Trump Derangement Syndrome - Orange man bad. Read the OP! (ᴛʜɪs ᴛʜʀᴇᴀᴅ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴋɪᴡɪ ғᴀʀᴍs ʀᴇᴠɪᴇᴡs ɴᴏᴡ) 🗿🗿🗿🗿

[eternal dog mongler]

We already lost a ton of manufacturing to Mexico and China, within living memory, and seen the fallout of dead mill towns and meth addiction. And she was advocating losing the rest would be a good thing! No factories mean clean air, sunshine, and those blue-collar mongrels would finally starve off and stop being such an embarrassment to have to be seen around.... and they'd surely take all the racism and sexism in the country with them when they finally died. They were the root cause, after all.

Well the opioid crisis is currently doing a pretty good job of killing those evil blue-collar mongrels.

Trump hasn't done much to stop it. You can't fight drug abuse with jailtime.

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

If those union people, who are in the situation they're in mainly due to China, want to pull the lever for Biden after he said China is not a threat, then they deserve what they get.

And this is the problem with Democracy, it puts all the responsibility on the voters and not on the Elites who run things (or at least like to think they do)

 

[AprilRains]

Well the opioid crisis is currently doing a pretty good job of killing those evil blue-collar mongrels.

Trump hasn't done much to stop it. You can't fight drug abuse with jailtime.

Yeah, it's not like his administration declared the opioid crisis an emergency or funded efforts to fight it or anything.

You may disagree with the approach, but you're either ignorant or deliberately deceptive when you act like it doesn't exist.

 

[TowinKarz]

Also, Prison Reform is one of those things Trump has done that nobody knows about becuase the media absolutely refuses to give him credit for it, outside of trying to link it to some kind of"prison industrial complex" backroom dealing that will make someone somewhere money off the backs of innocents..... they don't know WHO, just that it assuredly WILL or HAS happened....

 

[eternal dog mongler]

You may disagree with the approach, but you're either ignorant or deliberately deceptive when you act like it doesn't exist.

Oh, I know about HEALing.

Do you want to tell me how effective it's been?

 

[heyitsmike]

And this is the problem with Democracy, it puts all the responsibility on the voters and not on the Elites who run things (or at least like to think they do)

Well yeah, that's why they call it democracy. If the responsibility wasn't on the voters, it wouldn't be democracy, it'd be something else. And as they say, democracy is the worst form of government there is, except for all the rest.

Are you really lamenting that someone else won't pay attention to what's going on for you?

 

[Tanner Glass]

I guess Howard Schultz (the Starbucks CEO) isn't running, then. Pity, I actually think he'd have a better than average chance of toppling Trump.

I think he really hurt his chances after the number of debacles that Starbucks had.

Left leaning folks think his stores target black people, right leaning folks think he's a huge cuck for forcing hours of diversity training on his entire company during business hours over a small news outrage cycle.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Yeah it's pretty obvious Trump's "plans" did nothing to stop the spike in opioid deaths in 2016.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Yeah it's pretty obvious Trump's "plans" did nothing to stop the spike in opioid deaths in 2016.

Oooooooh noooo, all those highly socially productive drug addicts!

Also, Trump didn't actually get office until January 20th 2017, so what the fuck would opioid deaths from 2016 have anything to do with him?

 

[Matthew216]

Oh great, now I'm never going to get the image of Hillary as Lady Macbeth out of my head.

That’s been the image of Hillary for a good 20 years now I think.

 

[Vorhtbame]

The obvious solution to the opioid crisis is to legalize all drugs and pardon all dealers. That way, people will stop using them. Safe, legal, and rare, isn't that usually the line?

 

[AprilRains]

Oh, I know about HEALing.

Do you want to tell me how effective it's been?

Is this the part where you demand that I make your case for you?

Or is it the part where you compare the success of the Trump administration's efforts to some ideal that you will never specify?

I'll tell you what it isn't: The part where you stop being a disingenuous idiot.

Go fantasize about the alternate universe in which Trump 2016 voters are queueing up to vote for Biden. You seem to be better with fiction than fact.

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

I wonder if he's trying this as a publicity or monetary stunt. Wouldn't be surprised if he tries something pride related to try tempt in a bunch of gays to spend their money on a crappy tourist trap/"town with gay in the name guys!"

He ain't got nothing on Gay, Michigan, home to the Gay Bar.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Trump is some much needed shake up for American politics and culture.

The man himself doesn't matter so much as the effect he's having, it's brought out so much bad shit to light that used to be more safely hidden away, like how the media could not be any more obviously dishonest and manipulative and that there really is an effort to destroy the United States of America from within.

So yeah, just my two cents, say whatever you want about Trump, because it really doesn't matter, his Presidency is having a good effect on the world, it's waking up a lot of minds.

 

[Flexo]

The obvious solution to the opioid crisis is to legalize all drugs and pardon all dealers. That way, people will stop using them. Safe, legal, and rare, isn't that usually the line?

Personally I say put the tobacco companies in charge of handling all the newly legalized drugs. That should solve it.

Hmmm... what if cocaine Mitch is a spokesman ploy...

 

[Classist.]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...begins-2020-campaign-amid-boasts-and-backlash

Spoiler

Vulnerable Trump begins 2020 campaign amid boasts and backlash
With poor poll numbers against Democrats, president faces coordinated opposition – but history may be on his side
Donald Trump will formally launch his 2020 re-election campaign on Tuesday in one of the weakest positions of any incumbent president in modern times.

Trump will seek to project self-confidence and portray himself as a winner when he takes the stage at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, before a typically raucous 20,000-capacity crowd more than 16 months before election day in November 2020.

The rally “looks to be setting records”, he claimed in a tweet on Monday, adding: “We are building large movie screens outside to take care of everybody. Over 100,000 requests. Our Country is doing great, far beyond what the haters & losers thought possible – and it will only get better!”

But beneath the surface self-congratulation, there is cause for panic in Trumpworld. Democrats will seek to undercut the show of strength by staging a counter-rally outside the stadium, featuring speeches from Floridians who say they have been personally hurt by the president’s policies. Protesters are lining up a giant, nappy-wearing baby Trump balloon.

The ferocity of the backlash is evident all over America: in protest marches of “the resistance”, in progressive grassroots organisations mobilising voters, in multimillionaire donors vowing to spend what it takes to defeat Trump, in steadily growing demands for impeachment, in hard-hitting newspaper reports and editorials and in constant lampooning by late-night comedians.

Potential match-ups with Democratic rivals show the president in trouble, according to polls. He is lagging behind Joe Biden 53% to 40%, Bernie Sanders 51% to 42%, Kamala Harris 49% to 41%, Elizabeth Warren 49% to 42%, Pete Buttigieg 47% to 42% and Cory Booker 47% to 42%, according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released last week.

A leak of internal polling from the Trump’s re-election campaign also showed him trailing Biden in several battleground states, including by double digits in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The president was reportedly furious and severed links with three of his five pollsters.

John Zogby, a pollster, author and founder of John Zogby Strategies, said: “At the moment he is on the ropes. His job approval rating has settled down to 42% or 43%. He’s down in every one of those key battleground states – New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa.”

But in 2016, Trump defied the polls and conventional wisdom to beat Hillary Clinton in the electoral college, though he lost the popular vote by nearly 3m ballots. He goes into 2020 with economic growth above 3% and unemployment at its lowest rate for half a century.

Zogby said: “The economy is good; it’s not sputtering. We can talk about the ‘real economy’ but the fact is Americans feel pretty good right now about it. He’s down among millennials but, at the same time, there’s a slight uptick in his support because they’re working.”

History is also on Trump’s side: no incumbent president has lost an election since George HW Bush was defeated by Bill Clinton in 1992. Zogby added: “There are always advantages to being the incumbent. You can raise money.

“Unlike George HW Bush, he has 94% support among self-identified Republicans: that’s high. There is a real intensity among his supporters. It’s not enough to win but it’s enough to say, ‘Hey, there’d better be intensity on the other side too.’


Trump launched his 2016 campaign in New York, descending a golden escalator to the basement of Trump Tower, having paid people $50 to attend the event. He filed for re-election on the day he was sworn into office, but is officially launching his 2020 bid in his other spiritual home, Florida. Trump has made more visits there as president than to any other state. Mar-a-Lago, his so-called “winter White House”, is in Palm Beach, while he also owns several golf clubs in the Sunshine State.

Florida is also a critical swing state, the decider in the disputed 2000 election between George W Bush and Al Gore. Trump beat Clinton in the state by nearly 113,000 votes, or 1.2 percentage points, setting him on his way to the White House. The first Democratic primary debates also take place in Florida – in Miami – next week.

First, on Tuesday, Trump will announce his second-term presidential run along with the first lady, Melania Trump, Vice-President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen Pence. The outdoor “45 fest” for the overflow crowd will feature food trucks, live music from the Guzzlers and big screens showing his speech.

Among those who would like to attend, but are daunted by the prospect of a long queue, is Melanie Parham, a 59-year-old author from St Cloud, Florida. “I have been very pleased with the things that President Trump has accomplished so far, but I am totally disgusted with the Democrats and how they have constantly fought him on everything since they won the House,” she said.

“They are determined to prevent him from accomplishing anything else as they are still sore losers of the 2016 election and they do not want him to have any more positives in his column.”

But Democrats in Florida are launching a counter-offensive, holding a “#DefeatTrumpFL” rally of their own outside the Amway Center. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will run a live factcheck of Trump’s claims during his event. Priorities USA, a political organizing group known as a Super Pac, will run a six-figure digital advertising campaign to “help cut through his noise and give voters a look at the truth about Trump’s policies”.


Daniel Wessel, deputy director of the DNC’s “war room”, told CBS News:“New campaign, same broken promises. Trump will say anything to win an election, and then he never follows through.

“Look where we are today - healthcare costs more, prescription drugs cost more, and all Trump’s done is help the rich and big corporations. The question voters need to ask is: what’s he done for me? For working people, the answer is nothing.”

The fact that blatant hit pieces like this are force fed to the public under the pretense of news disgusts me. The Guardian is just a mouthpiece for the democratic party these days, and shit articles like this is why the mainstream news sites are dying.

 

[heyitsmike]

Trump is some much needed shake up for American politics and culture.

The man himself doesn't matter so much as the effect he's having, it's brought out so much bad shit to light that used to be more safely hidden away, like how the media could not be any more obviously dishonest and manipulative and that there really is an effort to destroy the United States of America from within.

So yeah, just my two cents, say whatever you want about Trump, because it really doesn't matter, his Presidency is having a good effect on the world, it's waking up a lot of minds.

It was time for a madman. And behold, a wild Trump appeared.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

“They are determined to prevent him from accomplishing anything else as they are still sore losers of the 2016 election and they do not want him to have any more positives in his column.”

But Democrats in Florida are launching a counter-offensive, holding a “#DefeatTrumpFL” rally of their own outside the Amway Center. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will run a live factcheck of Trump’s claims during his event. Priorities USA, a political organizing group known as a Super Pac, will run a six-figure digital advertising campaign to “help cut through his noise and give voters a look at the truth about Trump’s policies”.

OH that is totally something butthurt losers wouldn't do This doesn't come off as "brave and heroic" it comes off as lame and pedantic.

Daniel Wessel, deputy director of the DNC’s “war room”, told CBS News:“New campaign, same broken promises. Trump will say anything to win an election, and then he never follows through.

Every. Politician. Ever. Seriously this shit is just political madlibs. Just swap the names and election years and it all plays out the same and is still just as accurate..

 

[The Last Stand]

The Democrats took on a more progressive approach post-JFK with both LBJ and Carter, but the rise of Ronald Reagan and the crushing defeat of Mondale in 1984 caused the Democrats to go in a more "Blue Dog" direction with a neoliberal populist bent in the 90's with Bill Clinton.

Reagan was a populist at his core but he pandered to the Religious Right, which was then a newly-emerging social backlash against the New Left of the 1960's and 1970's and the overall counterculture associated with it.

Also, Ctrl F on the politicians from the KKK page on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United_States_politics), and see the stark contrast in the amount of Democrats compared to Republicans, some members from it quite recently passed away, like Robert Byrd, who Obama honored after death:

Would you say that the Democratic party is still prevalent in racism as it was in the 20s and 30s? @Syaoran Li mentioned in his well, thought out post that each party went through a cultural shift to cater to a specific audience of votes.

A theme that I'm saying is that Democrats are using minorities for voters and spokespeople, but I see the likes of Candace Owens and Kevin Martin puppet as many talking points to the Trump GOP as minorities. Granted, they are not as well known and I'm likely missing others, but a point is that both parties are predominately white and use race as a selling point.

Abraham Lincoln didn't care about freeing the slaves, he just wanted to perserve the Union. Ronald Reagan's economic policy, particularly during the Iran War wasn't very suitable towards small business or the black community. The War on Drugs was much more of an American policy and profitable than Iran or the Gulf War.

You're not wrong that the Democratic Party founded the KKK or put several systems in place to keep African Americans in poverty, but from what I've seen, the Republican Party didn't do much (aside from a few figures) to fix that issue. The general consensus of Democratic and Republicans then in the 80s and 90s were indistinguishable, especially if you asked a black person then. After Obama, they voted as a black person has gotten significant value in the United States government. Could you really blame them for the total migration the Democratic Party has gotten then and now?

The whataboutism of the Democratic and Republican Party in politics reminds me of "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" analogy? Whichever way you slice it, American politics have had their fair share of bigotry and screw ups, we'd be in here all day describing the many successes and failures of both. Even now, the stigma of America's politics is corrupted by old guard, new age, the media, hypocrisy, racism, and greed.

Which Donald Trump himself benefits from, regardless of whether or not you would think he's Hilter or the Second Coming of Christ.

 

[IV 445]

Here’s some content. By tomorrow though, we will have sooo much content to work with. Enjoy the rally!

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