MrFresh wrote: » Anyone who is capable of believing he is a racist already knows he is. The others wouldn't accept it even if those fabled apprentice tapes surfaced. They'd just post some picture of him hugging a black person.
pixelburp wrote: » I suspect there's an element of mental exhaustion at this stage. It's nearly a controversy a week at this stage, sometimes even two in one, and were I a politically motivated American, I'd find it hard to pick a hill to die on. Trump's base are highly motivated and outwardly angry too, I'd honestly worry that even the tamest anti-Trump protest would get attacked or vilified by red hat wearing counter protestors.
alchemist33 wrote: » I'm surprised there haven't been mass public demonstrations against him, either in Baltimore, Puerto Rico, California, or anywhere else for that matter. If any leader in any establised democracy was doing what he's doing, people would be on the streets. Imagine if Boris, as PM, called Glasgow rat- infested or told Sadiq Khan to go back to where he came from.
DreamsBurnDown wrote: » It's as clear as day what his strategy is. Why did you think he is targeting Baltimore? Because it has some of the most violent neighborhoods in the US, and Baltimore politics has been dominated by Democrats for over a century. As you correctly say he is setting up his 2020 campaign as "this is what awaits you if Democrats win". It's extremely ugly politics but Democrats need an a response other than "racist". What is it that Democrats plan to do to make life better for people living in the worst neighborhoods in Baltimore, Chicago, etc. as whatever has been done hasn't worked for decades. Democrats cannot assume that African Americans will keep voting for them by paying lip service to their problems. At a minimum there needs to be a massive regeneration program in many US cities, but other than Pete Buttigeig who actually has some experience of regeneration projects in South Bend, I haven't heard one of the leading presidential candidate come up with a serious proposal yet. It's certainly part of a winning strategy if they do.
Outlaw Pete wrote: » Are you suggesting I'm a racist?
pixelburp wrote: » Is Donald Trump a racist? Based of last week's comments towards AOC et al, it becomes a clearer "yes", but even if he weren't, even if we can say that Trump is not a racist... ... The actual, brazen, open racists LOVE him. So where does that leave him?
Leroy42 wrote: » It is the fact that he is, yet again, attacking a person of colour. Nothing racist in the tweet itself, but why attack Cummins when according to his own inauguration speech the whole of the US is a sh1thole?
Outlaw Pete wrote: » You don't know what you're talking about. He's effectively been ostracized and Trump even refused to allow him on Air Force One recently. Eh, how so? Okay, give me some examples of how this white supremacist regime manifests itself. Are you suggesting I'm a racist?
pixelburp wrote: » To look more closely; while I'm sceptical about open racism, look at the targets he keeps picking. Baltimore. Chicago. California. He picks blue cities or states, strongholds of a perceived liberalism - be it for guns, sanctuary laws or just "democrat" - that in the minds of the god-fearing rural demographics, they might as well be Soddom rebuilt. No more than how Fox News delights in portraying Paris and Europe as Muslim infested socialist nightmares (to quote Trump himself, "Paris isn't Paris anymore"), the channel tells its viewers of the slums and dangers of fallen, Democrat cities. Pro crime and open borders they and Trump cry - it's a catchphrase thrown at democrat rivals, consistently. It's all part of the strategy. Vote Democrat, get Baltimore. Crime, abortions and godlessness for all.
relax carry on wrote: » He's a life long conman. But he's not even that good a conman. He's just so obvious about everything he does being for the greater good of the Trump Empire. It really is telling that there's a significant amount of people who fall for it over and over.
hill16bhoy wrote: » Why didn't they expel him from the party? Because they don't actually give a ****, that's why.
In terms of the wider party, all of them are happy to support a nakedly white supremacist regime.
If the entirety of the party supports a nakedly white supremacist regime, which it absolutely does, I think it's more than fair to call that party the party of white supremacism.
Have a wee think about where that leaves yourself.
Stop moaning ffs wrote: » Not to forget, what happened to his promise tic make America great again? Surely he’s failed at it in Baltimore’s case if he’s gonna bring it up? He’s such a monumental fraud it’s depressing anyone falls for it.
Outlaw Pete wrote: » Mother of God, can a white person not argue with a black person now without it being seen as racism? Seems to me white liberals only see colour when the see black folks, maybe then the people you deem as racist are in fact the ones with the mindset you all pretend to have. As far as I'm concerned, equality is white people speaking about people of colour the same way they speak about white people. All this nonsense about racism is just that, nonsense. Only so many times society will pay heed to people crying wolf. Racism is much too serious to be trivialized and (rather despicably) used like this. Thankfully not everyone buys into that bs narrative liberals are trying to forever sell.https://twitter.com/JDiddily/status/1155302198697496580
Leroy42 wrote: » And AOC is right about the conditions in the detainion camps. But one is anti American and the other is simply telling it like it is! And why Baltimore? Is he saying that no other areas have issues? What is his solution, you know since he is POTUS after all. Maybe instead of wasting another 50bn on a failing military he should concentrate on helping these areas.
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » Ironically Trump is 100% right about Baltimore and Cummings. Just a shame he can't say it without coming across like a man baby.
hill16bhoy wrote: » Mehdi Hasan is totally right here. Democrats' responses to Trump's constant racist rants are always far too meek. Yet nobody has ever found a way to effectively combat ascendant fascism in the short term. Once it's out of the bottle, it's out. It's a malignant cancer. In the long term, it has only ever been beaten by armed stuggle, all out war, or by decades long endurance followed by the rotten, decrepit system collapsing in on itself.https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1155257264804192256
26000 Elephants wrote: » Proper fascists put themselves in control. Trump is merely a puppet, to be used only as long as he remains useful. It's a matter of debate who is pulling the strings, but in this way Trump differs from your better examples such as Erdogan, Le Pen, etc. But I agree with you in principal.
