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11 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

Sounds like some of the resident conservatives/Republicans are pushing for "cancel culture" with respect to the Political Forum.  LOL  :facepalm:

 

 

Most of us come here to read about Dinars and would like to come to the home page minus the constant drumbeat of “Get Trump”.  Seriously Shabbs, I come to read about Dinars and there are 15 posts on you arguing with almost everyone, every day Mon-Fri If we get past the Political Rubbish then we have to scroll past 20 music videos (no offense Umbertino I like many of your vids just not 20 in a row) just to get to Dinar stuff.  Yes it’s my personal gripe but it truly keeps me from coming to the board.  I know there is a way to customize my content which I had at one point but it stopped working.  I’m not trying to Cancel Anything.  I’m just trying to keep myself from wasting my time because I’m a sucker for Political crap.  I used to be very big in Politics back in the 90’s and sometimes I find myself gravitating back to it.  And yes, I was a Dem and I worked on the Clinton Campaign, that’s why I can’t stand HRC.  

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3 minutes ago, Johnny Dinar said:

 

He is an elite... He's a billionaire. His father gave him 400 million. He has his products made in China. He owns properties across the globe. He is running up the debt while giving tax breaks to the rich. He is not a regular guy. He is not part of the middle class. The only reason he wouldn't be in the New World Order is because they wouldn't want to let him in. Everyone know he can't be taken at his word. Even The evil empire expects loyalty.

 

So....all that taken.....why does this "billionare"......with an easy.....doesn't need for anything life....take this job....?

 

For him it pays squat.....any President puts themselves and families under the spotlight and at risk.....The MSM shreds him.......

Why did Trump want the job?

 

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26 minutes ago, Johnny Dinar said:

He is an elite... He's a billionaire. His father gave him 400 million. He has his products made in China. He owns properties across the globe. He is running up the debt while giving tax breaks to the rich. He is not a regular guy. He is not part of the middle class. The only reason he wouldn't be in the New World Order is because they wouldn't want to let him in. Everyone know he can't be taken at his word. Even The evil empire expects loyalty.

 

He is an elite Billionaire and yes his father helped him get started with 250 million to buy a building or two.  Nothing wrong with that.  I haven’t heard where he is funneling money to terror groups like Soros and Steyer.  Please post that on tape or video if you have that information 

 

If Trump was one of the NWO do you think we would have such hysteria about trying to get him out of office

 

Lets see,  he has closed the Borders to the drug Lords

He has redone NAFTA, and given Americans a better trade deal with South Korea, Australia, Europe, and China.  

 

He has stopped Iran dead cold in their tracks which is a good thing imo

His Administration has reformed the Criminal System

 

Just go watch his speech last night and listen to what his Administration has changed and made better for America.  This all while the Damn Democrats are in full Rebellion and China is inflicting CV on the world.  

 

Come on Johnny you are starting to show your leanings with half truths.  I know Trump is a scally wag and has done many things I cannot agree with but he doesn’t believe in Open Borders, Gun Grabs, Socialism, Abortion, Sanctuary Cities, and so many more things that I do not believe in as opposed to the Dems who appear to think Looting and burning of our cities is ok.  

 

I have one vote and two choices.  I prefer the guy who stands up for America vs a puppet who can’t remember his lines.  

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nobody's questioning the awesomeness that is capitalism

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Agreed....Capitalism is  / can be:  fantastic, stunning, incredible, superb, THE answer to all Man issues......I am a member of this world therefore I do know .....Very many lights (that's undisputable) and...  Some shadows...

 

I can only hope big brain politicians/economists all over the world will think of it and improve this thing for the better .....Possibly for all 8B folks living on this planet ...There's enough wealth  for 15B folks.....

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19 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

 

He is an elite Billionaire and yes his father helped him get started with 250 million to buy a building or two.  Nothing wrong with that.  I haven’t heard where he is funneling money to terror groups like Soros and Steyer.  Please post that on tape or video if you have that information 

 

If Trump was one of the NWO do you think we would have such hysteria about trying to get him out of office

 

Lets see,  he has closed the Borders to the drug Lords

He has redone NAFTA, and given Americans a better trade deal with South Korea, Australia, Europe, and China.  

 

He has stopped Iran dead cold in their tracks which is a good thing imo

His Administration has reformed the Criminal System

 

Just go watch his speech last night and listen to what his Administration has changed and made better for America.  This all while the Damn Democrats are in full Rebellion and China is inflicting CV on the world.  

 

Come on Johnny you are starting to show your leanings with half truths.  I know Trump is a scally wag and has done many things I cannot agree with but he doesn’t believe in Open Borders, Gun Grabs, Socialism, Abortion, Sanctuary Cities, and so many more things that I do not believe in as opposed to the Dems who appear to think Looting and burning of our cities is ok.  

 

I have one vote and two choices.  I prefer the guy who stands up for America vs a puppet who can’t remember his lines.  

 

Thanks for your answer. I can see you are committed to the candidate. I personally cannot say I'm committed to either major party candidate as of today. I'm not impressed by either one of them very much. I do believe as the greatest county in the world we should be able to do better than a withering old professional politician or a megalomaniac who can't spell the word truth never mind speak it. Your list of Trump's accomplishments looks nice in print, but not reality.

 

Drugs and Druglords... You can go on the street right now and purchase any drug you want... Nothing has changed. 

 

The new NAFTA... I haven't studied it, but I don't see much change. It hasn't been long enough to know if it will bring back manufacturing and help farmers, but time will tell. Saying it is a win is bit premature.

 

Iran is Iran and Putin will prop them up as always, so unless Trump tells Putin to get out or else nothing will change... Putin plays Trump like a fiddle.

 

Reforming the criminal system? I'm not sure what you mean. But members of his administration sure have put money in the pockets of defense attorneys.

 

Watching his speech and Biden's speech is pure political fodder. It anyone takes them literally, they will be disappointed.

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On 8/27/2020 at 7:01 AM, Shabibilicious said:

You do know the KKK loves and backs Trump, right?  And he's doesn't denounce them...those are votes after all.  So, to present either of our political parties as being lilly white and free from bad deeds is simply not true.

 

GO RV, then BV 

Nolte: Watch Joe Biden Defend KKK-Linked Confederate Group as ‘Fine People’

https://twitter.com/i/status/1203753557444444160

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/12/10/nolte-watch-joe-biden-defend-kkk-linked-confederate-group-as-fine-people/

 

 

And:

 

Trump Has Condemned White Supremacists

Trump has said his “very fine people” comment referred not to white supremacists and neo-Nazis but to “people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee — a great general, whether you like it or not.” 

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/trump-has-condemned-white-supremacists/

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1 hour ago, Pitcher said:

We are not too different Johnny, I agree with a lot of what you wrote. The question is, who will you vote for?

 

The megaegomanic or the diminished 47 years politician.  Kanye?  

 

I honestly don't know.... I only wish there were legit 3rd choice... Remember when Ross Perot nearly pulled a rabbit out of his hat?

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Ross Perot basically gave us Clinton.  Being from Texas I was not a fan of Perot. He had a problem with daddy Bush and torpedoed his 2nd term.  I got involved with Clinton in 94.  I personally liked him. Very bright, and was reasonable in mettings. I’ve seen him spend 2 hours going through a 2 inch binder and grasp all the info.  Info that took me months to research and understand.  Egg head smart.  HRC was too, she just wasn’t very friendly. At least that was my experience for whatever it was worth.  

 

We dont need 3 or 4 parties like in Europe.  2 is good enough if they were truly different. We have 2 parties that are basically the same.  Self serving

 

 

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57 minutes ago, new york kevin said:

Ahh, Say it ain't so! Say it ain't so ! 😐😲😭

 

No one is going to cancel the Political Forum.  I just want to figure out a way to not see it.   It’s my weakness and my problem.  I’m not for censorship but it would be nice if we could just be cool when we are in disagreement with each other.  Haha.  You have to be strapped in if you’re going to question others in that swamp.  It’s all good, I like to hear all sides.  

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On 8/27/2020 at 4:05 PM, Johnny Dinar said:

 

You should get your money back.....

 

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On 8/27/2020 at 3:51 PM, caddieman said:

I agree both are racists but there is one major thing that sets them apart. The KKK supports Trump100% BLM doesn’t. 

Guess these articles got lost in 2016.

 

Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Will Quigg Endorses Hillarious Clinton for President

He says he's retracting his endorsement of Donald Trump.

 
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By Rachel Dicker, Associate Editor, Social MediaMarch 14, 2016, at 5:27 p.m.
U.S. News & World Report

Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Will Quigg Endorses Hillarious Clinton for President

Hillarious CLINTON CAN ADD a new name to her list of endorsements – a prominent Ku Klux Klan member who says he likes her because of her "hidden agenda."
Will Quigg, a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan's California chapter, told the Telegraph Monday that he would be switching his support from Donald Trump to Clinton.
Quigg had endorsed Trump on Twitter in September:

@realDonaldTrump You Sir are the only hope we have of getting WHITE AMERICA BACK! WE all will be voting for you! CHURCH OF INVISABLE EMPIRE

— Wm. Quigg (@GrandDragonCa) September 17, 2015

Now, though, he says he's changing his tune.
"We want Hillarious Clinton to win," he said. "She is telling everybody one thing, but she has a hidden agenda. She’s telling everybody what they want to hear so she can get elected, because she’s Bill Clinton’s wife, she’s close to the Bushes. Once she’s in the presidency, she’s going to come out and her true colors are going to show. Border policies are going to be put in place. Our second amendment rights that she’s saying she’s against now, she’s not against. She’s just our choice for the presidency."

 

When asked about the "hidden agenda," Quigg said, "I cannot reveal my sources.”
When the Telegraph asked Quigg why he reneged on his promise to support Trump in the race, he replied: "We don’t like his hair. We think it’s a toupee. He won’t do what he says he will do. He says he’s going to build a 20-foot high fence along with border with Mexico and make them pay. How’s he going to do that?"

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Clinton has yet to address the unexpected new endorsement, but some analysts say Quigg's statements seem "suspect."


"Based on his past statements, it doesn’t appear highly credible that he has changed his effusive allegiance to Donald Trump,” Brian Levin, a former New York police officer who is director of the Centre for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino, told the Telegraph. “The timing seems suspect. I think this is a function of not wanting to undermine the Trump campaign.”  

 

And this highly biased piece against Trump:

The Donald, David Duke and Il Duce

Donald Trump denounced the former Ku Klux Klan leader before he refused to denounce him.

 
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By Robert Schlesinger, Managing Editor for OpinionFeb. 28, 2016, at 1:20 p.m.
U.S. News & World Report

Trump and the Duke-stakes

 

Donald Trump speaks during a caucus night rally on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in Las Vegas.

What could ever lead you to believe this man is a fascist?(JAE C. HONG/AP)

REPUBLICAN FRONT-RUNNER Donald Trump this morning refused to reject former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke … two days after he disavowed him on the campaign trail and 16 years after he disavowed him on the op-ed page of The New York Times.

Trump's appearance this morning on CNN lends new credence variously to the theories that he really does have white supremacist or fascist tendencies – he also opted to not denounce Benito Mussolini – or that all along he's been looking for an escape hatch from the election by taking ever more outrageous stacuses Democrats of plot to 'steal' election at Republican convention

 

Trump appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper this morning and the host three times asked the former reality TV star to comment on the support he'd received from the odious Duke, who this week said, "voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage."

SEE: 

Trump's reply, per Media Matters:

Well just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK? I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So, I don't know. I don't know, did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because, you know, I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists. And so you're asking me a question that I'm supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about.

He kept repeating his assertion that he didn't know anything about Duke, the Klan – even when Tapper twice name-checked them – or white supremacist groups. "I have to look at the group," he said when asked about organizations denounced by the Anti-Defamation League. "I don't know what group you are talking about, you wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about; I'd have to look. If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong."

It's actually not very hard to denounce people like Duke: Trump did it himself on Friday. Per The Hill:

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday disavowed a former Ku Klux Klan leader's support.

"I didn't even know he endorsed me," Trump said while unveiling an endorsement from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, when asked about former KKK grand wizard David Duke's support.

"David Duke endorsed me? OK, alright. I disavow, OK?" Trump said, seeking to quickly move on to another question.

But if he really needs to do research on Duke and his ilk – and I envision Trump hunched over a laptop, hunt-and-pecking for "Duke" and K-K-K in Google – he can start with the oped that he penned for the Times on February 19, 2000 (h/t Justin Green) explaining why he was not going to seek the Reform Party nomination. He wrote about how America might be "ready for a businessman president" and how exploring such a run was the "greatest civics lesson that a private citizen can have" before growing concerned about the Reform Party's "fringe element" including "Elvis look-alikes, resplendent in various campaign buttons and anxious to give me a pamphlet explaining the Swiss-Zionist conspiracy to control America."

He concluded:

I leave the Reform Party to David Duke, Pat Buchanan and Lenora Fulani. That is not company I wish to keep.

Duke was so well-known that Trump didn't feel the need to identify him in the oped, though he had several days earlier when issuing a statement withdrawing from the race: "The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani," he said then. "This is not company I wish to keep." Well 16 years is a long time (even if Trump does have "the world's greatest memory"). Maybe Trump, unique among Americans who aren't brain-dead, has forgotten who Duke is, what the Klan is.

The politics of this are befuddling. There's no obvious upside to defending Duke or the Klan. As Jonathan Chait wrote today: "And yes, racial resentment is deeply embedded in the popular appeal of conservative politics. But Republicans are overwhelmingly convinced of their own racial innocence. There is no reason to believe they wish to tolerate open association with the KKK." If I wanted to be charitable to Trump I'd suspect that – not being one for details – he dimly remembers that organizations that have long been welcome in the GOP have been denounced as hate groups (the Southern Poverty Law Center has so termed the Family Research Council for its rhetoric against gays) and so didn't want to ostracize potential friends so close to his goal of getting the nomination. Not that an aversion to insulting people has particularly marked Trump's run for office.

To be more charitable one could note, as does Chait, that Trump's repeated use of the phrase "I know nothing" echoes the 19th century nativist Know-Nothing Party, which stemmed from, as Chait writes, "nativists who belonged to secret societies pledged to support only native-born Protestants for public office. When questioned about the groups, members were instructed to state 'I know nothing.' It is striking to see modern nativist Donald Trump repeat this precise formulation as an answer to an analogous question (his sub-terra support from a politically radioactive secret society.)" (Chait's ultimate conclusion is that Trump isn't that smart and so is probably dumber than we thought.)

But really, taking a moment to say that of course you oppose the Klan not only doesn't require a great effort but seems pretty basic. Trump has said that he could publicly shoot someone without consequence to his political standing – maybe every new outrage is a test of that theory, either for self-amusement (let's see how outrageous I can be before they stop loving me) or as subconscious attempt to exit a race he probably never meant to get as serious as it did.

Maybe it's just a rare moment of honesty from Trump, whose campaign has been based on veiled and less-veiled racism, xenophobia and dog whistles from the start. Remember that his "keep the Muslims" out immigration approach basically just mainstreams what white supremacists have been saying for years.

Hey – speaking of things that have been said for years and reflect on Donald Trump's character, he also got attention this morning for retweeting a quote from a prank Twitter account crediting Trump with the saying, "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep."

The quote actually comes from Benito Mussolini, the World War II-era fascist leader of Italy (whose nickname was Il Duce – hence the name of the account which was a so-dumb-it-turned-out-to-be-brilliant joke conceived and executed, it turns out, by Gawker).

Asked about it on "Meet the Press" this morning, Trump responded that, "it's certainly a very interesting quote." But do you want to be associated with a fascist, moderator Chuck Todd asked. "No I want to be associated with interesting quotes," Trump responded, claiming (unbelievably) that he knew full well what he was retweeting.

 
"Look, Mussolini was Mussolini," the tyrant of Trump Tower intoned.

And David Duke is David Duke.

And Donald Trump is Donald Trump.

 

Ain't leftist revisionist history grand?? We need more 1619 Project to tell us that African Tribes sold their own into slavery with the Arabs first (read what the Barbary Pirates was really about- you know the ones mentioned in the Marine Anthem) and that it was the British that brought slavery to first the New World then the Colonies. And if it weren't for the Revolutionary War and the Independence of the United States, there would have been no POTUS Lincoln nor would there have been the foresight of Madison to bring forth the thought of freeing the slaves in Lincoln, the first Republican President. Oh, while all BLM, don't forget about the slave markets taking place today in places like the Sudan for purchasers of slaves in the Middle East. OH Wait! When does BLM? Hmmm, guess it isn't when its a member of their own taking advantage of their own. Sounds familiar, kind of like the origination of African slavery.

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55 minutes ago, Theseus said:

Guess these articles got lost in 2016.

 

Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Will Quigg Endorses Hillarious Clinton for President

He says he's retracting his endorsement of Donald Trump.

 
?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.beam.usnews.com%
By Rachel Dicker, Associate Editor, Social MediaMarch 14, 2016, at 5:27 p.m.
U.S. News & World Report

Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Will Quigg Endorses Hillarious Clinton for President

Hillarious CLINTON CAN ADD a new name to her list of endorsements – a prominent Ku Klux Klan member who says he likes her because of her "hidden agenda."
Will Quigg, a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan's California chapter, told the Telegraph Monday that he would be switching his support system" rel="">support from Donald Trump to Clinton.
Quigg had endorsed Trump on Twitter in September:

@realDonaldTrump You Sir are the only hope we have of getting WHITE AMERICA BACK! WE all will be voting for you! CHURCH OF INVISABLE EMPIRE

— Wm. Quigg (@GrandDragonCa) September 17, 2015

Now, though, he says he's changing his tune.
"We want Hillarious Clinton to win," he said. "She is telling everybody one thing, but she has a hidden agenda. She’s telling everybody what they want to hear so she can get elected, because she’s Bill Clinton’s wife, she’s close to the Bushes. Once she’s in the presidency, she’s going to come out and her true colors are going to show. Border policies are going to be put in place. Our second amendment rights that she’s saying she’s against now, she’s not against. She’s just our choice for the presidency."

 

When asked about the "hidden agenda," Quigg said, "I cannot reveal my sources.”
When the Telegraph asked Quigg why he reneged on his promise to support system" rel="">support Trump in the race, he replied: "We don’t like his hair. We think it’s a toupee. He won’t do what he says he will do. He says he’s going to build a 20-foot high fence along with border with Mexico and make them pay. How’s he going to do that?"

[

Clinton has yet to address the unexpected new endorsement, but some analysts say Quigg's statements seem "suspect."


"Based on his past statements, it doesn’t appear highly credible that he has changed his effusive allegiance to Donald Trump,” Brian Levin, a former New York police officer who is director of the Centre for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino, told the Telegraph. “The timing seems suspect. I think this is a function of not wanting to undermine the Trump campaign.”  

 

And this highly biased piece against Trump:

The Donald, David Duke and Il Duce

Donald Trump denounced the former Ku Klux Klan leader before he refused to denounce him.

 
?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.beam.usnews.com%
By Robert Schlesinger, Managing Editor for OpinionFeb. 28, 2016, at 1:20 p.m.
U.S. News & World Report

Trump and the Duke-stakes

 

Donald Trump speaks during a caucus night rally on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in Las Vegas.

What could ever lead you to believe this man is a fascist?(JAE C. HONG/AP)

REPUBLICAN FRONT-RUNNER Donald Trump this morning refused to reject former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke … two days after he disavowed him on the campaign trail and 16 years after he disavowed him on the op-ed page of The New York Times.

Trump's appearance this morning on CNN lends new credence variously to the theories that he really does have white supremacist or fascist tendencies – he also opted to not denounce Benito Mussolini – or that all along he's been looking for an escape hatch from the election by taking ever more outrageous stacuses Democrats of plot to 'steal' election at Republican convention

 

Trump appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper this morning and the host three times asked the former reality TV star to comment on the support system" rel="">support he'd received from the odious Duke, who this week said, "voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage."

SEE: 

Trump's reply, per Media Matters:

Well just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK? I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So, I don't know. I don't know, did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because, you know, I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists. And so you're asking me a question that I'm supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about.

He kept repeating his assertion that he didn't know anything about Duke, the Klan – even when Tapper twice name-checked them – or white supremacist groups. "I have to look at the group," he said when asked about organizations denounced by the Anti-Defamation League. "I don't know what group you are talking about, you wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about; I'd have to look. If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong."

It's actually not very hard to denounce people like Duke: Trump did it himself on Friday. Per The Hill:

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday disavowed a former Ku Klux Klan leader's support system" rel="">support.

"I didn't even know he endorsed me," Trump said while unveiling an endorsement from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, when asked about former KKK grand wizard David Duke's support system" rel="">support.

"David Duke endorsed me? OK, alright. I disavow, OK?" Trump said, seeking to quickly move on to another question.

But if he really needs to do research on Duke and his ilk – and I envision Trump hunched over a laptop, hunt-and-pecking for "Duke" and K-K-K in Google – he can start with the oped that he penned for the Times on February 19, 2000 (h/t Justin Green) explaining why he was not going to seek the Reform Party nomination. He wrote about how America might be "ready for a businessman president" and how exploring such a run was the "greatest civics lesson that a private citizen can have" before growing concerned about the Reform Party's "fringe element" including "Elvis look-alikes, resplendent in various campaign buttons and anxious to give me a pamphlet explaining the Swiss-Zionist conspiracy to control America."

He concluded:

I leave the Reform Party to David Duke, Pat Buchanan and Lenora Fulani. That is not company I wish to keep.

Duke was so well-known that Trump didn't feel the need to identify him in the oped, though he had several days earlier when issuing a statement withdrawing from the race: "The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani," he said then. "This is not company I wish to keep." Well 16 years is a long time (even if Trump does have "the world's greatest memory"). Maybe Trump, unique among Americans who aren't brain-dead, has forgotten who Duke is, what the Klan is.

The politics of this are befuddling. There's no obvious upside to defending Duke or the Klan. As Jonathan Chait wrote today: "And yes, racial resentment is deeply embedded in the popular appeal of conservative politics. But Republicans are overwhelmingly convinced of their own racial innocence. There is no reason to believe they wish to tolerate open association with the KKK." If I wanted to be charitable to Trump I'd suspect that – not being one for details – he dimly remembers that organizations that have long been welcome in the GOP have been denounced as hate groups (the Southern Poverty Law Center has so termed the Family Research Council for its rhetoric against gays) and so didn't want to ostracize potential friends so close to his goal of getting the nomination. Not that an aversion to insulting people has particularly marked Trump's run for office.

To be more charitable one could note, as does Chait, that Trump's repeated use of the phrase "I know nothing" echoes the 19th century nativist Know-Nothing Party, which stemmed from, as Chait writes, "nativists who belonged to secret societies pledged to support system" rel="">support only native-born Protestants for public office. When questioned about the groups, members were instructed to state 'I know nothing.' It is striking to see modern nativist Donald Trump repeat this precise formulation as an answer to an analogous question (his sub-terra support system" rel="">support from a politically radioactive secret society.)" (Chait's ultimate conclusion is that Trump isn't that smart and so is probably dumber than we thought.)

But really, taking a moment to say that of course you oppose the Klan not only doesn't require a great effort but seems pretty basic. Trump has said that he could publicly shoot someone without consequence to his political standing – maybe every new outrage is a test of that theory, either for self-amusement (let's see how outrageous I can be before they stop loving me) or as subconscious attempt to exit a race he probably never meant to get as serious as it did.

Maybe it's just a rare moment of honesty from Trump, whose campaign has been based on veiled and less-veiled racism, xenophobia and dog whistles from the start. Remember that his "keep the Muslims" out immigration approach basically just mainstreams what white supremacists have been saying for years.

Hey – speaking of things that have been said for years and reflect on Donald Trump's character, he also got attention this morning for retweeting a quote from a prank Twitter account crediting Trump with the saying, "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep."

The quote actually comes from Benito Mussolini, the World War II-era fascist leader of Italy (whose nickname was Il Duce – hence the name of the account which was a so-dumb-it-turned-out-to-be-brilliant joke conceived and executed, it turns out, by Gawker).

Asked about it on "Meet the Press" this morning, Trump responded that, "it's certainly a very interesting quote." But do you want to be associated with a fascist, moderator Chuck Todd asked. "No I want to be associated with interesting quotes," Trump responded, claiming (unbelievably) that he knew full well what he was retweeting.

 
"Look, Mussolini was Mussolini," the tyrant of Trump Tower intoned.

And David Duke is David Duke.

And Donald Trump is Donald Trump.

 

Ain't leftist revisionist history grand?? We need more 1619 Project to tell us that African Tribes sold their own into slavery with the Arabs first (read what the Barbary Pirates was really about- you know the ones mentioned in the Marine Anthem) and that it was the British that brought slavery to first the New World then the Colonies. And if it weren't for the Revolutionary War and the Independence of the United States, there would have been no POTUS Lincoln nor would there have been the foresight of Madison to bring forth the thought of freeing the slaves in Lincoln, the first Republican President. Oh, while all BLM, don't forget about the slave markets taking place today in places like the Sudan for purchasers of slaves in the Middle East. OH Wait! When does BLM? Hmmm, guess it isn't when its a member of their own taking advantage of their own. Sounds familiar, kind of like the origination of African slavery.


Hummm you think he might have retracted that back in 2016 because it might helpTrump. You guys are all over conspiracy theories. This one should be right in the wheel house. Fact is who you think a KKK member is going to indorse. Trump or a Democrat? Everybody knows

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On 8/28/2020 at 9:17 AM, Johnny Dinar said:

 

He is an elite... He's a billionaire. His father gave him 400 million. He has his products made in China. He owns properties across the globe. He is running up the debt while giving tax breaks to the rich. He is not a regular guy. He is not part of the middle class. The only reason he wouldn't be in the New World Order is because they wouldn't want to let him in. Everyone know he can't be taken at his word. Even The evil empire expects loyalty.

Trumps Father gave him less than 2 million dollars , that over time he parlayed into 3-4 billion , after paying his Father back. That means he is in the big leagues, earning his elite status.

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12 hours ago, new york kevin said:

Trumps Father gave him less than 2 million dollars , that over time he parlayed into 3-4 billion , after paying his Father back. That means he is in the big leagues, earning his elite status.

 

No his dad gave him over 400 million through various businesses he owned. As for his total worth today, who knows? It could be more or less... I guess we will never know unless his ongoing tax audit comes to an end.... 

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2 hours ago, Johnny Dinar said:

 

No his dad gave him over 400 million through various businesses he owned. As for his total worth today, who knows? It could be more or less... I guess we will never know unless his ongoing tax audit comes to an end.... 

I will agree to disagree on this one Sir. I do agree we will never get to the bottomline till after the never ending audit.   I do not believe CBS ot  The New York Times and their recent biased article on this point .  They have become historic Marist Media agencies. JMHO. Least they would have come out with this Revelation much earlier on in the re-election process . If not when he was running for the presidency the first time. Again just my humble opinion . I think they are conflating the appointment of Donald Trump to run the fathers rental business Apartments as a loan for four hundred million dollars. The same time that Donald Trump ended his father's prejudicial renting practices upon Donald Trump's discovery of them.

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26 minutes ago, new york kevin said:

I will agree to disagree on this one Sir. I do agree we will never get to the bottomline till after the never ending audit.   I do not believe CBS ot  The New York Times and their recent biased article on this point .  They have become historic Marist Media agencies. JMHO. Least they would have come out with this Revelation much earlier on in the re-election process . If not when he was running for the presidency the first time. Again just my humble opinion . I think they are conflating the appointment of Donald Trump to run the fathers rental business Apartments as a loan for four hundred million dollars. The same time that Donald Trump ended his father's prejudicial renting practices upon Donald Trump's discovery of them.

 

Thanks Kevin... I agree we do not have the answers and the media NYT or FOX NEWS have their agendas.... But you might agree with this. I think President Trump probably wishes he had stayed a private citizen and not gone into public life where you are target no matter who you are...

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13 minutes ago, Johnny Dinar said:

I think President Trump probably wishes he had stayed a private citizen and not gone into public life where you are target no matter who you are...


I disagree.  Trump has brass balls. He’s in for the long hall and a proud American. 

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3 hours ago, Johnny Dinar said:

 

Thanks Kevin... I agree we do not have the answers and the media NYT or FOX NEWS have their agendas.... But you might agree with this. I think President Trump probably wishes he had stayed a private citizen and not gone into public life where you are target no matter who you are...

I whole heartedly agree with that my friend. 

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22 hours ago, caddieman said:


Hummm you think he might have retracted that back in 2016 because it might helpTrump. You guys are all over conspiracy theories. This one should be right in the wheel house. Fact is who you think a KKK member is going to indorse. Trump or a Democrat? Everybody knows

No when I think of KKK I think of the Democrats in the South. I think of a Grandmaster that was in Congress for the Dems but got a pass everyday. When I think of the KKK I think of vile racists that are on the left pretending not to be. Yeah when I think of the KKK I think of all the racist scumbags that are on the left and how they keep people in proverbial shackles by enabling race baiters and pimpers. And that leads me to think of those on left that have been conned by this cirque du soleil showing of the most racist party hidden in plain sight. And then I think of Cancel culture and ask why have the racist demoncraps not been cancelled yet? Or their statues torn down? Demoncrap history has already been rewritten from the racist party to the communist socialist crapola party on the left. And since you nicknamed yourself for carrying someone else's stuff it is no wonder you tow the party line rather than be a critical thinker.

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7 hours ago, Johnny Dinar said:

No his dad gave him over 400 million through various businesses he owned.

 

Johnny, his father loaned him 413 million which is price adjusted for what it would be worth in 2018 

 

Personally I could care less what his father gave him.  He’s the President of the USA.  

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