The Elites’ War on the Deplorables
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Recently Politico reporter Marc Caputo was angered at rude hecklers at a Trump rally who booed beleaguered CNN correspondent Jim Acosta.
So Caputo tweeted of them, “ If you put everyone’s mouths together in this video, you’d get a full set of teeth.”
Politico had not employed such a crass journalist since before it fired Julia Ioffe for tweeting, “Either Trump is f—ing his daughter or he’s shirking nepotism laws. Which is worse?” (Ioffe was then snatched up by the Atlantic , which has an unpredictable policy either of excusing or not excusing the controversial expressions of its newly hired journalists.)
I suppose Caputo meant that Trump voters intrinsically lacked either the money to fix their teeth or the knowledge of the hygiene required to take care of them or the aesthetic sensitivity of how awful their mouths looked. Or Caputo was simply rehashing the stereotypes that he had seen on reality TV shows like “Duck Dynasty” and “The Deadliest Catch.”
Or none of the above: the journalist grandee was just stupid.
That last alternative seems most likely since Caputo then escalated and called them collectively “garbage people.” Or rather, in the manner of a cowardly age of social media, he tweeted that slur when safely at a distance.
What did “garbage people” mean? That by birth or training such toothless, smelly people were subhuman, like refuse? And if Caputo had substituted any other racial minority for his slurs, would he still have his job according to the cannons of progressive censure and Internet lynching? Could he have said something similarly degrading about the attendees of after an open borders or Black Lives Matter rally and still have his job?
Sarah Jeong’s Struggle
Last week, the New York Times named tech writer Sarah Jeong to its editorial board with apparent knowledge of her long history of racist tweets, as well as verbal attacks on police and males in general. Perhaps such gutter venom was proof of militant orthodoxy to be appreciated rather than medieval racism to be shunned. Her mostly empty résumé seems compensated by her identity and her politics—as the Times more or less confessed in its sad defense of her racist outbursts.
Jeong claimed that white people smelled like wet dogs. She had bragged that she hated them, and hoped that soon they would become childless and disappear. Her final solution of demographic extinction was, she said (in historically dense fashion), “my plan all along.”
One wonders whether she will canonize her collected tweets into something like “My Struggle,” replete with less abstract territorial theories how to reify her “plan” or add pseudo-scientific details explaining why and how whites, as she alleges, smell or have had no cultural or scientific achievements.
Lots of her other tweets about toxic white people and culturally repugnant white heterosexual males suggest that Jeong’s twitter corpus is not, as alleged, one of flippant jest, counterpunches to trolls, or accidental streaming.
Rather it is consistent with the profile of an embittered but otherwise mostly undistinguished social justice warrior who had fueled her bias at Harvard Law School and honed its expression in the no-consequences world of left-wing blogs.
Of course, once caught, Jeong predictably retreated to victim status: she was simply replying to hateful trolls. (One wonders whether her venom against police was likewise supposedly prompted by police attacks on her?)
The Times , which claims it has a practice of calling out hate speech, and blackballing any with Jeong-like skeletons, suddenly tsk-tsked its hiring by claiming that she was merely overzealous in her eliminationist response to Internet trolls. More likely, the Times liked her verve and smiled at the click-bait attention she earned. It’s a free country, after all, and the Times is perfectly free to hire all the progressive racists it wishes to enhance its brand.
Routine Demonization
In the text message trove of disgraced FBI operatives Lisa Page and Peter Strzok there was the same sort of barnyard contempt. Georgetown graduate Strzok claimed to Page that a local Virginia Walmart “smelled” of Trump voters—a progressive stereotype of white Neanderthals that is increasingly freely expressed.
In another government text, an unidentified FBI agent, assigned to the Hillary Clinton email investigation, had written of the Trump voters that they were “lazy POS that think we will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing.”
Again, demonizing the Trump voter as beyond cultural redemption is nothing new. During the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton infamously dismissed Trump supporters as “deplorables” who were “irredeemable” and were “not America.”
After her defeat, Clinton proved her early smears were no accident. Speaking in India, she again slurred Trump supporters as being racist, sexist, and xenophobic for their inability to appreciate her progressive godhead. All this from the 2008 candidate who earned the sobriquet of “Annie Oakley” from Barack Obama for quaffing boilermakers, shooting, and bowling while pandering to what Clinton had once endearingly called “ hard-working Americans, white Americans .”
In some sense, the rebranded Clinton simply continued where Barack Obama had left off in his denunciations of the “bitter clingers” of Pennsylvania, who were prone to simplistic trust in their guns and religion and, out of insecurity, scapegoated others.
When Obama periodically wrote off Americans as “lazy” and ignorant of the world beyond them (this, from another Harvard law graduate who thought Hawaii was in Asia and Austrians spoke “Austrian”), he was, to use a progressive metaphor, dog whistling the themes of his clingers speech.
Easy Targets, No Consequences
Elites are confident that there is nothing either ethically wrong or career-endangering in smearing middle-class Trump supporters with such crude stereotypes.
When pundits on television go after Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), they inevitably resort to attacking his Tulare roots, and his dairy-farm upbringing (“ A former dairy farmer”; “ way over his head” ; “ nothing in his résumé that would have qualified him for the post,” etc.) to claim that he is mismatched by Harvard-trained Adam Schiff. Again, how strange that egalitarians always revert to base snobbery and class stereotypes in lieu of an argument or an idea.
Arkansas native Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, is a frequent target of such venomous cultural disparagement.
She has become our new Sarah Palin, whom the elite used to ridicule routinely, Remember David Letterman’s stupid joke about her daughter (likely a reference to then-14-year old Willow) being raped by baseball star Alex Gonzales in a dugout—the subtext being that white trash like the Palins love to have underage gratuitous sex wherever they can find it. (Projection alert: Letterman was later blackmailed into admitting to turning his studio office into a sort of sex den where he routinely before and after his show seduced female staffers).
At the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, comedian Michelle Wolf trashed Sanders’ appearance and her pedigree. Actor Peter Fonda later called her a misogynistic obscenity, and said she should be deported to Arkansas.
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni once mocked her accent . Listening to her, he said, was akin “to hearing the air seep out a flat tire.” And Los Angeles Times writer David Horsey mocked Sanders as a “slightly chunky soccer mom” who was out of place with “fake eyelashes” and “formal dresses.”
Equally bizarre is another trope that Trump voters should be deported and illegal aliens welcomed in their place. After the 2016 election, conservative NeverTrump pundits variously expressed their contempt for Trump supporters as a sort of class of expendables, or at least as inferior to immigrants.
David Brooks, for example, claimed that white working communities were often xenophobic given their own realization of inferiority. “ You’d react negatively, too, if confronted with people who are better versions of what you wish you were yourself,” he wrote .
If I had noted the same contempt for the Norteños gang member living across the road who this month shot at another neighbor’s house, broke the windows of my nephew’s home, was arrested, released, and rearrested in one night, and periodically used drugs in my orchard—that he acts so antisocially because he and associates are “confronted with better versions of what he wished he was himself”—I would face a career-ending charge of racism from the electronic mob.
Sometimes state rather than national deportation is dreamed of as a less drastic cure for the deplorables. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton said that his state’s white population did not have enough “B+” citizens and therefore needed to find them from Somalia. “Our economy cannot expand based on white, B+, Minnesota-born citizens. We don’t have enough.” One wonders why the bigot Dayton considered himself and unknown Somali immigrants en masse to be B+ and above, but most of his fellow Minnesotans otherwise sub-B+. What were the racial criteria by which he judged whole classes of people?
The Shield of Progressive Victimhood
These examples of contempt from politicians and media for what might be called the Trump voter, the white working classes, or red-state America, could be repeated ad nauseam. The stereotypes, however, raise a number of ironies and paradoxes.
Liberal orthodoxy has always professed to oppose stereotyping people by their outward appearance.
Or has it? I might argue that progressivism used to remind us that our character, not our color mattered. But then I cannot, because it never did —given that progressivism at its birth emerged as a bastard mix of Darwinism-fueled eugenics and Germanic inspired pseudo-science.
Academic dogma postulates that white people cannot be the victims of racism, and such banal white demonization has now seeped into the larger liberal commentariat. With that bias comes the twin notion that one can smear the white working classes with impunity. Caputo, however, was not brave or stupid enough to visit a Trump rally and to suggest to the crowd around him to get to a Clear Smile clinic.
If you are a non-white purveyor of such prejudice, venom like Jeong’s is contextualized through the lens of compensatory historical grievances. Someone’s grandfather mistreated your grandmother, so you can invert and then replay the roles with impunity. Or less charitably, life’s disappointments are always due to past cosmic injustice, not one’s own perceived tragic shortcomings or bad luck or just cruel fate.
If you are an elite white liberal, you are a twofer: virtue signaling your identity politics bona fides, while psychologically squaring the circle of your own privilege. Those who ridicule less fortunate white others for their supposed racial privilege—themselves often the products of old boy networks, elite upbringings, inherited perks, prep schools and parental leveraging—end up as the privileged smearing the non-privileged for their privilege.
Jeong is a Harvard Law graduate. Strzok has a master’s degree from Georgetown. The ridicule of the white working class by NeverTrump conservative pundits is read on the pages of the nation’s premier newspapers or voiced in hallowed symposia.
Is such ignorance of an entire class because of, or in spite of such, elite training?
Does the university-bred cursus honorarium have room for real-world experience beyond the campus and laptop?
Has Jeong ever worked welding alongside the grandchildren of Dust Bowl diaspora to adjudicate their actual skin-colored advantage? Did her class and gender studies work at Harvard Law constitute a tougher curriculum than a 12-hour shift at Denny’s? Is the soybean jack-of-all-trades farmer really denser than the Yale English major?
A final irony. In answer to the now hackneyed question, who or what created Trump? All these purveyors of class and racial prejudice need only look in the mirror.
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Liberal elites? But fox news told me that liberals don't work, live in their mothers basement and collect welfare????? NOW they are elites?
I wish they would pick a talking point and stick with it, constantly changing the talking points to fit the agenda of the day is just plain stupid.
And you expect something different from stuck on stupid group.
A guy can dream can't he?
Kindly prove that Fox News Channel has said everything you claim they have said.
That's the narrative they push.
In comment 4.2 I asked you to PROVE it. Cite evidence using FNC links to what you claim.
Sure, prove that Hillary colluded with Russia to defeat trump.... No? Didn't think so.
Yea, whatever... LOL I am sure that no conservative has ever said liberals are welfare queens.. LOL Sure.. LOL
And still waiting.
Well, if she did, she certainly F*cked that up.
Gee, this is right on time -
In case it's too hard to read, the t-shirt says " I'd Rather Be A Russian Than A Democrat".
These two yahoos were seen yukking it up at a Trump rally last week. I don't have any problem saying that the Trump deplorables are a plague on this country and need to be defeated and sent to the ash heap of history as soon as possible.
They are a minority of the population, many of them are ignoramuses, and racists, and the rest of us are under no requirement to be nice to them.
I do understand that not all Trump supporters are the self described deplorables, and these comments may not apply to them.
I'm talking basically about the idiots who chant "lock her up" at the rallies and believe that the "real" truth will prove that the "real" traitors are Obama and Loretta Lynch and James Comey.
Perhaps, but they all did choose to vote for a bigoted sociopath and a traitor.
The "red" color is apropos too.
Happy Traitors on Parade. What an adorable pair of douchebags!
Most people say the same thing about leftist Millennials.
Really? Who says that about 'leftist millennials?'
So these old, fat out of shape low IQ fools are the future of the country? deleted
The guy in the left middle pic looks like he had to get down in the dirt and wrestle that MAGA hat off someone.
That pic has a lot of synonymous R-words......Republican, Russian, Red, Rage, Reactionary, Retard, going Rouge. Am I missing any?
What a great time to be a photographer.
Should we put up a collage of the snowflake rage pictures too? It would have an equal value to what is posted above
Those are your people, H.A. You must be proud.
I think Trump should keep having these rallies every week. I think they are going to cost him and the Republicans votes among the sane folk.
I don't know.
The mugshots of the Berkeley antifa protestors who got arrested are pretty funny as well.
Such fine examples our our liberal brethren here in the US .....
After a year and a half of Trump, I'm pretty sure that his voter basket is filled with about 33% deplorables, 33% misguided republicans who have always voted republican and just followed that instinct, and 34% of voters who wake up every morning, look at the news, what our president says and does, and then say a prayer "Dear God, WTF did I do on that November day? Please help me correct the worst mistake of my life."
Wish I could say a third of them regret it, but that doesn't really square with a 40% approval rating. I would say that the Trump voters who turned against him are in the 15-20% range.
Trump 'won' by .05% of the vote. He can't even afford to loose 1%.
And it isn't looking good for him there because, surprise, American factories import a lot of mats and parts.
So, who is the alternative? Who is going to run in 2020? Have the dems decided on their new frontrunner? Why has no one heard an answer on this? Ah, too many are bleating about how bad it is to have President Trump instead of answering the 'elephant in the room' questioon, WTF did we do wrong and how do we fix it and win this back? The only voice anyone hears is Hillary telling us every week how a different segment of society caused her loss and Bernie (who the democrats conspired to keep out of office) trying to gain credibility.
Until I see a candidate and hear his/her platform, you can bleat all you want, you still won't win anything.
Running on a platform of how great it is to have a Marxist/Socialist country won't do much for them either. All of us (at least the older ones) saw what the USSR was like and how that Socialist thing came out for them.
That is absolutely untrue, the reason Nunes is 'under attack' is because he is openly obstructing justice and trying to lie and obfuscate what is going on with Mueller's investigation. Don't try to ignore the biggest elephant in the damn room, Nunes could be from a solid upper white middle class district and be getting the same shit for the same reasons. Nunes has been working with Trump to thwart the truth from coming out, his treason is the reason I attack him, and everything I read about opinions are the same. You don't get to change the reason Nunes is being scrutinized and criticized. I'll say it again, treason is the reason.
The FSB has Nunes in the bag. Rohrabacher too. Probably a few others also.
I can't wait to read the Woodward book next month (Fear). He has spoken with everybody in DC, his connections are unmatched. I think Russian connections to the RNC and GOP are included. Comes out Sept 11, and should be the bomb. Boom!
who are these "royal elites" ? what are their names ? what are their personality characteristics ? are they rich ? are they educated ?
Actually, 'the deplorables' are at war with themselves. They want to take away their own healthcare, remove all protections from their retirements and 401k's, privatize their education, make their government less accountable and if by chance their 15 year old daughter gets pregnant--be forced through government law to have the child whether they want it, can afford it or even have another spare room somewhere.
These folk are not deplorable. Instead, afraid of themselves, afraid for themselves and just generally, afraid.
With all the wars that your in, do you get combat pay?
Here's some video evidence of the Elites' War on the Deplorables:
I watched this, and was really at a loss for words. I mean, this is so fucking stupid that it falls completely off the far edge of the retard scale. Again, this is just one of those things that I cannot possibly even imagine being anything but completely stupid. If anyone here actually buys into this shit, you are so retarded that your very existence is a detriment to the human race. You are honestly so stupid that your stupidity presents a real danger to society, and should be handled.
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I think people who are brain dead have more logical activity going on in their brains than the people who buy into this shit. I mean, again, I am absolutely astonished that a human being can be this fucking retarded. I would be less surprised if an alien landed in my backyard and gave me a winning lottery ticket, that is how absurdly dumb this Q thing is.
Lemme guess, you are Q?
Haven't you heard yet? According to Q, Bill and Hillary, John Podesta and Steven Spielberg are Lizard People who operate a chain of child sex establishments disguised as pizza parlors and video rental stores where American children are offered up to be fingered by Muslims, Mexicans and gay people /s...
This Q thing is honest to god the dumbest shit I have ever heard in my life. The fact that a single person buys this kinda makes me want to kill myself while making sure our star somehow goes supernova and wipes out our species. And notice that HA doesn't even remotely try to distance himself from it.
Next comment like that will earn an immediate suspension followed by a membership review.
It shouldn't take any sort of pressure or bending of arms to see Trump is a monumentally incompetent self admitted sexual predator and knows nothing about running a country let alone the four companies he ran into bankruptcy. It shouldn't take any "objections" from haters to see that, just a tiny bit, a minuscule amount of intelligence and objectivity would lead one not to support the gold plated fraud a minority of Americans got elected. Was it against all odds? Yes. It was. And a lot of people love an underdog, I get it. But this underdog isn't, he's a charlatan, a fake, a liar, a cheat, a limped dicked small handed piece of shit bigot and you all know it but are to God damn proud to admit it. Instead, you'd rather watch our country get metaphorically kicked in the balls daily by the numb nuts and chief and his terrible cabinet and horrible administration.
Q could be just any crazy meth-head in Arkansas or else just a ruse by Putin's Troll Army...
And that is even crazier to me, this "Q" could literally be a homeless dude at the public library.
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Oh come on, those comments have as much value as anything HA ever says.
Meh.
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Just to be clear, Trump supporters do realize that he, and everyone around him, are part of the elite right? How many plumbers from "whothefuckknowswhere" America are in his cabinet or heading up major govt agencies? I mean, they get that their president is a super rich asshole who is surrounded by other super rich assholes right? But yeah, he totally has YOUR best interests at heart.
Q?
The liberal information ministers are really working OT now.
Wonder if they're getting paid time and a half?
So wait, those are liberals showing up to support Trump?
No, i think its a street car window washer. You know, the guy with the requisite "The end is near" sign who got some free internet time and posted some gibberish.
Now some in the media or otherwise are trying to intimate that it is somehow a norm of thinking for many. Took the bait, hook, line and sinker they did.
SOSDD .....
Sorry dude, but mother fuckers are showing up to his egotistical jerk off sessions advocating this Q bullshit. Removed
Lol, sorry dude but the real retards are the one spazing out over shit that isn’t there.
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I support Trump.
There is a extremely retarded element of progressive Liberals that cry everyday because they are losers and expect the government to support them and there worthless base for there bad decisions.
For your own sake, I hope you keep that to yourself.
Why would I?
People are making money and spending it on me to build them shit. It has been a very good year.
Same with conservatives, they are called "rural America" or Heartland America.
Waiting for the next Trump rally