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Yamiche Alcindor, a White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour who is black, asked if he had emboldened white nationalists on the campaign trail with his rhetoric.

What Yamiche Alcindor did was REDEFINE “nationalist,” as “WHITE nationalist.”
His question makes no sense since, in all of Donald Trump’s entire life, the USA has been a mixed race nation, not a “white nation.”
When Donald Trump uses the term “nationalist,” it is always on contrast to “globalist,” just as he said in answer to the dumb question.
There are no dog whistles going on.
But the Left is running out of ways to shut Trump up successfully so they are grasping at rhetorical straws.
Trump did not (and will not) back down that there is a nationalist VS globalist battle going on these days.
Recall how the GOPe, or RINOs, were so globalist that some of them pushed Dems as opposed to Tea Party conservatives, much less Trump!
Gov Kasich even sent his PAC money to help Hillary win once he was eliminated.

All it is is an attempt to control the available terms for debate by Dems.
But Trump don’t play that.
And he’s teaching others to be bold even if it means being banned from Facebook, Twitter and You Tube.

I see racists…racists everywhere…10s of thousands of all colors gathered at Trump rallies….The clincher Zoe Bethel, who was actually enthusiastic about being at the White House. Only the WHPress Core really did not report on the meeting very well. What do they report? Well I guess its only the latest manufactured outrage of the TDS crowd over and over and over….
When do the democrats have to stop voting know republicans could not after 11/6 askin for a friend.

Wordsmith, there’s another factor you’re missing.

Trump knows the code and he isn’t afraid to use it.

There’s your difference in Trump and Nixon and Atwater and the GOP establishment both past and present.

Mitch McConnell being the wise old fox he is, understood it well during his tough re-election bid against Alison Grimes in 2014 when in the red state of KY he asked her during a debate: “Did you vote for Obama?”. The polls went from neck to neck to a 7 point lead towards Mitch. Now I know that you and the argumentative inept regulars here may not get or agree with the Mitch stratagem but there’s still the reality that the Southern Strategy is more alive today than ever in history.

The GOP all understand or understood the code. They just use(d) it more selectively and used a much lower pitched dog whistle than Trump.

Again, Trump knows the code and isn’t afraid to use it. And he doesn’t miss an opportunity.

Is there any possible question that Maxie Waters is a hate-filled moron? Can you question that Abrams, who cannot even pay her bills and taxes, lacks the abilities to manage a state? I mean… really.

In a statement, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) said it was “appalled” by President Trump’s “continued disrespect” of African-American women journalists. The White House has not yet responded.

Is there a National Association of White Journalists (NAWJ)? Why not, I wonder? The answer, really, is obvious.

Trump recently called Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D), a gubernatorial candidate in Florida, a “thief,”

These are the same people that routinely call Trump a racist and swear he colluded with the Russians. Yeah, I would hate for their characters to be smeared.

I personally am not entertained by Trump’s unpresidential, unstatesmanlike behavior. But I know a lot of readers here think this shows Trump is “a fighter”; that it’s refreshing not to have a politician (no, he absolutely behaves like a politician) in office and to have someone who speaks his mind and calls it like it is.

In reality, Trump follows the Golden Rule; he treats people with just as much respect as they treat him. He even forgives and forgets when those who have attacked him change their ways. If the left were to actually want civility, they could ask for a truce and reset (spelled correctly) the relationship. But, we all know, they don’t. They want to destroy him.

someone please defend his Tweet yesterday regarding California’s wildfires

The point being that the environmentalists objecting to all the forest management policies that can reduce then number and intensity of these fires create this threat to life and property.

calling Omarosa Manigault a “dog” and talked about the existence of a tape with President Trump using the N-word.

Whatever happened to that tape, anyway?

These moronic “journalists” try to outdo each other in asking what THEY think is that ultimate zinger. Then they retreat back to the bar and smirk at each other over their great “victory”. More often than not, Trump makes them look like the petty jerks they are. Yes, it is a shame this is what our political discourse has come to, but no matter how much Trump likes or dislikes it, he wouldn’t be doing it if the opponents did not intentionally provoke it. Carrying on a civil, adult conversation takes TWO.

@Wordsmith:

The point being, whether true or not, wrong place and absolutely non-presidential. His people are suffering and he waxes politics. The right abhors it when the left drums up gun control and 2nd Amendment woes within minutes of the latest mass shooting.

I don’t live in California and I get pissed off every time one of these giganitic fires break out, fueled by old growth and dead trees the left refuses to allow to be cleared out for fear some logging firm might turn a profit off it. Maybe that wasn’t the place for it, but it is an infuriating situation. People DO die from this malfeasance. That’s all I’m saying.

AJ seems to conveniently forget the Democrat “southern strategy”: Jim Crow, institutionalized racism, the KKK and segregation.

@Wordsmith:

nearly 60 percent of California forests are under federal management, and another two-thirds under private control.

Wordsmith, those numbers don’t jive. 60% plus 2/3rds is more than 100%.

It is the federal government that has chosen to divert resources away from forest management, not California.”

When? Under whose administration? I would bet that any federal budget money awarded to California for forest management being used now is still money awarded under Obama’s administration.

Not clearing out the undergrowth is a major contributor to fueling a forest fire. My own state suffered a number of wild fires in the last 7 years that were record breakers. Green weenies out of Austin protested the cleaning out of undergrowth and removal of dead tree stock and consequently, it was ceased. Hence, fires that wiped out thousands of homes. Fortunately, the State told the green weenies to pound sand and has changed its system of forest mitigation. And fortunately, my state has relatively little forest land controlled by the whims of D.C.

Does California build fire breaks in high possibility areas? Clean out the undergrowth? Both those things are absolutely necessary to prevent the spread of a wild fire. What about the 129 million dead tree stock in California? Dead trees are fuel for any wild fire creating a fire so hot that live stock burns. Of course, to divert the truth that California has suffered droughts and no one seems to want to deal with that (I live in a drought state so we are seemingly better prepared for what that means), fire chiefs are blaming “global warming.” Not the droughts, not the dead tree stock, not the failure to remove undergrowth, but, but, global warming.

Perhaps you would like to give us a benchmark for “presidential.” Would Andrew Jackson fit your benchmark?

I don’t agree with everything President Trump says but hey, he also doesn’t stab our military in the back so I’m willing to cut him some slack. And what he says does drive the left into apoplexy so there’s that.

@Wordsmith:
Of course you don’t buy into the Southern Strategy and I’d no more expect you to than I’d expect the resident rodeo clowns here to concede there’s an actual national argument that Trump ran a racially charged presidential campaign. Or even that he tends to do all he can to appease a rather pro-white/white supremacist base. It isn’t your job to buy into it. Yours is to defend Trump on any and every issue or to abet him in whatever tactic he employs-so long as it helps sell the hatred this site has for Democrats.

So okay, let’s assume the infamous Lee Atwater interview was either a hoax or fake news or a doctored video. And sure, it’s arguable to say there’s some orchestrated committee or abstract team or think tank out there creating new code to make racial slurs more toned down or subliminal.

But to say that Republicans haven’t capitalized on the fear of the black man taking over or empowering the white man denies reality. The entire birther ordeal was meant to remind people that Obama “was not like us” with even Mitt Romney admitting it was a good strategy to keep alive. Speaking of Mitt, remember his campaign joke about “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate”? Or even McCain referring to Obama as “that one”:. Get it? Not like us. And really, McConnell may as well of asked Grimes: “did you vote for the n……?” That’s exactly what he meant. Republicans use this all they can but try not to “monkey it up”. Mexicans aren’t coming here for a better life but rather to sell drugs to your children, rape your wife, and then murder you.

So the capitalism of fear of the black man is a frequent Republican ploy. And, it works. And, they know it.

So again, Trump damn well knows the code and he isn’t afraid to use it.

Lowest black unemployment in history. Highest black approval for Trump (40%). Democrats fear losing their historic “slaves” to the abolitionist Trump.

Seems history repeats itself. Democrats didn’t accept Lincoln being elected President and reacted with violence before he ever took office and committed a single official act. Lincoln tried to be conciliatory to the Democrats and assure them he was not going to revoke their beloved slavery, but they convinced themselves of their own imaginary fears and rejected him anyway.

Sound somewhat familiar?

@Wordsmith:

He’s a thin-skinned man-child whose buttons are easily pressed. He dignifies nobodies with Twitter responses when they should be ignored; instead, he elevates them. If he had kept his cyber-hole shut, the whole football/kneeling controversy might have gone away. Instead, he breathed new life into it and more players started kneeling as a protest against him as much as anything. He picks unnecessary battles.

The right words can cause people to expose their deepest-most intentions.
When Pres Trump called out NFL kneelers, he created a situation where many more people showed their lack of respect for our law enforcement and the US flag.
They didn’t have to look unpatriotic, but they chose to.
They marginalized themselves.
And how’s that been working out for them?
The lowest ratings in decades for NFL games since then.
Can the NFL even begin to rehabilitate its image now?
It has to want to before that can happen, and the players don’t seem to care about ratings, empty seats or sales of swag.
Can you really claim the precipitous drop in sales and ratings is JUST because “Trump supporters” have boycotted the NFL?
It can’t be just that.
Dem stronghold teams in CA and NY , etc., are suffering losses, too.

@Wordsmith:

Deplorable Me:
The point being that the environmentalists objecting to all the forest management policies that can reduce then number and intensity of these fires create this threat to life and property.

The point being, whether true or not, wrong place and absolutely non-presidential. His people are suffering and he waxes politics. The right abhors it when the left drums up gun control and 2nd Amendment woes within minutes of the latest mass shooting. For him to blame environmentalists is like an Al Gore presidency tweeting blame at a red state suffering from a natural disaster as due to global warming and he told us so but we wouldn’t listen. That isn’t leadership.

Interesting to have to shift to forestry management, but so be it.
CA Gov. Jerry Brown Vetoed (Unanamously passed thru CA House and Senate) 2016 Wildfire Management Bill while CA burned.
SB 1463 would have given local governments more say in fire-prevention efforts through the Public Utilities Commission proceeding making maps of fire hazard areas around utility lines. In a gross display of politics, this is especially pertinent given that Cal Fire and the state’s media are now blaming the largest utility in the state for the latest wildfires.

The 129 million dead trees throughout California’s state and national forests.
These are kindling once a fire is going.
Gov Brown blames “climate change,” but the same climate change impacts private lands as public lands, but private forests are not burning down because they are properly managed.

40 years ago, CA’s traditional forest management had simple guidelines: thin the forest when it becomes too difficult to walk through; too many trees in the woods will compete with one another, because the best trees will grow at a slower rate.

But, we replaced these sound management practices with what can only be described as a doctrine of benign neglect, a no-touch policy.

You’ve probably all forgotten how the USA used to have a terrific green business of turning leftovers from logging for lumber into paper pulp using tree sap/tar as the fuel for the paper mills.
But it was great …. until Obama outlawed it all.

What to do with woody waste?
Toss it out?
Or just quit logging and buy lumber from other countries?

If Pres Trump’s words about scientific forestry management were heeded, CA might become a logging/paper-making behemouth!
Instead how about we all limit ourselves to 50 gallons of water/day (except illegals who ignore the law and the rich who are above the law) ?

What Gov Brown is doing goes beyond managing the decline. He is CREATING the decline!

Back in August, there was a lot of nonsense distractions questioning whether or not President Trump ever said the “N”-word. Who the eff cares?!

I’m in absolute agreement. Who really cares and what difference does it make? For most people who understand what Trump is, it would make no difference. We already knew it. For those in denial, they still would be.

@Nan G:

This isn’t the first time in history that prominent white people have used their mussel to silence (or try to) famous black people. You see, when black folk acquire fame, their voices carries more weight. Many powerful white folk don’t like that.

@Ajay42302: They use clams?

@kitt: What do you expect from an invertebrate? Notice how accurately he describes what the left does to blacks (or Hispanics, or women or gays) that do not parrot the Democrat party line. And it never even dawns on him.

@Ajay42302:

You see, when black folk acquire fame, their voices carries more weight. Many powerful white folk don’t like that.

No one’s voice should carry more weight due to their skin tone or ethnic heritage. And only someone who shows extreme bigotry toward white people would make such a disgusting statement.

So the capitalism of fear of the black man is a frequent Republican ploy.

So says a person of color (you know, the political correct term now used) who clearly has a bias against those of the Caucasian race.