Only if he can figure out a way to bill for it.
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There are some good references here to disprove the right wing/white supremacists many claims:
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Tl;dr: conservatives have been racist, elitist asshole way way prior to Trump and will continue to be long after. The damning evidence is all public record for those with eyes to see. And of course invisible to those determined not to see. Only solution is to eliminate their power and never allow them to get it back. They are a minority, always have been, and must be returned to the fetid swamp from which they emerged.
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I have to admit, I didnāt know that both Vermont and Massachusetts had outlawed slavery before the Constitution was even written, which means that the claim that the 3/5s compromise was due to a ācommon beliefā about slavery at the time is hogwash.
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Dear Chris Coons: Go fuck yourself.
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Yeah. That.
I mean, was President Biff there in his official capacity as the President? No.
Was he there on personal time? Maybe, in which case people have every right to air their grievances.
Was he there as part of his campaign? Maybe, itās hard to tell. He blurts campaign BS all the time, even when itās inappropriate. In which case, chants of āLock Him Up!ā are entirely on topic, since heās led chants of āLock Her Up!ā about Hillary Clinton recently, even though sheās not even running against him.
Seems entirely and appropriately on-topic.
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Yes indeed and so can CNN and MSNBC as both are running with similar sentiment.
trump mistook all those red Nationals hats for MAGA hats. Boy, was he wrong.
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The best bit is that if he runs against a man he wonāt be able to use that chant at his rallies. Mostly.
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I think it was more nuanced than that.
From my understanding, there were a couple of factors at play ā one was not giving slave states disproportionate representation in Congress, and also as a way to communicate that the economic value of slaves was approximately 3/5 that of a free person. (Not that a slave was 3/5 human.) The framers also tried to build a kill switch into this as a way to abolish slavery within a few years.
It was a huge gamble that was poorly conceived and poorly implemented all to try to save the Constitutional Convention from collapse.
Of course, it all failed spectacularly and weāre still contending with the fallout from this today. (Civil war, segregation, institutional racism, southern states gaming the electoral college, and so on.)
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I get all that, itās what I learned too.
But the article I linked to shows that the concept of slavery being commonly understood at the time of the writing of the Constitution wasnāt actually true even then. There were already several states who had written into their own constitutions that slavery was evil. So anyone who claims āoriginal understandingā with the Constitution is ignoring that there wasnāt a common understanding used to create the document at the time.
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An interesting point I hadnāt consideredā¦who doesnāt bring their 13yo son to a World Series game, if given the chance?
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Rob was already one that one:
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Kurds help us in the fight against ISIS.
Trump betrays the Kurds and allows the Turks to attack them.
Trump takes credit for al-Baghdadiās suicide.
And thereās this:
āThe irony of the successful operation against al-Baghdadi is that it could not have happened without U.S. forces on the ground that have been pulled out, help from Syrian Kurds who have been betrayed, and support of a U.S. intelligence community that has so often been disparaged,ā Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said on Sunday.*
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The Trump boys donāt look like scholar-athletes to me. While they do seem to enjoy unsportsmanlike safaris, kicking the less-fortunate, and trumpeting their vast ignorance over the internet, those arenāt really sports in the classic sense of the word.
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Maybe Barron didnāt want to go. Maybe he doesnāt like baseball, or maybe he knew something would happen that would piss his dad off, and heād have to deal with the brunt of it on the way home.
Or maybe he just really, really doesnāt want to be seen with his father and only does when he has to. Since his dad doesnāt really care about him except as a prop, thatās easier than for a lot of kids.
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That seems like the most probable scenario, IMO; that kid is the only person with that last name whom I genuinely pity.
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Also, has he really been seen at many public appearances? I know heās on the spectrum, and I would hope that itās a decision made to shield him from public scrutiny, but given the narcissism involved, one has to wonder if part of it is hiding him away? That being said, prior to the election he was in the publicity photos that they had taken by various magazines (People or whatever), so maybe not.
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If you think about it, that baseball game was really 45ās first public appearance since taking office which was not a campaign promotion or some carefully cultivated Pro-Pumpkin venue packed with his rabid supporters. As for Barron, the last time I can recall even seeing him with his parents was at that eclipse.
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