Trump thinks everyone on welfare is black. When told otherwise, says “Really? Then what are they?”

[shortylickens]

A lot of you peckers need to take a course in Probability. You can go forward, you cant go backward with probability.

 

[Noah Abrams]

still love me and I'm still very happy in my life. So far, so good!

How have you managed this seemingly impossible feat?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Most people on welfare are white, this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. The more important issue it doesn't matter what races are on welfare but welfare must be abolished since it is theft and serves to buy votes.

shut the fuck up donny

 

[umbrella39]

Always comical when the chum is tossed out into the open water and the "I'm not racist" socks surface from their bottom feeding, tripping over themselves, trying to prove just WHO isn't the biggest racist piece of shit... Fuck off and go back to StormFront...

 

[Younigue]

How have you managed this seemingly impossible feat?

hmm, well, I forgive myself easily. Hating myself isn't an option therefore living a life that allows me to love myself is crucial. When doubt or depression come a-knockin' I know that it's suspect at best, detrimental at worst and gently do the work necessary. I wake up every morning knowing that the one person best equipped to love me is me and failing that is a choice. I find joy in the mundane. I'm not materialistic though money pays the bills. My husband and I don't see difficult times as problems but as things that must be ignored, denied, accepted or embraced and we're on the same page with the first promise of intending to be together. I keep drama to a minimum though I love gossip and hate hate. I laugh a lot. I don't beat myself up for my temper. I see my flawed mind and body as scars that made me who I am and that's a good person. That applies to the trials and tribulations as well. I live in the belief that boredom or unhappiness in a world so full of choices is a choice...that I don't choose because yuck and so very silly.

Longer or shorter answer than you expected? I'm sure I could continue but I think I'm done for now.

 

[Younigue]

How have you managed this seemingly impossible feat?

Also I don't really covet things. I find jealousy to be useless. If I feel envy I turn it in to joy for the other person. I don't begrudge anyone their happiness as long as its not hate based. I'm honest at least 98% of the time, I don't worship or idolize people or things

 

[Noah Abrams]

Thank you for the replies. Lots of things for me to ponder over there.

Like you, I've never really been interested in things myself. In this respect, I am quite un-Ameircan ha! It is interesting ideas and interesting things that have always been intriguing, but these days it seems both are in woefully short supply

Joy in the mundane...something I have been intellectually aware of for a long time...I suppose it takes practice

 

[Muse]

It's not about what Trump thinks it's about what he thinks his supporters want to hear. He wants to hear them cheering, that's what floats his boat.

 

[Muse]

Most people on welfare are white, this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. The more important issue it doesn't matter what races are on welfare but welfare must be abolished since it is theft and serves to buy votes.

What the hell does this mean? Can you write a coherent sentence? Can you think coherently? What kind of wasp is buzzing in your brain?

 

[1prophet]

Most of our significant advances are being made by employees that never see a dime of the profit produced by those advances. I know this may be difficult for you to understand but there are millions of people who do what they do because they take pride in their work and just like it, for a variety of reason other than money.

And many are exploited by the big corporations knowing this and many times made redundant during economic downturns when cuts have to be made,

but he mentioned small business and most fail because you can't just do what you do for the sake of pride and not pay attention to the financial realities.

 

[1prophet]

Actually, the poverty rate dropped after the programs were passed and stayed down percentage wise. They literally cut the rate in half. It was so successful, Nixon not only continued it, he expanded it. You see, anti-poverty programs weren't just a "liberal" campaign.

Hint, follow the red line.

You may oppose LBJ's war on poverty, but you sound like an anti-vaxxer trying to explain why disease rates fell right after a vaccine was introduced when you claim it had no effect.

Your poverty totals increased but because of the trend of using changing metrics to suit an agenda you use percentages instead of total numbers due to the erroneous belief that a larger population must have more poor people, a convenient excuse that allows the rich to act like all is well because the rate is approximately the same but the total number is much higher one of the effects of commoditizing human beings about the same time we changed from Personnel to Human Resources and started believing in concepts such as acceptable losses.

 

[umbrella39]

At one point early in our marriage while getting my degree we needed a bridge card and Medicaid for a little less than 2 years. We had 3 kids to support and neither of us were able to find 30 hours worth of work a week. I was still doing websites from home making enough money to keep the roof over our head and the lights turned on but really not much at all at the end of the week for food and certainly not enough to pay the health care. In this compassionate version of GOP reality in Michigan right now at least, it would have been far better to kick my family off benefits than let me continue my education. I was able to go back to school and retrain and have been paying it back/forwards/and sideways for almost 20 years now. This sounds much more like a feel good punishment to fire up the far right base than it does a good idea to make America great again. How losing our food and temporary health care back then would have been a good thing is beyond me...

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

What the hell does this mean? Can you write a coherent sentence? Can you think coherently? What kind of wasp is buzzing in your brain?

I sincerely doubt he has anything living in his skull as coherent and intelligent as a wasp.

 

[Amused]

Your poverty totals increased but because of the trend of using changing metrics to suit an agenda you use percentages instead of total numbers due to the erroneous belief that a larger population must have more poor people, a convenient excuse that allows the rich to act like all is well because the rate is approximately the same but the total number is much higher one of the effects of commoditizing human beings about the same time we changed from Personnel to Human Resources and started believing in concepts such as acceptable losses.

You failed/skipped statistics, didn't you?

US pop 1960: 179,323,175

US pop 2010: ‎308,745,539

Derp harder over how using per-capita percentages rather than raw numbers is deceptive in any way.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

If I answer this I will probably just make you mad but I'll risk it anyway. First you say if anybody is deprogrammed it's you and then you tell me that people are objectively malicious and then that objective isn't the right word but soup of horrors is better. To me this sounds like something you were told, possibly by yourself something I myself don't really know to be a fact. All I hear are ideas you have accepted. I can't wrap my head around them. First you reject objectivity then adopt soup then describe the soup as the worst traits of humanity which reintroduces the scale. I hear an unconscious assumption that horror exists and you have trouble giving it a definition. How can we have words like good and bad without having something to which they refer, The Good and The Bad. Either there is an objective reality to these words or there is an innate reality, they are revealed to us via our human nature, we know them instinctively. Alternately, Good and Evil do not exist. The latter would be my contention.

Now the acquisition of the knowledge of good and evil, isn't that our original sin, if not real, then has to have been invented and transmitted from generation to generation, the programming I was talking about. It follows then that believing what you do about horror, the rest of your beliefs follow, equally strange to me.

Don't worry, you won't make me angry. You're one of the kinder ones here, if sometimes a bit kooky. I did say 'some people' are objectively malicious, not all, I'll accept that many, if not most (I haven't taken a poll) are actually 'good' (by whatever moral system you choose) but some are just outright horror shows.

It's not something I was told, it's something I've learned over time, possibly only through repetitive retelling to myself however. I try very hard to not assume each person I meet is like that, until inevitably I run into another pedophile, or rapist, or liar, or racist, or whatever. It just always seems to be something. It's probably pretty much unconscious about this, and I should probably work on that, to be a bit less ... callous when it comes to others, but those others need to step up their game, imo, at least the ones that are so fucking horrible to their fellow man/woman/other/plant/animal that warrant my general distaste for people. Not to say that anyone owes me anything, certainly not; but if it matters to whomever what I think, they should probably not kick puppies.

I agree on your point that Good and Evil do not exist, they're moral constructs defined by us, at least in my not-so-humble opinion.

I guess overall, I just wish that the scales were reduced. Maybe not as much good, but not as much evil either, if such a thing can even be done. Why do we push so hard toward extremes?

 

[Incorruptible]

I sincerely doubt he has anything living in his skull as coherent and intelligent as a wasp.

STFU you worthless POS, looks like the scumbag leftist is being triggered.

 

[Younigue]

STFU you worthless POS, looks like the scumbag leftist is being triggered.

But with telling him to shut the fu*k up, calling him a worthless piece of shit and all leftists scumbags... you look to be the triggered one. You can see how I'd easily jump to that conclusion, correct? Is it because of the dead wasp in your skull? That's rough dude.

 

[Younigue]

STFU you worthless POS, looks like the scumbag leftist is being triggered.

Oh also...

there, there little pookie.

Self-sooth, take some stress off. Do Not share your methods because eww! I personally recommend a deep tissue massage at a spa along with a soul healing though if you don't already have one of those you're shit out of luck. I wish you luck little fella!!! I'm doubtful but hey, maybe it'll all work out. Maybe it's just shriveled up and hiding behind the dead wasp? Ask the spa worker to try to sense it in that general location.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

STFU you worthless POS, looks like the scumbag leftist is being triggered.

lol, yea, I'm the triggered one here.

And for folks playing at home, indigestible has used up his last "scumbag leftist" catchphrase, didn't expect that phrase to get eliminated so soon.

 

[brycejones]

STFU you worthless POS, looks like the scumbag leftist is being triggered.

Dude I can't believe you liked your own post from your alt account.

 

[NTMBK]

...surely he was confused by the fact that she was a member of the Black Caucus? I would expect Donnie to forget that black people can represent non-black people. I wouldn't expect him to forget about poor white people, they're his core voter base.

 

[glenn1]

...surely he was confused by the fact that she was a member of the Black Caucus? I would expect Donnie to forget that black people can represent non-black people. I wouldn't expect him to forget about poor white people, they're his core voter base.

A member of the Congressional Black Caucus probably feels like non-poor/wealthy blacks are not only NOT their constituency but probably an outright enemy whose income needs to be redistributed in the name of fairness.

 

[fskimospy]

A member of the Congressional Black Caucus probably feels like non-poor/wealthy blacks are not only NOT their constituency but probably an outright enemy whose income needs to be redistributed in the name of fairness.

Your insight is fascinating. Do all Democrats feel that wealthy blacks are their enemies or just black Democrats?

 

[dainthomas]

A member of the Congressional Black Caucus probably feels like non-poor/wealthy blacks are not only NOT their constituency but probably an outright enemy whose income needs to be redistributed in the name of fairness.

That's a lot of derp.

 

[glenn1]

Your insight is fascinating. Do all Democrats feel that wealthy blacks are their enemies or just black Democrats?

You tell me.