During a Friday campaign rally in Redding, California, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump illustrated his “tremendous” support from black voters by pointing to a black man in the crowd, exclaiming, “Look at my African-American over here!”
The real-estate mogul used the unnamed black male to relay a story about how the media allegedly mistook his black supporter “cold-clocking” a protester in a Ku Klux Klan-like hood to be a Trump anti-protester. “We had a case where we had an African-American guy who is a fan of mine, great fan, great guy,” he said before pointing. “Look at my African-American over here. Look at him! Are you the greatest? Do you know what I’m talking about?”
Nah, Muhammad Ali was the Greatest (you know…a Muslim-American? Or more accurately, a convert to Sufi Islam in his later years). And what are you talking about?!
Next he will be trouting out his Mexican-American friend.
Sorry, FA. I’m still not there yet.
The only thing Trump really has going for him is the terrible two candidates on the opposite side of the muck pond; and the anti-Trump idiots protesting his rallies, which helps him rather than harms him.
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
The Demacrat party the party of the KKK and the slave owners Lincoln was a Republican and freed the slaves now their slaves still of the demacrats
JFK, RFK, and LBJ were all Democrats, as I recall. In 1963 President Kennedy enforced the Supreme Court’s decision that segregation was unconstitutional by sending federal marshals to directly confront Alabama Governor George Wallace, who vowed to block enrollment of blacks into University of Alabama, and then by federalizing the Alabama National Guard.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 resulted from the request JFK made for such legislation in his civil rights address of June 11, 1963. The bill passed with majority support among both Democrats and Republicans in both the House and the Senate.
The South essentially abandoned democrats because the Democratic Party abandoned the segregationists.
@Greg:
They are still the Party of Segregation – they just went a different way about it. They saw that the old style segregation and disenfranchisement was a lost cause, so they changed to driving as many wedges into society as possible.
By convincing people into believing that they are part of some oppressed minority or another and telling them that Democrats will give them special treatment, Democrats claim the moral high ground against Republicans, who generally, since the Civil War, just want everyone to be treated equally, no special favors for anyone. The latest “oppressed minority” that has been identified for political exploitation are the trans-gendered. In a few years, it might be left-handed albinos.
Back to the subject at hand, the only people making Republicans look stupid are those trying to run a third party candidate, the #NeverTrump guys. The primary process is all but done and the Party members have spoken – for better or worse, Trump is our flag carrier. The party has to unite behind him, or the Democrats win. It’s as simple as that.
There is no hope in hell that a 3rd party candidate will win in 2016. All these assholes will do is hand over the country to a criminal sociopath (Clinton) or a raving Socialist that has never held an honest job in his life.
TRUMP makes repubs look bad? HA! Look at the do-nothing Republican House and Senate that has been rubber stamping and ignoring the king’s actions. They are the ones that make the party look dumb. Trump jokes around and even the repub’s call him racist. I am beginning to hope that this election does destroy the old guard repubs and gives us a chance to survive. I also believe that, if these fools helps put the hildebeast into the White House, it will be the end of the United States.
@Greg:
The fine tuned Southern Strategy, as Lee Atwater openly admitted to, played a major role as well.
@Bookdoc:
Your illogical rants become even more, well, illogical. You continue to argue the GOP has laid down to Obama while their filibusters, obstructions, and refusals to seat nominees has shattered historical records. One has to wonder precisely what you’re talking about.
And this hope of destroying “old guard repubs” doesn’t make sense either as that leaves democrats, which you state or imply as worse. The tea party is simply a movement and not a political party.
As far as those “rebups” admonising Trumps racism, it’s actually to their credit.
What can be said is that more democrats opposed the bill then republicans.
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The Senate version:
•Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
•Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
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•The House version:
•Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
•Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)
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•Basically out of 157 nays 111 were democrats. Most Democrats from the Southern states opposed the bill and led an unsuccessful 83-day filibuster, including Senators Albert Gore, Sr. (D-TN) and J. William Fulbright (D-AR), as well as Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who personally filibustered for 14 hours straight.
There’s no demarcrats on Mt Rushmore becuase assholes and harder to carve
So, Hispanics, Afro-Americans, and women have all been bamboozled by democrats into believing that the GOP in general and Donald Trump don’t represent their best interests, when, in fact, they do. It’s an interesting theory.
@Greg:
It’s a fact. The Democratic party and the racebaiters and other special interests that support it want as many people with a big chip on their shoulders as they can convince. One thing that Republicans, for all their faults, have ALWAYS stood for is equal treatment for everyone. No affirmative action, no special privileges, simply equal rights and let time sort things out.
Look at Asian Americans. When Asians started coming to the US in large numbers in the late 1800s they were treated as bad or worse than blacks during that time. But for some reason (cultural maybe?) they never became resentful – they just got to work, opened businesses, educated their kids and are now as successful (or more) as the general population. Does anyone think of them as oppressed or disadvantaged? No. They simply showed everyone that they were as capable as anyone else of being honest, hardworking members of society.
The worst thing that happened to blacks in America are all the “Leaders” they had that taught them to be resentful. I don’t think MLK was like that – he sought for people to be judged on their character, not color – which made his death twice the tragedy. Maybe the race hustlers like Jackson, Sharpton and Farakan would not have gained so much traction had he lived.
And Obama has been among the worst. He and his wife had a unique opportunity over the past 8 years, and he not only wasted it, he made matters worse. He could have made his message to all Americans that, after 150 years, blacks have gone from slavery to the highest office in the land. Let the past be the past, let’s all let go of the old resentments and move forward from here. But instead he made matters worse – as we knew he would before he was elected. He comes from the Sharpton/Jackson school. But it would have been nice to have been wrong about him.
@Dreadnought: And Trump’s gonna fix that?
@Ajay42302:
What part of “He and his wife had a unique opportunity over the past 8 years” was confusing? Trump is not black.
@Greg:
Laughable. The left “represents the needs” of various groups in the same manner that a drug dealer represents the needs of the addicts the drug pusher got addicted to his poison.
@Pete: OMG you finally get it! yes they are addicted Greg to handouts. Its the same reason you do not feed the bears in your parks and back yard they become dependent, what do you think they would do if a law were passed that they were only allowed 3 years total on the tax payers dime?
And those that have been on the taxpayers dime for 5 or more years would be on their own?
Leftism is the twisted philosophy that claims it is selfish greed for an individual to want to keep what he earns, but it is not greedy to demand that government take from those who have earned to give to those who have not earned it.
Leftism screams that it is jingoistic racism to wave the US flag, but not to wave another nation’s flag while burning the US flag.
Leftism shrieks about alleged “bigoted” Christian opposition to state coerced forced participation in ceremonies of homogamy, while ignoring muslims throwing homosexuals to their deaths off buildings.
Leftism wails like a banshee over the shooting of a gorilla endangering a child, but insists on the “right” to dismember or chemically burn to death pre-born humans for the convenience of those who are post-parturent.
Leftism hypocritically claims a woman smiling and pointing to her Trump shirt is to blame for being assaulted by others, while insisting it is misogyny bordering on rape to compliment a woman’s dress.
Leftism demands we believe the bogus statistic that 1 in 5 college women are rape victims, while hypocritically ignoring the behavior of Bill Clinton towards Broadrick, Willey, Jones and others.
Leftism poses in a ridiculous act of false compassion for the feelings of those afflicted with the mental illness of Gender Identity Confusion, while insisting little girls need to “get over” their feelings of discomfort about men pretending to be women using public restrooms.
The quote, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive insane” has never been more appropriate than regarding the modern left.
@Greg:
The Civil Rights Act began before Kennedy with Eisenhower signing his Civil Rights Act into law. Though much weakened by the democrats, particularly Lyndon Baines Johnson, it paved the way for Everett Dirksen, Republican from Illinois, to almost work himself to death getting the new bill through Congress so Johnson could sign it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/opinion/12nichols.html?_r=0
And, btw, Kennedy’s nemesis blocking those school house doors, George Wallace ran as a democrat in 64, ran as an American Independent in 68 and then back to the democrat party in 72.
The switch to the GOP in the south was due to economic issues, the Southern Strategy. The democrats myth of the Southern Strategy began when a liberal journalist published his faulty opinion of it in the NYTimes.
@Greg:
Greg, you do know he was a Dimocrat.
Anyone who is for Amnesty and th Dream Act are traitor’s and need to leave the country
@Dreadnought: You didn’t elaborate much on precisely what tools they had in that “unique opportunity” tool box that was suppose to persuade people of all walks and skin color to all hold hands and sing kumbaya.
It also doesn’t help much with the opposition party constantly tooting their birther dog whistles along with rabid right leaning blogs doing a happy dance every time a white guy nailed one in a gated community or some white cop dropped another one with a shot in the back. It’s rather obvious that many on the right were rather pissed at a black guy in the WH.
But yeah, it’s all Obama’s fault. But the again, what isn’t?
So, Wordsmith would what, have us vote for Hillary or Bernie so that one of them can complete Obama’s adopted (Dreams of my Father,) plan to destroy this nation?
No, I don’t think so. Yes, we know that many of the Republican authors and moderators here on FA do not like Trump. The alternative however is even worse. Wordsmith may want to believe that Trump is a racist, but I don’t buy into that contrived argument (Really Wordsmith? The Daily Beast? I’m surprised at you).
Sorry Friends, If You Are #NeverTrump Then You Are #4Hillary
As for the self-proclaimed Conservative ‘purists’ in FA land:
Strong words, and why, while Trump was not my preferred candidate, while I continue to roll my eyes and face-palm over some of the things he has said, Trump is still a better choice than another GOPe progressive and unquestionably better than our having Hillary or Bernie as president. I will therefore vote for Trump. There is no other viable alternative.
I’ve been doing that, too, with the eyes and palm, Ditto.
So, today Trump has released a statement that attempts to put this issue to rest.
It won’t do that.
(See also http://www.98percentapproval.com. )
The Left, the Conservatives of Never Trump and the media smell red meat.
So, while ISIS locked 19 young girls in a metal cage then lit them all on fire for refusing to have sex with their fighters, Donald Trump’s court case is in the forefront.
A part of his statement moves away from the judge’s status as an Hispanic and towards his behavior in this case and his personal life:
@Nanny G:
Trump obtained his degree in law where?
Where are the court records of Trump’s attorneys appealing the judge’s decisions? Where are the court records of Trump’s attorneys seeking the removal of the judge in the Trump U case? I would certainly like to read those transcripts.
@Nanny G:
Yes, the MSM is desperately (and predictably,) spinning and pushing more negative anti-Trump news to hurt his tally in the final state primaries.
Many feel Trump’s concern in the possible impartiality of this judge is justified.
Donald Trump Is Correct To Hit ‘La Raza’ Judge For Latino Identity Politics
With La Raza and other such Aztlan organizations vehemently and violently protesting at Trump Rallies, it certainly sounds to me like Trump has a valid point.
Even establishment editorial FOX celebrity O’Reilly agrees with Trump:
O’Reilly: Trump University Judge ‘Should Recuse Himself’
Oh, and remember the violence in San Jose, where police allowed Trump protesters to assault Trump supporters?:
San Jose Police Chief Who Admits ALLOWING ATTACKS on Trump Supporters is Affiliated With La Raza
(Snip)
I concur.
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/whoops-judge-mistakenly-unsealed-too-many-records-in-trump-u-lawsuit/
Bad judge.
Many Trump supporters don’t believe his wildest promises — and they don’t care
How can anyone argue with that? Now it all makes perfect sense. You don’t actually have to do things. You just have to say you’re going to do things.
Unfortunately, the presidential election isn’t fantasy football.
@Greg:
That’s a really perceptive comment, Greg.
It is true that Donald Trump speaks in hyperbole.
In that his exaggerations are different in kind, not degree, from, say, Obama’s.
When Obama said he was for keeping marriage between a man and a woman, his alternate marriage proponents knew he was just lying to get elected.
When he claimed to have ”evolved” on that issue, his gay marriage supporters knew code when they heard it.
When Obama said he was Israel’s best friend, his Israel-hating supporters knew he was just saying that to get elected.
Example:
Donald Trump, otoh, stretches time all the time.
Big Crime!
His endorsement from 3 weeks ago was really from 6 weeks ago. His phone call from 4 months ago was really from over a year ago.
You can catch numerous of these in his off the cuff speeches.
As to ”the wall,” Trump is using hyberbola to make his point that the border will be secured.
This is something our laws and budget already allow for.
We just don’t do it.
Our Border Patrol say they are ordered to stand down.
That’s not following written law.
Our Homeland Security is bussing illegals into the interior of this country.
That’s also not following written law.
IF a new president simply begins following written law about border policy, it will seem like a wall has gone up overnight.
However, our so-called border is in bad shape.
In some places a physical wall might also be advisable.
@Nanny G:
Did you miss the questions? Here they are again:
Trump obtained his degree in law where?
Where are the court records of Trump’s attorneys appealing the judge’s decisions? Where are the court records of Trump’s attorneys seeking the removal of the judge in the Trump U case? I would certainly like to read those transcripts.
Instead, you go completely off on another issue, obviously not wanting to answer my questions directly.
“Actions speak louder than Trump: His own lawyer said “the judge is doing his job” in Trump U. case
June 6, 206, Just three weeks before Donald Trump triggered a national firestorm over his claims that U.S. Judge Gonzalo Curiel was biased against him because of his Mexican heritage, his lead lawyer in the Trump University case praised Curiel for a “sound decision” and said he had no plans to file a motion for him to be recused.
“The judge is doing his job,” said Daniel Petrocelli, shaking his head, when asked if planned to seek Curiel’s recusal. “We’re not seeking to recuse the judge.
Petrocelli, a renowned civil litigator who has spearheaded Trump’s defense in the Trump University case, praised Curiel after the May 6 hearing and for good reason: The judge had arguably done Trump a huge favor. The plaintiffs in the case, who claim they were defrauded out of tens of thousands of dollars they paid for Trump University seminars they say were largely worthless, had pushed for a trial date this summer in the 6-year-old case — right after the Republican Party convention. “Justice delayed is justice denied,” Jason Forge, one of the plaintiff’s lawyers, had argued to Curiel that day. “There are people who are still paying off their debts for the money they paid to Trump University.”
But Curiel rejected that argument and pushed the trial back to Nov. 28 so as not to interfere with Trump’s campaign for president. It was no small break for the presumptive GOP candidate, since he is the lead defendant in the case and would likely be the chief witness in a trial that is expected to last at least a month.
Although Petrocelli had sought a trial date in February — by which time Trump, if he wins the election, would actually be president — he praised Curiel’s ruling that day. “We’re pleased that this case is not going to trial [while] Mr. Trump is preparing for the presidential election,” he told reporters outside the courtroom. “We think that’s a sound decision by the court.”
Seems the judge has been more than fair to The Donald, at least according to his lead attorney. And Heaven forbid that you ever admit that Trump is nothing more than a big-mouthed disaster.
@Greg:
Like any businessman, Trump declares what he wants in a perfect world. Build a wall, balance trade with China, Mexico etc. Those are his opening positions. When he sits down with Congress, like in any business negotiation, he’s going to give up some of what he wants in return for getting the rest.
Which means that if Trump gets elected, Trump supporters do not actually expect that the Mexican border will be completely secure – but we will expect that the border is significantly and measurably more secure, and illegal crossings are significantly more difficult, and hiring of illegals entails more enforced penalties with teeth.
Ditto on trade. I don’t expect him to actually balance trade with China. But I do expect us to get a better deal than what we have today.
@Nanny G:
My God, Nan, have you lost what little sense God gave you? A lie is a lie, no matter how you frame it.
Trump is going to build a wall? How? With whose money? Does he have the Constitutional authority to go over Congress’s head and grant a contract for such construction? Is he going to violate the 10th Amendment or use Kelo to confiscate land from Texas land owners whose land rights extend all the way to the banks of the Rio Grande?
La Raza Judge Gonzalo Curiel and the Hispanic National Bar Association…
The Judge clearly should recuse himself simply on the grounds that he has a conflict of interest that justifiably raises the question of bias and conflict of interest.
Judicial Disqualification Resource Center:
Grounds for Recusal
DECIDING RECUSAL MOTIONS:WHO JUDGES THE JUDGES?
Justice must be blind and impartial to be fair and just.
Why Donald Trump Has the Perfect Presidential Temperament (Part 1)
Why Donald Trump Has the Perfect Presidential Temperament, Part II
Again, I want to bring up all the hoopla over the loyalty pledge the GOP insisted on around the time of the first debate. At the time, all the talking heads were absolutely confident that there was no way Trump would be able to win the nomination, and all the candidates were pressured to agree to support whoever won the delegate count. The concern was that when Trump lost, he would run 3rd party, thus giving the election to Hillary.
Well, much to my chagrin – as well as to the anti-Trump talking heads – Trump has won the required number of delegates. The GOPe made this bed, and now are doing all kinds of propaganda gymnastics to avoid having to abide by the loyalty pledge that THEY devised. Had a different candidate won, and Trump acted the way the GOPe are acting now, we would hear no end of howls from the GOPe about Trump’s disloyalty to the party, and his lack of integrity.
I am not a Trump fan. My candidate (Cruz) lost. Trump won. How does the behavior of the GOPe in undermining the winner of the GOP nomination in favor of the contemptibly corrupt Clinton demonstrate anything other than the reeking hypocrisy that defines the left? It is complete insanity – veritable political suicide – to think for a moment that sabotaging Trump will result in anything other than a Clinton victory compounded with an electoral change of Congress from GOP to leftist majority. (Note I did not say ‘conservative to leftist majority’ as McConnell and Ryan have done almost nothing – short of refusing a vote on filling Scalia’s SCOTUS seat – to engender conservative policy enactment.)
The level of political corruption we would witness should Hillary win the Oval Office can be seen by the laughable claim from the federal government that it would require 75 YEARS to produce Hillary’s emails. Really? It only took 66 years to go from the first heavier than air flight to landing men on the moon. It only took 6 years to defeat the Nazis. But recovering emails from an inept criminal, we are to believe, will take the federal government 75 years?
Say what you will about Trump’s demeanor. Regardless, I cannot imagine a worse fate for the republic than a Hillary presidency.
House Republicans to roll out national security agenda
Sure it will, Paul. Donald Trump is going to be reined in by the GOP establishment, and, once elected, will quietly go along with whatever you guys decide is right. We’ve seen so much evidence of that, haven’t we?
Here’s my prediction: He’ll play your game for however long it’s necessary to get to the point where he no longer has to.
You have yet to learn anything at all, if you imagine Donald Trump’s ego will deflate to normal size if he’s given charge of the Oval Office. It would be like throwing kerosene on a fire expecting to put it out.
@Greg:
Seeing as the White House was large enough for Obama’s ego, it’s certainly big enough for Trump’s.
The House is more than welcome to come up with a national security policy agenda, as is the Senate. But, you know as well as I do that the Executive Branch is the final word on National security policy.
Greg ‘s “prediction” is what you call a “sure thing” because that is how the Constitution meant for national security to work. Greg’s “prediction” deserves a big “Duh!” That’s why the President is called the “Commander in Chief”.
Greg worries about Trump, but he completely ignores how Obama (as CiC) has completely undermined our national security. Obama has been gutting the military portion of our national security, and he has redirected the super-spook agencies to spying on US citizenry instead of terrorists. Obama is making the border patrol play baby-sitter and removing all border protection so that illegal aliens, criminal cartels and terrorists can easily enter , (not only that, but Emperor Obama will give them sanctuary, and thousands in freebies while they plot their attacks). Obama has also been the most anti-Fourth Amendment president in history.
Yeah, but who is it that Greg worries about? That the ineffective wimpy GOPe and Trump might take our national security seriously.
@Pete:
As I’ve said before, I am fairly convinced that a good many of the GOPe are closet Democrats, who only became Republican out of expediency, in order to run as Republicans and infiltrate the party. I’m certain the same thing happened with some of the TEA Party candidates. They only pretended to support the platforms, lying to win the office.. There actions in “compromising by giving in to Obama and the Democrats, while torpedoing conservative candidates, and undermining conservative positions.
@Ditto, #34:
The enormous size of Obama’s ego is a conservative myth. I’ve never seen evidence of anything more than a healthy level of self confidence and an assertive personality, both of which are required of a President of the United States. You’ve talked about narcissism for over 7 years as if you knew what the word meant, but don’t recognize it in Donald Trump when it’s there for the whole world to see every time he stands at a podium.
Half of the time people claim Obama is pathetically weak and ineffectual, while claiming the other half of the time that he’s an egotistical tyrant who somehow overpowers all other branches of government, essentially paralyzing a well-meaning republican-controlled Congress that would do exactly what needs to be done, if it weren’t for him. Make your minds up. You can’t have it both ways.
@retire05: 27
Funny how that works. Where is Obama’s law degree? Where is his university degree? Where is his citizenship after living in Indonesia? Why can’t we find out why he has a used Social Security number? Where is Ted Cruz’s birth certificate? Where is Ted Cruz’s official denouncement of his Cuban and Canadian citizenship? Why does someone only care if Trump is legal or not when no one gives a damn about all these other people.
I would think that all of the KNOWN details of the Judge in the Trump case would be far more than is necessary for a recusal. Well, unless one were to choose to ignore the facts.
@Greg:
It is not both ways, he is now and has always been pathetic. If he ever figures out how to read a teleprompter, he might start making sense just reading what someone else writes.
@Greg:
Spare us your partisan BS. If you haven’t noticed Obama’s enormous ego, it’s only because your head is too far up his ass.
Yes, we can have it both ways because of where Obama has been weak, has been in his defense of this nation, in how he represents this nation,in his treatment of our allies, in his giving in to Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, his foreign terrorism policies, in enforcing our immigration laws, in upholding the rule of law. In all other things he has been a tyrannical despot who refuses to be bound by Constitutional limits.
Wrong there. The GOPe leadership has been neither well-meaning nor paralyzed. They too are establishment-progressives, who have only given token resistance while acceding to most of the establishment progressive agenda. But the public is on to that game, hence the rise of Trump and Sanders.
@Ditto, #39:
Sanders’ positions, which he has been outspoken about for years, are at home within the greater context of the Democratic Party philosophy. He’s not perceived by most democrats as an outsider. He’s one of the available Democratic Party choices, and has been very popular as such. This isn’t much different than the previous choice, which was between Obama and Clinton.
The GOP, on the other hand, doesn’t know what Trump’s positions actually are. They’ve changed as his needs have shifted, sometimes doing a 180 degree turn on a dime. Calling himself a republican wasn’t a philosophical choice. It was an opportunistic move. You don’t know what he really is. At this point, nobody does.
I think he believes he should be president because he’s Donald Trump. The Oval Office is the ultimate trophy.
Pinning Trump down on agenda and policies has proven impossible, but the policies and agenda of Hillary are down right frightening. 30 % of our uranium to the Russians, the land was grabbed by the BLM in Oregon, shortly after over 2 million dropped into the Clinton Foundation. Destruction of the 2nd amendment, refusal to release transcripts of her very lucrative speeches to powerful wall street firms. The complete lack of transparency she flaunts.
She has honed her persona since she was fired from the Watergate investigation. If she could only speak the truth I believe she would have her jaws wired shut and her lips sewn up.
@Ditto #35:
Anyone else see the delicious irony in this?.
@Wordsmith:
For example: Paul Ryan
Marco Rubio
John McCain
Mitch McConnell
Lindsay Graham
etc:
@Wordsmith: Seems Ditto has figured out Trump’s motive.