#skittles @docdcc pic.twitter.com/S8xbHSMnxr
— darth™ (@darth) September 20, 2016
This is an old Stormfront meme. And the Skittles aren't accidental. pic.twitter.com/O6M6HB5TX9
— aliceinthewater (@aliceinthewater) September 20, 2016
Some people say that Don Jr has gone beyond his old man’s Nazi-friendly working philosophy and become a full-scale Stormfront sympathizer. Me, I think he’s just jealous that Dad always like Electra, I mean Ivanka, best.
Remember that Trump compared refugees to a poisonous snake, so the Skittles thing is only the second most offensive analogy used today.
— Ken Schultz (@KSchultz3580) September 20, 2016
"Check Reddit, I'm told there's a very promising Mexico wall meme with Pepe at Señor Frogs." pic.twitter.com/ONnr8SWHYf
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) September 20, 2016
If you had a bowl of Skittles and knew that three would kill me and offered them to me anyway, you’re a depraved fuck.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 20, 2016
Trump campaign says Skittles analogy by @donaldtrumpjr was “speaking the truth.”
Nope. It was callously labeling victims of war as “poison” pic.twitter.com/tTpXncz1T4— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) September 20, 2016
If your takeaway is that Donald Trump, Jr. is poisoning Skittles, I can't dismiss your theory out of hand.
— David Waldman (@KagroX) September 20, 2016
A rep for @Skittles gives me their response to @DonaldJTrumpJr pic.twitter.com/OmkJQkIqug
— Seth Abramovitch (@SethAbramovitch) September 20, 2016
Pause to reflect on the fact that this was sent from an iPhone, which was created by the son of a Syrian immigrant. https://t.co/N13gXgRozn
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) September 20, 2016
I mean, from what we know of Trump's dietary habits, does anyone doubt he'd eat the entire bowl of Skittles anyway?
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) September 20, 2016
Perfect. https://t.co/8iGu9Dpvmw
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) September 20, 2016
if you still need evidence that white supremacists are idiots, they haven't learned that skittles taste better by the handful
— sean. (@SeanMcElwee) September 20, 2016
TRUMP JR: So I give you a bowl of Skittles.
ME: [eats them all]TRUMP JR: …I was setting up an analogy
ME: MORE SKITTLES, WEALTHY VAMPIRE— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) September 20, 2016
Mnemosyne
Does anyone think that the use specifically of Skittles is a coincidence after the murder of Trayvon Martin?
That’s not a white supremacist dogwhistle, it’s a fucking fog horn.
Shalimar
As I said earlier on Rawstory, that metaphor is wrong by many orders of magnitude and the actual conversation would go like this:
FDA: “Someone poisoned a skittle at the factory, so we have to recall the entire batch of 1 million packs to protect the public.”
Republicans: “Oppression!!! Tyranny!!! Nanny State!!! ABOLISH THE FDA!!!”
Chris
I’m shocked, shocked, that there’s racism going on here!
karen marie
No comment.
chopper
jesus, these people are fucking ghouls.
Keith G
nevermind
Damien
I struggle for words to describe this family of human garbage people.
ETA It hit me a second after publishing: they’re grownup versions of the Garbage Pail Kids rejected for being too nauseating.
chopper
honestly i think this is donnie jr’s way of trying to get kids to avoid his house on halloween night.
Jeffro
Let it fly, Don Jr, just let that inner Swastika fly
eric
I can think of something that kills Americans at a much higher clip than Syrian refugees and has no Second Amendment Protection. Granted, eliminating tobacco farming would hurt the “innocent” farmers, but gotta protect American lives.
les
@chopper:
Getoutahere, the help ain’t lettin’ no little scum bag into donnie’s digs.
Frankensteinbeck
@eric:
I can think of something that kills Americans at a much higher clip than Syrian refugees. Republicans. I’m not even talking with their policies, either. I mean shooting other Americans.
Chris
@Damien:
I can describe them just fine. “Conservatives.”
In this day and age, I can think of few worse things to call anyone.
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
Of course it’s Don Jr. thinking he’s so clever. Not.
I wish the manufacturer would send a cease and desist to Donny. Considering how litigious his daddy’s empire has been, it would be very fitting.
piratedan
okay… so you have a bowl of politicians and about half of them refuse to do ANYTHING about the environment, income inequality, healthcare and the plight of minorities and women… would you keep re-electing them?
Major Major Major Major
Drudge informs me that Hillary has all the Parkinson’s, so the election is basically over.
PPCLI
@Mnemosyne: You don’t realize that Trump Jr. has pivoted! The original message read “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you that just three would kill you, would you take a handful and wash them down with a can of iced tea?”
But Kellyanne Conway grabbed his smartphone just before he sent it and wouldn’t give it back until he edited….
Mai.naem.mobile
I don’t give a shit about the Skittles and Pepe and the warming the ovens shit. Trump is mentally ill. And not mentally ill in a “Monk” kind of way. This guy has a screw loose in his head. He’s mentally ill in a “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” kind of way. Like a “Hannibal Letter” kind of way. And at least a third of the population will vote for this mentally ill man.
scav
@piratedan: Or, if you had a bowl of priests and three of them will rape your children, would you go to church? Or, does that fail the religious liberty test (so long as they’re Christian men of god, obviously.) Because (bridging slightly) whatsit is now so worried about European and white womanhood being raped by the foreign hordes when everyone knows that’s the job for frat boys and that’s a job they’re demonstrably ready and up for.
different-church-lady
Hey this is great! Let’s do the next meme with gun owners!
Keith G
Quoting this guy named Dan Pfeiffer:
Roger Moore
@piratedan:
Mmmmm. Soylent green.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: I liked the turn of phrase that I believe I saw here: that’s not a dog whistle, it’s a kkklaxon!
WaterGirl
There is so much more hate in this country than I ever realized.
Mike in NC
Creepy Uday and Qusay will definitely end up looking like their puffy old man with the ferret on his head.
Eric S.
@Chris: I agree in principle but I’d want a term that they don’t embrace and understand that I’m calling them pond scum. With all apologies to pond scum who have harmed far fewer people.
Major Major Major Major
@Eric S.: they still seem not to like the word “racist”
Mnemosyne
@WaterGirl:
It honestly was the Trayvon Martin case that make me wake up and be like, “I am now ashamed of my own people.” A 17-year-old kid was shot and killed by a middle-aged wanna-be cop and assholes rallied around him because the kid was black and the assholes were happy that a black kid was dead.
Eric S.
@WaterGirl: This. I thought I knew but I didn’t. It makes me profoundly sad.
gogol's wife
Okay, one of my favorite mistakes that’s crept into the language is to say, “I have a pit in my stomach” instead of “I have a sick feeling IN THE pit of my stomach.” But looking at this, I have a pit in my stomach.
Eric S.
@Major Major Major Major: I’ve used it. It makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Even many of my well to do, white, liberal friends.
TriassicSands
Skittles, M&Ms, Reese’s Pieces, who cares, if a Trump told me anything about anything, I simply wouldn’t believe a word any of those sociopaths told me.
Nature or Nurture: the conventional wisdom is that Trump didn’t have much to do with raising his three older kids. If not, then should we take this as evidence that sociopathy is or can be passed on through genes? Or was Trump’s sociopathy so overwhelming that small intermittent doses were enough to create three Trump clones?
People afraid for the future of their country want to know.
redshirt
@Mike in NC: I don’t pay attention to these douchebags, but this photo is so douchebaggian I have to ask: Why does the guy on the right look so different then the guy in the in the middle? Different Moms? And how can the guy in the middle look like more of a douchebag? Like the photographer’s saying “Need more douchebag! Work with me!”
Timurid
‘Trump was right about the Skittles.’
-Joffrey Baratheon
jl
@Mnemosyne: No, I don’t think it was a coincidence. It was the first thing I thought of. And apparently a nice tie-in to old-school anti-Semitic propaganda as well. A two-fer. Disgusting. Have to beat this horrid movement.
And the GOP is backing it. Ol’ Reince is going after Kasich and his wing of the party if they don’t jump on board 100 percent and completely disgrace themselves as well. Amazing and disgusting.
debbie
@redshirt:
I was hoping that greased-back look would have died off by now.
Major Major Major Major
Apparently this is not only horrible racist awful fascist imagery, it’s also plagiarized from some far-right radio host or something, because of course it is.
WaterGirl
@Mnemosyne: Trayvon Martin woke me up, too. Oh, and you forgot about the part where they supported the hispanic guy because at least he wasn’t black. Sickening.
@Eric S.: @Mnemosyne:
I used to think about the holocaust and wonder how the world could have let that go on. Now I wonder if, in part, it was because people didn’t know what to do about it. I want this all to stop, the murders of black people by police, with impunity, the gun violence, a world where 45 people out of 100 can look at donald trump – who he is, what he does, what he stands for – and not want to throw up. A world where those 45 out of 100 look at trump and think “hey, I like the way this guy thinks”.
This is not the world I thought we lived in.
Comrade Scrutinizer
Every time I see that picture of Der Trumpenkinder, I start hearing a song in my head…
redshirt
@debbie: It’s a good douchebag look.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@WaterGirl: Sadly, the Holocaust was not a unique event, at least in terms of genocide. The Kulaks, the Armenians, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Rwanda all had death tolls in excess of 1 million, some far in excess of that figure, just in he 20th century. This is the world you live in.
Mnemosyne
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
Interesting trivia: that song was written specifically for “Cabaret” by John Kander and Fred Ebb because they couldn’t find an authentic German song that fit. They were both gay (Ebb died in 2004, Kander is still alive) and I think both Jewish, but I can’t seem to confirm that.
Cacti
It’s really not even a Stormfront meme.
It’s an updated anti-Semitic meme, made popular by Julius Streicher in pre-war Germany.
Anne Laurie
@Major Major Major Major:
Yup, according to Joe Walsh, former Congressman & notorious deadbeat dad.
But the Stormfronters say he stole the analogy from them.
Macbethchick
@Damien:
Loved the GPK reference. For ol’ time’s sake I went back to look at some of the best. In this case, Fake Jake + Adam Bomb + Snotty Sam = Donald Trump & The Trumpettes.
Anne Laurie
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
Me too. And the scariest part: Ivanka’s now an Orthodox Jew — she converted when she married Jared Kushner, who seems to be running Trump’s campaign on a day-to-day basis. They have so little awareness, apparently if it ever crosses their beautiful minds that neo-Nazis might not make the safest allies, it’s dismissed as “Only the little people get sent to the camps.”
(Her brothers, on the other hand, probably look forward gleefully to getting rid of the One Daddy Always Liked Best.)
mike in dc
Apparently, this is based upon there being 3 refugees found to have engaged in terroristic activity…out of 784,000. So, the correct analogy would involve a 200 gallon bowl of skittles and 3 poisonous ones.
Calouste
@redshirt: That picture reminds me of the famous picture of the Kray twins. Same kind of dead stare. Of course, the Kray twins were violent psychopaths.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
@Mnemosyne:
For me, the most infuriating part was when someone defended Zimmerman’s right to defend himself, but refused to acknowledge that that was exactly what Trayvon was doing: defending himself from a guy who was stalking him.
hovercraft
Don Jr. is only upholding the families tradition of racism. Fred was basically a klansman, he brought the Donald to be more subtle and to do it on the sly through housing discrimination. Donald and Don Jr. have done it in a way that they can claim innocence to those who want to claim ignorance. Jr had no idea who Pepe The Frog was. he has no idea that skittles are code in supremacist circles. He’s just an innocent who keeps stumbling onto racist memes.
Mnemosyne
@Comrade Scrutinizer:
The thing that truly shocked the world about the Holocaust was not the death toll — though 12 million is pretty bad (6M Jews + 6M other “undesirables”) — but that a modern industrialized state used modern industrialized methods to do it. Those numbers tattooed on people’s arms linked to their punchcard in the database that IBM built for the Nazis.
It wasn’t the death toll, it was that the Germans were “like us” and “we” were horrified to see what an industrialized genocide looked like.
WaterGirl
@debbie: I was about to reply that irony is dead. But sadly, it’s Trayvon Martin whose blood is on the sidewalk.
SFAW
@hovercraft:
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it’s enemy action.
– Ian Fleming
Robert Sneddon
@Calouste: Any time I see that picture of the Trump children my first thought is “somewhere three cloning tanks are missing their contents.”
hovercraft
@SFAW:
But they keep telling me that I’m just too PC.
Enhanced Voting Techinques
“If these skittles were charities and one of them would take your money and use it for personal gain, would you eat this skittles?”
I mean seriously, these clowns are Irish and they talk like this?
randy khan
If I had a bowl of Skittles and three of them would kill the person who ate them, which people involved in the Trump campaign would get them?
ChrisH
If I had a bowl of skittles and three of them would kill you, would you take a handful?
That’s why we need an FDA
That’s our racist white guy problem
That’s our cop’s shooting black people problem
this analogy is really versatile, just not too helpful.
BruceFromOhio
Holy fuck, Gilbert is channeling Old Man Cat.
lihtox
If those three offered me a bowl of Skittles, I would assume that they were poisoned.
Tenar Darell
This seems appropriate & necessary viewing tonight Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War.
FYI Ken Burns & Artemis Joukowsky project
cynthia ackerman
If I offered Jr. a heaping basket of deplorable salted dicks and told him if he ate all of them Daddy gets to shoot Mexicans on Fifth Avenue …
Lurking Canadian
Re: the picture at the top. Those are the three poisonous skittles, right?
bs
re: insulting the Drumpfs-call them “white trash”. It usually connotates stupid and racist, which might slightly annoy them, but it also implies being poor, which would make the ferret-wearing shitgibbon blow a gasket.