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Lucky Fred was born before he was. What a LOSER he is
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Because unless people are given like a million a month allowance (like trump) while suffering through bankruptcy it ain't exactly the same is it?
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I do believe it was explained to you why the hospital ship is currently in port. It's called refitting after being involved in relief efforts following Harvey and Irma.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Do you think the Navy is not aware of the situation in Puerto Rico?Comment
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You don't know squat about what's going on there ....just glad handing.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Like Katrina this albatross will fester around necks of trump and GOP over weeks and months
http://www.thedailybeast.com/even-th...in-puerto-ricoComment
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President Trump seems to have stirred up a hornet’s nest of opposition with his call for athletes who don’t respect the national anthem to be fired. Many NFL owners and players who were previously indifferent seem to have rallied to the Colin Kaepernick cause.
Kaepernick, of course, considers his protest to be a cry against slavery and racial oppression, for which he holds America to be the guilty party. Kaepernick’s allies seem to be standing—or rather kneeling—for the right to protest, in opposition not necessarily to America but certainly to President Trump.
So was Trump’s call to action a mistake? Trump seems to have acted instinctively, and yet here I propose to show his instincts are right on. Without drawing on either ideology or history, Trump senses that the Left and the Democrats are pushing a big lie. And he’s right.
Yet historically, this gets things upside down. Who is the actual party of racism and oppression? The Democrats. Who is the actual party that resisted oppression? The Republicans.
The Democratic Left, symbolized by Kaepernick, seeks to portray themselves in resistance to oppression. In this view, Trump represents the party of oppression (bad America) and they represent the party of liberation (good America). Kneeling at games is intended to convey a refusal to go along with American racism and oppression.
Yet historically, this gets things upside down. Who is the actual party of racism and oppression? The Democrats. Who is the actual party that resisted oppression? The Republicans.
Here are a few unassailable facts to consider:
--While the secession debate was between the North and the South, the slavery debate was between a pro-slavery Democratic Party and an anti-slavery Republican Party.
--Two of the three Democrats that Lincoln identified as the champions of slavery—Stephen Douglas and James Buchanan—were Northerners. Only one, Roger Taney, was a Southerner.
--Even after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Democratic platform in 1864 sought a treaty with the Confederacy that would most likely involve a restoration of slavery.
--After the Civil War, the Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the Thirteenth Amendment freeing the slaves, the Fourteenth Amendment granting equal rights under law, and the Fifteenth Amendment giving blacks the right to vote.
--Jim Crow is entirely a legacy of the Democratic Party. Every segregation law enacted in the South was passed by a Democratic legislature, signed by a Democratic governor, and enforced by Democratic officials.
--After Republicans shut it down in the late nineteenth century, the Ku Klux Klan was revived in the early twentieth century by a progressive Democratic president, Woodrow Wilson, who screened a pro-KKK movie in the White House.
--For decades the Klan served, in the words of progressive historian Eric Foner, as “the domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.” David Duke is an anomaly; virtually every KKK leader for the past 150 years has been a Democrat.
--As historian Ira Katznelson shows, in order to get the New Deal passed, progressive icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt made deals with racist Democrats to block anti-*****ing legislation and to exclude African Americans from most New Deal programs.
--More Republicans than Democrats proportionately voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Bill of 1968. The main opposition to the civil rights movement came not from the GOP but from racist Democrats.
So are Democrats who pull down Confederate statues and protest the national anthem admitting the historical sins of their party? Are these acts of honest public disclosure and humble contrition?
Not at all. They are actually part of the Left’s big lie. The big lie is to take the historical crimes of the Democratic Party and project them onto someone else. Let’s blame America. Let’s blame the South. Let’s blame the white man. Let’s blame everyone except the people who actually committed those crimes.
The reason for targeting confederate statues is to make the South, not the Democrats, carry the burden for slavery. The reason for kneeling during the national anthem is to pretend that America, not the Democrats, is responsible for racial oppression.
“America” didn’t do these things. Some Americans—namely Democrats—carried out that oppression and other Americans—namely Republicans—fought and eventually stopped them.
Why should the Republican Party, which ended slavery, fought segregation, shut down the Ku Klux Klan, and enabled the Civil Rights Revolution of the 1960s, feel an ounce of guilt for its honorable history?
The GOP, not the Democrats, are the true resistance to racial oppression. In 1860, Lincoln defined slavery as “you work, I eat.” Lincoln called the Republicans the party of opportunity and the Democrats the party of enslavement. Not much has changed. The central platform of the Democratic Party today is still, “You work, I eat.”
More adept at throwing a ball than reading a book, Colin Kaepernick may not know any of this. But the leaders of the Democratic Party certainly do. So they are using suckers like Kaepernick to pin the racist tail on the Republican elephant instead of where it truly belongs, on the Democratic donkey.Comment
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Who has time to read long, loony 🥜 ter diatribes.
Here ...short....timely...and ON POINT.
The new albatross is starting to ripen ....The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico asked President Trump on Tuesday to focus on the people in crisis in the U.S. territory instead of Puerto Rico’s debt.
After being criticized for obsessing over NFL protests instead of the devastation in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and Maria, Trump finally tweeted about the crisis Monday night, but seemingly blamed the U.S. territory’s debt and “broken infrastructure” for the widespread wreckage.
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In response, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz asked Trump to treat hurricane relief and Puerto Rico’s debt as “two different issues.”
“With all due respect, these are two different topics,” she said on CNN’s “New Day” Tuesday morning. “One topic is the massive debt, which we know we have and it’s been dealt with. But you don’t put debt above people, you put people above debt. So, what we are asking for and what — what I’m asking for, and this is my comment, nobody else’s comment — is let’s deal with the two issues in a separate way.”
She said the U.S. has a “moral imperative” to help out the islands, which she described as being in “dire need”
“When somebody is in need, when somebody is in dire need, when somebody is in a life or death situation, there’s a human, moral imperative to deal with that situation first and then deal with any other situations coming your way,” she said, calling the situation a “humanitarian crisis.”
How many navy ships went to JAPAN after that typhoon? Are as many in Puerto Rico Bore-us?
PROVE that they are.
Isn't it fun when your tribe has to govern ......Comment
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“You work, I eat.”Comment
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Where was Obama when Baton Rouge was under water?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Go for a hike to clear your head and think? OK
Go for a jog to clear your head and think? OK
Go for a long to clear your head and think? OK
Do the same, and swing a club a couple of hundred times? Not OKComment
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This coming from one of the gang who didn't like obama golfing. You didn't like his mother-in-las going on vacation with the family either, right?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Spare us your dancing on head of pin. We see you!
He's a DIVIDER. Chief stoker of allIn private, the president and his top aides freely admit that he is engaged in a culture war on behalf of his white, working-class base, a New York billionaire waging war against “politically correct” coastal elites on behalf of his supporters in the South and in the Midwest. He believes the war was foisted upon him by former President Barack Obama and other Democrats — and he is determined to win, current and former aides said.
The polarization.
Blames it on weak people butthurt by the obama presidency. That's who he is protectingComment
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Let's play a game 🥜 TersOriginally posted by Unregistered View Post
Question #1
Who said, "Glad our arrogant Pres. is enjoying his taxpayer funded golf outing after announcing the US should take military action against Syria."?
When was it said? About who?
Thanks in advance for playing. I'm LOVING the hypocrisy 😂 😂Comment
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🥜 ter quiz question #2
Who said :
Thanks for playing 🥜 🥜 🥜 ters!"Trump and president obsma both golf but trump doesn't charge the taxpayers $920,000 for a golf weekend in Florida"Comment
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Go hang out at the gazebo next time and we can talk about this .....Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Person with supposed superior intelligence reads post clearly pointing out all the racist history of his party's past as he calls everyone else a racist, says it's too much to read.
Calls others hypocrites later.
“You work, I eat.”Comment
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