#with Charlamagne Tha God

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“Every time I talk to people, they talk about the economy. But I'm like, man, since World War II, the economy has always done better under a Democrat president. That's just a fact.

It's always been Democrats. There's been 11 recessions in this country. Ten of them have been Republicans.

So I don't know how they've hijacked that narrative. But I think the other thing that you just got to chock it up to is just good old fashioned racism. And I think in the case of Vice President Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton 2016, sexism.

I just really do, like it's still America at the end of the day. There are people in this country who are still just holding on to old ideologies. They don't want to see America be a great American melting pot where all of these different people from all of these different walks of life can live.

They like that racist, sexist, bigoted rhetoric that Trump spews.

Why is it so hard for her to say that?

I think because for whatever reason, like, you know, you hate these elected officials even when you say, is America a racist country? OK, you can't say America is a racist country, but you can say that, you know, there's systemic racism in America. I think that is a fair thing to say.

Like, I watched her on Fox News the other night, and I loved how she handled Bret Baer. When Bret Baer tried to push her, Bret Baer was like, are you saying the American people are stupid? I can't remember how he worded it, but she was like, ‘No, I would never say that because I don't want to disparage the American people. But my opponent has no problem doing that.’

And I understand that approach, you know, but I think that it is perfectly fine to acknowledge that those things exist because guess what? As a Black man, as a Black woman, you feel that.

As a woman, you feel that sexism. As a Jewish person, you think you don't feel all the antisemitism that's happening right here in our country. Like as a gay person, you think you don't feel the homophobia.

So you can speak to what people are feeling because you see it.”

There was an amazing moment in the interview where someone comes along and brings up the F word, fascism.

Kamala Harris: It's two very different visions for our nation. One mind that is about taking us forward and progress and investing the American people, investing in their ambitions, dealing with their challenges. And the other, Donald Trump, is about taking us backward

Charlamagne: The other is about fascism. Why can't we just say it?

Kamala Harris: Yes, we can say that.

Tell me about what transpired there and how you felt about it.

“Well, it was the same thing that we just said, right? Like, you know, she was saying what she's about, and then she was saying what he's about.

And I was just like, yo, just say it.

Like, he's a fascist. You just had General Mark Milley just said he's a fascist to the core, like a danger to the country. So for me, it's like the American people will never understand the threat that Donald Trump is if people aren't spelling it out.

They didn't treat him like he's a threat to democracy. They kept saying that he's a threat democracy. They kept saying that he's a threat to democracy, but Merrick Garland should have locked Trump up after the coup. Right?

I was literally watching something yesterday and there was a person talking and the person was like, if Donald Trump, you know, really let an attempted coup of this country, why didn't they arrest him? They did. They did charge him.

But there's so many people who don't even know because he's not treated like that. We know we live in a society that knows how to demonize people when they want to. Right?

You can look at it, and I'm just going to use this as an example. Not saying that it's not warranted that it's happening, but look at somebody like Diddy. Front page of every newspaper, all over the news.

You hear about every charge. Like you see it, you see it, you see it over and over. They don't villainize and demonize Trump in that way.

You've never seen Trump in handcuffs. You saw one Trump mugshot. Like they don't treat it like.

The media has continuously treated Donald Trump and his whole candidacy like it's normal, which is mind boggling to me.”

What do we have to... Not to be defensive, but jumping up and down, what do we have to do? I mean, how many different ways can you say it?

“You know why it doesn't penetrate? Because Americans are spoiled and we don't think it can happen here because it's never happened here.

Like if you talk to older people who were closer to that, who can remember things like, ‘Oh my God, he's doing a rally at Madison Square Garden.’

That's what happened in the 30s with the Nazis.

If you can talk to people who understand that, they get it. This generation doesn’t.

If you have a sense of history and you've read things like The Fall of The Third Reich, things like that, you can see the patterns that lead to somebody like Trump becoming a dictator. I just don't think people think dictatorship is possible in America, but it is, because our democracy is very fragile.”

—Charlamagne tha God, on election 2024

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Merry X-Men Holiday Special Highlights

Happy holidays, everyone! It's been about a year since I started posting about the X-Men on Tumblr and if it wasn't for all the lovely folks who engage and discuss it wouldn't be so enriching. I'm super anti-capitalist and anti cultural Christianity so it's less 'Happy Christmas' and more 'I wish y'all the best.' ❤️💚

I wonder if Lockheed speaks Hebrew

Here's Kitty Pryde celebrating Chanukah in Genosha and remembering her father. Leading the special with an explicitly Jewish character observing a Jewish holiday is great, but the notion of saving the world by becoming president of the USA is a dubious one. The USA is an imperialist entity built on deep seated systemic inequality and worse. Even the most progressive of presidents is beholden to that. It doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but Kitty is kidding herself about 'saving the world the right way.'

Nature Girl hates Christmas, and it's hard to argue with her reasons. The parts about warmth are weird to me because I live in Australia where Christmas is always hot AF. One of the few days I hope for rain, tbh.

I'm not sure if Bobby quite understood what 'eschewing capitalism' means but this looks pretty fun. That tie dye X-Men tee slaps and I want one. I wonder what Kubark thinks of this human holiday.

This story with Magneto coming around on the pointlessness of lighting menorahs does the rounds every now and then, though not as much as I'd expect. The kids are particularly plucky and eloquent, and the one who emphatically tells Magneto he's wrong is a legend. I'm fond of any story where Magneto rethinks his beliefs, and this is a nice one.

It took me a while to notice that this is written by Charlamagne tha God, possibly because it's kinda funny to imagine Ororo knowing who that is. Idk why, I've just never seen any stories indicating that she's into Hip Hop culture. I like that it's a rejection of turning the other cheek where bigoted assholes are concerned. You can't reach some people, and there's no obligation to exhaust yourself trying. Fuck em. The Michelle Obama mention is a bit on the nose.

Old man Logan is cutting firewood and being gruff, as he does. Kurt gives him a picture of himself, which is a baller move. I was under the impression that this Logan was an alternate reality Logan, and doesn't have a particularly close relationship with these X-Men. Nothing about Logans makes sense, sometimes you just have to accept it as cute and cool.

Glob does stuff! Is that meant to be mistletoe? We don't have it down here. He nails up some plant matter and then chills by himself. Little bit depressing, but I can't talk.

Bobby Drake has a party! Interestingly neither Jewish nor Christian, but a pagan holiday that's become a bit more popular (like Christmas and Easter.) Hope is watching Cable do... something, in a recorded message from when she was the universe's most unpopular baby.

Some kids are sharing the rumour that Magneto merked Santa, which is hilarious. It's obviously untrue, not least because Santa is Mags' mutant brother. Kurt lectures them.

Jubilee beats up Arcade (yay!) and quotes Home Alone, rescuing Shogo (who's spending this Christmas as a dragon in Otherworld.) I really don't like Arcade, though he has done two excellent things. Torturing Sinister and creating the Proletarian - worker's hero of the Soviet Union.

Nightcrawler and Storm show up and Christmas is really just a backdrop for a light anti-capitalist tale. Cool! I'd expect Cyclops to be in this book, but no. It's Chuck-less as well.

[dudja]

The Group Chat going off😆 #memes #funny #comedy #charlamagnethagod #donnellrawlings #comedian #meme

[alwaysbewoke]

[daughterofdessalines]

This is a Black person talking about Tyla ( after her interview on The Breakfast Club ) and I notice within the discourse about Immigration, Tyla & Palestine…. there is some xenophobic sentiment’s coming from the Black community.

Xenophobic energy from Black folks is crazy. How we gonna be territorial about a country that we are second class citizens in?

Very Strange.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Kevin Robillard at HuffPost:

PHILADELPHIA — Robert Lindsey, the owner of Sharp Skills Barber Shop, thinks his customers have some questions for Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Even with this whole election right now, brothers ain’t really behind Kamala because of her track record, you know? She was a prosecutor, and that was her job, and a lot of guys are sensitive about that,” Lindsey said, not long after the National Center for Black Civic Participation had used his barbershop as the home base to canvass the majority-Black Overbrook neighborhood in West Philadelphia. “I would love for her to answer some questions straight up.” Lindsey and his customers are getting a chance to hear Harris answer a lot of questions this week. Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, is conducting interviews with a trio of Black male journalists and personalities following the rollout of a new economic plan, all in the hopes of improving her standing with Black men, who some polls show are less enthusiastic about the election than their female counterparts or may even vote for Republican Donald Trump in historic numbers.

Harris’ campaign schedule along with comments from former President Barack Obama suggesting Black men were insufficiently supportive of Harris and a New York Times/Siena College poll showing the former president winning the support of 20% of Black men have jolted the issue to the front burner of the presidential race. There is some skepticism about polling showing significant gains for Trump among Black men, with Democratic operatives noting polls underestimated Black support for Democrats in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, and in the 2022 midterms — even if all three of those races also saw Democrats struggle to turn out as many Black voters as they hoped.

In an interview with the Black news outlet The Shade Room, Harris seemed to both downplay reports she was struggling with Black men and admit she had more work to do with the demographic. “That’s not my experience,” she responded when asked about the polling. “There’s an assumption that I have Black men in my pocket when it comes to their vote,” she continued. “Black men are no different from anybody else. They expect that you have to earn their vote.” Harris’ comments reflect how Democrats are still internally debating the nature and extent of their purported struggles with Black men — which, keep in mind, would mean Democrats earn the vote of Black men at only twice the rate of their white counterparts, instead of nearly three times the rate — and how to best solve it. Many Black operatives feel the threat of Black men voting for Trump is overstated, and most of the party’s problem is around turnout and enthusiasm. Some feel the key to improving Harris’ standing can be solved with talk about economics, while others believe they have to talk about criminal justice and police reform.

The one thing they do agree on: Many Black men are not getting what they want out of the Democratic Party, and the party needs to do better. “A lot of Black men really feel like others when they hear us talk about politics,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) said earlier this month after a roundtable with other Black elected officials in Milwaukee, noting even she focuses on issues more aimed at women like protecting abortion rights and expanding child care access. “So it sort of sounds like you’re not including men. And so then when somebody comes and they’re macho man or something, then that’s speaking to them.” Moore said she has started talking up Harris’ record as a prosecutor, including her work to create programs to help young people convicted of drug crimes access job and educational opportunities, and pointing to Harris’ plans to help small businesses when Black men ask her about the candidate. “You have to talk to the whole family,” Moore said.

[...] But over the course of more than two hours of door-knocking, the young men’s cynicism was a clear outlier. Most of BlackPAC’s targets were enthusiastic about Harris, and with Iverson’s help, made plans to vote if they did not already have one. Negative reactions tended to come because BlackPAC or another group had already knocked on their door once. The idea of voting for President Donald Trump, as some polling suggests Black people are planning to do in historic numbers, seemed laughable to most of the door-knocking targets. One voter said her top concern for the election was “getting rid of the racist idiot.” Another young woman said she was terrified of “that 2025 thing” — a round of mailers from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party on the threat of Project 2025 had just hit mailboxes in the neighborhood.

[...] So far, however, Harris’ pitch has focused more on economics than on justice issues. The plan she rolled out Monday involved providing a million loans to Black entrepreneurs to start businesses and investing in Black male mentorship and training programs. Even the one criminal justice angle in the plan — the legalization of marijuana — was framed around letting Black men start businesses in the field. And while a Harris ad targeted at Black radio stations released in August briefly mentioned her work “pioneer[ing] a program to give nonviolent drug offenders a second chance,” more recent television ads focused more on the dangers of Project 2025 for Black Americans and on her plans to lower the cost of housing and groceries.

Harris did address criminal justice issues once during her interviews on Monday, telling Roland Martin she would “absolutely” continue to have an aggressive civil rights division at the Justice Department. “Under Donald Trump as president, those cases were not happening with any vigor or commitment,” she said, referring to investigations of police departments or prosecutions of law enforcement officers accused of wrongdoing. “He took resources out of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice.” If it still feels like Democrats and other groups are figuring this all out, that’s because they sort of are. The NCBCP was working with a Philadelphia-based group to poll Black men in the area about what issues were important to them, with a QR code on literature left at doors leading to a survey asking about issues like Black men’s mental health, police reform, reparations and their faith in local government.

Kamala Harris is going on a tour of podcasts that have a heavily Black male audience, such as The Breakfast Club with Charlamagne Tha God and Roland Martin Unfiltered with Roland Martin.

See Also:

Daily Kos: ‘This man is weak’: Harris blasts Trump in town hall with Black voters

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Cooked em on simmer 🤣

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[hotgirlstallion]

calling into radio stations after causing commotion is sooo 2004 coded 🤣 REAL RAP IS BACK

[tomorrowusa]

« Saying you’re gonna be dictator for one day is like having sex with your partner and telling her you’re only gonna pump once. »

— Charlamagne Tha God on The Daily Show responding to Donald Trump's claim that he plans to be a dictator only for one day if he's elected in 2024. Quoted at the HuffPost.

BTW, Trump has never been good at math – or truth for that matter.

[harriswalz4usabybr]

Speeches from the Houston Campaign Rally!

Beyoncé performed two songs, Run the World (Girls) and Formation, before campaign speeches resumed.

Beyoncé returned to the stage for two more songs, Love on Top and Halo. Kelly Rowland then met Beyoncé on stage to introduce Vice President Harris to the audience at Shell Energy Stadium.

Beyoncé returned to the stage to close out the Rally with a final performance, singing Freedom.

~BR~

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EPISODE 422: NYCC HIGHLIGHTS & VEMON TLD REVIEW

I am back (and recovered enough) with my thoughts on this year’s epic NYCC event at the Javitz Center and my review of VENOM: The LAST DANCE.

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Charlamagne Tha God Files Cease And Desist Against Trump Over Campaign Ad

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