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Political Commentator 1 (0:53)
The most corrupt president in history, Convicted felon Donald Trump continues to pour out more racist flags. I mean, it strikes me as no surprise that his most recent appointee is a huge white supremacist. Trump just appointed Paul in Gracia to head the United States Office of Special Counsel in Gracia, has defended the Confederate flag and claimed black Americans should pay reparations to the descendants of slave owners. And then here's his post about the Confederate flag. In a proper country, any public building now flying the Ukraine flag would be forced to replace it with the Confederate battle flag or face serious fines. Also, the Confederate flag is not hate speech. And anyone who claims otherwise is a brain dead Lemmy who knows zilch about American history. And he's 29 years old and this is the kind of crap that goes on in his head. It is so appalling in every way.
Political Commentator 2 (1:56)
Well, this is a generation where, you know, Charlie Kirk and others started going after the youth and then they started building a right wing media echoes. I mean, a right wing media ecosystem. And they have, they're able to indoctrinate people online with, they probably have racist default settings from their parents, particularly in the south, if this guy is all about the Confederate flags. But this mindset doesn't shock me that it exists because I live in Oklahoma and I know that racism is very alive and well. People on the coast don't quite understand it, but what Trump is doing by appointing these people, again, it is an authoritarian play. He is doing all of this stuff out in the open. He knows that there is this trail to let people know this is the direction we're going. I'm a dictator, I'm an autocrat. I'm an authoritarian. And all of this is by design to make black people and marginalized people feel helpless and hopeless so that they don't organize and fight back.
Political Commentator 1 (3:02)
Well, it's interesting that you said that about the youth because we see the new special counsel with Andrew Tate, who is absolutely abhorrent but kind of a legend in the masculine community. And then this is what he said to Nikki Haley on Twitter. Nikki Haley says Benjamin asks a great question. Why won't Trump debate me? Maybe because he's afraid. And Paul Ingrassia says it's actually because you're an insufferable bitch. And I wanted to bring this up because I, in my opinion, the way the Trump administration treats women as disposable and has made it very clear with the, with Donald Trump in the White House, Pete Hexeth at the Department of Defense, we don't care if you're sexually harassed. We don't want women at the table. Women should be at home. This is a patriarchy, just like with the racism. This administration is against women. And it is clear as the nose on my face.
