Alyssa Farah, who served as Trump's Director of Strategic Communications, accused her former boss of using a racial "bullhorn" with his rant against "riggers".
        • esadatari@lemmy.worldEnglish
          92·
          11 months ago

          i’d honestly like to remember it but i also don’t want to say it. not only is it racist, it’s fucking stupid.

          like the people that say libtards or magats, we get it. you don’t wike the bad peeepow. you godda caw dem bawd names so you can feew gewd.

          this is just a more fucking racist version of the stupidest childish playground tacitics of name calling that both sides of the isles’ idiots can’t help but say.

          that being said, gravy seals and meal team 6 are great and hilarious. it’s just stupid shit like democRAT. oh ho ho! it’s got rat in it? MY FUCKING FIVE YEAR-OLD NIECE COMES UP WITH MORE CREATIVE INSULTS.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      251·
      11 months ago

      I just don’t know why he doesn’t just come out and say it. Who does he think he’s fooling?

    • MNByChoice@midwest.social
      29·
      10 months ago

      Several others are one off. (Not too defend them, but to make a stupid point about words.)

      Bob Igger (his last name. Do not just Google his last name at work.) Digger Figger (actual word) Gigger (again an actual word)

      Anyway, this is boring.

      Edit: it has come to my attention that done people are actually doing the “rhymes with” thing with cruel intent. (Not here, but elsewhere.) Just thought I would, sadly, point that out. Leaving this because it doesn’t matter anyway.

  • flossdaily@lemmy.world
    609·
    11 months ago

    Eh … I’m not convinced.

    We have an inexhaustible supply of real and unambiguous crimes and other offenses that we can pin on him.

    I think it unnecessarily muddies the water to even bother with something this ambiguous.

    The guy is on trial for RICO charges, and in all likelihood will see seeing a 5-year prison sentence for ORGANIZED CRIME in trying to overthrow a lawful election.

    Let’s just keep talking about that. And these fact that we have it on tape that he was asking the Georgia Secretary of State to “find” exactly the number of votes Trump needed to overturn the election he lost.

    • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org
      18·
      11 months ago

      Yeah I agree. trump is racist AF, we don’t need to strain and stretch to make him racist even in the event that he isn’t being 100% racist.

      • flossdaily@lemmy.world
        9·
        11 months ago

        The RICO charge carries a mandatory 5 years that can’t be pardoned and can’t be paroled. And RICO is stunningly easy to get a conviction on. It was built to catch mob bosses who directed activity but didn’t get their hands dirty.

        Until the RICO charge, I didn’t think he’d see prison either… but now… looks pretty good.

        • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          11 months ago

          Unrealistic optimism aside, the chances of any of these cases getting to trial before the 2024 election are slim. Trump is a master of delay tactics, and even the prosecution seems willing to defer to him in ways that they wouldn’t do for any other defendant. Add 19 co-defendants to the mix and the chances of trial before the election drop like a rock.

          And prosecutors need to stop dog-piling the charges on. Not that he doesn’t deserve it. But every new set of charges lends credibility to the argument he makes saying “I have so many legal cases on my plate that I cannot adequately contribute to my own defense, therefore we need to delay this trial.” .

          And he’s 77 years old, living on a steady diet of big macs, and essentially already living on borrowed time. There’s the very real possibility he could simply drop dead of natural causes long before he’s ever in real danger of seeing the inside of a prison cell.

          • iamdanno@lemmy.zip
            3·
            11 months ago

            There’s the very real possibility he could simply drop dead of natural causes long before he’s ever in real danger of seeing the inside of a prison cell.

            We can only hope. . . .

          • buddhabound@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            He certainly can contribute to his own defense. He is choosing to run for president (to try and avoid accountability for his crimes). If he seriously wanted to beat the charges, he could suspend his campaign.

            He is a defendant, and a rich one at that. There are countless defendants in cases every day that have to choose between hiring sufficient counsel that can offer a good defense and paying rent or buying groceries for their children.

            Trump is affluent enough (and has enough people willing to donate to pay his legal bills) to be able to focus on these charges and nothing else, but he tries to get sympathy for his own choices.

            I have none to offer him.

            • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              Why would he suspend his campaign? It’s his campaign that’s paying his legal bills. If he suspended campaigning he’d have to pay for all that shit out of the $2 Billion Jared got from the Saudis.

            • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              He certainly can contribute to his own defense. He is choosing to run for president (to try and avoid accountability for his crimes). If he seriously wanted to beat the charges, he could suspend his campaign.

              He is being charged in four different jurisdictions and counting up and down the east coast, not counting his civil lawsuits. Yes, he absolutely should suspend his campaign. But he’s not going to because even he knows it’s the only way he’s avoiding being found guilty. But even if he weren’t a presidential candidate, asking one person to be able to competently contribute to their own defense in multiple jurisdictions in such a short time becomes more unreasonable with each case. You’re absolutely correct if we’re talking about one case or even two. But once you’re talking about so many charges in so many jurisdictions in just one year, and the argument that he can’t competently contribute to his own defense becomes more and more valid. And the last thing you want is an appeals court throwing a conviction out later based on that.

              Of course, the simple way he could have avoided the issue is to not commit crimes in the first place, but here we are. And even Trump deserves to be able to competently contribute to his own defense.

              He is a defendant, and a rich one at that. There are countless defendants in cases every day that have to choose between hiring sufficient counsel that can offer a good defense and paying rent or buying groceries for their children.

              Oh he absolutely has the resources to hire competent counsel (assuming he can find any willing to take him on). But those legal teams would have to worry about 1 case each. He still has to participate in four. You would be describing a situation of ineffective counsel. I’m talking about the sheer number of cases in such a short time impacting his ability to contribute to his own defense.

              Trump is affluent enough (and has enough people willing to donate to pay his legal bills) to be able to focus on these charges and nothing else, but he tries to get sympathy for his own choices.

              I have none to offer him.

              I don’t think anybody does. But I want him to be able to contribute to his own defense competently when he’s found guilty so the case doesn’t get thrown out on appeal.

  • fox2263@lemmy.world
    40·
    11 months ago

    Hah I thought it was for those that rigged (allegedly (falsely)) the election. A group of riggers. Who rig.

    How naive of me. This is worse

    • atticus88th@lemmy.world
      18·
      11 months ago

      I caught on to the use of “riggers” when I noticed it was only black election workers that they were going after.

    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
      45·
      11 months ago

      I’m having hard time believing it’s something other than just people who rig. Seems like the more likely explanation than him wanting to drop the most thinly veiled n-bomb possible and managing to make it clever too.

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    341·
    11 months ago

    I hate when people talk like this

    The fact that he’s introducing race into this prosecution surprises me, it’s disgusting, it’s textbook Donald Trump, but it comes as no surprise.

    So surprise or no?

  • ATQ@lemm.ee
    352·
    11 months ago

    I’m not sure Trump is bright enough to use a dog whistle. He’s more of a shoot them in the middle of 5th avenue guy.

    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Read the Georgia indictment, that dude was threatening people while sounding “crazy”, he’s not dumb.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    204·
    11 months ago

    He is racist, but not clever in any way, I think he meant a made up word in his bullshit accusation, I don’t think he was trying to be racist here.

    • snooggums@kbin.social
      131·
      11 months ago

      Someone else said it and he repeated it, or someone else wrote the tweet. It was absolutely intended to be racist.

    • Triple_B@lemmy.zipEnglish
      132·
      11 months ago

      Yall know rigger is a real word right? Like, I work with a group of people explicitly called riggers. They rig stuff up. Use cranes, chain falls, shit like that?

      Trump is using a dogwhistle though.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        101·
        11 months ago

        Yeah it’s also a common term in the bdsm community for people who like tying people up. But he definitely isn’t referring to them.

        Some people don’t get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to dog whistles.

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        2·
        11 months ago

        Fair point, but I guess I meant, it’s a word that doesn’t have a definition attached to it that has anything to do with how he used it.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      463·
      11 months ago

      He’s stupid in a lot of ways, but he’s popular as a speaker for a reason, and he has done a lot of dog whistling in his life. This is just the most blatant. I do think it is intentional.

      • joe@lemmy.world
        26·
        11 months ago

        He’s popular as a speaker because he “tells it like it is”, which roughly translates to “he says the quiet racist parts out loud”. I agree that this probably isn’t a dog whistle. Or, it probably wasn’t. It definitely is now, and I fully anticipate seeing someone wearing a shirt that colorfully uses the word “rigger”.

        • GreenMario@lemm.ee
          4·
          11 months ago

          “Telling it like it is” is basically= your racist uncles tirades and memes on Facebook.

          I knew that asshole was gonna win when he started speaking like a Sentient Facebook Feed.

      • BitOneZero @ .world@lemmy.world
        9·
        11 months ago

        he’s popular as a speaker for a reason

        I think he has a natural talent to listen to what gets a rise out of people, what gets a reaction, and then copy that in his own way. What he says, once transcribed to written form, is often not very intelligent. It’s his mannerism and even his unique makeup and hair - that people listen to far more than his actual meaning. I find people who think Trump is a great person often have serious difficulty interpreting and understanding hard sciences like chemistry and physics… and are influenced by advertising techniques in particular ways.

        • Elderos@lemmings.world
          4·
          11 months ago

          You overestimate them. Simple-minded folks have serious difficulty reasonning about any concept that require you to either :

          1. Think of an abstract concept.

          2. Hold and evaluate a thought they don’t agree with

          3. Any sort of application of logic and critical thinking requiring you to evaluate more than 1 or 2 elements in serie.

          Their mind reset after making 1 “logical” deduction. Leaving them unable to evaluate both premises and arguments, or abstract concepts, or hold contradicting thoughts for evaluation, or any sort of concrete mental modeling of anything but the simplest cause to effect situations.

          In that sense, the dumbest amongst us are not just incapable to do sciences, they can barely comprehend the very simple things surrounding them. They survive by gut-feeling, learned patterns, groupthink, and are driven by emotions (since it is all they have).

        • Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social
          101·
          11 months ago

          Pretty sure a 3rd grader could figure out that “riggers” sounds a whole lot like a really naughty word for black people, which is about where he’s at mentally.

          • tburkhol@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            Regardless of whether he intended the visual/spelling similarity, I guarantee that his image of election riggers is exactly as racially coded as his image of “urban” Americans.

        • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
          41·
          11 months ago

          He’s definitely deficient as a human but never mistake the fool act for actually being a fool. More than anyone else in contemporary American society, Trump truly understands how to play to the lowest common denominator of his base

    • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      His word vomit is pulled from a very small bin of stuff that’s “worked” in the past. Now that he knows it works as a dog whistle, we’ll be hearing the word daily for the next 2 years, at least.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    12·
    11 months ago

    I live in a very protected part of the world. I once thought the N word was “No”, and that was why people hated it so much.