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You obviously don’t understand politics.

I didn’t say that. I said she would be better than the convicted felon.

I wonder if Trump will agree to weekly debates with her like he challenged Biden to do? That was a rhetorical question. Of course the chicken will back down. He’s already said he won’t even debate her once unless it’s on FOX. Think she’ll back down? Another rhetorical question.

She’ll be better than your idol. 21st century Baal.

WRONG!!!

Remember what happened with the golden calf? I can’t wait to see what happens with the leaden pig.

Is that what Dinesh D’Souza said?

Was that fake news, or just plain wrong? It’ll be even sweeter to see him get his a** handed to him by a bi-racial woman.

Say what you want. Taking literary classics out of schools is the not a step or two away from piling them in the streets an darting them afire. Ignore history at our peril.

[Hidden Content] [Hidden Content] I believe these school districts are all in deep MAGA country. Any comments on Project 2025?

The wedge wasn’t race based. The racial undercurrent has always been there. The way they really inflamed the division began under Reagan was the beginning of the culture wars. God, Guns, and Gays (remember, the AIDS epidemic was unfolding). That gave the Dixiecrats the out without mentioning race. Though it must be said Reagan used the “welfare queens and their pink Cadillacs” to great effect. It continues to this day. Gays slipped from their grasp, so today the third leg of the stool has become certain classes of immigrants.

They get it. That’s why mentioning it irks them so. Denying the truth of history is the in the top 5 authoritarian power moves. Also in there: Sow doubt about election integrity. Foment distrust in the justice system Create a straw man, usually minorities or immigrants, to gin up fear only the strong man alone can can quell. Banning books It’s all happening here today. Do you want that to be the norm?

Okay Donald.

No, the ex-Southern Democrats are now Republicans. I watched it happen starting with Lee Atwater and Reagan. I watched as election judge as an 80% Democratic precinct in Hardin County in 1980 turned 80% Republican in 25 years. I would say most people in this county over 50 years old voted Democrat in the past. So, your simple little trope sounds cute but it is neither accurate or true.

Southern Democrats. Targets of Nixon’s Southern Strategy. Today’s southern Republicans.

Juneteenth is about America, not Africa. It’s about emancipation, not slavery.

There are hare brained people everywhere. Their members haven’t held much sway in this country. The Klan had many open members in the halls of Congress and many state legislatures. Like it says in the Constitutionn. All are created equal. There are no unequals as respects the human spirit.

And not anywhere else? Like what, Africa invented it, sold the West on it and still practices it to this day? It’s central to some of their nations’ economies? What about Russian gulags? China? North Korea? Why’d you pick Africa?

It does. Prejudice is everywhere. Don’t you understand? There is only one race. Everything else is culture.

Do ya’ll know any black people? Like, go to their house, invite them to yours know them? If you did, this talk wouldn’t be happening. You would know what they see and how they are treated every day because you would talk and listen like any other friend. You got one guy here pretty much saying I’m a half breed because I have a tan and maybe a little Native American blood tainting my aryan purity. Prjudice is fear based. Racism is a superiority/inferiority construct. I’ve said it before. I’ve never talked to a black person who expressed superiority over whites. They maintain they are equals as human beings. How many whites here will raise their hand ( where they can’t be seen) and claim a black person is their equal? I can’t count the times I’ve heard the opposite proclaimed.

Record stock market. Record job creation. Falling crime rates. Infrastructure building bridges and rebuilding highways (and a GOP Congressman cuts the ribbon on the project in his/her district they voted against), inflation falls by faster than predicted, GDP growth consistently beating forecasts. I’ll fall back on that.

Please explain the relevance of that remark. The slavery one.

I stand corrected.

Would that make you feel good? Are you a voyeur?

Yeah, it had slipped my mind that the Emancipation only applied to the states that were in rebellion. It gets so danged sticky sometimes. Semantically, “Lincoln freed the slaves” is pretty vague. Saying that he led the effort to Constitutionally eliminate it from our society is a more accurate way to state it. But it takes a lot more words.