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BaronChocula

(4,837 posts)
14. Again, this was not an overnight thing
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 01:31 PM
21 hrs ago

Pro-white voters, some of whom didn't realize how pro-white they were have been preferring pro-white simpleton candidates over thoughtful pro-equality candidates for decades. Pro-white simpletons have been scaring white voters with specters of welfare queens, Willie Horton, the "crack epidemic," Black urban crime, Ebonics, Sharia Law, and so on. The fear-mongering has worked to keep communities under threat and underserved. The president who actually appointed the first two black secretaries of state ironically used the Civil Rights division of the DOJ to investigate discrimination against white voters. He also appointed a SCOTUS chief justice whose agenda has included rolling back the Voting Rights Act, something at which he continues to be successful.

Pro-white whites have always gotten away with it. And they do it with the cooperation of mainstream institutions like news media. The pro-white whites have always taken a pass on the right people to "lift us up where we belong." (Sorry, couldn't resist)

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Totally agree with him. Dave Bowman Yesterday #1
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The Republican Party gave us the monster. dalton99a 23 hrs ago #3
The Republican Party, and (unwittingly) NBC TV. ShazzieB 22 hrs ago #8
Don't forget FOX NEWS and its multimillionaire liars Justice matters. 21 hrs ago #15
And, For Whatever Reason (Bribery, Sick Insider-ism?) a Sleazy, Truly Unbelievably Nazi-like Propagandistic The Roux Comes First 18 hrs ago #26
and their voters too! RT Atlanta 18 hrs ago #27
No one thought the land of Beethoven, Goethe and Kepler would go nazi until it did. paleotn 23 hrs ago #4
Thank you Mr. Gere for speaking up in 2026 Ponietz 23 hrs ago #5
You know he didn't speak up earlier? maxsolomon 22 hrs ago #6
Gere has always spoken up. milestogo 22 hrs ago #7
In February 2025, while accepting a Goya Lifetime Achievement award, he called Trump a bully and a thug. femmedem 17 hrs ago #31
Lots of powerful people ... ZDU 22 hrs ago #9
There were some deniers here on DU. wnylib 18 hrs ago #22
Understood ZDU 18 hrs ago #24
Yes, I think that things will get worse before they get better. wnylib 18 hrs ago #28
Similarly, a big division existed around whether Merrick Garland... Shoeless Louis 16 hrs ago #33
I regret that I was one of Garland's defenders. wnylib 15 hrs ago #34
Amen! BlueWaveNeverEnd 22 hrs ago #10
Richard Gere will now be the recipient of a mean tweet or truth social post that he LoisB 22 hrs ago #11
"Whoever thought America could turn like this?" OldBaldy1701E 22 hrs ago #12
Bingo OB popsdenver 21 hrs ago #17
Yes indeed! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E 18 hrs ago #23
HW Bush stole the election and installed Reagan? radical noodle 17 hrs ago #32
Reagan/Bush popsdenver 7 hrs ago #36
I do remember that now... radical noodle 3 hrs ago #37
This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles 18 hrs ago #25
The frog relogic 21 hrs ago #13
Again, this was not an overnight thing BaronChocula 21 hrs ago #14
The reputation of this country will never be restored within my lifetime. I mean, electing Trump ONCE was bad enough - Midwestern Democrat 21 hrs ago #16
My heart is broken ... I will not see my America again LSparkle 21 hrs ago #18
Born in same year (1949), same Eastern PA, have same sentiments. ColoringFool 21 hrs ago #19
"Every day I ask myself the same question: dedl67 21 hrs ago #20
Great quote! calimary 18 hrs ago #29
Strange that the Mass Media picked _this_ up.. Wonder what is going on ? dave99 21 hrs ago #21
Some people saw it coming decades ago. BlueTsunami2018 18 hrs ago #30
I have said these same words.....MANY times! young_at_heart 13 hrs ago #35
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