09-04-2020, 12:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-04-2020, 11:09 PM by Eric the Green.)
(09-04-2020, 11:24 AM)Isoko Wrote: Pbrower,
Trump? A racist? Are you serious? I've met racist people in my life time (try going to South Africa) and I can assure you, Trump is no racist. A right wing populist who has issues with mass illegal immigration? Sure. But an actual racist? Considering the amount of non white friends he has, I strongly doubt he is one.
A religious bigot? Please. I doubt even Trump knows one Bible passage, despite the evangelicals supporting him (which they always do with Republican Presidents because of the pro-life thing).
Inflaming racial tensions? They already existed and started to grow quite heavily under Obama. I knew plenty of white people in America at the time who were fed up of what I would describe as blaming the white people for everything slogans of today's establishment. It was already there long before Trump and I'd Biden gets in, will continue long after Trump.
You go crazy as a society, blaming one group after another over time and eventually you are going to reach a boiling point.
Trump failed to shut down the consumer economy? Newsflash - extremely liberal Sweden never even had a lock down. Everything stayed open. As liberal as you can get. At least Trump had a lock down, on par pretty much with the British government.
I'm sorry but the criticisms I am seeing of Trump is nothing but pure hatred from the left because he dared to do something about immigration and political correctness which they cannot tolerate.
However I will give credit where credit is due and admit he did screw up recently with the postal ballot thing. So yeah that he did.
But overall Trump has actually been a pretty decent president. He has tried to talk to more world leaders to solve issues (like with North Korea), surprisingly has not been involved in any major wars (compared to Obama), helped shape a peace deal with Israel and the UAE, actually tackled immigration and even got the economy going again.
Overall he has been pretty damn successful. When he goes, it'll just be business as usual, more wars, more debt, the usual. At least Trump tried.
It is not Trump we hate, it is his policies.
His immigration policy is illegal. He shut down the amnesty process, going against our statue of liberty. His policy has caused needless deaths. It was not necessary anyway because immigration was already down when he announced his candidacy, and Obama had already done a lot of deportations. The Senate passed a good bipartisan immigration bill during Obama's term, but House Republican fanatics killed it. They are responsible for the mess.
Obama has not started any major wars. He carried on with what was already started, and reduced it. Trump didn't change that policy much. What he has done though, is withdraw from several important treaties, breaking the word of the USA. No president has done that before, and it is very dangerous. His policies are especially dangerous to our environment, upon which we depend, and which is under catastrophic threat.
Biden has been cautious in his career about war. He will carry on the caution that Obama started and Trump continued.
Of course Trump failed to shutdown the economy on a national basis. His henchmen governors opened it up too soon, creating a huge surge that continues. He initially called covid a hoax that would just go away. He took no national action until it was too late. Protective equipment was lacking, tests were not available, quarantines did not occur, and relief was poorly distributed. Trump is to blame for covid in the USA and he needs to lose his job over it. People are crazy to vote to keep themselves in this covid prison by re-electing Trump. People in Florida may indeed be that crazy.
Racism was there in the USA forever, but what Trump did was to stoke it for political gain. It worked for him to eek out a narrow victory in 3 states. Wherever he speaks, hate crimes and murders increase. That is a fact. Trump has proven himself to be a racist with his campaign years ago to put innocent black people in jail, by housing discrimination he has carried out, and by his support for eugenics. He comes from a racist background. If he can get along with some black people, that's fine, but his policies and campaigns are racist driven and based on religious bigotry. His anti-Muslim travel bans are unjust. He likes the support he gets from QAnon and the KKK and other racists groups, and he thinks Nazis are fine people. He said so. He does not care about black people being shot by police, but only whether they act out in frustration, or if he can use riots started by provocateurs as fuel for his campaign.
Trump is corrupt. He tells people to vote twice. He violates the law to hold his conventions at the White House. He violates the emoluments clause. He meets with Russian agents to get help for his campaigns. He depends on Russian financiers, opening himself up to blackmail. He pays off prostitutes to keep them quiet. He uses donations to his fake charity and to his campaign for his personal purposes. He asks foreign leaders to cook up stories of wrongdoing by his political opponent. He violates subpoenas. He asks his AG to put himself above the law. He illegally tampers with the mail, the census, and legally-approved federal funding. If a Democratic president did even one of these things, or even less, the fanatical Republicans would impeach him and rake him over the coals. Trump gets away with murder time after time. The law and order president doesn't give a damn about the law. If he is re-elected, our country will become like yours.
More debt after Trump? That would be a mean feat of accounting! Surely you jest.
Trump is the worst president in USA history. Historians already agree. Even a broken clock is right twice a day though.