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Donald Trump, Pepe the Frog, and White Supremacists: an explainer
Hillary Clinton Campaign Website ^ | September 13, 2016 | Elizabeth Chan

Posted on 09/13/2016 2:14:54 PM PDT by abigkahuna

Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s son and one of his closest advisers posted an odd photo on their social media accounts:

This raised some important questions.

Why is there a frog standing directly behind Trump?

That’s Pepe. He’s a symbol associated with white supremacy.

Wait. Really? White supremacy?

That’s right.

Please explain.

Here’s the short version: Pepe is a cartoon frog who began his internet life as an innocent meme enjoyed by teenagers and pop stars alike.

But in recent months, Pepe’s been almost entirely co-opted by the white supremacists who call themselves the “alt-right.” They’ve decided to take back Pepe by adding swastikas and other symbols of anti-semitism and white supremacy.

“We basically mixed Pepe in with Nazi propaganda, etc. We built that association,” one prominent white supremacist told the Daily Beast.

Trump has retweeted his white supremacist supporters with regularity, but the connection between the alt-right and his campaign continues to strengthen. Trump has been slow to disavow support from Ku Klux Klansmen and white supremacy groups, and he recently hired Breitbart.com’s Steve Bannon as his campaign CEO (and Bannon isn’t shy about the fact that his “news” organization is the “platform for the alt-right”).

Now white supremacists have given Pepe the cartoon frog some Trump hair—and the candidate’s own son says he is “honored to be grouped with” him.

(Excerpt) Read more at hillaryclinton.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary; hohum; loonyleft; pepe; racecard; yadayadayada; yawn; yeahright
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To: abigkahuna

New tagline...


41 posted on 09/13/2016 2:41:42 PM PDT by matt1234 (The alt-right is the left's Emmanuel Goldstein)
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To: VanDeKoik

42 posted on 09/13/2016 2:42:51 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: Chewbarkah

When is she going to claim Harambe is a racist?


43 posted on 09/13/2016 2:42:54 PM PDT by baxtelf
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To: abigkahuna

That’s... Bizarre. Unhinged. So deluded it takes considerable time to explain what it’s supposed to mean, why it’s wrong, and why it’s so stupid that her campaign actually went there.


44 posted on 09/13/2016 2:43:31 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: exDemMom

Yep, it comes from a single anonymous twitter user.... who could very well be someone from the Hillary campaign for all we know!


45 posted on 09/13/2016 2:44:14 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: orchestra

46 posted on 09/13/2016 2:49:16 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: orchestra

47 posted on 09/13/2016 2:54:08 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: abigkahuna

Hillary, like the Frog, is beginning to show her real self, warts and all. More like the poisonous Dart Frog of South America. Might explain why Bill looks elsewhere for entertainment.

After all who wants to kiss a frog!


48 posted on 09/13/2016 2:56:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: abigkahuna

The official Hate On Display summary does NOT include Pepe!

http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/hate-on-display/summary-view.html?hate_symbol_category=general-hate-symbols&page=3#.V9h2frHr1hE


49 posted on 09/13/2016 2:57:17 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!e)
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To: abigkahuna

“We basically mixed Pepe in with Nazi propaganda, etc. “


WTF. This has to be a bad joke.

It’s from the Hillary campaign. That proves it’s a joke.


50 posted on 09/13/2016 2:59:52 PM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: oblomov

Kinda reminds me of the 70s tshirt design Frog sitting on a lily pad and says Im So Happy Here I Could Just Shit.


51 posted on 09/13/2016 3:00:13 PM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: oblomov
Why do people on the left need explainers?

It is because only the most intelligent on the left have the mental ability to spin everything a non-leftist says as some sort of bigoted, racist, sexist, etc., microaggression. Then, after they have come up with their ludicrous "explanations", they need to explain them in simple terms that the majority of leftists can memorize and parrot, albeit without any true understanding.

52 posted on 09/13/2016 3:01:15 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Boogieman

I would not be surprised at all to learn that that is the case.


53 posted on 09/13/2016 3:01:55 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: abigkahuna

I thought Pepe was for frog supremacy. That Hillary is always makin’ things up.


54 posted on 09/13/2016 3:04:08 PM PDT by dforest
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To: abigkahuna

Why is there a frog standing directly behind Trump?

That’s Pepe. He’s a symbol associated with white supremacy.


Pepe the frog has apparently taken up residence in Hillary ‘s throat.


55 posted on 09/13/2016 3:04:28 PM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: ctdonath2
That’s... Bizarre. Unhinged. So deluded it takes considerable time to explain what it’s supposed to mean, why it’s wrong, and why it’s so stupid that her campaign actually went there.

Actually, the explanation part is quick and easy: plummeting internal polling numbers and the resultant desperation.

56 posted on 09/13/2016 3:04:34 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: abigkahuna

My guess: The democrats created this frog and are the ones posting it on their own faked white supremacist web sites. Odds are this is all another liberal fraud.


57 posted on 09/13/2016 3:06:20 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: abigkahuna

I’ll raise you one terrorist’s father who was standing behind Hilly at a rally in support of her ... you know, the father of the radical Jihadi who, not being a cartoon character, massacred a bunch of people in FL.


58 posted on 09/13/2016 3:07:15 PM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: abigkahuna

59 posted on 09/13/2016 3:07:47 PM PDT by JPG (Go Trump!)
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To: Pollster1

Yup. Nailed it.


60 posted on 09/13/2016 3:10:04 PM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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