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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on May 12, 2016 21:13:34 GMT -5
IMO Trump won't release his tax returns because he's hiding something. He lied telling us he couldn't because he's being audited. A while back the head of the IRS said they belong to him, Trump, and he can release them anytime he wants. Are you saying he lied about being audited? He is being audited. That's a fact. If you are saying he's lying because technically he could release his tax returns to the general public in the middle of an audit, that's not entirely accurate. He legally could, but you can also legally talk to the police. The fact is that it would be foolish, and every competent attorney agrees- you don't have a public conversation about what is, in effect, an ongoing investigation.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on May 12, 2016 21:19:25 GMT -5
I'm saying he lied about not being able to release his tax returns because of the audit. That's the fact. He is a pathological liar.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on May 12, 2016 21:42:50 GMT -5
He didn't lie. You're hung up on words like "able". I agree, he is "able" to release his records. He has declined due to the audit which shows he's not an idiot.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on May 12, 2016 21:50:33 GMT -5
Not that Trump needs my help, but a great subtitle to his Make America Great Again Campaign might well be "because enough is enough". I think Americans are tired of losing- to losers. I think they're tired of teachers losing to kids, of cops losing to criminals, of ordinary people losing to bureaucrats, of surrendering our college campuses to the activist children of millionaires who've been there for seven years, of losing their communities to the mob, of apologizing to the losers of the world for winning, and they're tired of being told to surrender their bathrooms to men in dresses. They are just sick and tired of the freak show, of the in-your-face radical- yea, lunatic left. To a HUGE (maybe even YUGE) number of ordinary Americans, the world has been turned upside down. They're tired of their country being fundamentally transformed by a loser. And let's face it- Obama is the champion of losers. Not of the oppressed. Of losers. And in Obama's world right and wrong are transposed for rich and poor, for strong and weak. The strong are automatically wrong and evil. The weak are good. The poor are good. None of these Obama weirdos and losers ever stops to ask if perhaps they're where they are because of the way the are, and how they conduct themselves. The thing the freak show left fears most is ordinary Americans rising up and throwing them all out. We're going to find out if that monster has been aroused. I suspect that it has been.
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Post by weltschmerz on May 13, 2016 0:52:56 GMT -5
Donald trump will really improve America's standing in the world.
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Post by happyhoix on May 13, 2016 7:12:03 GMT -5
True. I guess I am wondering what all these people who are choosing to 'not endorse Trump' think is going to happen. Maybe it is just self preservation, but the number of viable alternatives to a Trump presidency are pretty limited. If they are standing against one, it seems like they are recommending the other. I think there will be people on both sides that just don't vote out of disgust for their party candidate.
Neither candidate is well liked.
I think the winner of this election will be the candidate who can create the most fear about the possibility of the other candidate winning that people will hold their noses and go vote for a person they don't much like just to make sure the candidate they really hate loses.
In short, this will be a nasty, shit flinging election season. I'm about a hair's width away from abstaining from all political media completely until December.
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Post by happyhoix on May 13, 2016 7:48:19 GMT -5
Not that Trump needs my help, but a great subtitle to his Make America Great Again Campaign might well be "because enough is enough". I think Americans are tired of losing- to losers. I think they're tired of teachers losing to kids, of cops losing to criminals, of ordinary people losing to bureaucrats, of surrendering our college campuses to the activist children of millionaires who've been there for seven years, of losing their communities to the mob, of apologizing to the losers of the world for winning, and they're tired of being told to surrender their bathrooms to men in dresses. They are just sick and tired of the freak show, of the in-your-face radical- yea, lunatic left. To a HUGE (maybe even YUGE) number of ordinary Americans, the world has been turned upside down. They're tired of their country being fundamentally transformed by a loser. And let's face it- Obama is the champion of losers. Not of the oppressed. Of losers. And in Obama's world right and wrong are transposed for rich and poor, for strong and weak. The strong are automatically wrong and evil. The weak are good. The poor are good. None of these Obama weirdos and losers ever stops to ask if perhaps they're where they are because of the way the are, and how they conduct themselves. The thing the freak show left fears most is ordinary Americans rising up and throwing them all out. We're going to find out if that monster has been aroused. I suspect that it has been. Actually, Paul, I somewhat agree with you, but I see it from a different perspective.
I see a segment of American society that hates our modern age. They hate gay and trans people walking around in public, in our schools and public bathrooms and moving in next door. They hate the fact that so many women are increasingly showing up as doctors, business executives, judges and politicians - they prefer women to remain in the domestic sphere, and not out there stealing jobs from men. They understand that the white majority is shrinking, giving way to a variety of different minorities, and they want to reset the clock to when minorities were truly in the minority, and they knew there place and stayed there, instead of having parades for themselves, or standing there in the Walmart talking their native language. They hate that people admit in public that they are pro-abortion, or they are atheist or even wiccan - they long for the time when such people could be run out of town on a rail. They want to return to the era where people had to attend church or they were shunned from society. They think back to an idolized 1950's, one they imagine to be like one of the pleasant 1950's sit coms, when there was no terrorism, no drugs, no kids smarting off at you, no minorities or gays or uppity women demanding rights.
These people are angry, and they want to stop the clock and return to a better time, a time when the WASP men ran everything and no one challenged that. They've seen their wages stagnant, they've seen jobs disappear over the border and illegal immigrants coming over the border to take what jobs remain. Trump, who is an outstanding marketer, correctly gauged the sentiments of this segment of the American public and he's played to them expertly, promising to build a wall that we can't possibly afford, and to kick all the threatening foreigners out, to bring back all the jobs, eliminate abortions, and spin the clock back in time to the 1950's when we were a white, Protestant, male dominated country.
You see an American furious at the loser liberals for ruining society. I see a segment of America furiously unhappy that they are no longer the dominant power in society, scrambling to try to seize their power back and kick out or shove back in the closet and the kitchen all the undesirables.
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Post by movingforward on May 13, 2016 7:59:59 GMT -5
Not that Trump needs my help, but a great subtitle to his Make America Great Again Campaign might well be "because enough is enough". I think Americans are tired of losing- to losers. I think they're tired of teachers losing to kids, of cops losing to criminals, of ordinary people losing to bureaucrats, of surrendering our college campuses to the activist children of millionaires who've been there for seven years, of losing their communities to the mob, of apologizing to the losers of the world for winning, and they're tired of being told to surrender their bathrooms to men in dresses. They are just sick and tired of the freak show, of the in-your-face radical- yea, lunatic left. To a HUGE (maybe even YUGE) number of ordinary Americans, the world has been turned upside down. They're tired of their country being fundamentally transformed by a loser. And let's face it- Obama is the champion of losers. Not of the oppressed. Of losers. And in Obama's world right and wrong are transposed for rich and poor, for strong and weak. The strong are automatically wrong and evil. The weak are good. The poor are good. None of these Obama weirdos and losers ever stops to ask if perhaps they're where they are because of the way the are, and how they conduct themselves. The thing the freak show left fears most is ordinary Americans rising up and throwing them all out. We're going to find out if that monster has been aroused. I suspect that it has been. Actually, Paul, I somewhat agree with you, but I see it from a different perspective.
I see a segment of American society that hates our modern age. They hate gay and trans people walking around in public, in our schools and public bathrooms and moving in next door. They hate the fact that so many women are increasingly showing up as doctors, business executives, judges and politicians - they prefer women to remain in the domestic sphere, and not out there stealing jobs from men. They understand that the white majority is shrinking, giving way to a variety of different minorities, and they want to reset the clock to when minorities were truly in the minority, and they knew there place and stayed there, instead of having parades for themselves, or standing there in the Walmart talking their native language. They hate that people admit in public that they are pro-abortion, or they are atheist or even wiccan - they long for the time when such people could be run out of town on a rail. They want to return to the era where people had to attend church or they were shunned from society. They think back to an idolized 1950's, one they imagine to be like one of the pleasant 1950's sit coms, when there was no terrorism, no drugs, no kids smarting off at you, no minorities or gays or uppity women demanding rights.
These people are angry, and they want to stop the clock and return to a better time, a time when the WASP men ran everything and no one challenged that. They've seen their wages stagnant, they've seen jobs disappear over the border and illegal immigrants coming over the border to take what jobs remain. Trump, who is an outstanding marketer, correctly gauged the sentiments of this segment of the American public and he's played to them expertly, promising to build a wall that we can't possibly afford, and to kick all the threatening foreigners out, to bring back all the jobs, eliminate abortions, and spin the clock back in time to the 1950's when we were a white, Protestant, male dominated country.
You see an American furious at the loser liberals for ruining society. I see a segment of America furiously unhappy that they are no longer the dominant power in society, scrambling to try to seize their power back and kick out or shove back in the closet and the kitchen all the undesirables.
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Post by OldCoyote on May 13, 2016 8:16:19 GMT -5
Not that Trump needs my help, but a great subtitle to his Make America Great Again Campaign might well be "because enough is enough". I think Americans are tired of losing- to losers. I think they're tired of teachers losing to kids, of cops losing to criminals, of ordinary people losing to bureaucrats, of surrendering our college campuses to the activist children of millionaires who've been there for seven years, of losing their communities to the mob, of apologizing to the losers of the world for winning, and they're tired of being told to surrender their bathrooms to men in dresses. They are just sick and tired of the freak show, of the in-your-face radical- yea, lunatic left. To a HUGE (maybe even YUGE) number of ordinary Americans, the world has been turned upside down. They're tired of their country being fundamentally transformed by a loser. And let's face it- Obama is the champion of losers. Not of the oppressed. Of losers. And in Obama's world right and wrong are transposed for rich and poor, for strong and weak. The strong are automatically wrong and evil. The weak are good. The poor are good. None of these Obama weirdos and losers ever stops to ask if perhaps they're where they are because of the way the are, and how they conduct themselves. The thing the freak show left fears most is ordinary Americans rising up and throwing them all out. We're going to find out if that monster has been aroused. I suspect that it has been. Actually, Paul, I somewhat agree with you, but I see it from a different perspective.
I see a segment of American society that hates our modern age. They hate gay and trans people walking around in public, in our schools and public bathrooms and moving in next door. They hate the fact that so many women are increasingly showing up as doctors, business executives, judges and politicians - they prefer women to remain in the domestic sphere, and not out there stealing jobs from men. They understand that the white majority is shrinking, giving way to a variety of different minorities, and they want to reset the clock to when minorities were truly in the minority, and they knew there place and stayed there, instead of having parades for themselves, or standing there in the Walmart talking their native language. They hate that people admit in public that they are pro-abortion, or they are atheist or even wiccan - they long for the time when such people could be run out of town on a rail. They want to return to the era where people had to attend church or they were shunned from society. They think back to an idolized 1950's, one they imagine to be like one of the pleasant 1950's sit coms, when there was no terrorism, no drugs, no kids smarting off at you, no minorities or gays or uppity women demanding rights.
These people are angry, and they want to stop the clock and return to a better time, a time when the WASP men ran everything and no one challenged that. They've seen their wages stagnant, they've seen jobs disappear over the border and illegal immigrants coming over the border to take what jobs remain. Trump, who is an outstanding marketer, correctly gauged the sentiments of this segment of the American public and he's played to them expertly, promising to build a wall that we can't possibly afford, and to kick all the threatening foreigners out, to bring back all the jobs, eliminate abortions, and spin the clock back in time to the 1950's when we were a white, Protestant, male dominated country.
You see an American furious at the loser liberals for ruining society. I see a segment of America furiously unhappy that they are no longer the dominant power in society, scrambling to try to seize their power back and kick out or shove back in the closet and the kitchen all the undesirables.
I am so sorry that you are so badly abused, What can I do to Help??
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Post by resolution on May 13, 2016 8:43:52 GMT -5
Actually, Paul, I somewhat agree with you, but I see it from a different perspective.
I see a segment of American society that hates our modern age. They hate gay and trans people walking around in public, in our schools and public bathrooms and moving in next door. They hate the fact that so many women are increasingly showing up as doctors, business executives, judges and politicians - they prefer women to remain in the domestic sphere, and not out there stealing jobs from men. They understand that the white majority is shrinking, giving way to a variety of different minorities, and they want to reset the clock to when minorities were truly in the minority, and they knew there place and stayed there, instead of having parades for themselves, or standing there in the Walmart talking their native language. They hate that people admit in public that they are pro-abortion, or they are atheist or even wiccan - they long for the time when such people could be run out of town on a rail. They want to return to the era where people had to attend church or they were shunned from society. They think back to an idolized 1950's, one they imagine to be like one of the pleasant 1950's sit coms, when there was no terrorism, no drugs, no kids smarting off at you, no minorities or gays or uppity women demanding rights.
These people are angry, and they want to stop the clock and return to a better time, a time when the WASP men ran everything and no one challenged that. They've seen their wages stagnant, they've seen jobs disappear over the border and illegal immigrants coming over the border to take what jobs remain. Trump, who is an outstanding marketer, correctly gauged the sentiments of this segment of the American public and he's played to them expertly, promising to build a wall that we can't possibly afford, and to kick all the threatening foreigners out, to bring back all the jobs, eliminate abortions, and spin the clock back in time to the 1950's when we were a white, Protestant, male dominated country.
You see an American furious at the loser liberals for ruining society. I see a segment of America furiously unhappy that they are no longer the dominant power in society, scrambling to try to seize their power back and kick out or shove back in the closet and the kitchen all the undesirables.
I am so sorry that you are so badly abused, What can I do to Help??Very good demonstration of her point.
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Post by OldCoyote on May 13, 2016 9:05:04 GMT -5
I am so sorry that you are so badly abused, What can I do to Help?? Very good demonstration of her point. Because I am a male and as a male I great powers, it allows me to grant three wishes. In reality, I have no power in fact I have less than you, Bashing men is a woman's right, God forbid as a male I make a comment. I had a young woman working for me, She alway wore a something like a spandex tube top in which she was constantly having to pull it up! I wanted to say to her why don't you just wear something more modest!! I never did, because I knew that it would have been taken as a sexist thing. when in actuality everyone would have been more comfortable.
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Post by movingforward on May 13, 2016 9:09:05 GMT -5
Very good demonstration of her point. Because I am a male and as a male I great powers, it allows me to grant three wishes. In reality, I have no power in fact I have less than you, Bashing men is a woman's right, God forbid as a male I make a comment. I had a young woman working for me, She alway wore a something like a spandex tube top in which she was constantly having to pull it up! I wanted to say to her why don't you just wear something more modest!! I never did, because I knew that it would have been taken as a sexist thing. when in actuality everyone would have been more comfortable. Why didn't you just refer to the dress code in the policy manual?
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Post by OldCoyote on May 13, 2016 9:15:02 GMT -5
That business had less than five full time employees, the policy was written by my wife,
It was easier to just ignore it, It was a entry level job, I knew she would be moving on in a short time.
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Post by movingforward on May 13, 2016 9:21:17 GMT -5
That business had less than five full time employees, the policy was written by my wife, It was easier to just ignore it, It was a entry level job, I knew she would be moving on in a short time. Well, then you can't really blame anyone but yourself for that particular situation.
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Post by swamp on May 13, 2016 9:25:49 GMT -5
Actually, Paul, I somewhat agree with you, but I see it from a different perspective.
I see a segment of American society that hates our modern age. They hate gay and trans people walking around in public, in our schools and public bathrooms and moving in next door. They hate the fact that so many women are increasingly showing up as doctors, business executives, judges and politicians - they prefer women to remain in the domestic sphere, and not out there stealing jobs from men. They understand that the white majority is shrinking, giving way to a variety of different minorities, and they want to reset the clock to when minorities were truly in the minority, and they knew there place and stayed there, instead of having parades for themselves, or standing there in the Walmart talking their native language. They hate that people admit in public that they are pro-abortion, or they are atheist or even wiccan - they long for the time when such people could be run out of town on a rail. They want to return to the era where people had to attend church or they were shunned from society. They think back to an idolized 1950's, one they imagine to be like one of the pleasant 1950's sit coms, when there was no terrorism, no drugs, no kids smarting off at you, no minorities or gays or uppity women demanding rights.
These people are angry, and they want to stop the clock and return to a better time, a time when the WASP men ran everything and no one challenged that. They've seen their wages stagnant, they've seen jobs disappear over the border and illegal immigrants coming over the border to take what jobs remain. Trump, who is an outstanding marketer, correctly gauged the sentiments of this segment of the American public and he's played to them expertly, promising to build a wall that we can't possibly afford, and to kick all the threatening foreigners out, to bring back all the jobs, eliminate abortions, and spin the clock back in time to the 1950's when we were a white, Protestant, male dominated country.
You see an American furious at the loser liberals for ruining society. I see a segment of America furiously unhappy that they are no longer the dominant power in society, scrambling to try to seize their power back and kick out or shove back in the closet and the kitchen all the undesirables.
I am so sorry that you are so badly abused, What can I do to Help??WTF is wrong with you?
An eloquent point made about how the changes in society have affected different groups of people and you automatically demean the author and say she must have been abused to have such thoughts.
Not everyone is an old crotchety white dude who sees things from your perspective.
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Post by resolution on May 13, 2016 9:33:21 GMT -5
Very good demonstration of her point. Because I am a male and as a male I great powers, it allows me to grant three wishes. In reality, I have no power in fact I have less than you, Bashing men is a woman's right, God forbid as a male I make a comment. I had a young woman working for me, She alway wore a something like a spandex tube top in which she was constantly having to pull it up! I wanted to say to her why don't you just wear something more modest!! I never did, because I knew that it would have been taken as a sexist thing. when in actuality everyone would have been more comfortable. You disagreed with her illustration of a large societal problem and recast it as a personal problem for her, putting her back into her place, as discussed in her original post.
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Post by billisonboard on May 13, 2016 9:35:57 GMT -5
... In reality, I have no power in fact I have less than you, Bashing men is a woman's right, God forbid as a male I make a comment. I had a young woman working for me, She alway wore a something like a spandex tube top in which she was constantly having to pull it up! I wanted to say to her why don't you just wear something more modest!! I never did, because I knew that it would have been taken as a sexist thing. when in actuality everyone would have been more comfortable. Young woman wears top that makes others uncomfortable. Older man can't say anything. America has gone to hell! Vote for Trump!
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Post by OldCoyote on May 13, 2016 9:43:15 GMT -5
I am so sorry that you are so badly abused, What can I do to Help?? WTF is wrong with you?
An eloquent point made about how the changes in society have affected different groups of people and you automatically demean the author and say she must have been abused to have such thoughts.
Not everyone is an old crotchety white dude who sees things from your perspective.
Swamp, am I really required to agree with what some one else states, I noticed that you were pretty quick to disagree with my statement! besides what make you think that I don't want to help?
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Post by OldCoyote on May 13, 2016 9:46:40 GMT -5
That business had less than five full time employees, the policy was written by my wife, It was easier to just ignore it, It was a entry level job, I knew she would be moving on in a short time. Well, then you can't really blame anyone but yourself for that particular situation. Ahhh But keeping my mouth shut, The problem solved it self. without creating any kind of a mess!
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Post by movingforward on May 13, 2016 9:50:09 GMT -5
This is just a demonstration of how defensive white christian males can be when they have to be on an even playing field with women and minorities. If they don't know how to professionally handle a situation then it is society's fault.
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Post by swamp on May 13, 2016 9:56:57 GMT -5
WTF is wrong with you?
An eloquent point made about how the changes in society have affected different groups of people and you automatically demean the author and say she must have been abused to have such thoughts.
Not everyone is an old crotchety white dude who sees things from your perspective.
Swamp, am I really required to agree with what some one else states, I noticed that you were pretty quick to disagree with my statement! besides what make you think that I don't want to help? You can disagree without being a condescending jerk and saying she must have been abused to have that opinion.
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Post by OldCoyote on May 13, 2016 10:11:09 GMT -5
I just went back reread Happyhoix post, there are very few people that I come into contact with that share any of the traits that are posted.
I think that they very much a minority.
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Post by happyhoix on May 13, 2016 10:31:44 GMT -5
I just went back reread Happyhoix post, there are very few people that I come into contact with that share any of the traits that are posted. I think that they very much a minority. My point was that the people I'm referring to and the people Paul are referring to are exactly the same people, but Paul says they are angry because loser liberals have ruined this country, and I think they are angry because the feel like their preferred version of America is slipping away from them.
Do you know any middle aged or older white people who complain a lot about how America is going to hell? If you do, you know these people, but you may disagree with me and agree with Paul as to why they are angry.
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Post by tallguy on May 13, 2016 10:33:10 GMT -5
I think that either they are an extremely vocal minority, or that you are not very good at reading between the lines. Read a Comments section after almost any type of article. They make this place look like high-intellectual debate. The hatred, bigotry, and utter stupidity of many posters is stunning. Fortunately for the rest of us, most do not exhibit such traits openly, but do not think for a minute that those traits do not exist.
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Post by Pants on May 13, 2016 10:33:14 GMT -5
I just went back reread Happyhoix post, there are very few people that I come into contact with that share any of the traits that are posted. I think that they very much a minority. HA. HAHA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 13, 2016 11:02:39 GMT -5
I just went back reread Happyhoix post, there are very few people that I come into contact with that share any of the traits that are posted. I think that they very much a minority. There are very few people I come into contact with that share any of the traits you post. That does not mean they are very much a minority. But I sure hope so.
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Post by Icelandic Woman on May 13, 2016 11:26:00 GMT -5
Not that Trump needs my help, but a great subtitle to his Make America Great Again Campaign might well be "because enough is enough". I think Americans are tired of losing- to losers. I think they're tired of teachers losing to kids, of cops losing to criminals, of ordinary people losing to bureaucrats, of surrendering our college campuses to the activist children of millionaires who've been there for seven years, of losing their communities to the mob, of apologizing to the losers of the world for winning, and they're tired of being told to surrender their bathrooms to men in dresses. They are just sick and tired of the freak show, of the in-your-face radical- yea, lunatic left. To a HUGE (maybe even YUGE) number of ordinary Americans, the world has been turned upside down. They're tired of their country being fundamentally transformed by a loser. And let's face it- Obama is the champion of losers. Not of the oppressed. Of losers. And in Obama's world right and wrong are transposed for rich and poor, for strong and weak. The strong are automatically wrong and evil. The weak are good. The poor are good. None of these Obama weirdos and losers ever stops to ask if perhaps they're where they are because of the way the are, and how they conduct themselves. The thing the freak show left fears most is ordinary Americans rising up and throwing them all out. We're going to find out if that monster has been aroused. I suspect that it has been. Actually, Paul, I somewhat agree with you, but I see it from a different perspective.
I see a segment of American society that hates our modern age. They hate gay and trans people walking around in public, in our schools and public bathrooms and moving in next door. They hate the fact that so many women are increasingly showing up as doctors, business executives, judges and politicians - they prefer women to remain in the domestic sphere, and not out there stealing jobs from men. They understand that the white majority is shrinking, giving way to a variety of different minorities, and they want to reset the clock to when minorities were truly in the minority, and they knew there place and stayed there, instead of having parades for themselves, or standing there in the Walmart talking their native language. They hate that people admit in public that they are pro-abortion, or they are atheist or even wiccan - they long for the time when such people could be run out of town on a rail. They want to return to the era where people had to attend church or they were shunned from society. They think back to an idolized 1950's, one they imagine to be like one of the pleasant 1950's sit coms, when there was no terrorism, no drugs, no kids smarting off at you, no minorities or gays or uppity women demanding rights.
These people are angry, and they want to stop the clock and return to a better time, a time when the WASP men ran everything and no one challenged that. They've seen their wages stagnant, they've seen jobs disappear over the border and illegal immigrants coming over the border to take what jobs remain. Trump, who is an outstanding marketer, correctly gauged the sentiments of this segment of the American public and he's played to them expertly, promising to build a wall that we can't possibly afford, and to kick all the threatening foreigners out, to bring back all the jobs, eliminate abortions, and spin the clock back in time to the 1950's when we were a white, Protestant, male dominated country.
You see an American furious at the loser liberals for ruining society. I see a segment of America furiously unhappy that they are no longer the dominant power in society, scrambling to try to seize their power back and kick out or shove back in the closet and the kitchen all the undesirables.
POTD Well said!!
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 12:27:21 GMT -5
I'll be back tomorrow to watch this video you posted. Time to head into town and shop. DW's orders. it's not that important. trust me. It was strange.
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Post by billisonboard on May 13, 2016 12:35:27 GMT -5
it's not that important. trust me. It was strange. Yet so perfect for the point djAdvocate was working to make. kudos to him
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 12:38:49 GMT -5
Every POTUS in the last forty years has made their tax returns public information, in the interests of transparency (e.g. to show they have nothing to hide).
While it isn't a rule that candidates must post it, you have to admit, if one of the candidates refuses to post his, the suspicion automatically arises that he must have something to hide, because if he didn't, he would post it.
It might be hard for him to convince people that he's a renegade bucking the normal political process and championing the common man - and by the way he also wants to buck the normal political process and keep his tax returns secret because, you know, he's bucking the normal process, everything is fabulous, it's so marvelous, it will be the most marvelous thing ever, etc etc.
Even his most devoted followers might sniff some l'eau de bullshit there.
I have little interest in transparency when it comes to personal income tax returns. It isn't just Trump's either. I'm interested in transparency elsewhere. Like why is it against the law for bakeries to refuse service to certain individuals due to their beliefs, while it's OK for Springsteen to cancel a concert due to his beliefs, in North Carolina ? www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjw5ZKly9fMAhVB7iYKHbDaBa4QFggjMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2016%2F04%2F08%2Fmedia%2Fbruce-springsteen-north-carolina-show-canceled%2F&usg=AFQjCNGLOrwOjAlSOx3wPi4-q6W1YTaXEg&bvm=bv.122129774,d.cWw
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