As we discussed, Senator Kamala Harris is a first-generation American born in Oakland, California. Her mother was an Indian immigrant and her father was a Jamaican immigrant. They were both educated in America and they welcomed their two daughters in Oakland. Which is part of the United States. Much like Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, also part of the United States. And much like Barack Obama, Kamala Harris’s citizenship is being called into question by racist idiots. It’s the Birther 2.0 campaign for 2020, only now there are 160,000 Americans dead from coronavirus and so no one gives a f–k that Donald Trump is still trying to play his racist greatest hits.
So, once again, Trump gleefully spreads the conspiracy and Republicans just pretend like it’s not happening. “I heard it today, that she doesn’t meet the requirements. I have no idea if that’s right. I would have thought, I would have assumed, that the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice president.” Yes, we checked it out by saying “oh, she’s born in Oakland, end of story.”
If that wasn’t smarmy enough, allow Jared Kushner to make it even worse (although I have to hand it to the CBS reporter, he did amazing!).
Do you accept that @KamalaHarris is a qualified candidate? — @AnthonyMasonCBS
"I personally have no reason to believe she's not but again my focus for the last 24 hours has been on the historic peace deal" — @jaredkushner
"She was born in Oakland, CA" — Mason
"Yeah" — Kushner pic.twitter.com/rqV7zK4t4z
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) August 14, 2020
These people are disgusting. The way Kushner looks so smug about it – hideous. “She was born in Oakland, California.” “…Yep.” Ugh.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
Most of Trump’s kids are children of an immigrant. Maybe they’re not citizens??
Yup
These people have a lot of nerve with this shit. Including Melanie and her fake Einstein visa.
…of course.
F-ck them. That’s my immediate response. I loathe them with every fiber of my being.
Me too, if he wins again it is going to have a very bad effect on me. I am so disgusted with Trump and co. and even more the people who think he is doing a good enough job to be re-elected. I am an immigrant born in England so of course that orange blob would see me as acceptable. Prick. I might move back to England, not a Boris fan either but he seems like a gentle well spoken rocket scientist compared to Baby Hands. How’s it going over there fellow Brits? What should I do? I don’t feel either totally American or English but due to family and moving a lot as a child but I am adaptable. I haven’t worked over there in years, I know I have a romanticized memory of the UK but could I find a happy life in the countryside? I have enough to buy a middle class house and decent savings, but also an American s.o. and 3 cats so a move isn’t like when I was younger and more free. Lord help me and the American people, all people except you know who. Celebitchy has some of the coolest and wise people I can find in cyberspace and rarely talk about myself online but here feels safe from unfounded rude statements.
Move to Scotland, it’s a great country with a great leader.
@Clomo I wouldn’t advise returning. We’re in the middle of an absolute sh*tstorm with Dominic Cummings running Boris, making agreements with Trumpet’s America that basically turns us into the 51st state, no preparations whatsoever for Brexit and heading fast into a depression. Ireland might be better.
I want to leave myself, but it’s home.
I’m an American who has been considering a move to the UK for the past year. Even if this idiot isn’t re-elected I’m done with the people of this country.
@clomo – England is a sh*tshow. Go to Scotland if you must, hopefully they’ll be well shot of the union in a few years. The Republic of Ireland is… okay, but things are expensive here.
My spouse is a dual UK/US citizen and we have been discussing it as well. But, realistically, what can we do once we get there? We have savings, and decently marketable resumes but … UGH this is so scary right now.
We’ve looked into New Zealand. I can’t do another 4 years.
If he wins again, my high school junior is planning to apply to colleges outside the US with an eye towards emigration. Canada and Ireland are under serious consideration. Hubby & I are getting close to retirement. I’ve been “joking” about retiring to Barbados. It might not be a joke for long.
I’m in the reverse situation — American living in London for the past 3 years. As Andrew’s Nemesis (lol) says, there’s a whole ‘nother shit show going on over here with Cummings et al trying to play Tech Bros and getting played by corporate and US interests. The idea that British people are sensible and mild-mannered is also false — there are plenty of people who have lost their shit and abused staff in shops about masks and whatnot, and racism / anti-immigrant sentiment is still strong in many (if not most) parts of the country. That said, I love my life in East London and have zero plans to move back in the foreseeable, even if the next administration makes huge progress cleaning up this mess. Life there just seems too precarious.
Oh, and although Nicola Sturgeon is bossing it, I personally wouldn’t consider a move to Scotland either because it’s so cold and dark for most of the year! The weather in south England is dreary enough as it is…
Same here. I just loathe them.
…and I have questions about all the crimes and lies they are committing in full view of the American people…F THEM !
This is not going to work this time around you piece of ….
People are now questioning Trump’s eligibility since his mother was an immigrant and so was his father.
His mother was an immigrant from Scotland. His evil, cretinous father was born here. Mary Trump’s book covers it all very well.
He’s coming to NJ again today. Yuck.
From what I’ve read the Biden Harris campaign expected the attack, simply not so soon. I believe they are speaking again today, Dumpty’s back in Bedminster playing golf. I’m hoping he’s headed to Walter Reed.
This is horrific and I can’t believe it is reality. However, i’m reminding myself that anyone who believes this nonsense was NEVER going to vote for anyone other than Trump. If they’ve drunk the kool-aid to the point that they accept this then they are a lost cause. The rest of the US needs to pick itself up and move forwards. Good luck.
I agree. These people are totally brainwashed by DT. It’s pretty scary. They are like zombies or something. They cannot think for themselves anymore. All they can do his spew the same racist ignorant BS that DT spouts.
White trash at it’s finest. Wish these people would just crawl back under the rock from which they escaped!!!!
Yes!!!!
I have questions as to whether Jared Kushner is actually human.
So do I, so do I.
He kind of makes you wonder about the reptilian alien conspiracy doesn’t he?!
Oh yes!
I kind of got used to Trump saying stupid things, his way of talking (spreading lies all the time). But Jared ! He is really scary go listen to and watch! Like a robot. Void of humanity. The worst enablers for Trump
Let’s remember that dump doesn’t know or understand American history, which apparently includes geography.
My hope if he continues to push this issue is that she says I’ll show you my birth certificate when you show us your tax returns. He said he do it in 2016 and he never did. He wants to play this game of “who’s lying”, they should put it back on him.
AOC did just that when he called her a bad student.
she said “I’ll show my college transcript and you show yours and the loser has to fund the post office”. BURN.
Ooh, that is good.
Oh, that is an amazing response!
Hate isn’t a strong enough word to describe my feelings for that entire family.
Or their donors and the other corrupt scumbags who take money from their donors.
And all the complicit Republicans.
Hopefully Kushner will end up in jail like his criminal father.
It is very telling that this happens to any minority candidate who is perceived as getting a bit too close to the White House. And what surprises me is that they even do it to Republicans! They did it to Rubio, Jindal and Cruz – people they allegedly agreed with and were on the same side as. That says to me that birtherism isn’t even a “conservative” idea as much as its just old fashioned racism dressed up. They don’t want to see a person of color run the government, even if they agree with that person of color in political matters! That’s what it is.
And yes, before anyone brings it up, I know they challenged John McCain’s citizenship too. My distinction is that McCain’s status was challenged due to a technicality of the Panama Canal’s legal status at the time of his birth. Nobody questioned whether his parents were citizens or had the “right” to be in America. And yes, I think it was wrong when it was done to him, but let’s not pretend that the attacks on him were premised on the same idea that is being used now.
They deny Stanley Ann Dunham’s right, as an American citizen, to pass citizenship to her son, no matter where she gave birth, as if she not only didn’t have the right but as if she never existed. Only the father’s rights are recognized. It’s a whole ball of racism and misogyny and it’s infuriating.
The argument against Ann Dunham was that at 18, she was not old enough to pass her citizenship along to her son. The citizenship law at the time (it has since been amended) stated that a natural born citizen could pass their citizenship to their child if the parent has been a “cumulative resident of America” for 5 years after their 14th birthday. They argue that since she gave birth at age 18, she did not meet the standard. Of course, none of this matters because he wasn’t born in Kenya, he was born in Hawaii.
Panamanian naturalization issues can be EXTREMELY complicated because of the canal. Congress literally changed the rules every decade at least and there are still people claiming American citizenship today based on their grandma’s birth in the Canal Zone in 1922 or whatever. It wasn’t fair game to go after McCain’s citizenship – even with a very legitimate question of his birthplace – because of his parents’ citizenship. If your parents were American – one or both – you are. And if you’re born in American territories you are American. Full stop.
TL; DR: The Trumps are the worst Americans ever.
Yeah, going after McCain showed their true colors. He was born in the Canal Zone because his father was serving the country in the military! How debased do you have to be to go after the citizenship of a military family’s child?
My personal view is that we should get rid of “natural born citizenship” for political office. If you are a citizen and want to run, you should be able to. If we want to get technical, it wasn’t until Martin van Buren (America’s 10th President) that we had a “native born” American President – all the ones before him were born before 1776 and thus, were born citizens of England!
I was born in the Panama Canal Zone in the late 70s while my father worked for the US State Department. I find all the discussion about McCain and his birthplace fascinating. I have no plans to run for public office, but do often wonder about the rules.
Yep. And of course the most infuriating thing is that you really cannot argue with people who believe this nonsense. You can produce a copy of a government-issued document (birth certificate) for their very eyes and they still won’t come around – they live in a world that is completely outside of fact.
Jared Kushner looks like a corpse.
That is because he is the reanimated corpse of a lizard from Planet Z.
Hey LP, how about one of your fab rants about Nagini, something for us to enjoy on Friday afternoon?
Unanimous on Tea Pains Twitter feed, Kushner’s named Cunanan. Ouch! Truth hurts.
The creature is so cheap. So squalid and cheap, so little and grubby. A hard rain is going to fall.
Racist. Full stop–and stop they should. F*ck them. I don’t know enough about Kamala to say whether or not I like her as a politician (I’m Canadian and keep up with American politics, but I think all my time is tied up in reading about the orange dumbass, lol), but this reaction is absolute bullshit. Anything he can do to undermine a person, he will. I think she’s too powerful for him.
Typical Republicans with their character assassination, Trump keep focused this is about policies, attack without making it personal, the Democrats can. We need to ignore him, I notice alot of news stations across the world are giving Harris and Biden alot of exposure time, its almost like people are already looking for them as the calming voice during these turbulent times, they spent a lot less minutes talking about Trump, everyone wants him out, he’s overstayed his welcome.
I admit to not knowing much about Biden and Harris, but I loved watching her speak the other day. Finally, someone who can complete a sentence and doesn’t have to resort to character assassination!
I have questions about Donald’s wife’s citizenship. And while we’re just making s*** up about children of immigrants, I have questions about 80% of his children and their citizenships.
Transparently racist bull started by the guy Kamala Harris beat in a race for AG.
Newsweek needs to fire the people responsible and print a retraction and apology to the Senator, ASAP. Shoddiest journalism ever.
As for Trump, and Jared “Brahms” Kushner, they are clearly shook by Kamala Harris, and I am loving it. They are desperate.
uSa, uSa, uSa, 🤪
#NotAllAmericans
A. Cooper’s prime time show spent 30 minutes on this last night, instead of focusing on the post office or other pressing issues like the virus and its ongoing economic impact.
Thirty minutes during the first block of the program!
Media will never stop taking the bait and giving fuel to this birther nonsense.
I chastised CNN on my Twitter feed for it’s poor coverage. Cover the criminal! You have a research department who can easily find what many of us know. And by the way CNN, block me. I’ll be interested in some of the info in Cohen’s book. I’ve ordered David Enrich’s book Dark Towers. Dumpty, Putin, Deutche Bank coupled with bankruptcies and more.
Of course they do – gotta distract from Cohen’s book recounting visits to Vegas strip clubs and golden showers.
Oh i ordered that book so fast yesterday…
Of course they are questioning her eligibility to run, because they are first degree liars, a$$holes, and cretins. I happen to know that Jared sleeps in a coffin, and that each morning he is dipped in molten wax, thus achieving his night of the dead look. As for Mango Mussolini, we all know that he is so deadly white that he is almost transparent. Thus, his pancake makeup and swirled combover are styled every day by a failed mortician who tries his best to re-animate his only client. When M.M. and Jared pose together they cause tremors that their staff blames on fracking. It remains a known fact that if M.M. wins again, rivers will run backwards, the Yellowstone volcano will erupt, and angels will weep. Don’t make angels weep. Vote Biden-Harris.
This is excellent.
“I have no reason to believe she’s not” is not “I believe she is” and I hate that non-confirmation confirmation. Ugh.
His deplorable base will believe this 100%. The Trumps don’t care about truth. They will lie, cheat and steal to get what they want. I loathe them beyond anything imaginable.
I’m so upset about this i can’t even talk about it. Just watching Jared on this, I thought I might destroy my television.
My memory might be a bit iffy but I don’t recall Jared Kushner running for fuck all or being elected to fuck all so why do I care what he has questions about?
So on point. Media needs to preface any words that ever spew out of his dead frozen lips with this disclaimer.
Or mute him.
Why is the press still interviewing this middle aged man who’s testicles still haven’t descended (Jared)?
Jared who should not be anywhere near this is staggeringly cruel and coldly ambitious. He and Trump will stop at nothing to keep them all in the White House for their, and our lives. This will become increasingly (yep EVEN) worse in the next few months. Unthinkable times. It is going to take everything we have to defeat this, I hope that we do. We must.
Don’t you guys ever stop to think that there might be more at stake in US politics than who the president is? Politics doesn’t start or end with Trump, and just as a second-term Trump presidency could be a lame duck if he loses congress and the senate, a Biden presidency probably won’t address the wage gap, won’t do anything meaningful about guns or mass incarceration, won’t fix the healthcare system and may not make the world a safer place. Meanwhile, America is still going to have a bloated defence sector, corporations killing competition, intelligence agencies doing dodgy shit in the background, political parties still available to the highest bidder and Republicans at state level will keep suppressing the vote and enacting various retrograde policies. And then Americans get to do this all again in four years with some other Republican ghoul vs the big-money-approved Democrat representing the crumbling status quo, whom they will inevitably be told they have an obligation to vote for because the other guy is worse (while any viable challenger on the left is quietly disposed of in the background).
I get that it makes people feel more secure to be able to reassure themselves that a sensible, practical guy is America’s CEO as opposed to someone’s crazy uncle who has no idea what he’s doing and just wants to watch TV and post his addled thoughts on Twitter. But Trump didn’t create Trump; America c. 2016 created Trump, and unless Americans have some appetite for addressing those underlying dysfunctions then things are only going to continue to get worse – no matter who lives in the White House.
Who lives in the White House matters a lot.
See the last four years.
You think you’re so hip and smart, and yet you’ve never heard of Belarus. When it happens here, and it very well CAN, your kind will be arrested and tortured while reporters from other countries stand outside and record your screams for the world to hear.
I’ve heard of Belarus and have a personal stake in it, but PP is not wrong. Notice she doesn’t say don’t vote for Biden. She’s saying that’s not enough, so don’t relax if you win. And she’s spot on.
hear hear @ El and the succint rephrase, exactly.
#KEEPFIGHTING
wormtongue, wormtail and now wormdouche.
There are people believing that the earth is flat, so yeah, there will always be enough dumb shits to believe his racists lies.
He is so woefully unqualified to serve as a spokesperson for the White House. Thank God he is there and appears to be as “safe” as one can be in that sewer. Pathetic, self-serving, weasly, vile, and disgusting as he is, he still doesn’t come close to reflecting the putrid effluvium from that cesspool-drenched cabal of racist facists.
I yield my time.
Well done!👏🏻