Trump and his merry band of miscreants have a trifold purpose for calling DC Judge Tanya S. Chutkan and Fani Willis “Riggers.” Please click the highlighted, bold area here for the news story, as I don’t want to place Trump’s actual words on this page.
The most obvious. Back in the days of George Wallace, you could scream about not wanting rhymes with Riggers in your White only public swimming pool. Nowadays, you will be considered an outright racist. Many on the right are racist but can get away with their dog whistles if they have plausible deniability. Riggers comes just close enough to the N-word but not quite, and they can say it gleefully while maintaining they are simply stating they are talking’ about the “rigged election”—duh. Number two explains why this is bullshit.
They will soon apply this to anyone with a deeper shade of tan and those on the left who fight for minority groups the GOP despises. Such folks are Rigger Lovers. In MAGA’s eyes, only White folks have the right to vote. Someone like me should know my place and accept my Gawd-given lot by gum. I even had a Republican once explain that I shouldn’t have the right to vote because we Black folks don’t know what is best for us—only they do. Seriously. To my face! I thought he was a one-off; come to find, many on the right feel this way and are chomping at the bit to erase history so people won’t think it is oh-so bad to put me back in chains. I am now, to many, a Rigger by default for my mere desire to vote. Riggers are bad, you see, so fighting against them to ensure they can’t vote will be heroic. Nay, even patriotic.
Trump and his ilk want to shut down Black voices. It won’t matter if they are rich, poor, or even on their side. They have groomed Black Conservatives to “Thank God for slavery” and fight against their best interests. These House Negreos would be like the women wearing shirts that say, “Women should not vote.” How anyone who does such things can look at themselves in the mirror is beyond me. Right Wing nutjobs, particularly of the religious ilk, are used to capitulating their free will on those they consider to have more power, many in the hope of salvation, being well-regarded or spared the indignities put on the field slave, who will be beaten with—as Emerson wrote in “Self-Reliance,” —“displeasure” for bucking the system. Only White men get to be patriots—the rest of us must accept being “ruled.”
The use of the actual N-word in political discourse is not far behind.
Circling back to the 2nd reason for the not-so-subtle dog whistle, the path the Trumpists want to lead America down is clear. Fascist regimens don’t tend to stop at “Othering” minorities; they also try to strip them of rights. By taking the word WOKE from liberals, for example, they stole the shorthand we used in educating people about the disenfranchisement minority groups and women face.
The Trump cabal is also trying to ensure they seize power by taking back hard-earned rights and returning to the good ole days when they could beat down opposition and change the rules of law at a whim.
Nothing was good about those days for people of color—we mustn’t allow them to hijack another narrative in this regard.
We mustn’t let them win!
What can you expect from a bunch of Trunts? They're all little stitches who can eat my malls and taste my sweet cherry bass.
I'm sure the little duckers think they're creative.
When the preacher arrived at Ruby Freeman's door to get her to lay down for the lie (and her name is Freeman for gawd's sake), I like to imagine that she gently invited him inside... then became Eddie Murphy's Mom. "Please come in, won't you. Now -- What (forehand). In (backhand), The (forehand). World (backhand) Is (forehand). Wrong (backhand). With (forehand). You (backhand)?" for the next ten minutes.