Meanwhile, Trump Puts Obese White Supremacist on National Security Council

Imagine the Lib outrage around here if a Conservative had fat shamed someone in the thread title...

 

Heck, you republicans elected someone famous for fat-shaming...

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/27/don...-criticism-of-alicia-machados-weight-matters/

You have no leg to stand on if someone ridicules a self-avowed white supremacist for being fat...

 

This is starting to remind me of Game of Thrones, with Cersei filling her small council with all of her cronies.

 

Most Trumpsters I know (I have a few vocal ones in my family) are just rubber-stamping everything he does with the ol' tried and true "at least it's not Hillary!!!!!11" retort. Of course, this is the whole reason they voted for him in the first place.

I'm hoping that, at some point, this will wear off and they will start watching him with a more critical eye. We shall see, I suppose.....

 

Maybe, but I was under the impression that conservatives were so tired of PC outrage especially against policies and actions.

So far the only conservative response we have in this thread is about the thread title, nothing about the actual issue here and how it may affect policy.

 

Meanwhile, @SamFisher mental breakdown continues...

Seriously, it's not healthy. Make sure you check your blood pressure to be sure and bring it down a notch. You're letting Trump lower your life expectancy.

 

Still, not a post from a conservative about this. I'm still waiting for the spin that this is a good thing.

 

Trial Balloon for a Coup?
Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours

See Other Thread : http://bbs.clutchfans.net/index.php...p-bannons-dictatorship-plan-under-way.280252/

 

The Rest:


We live in Scary Times


Combining all of these facts, we have a fairly clear picture in play.

1. Trump was, indeed, perfectly honest during the campaign; he intends to do everything he said, and more. This should not be reassuring to you.
2. The regime’s main organizational goal right now is to transfer all effective power to a tight inner circle, eliminating any possible checks from either the Federal bureaucracy, Congress, or the Courts. Departments are being reorganized or purged to effect this.
3. The inner circle is actively probing the means by which they can seize unchallenged power; yesterday’s moves should be read as the first part of that.
4. The aims of crushing various groups — Muslims, Latinos, the black and trans communities, academics, the press — are very much primary aims of the regime, and are likely to be acted on with much greater speed than was earlier suspected. The secondary aim of personal enrichment is also very much in play, and clever people will find ways to play these two goals off each other.

If you’re looking for estimates of what this means for the future, I’ll refer you back to yesterday’s post on what “things going wrong” can look like. Fair warning: I stuffed that post with pictures of cute animals for a reason.


Rocket River
F Y I . . . part 2

 

True

Gun makers are all coz the racists quit buying Obama guns.

Now the "libs" can stock up on guns for Trump.

Yep, only one thing can make me buy a gun: Donald Trump.

 

Guess he's saving David Duke for the Supreme Court

 

You people are insane. Anything the man does is a pre-cursor to Nazi Germany!
Even if very, very similar to things Obama did.

There are a lot of mental breakdowns and conspiracy theorists here.

Bringing in successful independent thinkers like Rex Tillerson, Wilbur Ross, General Mattis.

These are not pushovers and yes men like the nobodies and political fools Obama put in power.

 

Do you realize that Obama put several Republicans in key positions? I'm not disagreeing with your analysis on Mattis, and that Tillerson is outside the norm for Sec. of State, but your characterization of Obama's picks are incredibly inaccurate.

 

Rex Tillerson, Wilbur Ross, and General Mattis have to go through senate confirmations. Bannon doesn't go through any confirmations and is a domestic political strategist. This isn't similar to what Obama did. No president has ever done this before. Even Bush 43 wouldn't put Karl Rove on the National Security Council.

 

He will be lowering the life expectancy of a lot of Americans and not care one iota. Telling.

I hope you're correct on Tillerson, Ross, and Mattis. Apparently, by all reports, Mattis was quite unhappy with the recent E.O. And I can see things from your point of view, but you have to understand a few things, and separate from liberals, please keep your own eyes open and make your own determination.

1. Trump has put an *incredibly* controversial figure in a very powerful spot and seems to be listening to him intently. Again, would you have welcomed Jeremiah Wright on the security council? Oh, why not? Because he was controversial (at least in one or two sermons) and had no qualification for such a role? Yes, that would be a good reason!

2. On these recent executive orders, by all reports, he is not consulting the very executive organizations in his control to help make sensible policy. The implementation, as analyzed by a lawyer from the conservative Hoover Institute, seemed designed to maximize harm.

3. If Bannon, and Trump, are intentionally trolling half the US population, even if you don't really like this half over here very much... what does that say about a President. Bannon's whole media career is basically playing an internet troll. Is that a good way to lead a country? The *only* olive branch he ever offered anyone who didn't vote for him -- the only one, seriously -- was one sentence in his concession speech. Not getting it done, after he ran the most divisive campaign, by any standards, sorry, that we've ever seen in this nation.

4. Pardon the alarm, but if even 10% of our worries are correct, we need to be on it and vocal from the get go. All history shows this.

Cheers, and onward.

EDIT: folks, the best outcome, if our democracy works, is that enough good people in the government, including recent appointments like Mattis, and republican lawmakers like McCain (and hopefully many more) tell Trump that Bannon has to go, or at least be massively demoted. Wormtongue seems to have quite a grip on our president though.

 

The good thing is any obese Trump supporters will be physical specimens after the 4 years of mental gymnastics they will be putting themselves through every time they have to defend one of Trumps terrible decisions. It's been two weeks and they have already been hard at work.

 

the Steve Bannon?LOL, dude looks like a hot mess, always angry too... I was willing to give Trump a chance...he blew it

 

THIRD QUARTER: SADLY, SUMLIN NOT ALONE AS RACIST FAN TARGET

Most of America was repulsed by the racist, threatening letter delivered last week to the house of embattled Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin (21), the contents of which were shared on social media by Sumlin’s wife, Charlene.

One of the sad side-effects of that revelation was learning that a lot of other African-American coaches can probably relate. They might not have received letters directly to their homes, but office mail (and email, and voicemail) is a different deal altogether.

“I knew all that stuff was around me,” said former Washington, Notre Dame and Stanford coach Tyrone Willingham (22). “And I think most African-American coaches know it’s around them. I believe most [black coaches] have had to deal with it. It’s not a surprise.

“But the job is to do what’s best for your team and put that out of your mind. I don’t know if I ever internalized it consciously. I don’t think I gave it even a second thought.”

Willingham said he believes football office secretaries and other support staff probably intercepted and discarded plenty of hateful correspondence before it reached him. But there was one threat during his Notre Dame tenure that was specific enough to be forwarded to authorities, and Willingham said he believes the sender was identified, charged and prosecuted.


Kevin Sumlin addressed the racist and threatening letter his wife shared on Twitter after Texas A&M’s win on Saturday. (Getty)
Floyd Keith (23), former head of the now-defunct Black Coaches Association, said he has his own file of racist mail he received during his coaching career. He’s also heard from many other black coaches who endured similar slurs.

“When you go into the profession, you know at some point in time you’re going to be confronted by it,” Keith said. “A lot of the stuff that happens, coaches don’t say. They don’t talk about it publicly.

“I never share [the letters]. I keep them to teach my kids some history, some of the struggles we’ve had to endure.”

Keith echoed Willingham’s stance that dwelling on people who would send such hateful correspondence is a waste of time and mental energy.

“That’s not the majority,” Keith said. “That’s a very small percentage of the populace, and at the end of the day you need to cut them out of your thought process. Ninety percent of the craziness is from 10 percent of the populace, and people with those attitudes, you’re not changing them. They’re already infected with a disease, and there isn’t any cure.”

Both Willingham and Keith disliked the fact that Texas A&M administrators were quiet publicly when Board of Regent member Tony Buzbee (24) publicly ripped Sumlin right after the opening loss to UCLA, calling for him to be fired.

“I was a little disappointed that nobody in the administration came out and said anything,” Keith said. “Somebody needed to say, ‘Listen, we don’t support that kind of action by a trustee. We don’t think it’s appropriate.’ ”

 

Say What Now? 8-Year-Old Biracial Boy Gets Hung By a Group of White Teens, Police Won’t Release Information About the Case
September 10, 2017




Cassandra Merlin’s 8-year-old son had to be flown to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center after a group of teens decided to hang him from a tree with a rope.

She described the incident on Facebook, writing

“So my son is being flown to Dartmouth after a 14 year old kid decided to hang him from a tree. I don’t care if this was a so called accident or not. My son almost died because of some little sh** teenage kids.” (sic)

Not only did Cassandra almost lose her son in a racially motivated attack, but now the police department is refusing to release information about those responsible.




via Raw Story:

NH1.com said that Claremont Police Chief Mark Chase refused to comment on the case, but said the department is investigating the incident, which took place on Aug. 28. He said that because the perpetrators are juveniles, he is prevented from discussing the case publicly.

He said that unlike the adult judicial system, which is aimed at punishment, the juvenile justice system is designed to correct and rehabilitate aberrant behavior.

“These people need to be protected,” Chase said. “Mistakes they make as a young child should not have to follow them for the rest of their life.”

“Notice how he called these predators ‘young children,’” wrote Helm, “infantilizing the white teens. Conversely, teens like Trayvon Martin are made out to be hulking, menacing adults. Chief Chase seems to be centering the perpetrators feelings and futures, all but forgetting about the trauma of a little boy who had his so-called friends hang him from a tree to the point where he had to be medevaced to a hospital.”

According to the victim’s grandmother Lorrie Slattery, he was playing with a group of children and teens when they began to taunt him with racist epithets and throw sticks and rocks at him.

Someone stood on a picnic table and the group wrapped a rope from a nearby tire swing around the boy’s throat, then kicked him off the table.

The victim swung back and forth three times before he was able to free himself. None of the teens came to his aid.

NH1.com said Chief Chase refused to state whether the crime was racially motivated, although accounts of the incident make it clear the attack was based on the child’s race.

Slattery told Valley News it’s clear to her that the attack was racist because her grandson has been targeted for racist abuse from the same group of children and teens in the past.

Her grandson is recovering now and preparing for his first day of school on Tuesday.

Helm wrote, “Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. Say what you want, but when the U.S. president defends avowed white supremacists, one can’t be surprised when bullying takes on a decidedly racist tone as it did with an 8-year-old biracial boy who was hung from a tree in the year 2017. The climate has been set.”

If you’d like to let the Claremont police know how you feel about this, feel free to give the station a ring at (603) 542-9538.