Yes, that’s right. Trump and R.E.M. got in a fight and R.E.M. won.
52% Approval Rating, 93% in Republican Party ( a record )! Pretty amazing considering that 93% (also) of my press is REALLY BAD. The “people” are SMART!
Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!
THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
Next up:
"War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength."
It feels like it's already there. You see where he recently said that the constitution is unconstitutional?It certainly seems like that's where this is all headed.
I'm fully OK with the pendulum swinging far left, if only because the far-right is hell-bent on taking us back to the late 1800s socially.We're all aboard a pendulum that's swinging wildly. Obama swung it pretty hard to the left, the right responded with Trump, now the left is going all-out socialist. Higher and higher swings each time - there are no more moderates left. Seemingly common sense shit gets polarized and attacked right down party lines, it's pretty bad.
I mean the rampant racism/bigotry/etc that seems to be coming to the forefront of the news, ever since the Republicans gained power in 2010 (I fully admit I may have used the wrong word - sorry if I did).Got any evidence? I'm quite socially liberal but Trump hasn't pushed any socially conservative policies.
The far left brings an erosion of freedom, high taxes, open borders, infanticide, ignorance of basic biology, and socialism. Atrocious in every way.
The GOP is running literal Nazis. Not "sort of Nazis" - guys who actually say "Yup, I'm a Nazi".I'm fully OK with the pendulum swinging far left, if only because the far-right is hell-bent on taking us back to the late1800s1930s socially.
That too.The GOP is running literal Nazis. Not "sort of Nazis" - guys who actually say "Yup, I'm a Nazi".
First of all, thank you - I appreciate the chance to have an actual discussion instead of an argument.
Quote a bit to unpack here so I'll resort to one of my favorite formats: bullet points.
Basically, 90% of the time when people call out racism, they can't back up these claims with any evidence whatsoever. The other 10% of the time when they do provide examples, there is a lot of speculation but virtually no real evidence. As someone who leans right and supports Trump, I'm not exactly thrilled about the constant implication that I'm a racist, xenophobe, homophobe, etc, when I'm not and don't know any Republicans that are. Everyone I know who leans right is in full agreement with you that racism is bad. One big difference I've noticed in how the left and right approach the eradication of racism is that the left wants government to dictate policy aimed at (allegedly) evening out the playing field, while the right recognizes that the smallest minority of them all is the individual and suggests that we judge one another on individual merit instead of as members of one group or another.
- I don't dispute the statistics that show hate crimes on the rise.
- While it may very be true that the "haters" (i.e. racists, bigots, etc) feel empowered, it is worth noting that unfortunately many such crimes have been hoaxes. There have been nimerous stories of racist graffiti being traced to left-leaning individuals just trying to fan the flames of racism. The recent Smolet story speaks for itself. Most of the police shootings that Black Lives Matter has focused on proved to be legal and in self-defense. The list goes on, unfortunately.
- Even if there is a rise in "actual" racist episodes, I don't see why it's something unique to the political right.
- The NAACP link you posted specifically calls out "Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric and racist policies" and yet I'm not aware of a single such policy that he has pushed. Once again, please correct me if I'm missing something here.
- Racism has become an umbrella term that suddenly includes religion, nationality, etc. That's just literally wrong and those should be separate topics.
- Even if we decide to call all illegal aliens "Hispanics" and drag them into this conversation about racism, I completely disagree that the right's fight for border security and against illegal immigration are based on race (or nationality). Remember, President Obama used to speak out against illegal immigration and Chuck Schumer even sponsored a bill to build physical barriers along the border.
Off to a bunch of meetings, I'll check back in later.
who?The GOP is running literal Nazis. Not "sort of Nazis" - guys who actually say "Yup, I'm a Nazi".
John Fitzgerald, Republican
U.S. House – California’s 11th District
A Holocaust-denier who believes 9/11 was a Jewish-orchestrated conspiracy, Fitzgerald netted more than 36,000 votes in his California district’s June primary – enough to earn him a slot on the ballot in November. Since then, he’s been making media rounds, promoting his campaign on neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic podcasts where he’s reiterated his promise to expose “the truth about the Holocaust and how it’s an absolute fabricated lie.”
Arthur Jones, Republican
U.S. House – Illinois’ 3rd District
A former member of the American Nazi party, Jones lost seven bids for Congress before finally securing the GOP nomination this year at the age of 70 to the chagrin of the state’s Republican party, which paid for robocalls warning voters to “stop Illinois Nazis.” Twenty-thousand Republicans nonetheless pulled the lever for Jones, whose campaign website calls the Holocaust was “a greatly overblown nonevent.”