Trump: "Look at my African-American"

[Hydra009]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcklUUIsdcw

Donald Trump sought to tout his support among African-Americans on Friday by pointing out a black man in the crowd and calling him "my African-American."
"Oh, look at my African-American over here. Look at him," Trump said. "Are you the greatest?"

The remark didn't generate a noticeable response from Trump's audience.

Trump's remark came as he recalled an incident in March when a black supporter of his assaulted a protester at a rally in Arizona as he was being escorted out of the building by police.

The comment also comes as Trump is under fire for calling on the federal judge presiding over one of the lawsuits against Trump University to recuse himself because of his Mexican heritage.

(the judge was born in Indiana, btw)

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/politics/donald-trump-african-american/index.html

This is too perfect.  It's like a schadenfreude buffet.

[TomFoolery]

Like a python, Trump simply just unhinges his jaw when he sticks his foot so far into his mouth that he's dipping his toes into his colon so no one will notice.

[gentle_dissident]

Like a python, Trump simply just unhinges his jaw when he sticks his foot so far into his mouth that he's dipping his toes into his colon so no one will notice.

I don't see how one can construct such a consistent cartoon character without some forethought. I still think Trump may be getting his kicks. He may even be intentionally destroying the Republican party. He's certainly giving those closet bigots a voice. Now we have a better idea of who they are in our communities. We have a chance for real discourse with them now that they've spoken up.

Pythons don't have feet.

[stromboli]

He applies the same huckster BS to everything; "Art of the Deal" was a best seller. And magnanimously either blows off or attacks anyone that criticizes him.

He is American to the core (apologies to any Canadians on the forum).

[Hydra009]

He is American to the core (apologies to any Canadians on the forum).

No offense taken.  I'm Canadian in the same way that the Indiana judge is Mexican.  :P

[aitm]

Folks, Americans are so sick of republicans and democrats that they are quite willing to stab themselves to attempt to find a way away from the two parties that have fucked up this country for many years. This guys scares the bejesus out of both parties. Frankly I am more and more leaning his way simply because it is the only way to get away from our bought and paid for corrupt government.

[Mike Cl]

Pythons don't have feet.

This one does.

[PickelledEggs]

Slightly related... my friend saw a girl get pelted with eggs when she was just walking with a "Trump" shirt on... And Trump supporters are supposed to be the nasty ones...

[TomFoolery]

Slightly related... my friend saw a girl get pelted with eggs when she was just walking with a "Trump" shirt on... And Trump supporters are supposed to be the nasty ones...

Hey, hate begats hate. That's like... in the Bible or something. Right next to "an eye for an eye" and "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

[PickelledEggs]

Hey, hate begats hate. That's like... in the Bible or something. Right next to "an eye for an eye" and "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

Maybe so, but somewhere along the line, the cycle needs to be severed.

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[TomFoolery]

Maybe so, but somewhere along the line, the cycle needs to be severed.

I don't disagree. I'm just making a cynical observation of the human condition.

[Baruch]

Put all the Rs and Ds in a box together ... and don't let them out ;-)

[PickelledEggs]

I don't disagree.

I know


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[drunkenshoe]

Folks, Americans are so sick of republicans and democrats that they are quite willing to stab themselves to attempt to find a way away from the two parties that have fucked up this country for many years. This guys scares the bejesus out of both parties. Frankly I am more and more leaning his way simply because it is the only way to get away from our bought and paid for corrupt government.

Like every other politician, if Tump wins, he'll turn into the mainstream politics the chair requires and yes he'll make an ass of himself occassionally acting like the racist thug he is...etc., but things will go on prety much the same.

Even he was to try to make fundamental changes who would that affect? Minorities, nonwhite people, lgbtqa groups and women. The big majority of the society already thinks these movements and groups are the biggest problem in the country because they are some regressive 'left'.

The group that is supposed to be against Trump and his voiced policies is the group who agrees with Trump on many levels but sees him racists, sexist and backwards because he is batting for the religious side, while they see themselves entitled to the same politics in their own terms because they are seculars. The manners are different, not the policies or undrestanding of politics and the policies. I don't mean the latter group is homogenous or necessarily bear this abhorrent traits. That's not the cause. It is anger and fear.

Trump winning the presidency would not make much difference and nothing would change with the government. As long as this system stands doesn't really matter much who will sit in the White House.  And that should be thought as the real problem.

[Baruch]

The ideal of the US Constitution is that there is a non-violent revolution every 2, 4 or 6 years, with the steadying hand of the SCOTUS and competing interests of the States keeping things in bounds.  But that ideal was never achieved.  The mechanism to avoid violence in a world of competing interests, is itself something to be fought over, and status quo fights change, because either way, someone's ox is being gored.  It already failed once, in the run-up to the US Civil War.  It is failing again now that the WW II bonus has run dry.  All systems fail, because they are rigidity imposed over the reality of a dynamic society that inevitably colors outside the lines.  Its predecessor was in places like Ionia ... where you had federations of colonial Greek municipalities.  Today most of those are gone and forgotten, with the exception of Smyrna.  You live right in the middle of where that colonization happened, but it was swallowed up by larger realities (Lydia, Persia, Alexander, Pergamon, Rome).  The US founding fathers were aware of Greek and Roman history in detail, many of them classically educated.  It is apparent that the US has from WW I forward, devolved from republic into empire, our outlying dependencies restive like the subject cities of the Athenian thessalocracy, with competing ideas, jealous or ambitious insiders and outsiders, Spartan and Persian, undermining constantly.  Both the citizens and barbarians remain restless, Heraclitus of Ephesus having the last word.