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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[Yankguy1]

Not because of their ethnicity or the color of their skin. 

[Yankguy1]

Kid's taking on all comers!!!!  He's gonna prove that Trump is no bigot!!!

[kiidcarter8]

Not because of their ethnicity or the color of their skin.

Yet you think it WAS due to color that he ranted at the select few AAs - James and company?

Couldnt be conntent?

Isnt Acosta's treatment the equivalent of Lemon?

And I'd think if a Mike Trout acted (spoke of Trump) like LeBron he'd get a bit of backlash as well.

Simple stuff.

[facilitatorn]

Trump regularly lashes out at anyone who points out the clearly racist things he does and say, without regard for the race of his critic. Then he goes and does and says more racist crap so he can again be an equal opportunity snowflake. When he needs to change the subject, he predominantly attacks someone or something not White. As to the core racist as he is, will he sometimes lash out at White folks? Sure. He’s a cornered beast, wounded and far from home. Lashing out is what he does.

[barton]

In that poll (top of page), I have to ask, whoever voted "Other," how did you arrive at that choice?  Either we trim the forums, or we don't, or you're not sure.  You chose none of those options.  So, somewhere, beyond trinary logic, there must some other course of action?  Add MORE forums?  Fill Josh's house with stuffed animals?  We all join the French foreign legion and forget everything?

Probably some poster with a sarcastic bent, who wondered why that option even existed, for precisely the reason you identify. Not that I have personal knowledge, necessarily....

Of course not.   But your penetrating insight into human smartassery has not been achieved without the occasional consultation with hoi polloi, I'm certain.  The textbooks and peer-reviewed journals can only take you so far.   

[kiidcarter8]

Trump regularly lashes out at anyone who points out the clearly ---------[racist]------- things he does and say.....

heh

[kiidcarter8]

Trump: no collusion, no collusion, no collusion. Uh... collusion is not a crime!

Sure it is

Its just called conspiracy

Isnt that right?

Many many fucklng lawyers working quite hard to prove it.

Standing by for the drama.  And laughing at some of the fallout.

[whiskeypriest]

Not because of their ethnicity or the color of their skin.

Yet you think it WAS due to color that he ranted at the select few AAs - James and company?

Couldnt be conntent?

Isnt Acosta's treatment the equivalent of Lemon?

And I'd think if a Mike Trout acted (spoke of Trump) like LeBron he'd get a bit of backlash as well.

Simple stuff.

Well, as I used to tell clients, just because your boss was an asshole generally does not mean he cannot be a racist asshole to you. 

[josh]

Scarborough: "And it’s, at least to me, it’s been shocking and somewhat embarrassing just how wrong I was all along that a huge chunk of the Republican Party was exactly what Liberals have been accusing us of being for a very long time."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/6/1786246/-Frank-Discussion-of-Racism-on-Morning-Joe

[kiidcarter8]

Does he have any dealings that would tell you he is not a racist?

Have you checked?

If you found YES to be the answer, would you simply dismiss it as "Trump doing what he needs to get ahead"?

If so - well - you are believing what you like - and that's that.

[josh]

Other included the possibility of wanting it both trimmed and added to.

I don't know what the person who chose other had in mind.

[Yankguy1]

Does he have any dealings that would tell you he is not a racist?

Have you checked?

If you found YES to be the answer, would you simply dismiss it as "Trump doing what he needs to get ahead"?

If so - well - you are believing what you like - and that's that.

If a Klansman goes to work one day and engages in a relatively pleasant conversation with an African-American who comes into his store, does that make the Klasman not a racist?

[josh]

Does he have any dealings that would tell you he is not a racist?

Have you checked?

If you found YES to be the answer, would you simply dismiss it as "Trump doing what he needs to get ahead"?

If so - well - you are believing what you like - and that's that.

I've been reviewing Trump's actions and speeches for longer than he has been a candidate.

No, he has done nothing that would indicate that he is not racist.

Here is his senior staff at their swearing in:


He has protested repeatedly that he is "the least racist person you will ever meet." - Honestly, Kiid, had I had any doubts he was racist before, that would have sealed the deal the first time he said it, let alone the endless repetitions of it.

His language before he was a candidate, not just after it, illustrated his racism. His actions with his apartments when he thought he could get away with it did so, as well.

He insults everybody who is not him - this is not news. But he insults some folks disproportionately and in different ways. If you want to provide me with the numbers of white men he has called stupid by comparison to the others, do please go right ahead. And if he attacks white men in proportion to their numbers in politics vs. blacks and women, I will retract my position.

Here are your target numbers:

Despite white men comprising only 31 percent of the population, 97 percent of all Republican elected officials are white and 76 percent are male. Of all Democratic elected officials, 79 percent are white and 65 percent are male, according to the study.

A factor in the discrepancy, RDC says, is a problem with who runs for office. Of Republican candidates, 73 percent are white men and 23 percent are white women. Men of color make up 3 percent of candidates and women of color make up 1 percent, according to the study.

I look forward to seeing what your research finds, either way.

[Yankguy1]

First step: GO to TWITTER!

[whiskeypriest]

He insults everybody who is not him - this is not news. But he insults some folks disproportionately and in different ways. If you want to provide me with the numbers of white men he has called stupid by comparison to the others, do please go right ahead. And if he attacks white men in proportion to their numbers in politics vs. blacks and women, I will retract my position.

Since kid made the Don Lemon/Oscar Acosta comparison, note Trump has never called Acosta dumb.