Donald Trump is retweeting a notorious British white supremacist

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts 2h2 hours ago
Donald Trump is retweeting Katie Hopkins, a woman who uses the slur "Jigga-boo,” and also Tweeted, “Dear black people. If your lives matter why do you stab and shoot each other so much?” twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1152532958487748609 …

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[Arkansas Granny]

1. Does this surprise anyone? He hasn't exactly hidden his own racism.

[bigtree]

5. no, it doesn't surprise anyone

...a bit surprised at the way he's able to do this with seeming impunity.

And, the cynicism.

[Wounded Bear]

4. SSDD...

[Claritie Pixie]

6. A malignant narcissist is gonna do what he's gonna do. Yawn.

We should all be bored with his behavior. Same song, different verse.

[bigtree]

7. we shouldn't ignore the virulent effect

...of hate speech from the White House, on the road inciting others to emulate his incitements. Not with so many suffering at the business end of this president's verbal attacks.

Cynicism is also infectious.

[Claritie Pixie]

20. Don't mistake my detachment for apathy or cynicism.

With an abusive ex, my power to take action and be free of him came from detaching emotionally.

This is really no different.

[bigtree]

21. while I don't believe we should be absorbed by his words

...he makes these offensive and threatening remarks as the President of the United States, and that office speaks for the nation.

You can see the reaction from allies in sometimes fragile, and often embattled democracies around the world dealing with their own demonization of groups, races, ethnicities in their countries, along with with actual measures to expel them, injure them, much as Trump is doing with seeming impunity.

In isolation, this might be regarded as merely the ramblings and mischief of an old racist man, but the effects and consequences of supporting the worst, most dangerous, and most divisive figures, and looking for his own macabre notoriety at the expense of the groups and individuals he opportunistically degrades and encourages others to defame, needs to be directly confronted, not ignored.

[Applegate]

8. I agree with Richard Painter: "He needs to be impeached now."

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9. that's the inflection point

...the degree to which we actually hold him accountable will determine how much this state-sanctioned, sponsored racism and bigotry will endure.

Just as silence is complicity, so is apathy and inaction.

[uponit7771]

10. Making sure to keep Epstein out of the papers

[maryellen99]

11. And also Iran nt

[dalton99a]

12. If you haven't heard of this vile piece of trash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Hopkins

[maryellen99]

15. She hates anyone not white and fat people nt

[HipChick]

13. Because he has such a great record on crime prevention himself..

What a wanker...

[no_hypocrisy]

14. Matter of time before Trump discovers Oswald Mosley.

[Farmer-Rick]

17. Or Mein Kampf translated with pictures

[BadgerMom]

16. And the mayoralty of London is the Racist in Chief's concern why?

[duforsure]

18. While he claims he's not a racist

And attacks others . How many times will people watch him claim he's one way, then he shows them he's lying and another before they understand, he always claims the opposite of the truth, then accuses others of what he is or is doing. He says he loves America, when he doesn't, and is destroying OUR Democracy.

[UTUSN]

19. K&R