‘This is what Dems are afraid of’: Patriotic moment goes viral at historic summit for young, black conservative leaders
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Turning Point USA is holding a historic conference for young, conservative blacks in Washington, D.C., and the very idea has to have Democrats shaking in their boots.
The Young Black Leadership Summit is a four-day event running from October 25-28 that features some of the nation’s most well-known black conservative leaders and activists, according to the organization.
And Donald Trump Jr.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk took to Twitter to credit Candace Owens, the bold, tireless activist who has been the driving force for the #WalkAway movement.
“The vision @ RealCandaceO had is coming to life – this is just the beginning of a revolution that will forever change the cultural landscape of America,” Kirk tweeted.
The phenomenal gathering of black conservatives was all the rage on social media, as seen in a video featuring Trump Jr. that has been shared and tweeted far and wide.
“This is @DonaldJTrumpJr with young black conservatives. THIS is what Democrats are afraid of. They do NOT want you to see this,” tweeted Collin Rugg.
And in a surprise move, President Donald Trump invited the entire summit of young black conservative leaders to the White House on Friday.
The concept of hundreds of black Americans openly supporting President Trump is enough to leave Democrats lying awake at night. With a thriving economy and black unemployment at a record low, a large scale exodus from the Democratic Party by African-Americans would be devastating.
Owens suggested Trump has another factor working in his favor with black voters, other than a strong economic performance.
“President Trump is the most marketable president in the history of all presidents to the black community because he’s funny,” she told the New York Post. “They really respond well to humor and self-deprecation.”
Here’s a sampling of other inspiring posts from the historic summit being shared on Twitter.
Looks like @ realDonaldTrump finally has some supporters in DC now! # ybls2018 # maga @ TPUSA @ RealCandaceO @ charliekirk11
Today I am finally wearing my hat out.
Today I have decided to no longer be afraid.
Today I have decided that Democrats can no longer bully me.
TODAY I HAVE DECIDED. # WalkAway # BlackConservativeMovement # MAGA # Trump2020
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Good for them! Hopefully they can express their political opinions without being belittled and bullied.
The RNC is obviously paying her to spew this rhetoric.
Your comment indicates that you believe that black women are incapable of thinking for themselves and making their own decisions. Wow!
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A whole 400? WOW!
that's more than obama, or hillary, can get lately.. LOL
the blue puddle is evaporating faster than expected
Actually either one of them bring in 5 times the crowd over any conservative, including Trump.
But isn't that why she got the most votes because most folks supported her and not Trump?
Sounds like we need to fix a serious flaw in our democracy which derives directly from a foolish compromise with white supremacists and slave traders.
Actually the Dems have been fighting against the GOP's racist gerrymandering efforts for quite some time but it's become a much larger problem with the GOP's racist "voter ID" laws and the gutting of the pre-clearance provisions of the VRA. Even the federal courts have consistently found that the GOP's intent and effect is racist in these cases, which is why it's so revealing that the conservative white male majority on SCOTUS supported gutting the VRA......only a really clueless and isolated white guy like Roberts could be so utterly ignorant as to assert that "racism is over." Of course the reality is that the gutting of the VRA had been at the very top of the agenda for Roberts and other conservative white extremists for decades.
That might be true in your state but I rather doubt it. From what I've seen the same pattern has occurred for decades whenever the GOP is in control after a census and reapportions districts in a racist way to benefit their overwhelmingly white demographic.
And of course that has little to do with the GOP's voter suppression efforts which are arguably the bigger part of the problem.
Good to see that the courts have consistently found that the GOP's motives in those gerrymandered districts were racist and illegal.
Why should they? So far the courts agree with the Dems that the GOP had a racist intent when they illegally gerrymandered these districts. That's why your side keeps losing these cases and why those GOP-controlled legislatures have been told to go back to the drawing board or have the courts do it for them.
Anyone surprised by that fact must truly be an idiot or share the same racist goals as the Republicans who drew those districts.
The GOP's voter suppression and voter disenfranchisement tactics are why there's a lack of votes in local and state elections, but at the national level your Fuhrer didn't win the most votes. In general the GOP is no longer able to win the most votes in a national election and that's a very good sign that the country will soon be progressing again.
That's only due to a well organized reaction against Trump and his fellow dumb bigoted Republicans in Texas, and it's clear that registrations would be far higher there without the GOP's ongoing voter suppression efforts. These folks are truly evil, but it's not just a problem in Texas.
The reality is that the problem exists in every state controlled by the GOP. Heck, the Georgia GOP just purged 550,000 registered voters from the polls due to various voter caging tricks, and 80% of those voters are black. Of course the various lawsuits against the GOP's unethical tactics resulted in a court ruling restoring 159,000 voters to the roll, and the publication of the names of the remaining 340,000 voters who had been improperly purged. I think another 53K were just restored by the courts. The court also recently ordered that the state can no longer use its "exact match" law to reject voter registrations.
Too bad SCOTUS gutted the VRA because this kind of racist voter suppression hasn't happened since the VRA was passed in 1965.
It's no myth, the federal courts already proved that the Texas GOP's intent was racist both in regards to the gerrymandering and in regards to their voter suppression efforts.
Who the hell cares what you buy. Ignorance is very cheap
That's twice as many people than Joe Biden got at his "rally" in Nevada, a state that Hillary won in 2016.
Facts don't matter in the liberal echo chamber!
You have got to be kidding! President Donald Trump would not utter facts if they stuffed themselves into this mouth - and some conservatives blindly support every lie that reflexively or with premeditation issues forth from his lips. Oh look here's a Trump lie 'winging' its way to the Midterm election cycle now!
Conservatives, some of y'all need to come clean and stop lying and playing a tire victim role—if you truly wish to be believed about anything important that is.
Delusional lately? You need to come clean on Trump's compulsive lies and why you are cool with him telling them on behalf of conservatism and why you are cool with some conservatives flying a false flag about protecting and preserving Obamacare's preexisting conditions clause. All that other noise means nothing to me. Blah!
Uh, not, just in you dreams padawan
That's why you never have any, just echos from McConnell and the rest of the hobgoblins
And there it is: Jefferson, you've Changed!
You conservatives have swallowed the lying megalomaniac monster whole and now its got you right where it wants you!
Trump is the student who came to school and ate the teacher. Populist-conservatism now inverses itself as it must for Trump is the 'elite' now. President Trump, the compulsive liar, has deluded some conservatives into believing he is devoted to conservative ideology—he is not. President Trump is executing a 'takeover' of his own ambitions. Look at Trump closely: is he changing or is public perspective of conservativism being subconsciously undermined?
In my opinion, it's the latter. So take your short-term gains for what they are: Limited.
Who needs roads, bridges, cops or paramedics?
Why should we care if you believe us? Given the lunacy currently embraced by the left, we would rather not be part of your "beliefs"
Donald Trump has been trying to utterly destroy the ACA since Day One as President, and so have republicans since the advent of the Tea-Party. So, this "see-saw" some of y'all are creaking on needs more than oiling. Y'all need a moral adjustment. Stop faking dedication to people for whom some conservatives have no true interest in their welfare.
It's kind of amazing how the GOP is now trying to run on protecting coverage for preexisting conditions given how they've consistently tried to gut or revoke protections for it. At least the press has noticed but I hope the public isn't taken in by the GOP's blatant lies.
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The GOP must think the people who vote for them are literally idiots. Maybe they're right.
The Press can do more to express collective outrage. I get it! President Donald Trump is holding the prestige and deference owed his high office hostage to his tactless and unreflective personality. The public was warned Trump does not possess the temperament to properly govern 350 plus million people. A self-centered leader is above all ruthless when it comes to getting what s/he wants!
What I know about the electorate is this: All voters need to look to their consciences, because ultimately what we will be come as a people is being determined by each fork in the future that this country hauls itself down.
Vote Independents wisely as if to save us all!
I'm an independent but the only responsible and ethical position today is to vote in a way which effectively boots the GOP out of power and there's only one way to do that. So except in rare cases a vote for anyone but a Dem today is a wasted vote.
Republicans are truly harmful to the country and to society in general, not much different at all from when the KKK controlled the government in the south.
Yes! Help save us all! Help the pendulum swing back in the opposite direction. Because money, fame, and wealth can not hold a candle to what love can do for the heart! We are all on islands floating and creeping away. . . we need something powerful like truth. . . to bring us back to our common purposes.
While I agree, I see no "Truth" that is probably going to do that, Reality may.
When things happen we may see change, I doubt talking "truth" changes much.
Too many Americans really dont want to hear the truth about too many things.
"Words to me dont mean much, it's deeds that matter!" That is America now.
Politicians say anything they want and the media prints anything they want.
Realty... Truth.... LOL Good luck finding that these days.
WWIII is what we need ...
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Or what it may take.
E.A WOW!!!
Another one of those " Magical Word Change Games "::
1) Gay is No Longer Gay
2) Truth is no longer Truth
3) Reality is Fiction ( If Truth is not Reality " what else can it be? " )
4) Male is no Longer Male
5) Female is no longer a Female
666 Infinitum!!
WWIII. Peace through strife?
Steve, truth can save us. Lies will most undoubtedly condemn us. War and folly will surely come when we fail to know up from down and the 'universe' of this nation's issues is bent beyond repair.
War is not this nation's friend. War is a nuisance. Lies are delusional. Truth is peace.
I seriously dont see that talking truth is going to unite this nation. Too many Americans seriously do not want to see reality. If people aren't willing to see what reality is truth has little chance.
I have a friend maybe had a friend, I'm not sure. I was talking with this guy the other day (A friend of over 20 years) we were talking about the abuse in politicians and I mentioned trump not turning his business over to a conservatorship when he took office like the other presidents, the Guy Freaked.. it's like he'd never heard it before ... he stammered some crap about how damn rich the clintons are and then said I gotta go and basically hung up on me.
He didn't want to hear or know the truth. his problem not mine.
He still hasn't called me back and I'm not calling him. Immaturity ranks low with me and I've seen enough. .
LOL... cute.
Time will tell.
We'll see what IF anything unites this country.
IF any of us live that long.
It would be great if the GOP weren't so blind to truth and adverse to reality. They even have a pathological liar as their glorious leader today.
HAHAHA!!! What did you do, go in the archives to rehash some of that Tea Party rhetoric?
Please post another article about hate from the left? Or at least another one about how Christians should love others?
That's certainly some hypocritical bullshit in that comment.
Palin lover, what have you ever done for your country other than pee on it
Tesslyo, I used to vote straight democratic ticket myself. I lived in Illinois for many years. UNfortunately I learned not all democrats are the kind I want in office. I figured out the bad people were getting in riding on either the democrats or the republican name, so I stated researching all the candidates and voting for the person I think is most qualified.
Here is a the tip of the iceberg on why I changed my voting style,.
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Of Illinois' last seven governors, four have ended up in prison.
Rod Blagojevich was governor from 2002 to 2009. He was convicted of numerous corruption charges in 2011, including allegations that he tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. He is currently serving a 14-year sentence at a federal prison in Colorado.
Blagojevich was impeached on this date, January 30, four years ago.
Dan Walker, governor from 1973 through 1977, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and other charges in 1987 related to his business activities after leaving office. He spent about a year and a half in federal prison.
Otto Kerner, governor from 1961 through 1968, spent three years in prison after being convicted of bribery related charges.
That’s your choice, I hope you do realize that just because there is a D after their name doesn’t mean they are guaranteed to a good person or a good choice even.
No problem yes we all have our choice. I prefer to know more about who I give power over me to hatn just want party the belong to though.
Like I said not every politician should be in power, for either side so I dont just vote straight party line, because that IS how bad people take control over us.
But of course do what YOU feel is best . To each their own
PS: Straight party line voting is much easier that's for sure. Researching the candidates is time consuming for damn sure.
Perhaps you should try to answer the question instead to skating around it, oh, that's right, you were know on NV for just that, making statements and getting pissed when people proved you didn't have clue what you were talking about and also making up your own facts.
At this point ever if there were an R who actually was a good person and had ethical policies I probably wouldn't vote for them, unless they weren't in a legislature or in Congress where the GOP votes as a block. Even then I would have severe misgivings about voting for anyone who chooses to be in a party of bigots and plutocrats.
As an independent who researches all the candidates yes they are out there. I’m actually pretty much financially conservative and socially liberal. My motto is: To each their own, and leave me the hell alone. Take care of yourself and I’ll do the same. Don’t fuck with my world and vise versa.
From what I can tell there haven't been any sane or ethical Republicans in office since Lincoln Chafee and Jim Jeffords left the party 15+ years ago. There are a few good judges who are Rs but they were appointed long before that.
Here in our state and local elections I did vote for a couple of republicans this time. Federally I voted all democrat this time to try to help restore the balance. That did lessen the research efforts ! LOL
You mean like how GOP tends to vote as a block in Congress and in state legislatures?
Today it's like they're little puppets whose strings Trump pulls. No wonder none are brave enough to call him out for his bigotries much less investigate his bad conduct or obstruct his bad policies.
I seriously doubt the Dems will do nothing when Trump issues bigoted and ignorant comments and edicts. They'll definitely call him on it, something which no one in the GOP is going. So it's a great thing that the House at least will be in Dem control......and it looks like the Senate might be too.
Damn right they will. They don't have any love at all for racists, white nationalists, homophobes, transphobes, misogynists or Islamophobes like the GOP does today, nor do they have any tolerance for corrupt presidents.
"Young Black Conservative Leaders." Good for them. They ought to 'roll on down' to Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and see if those 'good ole white conservative leaders' will let them vote.
Colin Rugg? A big Trumper holding onto a bag with a hole in it.
The "ready-made" question staring into the void of the White House East Wing today is, "How come"?
How come "many" young black Americans were not considered appropriate to gather amass in the White House until their brand of "decoration" was required? Or was this "presentation" a form of distraction from this year like none last year?
Someone (writing above) seems to imply black Americans have freedoms to vote critically based on conservative policies - without seriously taking stock of the compulsive liar of a President who is a corrupting influence and who uses cut-throat strategies and bully tactics to keep literally everyone in his sphere of influence in-line!
This is what conservatives are labeling, "freedom"? Some conservatives no longer see evil when it is staring them down - as they 'plow' President Trump's plantation!
Trump is laughing at this so-called "win-win" that allow him to be ruthless, in exchange for a conservative movement following headlong after the whims of a man who is going to change its 'destination' for good.
Fuck anybody who sides with Trump. Black or white.
That seems reasonable...
Funny how the right has to make a showcase out of minority inclusion.
We've seen this before. Michael Steele can relate. Seven votes to get him in as the head of the RNC and they held him up like a trophy "Look! We have one too!"
And when that ploy became obvious they dumped him like trash.
One of my favorites was an article posted by Cornhusker4Palin and written by Tea Party News....A Black, a Jew and a Woman. Touting inclusion until the question arose as to why did the Tea Party have to bus in these three individuals to speak?
Answer: Because they were lying.
A sellout is a sellout … the result of a BUYOUT!
Candace Owens …
In 2015, Owens founded the website Degree180. [2] [5] The website frequently posted anti-conservative and anti-Trump content, including mockery of his penis size. [2] [11] Owens said in one of her postings that it was "good news" that the "Republican Tea Party ... will eventually die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope)." [2] In one article she wrote that the antics of the Tea Party Movement were "bat-shit-crazy". [12] [8] [5] When Buzzfeed News in May 2018 reported on the anti-Trump content on Degree180, Owens described the Buzzfeed reporter as a "despicable creature" and alleged that Buzzfeed had threatened the former writers of Degree180 (an allegation that Buzzfeed denied). [2]
But then …
On November 21, 2017, at the MAGA Rally and Expo in Rockford, Illinois , Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk announced her appointment as the organization's director of urban engagement. [15] Turning Point's hiring of Owens occurred in the wake of allegations of racism at Turning Point. [2]
Oh! And by the fucking way …
Promoting conspiracy theories about October 2018 bombing attempts
In October 2018, during the bombing attempts targeting prominent Democrats , Owens tried to spread the conspiracy theory that the assassination attempts were a "false flag" operation by "leftists". [46] After authorities arrested a 56 year old suspect who is a registered Republican and Trump supporter on October 26, Owens deleted her comments without explanation. [47]
A modern-day Dathan …
Dathan, together with his brother Abiram , were among the quarrelsome and seditious personages in Egypt and in the wilderness who sought, on every occasion, to place difficulties in the way of Moses . Being identified with the two Israelites at strife who were the cause of Moses ' flight from Egypt!
Selling out one's own race for personal status and profit!
Let me get this straight. You are "okay" with Candace Owens calling black Democrats "plantation Negros" or words to this effect? If not you should speak up. Because Black people have the right to diversity and can sit or stand beside any political party they choose without being clowned on! (As in see @6.2.)
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Most likely only by liberal racists.
No disrespect to our elderly parents - so I won't go there. I asked you a direct question:
Are you are okay with Candace Owens calling black Democrats "plantation Negros" or words to this effect?
Do you think Black people have a right to diversity in choosing a political party without being clowned on?
Just you and me, Muva. "Eyeballs to eyeballs."
I'm always amused when anyone who supports the racist King of the Birthers claims to be black. It's a lot like Jews for Hitler or black folks for David Duke.
Like Westboro Baptist Church having a float in the Gay Pride Parade...
There was that one "Blacks for Trump" guy but he is full blown nutters.
30 seconds of research could have saved you from making that silly remark. But whatever twirls your tassels, I guess.
LOL. Given that they share your vile anti-LGBT views even you should know that the Phelps KKKlan votes only for bigoted conservatives. 60 years ago Fred Phelps was a Dem because that's who the bigoted and ignorant conservative Southern Baptists were at the time. Today all the bigoted bible-babbling conservatives are Republican.
That dude actually is a cult member and murderer who somehow escaped imprisonment with the rest of his loony cult.
Only mentally ill black folks like him would support the racist King of the Birthers.
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Are you claiming that sane black folks would vote for a white supremacist?
What does amaze me is that you can claim anyone black who voted for President Trump is mentally ill but my comment was deleted welcoming you back as being of no value.
I didn't flag the comment (I generally don't do that), but perhaps you can explain how a sane black person would vote for a white supremacist like Trump, someone with a history of racist pandering and refusing to rent to black folks.
Are they like the Jews who voted for Hitler or the black folks who voted for David Duke?
Selling out one's own race for personal status and profit!
What trump republicans do all the time
Uh were and how did he do that and you come up with racism,
I believe it's your racism that should be removed, maybe you too
Among other indiscretions … it's a right wing smear machine!
— Turning Point USA on Thursday, December 8th, 2016 in a Facebook post
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TPUSA Koch Connection
In addition to its ties with the Koch-funded Leadership Institute , Turning Point USA has received support from a range of Koch-tied groups. In 2017, The Foundation for Economic Education ( FEE ) sponsored TPUSA 's Student Action Summit. FEE is a partner organization of both TPUSA and the Charles Koch Institute . [7] , [28]
Groups funding FEE include The Charles G. Koch Foundation , as well as the dark money groups DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund . Justin Steiff , the director of development for FEE , is on TPUSA ’s advisory board . [29] , [30] , [31]
The Heritage Foundation is another partner organization of TPUSA , and sponsored their 2017 Student Action Summit . According to Greenpeace, the Foundation has received over $5 million from Koch Foundations between 1997 and 2015. Another partner organization, the National Review Institute , is a recipient of Koch Funding. [7] , [32] , [33]
TPUSA advisory board member Adam Brandon is president of the Koch-affiliated group FreedomWorks . FreedomWorks' predecessor, Citizens for a Sound Economy ( CSE ), was founded by the Koch brothers. Both CSE and FreedomWorks have received millions of dollars from the Koch family foundations, DonorsTrust, and Donors Capital Fund. [31] , [34]
Foster Friess , a wealthy conservative donor with a history of attending closed door meetings with the Kochs, reportedly provided the seed money for TPUSA . He and Doug Deason, another common Koch donor , both sit on the advisory board for TPUSA . Deason also spoke at TPUSA ’s 2017 Student Action Summit . [3] , [35] , [36] , [32] , [31]
I doubt it. This is a country of hundreds of millions, fuck a few hundred.
I'm surprised that there are only a few hundred conservative black folks who are so delusional as to vote for the racist King of the Birthers.....a man who repeatedly refused to rent to "their kind." Just based on the average number of birth defects and childhood brain injuries alone you'd think that there would be more than just 400 of them.
Kind of like white tail deer voting for the NRA candidate.
Thinking people don't vote for far right wing fascists.
You've previously claimed to be mixed-race.....can you explain why you support a white supremacist who panders to racists and who has a record of refusing to rent to black folks?
It sounds a lot like Jews for Hitler or blacks for David Duke, but I'm sure there were a handful of each. Maybe something like women for rapists? We know for a fact that there are more than a few of those in the GOP.
Or, Log Cabin Republicans (gay folks) stompin' for evangelical Vice-President Mike Pence to put them in their proper place in society. "All money ain't good money!"
Especially if they were paid to be there. Wouldn't put it past Trump.
Except you have no idea how they will really vote and are only guessing they went because they were Trump lovers
Likely they went for the free hats, food and attention. They got beat up later back in the hood.
I would hope all Americans would want a country where people are aligning with a party based on policy rather than immutable characteristics. The fact that this is happening speaks well of our country. Sorry (not sorry) if it's inconvenient for Democrats.
I've always been an independent. Trump has polarized me to the left.
On policy? Or because you don't like his tweets and such? On policy, he says a lot of things Democrats used to support. Within the Republican Party, many didn't want to vote for him because they know he's not a true conservative. You might consider that if you find yourself thinking of him as radical.
Respectfully and honestly, I would encourage you to at least try to do what I have done. i.e. acknowledge that he's a pig, but hold your nose and support his policies because they make more sense than what the other side is offering.
Someone who knowingly votes for a sociopathic racist, misogynist, homophobe, transphobe, Islamophobe, xenophobe and general all-around dumb bigot like Trump isn't merely "holding his nose", he's Trump's base.
That would be a psychiatric diagnosis no one who has examined him has made. But even if it were true, so what? Do you understand how sociopathy works or how it has translated into actual acts? I doubt it.
I'm not convinced of any of those things, so the suggestion that I knowingly voted for such a person does not apply. You will disagree naturally, but let's run a quick test: Is there a Republican president or candidate for president in the last 50 years who you would not describe the way you have described Trump?
Not at all. I voted for someone else in the primaries. In November, my choice was Trump or Hillary. Given where Hillary is these days, that was an easy choice.
LOL. You knowingly voted for the racist King of the Birthers, the misogynistic pussy-grabber with a long history of refusing to rent to black folks and a man who promised to appoint anti-gay judges to SCOTUS to get marriage equality repealed. The very same man who ran on a platform of xenophobia & Islamophobia and the guy who illegally tried to ban trans folks from the military. Almost as bad as your willful vote for a bigoted sociopath is that you defend him in this forum all the time.
You're definitely part of the problem as I noted upthread when you were defending the vile views of a bigot.
But it wasn't racist when Democrats were birthers during the primaries, right?
Not true. He rents to black people who have money. Over 4 decades ago, he had a dispute with the government that was never adjudicated. He settled because that is usually cheaper, but the fact remains he wasn't renting to white people who were risky any more than he was renting to black people who were risky. Business people - particularly real estate types - tend to be most strongly biased toward the idea of reliable income.
As a general matter, objectifying women is not misogyny, it's biology. Grabbing them is something else.
I recognize Trump. I have seen this behavior in politicians, businessmen, athletes, professional musicians, and actors. Because of wealth and/or fame, they have huge egos and a sense of entitlement so extreme that they think they should get away with any crime (in fact they often don't even see their behavior as immoral or criminal simply because they are the one doing it). They expect people to excuse their behavior or even take the fall for them. Remember, he didn't claim he was grabbing and kissing women against their will. He said "they let you" do it. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people like that in the world and I think we all already knew Trump was one of them. I promise you something: a lot of the people who attack for it are just like him.
Note that I don't defend him grabbing or kissing women. I condemn it. I just don't have an easy remedy for it.
Voting Democrat certainly isn't the answer (See: Bill Clinton, Al Franken, John Conyers, Bob Filner, Raul Bocanegra, Dan Schoen, Tony Mendoza, Ira Silverstein, Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Barney Frank, Gavin Newsome (he'll be governor of California any minute now), Ruben Kihuen, Elizabeth Etsy (even the women keep the creeps around!), Hillary Clinton (has a history of demonizing women who accuse powerful men of sexual misconduct) and I could keep going.
I assume that by "xenophobia" you really mean getting control of immigration. Leftists love to change the meanings of words so they can more easily demonize people they can't argue against on the merits. Controlling the borders and immigration used to be a thing Democrats supported. Now you call it xenophobia. It's bullshit. Fortunately the meaning of that word hasn't changed.
Trump isn't afraid of Muslims. He's afraid of Muslim terrorists. The proof is that he banned migration from countries that only represent 10% of the world's Muslim population and he's done nothing to the many Muslims who already live in America.
I also criticize him all the time (see misogyny above), but you only see what you want to see. Stop making absurd and unsupportable accusations about him and I'll stop defending him.
I never particularly liked Trump and he was definitely not my first choice for president, but few people in our history have been lied about as much as him. When people try to drive policy based on those lies, yes, I will speak up.
LOL, a very small handful of Dems did that but it didn't go anywhere because the Dem demographic doesn't respond well to racist dog whistles like that. But it is why the overwhelming majority of Republicans were and still are Birthers. No wonder a racist like Trump ran with it - he knew that conservatives could easily be manipulated through appeals to racist tropes and by pandering to white supremacists. Same thing with his anti-semitic and white nationalist tweets.....he knows how to manipulate the truly deplorable conservatives who comprise the GOP. No wonder so few Jews, blacks or other minorities support him.
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That comment is a lie on several levels. The Trumps [&] Cohn agreed to a court-enforced settlement (a consent decree) and the DOJ had to go back to court a few years later to get it enforced because Trump continued to refuse to rent to black folks (that's how these civil rights violations are usually handled just likewas done in Baltimore and Ferguson recently).
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It's simple enough to stop voting for him rather than voting for his misogyny, racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, demonization of the press, etc. It's clear than none of those faults are disqualifying in your mind and that speaks volumes about you and about conservatives in general.
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Demonizing innocent refugees is just one aspect of xenophobia but it's really a catchall for all aspects of the modern conservative's racism, antisemitism, homophobia, Islamophobia, etc.
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That comment is a blatant lie too particularly given that Trump tried to give preference to Christian refugees from the same countries. Not only has Trump weaponized Islamophobia and put a target on the backs of American Muslims, but he's made travel more difficult for US Muslims, harmed their extended families, and even hired virulent Islamophobes into key positions in his administration - including the one who wrote all the variations of his Muslim ban and his other anti-immigrant policies. You must be blissfully ignorant to be unaware of that.
Why isn't Trump afraid of terrorists who are white right-wing Christian extremists particularly since they pose the biggest threat to Americans and are responsible for most of the terrorist attacks here? Why did he disband the DHS group which followed those terrorists and order DHS to focus solely on Muslim extremists?
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And we're done. I'm sick of this Skrekk. Stop calling me a liar.
Then don't make up fables and try and pass them off as fact
Yet you do that all the time.
You should check your own comments as you skip around the COC consistently
E.A is " Skipping Around " the same as Contemplating Falling IN?
You can not be serious. Something is definitely wrong in the republican-conservative party. The ideology is largely 'twisted.' Maybe its Newt Gingrich or Pat Buchanan playing around in the margins, but this party is a sorry excuse as a model of justice and fair-play. The word, "fork-tongue" comes to mind more each and every day. In fact: The Republican Party is branding itself as "the forked tongue party (of Donald J. Trump).
The pathetic part of it all? Being a party following the mind of a brazened liar and delivering policies based on lies doesn't even matter to republicans or conservatives anymore. Disturbingly pathetic.
Many things are wrong in both parties.
How do you mean?
I think most politicians are lying to me at some point, Trump possibly more than most. At minimum, he's not as good at it as some others. Mostly, I see Trump's lies (if you like) as harmless (e.g. crowd sizes. who cares, really?). Other times, he's just wrong about stuff. So far, it seems to be working out ok. We have a system that seems to be able to absorb and adjust to a guy like Trump.
Oh boy, an exceptionally dishonest president does not wow you. Something is definitely wrong in the republican-conservative party. Nothing about President Donald Trump is harmless—especially his impulsiveness and lack of professional integrity!
You would not accept such conduct from your children or personal friends were it turned on you. Do not expect me to give this president a pass because he expedites smoothing very complex issues by steamrolling them flat. CAUTION! Watch out for "pop ups"!
See, that's not realistic. Trump is not my child or my friend. We hired him to do a job. As long as he is doing the job better than the available alternatives, I would be a fool to vote for anyone else.
Your 'hire' is not under control of the 'board' very well. He is lying up a storm, biased to a fault, ideologically rigid, and overpowering the conservative "movement" right before your faces! Trump does not work well with others "on his level"—'the board' will be found to be disloyal and disbanded. Are in Trump parlance at some point in the near future conservatives will hear these words: "You're fired!"
if near future is around 20yrs from now? your right.
as long as the dems remain the party of illegals and crime and the gop keeps the title of being for the "working man" and "security", the left is not going to be hired into a position to fire anyone.
if the democrat party does not lose the extreme leftwing bs, the moderates will keep leaving and never return.
cheers
I'd hope that is not true of both parties. When and if the radicals fully take over this country (from ether side ) they will destroy it. For sure !
gop keeps the title of being for the "working man" and "security"
The gop has long since lost that talking point with the Nation and are just noted for their love of racism, hate of minorities, love of corporate America and filling their own pockets on the back of our citizens It pays not to listen to Fox 8 ball
The party of tax cuts for the rich sure isn't protecting America against terrorist attacks by white supremacists or other xenophobic Trump supporters.
I'm suggesting that the GOP might want to put a muzzle on their Fuhrer before another of his supporters kills more people in response to his dog whistles.
Who is this "fuhrer" you speak of and just who has been killed because of what he has said?
trump beat their asses as well.
Liberals find "Blacks" to be just "Tokens" when they actually "#STAND UP" and/or "#WALK AWAY" !
"Black" people can't be that smart in "Liberal Land" . Those "Uppity" folks need to be brought back down to the Liberal reality.
You have to remember that the liberals believe that Blacks and other minorities have been bought and paid for by the left and have no right to do anything but what they are told.
That brings back memories of "Days gone by" for sure !
US wage growth hits nine-year high
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Democrats have dreamed of getting that to happen. To bad they think only MORE "Regulations" can Force it. LMAO !
E.A Yes that is why ALL Political systems AND Chat Sites that Use intimidation and Force, ultimately Fail!
Yep !