Lash
 
  1  
Reply Fri 8 Jan, 2016 03:24 am
@revelette2,
Sanders' campaign started buying up tickets of Trump's rally, ostensibly to leave Trump with an embarrassingly empty rally. This was the inciting action that caused Trump to grossly oversell his rally and create a dangerous situation for locals and cops.
Lash
 
  0  
Reply Fri 8 Jan, 2016 05:05 am
http://youtu.be/Lxfzjb8bjkQ
Black Americans are coming over the light!

My president.
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revelette2
 
  2  
Reply Fri 8 Jan, 2016 07:44 am
@Lash,
Quote:
Sanders' campaign started buying up tickets of Trump's rally, ostensibly to leave Trump with an embarrassingly empty rally. This was the inciting action that caused Trump to grossly oversell his rally and create a dangerous situation for locals and cops.


Oh, guess I missed that completely. Kind of sleazy.

Didn't work in any event. Apparently people stood in lines for hours to hear him. He had some protestors despite screening and at one point even yelled out:

Quote:
Keep his coat! Confiscate his coat! You know it's about 10 degrees below zero outside," he called from the stage. "You can keep his coat. Tell him we'll send it to him in a couple of weeks."


source

Lash
 
  2  
Reply Fri 8 Jan, 2016 04:32 pm
@revelette2,
I thought that was incitement to violence. I don't understand how he gets away with so much bullshit.

He told them to take the people's coats and "throw them out." smh
snood
 
  6  
Reply Fri 8 Jan, 2016 11:55 pm
@Lash,
Lash wrote:

I thought that was incitement to violence. I don't understand how he gets away with so much bullshit.

He told them to take the people's coats and "throw them out." smh


Just like he gets away with suggesting that a woman going to the bathroom is "disgusting". Because NO ONE will challenge him on it. Everyone cows down as soon as he starts to bluster. It's really a pitiful thing to see this poor excuse for a human being allowed to have no accountability for even basic decency.
Lash
 
  2  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 06:53 am
@snood,
The thing is, though, the media is reporting this **** - the Dem candidates and many of the GOP candidates speak out against him - the RNC has mounted a campaign to oust him - but he is GROWING in popularity.

If the GOP candidates had any balls, they'd roll up their sleeves and excoriate him on foreign policy, racism, women's issues, and force him to reveal his stupidity. This should be done in a debate in front of the American people.

They should all get together with press releases and campaign trail interviews calling on him to reveal economic policy, foreign policy, education policy...

They're either afraid to lose in the polls or that they're not mentally quick enough to combat his schoolyard zingers. Maybe they don't have confidence in their own policy. Bush always seems like a deer in the headlights. None of them have a tad of gravitas. If Rand Paul is so smart, I wish he'd come out swinging.

Journalists should nail him down on policy.

I'm just afraid the people who back him are completely head-dead, and they don't care that he's all rhetoric.

cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 12:09 pm
@snood,
That's because the majority of Trump's supporters are older, white, and uneducated. It seems there are more of them than most of us realized.
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ehBeth
 
  1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 12:13 pm
@snood,
I've posted a link on the Trump thread that talks about the research that explains part of the phenomenon. I'd suggest taking a look at it (I'd add it here, but I think I've posted it three times in the past week and don't want to totally spam the board with it).

Bottom line - challenging supporters makes them double down on their opinions.
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McGentrix
 
  -1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 02:42 pm
@Lash,
I think a lot of people on the left are becoming afraid of Trump. Afraid that he may win thus they feel the need to do nothing but complain about him.

Complaints about Trump and a buck will get you a coffee at McDonald's on Monday afternoons.
snood
 
  4  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 03:03 pm
@McGentrix,
McGentrix wrote:

I think a lot of people on the left are becoming afraid of Trump. Afraid that he may win thus they feel the need to do nothing but complain about him.

Complaints about Trump and a buck will get you a coffee at McDonald's on Monday afternoons.


People with half a brain are afraid of Trump as commander in chief and chief executive of the US government. People with **** for brain are supporting him.
cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 03:13 pm
@snood,
McG still doesn't get it: the uneducated support Trump.
Most probably have no concept of what the US Constitution is all about.
snood
 
  3  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 03:19 pm
@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:

McG still doesn't get it: the uneducated support Trump.
Most probably have no concept of what the US Constitution is all about.


For the most part, I think you're right. But I think here lately that there are more and more educated white men whose fear and anger (at Obama and immigrants and God knows what, really) will induce them to pull the lever for Trump.
cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 03:22 pm
@snood,
There have always been white educated bigots; they just can't stand having a black president. Their feeling of superiority just crumbled a notch, and they hate it. However, I also believe that the majority of whites are not racial bigots.
snood
 
  3  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 04:05 pm
@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:

There have always been white educated bigots; they just can't stand having a black president. Their feeling of superiority just crumbled a notch, and they hate it. However, I also believe that the majority of whites are not racial bigots.



Yeah I believe that too. The bigots are emboldened lately.
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Lash
 
  1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 05:32 pm
@snood,
I am afraid you're right.
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georgeob1
 
  1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 08:11 pm
@cicerone imposter,
Bigots come in many varieties and in all colors. It basically involves prejudging the motives and intentions of others based on external factors and without real knowledge of the facts and preceptions in the minds of those they judge. Our president fairly often demonstrates a tendency toward bigotry.
cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 08:54 pm
@georgeob1,
I agree 100%. Bigotry isn't limited by culture, religion, or almost anything else.
snood
 
  1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 09:05 pm
@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:

I agree 100%. Bigotry isn't limited by culture, religion, or almost anything else.

You agree that President Obama has bigoted behavior?
cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 09:15 pm
@snood,
Come on, snood. I'm talking generally speaking. I'm sure there are black bigots as there are Asian bigots.
ehBeth
 
  1  
Reply Sat 9 Jan, 2016 09:19 pm
@cicerone imposter,
You might want to re-read what you 100% agreed with.
 

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