In 2000, when George W. Bush spoke to the NAACP about âthe soft bigotry of low expectations,â he wasnât talking about Democrat Representative Maxine Waters. But he might just as well have. For years now, Waters has gotten a pass on her hate-filled and inciteful rhetoric â rhetoric that, had it been uttered by, say, a white president, wouldâve been grounds for impeachment.
And yet there was Waters on Saturday night, pouring gasoline on yet another fire. As the New York Post reports, âWaters joined hundreds of angry protesters who thronged Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, early Sunday, all breaking the 11 p.m. curfew together during the seventh night of protests against the police killing of Daunte Wright. âWeâve got to stay in the streets, and weâve got to demand justice,â she urged the crowd, according to one tweeted clip. âWeâre looking for a guilty verdictâ in Derek Chauvinâs trial for the police killing of George Fl
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In 2000, when George W. Bush spoke to the NAACP about âthe soft bigotry of low expectations,â he wasnât talking about Democrat Representative Maxine Waters. But he might just as well have. For years now, Waters has gotten a pass on her hate-filled and inciteful rhetoric â rhetoric that, had it been uttered by, say, a white president, wouldâve been grounds for impeachment.
And yet there was Waters on Saturday night, pouring gasoline on yet another fire. As the New York Post reports, âWaters joined hundreds of angry protesters who thronged Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, early Sunday, all breaking the 11 p.m. curfew together during the seventh night of protests against the police killing of Daunte Wright. âWeâve got to stay in the streets, and weâve got to demand justice,â she urged the crowd, according to one tweeted clip. âWeâre looking for a guilty verdictâ in Derek Chauvinâs trial for the police kil
White House Press Secretary REFUSES to condemn Maxine Waters for telling BLM to be more confrontational while Pelosi insists Waters shouldn t apologize because she wasn t inciting violence
White House press secretary Jen Psaki wouldn t condemn Rep. Maxine Waters for saying Black Lives Matter protesters should get more confrontational
Waters protested alongside activists in Minneapolis Saturday, where Derek Chauvin is on trial for the death of George Floyd
BLM is also protesting the recent police killing of black man Daunte Wright He has been very clear that he recognizes the issue of police violence against people of color, communities of color, Psaki said of President Joe Biden
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I knew that, sooner or later, the president would screw something up. (They all do.) But I didn’t anticipate that he would do so in a fashion that would make him look both mendacious and cruel. From the
Biden plans to keep the refugee cap at 15,000, according to the official. That figure is a historic low set by then-President Donald Trump last fall. Earlier this year, Biden had proposed to Congress lifting the cap to 62,500. He has pledged to raise it to 125,000 for the following fiscal year, which begins in October.
He raised more than $18 million last cycle.
(I ll add another example to Avlon s: Sen. Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican who tried to block election results and fist-pumped at Trump supporters standing outside the Capitol on January 6, raised more than $3 million in the first three months of the year.)
This is the rinse and repeat that s come to dominate Republican politics.
This is where Donald Trump s big lie and his thousands of smaller ones have gotten us: defining deviancy down while elevating political grift, offering not just alternative facts but an alternative reality reinforced by right-wing media obsessed with negative partisanship.