When a guy blows up the economy and leaves, and his successor has to put it back together....how is it that the first guy escapes the blame for it? also, what country with a failing economy are you in? cause here in the US of A, the economy isn't failing by any measure.
How is it fake if you admit that he mocked the disabled reporter? And he didn't mock like "like he did able bodied" people. We went into a pantomime of the mans disability. Yes, he mocked a man with disabilities.
As for the racism...yes, he's racist: He has said and done racist things, and gone so far as to blatantly appeal to the white nationalist movement (AKA, Nazis and kkk) https://slashdot.org/comments....
A short and very incomplete list of completely racist things Trump has said or done: -"theres one of my blacks" -"mexico is sending us rapists" -"laziness is a trait in blacks" -"the judge is a Mexican" -"they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.” -supports stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD (ie, unconstitutional and racially discriminatory), and wants it expanded nationwide, claiming it worked, contrary to all evidence -Obama's birth certificate -condoned the abuse and even beatings of multiple Black Lives Matter protesters and other minorities at his campaign rallies -regularly engages in anti-Semitism -treats his minority supporters as literal tokens -treats minorities and racial groups as monolithic stereotypes -thinks all African americans live in the inner city, are poor, without work, receiving welfare, and uneducated, and that the inner city is a hell hole -saying 88% of white murders are committed by black folks -repeating statements from white supremacists multiple occasions -making blatant dog whistles to the alt-right, white supremacist crowd -not condemning or distancing from white supremacists campaigning for him, including David Duke -encouraged mob justice against the Central Park 5, and continues to insist they are guilty years after its proven otherwise, including spending 85k$ on full page ads in the paper advocating for their execution -being sued by the federal government on multiple occasions for not renting to minorities
Hell, even when he claims to be trying to reach out, he's doing so in white communities and actually only repeating racist myths and stereotypes that are meant to appeal to white voters and make them feel better about voting for such overt racist.
His sons kept appearing on white supremacist radio programs..."accidentally". Once may be an accident. Twice, you need to fire your booking agent. four times and counting? its no longer accidental or someone else's fault. Donald Trump IS racist, regardless of the efforts of the ignorant to ignore it or explain it away.
"I know Hitler says a lot of things. But he probably doesn't mean them. I'll worry about his anti-Semitic comments when we get to that bridge. The solution, of course, is to not carry out his orders if he does order such things.........."
-Citation provided. -since race is an artificial construct anyway, it's as good a word as any to describe bigotry against a distinct cultural ethnic group a more concise term is coined -debatable; migration rights are largely seen as a basic human right. and they still have rights under the constitution, particularly in the area of due process, the constitution being a document that describes not just the relation between the government and citizen, but more accurately the government and any person subject to its authority.
-your views on women, looks, and what constitutes hypocrisy don't even merit a response. but I will say, you should start by looking up the definition of hypocrisy
-citation already provided
-Yes he is, though I can see how its hard for you to see, when you willfully ignore and dismiss everything he's done, as you have in the above mentioned topics.
did it ever occur to you that maybe there wouldn't be any riots if African Americans weren't illegally and disproportionately shot by the police? it has nothing to do with Obama. but thanks for putting your racism on open display.
there's this thing called "power" or "authority" that makes people feel helpless to resist. like say when you billionaire boss walks up and just grabs you. not screaming or slapping him because youre afraid for your job is not consent.
actually its really easy, considering it was bush who started those wars in the first place!! and lied us into one of them. cleaning up your predecessors mess doesn't somehow impart to you equal blame in creating the mess.
politics is, was, and always will be the bastard child of compromise between closely held principles and pragmatic positions.
for instance: Hillary supported the Iraq war and voted for it. but remember the complete picture: she was voting on the resolution less than a year after 9/11, as the freshman senator from New York.
So while we, as the watchers, can find it hard to tell when a politician is making a principled stand or a pragmatic one, consider that, any politician from New York without the benefit of years of history as their Senator (and maybe not even then) who voted against that resolution would have been committing career suicide.
I don't say that to excuse it or to say that I think it was a pragmatic vote rather than a principled one she actually believed in. But I do understand the political realities of the situation.
again you prove you a) don't know what "commies" actually are, and b) that you are completely unaware that democrats exist outside CA, c) you don't actually know the election results outside CA.
and given that the CA democratic party is entirely mainstream and actually a center-right party, due to the large numbers of rural voters they also have to win over (cause, contrary to your ignorant assumption that everyone votes alike....no they don't just get the city vote, and several cities are actually republican strongholds), and completely average as far is its views among the various state democratic parties....yes very much the popular vote indicates that yes they do in fact want CA style "Commies" in power.
especially when compared to the cratered budgets, failing education, and just general dumpster fires that are the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Florida, etc. You know...the ones that became 100% Red State Wet Dreams and began implementing every conservative economic and social fetish, and when faced with mounting problems, instead of having a second thoughts and rethinking things (like CA did following Arnold's tenure) doubled and tripled down instead.
So yes. yes, very much the majority of people would prefer to be more like California.
again: thank you for putting your ignorance on display.
oh bs. California, and most other states, held voting to the same general patterns and trends they usually do. (hint: that's why "swing states" are a thing....cause they actually swing back and forth.)
and that includes turnout among either political side: the proportion of voter turnout in CA mirrored both past turnout and the general ratio of dem to gop voters in the state. changing the system to a popular vote wouldn't magically manifest signifincatly different or larger ratios among the turnout. so you can stuff this ignorant point back up the arse it was pulled from.
besides, anyone who did stay home for the reason you state is an idiot, and deserves what they get, with no room to complain, as there's a lot more to election day than just the federal contests.
no, you get labeled as a racist for saying and doing racist things, like calling Mexicans rapists, refusing to rent to minorities, and blatantly appealing to the KKK and neo Nazis.
just like you get labeled a misogynist for saying and doing misogynistic things, like bragging about sexual assault. or labeled as homophobic for making homophobic statements and installing several virulently anti-LGBT cabinet members, let alone his VP pick.
those labels didn't just poop into existence from a vacuum. He earned them.
in no f'ing way has Trump promised to do the exact same things Obama did. thank you for once again proving that libertarians are completely delusional.
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that'd be pretty cool though
When a guy blows up the economy and leaves, and his successor has to put it back together....how is it that the first guy escapes the blame for it?
also, what country with a failing economy are you in?
cause here in the US of A, the economy isn't failing by any measure.
JFC you're an idiot.
Amen.
if you're for inclusion and tolerance, wtf would you support the opposite of those things?
tolerance does not mean tolerating intolerance.
As the president of the largest democratic nation on Earth
what's india got to do with this?
you're an idiot.
How is it fake if you admit that he mocked the disabled reporter?
And he didn't mock like "like he did able bodied" people.
We went into a pantomime of the mans disability.
Yes, he mocked a man with disabilities.
As for the racism...yes, he's racist:
He has said and done racist things, and gone so far as to blatantly appeal to the white nationalist movement (AKA, Nazis and kkk)
https://slashdot.org/comments....
A short and very incomplete list of completely racist things Trump has said or done:
-"theres one of my blacks"
-"mexico is sending us rapists"
-"laziness is a trait in blacks"
-"the judge is a Mexican"
-"they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”
-supports stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD (ie, unconstitutional and racially discriminatory), and wants it expanded nationwide, claiming it worked, contrary to all evidence
-Obama's birth certificate
-condoned the abuse and even beatings of multiple Black Lives Matter protesters and other minorities at his campaign rallies
-regularly engages in anti-Semitism
-treats his minority supporters as literal tokens
-treats minorities and racial groups as monolithic stereotypes
-thinks all African americans live in the inner city, are poor, without work, receiving welfare, and uneducated, and that the inner city is a hell hole
-saying 88% of white murders are committed by black folks
-repeating statements from white supremacists multiple occasions
-making blatant dog whistles to the alt-right, white supremacist crowd
-not condemning or distancing from white supremacists campaigning for him, including David Duke
-encouraged mob justice against the Central Park 5, and continues to insist they are guilty years after its proven otherwise, including spending 85k$ on full page ads in the paper advocating for their execution
-being sued by the federal government on multiple occasions for not renting to minorities
Hell, even when he claims to be trying to reach out, he's doing so in white communities and actually only repeating racist myths and stereotypes that are meant to appeal to white voters and make them feel better about voting for such overt racist.
His sons kept appearing on white supremacist radio programs..."accidentally".
Once may be an accident. Twice, you need to fire your booking agent. four times and counting? its no longer accidental or someone else's fault.
Donald Trump IS racist, regardless of the efforts of the ignorant to ignore it or explain it away.
"I know Hitler says a lot of things.
But he probably doesn't mean them.
I'll worry about his anti-Semitic comments when we get to that bridge.
The solution, of course, is to not carry out his orders if he does order such things.........."
-I don't care what you believe.
-Citation provided.
-since race is an artificial construct anyway, it's as good a word as any to describe bigotry against a distinct cultural ethnic group a more concise term is coined
-debatable; migration rights are largely seen as a basic human right. and they still have rights under the constitution, particularly in the area of due process, the constitution being a document that describes not just the relation between the government and citizen, but more accurately the government and any person subject to its authority.
-torture is a war crime
-so is retaliatory executions, even the uber-conservative and generally delusional Washington times agrees
-so is the targeting of families
-your views on women, looks, and what constitutes hypocrisy don't even merit a response. but I will say, you should start by looking up the definition of hypocrisy
-citation already provided
-Yes he is, though I can see how its hard for you to see, when you willfully ignore and dismiss everything he's done, as you have in the above mentioned topics.
did it ever occur to you that maybe there wouldn't be any riots if African Americans weren't illegally and disproportionately shot by the police?
it has nothing to do with Obama.
but thanks for putting your racism on open display.
so maybe stop saying racist sexist things?
just a thought.
They do?
Good for them.
I'm tired of supporting their lazy butts.
so what's the weather like over there in fantasy land?
cause you sure aint living in reality.
there's this thing called "power" or "authority" that makes people feel helpless to resist.
like say when you billionaire boss walks up and just grabs you.
not screaming or slapping him because youre afraid for your job is not consent.
troll is troll
trump not only believes that nuclear war in inevitable but that it is winnable.
tell me again how he's the lesser threat?
actually its really easy, considering it was bush who started those wars in the first place!! and lied us into one of them .
cleaning up your predecessors mess doesn't somehow impart to you equal blame in creating the mess.
if I may expand on the warmonger thing a bit...
politics is, was, and always will be the bastard child of compromise between closely held principles and pragmatic positions.
for instance: Hillary supported the Iraq war and voted for it. but remember the complete picture: she was voting on the resolution less than a year after 9/11, as the freshman senator from New York.
So while we, as the watchers, can find it hard to tell when a politician is making a principled stand or a pragmatic one, consider that, any politician from New York without the benefit of years of history as their Senator (and maybe not even then) who voted against that resolution would have been committing career suicide.
I don't say that to excuse it or to say that I think it was a pragmatic vote rather than a principled one she actually believed in.
But I do understand the political realities of the situation.
again you prove you a) don't know what "commies" actually are, and b) that you are completely unaware that democrats exist outside CA, c) you don't actually know the election results outside CA.
and given that the CA democratic party is entirely mainstream and actually a center-right party, due to the large numbers of rural voters they also have to win over (cause, contrary to your ignorant assumption that everyone votes alike....no they don't just get the city vote, and several cities are actually republican strongholds), and completely average as far is its views among the various state democratic parties....yes very much the popular vote indicates that yes they do in fact want CA style "Commies" in power.
especially when compared to the cratered budgets, failing education, and just general dumpster fires that are the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Florida, etc. You know...the ones that became 100% Red State Wet Dreams and began implementing every conservative economic and social fetish, and when faced with mounting problems, instead of having a second thoughts and rethinking things (like CA did following Arnold's tenure) doubled and tripled down instead.
So yes. yes, very much the majority of people would prefer to be more like California.
again: thank you for putting your ignorance on display.
god forbid you actually have to win people over and convince them to vote for you.
far better to continue to disenfranchise half of every state instead by ignoring their votes entirely and make the system as undemocratic as possible.
oh bs. California, and most other states, held voting to the same general patterns and trends they usually do.
(hint: that's why "swing states" are a thing....cause they actually swing back and forth.)
and that includes turnout among either political side: the proportion of voter turnout in CA mirrored both past turnout and the general ratio of dem to gop voters in the state. changing the system to a popular vote wouldn't magically manifest signifincatly different or larger ratios among the turnout. so you can stuff this ignorant point back up the arse it was pulled from.
besides, anyone who did stay home for the reason you state is an idiot, and deserves what they get, with no room to complain, as there's a lot more to election day than just the federal contests.
because they're stupid.
thank you for again providing a shining example of the ignorance and delusions of libertarians.
now kindly stop spreading BS.
no, you get labeled as a racist for saying and doing racist things, like calling Mexicans rapists, refusing to rent to minorities, and blatantly appealing to the KKK and neo Nazis.
just like you get labeled a misogynist for saying and doing misogynistic things, like bragging about sexual assault.
or labeled as homophobic for making homophobic statements and installing several virulently anti-LGBT cabinet members, let alone his VP pick.
those labels didn't just poop into existence from a vacuum.
He earned them.
in no f'ing way has Trump promised to do the exact same things Obama did.
thank you for once again proving that libertarians are completely delusional.