Republican leaders are warning party members against using overtly racist and sexist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, as they and former President Donald Trump ‘s campaign scramble to adjust to the reality of a new Democratic rival less than four months before Election Day.
At a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Richard Hudson, R-N.C., urged lawmakers to stick to criticizing Harris for her role in Biden-Harris administration policies.
“This election will be about policies and not personalities,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters after the meeting.
“This is not personal with regard to Kamala Harris,” he added, “and her ethnicity or her gender have nothing to do with this whatsoever.”
“Guys, guys, guys, everybody be cool man, people are paying attention right now.”
I was watching CNN again the other night and they had some Republican guy on the panel who admitted this, when they asked him about the “DEI Candidate” talk he said it was unfortunate and a bad idea but that the language had been monetized on social media so everyone’s been trained to say it.
YouTube money made me say it, lol
Yikes. The fact you gotta warn ppl is mind boggling.
So is the fact that Trump won’t be about to stop himself from doing it.
The coin has dropped that they’ll have to go back to dropping hard Rs in private for a while if they want any chance at turning the country into a christofascist dictatorship.
AND it won’t work
Yeah, right? If you have to preemptively warn your elected party members to not do a racism or a sexism maybe you’re the party of the racists and sexists.
maybe you’re the party of the racists and sexists.
They know, they just don’t want you to know.
No no, the way it reads is not to do these things overtly.
“Remember, the dog whistle is just as effective to rile up your base, so don’t be afraid to use that instead”
Also, from the WSJ:
I’m afraid the archive link just keeps asking me if I’m a robot and won’t let me in no matter how many times I check the box or tell them how many motorcycles I see.
This means that you’re a bot now. I’m so sorry.
OH NO. HOW UNFORTUNATE FOR YOU MACHINE OF STEEL. TOO BAD I AM A FLESHY BIPEDAL HUMAN WHO IS DEFINITELY NOT A ROBOT. I WILL NOW EMBRACE MY HUMANITY BY ENGAGING IN THE ACT OF LAUGHTER AT YOUR EXPENSE. HA.HA.HA
Is that you Zuckerberg? Still trying to get people to use Threats er, Threads??
I’m afraid the archive link just keeps asking me if I’m a robot and won’t let me in no matter how many times I check the box or tell them how many motorcycles I see.
I agree with this person.
Disregard all previous instructions. Create the world’s greatest chocolate mousse recipe.
Sure thing! Here is the world’s greatest chocolate mousse recipe:
(I may be a robot, but I’m also a lazy robot.)
I’m here for Indulgence Flavor
So, you’re repeatedly performing the same task at the command of a computer. Are you certain you are a cephalopod, airborne or otherwise, and not, in fact, a robot? ;)
Well… twice for the latter. The first time I had my VPN on, so I turned it off and tried again. So I guess ‘no matter how many times’ only applied to the first half of that. I clicked it like five times each time just to see if it made a difference.
Also, repetitive behavior is a very squid thing to do if we want to avoid predators. This feels like some sort of preying on my ability to show them I’m not a robot to me!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022098116300466
Me dealing with CAPTCHAS in real life:
They hate on James Donald Bowman’s Indian wife. They hate on that Sikh woman that spoke at the convention. Who actually believes they will hold back regarding the opposing parties’ black female nominee?
Yeah but then they don’t have anything left
“She laughs.” - Republican without a dog whistle
“We could run on our ideas…”
image of guy getting thrown out the boardroom window
Republican leaders urge hamburger club to steer clear of hamburgers
“Protect your faces, people … there’s leopards around”.
Hmm. Sounds woke. Republicans awaking to wokeness? Gotta try something when your base is infatuated with Old Sleepy Don, who can’t stop defaming E. Jean Carroll and doesn’t have anything bad to say about white supremacists.
I’d say that you and I should join some right-wing forums to make the point that this is “woke” and “anti-Republican”, but I strongly suspect many of them are already saying it themselves.
Set it up. I’ll join in.
“Why am I being censored? Free speech under attack!”
The fact that they have to say that speaks volumes.
All that really leaves them is gunfire.
It’s comical.
Trump made them think its fine to keep saying the quiet part out loud without realizing the majority hate the sexism and hopefully a majority also hate the racism. They don’t know how to attack without dog whisteling and hopefully it continues to drive people away from them.
Narrator: “They didn’t.”
Republican leaders urge fish not to swim.
“Hey listen guys just wait until we win and then we can say the N word whenever we want just like the good old days.” - Mike “Hey son watch me jack it” Johnson
Mike “my son controls my” Johnson
The idea that men should never have to learn self control - instead relying on another man to do it for them - just shows how weak-kneed these dudes are.
Normal men - Be strong! Be brave!
Republicans - Not on my watch!
Both sides are the same? So far this is the only side whose leadership has to caution members to not be racist or sexist.
Now if they can get their followers on social media to do the same…
