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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mastodonmigration</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.social/@KamalaHarrisWin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>KamalaHarrisWin</span></a></span> <br>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> candidacy/presidency exposed just how much <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> there still is in this country (and they rallied around <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBirtherKing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBirtherKing</span></a>.)</p><p>And now, we're seeing A Perfect Storm where the same guy/people who are not only huge <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racists</span></a> also happen(s) to be a massive <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misogynist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogynist</span></a>... running against a black woman for president.</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>VeroniqueB99</span></a></span> <br>Actually, I believe the quote was debunked. T**** typically (as he always does) refused to pick a side and called himself an "Independent" for years.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBirtherKing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBirtherKing</span></a> frequented <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RNC</span></a> Conventions (including McCain's in 2008), and IIRC in 2000, people asked him about running back then, but he declined.</p><p>It wasn't until <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a> made fun of him at the WH Corospondent's Dinner in 2010 that his wounded ego convinced him to run.</p>