Simone Biles jabs Trump: 'I love my Black job'
Simone Biles jabs Trump: 'I love my Black job'
Older comments by Trump’s 2024 running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R), have recently resurfaced in which he said he found it strange “that we’ve tried to turn a very tragic moment, Simone Biles quitting the Olympic team, into this act of heroism.”
“And I think it reflects pretty poorly on our sort of therapeutic society, that we try to praise people not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments,” Vance continued.
No matter the issue, there’s always a JD Vance quote saying something awful about women.
Sounds more like fascist fetishization of the strong and disparaging of the weak to me.
Because that's exactly what it is.
“And I think it reflects pretty poorly on our sort of therapeutic society, that we try to praise people not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments,” Vance continued.
Ahahaha what a pathetic excuse for an overly stinky piece of weird shit.
Productivity >>> The health of the peasants.
This faux tough guy shit republicans keep pushing actually affects and hurts people.
That’s gotta sting even more for a man who’s perpetually stuck with bronze.
I heard noopnoop say got-dayum to that one.
What up my glip glops!
Fatality!
"I always saw her wearing GOLD medals...Now all of sudden she's black?"
Dopest of chains.
That must be why Flavor Flav is helping out these Olympians.
She's a national treasure! (And I hear she's a pretty good gymnast too.)
She didn't have to comment (actually she DID since the orange shit stained bully always requires a response during this campaign season), she could have just laid low, reveled in her Olympic wins, thanked GAWD and told the media her next move was she was going to Disneyland.
Instead, she bravely steps in and sarcastically jabs him on the nose knowing full well that the greatest insult to that privileged failure of a human is sass from an uppity negro. An actual WINNER, no less! Further punctuating that he's a loser.
It's only a matter of time until Mexican
JokerGymnast takes her jerb/s
Something something, Republican mental gymnastics.
Is there an Olympic sport for that?
I remember the Olympics where she had to drop out for personal issues and Reddit was a shitshow of people slamming on her being unpatriotic.
I know it’s likely not the same people but it irks me how now she’s a hero (always was to me) because she is bringing home medals.
Queue some trump word salad about how he's the best former president for black folks since Lincoln and how Biles is nasty and ungrateful.
This title is beautiful. Please carry on with these jabs and Happy Friday, everyone!
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As a flaming red socialist, I will say that (while it seems to have been effective), the "black jobs" rhetoric is disingenuous.
Saying that [x group] will take [y group] jobs is a standard thing. You could say, "California expats will take Texan jobs," for instance. This doesn't mean there is a specific class of job that Texans are suitable for. It means there are jobs that could be held by Texans that would be taken by California expats instead. In Trump's case, there is no evidence for such job-taking, but he clearly means to say something specific - and it isn't that jobs should be/are segregated.
So, anyway. It doesn't really matter so long as it hurts Trump, but this type of rhetoric is misleading, disingenuous, and ultimately harmful to the state of political discourse.
Edit: This caused a shit storm. This is the point I'm trying but apparently failing to make:
When we make criticisms of the other side, those criticisms are usually stronger in the long run if they're based on the actual positions they take rather than straw-manned ones. And I think this is "black jobs" rhetoric is a straw-manned critique.
The problem with the "black Jobs" rhetoric is that it was made in reference to immigrant labor, implying that black Americans are a permanent racial underclass competing for low wage jobs with new immigrants. Trump broke the cardinal rule of Republican politics: he told the truth.
That's why Biles' statement is notable, because her "black job" is to be a world champion.
People choose to live in CA or TX.
Skin color isn't a choice. It's not the same thing.
Add to it that it was uttered by a notorious racist who has been a bigoted piece shit for 40+ years.
The implication is clear.
The implication is pretty clearly "the immigrants are coming to take your jobs, black people". Especially when said to a room full of black people. Especially given that that has been standard republican messaging for well over 50 years for all ethnic groups.
That is still racist. It is still manipulative. It is still scummy and bad. It just is pretty clearly not logically equivalent to "immigrants are coming to take the jobs segregated for black people".
And obviously state of residence is not equivalent to race. It is an example. It is the same logical form of argument. They've done the same thing (about race, specifically) to rural white folks since literally the trans-continental railroad, but then about Chinese immigrants mostly. In modern times, the meaning has never been "only x race can have y job". It has always been about the threat of the outsider (immigrant) "stealing" jobs from non-immigrants as a way of causing an us-vs-them dynamic. That is still a racist dynamic. But it is not the same as saying only x race can have y job.
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