Jussie Smollett's Hate
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Conservative pundits have pointed out that Democrat elites and the so-called "mainstream" media were quick to accept actor Jussie Smollett's story of being assaulted by two Trump-supporters.
It is clear now that he lied. Smollett said his attackers were white and that he would have been believed without question if his assailants had been "Muslim," "Mexican," or "black." They were black.
When asked why he thinks this happened, Smollett answered, "I have gone hard against 45, I have gone hard against this administration." The mainstream media were all too happy to embrace any story that promotes their belief that President Trump and his supporters are racist and "homophobic."
However, Smollett and the leftist media have a broader focus for their hatred than this president. They hate America. The alleged Smollett attack was designed not merely to prove that this president and his supporters are bigots, but to demonstrate once again that America is a hateful place where racism and homophobia run rampant.
The president's slogan, "Make America Great Again," is interpreted as code language for "make America white again." His opposition to illegal immigration is depicted as a racist ploy to keep nonwhite people out of the country. They know that President Trump is not the originator of what they see as America's sordid legacy of hatred and bigotry, but in their minds, he is its latest and best representative.
After the Charlottesville confrontation between white supremacists and radical leftists, the president's condemnation of both sides was deemed "racist." As a black Virginian, I took the same view. When he pointed out that the Mexicans who cross our southern border illegally are not that country's "best," he was stating the obvious, but that too was considered racist.
No matter what this president does to improve the lives of women, minorities, and all Americans, from the left's perspective, he is beyond redemption because he is the symptom. America is the disease. The left views us as a nation of white supremacy, white privilege, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, inequality, oppression, corporate greed, and international imperialism. Instead of "America the Beautiful," they see ugly Americans. Instead of the "land of the free and the home of the brave," they see a land of the selfish and home of the brutal. Instead of compassionate people, they see planetary parasites and climate deniers dragging the world to cataclysmic destruction.
They see America as the world's nightmare. We drive SUVs, eat rich foods, and enrich billionaires while the world starves. We believe in a judgmental God, a bigoted Bible, and an antiquated Second Amendment right to bear arms, all of which makes us a narrow-minded nation of gun nuts. Our unprecedented prosperity was built on the backs of slaves, and our entire continent was stolen from American Indians. Our unparalleled contributions to mankind — industrial and technological advances; humanitarian generosity; the defeat of Nazism, communism, and other genocidal threats — are irrelevant. From the perspective of the left, we are an illegitimate country. Only "fundamentally transforming" America into a socialist state can pay for our sins.
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I find the noose offensive. What is this now? The Noose Talkers? Smollett made a dumb career ending grevious criminal mistake but it was not a capital offense. Such an intimation of lynching Smallett is just racist hatred incarnate...
From the perspective of the left, we are an illegitimate country.
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"too legit to quit"
A country's parent countries, can be illegitimate, but on fall, and off spring, are always legitimate.
To the right, a few instances of hoax hate crime are more important than thousands of incidents of real hate crime.
sorta like babblin on about this deuche
as
opposed to Coast Guard Cutter em all down.... ?
One of the funnier parts of this farce is the leftwing media professing puzzlement as to how Smollett could do this.
you'd think the fact that the same media treated him as a bigger hero than Sargent York, would make the answer obvious, but apparently not.
Name one thing that trmp has done to improve the lives of women and minorities
Pretty much everything he's done.
Although it's telling you think his job is to improve the lives of specific groups, not Americans. Was he running to be President of Minorities?
The only Americans whose lives he's improved are rich ones!
And he hasn't done one fucking thing for me. I didn't get a tax cut AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!
Then you are rich, or at least very well off.
90 some percent of Americans saw their taxes go down under trump.
what the fuck are you talking about?
I got maybe 30 bucks every two weeks extra in my paycheck but we got 2000 less in our refund.
I'll say it louder this time because you didn't hear me the last time
THE RICH GOT THE TAX CUTS! NOT THE ORDINARY WORKING AMERICANS!
got maybe 30 bucks every two weeks extra in my paycheck but we got 2000 less in our refund.
. Unless you are very well off with a large property, you paid less in taxes in 2018 then you did in 2017.
That's not the point
Nonsense, tax season isn't even over yet.
Maybe you can provide a link after April 15th ?
The tax tables have been known since the bill passed. What the hell does April 15th have to do with anything?
I think the issue is that a lot of people are finding that they owe taxes this year when they didn't expect to, and that is expected to continue for the people who haven't yet filed. They may be paying a lower effective rate, but if they didn't analyze what the changes in the tax code meant and adjust their withholding, they had too little withheld and ended up owing. Especially with the removal of the personal exception and several other writeoffs.
By my calculations I lost $1280. Pretty sure a tax cut would have meant I would have seen more money
I get Americans sadly equate the size of their refunds with their actual tax burden, but the overwhelming majority owed less in taxes to the feds in 2018 then they otherwise would have without the tax cut.
the only exception are high earners in high tax states that own expensive houses but don’t make quite enough offset the lost tax deductions with the savings from the lowered brackets. That’s about 5% of American taxpayers.
Not that it's anybody's fucking business but it's a little "savings account" that we use for an annual trip. Yes, I know I get no interest on it, but in the past we knew we would have X amount of money for our annual bowling trip. Now we can't count on that
It's none of your business
Witholding is the greatest invention the tax man ever came up with. People don't pay attention to how much of their money the government takes from them because they never see it. Then they are happy when the government gives them back some of their own money because the government took too much from them and earned interest off it.
Imagine if everyone had to write a check to the government every month for the amount they owed. People would care alot more about much they paid if they saw it come out of their bank accounts.
Same as millions and millions of other people.
I do my best friends taxes every year and she was given the option of keeping her withholding the same rate or as close to the previous rate as possible,
so her salary / take home pay was constant.
I am nearly done her 2018 taxes and her normal refund is down $1600.00
Home mortgage interest, charitable deductions and medical expenses did not increase the refund one bit.
If this law holds up, itemizing will be a thing of the past for most people.
And for those who enjoy a refund, we will have to adjust our withholding to accomplish that.
I prefer getting back around $1000. It's strictly a psychological thing ... and with interest rates so low, I figure I'm giving the IRS what, five bucks?
If interest rates rise, though, I will change my withholding.
I don't have kids and my house is paid off, and my state and property taxes are low, so I haven't itemized in several years. So for me, the doubling of the standard deduction helped and more than made up for the loss of the personal exemption. I wasn't actually using the writeoffs that got taken away since I don't itemize.
I think each withholding Federal, State, and local should be itemized on our paychecks on how the government spends it....lol. That would be a real shocker for most to see.
Just like a property tax bill....good grief I think I have about 20 line items on my property tax bill. Don't even know wtf most of it is for.
You should see the paperwork my Mom gets for our oil well (a grasshopper on the farm that was Grandpa's). She gets maybe $100 a year and it includes 7 pages of one cent here, 3 cents there ... it's ridiculous.
Can you imagine how many pages the tax itemization would be!
You are the one that brought up how much less you are getting. By doing so, you made it our business.
Then don't bring it up?
Completely untrue.
no,
you didn't see 90% of Americans,
you saw that dude who Putin Trump to begin with....a little premature, no ?
LMFAO So the government taking your money is a savings acct? [ Deleted ]
Gee, thank god I don't have to rely on the government to regulate my money so I can save up.
Hey I did a quick search on Google and they have amazing free news to help save money so you don't have to rely on the government.
They also have a array of books too....
Horrible way to go through life. I almost feel sorry for them...almost.
,
i like being sorry, so i pre apologize, just cause i felt
like it was the right thing to do,
i'm hoping i wasn't wrong about being right
but
who am i kitten,
guessin just another one of Dem melt in Da mouth Roofers that need Roofies to run off of,
just
B'Cosby Kidz N Joy !
I’m not a big Trevor Noah fan, but he really nailed this:
Bravo Sir!!