I've always got racist vibes from all the white, rich liberals who seem to view black people as their pet projects. To them, only rich, white liberals are capable of taking of minorities and they cannot take care of themselves.
I absolutely agree. The middle east is on the brink and what's in the news? Republicans are weird and Trump is a racist. Racist, racist, racist. I've been listening to the same song since McCain ran against Obama. Honestly, I've stopped even giving a crap or arguing. It's about policy and I'm sticking to it.
It’s literally all they have. Random little firebombs - racist, felon, weird…. But one by one, people are starting to have actual real life problems that overrun their sad little ego voids…
What else could you build a Kamal Harris campaign on? There’s literally nothing there.
Trumps target audience for the black vote doesn't read the NYT.
They are just as fed up with seeing non African Americans painting themselves as AAs when they have no American history (both Barack and Kamala), but use 'black' as a ticket to get ahead. Both Barack and Kamala were raised as privileged children, and in Obama's case, a privileged white child, who converted to 'black' to help their political ambitions.
Between Barack and Kamala, you've got a questionable gene pool, and little actual experience in the federal government before going for the Presidency.
I found it awkward watching Trump play the race issue with Kamala, but I actually think a lot of African Americans may share his sentiments.
The thing about Trump is, he's always Trump. He says what he thinks, and doesn't take on fake accents to relate to his audience. Kamala is such an empty vessel, but watch how close this election is. It's tragic to see what our Republic has turned into.
Trump has shown that, love him or hate him, he is unafraid and is always authentic. I'm guessing that is going to make the difference in this election.
You're correct, Jon. A lot of the black friends I have say similar things about Kamala "acting black" when she needs to. In the elite circles, that doesn't happen, but actual black people who don't have media and high level corporate jobs don't feel like she represents them. Trump, yet again, said the quiet part out loud.
That said, I'm going to be honest here and I know it's not popular -- It sounded really ugly coming out of his mouth. I wasn't swept up by anything other than my ears. I'm getting frustrated with him. He didn't need to say that. If he just kept pushing back on his policies and how he was nice enough to show up there and they were attacking him, it'd be fine.
I don't expect him to be perfect, but it just sounded ugly and I'm sure it turned a lot of people off yesterday.
Of course, Kamala doesn't speak so we have nothing to judge her on. She's going to be locked in a basement and fed teleprompter speeches written by the best and rehearsed to death. She would never walk into the lion's den like that without a net. So I give Trump a lot of credit and he still has my vote.
But I'm really getting tired with the juvenile crap that spews out of his mouth just as much I'm getting tired with the constant gaslighting from the Dems and the media about their new savior.
While people think what they say and how they say it won't matter in this election, that's true. The base for each party is locked in. It's the folks in the middle, like me, that they need to worry about. Trump has a long leash with me, but I wish he'd just stick to policy and how things were better under him -- how she's flip flopping her positions just to win an election. The name calling and the questioning of someone's racial background identity doesn't appeal to me.
Fred Mertz, Trump's comments about Harris' racial identity were in response to a direct question... and it is true that Harris has posed both as black and as South Asian during different times of her political career. Trump's response, however hard it was to listen to it, was honest, not "juvenile." Had the questioners stuck to policy, I suspect he would have, too.
Why not give Trump the credit he deserves for going into a hostile forum and not dodging what were clearly "gotcha" questions?
Gotta say, characterizing Trump's comments as "really ugly" and "juvenile crap" doesn't sound like credit to me. ... I don't think you realize what it is that you did write, whatever your intention might have been.
What's ugly and juvenile to me is different than what it is for you. If this is a hill you want to die on, go right ahead. Trump has my vote. But this kind of stuff doesn't appeal to me and others when they hear it. Maybe inside your silo it all sounds perfectly normal. Good for you. For me, it sounded juvenile and ugly and it saddened me to hear him say it. Go after her policy. Go after her record. Going after someone for this stuff is juvenile. It's playground schoolyard nonsense and I wish he didn't do it. If I can't say that and you're going to thought police people who don't toe the party line all of the time then how are you different from the other side?
To be clear: I don't disagree: Trump should stay focused on policy, not personality or race, whenever possible. But my point is that Trump's comments, while impolitic and off putting to some, were not fundamentally wrong, "ugly", or "juvenile." And one could argue that Harris' dishonesty about her ethnicity is consistent with her dishonesty about a lot of things--like not being the Border Czar. And in that sense, Trump's remarks spoke to Kamala's chameleon-like persona and is an important part of "her record" that you urge him to focus on. Correct?
But to repeat: Trump's willingness to go into hostile environments and do interviews is admirable, but at times it is counterproductive politically, and I wish he would stop doing them.
What is "dishonest"? Is she not black AND Indian? She grew up in a redlined multicultural area near Berkely, CA and was bussed across town to achieve segregation, went to an HCBU (Howard). She has always primarily assumed her "black" identity because right wingers would have a fit if she called herself "white." Historically, in the US, if you had a drop of African blood, you were black and denied civil rights.
"Historically, in the US, if you had a drop of African blood, you were black and denied civil rights." False. Even during the depths of the segregation era, the "color line" was not nearly so rigid as you suggest. Many light-skinned people of mixed race heritage "chose to pass" as white; and some parts of the country (such as the NW) had few laws enforcing segregation. Generalizations on this topic are for the misinformed.
And since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (doesn't that count as "historically"?) the federal government has prosecuted civil rights violations and sponsored a host of Affirmative Action programs that have benefitted women and minorities--Kamala (born 1964) came along just in time to surf that wave, which mostly explains her position today--that, along with being the mistress of CA power broker Willie Brown, for which she was appointed to her first two jobs in government. Fact.
You are the typical NW leftist--lots of attitude and little to no real knowledge of what you are talking about.
From emancipation to 1964, the blood rule was in effect - 99 years, several generations. People who "looked white" had to LIE to get Civil Rights. People who were mixed race but "looked black" were out of luck. In 1844, OR (in the NW) starting passing "black exclusion laws": Any free blacks age 18 or older had to leave the area, men within two years and women within three. If a black person was tried and found guilty of being in the OR Country illegally, he or she was to be hired out publicly to whomever would employ them for the shortest amount of time. After the period of forced labor expired, the “employer” had six months to get the black individual out of Oregon or pay a fine of $1000. OR ratified its state constitution in Nov, 1857. On the ballot for the constitution, there were two referendum issues on which citizens were asked to vote. Oregonians rejected slavery but approved adding a new exclusion law to the constitution, added to OR Bill of Rights. In Feb, 1859, OR became the ONLY state admitted to the Union with an exclusion law in its constitution. After several unsuccessful attempts, the state constitution was finally amended in 1926 to remove the exclusion law from the state Bill of Rights. OR still has a low black population (2.9% in 2019) because of the exclusion laws but Asians & Hispanics are increasing.
Although Brown vs. Board of education was passed in 1954, many school districts took more than a decade to desegregate. Harris was born in a working class redlined neighborhood in Berkeley, CA in 1964 and lived there until 1972. Berkeley schools were not integrated until 1968 by bussing. She was bussed across town to achieve desegregation. (cont)
(cont) Many colleges consider “legacy” in their admission process so it is not only minorities who get special consideration. Harvard gives preference to applicants who are recruited athletes, legacies, relatives of donors and children of faculty and staff. As a group, they make up less than 5 percent of applicants, but around 30 percent of those admitted each year.” In 1998, Charles Kushner pledged $2.5M to Harvard to insure his son Jared’s admission in 1999. Do you denigrate Kushner for "cheating" to get into Harvard? Harris attended a HCBU (Howard) and I doubt she needed Affirmative Action to get in.
Harris also spent a fair amount of her childhood in Montreal, Quebec. Once again, we have a Dem Party candidate, like Obama, who basically grew up outside the USA, and while this has given both Obama and Harris a more cosmopolitan perspective, it has also limited their experience growing up in the USA. I find black politicians like Rep. Byron Donalds R-FL to have a more authentic experience as a man who grew up in the USA and appreciates this experience and can relate to me better.
His ex-wife, Bisa Hall, who met Donalds at FL A&M in 1996 says he is an “opportunistic person” who “will take whatever opportunity they’re given.” When the two met, Hall claims the congressman had a JAMAICAN accent (!) and told her he was from Jamaica! She later learned he was from NY, and he told her his motive for the phony disguise, “He felt like it would make him stand out. And he was right. There were a ton of guys from New York around, but there weren’t any guys from Jamaica. He was right; it got him noticed.” Quite funny he was as PHONY as he is accusing Harris of being.
He has said questionable things such as:
During Jim Crow, "Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively" but during Jim Crow, black voting was severely restricted in the South.
Harris attended HCBU Howard and spent her college years in the US.
"Historically..." Yes, but there were, and are exceptions. Lawrence Denis was a Black "child minister" in the South, then "passed," graduated from Harvard, became a diplomat (and, incidentally, actively promoted fascism for the US), and died as a Black man.
I had co-workers lighter-skinned than I whose ID-cards still featured the abbreviation "NEG."
Yes, there were exceptions like the "Hidden figures" at NASA, black women hired as human "computers" at NASA in a segregated group at a time when there were no electronic computers but engineers were so desperate for results of calculations that NASA even hired blacks for the job. They had to work incredibly hard & overcome obstacles to advance. My mother was a white computer.
Perhaps you have more self control than Mr. Trump. I believe many if not most people do. Further, I don't know you but it is my sincere belief that if someone stood before you and continually slapped you in the face, at some point you would stop allowing them to slap you in the face.
I'm not being snarky here -- but why did that specific issue need to be said? She has enough flip flopping. covering up for Biden's infirmiities and lying about her policies that they can destroy here on that alone. Why does it matter that she's mixed race and what the exact breakdown of those races are?
It seems dumb to go down that route and again, I cringed when he did it. And I'm voting for him. Enthusiastically.
Could it be because Harris can't defend the policies that the Biden Administration has promoted, so the fall back position is to use the race/gender card to avoid responsibility for these policies and to target Trump's words rather than his policy positions. BTW, many people I know, particularly women, may like Trump's policies, but they are put off by his lack of decorum when he speaks. For a man who escaped being killed on July 13th and credits this to divine intervention, I think he needs to spend more time in prayer and reflection and talking to a priest/minister/rabbi, etc, who can help him see how he needs to change his delivery to show that he has inculcated the grace he has been given while explaining his policies.
I can see why you feel that way Fred. But I wonder if you feel that way, and why many people feel that way, is due to how race and the accusation of racism and racist attitudes has been used so well, for so so long, by so so many, that we all naturally feel very uncomfortable with it. But taken at face value, what Trump said was a very true and accurate statement. He’s one of the very few politicians, or famous persons, who dare to speak honestly and frankly, without the fear of criticism that prevents all others from saying such things. Men like Glenn Loury are given more leeway to address the more complicated aspects of race in this country, but white men understandably are too afraid of the consequences. What Trump said does matter, and should be said, and he knows no one else will say it, and he was answering a direct question honestly. I’d rather have an honest answer than hear yet another timid, carefully crafted response that is safe and non controversial. He says what we all know and think, which exactly why he is so popular. I never voted for him before, but for this upcoming election, given the choices, given what the Dems have been doing for the last 3.5 years, voting for Trump, for me, is a very easy decision.
Such a great, thought provoking response, Biff. Seriously. I don't know what triggered that reaction in me, but it felt "off" to me as soon as he uttered it. Perhaps you are right. I work in an industry where I've lost opportunities due to my skin color so I'm very tired of the race conversation in everything.
I also feel strongly about the fact that Trump is expanding his base and if this race issue bothers someone like me who is voting for him no matter what, I can only imagine what it could do to people on the fence who might reflexively vote for Harris because he goes too far at times (for some folks).
I don't know what the answer is -- no candidate will be perfect. I just was hopeful post what happened in PA to him he was going tone down these kind of attacks and focus on how every single issue was better under him and how he wants to bring that back for everyone and stop this madness.
And yes, Loury is given way more leeway. It seems like it's okay for black people to question her blackness. I just don't know why that needs to part of the campaign strategy to beat her. She's terrible. The only thing propping her up is the media and a lot of empty headed celebrities.
Thanks Fred. I agree with you 100%. I was thinking a bit more after I posted the above comment about this issue, and it seems that they, the left, always succeed in using race to their advantage, so they just continue to do it, to use it to intimidate and scare anyone who may dare to challenge and aspect of how they use it as a weapon. In this case, I can definitely see why other commenters feel that Trump is wrong to allow himself to be reduced to being pulled into a sort of trap by saying what he said. But it’s hard not to acknowledge that the Dems and their supportive liberal news media use her gender and race as the most identifiable and powerful reasons why voters should choose her, that by voting for her, the first black female to become the POTUS. Because they have made this such an integral part of her campaign, then I think it is natural for Trump to bring up the factual background of her manipulative use of her race identity for political gain. Maybe it was not the smartest thing for Trump to do from a purely traditional political point of view, but that is what makes Trump so different. His instincts have worked for him in the past, and hopefully they will continue to work for him, maybe even to a greater degree, as the extreme lies and gaslighting of the Dems and supporting liberal news media have only increased since 2016, which could have the effect of turning even more people losing all faith in the honesty of the news media.
Yeah, I turned it off when he started going on about whether Kamala was black or Asian. I can't disagree with him, but his delivery was over the top for me.
That said, there is no way I could ever vote for Kamala. She would be the second consecutive President who was not elected by Democrat voters to represent the party, and who would take direction from an unknown group of party bosses. It's the Chicago (Obama) way, and doesn't belong in our executive branch.
I agree. Trump does not need to continually lower himself to their level. I cringe whenever he does that.
How hard would it have been for him to simply say “I understand that Ms. Harris has identified as Asian at some times, and as Black at other times. I’ll leave it up to the listener to decide for themselves whether that seems authentic or if it seems that she is attempting to advantage herself unfairly. However, the one identification that she has consistently applied is that of an extreme left-wing Marxist sympathizer. If you review both her statements and her record, you can easily see this. So whatever heritage she claims is not nearly as important as seeing clearly that she would take our country to an extreme left-wing position if given the opportunity. I plan to do everything in my power to see that doesn’t happen.”
A statesman could’ve said that. Reagan would’ve said that. Clinton (either one) would’ve. Daddy Bush certainly would’ve (not sure about Dubya, he was a bit of a dullard).
Why are we stuck between a Marxist and an a-hole???
Jaynee, these black men don’t live where you do. It doesn’t appear to bother these guys in the barbershop to discuss Kamala’s skin color identity. Why doesn’t it bother them but it bothers you? Are these guys ‘low information voters’?
It doesn’t bother me to discuss anyone’s color identity. That was not the point.
The point was twofold: 1) I would like our presidential candidates to be more statesmanlike and use respect when engaging; Trump does not. 2) I would like our presidential candidates to focus on the issues that matter more — such as Harris’ true and consistent political positions regarding Marxism — instead of allowing the focus to be on her racial identity, which isn’t going to matter as much or have as large an impact on our country as Marxism would.
And no, I would not characterize any person as a “low information voter”… that is making an unkind assumption that I am unwilling to make.
This was a thing when Obama first ran. Some black people said he wasn't authentic because his heritage was African rather than African-American. It went away after he was nominated and they returned to the plantation.
Yes. Recall that the initial response to Obama from the black community was "but is he black enough?" Only after white people in Iowa voted for him in the primary caucus did blacks really get on board.
Ya can't FORCE someone to love ya, or champion your causes. Dem's aren't familiar with this concept, and think if they can just brainwash enough slow, intellectually undernourished thinkers, they can beat the rest of us, and get away with murder (literally). I'm outspoken. Trump's outspoken. We both have a healthy dose of narcissism in our personalities~ but NEITHER of us got to where we did in this lifetime, by being passive or scared of ridicule. Frankly, it rolls off our backs (and I've gotten PLENTY of it) like water off a duck's feathers.
Ya know where ya stand with Donald Trump, and ya know where ya stand with Me. I'll never smile to your face, and stab ya in the back... the likes of which, Leftists have turned into a fine art. If I didn't hate and disrespect poor ol' Joe so much, I'd feel sorry for him. Alas, it would appear HIS Karmic Boomerang has finally returned and lopped off his head. I just KNEW that Biden effigy doll that's hanging upside down in my garage, would eventually do its job!
Such great common sense Sasha! That is something so lacking in our country today. It’s all about identity politics instead of meeting real needs for average Americans. You always give me hope, which I needed today after talking to a friend who was a Democrat, now turned Independent, but who said that she just can’t vote for Trump. As a Christian, how can she possibly vote for Kamala? Or is she just going to throw her vote away??? Sad!
Elise, I had a conversation today with a friend who dislikes Trump immensely. I asked what about him do you dislike. "He belittles people and wants to be a dictator", both true [dictator for a day], but the media spins it. There are plenty of low information voters who make up the electorate who do not know Sasha, Alex Berenson, Jeff Childers, Naoimi Wolf, Malone and others, but know NPR and PBS.
Trump is good at self-inflicted wounds and unforced errors and that looses games in sports and elections. I still think that this election is winnable for Trump, but lose-able because of Trump.
“I just can’t vote for Trump” is something I hear from people who don’t want to admit their opinion of him might be flawed and are tired of hearing evidence that he was a decent president and the Biden admin has been an economic and foreign policy trainwreck
The stock market's tanking, unemployment is rising, inflation continues to push prices higher, the borders are overwhelmed, the Medicare/Medicaid Trust Funds are being depleted to provide "free government services" for seniors and others who depend on these benefits, and two wars are raging, and if these issues continue and a recession/stagflation are the results, some of those who have previously said they won't support Trump may find that they need Trump to restore financial stability for themselves and our nation.
Totally agree. Men are so BACK! Masculine men, strong protectors and fathers, faithful husbands and leaders of their families.
Fellas, correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think men appreciate being lectured to by women, nor do they think professional women should be given a pass on excellence, professionalism & integrity simply because of their race or sex.
It is a fact that Harris is the perfect DEI candidate because she can morph into whatever she thinks the crowd will most respond to. Indian-Americans, POOF! Jamaican Islanders, POOF! Black, POOF! Women, POOF!
But one thing she absolutely CANNOT morph into is a qualified candidate for President.
DEI has been unmasked. Kamala Harris is the poster child of DEI. She’s not running this show, and we ALL know it.
Pray our fellow Americans understand the perilous situation in which we find ourselves and how disastrous a 4th Obama term would be.
All things being equal, I think it would be great if someday we have a woman president (my daughter would make a great president), but it can’t be just any woman, especially not someone like Kamala Harris. We can do better than that. We are better than that. The current version of the democrat political machine is delusional, and will stop at nothing, it needs to be taught a lesson. I wonder what Daniel Moynihan, Sam Nunn, or Harry Truman would say about our current democrats?
When you ask these people why not put America first, all they hear is that you are not putting them first. And since they are narcissists, not being the center of attention is hell for them.
This go-round I am impervious to the name calling and histrionics. I feel like the hysteria from the left are the dying shrieks of "I'm melting" in a racist spasm.
Trump did well, I watched the whole thing and I thought he was funny. He had a point about Kamala's Indian heritage. He basically implied that Kamala is black when it suits her political ambition. The ABC journalist was rude beyond belief and had she talked to Obama like she talked to Trump she'd have been fired. This propaganda that the U.S. is a white supremacist country is so far out it's hard to believe anyone takes it seriously. Amazing how so many college students go out of their way not to put down "white" on their admissions forms will accept this nonsense about white supremacy from their professors. My poor son had to deal with that garbage to get his degree in California. It was essentially a "whites are inherently evil" class. I'm so tired of it.
I had a colleague with a Hispanic name. from her long dead father. When asked if she were bi-lingual, she honestly said yes. Funny thing is that she was bilingual in German from her mother, a refugee from East Germany. She never claimed any special privilege, people just assumed without asking. Fortunately, for everybody, she was very talented.
Trump used his linage ie fathers' money to get power nothing different from that. We all have to use what we have to succeed to condemn one you condemn it all.
Trump is only different because the media hates him like I've never seen in any past elections. Not all of the media but I'd say it's about 10:1 against. This is the same media that lies far more often that they tell the truth to the public. My complete lack of trust in these people is my political barometer. It feels like America is on the cusp of a one party state and Trump is my protest vote.
If you believe the media is truthful then Kamala (who they mocked just 2 months ago) is suddenly the perfect choice. In 1972 I had just graduated from high school and had my first presidential vote. The choice was between George McGovern and Richard Nixon. The media (who I trusted back then) painted George McGovern as being for Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion. He was called weak and wishy washy. So I voted for Nixon. It was years later I realized McGovern was a good man and had wise policy positions. The media had called him weak and much later I found out he was a bomber pilot in WW2. His plane was damaged and it was impossible to make it back to base. He and his crew were supposed to bail out but one of his men was trapped in the plane due to flack damage. There was an emergency airfield but it was considered too short for a bomber so he instructed the men to bail out and he would try to land the plane alone to try save his crewman's life. The men refused to bail out and McGovern landed that bomber on that short airfield with a cliff at the end of the runway with about 20' to spare. One of his men told that story on TV many years after McGovern lost that election. The media had been relentless against McGovern and I never felt the same about the mainstream media again. I can tell you Iraq and weapons of mass destruction are just one of many lies they have told in my life. I'm not a big Trump fan but the media hatred towards him tells me he is the correct choice in this election. In presidential and congressional politics the media is the enemy. That is something I've learned over these many decades. The American media is Orwellian and corrupt. It is now like Pravda from the old Soviet Union You have every right to disagree but I wanted to share my reasoning. You have a wonderful day.
Nine years later and they still think attacks on Trump make a difference. Zero self awareness that their abandonment of the working class is what led to Trump and MAGA.
Trump opened a dialogue. That has not been done in well I can’t remember it ever. He has a pair. All the others do is play safe. Journalists are by nature liberals. Certainly they were educated by liberals. So it’s time to open the dialogue. He gets the nod for that.
Those women seemed angry to me. Trump told the truth. They invited him there, and it was obvious they intended to roast him. They didn’t want to work on solving problems. They absolutely intended to roast him and feed him to the DEI gods.
The author is such a babe - the Midwest meaning of babe is mind first, looks later.
Everyone should watch that NABJ video. Trumps rambling style gets old, the hyperbole is great, and he just 'says it' like it should be. The way he crushed that Leftist in a blue outfit is great.
Gal in blue @ NABJ started off poorly. As Trump stated, not even a ‘hello, how are you today’ ice breaker. She just launched into him on his past language use. I think Trump also had it in for her because the event kicked off 35 min late due the blue gal late arrival, microphone issues, or combo of both. Trump pointing out Kamala was ‘Indian American’ before when elected Senator but identifies as ‘African American’ for POTUS now - exemplifies the empty vessel chameleon that Harris is.
Agree. It wasn’t pretty but it took the spotlight off Harris and got her all ruffled with the fake accent. I think all politicians have been trolls I just know it deep down now.
Was the Obama birth a lie? Who really cares. He is a communist and they are capable of anything.. Saul Alynski's rule #4 shows me that you are going to respond with ridicule.
Well, I do think Trump and his lies are ridiculous. And your right wing mantra (Dems are communists) is a lie. BTW, in 2016, Trump admitted his Obama birth conspiracy was a lie saying, "“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” Trump declared, enunciating each word in a brief statement at the end of a campaign appearance. “Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.” Then he started another lie claiming that the Obama birth lie was started by Hillary Clinton.
I served in Germany in the 80's and watched my counterpart guard a fence with a rifle over a minefield on HIS side of the fence. I went to Dachau. I served in Desert Storm. I have lived in communist China.
I lived in Minnesota during the fucking Scamdemic.
I fucking know what communism is. Kamala believes in equity, not equality. That is communism; equality of outcomes which is unachievable.
Thank you for your service. I think Dachau was a result of Hitler and fascism. I grew up believing Communism was bad because you were deprived of rights and lived in a police state. I would guess that E. Germany was like a police state in the 80s and also Communist China. When and how long did you live in China? Around 1998, China started allowing large scale privatization and developed a middle class. Of course, they censor the Internet. I had a Russian exchange student in 2001 whose family lived in high rise soviet housing but was fairly well-off since his father was an army officer. He decided to immigrate to Australia a few years ago to escape Putin. I also met exchange students from China during that time. I have never felt like I lived in a police state in the US and do not agree that "DEI" is communism.
Four of my friends, fit active people in their 60s, died from the "scamdemic"; 2 before vaccines and 2 who declined vaccines.
My use of profanity is not directed at you personally; only at communism.
When the state is in control ordinary People lose. Of course your exchange student was of a 'preferred' family. Ordinary People have their wealth stolen by the government who gives it to the governments people. 50% of my income is stolen and given to illegal immigrants here in America among others rather than our senior citizens who gave us our path.
The Scamdemic was a harsh flu unleashed on us from a lab in China funded by you and I. The fatality rates were .04%, just like the flu. Government and their friends(large corps) grew exponentially in wealth and power.
Your taxes don't just go to illegal immigrants; it goes to health insurance, social security, defense, benefits for veterans & fed employees, interest on debt, education, transportation, natural resources & agriculture, etc. Repubs want to cut Soc Security which benefit senior citizens.
Deaths in the United States increased by 19% between 2019 and 2020 following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 — the largest spike in mortality in 100 years. And deaths remained elevated in 2021 as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic continued, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s July 1, 2021, population estimates.
I am a VFW and make more than their defined $60K per year so I don't qualify for any benefits. My point: everyone but American citizens get bennies. By design.
In the last 8 years the Fed has printed $20T on your back and you get nothing for it. Illegals get it. Lobbyists get it. You don't.
funny how those who accuse everyone *else* of racism are the only ones seeing race in everything...
If everything 's racist, then nothing is racist.
and that’s the Leftist way…
everything is ‘fluid’ so anything can mean anything so long as they control the Narrative
Intersectionalism, nothing more. But that's enough to ruin any country.
I've always got racist vibes from all the white, rich liberals who seem to view black people as their pet projects. To them, only rich, white liberals are capable of taking of minorities and they cannot take care of themselves.
yea, it’s funny, they have no self-awareness - perhaps they’re feeling that ‘white guilt’ ?? :p
I absolutely agree. The middle east is on the brink and what's in the news? Republicans are weird and Trump is a racist. Racist, racist, racist. I've been listening to the same song since McCain ran against Obama. Honestly, I've stopped even giving a crap or arguing. It's about policy and I'm sticking to it.
It’s literally all they have. Random little firebombs - racist, felon, weird…. But one by one, people are starting to have actual real life problems that overrun their sad little ego voids…
What else could you build a Kamal Harris campaign on? There’s literally nothing there.
💯% about POLICY(s) that are good for the long-term health and security of our country. All of us!!
Racist! Russia! P... Kitty! Kl😎n! Fine People! Bleach!
All they can do is shout expletives, slogans, and buzzwords. No substance, it's as if they're made of cotton candy.
Same song since Dewey ran against Truman. Maybe longer.
Trumps target audience for the black vote doesn't read the NYT.
They are just as fed up with seeing non African Americans painting themselves as AAs when they have no American history (both Barack and Kamala), but use 'black' as a ticket to get ahead. Both Barack and Kamala were raised as privileged children, and in Obama's case, a privileged white child, who converted to 'black' to help their political ambitions.
Between Barack and Kamala, you've got a questionable gene pool, and little actual experience in the federal government before going for the Presidency.
I found it awkward watching Trump play the race issue with Kamala, but I actually think a lot of African Americans may share his sentiments.
The thing about Trump is, he's always Trump. He says what he thinks, and doesn't take on fake accents to relate to his audience. Kamala is such an empty vessel, but watch how close this election is. It's tragic to see what our Republic has turned into.
Trump has shown that, love him or hate him, he is unafraid and is always authentic. I'm guessing that is going to make the difference in this election.
Your mouth to GOD'S EAR.
He is ALWAYS a first and foremost, a CON-MAN.
What/how is he conning us - a couple of examples please.
Trump is the people's hammer, a fitting inplement to smash your idols.
Yes and empty vessel could get elected. Look how many were supporting a cadaver.
Good point! LOL
You're correct, Jon. A lot of the black friends I have say similar things about Kamala "acting black" when she needs to. In the elite circles, that doesn't happen, but actual black people who don't have media and high level corporate jobs don't feel like she represents them. Trump, yet again, said the quiet part out loud.
That said, I'm going to be honest here and I know it's not popular -- It sounded really ugly coming out of his mouth. I wasn't swept up by anything other than my ears. I'm getting frustrated with him. He didn't need to say that. If he just kept pushing back on his policies and how he was nice enough to show up there and they were attacking him, it'd be fine.
I don't expect him to be perfect, but it just sounded ugly and I'm sure it turned a lot of people off yesterday.
Of course, Kamala doesn't speak so we have nothing to judge her on. She's going to be locked in a basement and fed teleprompter speeches written by the best and rehearsed to death. She would never walk into the lion's den like that without a net. So I give Trump a lot of credit and he still has my vote.
But I'm really getting tired with the juvenile crap that spews out of his mouth just as much I'm getting tired with the constant gaslighting from the Dems and the media about their new savior.
While people think what they say and how they say it won't matter in this election, that's true. The base for each party is locked in. It's the folks in the middle, like me, that they need to worry about. Trump has a long leash with me, but I wish he'd just stick to policy and how things were better under him -- how she's flip flopping her positions just to win an election. The name calling and the questioning of someone's racial background identity doesn't appeal to me.
Fred Mertz, Trump's comments about Harris' racial identity were in response to a direct question... and it is true that Harris has posed both as black and as South Asian during different times of her political career. Trump's response, however hard it was to listen to it, was honest, not "juvenile." Had the questioners stuck to policy, I suspect he would have, too.
Why not give Trump the credit he deserves for going into a hostile forum and not dodging what were clearly "gotcha" questions?
I did give him credit. I don't think you read what I wrote.
Gotta say, characterizing Trump's comments as "really ugly" and "juvenile crap" doesn't sound like credit to me. ... I don't think you realize what it is that you did write, whatever your intention might have been.
What's ugly and juvenile to me is different than what it is for you. If this is a hill you want to die on, go right ahead. Trump has my vote. But this kind of stuff doesn't appeal to me and others when they hear it. Maybe inside your silo it all sounds perfectly normal. Good for you. For me, it sounded juvenile and ugly and it saddened me to hear him say it. Go after her policy. Go after her record. Going after someone for this stuff is juvenile. It's playground schoolyard nonsense and I wish he didn't do it. If I can't say that and you're going to thought police people who don't toe the party line all of the time then how are you different from the other side?
To be clear: I don't disagree: Trump should stay focused on policy, not personality or race, whenever possible. But my point is that Trump's comments, while impolitic and off putting to some, were not fundamentally wrong, "ugly", or "juvenile." And one could argue that Harris' dishonesty about her ethnicity is consistent with her dishonesty about a lot of things--like not being the Border Czar. And in that sense, Trump's remarks spoke to Kamala's chameleon-like persona and is an important part of "her record" that you urge him to focus on. Correct?
But to repeat: Trump's willingness to go into hostile environments and do interviews is admirable, but at times it is counterproductive politically, and I wish he would stop doing them.
What is "dishonest"? Is she not black AND Indian? She grew up in a redlined multicultural area near Berkely, CA and was bussed across town to achieve segregation, went to an HCBU (Howard). She has always primarily assumed her "black" identity because right wingers would have a fit if she called herself "white." Historically, in the US, if you had a drop of African blood, you were black and denied civil rights.
"Historically, in the US, if you had a drop of African blood, you were black and denied civil rights." False. Even during the depths of the segregation era, the "color line" was not nearly so rigid as you suggest. Many light-skinned people of mixed race heritage "chose to pass" as white; and some parts of the country (such as the NW) had few laws enforcing segregation. Generalizations on this topic are for the misinformed.
And since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (doesn't that count as "historically"?) the federal government has prosecuted civil rights violations and sponsored a host of Affirmative Action programs that have benefitted women and minorities--Kamala (born 1964) came along just in time to surf that wave, which mostly explains her position today--that, along with being the mistress of CA power broker Willie Brown, for which she was appointed to her first two jobs in government. Fact.
You are the typical NW leftist--lots of attitude and little to no real knowledge of what you are talking about.
From emancipation to 1964, the blood rule was in effect - 99 years, several generations. People who "looked white" had to LIE to get Civil Rights. People who were mixed race but "looked black" were out of luck. In 1844, OR (in the NW) starting passing "black exclusion laws": Any free blacks age 18 or older had to leave the area, men within two years and women within three. If a black person was tried and found guilty of being in the OR Country illegally, he or she was to be hired out publicly to whomever would employ them for the shortest amount of time. After the period of forced labor expired, the “employer” had six months to get the black individual out of Oregon or pay a fine of $1000. OR ratified its state constitution in Nov, 1857. On the ballot for the constitution, there were two referendum issues on which citizens were asked to vote. Oregonians rejected slavery but approved adding a new exclusion law to the constitution, added to OR Bill of Rights. In Feb, 1859, OR became the ONLY state admitted to the Union with an exclusion law in its constitution. After several unsuccessful attempts, the state constitution was finally amended in 1926 to remove the exclusion law from the state Bill of Rights. OR still has a low black population (2.9% in 2019) because of the exclusion laws but Asians & Hispanics are increasing.
Although Brown vs. Board of education was passed in 1954, many school districts took more than a decade to desegregate. Harris was born in a working class redlined neighborhood in Berkeley, CA in 1964 and lived there until 1972. Berkeley schools were not integrated until 1968 by bussing. She was bussed across town to achieve desegregation. (cont)
(cont) Many colleges consider “legacy” in their admission process so it is not only minorities who get special consideration. Harvard gives preference to applicants who are recruited athletes, legacies, relatives of donors and children of faculty and staff. As a group, they make up less than 5 percent of applicants, but around 30 percent of those admitted each year.” In 1998, Charles Kushner pledged $2.5M to Harvard to insure his son Jared’s admission in 1999. Do you denigrate Kushner for "cheating" to get into Harvard? Harris attended a HCBU (Howard) and I doubt she needed Affirmative Action to get in.
Harris also spent a fair amount of her childhood in Montreal, Quebec. Once again, we have a Dem Party candidate, like Obama, who basically grew up outside the USA, and while this has given both Obama and Harris a more cosmopolitan perspective, it has also limited their experience growing up in the USA. I find black politicians like Rep. Byron Donalds R-FL to have a more authentic experience as a man who grew up in the USA and appreciates this experience and can relate to me better.
His ex-wife, Bisa Hall, who met Donalds at FL A&M in 1996 says he is an “opportunistic person” who “will take whatever opportunity they’re given.” When the two met, Hall claims the congressman had a JAMAICAN accent (!) and told her he was from Jamaica! She later learned he was from NY, and he told her his motive for the phony disguise, “He felt like it would make him stand out. And he was right. There were a ton of guys from New York around, but there weren’t any guys from Jamaica. He was right; it got him noticed.” Quite funny he was as PHONY as he is accusing Harris of being.
He has said questionable things such as:
During Jim Crow, "Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively" but during Jim Crow, black voting was severely restricted in the South.
Harris attended HCBU Howard and spent her college years in the US.
"Historically..." Yes, but there were, and are exceptions. Lawrence Denis was a Black "child minister" in the South, then "passed," graduated from Harvard, became a diplomat (and, incidentally, actively promoted fascism for the US), and died as a Black man.
I had co-workers lighter-skinned than I whose ID-cards still featured the abbreviation "NEG."
Yes, there were exceptions like the "Hidden figures" at NASA, black women hired as human "computers" at NASA in a segregated group at a time when there were no electronic computers but engineers were so desperate for results of calculations that NASA even hired blacks for the job. They had to work incredibly hard & overcome obstacles to advance. My mother was a white computer.
Perhaps you have more self control than Mr. Trump. I believe many if not most people do. Further, I don't know you but it is my sincere belief that if someone stood before you and continually slapped you in the face, at some point you would stop allowing them to slap you in the face.
It needed to be said, people weren't aware of it. Trump shoots it out and makes people think...some, anyway.
We don't need a speaker as POTUS, we need a DOER.
I'm not being snarky here -- but why did that specific issue need to be said? She has enough flip flopping. covering up for Biden's infirmiities and lying about her policies that they can destroy here on that alone. Why does it matter that she's mixed race and what the exact breakdown of those races are?
It seems dumb to go down that route and again, I cringed when he did it. And I'm voting for him. Enthusiastically.
It doesn't matter that she's mixed race, her pandering to people over her supposed race needed to be exposed.
Sure. It is "dishonest" to act like she is black AND Indian.
Could it be because Harris can't defend the policies that the Biden Administration has promoted, so the fall back position is to use the race/gender card to avoid responsibility for these policies and to target Trump's words rather than his policy positions. BTW, many people I know, particularly women, may like Trump's policies, but they are put off by his lack of decorum when he speaks. For a man who escaped being killed on July 13th and credits this to divine intervention, I think he needs to spend more time in prayer and reflection and talking to a priest/minister/rabbi, etc, who can help him see how he needs to change his delivery to show that he has inculcated the grace he has been given while explaining his policies.
I can see why you feel that way Fred. But I wonder if you feel that way, and why many people feel that way, is due to how race and the accusation of racism and racist attitudes has been used so well, for so so long, by so so many, that we all naturally feel very uncomfortable with it. But taken at face value, what Trump said was a very true and accurate statement. He’s one of the very few politicians, or famous persons, who dare to speak honestly and frankly, without the fear of criticism that prevents all others from saying such things. Men like Glenn Loury are given more leeway to address the more complicated aspects of race in this country, but white men understandably are too afraid of the consequences. What Trump said does matter, and should be said, and he knows no one else will say it, and he was answering a direct question honestly. I’d rather have an honest answer than hear yet another timid, carefully crafted response that is safe and non controversial. He says what we all know and think, which exactly why he is so popular. I never voted for him before, but for this upcoming election, given the choices, given what the Dems have been doing for the last 3.5 years, voting for Trump, for me, is a very easy decision.
Such a great, thought provoking response, Biff. Seriously. I don't know what triggered that reaction in me, but it felt "off" to me as soon as he uttered it. Perhaps you are right. I work in an industry where I've lost opportunities due to my skin color so I'm very tired of the race conversation in everything.
I also feel strongly about the fact that Trump is expanding his base and if this race issue bothers someone like me who is voting for him no matter what, I can only imagine what it could do to people on the fence who might reflexively vote for Harris because he goes too far at times (for some folks).
I don't know what the answer is -- no candidate will be perfect. I just was hopeful post what happened in PA to him he was going tone down these kind of attacks and focus on how every single issue was better under him and how he wants to bring that back for everyone and stop this madness.
And yes, Loury is given way more leeway. It seems like it's okay for black people to question her blackness. I just don't know why that needs to part of the campaign strategy to beat her. She's terrible. The only thing propping her up is the media and a lot of empty headed celebrities.
Thanks Fred. I agree with you 100%. I was thinking a bit more after I posted the above comment about this issue, and it seems that they, the left, always succeed in using race to their advantage, so they just continue to do it, to use it to intimidate and scare anyone who may dare to challenge and aspect of how they use it as a weapon. In this case, I can definitely see why other commenters feel that Trump is wrong to allow himself to be reduced to being pulled into a sort of trap by saying what he said. But it’s hard not to acknowledge that the Dems and their supportive liberal news media use her gender and race as the most identifiable and powerful reasons why voters should choose her, that by voting for her, the first black female to become the POTUS. Because they have made this such an integral part of her campaign, then I think it is natural for Trump to bring up the factual background of her manipulative use of her race identity for political gain. Maybe it was not the smartest thing for Trump to do from a purely traditional political point of view, but that is what makes Trump so different. His instincts have worked for him in the past, and hopefully they will continue to work for him, maybe even to a greater degree, as the extreme lies and gaslighting of the Dems and supporting liberal news media have only increased since 2016, which could have the effect of turning even more people losing all faith in the honesty of the news media.
Yeah, I turned it off when he started going on about whether Kamala was black or Asian. I can't disagree with him, but his delivery was over the top for me.
That said, there is no way I could ever vote for Kamala. She would be the second consecutive President who was not elected by Democrat voters to represent the party, and who would take direction from an unknown group of party bosses. It's the Chicago (Obama) way, and doesn't belong in our executive branch.
I agree. Trump does not need to continually lower himself to their level. I cringe whenever he does that.
How hard would it have been for him to simply say “I understand that Ms. Harris has identified as Asian at some times, and as Black at other times. I’ll leave it up to the listener to decide for themselves whether that seems authentic or if it seems that she is attempting to advantage herself unfairly. However, the one identification that she has consistently applied is that of an extreme left-wing Marxist sympathizer. If you review both her statements and her record, you can easily see this. So whatever heritage she claims is not nearly as important as seeing clearly that she would take our country to an extreme left-wing position if given the opportunity. I plan to do everything in my power to see that doesn’t happen.”
A statesman could’ve said that. Reagan would’ve said that. Clinton (either one) would’ve. Daddy Bush certainly would’ve (not sure about Dubya, he was a bit of a dullard).
Why are we stuck between a Marxist and an a-hole???
Jaynee, these black men don’t live where you do. It doesn’t appear to bother these guys in the barbershop to discuss Kamala’s skin color identity. Why doesn’t it bother them but it bothers you? Are these guys ‘low information voters’?
https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1819800951114637772
It doesn’t bother me to discuss anyone’s color identity. That was not the point.
The point was twofold: 1) I would like our presidential candidates to be more statesmanlike and use respect when engaging; Trump does not. 2) I would like our presidential candidates to focus on the issues that matter more — such as Harris’ true and consistent political positions regarding Marxism — instead of allowing the focus to be on her racial identity, which isn’t going to matter as much or have as large an impact on our country as Marxism would.
And no, I would not characterize any person as a “low information voter”… that is making an unkind assumption that I am unwilling to make.
I've never heard Trump say anything offensive to blacks, or sound racist. Maybe I don't watch enough news.
This was a thing when Obama first ran. Some black people said he wasn't authentic because his heritage was African rather than African-American. It went away after he was nominated and they returned to the plantation.
Yes. Recall that the initial response to Obama from the black community was "but is he black enough?" Only after white people in Iowa voted for him in the primary caucus did blacks really get on board.
Ya can't FORCE someone to love ya, or champion your causes. Dem's aren't familiar with this concept, and think if they can just brainwash enough slow, intellectually undernourished thinkers, they can beat the rest of us, and get away with murder (literally). I'm outspoken. Trump's outspoken. We both have a healthy dose of narcissism in our personalities~ but NEITHER of us got to where we did in this lifetime, by being passive or scared of ridicule. Frankly, it rolls off our backs (and I've gotten PLENTY of it) like water off a duck's feathers.
Ya know where ya stand with Donald Trump, and ya know where ya stand with Me. I'll never smile to your face, and stab ya in the back... the likes of which, Leftists have turned into a fine art. If I didn't hate and disrespect poor ol' Joe so much, I'd feel sorry for him. Alas, it would appear HIS Karmic Boomerang has finally returned and lopped off his head. I just KNEW that Biden effigy doll that's hanging upside down in my garage, would eventually do its job!
Such great common sense Sasha! That is something so lacking in our country today. It’s all about identity politics instead of meeting real needs for average Americans. You always give me hope, which I needed today after talking to a friend who was a Democrat, now turned Independent, but who said that she just can’t vote for Trump. As a Christian, how can she possibly vote for Kamala? Or is she just going to throw her vote away??? Sad!
Elise, I had a conversation today with a friend who dislikes Trump immensely. I asked what about him do you dislike. "He belittles people and wants to be a dictator", both true [dictator for a day], but the media spins it. There are plenty of low information voters who make up the electorate who do not know Sasha, Alex Berenson, Jeff Childers, Naoimi Wolf, Malone and others, but know NPR and PBS.
Trump is good at self-inflicted wounds and unforced errors and that looses games in sports and elections. I still think that this election is winnable for Trump, but lose-able because of Trump.
Lose-able (not loose-able) because of massive ballot fraud.
Spelling can be fixed, thanks, ballot fraud......................................?
I totally agree. I applaud his policies and his love for this nation, but he is his own worst enemy!
“I just can’t vote for Trump” is something I hear from people who don’t want to admit their opinion of him might be flawed and are tired of hearing evidence that he was a decent president and the Biden admin has been an economic and foreign policy trainwreck
The stock market's tanking, unemployment is rising, inflation continues to push prices higher, the borders are overwhelmed, the Medicare/Medicaid Trust Funds are being depleted to provide "free government services" for seniors and others who depend on these benefits, and two wars are raging, and if these issues continue and a recession/stagflation are the results, some of those who have previously said they won't support Trump may find that they need Trump to restore financial stability for themselves and our nation.
Yeah, well now that Walz is the VP pick, your friend might end up in a hijab if she doesn't vote for Trump: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/minneapolis-becomes-first-major-u-s-city-to-broadcast-islamic-call-to-prayer-5-times-per-day
Apparently, not one black Male journalist present at the event was permitted to ask Trump a question.
Black males are moving towards Trump. No wonder they didn't let them ask questions.
Totally agree. Men are so BACK! Masculine men, strong protectors and fathers, faithful husbands and leaders of their families.
Fellas, correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think men appreciate being lectured to by women, nor do they think professional women should be given a pass on excellence, professionalism & integrity simply because of their race or sex.
It is a fact that Harris is the perfect DEI candidate because she can morph into whatever she thinks the crowd will most respond to. Indian-Americans, POOF! Jamaican Islanders, POOF! Black, POOF! Women, POOF!
But one thing she absolutely CANNOT morph into is a qualified candidate for President.
DEI has been unmasked. Kamala Harris is the poster child of DEI. She’s not running this show, and we ALL know it.
Pray our fellow Americans understand the perilous situation in which we find ourselves and how disastrous a 4th Obama term would be.
The truth is, if the US was attacked by EMP or anything catastrophic, those liberal women would not survive anywhere for long without men.
Smoke and mirrors - black youth, too.
Apparently? That is the point, dear friend. Men are bad to these people. I know you know this...
Huh, talk about “weird”!
Talk about a "captive audience"!
All things being equal, I think it would be great if someday we have a woman president (my daughter would make a great president), but it can’t be just any woman, especially not someone like Kamala Harris. We can do better than that. We are better than that. The current version of the democrat political machine is delusional, and will stop at nothing, it needs to be taught a lesson. I wonder what Daniel Moynihan, Sam Nunn, or Harry Truman would say about our current democrats?
JFK would be calling security to take all the commies outside and have them beaten
That they are Communists not Democrats
When you ask these people why not put America first, all they hear is that you are not putting them first. And since they are narcissists, not being the center of attention is hell for them.
I think there was a typo in “White duds for Harris”
Inflation to the point where people cannot put enough food on the table or enough gas in the car
An open border with poison flowing across killing Americans by the thousands
Iran and Israel on the brink of war
AND what does the corporate media focus on………??
SKIN COLOR
Heavenly Father, please get us out of this insanity!!
This go-round I am impervious to the name calling and histrionics. I feel like the hysteria from the left are the dying shrieks of "I'm melting" in a racist spasm.
Love this!! So excellent.
Exactly.
Trump did well, I watched the whole thing and I thought he was funny. He had a point about Kamala's Indian heritage. He basically implied that Kamala is black when it suits her political ambition. The ABC journalist was rude beyond belief and had she talked to Obama like she talked to Trump she'd have been fired. This propaganda that the U.S. is a white supremacist country is so far out it's hard to believe anyone takes it seriously. Amazing how so many college students go out of their way not to put down "white" on their admissions forms will accept this nonsense about white supremacy from their professors. My poor son had to deal with that garbage to get his degree in California. It was essentially a "whites are inherently evil" class. I'm so tired of it.
I had a colleague with a Hispanic name. from her long dead father. When asked if she were bi-lingual, she honestly said yes. Funny thing is that she was bilingual in German from her mother, a refugee from East Germany. She never claimed any special privilege, people just assumed without asking. Fortunately, for everybody, she was very talented.
And all the students put gay or bisexual too because they're afraid they won't get into college if they're straight. :(
Trump used his linage ie fathers' money to get power nothing different from that. We all have to use what we have to succeed to condemn one you condemn it all.
JFK used this father's money and political ties to promote his political aspirations, but no Democrat seems bothered by his rise in politics.
He was a conservative democrat that barely won yea... people did have reservations on him
The difference is, Trump doesn’t hide his lineage.
He tired to hide his wealth on how it was made (see his book claiming he was self-made) and he sure tries to lie about his conman tricks
Are you saying Kamala is different because she doesn't lie?
Nope I never said that ever. She has lied I just baiting who claim Trump was so much "different" when reality same personality and lies.
Trump is only different because the media hates him like I've never seen in any past elections. Not all of the media but I'd say it's about 10:1 against. This is the same media that lies far more often that they tell the truth to the public. My complete lack of trust in these people is my political barometer. It feels like America is on the cusp of a one party state and Trump is my protest vote.
I really dont see Trump as a different protest vote that would be libertarian or whatever green is doing...
Trump is a serious protest vote. Green or Libertarian means nothing because they have zero chance of obtaining power.
I disagree but to each their own
If you believe the media is truthful then Kamala (who they mocked just 2 months ago) is suddenly the perfect choice. In 1972 I had just graduated from high school and had my first presidential vote. The choice was between George McGovern and Richard Nixon. The media (who I trusted back then) painted George McGovern as being for Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion. He was called weak and wishy washy. So I voted for Nixon. It was years later I realized McGovern was a good man and had wise policy positions. The media had called him weak and much later I found out he was a bomber pilot in WW2. His plane was damaged and it was impossible to make it back to base. He and his crew were supposed to bail out but one of his men was trapped in the plane due to flack damage. There was an emergency airfield but it was considered too short for a bomber so he instructed the men to bail out and he would try to land the plane alone to try save his crewman's life. The men refused to bail out and McGovern landed that bomber on that short airfield with a cliff at the end of the runway with about 20' to spare. One of his men told that story on TV many years after McGovern lost that election. The media had been relentless against McGovern and I never felt the same about the mainstream media again. I can tell you Iraq and weapons of mass destruction are just one of many lies they have told in my life. I'm not a big Trump fan but the media hatred towards him tells me he is the correct choice in this election. In presidential and congressional politics the media is the enemy. That is something I've learned over these many decades. The American media is Orwellian and corrupt. It is now like Pravda from the old Soviet Union You have every right to disagree but I wanted to share my reasoning. You have a wonderful day.
Nine years later and they still think attacks on Trump make a difference. Zero self awareness that their abandonment of the working class is what led to Trump and MAGA.
I have lost count of the times I have tried to tell lefties that Trump is reaction, not catalyst.
Obamala's ad insisting that she's for the working class is VILE!
Trump opened a dialogue. That has not been done in well I can’t remember it ever. He has a pair. All the others do is play safe. Journalists are by nature liberals. Certainly they were educated by liberals. So it’s time to open the dialogue. He gets the nod for that.
Those women seemed angry to me. Trump told the truth. They invited him there, and it was obvious they intended to roast him. They didn’t want to work on solving problems. They absolutely intended to roast him and feed him to the DEI gods.
The author is such a babe - the Midwest meaning of babe is mind first, looks later.
Everyone should watch that NABJ video. Trumps rambling style gets old, the hyperbole is great, and he just 'says it' like it should be. The way he crushed that Leftist in a blue outfit is great.
Gal in blue @ NABJ started off poorly. As Trump stated, not even a ‘hello, how are you today’ ice breaker. She just launched into him on his past language use. I think Trump also had it in for her because the event kicked off 35 min late due the blue gal late arrival, microphone issues, or combo of both. Trump pointing out Kamala was ‘Indian American’ before when elected Senator but identifies as ‘African American’ for POTUS now - exemplifies the empty vessel chameleon that Harris is.
Yeah, she's a Hindu when it's convenient. But suddenly a Christian because it suits her political purposes. (Eyeroll)
Agree. It wasn’t pretty but it took the spotlight off Harris and got her all ruffled with the fake accent. I think all politicians have been trolls I just know it deep down now.
Except what he said about Harris was a lie, just like the Obama birth lie.
Was the Obama birth a lie? Who really cares. He is a communist and they are capable of anything.. Saul Alynski's rule #4 shows me that you are going to respond with ridicule.
Well, I do think Trump and his lies are ridiculous. And your right wing mantra (Dems are communists) is a lie. BTW, in 2016, Trump admitted his Obama birth conspiracy was a lie saying, "“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” Trump declared, enunciating each word in a brief statement at the end of a campaign appearance. “Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.” Then he started another lie claiming that the Obama birth lie was started by Hillary Clinton.
You are insulated from some truths. I feel bad for you.
You do not know what "communism" is.
I served in Germany in the 80's and watched my counterpart guard a fence with a rifle over a minefield on HIS side of the fence. I went to Dachau. I served in Desert Storm. I have lived in communist China.
I lived in Minnesota during the fucking Scamdemic.
I fucking know what communism is. Kamala believes in equity, not equality. That is communism; equality of outcomes which is unachievable.
Thank you for your service. I think Dachau was a result of Hitler and fascism. I grew up believing Communism was bad because you were deprived of rights and lived in a police state. I would guess that E. Germany was like a police state in the 80s and also Communist China. When and how long did you live in China? Around 1998, China started allowing large scale privatization and developed a middle class. Of course, they censor the Internet. I had a Russian exchange student in 2001 whose family lived in high rise soviet housing but was fairly well-off since his father was an army officer. He decided to immigrate to Australia a few years ago to escape Putin. I also met exchange students from China during that time. I have never felt like I lived in a police state in the US and do not agree that "DEI" is communism.
Four of my friends, fit active people in their 60s, died from the "scamdemic"; 2 before vaccines and 2 who declined vaccines.
My use of profanity is not directed at you personally; only at communism.
When the state is in control ordinary People lose. Of course your exchange student was of a 'preferred' family. Ordinary People have their wealth stolen by the government who gives it to the governments people. 50% of my income is stolen and given to illegal immigrants here in America among others rather than our senior citizens who gave us our path.
The Scamdemic was a harsh flu unleashed on us from a lab in China funded by you and I. The fatality rates were .04%, just like the flu. Government and their friends(large corps) grew exponentially in wealth and power.
Your taxes don't just go to illegal immigrants; it goes to health insurance, social security, defense, benefits for veterans & fed employees, interest on debt, education, transportation, natural resources & agriculture, etc. Repubs want to cut Soc Security which benefit senior citizens.
Deaths in the United States increased by 19% between 2019 and 2020 following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 — the largest spike in mortality in 100 years. And deaths remained elevated in 2021 as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic continued, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s July 1, 2021, population estimates.
I am a VFW and make more than their defined $60K per year so I don't qualify for any benefits. My point: everyone but American citizens get bennies. By design.
In the last 8 years the Fed has printed $20T on your back and you get nothing for it. Illegals get it. Lobbyists get it. You don't.