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The Trump Years- Every day something more shocking than the last! (13 Viewers)
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So the poor are getting poorer, homelessness aparently started under Trump's watch ( who knew?) drug abuse is out of control and Trump made the rich richer by cutting their taxes which didnt help the middle class (what middle class at this point? ) Yet his supporters seem to still be eating up every horrible piece of rhetoric that comes out of his mouth. If thats why they truly voted for him he surely will lose by a landslide in 2020 because he has been an abject failure at solving those issues.
Dan Lambskin
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Anyone i know in real life that voted for trump is at least a casual racist
except maybe my friend Jon, but not 100% he voted for him.
id confidently put it at 90% though
I think this is quite wrong. I don't have data to back up my claim but anecdotally, many people that I have heard who support Trump did so because of the Republican stance on abortion. Many accept the racism and other missteps because abortion is the be-all. And, in some sense, I get where they are coming from as pro-lifers see this literally as a matter of life and death whereas silly, stupid, mean or racist tweets are just words in the wind.
Dan Lambskin
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I’m literally talking about friends, family and co-workers that I personally know that voted for him and I would label as at least casually racist
sho nuff
Footballguy
Upon Hillary calling a portion deplorable...some bought shirts proclaiming to be one of the deplorables. Proudly admitting to be “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic – you name it”.urbanhack said:
Note: those are her exact words on who the deplorables were. Im not calling people those things.
Sheriff Bart
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How long until Trump drops the ‘n’ word? Have to imagine his supports will point to rap music to make it acceptable.I was with two this weekend. Nice guys and would do anything for you. One was talking about something and said “I’m not racist, but there’s a difference between a “n” word and a black guy. There’s also a difference between a “honky” and a white guy.” As if that made any of the previous statement not racist.
msommer
Footballguy
Hard to believe that only our stable genius dear leader could somehow distract the American people from the stock market making new highs by tweeting ridiculous, racist things thereby establishing a completely different narrative that is not helping him. So much winning, this 4-D chess he is playing. Toying with the Dems, clearly.
Snorkelson
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Scripted his bigoted comments yesterday, complete with handwritten references to “alcaida.” Some peopel, I’ll tell you....
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IvanKaramazov
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It's against the rules to say that President Trump has below-average intelligence. I just remembered that for some reason that has nothing to do with this totally random post to which I am replying. Obviously there is no serious question about Trump's intellectual capabilities.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Ned
Footballguy
That's what struck me too. It may be naive of me and it probably doesn't make it any better in the end, but I always got the feeling that these comments were from him having no filter and just running his mouth unchecked. Given he took the time to type this out, print it, and then study and further prep the notes with his sharpie makes it even worse.
SaintsInDome2006
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- MJ
- I really agree with this, this is Trump's one trick, to churn the media cycle.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
I guess the other thought I have is that basically Trump is succeeding in turning Cortez, Pressley, Tlaib and Omar into a singular "group" when Dems start referring to them that way as well. They are four different people, they are not a 'squad' or even a minicaucus.
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Amused to Death
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MY SIL is a big Trump follower. She posted a meme on FB yesterday that said "Trump is like a doctor with a bad bedside manner. He just tells you the truth you don't want to hear".
I have shown tremendous restraint not replying with something like "If racism is your truth, you're an ###".
The danger of the media reporting Trump's propaganda for him instead of just ignoring it and focusing on his corruption/incompetence/lies about policy
Godsbrother
Footballguy
Yep just let it slide. I am not on FB but my wife is. She unfriended a cousin due to all of the political and religious stuff that was being posted, not because she was mad she was just sick of it all of the time. The next time she saw that cousin she was asked why she was unfriended and my wife told her. Interestingly her cousin said she would stop doing it (others unfriended her for the same reason) and true to her word she doesn't send political stuff anymore. I was pretty surprised and give her credit for realizing it is not worth alienating friends and family.
Sheriff Bart
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You can fool all the peopel some of the time, and some of the peopel all the time, but you cannot fool all the peopel all the time.
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Sheriff Bart
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That may be over the line although it shouldn't be with several dozen rape allegations and his friendship with Epstein.
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Mario Kart
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Vikram: "Confidence... It's the food of the wise man, but the liquor of the fool."
Truer words have never been spoken before or since.
apalmer
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Even more amazing is that when confronted with facts that show he's not telling them the truth, it's just shrugged off as "fake news".
sho nuff
Footballguy
Captain Cranks
Footballguy
The remaining 10% are not-so-casual misogynists.Dan Lambskin said:
Amused to Death
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This article is over a year old, but Trump's still running the same playbook. This is from The Irish Times, so more of that "world respecting America again" thing.
Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
Just a snippet:
Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.
Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
Just a snippet:
Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.
Mario Kart
Footballguy
These tweets today from Trump: These statements are treasonous in themselves yet will be smiled upon and spread like the propaganda it is.
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
The Democrat Congresswomen have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party. Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public.....
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
.....shouting of the F...word, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills. Why isn’t the House voting to rebuke the filthy and hate laced things they have said? Because they are the Radical Left, and the Democrats are afraid to take them on. Sad!
yak651
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I'm old enough to remember misspelling potato was enough to disqualify you from being President.
ericttspikes
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The acceptance of Trumpism has unfortunately proven that civility, morality, honor and decency was just a facade. Trump is what America really is.
msommer
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IMHO this (part of the) note is just him writing it phonetically which is no big deal. Had he written it correctly he'd likely not be able to pronounce it correctly
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Trump is so frustrating because he’s crude and vulgar but so sensitive when his opponents are. He ran his campaign on the idea that America was totally broken but 3 years later anyone talking negatively about the country should leave. He’s such a hypocrite on top of everything else.
Mario Kart
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mrip541
Footballguy
Yep. We've spent decades convincing ourselves we're somehow exceptional and Trump managed to bring it all down in less than 2 years.
sho nuff
Footballguy
Anything negative about him or his policies is an attack...vile and disgusting.
Any name calling and insults from him are just "fighting back".
HTH
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Sure seems that way. The country sucked when Obama was President but then it instantly became great when he took office.
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
He’s going to run America like a business!It's the change we all wanted to see by having an outsider come in to DC.
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sho nuff
Footballguy
joffer
Footballguy
I sent a currently serving Republican member of Congress text message begging him to put Trump on blast. He responded with the date of his state's primary filing deadline plus one day.
That is the Trump Republican Party in the most perfect, ####y nutshell.
- Tweet from Rick Wilson
That is the Trump Republican Party in the most perfect, ####y nutshell.
- Tweet from Rick Wilson
sho nuff
Footballguy
And it should be on every ad against those members of the House...that they wouldn't even stand up to blatantly racist statements against members of congress.
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