Fetterman is nothing if not amusing.

  • callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    There’s a town hall video with John McCain around 2008 where an elderly woman tries to suggest to him she’s worried about Obama because he’s not white. John McCain shot her down and defended Obama and stressed we should only focus on the political differences of opinion, and his own supporters booed him. This all had been coming for so long.

    Edit: I was corrected, she did not exactly state what her problem was with Obama, but it’s clear that it was bigotry.

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      If we’re thinking of the same clip, you’re slightly misremembering it. The woman was insisting Obama was a Muslim, and that’s what McCain was shutting down. But yes, the crowd booed him for clarifying that.

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        It was from at least Reagan. But it was when we elected a black man that got things sped up pretty quick, and then when we elected a fuckind Cheeto that’s when things really got super charged and turbocharged and all the other charging until what we have today

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          You could go back to Nixon and the Southern Strategy.

          Feb 4, 2004, was the beginning of Facebook and the beginning of foreign powers using the platform to undermine democracy.