President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Hidden?! HIDDEN?!!

Off the top of my head:

Refused to rent to black people
Continued campaign against Central Park Five, even after their innocence. Literally said "Maybe hate is what we need"
Admitted to having Mein Kampf in his bedroom, claimed it was given to him by a Jewish friend (said friend was not Jewish)
Was sued for keeping black women out of pageants he owned
Had one black woman who did make it into a pageant he owned say that he said some creepy, racist things to her
All the stuff he said about Hispanic immigrants during his campaign
All the times he "accidentally" tweeted or used Nazi iconography and memes

Most of those aren't directly anti-Semitic, though. He has a weird relationship with Jewish people. There's a long history of him talking about them in stereotypes that he probably considers positive, basically thinks of them as natural-born accountants.

His history of racism isn't in any way, shape, or form "hidden." He does strike me as the type who thinks that as long as he doesn't say the N word, he's not *really* racist.

 

An intelligent person does not make repeat unforced errors like this. If you want to call him a moron, I'll go along with that. He's never said a thing I found particularly insightful.

 

I take it back, @YankeeFan was busy today.

Congrats on the new gig YF.

 

You know, I really do get busy from time to time.

Trump really does need to stop trying to fight every point the press makes.

I'm sure there are good people who don't think the statue of Lee should come down. I don't think those good people would come out to voice this opinion at a rally led by Richard Spencer, and populated by other obvious white supremacists.

I'd like to think that if you came out simply to oppose the removal of the statue, and then saw who you were associating with, you'd leave as fast as you came.

So, I don't know why Trump is trying to defend the "good people" there. Maybe on other days, but not on that day.

(But, what do I know. I'd also like to think that if you were a good person, and your pastor at Church gave a God Damn America sermon, and declared 9/11 as evidence that America's chickens had come home to roost, they'd probably walk out too, never to return. I know that's what I would have done.)

 

Nah. I've decided I only want to work for Mooch. Even if he's unemployed.

Maybe it would be like interning for Kramer, but it would be worth it.

 

I can tell you why, if you'd like.

 

Didn't take you as long to figure out your deflection strategy.

 

Rick doesn't like whataboutismm because we'd have to focus on him, and his repeated calls for violence.

Just when you thought Trump said the dumbest thing of the day, you find this.

 

If anyone can make sure Mooch gets that chicken, YF, it's you.

 

You can focus on it as much as you want. I'll stand by it.

The American Exceptionalism fetish for allowing them to organize is horseshit.

If a group of people says "I'm going to kill your family" and you see them plotting to do it, you have every right to break it up and they sure as hell don't have a legal right to their gathering.

If that group says "I'm going to gain political power to kill 30% of the population," then apparently we have no choice but to let them gather and plot.

 

I honestly don't think there were a lot of good folks standing along side the Nazis.

The rally seemed pretty clearly to have been marketed to racist/Nazis/white supremacists. And, after Friday night's events, I don't think you show up to oppose the removal of the statue when these are your allies, unless you share their views.

Now, my Rev. Wright did was just a playful dig, but then, you do kind of have to wonder why you continue to go back to a Church if these are the Pastor's views.

 

HE'S NOT A NAZI THEY WERE NAZIS!!!!!