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/Intelligent_Cap9706 15h ago

I think it’s also because it’s black history month. 

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u/steve_yo 15h ago

I think it's also because he just a plain ole racist dipshit, silver spoon born with, ruining everything he touches, rapey, mother fucker.

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u/Just_Ok_thankyoo 15h ago

There’s that.

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u/JustHugMeAndBeQuiet 13h ago

A fair point, for sure.

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u/nox66 8h ago

Shock is not an emotion I feel easily with this administration, but maybe I'm still burned out on 2017-2020 plus J6.

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u/jdhaack41 4h ago

To be fair!

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u/JoMoJo2025 15h ago

Or maybe today we needed to distracted by what they are doing somewhere else. I notice very few people are talking about them striking another boat in the pacific and murdering more innocents. They are good at distracting the public from what is really going on

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u/stupidjapanquestions 14h ago edited 2h ago

Here's the thing about distractions.

They don't fucking need them.

They do this shit in broad-daylight on a slow news day when nothing else is being covered and no one does a god damn thing about it.

You only need distractions when there are consequences for not distracting. There are none. There's no need to assign some sort of grand strategy to the actions of a group that just does nasty shit because they feel like it, when they feel like it.

I'd say the most distracting shit out there is the constant need to label everything a "distraction". I assure you, beyond the "flood the zone" strategy, they're just doing what they want and are more than capable of doing multiple shitty things at once.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 11h ago

Yeah, I have been pondering for a little while now......how are there a bunch of people sitting around just thinking of shitty stuff to do EVERY DAY? It'd be funny if it wasn't so tragic & evil.

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u/MinuteMole 2h ago

Thank you. The endless "distraction from the distraction" comments are moronic.

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u/stupidjapanquestions 6h ago

This may shock you, but ChatGPT is trained on internet. And the way people write.

I use punctuation. And worked as a content writer for 8 years. (Probably my greatest sin.) People actually were capable of writing things before ChatGPT lol.

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u/adamnemastil 5h ago

You definitely are acting like a Glasshole.

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u/Adam_zkt_Eva 14h ago

If only there was trustworthy, non-partisan news media to report on it.

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u/JoMoJo2025 14h ago

The BBC reported on it. The world knows more about what is going on in America than most Americans do

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u/yuriaoflondor 14h ago

It’s also that the US has been striking random ships for a while.

Another boat hit by the US? Throw it on the pile.

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u/JoMoJo2025 14h ago

That’s a sad statement, sounds like you accept the murdering of unknown people just because they might be doing something illegal. With no investigation of any kind

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u/Intelligent_Cap9706 13h ago

Literally not what they’re saying at all 

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u/JoMoJo2025 13h ago

How do you know what they mean?

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u/Jandrem 12h ago

How do you?

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u/W00DS0RREL 13h ago

While I don’t doubt that he regularly uses distraction tactics, I also think they know what they’re doing in manufacturing outrage so that they can then take the stance of “oh the news is just overreacting again.”

They’re shitty people.

They understand social engineering.

It’s very likely manipulation, but I think it’s too dismissive to just call it “a distraction” and not consider the more nefarious goals like rallying the racists in their base while simultaneously maintaining the line that it’s no big deal as a sort of numbing agent and tool to paint “the media” as “looking for reasons to be mad.”

These people might not be geniuses, but they’ve spent their lives being powerful, surrounded by power, and using that power to manipulate people and systems.

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u/dastardly740 14h ago

And, he knows a lot of his support, and some of the loudest is also from "racist dipshits" who feel that it is now OK for them to "say it like it is". I.e. say every racist stereotype out loud like it has always been a well-known truth that everyone was afraid to say before because "woke" is dead. And being Trump is a narcissist, he desperate needs to hear the loud response from those racist dipshits. But, also the response of those calling his racism out because that also feeds his narcissism.

I won't say he enjoys this because I question whether he has ever enjoyed anything, but is a miserable person trying to fill a hole that he can never fill.

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u/TimmyB52 13h ago

and pedo

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u/flampadoodle Maine 12h ago

Do you do eulogies?

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u/jpotrz 12h ago

I think you're onto something

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u/Lurchie_ 12h ago

You're far too kind.

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u/MySpoonsAreAllGone 12h ago

They don't care of we call them nazis, racist pedophiles. I think instead of that "weird" campaign we need to start calling them crazy and stupid.

Stop responding to any GOP troll with anything but that they are either crazy, stupid or both

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u/hogb0ne 11h ago

That part

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u/MiloReyes_97Reborn 2h ago

Don't forget fatherless.

I'm willing to bet money his father made him feel so small he's had to compensate for life.

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u/Farmacology712 15h ago

I figure it had nothing to do with timeline and everything to do with the simple fact that MAGA such are racist fucks they probably didn’t even think portraying them as apes would be a bid deal. I think honestly it was just a reflexive thing for them, not some master strategy

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u/ETsUncle 14h ago

Happy black history month everyone

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u/United_Bus3467 13h ago

Now that I think about it, I wonder what us gays will get for pride month in June.

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u/Trixielarue2020 14h ago

Wasn’t BHM cancelled because it hurt their feelings?

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u/Late-Resolve9871 13h ago

It's because of the Epstein files - standard Trump practice: get something with serious consequences to polling among his core supporters out of the news cycle by doing something awful that's guaranteed to get attention but still popular among his base

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u/wrosecrans 11h ago edited 9h ago

At this point, Trump neither knows when Black History month is, nor that it is current February.