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What's great about the UK is that if you're some drunk drug-addled dude who stabs his girlfriend you don't have to go to prison because it might screw up your career.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers
at September 25, 2017 11:20 AM
Remember when the NFL got upset at Jim McMahon for going off script?
Yes, I am old enough to remember that. He loved his head bands.
I R A Darth Aggie
at September 25, 2017 11:36 AM
If his voters disregard Trump's venality just as Dems disregarded Hillary's, I don't know why Trumpistas are walking around so butthurt all the time. ~ Crid at September 25, 2017 5:57 AM
I think one thing people aren't getting is that Trump is speaking for people in this NFL flap, people who feel that the fringe groups, the loudly aggrieved, have gotten all the attention of politicians of late and that they, hard working Joe Lunchpails, are being ignored; they who consider themselves hard-working Americans who spend a few years in the military, go to work, maintain their lawns, go to church on Sunday, and don't complain about every little thing that goes wrong.
They see that politicians of late have spent all their time and energy on outlier groups, prodigal sons, forgetting the son who stayed home and worked the farm. If the Dems had paid as much attention and given as much lip service to the average American over the last few decades as they'e paid and given to lesbian transgendered people of color, they'd have won the election.
Whether the working class is right to feel ignored, we can debate. After all, slaves helped build the country, too. And immigrant Chinese laborers laid the tracks for the transcontinental railroad. And the American Southwest owes a debt of gratitude to its Hispanic ancestry. And these groups have been left out of most of our historical narratives.
The idea that only white working class people built the country obscures the valuable contributions of non-whites and diminishes those groups. Attempts to make up for those historical slights have stirred up resentments as the white working class feels that instead of opening the party to everyone, the efforts are an attempt to exclude them.
Three firefighters raised a flag on 9/11. An iconic photograph showed them raising the flag. A statue was proposed using that photograph. The statue was cancelled over arguments about changing two of the men in the photograph to an African-American and a Hispanic-American or even a woman, you know, to honor everybody so future generations don't look at the statue and think only white men did anything of value that day.
So, working class men and women see their contributions downgraded in favor of diversity. They see themselves being airbrushed out of history (welcome to the club, boys). They see the things they value (patriotism, hard work, family, tradition, respect, etc.) being denigrated and devalued.
These folks want someone to tell them that they matter, that what they value is valued by the politicians. And Trump gives them that. He's a loose cannon. He's not presidential. But he's also not kowtowing to the diversity mandarins. To them, that means he's standing up for what they believe in, for them.
Until the party elites understand that, they'll never understand Trump and how he got elected; and why the business-as-usual politicians in both parties lost.
Conan the Grammarian
at September 25, 2017 1:18 PM
This video is a wet dream for Western bureaucrats in
Part 1
Part 2
I still maintain that it's an 8th-grader's skill, not the future of American politics.
Crid at September 24, 2017 11:37 PM
Fighting Fire with Fire: A Republican Finally Co-opts Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/fighting_fire_with_fire_a_republican_finally_coopts_alinskys_rules_for_radicals.html
mpetrie98 at September 25, 2017 5:14 AM
Yes sure yeah fire-with-whatever uh-huh.
If his voters disregard Trump's venality just as Dems disregarded Hillary's, I don't know why Trumpistas are walking around so butthurt all the time.
You're just as bad— You extend the patterns of evil.
What exactly is there to admire about this?
Crid at September 25, 2017 5:57 AM
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/09/25/men-must-confront-men-who-disrespect-women-thats-real-battle-sexes-lisa-senecal-column/696176001/
I R A Darth Aggie at September 25, 2017 6:30 AM
Hope you enjoyed my yard! Bye now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=36&v=dIfZKdZEJNQ
Stinky the Clown at September 25, 2017 7:11 AM
The NFL was against free speech before they were for it.
https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/dallas-cowboys/cowboys/2016/08/10/nfl-allow-dallas-cowboys-wear-arm-arm-decal-helmets-games
I R A Darth Aggie at September 25, 2017 7:15 AM
Remember when the NFL got upset at Jim McMahon for going off script?
Conan the Grammarian at September 25, 2017 8:43 AM
From the #BoycottHollywood files:
Chelsea Handler calls Ben Carson a 'black white supremacist,' misleads viewers with claim about Trump's father and the KKK
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/chelsea-handler-calls-ben-carson-a-black-white-supremacist-misleads-viewers-with-claim-about-trumps-father-and-the-kkk/article/2634620
mpetrie98 at September 25, 2017 9:09 AM
What's great about the UK is that if you're some drunk drug-addled dude who stabs his girlfriend you don't have to go to prison because it might screw up your career.
Sorry, my bad. That only happens if you're a stabby bird.
Because patriarchy, I guess.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at September 25, 2017 11:20 AM
Remember when the NFL got upset at Jim McMahon for going off script?
Yes, I am old enough to remember that. He loved his head bands.
I R A Darth Aggie at September 25, 2017 11:36 AM
I think one thing people aren't getting is that Trump is speaking for people in this NFL flap, people who feel that the fringe groups, the loudly aggrieved, have gotten all the attention of politicians of late and that they, hard working Joe Lunchpails, are being ignored; they who consider themselves hard-working Americans who spend a few years in the military, go to work, maintain their lawns, go to church on Sunday, and don't complain about every little thing that goes wrong.
They see that politicians of late have spent all their time and energy on outlier groups, prodigal sons, forgetting the son who stayed home and worked the farm. If the Dems had paid as much attention and given as much lip service to the average American over the last few decades as they'e paid and given to lesbian transgendered people of color, they'd have won the election.
Whether the working class is right to feel ignored, we can debate. After all, slaves helped build the country, too. And immigrant Chinese laborers laid the tracks for the transcontinental railroad. And the American Southwest owes a debt of gratitude to its Hispanic ancestry. And these groups have been left out of most of our historical narratives.
The idea that only white working class people built the country obscures the valuable contributions of non-whites and diminishes those groups. Attempts to make up for those historical slights have stirred up resentments as the white working class feels that instead of opening the party to everyone, the efforts are an attempt to exclude them.
Three firefighters raised a flag on 9/11. An iconic photograph showed them raising the flag. A statue was proposed using that photograph. The statue was cancelled over arguments about changing two of the men in the photograph to an African-American and a Hispanic-American or even a woman, you know, to honor everybody so future generations don't look at the statue and think only white men did anything of value that day.
So, working class men and women see their contributions downgraded in favor of diversity. They see themselves being airbrushed out of history (welcome to the club, boys). They see the things they value (patriotism, hard work, family, tradition, respect, etc.) being denigrated and devalued.
These folks want someone to tell them that they matter, that what they value is valued by the politicians. And Trump gives them that. He's a loose cannon. He's not presidential. But he's also not kowtowing to the diversity mandarins. To them, that means he's standing up for what they believe in, for them.
Until the party elites understand that, they'll never understand Trump and how he got elected; and why the business-as-usual politicians in both parties lost.
Conan the Grammarian at September 25, 2017 1:18 PM
This video is a wet dream for Western bureaucrats in
https://twitter.com/0XDEDBEEF/status/912026226658652160
Sixclaws at September 25, 2017 4:22 PM
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