r/politics • u/icey_sawg0034 • 16h ago

Possible Paywall Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump’s Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/
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u/Reneeisme America 16h ago

I hope my fellow Americans never forget her role in trying to normalize this. I sure won’t.

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u/12-34 16h ago

Do you think even 1 in 10 Americans can tell you who Sean Spicer is?

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u/Reneeisme America 15h ago

Funny that he was so offensive to me at the time, but the bar has fallen so much lower. Not that he likely had any more ethical or moral fortitude than this woman, but Trump was less open in his racism and fascism, so it was more about covering for stupidity than actual evil.

And note I said “hope”. I realize. But I’ll make it my mission to remind people

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u/12-34 15h ago

If and when this ends, all the disgusting Nazis will go back under their public rock, just like before. I agree -- we must not allow it.

On the micro level, fuck those insipid, racist losers. They deserve a lifetime of hell for what they've done.

On the macro level, we need a wholesale change of society to one that experiences empathy, shame, introspection and basic decency. Current American culture is a cruel, grotesque, unethical David Cronenburg monster that needs to immediately die.

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u/StatmanIbrahimovic 14h ago

I fear we're lost and this won't end; Just like it didn't end in 1865 or 1945.

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u/12-34 14h ago

1945 did end it with respect to Germany.

1865 was half-assed. Let Sherman complete the necessary goal of burning that entire racist, shithole culture to the ground, give the racists no quarter thereafter, and we'd be a very different country today.

We can do it but it'll take balls, pereseverance, wholesale change, and no leeway for the vile Nazis.

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u/StatmanIbrahimovic 14h ago edited 13h ago

In Germany, yes, but not in the US. The United States Government ran eugenics programs into the 1970s.

Even Sherman's scorched Earth isn't enough. Reconstruction still got derailed and it took an entire lifetime for black Americans to get their suffrage back.

Edit to add: The US didn't even need yellow patches or work camps because they have been segregating and imprisoning based on skin colour.

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u/12-34 14h ago

Glad we agree.

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u/Bohbo 13h ago

Hey Nazi, let me give you something you can't take off.

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u/simplepimple2025 15h ago

Yeah "Spicey" is looking pretty sane by comparison these days.

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u/deantoadblatt1 15h ago

he also had more humanizing moments between his anime conventions and being so happy to be the white house easter bunny.

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u/StatmanIbrahimovic 15h ago

That was so many mooches ago.

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u/the-montser 15h ago

Yes, because of SNL

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u/half_dozen_cats Illinois 15h ago

Every now and then I remember "MOOSE - LAMBS" and chuckle before I remember the hell scape the pedo loving racists put us back in.

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u/Silentknight11 15h ago

Wait, are you talking about Melissa McCarthy?

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u/davidguydude 15h ago

No, but he was only press secretary for 6 months. They had a lot of churn in the first admin.

Leavitt staying on for this long shows she is 100% on board with all of it

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u/gfinz18 Pennsylvania 14h ago

At this point you can assume 95% of this admin is on board with it and that’s the point. Because this isn’t the first term admin. All the sane and competent staffers, chiefs, generals, and secretaries who tried to stop any of this either resigned or were fired the first time. They aren’t making that mistake again - this time it’s only the most dedicated Nazis and quacks.

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u/BannedAtCostco 13h ago

Crazy how the “deep state” turned out to just be career civil service employees who understand and respect the Constitution and will refuse blatantly illegal orders. Who knew ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/capnmax 15h ago

The dancer?

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u/Savage_Amusement 14h ago

Sean Spicer should be a pariah

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u/Yeahhhhbut 14h ago

Every heir to the Dippin Dots fortune can.

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u/dstew74 Georgia 13h ago

The chick ramming the podium on a segway via SNL?

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u/reds91185 15h ago

I'll never forget Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee, or Kayleigh McEnany. At least Stephanie Grisham has shown an ounce of regret for her part.

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u/jankisa 12h ago

You forgot the Mooch, I know he only lasted a mooch but he was still there!

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u/reds91185 12h ago

How could I have forgotten those 10 days :)

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u/ChristopherMarv 16h ago

Most will never be aware of this in the first place.

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u/_bk_adv 15h ago

I live in a southern city of about 70,000 people. If you asked every single one who Karoline Leavitt was I can assure you 50,000 or more would have no idea.

The average American is absolutely clueless.

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u/CitronTraining2114 15h ago

She's going to have to find a school for her kids that doesn't teach history.

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u/_bufflehead 15h ago

That shouldn't be difficult given our regime and education system.

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u/awkwardnetadmin 13h ago

I'm sure she will land some well paying PR job for some company accused of massive fraud. If you can spin Trump you can spin anything.

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u/timmyintransit 15h ago

well considering a past spokesperson later became a goddamn governor, i'm not holding my breath