Electoral Vote Winner Donny 's Sunday Tweets at Four Congresswomen

When it comes to the tweets of electoral vote winner Donny (a/k/a: the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago) I try to be careful about commenting on them too deeply. In some instances he shoots off on something whenever the mainstream media isn't focused on him in an attempt to either divert from something bad or make things all about him.  Sadly, more often than not the media starts talking about him and his latest social media cherry bomb (sometimes in regards to something he knows nothings about) rather than the issue at hand.  However, once in a while he comes up with something so beyond the pale that we have to take a look at it.  Here is his latest case in point.

In the early morning hours of Sunday July 14, 2019 the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago decided, for reasons unknown to us, to send out a vile tweet regarding four "Progressive Democratic Congresswomen," which many believe is aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D, MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D, MI), Rep, Ayanna Pressley (D, MA) and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D, NY and a/k/a: AOC).  In this tweet he claimed the four came "from countries  whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world" and that they were "loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run" before telling them to go back to "the crime infested places from where they came."

All of this before most people even woke up to have breakfast, get ready for whatever was planned for the day and the like.  Almost immediately after the anger in the Mad Fuhrer's tweet kicked in came the reaction where the silence of most of his fellow Repubs was almost as telling as those who pointed out that it was racist, with the exception of Repubs who tried to bend themselves into near pretzel like conditions to claim what electoral vote winner Donny tweeted wasn't racist.  With that in mind, a brief look at the tweet is in order.  This will likely cover ground that's already been covered but it has to be done.

First up is the question of racism- was the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago's tweet at four U.S. Congresswomen of color racist?  In a sane and just world one wouldn't even have to ask this question because it should be obvious that the tweet was hella fucking racist.  The racism here is obvious for several reasons.  One, all of the women are U.S. citizens (which you have to be, either by birth or being naturalized at least seven years previous) with Ocasio Cortez, Tlaib, and Pressley all being born in the United States.  Since that makes them from here for all intents and purposes, telling them to go back where they came from is really nothing more than racist code speech intended to rile up the white supremacists and their closet fans that make up a good chunk of his base.  

So, why is he tweeting this?  Some people have suggested it may be a diversion from several things in the news whether it be the Jeffrey Esptein case (remember that Donny at one time claimed to be a friend of his) or to keep people from talking about conditions at the border Trumpcentration camps.  There may be some truth to this in that such a tweet does take some of the oxygen out of the room and force people to take on the tweet itself.  At the same time one has to remember that Donny has long used racism to gain power whether it was using birther rhetoric during the era of President Obama and claiming the country's first black President wasn't born in the U.S. and isn't really president to his frequent retweeting of white nationalist memes, refusal to disavow David Duke, and having his grown sons go on a white nationalist radio show twice before the 2016 election.  During that campaign the question of whether or not Donny was a racist became irrelevant as his willingness to play in that sandbox was just as dangerous as if he were the reincarnation of a segregationist sheriff from the 1950s south. 

However, when placed in context with actions such as getting sued by the Federal Government in the 1970s (along with his father) for refusing to rent to minorities or his continuing to not acknowledge that the five people who became known as the Central Park 5 (and which example he used for an op ed supporting bringing back the death penalty in the early 90s) were innocent of the crimes they were accused of committing despite eventually being exonerated by DNA evidence and the confession of the actual culprit years after they were convicted to the birtherism reveals a lot more about whether the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago may be racist than his so easy to dispute denials (like his claims that he's the least racist person ever). 

Is this merely riling up the base?  Is it an election campaign tactic to get the white supremacist part of his base to come along?  Both?  It's hard to say but it's easy to figure out that all of this may be true and that things are going to get a hell of a lot uglier before the 2020 election. 

In the upcoming print issue I'll dive into a couple of things that weren't really discussed here - including one thing the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago doesn't even get he's right about.    As for comments, I still refuse to right to delete comments that are totally ignorant, hateful (racist/Misogynist/homophobic/anti trans etc) or arguments I believe are in bad faith.