Trump under fire for racially-charged tweets against congresswomen

[brewer]

Sigh, I've heard this many times over the years, although it's not always included race. I'm very disappointed that more republicans have not denounced the comments. Apparently retaining their elected position takes priority over principles. Maybe it's time for them to resign.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-sant..._b_1377023

Read this. Just goes to show you the Right only gives a shit about minorities when they need them for votes. But once they are in power they don't really care
The Growth and Opportunity Project

It happens on both sides, example: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bla...t-ignored/

[onlinebiker]

Wow, I did not know Detroit, Cincinnatti, and The Bronx are from a different country from America. You learn something new every day, I guess.

Although, I do suppose Trump's right that they "came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all)." I mean, could you imagine if America elected an orangutan with all the finesse of a wrestling heel as our heai okd of state, and had a political system where the two dominant parties are so polarised that they couldn't get together to agree on any legislation, or maybe even had the Justice Department all but state explicitly that the President is above the law (and even nominated a Supreme Court justice who just happened to believe such a thing)? And could you even imagine if one of those two parties had a sizable contingent that would agree with the statement: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub?"  Or even if, Jah forbid, a candidate with three million less votes than the winner still ends up in the highest office in the land?

That would be a really horrible government to live with. Surely, anyone who's lived under a government that was such a "a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world" shouldn't be dictating to America how things should be done.

Detroit isn't a different country.

As a Michigander I can categorically attest to that.


It' s a different planet.

[Fake Messiah]

No, guys, stop talking about president's racism. Can't you see it's all just a distraction from his child-sex-trafficking bestie, which itself is a distraction from president's concentration camps for children which is, of course, a distraction to push president's sexual assault victim from the news cycle.

[Aegon]

So...people in government aren't supposed to have a voice in how to run the government?

Boru

If you have a problem with this country, then you can leave. That's the American attitude. Like when the colonists were under what they considered tyrannical rule in 1776, they just moved to another country. Or when the South thought their rights were under fire and the government was acting tyrannical in the 1850s, they all simply moved to another place.

[Figbash]

I knew he was a racist and misogynist piece of shit.

What is really upsetting me is the people I know (and love) who still support this garbage person. fucking sucks.

[Drich]

Trump under fire for racially-charged tweets against congresswomen

US President Donald Trump has been accused of racism after posting tweets attacking Democratic congresswomen.
He claimed the women "originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe", before suggesting they "go back".
He then said Speaker "Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements".
It comes a week after Ms Pelosi clashed with "the squad", a group of four left-wing Democrat women of colour.
Of the four congresswomen, three - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley - were born and raised in the US, while the fourth, Ilhan Omar, moved to the US as a child.
Ms Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx in New York, approximately 12 miles away from the Queens hospital where Mr Trump himself was born.

In a three-tweet thread, Mr Trump accused the congresswomen of "viciously" criticising him and the US.
He wrote: "So interesting to see 'progressive' Democrat congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run.
   "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.
"These places need your help badly, you can't leave fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48982172



Can anyone take this clown seriously?

  Trump is a genius..

These 4 'dims' are hated by their own party and senior members of the 'dims' are putting distance between them and the 4 radical lefties.

What trump did was play the lable game.. you know to supposedly victimize someone like the 4 dims, with a comment that can be considered a racial slurr, or it could be taken as a challenge as to take the plank out fo your eye before you worry about the speck in mine.. never the less the 4 'dims' took the race bait and like with speak polsi charged trump with being a racist...

Now in the political world what happens when a person of good standing is charged with racism???

What did trump say about speaker polsi when these for "dims" accused polsi of being racist.. Trump himself supported polsi andsaid she is not a racist.(it's true look it up)

Now what happen when the reverse happens to these 4 'dims' when trump makes a supposed racist comment?

Support from the dims rally around the offended. meaning middle to left leaning dims are now required to support these radical left morons. So politically trump can assemble a list of names who support these radical leftists and use that information to put off anyone who is center left to center right.. Here's the problem for the dims. that is 60% of their base not disenfranchised by support to the hard left dims. Again morons even speaker polsi is at odds with these radical leftists S what is going to happen to the dims when it comes time to vote if their vote is split?

Remember Ross Perot? He was the reason bush 1 lost to clinton as he divided the republican base in the early 90s. History is repeating itself because trump is smart enough to play and win this little race baiting game you guys use to dismiss people you are not smart enough to deal with intellectually or by the numbers.

This is awesome! this is better than trump fooling the media to covering his grand opening of the trump hotel in DC, by announcing he would admit to the obama birth certificate scandal. Or when he fooled mexico by saying they where going to pay for the wall, to get them back to the table to renegotiate nafta and in doing so with the taxes and levies earned mexico by our new trade deal is indeed paying for the wall, or how he fooled the dims into thinking there was collusion between him and russia exposing all sorts of deep state people who pushed this investigation past anything legal to the point of exposing themselves which they themselves are now under investigation (effectively draining the swamp)

Trump was right in 2016, we are going to win so much we will get tired of winning! Here he goes again and you morons line yourselves up like dominos just so he can knock you all back down again.

[The Grand Nudger]

Every glimpse down that well is fascinating.

[Drich]

So...people in government aren't supposed to have a voice in how to run the government?

Boru

If you have a problem with this country, then you can leave. That's the American attitude. Like when the colonists were under what they considered tyrannical rule in 1776, they just moved to another country. Or when the South thought their rights were under fire and the government was acting tyrannical in the 1850s, they all simply moved to another place.

.... but they did.

The colonist left the empire did they not?

The south left the union did they not?

Trump said stop bitching about how bad it is here if you can do better, go home and make you s-hole countries better. Then come back and teach us.

The colonist left the empire and show england how to 'do it better.' and guess what sport, england follow suit more or less

The confederacy left the union and could not do better but those slaves who wanted to leave the us got the opportunity to return to africa or got their 40 acres and a mule in central and south america, and as a result the colonist to central and south america failed or where assimilated into the country that are there now, and we can see what type of country the freed men and women built who did not want to stay here but returned to africa in the way of liberia. In essence the slave who did not want to stay left and got a chance to build their own country.

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Every glimpse down that well is fascinating.

take a good long look sport because that is what your next 5 years will look like

[The Grand Nudger]

America is their shithole country.

In any case, it’s nit like I need a primer in your brand of nuts. I’m from Florida, remember? It’s been like this for as long as I’ve been alive, lol.

It just never gets boring watching those tires burn.

[Shell B]

So...people in government aren't supposed to have a voice in how to run the government?

Boru

If you have a problem with this country, then you can leave. That's the American attitude. Like when the colonists were under what they considered tyrannical rule in 1776, they just moved to another country. Or when the South thought their rights were under fire and the government was acting tyrannical in the 1850s, they all simply moved to another place.

I don't favor the idea that it's the "American" attitude. It's a loud attitude, and a lot of us have it, but it doesn't ring true with the founding principles, and it's not true of all of us.