Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will venture to Detroit on Saturday to attend a roundtable discussion at a Black church, the latest in an effort to peel away Black voters from President Joe Biden ahead of November’s election.

Trump’s planned visit to a church nestled in the heart of Detroit’s west side has received fierce pushback from local Democrats and the Biden campaign who argued Trump did little as president to improve Black communities nationwide.

Trump has denigrated Detroit in the past as “corrupt,” but both he and Biden have identified Michigan as a must-win state, and the vote there is expected to be as close or closer than it was four years ago.

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      There is a pastor on YouTube who reviews bibles (weird, I know) and he got one and said it was (unsurprisingly) cheap and flimsy, made with fake leather, and it was probably not printed in the U.S. because it didn’t say it was, which is something they would almost certainly tout.

      Also, I didn’t realize the bible scam was a collaboration with Lee Greenwood. That somehow makes it worse.

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    Oh cool… we get to see which old white man looks more awkward around a bunch of black people singing and dancing!

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        Also, it’s sort of around the time of Juneteenth! Juneteenth, MLK day and the first day of February are the three days the media remembers black people exist.

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          Two more positive-ish occasions then the LGBT folks, so I suppose they have that going for them, which is nice.

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            LGBT folks are catered to A LOT more than black ppl. Mainly because LGBT ppl can be white. Now if you’re brown and LGBT you can’t pretty much fuck off as far as they’re concerned

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      I think I would take awkward “how the hell did I end up here?” over “Hey, remember when we used to own them?”:

      or the “double invisible handy”:

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        Either way, it will be embarrassing, but I’ll be voting for the guy who doesn’t still insist the Central Park Five are guilty.