Flashermac Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 The only Nigerians I've met in the States have been well educated, including my classmates in graduate school. I have no idea why Trump targeted them, since Nigerians (and other West Africans) aren't pouring into the United States. You're probably right about Bannon influencing him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QulW-AlDkw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 Steve - why do you make me look at Facebook? That link was one of the more abhorrent things I've seen in my life. That's why I don't do Facebook. Occasionally down here, we get such women, abusing someone on a bus or other public place. Also quite a lot in Australia, as we seem to have the same media market. The formulae seem to go like this: Woman (white, limited vocabulary), has virulent verbal outburst against someone who may be a different colour, or wearing recognisably non-european clothing. For some reason she's not shy, about members of the public recording said outburst, on phones etc. The footage then goes 'viral' and usually the perpetrator is called out, shamed and often prosecuted. Men do it too, but not as often recorded. In the USA, will this woman go unpunished? Jeez, who's gonna feed her at the drive thru, if no immigrants are allowed? I fear for America, and by proxy, the western world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 And following the theme: U.S. Warned Jared Kushner About Wendi Deng Murdoch Officials said the businesswoman could be trying to further Beijing’s interests, people familiar with the matter say WASHINGTON—U.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, that Wendi Deng Murdoch, a prominent Chinese-American businesswoman, could be using her close friendship with Mr. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, to futher the interests of the Chinese government, according to people familiar with the matter... https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-warned-jared-kushner-about-wendi-deng-murdoch-1516052072 Why? because she's of Chinese appearance? Let alone the corruption perceptions.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 Look out for those Scots, they'll be getting Trump to build Golf Courses in Scotland next... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 I know this has been widely covered, but it's worth a read, and because it's behind a paywall I'll post it here. Truly Execrable Trump Racism. https://www.nytimes....setType=opinion Donald Trump’s Racism: The Definitive List By DAVID LEONHARDT and IAN PRASAD PHILBRICK JAN. 15, 2018 Donald Trump has been obsessed with race for the entire time he has been a public figure. He had a history of making racist comments as a New York real-estate developer in the 1970s and ‘80s. More recently, his political rise was built on promulgating the lie that the nation’s first black president was born in Kenya. He then launched his campaign with a speech describing Mexicans as rapists. The media often falls back on euphemisms when describing Trump’s comments about race: racially loaded, racially charged, racially tinged, racially sensitive. And Trump himself has claimed that he is “the least racist person.†But here’s the truth: Donald Trump is a racist. He talks about and treats people differently based on their race. He has done so for years, and he is still doing so. Here, we have attempted to compile a definitive list of his racist comments – or at least the publicly known ones. The New York Years Trump’s real-estate company tried to avoid renting apartments to African-Americans in the 1970s and gave preferential treatment to whites, according to the federal government. Trump treated black employees at his casinos differently from whites, according to multiple sources. A former hotel executive said Trump criticized a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks.†In 1989, Trump took out ads in New York newspapers urging the death penalty for five black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a white woman in Central Park; he argued they were guilty as late as October 2016, more than 10 years after DNA evidence had exonerated them. In 1989, on NBC, Trump said: “I think sometimes a black may think they don’t have an advantage or this and that. I’ve said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I really believe they do have an actual advantage.†An Obsession With Dark-Skinned Immigrants He began his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech disparaging Mexican immigrants as criminals and “rapists.†He uses the gang MS-13 to disparage all immigrants. Among many other statements, he has suggested that Obama’s protection of the Dreamers — otherwise law-abiding immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children — contributed to the spread of MS-13. In December 2015, Trump called for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,†including refusing to readmit Muslim-American citizens who were outside of the country at the time. Trump said a federal judge hearing a case about Trump University was biased because of the judge’s Mexican heritage. In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recent immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS†and that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never “go back to their huts†in Africa. At the White House on Jan. 11, Trump vulgarly called for less immigration from Haiti and Africa and more from Norway. Obama As Unqualified, Lazy and Un-American He spent years suggesting that the nation’s first black president was born not in the United States but in Kenya, a lie that Trump still has not acknowledged as such. Trump called Obama (who was editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review) “a terrible student, terrible.†Trump frequently claimed that Obama did not work hard as president. Trump falsely claimed that President Obama “issued a statement for Kwanzaa but failed to issue one for Christmas.†Urban America As a Hellscape He often casts heavily black American cities as dystopian war zones. In a 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump said, “Our inner cities, African Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it’s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.†Trump also said to black voters: “You’re living in poverty; your schools are no good; you have no jobs.†He frequently offers false crime statistics to exaggerate urban crime, including about Oakland, Philadelphia and Ferguson, Mo. He is quick to highlight crimes committed by dark-skinned people, sometimes exaggerating or lying about them (such as a claim about growing crime from “radical Islamic terror†in Britain). He is very slow to decry hate crimes committed by whites against dark-skinned people (such as the killing of an Indian man in Kansas last year). Minorities As Uppity and Ungrateful He frequently criticizes prominent African-Americans for being unpatriotic, ungrateful and disrespectful. He called Puerto Ricans who criticized his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria “politically motivated ingrates.†Friendliness with Proud Racists and White Nationalists He has retweeted white nationalists without apology. He called some of those who marched alongside white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., last August “very fine people.†After David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, endorsed him, Trump was reluctant to disavow Duke even when asked directly on television. Trump hired Steve Bannon as his campaign head and later White House chief strategist. Under Bannon’s leadership, the website Breitbart made white nationalism a central theme. It featured a section, for example, on “black crime.†Trump endorsed and campaigned for Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate who spoke positively about slavery and who called for an African-American Muslim member of Congress not to be seated because of his religion. Trump pardoned – and fulsomely praises – Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff sanctioned for racially profiling Latinos and for keeping immigrants in brutal prison conditions. Denigrating Native Americans In the 1990s, Trump took out advertisements alleging that the “Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.†At the time, he was fighting competition for his casino business. In a 1993 radio interview, he suggested that Native Americans in Connecticut were faking their ancestry. “I think I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations.†In a November 2017 meeting with Navajo veterans of World War II, Trump mocked Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.†Other Assorted Racism Trump has trafficked in anti-Semitic caricatures, including the tweeting of a six-pointed star alongside a pile of cash. He has also been reluctant to condemn anti-Semitic attacks on journalists from his supporters, and he echoed neo-Nazi conspiracy theories by saying that Hillary Clinton “meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors.†In a White House meeting with a Korean-American intelligence analyst briefing him on Pakistan, Trump wondered aloud why she was not working on North Korea policy. Trump once referred to a Hispanic Miss Universe as “Miss Housekeeping.†At a June 2016 campaign rally, Trump pointed to one attendee and said: “Oh, look at my African-American over here. Look at him.†___ What follows is Coss' comment: Abhorrent person, this man. ___ And now the likely Trumpanzee response: But Hilary is racist and runs a pedophile trafficking gang in a basement with Aliens from Mars. (Absolute Bullshit). Everyone is thinking it anyway. (doesn't make it right). Unattributed. (even though it is). Main stream media - Lame - Fake news. (Main stream media is normally the best, most accurate source of fact and truth). ___ Lastly, how would Trumpanzees feel if they were rounded up and deported?, or put in camps? All on the basis that they are white and ignorant? ___ First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 My apologies to any Trumpanzees who may be offended by the following, in the language of Drumpf forbears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 “I had survived the work gangs in the ghetto. Baked bread under cover of night. Hidden in a pigeon coop. Had a midnight bar mitzvah in the basement of an abandoned building. I had watched my parents be taken away to their deaths, had avoided Amon Goeth and his dogs, had survived the salt mines of Wieliczka and the sick games of Trzebinia. I had done so much to live, and now, here, the Nazis were going to take all that away with their furnace! I started to cry, the first tears I had shed since Moshe died. Why had I worked so hard to survive if it was always going to end like this? If I had known, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have let them kill me back in the ghetto. It would have been easier that way. All that I had done was for nothing.†― Alan Gratz, Prisoner B-3087 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 Look out for those Scots, they'll be getting Trump to build Golf Courses in Scotland next... He already did .... and pissed off plenty of people! Donald Trump Golf Course Destroyed 4,000-Year-Old Scottish Sand Dunes, Conservationists Claim http://www.newsweek.com/trump-golf-trump-organization-scotland-706358 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 He already did .... and pissed off plenty of people! Donald Trump Golf Course Destroyed 4,000-Year-Old Scottish Sand Dunes, Conservationists Claim http://www.newsweek....scotland-706358 I shoulda used the sarcastic emoji - sorry - my post was tongue in cheek. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 I shoulda used the sarcastic emoji - sorry - my post was tongue in cheek. Or, dick in a nice warm Haggis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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