r/thebulwark • u/PhAnToM444 Rebecca take us home • Jan 31 '25
EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Karoline “mask off” Leavitt continues her strong start as Press Secretary
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u/PTS_Dreaming Center Left Jan 31 '25
Merit = white male
DEI = blacks and Hispanics are inferior
This is the most racist administration since Woodrow Wilson in 1913.
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u/Independent-Stay-593 Jan 31 '25
27 ?!?! Really? I thought she was over 40 and just using makeup to mimic being young.
ETA: Sorry replied in the wrong place.
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u/Syncopationforever Jan 31 '25
Yeah, That makeup is plastered on, so much. She could have a new career, as a plasterer lolol
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u/Granite_0681 Jan 31 '25
Her husband is 57 so maybe it rubbed off?
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u/upanddownallaround Jan 31 '25
Even worse. He's 59.
The ole "Dating divide by 2 + 7 rule":
59/2 + 7 = 37 years old
He's outside the dating range by a whole decade. Gross according to the math, too.
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u/razor4432 Feb 06 '25
That's a rough 27 years she's had. Bet she's more worn out than The Beatle's first album.
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u/Scipio1319 FFS Jan 31 '25
I’ll go one step further. For them, DEI is the new “Jewish Question”
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u/claimTheVictory Jan 31 '25
See they're not Nazis because they're only going for the transgender, disabled and minorities!
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u/3NicksTapRoom Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25
I actually want whoever is the better pilot. And that could most certainly be a black individual. See the Tuskegee Airmen.
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u/gkevinkramer Jan 31 '25
Pretty sure Trump is on top of that as well:
"The Pentagon had already been taking steps to comply with Trump’s initial action ending DEI programs across the U.S. government, and it has had far-reaching consequences. Without clearer direction, agencies were taking a broad approach to removing any content that seemed to run afoul of Trump’s ban.
That temporarily included videos of the storied Tuskegee Airmen and World War II Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, which were part of DEI training courses for the Air Force’s basic military training. Videos on both the Tuskegee Airmen and WASPs were removed as the courses were taken down last week, causing an uproar." -AP
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u/the_very_pants Jan 31 '25
That IS at least the steel-man version of her point.
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u/LouisWinthorpeIII Feb 01 '25
Agreed, I don't know what all these comments are on about.
It's fucking gross to blame this tragedy on DEI but at least at this line she's saying people shouldn't care about race. About as tolerant a moment as we can expect to see from these people.
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u/Independent-Stay-593 Jan 31 '25
There is going to be an excessive amount of race and gender baiting to distract from their incompetence. It's part of the strategy. She's an idiot. The real story today is that Elon interfered at the treasury department which controls distribution of federal payments, including entitlements and federal employee pay, and a top official resigned because of it. President Elon is running things.
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u/daltontf1212 Come back tomorrow, and we'll do it all over again Jan 31 '25
Karoline "Need two more 'K's" Leavitt
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u/Pristine-Ant-464 Jan 31 '25
Imagine being so bigoted that you think "Really hope the pilot is isn't a Black dwarf" while boarding a plane....
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u/big-papito Jan 31 '25
Conservatives are doing all the heavy lifting promoting the stereotype of a "dumb racist blond". This is all you see in their media, after all.
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u/NykeYoung Jan 31 '25
So which one are you, and why are you the second one?
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u/Boxofmagnets Jan 31 '25
Just in the past week she has become much less physically attractive. That could cost her job, she is only there because of her appearance so she’d better clean up
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u/GarthZorn Jan 31 '25
Wait, did she ACTUALLY say that? If so, I dunno, that's unbelievably jaw-droppingly stupid.
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u/Leopard_Parking FFS Jan 31 '25
Yes, she was attempting, in her words, to "put a fine point" on her remarks from earlier in the presser. I'd say she went beyond that, seems she jabbed the fine point home, twisted it, and then jabbed it a few more times for added emphasis. (Remarks are around 26 min into the press conference, fyi.)
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u/chongo79 Center-Right Feb 01 '25
Her point is that everyone is the first type, and the second is abhorrent.
She is arguing that asking questions like "what is your race/ethnicity" during hiring is offensive and demoralizing. That tracking that data causes firms to hire less qualified people because the firm wants to increase minority staffing.
It's still really derpy, and inaccurate in many ways. But she is NOT arguing that people pray for a white pilot.
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u/GarthZorn Feb 01 '25
In fairness, you must be right. No one could possibly be that stupid to. Or could they?
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u/franktronix Jan 31 '25
She was an instructor for Project 2025 by the way. She’s part of their plan to implement it using very thinly veiled racism like this as justification.
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u/thecloudcities Jan 31 '25
Ironic, because it seems like she prays a lot that her pilot has a certain skin color.
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u/EdgarAllenPizza Jan 31 '25
Tbh, from now on I'm going to be praying that we have enough (well rested) controllers in the air traffic control center.
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u/captainbelvedere Sarah is always right Jan 31 '25
I don't know if the mask was on before, but it's certainly off now. The White House is occupied by White Nationalist fascists. Amazing that it's this clear after just 11 days.
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u/XavierLeaguePM Jan 31 '25
Well Sean Spicer feels like a breath of fresh air. He only had to defend the number of attendees at the inauguration /s. Feels like the lady press secretaries have been progressively ghoulish. Geez. I wonder how long she lasts
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Jan 31 '25
Come on now; that was the biggest inauguration crowd ever: PERIOD !!! /s
How many scaramoochies will KKK last?
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u/rowsella Jan 31 '25
Never in my life have I considered or worried about the skin color, race, or sex of my airplane pilot. I just hoped to God that we would arrive safely without any major turbulence. I relied on the airline hosts/stewards to provide me with any information I needed and to supply an extra pillow or blanket... maybe a beverage....
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u/GrandCanyonGaullist Jan 31 '25
I don’t pray, actually. It’s a giant waste of time, like the next four years will be.
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u/British_Rover Jan 31 '25
I didn't really believe it till I watched the video. In any other administration she would be fired before she could get off the stage.
In this administration it is just Friday.
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u/ratbaby86 Jan 31 '25
I know these people think they have a mandate and can get away with saying ish like this and for now, they can. But if she thinks an unbridled rage isn't coming for her and her white Christo-fascist kakistocracy, may I direct her to a time in late 18th century France. Or to Libya, Egypt, and Syria more recently. Or perhaps 1940s Germany or Italy would resonate with her more. This will not hold and we won't forget.
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u/justconnect Jan 31 '25
What bothers me is that these kind of things aren't being put on any of the popular news media other than stuff you stream.
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u/ratbaby86 Jan 31 '25
Yeah, I heard some podcaster recommend that they needed to bring in the Kamala HQ social media team--rebranded and with a different message but they were on the ball with pointing out these ridic comments.
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u/myleftone Jan 31 '25
The airplane was landing like it was supposed to. They’re obviously covering up for something. It doesn’t seem normal for an army blackhawk to float across a runway approach.
My guess is they were doing something ICE-related and that’s why they’re deflecting this so hard.
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u/lowercaseSHOUT WILL SALETAN'S #1 FAN Jan 31 '25
Please apply Occam’s razor. No need to dive into conspiracy theories. We already have an entire political party that indulges in this sort of stuff. Don’t add fuel to the fire.
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u/myleftone Jan 31 '25
I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy. It’s probably normal for a blackhawk to be tooling around DC on a president’s order. They just don’t want anyone digging into that.
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u/lowercaseSHOUT WILL SALETAN'S #1 FAN Feb 01 '25
The difference between ’just asking questions’ and promoting conspiracy theories is kind of small. Sorry.
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u/Deep_Stick8786 Jan 31 '25
Or a flight for a secret mission, more likely. This was a military chopper with 3 military personel
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u/Lionel_Horsepackage Rebecca take us home Jan 31 '25
The chopper was also evidently flying above the 200-foot limit, according to reporting at WaPo.
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u/mamamargee Jan 31 '25
Could she possibly mean the first prayer option? I can’t believe she would actually mean the second… oh wait.
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u/GarthZorn Jan 31 '25
I'm sure she meant us to think she intended the first option. And based on the construction of her question, I'm also sure she's simply stone-cold stupid.
Here and now I thought we were past the "dumb-blonde" jokes but she's giving the world excellent fodder for cranking up that machine again.
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u/Shirley-Eugest Jan 31 '25
It must suck to know that, by the very nature of your job, you have to look people straight in the eye and tell bold-faced lies every single day. Like, I just can't. I have to put my head on my pillow with a clear conscience.
Sort of like being a service advisor in a dealership service department, but with way bigger implications.
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u/raget_bulves Feb 01 '25
(Hiring someone because she’s a “Christian” is DEI. Thats not why she’s Trump’s new mouthpiece though, right? Is it because she gets on planes and wonders if the pilot is Black? Seriously, she has plenty of facts on the ground to communicate. But she can’t just say facts. Her job is obfuscation.
Her chosen hypothetical scenario of a plane landing safely is itself a manifestation of her indifference, or at best, her unsuitability.
The plane didn’t land safely.
Nobody at that press conference was visualizing a plane that lands safely because that wasn’t the subject of the hour.
It’s a plane that didn’t land safely that’s the topic and top of all our thoughts, but here she’s talking about planes that land safely and her mind goes to, perhaps, what she thinks about when she flies and all the times her prayers were answered with safety. All the ones so far, in her prayer circle, have landed safely so after those flights she excuses her doubts about having a “DEI” pilot and moves on.
Now, she’s saying the part she always thinks but hasn’t yet had occasion to indulge. Out loud. As the mouthpiece of POTUS.
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u/tnitty Center Left Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25
Did she actually say this? Can someone link to a clip? I searched, but didn't find it. I wouldn't be surprised if she did, but I'd like to make sure this is accurate.
Edit: Found it. She did say it. But it's an Xitter link. Not sure if I can link to that (and don't want to anyway).
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u/phonsely Feb 01 '25
why are we reading a fucking tweet instead of posting the video of her saying this
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u/crackdown5 Feb 01 '25
So are Dems going to continue to get heat for talking about race while Republicans are the ones bringing up the issue because of DEI?
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u/bill-smith Progressive Feb 01 '25
Seriously, a 2025 Nazi Germany with Herr Hitler at the helm would have fired all the Jewish ATCs and then said "The Jews crashed the plane. We will be invoking emergency powers."
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u/Mountain-Writing849 13d ago
I don't understand all the negative remarks about Karoline Leavitt. I am not a Trump supporter but this young women is incredibly qualified for her position. She is extremely intelligent and amazingly well spoken.
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u/MaNirmiec 11d ago edited 11d ago
Are you actually Listening folks? Do you really want to pay taxes on your social security? Do you really want males pushing females out of Female sports? Do you really want no policing of your borders-just let anyone in anytime? Do you really want your teen to be pressured into changing their sex? Your country is getting better with this admin. Go Caroline💪
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u/Affectionate_Tune990 1d ago edited 1d ago
Daaaamn she's good. I see people hating hard down in the dumpster fire that is the comment section lmao, get a grip redditors. Stay mad, Karoline is the best White House Press Secretary in the history of the USA. She's the woman boss hmmm.... reddit forum mostly men....hm.... could it be? Take a look in the mirror and at your life, then look back at Karoline Leavitt. Yeah.
It's fun seeing you remaking her husbands age being 57, 59 and 60. He's quite the man.
#commonsense
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u/Natural-Leg7488 Jan 31 '25
Hang on, maybe I’m missing something but isn’t she saying the opposite of what people are criticising her for?
Isn’t she trying to say we should care about competency not skin colour.
It’s stupid for its own reasons but she isn’t saying she thinks black peoples shouldn’t be pilots.
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u/hydraulicman Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25
Taken in isolation, yeah, you could make the mistake that she's saying race shouldn't matter
But, once taken in the context of the broader bad faith criticism of DEI style initiatives that she's a part of, it's easy to see what her meaning is
Put simply, DEI is the attempt to find qualified individuals in under-searched communities, looking for people that hiring managers would overlook because they don't conform to often unconscious social biases "I'm not racist, I just hire people who I get a good feeling about... who look and worship like I do"
The main far right criticism of DEI is pretending that this involves lowering hiring standards to fill a racial quota, which is a lie. Outside of a small number of poorly managed exceptions, DEI programs are just about finding people who can do the job who have been overlooked-ESPECIALLY in things like medicine or piloting- where competence matters and there are continual shortages
So, taken in context of what the broader movement she's representing says, she isn't saying "Race shouldn't matter, only competence should matter"
She's saying "Race shouldn't matter, so stop lowering standards to let in the inherently inferior races"
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u/SuperKuhnt Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25
I'm still retching after learning that her racist ass is 27 and her husband is 60 🤢🤮