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

[pbrower2a]

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.

That is how college education worked in the old East Germany. Of course the socialist indoctrination was Marxism-Leninism... If there were real indoctrination in the service of America's economic elites, then colleges would be forcing grounds for praise of monopoly, economic gigantism, and class privilege.

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
[/quote]

For decades, conservatism friendly to Big Business resisted socialism (compromise of profit) and fascism (compromise of elite indulgence) alike. Big Business is still opposed to socialism unless it can profit from the welfare state (SNAP may turn potential shoplifters into paying customers, and Section 8 housing allows federal subsidies for slumlords), but it seeks to wholly subject the worker to corporate power in a climate of fear.  

[President Johnson]

I'm not a huge fan of Bernie, but comparing his criticism from 2016 with the racist BS Comrade 46 minus 1 has put out is atrocious. I command Bernie to make it about issues rather than despicable personal attacks.

Twitter should actually consider to ban Trump for hate speech.

[Hindsight was 2020]

I see Atlas Blue is still trying to make this about Baltimore itself when

The issue here is not Baltimore itself. It’s that Cummings represents a suburban upper class district but Trump assumes because he’s black he has to represent some ghetto district

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

You guys are hopeless. First it was racist because this isn't Baltimore, it's a group of highly educated suburbanites who hate Trump who love their black congressman and then it was Baltimore is actually growing, it's safe and educated now because of gentrification (proven false, but how is that not racist?) Now it's racist because black people do live there, and it is actually rat-infested, but you can't actually say that about one of the worst places in America if I don't I don't like your politics and they don't address that (please tell me whose politics do since this has been ongoing for decades. Clearly not even local Dems care enough to provide municipal services - I would respect Bernie a lot more if he called it out). Or it's racist because Trump attacked back against a black congressman (who attacked him first) on his failure to address his constituency despite the fact that Trump also viciously attacks people like Bill de Blasio, Jerry Nadler, Paul Ryan, John McCain and many, many others - white politicians including from his own party who attacked him publicly first. Trump constantly attacks his home city for the mismanaged disgrace that it is.

It's useless when you have to keep changing the bar to explain your outrage over the latest thing. You know our president has a compulsive need to be loved and if you brought anything to his desk, he would sign it, but no, you need the constant flow of donations from suckers on Twitter.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I see Atlas Blue is still trying to make this about Baltimore itself when

The issue here is not Baltimore itself. It’s that Cummings represents a suburban upper class district but Trump assumes because he’s black he has to represent some ghetto district

Once again, who represents this area? Why are you so dense as to not understand this? Cummings's district easily has the highest percentage of poverty of all the congressional districts in the state of Maryland though the voice of these residents is diminished in the gerrymander and split with a second district. We're all the way back at square 1 due to Nate Silver lying with data.

[Middle-aged Europe]

With his crude "rat and rodent infestation" comment Donald Trump is now approaching a Goebbels-like quality. In 1930s Germany it wasn't unusual that Jews and Russians were said to originate from filthy places, carrying diseases and the like. And indeed tha standard of living was probably much lower in the Soviet Union back then... a "sh**thole country" as Trump would probably have called it. Nowadays, Blacks and Hispanics have become the new Jews and Russians.

[Middle-aged Europe]

The editorial board of the Baltimore Sun has responded, essentially saying that the vermin resides in the White House:

"[W]e would above all remind Mr. Trump that the 7th District, Baltimore included, is part of the United States that he is supposedly governing," the Sun's editors wrote.

"The White House has far more power to affect change in this city, for good or ill, than any single member of Congress including Mr. Cummings. If there are problems here, rodents included, they are as much his responsibility as anyone’s, perhaps more because he holds the most powerful office in the land," they added.

The editors then went on to launch into a full-scale attack on Trump, likening him to "vermin."

"[W]e would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are 'good people' among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post," they wrote.

"Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity," they continued. "Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one."

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/455033-baltimore-sun-lashes-out-at-trump-in-fiery-editorial-better-to-have-a-few-rats

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

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?

Funny how the person who constantly spouts bs about "anti-intellectualism in the GOP" showed no skepticism when boldly posting an outdated political meme...

1) Owsley County is not 95% Republican, such lopsidedness is Solid South tier and doesn't exist today. Of 3646 registered voters, 2560 are Republican, 1011 are Democrats and 75 are Third Party registrations.
https://elect.ky.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Election%20Results/2010-2019/2014/statcnty.txt

2) Owsley County does not have the highest food stamp participation rate in the country. Buffalo county in SD, Ogala Lakota county in SD, the Kusilvak census area in AK have higher participation rates.
https://statisticalatlas.com/United-States/Food-Stamps

3) Owsley County isn't really "Trump Country" either. The place has been titanium Republican since 1864 due to civil war identity politics (It had the highest participation for the Union in Kentucky).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_County,_Kentucky#Politics

The way many (but not all) Liberals mock, ridicule and demonstrate a complete lack of empathy towards Appalachians shows why they've become a rock ribbed Republican demographic.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/wyethwire/status/1155477208997253126

[President Johnson]

Honestly, if someone came up with a character like Trump in a film/series set or a book, any production company would fire the author for reckless exaggeration of such personalty. Reality in this case even tops fiction.

[Saint Milei]

Yall really gonna spin this as racist lmao. Democrats are a joke

[Beet]

The President of the United States would never insult a major American city if there was a popular vote. Another reason to get rid of the Electoral College, which makes it so that, although the President is supposedly the President of the entire nation, certain areas are not a part of his constituency and he can insult with impunity. This sort of thing is utterly unnatural for a national leader, one who is a supposed nationalist or patriot.

[Saint Milei]

The President of the United States would never insult a major American city if there was a popular vote. Another reason to get rid of the Electoral College, which makes it so that, although the President is supposedly the President of the entire nation, certain areas are not a part of his constituency and he can insult with impunity. This sort of thing is utterly unnatural for a national leader, one who is a supposed nationalist or patriot.

This is an insane argument.

[President Johnson]

Yall really gonna spin this as racist lmao. Democrats are a joke

Well, we're talking about a guy who said in 2016 he didn't know any country run by a black person wasn't an s-hole. At the time Obama was president. Like he said how America was crippled. And this guy wants to argue about patriotism, when he spent the better part of his adult life trashing the United States, how it was stupid, crime-infested and crippled. Give me a break.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Trump's tweets against Cummings, just like against the four Congresswomen, fit in with the decades-long record of racism in his business dealings and public life.  Trump is a racist, whether or not you call a particular tweet racist in isolation.

I'm reminded of this exchange in the musical 1776:

[Dickinson wants "tyrant" removed from the Declaration]

Thomas Jefferson: Just a moment, Mr. Thomson. I do not consent. The king is a tyrant whether we say so or not. We might as well say so.

Charles Thomson: But I already scratched it out.

Thomas Jefferson: Then scratch it back in!

John Hancock: Put it back, Mr. Thomson. The King will remain a tyrant.

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/961930

[7,052,770]

Yall really gonna spin this as racist lmao. Democrats are a joke

You're the joke if you think Trump would ever say this about a district he perceived to be mostly white. Regardless of any "facts" about the actual makeup of Cummings' district, Trump is playing up his base's associations that Baltimore = black and black = bad.

[Vittorio]

European colleagues

I think I've spotted the problem.

[DavidB.]

Why do people even bother with threads like these? Everyone's already made up their minds on Trump.

[Middle-aged Europe]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155558122163003393

Trump has called Cummings a "racist" now.


Rule no. 1: Trump always is what he accuses other people of.

[7,052,770]

Why do people even bother with threads like these? Everyone's already made up their minds on Trump.

We've had several blue avatars formally jump off the Trump Train over the last few years. Some people do change their minds given enough evidence.

[President Johnson]

The God Emperor continues; seems like he enjoys picking these fights:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155562212032991233

Honestly, I don't know any person in high office who is such a disgusting human being.

[afleitch]

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.

I was there in late September during a heatwave. Smelled fine. Didn't see roaches, felt safe at night. 'I DON'T FEEL SAFE IN THE CITY' is such a weird Americanism and even worse when MAGAmedia try and tell Europeans that we shouldn't feel safe in cities from London to Malmo that you've never even visited.

[brucejoel99]

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.

lol k

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

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.

I was there in late September during a heatwave. Smelled fine. Didn't see roaches, felt safe at night. 'I DON'T FEEL SAFE IN THE CITY' is such a weird Americanism and even worse when MAGAmedia try and tell Europeans that we shouldn't feel safe in cities from London to Malmo that you've never even visited.

I have encountered two sexual predators lurking after those hours - one trying very hard to get me in his car and, on the reverse side, have been the victim of random anti-Semitic and homophobic harassment on nearly two dozen occasions in 2019. Fortunately, on one of most fearsome anti-Semitic ones, I had an imposing male friend to stand between us as defense. Further yet, I have been physically grabbed by half-a-dozen homeless men this year, which is extremely disconcerting.

Also in 2019, I have seen two people in the immediate aftermath of being robbed and assaulted late at night and have witnessed multiple other assaults during the daytime.

Virtually every time my co-workers and I go out, the topic of one of our latest cockroach (and recently rat!) stories comes up. Fortunately after moving I have left neighborhood Philadelphia so I don't have to deal with them as much - save for one or two on a sidewalk - but make no mistake: this was a regular occurrence for every single one of us. I am thankful we are not nearly as bad as the south or my shrieking would have made for more entertaining Snapchat Streaks documenting the fright. You can easily find news stories about this happening to the n-th degree in worse off neighborhoods.

But do go on and tell me how your week here as a visitor is a representative experience. I have already yielded that European cities are almost certainly safer without ever having been there.

[Beet]

I was in Philadelphia for a week and had some old guy following me in his van, then he tried to ask me to get in and take a ride with him. I sh!t you not.

The point isn't that these places don't have major problems, it's that neither party is currently interested in fixing these problems. But as I said, Trump feels no responsibility for the place since it's not in a "swing state." It's a problem of leaders not being accountable, which allows these areas to go to junk. The Democrats are no better.