Trumps about to execute a white supremacist, while trying to free a black rapper from jail, as he pushes prison reform that directly benefits families of black men, while calling out a city where minorities are victims of crime & blight. if Trumps a racist, he sucks at it.
"Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'
By JOSH GERSTEIN
03/01/2011 12:46 PM EST
Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.
Holder's frustration over the criticism became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing as Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigationinto the handling of the 2008 incident in which Black Panthers in intimidating outfits and wielding a club stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia.
The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.
"Think about that," Holder said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people," said Holder, who is black."
We’ve heard this before. Go back where you came from. Go back to Africa. And now, “send her back.” Black and brown people in America don’t hear these chants in a vacuum; for many of us, we’ve felt their full force being shouted in our faces, whispered behind our backs, scrawled across lockers, or hurled at us online. They are part of a pattern in our country designed to denigrate us as well as keep us separate and afraid.
As 149 African Americans who served in the last administration, we witnessed firsthand the relentless attacks on the legitimacy of President Barack Obama and his family from our front-row seats to America’s first black presidency. Witnessing racism surge in our country, both during and after Obama’s service and ours, has been a shattering reality, to say the least. But it has also provided jet-fuel for our activism, especially in moments such as these.
We stand with congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, as well as all those currently under attack by President Trump, along with his supporters and his enablers, who feel deputized to decide who belongs here — and who does not. There is truly nothing more un-American than calling on fellow citizens to leave our country — by citing their immigrant roots, or ancestry, or their unwillingness to sit in quiet obedience while democracy is being undermined.
We are proud descendants of immigrants, refugees and the enslaved Africans who built this country while enduring the horrors of its original sin. We stand on the soil they tilled, and march in the streets they helped to pave. We are red-blooded Americans, we are patriots, and we have plenty to say about the direction this country is headed. We decry voter suppression. We demand equitable access to health care, housing, quality schools and employment. We welcome new Americans with dignity and open arms. And we will never stop fighting for the overhaul of a criminal-justice system with racist foundations.
Trump's tweets telling minority congresswomen to “go back” to their countries follows a history of racism and nativism. Voters will decide if this is effective. (Joshua Carroll, Kate Woodsome, Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post) We come from Minnesota and Michigan. The Bronx and Baton Rouge. Florida and Philadelphia. Cleveland and the Carolinas. Atlanta and Nevada. Oak-town and the Chi. We understand our role in this democracy, and respect the promise of a nation built by, for and of immigrants. We are part of that tradition, and have the strength to both respect our ancestors from faraway lands and the country we all call home.
Our love of country lives in these demands, and our commitment to use our voices and our energy to build a more perfect union. We refuse to sit idly by as racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia are wielded by the president and any elected official complicit in the poisoning of our democracy. We call on local, state and congressional officials, as well as presidential candidates to articulate their policies and strategies for moving us forward as a strong democracy, through a racial-equity lens that prioritizes people over profit. We will continue to support candidates for local, state and federal office who add more diverse representation to the dialogue and those who understand the importance of such diversity when policymaking here in our country and around the world. We ask all Americans to be a good neighbor by demonstrating anti-racist, environmentally friendly, and inclusive behavior toward everyone in your everyday interactions.
The statesman Frederick Douglass warned, “The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.” This nation has neither grappled with nor healed from the horrors of its origins. It is time to advance that healing process now through our justice, economic, health and political systems.
Expect to hear more from us. We plan to leave this country better than we found it. This is our home.
The Left's Broad, Bigoted Politics of Vilification
The iconic late poet Maya Angelou once said, “When people show you who they are, believe them.” That simple advice seems especially relevant regarding the American left in 2019. Both politicians and activists of the Democratic media complex scurry to charge racism against President Trump and our nationalist movement, when in reality they themselves employ brutally divisive political strategies buttressed by their own increasingly bigoted thinking.
SCOOP: Trump is expected to nominate Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe, one of the Republicans who grilled Robert Mueller in last week's hearing, to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence.
Imam Mohamad Tawhidi goes by the Twitter handle @Imamofpeace and he frequently speaks out against what he calls “radical Muslims”.
Turns out he doesn’t like them any more than the rest of us.
And at the top of his list of enemies to the USA? Rep. Ilhan Omar.
That’s right, the Imam just went on a huge Twitter rant where he copied President Trump, VP Pence, Jared Kushner, Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump Jr. and Sean Hannity in order to get out his message.
And his message is that he has concrete evidence that Ilhan Omar has been engaged in a plot with Qatar against those individuals and against the United States
As 149 African Americans who served in the last administration...
alky, when you and those you plagiarize start out by making the case that any criticism of any politician of color is racist, then you are demanding to not be taken seriously.
omar is a despicable piece of anti-semitic shit. as is tlaib.
the other two are just garden variety morons in so far over their heads it would be comical were they not in positions of such power and influence.
so fuck you, and fuck those 149 racist assholes who you parrot.
Once President Trump signs the budget deal that was passed by the House on Thursday and is expected to be approved by the Senate in a few days, he will have added $4.1 trillion to the national debt, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The total national debt surpassed $22 trillion in February.
This will mark the third time that a major piece of deficit-financed legislation will get Trump’s stamp of approval. Legislation Trump has so far signed since 2017 has added $2.4 trillion to the national debt through 2029, according to CRFB, a nonpartisan public policy group.
Republicans have been running as the anti deficit party. He promised to balance the budget.
The only President to reduce the deficit in the last 30 years was Bill Clinton.
W passed the tax cuts that increased the deficit and created the worst recession since 1929.
Trumpism demands intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy.
Jared Kushner owns more than a dozen apartment complexes in Baltimore County that have been cited with hundreds of code violations and, critics say, provide sub-standard housing to lower income tenants.
And speaking of funnies, the Baltimore Sun
said...
Baltimore Newspaper Lashes Out at Trump
A Baltimore Sun editorial rips President Trump for calling Baltimore “rat infested” in a series of tweets attacking Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD):
While we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
Roger - you do realize that Trump "really" hasn't added 4.1 trillion to the debt.
Legislation Trump has so far signed since 2017 has added $2.4 trillion to the national debt through 2029, according to CRFB, a nonpartisan public policy group.
They are factoring the so called "cost" out till 2029 to come to the figure.
According to the CBO who measures "real" debt we had 14.467 trillion when Trump took office, and it was at 15.749 trillion at the end of 2018. That is 1.582.
The previous President started with 5.803 trillion and ended at 14.467 trillion, meaning Obama, which means he more than doubled (2.5) the previous debt put together by every President before him. He added an average of $1.083 trillion per year.
Moreover, when Trump took office, we were spending 1.185 trillion in discretionary spending. In 2018 we spend 1.261 trillion. Meaning all around $76 billion of that has been an increase in Mandatory spending.
You want to get upset about the $76 billion. So be it. But that's what you can be upset about.
The truth that liberals do not want to admit is that we will continue to add to the deficit and debt until something is done with Mandatory spending. But nothing will "ever" get done with mandatory spending if Democrats have their way.
You have Bernie, Harris, Warren, Buttigeig, and everyone else "opening" promoting new Government programs that will literally add trillions to our "Discretionary spending".
You appear upset with $70 billion in new spending.
If you were even the least bit concerned about the deficit and debt, you wouldn't vote for a single one of the Democrats right now.
I do not get how black Americans do not get this. Democrats have failed you. They continue to fail you. Every big city in this nation is a f**king mess and you continue electing these people who do not care. You tweet #BaltimorePride and you do NOTHING to make a change.
President @realDonaldTrump KEEP TWEETING & embarrassing these liberals.
Only you can courageously shine a light on some of the worst areas in America where voiceless citizens (under Democratic rule) are living in horrible conditions!
The Baltimore Sun published an op-ed on Nov. 9, 2016 — the day Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election — in which the author called for Baltimore to be declared a disaster, and rebuilt."
Oh how I love a bitch slapping of socialist by Socialist.
Atlanta: "falling apart" Baltimore: "a filthy place" Chicago: "totally out of control" Philadelphia: "struggling" San Francisco: "disgusting," "not even recognizable"
Moscow, Russia: "a great city" and "an amazing place"
Anyone want to help him pack? Was it not “love it or leave it” last we heard?
Atlanta: "falling apart" Baltimore: "a filthy place" Chicago: "totally out of control" Philadelphia: "struggling" San Francisco: "disgusting," "not even recognizable"
that's right alky. shitholes all. all run by democrats. and all slathered in used syringes and human shit.
The Amount of Poop on San Francisco's Streets Has Hit an All-Time High
The city had a whopping 28,084 reports of turds in 2018.
The area surrounding King County Superior Court includes a homeless shelter and other social-services organizations and has become an “unsanitary and potentially frightening” scene — one “that reeks of urine and excrement” — according to an article in the Seattle Times. Desperate for help with the disgusting environment, two of the court’s judges have asked the city to please power-wash the poop-covered sidewalks. That seems like a pretty reasonable request, but apparently, one councilman is worried that doing so might be a form of microaggression.
According to the Times, Councilmember Larry Gossett “said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks because it brought back images of the use of hoses against civil-rights activists.”
From 2018 - 'Since the 1950s, the conservative movement has justified bad behavior—including supporting Donald Trump—by persuading itself that the left is worse. .. The modern Republican Party may be particularly apt to push conspiracy theories to rationalize its complicity with a staggeringly corrupt administration, but this is an extension of, not a break from, a much longer history. Since its very beginning, in the 1950s, members of the modern conservative movement have justified bad behavior by convincing themselves that the other side is worse. One of the binding agents holding the conservative coalition together over the course of the past half century has been an opposition to liberalism, socialism, and global communism built on the suspicion, sometimes made explicit, that there’s no real difference among them.
In 1961, the American Medical Association produced an LP in which an actor opened a broadside against the proposed Medicare program by attributing to Norman Thomas, a six-time Socialist Party candidate for president, a made-up quote that “under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.” Because these ideologies were so interchangeable in the imaginations of many conservatives—and were covertly collaborating to enact their nefarious agenda—this meant that it was both important and necessary to fight back through equally underhanded means. .. The American left is used to waiting for liberals to finally get ruthless. Through the eyes of the right, they always have been.
Long before Fox News, conservatives began forming their own explicitly right-wing media landscape. Supporters of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal dominated the “mainstream” press, which meant that conservative dissidents needed a home. The conservative magazine Human Events was launched in 1944 as an alternative to what its cofounder, Felix Morley, believed was a stifling conformity in the American press. The same was true of the American Mercury in 1950, when under the ownership of William Bradford Huie the formerly social-democratic magazine moved to the right. “There is now far too much ‘tolerance’ in America,” Huie declared in the first issue of the new Mercury. “We shall cry a new crusade of intolerance . . . the intolerance of bores, morons, world-savers, and damn fools.” .. Both Morley and Huie felt victimized by a liberal press establishment that stifled alternative voices—and, after all, liberals had the New Republic and leftists the Nation as journals of opinion—but their charge of mainstream “bias” was more complicated. One of the largest newspapers in the United States, the Chicago Tribune, owned by conservative businessman Robert McCormick, had militantly opposed the New Deal and American entry into World War II. Fulton Lewis Jr., a Washington, D.C.–based political journalist who was, by 1950, one of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy’s biggest supporters, had one of the most listened-to radio programs in the country. And both Morley and Huie had had illustrious careers before launching their magazines. Morley won a Pulitzer Prize when he edited the Washington Post in the 1930s; Huie had a solid reputation as a freelance journalist. But they clung to the belief that dissenters from the liberal orthodoxy were being hounded out of media, which more than justified questionable acts, particularly on Huie’s part. Desperate to keep his magazine afloat, Huie sold the American Mercury in 1952 to far-right businessman Russell Maguire, who was closely tied to prominent anti-Semites and was one himself. Huie told a reporter at Time that he knew all about Maguire’s unsavory views, but believed his financial backing was necessary in order to ensure a conservative voice in American letters. “If I suddenly heard Adolf Hitler was alive in South America and wanted to give a million dollars to the American Mercury, I would go down and get it.”
Even more alarming to conservatives than the bias of the mainstream press was the number of liberals, radicals, and communists alleged to be in higher education. In a 1952 American Mercury article, a twenty-seven-year-old William F. Buckley accused liberal historians of a “conspiracy against giving the American people the facts” about Franklin Roosevelt, and claimed that they thus “betrayed the American people.” In his debut book, God and Man at Yale, published the year before, Buckley had dismissed academic freedom as a cynical shield wielded by left-wing faculty to protect themselves from the political consequences of their views; he advocated using the threat of withholding alumni donations as a weapon against the liberalism and leftism running amok in the academy. Buckley would soon become the gatekeeper of “respectable” conservatism by pushing back against the conspiratorial excesses of the John Birch Society. But he began his career by indulging in some of those rhetorical flourishes himself, along with a plan of action on how to fight back against the stranglehold of leftists on the academy.
Still, Buckley was comparatively moderate next to other conservatives, who suggested that the answer to the communist threat might be to adopt the communists’ own tactics. Fred Schwarz, an Australian-born doctor who founded the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade in 1953, wrote in his book You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists) that liberals were effectively “protectors and runners of interference for the Communist conspirators.” Why? Because liberals resisted efforts to purge communists and their sympathizers from schools and universities, and insisted on pesky legal technicalities like the Fifth Amendment. “[O]rganization is the genius of Communism,” Schwarz continued, and so “an anti-Communist program needs organization.” Just as communists “operate through a great number of front organizations, each of which is tuned to some specific motivating dynamic,” so must “every religious, professional, economic, and cultural group” adopt this model to “organize an anti-Communist program.” .. The conflation of communism and the NAACP was not accidental. Of all of the supposedly communistic liberal front groups, none drew conservative scorn more fiercely than the civil rights movement. William F. Buckley, who opposed the impeachment as a tactic against the Warren Court, nonetheless infamously wrote in 1957 that the “advanced” white race in the South was justified in taking “such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally,” in areas where “it does not predominate numerically.” His magazine, National Review, repeatedly suggested that the civil rights movement was communist inspired, riddled by communist infiltration, or composed of communist front organizations. Martin Luther King himself was suspect—National Review called him the “source of violence in others” in 1965. .. By painting civil rights activists as communists, or at the minimum dupes of an international communist conspiracy, segregationist southerners were making a bid for the support of conservative anticommunists elsewhere in the country. ..
The l of the Soviet Union accelerated these trends. It was no longer possible to accuse liberals and remnants of the left of being in Moscow’s pocket, but this did not stop conservatives from invoking the specter of left-wing radicalism to rally support and justify extremism. It just took more creativity. Pat Buchanan deftly shifted midsentence in his infamous 1992 speech at the Republican National Convention from the Cold War to the “cultural war,” the “religious war . . . for the soul of America,” suggesting that the fight against liberalism, feminism, and the “gay agenda” was not just the equivalent, but in fact the continuation, of the Cold War itself. .. he bitter partisan battles of the 1990s intensified trends that had existed on the political right since World War II. Indeed, the creation of Fox News in 1996 was a supercharged throwback to the days of Human Events and the American Mercury. Fox News was necessary, the argument went, because conservative journalists and conservative perspectives were shut out of mainstream broadcasters. Never mind that even Bill O’Reilly had enjoyed a career at CBS and ABC before joining Fox News in its debut year. But while conservative media in the 1950s and ’60s either had a limited reach—the National Review in 1960 had less than a tenth as many subscribers as Time—or were counterbalanced by the FCC’s fairness doctrine, which was on the books between 1949 and 1987, Fox News presented an unchallenged right-wing worldview to millions of viewers twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
Conservative pundits repackaged Cold War–era attacks equating liberals with communists during the Bush years. In 2003, Ann Coulter, a frequent Fox News talking head, published Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, which was a full-throated defense of Joseph McCarthy that accused liberals of being, well, traitors who hated America. The book sold 500,000 copies in its first three weeks. Even the racially charged birther myth—that Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen, and was a covert Muslim, to boot—was a riff on the old John Birch Society charge that liberals, including moderate Republicans like Dwight Eisenhower, were secret members of the international communist conspiracy. The cry that Obama was a Marxist, Maoist, Muslim Kenyan socialist was almost interchangeable with right-wing attacks directed against the civil rights movement in the 1960s. And the idea that a vast left-liberal conspiracy was both undermining the country and using dirty, underhanded tactics to do so rhetorically justified an anything-goes strategy on the part of the right. Shutting down government. Refusing confirmation votes. Supporting Donald Trump for president. .. The idea that the left is depraved, corrupt, and ruthless has been an important strain of American conservatism since the movement began. But in the Trump era, it has metastasized. Right-wing policy ideas have been so thoroughly discredited—does anyone even argue anymore that trickle-down economics will ensure mass prosperity?—that the only apparent reason for conservatism’s existence is to fight back against evil liberals. This is, of course, not the sign of a healthy political movement. The right’s support for McCarthy has been a long-standing embarrassment for American conservatism. Its embrace of Trump may be history repeating itself.'
Atlanta: "falling apart" Baltimore: "a filthy place" Chicago: "totally out of control" Philadelphia: "struggling" San Francisco: "disgusting," "not even recognizable"
What would you choose to call them Roger?
Success stories for how liberal policies work at a micro-level?
The modern Republican Party may be particularly apt to push conspiracy theories to rationalize its complicity with a staggeringly corrupt administration
You mean like the Russian collusion conspiracy that the left "still" won't let go of?
Or you could look at this as the R's keep crumbling by supporting trump....!!!
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is now the second least popular Senator in America as her approval rating has plummeted to a net (-16) in Maine.
Susan Collins Is Looking At Defeat In 2020
According to Morning Consult’s Senator Approval ratings, Susan Collins is now America’s most vulnerable Senator in 2020, “Collins’ net approval — the share of voters who approve of her job performance minus the share who disapprove — has fallen by 44 percentage points since the first quarter of 2017, when Trump took office. Forty-five percent of Mainers approve of Collins and 48 percent disapprove in the latest rankings, down 16 net points since quarter one of this year, as her campaign gears up in earnest to face a Democratic challenge from state House Speaker Sara Gideon.”
No Senator has lost more for supporting Trump than Collins. Sen. Collins is most infamous for voting to confirm Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but she has also mastered the dark art of the bland statement that expresses “concern” about Donald Trump while never actually taking a stand against or condemning him. She also voted for Trump’s tax cuts for the rich, but in the end, she will be defined by her vote for Kavanaugh which is viewed as the single moment that put reproductive freedom in jeopardy.
American cities asshole....and american citizens that live there....not everyone can live in Lily white Minnesota that never has any problems with race due to your homogenous population.....!!!!!
In his debut book, God and Man at Yale, published the year before, Buckley had dismissed academic freedom as a cynical shield wielded by left-wing faculty to protect themselves from the political consequences of their views; he advocated using the threat of withholding alumni donations as a weapon against the liberalism and leftism running amok in the academy.
ol' WFB was only about 60 years ahead of his time, since alumni withholding donations has pretty much gone mainstream.
see: oberlin college
other liberal enclaves like hampshire college in MA are closing down.
get woke, go broke.
WFB was and is brilliant. and for a liberal to use him as their hobby horse is disgusting and libelous.
Blogger KD said... Dennis you see race in everything.
No, I see you as a goat fucking dumbass old white man and your party as a hypocritical group of bigots as your fascination of shit on sidewalks as evidence of your hatred of america.......asshole
Blogger KD said... 85 % of tax paying Adults have received the Trump Tax Cut.
Careful KD. Remember lo iq said he has so lo an income that he received less than a $300 tax break. Any talk about this will certainly trigger him and boy is he sensitive about his lo income and lo iq.
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Like the one alluding to the WKRP thanksgiving classic.
@greggutfield
Trumps about to execute a white supremacist, while trying to free a black rapper from jail, as he pushes prison reform that directly benefits families of black men, while calling out a city where minorities are victims of crime & blight. if Trumps a racist, he sucks at it.
My favorite one is Bernie Socialist Democrat poverty one.
My favorite one is Bernie Socialist Democrat poverty one.
the same could be said for mumbles cummings and the shithole that is baltimore.
the same could be said for mumbles cummings and the shithole that is baltimore.
Hopefully Trump shining the spotlight on Baltimore has the same result as shining it on the failed PR
The media and donks go nuts claiming he hates brown people
Then the corruption comes to light and people begin resigning
Then he can move on to the next failed donk project, all the while they and the media scream orange man bad
Yes, Baltimore since The Lost Years President took control of it with "his kind of people" Eric Holder has become a lawless shithole.
You know this Racist POS AG.
"Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'
By JOSH GERSTEIN
03/01/2011 12:46 PM EST
Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.
Holder's frustration over the criticism became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing as Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigationinto the handling of the 2008 incident in which Black Panthers in intimidating outfits and wielding a club stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia.
The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.
"Think about that," Holder said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people," said Holder, who is black."
"Bernie Sanders
✔@SenSanders
Horribly, someone born in Baltimore's poorest neighborhood can expect to live 20 years less than a person born in the wealthiest area.
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5:51 PM - May 13, 2016"
Oh oh.
We’ve heard this before. Go back where you came from. Go back to Africa. And now, “send her back.” Black and brown people in America don’t hear these chants in a vacuum; for many of us, we’ve felt their full force being shouted in our faces, whispered behind our backs, scrawled across lockers, or hurled at us online. They are part of a pattern in our country designed to denigrate us as well as keep us separate and afraid.
As 149 African Americans who served in the last administration, we witnessed firsthand the relentless attacks on the legitimacy of President Barack Obama and his family from our front-row seats to America’s first black presidency. Witnessing racism surge in our country, both during and after Obama’s service and ours, has been a shattering reality, to say the least. But it has also provided jet-fuel for our activism, especially in moments such as these.
We stand with congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, as well as all those currently under attack by President Trump, along with his supporters and his enablers, who feel deputized to decide who belongs here — and who does not. There is truly nothing more un-American than calling on fellow citizens to leave our country — by citing their immigrant roots, or ancestry, or their unwillingness to sit in quiet obedience while democracy is being undermined.
We are proud descendants of immigrants, refugees and the enslaved Africans who built this country while enduring the horrors of its original sin. We stand on the soil they tilled, and march in the streets they helped to pave. We are red-blooded Americans, we are patriots, and we have plenty to say about the direction this country is headed. We decry voter suppression. We demand equitable access to health care, housing, quality schools and employment. We welcome new Americans with dignity and open arms. And we will never stop fighting for the overhaul of a criminal-justice system with racist foundations.
Trump's tweets telling minority congresswomen to “go back” to their countries follows a history of racism and nativism. Voters will decide if this is effective. (Joshua Carroll, Kate Woodsome, Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post)
We come from Minnesota and Michigan. The Bronx and Baton Rouge. Florida and Philadelphia. Cleveland and the Carolinas. Atlanta and Nevada. Oak-town and the Chi. We understand our role in this democracy, and respect the promise of a nation built by, for and of immigrants. We are part of that tradition, and have the strength to both respect our ancestors from faraway lands and the country we all call home.
Our love of country lives in these demands, and our commitment to use our voices and our energy to build a more perfect union. We refuse to sit idly by as racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia are wielded by the president and any elected official complicit in the poisoning of our democracy. We call on local, state and congressional officials, as well as presidential candidates to articulate their policies and strategies for moving us forward as a strong democracy, through a racial-equity lens that prioritizes people over profit. We will continue to support candidates for local, state and federal office who add more diverse representation to the dialogue and those who understand the importance of such diversity when policymaking here in our country and around the world. We ask all Americans to be a good neighbor by demonstrating anti-racist, environmentally friendly, and inclusive behavior toward everyone in your everyday interactions.
The statesman Frederick Douglass warned, “The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.” This nation has neither grappled with nor healed from the horrors of its origins. It is time to advance that healing process now through our justice, economic, health and political systems.
Expect to hear more from us. We plan to leave this country better than we found it. This is our home.
The Left's Broad, Bigoted Politics of Vilification
The iconic late poet Maya Angelou once said, “When people show you who they are, believe them.” That simple advice seems especially relevant regarding the American left in 2019. Both politicians and activists of the Democratic media complex scurry to charge racism against President Trump and our nationalist movement, when in reality they themselves employ brutally divisive political strategies buttressed by their own increasingly bigoted thinking.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/07/17/the_lefts_broad_bigoted_politics_of_vilification_140798.html
Keep putting the Squad front n center.
The President Thanks you Alky.
Alky we are a Post Racial Nation.
Update your data dudette.
Axios
@axios
SCOOP: Trump is expected to nominate Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe, one of the Republicans who grilled Robert Mueller in last week's hearing, to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence.
This would be HUGE, deep state will panic.
Influential Imam Tawhidi Just Accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of Treasonous Plot With Qatar!
Things just got REAL interesting.
Imam Mohamad Tawhidi goes by the Twitter handle @Imamofpeace and he frequently speaks out against what he calls “radical Muslims”.
Turns out he doesn’t like them any more than the rest of us.
And at the top of his list of enemies to the USA? Rep. Ilhan Omar.
That’s right, the Imam just went on a huge Twitter rant where he copied President Trump, VP Pence, Jared Kushner, Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump Jr. and Sean Hannity in order to get out his message.
And his message is that he has concrete evidence that Ilhan Omar has been engaged in a plot with Qatar against those individuals and against the United States
Can we investigate her for espionage now?
Oh and I suspect there is far more evidence for Ilham Omar colluding with Qatar than there ever was of Donald Trump colluding with Russia.
As 149 African Americans who served in the last administration...
alky, when you and those you plagiarize start out by making the case that any criticism of any politician of color is racist, then you are demanding to not be taken seriously.
omar is a despicable piece of anti-semitic shit. as is tlaib.
the other two are just garden variety morons in so far over their heads it would be comical were they not in positions of such power and influence.
so fuck you, and fuck those 149 racist assholes who you parrot.
In a Post Racial America, why are the left it seeing us by identity ?
I see us as all Americans.
So of the Squad who self I'd as Socialist, two of them live in Luxury Apartments in exclusive properties.
That does not jive with their beliefs.
omar is living proof that taking in refugees from third-world moose-limb shitholes is NEVER a good idea.
omar is a despicable piece of anti-semitic shit. as is tlaib.
the other two are just garden variety morons in so far over their heads
The four whores of the apocalypse
Trump is a RINO Republican In Name Only.
Once President Trump signs the budget deal that was passed by the House on Thursday and is expected to be approved by the Senate in a few days, he will have added $4.1 trillion to the national debt, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The total national debt surpassed $22 trillion in February.
This will mark the third time that a major piece of deficit-financed legislation will get Trump’s stamp of approval. Legislation Trump has so far signed since 2017 has added $2.4 trillion to the national debt through 2029, according to CRFB, a nonpartisan public policy group.
Republicans have been running as the anti deficit party. He promised to balance the budget.
The only President to reduce the deficit in the last 30 years was Bill Clinton.
W passed the tax cuts that increased the deficit and created the worst recession since 1929.
Trumpism demands intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy.
The only Congress to reduce the deficit in the last 30 years was Republican
Will need to have a Republican Congress to go along with Trump 2020 to address this.
Lol @ Roger.
I think.you bored Mail Order so much she evicted you and took half your future Earnings.
Surely some real man is high hard fucking her regularly.
Lol, bill Clinton did not have the power of the purse.
You are dumber then a pebble.
Jared Kushner owns more than a dozen apartment complexes in Baltimore County that have been cited with hundreds of code violations and, critics say, provide sub-standard housing to lower income tenants.
Question:
Is there one particular picture above that shows us that Ch is a raging sexist?
Answer:
Yes.
critics say, provide sub-standard housing to lower income tenants.
Then move
Baltimore Newspaper Lashes Out at Trump
A Baltimore Sun editorial rips President Trump for calling Baltimore “rat infested” in a series of tweets attacking Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD):
While we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) —
we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office,
the mocker of war heroes,
the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts,
the serial bankrupter of businesses,
the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin
and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis
that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post.
Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity.
Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
@julie_kelly2
Coats intended to resist Trump’s order to declassify documents related to Russiagate. Good riddance
@charliekirk11
Elijah Cummings' Baltimore has some of the strictest gun control laws in America
Yet last night, 5 people were shot & 3 were killed
Baltimore shootings were up 80% in 2018 and 2019 shootings are set to surpass that
Cummings' Democrat policies have failed Baltimore!
@AndrewPollackFL
22 illegal MS-13 high school students chopped up a fellow classmate with an axe in California.
Police in Los Angeles told school administrators to not inform parents about the murderers in their child’s school.
This is life in sanctuary cities! #FixIt
Roger - you do realize that Trump "really" hasn't added 4.1 trillion to the debt.
Legislation Trump has so far signed since 2017 has added $2.4 trillion to the national debt through 2029, according to CRFB, a nonpartisan public policy group.
They are factoring the so called "cost" out till 2029 to come to the figure.
According to the CBO who measures "real" debt we had 14.467 trillion when Trump took office, and it was at 15.749 trillion at the end of 2018. That is 1.582.
The previous President started with 5.803 trillion and ended at 14.467 trillion, meaning Obama, which means he more than doubled (2.5) the previous debt put together by every President before him. He added an average of $1.083 trillion per year.
Moreover, when Trump took office, we were spending 1.185 trillion in discretionary spending. In 2018 we spend 1.261 trillion. Meaning all around $76 billion of that has been an increase in Mandatory spending.
You want to get upset about the $76 billion. So be it. But that's what you can be upset about.
The truth that liberals do not want to admit is that we will continue to add to the deficit and debt until something is done with Mandatory spending. But nothing will "ever" get done with mandatory spending if Democrats have their way.
You have Bernie, Harris, Warren, Buttigeig, and everyone else "opening" promoting new Government programs that will literally add trillions to our "Discretionary spending".
You appear upset with $70 billion in new spending.
If you were even the least bit concerned about the deficit and debt, you wouldn't vote for a single one of the Democrats right now.
Is there one particular picture above that shows us that Ch is a raging sexist?" Post op Jane
Answer: Nope.
@CarmineSabia
I do not get how black Americans do not get this. Democrats have failed you. They continue to fail you. Every big city in this nation is a f**king mess and you continue electing these people who do not care. You tweet #BaltimorePride and you do NOTHING to make a change.
@PARISDENNARD
President @realDonaldTrump KEEP TWEETING & embarrassing these liberals.
Only you can courageously shine a light on some of the worst areas in America where voiceless citizens (under Democratic rule) are living in horrible conditions!
You are their voice!
#MAGA for all!
Post Op Jane which picture offended your new pussy the most?
This happened on President Lost Years watch.
"JOEL B. POLLAK 28 Jul 2019
The Baltimore Sun published an op-ed on Nov. 9, 2016 — the day Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election — in which the author called for Baltimore to be declared a disaster, and rebuilt."
Oh how I love a bitch slapping of socialist by Socialist.
Trump on cities:
Atlanta: "falling apart"
Baltimore: "a filthy place"
Chicago: "totally out of control"
Philadelphia: "struggling"
San Francisco: "disgusting," "not even recognizable"
Moscow, Russia: "a great city" and "an amazing place"
Anyone want to help him pack? Was it not “love it or leave it” last we heard?
Roger Amick said...
Trump on cities:
Atlanta: "falling apart"
Baltimore: "a filthy place"
Chicago: "totally out of control"
Philadelphia: "struggling"
San Francisco: "disgusting," "not even recognizable"
that's right alky. shitholes all. all run by democrats. and all slathered in used syringes and human shit.
The Amount of Poop on San Francisco's Streets Has Hit an All-Time High
The city had a whopping 28,084 reports of turds in 2018.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xdae/more-people-pooping-in-san-francisco-than-ever-all-time-high-vgtrn
and then there's seattle -
The area surrounding King County Superior Court includes a homeless shelter and other social-services organizations and has become an “unsanitary and potentially frightening” scene — one “that reeks of urine and excrement” — according to an article in the Seattle Times. Desperate for help with the disgusting environment, two of the court’s judges have asked the city to please power-wash the poop-covered sidewalks. That seems like a pretty reasonable request, but apparently, one councilman is worried that doing so might be a form of microaggression.
According to the Times, Councilmember Larry Gossett “said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks because it brought back images of the use of hoses against civil-rights activists.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/city-councilman-hosing-poop-covered-sidewalks-might-be-racially-insensitive/?fbclid=IwAR0_8jaxgf5QvrhwoRlcHWYIJWeAQUGx65-sYhmIv5w6BxO909BA2jh1YZg
liberal-run cities are shitholes alky. literal fucking shitholes.
William F. Buckley Jr. Would be appalled by the President and the Republican party that he represents of the Trump era.
From 2018 -
'Since the 1950s, the conservative movement has justified bad behavior—including supporting Donald Trump—by persuading itself that the left is worse.
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The modern Republican Party may be particularly apt to push conspiracy theories to rationalize its complicity with a staggeringly corrupt administration, but this is an extension of, not a break from, a much longer history. Since its very beginning, in the 1950s, members of the modern conservative movement have justified bad behavior by convincing themselves that the other side is worse. One of the binding agents holding the conservative coalition together over the course of the past half century has been an opposition to liberalism, socialism, and global communism built on the suspicion, sometimes made explicit, that there’s no real difference among them.
In 1961, the American Medical Association produced an LP in which an actor opened a broadside against the proposed Medicare program by attributing to Norman Thomas, a six-time Socialist Party candidate for president, a made-up quote that “under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.” Because these ideologies were so interchangeable in the imaginations of many conservatives—and were covertly collaborating to enact their nefarious agenda—this meant that it was both important and necessary to fight back through equally underhanded means.
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The American left is used to waiting for liberals to finally get ruthless. Through the eyes of the right, they always have been.
Long before Fox News, conservatives began forming their own explicitly right-wing media landscape. Supporters of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal dominated the “mainstream” press, which meant that conservative dissidents needed a home. The conservative magazine Human Events was launched in 1944 as an alternative to what its cofounder, Felix Morley, believed was a stifling conformity in the American press. The same was true of the American Mercury in 1950, when under the ownership of William Bradford Huie the formerly social-democratic magazine moved to the right. “There is now far too much ‘tolerance’ in America,” Huie declared in the first issue of the new Mercury. “We shall cry a new crusade of intolerance . . . the intolerance of bores, morons, world-savers, and damn fools.”
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Both Morley and Huie felt victimized by a liberal press establishment that stifled alternative voices—and, after all, liberals had the New Republic and leftists the Nation as journals of opinion—but their charge of mainstream “bias” was more complicated. One of the largest newspapers in the United States, the Chicago Tribune, owned by conservative businessman Robert McCormick, had militantly opposed the New Deal and American entry into World War II. Fulton Lewis Jr., a Washington, D.C.–based political journalist who was, by 1950, one of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy’s biggest supporters, had one of the most listened-to radio programs in the country. And both Morley and Huie had had illustrious careers before launching their magazines. Morley won a Pulitzer Prize when he edited the Washington Post in the 1930s; Huie had a solid reputation as a freelance journalist. But they clung to the belief that dissenters from the liberal orthodoxy were being hounded out of media, which more than justified questionable acts, particularly on Huie’s part. Desperate to keep his magazine afloat, Huie sold the American Mercury in 1952 to far-right businessman Russell Maguire, who was closely tied to prominent anti-Semites and was one himself. Huie told a reporter at Time that he knew all about Maguire’s unsavory views, but believed his financial backing was necessary in order to ensure a conservative voice in American letters. “If I suddenly heard Adolf Hitler was alive in South America and wanted to give a million dollars to the American Mercury, I would go down and get it.”
Even more alarming to conservatives than the bias of the mainstream press was the number of liberals, radicals, and communists alleged to be in higher education. In a 1952 American Mercury article, a twenty-seven-year-old William F. Buckley accused liberal historians of a “conspiracy against giving the American people the facts” about Franklin Roosevelt, and claimed that they thus “betrayed the American people.” In his debut book, God and Man at Yale, published the year before, Buckley had dismissed academic freedom as a cynical shield wielded by left-wing faculty to protect themselves from the political consequences of their views; he advocated using the threat of withholding alumni donations as a weapon against the liberalism and leftism running amok in the academy. Buckley would soon become the gatekeeper of “respectable” conservatism by pushing back against the conspiratorial excesses of the John Birch Society. But he began his career by indulging in some of those rhetorical flourishes himself, along with a plan of action on how to fight back against the stranglehold of leftists on the academy.
Still, Buckley was comparatively moderate next to other conservatives, who suggested that the answer to the communist threat might be to adopt the communists’ own tactics. Fred Schwarz, an Australian-born doctor who founded the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade in 1953, wrote in his book You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists) that liberals were effectively “protectors and runners of interference for the Communist conspirators.” Why? Because liberals resisted efforts to purge communists and their sympathizers from schools and universities, and insisted on pesky legal technicalities like the Fifth Amendment. “[O]rganization is the genius of Communism,” Schwarz continued, and so “an anti-Communist program needs organization.” Just as communists “operate through a great number of front organizations, each of which is tuned to some specific motivating dynamic,” so must “every religious, professional, economic, and cultural group” adopt this model to “organize an anti-Communist program.”
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The conflation of communism and the NAACP was not accidental. Of all of the supposedly communistic liberal front groups, none drew conservative scorn more fiercely than the civil rights movement. William F. Buckley, who opposed the impeachment as a tactic against the Warren Court, nonetheless infamously wrote in 1957 that the “advanced” white race in the South was justified in taking “such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally,” in areas where “it does not predominate numerically.” His magazine, National Review, repeatedly suggested that the civil rights movement was communist inspired, riddled by communist infiltration, or composed of communist front organizations. Martin Luther King himself was suspect—National Review called him the “source of violence in others” in 1965.
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By painting civil rights activists as communists, or at the minimum dupes of an international communist conspiracy, segregationist southerners were making a bid for the support of conservative anticommunists elsewhere in the country.
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The l of the Soviet Union accelerated these trends. It was no longer possible to accuse liberals and remnants of the left of being in Moscow’s pocket, but this did not stop conservatives from invoking the specter of left-wing radicalism to rally support and justify extremism. It just took more creativity. Pat Buchanan deftly shifted midsentence in his infamous 1992 speech at the Republican National Convention from the Cold War to the “cultural war,” the “religious war . . . for the soul of America,” suggesting that the fight against liberalism, feminism, and the “gay agenda” was not just the equivalent, but in fact the continuation, of the Cold War itself.
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he bitter partisan battles of the 1990s intensified trends that had existed on the political right since World War II. Indeed, the creation of Fox News in 1996 was a supercharged throwback to the days of Human Events and the American Mercury. Fox News was necessary, the argument went, because conservative journalists and conservative perspectives were shut out of mainstream broadcasters. Never mind that even Bill O’Reilly had enjoyed a career at CBS and ABC before joining Fox News in its debut year. But while conservative media in the 1950s and ’60s either had a limited reach—the National Review in 1960 had less than a tenth as many subscribers as Time—or were counterbalanced by the FCC’s fairness doctrine, which was on the books between 1949 and 1987, Fox News presented an unchallenged right-wing worldview to millions of viewers twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
Conservative pundits repackaged Cold War–era attacks equating liberals with communists during the Bush years. In 2003, Ann Coulter, a frequent Fox News talking head, published Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, which was a full-throated defense of Joseph McCarthy that accused liberals of being, well, traitors who hated America. The book sold 500,000 copies in its first three weeks. Even the racially charged birther myth—that Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen, and was a covert Muslim, to boot—was a riff on the old John Birch Society charge that liberals, including moderate Republicans like Dwight Eisenhower, were secret members of the international communist conspiracy. The cry that Obama was a Marxist, Maoist, Muslim Kenyan socialist was almost interchangeable with right-wing attacks directed against the civil rights movement in the 1960s. And the idea that a vast left-liberal conspiracy was both undermining the country and using dirty, underhanded tactics to do so rhetorically justified an anything-goes strategy on the part of the right. Shutting down government. Refusing confirmation votes. Supporting Donald Trump for president.
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The idea that the left is depraved, corrupt, and ruthless has been an important strain of American conservatism since the movement began. But in the Trump era, it has metastasized. Right-wing policy ideas have been so thoroughly discredited—does anyone even argue anymore that trickle-down economics will ensure mass prosperity?—that the only apparent reason for conservatism’s existence is to fight back against evil liberals. This is, of course, not the sign of a healthy political movement. The right’s support for McCarthy has been a long-standing embarrassment for American conservatism. Its embrace of Trump may be history repeating itself.'
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2018/how-the-right-wing-convinces-itself-that-liberals-are-evil/?fbclid=IwAR248wyGwRfPx_NutHM67JdQ0AOmMYGwGOlZaD-NXDPJfjMCiyzpKq4NIug
Atlanta: "falling apart"
Baltimore: "a filthy place"
Chicago: "totally out of control"
Philadelphia: "struggling"
San Francisco: "disgusting," "not even recognizable"
What would you choose to call them Roger?
Success stories for how liberal policies work at a micro-level?
The modern Republican Party may be particularly apt to push conspiracy theories to rationalize its complicity with a staggeringly corrupt administration
You mean like the Russian collusion conspiracy that the left "still" won't let go of?
Or you could look at this as the R's keep crumbling by supporting trump....!!!
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is now the second least popular Senator in America as her approval rating has plummeted to a net (-16) in Maine.
Susan Collins Is Looking At Defeat In 2020
According to Morning Consult’s Senator Approval ratings, Susan Collins is now America’s most vulnerable Senator in 2020, “Collins’ net approval — the share of voters who approve of her job performance minus the share who disapprove — has fallen by 44 percentage points since the first quarter of 2017, when Trump took office. Forty-five percent of Mainers approve of Collins and 48 percent disapprove in the latest rankings, down 16 net points since quarter one of this year, as her campaign gears up in earnest to face a Democratic challenge from state House Speaker Sara Gideon.”
No Senator has lost more for supporting Trump than Collins. Sen. Collins is most infamous for voting to confirm Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but she has also mastered the dark art of the bland statement that expresses “concern” about Donald Trump while never actually taking a stand against or condemning him. She also voted for Trump’s tax cuts for the rich, but in the end, she will be defined by her vote for Kavanaugh which is viewed as the single moment that put reproductive freedom in jeopardy.
So many of the Socialist Democrats are being forced to drop out.
What would you choose to call them Roger?
American cities asshole....and american citizens that live there....not everyone can live in Lily white Minnesota that never has any problems with race due to your homogenous population.....!!!!!
The Socialist Democrat Party has an App for that.
"The Amount of Poop on San Francisco's Streets Has Hit an All-Time High
The city had a whopping 28,084 reports of turds in 2018."
85 % of tax paying Adults have received the Trump Tax Cut.
The other 15% makes so little (dennis/Post Op Jane and homeless Alky) they are exempt.
"a homogeneous population. of the same kind or nature; essentially alike."
Denny you live in Florida
allow me to summarize the alky's long-winded plagiarism -
"i know you are, but what am i?"
it would be fitting if ms. walsh wrote her dissertation in crayon.
Denny you live in Florida
And you live in homogenous kansas......
Blogger KD said...
85 % of tax paying Adults have received the Trump Tax Cut.
Bullshit without a link.....goat fucking asshole...
"The Amount of Poop on San Francisco's Streets Has Hit an All-Time High
So....do you live there????? Just like walking in a field with cows......BWAAAAAAAA!!!!
In his debut book, God and Man at Yale, published the year before, Buckley had dismissed academic freedom as a cynical shield wielded by left-wing faculty to protect themselves from the political consequences of their views; he advocated using the threat of withholding alumni donations as a weapon against the liberalism and leftism running amok in the academy.
ol' WFB was only about 60 years ahead of his time, since alumni withholding donations has pretty much gone mainstream.
see: oberlin college
other liberal enclaves like hampshire college in MA are closing down.
get woke, go broke.
WFB was and is brilliant. and for a liberal to use him as their hobby horse is disgusting and libelous.
Dennis you see race in everything.
I see my fellow Americans.
Blogger KD said...
Dennis you see race in everything.
No, I see you as a goat fucking dumbass old white man and your party as a hypocritical group of bigots as your fascination of shit on sidewalks as evidence of your hatred of america.......asshole
Blogger KD said...
85 % of tax paying Adults have received the Trump Tax Cut.
Careful KD. Remember lo iq said he has so lo an income that he received less than a $300 tax break. Any talk about this will certainly trigger him and boy is he sensitive about his lo income and lo iq.
Though he loves to display it.
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