Trump’s a racist. Example 13,674,939,251

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1155176535428460545

I don't use Twitter, but aren't you supposed to respond to somebody's tweet, or "at" them or put them in a hashtag? It looks like Biden didn't do any of that, and we're just supposed to magically know who he is referring to here.

How many presidents do we have?

[T'Chenka]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1155176535428460545

I don't use Twitter, but aren't you supposed to respond to somebody's tweet, or "at" them or put them in a hashtag? It looks like Biden didn't do any of that, and we're just supposed to magically know who he is referring to here.

How many presidents do we have?

It just seems weird to me that he said "you" but then didn't use any of Twitter's various ways to connect Trump's twitter account to his post (reply / at / hashtag). He isn't sending this message TO the president, only his followers?, but he says "you". Maybe I'm just being a stickler.

[ProudModerate2]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1155176535428460545

So where does The Squad rate on Biden's list?
I mean, he opened the door to this.  If every Democrat is "amongst the finest", aren't they all "amongst the worst".  After all, if everyone is special, then nobody is.
Cummings is a political hack from the Baltimore area.  He's not this principled leader.  Biden's just blowing smoke here.

You are deflecting (once again in Fuzzy fashion) from the main theme of the story.
You blame Biden "for opening the door on this." Wrong .... the Orange Buffoon opened the door on this entire debate. You dare to question Cummings as a "principled leader," but yet you completely overlook what the president is doing here.
We have the POTUS degrading the people and the community of an entire CD in a Tweet. These are American citizens.
Can you not see that trump is conducting himself like a complete degenerate, a$$hole?

[ProudModerate2]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1155176535428460545

I don't use Twitter, but aren't you supposed to respond to somebody's tweet, or "at" them or put them in a hashtag? It looks like Biden didn't do any of that, and we're just supposed to magically know who he is referring to here.

How many presidents do we have?

It just seems weird to me that he said "you" but then didn't use any of Twitter's various ways to connect Trump's twitter account to his post (reply / at / hashtag). He isn't sending this message TO the president, only his followers?, but he says "you". Maybe I'm just being a stickler.

You are being a "stickler."

[NeederNodder]

Not that I would take away the SNAP benefits, as people there need them. (I would take sugary sodas off the list of eligible items; I would give everyone on SNAP a cookbook; I would replace sodas with detergents as items of eligibility).

What is wrong with Trump country?

Yeah not gonna deny its just as ed up lol with regards to poverty.

But even with all that poverty.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/kentucky/districts/owsley-county/owsley-county-high-school-8396

It still has half the people proficient in math/reading.   I would much rather be brought up here than Baltimore Maryland because atleast there is a decent chance of getting out of the vicious cycle of poverty Baltimore creates.


https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/baltimore-city-public-schools/patterson-high-9017

Meanwhile a school in inner city Baltimore.

I do understand the Kentucky test districts probably have a slightly lower standard but overall there is no legitimate excuse to explain why these two schools are so different with regard to school performance. Even when comparing nationalized standardized tests  with ACT to SAT and using a convertor the Owsley county students have a score about 100 higher. What resources do these students have that inner city Baltimore students don't?

It's easier to get out of a vicious cycle of poverty in rural Kentucky than in Baltimore because of the systematic white supremacy that's the root of the issue in the first place. Those kids in Kentucky probably have access to old boy networks and other needed resources that alot of inner city kids in Baltimore don't have which need to addressed via destroying America's racial caste system via reparations (both in land and wealth). Wouldn't put too much stock in the SAT/ACT due to it's origins.

[Santander]

It's easier to get out of a vicious cycle of poverty in rural Kentucky than in Baltimore because of the systematic white supremacy that's the root of the issue in the first place. Those kids in Kentucky probably have access to old boy networks and other needed resources that alot of inner city kids in Baltimore don't have which need to addressed via destroying America's racial caste system via reparations (both in land and wealth). Wouldn't put too much stock in the SAT/ACT due to it's origins.

That network of unemployment, black lung, and opioid addiction sure is great!

[Progressive Pessimist]

But Trump is going to condemn the "send her (or maybe even him now) back!" chants at his next rally, right?

[Middle-aged Europe]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155073964634517505

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155073965880172544


Fun Fact 1: John Bolton was born in Baltimore and he also grew up there. Yale Heights, the neighbourhood where he originated from, is located within the boundaries of Cummings' district.

Fun Fact 2: Ben Carson served as Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from 1984 to 2013. Also located in Cummings' district.



From now on, we can always say that Bolton came from a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess, I guess.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

How come Republicans get to constantly sh**t on urban areas, when if the Democrats do it to to rural America, they’re condemned by both sides for “kicking the middle man”?

[T'Chenka]

How come Republicans get to constantly sh**t on urban areas, when if the Democrats do it to to rural America, they’re condemned by both sides for “kicking the middle man”?

Rural areas are generally a lot whiter, and white identity politics is a staple of the Republican Party. ESPECIALLY since Trump joined the primary in 2015. You are not allowed to attack rural white America and get away with it in this country.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

How come Republicans get to constantly sh**t on urban areas, when if the Democrats do it to to rural America, they’re condemned by both sides for “kicking the middle man”?

People in urban areas who would consider voting Republican are generally going to be less sensitive about that and will realize that the attacks are about the part of the city that they either resent or the part of the city that they agree is a terrible place filled with unkept yards and garbage in the streets. They can make the distinction that this isn't an attack on them.

If you attack rural people, what distinction is there to make? "I'm attacking the people who depend on government handouts". That's supposed to be what you offer and Dem leaning voters probably need it most of all. "I'm attacking the less educated." Well, what educational difference exists between those rural voters - I don't think the Dems are more any more educated in rural America. There is little difference between the rural voters that you can't afford to turn off (and you acknowledge you can't afford to turn off or else you wouldn't be concerned about the optics).

I love Philadelphia, but I can also be angry that the streets smell like urine and most neighborhoods are cockroach infested wastelands where I feel the need to dash through after 1 or 2 AM and many other problems I would prefer not to have here. European colleagues visit and tell me it's embarrassing that the cities are in such disarray. I have no means of comparison, but I do think living conditions are clearly suboptimal.

[ProudModerate2]

https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1155271446207389696

[Storr]

https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1155271446207389696

I wonder if Comey voted for Trump.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155297355203305476?s=19

[lfromnj]

It's easier to get out of a vicious cycle of poverty in rural Kentucky than in Baltimore because of the systematic white supremacy that's the root of the issue in the first place. Those kids in Kentucky probably have access to old boy networks and other needed resources that alot of inner city kids in Baltimore don't have which need to addressed via destroying America's racial caste system via reparations (both in land and wealth). Wouldn't put too much stock in the SAT/ACT due to it's origins.

That network of unemployment, black lung, and opioid addiction sure is great!

Look I dislike rural areas for leaching off the country but lol at saying these people have good connections to anything but meth. The only significant advantage they have is maybe most of them have fathers. I will admit growing up in a 2 family household is probably a significant advantage but there are just as many disadvantages.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Trump just doesn't like educated districts. They know he's a scam.

The Atlas fetish for the "educated" as if having a Bachelor's (and frankly even Master's) degree in the 21st century is a meaningful distinction of intelligence, thoughtfulness or learnedness continues unabated. I don't know what some of you take "educated" to mean or why we should trust that these people are not just self-interested.

In the last 60 years, the liberal arts curriculum has been severely watered down to adjust the goal of American education from forming a well-rounded upper echelon of thinkers into a program intended to find professional careers in a singular area of focus - often with little relevance to the academic world. Excuse me, if I don't care what pencil (keyboard button?) pushers have to think about politics. The quality of education at even elite colleges is little more engaging than a high school curriculum and the grading curve is far more generous. And even if colleges meant something, those prestigious brand names account for oh-such a small percentage of those with a degree. Sorry for those of you who need that piece of paper for your self-esteem to feel good about your own intellect and place in America, but if your goal is to have learned anything about the world, you have almost certainly been scammed. The sole goal of American college is moderate-to-high risk signalling for future economic gain. [The Democratic Party is actively trying to push this risk to zero and still, it's gains are so strongly due to women, which pushes me to think that economic security and some social matters are greater factors than intellect.]

You may be able to get something out of college if your parents are part of the academic elite, but in general, the requisite path is too weakened at this point to get the lowest across the finish line, and these skills would mostly come out of self-motivation and initiative. The college has to fulfill its mission to all its customers if it wants more (and donations from the ones of yesterday!) I don't doubt that this small group of intellectuals is on the left either, but there are significantly different cultural reasons for that.

[pbrower2a]

Trump just doesn't like educated districts. They know he's a scam.

The Atlas fetish for the "educated" as if having a Bachelor's (and frankly even Master's) degree in the 21st century is a meaningful distinction of intelligence, thoughtfulness or learnedness continues unabated. I don't know what some of you take "educated" to mean or why we should trust that these people are not just self-interested.

A high-school diploma used to be above-average education. That is long over. A bachelor's degree not from a diploma mill is a distinction that shows that one can do some thinking without simply following instructions to the letter. It also shows that one can at least budget time and show some ability to defer gratification, a welcome trait to most employers.     

In the last 60 years, the liberal arts curriculum has been severely watered down to adjust the goal of American education from forming a well-rounded upper echelon of thinkers into a program intended to find professional careers in a singular area of focus - often with little relevance to the academic world. Excuse me, if I don't care what pencil (keyboard button?) pushers have to think about politics. The quality of education at even elite colleges is little more engaging than a high school curriculum and the grading curve is far more generous. And even if colleges meant something, those prestigious brand names account for oh-such a small percentage of those with a degree. Sorry for those of you who need that piece of paper for your self-esteem to feel good about your own intellect and place in America, but if your goal is to have learned anything about the world, you have almost certainly been scammed. The sole goal of American college is moderate-to-high risk signalling for future economic gain. [The Democratic Party is actively trying to push this risk to zero and still, it's gains are so strongly due to women, which pushes me to think that economic security and some social matters are greater factors than intellect.

Fewer people are going for pure degrees in liberal arts because those no longer lead as they once did to swift entry into desired employment. Fewer people now have liberal-arts educations as a share of the college-educated.

Still, one must think, and that means the ability to read between the lines. People with college degrees of any kind are less likely to accept propaganda and demagoguery at face value. Donald Trump is unusually effective at winning the votes of people who resemble those who fall for such in other times and places. Authoritarian causes are far more effective at appealing to people at an elementary level of thought.   

You may be able to get something out of college if your parents are part of the academic elite, but in general, the requisite path is too weakened at this point to get the lowest across the finish line, and these skills would mostly come out of self-motivation and initiative. The college has to fulfill its mission to all its customers if it wants more (and donations from the ones of yesterday!) I don't doubt that this small group of intellectuals is on the left either, but there are significantly different cultural reasons for that.

High schools do a good job of leading 'college material' to college. The decisive course in high school is geometry, which introduces smart teenagers to formal logic that one applies effectively in other studies. Those who cannot use formal logic are generally not 'college material'. One needs formal logic to discern most truth from nonsense.

[brucejoel99]

Cummings condemns the Trump Administration's treatment of migrants detained at the border.

Trump responds the way he always does:

• 1. Responds to critic with personal insults & false accusations about said critic, neither of which have anything to do with critic's original criticism, &;
• 2. Offers no evidence to support or defend the policy being criticized.

Saying Trump's continuing behavior is a disgrace to America is as much of an understatement as saying that Attila the Hun was impolite.

[Vittorio]

It also shows that one can at least budget time and show some ability to defer gratification, a welcome trait to most employers.

Absolutely horrifying.

But imagine believing that modern colleges are "socialist indoctrination camps" and acknowledging that they're factories for the reproduction of obedient workers for the bourgeoisie at the same time.

People with college degrees of any kind are less likely to accept propaganda and demagoguery at face value.

a welcome trait to most employers

Lol

[ProudModerate2]

GOP challenger Bill Weld: Trump is a "raging racist."

... "Donald Trump is a raging racist, Okay? He's a complete and thoroughgoing racist. And he made that choice, a choice a long time ago, when he was engaged in the housing business in New York with his father"

... "The national Republican Party, has a choice. And a lot of them like to think that it's a political choice. But it's not a political choice. It's a moral choice."

... "Unless the Republican Party in Washington expressly, expressly rejects the racism of Donald Trump, they're going to come to be universally viewed as the party of racism in America"

https://us.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/bill-weld-donald-trump-raging-racist-naacp/index.html

[brucejoel99]

... "Unless the Republican Party in Washington expressly, expressly rejects the racism of Donald Trump, they're going to come to be universally viewed as the party of racism in America"

Aren't we there already?

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155297355203305476?s=19

How much is she getting paid?

They probably asked like 76 other black people before they came upon the one who happened to agree with them and filmed a video.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/728278867639676930?s=19

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/728278867639676930?s=19

Your point?

Sanders pointed out a sad truth concerning life in Baltimore & actually advocates for policies that would support them, whereas Trump racistly attacked it as a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" in order to strike a blow at Cummings. Your whataboutism isn't even valid.

And by the way, Bernie has actually been to West Baltimore. Trump would wet himself if he had to actually visit West Baltimore for 5 minutes & meet anybody who endures life there.

[Insomnian]

And by the way, Bernie has actually been to West Baltimore. Trump would wet himself if he had to actually visit West Baltimore for 5 minutes & meet anybody who endures life there.

So what you're saying is that the residents of West Baltimore have to be so physically intimidating to survive there, that even the President of the U.S would be scared going there?

Well, I guess welcome to Team "Racist", we're glad to have you aboard.