Former President Donald Trump stunned political experts on both sides of the aisle Monday with an on-air rant about people with "bad genes."Trump, during an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, relied on what critics called the rhetoric of eugenics — the discredited philosophy behind...

#quietpartoutloud

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    118·
    1 month ago

    “Many of them murdered far more than one person,” Trump declared. “A murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”

    And he will still be normalized as a presidential candidate by this evenings news and by the country on election day.

    I guess it’s that time of day to come to grips that the USA is ok with this.

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
      591·
      1 month ago

      FYI, I’m not ok with this. Tho’ I’m glad he’s saying the ‘quiet part out loud’, so that there can be no question on the importance of voting him and the rest of the GOP down in this election.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      39·
      1 month ago

      I guess it’s that time of day to come to grips that the USA is ok with this.

      A relatively small subset of people are okay with this as long as it continues to keep them in power and make them rich, another small subset of people are okay with this as long as it continues to be targeted exclusively at people they don’t like, and a relatively large subset of people are victims of propaganda and media saturation. Let’s put the blame where it belongs.

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
        11·
        1 month ago

        I don’t know if it’s a relatively small subset when there’s a fair chance he might be elected if people don’t go vote, or vote for a third party candidate.

        • Wilzax@lemmy.world
          8·
          1 month ago

          Most of the people who vote for him will never be informed about the most appalling and repulsive things he says, because all their news comes filtered through media streams that are designed to prop up the conservative candidate, no matter who, and to discredit the facts that makes that candidate look bad.

          But even if everyone who voted for him knew he said these things, they would still be the minority of Americans, because he lost the popular vote in 2016.

          • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
            2·
            1 month ago

            I’m not surprised. That’s how one of my best friends became an Andrew Tate and conservative supporter. YouTube algorithms got to him with these videos of cherry picked clips with comments from other supporters and his cohort of fraudulent assholes.

          • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
            1·
            1 month ago

            I’m not surprised. That’s how one of my best friends became an Andrew Tate and conservative supporter. YouTube algorithms got to him with these videos of cherry picked clips with comments from other supporters and his cohort of fraudulent assholes.

        • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          That would be the large subset who are victims of propaganda. I refuse to believe that such a large percentage of the country would actually be as awful as they seem if it wasn’t for the propaganda machine doing its thing.

          • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            1 month ago

            Lol, they buy into the propaganda because it aligns with their beliefs. They aren’t victims if blatant racist shit like this.

            Victims of the taxes too high propaganda, sure. But not this.

          • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            Trump is currently controlling the largest cult outside of religion in the US. His core is going to take a long time to deprogram enough to return to society when he finally stops getting a platform to mobilize them all. Some of them were awful people before Trump, but so many everyday people got pulled into the cult through Fox or Facebook or Twitter and their conditioning keeps them loyal.

            I think contrary to at least some cult leaders, Trump has nothing but absolute disgust for his followers, and uses them solely to get him power and to grift so he can afford to keep the machine of hate going.

      • krashmo@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        You can talk about the reasons voters might be tricked, incentivized, propagandized, etc. into voting for Trump but at the end of the day they are making the decision to support this kind of thing of their own free will. Placing the blame somewhere else is easy. The hard part is coming to terms with the fact that the fundamental problem is not a shady group of billionaires gaming the system but rather a population too dumb and lazy to see those actions for what they are. That problem isn’t going away even if we get rid of all billionaires and enforce stricter truthfulness in broadcasting laws.

        I’m not denying it would get easier to manage if did those things but we have to recognize that the people you’re talking about are willing participants in this and not just victims being taken advantage of.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
      9·
      1 month ago

      If they want to look for these “bad genes”, all the Republicans have to do is look in a mirror.

  • Sheridan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    541·
    1 month ago

    NYT: “Did Trump say immigrants have ‘bad genes’? MOSTLY FALSE. Trump was actually critiquing immigrants’ choice in denim jeans.”

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    27·
    1 month ago

    Damn, it sounds like he’s implying that we need to get rid of evangelical Christians - the largest crime committing block in America.

    (Obviously we shouldn’t get rid of any group based on such broad generalizations - he’s a fucking asshole).

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        I’m assuming they mean that Christians make up a huge percentage of the US, so therefore they probably make up a large percentage of criminals. I’d be interested if evangelical Christians now make up the majority of Christians.

  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 month ago

    Weird for a man such as Trump to equate crime with bad genes. How many felonies does he have again? It’d be interesting to see how this guy would have turned out if he was born poor

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      1 month ago

      Oh, I know. He must be talking about the bad genes of Elon Musk and the family history of labor abuse under apartheid and incest.

    • Wrench@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 month ago

      Well, his dad was a nazi too, so maybe he thinks it’s his genes that made him this way.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      1·
      1 month ago

      How many felonies does he have again?

      DrMoCrAt HoAx

      Magoos:

      Stupid gif isn’t playing and my lunch is ending, just imagine her nodding repeatedly in agreement lol :(

  • Subtracty@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 month ago

    Is history repeating itself this blatantly? And the people who are voting for him still believe they are morally correct.