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Melik Abdul, a GOP strategist and Black Americans for Trump Coalition member, criticized Donald Trump on CNN for blaming a D.C. plane crash on DEI policies without evidence.

Abdul expressed frustration that Trump’s focus on divisive issues, rather than economic policies, is making it harder for Black supporters to defend him.

He warned that Trump’s recent rise in Black voter support isn’t guaranteed.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago

Abdul expressed frustration that Trump’s focus on divisive issues, rather than economic policies, is making it harder for Black supporters to defend him.

Big "he's not hurting the people he's supposed to hurt" energy.

Also, really hard to feel any sympathy and respond with anything other than

Because we all fucking knew this is what he was going to do. Anyone who supported him and is surprised doesn't necessarily need to be laughed at, but I'm not exactly going to be very sympathetic to them getting the shit we knew was coming. They're just mad that it wasn't chocolate ice cream they opened up for...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

It’s like no one has ever seen a leopard, and is completely shocked when it eats their face.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 96 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Hi! You must be new here.

Also..

He warned that Trump’s recent rise in Black voter support isn’t guaranteed.

Your support one way or the other doesn’t matter any more. You’ve doomed us all unfortunately.

It’s too bad stupid people were also allowed to vote.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 hours ago

whole reason why education is not funded properly and why even Democrats are against regulations that are pro Mother Earth

people remaining after voter suppression laws are the ones who will eat anything the Republicans or Democrats based on their check writers' opinions put on the menu

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago

No wonder he loves the uneducated

[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Trump’s focus on divisive issues, rather than economic policies, is making it harder for Black supporters to defend him.

An IQ of at least 2 digits, some knowledge of history and a re-checking the color of your skin in the mirror every once in a while should make it even harder for black people to support Donald Trump.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

"You're making it really hard for us" says member of the "People with delicious faces" caucus to the leader of the "Leopards eating faces" party.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 hours ago

"Association of German National Jews" all over again. History doesn't repeat but it often rhymes.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck off, you stupid bastard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

This is the answer. This dipshit is on national TV 100% because he was duped by a con-man. A con-man that over 75 million people saw for exactly what he was. If this guy, and everyone who stupidly follows him, didn’t see it, that’s on him & them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

24 "News" networks are not news. They're basically reality shows at this point. We need to all stop treating them as news. Yes this guy is a dumbass. Moving on.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The face eating has begun!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

You act as if leopards didn’t eat faces at some point in the past….

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Can he not remember Trump 1.0?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

The pre-release versions were all complete shit too

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm as shocked as you are that the first tool Trump reaches for is scapegoating. You'd think after a decade of blaming problems on minorities he'd come up with some new msterial.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Why would he? Behavior like that has worked out well for him most of his life. Not only that, but it's an election winning strategy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

You know, when there’s a “Black People for the guy who has a extremely well-documented history of discriminatory behavior towards non-white people that he undoubtedly learned at a young age from his dad” group and they help you win elections, you can pretty much do and say whatever you want. Stockholm syndrome’s an especially vindictive bitch when a whole country has to deal with the repercussions!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

After the Central Park 5, it's mind boggling that any black person would ever vote for him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

He still claimed they were guilty when they were proven innocent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

RIGHT!? I mean, ignore the lawsuits against his dad and him for discriminatory practices as landlords or the long-debunked shit he said about Saudis celebrating 911, or the constant categorizing immigrants as “murderers and rapists.” Seriously, short of wearing a fucking white hood, what more does a guy need to say or do to be universally seen as what he so clearly is? Burn a cross on the Elipse?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Even works for the demographics you are specifically promising to inflict pain upon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

And the best part is the media will cover for them by saying it's "economic anxiety," just as they did in 2016.