That was NONSENSE then.
It’s NONSENSE now.
RACISM IS THE REASON
Can we PLEASE quit pretending that bigotry isn’t at the root of Trump’s support?
D. Earl Stephens ✍️
Sep 13, 2026
Donald Trump hates the same people his supporters do.
Any time I spend a portion of my day considering the dark, noxious cloud that has become a part of the American landscape, and more specifically, the origins of this man-made disaster, I arrive at this place.
It’s as sad, simple, and as hideous as that.
Trump is a terrible president, and an even worse person. He’s certainly not smart, and is obviously ill-bred. He has done nothing to make anybody’s lives better but his own, and the billionaires who are carving us into pieces. He is using our White House to launder our money to fill his bottomless pockets, while spending hundreds of millions more to celebrate himself with arches, ballrooms, and tacky golden trinkets.
This isn’t even in dispute.
He’s a liar, a cheat, a pervert, and a complete clown. He tapes stringy fir to his head each day, and slathers his face in orange goo. He looks absolutely ridiculous, but nobody in his inner circle dares say a word.
Thank God this emperor at least has clothes.
He doesn’t know what he is talking about in almost any conversation, and just spits out random words and sentences that often make absolutely no sense. The minute somebody calls him on this, which is generally a woman in our press corps, he lashes out with the venom of a convicted felon and serial woman-abuser.
Our air and water is being poisoned. Prices are skyrocketing, and we are in a war with no way out, because he has turned our Pentagon into a bumbling mess, where cowards in uniform salute the crown or else.
And of course, he is doing everything he can to wreck our vote. Even that we talk about in all-too-casual tones, which really should blow all of our minds on a regular basis.
As I’ve written before, Trump’s ongoing attack on America is a national emergency and should be addressed this way. Right now, we are being forced to make plans for what might happen if our very own president violently comes after OUR vote in November.
Can we stop right there for five seconds to consider THAT?
Instead, we are fixated on all the other preposterous things he is into each and every day. Why just yesterday he traveled to Ireland to duck in some golf, and insult and divide the people there. The day before that he talked about bribing Republican voters, and then there is the never-ending projectile vomit about renaming lakes and attacking places like Greenland and Canada.
So what is there to recommend him? Why does your aunt, or best friend, or husband support this sickening maniac?
It’s the bigotry, stupid.
Plain and simple.
Again: He hates the same people they do, and for that he gets their undying allegiance.
Trump’s bigotry has always been the redline for me, and why I avoid anybody who voted for this bigot. It’s easy for me: If you vote for a bigot, you are one.
Maybe I have this wrong, but I really don’t think so.
Trump has always been a bigot, and like so many things, this isn’t reported near enough. It’s not just a part of his brand, it IS his brand. Without his endless bigotry, he wouldn’t have gotten within three states of the White House.
I am not wrong about this.
It was his overt bigotry that separated him from the other 17 Republicans on that ridiculous debate stage 11 years ago. Trump went right out and said what so many white people think, including many of the phonies on that stage, and the majority of the white people in America loved him for it — including, and mostly, all those radical, right-wing Christian Nationalist churches.When he initially made his move to run for president, the man who likes to think of himself as a builder did so by erecting a platform to spread the repellent Birther controversy. Barack Obama was not born in this country, you see, and needed to produce papers to prove he had a right to be here.
This was gross and disgusting of course, but many white people gobbled this up, like sharks go for so much greasy chum in the water.
It really is and has always been, that simple.
ProPublica
@propublica
Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address.
Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams.
https://x.com/propublica/status/2103288397250863462
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social
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BREAKING WaPo:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just slammed the Supreme Court’s use of its “emergency docket” — suggesting the court has misused the process in allowing the Trump admin to move forward with a host of controversial policies while challenges play out in lower court.
https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.bsky.social/post/3mwcowibyz22s
Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker
@TrumpsPortfolio
TRUMP JUST ARMED THE MILITARY AND POINTED IT AT DEMOCRATS
Not a metaphor. Not hyperbole. National Guard troops in Washington DC got a directive to start carrying loaded sidearms on the street. That happened on a Sunday. Like it was nothing
The executive order is titled about a “DC crime emergency.” The actual text expands National Guard deployment powers NATIONWIDE
Read that again. Nationwide
And which cities is Trump “considering” for this armed rollout next. Not Tulsa. Not Boise. Every single city floated so far is run by Democrats
Memphis already got the treatment. Now Russ Vought is asking for over 10 billion dollars to build it into a permanent machine — more Park Police, more federalized boots on the ground, funded through fiscal 2027
That’s not a crime emergency response. That’s a standing occupation force built to punish blue cities and Trump gets to pick the targets himself
No debate. No vote. No city council asked. One man decides which American cities get treated like hostile territory and which ones don’t
Meanwhile actual violent crime data doesn’t drive a single one of these decisions. Political maps do
This is the same man who spent four years screaming about federal overreach turning federal troops into his personal enforcement squad against his own political enemies
Armed National Guard on American streets, deployed by zip code of who didn’t vote for him
They are not stopping at DC
This is the blueprint and Trump just showed you exactly how it works
Share it before they figure out how to make this look normal
6:16 PM · Sep 24, 2026
https://x.com/TrumpsPortfolio/status/2103262364032286968
@Obambulare
Obambulare
@Obambulare
Sep 24
The biggest advantage rich kids have is their mentality of not being sacred to fail. Anyone can actually inherit this. It’s definitely magnitudes more difficult for a poor kid but if they make that leap then it’s all possible. And the reward much greater.
Renzo™
@fwrenzo1
A rich kid can fail upward through connections and nepotism. A poor kid can do everything right and still end up working retail with a master’s degree. Meritocracy is the story we tell. Inherited advantage is the system we have.
7:37 AM · Sep 24, 2026
https://x.com/fwrenzo1/status/2103101427014865039
The Debt Collective 🟥
@StrikeDebt
New: 12 Student Loan Ombudsman call for a Payment Pause.
“We have identified recurring systemic problems involving income driven repayment plans that materially affect borrower payment obligations, loan balances, and access to [cancellation].”
https://x.com/StrikeDebt/status/2103174208406901068
SIGH
@factpostnews
FactPost
@factpostnews
The FDA has announced a recall of cinnamon due to possible contamination with lead.
https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2103512650239922279
scary lawyerguy
@scarylawyerguy
The massive scandal in the USAO in Northern Illinois involving prosecutorial abuse tied to ICE protests is getting absolutely no coverage at the national level which is a real shame b/c it cuts to the core of so much wrong w/Trump 2.0 – incompetence, overreach, and corruption.
https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2103523074393903262
UH HUH
UH HUH
theGrio.com
@theGrio
Tesla’s defense argued in court that the N-word can be acceptable in some workplace contexts. The claim came as Black workers detailed years of alleged racism at the company’s Fremont factory. Read more #OnTheGrio
https://x.com/theGrio/status/2103522485459206319
@AuthorRandallB
Randall Barnes
@AuthorRandallB
It turns out that Rick Jackson is the slimy billionaire you think he is but sure, let’s run those Foster Kid ads and the one of him putting his face in the camera to wax poetic about how nice a person he is, so he can fool people into voting for him
https://x.com/AuthorRandallB/status/2103490425503748326
Keisha For Georgia
@KeishaForGA
BREAKING: New bombshell report from the Daily Beast exposes Slick Rick Jackson’s growing record of profiting off of people’s pain — this time by ruining a Canton family’s life, threatening to “kick the hell” out of them in a foreclosure lawsuit, and waging a “legal battle so brutal that court filings describe a cascade of devastating health problems for both spouses.”
It’s heartbreaking what Rick Jackson will do just to make a buck.
https://x.com/KeishaForGA/status/2103488557272686715
@kamala_things
Fabi 🪷
@kamala_things
18h
“Without what you did, he wouldn’t have come home.”
Big Boy tells VP Kamala Harris how her pioneering “Back on Track” recidivism program gave his friend Earl Sims a second chance at life by helping him turn a potential life sentence into a thriving family & community man. 👏
https://x.com/LeeRoy_TN/status/2103342521761857813
scary lawyerguy
@scarylawyerguy
News outlets LOUDLY asserting their First Amendment rights to never ask Trump about stuff like this. Shameful and disgraceful for a nation with so much wealth that our President has taken food out of the mouths of so many.
https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2103518115531501803
Katie Bergh
@Katie_Bergh
🚨New: With data added from more states, we now estimate that about 2 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. Overall, more than 5 million people have lost SNAP since July 2025.
https://x.com/Katie_Bergh/status/2103197116764205502
@NormEisen
Norm Eisen
@NormEisen
Pls don’t overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision
Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes can’t be made to voter lists!
It’s a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal w/it. More to come..
https://x.com/NormEisen/status/2103531945024242136
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans’ private data.
The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who’ve been wrongly flagged in the system.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2103510843866423348
absolutely ridiculous!
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can deploy an expansive online system that combines citizenship information, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data about millions of Americans, including to allow states to use it to hunt for ineligible voters.
Critics fear that using the system could result in the purging of large numbers of valid voters from state rolls, if states choose to use it ahead of the midterm elections.
The majority concluded that a lower-court ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from rolling out the system was improper because it inhibited “the federal government’s efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper administration of the midterm elections.”
A complete moron.
Coach Tommy Tuberville
Senate Republicans
@SenTuberville
I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week.
But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry.
Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA.
https://x.com/SenTuberville/status/2103141155860828184
Lily Kepner
@lilykepner
NEW: No women’s, gender and sexuality courses will count toward @UTAustin’s core curriculum starting this spring
Courses on slavery, civil rights & Women and the Holocaust were also cut.
One prof called the cuts “blatant” viewpoint discrimination. More⬇️
https://x.com/lilykepner/status/2103183400958050422
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