Well, I grew up in Oklahoma, and there were a lot of rednecks who loved the Confederate thing who were not consciously bigoted. I would characterize most of them more as “too ignorant and insensitive to care or notice that black people see this as a sign of slavery and not a way to look cool and rebellious” than as…
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Yup. It’s not the people who have been registered Republican for decades. It’s people who have never voted before (or voted as soon as a Blah Person ran for office), but they feel inspired by Trump.
There several big red buttons placed all around gas stations that immediately kill all power to everything. It is used in case of fire, fuel spills and other emergencies. Next time that happens, after you finish and pay, hit the big red switch and tell the attendant that the guy is smoking. If he’s still pumping gas,…
Trump’s visibility has given previously closeted racists/xenophobes confidence to be confrontational assholes in public. At least now we know who they are.
you mean a family of American immigrants in South America? It’s funny how when westerners live in other poorer or developing countries, they are expats. When the people move from these places to the Western world, they are immigrants.
Now now, don’t get carried away. He’s white so he can’t possibly be a terrorist. He killed cops because they took his flag away, which is a completely reasonable and understandable thing to do. Sometimes white guys just get mad and have to take matters into their own hands, you know?
I wonder if his“plan” was to pin it on BLM? Like the police officer’s wife in Massachusetts who robbed her own house (she had some debts) and then spray painted “BLM” all over the side of her house and played it up in the media or the guy in Texas who vandalized his own pickup truck with BLM?
I am afraid of that. People are acting insane. A woman who works at my daughter’s school was confronted in the parking lot of the grocery store because she drives a Toyota and not a Ford. FFS, this guy just walked up to a stranger and angrily demanded for her to justify her car choice.
So, any politicians out there going to call this guy a terrorist? If he was Muslim you know you would. If he had been waving the flag of Islam and then started killing police? You absolutely would. So, how about this guy? Anyone? Anyone at all? Yeah, didn’t fucking think so. Cowards.
Gonna get worse before it gets better.
“You have to understand in the current social climate we’re in, when you fly a Confederate flag standing in front of several African American people, that’s going to cause a disturbance, whether you intended to or not.”
So he proves that BLM protesters hate cops...by murdering cops.
The how is “by threatening to do this to Democrats, who will never do anything about it.” The why is also “because they are threatening to do this to Democrats, who will never do anything about it.”
I’m a bit baffled by how confident everyone is that Trump doesn’t have a chance. According to Nate Silver yesterday, right now both 538 models and betting markets are giving Trump a 1 in 4 chance of winning. Those are not particularly long odds.
From what I remember about Bill Clinton getting caught cheating back in the 1990s, although he was unfaithful to Hillary, his other “partners” were consenting & enthusiastic. I’m not saying he wasn’t a piece of shit for cheating on her, just that there’s a big difference between having a willing mistress and sexually…
Yesterday I got to vote against Pat McRory and Richard Burr and it felt so good, almost erotic. Sliding that ballot into the box ever so gently at first then, when I knew it was taking it, just letting it go all the way in and making sure that democracy was gonna erupt.
Posted days before he arrived in Dallas:
This is much ado about nothing. It was just a joke. It’s not like anyone has ever used violent imagery to suggest that politicians they disagree with should be shot, then someone actually went and shot those people!