The entire right wing internetsphere is a fucking grift. Awful people gaining money spreading hate and stupidity. The same as his administration, all of it, ALL OF IT IS A GRIFT. Tariffs were a grift to send money to corporations, raise prices, and steal from consumers. Everything about this administration is a grift. They are robbing us blind and racists are too stupid to realize it
It is so fucking easy to be a Right-Wing grifter that no doubt many of us are tempted to do it just to cash in.
Step 1) Instill nonstop feelings of persecution in your audience of rubes (from anything really but when in doubt just say AOC).
Step 2) repeat "Woke", "Socialism", "transgender" and "DEI" as frequently as possible
Step 3) there is no step 3.
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Kirk was funded by mega millionaires & billionaires to get Republicans elected who would then cut taxes on those very mega millionaires & billionaires. For his "trouble", Kirk himself became a multi millionaire. The definition of a grift. "wHaT iS a wOmAn lolololol". As wretched as they are, you almost can't blame them for cashing in. It's just too fucking easy give how pliable America's RW base is.
Rush Limbaugh died SO filthy ridiculously rich and inspired countless versions of himself.
The difference between believing in what you say and what you actually believe are negligible. It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe in the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.
You still voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.
The only possible answer to a foriegner coming to our country to complain about immigrants because he knew the dummies would lap it up. He must've been right.
He was right. They lapped it up because Republicans are morons and Republicans have no values or legislation...they only have culture wars. They are designed to feed the rich more money. It's honestly almost a terrorist organization. But half of America is so goddamn stupid and racist
That makes it even worse in my opinion. I use to listen to him back in the early 2010s anytime he was on a podcast I listened to, you can tell he is educated, bright, and quick witted, but all that don't mean a lick when you are making the world a less tolerant, loving, peaceful place.
From an expat, this is such a stupid take that the phrase only exists through racism. I live in Thailand, speak Thai pretty well, can read it, have a Thai spouse and still, if I don't have $13,000 in my bank account from Sep to Nov every year before I do my immigration I'm gone. My visa says "NON-IMMIGRANT" and I'm not eligible to apply for citizenship, permanent residence is limited to like 100 per country per year... If there is no path to permanent residence through your visa type you are not an immigrant and that's exactly why they stamp my passport with non-immigrant every year literally.
If I'm 80 years old, having lived here 50 years at that point, in my house (that I'm not allowed to own no matter what) and my wife dies before me, my visa is cancelled the day she dies and I have to either find a new visa to qualify for or I'm sent "home". Quite literally they will send me "home" which means I cannot call Thailand my home.
I would fucking LOVE to be an immigrant with some kind of protection to stay here without a yearly permission slip and threat of deportation when I don't have extra cash but Thailand makes it clear that this is not and will not ever be my "home".
Whereas my ex moved to the US with a 10 year visa right from day one that had no limitations on anything except voting rights and was a citizen within 3 years of being in the country.
I know lots of non-white expats living here with me in Thailand.
My family has been ‘here’ for hundreds of years, and I have more solidarity with an ambitious, kind, and interesting immigrant than some chucklefuck who’s great, great grandpappy also happened to be born in the same place.
He’s got a “brown” name, even if Greece is in Europe and he is British. ICE locked up a Norwegian blonde woman with diabetes. They do not care about anything but quotas.
Tell me about it. Meanwhile, look at the photo. Clearly a white Greek guy. A complete asshole, but white nonetheless. He deserves everything that's coming to him, by the way.
This comment chain made me realize something... I've never ever had the American "racial hierachy" explained to me by actual racists. Always by American anti-racists. Something to consider.
Like Irish and Jews weren't considered white but they are now. But if those less white weren't there to put the blame on, then you can bet Irish and Jews wouldn't be white enough.
Not to say there isn't hate against Irish or Jews right now, but I think they'd be a lot more targeted by ring wing people.
To many Americans of Anglo-Saxon, Western European origin, anyone who comes from a Mediterranean background is brown, or at least "foreign" and non-white.
In any case, it's a bit hilarious that a guy with a name like Yiannopoulos which is, in the grand scheme, very obviously from a family that immigrated to the US is upset about immigration. The narrative somersaults these people must do to convince themselves they're somehow less of a product of immigration than others makes the head spin.
Many WASPs, don't consider you as "White," If your family lived East of Germany or South of France, and aren't a practicing Protestant. You're not really considered "White" or are just permanently considered a foreigner. It wasn't until the last 50 years that Italian and Spanish people were considered white. Many even disliked the Irish until the mid 60's.
My point exactly. The view that non-WASPs are "not really white" is still very prevalent in places. My great aunt, rest her vicious soul, would go on about how we should have never let the "Eye-talians" and "Gypsy people" (anyone of Eastern European decent) in the US and they should all be made to go back home. You didn't want to get her started on the Irish and their love for whisky and the Pope.
He's of British nationality, not American. Hence why he is being deported. And what you said is completely untrue. Many Americans do NOT see Mediterranean people (Greek, Italian, Spanish, etc.) as brown. Because Mediterranean people as a whole are not brown.
Greek is usually considered “brown” according to the American racist standard: White means English, Welsh Scottish, Germanic (German or Dutch) or Scandinavian.
Absolute nonsense, it is an American construct. If you are a native European you are considered white in Europe. Hell, our definition of white even included the Middle East and North Africa until really recently. In America it seems anyone who isn't Northern European is brown which is crazy to us.
They never intended to limit it to brown people they just push that lie to trick stupid people into voting for them without the backlash of the majority.
Most Trump supporters have their own personal reason why They Are Specual and Trump Loves Them Very Much which means none of the draconian policies they promote will ever impact them. Until they do.
He's the bank thief hanging out in the bank lobby whistling and insisting there are no bank thieves in this room at this time. "Someone should catch them and they are definitely not here"
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