The Trump Presidency - how I stopped worrying and learned to love the Hair

So the Tweeter in chief went on a bit of a tweet storm this morning. He must have read his approval numbers and then got all bent out of shape after watching SNL.


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!


If he considers Saturday Night Live as part of the news media, he is truly off his rocker.
 
Next up:

"War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength."
 
I...I mean we get that here a lot. sometimes successfully too. :|

America needs to get its collective shit together.
 
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'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.
 
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.
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).

I wasn't speaking on anything regarding taxes, borders, etc, etc.
 
Here's one really good source that I've kept around for a bit. https://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-sees-continued-rise-hate-crimes-legacy-trumps-racism/

The FBI even states that hate crimes have risen for the 3rd year in a row: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46189391

Here's another where a Government watchdog is stating the same thing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...p-blamed-divisiveness/?utm_term=.abee563c2101

Here's yet another article claiming that racism and issues are on the rise (please ignore the clickbait headlines): https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-racist-ad-750415/

And you're not wrong - the country is getting better in some areas. However, you only have to look at any one of the links above to show that we're well, well far back from where we should be as a population. Racism and bigotry needs to be eradicated, not just ignored and allowed to fester.

Please note that I'm not trying to get into the typical "DUR TRUMPH IS BAD, MMKAY" argument that so many internet political arguments delve into. I just really dislike anything that puts another human on a different level, because they may look/act different.
 
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 1930s socially.
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.
  • 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.
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.

Off to a bunch of meetings, I'll check back in later.

There have been few faked attacks, not even a drop in the bucket compared to the nationwide rise in racial and hate-motivated crimes. You stated that you don't dispute these numbers and then immediately try to minimize and dismiss them. It's the same as pointing to the infinitesimally small numbers of voter fraud cases to try to invalidate an entire election.

We have talked at length about Trump's racist rhetoric, from calling Neo Nazis "fine people" all the way back to his refusal to rent to black tennants in his buildings. He's called immigrants from South America "animals", he has extensively gone after anyone who protests police brutality directed at ethnic minorities (NFL protests come to mind), he claimed a judge ruled against him because of the judge's ethnicity, "shithole countries", Obama's birth certificate hoax and multiple claims that he was born in Africa, his feud with the Muslim parents of a fallen US soldier, even in his campaign announcement he called all immigrants from the south "rapists and murderers." He's cracked jokes about the Trail of Tears.

Hell, his very first appearance in the New York Times was when he was sued for housing discrimination based on race. When the fucking Nixon administration accuses you of being racist - you're a racist.

As for you not knowing any racists - you don't know anyone who is openly racist, or anyone you recognize as racist. But since you don't see Trump's policies as racism draped in a plausible veneer, I'm not confident in your ability to see anything as racist that isn't waving a swastika flag and goose stepping in white hood.

Oh, wait, that's exactly what the right is doing. Running Nazis for office and Trump defending Neo Nazis as "fine people" as they salute the swastika and run black people over with their cars from the comfort of the White House. I've never seen racism this overt in my lifetime.
 
Quoted from: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/republican-holocaust-deniers-697379/

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.”
 
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