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@bcsproul
In Roseannes defense, its hard to know the difference between racism that gets you fired versus racism that gets you elected President of the United States.
3:47 PM · May 29, 2018
The Polack MSgt
(13,192 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)calimary
(81,466 posts)Solomon
(12,319 posts)Barr probably thought her racist tweet would be ignored or if it wasn't she could give a quasi-apology and all would be forgiven, as it had in the past.
Thankfully ABC wasn't willing to tolerate her racist bullshit...if only some of our citizens had felt the same way about our Pretender in Chief!
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)dlk
(11,576 posts)Nitram
(22,879 posts)Populist demagogues have been using that trick for centuries.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Trump caught the racism issue on the upswing. Roseanne caught it at the bottom.
jcgoldie
(11,646 posts)He has 42.4% approval. Seems to me racism is still pretty popular.
Wounded Bear
(58,708 posts)on the downswing, maybe. But I'm still not sure it has crested.
jcgoldie
(11,646 posts)oasis
(49,408 posts)Chemisse
(30,817 posts)Perhaps she expected to be basking in a rise in popularity right about now, just like Trump did after every sickening remark during the election season.
KSNY
(315 posts)I suggest Wanda Sykes or Whoopi Goldberg as John Goodman's new spouse.
and fingers crossed that Trump's role will be recast too with someone classier.
NNadir
(33,545 posts)He acceded to the office because of an artifact in the US constitution which was put there to protect slavery.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)what, if anything, has President Duh Donnie tweeted in Roseanne's defense?
rocktivity