Tea Party Hero Whitesplains He Was Just ‘Wondering’ Because Blacks Seemed Happier As Slaves
We’ve all seen this before. A hero is born out of right-wing-crazy-time, and all of a sudden, from nowhere he slips and offers his real, honest-to-God beliefs — which are deplorable — and his 15 minutes of fame are over.
Enter Cliven Bundy, a man who for 20 years has refused to pay his way to you, the federal taxpayers and the federal government. Once the feds came to collect, of course he become a Tea Party hero overnight.
After the New York Times published some of Bundy’s comments made during a press conference Saturday, the jig was up, and Sean Hannity, Rand Paul, and many of the other Bundy lovers ran for the hills.
Bundy explained how he felt about “the Negro,” who apparently is too busy these days aborting their babies, sitting on their front porch not working, and being supported by the federal government.
“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,†he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.
“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?†he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.â€
You see, Bundy is a maker, not a taker. He and his family built their cattle ranch all by themselves, with the federal government. That’s why he feels he shouldn’t have to pay the same grazing fees that every other rancher who lets their cows feed on federal lands, pay.
But those Black people, well, it turns out Bundy was just “wondering” if they might not have been happier under slavery.
In an interview Bundy gave to conspiracy peddler Alex Jones, which was posted to the Bundy Ranch Facebook page, Bundy explained his controversial comments.
It turns out, today, Bundy has “more respect” for the Black community than he’s “ever had.”
Bundy told Jones that Black women are “sitting out on the sidewalk” and they “don’t seem to be happy.”
“And what I’m wondering is, are you better off in this type of slavery than when you was home with your family unit, with your gardens, with your chickens, with your men working, and your family life, are you better off now or were you better off then? I’m wondering these things.”
Bundy insists he’s not a racist, but says, “It seems to me like maybe they were happier” under slavery.
He goes on to tell Alex Jones that what “our constitution was all about, is these people being able to exercise their agency, be able to feel free, be able to speak, be able to go, be able to do things, be able to experiment, and for sure be able to have good families, that’s what our founding fathers want, and I know that’s what our heavenly father wants for ’em.”
Actually, that’s exactly not what our Constitution “was all about.” Our Constitution was in part about figuring out how to keep the colonies together while allowing slavery to continue for decades to come. It was in part about ensuring slaves were returned to their masters, it was about ensuring slaves could not vote, and it was about ensuring slaves could continue to be imported, thus prohibiting Blacks — slaves — from being able to exercise their agency, being able to feel free, being able to speak, being able to go, being able to do things, being able to experiment, and for sure being able to have good families.
Slaves, Bundy doesn’t realize, were property — the Constitution made that clear — and were whipped, raped, murdered, and sold. Families were split apart.
Women were not hanging out with their family unit, with their gardens, with their chickens, while their men were working — women were out in the fields picking cotton, or cooking over hot fireplaces.
Shockingly, the National Review — one of the more supportive media outlets when it comes to racism — even condemned Bundy’s remarks today.
Calling Bundy’s remarks “stupid and noxious,” Rich Lowry writes, “Cliven Bundy turns about to be a paleo-libertarian of a certain stripe.”
Noting that Bundy “obviously has a lot more to learn about the meaning of freedom,” Lowry adds:
People like Bundy who minimize the horror of slavery tend to consider it a paternalistic institution that had something to offer the slaves. This is nonsense.
When a racist has lost the National Review, they’re done.
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Maine Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner is under fire after releasing a video declaring that new allegations against him are false, yet he is “taking time to reflect” on a path forward.
Politico on Monday afternoon reported that a woman who dated Platner, Jenny Racicot, “says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.”
“Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner,” Politico reported, “for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.”
In a video posted to social media eleven minutes after the Politico story dropped, Platner says, “I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me. Any accusation of nonconsensual behavior is categorically false.”
He said he and his supporters “were united in a love of Maine, a belief that our politics must change, in a focus on defeating Susan Collins.”
“So, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful the political reality will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins.”
“Those were the goals when we launched this campaign. And they remain my goals today.”
“Throughout it all, you never turned your back on me. And I will not turn my back on you now. Every one of you deserves to see that vision come to fruition and see Susan Collins defeated. And we will use every tool at our disposal to do so.”
The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, a political commentator who served as the communications director for the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign, blasted Platner.
“I’m sorry but ‘we are taking time to reflect on the best path forward’ is not an option on the table,” Miller wrote. “Either it’s false and you campaign with vigor or it’s true and you get out / apologize to everyone you let down.”
Journalist Ryan Grim, commenting on Platner’s video, noted that Platner “strongly suggests he is considering dropping out. Already Troy Jackson and Chellie Pingree, both gubernatorial candidates, are being kicked around in Maine circles as potential replacements.”
Several others, including Puck News’ Peter Hamby, predicted Platner will be dropping out.
Platner had postponed several campaign events before the Politico story was published.
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) July 6, 2026
President Donald Trump is facing backlash after posting a video of children — including showing their unblurred faces — graduating from kindergarten, with some of the girls purportedly wearing hijabs.
“President Trump posted a captionless video of graduating kindergarteners on Truth Social on Monday, goading his supporters into verbally attacking little children simply for being Muslim,” The New Republic reported. “The clip is from Gateway STEM Academy, a majority-Black K-8 public charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota. It shows about 21 children in caps and gowns on stage singing a song together. Most of the girls are wearing hijabs.”
The original post of the video which Trump reposted reads: “Public school in St. Paul, Minnesota. Every girl is in a hijab … in kindergarten.”
Trump did not add any comments. TNR called the post “Islamophobic, weird, and creepy,” while noting that the comments section of Trump’s post was filled with calls “by racist, xenophobic MAGA supporters” to “deport the children and ban hijabs.”
TNR also noted that it “should come as no surprise that Trump isn’t above attacking children who just learned how to read, but this post is still particularly discomforting—and will certainly contribute to the already potent level of anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. and in Minnesota.”
Critics blasted Trump.
“There is something deeply unsettling about the president of the United States—the most powerful person in the world—going after kindergarten schoolchildren in Minnesota because they wore hijabs, as Trump has done this morning on his website,” The Bulwark’s Sam Stein wrote.
One social media commentator wrote, “Trump posted an unblurred video of more than a dozen Muslim kindergartners to Truth Social, exposing the children’s faces while targeting them for their religion.”
Another added, “Trump is a bigot. The president took to Truth Social to attack kindergarteners in hijabs. These are little kids. The president isn’t just a bigot, he’s also a coward.”
The original video was posted to the X social media platform in June.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) at the time commented, “If you are in a public school in America, you should be speaking english.”
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President Donald Trump’s apparent efforts to delay releasing the $5.8 million civil judgment to E. Jean Carroll are being met with a warning by the journalist’s legal team, who suggest there could be a legal maneuver for Trump to employ to forgo paying the judgment in either of the two cases he lost.
According to The Guardian, on July 4, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered Trump to release the $5.8 million judgment, which is in escrow, to Carroll by this coming Tuesday — or explain why he would not do so.
Carroll’s attorneys think Trump may be trying to buy time to mount another legal strategy, telling the judge that Trump’s request for an extension “appears to be little more than yet another play for time.”
“The case is separate from Trump’s appeal of a Manhattan civil jury’s 2024 award of $83.3m to Carroll for defamation,” The Guardian explains. “But her lawyers have suggested a legal scenario in which the president might seek to conjoin the cases and further delay payment of both.”
Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan (no relation to the judge) wrote, “We can only assume that defendant is seeking … to buy time so he can try to concoct some new basis to put off paying plaintiff presumably in connection with his forthcoming petition and motion for a rehearing.”
Trump’s former attorney, Justin Smith, in one of his final acts, wrote to the Supreme Court suggesting that his client would be appealing the $83.3 million civil judgment.
Smith argued that the Supreme Court “may wish to consider the petitions together,” given they involve the same parties.
The larger judgment case involves possible questions of presidential immunity, and that has Carroll’s attorneys concerned.
“A conjoined case, Carroll’s lawyers fear, could result in both judgments being wiped out,” The Guardian reports.
The president has also made clear he is no fan of Judge Kaplan, after the jurist made several rulings that “angered” Trump.
“What else can you expect from a Trump Hating, Clinton appointed judge, who went out of his way to make sure that the result was as negative as it could possible be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in 2023, “speaking to, and in control of, a jury from an anti-Trump area which is probably the worst place in the US for me to get a fair ‘trial’.”
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