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Oh, sorry Suzer.
I don't know the exact history behind choosing the bald eagle as our national symbol, but I have to agree with Mickey here.

It's a majestic animal.
Let's not go overboard now.

But, as I post this, I will emmidiatly try to look into it.

Keeping fingers crossed I don't find anything racist behind the choice!

Yeah sure. Same design except holding a round US flag instead of swastika. Just a coincidence from known non-racist Stephen Miller.

And combining it with "America First" - a racist pro-Nazi movement in the US in the 1930s - just another one of those coincidences.

All things must be evaluated separately in a vacuum with zero context, knowledge of Stephen Miller or Trump's past racist behavior, or knowledge of history applied.

This is exactly why dogwhistles work. "Normie" republicans will go into any contortion imaginable to look the other way and not understand something that's pretty obvious.

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07-01-2020 , 04:03 PM

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What about this image?

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07-01-2020 , 04:04 PM

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I don’t know about the tweet but the eagle thing is spot on. Miller loves that kind of imagery and symbolism to push his racist agenda.

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07-01-2020 , 04:04 PM

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"Heritage" is a huge word for racists. It's choice was intentional.

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I don’t know about the tweet but the eagle thing is spot on. Miller loves that kind of imagery and symbolism to push his racist agenda.

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07-01-2020 , 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Inso0

Doesn't matter. The girl in the tweet said it was 88. Just pretend there's a second space between the end of the sentence and the hashtag.

How many times did you count?

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07-01-2020 , 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

"Heritage" is a huge word for racists. It's choice was intentional.

Maybe the Department of the Interior designed the shirt. They use the word heritage here.

https://www.doi.gov/photos/black-his...national-parks

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07-01-2020 , 04:10 PM

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Real Fox Business interview with President Donald J. Trump

Q: Today, here in the District of Columbia, 3 other states as well, they are raising the minimum wage. The critics would say this is the wrong time to do that for businesses. Do you agree?

Trump: I'm gonna have a statement on minimum wage, I feel differently than a lot of people on minimum wage, some people in my own party, but I'll have a statement over the next two weeks on minimum wage.

Q: In terms of...

Trump: Well I think I'm gonna have a very positive statement on minimum wage. But look, I'm putting people to work at record numbers, I did it once, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country, then we got hit with the China virus, it came in and it came in rather quickly, and we put bans on China, did a lot of things right - I think we did it all right, we did a great job. We're credited with doing a great job.

lol

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07-01-2020 , 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Legion

What about this image?

Funny how Trump's eagle is looking to the right, like the Nazi eagle.

95% of these are looking to the left, like your eagle: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+e...w=1374&bih=740

Nothing can be inferred. No basic logic can be applied. Just another coincidence from Stephen Miller, the guy who wrote this:

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McHugh, Sept. 6, 2015, 3:34 p.m. ET: “[Breitbart editor] Neil [Munro], Julia [Hahn] and I are going to do a series of stories on [nonwhite SAT scores] to break it down. Neil says it’s easier for people to digest that way and change their minds.”

And this:

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Miller, Sept. 6, 2015, 3:41 p.m. ET: “On the education angle? Makes sense. Also, you see the Pope saying west must, in effect, get rid of borders. Someone should point out the parallels to Camp of the Saints.”

Would you like to know more about Camp of the Saints?

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In 2001, the Southern Poverty Law Center described it as "widely revered by American white supremacists and is a sort of anti-immigration analog to The Turner Diaries."[25] Again, in October 2015, the SPLC condemned the novel as "the favorite racist fantasy of the anti-immigrant movement in the US."[26] The Southern Poverty Law Center has compared the book to The Turner Diaries, attributing its popularity with white nationalists to the plot's parallels with the white genocide conspiracy theory.[25] Ryan Lenz of the SPLC notes that "[t]he premise of Camp of the Saints plays directly into that idea of white genocide. It is the idea that through immigration, if it's left unchecked, the racial character and content of a culture can be undermined to the point of oblivion."[27] In November 2019, Michael Edison Hayden, senior investigative reporter for the SPLC's HateWatch, referred to the book as "absolutely disgustingly racist".[28]

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07-01-2020 , 04:11 PM

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How many times did you count?

None, because manual labor is for suckers.

I copied the text into an online character counter.

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07-01-2020 , 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by wet work

How many times did you count?

It's 14 words. I'm sure that part was intentional. Who knows about the 88 character part.

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07-01-2020 , 04:14 PM

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What about this image?

sarcasm? i hope so.

that logo isn't remotely similar to the two at issue.

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07-01-2020 , 04:16 PM

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America’s official unemployment rate is 13.3 percent (and the actual rate is almost certainly higher). Across the Sun Belt, hasty reopenings have crashed into coronavirus outbreaks and then whiplashed into reverse. Now, the U.S. is setting new records for daily confirmed COVID-19 cases, and cities across the Northeast are preemptively postponing the restoration of economic normality. Anthony Fauci told Congress on Tuesday that absent more robust efforts to contain the virus, new cases could soon top 100,000 per day. Before the recent upsurge in infection, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that it could take ten years or more for U.S. unemployment to return to pre-pandemic levels.

Senate Republicans gazed out on this benighted landscape — examined its shuttered storefronts, overcrowded hospitals, and bustling food banks — and hatched a plan for restoring shared prosperity: Make life harder for the unemployed.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020...-stimulus.html

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07-01-2020 , 04:26 PM

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Suzzer, you've been away for a while and I think spent too much time in the sun.

Trump is simultaneously too stupid to tie his own shoes or keep track of global nuclear powers, and can't go three seconds without dumping his brain cache onto Twitter, but then also comes up with carefully crafted hidden messages to the 500 people in the USA who are still card-carrying members of the KKK.

Again I have to ask, who ARE you people?!

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07-01-2020 , 04:28 PM

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Again I have to ask, who ARE you people?!

- signed, a Donald Trump voter

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07-01-2020 , 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Inso0

No one thinks that was Trump's idea. I've posted Stephen Miller several times, which you completely ignore, because you know that even acknowledging Stephen Miller is a losing argument for your feigned ignorance take. You're like a certain site owner with Sheldon Adelson.

Lol at pretending there are only 500 white supremacists in the country when more than 500 show up at rallies all over the country - waving Trump flags right next to confederate flags and sometimes nazi flags. Or have you somehow managed to always look away when that comes on a screen?

You're a bad faith joke, as always.

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07-01-2020 , 04:42 PM

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Is there some evidence to see who designed this shirt? Looked on the Trump merchandise website but couldn't find any info.

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07-01-2020 , 04:47 PM

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there are only less than 500 white supremacists, but there are ANTIFA EVERYWHERE!! MS13 COMING INTO YOUR HOUSE!!

thoughts of the right...

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07-01-2020 , 04:48 PM

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Speaking of bad faith, haven't heard from lvr demanding videos for a while. I guess that satisfied his curiosity.

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07-01-2020 , 04:49 PM

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there are only less than 500 white supremacists, but there are ANTIFA EVERYWHERE!! MS13 COMING INTO YOUR HOUSE!!

thoughts of the right...

Remember the caravans? The great existential crisis of our times?

A virus that will literally kill you: Stop living in fear you cowards. No I won't wear a mask. My rights don't end at your fears.

Some single moms and kids walking to the US border: **** YOUR PANTS NOW!!!

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07-01-2020 , 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Trump has learned from the tech industry, the video game industry and other consumer product industries: The best way to hype something up is to make an announcement of an announcement.

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07-01-2020 , 04:50 PM

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Similarly, Tom Cotton:

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"Wyoming is smaller than Washington by population, but it has three times as many workers in mining, logging and construction, and 10 times as many workers in manufacturing. In other words, Wyoming is a well-rounded working-class state. A new state of Washington would not be," the Arkansas Republican said on the Senate floor.

I don't see the point in arguing with unpersuadable deplorables about dogwhistles when the GOP is happy to tell you, out loud, exactly who they are

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07-01-2020 , 04:53 PM

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You're a bad faith joke, as always.

Damn, right in the feels. =/

Hopefully the racist boogeyman under your bed doesn't bite your toes at night.

What brings you joy in life? Might be time to take another break and go do that instead. What's going on here definitely can't be good for your mental state. Relax, friend. It'll all be over soon. Just a couple more months and the bad orange man will be gone.