So a group of brave space explorers arrive at a planet where everyone has a single defining characteristic.
- Everyone is a proud warrior.
- Everyone is a robot.
- Everyone is a religious xenophobe.
- Everyone is wearing the same hat.
The trope is called "Planet of the Hats" and it's a bit of a time saver in science fiction film and television and the viewer doesn't go all wibbly wobbly trying to understand the multiple complexities of an alien society.
It's also a bit of time saver in real life sometimes.
Like the Fox News pundit whop assumed that all black people like sneakers and will now vote for Donald Trump.
Sooo...
What's that all about?
A day after a New York judge ordered Donald Trump to pay almost a half billion dollars in damages for decades of fraudulent business practices, Trump landed in Philadelphia to attend Sneaker Con to launch a new line of sneakers called "The Never Surrender High-Tops.”
Apparently the name "Ugly As Hell High-Tops” was already taken?
These... shoes sell for $399 a pair and have according to Trump's website already sold out. (Knowing how cheap Trump is, I bet only a few were actually made.)
I would say there is no accounting for taste but given we're talking about Trump supporters, well, that seem pretty obvious.
Most of us who are NOT Trump supporters (the NON brain damaged) immediately recognize these sneakers are just so god awful ugly and stupid.
Or per one Trump supporter (the brain damaged), these shoes are a stroke of political genius.
Fox News’ Raymond Arroyo went all "Planet of the Hats" and who suggested Trump was “connecting with Black America because they love sneakers.”
Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele (who is African American) had this to say:
“Seriously? Why didn’t I think of this when I ran the RNC? Let’s see. Black folks love sneakers. And we can paint them gold. This can’t miss. Trust me. It’s a big miss. And they’re ugly as hell.”
This is not the first time a Trump strategy to reach out to African American voters has relied on a simplistic and downright insulting approach but offering nothing on substance while encouraging white supremacists.
"Yes, my biggest supporters are Nazis and Klansmen but hey, Kanye is my friend so vote for me!"
While President, Trump put Ben Carson in charge of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which he thought would make black voters loyal to him because
- Ben Carson is black.
- HUD is in charge of ghettos.
- Black people live in ghettos.
Just this weekend, Donald Trump said black people like him because Li'l Donnie always in trouble with the law and he ain't done nothing wrong.
Because black people are...?
And I give up.
Really, it's the most simplistic (and offensive) of "Planet of the Hats" logic. Or should we say "Planet of the Sneakers".
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Addendum #1: Donald Trump beats Nikki Haley in her home state of South Carolina.
Trump was mostly propelled to victory by white evangelical Christians by a 3 to 1 margin. Among other Republicans, the vote tabs came in about a 50/50 split for Trump and Haley.
Addendum #2: Donald Trump will be dragging his fat, sweaty, smelly, lying, cheating, sexually assaulting, treasonous ass to my home town of Greensboro NC on March 2nd.
What did we do wrong?
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