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Old 08-22-2017, 07:36 AM
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That's actually a well written post for you.
It's too bad we can't blame being an asshole on genetics, or biology. Assholes catch it from the developmental experience with their asshole parents.
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Old 08-22-2017, 03:09 PM
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Comes the dawn. When Zero keeps telling us with assurance how voters think and how they are going to react, he means people like these:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2...nel-newday.cnn

And he's right about them, and he'll always be right about them. The main thing he's wrong about is how many of them there are.
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Old 08-22-2017, 04:30 PM
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Comes the dawn. When Zero keeps telling us with assurance how voters think and how they are going to react, he means people like these:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2...nel-newday.cnn

And he's right about them, and he'll always be right about them. The main thing he's wrong about is how many of them there are.
And, you are likely wrong as well. Truth in the middle maybe.

But, 44% of blacks polled favored leaving the statues alone compared to 40% in favor of removing them. And, 62% overall favored leaving them alone.

It is not a wining political strategy to stir this up, which the protestors were sent in to do by somebody. It's not like they woke up that morning and said I'm bored, let's go fight with some lunatics.
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Old 08-23-2017, 07:19 AM
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And, you are likely wrong as well. Truth in the middle maybe.

But, 44% of blacks polled favored leaving the statues alone compared to 40% in favor of removing them. And, 62% overall favored leaving them alone.

It is not a wining political strategy to stir this up, which the protestors were sent in to do by somebody. It's not like they woke up that morning and said I'm bored, let's go fight with some lunatics.
Well...and some people say there's no god. We agree on something. The country is pretty much half-full of asshole Trumpers, Teabaggers, and poor disenfranchised white bigots who would vote for Joseph Goebbels for president.
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Old 08-23-2017, 08:54 AM
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I put the share are more like 30%--some of whom, I'm sure, are fine people.

I truly mean that, actually. As I've noted before, I draw a distinction between ideology, and actual relations with real people. I've seen people start to react ideologically in a human interaction, then catch themselves and act decent.

I suspect there's a spectrum, of course--some are very totally governed by ideology, then it ranges across to people who'd never dream of being mean to anyone, even if they 'intellectually' hold very critical opinions of them.
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Old 08-23-2017, 10:59 AM
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I recall a saying that things need to get worse before they can get better. I sense the same for the Trump presidency. As for my own opinion, I am good with the way things are, Trump has proven to be an ineffective moron and no one is going to take him seriously. Bannon is gunning for the other morons in the WH such as Kushner & Co. and that shoud be fun indeed. Mueller is still at finding out who and how and he may never get an opportunity to get to the bottom of it if Trump is dislodged from the Oval Office. Who really wants a President Pence?

Trump's act may be over by 2020, Pence may go on for another 4 years which will be a total gloom and doom.
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Old 08-23-2017, 11:24 AM
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And, you are likely wrong as well. Truth in the middle maybe.

But, 44% of blacks polled favored leaving the statues alone compared to 40% in favor of removing them. And, 62% overall favored leaving them alone.

It is not a wining political strategy to stir this up, which the protestors were sent in to do by somebody. It's not like they woke up that morning and said I'm bored, let's go fight with some lunatics.
Reposted, FYI;
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...germany-215510
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Perhaps we should leave the statues alone...but next to each statue add another statue of that same confederate "hero" lynching black people...or whipping them, or maybe a statue of a slave on an auction block. You know, add some balance to the "glory" these white racists see in those statues.
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Old 08-23-2017, 02:15 PM
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Trump closet spills chorus line of skeletons

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...s-of-skeletons
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More about the fact that a large portion of the working class is making no more and sometimes less than they were 20 years ago.

If they open enough McDonalds I guess everybody will have a job.
So the pres has no control over that it is your bloody minded 1% that is keeping wages down idiot.
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