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To the Strumpet's fanatics "Make America Great Again" is just a code for "Making America WHITE and it will then be Great Again".
The "Coal Rollers" that modify the emissions settings on their Diesel fueled pickup trucks to emit great black clouds of smoke to show their childish defiance of the law and the rest of us have failed to realize that these engines can be adjusted to emit vast quantities of white smoke as well. I would expect them to prefer to show their "freedom" with White instead of Black smoke.
Wait. What? America is white. Seems like it's been working just fine.
Is there a problem with a particular country's racial makeup? Are you advocating a forced adjustment? Please expand.
Finally, not all of us drive diesels. A re-flashed F-150 is amazing.
60 percent of Trump’s supporters hold “unfavorable views” of Islam, and 76 percent support a ban on Muslims entering the United States. We know that some 40 percent of Trump’s supporters believe blacks are more violent, more criminal, lazier, and ruder than whites. Two-thirds of Trump’s supporters believe the first black president in this country’s history is not American.
Racist much?
60% hold an unfavorable view of Islam? 76% support a ban on Muslims entering the US?
My, my, I would have guessed much higher. In fact, aside from Muslims, I would expect a vast majority to have an unfavorable view of Islam, considering the world's experience of what Islam brings to the table, and the daily accounts of atrocities committed.
What astounds me even more is that among the groups who SHOULD HAVE the most unfavorable view of Islam, are inexplicably it's greatest defenders ... leftist liberals, to whom would be in the gravest of danger under an Islamic dominated state. The religion of peace who execute gays just for being gay, treat women as less valuable than livestock, whose solution to disagreement with its rule is to chop off the heads of those who do not submit.
Now, you can claim racism is reason for viewing Islam in unfavorable terms ... but that is an idiotic retort. Those of us who view Islam unfavorably (anyone with two functioning brain cells) do so because of its subhuman beliefs and behavior, and not because of skin color.
Since when is it racism to oppose inhuman behavior from a cult of violent ideologues who indiscriminately murder women and children?
To be honest, everything that's come from the Trump campaign is racist, but people don't want to hear it because some people live in a bubble and don't want to accept the reality that others go through.
To be honest, everything that's come from the Trump campaign is racist, but people don't want to hear it because some people live in a bubble and don't want to accept the reality that others go through.
Agree with the bubble theory.
The preamble to the United States Constitution begins, 'We the people, in order to form a more perfect union... .'
More perfect, not already perfect. Their intent was to continually strive for better, & they laid out a general plan to allow for that to happen, including an orderly process for making corrections.
Senator Carl Schurz expressed this sentiment very well, 'My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; & if wrong, to be set right.'
Many compromises were made at that first (only) Constitutional Convention, & one of the most hotly debated was the issue of race-based slavery. This ambivalence was expressed in the vague wordings of the final product, the US Constitution. There can be no doubt the Constitution reflected white supremacy. There is also no doubt the writers struggled with the issue & knew it had the potential of curtailing the Country's very existence from 'coming into being'. This sentiment was also reflected however less tentatively in the final product. The consensus reached, & clarified by much more direct wording, was the agreement 'not to talk about it for 20 years'.
The American Civil War caused another final product to come into existence, the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which was a nearly identical replica of the US Constitution, the major & very significant exception being to clarify the vague wording re: race-based slavery:
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...Four different clauses entrench the legality of slavery in a number of different ways, and together they virtually guarantee that any sort of anti-slave law or policy would be unconstitutional. People can claim the Civil War was "not about slavery" as much as they want, but the fact remains that anyone who fought for the Confederacy was fighting for a country in which a universal right to own slaves was one of the most entrenched laws of the land. ...
Mr. Trump has demonstrated his ambivalence when it comes to racial supremacy, when it comes to, 'My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.' Approximately one year ago:
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...When asked whether he supported South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s decision to call for the Confederate battle flag to be taken down from out front of the State Capitol building, Trump said he did.
“I would take it down, yes,” the billionaire real estate mogul said. “I think they should put it in a museum and respect whatever it is you have to respect.”...
...The backlash has extended to the national scene as well. Haley, once floated as a veep choice, is no longer mentioned in elite GOP circles. She’s expressed a desire to see the Citadel remove the rebel flag from its chapel, but her hands are tied by the state Legislature. Haley has linked the tone of Trump's rhetoric to the kind of violence seen last year in Charleston, but she’s still indicated she’ll support him as the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
Trump, meanwhile, has utterly dismissed the South Carolina governor, and he’s drawing support from many Confederate flag supporters who condemned Haley for her actions last year. And in contrast to his remarks about the flag a year ago, Trump has shifted rightward; many of those in the bizarre coalition of racists, anti-government radicals and states’ rights activists who’ve led the battle charge for restoration of the rebel flag believe the GOP presumptive nominee is dog-whistling encouragement to them. ...
To be honest, everything that's come from the Trump campaign is racist, but people don't want to hear it because some people live in a bubble and don't want to accept the reality that others go through.
Examples?
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