I’m fairly sure part of Trump’s problem is that it is 100% natural. 
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Does this mean he’s also a cunning linguist?
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I just used that “I know words, I have the best words!” line on somebody the other day, they cracked right up!
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Um, it seems like you missed the joke. I 100% agree with what you said, but you’re arguing with the setup to a joke.
I gotta take issue with your joke. If there’s one thing Trump is trying to accomplish, it’s avoiding being seen as a public master debater.
I think it’s even simpler than that. He’s realised that the more outrageous he his, the more exposure and votes he gets.
All of the topics that modern politicians have learned to steer clear of, he has found that he can use to his advantage.
Right now he could probably claim to rape babies daily and his polling numbers would still go up.
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Burn cubed.
Loved it, Sir.
What Trump should find when researching the KKK is that it was a Democratic organization. In fact going back it was Democrats who fought against the Republican Lincoln to keep slavery. It was Democrats who wanted Jim Crow. It was Democrats who created the KKK. Each step of the way they were fought by Republicans like Martin Luther King Jr. Who saw the evil in racism. But many blacks have forgotten this and embraced the Democrats not because of their work to keep slavery, but because of the new Democratic idea of controlling blacks by making them dependant on the government for support and protection.
Or perhaps he’d discover that it was an organization of racist white conservatives. After the Civil Rights Act the party affiliations of that group swapped which is easily discoverable by looking at election maps in the South today. The Democrats dumped them, the GOP pandered to the racist white conservatives in the Southern Strategy, and here we are with members of The Party of Lincoln advocating secession, venerating the Confederate Battle Flag, and occasionally claiming/believing that ending slavery was a mistake.
MLK was a socialist and wasn’t a member of the GOP or Democratic parties.
I think black people understand both their circumstances and which political parties better represent them quite a lot better than you. You see, the idea that black people are dependent on the government because of Democrats is both false in the sense that it singles out black people as a class as being a servile dependent powerless group of “takers” and ignores other groups that use the same benefits that black people do, and it’s also shallowly racist. The GOP’s solution to the “problem” is to cut taxes on rich people while cutting services to the poor and especially poor black people. Were they to decide to get behind the GOP they wouldn’t really be making anything better for themselves (or anyone else besides the richest).
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And it was a Democrat who signed both the voting rights and civil rights act into law in 1965, sending the segregationist fleeing for the hills. The Democrats are not the same party they were in 1940, 1900, or 1865.
The GOP embraced those same racists, meaning the GOP was not the same party it was in 1940, 1900, or 1865.
Learn some history.
I would say they were racist white authoritarians… There is a difference, I think. And yes, up to the 60s, there indeed would have been democrats in the KKK, as well as republicans. In the 20s, the KKK pretty much functioned as their own political party, almost.
But honestly, this one side or the other are the REAL racists, completely missed the entire point… The entire structure American was built on was a deeply racist one, going all the way back to Bacon’s Rebellion. Too many white people can’t face that, and instead feel as if they have to other that history. Well, until we can face up to the fact that our institutions are built on structural racism, we’re not going to change anything at all, only paper it over or band-aid the core problems.
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Sure, though that’s effectively what the current ‘conservative’ label means today.
True, though Democratic affiliation was the norm since the Republicans were the reason the KKK was formed in the first place. A number of them split off from the Dems to join the Dixiecrats/segregationist Party once Truman was elected, and the GOP transition began post-LBJ once the Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights acts were signed. Strom Thurmond’s career tracked the whole trend pretty well. Segregationist welcome in the Dems. until Truman, once the Dems. under Truman started to worked to end segregation he joined the Dixiecrat/segregationist party, then he found himself welcome in the GOP.
True, though I don’t think that level of nuance/realism is going to be grasped by Mr. Lederman.
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Did you intentionally make it look like the image was saying your post, because the way the word bubble cut off has that effect, and I like it.
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I’ve been wondering what happened to him. His people are not as evident in the neighborhoods as they used to be. I honestly thought someone else had taken over.
Totally unintentional and now that you’ve pointed it out I can’t stop laughing about it. Thank you so much.
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I’m reading that in Morgan Freeman’s voice, even though I wrote that shit. Wait… am I Morgan fucking Freeman? HOLY SHIT???
Also, TITTY SPRINKLES!
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The most prominent of those Democratic racists back in 1948 was a guy by the name of Strom Thurmond. Are you claiming that the racism stuck with the Democratic Party when the racists left it? Or are you just ignorant of the political history of the United States in the past 100 years?
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Trying to smear the Democratic Party with “a foundation in racism” is a common tactic on the context-free far right these days.
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