America is great and everything is NOT Pres. Trump's fault thread

[Joe Bagadonuts]

Media brainwash? You're an idiot. People with half a brain go 100% off what comes out of Trump's mouth, and the mouths of the feeble, bigoted, amoral sycophants he has dredged up from the swamp.

Hitler gained power in 1933. He didn't start slaughtering jews until around 1941. People did not support Hitler at first but they began to as he whipped them into a fervor... just like Trump is doing to his base. We are only two years into Trump. Not saying Trump is Hitler, but not saying he isn't.

You're off the deep end. And @Red, remember when you said that you were unaware of people who were comparing Trump to Hitler in the literal sense?

 

[str8line]

You're off the deep end. And @Red, remember when you said that you were unaware of people who were comparing Trump to Hitler in the literal sense?

Why wouldn't you compare Trump to Hitler in the literal sense? I'm interested in your response.

 

[str8line]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/27/top-10-signs-of-creeping-authoritarianism-revisited/

 

[str8line]

https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...yaC0Lg-ae-DHrVCgmbxV2LqhmqxG-4viDs4BdXJFMInqU

 

[One Brow]

Thanks, but you didn't respond at all to the portion of the post that I was thinking about when I wrote my response. His opinions on hate speech were very interesting and eye-opening for me. (I know, I should have been clearer.) Do you agree or disagree with what he said about that part?

That depends on the situation. It's one thing to be an iconoclast, it's another to make veiled threats. Putting up a Nazi flag as the lone Nazi in a Jewish neighborhood is a statement, putting up the same flag when there is one Jewish family on a block of otherwise white people can be threatening.

 

[One Brow]

I haven't heard Trump to tell his to do the same,

Just checking...you have have never heard Trump tell people to hit protesters at his rallies, and that he would pay their legal bills?

 

[One Brow]

I can't even decode your stuff about the BLM.

He meant "BLM" as "Black Lives Matter", the "the BLM" as "the Bureau of Land Management".

 

[babe]

How is it ********? I thought it was common knowledge that the vast majority of tax revenue comes from the rich.

If I'm wrong, I'm more than happy to be corrected.

The progressive tax rates are often "worked" by CPA professionals who know all the dodges. People worth billions, with nine-figure annual gross incomes, actually pay less taxes as a percentage than greasy-spoon waitresses. Dems even do it.
100k-200k/yr professionals probably pay the real highest percent of annual and also as class probably pay over half the income tax revenue.

 

[babe]

You are 100% correct on the NFL protesters.

I disagree with your comment about Sanders. Getting in someone's face is where it crosses the line. It is not okay to drive people out of restaurants, etc. It is not okay to tell your followers to do those kinds of things. I have heard Maxine Waters tell her constituents to misbehave. I haven't heard Trump to tell his to do the same, but I agree with your implication that he ought to make it clear to his followers that bad behavior will not be tolerated. He definitely doesn't do a good enough job of this. The guy seems to be fueled by conflict, and that's a very bad thing.

I can't even decode your stuff about the BLM.

The Man on the Street, as I hear it, has a lot to say about bad jails, disproportionate sentencing, and no way out. The uppity up organizers of BLM are just street thugs working the issue. Put them on ignore and don't blame black kids. Their cause is just, they are just being exploited. Doesn't mean we should not listen.

 

[Alfalfa]

The progressive tax rates are often "worked" by CPA professionals who know all the dodges. People worth billions, with nine-figure annual gross incomes, actually pay less taxes as a percentage than greasy-spoon waitresses. Dems even do it.
100k-200k/yr professionals probably pay the real highest percent of annual and also as class probably pay over half the income tax revenue.

10% of a billion is a whole lot more than 30% of 200k.

 

[lauriandres]

That depends on the situation. It's one thing to be an iconoclast, it's another to make veiled threats. Putting up a Nazi flag as the lone Nazi in a Jewish neighborhood is a statement, putting up the same flag when there is one Jewish family on a block of otherwise white people can be threatening.

One Brow, does the same argument applies also to China, Russia and Hutu persons? I.e one flag is a statement, a bunch of them is threat? I guess that if those Idaho teachers had masked themselves as a hutu warriors with similar clothes etc which were common in 1994 in Rwanda or made a small replica of Lhasa in 1950 and dressed as chinese soldiers, then i presume, that Democrat party fans and other anti-Trump persons would not have noticed it at all.

 

[gandalfe]

You are 100% correct on the NFL protesters.

I disagree with your comment about Sanders. Getting in someone's face is where it crosses the line. It is not okay to drive people out of restaurants, etc. It is not okay to tell your followers to do those kinds of things. I have heard Maxine Waters tell her constituents to misbehave. I haven't heard Trump to tell his to do the same, but I agree with your implication that he ought to make it clear to his followers that bad behavior will not be tolerated. He definitely doesn't do a good enough job of this. The guy seems to be fueled by conflict, and that's a very bad thing.

I can't even decode your stuff about the BLM.

You're kidding about not hearing Trump tell his followers to misbehave, right? There's video of him telling people at his rallies to beat up protesters.