…it sure seems sometimes that all racists are Republican.
Look, here’s a bunch of racists holding a protest in front of a NAACP building while proudly wearing their Donald Trump hats. The treason flag of slavery is draped behind them as they hold a sign saying “white lives matter.”
One of their signs reads “14 words” which stands for the white supremacist slogan, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
You’ve seen these people at Trump rallies. They don’t get kicked out. Rather, it’s the black people who get removed. (Link, Link, link, link …)
The GOP needs to stand up to these people, but instead they seem to be embracing them — or at least tolerating them, which is tantamount to endorsing their position.
“Oh yeah?” someone is sure to respond. “Well, there are racists in the Democratic party too!” — then they’ll ironically point out either (a) some idiot on the fringe who hates white people and who is not endorsed or even tolerated by the Democratic party; or (b) a black politician who says something like “maybe the police shouldn’t target people of color.” If you think those things are equivalent to racial supremacists who preach hate, then you need a nice long look in the mirror.
WARNING: This cannot be unseen.
Naked Trump has suddenly appeared in five US cities today: New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Cleveland. No one yet knows who created them or how they managed to coordinate them appearing all at once.
This is absolutely insulting. People are laughing at him.
It is a terrible way to treat a legitimate Presidential candidate.
And if anyone ever does this against a legitimate Presidential candidate, I’ll be the first to complain.
In the meantime, I will be actively doing what all tyrants hate: I will be laughing.
(A generic article that can be posted daily)
In an effort to diminish damage caused by Donald Trump’s latest statement, his campaign has rallied to explain it away.
“He was just joking,” said one high-ranking official. “Also, this whole thing is a creation by the liberal media. It’s really nothing.”
“Not only that,” another announced, “but if you analyze what he said in a very specific way, you can see that it really can apply in certain limited circumstances that could possibly occur in this or other universes — so that makes it true.”
Chief campaign officials took advantage of the attention to blame Obama for things that had happened when he was a state senator, a college professor, and a child.
Fox News commentators , meanwhile, pointed out various things Hillary Clinton had said and done that were in no way similar but, when viewed in the proper light, would ignite the passions of Trump supporters. “Benghazi!” said Sean Hannity. “Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi.”
The general public, however, was astounded.
“Just when you think he can’t get any lower, he says this,” said one anonymous voter. “I can’t believe this is the best the Republicans could come up with.”
Vice Presidential candidate Michael Pence was not available for comment.
by Guest Blogger Mark Mensch
So there’s a large outcry about how Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist, wanting equality throughout the US for everyone, has just bought a beach house in Vermont for $600,000.
And true to internet and shock media, that has been the extent of their fact checking. From there they have begun to speculate that he used all of his campaign donations to buy it, that he’s not a true socialist for buying it, that he’s just another member of the 1% club and so on. In other words, let’s just slam him and not give a crap about the facts.
Well let’s check the facts.
Yes, Bernie Sanders bought a beach home in Vermont for $600,000. Prior to this purchase, owned two homes – a joint rental property in Burlington and a condo in Washington, D.C. However according to the Seven Days Vermont news service, Bernie’s wife inherited a family vacation home in Maine recently and decided to sell that house and use it to put down a down payment on the Vermont Beach house (I had found somewhere on the internet that the house sold for something just over $500K but cannot find that information now – sorry).
Bernie did not use campaign funds to buy it. In fact, any left over campaign funds they can donate the funds to charities or political parties; it can contribute $2,000 per election to other candidates; and it can save the money in case the candidate chooses to run again. That’s it. They can’t use them to buy a house.
Next, Bernie Sanders’ net worth, according last week to MoneyNation, is $528,014. But how can that be with now three houses and everything else? Well there is this thing called debt and Bernie Sanders has it – anywhere from $25K-$65K. Putting that all aside, he is far from the 1% club – whose actual net worth requirements vary from place to place but according to the New York Times, the top 1% has a household income of $380,000 annually (over half of Bernie’s overall net worth) and a net worth of nearly $8.4 million.
Yes, he’s pretty well off compared to the average American – as are all senators, congressmen and other people in those elected offices. And even some of our most outspoken and loved ‘socialist’ presidents (such as Kennedy and Roosevelt) were millionaires. But Bernie Sanders is no 1%.
But the strangest argument is that he is turning on his democratic socialistic principles. A democratic socialist is not against people having nice things. They don’t expect everyone to have the same house, with the same car, with the same dog and the same job. What they do expect is that those who make more due to the advantages given within our country give back more. They don’t find loopholes to hide money or enact legislation to make sure they continue to make a profit while hurting other people. And that’s what Bernie Sanders is all about: Having corporations and the rich pay their share, and maybe a little more, back into the country instead of finding new ways to protect their assets while other hard working individuals wind up having to foot the bill.
Bernie Sanders spent the last 50 years of his life fighting for equal rights for everyone. He had worked hard and long and paid his fair share back to the society that helped him arrive there. And if he managed to afford a beach house not through lobbyist gifts or kickbacks and paid his property taxes for it, then I say he’s earned a beach house for his golden years.
Mark Mensch is an avid gamer and very active within the Live Action Role Playing community here in the US and abroad. He has had several short stories published and also runs a small etsy store for live action props and masks at www.etsy.com/shop/LARPGear. He lives with his 14 year old rabbit Maryann and tends to have opinions about everything – quite often on both sides of the issue.
The Republican party reminds me of a drunken frat party.
They’ve all jumped into a car, drunk and cheering as they laugh about how they’ve stood up to the nerds and stopped them from getting anything done. 
They’ve allowed various dangerous drivers to take the wheel but, being that they have to stick together, no one has had the balls enough to say, “You know, maybe we should slow down and stop heading for that cliff.”
A few may have made some comments in that direction but when it appeared that perhaps they could be sitting “shotgun” they quickly hid their feelings and sucked up to the crazy driver who claimed he knew what he was doing.
Now the car is about to drive off the cliff and a few of the smarter ones have bailed, saying that they do not approve.
So far, seven Republican members of Congress have come out and said that they cannot support Trump. Many others have remained silent as to their intentions.
This has less to do with honor or integrity and more to do with trying to save their own skin before the car crashes into flames at the bottom of the canyon.
Where were they when their party got taken over by the religious fundamentalists, the obstructionists, the racists, the know-nothings? Trump isn’t different from all of those — he is the epitome of them. He is taking the Republican party in the exact same direction they have been heading for years.
Now they think that’s a bad idea?
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