The Divided States of Embarassment

[The Beevers Revenge]

The republican party is going through a transition. Trumpian politicians will take over the republican party. It hasn't been done before because no one thought it would be successful.

Imagine someone with similar stances on issues that doesn't have any dirty on them. They'd win by a landslide.

I can't help but feel if Trump had toned it down a bit from the start he would have won in a landslide.

 

[JDragon]

Didn't read because of title.

Oh, that's just a quote from an old Eminem song.

 

[Vitor CroCop]

Trump will get the rural vote and he will reach out to the urban population.

Any American man with a pair of balls is voting for Trump. Just lol @ "Im with her". Pathetic.

 

[sangreporsangre]

Yea the USA is turning into a shitshow in front of our eyes - it seems to be in the decline period of it's empire - but I'm not gonna be on my high horse here because my country is a joke and we elected a ski bum for his haircut. And TS you're really not in a place to point the finger and laugh, seeing as how your government basically paid a bunch of guys to come and invade you. When your media and government try to cover up a massive sexual assault involving hundreds of native women being attacked by hundreds of migrants living off of your tax dollars, you shouldn't be trying to clown on other nations.

 

[CableandThanos]

I like how people bring Jesus into politics like it's real. What did Jesus do for the poor exactly? How many mouths did he feed? Steve Jobs did more for the poor than Jesus.

lol, yea, I think Jesus feed the poor, he didn't say to go take money from every person and then feed them and tell them they would keep getting fed as long as they didn't have a job.

 

[CableandThanos]

LOL at dumbasses comparing Jesus feeding the poor to The US GOV setting up handouts which encourage people not to work, stay together, etc.

Jesus sure as hell wouldn't like a lazy ass.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

LOL at dumbasses comparing Jesus feeding the poor to The US GOV setting up handouts which encourage people not to work, stay together, etc.

Jesus sure as hell wouldn't like a lazy ass.

Yeah, Jesus feeding the poor has nothing to do with programs that give food to the poor.

The Cultural Marxisms turns people into irrational beings, I'm telling ya.

 

[ripskater]

Thank God we are divided. Because that means at least a few people are standing up against the corrupt evil globalistic politicians that we have.

 

[ultramanhyata]

I like how people bring Jesus into politics like it's real. What did Jesus do for the poor exactly? How many mouths did he feed? Steve Jobs did more for the poor than Jesus.

I think you're confusing entering into financial relationships with the poor for purposes of profiting and giving to the poor out of one's own reserves with the intention of eating the loss.

 

[M3t4tr0n]

LOL at dumbasses comparing Jesus feeding the poor to The US GOV setting up handouts which encourage people not to work, stay together, etc.

Jesus sure as hell wouldn't like a lazy ass.

 

[Burning Hammer]

You're thinking way to hard about this.

The biggest reason Trump is there is because Rubio got exposed as an empty suit and Jeb turned out to be a pussy (don't think he even wanted to run).

For whatever reason the GOP did not want to rally around Kasich.

If Romney or Ryan had run I think they take Trump out.

The sky isn't falling and we aren't going to civil war

They didn't rally around Kasich because he was the single best candidate of the election, but he isn't a ratings booster.

 

[Mondo Freaks]

America is great right now. Everyone should have a voice, even the so called "bad guys", whoever you think that is. IF we all think the same, America wouldnt be the greatest country.

 

[phoenixikki]

Yea the USA is turning into a shitshow in front of our eyes - it seems to be in the decline period of it's empire - but I'm not gonna be on my high horse here because my country is a joke and we elected a ski bum for his haircut. And TS you're really not in a place to point the finger and laugh, seeing as how your government basically paid a bunch of guys to come and invade you. When your media and government try to cover up a massive sexual assault involving hundreds of native women being attacked by hundreds of migrants living off of your tax dollars, you shouldn't be trying to clown on other nations.

The truth hurts doesn't?

 

[JDragon]

Yea the USA is turning into a shitshow in front of our eyes - it seems to be in the decline period of it's empire - but I'm not gonna be on my high horse here because my country is a joke and we elected a ski bum for his haircut. And TS you're really not in a place to point the finger and laugh, seeing as how your government basically paid a bunch of guys to come and invade you. When your media and government try to cover up a massive sexual assault involving hundreds of native women being attacked by hundreds of migrants living off of your tax dollars, you shouldn't be trying to clown on other nations.

I don't really find any of this funny because it will absolutely affect my country.

 

[panamaican]

This is the result of the long-standing complicated issue with race in the U.S. I wish it was something more profound but it's not. Race has always been the biggest political issue in this country - sometimes overt, sometimes subtle but always the catalyst.

1) We struggled with race when assigning Congressional seats to states. It shaped early voting. By not giving the South full count for their slaves (3/5), they had less voting power relative to their population. It and slavery in the territorial expansion eventually led to the Civil War.

2) The issues surrounding slavery eventually led to the Civil War. A massive war that created a still existing divide in how America self-identifies. The aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction policies that attempted to maintain slave-like conditions vs. the fight for integration led to years of legal and constitutional changes that culminated in the Civil Rights Act.

3) The results of the Civil Rights Act created the groundwork for the aggrieved anti-integration voting bloc that the GOP manipulated for political gain. A voting bloc whose influence outweighed their numerical value as time went on. But a group that was primed to be unsupportive of the first minority president.

4) The first minority president that basically represented the culmination of the centuries of fearmongering that is rooted in the anti-abolition arguments of the 17th and 18th century. That 17th and 18th century argument was that the white man is superior and it's natural for him to have dominance over other men. 200+ years after the first arguments over how to treat blacks in the political process, those people who's forebearers who fought their inclusion are living in the very world they wanted to prevent.

This issue, race, is the driving force of our political arguments. Sure, we get offshoots but they always come back to this. Welfare, for example, is an issue that is superficially not about race but the arguments for and against it, almost always descend into debates on racial groups use. Public education should be a race neutral topic but, no matter how one tries to keep the topic on the value of educating our poorest kids, it inevitably turns into a commentary on race.

Does HRC or Trump solve either of those things? Nope. Frankly, no President can. So long as some Americans continue to evaluate the value of political policy on the grounds of racial impact it will remain so. I want to draw a distinction between political policy and social policy. Putting more minorities on tv shows is social policy. What happens on Twitter is social policy. BLM is social. These are not political, they are not legislation. No politician will ever vote on them. They are not what I'm talking about.

 

[Rational Poster]

Trump will get the rural vote and he will reach out to the urban population.

Bro there are people at my job with more street cred than P. Diddy.

Guy is a multi-billionaire now.