole @StillIRise1963 @philip_cardella He was so crabby and pissy through the whole thing. I find it hard to imagine anyone finds that appealing. Like an imperious customer in a restaurant who thinks they can order the wait staff around like vassals. And all the whining about how people aren't being nice enough to him? Grow up dude. The whole tone was just... depressing.
(DIR) Post #AkYlITy1cz8c7mvNJo by StillIRise1963@mastodon.world
2024-08-02T14:49:28Z
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@futurebird Yep. You could feel the disdain, disgust.@ColesStreetPothole @philip_cardella
(DIR) Post #AkYlNqp05CmWSEGMz2 by StillIRise1963@mastodon.world
2024-08-02T14:46:20Z
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@ColesStreetPothole I watched it too, but I honestly think it was a bad call to invite him in. @philip_cardella @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AkYlNrj0ixaJFwT6Ho by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T14:50:26Z
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@StillIRise1963 @ColesStreetPothole @philip_cardella He really did not need to do very much at all to turn it to his advantage. Simply show a little maturity and gravitas and deflect the questions more deftly. Be less... aggrieved. "everyone is so mean to me"That's not how a leader speaks. They lucked out in a way. These things are nearly always a mistake IMO.
(DIR) Post #AkYlPrTMdKkP3K6M76 by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-08-02T14:50:42Z
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@futurebird @StillIRise1963 @philip_cardella It plays to his base that he went into the lion's den and didn't bow, but rather kept up his distaste obvious. His base sees NABJ as the enemy, so they ate it up.
(DIR) Post #AkYlVhqbKgQewDl1ai by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T14:51:50Z
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@ColesStreetPothole @StillIRise1963 @philip_cardella Yeah I guess but how is that expanding his poll numbers. All the people who could have enjoyed that were already excited to vote for him.
(DIR) Post #AkYlZjIBtzRwZta4fI by itty53@beige.party
2024-08-02T14:52:05Z
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@futurebird Nah it's definitely intentional racism. The use of language is the core of how all outward racism begins. Every racist act of violence is preluded with the language. No exceptions. Language is central to how hate groups work, people need to be more aware of it. It has overt and subversive effects. It's both.There's a similar thing that happens with incel types who spit the word "female". They refer to women as "females", not women, and it's exactly an intentional dehumanization tactic.Monkeys can be female. Pipes can be female. Electrical outlets are female. Female isn't a term specific to people, nor is "population" or simply "Blacks". They understand that. Trump understands it at the core of his being.
(DIR) Post #AkYlcGWTK79yDeTCDo by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-08-02T14:52:15Z
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@futurebird @StillIRise1963 @philip_cardella Aggrieved is his brand.
(DIR) Post #AkYlhNR72wEF6pOtNY by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-08-02T14:53:54Z
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@futurebird @StillIRise1963 @philip_cardella It might not expand his poll numbers, but it does invigorate his base. Turnout determines elections, and with his recent setbacks on undecideds due to Harris entering, he has to rely on keeping the ride-or-die team excited.
(DIR) Post #AkYlvijceiGNDftj9c by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-02T14:56:34Z
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@ColesStreetPothole @StillIRise1963 @philip_cardella IDK I'm kind of tired of this idea that everything he does is planned and effective. This was a mistake. A big one IMO.We give him too much credit for planning and being a political genius. I think he really thinks he can convince Black people Harris is fooling us and dampen the support.He used to have like 10 percent of black men voting for him (I don't get that... but whatever) but this had evaporated since the switch. He's in trouble.
(DIR) Post #AkYmEH3vlVoktgFBT6 by StillIRise1963@mastodon.world
2024-08-02T14:59:52Z
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@futurebird He’s no genius by any means. He’s just a liar that will turn anything into what he wants it to be.@ColesStreetPothole @philip_cardella
(DIR) Post #AkYmNZa6HXncwFj0a0 by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-08-02T15:01:09Z
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@futurebird @StillIRise1963 @philip_cardella I agree with a lot of what you said. He's stumbling. Vance was a mistake. He believes in his own abilities to persuade people much like he likes the smell of his own farts. He probably thinks he made a good case (he didn't, and it will further hurt him with swing voters).That said, he did get to be president once, using the playbook of allowing white voters to be their worst selves. He may have lost his edge, but this appearance was from that book.
(DIR) Post #AkYmnwva6RTEsLLkYa by tob@hachyderm.io
2024-08-02T15:06:05Z
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@futurebird @WearsHats Trump's vocabulary is severely limited. I think it's a cognitive issue (man, woman, person, camera, tv) and it's only getting worse.Trump can speak 200 words, but he speaks forcefully and without hesitation.Biden can speak 40,000 words but he has a stutter and his voice gets raspy after a while.One of these people is qualified to hold public office.
(DIR) Post #AkYmrOXXthOpNlkZns by zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net
2024-08-02T15:06:34Z
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@futurebird Oh yeah that really stuck out to me, too. The extra syllable in the work "Black" was very noticeable in that tirade.
(DIR) Post #AkYmtLijLrF5DUuiXI by fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe
2024-08-02T15:07:06Z
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@futurebird I suspect that the performance for the NABJ was more about getting attention for himself and centering himself as being victimized by "nasty women" than anything else. The performance was for his base, he doesn't actually care about convincing Black people en masse I suspect and was more invested in demonizing Black women. Trump's comfortable in this dynamic, he thinks it's good for him (see his debate with Clinton, this seemed like more of the same to me). His base is all about their grievances about not being "respected" (and not being perpetually indulged by women/mommy). @StillIRise1963 @ColesStreetPothole @philip_cardella
(DIR) Post #AkYnfjclmT1PFlCJkW by carrideen@c18.masto.host
2024-08-02T15:16:03Z
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@futurebird He says Black as in people with a South African accent. It's totally like his "China," with a narrowed, flattened vowel.
(DIR) Post #AkZHYpYMKuJGEsl5sm by Oggie@woof.group
2024-08-02T20:50:57Z
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@futurebird This explanation makes sense to me.He certainly does say it weirdly, and in a strange noteworthy way.
(DIR) Post #AkZKXpf0keu6925Mga by genehack@dementedandsadbut.social
2024-08-02T21:24:23Z
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@futurebird it’s blatant af
(DIR) Post #AkZmik0UuOoEVr7r60 by dave0@a2mi.social
2024-08-03T02:40:06Z
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@futurebird 100% agreed. It’s almost like he’s putting on a Souther African/Afrikaaner accent. It sounds like “Bleck” or “Blick” almost.