r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/polkadotbot • Jul 16 '24
A Sikh Republican is harassed over giving a prayer at the RNC
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u/true_enthusiast Jul 16 '24
Why do all these POC think there is room in the Nazi club for them? Oh well, the face leopard will be well fed I guess! 🤷🏽♂️
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u/Slippinjimmyforever Jul 16 '24
They want to be considered “one of the good ones” if they start committing genocide.
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u/Chesapeake_Hippo Jul 16 '24
Tokens always get spent eventually.
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u/Madame_Raven Jul 17 '24
They'll get to be the last ones being dumped into the mass graves, and that's apparently a-okay with them!
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u/ErisThePerson Jul 17 '24
No, they'll be the first, because they're the closest and no longer useful.
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u/UngusChungus94 Jul 17 '24
See: Rohm, Ernst
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Jul 17 '24
Nikki Haley has entered the chat!
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u/Raiju_Blitz Jul 17 '24
JD Vance's wife too.
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u/SrslyCmmon Jul 17 '24
Fun fact the guy who invented the gas for the Nazi gas Chambers was a Jewish German nationalist
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u/pagit Jul 17 '24
Haber was the father of gas warfare and was indeed a German nationalist.
He did however come up with Zyklon process in the 20’s well before it was used in the gas chambers, he didn’t invent it “for the gas chambers.” And died in 1934.
Be careful of populism and nationalism especially when it’s veiled by patriotism, it may bite you in the ass like it did Haber.
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u/candyposeidon Jul 17 '24
What is crazy is how you are seeing Jews as of now who think by aligning with the Republicans they are not going to be thrown into the fire with the rest of the minorities and non-ingroups.
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Jul 17 '24
Exactly. It’s weird how they choose to ignore the fact that almost every right wing conspiracy winds up blaming the Jews in some way. Like how Epstein was really working for the Mossad instead of being Trump’s best friend for decades.
It makes no sense how any Jew could support right wing politics after what it did to their ancestors.
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u/16v_cordero Jul 17 '24
Or like my coworker that complains how unfair the 1% doesn’t pay taxes only to turn around and defend The Orange Thing.
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u/Littleloula Jul 17 '24
His research was used by others at his institute to create a pesticide called zyklon. Later the nazis developed that into zyklon B which was used in the camps.
He never supported the nazis, never worked with them, was scared of them and left Germany out of his fear especially when he realised not even having converted to Christianity and his WW1 service would prevent him from discrimination. Given he died in the mid 30s wouldn't have known what they did with that gas. He never saw how bad things would get.
He was significant in developing the use of chlorine gas in ww1 though.
He also invented a process that enabled much easier production of fertiliser which will have increased food for people worldwide. So a complicated legacy!
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u/darkenedgy Jul 17 '24
They 100% think the privilege they grew up with puts them in the same bucket as these people. It’s not about kissing ass so much as thinking their real enemies are minorities they don’t like.
So…a lot like poor rural white people.
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u/GuyAtTheMovieTheatre Jul 17 '24
my dad claims that my immigrant wife “isn’t like regular immigrants”.
it’s stupid
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u/Frapplo Jul 17 '24
I'd also bet that they want a shot at the zyklon B switch when the time comes. The train of thought heading towards Leopard Station sometimes sounds like this: "Yeah! Now those vermin will finally get what's coming to them! The day of reckoning is at hand, and I can't wait to get in on the action! Oh, look! Here comes a death squad now! Can't wait to join my colleagues in a good ol' fashioned game of Berlin Pinata! Hey, wait! Why are you guys beating me?!"
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u/notsocoolnow Jul 17 '24
MAGA will push them into the ovens last as thanks for their support.
Wait did I say last? I meant first.
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u/NeoMegaRyuMKII Jul 17 '24
As others said, they think they are "one of the good ones." They don't challenge the status quo and don't and think they'd be accepted because of it.
But it goes a little further than that. It also has to do with hate and prejudice.
The GQP doesn't need to focus on just one group for them to hate. They can get people to join their party based on hatred of pretty much any group.
Maybe someone is LGBTQ+. But if they hate Black or Brown people? There is room for them in the GQP.
Maybe this person is Black but hates Muslims, Jews, atheists. That Black person will see the rest of the GQP's hate towards those demographics and they think that they'd welcomed with open arms.
Religious minority and hate LGBTQ+ people? They think that hate is enough to not themselves be hated.
Hate immigrants? So do so many others in that party, so anything about the individual that is also hated by the GQP must be overshadowed there, right?.
Hate abortions? Science? Unions and other workers' rights advocates? Women? Door is so wide open for them that there may as well not be a door. They can just connect over that hate and be understood that they need not be hated themselves.
That is what unites the GQP - hatred. Hatred of some perceived "other," some group or classification that they have been conditioned and/or brainwashed to believe is a threat.
And that is the thought - they believe that their own hatred of some other group that they themselves are not a part of will outweigh the GQP's hate of their own group (calling back to the above conceptual examples, a Black member of the GQP may believe that his own homophobia and hatred of immigrants a will be enough to make the GQP not hate him for him being Black).
And then they are shocked when the GQP does something that hurts them. But that is not enough to open their eyes because there is still the hate for the others. The leopards eating their face is not enough for them to want to make the leopards stop eating faces.
It is entirely systemic and endemic to the GQP.
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u/true_enthusiast Jul 17 '24
The divide and conquer strategy of 15th century colonizers, has proven tremendously effective. 😔
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u/Gundark927 Jul 17 '24
This is the most succinct and accurate description of the party I've ever read. Thank you for sharing. May I share this with others?
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u/drygnfyre Jul 17 '24
“Conservatism consists of exactly one principal: hatred and exclusion of the out group.”
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u/BellyDancerEm Jul 17 '24
They think they are are one of the “good ones” , but in reality, they are just tokens waiting to be spent
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u/Bubblehead01 Jul 17 '24
I've been starting thinking of it less as leopards eating faces and more of a giant hate ouroboros eating it's own tail.
Although that's sort of insulting to the idea of an ouroboros, which IIRC is also still growing as it eats itself, representing a cycle of death and rebirth. Maybe I less positive metaphor. Crab bucket mentality?
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u/MentokGL Jul 17 '24
Because they're the top of the racist hill in their countries and they think they can buy their way in.
And they can because the racists love money. But at some point, the racism will take center stage and the tokens will get spent. This will of course never deter any other token.
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u/OffalSmorgasbord Jul 17 '24
First and second generation immigrants seem to be far more conservative in my experience. It's the whole romantic storybook USA thing I think. Smothered with excessive virtue signalling.
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u/true_enthusiast Jul 17 '24
It's the religion. My mom is extremely Catholic. Mostly liberal except for abortion and gay rights. Me and my siblings being second generation are much more open but even I'm just waking up in the last ten years. Jesus never said any of this stuff, he said love thy neighbor and love God was the whole point of everything. Yet, people just want to act like Pharisees.
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u/itcheyness Jul 17 '24
Reminds me of a quote from Reverend Benjamin Cremer.
"Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God’s wrath but never a source of God’s mercy, generosity, or compassion."
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Jul 17 '24
Family. Friendship. Religion.
These are the three demons you must slay in order to succeed in the Republican party.
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u/Sanparuzu Jul 17 '24
We in the black community call them Uncle Tom ass people. Looking at Tim Scott, Candace Owens, Amber Rose, Waka Flockas washed up ass (legit thought he died but that was XXX) and any other sorry ass that thinks there's room for them at the table. Always the same too. Just want your vote and then are waiting to cut your tits off or something like that
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u/true_enthusiast Jul 17 '24
During slavery, some were rewarded with access to rape other slaves. They would do anything for their masters so long as they had others beneath them. Self-hate is real. I suppose every group has this. The ones who will trade everything for a sliver of power, even if it hurts themselves.
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u/AtomicBLB Jul 17 '24
I used to think they wanted in to save themselves by being one of the 'good ones' but now I just think these are bad people competing for the top POS prize.
Not future victims hoping to sneak on by but active participants looking for other groups to demean and bully as well. They may be minorities too but the hate in their heart makes them loyal to the GOP.
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u/JeffHall28 Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 17 '24
While I think Sikhs are generally pretty based and the modern republic of India has a real- but often strained- commitment to plurality, there is a weird history between the Subcontinent and Nazism. This mostly came from early German nazis viewing India as the origin of the Aryan people and looking favorably on their caste system. Also it developed before and during WW2 as Hindu Nationalists made erstwhile alliances with Hitlers Germany and Imperial Japan in an effort to rid themselves of British rule. As a crown colony, the vast majority of India fought alongside the allies in great numbers but there was a weird mutual crush between India and Germany for a while there.
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u/mzincali Jul 17 '24
This one is dangerous. Look at what she’s done for them. The leopards are slow to eat her face and in the meantime she’s furthered leopard causes.
https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1813266344370139415
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u/HapticRecce Jul 17 '24
Inside, they share, under the banner of 'traditional values' wanting to impose and/or restrict 'things' but forget at the end of the day something like hating gay marriage is useful, but won't make them any whiter.
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u/Slippinjimmyforever Jul 16 '24
It sounds like they’re just parading people on stage to mock at this point. I guess a convention built for cruelty should have a healthy dose of it.
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u/CappinPeanut Jul 17 '24
I think they’re just trying to appeal to moderates. They know they won’t lose any of the racists votes for this, the racists have no one else to vote for. Trump has chased away moderates with his rhetoric, he’s trying to get them back.
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u/Anticode Jul 17 '24
I have to wonder if they're less confident about winning than they claim. This just seems embarrassing and myopic considering that most people are well aware what MAGA's republican party stands for at this point.
Are there really people out there that know so little about both Biden and Trump that they'd make a last minute choice based on the inclusion of a few token culture-actors? If you're won over by an "exotic prayer", why not just side with the people that aren't notorious for being comically xenophobic?
It just seems so bizarre and tone-deaf. Then again, Four Seasons Landscaping fiasco was a thing that really happened, so who knows. Maybe they really do think it's as simple of showing off a few brown people to win the hearts and minds of the citizens their philosophies and ideologies specifically target.
In any case, studies seem to support both sides of this bizarre coin: Racists love Trump, but racists also love being racist without feeling Racist-racist.
During the 2016 Republican primary, dehumanizing attitudes toward Black people are more strongly associated with support for Trump than with support for other candidates.
Racially resentful white voters prefer staunchly conservative black candidates over similar white candidates. "The racially resentful see such black candidates so differently as to utterly shift their reactions from opposition to support."
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u/steelhips Jul 17 '24
The party's top echelon, desperate to expand the voter base, are saying "we're not this" while the base is saying "yes, we are".
Talk about delusional.
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u/JohnMcCainsArms Jul 17 '24
This lady is also delusional. If anyone truly believed in Sikh values, they would never support a man like Donald Trump, this was a pathetic stunt
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u/subsignalparadigm Jul 16 '24
MAGA is a cult. Cults hate anyone that is not in their cult. PERIOD.
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u/firedmyass Jul 17 '24
Isn’t the GOP “platform” literally the antithesis of the Sikh religious expression?
What am I missing here?
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u/Gimme_PuddingPlz Jul 17 '24
Pretty much can be said for Christianity
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u/IMadGenius Jul 17 '24
Conservative Christian is an oxymoron, and I'll die on this hill
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u/originalbrowncoat Jul 17 '24
Remember when they styled themselves as “compassionate conservatives?”
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u/TheStray7 Jul 17 '24
And it was just as much of a self-serving lie then as now, only they've taken the mask off.
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u/FargusDingus Jul 17 '24
So there are conservatives, and "compassionate conservatives." I wonder why there's no branch of progressive that are "compassionate progressives". Why does conservativism not include compassion by default?
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Jul 17 '24
They hate everything positive what the Christian Testament said Iesus taught, and they turn purple when they hear other people are following those teachings.
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u/Natoochtoniket Jul 17 '24
Conservative Christian Oxymoron ... Those are three big words. I suspect most of the people who are attending at the Republican convention, cannot actually define all three of those words.
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u/TerrakSteeltalon Jul 17 '24
A couple of months ago my pastor discussed the history of Christian iconography during her sermon. She pointed out that the early Christians primarily used the “Good Shepherd” image for Christ.
After Constantine decided to become Christian, that’s when you see it used for gaining power. Suddenly the image of Christ as King becomes a thing
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u/IMadGenius Jul 17 '24
Yeah. I won't blame the entirety of problems with Christianity on Constantine. But the normalization of Christians going to war was a disaster
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u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress Jul 17 '24
I wish we called them regressive fascists instead, but liberals like to play by their rules and use their own terminology.
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u/firedmyass Jul 17 '24
Yeah but every Sikh I’ve ever met has been a lovely human being.
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u/Demi_Bob Jul 17 '24
The only Sikh people I've known that were less than magnanimous were those who had left the religion
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u/ThePhyseter Jul 17 '24
They said "religious expression", not ideals. Christian teaching, especially the words of Christ, are the antithesis of the GOP platform. Christianity as it has actually been practiced every day for the last 2000 years fits right in
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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 Jul 17 '24
Um....yep.
There is only one God
God is without form, or gender
Everyone has direct access to God
Everyone is equal before God
A good life is lived as part of a community, by living honestly and caring for others
Empty religious rituals and superstitions have no value
And to avoid the 5 vices that (R)s thrive on:
The five vices
Sikhs try to avoid the five vices that make people self-centered, and build barriers against God in their lives.
Lust
Covetousness and greed
Attachment to things of this world
Anger
Pride
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u/Buongiorno66 Jul 17 '24
I have incredibly lovely Sikh neighbors, and they're horrified by the GOP. Not that they're in love with Democrats...just democracy in general.
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u/TheTybera Jul 17 '24
People are in the GOP platform for two reasons, they're a raging racist, or they're a 'small business owner' who doesn't want to pay tax because they believe that since the GOP is giving musk tax breaks they'll get one too (they won't) while complaining that the DNC is all about passing out wealthfare like candy.
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u/venkym Jul 17 '24
Don't forget the third one... White men who want to wield control over their women by keeping abortion laws tough
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u/HunterDHunter Jul 17 '24
They are clearly paying people to show up and trying to draw voters they wouldn't get otherwise.
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u/PerfectZeong Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 17 '24
I think Sikhs on reddit get sainted on Reddit but it's not a monolith. They're also a very conservative faith as a general rule. It's just that doesn't really line up with American understanding.
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u/docowen Jul 17 '24
Yes. But hypocrisy isn't confined to Christianity, even if they're the current world champions (1,699th year in a row!)
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u/Mendozena Jul 17 '24
Shit, they hate people in their own cult. In fascism there’s only loyalty to the leader, not even to each other. They’d kill each other if they thought one didn’t love Trump enough.
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u/O8ee Jul 17 '24
A ton of Indian Americans I know are suuuuper right wing. No surprise the GOP is trying to look as inclusive as possible. Also no surprise that racists gonna racist.
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u/CharleyNobody Jul 17 '24
But she’s in their cult. She’s MAGA.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Jul 17 '24
At what point do Trans, Gays, non-Christians, Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, etc... clue the fuck in they will never be welcome in the MAGA club? I mean, they'll take your money and spend you as a token supporter -- but that's it. Like, shit just amazes me. I mean poor Tim Scott went and married a WHITE woman for his VP audition! I guess the line for grifting is just never-ending.
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u/permabanned_user Jul 16 '24
Trump's entire campaign is "minorities and foreigners are destroying the country." These token nods to diversity makes me think Republicans don't understand why they're popular.
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u/Anthop Jul 17 '24
They're trying to retain just enough plausible deniability cover to keep the support of wealthy centrists and upper-class minorities.
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u/bdsee Jul 17 '24
No, they need the small amount of votes they get from minorities...these things are to allow everyone to pick and choose what they want to listen to and what they want to discard. Say everything, be a known liar, attack everyone, pretend to accept some from every group....this gets them a few extra percent at the polls.
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u/Umbrellac0rp Jul 17 '24
They're trying to scoop up the votes of republican and conservative minority groups. They know they need every vote they can. But they let pandora out of the box and have given too much space to racists and bigots. The base has no reason to pretend they like anyone that isn't white and Christian.
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u/Merijeek2 Jul 16 '24 edited Nov 08 '24
deer subtract silky squeeze political mindless nutty seed pathetic thought
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u/DieMensch-Maschine Jul 17 '24
She should ask Vivek Ramaswamy about how he got "put in his place."
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u/ShakyMango Jul 17 '24
The fact that he even praised her racism against him 🙄
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Jul 17 '24
he would eat shit and say it's delicious, because he is a politician first and a human 2nd.
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u/btribble Jul 16 '24
Getting the complicit tradwives used to the idea of headscarves?
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u/louiselebeau Jul 17 '24
The trad Catholics are already bringing them back to church.
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u/MakeChinaLoseFace Jul 17 '24
Catholicism... now there's a dinosaur in need of a meteor.
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u/ShouldersofGiants100 Jul 17 '24
Honestly, I'm just waiting for the inevitable schism. The American churches are already fuming at Francis and, with how many cardinals he appointed, odds are his successor is also going to be in the same Liberation theology-inspired tradition.
Once they realize the next pope won't roll the minuscule reforms Francis has made back, they're going to detonate.
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u/EffOffReddit Jul 17 '24
I think the NYT recently had an article about how the new generation of catholic priests are extremely conservative. So that should go well.
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u/MakeChinaLoseFace Jul 17 '24
I'm just waiting for the inevitable schism.
Conservatives are poised for a few of these.
They've managed to assemble a coalition based on grievance, delusion, and greed... but the can't sustain the lies they use to secure the loyalty of all these different groups.
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u/StruggleBusKelly Jul 17 '24
This has happened already in the recent past. Some TradCaths are sedevacantists or sedeprivationists. The former only began in the 1960’s IIRC.
I say, the more schisms, the better. Let them fight! Just leave us normal people out of it.
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u/ShouldersofGiants100 Jul 17 '24
Yeah, Tradcaths have been fuming since Vatican II—but all they really have going for them so far is like, Mel Gibson.
The real fun starts when its priests and bishops who start openly turning on the Vatican. That's when you get the kind of chaos you haven't seen since the reformation.
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u/Amunrah357 Jul 17 '24
Clearly DEI. /s
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u/Merijeek2 Jul 17 '24
Nobody dragged her ass up there. She's there as a prop and she is likely happy to do it as I'm sure she's rich and who cares who suffers as long as she gets her tax cut.
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u/TelephoneBrave1132 Jul 17 '24
The MAGA folks probably think she’s Muslim — you know damn well they don’t know the difference.
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u/Five-Oh-Vicryl Jul 17 '24
MAGA are also against Arabic numerals being taught in US schools, so…
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u/thuktun Jul 17 '24
They're against a lot of things in schools.
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u/ilovecraftbeer05 Jul 17 '24
They only want two classes in school. US history and bible study. That’s it. They just want a generation of brainwashed kids who worship Jesus and believe the US is the best country in the world.
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u/Konukaame Jul 17 '24
As good a time as any to again mention that the first victim of post-9/11 violence was a Sikh man
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u/BeamTeam032 Jul 17 '24
LMAO. MAGA Crushing the JD Vance pick and now crushing the convention. The RNC tried to "prove they aren't racist" by having a SIKH lead them in prayer, by having Amber Rose and black speakers.
But their voters hated it all. lmao.
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u/Sir-Drewid Jul 16 '24
TOKENS. GET. SPENT.
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Jul 17 '24
Right! I bet money by the end of the rnc show the racist boomers at home thought to themselves “why was Tim scott brought out 4 times to talk?”
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u/onlyidiotseverywhere Jul 17 '24
You can't be Sikh and Republican at once. You spit on one of your 2 religions.
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u/MarginalOmnivore Jul 17 '24
Well, I mean, most Republicans also consider themselves Christian, so spitting on your non-government religion is par for the course.
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u/Spara-Extreme Jul 17 '24
All these “pick me’s” need to understand that they aren’t on the team and never will be. That’s how fascism works.
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Jul 17 '24
Sikh’s are awesome, inclusive people. What in the actual fuck would draw any of them to the GOP. Like I’ve had Sikh friends, it’s actually one of few religions I don’t actively hate, there is no way this person is actually practicing. 100% just for optics and in it for potential money and power.
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u/darknecross Jul 17 '24
I know Sikhs who are Trump supporters. It all comes down to money.
Lower taxes and fewer regulations so they can line their pockets. Don't really care what happens to anyone else, or don't believe anything bad is going to happen at all.
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u/Repulsive-Street-307 Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 17 '24
No one quite as stupid as a middle class goon thinking they're going to get rich because of a fascist.
In fact, remember pillow guy?
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u/jib661 Jul 17 '24
i try not to generalize about races or religions or whatever but it truly seems like every sikh i've met has been kind, caring, helpful, etc. someone needs to study what it is they're doing to make people so damn wonderful.
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u/bambin0 Jul 17 '24
I mean, the religion says you should recite prayer, share what you have and earn an honest living. Most people see the outward part of that - the sharing esp the langar (common kitchen and food).
Sikhs are people though - don't imagine us to be some magical people of only goodness. As James Baldwin said - that is also a type of racism.
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u/RamonaQ-JunieB Jul 16 '24
Somehow this is not surprising considering the ridiculously awful people who are Republicans.
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u/Pale-Stable3671 Jul 17 '24
What part of "white, Christian nationalists" do these people not understand?
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u/John_Hunyadi Jul 17 '24
I was going to say ‘I’m not an expert on Sikhism but the RNC seems antithetical to it’ but I think that’s true for Christianity too.
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u/Born_Tough9567 Jul 17 '24
this is Harmeet Dhillon who ran for RNC chair and was laughed off of the stage by the Maga crowd who saw a non white person in a head rag....apparently she didnt learn her lesson at that time... oh well
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u/steelhips Jul 17 '24
It took Caitlyn Jenner a few goes at the RNC before it sunk in she was not welcome.
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u/KR1735 Jul 17 '24
She actually thought someone like her would be elected as chair of this Republican Party? Bless her heart.
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u/Fucky0uthatswhy Jul 17 '24
Reminds me of Louisiana. They started forcing them to display the ten commandments in classrooms, but as soon as some suggested a Muslim prayer they lost their fucking minds.
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u/HotlineBirdman Jul 17 '24
As a Sikh, she should be absolutely embarrassed of herself. What a clown.
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u/StevenEveral Jul 17 '24
There's this thing among a lot of wealthy South Asians where they think that since they come from a higher caste, they will also be allowed into the higher caste in the US. They either don't know or don't care about how racist a lot of white conservatives in the US really are.
This woman, Nikki Haley, and Vivek are great examples of this.
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u/ryuujinusa Jul 17 '24
I'm always shocked by any non-white male who supports the GQP. Like, they literally hate you and want to deport you, even if you're a natural born citizen. Boggles my mind every time.
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Jul 17 '24
RNC: "See, where not racist, we let a Sikh lead the prayer."
Republican voters: "No, no we are very racist. Now get that Muslim terrorist out of here."
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u/Marchello_E Jul 16 '24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jIgthlykaM
I think that was a beautiful prayer.
Dear Vaheguru, our one true God, we thank you for creating America as a unique haven on this earth where all people are free to worship according to their faith. We seek your blessings and guidance for our beloved country. Please bless our people with wisdom as they vote in the upcoming election. And please bless with humility, honesty, skill, and integrity all those who conduct the election.
-Harmeet Dhillon
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u/DadJokeBadJoke Jul 17 '24
Please bless our people with wisdom
That's a pretty big request, even for an allegedly omnipotent deity
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u/Abraxas_1408 Jul 17 '24
I’m reading the comments and they’re so butthurt! Oh man they can’t stand the idea of sharing the playground with anyone else. They’re so pissed! 😂
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u/Melisandrey Jul 17 '24
For her next trick she will go to India and give a speech in front of Modi and the govt and show us her disappearing act
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u/beetus_gerulaitis Jul 17 '24
A pillar of the Sikh religion is service and charity…..which is completely antithetical to the republican philosophy.
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u/flying_ina_metaltube Jul 17 '24
I'm Sikh, a US citizen, registered to vote, and I will never, NEVER think of going to a place I know I'm not welcomed, wanted or cared about and offer prayers.
I have no idea what this lady was thinking.
Republicans will eat their own if they go against the words of the chosen one. They get their news from Facebook, Fox News, Newsmax and Alex Jones, I doubt they'd be able to differentiate a Sikh from a Muslim or a Hindu when discriminating (not that discriminating against a Muslim or a Hindu is alright). Prime example being the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting carried out by an idiot would couldn't even sort his racism out correctly.
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u/polkadotbot Jul 16 '24
Link to post from Now This: https://x.com/nowthisimpact/status/1813328700886380803?s=46
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u/T1Pimp Jul 17 '24
Sikh republican is an oxymoron like female Republican, gay Republican, Black Republican, etc.
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u/NorCalFrances Jul 17 '24
First Amber Rose, now this woman. What's with the RNC intentionally trying to piss off their own people?
Is this how they warm up the crowd? Like having an opening comedian or musician, but for anger?
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u/jmlulu018 Jul 17 '24
Why the fuck is she a republican!?!? She's even the trifecta: female, non-white, non-christian
Has she been living under a rock? Does she not know what republicans say and do? The only thing I can think of is she's filthy rich.
"Tokens get spent"
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u/scribblingsim Jul 17 '24
Jesus, how many times does this token need to be spent before they get the hint?
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u/fatslayingdinosaur Jul 17 '24
Lol they tried this with Muslims in the Michigan gop and the tokens were mad they didn't get a place at the table and suddenly realized American republicans don't care if you vote the same way they do hatred will always overpower their senses. they still support but just are so salty they will never be represented in the party they back.
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u/Freebird_1957 Jul 17 '24
I’m sorry but I doubt of there’s a magat on earth who ever heard of a Sikh.
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u/Elementium Jul 17 '24
You know.. After 9/11 Jon Stewart has a good speech in which he said something like "hate cannot sustain itself".
I think Republicans must have heard that and said "wanna bet?" They're fucking eating eachother alive, any minute difference between them and they're ready to murder each other. Yet, they're all going to keep in that cycle..
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u/Mpm_277 Jul 17 '24
Considering everything I know about the Republican Party, why did they even invite a Sikh woman to lead prayer at the convention?
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u/Artfuldodger96 Jul 17 '24
This sounds like the start of a bad joke. A sikh republican walks into an rnc convention to recite a prayer…
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u/MyHumbleBag Jul 16 '24
lol.wonder how they feel about VP Indian wife. She’s beautiful by the way.i ain’t mad at him
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u/tmdblya Jul 16 '24
Check other posts here. The white power crowd is losing their minds over her.
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u/BlueAndMoreBlue Jul 17 '24
I read that as white powder crowd, I was wrong but there is some overlap on that Venn diagram
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u/MakeChinaLoseFace Jul 17 '24
Good. Let them seethe and rage until they are consumed by self-destructive infighting.
The conservative obsession with racial, religious, and every other form of purity is a weakness that will be their undoing. They can only ever become a more extreme version of themselves, until it becomes unsustainable and their coalition fragments.
Feed different elements of the right wing the right bullshit, and you can turn various groups against each other.
Imagine there was a 5% reduction of evangelical turnout because they think Trump betrayed their values by trying to distance himself from project 2025? Or a 5% reduction in racist turnout because the VP's wife has too much melanin? These people believe stupid things, use it against them.
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u/Sir-Drewid Jul 16 '24
There are already weirdos doing armchair phrenology on her to explain how Indian she is.
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u/AskJayce Jul 17 '24
Don't forget: When the Religious Right say "Freedom of Religion", what they actually mean is Christian Supremacy. AKA: Christofacism.
Everyone else attributing to that very specific brand of theocracy is just a useful idiot.
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u/BubbhaJebus Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 17 '24
If I were Jewish, I wouldn't speak at a Nazi rally.
Why are people who are hated by the Republicans (non-white, non-Christian, female, immigrant, pro-union, gay, trans, etc.) even be voicing anything but the strongest opposition to those who would rather they be dead?
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u/Spacegod87 Jul 17 '24
Why....Why do they do this to themselves is my question!
Do they have some kind of fetish for being hated and shunned!?!
Or do they think that THEY are the exception and somehow the right are gonna accept them and only them?
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u/Hawtdawgz_4 Jul 17 '24
More of the same shit since Obama’s second term. Actively work against minority groups but complain the Dems aren’t doing enough to help them.
It’s just sad how fucking dumb and gullible people are to walk into the GOPs hands.
They give zero shits about the common person and only use them as tools to get elected.
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u/humanprogression Jul 17 '24
I wish more people understood that the Trump GOP is flooding the zone with every possible narrative, directed at every possible demographic. The truth doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if they contradict themselves, it doesn't matter if they're hypocrites.
None of it matters because they know they will be able clip chimp whatever segment they need in order to feed it into any given demographic's echo chamber.
They'll say "We love the Palestinians" and that will get shared into Palestinian group.
They'll say "We love Israel" and that will get posted into Israeli groups.
They'll say "We love Women" and that will get posted into every suburban mom group in Facebook.
They'll say "Women should be pregnant and barefoot" and that will get posted into every masculine, religious right Discord sever.
They'll say "We're the party of the working class" and that will get posted into blue collar forums.
They'll say "We'll get rid of corrupt labor unions" and that will be shared throughout country clubs and on golf courses.
They'll say everything, all at once, and then force feed each demographic exactly the clips and quote and sound bites they want to hear. Words are meaningless to the GOP. If they're speaking, they're deceiving you.
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u/Speculawyer Jul 17 '24
MAGA wants Christian Nationalism.
But the GOP tries to hide that by putting up tokens like this lady.
Tokens get spent.
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u/QuietGrudge Jul 17 '24
Betcha the MAGATS that were so freaked by her are picturing the heart-ripping, lava-dunking zealots from Temple Of Doom, not taking so much as a nanosecond to recognize the difference between them and the Sikh faith.
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u/Oceanbreeze871 Jul 17 '24
They want to eliminate DEI but are forcing diversity their party don’t have and doesn’t want to pretend to be a big tent.
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u/Ok_Perspective_8361 Jul 17 '24
I don’t understand Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh Republicans, they want to outlaw their religions and indoctrinate their children into “Christianity” ™️
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u/Pristine-Ant-464 Jul 17 '24
I don't how anyone not white could feel at home in that party.
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u/demonlicious Jul 17 '24
how the f does sikhism reconcile with the selfish republican ideology? shows that all religions are shams.
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