Is Trump Nuts?
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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 23:49
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I wear it with pride, T.
I'm not a mindless Maddow sycophant parroting her very well paid words.
Trump has a lot of flaws. This I don't deny.
There's no need for you or anybody else to make a bunch of shit up about him when he does a bang up job of it himself.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
And there's the flaw in your thinking Jack. What I and others are posting about Trump is not made up.
T
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He says something stupid, out of place, and that could possibly offend people with delicate sensibilities when it didn't need to be said it all.
You go all out and say beyond a shadow of a doubt it came from a place of hate and was racist.
Making shit up is EXACTLY what you are doing.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
He says something stupid, out of place, and that could possibly offend people with delicate sensibilities when it didn't need to be said it all.
You go all out and say beyond a shadow of a doubt it came from a place of hate and was racist.
Making shit up is EXACTLY what you are doing.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It was mentioned here Jack. Some just spoke on it. You're the one who turned it into a huge discussion. Why, cause you're a moron who still doesn't understand what happened and why. Even though it's been explained countless times to you.
Trump acted shamelessly. He turned an event meant to honor Native Americans who served with distinction in WW11, into an opportunity to attack and insult a sitting Senator. For selfish reasons Jack. He sullied this evet for selfish reasons. He used the name Pocahontas to describe this senator in an insulting way.
Pocahontas wasn't even her real name. Here father used a fake name to introduce here. He felt White men would sully her somehow. He didn't want her real name used when they did so. So he introduced her as Pocahontas. Sure as shit Jack Trump proved him right. I believe her real name was Amonute.
I cannot remember what has been explained to you so far so I will add this. Trump held the event in front of a presidential portrait. The portrait of the president responsible for the trail of tears.
You're just to stupid Jack. You're just to stupid.
T
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I don't think Trump was "racist", but I think he was unprepared, which represents carelessness.
We know that he can craft a good speech and put on a good show for heads of state or important people. Carelessness shows that he didn't think much of the people he was addressing; but not necessarily because he's "racist". It doesn't say much good about Trump, and if I were a group of people that he addressed so unpreparedly, I'd be miffed. Not because he was hostile (because I think Trump really was trying to extend a friendly hand) and not because he was an "ist" (sexist, racist, etc) but because he was disrespectful and, as BRENDA put it, patronizing.
It's a fine line between "racism" and a general disregard of others, and deciding which one applies requires imputing motives in others which is always a dangerous thing. So, again, in my book "careless", not "racist" but it's a point on which I can see disagreement.
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Quote:That's just denial. Racism isn't something that just white people do. Many Japanese are incredibly racist (they think Koreans are subhuman), so are many Chinese. Many blacks are racist against whites: they have expectations of "white people" that have nothing to do with how any white individual might actually behave.
The black athletes he "attacks" are racist. -SIX
That's just crazy talk.- G
Now, I will say that people tend to cry "racism" over things that AREN'T race, like differences in national origin, language, religion, or citizenship. As far as I know, Spanish-speaking peoples aren't a "race", and neither are those who speak Mandarin. Being a "Muslim" doesn't define a racial group either, and citizenship doesn't confer a "race" on anybody.
Maybe instead of constantly talking about "racism" we should talk about "prejudice" because THAT is the more general term that covers a multitude of sins.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:How about "white supremacy" rather than "prejudice", which is such a weak term?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
That's just denial. Racism isn't something that just white people do. Many Japanese are incredibly racist (they think Koreans are subhuman), so are many Chinese. Many blacks are racist against whites: they have expectations of "white people" that have nothing to do with how any white individual might actually behave.
Now, I will say that people tend to cry "racism" over things that AREN'T race, like differences in national origin, language, religion, or citizenship. As far as I know, Spanish-speaking peoples aren't a "race", and neither are those who speak Mandarin. Being a "Muslim" doesn't define a racial group either, and citizenship doesn't confer a "race" on anybody.
Maybe instead of constantly talking about "racism" we should talk about "prejudice" because THAT is the more general term that covers a multitude of sins.
It was 1990 and Donald Trump shoots off his mouth about David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, running for the Senate and earning 43 percent of the vote in Louisiana.
Before Trump could claim white supremacy had nothing to do with Duke’s voters, Walker Percy, a Louisiana author, gave a prophetic warning to The New York Times: “Don’t make the mistake of thinking David Duke is a unique phenomenon confined to Louisiana rednecks and yahoos. He’s not,” Percy said. “He’s not just appealing to the old Klan constituency, he’s appealing to the white middle class. And don’t think that he or somebody like him won’t appeal to the white middle class of Chicago or Queens.”
A few days after Duke’s strong showing, the Queens-born businessman Donald Trump appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live.
“It’s anger. I mean, that’s an anger vote. People are angry about what’s happened. People are angry about the jobs. If you look at Louisiana, they’re really in deep trouble,” Trump told King.
Trump later predicted that Duke, if he ran for president, would siphon most of his votes away from the incumbent, George H. W. Bush—in the process revealing his own understanding of the effectiveness of white-nationalist appeals to the GOP base.
“Whether that be good or bad, David Duke is going to get a lot of votes. Pat Buchanan—who really has many of the same theories, except it's in a better package—Pat Buchanan is going to take a lot of votes away from George Bush,” Trump said. “So if you have these two guys running, or even one of them running, I think George Bush could be in big trouble.” Little more than a year later, Buchanan embarrassed Bush by drawing 37 percent of the vote in New Hampshire’s Republican primary.
In February 2016, Trump was asked by a different CNN host about David Duke’s, the former Klan leader, endorsement of his Republican presidential bid.
“Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke. Okay?,” Trump said. “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So I don’t know.”
It was not just Trump’s supporters who were in denial about what they were voting for, but Americans across the political spectrum, who, as had been the case with those who had backed Duke, searched desperately for any alternative explanation — outsourcing, anti-Washington anger, economic anxiety — to the one staring them in the face.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-nationalists-delusion
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Trump was taken to court for trying to block black people from renting from him; simple. What sig wants to do is turn this into a discussion about racism in general.
Before she can don't that she needs to show she understands the issue. Two thirds of this country believe Trump to be a racist. She disagrees, end of story.
T
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SECOND, I know Trump is a nationalist. Whether or not he's a "white" nationalist, I don't know. As you know, I support ending illegal immigration into the USA, but I don't consider that "racism", I consider it a matter of national sovereignty.
As far as the David Duke candidacy is concerned, Trump framed it as a "jobs" issue. Did the other candidates in that campaign ALSO focus in jobs, or was David Duke the only one? If that was the case, the voters might really have been voting about jobs.
I think it's incredibly presumptuous of you to tell people why they "really" voted the way they did. I know that you're incredibly inaccurate when you tell ME what I think, so why should I imagine that you're any more accurate about anybody else?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, I know Trump is a nationalist. Whether or not he's a "white" nationalist, I don't know.
Right, this is why you should not comment on the issue of racism or bigotry. You are one sig. Hey, how bout them Jews? You're such a shit.
T
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Quote:This from one of the most hate-filled, ignorant bigots on the board?
Right, this is why you should not comment on the issue of racism or bigotry. You are one sig. Hey, how bout them Jews? You're such a shit.
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