Trump now blames ‘mutants’ for indictment in latest Truth Social rant
Trump now blames ‘mutants’ for indictment in latest Truth Social rant
In a characteristically rambling post on Truth Social, Mr Trump said that the indictment ‘hoax’ was the fault of misfits – and mutants
In a characteristically rambling post on Truth Social, Mr Trump said that the indictment ‘hoax’ was the fault of misfits – and mutants
This unfortunately is a new dog whistle for trans individuals :(
See here: https://www.politico.com/video/2023/04/11/florida-republican-calls-transgender-people-mutants-881289
Considering the traditional stories and plot points central to the X-Men comic/series this is kinda ironic
As I recall, "Mutant, and proud" was a repeated line in the more recent movies used as a rallying cry.
Using the term as an insult is probably counterproductive given the popular media association of stories of people being oppressed for their differences.
IIRC, the X-Men was originally an allegory for the Civil Rights movement - complete with some "mutants" wanting to work within the system to improve things and others wanting to tear the entire system down.
Of course, all persecutions tend to share similar themes even if details change so the story of the X-Men is easily applied to LGBTQ folks as well as any other group that's persecuted against.
And if someone sides with the people who persecuted the X-Men without realizing that this makes them the villains, they really are idiotic.
what a weak derogatory term. "You sly filthy mutants. You are just like those Teenage Turtles or that weird Wolverine guy."
honestly wear it as a badge of honor. Having comic book series made about your character traits is kind of sick. Ngl even for trump thats weak.
Fuck this orange shitstain and his barnacles.
Disappointed but not surprised :/
I'm going to be honest but Trump blaming mutants was not on my bingo card. Is it X-Men variety or more TMNT?
The trans kind :(
https://www.politico.com/video/2023/04/11/florida-republican-calls-transgender-people-mutants-881289
Absolutely disgusting language.
Considering how X-Men has long been an allegory for queer identity and the attempted oppression thereof, I hope trans people will take this as the unintentional compliment he didn't intend it to be. In this world where conformity is choking the planet and multiplying suffering, being different is a superpower.
Fuck Trump with a fork along with anyone who supports him.
Fucking stupid republican probably doesn’t realize the irony in calling trans people Marvel comic “mutants”. The mutants were mistreated by conservatives in those books and rounded up and sent to camps. A holocaust survivor championed their cause leading many to fight back against the human Nazis.
Is Swamp Thing a mutant? It'd explain Trump wanting to "drain the swamp"; maybe he was being literal?
Every time I hear "Swamp thing" I think about this wonderful song.. Please...enjoy: https://youtu.be/r6XFX7vP8i8
Swamp Thing is actually an Earth Elemental.
there had been dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Swamp Things since the dawn of humanity, and that all versions of the creature were designated defenders of the Parliament of Trees, an elemental community which rules a dimension known as "the Green" that connects all plant life on Earth.
It’s the Warhammer 40k variety and we’re all about to get bombarded from the heavens in the name of the God-Emperor of Mankind for tolerating their presence on Holy Terra no less.
I can't prove it but it really, really feels like this is his way of grabbing the transphobic voter base of the right without actually saying something direct about transgender people. He uses words like MUTANT and lets his potential voters read that however they want, because he knows that voting group is pretty much the only ones supporting Desantis, who seems to base his entire platform on hate and fear.
I am just imagining him giving a speech about how professor X is with the “deep-state” lol
Republicans talking about Trans people like Nazis talking about Jews episode #853
More like "Republicans talking about Trans people like Nazis talking about Trans people"
The first of the famous nazi book burnings were targeted at an institute studying and trying to understand trans people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft
...God this makes me so mad. This place was based as hell and not only did the Nazis ruin it, West Germany looked at what happened afterwards and went "meh, 'salright, I guess."
Dehumanization is a page straight out of the authoritarian handbook.
I learned how dangerous dehumanization is when I went on a tour of the Holocaust Museum in DC. (SIde note: I recommend going there. It's not a "happy" place to visit, but it's an important one. Give yourself half a day for the museum and half a day to mentally recover. )
At one point, you can go through or around one of the train cars that transported Jews to the death camps. I walked inside and stopped. The plaque had said how many people were crammed inside, but I couldn't mentally fit that many people in the train car.
Then, I realized my mistake. I was trying to fit PEOPLE. Even though the people I was trying to fit in were imaginary, I was still treating them like people. Once I tried fitting human shaped objects into the train car, I could easily fit that many.
Once you dehumanize a group of people, the door is opened to do anything you want to them because all societal guardrails for the treatment of your fellow humans are removed.
Relevant Pratchett passage:
There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example,” said Oats.
“And what do they think? Against it, are they?” said Granny Weatherwax.
“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”
“Nope.”
"Pardon?”
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.
"It’s a lot more complicated than that . . .”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes . . .”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things . . . ”
— Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
Has anyone checked Jack Smith for adamantium claws?
Well at least "mutant" carries the recognition that it's not a matter of choice. If the tiny trans population is solely responsible for the indictment, then surely that means we're superior mutants at that 😏
You could say... super mutants.
That must be why Republicans are trying so hard to reduce the budget. They want to free up money so they can spend it building Sentinels.
Better a mutant than a Nazi, so nyah :P
"REALLY BIG FUNDRAISING, EVEN GREATER POLLS, SINCE THE RADICAL LEFT INDICTMENT HOAX WAS INITIATED BY THE MISFITS, MUTANTS, MARXISTS, & COMMUNISTS! THANK YOU"
Goddamn. That dude is going full-on Looney Tunes.
Another dog whistle from the tangerine.
How long until conservatives try to cancel Marvel for spreading pro-mutant propaganda?
Well, X-Men has already been compared to the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community so really they should already be upset at them.
"THE MISFITS, MUTANTS, MARXISTS..." He loves that alliteration even if it makes no sense.
Wow, he's complaining about Twitter 3 years before it came online. The other day I found a video of Henry Rollins complaining about YouTube in 1985.
What does it mean if the X-Men are out to get you?
Probably that you are secretly building killer robots, that will take over the world in the future.
Magneto Was Right
Storm(y Daniels)
it's like he's playing "guess who" board game, blaming everyone but himself and making sure everyone gets a shoutout
Exactly. I also raised my eyebrows when he recently started calling people far right lunatics.
lol bruh, that's your camp xD
I knew the Xmen were behind all this...
/s
We're going to build Sentinels and Xavier is going to pay for it!
Thanks, I hate it.
He HAS to be poorly programmed AI, right?
Can't be. There not a single trace of intelligence in this rotten orange meat ball.
Good point lmao
This poor guy would love nothing more than to be able to demonize the people he truly despises: the poor, white, rural people who form the base of his support. Whether or not he goes to prison, the ultimate curse that has been inflicted on him is that he will never get the respect of people he himself respects -- the well-heeled upper-crust to which he nauseatingly aspired with warped attempts at imitation like the gaudy entrance of Trump Tower. To his everlasting torture, polite society will never have a kind word for him, so he's damned to touring what we in America call the ruby-reddest parts of "red states" and there to accept the adulation of crowds he does not respect or like. Imagine the tension of holding these two things to be true at once: "these people are stupid as hell" and "these people love me more than anyone." I wouldn't wish that kind of agony on anyone but Donald Trump.
Is this a Deadpool 3 leak?
Tone down the maliciousness a bit, and Trump would be a good inspiration for Alpha Complex's Friend Computer.
Big green mutants with fangs are attacking Trump