Blacks in Power

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  1. GeorgeJetStoned

    GeorgeJetStoned Odd Member

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    I've been here almost 2 decades now. It sure ain't California. And I admit I was concerned that I'd see weekly cross burnings, cops beating black people in the streets, fenced in ghettos surrounded by national guard troops. None of that is true of course. But I discovered my own bigotry about these things.
     
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  2. GeorgeJetStoned

    GeorgeJetStoned Odd Member

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    I don't take the KKK seriously in this day and age. They can't get a dozen people together for a protest. When they do show up in public, they have nobody to protect them from the multitudes of counter protesters except the cops, who they claim to hate. There are no wealthy klan lords showering them with money. There are no politicians backing them up (not even Trump).

    And who is this "we" you speak of?
     
  3. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Virtually every member of the Tea Party is a white supremacist,
    That's 20% of the population,
    That all espouse the same values,
    Demanding they get everything they demand.
    The only thing they don't have is a leader,
    But the republican party is up for grabs.
    Sad to say, "we" is not an individual,
    But the country I grew up in.​
     
  4. GeorgeJetStoned

    GeorgeJetStoned Odd Member

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    Sorry, not buying it. I get tired of all this white supremacist/white privilege crap. Consider who is saying it most of the time, it's not the actual white supremacists. They seem to be keeping a very low profile. But anyone who doesn't think like a hard left noob these days MUST be a white supremacist. Right?

    Spare me this childish shit please.
     
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  5. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Divide and Conquer

    Americans are the childish, infantile, voters,
    Who keep voting for whoever advertises the most,
    Or whichever clown screams the loudest.
    A twenty year study by Princeton concluded,
    No matter who they voted into office,
    Only the top 10% of wealthy,
    Ever got anything they wanted.
    While the Tea Party complains,
    About taxes and no good candidates.
    They keep arguing, fighting, and debating,
    While the rich get richer and the poor get poorer,
    And the middle class is ready to implode.
    Militias all do nothing as the constitution is shredded.
    Even racism, is just about money as far as I'm concerned.
    A great sales pitch for the mindless masses,
    That allows others to divide and conquer knowing,
    Using more complicated strategies is counterproductive.
    When all that Americans keep insisting,
    They don't trust the politicians they elected,
    And, prefer to shoot themselves in the foot instead.
    The sales pitch they are all buying,
    Is the idea that they are actually accomplishing something,
    Rather than shooting themselves and each other in the foot,
    Fighting over money that is still all floating to the top.​
     
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  6. Okiefreak

    Okiefreak Senior Member

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    I cited my sources. What part do you disagree with, and how are they inconsistent with yours? For more articles disputing Trump's exaggerated claims of credit for the defeat of ISIS, see President Trump thinks he is responsible for defeat of ISIS in Raqqa. Is he? 'The strategy hasn't changed at all' — Trump's plan to defeat ISIS is the same as Obama's
    Trump’s Promises to Defeat ISIS ‘Quickly’ Run Into Syria Buzzsaw
    The Washington Post article is simply reporting the assessment of Brett McGurk, presidential envoy to the coalition against ISIS. ISIS was on the ropes in Iraq in 2016. McGurk thinks the Trump Administration's decision to delegate more authority to field commanders accelerated the effort. McGurk is a somewhat controversial figure whose grip on his position with the Trump Administration has been tenuous. Trump Administration Ready to Scrap Envoy to Anti-ISIS Coalition To say that the gains against ISIS "dramatically accelerated" under Trump conflates the two theaters. In Syria, the gains are a result of concentrating on ISIS while Russia and Iran concentrate on helping the Syrians destroy the non-ISIS opposition. I agree that Afghanistan is marginal to our interest, although we now have a government in Kabul that is pro-American. That conflict, remember, was a Republican-inspired venture pursued by G.W. during his two terms. We initially entered the fray because the Taliban was maintaining Al-Quaida training camps within its borders after 9-11, but the action was badly botched. I think a "sunk cost" obsession keeps us there. Also, previous presidents believed that a complete withdrawal might destabilize Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons, a radicalized Muslim population, and proximity to rival India.Why Afghanistan actually matters to the United States
    U.S.withdrawal from Syria would be more serious, given its proximity to Israel and Iran's involvement in supporting Hezbollah. Are we prepared to abandon Israel as well? I wouldn't mind, but some Evangelicals in Trump's base might object. We learned the hard way during World War II that isolationism has its limitations for a country that is trying to be "great again."
     
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  7. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Isolationism is a joke in bad taste,
    When our military equals the next six largest,
    Patrolling the entire world,
    With weapons being our largest manufactured export.
    Paying half the costs for NATO and the UN,
    The dollar underscoring almost every economy.
    The international conglomerates now run everything,
    With the US merely taking on the role of a rent-a-cop.​
     
  8. Okiefreak

    Okiefreak Senior Member

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    Russia, China, North Korea--figments of our imagination?
    Something the Yankee capitalists cooked up to keep us confused
    while they control the world?
    Just good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm
    who really can be trusted to promote peace, love and understanding
    if we just withdraw into our shell
    and give them free reign.?
    You may believe that. Thousands wouldn't.
     
  9. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    The idiots keep voting,
    For whichever clown screams the loudest.
    What the US should do is never an issue,
    Because the banks now own the country,
    As freedom becomes more expensive every day.​
     
  10. Okiefreak

    Okiefreak Senior Member

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    So are the banks protectionists like Trump or free traders like Hillary?
     
  11. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    The banks want the empire to expand. Empires are founded on the distribution of goods, and they want to control the distribution of everything worldwide including, not least of all, information. Some 90% of the world economy is now in the stock market, total speculation, with 40% of those trades already automated. Whoever controls the distribution of information can control the distribution of wealth and goods.
     
  12. Okiefreak

    Okiefreak Senior Member

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    So why did Trump win?
     
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  13. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    The Duck won because the voters are only now beginning to realize it doesn't matter who they elect to office. After half a century of screaming for lower taxes and smaller government, they are never getting what they have been demanding. But, the banks only care about the money. If the Duck crashes the world economy, they still come out ahead and, of course, come to our rescue.

    Shrinking governments and businesses are dead. You are either the big fish, or someone's next meal. The idea libertarians could keep a country of 300 million people together is a joke in bad taste, when they can't even keep the republican party together and call each other commies. The banks and corporations know better than to listen to political rhetoric.
     
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