House voting on condemnation of Trump's "Go Back To Where You're From"

[T'Chenka]

Can somebody please tell me the actual implications of this? Is it just congressional virtue signalling or something more?

[T'Chenka]

Well, no one can say it’s just Trump anymore. It is now the official position of congressional republicans that it is totally fine to go around telling non-white people to “go back to where they came from.”

Democrats also refused to officially condemn Omar after he duel loyalty comment and many other anti Semitic comments   . So no it’s not only Republicans, it is both parties . Doesn’t excuse the GOP but the Dems aren’t any better .

Agree fully. US politics now is a big pile of gutter. On BOTH sides. All civility and respect for different opinion is gone...

and the blame goes to Mainstream News Media(even excluding Fox and MSNBC) as for too long the only thing they have cared about is ratings, ratings ,and ratings. So to get thoses ratings they turned politics into sports and instead of talking about the issues in detail they talk endlessly about meaningless political battles and over time the voters began to treat politics as sports too.


So now 80% of the voters really dont care one bit about how bad a candidate is as long as they are on their team they will defend them and expect others in the party too as well. The only thing now days that turns people against someone in their own party is a belief that person betrayed the party. 

You're on to something here.

That being said, many conservatives (not all) in 2019 would reject quality cable news that talked about the issues, because some (not all) of their beloved political positions are based on horse sh_t instead of facts and evidence. Once quality cable news dived into the issues properly and pointed that out, many would get triggered and scream about FAKE NEWS and go back to watching Fox.

I for one would watch it if it was half as good as Secular Talk, David Pakman, Sam Seder, Ring Of Fire or The Young Turks. I don't agree with every single thing said on those shows (especially SJW talk) but they attempt to cut through the cr_p and tackle issues properly without a corporate or establishment bias. Looking for some conservative shows like that to expand my mind. I tried Crowder and Shapiro a few years back... lol.

[T'Chenka]

It's very interesting that Katko voted against Trump despite being in a D+3 district. Seems like pressing your luck.

He thought the virtue signalling was more important overall.

[T'Chenka]

Well, no one can say it’s just Trump anymore. It is now the official position of congressional republicans that it is totally fine to go around telling non-white people to “go back to where they came from.”

Democrats also refused to officially condemn Omar after he duel loyalty comment and many other anti Semitic comments   . So no it’s not only Republicans, it is both parties . Doesn’t excuse the GOP but the Dems aren’t any better .

Remind me how many times the Republican House condemned Steve King, Louis Gohmert, or Allen West for their reprehensible statements.

Republicans voted to  strip Steve King of his committee assignments

They only did that because his racism was too obvious, open, and in-your-face to ignore.  If he had just stuck with more subtle dog whistles like any good Republican would have done, he would have been fine. 

Omar’s bigotry is also obvious, open and too in your face to ignore

No it wasn’t. The Benjamins and duel loyalty stuff while having dog whistling elements to it were in no way shape or form as bad as what King or Trump have said

You are only saying that cause Omar is on the same “team” as you are on

You're projecting.

[T'Chenka]

Well, no one can say it’s just Trump anymore. It is now the official position of congressional republicans that it is totally fine to go around telling non-white people to “go back to where they came from.”

Democrats also refused to officially condemn Omar after he duel loyalty comment and many other anti Semitic comments   . So no it’s not only Republicans, it is both parties . Doesn’t excuse the GOP but the Dems aren’t any better .

Remind me how many times the Republican House condemned Steve King, Louis Gohmert, or Allen West for their reprehensible statements.

Republicans voted to  strip Steve King of his committee assignments

They only did that because his racism was too obvious, open, and in-your-face to ignore.  If he had just stuck with more subtle dog whistles like any good Republican would have done, he would have been fine.  

Omar’s bigotry is also obvious, open and too in your face to ignore

No it wasn’t. The Benjamins and duel loyalty stuff while having dog whistling elements to it were in no way shape or form as bad as what King or Trump have said

You are only saying that cause Omar is on the same “team” as you are on

You're projecting.

Wrong , I said in my post it’s not an excuse for the GOP to not condemn Trump.

That's not exactly how projection works.

If you project your partisanship often, you don't have to be being partisan right at a specific moment in order to project partisanship at that same specific moment.

EDIT - I'm probably being too hard on you. You've been fairly critical of Trump this week.