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The Trump Years- Every day something more shocking than the last! (49 Viewers)

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So, I get a 10% tax cut? Sweet!!!!!

Oh, I have to give up future social security, future medical coverage, future safety nets, that Baby Boomers have used and used up? Sweet... now I can go on that vacation.

 
Henry Ford said:
Narrator: current inflation means you cannot go on that vacation. 
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This is where some Republican would chime in how when SS was established the average life expectancy was 62  There's then usually an inference that if you're lucky enough to live to 90 you shouldn't be so lazy and work until 90.

 
But wait, there's more.  Sure sounds like a party of racists and bigots to me. 

President Trump on Monday sharply intensified a Republican campaign to frame the midterm elections as a battle over immigration and race, issuing a dark and factually baseless warning that “unknown Middle Easterners” were marching toward the American border with Mexico.

The unsubstantiated charge marked an escalation of Mr. Trump’s efforts to stoke fears about foreigners and crime ahead of the Nov. 6 vote, as he did to great effect in the presidential race. Mr. Trump and other Republicans are insistently seeking to tie Democrats to unfettered immigration and violent crime, and in some instances this summer and fall they have attacked minority candidates in nakedly racial terms.

Mr. Trump is now railing daily in speeches and on Twitter against the migrant caravan moving north through Central America, and on Monday called it a national emergency. The caravan has dominated conservative talk radio and Fox News, where there has also been loose speculation about a link to terrorism. The apparently groundless inclusion of “unknown Middle Easterners” to the caravan echoes Mr. Trump’s longstanding practice of amplifying fears about Islamic militants on the campaign trail.

“That is an assault on our country and in that caravan you have some very bad people and we can’t let that happen to our country,” the president said at a rally in Houston on Monday night. Mr. Trump suggested without any proof that the opposition was involved in instigating the caravan. “I think the Democrats had something to do with it,” he said.

In targeting the caravan, the president appears determined to end the election season with a cultural fight over national identity rather than the issues that party leaders initially wanted to run on, like tax cuts or the economy.

But Mr. Trump has not been alone in seeking to divide the electorate along racial lines this fall: As the congressional elections have approached, a number of Republican candidates and political committees have delivered messages plainly aimed at stoking cultural anxiety among white voters and even appealing to overt racism.

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In upstate New York, Republican political groups have aired ads branding a Democratic congressional candidate, Antonio Delgado, who is black, as a “big-city rapper” and accusing him of seeking to give government “handouts” to food-stamp recipients. In Dallas, a political committee aligned with Mr. Trump, America First Action, has disseminated an online ad branding Colin Allred, a black civil rights lawyer, as hostile to gun rights — accompanied by the image of a white woman with a dark-skinned hand smothering her mouth.

Two House Republicans, Chris Collins of New York and Duncan Hunter of California, who have been indicted on charges of corruption, have aired ads widely denounced as racist. Mr. Hunter has branded his Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, who is Arab-American, a “security risk,” while Mr. Collins has run an ad showing his Democratic challenger, Nate McMurray, who is white, speaking Korean, insinuating that he favors Asian economic interests over those of the United States.

And in a debate in Florida on Sunday, Andrew Gillum, the Democratic mayor of Tallahassee who could become the state’s first black governor, criticized his Republican opponent, Ron DeSantis, for attempting to “draw all the attention he can to the color of my skin.”

Mr. DeSantis and his associates have been rebuked repeatedly for racially incendiary comments: In August, Mr. DeSantis said Florida should not “monkey this up” by electing Mr. Gillum — a comment he described as a normal figure of speech — and one of his chief surrogates nicknamed the Democrat “Andrew Kill-’em,” purportedly alluding to Tallahassee’s crime rate.

Most pervasive have been broad and largely false claims that Democrats support an “open borders” immigration policy that would lead to a vast influx of violent crime. Republicans have deployed that charge in countless elections, and are now linking mainstream Democrats who support immigration reforms to far-left activists who favor abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Republicans are also accusing Democrats, without evidence, of going soft on MS-13, a Latin American gang that Mr. Trump regularly depicts as a national menace.
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IvanKaramazov said:
I honestly think it's only a matter of time before somebody gets killed.  The level of hatred and unhinged vitriol out there is off the charts.
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Yeah, and it could be someone from either end of the spectrum too.

And more generally, as a parent it bums me out my kids aren't going to get to grow up in the same world I did.  We're headed into a dark time I'm afraid.

 
jamny said:
I was reading up on that loser who insulted the 911 wife in Portland and just got fired from his job for it. In comments, I kept seeing people call him NPC, so I looked it up.

In case you ever see it and wonder what it is:

What Is NPC, the Pro-Trump Internet’s New Favorite Insult?
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Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, the online message forums, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.
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The right sure can get creative with their projections.  But dogs vs cats.

 
Rest assured good citizens, whenever there is an accusation of impropriety or malfeasance against the opposition it is really an indictment of their own behavior. I speak of DJT and his supporters.

Latest example: 

Bottomfeeder Sports said:
Quoted from NYT article:

Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, the online message forums, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.
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In reality, these fine folk joined the DJT bandwagon not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to support DJT's policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot right-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.

Prove me wrong.

 
IvanKaramazov said:
I honestly think it's only a matter of time before somebody gets killed.  The level of hatred and unhinged vitriol out there is off the charts.
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Such as a nazi driving a car through a crowd? 

 
Don Quixote said:
Heather Heyer counts as one.
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Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani count as two more.

I think there have been others as well. And there's been plenty of vicious beatings at the hands of white nationalists, from the Boston men who beat and peed on a homeless Hispanic man during the campagn and told police “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported" to the Proud Boys attack in NY last week. 

 
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TobiasFunke said:
Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani count as two more.

I think there have been others as well. And there's been plenty of vicious beatings at the hands of white nationalists, from the Boston men who beat and peed on a homeless Hispanic man and told police “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported" to the Proud Boys attack in NY last week. 
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Yeah, that attack as well.  That Wikipedia page also had a see also to the Portland train attack.  Unfortunately, a lot of deaths already.

 
Zow said:
Such as a nazi driving a car through a crowd? 
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Not really, no.  Not that that sort of violence isn't bad of course, but I was thinking something more like assassination attempts on politicians and nationally-known figures.  Like the George Soros story.  Political violence has been around for a long time but it seems to me that we are running a real risk of a return to 1968 or something.  

 
Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2m2 minutes ago

The people of Puerto Rico are wonderful but the inept politicians are trying to use the massive and ridiculously high amounts of hurricane/disaster funding to pay off other obligations. The U.S. will NOT bail out long outstanding & unpaid obligations with hurricane relief money!

 
fatguyinalittlecoat said:
GROOT said:
Let's taker a moment to step back and see what Trump has done to CNN. They are no longer in the business of reporting news. 

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 You planning to discuss this or was your post just trolling?  Every news outlet should be saying this every single day in my opinion.
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I think I agree with GROOT on this one. The CNN chyron isn’t technically false, but it’s misleading because saying “ahead of elections” seems to imply that he doesn’t do those things at other times.

 
Maurile Tremblay said:
I think I agree with GROOT on this one. The CNN chyron isn’t technically false, but it’s misleading because saying “ahead of elections” seems to imply that he doesn’t do those things at other times.
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That's Trump's strategy all the time.  Any time there is a big event he comes up with something in order to distract or sway people one way or the other.

 
Kevin McCarthy's office here  was burglarized.  Here are the headlines:

Washington (CNN) House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office in California was vandalized and equipment was stolen Monday evening,

CNN-8 hours ago

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office in California vandalized
CBS News-6 hours ago

Thieves break into Bakersfield office of Rep. Kevin McCarthy
Santa Rosa Press Democrat-3 hours ago

Rep. Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield office attacked with massive rock ...
Fox News-14 hours ago

Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield office broken into, large rock smashes ...
Local Source-KGET 17-15 hours ago

Rep. Kevin McCarthy's office broken into, office equipment stolen
Local Source-KERO 23ABC News-18 hours ago

:lmao:

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
Kevin McCarthy's office here  was burglarized.  Here are the headlines:

Washington (CNN) House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office in California was vandalized and equipment was stolen Monday evening,

CNN-8 hours ago

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office in California vandalized
CBS News-6 hours ago

Thieves break into Bakersfield office of Rep. Kevin McCarthy
Santa Rosa Press Democrat-3 hours ago

Rep. Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield office attacked with massive rock ...
Fox News-14 hours ago

Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield office broken into, large rock smashes ...
Local Source-KGET 17-15 hours ago

Rep. Kevin McCarthy's office broken into, office equipment stolen
Local Source-KERO 23ABC News-18 hours ago

:lmao:
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Are there any photos of this rock?

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
Kevin McCarthy's office here  was burglarized.  Here are the headlines:

Washington (CNN) House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office in California was vandalized and equipment was stolen Monday evening,

CNN-8 hours ago

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office in California vandalized
CBS News-6 hours ago

Thieves break into Bakersfield office of Rep. Kevin McCarthy
Santa Rosa Press Democrat-3 hours ago

Rep. Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield office attacked with massive rock ...
Fox News-14 hours ago

Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield office broken into, large rock smashes ...
Local Source-KGET 17-15 hours ago

Rep. Kevin McCarthy's office broken into, office equipment stolen
Local Source-KERO 23ABC News-18 hours ago

:lmao:
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Remember a few years back when there was all the Republican outrage if a story was reported "a <brand>SUV ran over 8 people" because how dare the MSM demonize SUV's?!!

I miss those more sane days.

 
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