Who believes Trump's 'They are mostly Democrats' comment is a racial dog whistle?

[Kingofalldems]

I do. He was sending the Deplorables a clear message.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Of COURSE it was. Its what they do.

Fucking racist asshole.

[niyad]

2. nss

[malaise]

3. Has their ever been a president this partisan!

Good 'elfin grief

[samnsara]

4. eff his stupid 35%...they are so dumb they dont even deserve to vote..

[SunSeeker]

6. No, they deserve to vote. They just don't deserve to to suppress our votes.

And they don't deserve to be in power, as the minority who is represented by a scumbag who colluded with a foreign adversary to take the presidency and who relied on undemocratic gerrymandering to take Congress.

[Dave Starsky]

8. Well, he doesn't have Congress anymore.

Yes, he has the Senate. But that WILL change in 2020, regardless of whether he's still around.

[SunSeeker]

10. Yes, but a whole lot more of us will need to vote than deplorables, because of gerrymandering.

But we can do it.

[Dave Starsky]

13. Gerrymandering doesn't affect the Senate; only the House.

And the House Republicans got their asses handed to them in this election. Forty new Democratic seats in the House.

It's just a taste of what's in store for them in November 2020.

[SunSeeker]

15. The Senate is one big Republican gerrymander if you think about it.

The two biggest, and predominantly Democratic, states are allotted only 2 votes each, same as Wyoming and Idaho, who have less people that L.A.'s suburbs.

[Dave Starsky]

18. Not really an (intentional) gerrymander, but I hear you.

It doesn't seem fair that Wyoming should have as much sway as California in the Senate, but that's the way it was set up. States were concerned that they would be lost in the shuffle if representation was based on population only.

The only problem with our current system is that it allows for foreign governments to buy and/or blackmail our elected representatives to do their bidding. Our government would work fine if we didn't have a bunch of kompromat-compromised shitheels at the wheel.

[dalton99a]

5. Loud and clear

[RKP5637]

7. He knows they are too stupid to check anything out. And if they hear contrary, they will only

believe tRump. It's a cult and they only follow their grotesque leader, tRump.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. I do hope many of those

who got shown the door last week,do change their affiliation to the Democratic party.

Party affiliation varies so darn much with Government Employees. All depends on the State. Worked a Campaign in 2012 in a very Red State. From the Voter Rolls that we had to work with. In our District the Governmental Employees were north of three quarters registered Rethugs.

Again proving Trump is a complete Liar.

[GulfCoast66]

11. Certainly. I see it now and then personally.

I don’t often engage in political conversations with strangers in bars, restaurants etc.

But on the few occasions I do and commit to trumpers than I am a member of the Democratic Party(I normally identify as a Social Democrat) the first reaction is always the same: utter surprise.

They do not know how to react when a fairly large, white middle aged Southern man, often wearing boots, self identifies as a Democrat. It is especially good if I am wearing my cammo jacket!

Political conversation usually ends.

[VOX]

12. Everything out of 45's yawp is a dog trombone.

As sure as the sun rises in the east.

[Dave Starsky]

14. Like the teacher in Peanuts cartoons.

Except the teacher in Peanuts cartoons seemed to interact with the characters. We just couldn't hear what she said.

With Trump, it doesn't matter what he says. He never says anything.

[VOX]

19. Precisely. Just a constant lying, meaningless noise. He may as well emit a series of grunts.

The content wouldn’t change one whit.

[flibbitygiblets]

16. It's a reversal from his previous assertion that the Federal workers want the wall

and are content to go without pay until Trump gets his way. Someone brought it to his attention that this wasn't selling well, and (ahem) most people can't just borrow money from their wealthy dads, so he changed the story without blinking an eye from

Federal workers want the wall and are willing to have the shutdown last as long as possible to get it

to

They're mostly Democrats

The latter statement may indeed have racial overtones, which means that racists won't care if some non-white people go without money, starting right before Christmas. Like they didn't care about those brown children who died in ICE custody. If those had been white children, Trump would have been down there himself with every TV camera he could find.

Horrible as that all is, isn't it illegal for a US president to punish his/her enemies? Or is that just another norm that's being trampled?

[Vinca]

17. Nah . . . it was just more of the ongoing spew of endless baloney that makes no sense.

He has said repeatedly, Democrats are against the wall. Yesterday he said that federal employees who are not getting paid have told him to hold out for his wall. Today he's saying most of the federal employees are Democrats. HUH?????? Are they the ones supposedly contacting him to say they'll go without pay because he should get his wall????? But they're Democrats - according to today's lies - and are supposed to be against it. Don's definitely a racist, but I don't think he's bright enough to send such a subdued dog whistle to his dimwitted followers.