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What's a Commander-in-Chief to do?
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What is your best guess as to the percentage of Republican voters who are racist?
What is your best guess as to the percentage of Democrat voters who are racist?
You can’t deprogram hundreds of thousands of years living in tribes. That’s why we need civil rights laws to protect minorities.
But, it will never stop, because each side thinks only the other is playing, and so they both continue playing.
Since Nixon Rs have consciously pursued racists, just as Ds did before that.
One could easily say that the Left's flirtation with uncivility towards its opponents is at least as motivating to the right-wing fringe as any vague statements from the POTUS.
Then it’s just ignore the fact that my party including a guy just put on SCOTUS tried to overturn the landslide popular will of the people over a lie in a civil depo about a blow job. That has no weight of course in whether the D’s should impeach Orange.
But what we do know for sure is, not all Republicans are racists but all supporters of Trump are racist.
Quote of the month by Gillum - “you may not be racist but your supporters think you are”.
And you support Trumpo.
You’re a “Trumpenkreiger”.
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And just so the Dems can gain political advantage. That is a very heartless thing to do.
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Keep up.
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Try also the ADL warning about it well before the Pittsburgh attack.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-presses-ahead-in-casting-soros-as-threat-amid-criticism-that-attacks-are-anti-semitic/2018/10/29/183d50fe-dba4-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0e8fad4c3b8d
If you were just trying to say that I was wrong when I said it was the Dems, because some other people say it was Soros, fine. Sounds like a weak argument to me, but whatever. I think the Dems in Congress helped create this situation by passing bad laws, and by not enforcing other laws, and saying enticing things to the media implying that the door is and should be, always open. The fact that Dem supporters (like Soros, as you suggest) are also exploiting these people by helping to round them up for caravans is admittedly dispicable, but it is irrelevant to my point.
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Jeez, I'm glad I was finally able to figure out that you were wrong all along. ;-)
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what I can tell and isn’t limited solely to US politics.
...it could be "the Dems" as I said, and it could also be "Soros" as you suggested.
focused more on the one than the others.
Thank goodness we have the Koch Brothers (who are NOT Republicans).
He loves and manipulates the media to his own ends. Doesn’t stop him though from using them to affirm and stoke the fears of his base. He’s a demagogue, not a personal anti Semite. Just like Obama didn’t personally hate police. But he used the issue to stoke his base. That’s dangerous shit when you are dealing with those types of hot button issues.
It is an unfortunate system we have now.
to violence? Your what aboutism is appalling.
Everyone needs to ratchet it down is the point.
I don't see what is so appalling about both sides playing by the same rules. It may not be great, but at least it is fair. The Left would keep up with their tribalistic, divide into identity group political strategy unless and until they see the error of their ways. Perhaps your point is that they will never see the error of their ways, and it is a long term bad thing for the country to even try to show them the evil of their ways by responding in kind. I get that. But, Trump has already increased the chances of saving millions of lives through his SCOTUS appointments. And, I think it is too much of a stretch to try to protray him as Hitler--he is not remotely an idealogue. His good (SCOTUS appointments, regulation rollback, foreign policy, finally standing up to Russia) far outweighs any evil attributed to him so far. And, I think most of the evil being attributed to him (synagogue killings) are really just the Left and Anti-Trumpers trying to use the deaths of jews for their political advantage.
shitt stirring and divisiveness as a conscious political strategy.
Obama who did some of the same is a piker by comparison.
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Link: https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1056919064906469376
Jewish citizens have all the rights that any US citizen has. Let's not take that away from them.
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Your very party and it’s policies are anti Semitic. Accuse others of that which you are....classic liberal behavior.
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fear solely for an election advantage. He’s despicable.
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Current GOP leadership is the most morally cowardly group of politicians in US history.
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Also, you repeat the beliefs of the Pittsburgh attacker. Do you think Trump or any Congressman believes that? If not, why do you repeat it? Are you trying to smear them with the statement?
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“invasion”. You think that’s okay?
This guy is ginning up fear simply to gain points in the election.
You think the army and the BP can’t deal with this?
The people who talk about Soros hate Soros because he is trying to undermine our constitutional republic (in their minds...I happen to think they are right, but I don't hate him, I just think he is one of many people who want to do that because they think they have a better system to try out) He is just the Left's version of the Koch Brothers. His politics (and his willingness to use his wealth for those politics) are why he is an issue, not his heritage. Those people hate Pelosi just as much.
The people who talk about Jews hate Jews, regardless of their politics.
Again, I'm struck by the lengths to which people will go to criticize Trump, when there are so many things that are much more legitimate to criticize. When you go to such lengths, you undermine the many available legitimate criticisms. Just pause, take a breath, and stick to the good attacks. Don't make every possible attack, even the bogus ones. If you think Trump's motivation is anti-semitic...well, that's pretty insane. Then again, maybe you are consistent, and you think Obama was anti-semitic when he snubbed Israel and embraced Israel's enemies.
The right wing media and at least one R ad have been blaming Soros for being behind and funding the invaders.
I don’t know whether there is anything anti Semitic or not behind those allegations. More likely it is trying to blame Soros as a lib bogeyman as opposed to as a Jew. I do believe that some who aren’t all there, however, do equate Soros with some type of Jewish conspiracy. When you feed that beast for your own electoral gains, you get unintended results which is what has happened here.
Regarding the fringe...yeah, they exist. But, we can't stop voicing opinions because the fringe might overreact. That is a liberal tenet, I know. But in the end, that is just a way to silence political opposition. The best answer for bad speech is more good speech...and putting the moronic fringe in jail when they overreact to the bad speech.
already told them that.
They don’t care. They need the bogeyman for the election.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-presses-ahead-in-casting-soros-as-threat-amid-criticism-that-attacks-are-anti-semitic/2018/10/29/183d50fe-dba4-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0e8fad4c3b8d
Personally, I think both sides should stop it, but they don't pay attention to me.
Oh, and "x" was the difference between accusing Soros and accusing "the Jews." You did concede that.
They were specifically warned about this by a a well respected mainstream Jewish group. In fact, THE mainstream Jewish American group. But they continued any way to do it solely for cynical electoral reasons. Disgusting.
You just happen to really hate one side more than the other, so you want to act like it is only happening on one side.
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I honestly don't remember. Maybe you did.
For the record, I don't think he was anti-semitic at all, even though he went to an anti-semitic church, snubbed Israel for apparently no reason, and supported Israel's enemies. Personally, I think he was living his anti-colonialistic politics (an international political movement that people here interpret as a form of liberalism, but it really isn't). I think he viewed Israel as a late colonial power that needed to be put in its place. (Although, I grant you, that most strains of anti-colonialism are racist in practice.)
of his supporters sure appeared to be.
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