Specifically, What do you like or dislike about Trump?

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  1. onceanlsufan

    onceanlsufan Founding Member

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    Ummm ... I can’t stand Pat Robertson, or any other attention whore who depends on what people think of them in order to maintain their riches and popularity. Obviously, Trump doesn’t fall into this category, otherwise he’d be capitulating to media.
     
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    mancha Alabama morghulis

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    Trump is not an attention whore who care's about what people think about him????? Says no one who reads his twitter.
     
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    tzanghi Founding Member

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    Lol have you seen the video? It’s unchecked police brutality and abuse of power. Any citizen without a badge does that and they’re arrested on spot and charged immediately. He was not because he was wearing a badge, which he abused in the first place to commit a depraved killing. If that’s not newsworthy to you, then fuck, I don’t want to know what’s going on in your household.
     
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  4. onceanlsufan

    onceanlsufan Founding Member

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    As I’ve detailed it all before. This event was handled locally, the perp was arrested, and had the Media delayed their reporting until the story was more complete, the headline would have been completely different and sent a different message. As opposed to being “Cop kills Black Man”, it would have been “Cop who unjustly killed Black Man arrested and charged”. Those two headlines send totally different messages.

    I’m outraged at the incident as everyone else, but this event can not be generalized to all events or society as a whole. I don’t oppose the message that Law Enforcement needs to be fair, reasonable, hold themselves accountable for wrong doing, but the message that Black People are disproportionately targeted and killed by police is false. The odds of being killed is 1.6 for White, 0.87 for Hispanics, and 0.68 for Blacks. Law Enforcement is disproportionately lenient on Blacks when compared to their contribution to felony crime. Emotions aside, the data are the data. The perception that police are hunting down and killing Black people is false and the result of false narrative perpetuated by the Left, Democrats and the Media.
     
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    onceanlsufan Founding Member

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    Your confusing an attention whore who cares about what people think, to an attention whore who does not. Trump is too narcissistic to care what other people think of his tweets. If he cared, he wouldn’t do them.

    Does that clear it up for you?
     
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    That one sentence is the best short analysis I've read on this topic. Well done.
     
  7. onceanlsufan

    onceanlsufan Founding Member

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    There are a lot of people who disagree with it, even though it is truth.
     
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    Bengal B Founding Member

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    All true and newsworthy. So what. Is that any reason to riot in Nashville o LA? How many black guys have been murdered by other black guys in this country since Minneapolis. Read the story, watch the video and say, "They should fry that bastard." and then move on with your life.

    There would be no riots and very few protests if it wasn't all being orchestrated by some left wing puppetmaster. George Soros comes to mind. I don't know where you live and I'm assuming you're a white guy. If a black cop murders a white guy in Chicago are you going to burn your neighborhood? Are you even going to attend any protest demonstrations, chant slogans and hold a sign? I'm guessing no to all of the above.

    Most of the videos and pictures I have seen have as many young white punks and thugs as black punks and thugs.
     
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  9. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    True, but don't try getting 98% of African Americans to believe it.

    I have an honest question, and its one I would not dare ask in an open forum like Twitter. But I feel like I can get rational discussion in here, even from those who disagree. Here goes:

    I have not sought out any information about this killing, and I really haven't heard much background. I've seen the video, and there's no doubt in my mind a murder charge is warranted. I've heard:
    a. Floyd was a porn star. Don't know what that has to do with anything, but there it is.
    b. Chauvin has a history of, shall we say, over aggressively using force in the performance of his duties. Haven't seen a racial breakdown of subjects involved in previous incidents - it may be that every one of them was black, but I don't know that.
    c. I've heard Chauvin and Floyd have a personal history, that they worked together, maybe as bouncers in a bar? Don't remember, but I know I saw that.

    And that's it. The only relevant info is, they already knew each other, and Chauvin likely has a temper. So here's the question: Have I missed an important piece of info that confirms that this was a racially motivated killing, other than the fact that the victim was black and the suspect white? That's how its been painted, but do we really know that's what it was?
     
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  10. onceanlsufan

    onceanlsufan Founding Member

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    If a White Punk was killed by the police, .... as 370 were in 2019, you’d never hear about it. Go google white people shot by police and all you’ll get is a return talking about black people getting shot.

    and they say google isn’t pushing an agenda.
     

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