Hassaname and face anything to do with it?

[stevenkesslar]

 

Amir Hassan

 

 

Thomas Smith

 

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McDonald Rivet is among the more than a dozen Democratic incumbents seeking reelection in a district Trump won in 2024. But a GOP strategist, granted anonymity to speak candidly, characterized her as a “powerhouse.” The strategist added that Hassan had “clear flaws as a candidate” and the “GOP base was reluctant to support a dude named Amir Hassan.”

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Smith, a largely unknown entity, told the Federal Election Commission in a July letter that his campaign had raised a total of $1,850 -- significantly less than the $700,000 that Hassan raised, according to the FEC.

 

[stevenkesslar]

 

 

With a few apologies to the stupid barking dog.

First, I prefer YouTube to TikTok.  Fucking Boomers!

Second, I prefer facts to bullshit.

 

[stevenkesslar]

https://truthsocial.com/@TrumpIsBanksy/posts/117000590038822250

'Have you lost your mind?' MAGA melts down at Trump over late-night endorsement

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Trump supporter Conita Drew wrote a 542-word reply.

“Have you lost your mind, endorsing Muslim candidates," Drew wrote. "What has happened to you? You are not the man that I voted for three times, you have no wisdom whatsoever where Islam is concerned.”

 

Bark, dog, bark!

 

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“YOU ARE BEING MISLED, President Trump! This guy is a snake in the grass. Muslim and never voted for a republican in his whole life. Moved to Michigan last summer and immediately filed to run for office. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!” wrote JoniMarieForLiberty.

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Hassan is a Navy veteran who was stationed at Guantanamo Bay and a former federal law enforcement officer who calls himself an America First Republican. 

Donald Trump’s fans are not happy he backed Amir Hassan.

 

 

[RockyRoadTravel]

This is a political train wreck.  I'm glad I'm only watching the disfunction and hate on display.  Tragic when one sees a circular firing squad.  

[Suckrates]

19 hours ago, stevenkesslar said:

 

Amir Hassan

 

 

Thomas Smith

 

 

 

The BIG surprise here is that Trump gave a full throated endorsement to a BLACK candidate ?   And by his name, I suspect a Muslim ?   

[RockyRoadTravel]

2 minutes ago, Suckrates said:

 

The BIG surprise here is that Trump gave a full throated endorsement to a BLACK candidate ?   And by his name, I suspect a Muslim ?   

I wouldn't be surprised if The Great Incompetent didn't even bother to find out if the guy was black or Muslim. 

[Suckrates]

6 minutes ago, RockyRoadTravel said:

I wouldn't be surprised if The Great Incompetent didn't even bother to find out if the guy was black or Muslim. 

Hassan IS the type of guy that Trump is actively trying to deport after taking away TPS protections from its peoples......

Its just one more example of how FUCKED UP Trumps mental state is.....   And he's still be allowed to make decisions that affect millions of people.....  Talk about "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" !   

[stevenkesslar]

7 hours ago, Suckrates said:

The BIG surprise here is that Trump gave a full throated endorsement to a BLACK candidate ?   And by his name, I suspect a Muslim ?   

Hassan says he is Christian.

That's the funny and sad thing.  I know nothing about the guy.  But it does seem like it boiled down to what his name sounds like.

And now for an opposing point of view.  This whole interview shows how on message El-Sayed is.  But what he says that I timestamped at 17:40 is really an election winner.

 

And, in the spirt of the open-minded and big-hearted America we are building:

 

 

There have only been three Black Governors in US history.  He would be the fourth, if he wins the Florida race.  Which the polls say he will, with Trump's help.  He will be the first Black Republican Governor.

I've followed his career enough to be be able to make a few good guesses.  Donalds cracked a pretty simple code.  If you compliment Trump and are obedient and loyal, he's on your side.  Until you give him a reason to throw you under the bus.  If you want a deeper dive, listen to what Donalds told the folks at Breakfast Club about Jan. 6th.  Total Trump bullshit, in my mind.  But definitely a loyal guy.  Second, Donalds is running against the guy many presume DeSantis wanted as his heir.  So it's another way for Trump to stick it to DeSantis.

Tim Scott said he is a Republican Senator from South Carolina due to a "change of the Southern heart."  I take him at his word.  You don't get to be a Republican Senator unless a lot of Republicans vote for you.

I would go back to what El-Sayed said.  I think this is all good news for America.  It's two steps forward, one step back.  I see Trump much more of a step back on race.  I think people like Tim Scott and Byron Donalds are rising as much despite him, as because of him. 

What happened to Hassan does say something about the White Republican base.  And for lots of reasons, as someone from the North, it makes sense to me that a Black Republican would actually have a harder time in the North than the South.  King said he thought he knew racism pretty well.  And then he got to Chicago and Mayor Daley.

While there's not a lot of data about it, I think  that Blacks are the one race in America who are slightly more likely to be Republican if they are college-educated, and younger.  Donalds is a poster child for that.  And it makes sense.  When Jim Clyburn was a young man, Democrat Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party because it supported Black civil rights and was opening up to leaders like Clyburn.  The same Black young man in South Carolina today has a Black Republican US Senator.  Hopefully a young Muslim man in Michigan will soon have the same symbol of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Oh.  That's right.  DEI is a four letter word in Trump's America.  

 

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"We just showed them the Michigan way.  And that's what we're gonna do in November when we beat Mike Rogers."

[Suckrates]

55 minutes ago, stevenkesslar said:

Hassan says he is Christian.

That's the funny and sad thing.  I know nothing about the guy.  But it does seem like it boiled down to what his name sounds like.

And now for an opposing point of view.  This whole interview shows how on message El-Sayed is.  But what he says that I timestamped at 17:40 is really an election winner.

 

And, in the spirt of the open-minded and big-hearted America we are building:

 

 

There have only been three Black Governors in US history.  He would be the fourth, if he wins the Florida race.  Which the polls say he will, with Trump's help.  He will be the first Black Republican Governor.

I've followed his career enough to be be able to make a few good guesses.  Donalds cracked a pretty simple code.  If you compliment Trump and are obedient and loyal, he's on your side.  Until you give him a reason to throw you under the bus.  If you want a deeper dive, listen to what Donalds told the folks at Breakfast Club about Jan. 6th.  Total Trump bullshit, in my mind.  But definitely a loyal guy.  Second, Donalds is running against the guy many presume DeSantis wanted as his heir.  So it's another way for Trump to stick it to DeSantis.

Tim Scott said he is a Republican Senator from South Carolina due to a "change of the Southern heart."  I take him at his word.  You don't get to be a Republican Senator unless a lot of Republicans vote for you.

I would go back to what El-Sayed said.  I think this is all good news for America.  It's two steps forward, one step back.  I see Trump much more of a step back on race.  I think people like Tim Scott and Byron Donalds are rising as much despite him, as because of him. 

What happened to Hassan does say something about the White Republican base.  And for lots of reasons, as someone from the North, it makes sense to me that a Black Republican would actually have a harder time in the North than the South.  King said he thought he knew racism pretty well.  And then he got to Chicago and Mayor Daley.

While there's not a lot of data about it, I think  that Blacks are the one race in America who are slightly more likely to be Republican if they are college-educated, and younger.  Donalds is a poster child for that.  And it makes sense.  When Jim Clyburn was a young man, Democrat Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party because it supported Black civil rights and was opening up to leaders like Clyburn.  The same Black young man in South Carolina today has a Black Republican US Senator.  Hopefully a young Muslim man in Michigan will soon have the same symbol of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Oh.  That's right.  DEI is a four letter word in Trump's America.  

 

From what I am hearing, the Black community is "not down with" all the WHITE ass kissing Donalds and Scott are being accused of.   They are viewed by their community as the worst kind of Uncle Toms, and are resented for it.....   Scott is a total fraud, hiding in his "closet" while hanging onto and "rimming" Trump to retain something adjacent to a political career....  Donalds has a bit more credibility but is still rebuked by the black community......They are both seen as traitors to their people.   Blacks are the reviled outliers in MAGAland....

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2 hours ago, Suckrates said:

From what I am hearing, the Black community is "not down with" all the WHITE ass kissing Donalds and Scott are being accused of.   They are viewed by their community as the worst kind of Uncle Toms, and are resented for it.....   Scott is a total fraud, hiding in his "closet" while hanging onto and "rimming" Trump to retain something adjacent to a political career....  Donalds has a bit more credibility but is still rebuked by the black community......They are both seen as traitors to their people.   Blacks are the reviled outliers in MAGAland....

Correct.

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Donalds, who could be the first Black man to be Governor, has yet to translate what would be a historic achievement into appeal to Black voters. Just 6% of those polled back him, compared to 83% behind Jolly.

Jolly leads with Hispanic voters also, 53% to 35%.

However, White voters are on board with Donalds, 55% to 34%.

 

It is a strange thing.

Harris was often accused of being the DEI Vice President, and therefore a DEI Presidential candidate.

Republicans are not calling Donalds a DEI Gubernatorial candidate.

So you have a Black man who will make history in Florida because Republicans will support him, but Blacks won't.  That's not a judgment, positive or negative.  As you point out, it's a fact.

My point is that Sen. Tim Scott and Gov. Byron Donalds would not be possible in Strom Thurmond's Democratic Party, or Strom Thurmond's Republican Party.

My own view is that we are a long way from the idea that what matters is the content of your character, not the color of your skin.  Republicans under Trump seem like they could care less about the content of your character, period.  But the color of your skin used to be a hard barrier.  Not only to be Guv or Senator.  Simply to vote.  Now it's not.

I've said this many times, and I should repeat it.  I view this as a Democratic victory.  

Kevin McCarthy, when he was House Speaker, was very blunt about this.  In 2019 at the SOTU he looked around.  Republicans were a minority party.  And if you looked around, it was almost all White men.  Democrats were a sea of color.  He says he did the math and figured out Republicans had to do a better job of reaching out to, and electing, House members who were not White men.  And they have.  So it's a Democratic victory in the sense that we Democrats made the Republican Party look like the party of White men.  And some of them, at least, decided that's not what they wanted to be.

Like I said, I think Trump himself moved us back on the issue of race, not forward.  It is the party of Whites under him, who actively work against the interests of Blacks, I'd argue.  If most Blacks see it that way, sounds like my perceptions align with reality.

The person I'd give the most credit to for trying is former RNC chair Michael Steele, who is persona non grata now.  He calls Trump's party a "zombie party" that will fold as soon as the Democrats get their shit together.  But he was the one who, in the wake of Obama, pushed for diversity in the Republican Party.  Nikki Haley and Tim Scott were elected in 2010 during Steele's tenure.  And he touted them as a Republican version of DEI, which is now discredited.  Haley then appointed House member Scott to the Senate when Jim DeMint resigned.

Young Black voters are becoming more conservative than their parents. Here's why

The thing I'd point to in that article is that only 1 in 10 of the oldest Blacks view the Republican Party as welcoming.  But half of younger Blacks do.  Again, I view that in part as a victory of Democrats.  Obama scared the shit out of Republicans.  And I think older Blacks and younger Blacks are both right.  A party with Strom Thurmond as Senator is not the same as a party with Tim Scott as Senator. 

I don't follow it all that closely.  But I think Trump pretty much has trashed Tim Scott's efforts to come up with specific race-based efforts, like helping minority-owned businesses.

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President Donald Trump's administration dismantled the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)—an initiative U.S. Senator Tim Scott previously championed and helped permanently authorize. The cuts effectively shuttered its national business centers, terminated grants, and redistributed or placed the agency's staff on administrative leave

Some Black civil rights leader whose name I don't recall said something like this:  "Lots of Blacks are conservatives.  They'd vote Republican a lot more if the Republican Party wasn't so damn racist."  

Polls consistently show that, right or wrong, Americans are moving away from race-based criteria. 

Most Americans support Supreme Court's ending of affirmative action, poll finds

Black Americans were most divided in their responses, while white Americans most strongly supported the measure.

If the DSA is smart, THAT should be their rallying cry.  Not some of the nonsense that turns me off, like getting rid of the US Senate.  Focus on building an America where all poor people and all working class people get help climbing the ladder.  What we have under Trump is crumbs like no tax on tips to workers while Elon Musk is flooded with tax cuts and government contracts.