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RE: The Trump Presidency

Pete-MK (Elite Donator) posted this on Saturday, 20th July 2019, 23:53

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.

"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.

"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.

"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."

- Charles Pierce



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RE: The Trump Presidency

Snaps (Elite) posted this on Sunday, 21st July 2019, 01:34

Journalists can get a bad rep and some do their damnedest to earn that but every piece of rope has two ends.
Writing like that is at the top end.

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RE: The Trump Presidency

Snaps (Elite) posted this on Sunday, 28th July 2019, 10:49

2 mins.42 secs of your time people.

Looks like the campaign for 2020 is going well.
It's the America Trump is turning it in to that Johnson is sucking up to.

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RE: The Trump Presidency

Snaps (Elite) posted this on Wednesday, 31st July 2019, 11:48

I ****ing love this.

 ...but I'm not so sure Donald will be amused.

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RE: The Trump Presidency

Si Wooldridge (Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 31st July 2019, 18:58

Interesting...



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RE: The Trump Presidency

Gareth Williams (Elite) posted this on Wednesday, 31st July 2019, 19:14

"Trump has brought in record low black unemployment"

https://www.statista.com/statistics/194151/unemployment-rate-of-african-americans-in-the-us-since-1990/

Black unemployment has been in steady decline for the past 10 years. Chump is merely riding the coattails of an economy that Obama created.

Also, repeatedly referring to black and brown communities as "infested" (not just re: Baltimore, but many times in the past)... yeah, totally not a dog whistle to his gullible MAGAts.

 



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RE: The Trump Presidency

RJS (undefined) posted this on Wednesday, 31st July 2019, 19:23

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Si Wooldridge says...
"Interesting..."

Something even more interesting:
https://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-the-us-80-percent-african-americans-trump-racist-2019-7?r=US&IR=T

80% of Afro-Americans think he's racist, amazingly 11% do not.


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RE: The Trump Presidency

Pete-MK (Elite Donator) posted this on Wednesday, 31st July 2019, 19:25

Any video compiled by Brandon Tatum (from Turning point USA) isn't going to be in anyway unbiased.

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RE: The Trump Presidency

Si Wooldridge (Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 31st July 2019, 19:49

Quote:
Robee J Shepherd says...
"Something even more interesting:
https://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-the-us-80-percent-african-americans-trump-racist-2019-7?r=US&IR=T

80% of Afro-Americans think he's racist, amazingly 11% do not."

Some interesting stats in that article:

  • 55% of Latino people said Trump is racist, while 44% said he is not.
  • 91% of Republicans said Trump is not racist, while just 8% said he is - unsurprising
  • 86% of Democrats said Trump is racist as 9% said he's not - even more unsurprising
  • A slim majority of Americans (51%) believe President Donald Trump is racist, while 45% say he is not.
  • Trump has a 6% approval rating and 84% disapproval rating with black voters.

I think we can all agree he's an idiot who speaks first without thinking, sometimes not thinking at all, and those biased on either side aren't going to change their minds (probably).

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RE: The Trump Presidency

Si Wooldridge (Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 31st July 2019, 19:55

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Pete-MK says...
"Any video compiled by Brandon Tatum (from Turning point USA) isn't going to be in anyway unbiased."

Interesting...

He may well be biased, but what makes him wrong in your opinion?

He seems as biased for Trump as you and other biased against Trump.

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