Michelle Obama "a ape in heels" - FB post from a local official in West Virginia

[LowDudgeon]

I'm just - what? WTF? what is wrong with a woman who can say this, & who thinks Michelle is anything other than classy, beautiful & dignified?

“It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House. I’m tired of seeing a ape in heels”

occupydemocrats.com/2016/11/14/west-virginia-mayor-fire-racist-michelle-obama-post/

'This is the ultimate irony of the anti-“political correctness” crusader – they say something horrendously racist and then feel victimized when they have to face consequences for their actions'

Didn't people predict this? Something similar to the Brexit effect? When a small racist minority feel emboldened because of the results. So you get more instances of racist abuse and racially-motivated attacks. And I am pretty sure sex offenders must feel safer knowing their president is one of them

Trump said so many unacceptable things and yet he won the election. So suddenly what was unacceptable, or politically incorrect, becomes acceptable. Mainstream. The political discourse might change just like it has in Britain.

Hopefully in the US Trump and the Trumpites will have enough sense to distance themselves from these hideous people though.

This is actually really depressing.
The sad thing is that the Obamas have probably heard worst than this.

Worse

Over the night of the election, there were drunk young Trump supporters hanging in the trees outside the White House hurling racist abuse at the Obamas, so yes, I suspect they have heard far worse than this.

These are difficult times here in the US. I have hardly been out of the house since the election because I am so disheartened. I'm a staunch Democrat, and I/we survived Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 2, but this is different, very different. Racists have clearly been emboldened by the Trump win. I just hope that all of the so-called moderate Independents who voted for him are having second thoughts that will carry into 2020.

Since the election, Trump has somewhat modified his tone, and said that his wife actually got on well with Michelle when they met.

I suspect - and hope - that Trump as President will be much less nauseous than Trump as Presidential hopeful. He perhaps said all the xenophobic, racist, sexist rubbish, not because he believed it, but because he calculated, rightly, that it would get him enough votes to win the election.

Unfortunately, his whole campaign, even more than the Brexit campaign over here, has released a whole load of nasty genies from their cages - and it will be very difficult to put them back in. He may find himself the object of hatred from the hate-filled mobs he has encouraged, if he doesn't act as they wish.

Seneca, my cousin said he found out who had won when he was woken by his neighbours whooping and hollering and firing bullets into the air. We all voted Hillary, and the aftermath of Trump winning will be felt for years to come.

Yet another story of everyday racism.

Hopefully in the US Trump and the Trumpites will have enough sense to distance themselves from these hideous people though.

One would hope, but then there is this:

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-faces-backlash-over-appointing-bannon-as-a-top-aide-a-choice-critics-say-will-empower-white-nationalists/ar-AAkhcQv?li=BBnb7Kz

I suspect - and hope - that Trump as President will be much less nauseous than Trump as Presidential hopeful.
I hope so too, but am not optimistic. I don't imagine that power tends to improve already unpleasant people.

You know, there is a person whose facial expression often reminds me of an ape.

It is ... not Michelle Obama.

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@FrankH: Oh, he sure believes the sexist shit he said. Otherwise he would have had to fake the accusations against him, and that ... is not something I think is easy to do.

If it quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.

What utter filth. I suppose it is just about possible that trump is fool enough not to have realised that this is how the dogs would respond to his whistle but he must publicly distance himself from them now.

Incidentally, Nigel Farage has described Michelle's husband, among other things, as "a loathsome creature".

Comparing the two, I find myself rather preferring Donald to Nigel. But time will tell.

Farage is a misogynist racist fool who could not even get himself elected as an mp. He is deluding himself that the vote for brexit was an endorsement of him. If it wasn't for boris giving it credibility- and there is a special fire being stoked in hell for BJ for that - he would still be a national laughing stock.

Seneca, I've heard people say it was the same atmosphere when Reagan was elected? Is that true at all?

Lorelei, we were living there when Reagan was elected & although there was massive disappointment among the Democrats (& us! ) I don't remember anything like this.

But then we were in New York, & there was no internet - maybe there was similar trouble in places like W Virginia.

As the saying goes, "The fish rots from the head".

"I suspect - and hope - that Trump as President will be much less nauseous than Trump as Presidential hopeful"

I really hope so.

It's sickening, but people who think like this have never gone away. They feel emboldened to be open about their racism and bigotry because they know their views are acceptable to many, and evidence tells them there will be no negative consequences.

Disgracefull comment, and this idiot deserves a lot of whats coming her way.

I would fight for peoples right to say most things, but flat out racism like this is not acceptable, and the line needs to be drawn in the sand.

As much as I dislike Farage, 'Louthsome creature' has nowhere near the seriousness of 'ape in heels'!

Exactly Woman every candidate is a compromise of some sort, but there do have to be deal breakers. If overt racism, ant-Semitism, misogyny and general hatefulness isn't your deal breaker then it must be because it chimes with your beliefs.

Neither Trump nor the odious toadman Farage made people racist, they merely provided a mainstream stage for racists to hurl spittle from.

Farage's sexism about the British prime minister was quite something.

"Creature" comes across as characterising POTUS as not-human in some way, though agree this comment about FLOTUS is worse.

Farage. Aka Satan's little helper

...and is a despicable racist.

I don't think this has anything to do with feminism or misogyny but more to do with the fact the woman who made this comment has lived all her life in a white-dominated village with a population of about 400 people

Piffle and balderdash. And deeply insulting to millions of decent people who live in isolated rural communities.