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Rudy Giuliani: Electing Obama has 'taken us back 40 or 50 years on race relations' (www.rawstory.com)

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[-] Maddie@sh.itjust.works 227 points 6 months ago

This leaky headed geriatric piece of shit can go fuck himself

[-] Tremble@sh.itjust.works 34 points 6 months ago

Obama was mediocre but refreshing because he was actually present in many ways

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 59 points 6 months ago

I don't know if I would consider him mediocre. His policies may not have been the greatest. However the nation's esteem while he was in office was unparalleled. There are always blind spots, but he was well spoken and inspiring. No President or most of Congress has even come close in the past 30 years.

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[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

As a non American I thought he was better than most you've had since, maybe Carter

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[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 22 points 6 months ago

Never ceases to amaze me how US politics is so full of incoherently babbling clowns.

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[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 189 points 6 months ago

"Things were fine before minorities started being able to express themselves without pushback." - old white guys

[-] taggart_mccallister@lemm.ee 81 points 6 months ago

Exactly. When people say Obama hurt race relations it's because those white people hated seeing black people succeeding where only whites could, triggering them into hating them more.

[-] vitamin@infosec.pub 138 points 6 months ago

What he meant to say was that Republicans would have continued to pretend to not be racist and stuck to their wink wink dog whistles, but electing a black man president drove them so insane that they regressed 50 years and returned to being openly racist.

[-] LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

drove them so insane

This Onion story/video from right after Obama's ~~2016~~ 2012 win is very relevant and oddly prescient:

https://youtu.be/jjonGtrCyVE

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[-] spider@lemmy.nz 102 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Electing ~~Obama~~ Trump has 'taken us back 40 or 50 years on race relations'

fixed that for ya, Rudy

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 39 points 6 months ago

Like, this is the laziest attempt at projecting I've seen in a while. It's like watching someone become more bigoted as their facilities deteriorate from dementia, and it's just sad to watch.

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[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

Gaslight Obstruct Project

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[-] Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world 95 points 6 months ago

What in the demented word salad hell did I just read?

[-] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 90 points 6 months ago

"You think it's accidental; I know it's Marxist planned and executed over a long period," he claimed. "Open border is not coincidental. The open border comes right out of Karl Marx. It comes right out of [communist activist] Saul Alinsky, who, by the way, Saul Alinsky and his acolytes taught Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton."

This shit? The insane musings of high profile Republicans.

[-] BigWheelPowerBrakeSlider@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

Who the eff are all these marxists, communists, socialists, etc., wielding all this incredible power in the US and how do they stay so hidden? Deep state? But isn't the deep state mostly rich white guys pulling the strings?

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

The real communism was the capitalism we made on the way...or some shit

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[-] jonne@infosec.pub 19 points 6 months ago

They're so crafty that even the policy they're passing is pure neoliberal dreck that's to the right of Reagan. Nobody would suspect a thing!

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

Ah yes. The communists were not known for building walls in Berlin.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago

“Mr. Reagan, tear down this wall!”

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lead poisoning is a huge part of why the 60+ age bracket is acting so erratically now.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 17 points 6 months ago

Ah yes, famed communist Obama, whose biggest accomplishment was shoveling huge amounts of cash to the health insurance industry in exchange for tiny concessions on the margins.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 6 months ago

That's a funny way to say you hate black people, Rudy.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 89 points 6 months ago

These cunts really lost their shit when we elected a black guy.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 69 points 6 months ago

Yeah, because all those tiki torch marches happened under Obama? Hmmm... good people on both sides? Well all the Black Lives Matters protests... no? Not Obama either?

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 49 points 6 months ago

See, if you just hadn't scared those white people by electing a black president, things would've been so much better!

[-] schema@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

It's basic abuser mentality. "Because a black person has dared to become president, you forced us to be more racist and divisive."

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 62 points 6 months ago

I think it’s time we send Rudy to live on a farm upstate.

[-] TacoNissan@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

I live upstate and we don't want him up here

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[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 59 points 6 months ago

Does he think Obama is still the president?

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[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 57 points 6 months ago

Even from a right/conservative view of things this makes no sense. Obama was a fucking legal scholar. He'd learned CRT in the context of law and brought it to bear not at all in a social context.

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago

Conservatism = Racism

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

Thats not fair. Theres more to conservatism than Racism.

Theres also the misogyny, and xenophobia, hatred for the lower classes.

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[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Maybe it took Guiliani back 40 years. He was at about 1920 before but he seems closer to 1880 now.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 6 months ago

Can he fall down an escalator already? Fucksake.

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[-] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 40 points 6 months ago

He's as much a history buff as a computer security expert

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I thought crazy pillow dude was the cybersecurity expert. He hosted those cyber symposiums after all. Clearly he must know something us lowly IT folks don't.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Speaking of which, did he ever pay out that 5 million dollar prize for the guy who proved his election interference data was literally garbage files?

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[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago

This feels like an onion article

[-] mriguy@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

“We would have all stayed under our rocks if YOU hadn’t forced us to freak out by electing a black guy”.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

Yeah, because all the creepy weirdos on the right absolutely FREAKED OUT that a "Kenyan usurper" was selected by We, The People to run the country.

Remember how ecstatic all these freaks were when OJ won just the EC? The memes of showing how OJ - King of the Birthers - was eclipsing Obama?

I'm sure none of those feelz from the right had anything to do with racism.

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[-] athos77@kbin.social 31 points 6 months ago

The right-wing reactionary response to Obama's election set race relations back.

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[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

So his racisism is Obama's fault.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 25 points 6 months ago

Why does Rudy think he has an opinion worth listening to on this matter?

Or anything else, really.

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[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 6 months ago

Hey Rawstory, less reporting on what they say, more reporting on what they did, thanks.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Wait...it was just about ten years ago that they were saying racism was over because we had a Black president. Make up your mind, Rudolph.

[-] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Translation: when we elected Obama it upset the racists so badly they had a great big meltdown about it

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