dagblog - Comments for "If only Hillary had been more inspiring on real issues v57"

Point taken

rmrd0000 — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:33:55 +0000

In reply to Polls taken after his last

Point taken

Polls taken after his last

Obey — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:30:32 +0000

In reply to 538 lists Trump's approval at

Polls taken after his last inspiring but-what-about speech won't be getting published before friday

538 lists Trump's approval at

rmrd0000 — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:22:22 +0000

In reply to Wea re witnessing the product

538 lists Trump's approval at 37% today. There are a lot of Americans who are not afraid to stand by a racist President

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

You dismissed my request for

rmrd0000 — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:44:42 +0000

In reply to It is not a personal attack

You dismissed my request for you to provide support for your statement about Paglia. It was diversion. Paglia' stance on the issue was the polar opposite of what you suggested. At any rate, we have a President who is a racist. He is giving licenses to white supremacists to feel validated. I provided references on Republicans that support my position that they are bigots and racists.

As of today, 538 says Trump has a 37% approval rating. I suggested that Trump's core was 40%. If people are still supporting Trump, a person who coddles racists, those supporters are racists.

Wea re witnessing the product

NCD — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:40:51 +0000

In reply to One poll found 72% of

We are witnessing the product of 30 years of right wing TV, radio and political propaganda and lies. these factors got 'really bad' starting in the 90's, when Republicans called Democrats traitors, un-American and considered democratic compromise, the foundation of our nation, treason.

Many Americans, including many here, do not realize the power that decades of this drumbeat of hate, anger, lies and racism can have, and how those under its spell can continue to believe it in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence.

Trump's alt-right has for many years been claiming not only that there was no Holocaust, but that Eisenhower planned and executed extermination of German civilians.

Now Trump is equating RE Lee with Geoge Washington, and defending torch bearing bigots who march side by side with Nazis and the KKK.

It is not a personal attack

artappraiser — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:31:54 +0000

In reply to You continue personal attacks

It is not a personal attack to attack a person's argument.

One poll found 72% of

rmrd0000 — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:52:00 +0000

In reply to You continue personal attacks

One poll found 72% of Republicans doubt that Obama was born in the United States

http://www.salon.com/2016/08/11/trumps-birtherism-is-now-republican-gosp...

The "best" poll found 41% of Republicansare birthers

https://www.mediaite.com/online/new-poll-shows-that-41-of-republicans-st...

73% of Republicans believe in voter fraud

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/08/poll_half_of_republic...

50% of Republicans would agree with suspending the 2020 elections if Trump proposed it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/10/in-a-new-p...

You continue personal attacks

rmrd0000 — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:37:23 +0000

In reply to You comments are starting to

You continue personal attacks even after your Camille Paglia post.

Ryan, remains silent on voter suppression and Trump's attacks on affirmative action. Ryan wants to see people die from lack of health care. Your article on the birtherism notes that Steve King and a leader of the voter fraud commission Kris Kobach gave a wink to birtherism. Republicans have to name Trump direct as being a racist. Republican leadership, Ryan and McConnell, will not name Trump directly when it comes to white supremacy.

Stop the personal attacks.

Edit to add:

See NCD's comment above.

The 'civiil war' in the

NCD — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 05:40:14 +0000

In reply to You comments are starting to

The 'civil war' in the Republican Party in your article and in your comment is each Republican making a difficult calculation as to how to save their own ass in the next election.

If Trump wanted to give the alt-reich uniforms and have them march around at his victory rallies, Ryan would say he supports Trump's powers, but doesn't endorse the brown shirts at rallies, and he can't do anything about it.

It's about which vile 'precious to their financiers' aka Koch bros, Mercer family etc, each Republican can survive or not survive in supporting, and which faction to go with, and how Mr Trump works into that final solution. It is all about them, not America. The gerrymandered reps always toe the Koch line as their re-election is guaranteed as long as they do so.

Their unity (in constant obstruction and partisan witch hunt investigations) and futures would have been exceedingly easy to sustain, and more secure with Hillary as president. Which fact basically proves there is no ideological civil war, it's each one looking out for #1.

And great ordering Hillary to

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 05:22:50 +0000

In reply to Yes, and also according to

And great ordering Hillary to apologize for everything these last 25 years, while the other side (or even our own sides) apologizes for 0. We sure know how to kneecap a candidate and then ask what happened. Seems we prefer Tonya Harding over goodie two-shoes Nancy Kerrigan - better the trailer trash who'll party her ass off than the prom queen/class president who annoys you.

Trump just throws people under the bus left and right - even more extreme than the no-repercussions Bush years. We must be some kind of stupid to expect "is our children learning yet?" They've learned well enough - deplorable behavior gets you where you want to be, and if lucky even keeps you there. Wonder where we'll get someone to figjt that who doesn't look like a naive deer in the headlights, another piece of Republican roadkill.