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I trust him. If that’s what he says, it must be true.
Stunning!
James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution
In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn Americans against one another.www.theatlantic.com
Stunning!
James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution
In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn Americans against one another.www.theatlantic.com
Trump will turn on him, just like everyone else. Trump and everything he touches is just absolutely toxic. I think even the most diehard Republicans are starting to realize what some of us have known all along - Trump does nothing unless it is in his self-interest. Whether that will change things at election time remains to be seen.
The church stunt with the bible was even lower than I could ever imagine him sinking, if that is even possible!
Republican Voters Against Trump
These are Republicans, former Republicans, conservatives, and former Trump voters who can’t support Trump for president this fall.rvat.org
I think the interesting thing is how Trump keeps baiting his critics to focus on him nonstop for years. Win or lose, i'm pretty sure the media will keep focusing on him for decades to come. We can agree he's a narcissist to the highest order but he's pretty good at baiting and grabbing a lot of attention.
He is a master showman. And he personifies the anger and insecurity of his base. But that is not enough to lead the United States.
When the left starts making videos about Biden in the same way republicans are making these kind of videos about Trump, then I'll start getting worried:
Also, 10 bucks says that the second Trump is out of office, his following and media coverage will start vanishing at an astonishing rate (despite what I guarantee will be his ceaseless effort to tweet garbage at the next administration in contrast to the extreme reticence of prior presidents) and he'll quickly return to being an afterthought of a ****stain on the scroll of history. After all, nobody really follows the circus master after he's left the big tent.
They will support him, or somebody like him, as long as whites, and especially white males, keeps being vilified by the left, as long as political correctness keeps being this country's "religion", as long as "feelings" are more important than facts. And not only his base will... If Pence were running for president, I would hold my nose and vote for him in an instant.I wonder.
If he loses this November you just know that he's going to say its a fraudulent election, rigged, that sort of thing. It'll be interesting to see how long his die hard supporters hold on to that narrative.
I think you're right that most of those who have put up with him to achieve their goals (SCOTUS, tax breaks) will stop talking about him pretty darned fast, but the true believers (of which there are a fair number) are more of a question mark.
I wonder.
If he loses this November you just know that he's going to say its a fraudulent election, rigged, that sort of thing. It'll be interesting to see how long his die hard supporters hold on to that narrative.
I think you're right that most of those who have put up with him to achieve their goals (SCOTUS, tax breaks) will stop talking about him pretty darned fast, but the true believers (of which there are a fair number) are more of a question mark.
I wonder.
If he loses this November you just know that he's going to say its a fraudulent election, rigged, that sort of thing. It'll be interesting to see how long his die hard supporters hold on to that narrative.
I think you're right that most of those who have put up with him to achieve their goals (SCOTUS, tax breaks) will stop talking about him pretty darned fast, but the true believers (of which there are a fair number) are more of a question mark.
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?www.theatlantic.com
Looks like a majority of the country agrees with LeBron
It wasn't sarcastic. It was honest. The kind of thing that is less and less appreciated by the left.@FFP care to elaborate more than a sarcastic emoji?
It wasn't sarcastic. It was honest. The kind of thing that is less and less appreciated by the left.
And no, I don't care to elaborate. In my experience, it's a waste of time to explain a moderate position (what used to be called "common sense") to anybody who thinks in extremes (e.g. LeBron James, Trump) or their fans/cult. Been there done that, pigs don't fly.
I only preach to the choir, to make all the stupidity around me more tolerable, like drinking buddies at the pub.
Nobody denies what's still happening in certain parts of this country, especially in the Deep South. Those states were founded by rich slave and plantation owners who moved over from Barbados, not just the usual middle-class colonists running away from persecution/poverty, and it still shows. Also, I expected racism to flare in Minnesota, after some genius planted a ton of Somali refugees there; people tend to become more prejudiced and less tolerant when about their backyard (just look at Brexit).It's literally not extremes. Have you seen the latest info on the Arbery case? If that doesn't spell out that black people are hunted by some in this country I don't know what does. How many examples do you need?
Until you make the effort to try to understand what they go through, your comments just come off as ignorant. That's the truth.
Nobody denies what's still happening in certain parts of this country, especially in the Deep South. Those states were founded by rich slave and plantation owners who moved over from Barbados, not just the usual middle-class colonists running away from persecution/poverty, and it still shows. Also, I expected racism to flare in Minnesota, after some genius planted a ton of Somali refugees there; people tend to become more prejudiced and less tolerant when about their backyard (just look at Brexit).
But cheap generalizations like LBJ's, even just for emphasis, don't help. Or calling "my comments" (or others') ignorant, just because they are not PC, full of liberal hysteria, and don't fit the "revolutionary" groupthink. You don't know much about me. Btw, thank you for proving my point.
@We'llBeDoneIn15Minutes, are white people hunted by black people?Looks like a majority of the country agrees with LeBron
But are white people hunted by black people?
Or are you just using opposites to try and prove a point that whites can’t say the same thing about blacks?
Sorry. Quoted the wrong person.What? I was agreeing with LeBron...
Stunning!
James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution
In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn Americans against one another.www.theatlantic.com
Ouch!Black Man Killed by Two White Men -- Cue the 'Race' Hysteria | RealClearPolitics
In February, a black man named Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia. Cue thewww.realclearpolitics.com
This was written by a black man. I can only imagine the outrage if a white man pointed out the same facts.
They (white people) have been pointing out these same facts since time immemorial. Give us a break. Blacks have been portrayed in news, media, popular culture since slavery as a violent being.Ouch!Black Man Killed by Two White Men -- Cue the 'Race' Hysteria | RealClearPolitics
In February, a black man named Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia. Cue thewww.realclearpolitics.com
This was written by a black man. I can only imagine the outrage if a white man pointed out the same facts.
I disagree with you on this one. Not preaching to the choir is one of my biggest issues with individual society nowadays. It's an uncomfortable position to be in, it's annoying and many conversations are meaningless. But I think that goes hand in hand with "cancel culture". The idea that if somebody doesn't agree with my viewpoints they don't merit interaction.I only preach to the choir, to make all the stupidity around me more tolerable, like drinking buddies at the pub.
While I understand your anger and frustration (because I am a much more decent person than you seem to think), it's misdirected. You're putting words in my mouth.They (white people) have been pointing out these same facts since time immemorial. Give us a break. Blacks have been portrayed in news, media, popular culture since slavery as a violent being.
Now I don't suppose you are gonna bring up the fact that violence and poverty have nothing to do with each other right? I don't suppose you gonna bring up the fact that lack of a good education and ignorance, have nothing to do with each other right? Slavery, being "freed" and left to fend for yourself, starting with absolutely nothing, and continuing for hundreds of years, being marginalized, not given the same opportunities as the white people. the same type of education because of continued poverty, which statistics show have a cause and effect on crime, that has nothing to do with it right?
How about the fact that there are more white people overall in this country so therefore if there is going to be crime, then, yeah, by numbers alone they are going to be more affected?
So in essence, what you are trying to say is that we black people in this country, are just violent beings. We are going around killing each other and hunting white people as well. Is it in our nature? Is it nurture?
You may be book-smart, but you are ignorant when it comes to the history of this country and the social constructs that explain why many black people in this country continue to live the way they do. I used to be ignorant too about many of these things as a foreigner, then made some Black American friends, and read some stuff and opened my mind that it is not as black and white as many educated, but ignorant people think it is.
If you have any middle class, black friends, or colleagues, please tell us how they are out there committing crimes against each other and hunting white people, since you know, it's what we do.
And thank you for pointing out to us that we are being "hysterical". You know what, it's about damn time we become hysterical at the mistreatment we have received in this country since forcibly brought here against our will. About F time.
His entire stream is police meting out their version of street “justice”. More fuel for the fire. How do the police respond to protests against police brutality? More police brutality.
what do you expect? Put a stick/gun in a persons hand, they are gonna use it to beat people. Stanford prison experiment showed us people cannot be trusted with power. We need checks and balances! People are fed up with stories of cops doing whatever they want and sprinkling crack on the dead bodies and calling us criminals after the fact
Turkey is now asking the USA to protect free press. Our descent into fascism....
In Turnabout, Global Leaders Urge U.S. to Protect Reporters Amid Unrest
You really think you can have a civilized” conversation about that by citing such an article and then baiting it with “well, if a white person had said that...”While I understand your anger and frustration (because I am a much more decent person than you seem to think), it's misdirected. You're putting words in my mouth.
And you also proved my previous point, that one cannot have a civilized conversation about certain PC subjects anymore. I am sorry. It seems I had forgotten that this forum is as bad and intolerant as our society.
Come on. It's just an opportunity to misdirect attention away from their own abuses and you know it. Russia, China, and Iran have made the same super-sincere, deeply earnest, very concerned requests that the US Government not oppress and beat and torture its citizens.I really want to believe Turkey's being sarcastic but idk anymore
Come on. It's just an opportunity to misdirect attention away from their own abuses and you know it. Russia, China, and Iran have made the same super-sincere, deeply earnest, very concerned requests that the US Government not oppress and beat and torture its citizens.
You're smarter than this. Don't parrot their propaganda with this virtue signaling pretend handwringing that you "don't know" if they're sarcastic or not. As if it's genuinely hard to tell whose citizens are really better or worse off. For all the problems we have, and police abuses are way up there, we're not Turkey.
Trouble is that Republicans and even most moderate Democrats will forever back up the police, no matter what, because they've bought into the police force being a heroic extension or little brother of the military, and their worshipful support of the military has no bounds.The implication is that you already know the “why” but aren’t allowed to speak it, due to the PC police, instead of digging deeper to try find out “the roots” of this. You seem to take the article as face value while ignoring the social constructs and racism that led us here.
I totally agree - it's huge cause for concern. The last few years have been extraordinarily damaging to our ability to be a force for good in the world.Obviously we're not Turkey, but the fact that the phrase And you are lynching Negroes, even 60 years later, fails to be a pure satirization of Soviet whataboutism or other totalitarian propaganda should be a cause for some concern. We are supposed to be the moral leaders of the world, but yet we still have events that are best described as lynchings, the highest incarceration rate in the world, and a president who fired tear gas into a peaceful protest so he could have a photo-OP.
Gun control has never, ever been anything but a tool to oppress the poor, weak, and helpless.
and they have no interest or intent or obligation to serve or protect anyone.
Couldn't be further from the truth
I 100% agree with this statement, the problem is in practice. I've had this take on here before. I will get viewed and treated a whole lot different carrying a gun or even using a gun in self defense than my white friends. I know plenty will say that is overreaction, but honestly, given the way America works currently, I'm not willing to take that chance.Also, I'll mention it because I can't help it ... the 2nd Amendment is for black and brown people too. Arm yourselves. Demand carry rights. If you're being hunted, defend yourselves. Quit buying the Democratic line that gun control is for your own good. Gun control has never, ever been anything but a tool to oppress the poor, weak, and helpless.