Man uses his concealed gun to save life of woman entering abortion clinic...likely there to kill her baby. Leftists cry.

[Hollie]

No, they really don't. Again, 60% of Americans lived below the poverty line. I'm sure that people who thought " A chicken in every pot" was a good slogan, but it kind of showed how miserable the times were.




Not seeing a problem here. We've had 400 years of the system favoring white farmers. It's kind of like the argument about welfare... you guys are fine with welfare when YOU get it. You just call it an entitlement.



Okay, let's look at Cuba. Let's look at what JFK said about Cuba after the revolution.

I believe that there is no country in the world, including the African regions, including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country's policies during the Batista regime. I believe that we created, built and manufactured the Castro movement out of whole cloth and without realizing it. I believe that the accumulation of these mistakes has jeopardized all of Latin America. The great aim of the Alliance for Progress is to reverse this unfortunate policy. This is one of the most, if not the most, important problems in America foreign policy. I can assure you that I have understood the Cubans. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will go even further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries.

— U.S. President John F. Kennedy, interview with Jean Daniel, 24 October 1963[108]

Let's look at Cuba before the revolution. 75% of the arable land was owned by foreign interests. American Mafia families were able to set up casinos, prostitution and other criminal enterprises with impunity. In short, there was a reason why those people revolted.

And instead of actually heeding what JFK said, realizing our sins, the US policy for the last 60 years has been treating Cuba like a stalker treats his ex-girlfriend.




really, let's look at what Trump steered the economy into.

600,000 dead.
65,000,000 jobs lost
200,000 businesses bankrupted
Riots in the streets.

No, the middle class did not do well under Trump. Trump is the first president since Hoover to post a net job loss.

You seem to think that if the Parasites on Wall Street are doing well, that means the rest of us are. It really doesn't work that way.

Again, the facts contradict your ''... because I say so'', nonsense.

American History 1920s Summary

American History 1920s Summary:

theamericanhistory.org

The decade of the 1920s, or as it was called by its contemporaries, “The New Era,” was marked by prosperity and new opportunity in the aftermath of World War I. The war began in Europe in 1914, and the United States entered the fray in 1917. The USA was one of the victors in the First World War and it enjoyed a period of great prosperity in the 1920’s, though there was a darker side to American life even then.


No. Leftists don't see the problem with racism. After all, leftists (democrats) were the party of slavery and the party of Jim Crow. The problem with leftist notions of racism is that the courts are not convinced that race based ideology is such a good idea.

A Third Judge Strikes Down Biden’s Racist Farm Aid Program That Excludes Whites | The Daily Wire

www.dailywire.com

Of course, race is the wedge used by democrats to infect this country with the plague of identity politics. It has now expanded to encompass sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and,, most importantly, skin color. The Democrat party has become a coalition of hate groups and has sought to exploit every way in which Americans can be categorized. The Left can be thought of as the party of self-hate and a bottomless pit of want and need. The Cult of Democrats has nothing to offer anyone that must not first be taken from someone else. Therefore it must create groups that see persons not in the in-group as enemies.

Your silly list of "Trump steered the economy into'', is just more your usual hysterics. You're afflicted with the debilitating disease of TDS.

What you listed are the failings of the democrats. Take responsibility for your failures.

Wall Street was very good to middle class investors (you know, the devil white), under Trump. You still refuse to do the right thing and give your money / belongings to the poor and oppressed.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

really, let's look at what Trump steered the economy into.

600,000 dead.
65,000,000 jobs lost
200,000 businesses bankrupted
Riots in the streets.

Once again, it was you Democraps who cooked up this fake “pandemic”, along with the fraudulent claims about how many have allegedly died from it; and it is you Democraps who exploited this as an excuse to sabotage the economy, destroying all those jobs and businesses, and it is you Democraps who openly supported the subhuman criminal pieces of shit who have been rioting and looting.

It is your side that totally owns this; all of it.

Of course, it's pretty much a standard Democrapic tactic—to the point of becoming an absurd but entirely true cliché—to intentionally put forth policies that you know will only produce very bad results, and then to try to cast the blame at your opposition for those bad results.

 

[JoeB131]

Again, the facts contradict your ''... because I say so'', nonsense.

The facts are... 60% of Americans lived below the poverty line, even before the recession hit. The 1920's included two of the worst depressions in our history - 1920 and 1929. Depressions that were so bad that they stopped calling them depressions and used the less panicky "recession" to describe downturns.

America in the 1920's

An exploration of American in the 1920s, including the growth of mass production, mass consumption and an inequality of wealth.

historylearning.com

America in the 1920s is famous for its consumerism, jazz, flappers and prosperity. However, not everybody benefited from this economic boom. More than 60 per cent of American lived below the poverty line, with people in the South suffering the most. Yet, America’s global economic power was unrivalled.

Herbert Hoover’s 1928 presidential campaign slogan was:

“A chicken in every pot, and a car in every backyard.”

Why the Roaring Twenties Left Many Americans Poorer | HISTORY

For some, the Great Depression began in the 1920s.

www.history.com

The speakeasy party culture popularized in books, movies and magazines was only accessible to a small portion of wealthy, urban and mostly white Americans. Black Americans and immigrants faced violence from the newly revived Ku Klux Klan, and many workers’ wages either didn’t keep up with productivity or fell off completely. For farmers in particular, the Great Depression basically began after World War I.

No. Leftists don't see the problem with racism. After all, leftists (democrats) were the party of slavery and the party of Jim Crow. The problem with leftist notions of racism is that the courts are not convinced that race based ideology is such a good idea.

The courts are stacked with racist troglodytes.

Of course, race is the wedge used by democrats to infect this country with the plague of identity politics. It has now expanded to encompass sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and,, most importantly, skin color. The Democrat party has become a coalition of hate groups and has sought to exploit every way in which Americans can be categorized. The Left can be thought of as the party of self-hate and a bottomless pit of want and need. The Cult of Democrats has nothing to offer anyone that must not first be taken from someone else. Therefore it must create groups that see persons not in the in-group as enemies.

Um, I'm sorry, who used these things are race issues?

Nixon did the Southern Strategy.
Reagan talked about Young Buck and Welfare Queens
Bush splashed pictures of Willie Horton on every screen
Jesse Helms did the White Hands ad
Bush Jr. screamed about gay marriage coming to get us all.
Trump screamed about Mexican rapists and murderers.

If anyone has used race and sexual orientation as wedge issues it's the Republicans. All Trump did was say the quiet parts out loud.

Your silly list of "Trump steered the economy into'', is just more your usual hysterics. You're afflicted with the debilitating disease of TDS.

What you listed are the failings of the democrats. Take responsibility for your failures.

Trump was president, those are his failures. As a wise man said, "The Buck Stops Here."

Wall Street was very good to middle class investors (you know, the devil white), under Trump. You still refuse to do the right thing and give your money / belongings to the poor and oppressed.

I'm not the one oppressing the poor and ripping them off. That would be the parasite investor class.

 

[JoeB131]

Once again, it was you Democraps who cooked up this fake “pandemic”, along with the fraudulent claims about how many have allegedly died from it; and it is you Democraps who exploited this as an excuse to sabotage the economy, destroying all those jobs and businesses, and it is you Democraps who openly supported the subhuman criminal pieces of shit who have been rioting and looting.

Mormon Bob, Trump was president. He owns all of it.

Nixon would have been a great president if it weren't for Watergate.
Reagan would have been a great president if it weren't for Iran-Contra

Every president would have been great except for that one thing they failed to deal with. Trump's happened to be Covid and everything that followed - the recession, the riots and the general nastiness.. that got him thrown out of office.

Of course, it's pretty much a standard Democrapic tactic—to the point of becoming an absurd but entirely true cliché—to intentionally put forth policies that you know will only produce very bad results, and then to try to cast the blame at your opposition for those bad results.

Yet this bad shit only seems to happen when Republicans are in charge... Why do you think that is?

 

[2aguy]

The facts are... 60% of Americans lived below the poverty line, even before the recession hit. The 1920's included two of the worst depressions in our history - 1920 and 1929. Depressions that were so bad that they stopped calling them depressions and used the less panicky "recession" to describe downturns.

America in the 1920's

An exploration of American in the 1920s, including the growth of mass production, mass consumption and an inequality of wealth.

historylearning.com

America in the 1920s is famous for its consumerism, jazz, flappers and prosperity. However, not everybody benefited from this economic boom. More than 60 per cent of American lived below the poverty line, with people in the South suffering the most. Yet, America’s global economic power was unrivalled.

Herbert Hoover’s 1928 presidential campaign slogan was:

Why the Roaring Twenties Left Many Americans Poorer | HISTORY

For some, the Great Depression began in the 1920s.

www.history.com

The speakeasy party culture popularized in books, movies and magazines was only accessible to a small portion of wealthy, urban and mostly white Americans. Black Americans and immigrants faced violence from the newly revived Ku Klux Klan, and many workers’ wages either didn’t keep up with productivity or fell off completely. For farmers in particular, the Great Depression basically began after World War I.





The courts are stacked with racist troglodytes.



Um, I'm sorry, who used these things are race issues?

Nixon did the Southern Strategy.
Reagan talked about Young Buck and Welfare Queens
Bush splashed pictures of Willie Horton on every screen
Jesse Helms did the White Hands ad
Bush Jr. screamed about gay marriage coming to get us all.
Trump screamed about Mexican rapists and murderers.

If anyone has used race and sexual orientation as wedge issues it's the Republicans. All Trump did was say the quiet parts out loud.



Trump was president, those are his failures. As a wise man said, "The Buck Stops Here."




I'm not the one oppressing the poor and ripping them off. That would be the parasite investor class.

Lies...

Nixon did the Southern Strategy.
Reagan talked about Young Buck and Welfare Queens
Bush splashed pictures of Willie Horton on every screen
Jesse Helms did the White Hands ad
Bush Jr. screamed about gay marriage coming to get us all.
Trump screamed about Mexican rapists and murderers


Nixon did the Southern Strategy.

What happened to all those racist Dixiecrats that, according to the progressive narrative, all picked up their tents and moved from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party? Actually, they exist only in the progressive imagination.

This is the world not as it is but as progressives wish it to be. Of all the Dixiecrats who broke away from the Democratic Party in 1948, of all the bigots and segregationists who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I count just two—one in the Senate and one in the House—who switched from Democrat to Republican.

In the Senate, that solitary figure was Strom Thurmond. In the House, Albert Watson. The constellation of racist Dixiecrats includes Senators William Murray, Thomas P. Gore, Spessard Holland, Sam Ervin, Russell Long, Robert Byrd, Richard Russell, Olin Johnston, Lister Hill, John C. Stennis, John Sparkman, John McClellan, James Eastland, Herman Talmadge, Herbert Walters, Harry F. Byrd, George Smathers, Everett Jordan, Allen Ellender, A. Willis Robertson, Al Gore Sr., William Fulbright, Herbert Walters, W. Kerr Scott, and Marion Price Daniels.

The list of Dixiecrat governors includes William H. Murray, Frank Dixon, Fielding Wright, and Benjamin Laney. I don’t have space to include the list of Dixiecrat congressmen and other officials. Suffice to say it is a long list. And from this entire list we count only two defections.

Thus the progressive conventional wisdom that the racist Dixiecrats became Republicans is exposed as a big lie.

The Dixiecrats remained in the Democratic Party for years, in some cases decades. Not once did the Democrats repudiate them or attempt to push them out.


Segregationists like Richard Russell and William Fulbright were lionized in their party throughout their lifetimes, as of course was Robert Byrd, who died in 2010 and was eulogized by leading Democrats and the progressive media.
The Switch That Never Happened: How the South Really Went GOP › American Greatness


the creator of the southern strategy was rejected….

see page 4, bottom of first column...

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-southern.pdf



http://blackquillandink.com/?p=6082

On the Southern Strategy lie itself......
The "Southern Strategy" is a Lie | Pundit House

Believe it or not, the entire myth was created by an unknown editor at the New York Times who didn’t do his job and read a story he was given to edit.

On May 17, 1970, the New York Times published an article written by James Boyd. The headline, written by our unknown editor, was “Nixon’s Southern Strategy: It’s All in the Charts.”

The article was about a very controversial political analyst named Kevin Phillips. Phillips believed that everyone voted according to their ethnic background, not according to their individual beliefs. And all a candidate had to do is frame their message according to whatever moves a particular ethnic group.

Phillips offered his services to the Nixon campaign. But if our unknown editor had bothered to read the story completely, he would’ve seen that Phillip’s and his theory was completely rejected!

Boyd wrote in his article, “Though Phillips’s ideas for an aggressive anti-liberal campaign strategy that would hasten defection of the working-class democrats to the republicans did not prevail in the 1968 campaign, he won the respect John Mitchell.” (Mitchell was a well-known Washington insider at the time).

A lazy, negligent editor partially read the story. And wrote a headline for it that attributed Nixon’s campaign success–to a plan he rejected.

In fact, Phillips isn’t even mentioned in Nixon’s memoirs.

Is all of this the result of a negligent copy editor at the New York Times? Or did they purposely work with the Democrat Party to create this myth? That has crossed my mind and it’s certainly not beyond the realm of possibility.

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The "Southern Strategy" is a Lie | Pundit House

Ken Raymond
Jun 2011

Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”, which the democrats say is the reason black people had to support them during the 1960′s–is a lie.

And it’s probably the biggest lie that’s been told to the blacks since Woodrow Wilson segregated the federal government after getting the NAACP to support him.
After talking with black voters across the country about why they overwhelmingly supports democrats, the common answer that’s emerges is the Southern Strategy.

I’ve heard of the Southern Strategy too. But since it doesn’t make a difference in how I decide to vote, I never bothered to research it. But apparently it still influences how many African Americans vote today. That makes it worth investigating.

For those that might be unfamiliar with the Southern Strategy, I’ll briefly review the story. After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, most blacks registered as democrats and it’s been that way ever since.

And that doesn’t make any sense when you consider the fact that it was the democrats that established, and fought for, Jim Crow laws and segregation in the first place. And the republicans have a very noble history of fighting for the civil rights of blacks.

The reason black people moved to the democrats, given by media pundits and educational institutions for the decades, is that when republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon ran for president in 1968, he employed a racist plan that’s now infamously called the Southern Strategy.

The Southern Strategy basically means Nixon allegedly used hidden code words that appealed to the racists within the Democrat party and throughout the south. This secret language caused a seismic shift in the electoral landscape that moved the evil racist democrats into the republican camp and the noble-hearted republicans into the democrat camp.

And here’s what I found, Nixon did not use a plan to appeal to racist white voters.

First, let’s look at the presidential candidates of 1968. Richard Nixon was the republican candidate; Hubert Humphrey was the democrat nominee; and George Wallace was a third party candidate.

Remember George Wallace? Wallace was the democrat governor of Alabama from 1963 until 1967. And it was Wallace that ordered the Eugene “Bull” Connor, and the police department, to attack Dr. Martin Luther King

Jr. and 2,500 protesters in Montgomery , Alabama in 1965. And it was Governor Wallace that ordered a blockade at the admissions office at the University of Alabama to prevent blacks from enrolling in 1963.

Governor Wallace was a true racist and a determined segregationist. And he ran as the nominee from the American Independent Party, which was he founded.

Richard Nixon wrote about the 1968 campaign in his book RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon originally published in 1978.

In his book, Nixon wrote this about campaigning in the south, “The deep south had to be virtually conceded to George Wallace. I could not match him there without compromising on civil rights, which I would not do.”

The media coverage of the 1968 presidential race also showed that Nixon was in favor of the Civil Rights and would not compromise on that issue. For example, in an article published in theWashington Post on September 15, 1968 headlined “Nixon Sped Integration, Wallace says” Wallace declared that Nixon agreed with Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and played a role in ”the destruction of public school system.” Wallace pledged to restore the school system, in the same article, by giving it back to the states ”lock, stock, and barrel.”

This story, as well as Nixon’s memoirs and other news stories during that campaign, shows that Nixon was very clear about his position on civil rights. And if Nixon was used code words only racists could hear, evidently George Wallace couldn’t hear it.

Among the southern states, George Wallace won Arkansas , Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia and Louisiana . Nixon won North Carolina , South Carolina , Florida , Virginia , and Tennessee . Winning those states were part of Nixon’s plan.

“I would not concede the Carolina ‘s, Florida , or Virginia or the states around the rim of the south,”Nixon wrote. ”These states were a part of my plan.”

At that time, the entire southern region was the poorest in the country. The south consistently lagged behind the rest of the United States in income. And according to the

“U.S. Regional Growth and Convergence,” by Kris James Mitchener and Ian W. McLean, per capita income for southerners was almost half as much as it was for Americans in other regions.

Nixon won those states strictly on economic issues. He focused on increasing tariffs on foreign imports to protect the manufacturing and agriculture industries of those states. Some southern elected officials agreed to support him for the sake of their economies, including South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond.

“I had been consulting privately with Thurmond for several months and I was convinced that he’d join my campaign if he were satisfied on the two issues of paramount concern to him: national defense and tariffs against textile imports to protect South Carolina ‘s position in the industry.”Nixon wrote in his memoirs.

In fact, Nixon made it clear to the southern elected officials that he would not compromise on the civil rights issue.

“On civil rights, Thurmond knew my position was very different from his,” Nixon wrote. “I was for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and he was against it. Although he disagreed with me, he respected my sincerity and candor.”

The same scenario played out among elected officials and voters in other southern states won by Nixon. They laid their feelings aside and supported him because of his economic platform’”not because Nixon sent messages on a frequency only racists can hear.
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Nixon had an excellent record on civil rights. He supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He was an avid champion of the desegregation of public schools. The progressive columnist Tom Wicker wrote in the New York Times, “There’s no doubt about it — the Nixon administration accomplished more in 1970 to desegregate Southern school systems than had been done in the 16 previous years or probably since. There’s no doubt either that it was Richard Nixon personally who conceived and led the administration’s desegregation effort.”

Upon his taking office in 1969, Nixon also put into effect America’s first affirmative action program. Dubbed the Philadelphia Plan, it imposed racial goals and timetables on the building trade unions, first in Philadelphia and then elsewhere. Now, would a man seeking to build an electoral base of Deep South white supremacists actually promote the first program to legally discriminate in favor of blacks? This is absurd.

Nixon barely campaigned in the Deep South. His strategy, as outlined by Kevin Phillips in his classic work, “The Emerging Republican Majority,” was to target the Sunbelt, the vast swath of territory stretching from Florida to Nixon’s native California. This included what Phillips terms the Outer or Peripheral South.

Nixon recognized the South was changing. It was becoming more industrialized, with many northerners moving to the Sunbelt. Nixon’s focus, Phillips writes, was on the non-racist, upwardly-mobile, largely urban voters of the Outer or Peripheral South. Nixon won these voters, and he lost the Deep South, which went to Democratic segregationist George Wallace.

And how many racist Dixiecrats did Nixon win for the GOP? Turns out, virtually none. Among the racist Dixiecrats, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was the sole senator to defect to the Republicans — and he did this long before Nixon’s time. Only one Dixiecrat congressman, Albert Watson of South Carolina, switched to the GOP. The rest, more than 200 Dixiecrat senators, congressmen, governors and high elected officials, all stayed in the Democratic Party.

The progressive notion of a Dixiecrat switch is a myth. Yet it is myth that continues to be promoted, using dubious case examples. Though the late Sens. Jesse Helms of North Carolina and John Tower of Texas and former Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott all switched from the Democratic Party to the GOP, none of these men was a Dixiecrat.

The South, as a whole, became Republican during the 1980s and 1990s. This had nothing to do with Nixon; it was because of Ronald Reagan and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” The conservative appeal to patriotism, anti-communism, free markets, pro-life and Christianity had far more to do with the South’s movement into the GOP camp than anything related to race.

Yet the myth of Nixon’s Southern Strategy endures — not because it’s true, but because it conveniently serves to exculpate the crimes of the Democratic Party. Somehow the party that promoted slavery, segregation, Jim Crow and racial terrorism gets to wipe its slate clean by pretending that, with Nixon’s connivance, the Republicans stole all their racists. It’s time we recognize this excuse for what it is: one more Democratic big lie.

The myth of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’

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[2aguy]

The facts are... 60% of Americans lived below the poverty line, even before the recession hit. The 1920's included two of the worst depressions in our history - 1920 and 1929. Depressions that were so bad that they stopped calling them depressions and used the less panicky "recession" to describe downturns.

America in the 1920's

An exploration of American in the 1920s, including the growth of mass production, mass consumption and an inequality of wealth.

historylearning.com

America in the 1920s is famous for its consumerism, jazz, flappers and prosperity. However, not everybody benefited from this economic boom. More than 60 per cent of American lived below the poverty line, with people in the South suffering the most. Yet, America’s global economic power was unrivalled.

Herbert Hoover’s 1928 presidential campaign slogan was:

Why the Roaring Twenties Left Many Americans Poorer | HISTORY

For some, the Great Depression began in the 1920s.

www.history.com

The speakeasy party culture popularized in books, movies and magazines was only accessible to a small portion of wealthy, urban and mostly white Americans. Black Americans and immigrants faced violence from the newly revived Ku Klux Klan, and many workers’ wages either didn’t keep up with productivity or fell off completely. For farmers in particular, the Great Depression basically began after World War I.





The courts are stacked with racist troglodytes.



Um, I'm sorry, who used these things are race issues?

Nixon did the Southern Strategy.
Reagan talked about Young Buck and Welfare Queens
Bush splashed pictures of Willie Horton on every screen
Jesse Helms did the White Hands ad
Bush Jr. screamed about gay marriage coming to get us all.
Trump screamed about Mexican rapists and murderers.

If anyone has used race and sexual orientation as wedge issues it's the Republicans. All Trump did was say the quiet parts out loud.



Trump was president, those are his failures. As a wise man said, "The Buck Stops Here."




I'm not the one oppressing the poor and ripping them off. That would be the parasite investor class.

Reagan talked about Young Buck and Welfare Queens

The truth.....

In September 1974, the Chicago Tribune ran a story about Taylor’s welfare fraud, launching her infamy.

While that story focused on the lack of a crackdown on such cases overall, it quickly caused a national sensation focused on Taylor herself.


United Press International ran a story shortly after the Tribune’s in more than 11,000 newspapers across the country declaring that “For Linda Taylor, welfare checks are a way of life.”

The papers wrote their own headlines, and it was in the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York that she was first dubbed the “welfare queen.”

The Myth of the Welfare Queen

The right turned Linda Taylor into a bogeyman. But her real life was much more complicated.

newrepublic.com

 

[2aguy]

The facts are... 60% of Americans lived below the poverty line, even before the recession hit. The 1920's included two of the worst depressions in our history - 1920 and 1929. Depressions that were so bad that they stopped calling them depressions and used the less panicky "recession" to describe downturns.

America in the 1920's

An exploration of American in the 1920s, including the growth of mass production, mass consumption and an inequality of wealth.

historylearning.com

America in the 1920s is famous for its consumerism, jazz, flappers and prosperity. However, not everybody benefited from this economic boom. More than 60 per cent of American lived below the poverty line, with people in the South suffering the most. Yet, America’s global economic power was unrivalled.

Herbert Hoover’s 1928 presidential campaign slogan was:

Why the Roaring Twenties Left Many Americans Poorer | HISTORY

For some, the Great Depression began in the 1920s.

www.history.com

The speakeasy party culture popularized in books, movies and magazines was only accessible to a small portion of wealthy, urban and mostly white Americans. Black Americans and immigrants faced violence from the newly revived Ku Klux Klan, and many workers’ wages either didn’t keep up with productivity or fell off completely. For farmers in particular, the Great Depression basically began after World War I.





The courts are stacked with racist troglodytes.



Um, I'm sorry, who used these things are race issues?

Nixon did the Southern Strategy.
Reagan talked about Young Buck and Welfare Queens
Bush splashed pictures of Willie Horton on every screen
Jesse Helms did the White Hands ad
Bush Jr. screamed about gay marriage coming to get us all.
Trump screamed about Mexican rapists and murderers.

If anyone has used race and sexual orientation as wedge issues it's the Republicans. All Trump did was say the quiet parts out loud.



Trump was president, those are his failures. As a wise man said, "The Buck Stops Here."




I'm not the one oppressing the poor and ripping them off. That would be the parasite investor class.

Bush splashed pictures of Willie Horton on every screen

The truth....

The first person to mention the Massachusetts furlough program in the 1988 presidential campaign was Democratic Senator Al Gore.
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Who was Willie Horton...something joe doesn't want you to know...

On October 26, 1974, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Horton and two accomplices robbed Joseph Fournier, a white 17-year-old gas station attendant, and then fatally stabbed Fournier 19 times after he had cooperated by handing over all of the money in the cash register. His body was stuffed in a trash can so his feet were jammed up against his chin. Fournier died from blood loss.[7]

Horton was convicted of murder, sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and incarcerated at the Northeastern Correctional Center in Massachusetts.[citation needed]

On June 6, 1986, Horton was released as part of a weekend furlough program, but did not return. On April 3, 1987, in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Horton twice raped a woman after pistol-whipping, knifing, binding, and gagging her fiancé. He then stole the car belonging to the man he had assaulted.


He was later shot by Corporal Paul J. Lopez of the Prince George's County Police Department and captured by Corporal Yusuf A. Muhammad of the same department after a pursuit. On October 20, Horton was sentenced in Maryland to two consecutive life terms plus 85 years. The sentencing judge, Vincent J. Femia, refused to return Horton to Massachusetts, saying, "I'm not prepared to take the chance that Mr. Horton might again be furloughed or otherwise released. This man should never draw a breath of free air again."[8]

On April 18, 1996, Horton was transferred to the Jessup Correctional Institution (then called the Maryland House of Correction Annex), a maximum security prison in Jessup, Maryland, where he remains.[9]
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Legislative and political background[edit]​

Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was the governor of Massachusetts at the time of Horton's release, and while he did not start the furlough program, he had supported it as a method of criminal rehabilitation. The state inmate furlough program, originally signed into law by Republican Governor Francis Sargent in 1972, excluded convicted first-degree murderers. However, in 1973, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that this right extended to first-degree murderers, because the law specifically did not exclude them.[10][11] The Massachusetts legislature quickly passed a bill prohibiting furloughs for such inmates. However, in 1976, Dukakis vetoed this bill arguing it would "cut the heart out of efforts at inmate rehabilitation."[12]

Willie Horton - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[2aguy]

The facts are... 60% of Americans lived below the poverty line, even before the recession hit. The 1920's included two of the worst depressions in our history - 1920 and 1929. Depressions that were so bad that they stopped calling them depressions and used the less panicky "recession" to describe downturns.

America in the 1920's

An exploration of American in the 1920s, including the growth of mass production, mass consumption and an inequality of wealth.

historylearning.com

America in the 1920s is famous for its consumerism, jazz, flappers and prosperity. However, not everybody benefited from this economic boom. More than 60 per cent of American lived below the poverty line, with people in the South suffering the most. Yet, America’s global economic power was unrivalled.

Herbert Hoover’s 1928 presidential campaign slogan was:

Why the Roaring Twenties Left Many Americans Poorer | HISTORY

For some, the Great Depression began in the 1920s.

www.history.com

The speakeasy party culture popularized in books, movies and magazines was only accessible to a small portion of wealthy, urban and mostly white Americans. Black Americans and immigrants faced violence from the newly revived Ku Klux Klan, and many workers’ wages either didn’t keep up with productivity or fell off completely. For farmers in particular, the Great Depression basically began after World War I.





The courts are stacked with racist troglodytes.



Um, I'm sorry, who used these things are race issues?

Nixon did the Southern Strategy.
Reagan talked about Young Buck and Welfare Queens
Bush splashed pictures of Willie Horton on every screen
Jesse Helms did the White Hands ad
Bush Jr. screamed about gay marriage coming to get us all.
Trump screamed about Mexican rapists and murderers.

If anyone has used race and sexual orientation as wedge issues it's the Republicans. All Trump did was say the quiet parts out loud.



Trump was president, those are his failures. As a wise man said, "The Buck Stops Here."




I'm not the one oppressing the poor and ripping them off. That would be the parasite investor class.

As to the others.....Trump stated there are rapists and murderers coming across the U.S. border...that is true......as we see with the mexican criminals who actually are crossing the U.S. border...you doofus.......

Gay marriage has now turned into gay fascists persecuting bakers, pizza makers, wedding photographers, and men dressed as women going into girls locker rooms and bathrooms and now taking over women's sports....

You are an idiot.

 

[JoeB131]

Dick Tiny spooges the thread with easily dismissible crap.

What happened to all those racist Dixiecrats that, according to the progressive narrative, all picked up their tents and moved from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party? Actually, they exist only in the progressive imagination.

This is the world not as it is but as progressives wish it to be. Of all the Dixiecrats who broke away from the Democratic Party in 1948, of all the bigots and segregationists who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I count just two—one in the Senate and one in the House—who switched from Democrat to Republican.

Wow, talk about missing the point. The politicians weren't the problem, it was the people who voted them in.

So, yeah, some Dixiecrat wasn't going to have a lot of credibility saying, "I'm a Republican now". But the inbred, bible-thumping, Confederate flag flying racists who kept putting him in every year didn't stop being racist. They just found a new guy to vote for, and he had an R-after his name.

That's the point. And Nixon realized this, he's the one who constructed a Southern Strategy of opposing further progress on civil rights and playing on white resentment.

In September 1974, the Chicago Tribune ran a story about Taylor’s welfare fraud, launching her infamy.

While that story focused on the lack of a crackdown on such cases overall, it quickly caused a national sensation focused on Taylor herself.


United Press International ran a story shortly after the Tribune’s in more than 11,000 newspapers across the country declaring that “For Linda Taylor, welfare checks are a way of life.”

Taylor was one person, and she went to jail. Reagan didn't talk about "Linda Taylor", he talked about "Welfare queens and young bucks", like welfare fraud was rampant, again- playing on white resentment.

The first person to mention the Massachusetts furlough program in the 1988 presidential campaign was Democratic Senator Al Gor

What Al Gore didn't do. Al Gore didn't splash pictures of Willie Horton on the screen and say, "THIS SCARY BLACK MAN IS COMING TO GET YOU!!!!" Old Racist George H. did that.

He also left out that a Republican had started the furlough program and it was the courts that ruled people like Horton could use them. Of course, Dukakis didn't help himself by being dispassionate about the hypothetical rape and murder of his wife when discussing the Death Penalty.

As to the others.....Trump stated there are rapists and murderers coming across the U.S. border...that is true......as we see with the mexican criminals who actually are crossing the U.S. border...you doofus.......

We have plenty here already, and mostly, undocumented immigrants try to keep out of trouble because they don't want to get deported even if they didn't do anything. But Racial Fearmongering- it's the Republican way. That last thing you ever want is stupid white people looking at who keeps screwing them economically.

So talk about race. Talk about gays. Talk about guns. Talk about Creationism. Anything to keep stupid white people angry.

Gay marriage has now turned into gay fascists persecuting bakers, pizza makers, wedding photographers, and men dressed as women going into girls locker rooms and bathrooms and now taking over women's sports....

See, exactly my point. This is what Republicans do the best. Create fake panics like this, to get stupid white people to vote against their own economic interests.

 

[2aguy]

Dick Tiny spooges the thread with easily dismissible crap.



Wow, talk about missing the point. The politicians weren't the problem, it was the people who voted them in.

So, yeah, some Dixiecrat wasn't going to have a lot of credibility saying, "I'm a Republican now". But the inbred, bible-thumping, Confederate flag flying racists who kept putting him in every year didn't stop being racist. They just found a new guy to vote for, and he had an R-after his name.

That's the point. And Nixon realized this, he's the one who constructed a Southern Strategy of opposing further progress on civil rights and playing on white resentment.



Taylor was one person, and she went to jail. Reagan didn't talk about "Linda Taylor", he talked about "Welfare queens and young bucks", like welfare fraud was rampant, again- playing on white resentment.



What Al Gore didn't do. Al Gore didn't splash pictures of Willie Horton on the screen and say, "THIS SCARY BLACK MAN IS COMING TO GET YOU!!!!" Old Racist George H. did that.

He also left out that a Republican had started the furlough program and it was the courts that ruled people like Horton could use them. Of course, Dukakis didn't help himself by being dispassionate about the hypothetical rape and murder of his wife when discussing the Death Penalty.



We have plenty here already, and mostly, undocumented immigrants try to keep out of trouble because they don't want to get deported even if they didn't do anything. But Racial Fearmongering- it's the Republican way. That last thing you ever want is stupid white people looking at who keeps screwing them economically.

So talk about race. Talk about gays. Talk about guns. Talk about Creationism. Anything to keep stupid white people angry.



See, exactly my point. This is what Republicans do the best. Create fake panics like this, to get stupid white people to vote against their own economic interests.

again, dixiecrats stayed with the democrats, you idiot...

Bush did not run the willie horton ad, though he should have, it was an outside group.

nixon did not have a southern strategy as you have been shown over and over again......

You are a liar and a vile human being.

Now, get back on the topic of the thread...

 

[Coyote]

Southern strategy, welfare fraud, Horton...thread is completely off topic now, I think it has run it's course. Closed.