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Right-Wing Republicans in Congress Attack Mamdani With Islamophobic Comments

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The responses to Zohran Mamdani’s showing in the New York City mayoral primary were the latest examples of how some G.O.P. lawmakers have grown more overt in using bigoted language and tropes.

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I love that both democrats and Republicans are losing their fucking minds. We did something right if that's the case.
- Chaos like… basic social policies most of the modern world embraced half a century ago?
  
  I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
  -Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from a Birmingham Jail
  This is what you sound like right now. Because it got the people in power's knickers in a twist, you'd rather have someone who didn't upset the establishment so much by... *checks notes... promising to really help people?
  
  An unjust peace is no peace at all.
  
  Anyone literally would. But we aren't in normal times and this win has the old fucks panties in a bunch which is a good thing. Fuck the status quo.
  
  The current administration is using chaos for wealth and power. But many see chaos as a necessary step to rescue the country from the grip of whatever the USA is and has become more of.
  The very definition of chaos means nobody can control it. It rattles around and produces outcomes which surprise many, it wrecks things many depend. And never builds what people need
  
  Kiss the diaper you chickenshit.
  
  Their Oligarchic stability isn't sustainable.
  
  We had that until... you know.
  
  You're the person MLK warned us about.
  
  That stability was a mirage. They were actively creating instability
I'm glad The NY Times is at least regularly calling these racist now in their news department, instead of "racially charged" or whatever.
But his shock win put him on the national radar, and some Republicans in Congress are now seeking to undermine him using a strategy similar to the racist one that Donald J. Trump employed against former President Barack Obama by questioning whether he was born in the United States. [...]
Some Democrats condemned the comments and expressed outrage, although they have learned not to expect any response. And their denunciations of racist attacks typically disappear into a morass of polarized content on social media. [...]
[Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama] made racist comments in response, lamenting New York City’s high concentration of undocumented immigrants and referring to them as vermin who “live off the federal government.”
- [Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama] made racist comments in response, lamenting New York City’s high concentration of undocumented immigrants and referring to them as vermin who “live off the federal government.”
  And then he snatched some cheese from a nearby reporter before scurrying off to his hole that he chewed into the wall. Later, while fucking his rat wife, he called Muslims "rat fuckers," apparently as a condemnation of someone other than himself.
Right wing Republicans? Are there currently left wing Republicans? I'm sure there are like 3 left wing Democrats but, the lion's share of politicians in the United States are right wing.
- It's as opposed to right wing Democrats who are also making islamophobic attacks against him.
  
  Right wing Democrats? Are there currently left wing Democrats?
- Right wing Republicans? Are there currently left wing Republicans?
  They call them Democrats i think
Republicans have long known their rhetoric is bullshit but have relied on Dems vote blue no matter who to keep the status quo.
Now that the Dems can no longer count on that, republicans are fucking terrified, while the Dems are scrambling to figure out how to keep the base content
- This was the result of a Dem primary.
  It will be interesting now to see how the "Vote Blue no matter who" gets interpreted now.
- while the Dems are scrambling to figure out how to keep the base content
  What?
  The DNC pivoted hard left with Martin, and did a complete 180 on the victory fund
  They know exactly what they need to be doing, and they're doing it...
  I don't know what exactly people expect
  
  The DNC pivoted hard left with Martin
  ??
  Democratic Party rejects dramatic change in leadership vote
  Democrats elected Minnesota DFL chair Ken Martin to lead their party on Saturday, picking a longtime insider from a purple state over candidates who argued for more radical reform after their November defeats.
  I don’t know what exactly people expect
  Stop voting to confirm Trump's nominations might be a start.
  
  Hard disagree with picking Martin.
  Ben Wilker getting snubbed just meant they were content with no change.
  Also see David Hogg
You can’t simultaneously be unamerican and have a fire club remix on SoundCloud where you’re rapping about your grandma. That’s the most American thing ever.
Racist politicians in Congress attack Mamdani with islamophobic comments
There fixed the title for you.

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