Quote (Goomshill @ Jan 14 2019 11:04am)
And over and over again there was a pattern of Trump
punching back. I'm not going to begrudge him using his twitter to take shots at people who shot at him first. The media, mika, top FBI officials, warren, etc have all been at war with Trump and taken their cheap shots against him time and time again in ongoing feuds. Obama/Bush didn't face the histrionics and slander that Trump did, and they weren't pugnacious either. But there's a difference between Trump ridiculing Warren as Pocahontas to mock her fumbling identity politics, and Trump fumbling a distasteful reference to massacres and indian garb while involving her husband. That was just retarded. Not particularly bigoted statements in and of themselves, but stupidly chosen and obviously offensive, without the justification of being any kind of clever sarcasm.
I think a good parallel is when Jimmy Kimmel did his skit about Trump's parents burning in hell and cursing him from the grave;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tu_VzsoJ-MKimmel might have justification in his media war to take cheap shots at Trump and ridicule him, but evoking his dead parents in such a tasteless and unfunny skit was just cringey and disgusting. Trump was in that kind of territory when he evoked Wounded Knee. Taking a shot at Warren isn't the problem, choosing such an awful way to do it, is.
and as always it won't matter
He will get away with it. His base will excuse it. He will continue to ignorantly attack the most shit on people in United States history by calling a person claiming to be Cherokee Pocahontas and mocking other tribe's massacres and cultures
He knows he will get away with it and uses this garbage to get negative headlines about his administration pushed aside. Because this is "just how Trump is" he can shit on the families of unarmed women and children massacred by the government. He can disrespect us and our pain and our people and our culture that we try to hold on to. He will do it again. His most enthusiastic supporters think it's funny. They like that he does it.
To your point I agree I have been against the low shots on both sides but it's not the same. Shitty people attacking family and physical traits of Trump is bad but it's not this, it's not what he is getting away with right now.
It's hard to punch down lower than mocking the victims of a massacre that survived a genocide, all because he wants a distraction. A man that is willing to stoop that low with that much power and that loud of a voice has no honor and no integrity.