Unaware and compliant is a direct quote from DNC emails. It isn't my fault that your Party's leadership sees you as nothing but a simpleton.
IMO the reason that the liberal media wants to paint Trump as White Supremacist
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When did I say something about 19th century politics?
You do suck at this. Your reply further validated that statement btw.
How many KKK members are currently voting for Democrats? I’m all ears.
Bringing up that tripe is disingenuous and you know it haha. “The Dems created the KKK” blah blah blah...explain to me the relevance of that in our modern political climate? You can’t.
While this thread has gone all over the place, I think the reason for the left trying to paint Trump as far right is as simple as trying to capture the middle. The fact is the left has been shifting left ever since Clinton left office. At the end of the day, elections are won by claiming the middle. So if the left is further left, the only way they win is to paint the opposition as far right as they have moved left.
I could flip it and ask how many Antifa members are voting Republican? You know the group that was celebrating the guy who SHOT a sitting congressman. Both sides have extreme groups. The more you try to associate that extreme to the general membership of either party, the more you show your inability to actually relate to those individuals who are moderate.
Speaking of disingenuous tripe......calling Trump and those who support him fascists.
And we know why the progressives do it. It dog whistles the masses into ideoligical compliance because they fear being called one of the naughty words and then being shamed and shunned. It works great on toddlers who have irrational fears.
Will you guys point to the quote of Trump speaking racist comments. Clintoon is so much smarter then myself and I must be to dumb to find these quotes in his post. Thanks
If your close mindedness is a result of the "shitty stuff, every shift" you experience it is definitely time to find something different...
As to sheltered, STFU. My career started with a part time job driving a truck, a paper route, and hustling my ass off selling my services day in day out. FU (not that I like you less or have a lower opinion of you).
The rest of that post is bunch of passionate bullshit attempting to justify a stupid decision to put wood behind the DJT arrow. Be careful about digging that hole any deeper, at some point you will be looking for a way up and out...
JV consider the following comments by Donald Trump regarding David Duke:
2000 - “The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. [Patrick] Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. [Lenora] Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep.”
“Well, you’ve got David Duke just joined — a bigot, a racist, a problem. I mean, this is not exactly the people you want in your party.”
2015 - “Somebody told me yesterday, whoever he is, he did endorse me. Actually I don’t think it was an endorsement. He said I was absolutely the best of all of the candidates.”
2016 - "I didn’t even know he endorsed me. David Duke endorsed me? Okay, all right."
"Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke. Okay? I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So, I don’t know. I don’t know, did he endorse me or what’s going on, because, you know, I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists. And so you’re asking me a question that I’m supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about."
“And isn’t it funny. I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it, the only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”
“I think the guy is lazy, and it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”
Well a racist to me is someone who hates others because of their race. Those are for sure offensive remarks and I don’t agree with them but to say they are racist is debateable. They don’t reek of I want to cleanse the earth of your race.
That’s some standard right there!
Both are Trump quotes. Considering his history of housing discrimination allegations including 2 settled federal lawsuits, “good people on both sides”, newest quotes from the Wolff book.... troubling IMO.
Lol. Yep, paper route and driving a truck part time. Tough shit right there. Way to experience all facets of the spectrum. I'm sure intimate interactions with extreme poverty and the inner city comprised a significant portion of your day. And by the way, hustling for you is hustling for you. Golf clap broseph. I hustle for people who can't hustle for themselves. I don't ask for thanks. Knowing I made a difference is reward enough. We can compare career experiences in this if you'd like.
You live in the whitest city in this country. I'm confident you live nowhere near poverty. It's actually easier for me to call you a racist than it is for you to call me one. The reason is obvious. Portland has a history of driving minorities out.
Passionate? Yep, against the mindless progressive bullshit of promoting victim classes for votes and power from the perches in ivory towers. The fact that you refuse to see the irony in that surprises me if you're actually aware of how the folks well outside your own financial class actually live. You won't find poor black people complaining about the same shit rich white lefties like Hillary, Nancy, Chuck, and Bernie complain about. Shocker? Not really. That's the disconnect between those who seek votes to stay in power have with those who actually vote for them have it. The income and wealth inequality gap widened substantially under the Obama administration. Lying to people to make them think you're working for their poor ass doesn't make you noble or right. It simply makes you a liar.
Way to cherry pick my quote and paint me in some bad light. Listen buddy I won't stand for someone being rude to someone because of their race period it was how I was raised so get off your high horse that you are so much better then everyone on here. Hell the place you get all your damn money from can't even pay women the same rate as an under qualified man. So does that make you a sexist? I think it does. Also these "quotes" in a book how in the hell do I trust in this day an age they aren't fabricated. Trump is no saint and has a ton of down falls so I am not here to stick up for him I just think all this Trump is the worlds biggest racist is way over blown.
Yeah, much better to believe a proven, admitted, liar than some book. Does he have to be the world's biggest racist for you to be concerned?
You're better than this JV...
BTW: Your words man. Own them or fix it by clarifying. Bitching at me for quoting you is pretty childish.
Tell me more about this income inequality. Fascinating topic, want to learn more.
Quote my whole quote don't cherry pick parts to paint me in a bad light. Sexist
Kennedy accuses Emanuel of 'strategic gentrification plan' to force blacks out of Chicago
Democratic governor candidate Chris Kennedy on Wednesday accused Mayor Rahm Emanuel of leading a “strategic gentrification plan” aimed at forcing African-Americans and other minorities out of Chicago to make the city “whiter” and wealthier.
“I believe that black people are being pushed out of Chicago intentionally by a strategy that involves disinvestment in communities being implemented by the city administration, and I believe Rahm Emanuel is the head of the city administration and therefore needs to be held responsible for those outcomes,” Kennedy said during a news conference about gun violence in North Lawndale.
“This is involuntary. That we’re cutting off funding for schools, cutting off funding for police, allowing people to be forced to live in food deserts, closing hospitals, closing access to mental health facilities. What choice do people have but to move, to leave?” Kennedy added. “And I think that’s part of a strategic gentrification plan being implemented by the city of Chicago to push people of color out of the city. The city is becoming smaller, and as it becomes smaller, it’s become whiter.”
The mayor’s office responded by trying to link Kennedy to two Republican politicians who enjoy little popularity in Chicago — President Donald Trump and Gov. Bruce Rauner, whom Kennedy wants to replace.
Michael Madigan, the state’s Democratic chairman, and Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios, the county’s Democratic chairman.
published “The Tax Divide,” an investigation that found Berrios’ office’s assessments were so riddled with errors that they created deep inequities favoring owners of expensive commercial properties and homes at the expense of owners of smaller business properties and less-expensive homes.
Kennedy wants to ban elected officials from also holding outside jobs as property tax appeal lawyers. Madigan, for example, has a property tax appeals business.
On Wednesday, Kennedy added Emanuel to the list of top Democrats he’s criticizing, saying the mayor shouldn’t claim credit for a reduction in homicides last year compared with 2016.
“Not to the people of North Lawndale he can’t (claim credit). Not to the people in lots of neighborhoods in this city where crime continues to increase, not decrease; where funds have been removed; where schools are being closed; where community police officers don’t exist; where training of cops is diminished; where an entire generation of police officers are retiring early, leaving no one to mentor the younger officers; where crime is the result of that cataclysmic combination of forces,” Kennedy said.
The candidate contended Chicago was “using a strategy of selective containment where we’re allowing violence to continue as long as it only continues in certain neighborhoods.”
Those remarks drew a response from Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who portrayed Kennedy as out of touch with the city’s crime-fighting efforts. Johnson also said “no one is spiking the ball” on reducing violence.
“I’ve never heard from Chris Kennedy. I’ve never even met him. He’s never visited a police station or asked me or my team for any kind of briefing on what we are doing in Chicago to address the gang violence and ongoing infusion of illegal guns on our streets,” Johnson said in a statement. “I’m not a politician, but I do take issue with the hard work our men and women are doing to beat back this violence is used to score political points.”
Kennedy said adequate funding for the city’s public schools and for better law enforcement “isn’t available because the mayor allows the Cook County assessor to continue to underassess the downtown buildings owned by corporate America — people who make donations to Rahm Emanuel, folks he’s now protecting.”
The logic behind that attack, however, isn’t entirely accurate. Even if downtown buildings were assessed at a higher value, more money would not be available for schools and other government services because the overall tax burden would not be increased, but simply shifted more toward the commercial buildings and away from other taxpayers.
Kennedy said Emanuel’s predecessor, Richard M. Daley, filed “undervaluation complaints” about large commercial properties “until the assessor walked a straight line.” In 2003, the city Law Department said it had successfully fought $27 million in reductions that had been granted to assessments of business property.
“That’s not happening anymore. And as a result, we’re underfunding our schools and we’re underfunding our Police Department, and the result is violence,” Kennedy said.
Following the Tribune’s reports that raised questions about the assessment system, Emanuel was asked last month if he would start sending city attorneys to challenge assessment appeals filed on behalf of major commercial property owners, some of which are filed by law firms owned by Madigan and Ald. Ed Burke.
“I’m not going to speak to that at this point,” said Emanuel, dodging the question. “I appreciate that.”
Kennedy cited as an example of the “strategic gentrification plan” a move by CPS to close four South Side high schools for a year before a new school opens in 2019.
“I don’t know what you can say when the strategic plan for Chicago Public Schools suggest that the entire community of Englewood can go an entire year without access to a high school,” he said.
“What are you saying to the people there? No one’s going to move there who’s got a high school kid. And anybody with a high school kid has to think about what they’re going to do. It’s just a device to empty out the community,” he said.
Emanuel’s office did not directly respond to the schools criticism but cast Kennedy’s comments as little more than campaign season rhetoric.
“The noise of this particular election will come and go,” said McGrath, Emanuel’s spokesman. “And when it does, we’ll still be focusing on boosting neighborhood small businesses, investing in our schools and improving public safety.”
Federal census figures show that in 2010, a year before Emanuel was first elected mayor, Chicago’s African-American population totaled 895,294, or 33.2 percent. Census data released last year showed the number of black residents declining to 793,852, representing about 29.3 percent of the city’s population.
That continued a long-term decline in African-American population, as Chicago also lost 177,404 black residents between 2000 and 2010, census figures showed.
The accusations Kennedy lobbed Wednesday, while Emanuel remained out of town on vacation, took aim at a political weakness for the mayor: support among African-Americans.
Emanuel twice won the mayor’s office with significant backing from black voters, but much of that eroded in November 2015 after a judge ordered Emanuel to release dashcam video of the Laquan McDonald police shooting. White police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot the black teenager 16 times in the middle of a Southwest Side street.
The mayor’s court fight against releasing the video, a $5 million settlement with the McDonald family before a lawsuit was even filed and murder charges filed against Van Dyke the same day the video was released led to weeks of street protests, accusations of a cover-up and calls for Emanuel’s resignation.
Polls in the following months showed Emanuel’s support among African-Americans plummeting, and the city’s Police Department became the subject of a federal civil rights investigation by the Obama administration that found patterns of misconduct and excessive force against minorities.
Since then, Emanuel has sought to rebuild lost support by making a series of changes to the Police Department, revising the city’s policy on releasing police shooting videos and pursuing a plan to hire nearly 1,000 new officers.
As for Kennedy and Emanuel, there is not much of a public history between the two. Kennedy has supported Emanuel before, contributing $5,000 to the mayor’s campaign in September 2014, records show.
Democratic governor candidate Chris Kennedy on Wednesday accused Mayor Rahm Emanuel of leading a “strategic gentrification plan” aimed at forcing African-Americans and other minorities out of Chicago to make the city “whiter” and wealthier.
“I believe that black people are being pushed out of Chicago intentionally by a strategy that involves disinvestment in communities being implemented by the city administration, and I believe Rahm Emanuel is the head of the city administration and therefore needs to be held responsible for those outcomes,” Kennedy said during a news conference about gun violence in North Lawndale.
“This is involuntary. That we’re cutting off funding for schools, cutting off funding for police, allowing people to be forced to live in food deserts, closing hospitals, closing access to mental health facilities. What choice do people have but to move, to leave?” Kennedy added. “And I think that’s part of a strategic gentrification plan being implemented by the city of Chicago to push people of color out of the city. The city is becoming smaller, and as it becomes smaller, it’s become whiter.”
The mayor’s office responded by trying to link Kennedy to two Republican politicians who enjoy little popularity in Chicago — President Donald Trump and Gov. Bruce Rauner, whom Kennedy wants to replace.
Michael Madigan, the state’s Democratic chairman, and Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios, the county’s Democratic chairman.
published “The Tax Divide,” an investigation that found Berrios’ office’s assessments were so riddled with errors that they created deep inequities favoring owners of expensive commercial properties and homes at the expense of owners of smaller business properties and less-expensive homes.
Kennedy wants to ban elected officials from also holding outside jobs as property tax appeal lawyers. Madigan, for example, has a property tax appeals business.
On Wednesday, Kennedy added Emanuel to the list of top Democrats he’s criticizing, saying the mayor shouldn’t claim credit for a reduction in homicides last year compared with 2016.
“Not to the people of North Lawndale he can’t (claim credit). Not to the people in lots of neighborhoods in this city where crime continues to increase, not decrease; where funds have been removed; where schools are being closed; where community police officers don’t exist; where training of cops is diminished; where an entire generation of police officers are retiring early, leaving no one to mentor the younger officers; where crime is the result of that cataclysmic combination of forces,” Kennedy said.
The candidate contended Chicago was “using a strategy of selective containment where we’re allowing violence to continue as long as it only continues in certain neighborhoods.”
Those remarks drew a response from Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who portrayed Kennedy as out of touch with the city’s crime-fighting efforts. Johnson also said “no one is spiking the ball” on reducing violence.
“I’ve never heard from Chris Kennedy. I’ve never even met him. He’s never visited a police station or asked me or my team for any kind of briefing on what we are doing in Chicago to address the gang violence and ongoing infusion of illegal guns on our streets,” Johnson said in a statement. “I’m not a politician, but I do take issue with the hard work our men and women are doing to beat back this violence is used to score political points.”
Kennedy said adequate funding for the city’s public schools and for better law enforcement “isn’t available because the mayor allows the Cook County assessor to continue to underassess the downtown buildings owned by corporate America — people who make donations to Rahm Emanuel, folks he’s now protecting.”
The logic behind that attack, however, isn’t entirely accurate. Even if downtown buildings were assessed at a higher value, more money would not be available for schools and other government services because the overall tax burden would not be increased, but simply shifted more toward the commercial buildings and away from other taxpayers.
Kennedy said Emanuel’s predecessor, Richard M. Daley, filed “undervaluation complaints” about large commercial properties “until the assessor walked a straight line.” In 2003, the city Law Department said it had successfully fought $27 million in reductions that had been granted to assessments of business property.
“That’s not happening anymore. And as a result, we’re underfunding our schools and we’re underfunding our Police Department, and the result is violence,” Kennedy said.
Following the Tribune’s reports that raised questions about the assessment system, Emanuel was asked last month if he would start sending city attorneys to challenge assessment appeals filed on behalf of major commercial property owners, some of which are filed by law firms owned by Madigan and Ald. Ed Burke.
“I’m not going to speak to that at this point,” said Emanuel, dodging the question. “I appreciate that.”
Kennedy cited as an example of the “strategic gentrification plan” a move by CPS to close four South Side high schools for a year before a new school opens in 2019.
“I don’t know what you can say when the strategic plan for Chicago Public Schools suggest that the entire community of Englewood can go an entire year without access to a high school,” he said.
“What are you saying to the people there? No one’s going to move there who’s got a high school kid. And anybody with a high school kid has to think about what they’re going to do. It’s just a device to empty out the community,” he said.
Emanuel’s office did not directly respond to the schools criticism but cast Kennedy’s comments as little more than campaign season rhetoric.
“The noise of this particular election will come and go,” said McGrath, Emanuel’s spokesman. “And when it does, we’ll still be focusing on boosting neighborhood small businesses, investing in our schools and improving public safety.”
Federal census figures show that in 2010, a year before Emanuel was first elected mayor, Chicago’s African-American population totaled 895,294, or 33.2 percent. Census data released last year showed the number of black residents declining to 793,852, representing about 29.3 percent of the city’s population.
That continued a long-term decline in African-American population, as Chicago also lost 177,404 black residents between 2000 and 2010, census figures showed.
The accusations Kennedy lobbed Wednesday, while Emanuel remained out of town on vacation, took aim at a political weakness for the mayor: support among African-Americans.
Emanuel twice won the mayor’s office with significant backing from black voters, but much of that eroded in November 2015 after a judge ordered Emanuel to release dashcam video of the Laquan McDonald police shooting. White police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot the black teenager 16 times in the middle of a Southwest Side street.
The mayor’s court fight against releasing the video, a $5 million settlement with the McDonald family before a lawsuit was even filed and murder charges filed against Van Dyke the same day the video was released led to weeks of street protests, accusations of a cover-up and calls for Emanuel’s resignation.
Polls in the following months showed Emanuel’s support among African-Americans plummeting, and the city’s Police Department became the subject of a federal civil rights investigation by the Obama administration that found patterns of misconduct and excessive force against minorities.
Since then, Emanuel has sought to rebuild lost support by making a series of changes to the Police Department, revising the city’s policy on releasing police shooting videos and pursuing a plan to hire nearly 1,000 new officers.
As for Kennedy and Emanuel, there is not much of a public history between the two. Kennedy has supported Emanuel before, contributing $5,000 to the mayor’s campaign in September 2014, records show.
Happy to do what I want on quoting your words back to you.
Tell me again how I am a sexist. Interested to see where that thread leads.
Dude, feeling great. Don't spend a single calorie worrying about me. You go out there and save the world.
You skeptical of all books or just recent ones? Books on all topics or just those critical of DJT?
You are perfectly ok with a company you work for treating women with less respect then men. If you had a problem with this you would boycott such a company. I mean you do stand for women's rights, right? Oh no you just talk about being for women's right while you cash those men sized pay checks.
I am skeptical of anything written in this day an age as there isn't the level of morals that there was 30 years ago. They are even lying in history books in schools these days. So what would stop someone from embellishing in a book based on opinion?
I would suggest that the prevalence of cameras, the devices in nearly every pocket, the never expiring world of search engines and social media make it harder to lie and get away with it.
Do you think that is DJT on the Access Hollywood tapes or do you buy into his claim that it wasn't him?
Oh I buy into those as they have him on tape not some quote from a book that someone is recalling. Keep stretching there sexist. I know I am winning when you start deflecting to other topics that are factual to back up non factual claims. If they have these quotes on tape then lets hear the tapes. Was that so hard to understand? I think you are making this into a trump fan boy thread and that was not what this was.
Just waiting for you to substantiate your claim. Could be fake news, but open to hear your POV on the topic.
As to DJT - would him on tape saying similar things evidencing racism as he did sexism clear things up for you?
You just keep on #winning.
I find it amazing the David is espousing the credibility of the guy who runs Breitbart, which the left has spent the last 2 years accusing of running false and fake attacks against the left. So Pizzagate is false, but the same people reporting it are absolutely honest when recalling Trump quotes? That logic would make Auntie Anne's proud.
Really, you have me on the record support Bannon? Please point that out so I can clarify my thoughts on nutty Steve.
