Better to Have a Few Rats Than to Be One

[DrDoug]

Conservatives need to divert attention so their people won't realize they are being screwed by their leaders:

Stephen Fowler
@Tigerstrat57 Replying to @BJS_quire @Jim_Jordan @senatemajldr
The poorest county in the nation belongs to Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell. It is 96% white. 9 out of 10 in that county depend on food stamps, disability and other "socialist" programs.

9:06 AM - 28 Jul 2019

Same with other conservative representatives and senators, the median income in many of their districts are lower than in Cummings' district. How about we talk about that, eh?

 

[m8d]

When Bernie Sanders visited Baltimore in 2015 he compared it to a third world country and said hundreds of buildings are uninhabitable.


Sounds like Trump is just calling it like it is. It has nothing to do with race, but I know you leftist racists will fill in the gaps for the sake of your false narrative.

Thank you Donnie for pointing out the slum lord Jared operating in Baltimore. We appreciate the info that Kushner provides sub standard housing with a significant number of health violations.

 

[sportage]

I LOVE IT when Trump supporters and Trump republicans in congress, which face it includes all republicans in congress, I LOVE IT when they try and try again to defend Trump and claim what Trump does or says is not racist.
Or when appearing on TV news shows, these trump idiots either deflect from answering to what Trump has said and tweeted, or they go off into some other off-subject.
They claim Trump is not a racist. Well.... Trump is indeed exactly that.
Even a child could figure that one out.
Trump is so bad that he doesn't need to use racist code words in his racist rants. Trump is not concerned about hiding his racism. Trump knows republicans will back him up, including the one Black republican in the US house.
Take Texas Rep Will Hurd on ABC's THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE, July 28th.
The only Black Republican in the US house.
When asked if Trump's words against Rep. Elijah Cummings were racist, Rep Will Hurd would only answer, "well, I myself would not use his words". Or, "we should focus on other issues". Blaw Blaw Blaw....

I swear, the day will come when all of these Trump cult members regret having defended Donald Trump.
Hopefully, that will be before the next WWIII and not after our total inhalation.
The clan must be LOVING THIS.

 

[dank69]

https://www.baltimoresun.com/citypa...-not-even-the-worst-of-it-20170523-story.html

 

[SlowSpyder]

Thank you Donnie for pointing out the slum lord Jared operating in Baltimore. We appreciate the info that Kushner provides sub standard housing with a significant number of health violations.

Jared Kushner made Baltimore comparable a third world country? LOL

You guys are grasping at straws.

This is what decades of Democrat leadership looks like in numerous large cities.

 

[fskimospy]

I think my favorite part of this was when Mick Mulvaney went on tv to lie for Trump and said if poverty in his district was as bad as in Cummings’ that he would be fired. Turns out poverty in Mulvaney’s district wasn’t as bad, it was worse.

Cummings’ district has a median income above the national average. If his place is a shithole that no human wants to live in then so is more than half of America.

I thought people who hated America were supposed to leave or something? Did that change or does it still only apply to black and brown people?

 

[K1052]

The part of this cycle where Republcians try to pretend poverty doesn't exist where they come from to enable Trump's racist attacks is *chef's kiss*

 

[cytg111]

How'd it get that way? Who has been in charge there?

Did Trump push birtherism?

 

[cytg111]

No, I can't do better than that. One cannot do better than tell truth in a den of lies. YOU're creating the racism here.

Did Trump push birtherism?

 

[fskimospy]

The part of this cycle where Republcians try to pretend poverty doesn't exist where they come from to enable Trump's racist attacks is *chef's kiss*


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I'm sure SlowSpyder will be by any minute to tell you why the fact that Republicans run almost all of those states doesn't matter because reasons.

 

[HomerJS]

When Bernie Sanders visited Baltimore in 2015 he compared it to a third world country and said hundreds of buildings are uninhabitable.


Sounds like Trump is just calling it like it is. It has nothing to do with race, but I know you leftist racists will fill in the gaps for the sake of your false narrative.

You have zero credibility since you don't think Trump has ever done anything racist.

 

[SlowSpyder]

You have zero credibility since you don't think Trump has ever done anything racist.

Riiiiiiight. I refuse to invent racism where there was none, I refuse to help you be a victim of your imagination. I don't see it like you, so I have no credibility. If the only people you ever believe are people that think just like you, what do you think that does for your world view and finding the truth?

 

[fskimospy]

Riiiiiiight. I refuse to invent racism where there was none, I refuse to help you be a victim of your imagination. I don't see it like you, so I have no credibility. If the only people you ever believe are people that think just like you, what do you think that does for your world view and finding the truth?

When Trump says he doesn't want black people handling his money because they are lazy and says that a judge is biased against him because he's a Mexican and you STILL are trying to pretend Trump has never done anything racist yes, you have no credibility as a person would have to be a liar or totally delusional to keep arguing the case after knowing that.

Your insistence on doing things like this is one of the reasons why everyone on here considers you to be a liar. There's no way you don't know better but because you lack personal character you think lying to protect Trump is better than having character and dignity.

 

[JockoJohnson]

The part of this cycle where Republcians try to pretend poverty doesn't exist where they come from to enable Trump's racist attacks is *chef's kiss*


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From the look of that chart, one would think Philadelphia doesn't have poverty. That place is a shithole and no amount of graphs and charts is going to make it appear any better. I am glad I got out of that city and despise having to drive into it or even use I95 to get where I need to go.

 

[fskimospy]

From the look of that chart, one would think Philadelphia doesn't have poverty. That place is a shithole and no amount of graphs and charts is going to make it appear any better. I am glad I got out of that city and despise having to drive into it or even use I95 to get where I need to go.

No it doesn't, if you look at the map Philly is definitely marked as having a county with persistent poverty. Philly has really come into its own over the last 5-10 years though. When I grew up just outside of it the city was a scary place but now? Tons of cool stuff.

Regardless, the point of the map was to show that Republicans should be careful when complaining about persistent poverty in cities considering how much persistent poverty exists in areas they have controlled for a long time. The most impoverished counties in the country aren't in the middle of big cities, they are in staunchly conservative rural areas.

 

[HomerJS]

Riiiiiiight. I refuse to invent racism where there was none, I refuse to help you be a victim of your imagination. I don't see it like you, so I have no credibility. If the only people you ever believe are people that think just like you, what do you think that does for your world view and finding the truth?

You don't see it at all that's why you have no credibility.

 

[DrDoug]

You don't see it at all that's why you have no credibility.

Slow doesn't see racism because he practices it. It's much like how a skunk doesn't think it stinks, same principle.

 

[zinfamous]

Trump is a racist piece of shit. The End.

Having this discussion serves only Trump and Mitch, as is the plan. Clearly, Trump would rather the country and those in power occupy themselves discussing whether or not he is racist rather than the mountains of evidence of his committing 6+ felonies as president, lifetime of corruption and theft from the blue collar and middle class, absolute graft from his administration and Mitch McConnel and Paul Ryan by funneling the wealth of the nation to the already criminally-wealthy grifter class for "the feels," and, of course, discussing the gestapo-run concentration camps on our borders to house refugees.

Trump has long calculated that discussing his plain, obvious racism is a better strategy to serve the GOP than focusing any attention on the absolute fact that he is the most corrupt, criminal president in the history of this country. Distracting Congress from doing its sworn duty to impeach this vile cvnt and further engage the enema that is needed to flush this country of all the modern quislings in the GOP is the only game he has. It's the only game.

This issue is simple: everyone agrees that Trump is visibly, happily racist. Let's say that publicly and move on to the issues that directly affect people's lives and the safety of this country. Yes, it matters that he is racist, we can deal with this all at once, but there is no fundamental need to waste all of the political energy and media airtime debating the absolute truth of Trump's vile racism. We need to take the fight to his ill-begotten fortunes. Subpoena the fuck out of the Trump empire, freeze their assets because they are the funds of Russian gangsters, and nail this cockwomble's scrotum to the wall of justice. Then you'll really see this bloated bitch start to scream.

 

[dank69]

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I thought people who hated America were supposed to leave or something? Did that change or does it still only apply to black and brown people?

I think we all know the answer to that.

 

[fskimospy]

Slow doesn't see racism because he practices it. It's much like how a skunk doesn't think it stinks, same principle.

In all seriousness even egregious racists often don't see themselves as racist. As I posted before George Wallace said this, which is almost word for word what SlowSpyder says on here constantly:

No, sir, I don’t regard myself as a racist, and I think the biggest racists in the world are those who call other folks racist. I think the biggest bigots in the world are those who call other folks bigots.

The biggest racists throughout US history all have a common refrain, that the real racists aren't people with racist opinions, it's the people telling them those opinions are bad.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

The part of this cycle where Republcians try to pretend poverty doesn't exist where they come from to enable Trump's racist attacks is *chef's kiss*


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Define "Persistent Poverty"? Or are you telling me that the hobo population is all condensed to only the republican south and there there is DEFINITELY nothing systemic about... ohh... you know.... Chicago, LA, SF, NY, etc...

 

[K1052]

From the look of that chart, one would think Philadelphia doesn't have poverty. That place is a shithole and no amount of graphs and charts is going to make it appear any better. I am glad I got out of that city and despise having to drive into it or even use I95 to get where I need to go.

That's not what this map says. The definition of persistent poverty is that 20% of the households or more have been below the federal poverty line for the last three censuses. Urban poverty does exist but generally not at the rates that it does in rural America or as consistently.

 

[fskimospy]

Define "Persistent Poverty"? Or are you telling me that the hobo population is all condensed to only the republican south and there there is DEFINITELY nothing systemic about... ohh... you know.... Chicago, LA, SF, NY, etc...

A 2011 U.S. federal law defined a persistent poverty county as one in which "20 percent or more of its population [has lived] in poverty over the past 30 years" according to the Census... Persistent poverty counties are defined as those where 20% or more of the county population in each of the last four decennial Censuses had poverty level household incomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_poverty_county

It's not that those cities don't have plenty of poor people, it's that they don't have as high a proportion of poor people as compared to the total population.

 

[Jhhnn]

You don't see it at all that's why you have no credibility.

He sees it just fine. The pretense that Trump isn't racist reminds me of the pet shop owner in Monty Python's dead parrot sketch.

 

[K1052]

Define "Persistent Poverty"? Or are you telling me that the hobo population is all condensed to only the republican south and there there is DEFINITELY nothing systemic about... ohh... you know.... Chicago, LA, SF, NY, etc...

I just did that above. It's also how US law defines it.