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

[Godzilla@1989]

Bitch, your husband didn’t do shit for blacks so shut up.

 

[Ruin]

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1155178539538362369

 

[It's HK-47]

Why is Baltimore so fucked up?

Because instead of admitting that their policies lead to abject failures, politicians--especially ones from Democrat 'strongholds'--shift all blame externally in order to try and paint themselves as the saviours to garner even more votes while they pass more "feel-good" laws that just lead to further deterioration. Case in point: Chicago. Chicago politicians had teamed up with the ACLU to push all sorts of utterly pointless feel-good laws into place, and as a result the murder rate rose 68.5% higher than it had been in the previous decade.

Instead of fixing their cities, Democrats always double-down because the Democratic 'machines' that run these big cities have the perfect combination of corruption, ideology and incompetence that weave together into an absolutely useless clusterfuck. Rather than admit that their policies don't work and put in the work towards fixing policy failures, it's much, much easier for the Democratic Machine to blame the GOP and the NRA. Think about it, if they really wanted to put an end to gun-related crime, why are they cracking down on the guns instead of the crime?

They've had decades to prove that they cannot fix the criminal problem. If they tried to do that, they would automatically come under attack from people within their own ideology as being a "bunch of racists." Guns have no race, so they're easy to attack. Cracking down on black criminals preying on the black community in your city? Yeah, you can see why a Democrat might be hesitant to throw their hat into that ring. The fact is, these city leaders are paralyzed with fear. They are ideologically bound to these failed criminal justice policies. Their pride will not let them admit that they were wrong, and their commitment to political correctness means that they reject directly going after black criminals in black sections of the city. The instant that there is a sharp uptick in the number of blacks being arrested and imprisoned in their city, all the usual race-baiting suspects are going to rally on the steps of City Hall and demand these new Gestapo tactics cease immediately.

So, they end up in this intolerable situation in which they keep stalling in order to “give the policies more time to work” and hoping vainly--despite all evidence and experience--that the problem is going to somehow get better on its own without them having to take any risky or costly steps. The Parkland Shooting is a perfect example of dysfunctional Democratic policies at work.

The county and the school pushed in policy after policy that just piggy-backed on top of each other until it had reached the point where an unbelievably dangerous person was just allowed to walk around and do whatever they wanted despite repeated visits from the local police and even the FBI. After their dysfunctional policies resulted in a mass murder by a teenager who'd literally had the police called to come deal with him over 35 times, and who failed to enter the building to put a stop to the shooting spree, what did Broward County officials do?

Called up CNN and hosted a town hall meeting to blame the NRA!

It wears people down after awhile. Year after year, decade after decade everything just kept getting worse. You can't complain about it because you'll be called a racist, you can't fix it because the entire system is corrupt, you can't live in it because you or someone you know is going to wind up getting killed, and you can't escape it because the welfare state has you nailed in place. Then the same Democrats who've put these people in that situation keep right on with their charade about how they're "Workin' hard for you!" People stopped even trying to complain about it any more. It didn't do any good. They just lost hope.

But then something happened that really, really was not "supposed" to happen, and then we started seeing glimpses behind the curtain when Sessions started sending task forces to places like Chicago to pull down Federal charges on violent criminals so that the corrupted, local policies no longer had a say in who got sent up for a long haul. Then we started to see all of these offices being raided in places like Baltimore and Chicago and San Francisco, and that's not "supposed" to happen either. The fix is supposed to be in; all of these people leak this kind of thing to each other so that all of them know when something about to go down, and yet none of them ever saw a single raid coming.

Now we're coming up on the precipice of an actual solution to the problems in these cities, and the Democratic Machine doesn't want that to happen because it ruins their grift, so they're going to rev up the engines and start throwing all of the slander they can find at the person causing it, because it's always sent critics of their policies running in horror in the past. Problem is, that's not really going to work this time because they've spent so long blindly firing that ammo away for the last three years that it's become completely meaningless.

I mean, what are they gonna' do, call Trump a racist?

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

Bitch, your husband didn’t do shit for blacks so shut up.
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Is that actually Michelle Obama? She looks like she's trying really really hard to turn herself into the stereotypical sitcom "sassy black friend". Maybe that's the only look available to black women when they start getting tremendously fat, though.

 

[Vorhtbame]

Bitch, your husband didn’t do shit for blacks so shut up.
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This sounds more like juicy celeb gossip than serious political discourse. Oh wait, it's TMZ; juicy celeb gossip is all they do.

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1155178539538362369

What else they have in common: Being terrible places to live.

Another thing they have in common, with Joy as well: Being so wound up with identity politics that they lose sight of the big picture and end up actively making the white supremacists' arguments for them.

 

[vertexwindi]

Because instead of admitting that their policies lead to abject failures, politicians--especially ones from Democrat 'strongholds'--shift all blame externally in order to try and paint themselves as the saviours to garner even more votes while they pass more "feel-good" laws that just lead to further deterioration. Case in point: Chicago. Chicago politicians had teamed up with the ACLU to push all sorts of utterly pointless feel-good laws into place, and as a result the murder rate rose 68.5% higher than it had been in the previous decade.

Instead of fixing their cities, Democrats always double-down because the Democratic 'machines' that run these big cities have the perfect combination of corruption, ideology and incompetence that weave together into an absolutely useless clusterfuck. Rather than admit that their polices don't work and put in the work towards fixing policy failures, it's much, much easier for the Democratic Machine to blame the GOP and the NRA. Think about it, if they really wanted to put an end to gun-related crime, why are they cracking down on the guns instead of the crime?

They've had decades to prove that they cannot fix the criminal problem. If they tried to do that, they would automatically come under attack from people within their own ideology as being a "bunch of racists." Guns have no race, so they're easy to attack. Cracking down on black criminals preying on the black community in your city? Yeah, you can see why a Democrat might be hesitant to throw their hat into that ring. The fact is, these city leaders are paralyzed with fear. They are ideologically bound to these failed criminal justice policies. Their pride will not let them admit that they were wrong, and their commitment to political correctness means that they reject directly going after black criminals in black sections of the city. The instant that there is a sharp uptick in the number of blacks being arrested and imprisoned in their city, all the usual race-baiting suspects are going to rally on the steps of City Hall and demand these new Gestapo tactics cease immediately.

So, they end up in this intolerable situation in which they keep stalling in order to “give the policies more time to work” and hoping vainly--despite all evidence and experience--that the problem is going to somehow get better on its own without them having to take any risky or costly steps. The Parkland Shooting is a perfect example of dysfunctional Democratic policies at work.

The county and the school pushed in policy after policy that just piggy-backed on top of each other until it had reached the point where an unbelievably dangerous person was just allowed to walk around and do whatever they wanted despite repeated visits from the local police and even the FBI. After their dysfunctional policies resulted in a mass murder by a teenager who'd literally had the police called to come deal with him over 35 times, and who failed to enter the building to put a stop to the shooting spree, what did Broward County officials do?

Called up CNN and hosted a town hall meeting to blame the NRA!

It wears people down after awhile. Year after year, decade after decade everything just kept getting worse. You can't complain about it because you'll be called a racist, you can't fix it because the entire system is corrupt, you can't live in it because you or someone you know is going to wind up getting killed, and you can't escape it because the welfare state has you nailed in place. Then the same Democrats who've put these people in that situation keep right on with their charade about how they're "Workin' hard for you!" People stopped even trying to complain about it any more. It didn't do any good. They just lost hope.

But then something happened that really, really was not "supposed" to happen, and then we started seeing glimpses behind the curtain when Sessions started sending task forces to places like Chicago to pull down Federal charges on violent criminals so that the corrupted, local policies no longer had a say in who got sent up for a long haul. Then we started to see all of these offices being raided in places like Baltimore and Chicago and San Francisco, and that's not "supposed" to happen either. The fix is supposed to be in; all of these people leak this kind of thing to each other so that all of them know when something about to go down, and yet none of them ever saw a single raid coming.

Now we're coming up on the precipice of an actual solution to the problems in these cities, and the Democratic Machine doesn't want that to happen because it ruins their grift, so they're going to going to rev up the engines and start throwing all of the slander they can find at the person causing it, because it's always sent critics of their policies running in horror in the past. Problem is, that's not really going to work this time because they've spent so long blindly firing that ammo away for the last three years that it's become completely meaningless.

I mean, what are they gonna' do, call Trump a racist?

According to Wikipedia, Baltimore's been a Democratic stronghold for like 150 years. That's all you really need to say.

Why would the demographics of Democratic strongholds keep voting for the same party that's fucked over their cities though? Not like it can get much worse, might as well vote for the other guy.

 

[X Prime]

Why would the demographics of Democratic strongholds keep voting for the same party that's fucked over their cities though? Not like it can get much worse, might as well vote for the other guy.

When one has little, they fight all the harder to protect what have do have.

 

[Vorhtbame]

According to Wikipedia, Baltimore's been a Democratic stronghold for like 150 years. That's all you really need to say.

Why would the demographics of Democratic strongholds keep voting for the same party that's fucked over their cities though? Not like it can get much worse, might as well vote for the other guy.

Not when you've been told all your life that the other guy hates you and wants you dead. If it's a choice between a do-nothing who at least gets you money for food (and drugs) and someone you're sure will send you back to the plantation (or make you get a job, ew)?

And, to be honest, it might not even be possible to vote in the other guy. When Dems have a firm enough hold on the place, there are always more blue than red votes--even if they have to find some more, lose some, or resurrect dead voters.

 

[Flexo]

According to Wikipedia, Baltimore's been a Democratic stronghold for like 150 years. That's all you really need to say.

Why would the demographics of Democratic strongholds keep voting for the same party that's fucked over their cities though? Not like it can get much worse, might as well vote for the other guy.

Poems - 'The Gods of the Copybook Headings'

In case you hate reading.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

 

[Memento Malum]

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1155178539538362369

Places Trump has called shitholes have one big thing in common: They are shitholes.

Thanks for pointing out that they are all run by POC, though, that surely won't get any noggins joggin'.

 

[The Last Stand]

I've been reading Trump's tweets verbatim, and frankly even I can't see anything insulting in his point. What @It's HK-47 and others have pointed out, Baltimore is a shitshow. Not because of black people living there, but because of a corrupt, underbelly of a city infrastructure that has plagued a once beautiful city for decades. The fact that Baltimore let a riot happen after a case of police brutality is quite scary. Not just Baltimore, but other metropolitan cities in the United States.

I'm shocked that Baltimore's murders are placed next to third world countries. Ask @Marvin about Baltimore, I'm sure he'll give you stories too. I wouldn't even be surprised that the gangs have control over the city government to let this stuff happen. Innocent people there have been suffering in those cities for decades, but nothing is being done about it. The question is: how would you fix it? Short of purging the whole city to nothing?

I remember hearing stories about how you could report such cases of this to the highest department of justice, like the FBI, and have the whole city investigated. It worked quite well during the Civil Rights era, why not now?

 

[Jarolleon]

Because instead of admitting that their policies lead to abject failures, politicians--especially ones from Democrat 'strongholds'--shift all blame externally in order to try and paint themselves as the saviours to garner even more votes while they pass more "feel-good" laws that just lead to further deterioration. Case in point: Chicago. Chicago politicians had teamed up with the ACLU to push all sorts of utterly pointless feel-good laws into place, and as a result the murder rate rose 68.5% higher than it had been in the previous decade.

Instead of fixing their cities, Democrats always double-down because the Democratic 'machines' that run these big cities have the perfect combination of corruption, ideology and incompetence that weave together into an absolutely useless clusterfuck. Rather than admit that their polices don't work and put in the work towards fixing policy failures, it's much, much easier for the Democratic Machine to blame the GOP and the NRA. Think about it, if they really wanted to put an end to gun-related crime, why are they cracking down on the guns instead of the crime?

They've had decades to prove that they cannot fix the criminal problem. If they tried to do that, they would automatically come under attack from people within their own ideology as being a "bunch of racists." Guns have no race, so they're easy to attack. Cracking down on black criminals preying on the black community in your city? Yeah, you can see why a Democrat might be hesitant to throw their hat into that ring. The fact is, these city leaders are paralyzed with fear. They are ideologically bound to these failed criminal justice policies. Their pride will not let them admit that they were wrong, and their commitment to political correctness means that they reject directly going after black criminals in black sections of the city. The instant that there is a sharp uptick in the number of blacks being arrested and imprisoned in their city, all the usual race-baiting suspects are going to rally on the steps of City Hall and demand these new Gestapo tactics cease immediately.

So, they end up in this intolerable situation in which they keep stalling in order to “give the policies more time to work” and hoping vainly--despite all evidence and experience--that the problem is going to somehow get better on its own without them having to take any risky or costly steps. The Parkland Shooting is a perfect example of dysfunctional Democratic policies at work.

The county and the school pushed in policy after policy that just piggy-backed on top of each other until it had reached the point where an unbelievably dangerous person was just allowed to walk around and do whatever they wanted despite repeated visits from the local police and even the FBI. After their dysfunctional policies resulted in a mass murder by a teenager who'd literally had the police called to come deal with him over 35 times, and who failed to enter the building to put a stop to the shooting spree, what did Broward County officials do?

Called up CNN and hosted a town hall meeting to blame the NRA!

It wears people down after awhile. Year after year, decade after decade everything just kept getting worse. You can't complain about it because you'll be called a racist, you can't fix it because the entire system is corrupt, you can't live in it because you or someone you know is going to wind up getting killed, and you can't escape it because the welfare state has you nailed in place. Then the same Democrats who've put these people in that situation keep right on with their charade about how they're "Workin' hard for you!" People stopped even trying to complain about it any more. It didn't do any good. They just lost hope.

But then something happened that really, really was not "supposed" to happen, and then we started seeing glimpses behind the curtain when Sessions started sending task forces to places like Chicago to pull down Federal charges on violent criminals so that the corrupted, local policies no longer had a say in who got sent up for a long haul. Then we started to see all of these offices being raided in places like Baltimore and Chicago and San Francisco, and that's not "supposed" to happen either. The fix is supposed to be in; all of these people leak this kind of thing to each other so that all of them know when something about to go down, and yet none of them ever saw a single raid coming.

Now we're coming up on the precipice of an actual solution to the problems in these cities, and the Democratic Machine doesn't want that to happen because it ruins their grift, so they're going to going to rev up the engines and start throwing all of the slander they can find at the person causing it, because it's always sent critics of their policies running in horror in the past. Problem is, that's not really going to work this time because they've spent so long blindly firing that ammo away for the last three years that it's become completely meaningless.

I mean, what are they gonna' do, call Trump a racist?

So it's a big plot to inflate the national crime statistics (and other bad measures) to create the illusion that America is inferior to Europe, and therefore ought to adopt the knockoffs of European policies that the Dems are selling?

 

[Barnard]

According to Wikipedia, Baltimore's been a Democratic stronghold for like 150 years. That's all you really need to say.

Why would the demographics of Democratic strongholds keep voting for the same party that's fucked over their cities though? Not like it can get much worse, might as well vote for the other guy.

This is particularly perplexing from the perspective of an Eastern European who grew up listening to tales of massive, determined and ultimately successful civil unrest against shitty governments that couldn't even be voted away. How can you spend decades running a city into the ground and not only keep getting away with it, but keeping the overwhelming majority of votes? Are people just too deprived of hope and apathetic to really care anymore?

 

[Libtard-Wrecking Krogoth]

Are people just too deprived of hope and apathetic to really care anymore?

democracy is tyranny by empty promises as opposed to tyranny by force

 

[The Last Stand]

How can you spend decades running a city into the ground and not only keep getting away with it, but keeping the overwhelming majority of votes? Are people just too deprived of hope and apathetic to really care anymore?

That's how the United States treats minorities. And we do it to ourselves too while they sit back and do nothing until you bitch at them. This whole race baiting shtick is going to bite us in the ass if we don't handle it.

 

[heyitsmike]

This whole race baiting shtick is going to bite us in the ass if we don't handle it.

This is not an American problem, this is a problem all over the world with the left. It's coming to a head all over the world at the same time.

Trump's nomination and the Brexit vote were the foreshocks.
Trump's election was the main shock.
Bolsonaro's election, Jason Kenney's election, the EU elections, Scott Morrison's election and the Boris Johnson premiership are the aftershocks.

The next main shock is scheduled for November 3, 2020.

 

[X Prime]

It's not really that simple.

There is no political victory in solving issues. People forget what you have done for them in the past, and adopt a "what have you done for me lately" stance.

This is why wedge issues never seem to go away. They don't go away precisely because their existence drives votes better than solving them does. It's literally easier politically to do the bare minimum.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

Poems - 'The Gods of the Copybook Headings'

In case you hate reading.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Rudyard Kipling must've been a fucking genius, to put his finger so deftly on things that are haunting us now. I've referenced that poem more than once myself.

I do love how Trump is grinding people's faces in the failures of the Democrats. 'Look what they've done here! How is this good?'.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Baltimore is especially a shithole these days because they are now having trouble finding people who want to join the Police. The city has an abundance of violent crime, and the police are dwindling more and more-- a horrifying combination.

After the Baltimore riots back in 2015 (with the whole Freddie Gray debacle), a noticeable chunk of the police went "Okay, screw it. I'm moving or I'm quitting."

 

[It's HK-47]

"We're frankly above calling people names, unlike Trump." And they proceed to spend 80% of the article calling him names and insisting that living in a rat-infested city is good, actually. This is just astounding.