Excellent reply.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteI respect anybody who comes on here and takes up an unpopular position, so I'm not attacking you. But theres holes all over what you've said.
It terms of Israel and Jerusalem, you are right that in a normal situation any country should be able to declare a city as its capital. But sharing Jerusalem between different faiths was agreed as part of the 1992 peace accords to ensure the Armenians and the Christians and the Muslims shared the ownership of the city with the Jews. Its just another betrayal of treaty, which the Israelis have a history of doing. And what hes done serves no purpose but to destabilise the world.
Youre also basing your entire assessment of 'liberal democrats' on some conversations you've had with some in Texas. If they are 'struck dumb' by Trumps policy on Isis, or on the horrendous tax cuts policy, i would say you've just been speaking to some very inarticulate and stupid Democrats. All Trumps policies can be convincingly argued against, because they are either economic vandalism (a tax cut programme that is going to result in starving in the streets), smoke and mirrors (his Isis 'policy' which seems to involve talking tough on them one minute, then threatening to withdraw from the world the next. And continuing the drone strike programme that was the same as the Obama one that he was so critical of). What won him the blue collar vote, the so called 'populist' vote, was the jobs creation claim, his one 'good thing' which the Mexican wall was just part of. Public works, roads, infrastructure, engineering, stuff to get America working again. But now he's in office, nothing, nada. Because he doesn't want to, he never wanted to get involved in that because he hates the state. Public private partnership is anathema to him. He lied. And that's why the poster that irritated you so much earlier is absolutely right. The stupid (or if you prefer, the naïve) voted for him because they believed his domestic promises, and they shouldn't have.
In your anti Clinton diatribe ,you also dont mention that the popular vote went for Hilary, so the country is very much divided and there isn't a strong a consensus against the Clintons as you claim. You also dont mention the Obama legacy, why is that? You dont mention Trumps own, self confessed and proud sexual harassment, why is that? his bullying, rudeness, classlessness. Do you recognise he's a nasty piece of work but think it doesn't matter as long as hes a good leader, or do you just think hes a good guy misrepresented by a liberal media? And I'm not sure why bringing Bernie Sanders' narrow defeat into the debate makes your case any stronger. Sanders shocked everyone by showing there is still a strong left wing streak in blue collar America you'd never notice from just watching TV.
And i am genuinely fascinated by the total chutzpah that allows you to accuse the Democrats of spreading racism and dividing people, when its is Trump who uses this tactic widely and obviously, and in a way that is brand new for an American president, (even Andrew Jackson seemed to like and admire his slaves!), and for any world leader. Look outside America, at the reaction to him across the world. Most countries are horrified by him. how is that going to help America's economy?
Give us some links so we can see some of the sources behind what you think is happening in your country.
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27-12-2017 08:28 AM #513
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27-12-2017 11:32 AM #515
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But Racist? I have not seen any evidence of him being Racist. Can you prove he is a Racist?
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27-12-2017 11:46 AM #516This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Does his failure to condemn the KKK not give you a hint?
Here's a few more clues;
Consider the first time the president’s name appeared on the front page of the New York Times, more than 40 years ago. “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City,” read the headline of the A1 piece on Oct. 16, 1973, which pointed out how Richard Nixon’s Department of Justice had sued the Trump family’s real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act.
“The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color,’” the Times revealed. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.” (Trump later settled with the government without accepting responsibility.)
Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot: he was accused of ordering “all the black [employees] off the floor” of his Atlantic City casinos during his visits; claimed “laziness is a trait in blacks” and “not anything they can control”; requested Jews “in yarmulkes” replace his black accountants;
told Bryan Gumbel that “a well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market”; demanded the death penalty for a group of black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a jogger in Central Park (and, despite their later exoneration with the use of DNA evidence, has continued to insist they are guilty);
suggested a Native American tribe “don’t look like Indians to me”; mocked Chinese and Japanese trade negotiators by doing an impression of them in broken English; described undocumented Mexican immigrants as “rapists”; compared Syrian refugees to “snakes”; defended two supporters who assaulted a homeless Latino man as “very passionate” people “who love this country”;
pledged to ban a quarter of humanity from entering the United States; proposed a database to track American Muslims that he himself refused to distinguish from the Nazi registration of German Jews; implied Jewish donors “want to control” politicians and are all sly negotiators;
heaped praise on the “amazing reputation” of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has blamed America’s problems on a “Jewish mafia”; referred to a black supporter at a campaign rally as “my African-American”; suggested the grieving Muslim mother of a slain U.S. army officer “maybe … wasn’t allowed” to speak in public about her son;
accused an American-born Hispanic judge of being “a Mexican”; retweeted anti-Semitic and anti-black memes, white supremacists, and even a quote from Benito Mussolini;
kept a book of Hitler’s collected speeches next to his bed; declined to condemn both David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan; and spent five years leading a “birther” movement that was bent on smearing and delegitimizing the first black president of the United States, who Trump also accused of being the founder of ISIS.
Oh and remember: we knew all of this before he was elected president of the United States of America.Last edited by Hibbyradge; 27-12-2017 at 11:51 AM.
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27-12-2017 01:37 PM #517This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Everything hibbyradge has covered and more, sorry for my lack of hyperlink ability on my phone.
https://www.salon.com/2017/09/17/stop-acting-surprised-america-donald-trump-is-a-white-supremacist/
http://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83
Or just have a google yourself and open your eyes and ears. Laughable to claim there's no evidenceLast edited by -Jonesy-; 27-12-2017 at 01:50 PM.
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27-12-2017 02:00 PM #518This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Trump got more black and Latino votes than Romney did in the 2012 Presidential election. I suppose every black, every Latino that voted for him are racist and that every woman that voted for him is a misogynist. Or as is arrogantly claimed they must just all be dumb.
It is the Democrats that are obsessed with race and gender.
Most people are interested in jobs, wage increases, security, safer communities, better schools and truly affordable health care/coverage. Hopes and aspirations far removed from the modern Democrat party.
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I suppose it was a pretty daft thing to say, because many millions of people vote in American elections and will all have had their own personal reasons for doing so in the way that they did.
I believe Trump is a cretin. I believe that he has surrounded himself with like-minded fools. I don't believe that everyone who voted for him are stupid, but I believe that many were desperate and that everyone had a pretty awful choice of 2 people.
You made a fair point about the Clintons. In many ways I'd have quite liked to have moved to America, there is a lot about the country that I admire. But to have to choose between Clinton and Trump was a truly sorry state of affairs, and it was wrong of me to be so dismissive of someone who may choose to vote for opposition to the Clintons.
I am not a fan of the Clintons, but I cannot put into words how much I abhor Trump, and all that he stands for. There is a standard of behaviour that you would expect a president of the USA to live up to, and he falls so far below that standard for it to be laughable.
There is a set of values that you would wish OUR country's closest ally to hold - Trump's America stands for everything that I dislike, and I will not apologise for holding that view. I don't want America to be building walls, I don't want them to get into pointless willy-waving exercised with North Korea, I don't want them to be at their belligerent worst causing havoc in the Middle East. I don't want divisive rhetoric, I don't want racist language from the most powerful man on the planet. That's what we're getting.
Sadly, a lot of people have been left behind in America, and that pre-dates Trump. We have seen the same in this country. These are the people who I referred to as "desperate" and will include the blacks and Latinos to whom you refer. When desperate (and faced with a choice of this or the fairly unpalatable Clintons) bollocks about building walls, making America great again, denying climate change and making empty promises of jobs based in dead industries, displaying mock courage that may make you look strong with little change of direct impact on your own shores but potentially catastrophic consequences on other people's lives far, far away - it is possible to understand why Trump was successful.
He will not be the greatest president ever, and there is a reasonably good chance he will be assassinated. It will be interesting to see what the disaffected of America will do next, when their lives are not improved by electing an imbecile who has already started giving tax cuts to his rich buddies, presumable at a cost the already angry poor.
As an aside, it is interesting to hear the opinions of those within the USA. My youngest brother has a degree in History and Politics, and we often discuss politics (he knows his stuff, I don't have a clue). It is funny how the opinion of a particular president can be so different in the USA as opposed to overseas. Obama was a hugely popular president overseas, he carried himself properly and used appropriate language. He put in place admirable policies on the World Stage and had a very impressive, progressive outlook. I'm led to believe he has pretty unpopular in the USA, being part of the reason we ended up with Trump (and tbh the ridiculous situation where the choices were the Clintons or the Trumps.)
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Stick to what Trump is doing as a president. Of course, maybe I have missed the call for gas chambers and extermination. Maybe it got lost in what many people, including reluctant Democrats, consider a successful first year of his presidency.
But if you get stuck for other comparisons don't forget Stalin.
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He's doing nothing as a president, he is a disgusting, abhorrent exscuse of a human being and is turning the US and it's political system into a laughing stock for the rest of the world.
What a ****ing disgrace, best president ever, gtf!!
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27-12-2017 03:21 PM #525
The test panels of the border walls have just been on sky news. If there is any doubt whether Trump is racist or not then this is the proof. Stop Mexicans. Stop Muslims. Agree with Britain First.
There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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Stock market booming to new highs each week, record job creation, thousands of manufacturing jobs created, companies bringing jobs back to the US, no bad in my book.
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Record highs on all market boards (thus helping the workers 401k pensions tremendously), record low unemployment including lowest for African Americans in nearly 20 years, lowest for Latinos/Hispanic ever. Dealt ISIS a blow, certainly territorially. Got through a major tax reform already resulting in major corporations giving $1,000 bonuses to hundreds of thousands of non-executive workers, some companies now raising their minimum wage by 25%, and promising major investment in factories and more jobs, hopefully with better wages. Rolling back of restrictive regulations. Got his first Supreme Court judge nominated. Shaking up the Veterans Association to make it easier for Vets to get help.
Next year, expect a major Infrastructure program which should have some support from across the aisle.
And as I said in an earlier post when I did layout the difference between his election campaign and that of the Democrats, they were clear positions on Issues which could be agreed with or disagreed with but nonetheless were clear and substantive issues and the issues that are most important to much of the country.
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But he is a racist.
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27-12-2017 04:57 PM #532
None of this will matter when he's outed as a Russian puppet and dragged out of office kicking and screaming like the child he is
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Maybe I'm wrong, maybe Trump is the greatest pres ever?
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28-12-2017 08:49 AM #539
Trump and the press: 10 questions journalists never thought they'd have to ask
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...y_to_clipboard
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29-12-2017 09:02 AM #540
Missing from the discussion about Trumps legacy is possibly his most serious,his opposition to climate science and his links to the coal and fossil fuel industries. The domestic and international environmental legislation he's torn up this year can be reversed when he's eventually out of office but the effects will be felt for years to come.
Tweet this morning... 'In the East it could be the Coldest new years eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
He's like the old bore at the end of the bar.Last edited by hibsbollah; 29-12-2017 at 09:05 AM.
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