imawhosure
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She didn't know about the Japanese internment at 80 years of age?
Not buying it. Either she played you or you're playing us.
WhileI was enjoying an ice cream treat in a fast food place today when this woman sat down a few tables from me and loudly proclaimed after seeing CNN on the TV... "Trump is such a jerk"!
I was really offended because I am a Trump supporter so she by association would think I'm a "Jerk".
So I told her several FACTS about Trump like:
1) Trump like me believes America is exceptional and the main reason Trump like me KNOW that America's exceptionalism comes from "legal immigrants" like my daughter-in-law who became citizens LEGALLY!
2) I also told her that what she was hearing/reading from the MSM was biased and that much of it was not honest.
We discussed further and being 80 years old she said FDR was a great president. To which I advised
her FDR deported illegals and put into internment camps Japanese. She didn't know.
I further went on to try to influence her opinion regarding the bias of the MSM and asked if she'd heard
of the SDS/Weathermen. Of course she didn't! I explained how journalism has been so corrupted by
socialists teaching in schools that Kindergarten students from PS75, a public school in New York City, recently took part in a class project in which the children were made to create an American flag with the flags of other 22 other nations superimposed over the stripes. Below the flag read the words "We pledge allegiance to an International Flag."
Read more: Outrageous! Public School Students Taught To 'Pledge Allegiance To An International Flag' | The Sean Hannity Show
The whole thing can be summed up though by her comment after I told her I spent hours every day
reading material about politics, our country and the massive problems. Her comment..." I don't have time to do that"! Right! She doesn't have the time....YET she calls Trump a Jerk after watching CNN and all the other biased MSM network/newspapers continually tear apart our country with their biased and totally subjective reporting!
What a shame our country is so really based on this ignorant woman's comment the same WAY!
You are correct here. Too many people make up their minds based on the sound bites they hear from so-called experts and from celebrities they drool over. Rather than study the candidates thoroughly and make up their minds based upon what they hear and see of the candidates, they go with the opinions of biased news media talking heads. They are too lazy or too stupid or BOTH to make up their own minds.
Look at history. Learn from it. Learn to discern when politicians LIE about who did what in the past. For example, too many people think that the Democrats brought about civil rights for minorities and are true champions of the impoverished black communities. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The KKK came out of the Democratic South. Democrats opposed the civil rights that Republicans championed for decades before they finally saw it as a chance to win the votes that they previously fought against offering. It wasn't until 1964 that the Democrats saw it as a way to create the welfare plantation, allowing blacks to quit picking cotton and start picking up welfare checks in exchange for their votes. LBJ actually did say, when he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act that he would "have these ******* voting Democrat for the next hunderd years". Blacks still vote predominantly Democrat because they do not see the damage the Democrats have done to their culture. They see only the freebies that the Democrats continue to offer....and they forget (or are completely ignorant of the fact) that the Democrats RELUCTANTLY granted them the rights that Republicans had long fought for. They seem to forget also that it was Lincoln, A REPUBLICAN that freed the slaves.
Wow, maybe one has to leave the US to gain a sense of perspective. On this forum I've often noted that those that are supporting trump don't necessarily agree with his loudmouth bravado. He's just not the same old canned idiots.Here is how I see it.
I was never a Republican, and I am a lapsed Democrat. (With age comes wisdom.) I do not even live in the USA anymore, I live down under, (truth in advertising)
but as an American who served in the US military I understand the support for Trump.
I am not saying I agree with many of the statements he makes (I often wonder if he believes half of what he is saying?) but I get it.
Washington has failed the USA.
Both Dems and Republicans have failed.
They do not seem to get what happened during the GFC, they keep engaging in wars with no thought about how to win them, what victory really requires and means and they seem to have no clue how the American dream is down, not out, but down and being counted out by the referee of time, fate and history..
Both parties have failed the great American working and middle class, in different ways, but both are failing.
And so the Trump vote is a vote for anything other than the same old same old tired, elite, failing shit.
And I get that.
It is saying let's try anything else but the same old same old.
Because it just can't get any worse than what established politics, both left and right, have on offer.
I reckon in office, the guy might astonish.
He is not the tired political hack, and I reckon as Putin did for Russia, he might restore American confidence in itself. (Hopefully sans the Putin authoritarianism. But then Americans are far more immune to a "strong man" than most cultures in history, they will follow great leadership but they will not bend, bow or obey.)
I would not have said this even two months ago, but I think Trump would beat Hilary Clinton in a general election. And I think he is the only Republican (even if he is a Trumplican) who can.
He would turn it into a race of new ideas against a tired political hack who is owned and on the leash of established power.
And he would win.
It should be an interesting election, I've continually noted that people that I know who would never consider voting for trump will look you in the eye and say "unless he runs against Hillary". I have to admit I personally would never vote for Hillary, I'd vote for Stalin first. 6 months ago I'd have told you that between Hillary and Trump I would throw my vote away and vote third party or write in my own name. Now I don't know I still will never vote for Hillary but I might vote for Trump just to throw a wrench into the insanity that this country has become.
QUESTION--------> If Trump wins the nomination and the White House, can congress legally stop him if he goes off the rails? ANSWER: yes!
QUESTION-------> If that happened, would the GOP and the DNC members of congress ban together, work together, invoke their congressional power, (finally) and do it? ANSWER: yes!
QUESTION-------> If Hillary Clinton is elected and continue's Obama's policies, will the GOP and DNC members of congress ban together to stop her from keeping the anti-capitalistic policies in place, while moving the country ever closer to SOCIALISM? ANSWER: NO!
Seems like a simple choice to me! If the GOP can't push any other candidate into the lead, vote for Trump and FORCE the congress to do its job if he goes off the rails. The alternative is 4 to 8 years of Obama disasters, and that is unacceptable.