Tomorrow will be just like today. I may go to the grocery store and buy a new pair of sneakers. My cat is bugging me because he keeps pooping on the dog beds. Any advice?
I read that The Heritage Foundation wrote a budget that would cut 10 trillion over 10 years and will be the budget Trump and Congress will pass. Now we know how much the tax cuts for rich folks are going to cost.
Always remember that the country did not for this. Minority vote suppression, Russian-planted fake news stories, the Electoral College skewing the balance of power in favor of underpopulated, rural states -- take away any one of those factors, and Trump would not have "won". Even as it is, he got almost three million fewer actual votes than Hillary.
There's more of us than there is of the bad guys. Trump is taking office as the least-popular President-elect in decades. Mass protest can block much of the minority regime's agenda -- the outcry over the Office of Congressional Ethics showed what determined action can do -- and in four years at the most, we'll start getting the country back on track again.
I think if the Dems regain control of the House and the Senate the Donald may stand a chance of being a halfway decent President. His boasts of getting healthcare for all and bringing back good jobs will force him to actually make moves to such ends and we all know gop policies won't do anything for either. The Dems can create good legislation and stroke his ego to sign it.Win win in some circumstances. Wishful thinking?
PX: Maybe. I've been saying that Ryan and McConnell scare me more than Trump, and Trump is already making jokes about how much work Ryan has to do so he can sign it, so I'm not optimistic there now. After the mid terms? If we win? I could see that settling into a Bush-after-2006 sort of situation, but have you heard the budget cuts he's proposing? If he gets his way (and Heritage's way) both the NEA and the NEH would cease to exist. http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/19/trump-plan-nea-neh/ Which makes a twisted sort of sense as his stated vision of the country is profoundly ugly and supporting the arts doesn't fit in well with it. The jokes about failing to support the humanities write themselves about someone who has forsworn the whole idea of human decency. Yes, I know that's not what humanities refers to, but the joke still works because of how clownishly evil he comes across, and we've got to find things to laugh about in order to stay sane. Will the Democrats stand up and do something? That's never been a safe bet, so perhaps more of us need to get involved and make their lives a little harder if they don't.
"I think if the Dems regain control of the House and the Senate the Donald may stand a chance of being a halfway decent President. His boasts of getting healthcare for all and bringing back good jobs will force him to actually make moves to such ends and we all know gop policies won't do anything for either. The Dems can create good legislation and stroke his ego to sign it.Win win in some circumstances. Wishful thinking?"
Yeah, unfortunately, I do think it's wishful thinking.
The chances of Dems recapturing the Congress at the next election aren't good. Republicans have rigged the House with gerrymandered districts, so that's an incredible uphill slog. And take a look at who's up for election in the Senate next midterm. It's mostly Democrats and a few Republicans in fire-engine red states that are a lock; very few opportunities to pick up seats. There was a chance for the Dems to flip the Senate this last election, but it didn't quite materialize.
The only way I see Congress turning over is if our new malevolent clown president manages to absolutely wreck the country in record time, such that voters turn out to punish his party. Which could realistically happen, but it's not exactly something I'm hoping for.
As of now, the constraints on presidential idiocy are pretty weak. Congressional Republicans are too busy enacting cash giveaways to rich people and corporations and ripping away the healthcare of 30 million people. Oh, and previously unthinkable moves like selling off national park land. Meanwhile, our national news media is pretty spineless, as shown in that press conference where the press pool let President Troompa-Loompa get away with abusing CNN and did nothing.
Things look grim for the functionality of the federal government.
The Dems might be better off concentrating their efforts on rebuilding at state government levels, where they've really blown it in recent years.
Sure the Dema need to start locally but tge energy is on the left so far. If this energy can be maintained like the tea party you may be surprised in two years. The fact is most people don't vote and if the Dems are smart, launch a 50 state program and focus on new voters there can be some change.
Since it's Trump Inauguration Day, I guess it's time for this highly cynical quote again (it'll still be time for this quote, over and over again, for the next four-to-eight years, presumably):
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
Someone goes sneaker shopping at the grocery store? Okay. Drumpf isn't getting his Russia/North Korea style military parade as befits a true American Patriot (excludes nearly all wingnuts or as they are known as White Power Barbies).
Drumpf's Heritage budget shows wingnuts only want to help the wealthy. The rest of us take our chances. Can't wait for all the gold fixtures in the WH as Drumpf lets taxpayers pay for billions of dollars of renovations to make the WH look like Drumpf Tower South.
Ivanka the grope toy's multi million dollar clothing is made in sweatshops in SE Asia. Drumpf sez he will put yoooge tariffs on goods made overseas for sale in America. He can start with himself and his gropable squeeze toy daughter.
Wingnuts hate the ACA because it is unsuccessful by their way of thinking. It helps 20 million Americans get insured and doesn't raise debt much.
Wingnuts define success as helping the leat amount of people (the 1%) obtain the most amount of money. That would be a success story wingnuts would likely brag about. But then we know wingnuts aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.
And why is Hilary Clinton there? See what I mean, such a weak ass, punk ass political party!! It would have been FAR more powerful a message if NO democrat had showed up the PEEOTUS' inauguration.
Fifty years Field. Let me think back since I was alive in 1966. Shit is still the same today as it was back then, maybe worse. POC are still unfairly targeted and killed by the police, POC are killing each other in their own streets and no one cares, especially POC. What's change for us; more single parent (mostly female) households, more incarceration, more abortions (some estimates are over 30 million). Yet we wonder if things are going to be worse for us under Trump!
Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes said... I can only hope you boys make a big mess out of Trump's Inauguration. Burn and loot! I hope they shoot.
Right wing nut jobs are noted for fouling their own nests and noted even more for blaming anyone but themselves. The party of family values and personal responsibility and really lousy jokes.
It's possible that Trump's malfeasance could overcome the gerrymander in '18, but only that. Trump has made a big gamble by openly playing to the slobbering hordes who prop up the Republican base, instead of playing footsie with them in weasel-words to get their votes like the Republican playbook suggests. We told them it was a bad idea to fill their party up with them, but they wouldn't listen to traitorous, fifth-columnist, surrender-monkey liberals like us, I guess because they hate it when we are right. Now that the tiger has been mounted, he can't do anything but ride, and that won't be easy because the tiger is very stupid, and the very credulousness that got them to believe his bullshit can easily turn to rage and spite when his promises turn out to be the massive buggering that all of us icky liberals tried so annoyingly hard to warn them about. The reason that Republicans generally avoid the full on "populist" approach to their base (it's not really populism, but save that for another rant) is that their leaders aren't really into helping the rank and file meatheads in their base, just using them to win elections. Their trickle-down-from-the-billionaires policies don't actually trickle anything useful to WWC voters, so they have to distract them with shiny things they don't actually care about and make them seem important e.g. gay marriage in 2004 to distract from the imploding Iraq war, when they couldn't care about gay marriage at gunpoint. The difference this time is that unlike gay marriage, which won't ever affect the lives of the meatheads in their base, the destruction of the ACA, the privatization of Medicare, and the block-granting of Medicaid, along with the criminalization of abortion, the degradation of the air and water, and the wholesale looting of everything the US government does to help US citizens will make their lives measurably, unignorably harder and worse. Coal and manufacturing jobs will not magically reappear, and in fact the ACA repeal will cost 2.5 to 3 million jobs (according to Forbes) many of which will disappear from the rural areas where Trump's support is the strongest now. Like my home town where St. Joseph Hospital is the largest employer (though they don't support Trump.) Couple that with the gains the millionaires and billionaires will enjoy from the tax cuts that their lives have been damaged in the service of and even Republicans might get angry enough to ignore Rush and Fox for a minute, if only that. While I still feel that it's a stretch to hope the Republican base magically grows thumbs and climbs down out of the stupid tree, and there will no doubt be a hue and cry that it's all somehow Obama's fault (just like they blamed all of W's fuck ups on Bill Clinton right up until November of 2008) there's still a chance to capitalize on the backlash, even if the only help we get is them staying home out of personal disgust. So it will be a struggle, but really, it always has been, and very few things worth having come without one, so we should get ready for it because it's here.
So apparently when Trump took over the official White House twitter account he changed the background picture to a shot of the inauguration, Obama's inauguration, that is:
I recently noticed a curious paradox that I would like to share with you.
Donald Trump ran as a populist; Hillary Clinton ran as a technocrat.
Now you would think that if the Electoral College and the popular vote gave two opposite results, then the technocrat would win by the rules, and the populist would win the vote.
Dippy, dappy, dopey, double dis-connected dunbbell Drumpf's astronomical crowds of worshipers appears to be a little lite on worshipers. Gawd that has gotta hurt. Bwahahahahahaha!
Donnie Douchebag's first order of business was to issue and executive order on the ACA. I'd swear White Power Barbies campaigned that they hated executive orders- or was that only when Dems issue them?
Drumpf tweeted shots of Obama's inaugural crowds and pretended they were his own. The astronomical number of peons that actually showed up was astronomically small in the Mall.
No one really believes that, because it's not true. It's just a talking point people use to pretend Obama's been worth a damn as president, which would make him the first president worth a damn in two centuries.
The way the statistics are calculated is simply different than it's been in "43 years," that's all. Thanks to Obama, now even more people who can't find a job in X number of months aren't counted as people at all. People out of the workforce and on hard times aren't counted as people, and therefore government is able to cook numbers to say that only X number of people are unemployed.
I don't blame Obama. It's something dumb-ass Republicans do too. The stupid fuckers may have started it, for all I know. It's just that Obama expanded on it, like he's expanded on so many things, namely the debt.
If you can't get a job, you don't show up on unemployment stats. If you're fed up and quit looking, you don't count on unemployment stats. If you've ever been employed, you don't count on unemployment stats. And the nigg-- sorry, black-rigging of the stats goes on and on.
Trump's speech echoed Obama's "just look forward" pass on accountability for elite criminals. I guess I should have robbed that liquor store yesterday.
"Unemployment at its lowest level in 43 years thanks to Obama"
Based on a fraudulent definition of "unemployment" which excludes the partially-employed and labor-force dropouts. Labor force participation is at record lows.
But hey, everything else you believe is a lie, that fits right in.
"hey wouldn't listen to traitorous, fifth-columnist, surrender-monkey liberals like us, I guess because they hate it when we are right."
How would we know? You would have had to have been right at least once.
'Now that the tiger has been mounted, he can't do anything but ride, and that won't be easy because the tiger is very stupid, and the very credulousness that got them to believe his bullshit can easily turn to rage and spite when his promises turn out to be the massive buggering that all of us icky liberals tried so annoyingly hard to warn them about."
This is the stupid I keep telling you about. The TEA Party was America asking you to change. You and the Recucklicans (truly, the R-jerseys of the Uniparty) spun, co-opted and laughed them off... but the problems only got worse. Now Trump and the Alt-Right are TELLING you to change. We obviously have you more than a bit scared, but you're still resisting.
Do you really want to know what comes if you overthrow Trump? You get a force that MAKES you change, even if it kills you... and there won't be any mercy or pity left, because you had none and deserve none.
All you Hi-Q White Power Barbies explain the math behind Donnie Douchbag's claims of an electoral landslide when he is number 46 out of 58. Must be along the lines of cutting tax revenues increases tax revenues.
As I was watching the insane riots take place yesterday, committed almost entirely by rich, entitled white millennials whose parents raised them in daycare, I heard the black anchor on ABC News state," You know, I don't recall a single protester in either one of President Obama's inaugurations. There were many at Bush's, and many here, but none at Obama's."
These racist white people, whose population topples 200-million, in a nation of such white supremacist history that they'd never accept a black president, and yet the only butthurt we ever see in America is from you lot. The evil white man is nowhere to be found, with his oppressive ways. But these so-called "victims" are out in full swing terrorizing people, setting cars aflame, breaking windows, assaulting people -- and this shit happens on the daily.
One thing is for sure, Obama's performance in office means America won't elect another half-black President for at least 500 years. He really messed things up for mulattos.
Communists always strike first. Note how much of the mainstream press is tacitly approving of this violence by calling rioters "activists" and applauding attacks on individuals associated with the Right.
It should be a sober reminder that the fascist brownshirts were created as a security force in response to violence perpetrated by commie agitators.
If the police can't or won't control these people when they commit crimes, things are going to turn dark quickly.
Every protester yesterday was paid by White Power Barbies so Donnie Dumbfuck wouldn't have to explain why no one showed up for his coronation. Drumpf lost in a landslide.
Pics of Drumpf's inaugural show vast stretches of empty white space sorta like a metaphor for wingut potii's heads. Who needs NASA when there is so much space between Drumpf's ears that needs investigating.
White women, by and large, don't need to pretend to be oppressed like black women. Fewer than 1 in 5 consider themselves feminists.
They're not knotting their hair up to the consistency of an SOS pad. It's black women raping India for a white girl's straight hair.
White women know they're atop the pecking order, with a shit-load of room to spare. They are not the least desirable women in America, as you and your sistas be, yo. They do not need to stand around in a huddle, throwing their fist in the air, and pretending that it's 1946. They don't need to get pregnant and have bastards for financial gain. White women do okay by themselves. It's bad enough gender studies catches a lot of them and convinces them that they're some random 85th gender. But you're likely never get more than 10% on your bullshit cause's bandwagon.
A mentally stable white woman can go choose her career, choose her man, and choose her life. You, on the other hand, need to practice twerking in the mirror, trying out different lace fronts, so you can go get a thug n da club to knock you up with your 7th baby from the 7th man in 7 years.
White women are my preference. I've dated two black girls in my life. They were easy and sleazy. I think they have about 9 kids between them now. DNA -- that's what they want. Dick 'n attention. (You know it better than I do.)
And I've never understood how the truth is so "racist" to you people.
Any data around concerning online dating and hook-ups and whatnot show black women at the bottom of the heap as the least desirable market. Maybe not in Somalia, but certainly the West. That's not my standard. I personally hold black girls above Thai and Vietnamese and Filipino and that region of Asia, though Japanese are my #2. White women are the most desirable women in the Western world, far and away.
Nobody knows this is a fact more than black men. Are you fucking kidding me? White girls are the prize. Even most of the black men who choose black women are doing so out of sense of racial solidarity so they don't make the "sistas" angry. Everybody wants a white woman, or they're lying to score points.
Black women are constantly campaigning against white women and for their black men to avoid them.
White women are the beauty standard of the modern world. Hey, don't blame me that black women, in a never-ending mission to straighten their hair like white women, spend billions upon billions of (taxpayer) dollars every year on weave.
These are things that black people know to be true far and away more than I know them. But because it's a white person saying them, it'll just be "racist."
Well, so fucking what? It's racist, then. Boo hoo! Did you wake up with a disease from it? Did a white man hang you from a tree for it? Did puppies die? No. You feign offense at every conceivable opportunity, but nothing ever happens to the offended. Ever. In fact, they wouldn't be able to score as many virtue-signaling points without it.
But the moral of the story: White women aren't going to group themselves by any meaningless identity en masse because they don't fucking have to. They have self-worth. They don't need to stand around with colored people* and pretend to be oppressed. They'll just divorce a guy with money and make a killin'.
*LOL @ "People of color" supposedly being the preferred way to address "colored people." The difference is...?
As a skeptic, there have been dozens upon dozens of communities I've frequented to argue with the resident idiots: Creationist Christians, 9/11 truthers, ancient alien theorists, Bigfoot enthusiasts, Nessy supporters, ghost "hunters," psychics, and on the list goes.
Though it is only victim cultist blacks who lack the self-awareness necessarily to even discern why someone might disagree with their dogma. It truly is an amazing case study on the human ability--or, in the case, inability--to grasp very simplistic concepts.
You don't even realize that you're a fringe ideology, basically a religion. You people actually believe you have a moral and majority stance.
For the hard-of-thinking types, there's no other way to put it: You preach a racist ideology that seeks to separate white from black, with one side being the oppressor and the other a victim. You do this on the open marketplace of ideas that is the Internet. You do it regularly and without filter. Yet you cannot seem to conceive of any reason why someone might disagree with your dogma, so you start spamming logical fallacies by the shit-ton and accusations like witch-hunters. Circling the wagons.
You people are intellectual peons compared to every one of those other groups. (The average IQ here is barely pushing 85.) But I'll hand it to ya -- you're orders of magnitude more confident in your narrative than all the others combined. Not a peon in the group here can figure out why someone would dare breach the echo chamber unless for racist reasons.
The level of stupid found here truly does beggar all belief.
There's no other place on the Internet to get this many great LULZ!
Iz Josh 4chan? Their new plan? They want to “meme up the white birthrate.” They are calling this Operation B.A.B.B.Y., because they are unoriginal and steal from Wonkette. The plan, apparently, is to use images of white families found in places like the site Just Girly Things, and then use those memes to propagandize women into wanting to have white babies. Ostensibly white women who have somehow literally never seen pictures of white families or white babies before, who will go “Oh wow! You mean I could have a white baby if I wanted? And be like these people in this meme? Woah, that is super crazy. I never knew! Guess I’ll go find some loser message board dweller to stick it in me so I can make me a baby!” Read more at http://wonkette.com/610440/hey-white-ladies-4chan-wants-to-meme-some-babies-into-your-womb#EEFCJPQxqkOULJOL.99
You know what's worse than having a white baby? Being one. Imagine what it's like to go through your whole life knowing that your own mother fucked a white guy.
Holy damn. I'm a random guy on the Internet who disagrees with your black victim dogma. And look how you people line up to wag your fingers in indignation about it, one of you even doing it by proxy so she can maintain the illusion that she ignores me. LMFAO! It's hilarious.
You could just ignore someone who was wrong.
Apparently those "black thangs" aren't such secrets after all...
"Imagine what it's like to go through your whole life knowing that your own mother fucked a white guy."
If you hate yourself that much, Dougie ol' buddy ol' pal, why do you bother to breathe?
Imagine what it's like looking at your mother (and father, if present) and not being able to see yourself. Being utterly disconnected from the most basic concept of "family". That's what mixed children have to do, which is grossly abnormal in human history.
Diplorable- yer side doesn't get to define family. Or what truth means. If you don't want a "mixed" family, by all means don't have one. You phony kristians want unwanted babies adopted instead of aborted, so how do you know that that white child with black parents wasn't adopted? You assume the worst. That is whitey wingnut nature.
Imagine what it's like looking at your mother (and father, if present) and not being able to see yourself. If you looked at yer parents and saw yourself that would mean you had two dads. Ewwwwwww!
"If you don't want a "mixed" family, by all means don't have one."
I'm paying for Stanley Ann Dunham's mixed family and a million others, and I'm damn tired of it.
"You phony kristians want unwanted babies adopted instead of aborted"
I'm not a Christian at all, but I think what the Hebrews did to the Canaanites is a good blueprint for Making America America Again. Did I mention that Margaret Sanger was right? Planned Parenthood is probably the single biggest civilizing force in Mississippi.
"so how do you know that that white child with black parents wasn't adopted?"
Because no two Bantu parents have ever given birth to a Swede.
"so how do you know that that white child with black parents wasn't adopted?"
Adopted, kidnapped or on loan. How the fuck else did it happen?
This is seriously a level of stupidity I've ever only seen from black progressives. I'm not saying that there aren't some white people out there who believe two Floridian rabbits can give birth to an Alaskan hare, it's just I've never met one that stupid. Even creationist Christians, in their monumental stupidity, know that a kind can only give birth to its kind. But some black folks, especially the melanin theorists, seem to believe that "black" is the god particle and two blacks can give birth to a Caucasoid child. They believe black people are the "original" people and thus contain every phenotype (because they don't know WTF a phenotype is). It's hilarious.
Mike. Buddy. It's impossible. Race isn't a social construct. Haplogroups and other genetic markers, not to mention observable taxonomic differences, separate the races by so much that the fact we can even interbreed is something scientists struggle to understand fully. That's how different Negroids and Caucasoids are from one another. A medicine you give a white person to fight illness can kill a black, and vice versa. Gestation periods differ. Olfactory and ocular responses differ. We have different immune systems. Different bone and muscle densities. Different average heights and weights. Different hair follicles. Different levels of melanin receptor activation. Different vitamin levels. Different hormonal levels. Different digestive systems. Different brain sizes. Different vocal structures. Different problem-solving capabilities inherent to ethnicity. Different pain thresholds. Different lung capacities. Different tendon and ligament structures. Different cardiovascular systems. Different blood responses.
Is this more knowledge that whitey is hiding from you or something?
Tomorrow will be just like today. I may go to the grocery store and buy a new pair of sneakers. My cat is bugging me because he keeps pooping on the dog beds. Any advice?
ReplyDeleteTrump's upcoming inauguration has inspired me to finally go get my hemorrhoids checked out.
ReplyDeleteI read that The Heritage Foundation wrote a budget that would cut 10 trillion over 10 years and will be the budget Trump and Congress will pass. Now we know how much the tax cuts for rich folks are going to cost.
ReplyDeleteBenadryl is on my mind Field, Benadryl...shit, these fucking allergies...
ReplyDeletePlease don't go, President Obama!!!
ReplyDeleteAlways remember that the country did not for this. Minority vote suppression, Russian-planted fake news stories, the Electoral College skewing the balance of power in favor of underpopulated, rural states -- take away any one of those factors, and Trump would not have "won". Even as it is, he got almost three million fewer actual votes than Hillary.
ReplyDeleteThere's more of us than there is of the bad guys. Trump is taking office as the least-popular President-elect in decades. Mass protest can block much of the minority regime's agenda -- the outcry over the Office of Congressional Ethics showed what determined action can do -- and in four years at the most, we'll start getting the country back on track again.
This just proves conclusively conservatives/Republicans aren't serious.
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PX: They're serious about wanting to make liberals, people of color, and anyone smarter than them cry. Kind of what John Cleese says at about 2:55:
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-Doug in Oakland
Speaking of John Cleese he'll be here in Chicago promoting his book. Seriously thinking about going to see him.
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Lilacpr said...
ReplyDeleteBenadryl is on my mind Field, Benadryl...shit, these fucking allergies...
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Yeah, probably all that bullshit floating in the air from DC........
Get better soon, PR!!
Doc, that was too funny.
ReplyDeleteWhat Doug@10:10 said.
Infidel, but they play the inside game so well. And the dumbocrats in Washington are way too passive for my taste.
I think if the Dems regain control of the House and the Senate the Donald may stand a chance of being a halfway decent President. His boasts of getting healthcare for all and bringing back good jobs will force him to actually make moves to such ends and we all know gop policies won't do anything for either. The Dems can create good legislation and stroke his ego to sign it.Win win in some circumstances. Wishful thinking?
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PX: Maybe. I've been saying that Ryan and McConnell scare me more than Trump, and Trump is already making jokes about how much work Ryan has to do so he can sign it, so I'm not optimistic there now.
ReplyDeleteAfter the mid terms? If we win? I could see that settling into a Bush-after-2006 sort of situation, but have you heard the budget cuts he's proposing? If he gets his way (and Heritage's way) both the NEA and the NEH would cease to exist.
http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/19/trump-plan-nea-neh/
Which makes a twisted sort of sense as his stated vision of the country is profoundly ugly and supporting the arts doesn't fit in well with it.
The jokes about failing to support the humanities write themselves about someone who has forsworn the whole idea of human decency. Yes, I know that's not what humanities refers to, but the joke still works because of how clownishly evil he comes across, and we've got to find things to laugh about in order to stay sane.
Will the Democrats stand up and do something? That's never been a safe bet, so perhaps more of us need to get involved and make their lives a little harder if they don't.
-Doug in Oakland
Yeah, I have friends in environmental science fields and they aren't optimistic. But we've seen this before, 2001 redux.
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Doc..field, you seem to have a habit of calling Queenie "Doc". Why is that? Are you related in some way?
ReplyDeleteUh...a simple Yes or No will do.
ReplyDeleteSo, have your readers seen the #fdt video? .
ReplyDeleteSome cold comfort sans doubt. But the video does well to encapsulate the feeling that is killing every one of us right now.
"I think if the Dems regain control of the House and the Senate the Donald may stand a chance of being a halfway decent President. His boasts of getting healthcare for all and bringing back good jobs will force him to actually make moves to such ends and we all know gop policies won't do anything for either. The Dems can create good legislation and stroke his ego to sign it.Win win in some circumstances. Wishful thinking?"
ReplyDeleteYeah, unfortunately, I do think it's wishful thinking.
The chances of Dems recapturing the Congress at the next election aren't good. Republicans have rigged the House with gerrymandered districts, so that's an incredible uphill slog. And take a look at who's up for election in the Senate next midterm. It's mostly Democrats and a few Republicans in fire-engine red states that are a lock; very few opportunities to pick up seats. There was a chance for the Dems to flip the Senate this last election, but it didn't quite materialize.
The only way I see Congress turning over is if our new malevolent clown president manages to absolutely wreck the country in record time, such that voters turn out to punish his party. Which could realistically happen, but it's not exactly something I'm hoping for.
As of now, the constraints on presidential idiocy are pretty weak. Congressional Republicans are too busy enacting cash giveaways to rich people and corporations and ripping away the healthcare of 30 million people. Oh, and previously unthinkable moves like selling off national park land. Meanwhile, our national news media is pretty spineless, as shown in that press conference where the press pool let President Troompa-Loompa get away with abusing CNN and did nothing.
Things look grim for the functionality of the federal government.
The Dems might be better off concentrating their efforts on rebuilding at state government levels, where they've really blown it in recent years.
Sure the Dema need to start locally but tge energy is on the left so far. If this energy can be maintained like the tea party you may be surprised in two years. The fact is most people don't vote and if the Dems are smart, launch a 50 state program and focus on new voters there can be some change.
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Since it's Trump Inauguration Day, I guess it's time for this highly cynical quote again (it'll still be time for this quote, over and over again, for the next four-to-eight years, presumably):
ReplyDelete“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken
God help us all.
Someone goes sneaker shopping at the grocery store? Okay. Drumpf isn't getting his Russia/North Korea style military parade as befits a true American Patriot (excludes nearly all wingnuts or as they are known as White Power Barbies).
ReplyDeleteDrumpf's Heritage budget shows wingnuts only want to help the wealthy. The rest of us take our chances. Can't wait for all the gold fixtures in the WH as Drumpf lets taxpayers pay for billions of dollars of renovations to make the WH look like Drumpf Tower South.
Ivanka the grope toy's multi million dollar clothing is made in sweatshops in SE Asia. Drumpf sez he will put yoooge tariffs on goods made overseas for sale in America. He can start with himself and his gropable squeeze toy daughter.
Wingnuts hate the ACA because it is unsuccessful by their way of thinking. It helps 20 million Americans get insured and doesn't raise debt much.
ReplyDeleteWingnuts define success as helping the leat amount of people (the 1%) obtain the most amount of money. That would be a success story wingnuts would likely brag about. But then we know wingnuts aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.
"debt much"
ReplyDeleteThat would make a great screen name. What is debt?
What is MUCH?
Who pays MUCH?
Hey, all you affirmative-action babies and other whiners:
ReplyDeleteAll your base are belong to us.
I can only hope you boys make a big mess out of Trump's Inauguration. Burn and loot! I hope they shoot.
ReplyDelete@PX, the Dems are weak as shit, how do you win the popular vote TWICE, yet concede the election to your opponent?
ReplyDeleteI vow to NEVER vote Democratic again, it's third party ALL THE WAY from here on out!
And why is Hilary Clinton there? See what I mean, such a weak ass, punk ass political party!! It would have been FAR more powerful a message if NO democrat had showed up the PEEOTUS' inauguration.
ReplyDeletePUNKS!!!!
PEEEEEEEEEOTUS the unready, courtesy of the NYT:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/opinion/donald-the-unready.html?_r=0
Adulterer in chief
ReplyDeleteBaby Daddy in chief
Pussy grabber in chief
Sham university in chief
Bankruptcy in chief
Discrimination in chief
Traitor (Russia) in chief
Sexualizing daughters in chief
Disrespector in chief
PEEEEEEEEOTUS 45!!
You really are a stupid bitch.
DeleteFifty years Field. Let me think back since I was alive in 1966. Shit is still the same today as it was back then, maybe worse. POC are still unfairly targeted and killed by the police, POC are killing each other in their own streets and no one cares, especially POC. What's change for us; more single parent (mostly female) households, more incarceration, more abortions (some estimates are over 30 million). Yet we wonder if things are going to be worse for us under Trump!
ReplyDeleteTarzan, Lord Of The Apes said...
ReplyDeleteI can only hope you boys make a big mess out of Trump's Inauguration. Burn and loot! I hope they shoot.
Right wing nut jobs are noted for fouling their own nests and noted even more for blaming anyone but themselves. The party of family values and personal responsibility and really lousy jokes.
Unemployment at its lowest level in 43 years thanks to Obama and Dems and in spite of obstructionist right wing nutters-white power Barbies.
ReplyDeleteUnemployment at its lowest level in 43 years thanks to Obama and Dems and in spite of obstructionist right wing nutters-white power Barbies.
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President Obama is THE most accomplished President EVER!!!
And your the dumbest bich ever
DeleteIt's possible that Trump's malfeasance could overcome the gerrymander in '18, but only that.
ReplyDeleteTrump has made a big gamble by openly playing to the slobbering hordes who prop up the Republican base, instead of playing footsie with them in weasel-words to get their votes like the Republican playbook suggests.
We told them it was a bad idea to fill their party up with them, but they wouldn't listen to traitorous, fifth-columnist, surrender-monkey liberals like us, I guess because they hate it when we are right.
Now that the tiger has been mounted, he can't do anything but ride, and that won't be easy because the tiger is very stupid, and the very credulousness that got them to believe his bullshit can easily turn to rage and spite when his promises turn out to be the massive buggering that all of us icky liberals tried so annoyingly hard to warn them about.
The reason that Republicans generally avoid the full on "populist" approach to their base (it's not really populism, but save that for another rant) is that their leaders aren't really into helping the rank and file meatheads in their base, just using them to win elections.
Their trickle-down-from-the-billionaires policies don't actually trickle anything useful to WWC voters, so they have to distract them with shiny things they don't actually care about and make them seem important e.g. gay marriage in 2004 to distract from the imploding Iraq war, when they couldn't care about gay marriage at gunpoint.
The difference this time is that unlike gay marriage, which won't ever affect the lives of the meatheads in their base, the destruction of the ACA, the privatization of Medicare, and the block-granting of Medicaid, along with the criminalization of abortion, the degradation of the air and water, and the wholesale looting of everything the US government does to help US citizens will make their lives measurably, unignorably harder and worse.
Coal and manufacturing jobs will not magically reappear, and in fact the ACA repeal will cost 2.5 to 3 million jobs (according to Forbes) many of which will disappear from the rural areas where Trump's support is the strongest now. Like my home town where St. Joseph Hospital is the largest employer (though they don't support Trump.)
Couple that with the gains the millionaires and billionaires will enjoy from the tax cuts that their lives have been damaged in the service of and even Republicans might get angry enough to ignore Rush and Fox for a minute, if only that.
While I still feel that it's a stretch to hope the Republican base magically grows thumbs and climbs down out of the stupid tree, and there will no doubt be a hue and cry that it's all somehow Obama's fault (just like they blamed all of W's fuck ups on Bill Clinton right up until November of 2008) there's still a chance to capitalize on the backlash, even if the only help we get is them staying home out of personal disgust.
So it will be a struggle, but really, it always has been, and very few things worth having come without one, so we should get ready for it because it's here.
-Doug in Oakland
So apparently when Trump took over the official White House twitter account he changed the background picture to a shot of the inauguration, Obama's inauguration, that is:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/01/20/donald_trump_s_new_twitter_background_is_a_photo_from_the_inauguration_of.html
-Doug in Oakland
I recently noticed a curious paradox that I would like to share with you.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump ran as a populist; Hillary Clinton ran as a technocrat.
Now you would think that if the Electoral College and the popular vote gave two opposite results, then the technocrat would win by the rules, and the populist would win the vote.
But the opposite occurred!
Therefore they _both_ lost!
Dippy, dappy, dopey, double dis-connected dunbbell Drumpf's astronomical crowds of worshipers appears to be a little lite on worshipers. Gawd that has gotta hurt. Bwahahahahahaha!
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ReplyDeleteNipples has absolutely NOTHING in common with Jackie O, how dare ANYONE speak so ill of Jackie O!!!
ReplyDeleteDonnie Douchebag's first order of business was to issue and executive order on the ACA. I'd swear White Power Barbies campaigned that they hated executive orders- or was that only when Dems issue them?
ReplyDeleteDrumpf tweeted shots of Obama's inaugural crowds and pretended they were his own. The astronomical number of peons that actually showed up was astronomically small in the Mall.
"Unemployment at its lowest level in 43 years"
ReplyDeleteNo one really believes that, because it's not true. It's just a talking point people use to pretend Obama's been worth a damn as president, which would make him the first president worth a damn in two centuries.
The way the statistics are calculated is simply different than it's been in "43 years," that's all. Thanks to Obama, now even more people who can't find a job in X number of months aren't counted as people at all. People out of the workforce and on hard times aren't counted as people, and therefore government is able to cook numbers to say that only X number of people are unemployed.
I don't blame Obama. It's something dumb-ass Republicans do too. The stupid fuckers may have started it, for all I know. It's just that Obama expanded on it, like he's expanded on so many things, namely the debt.
If you can't get a job, you don't show up on unemployment stats.
If you're fed up and quit looking, you don't count on unemployment stats.
If you've ever been employed, you don't count on unemployment stats.
And the nigg-- sorry, black-rigging of the stats goes on and on.
Trump's speech echoed Obama's "just look forward" pass on accountability for elite criminals. I guess I should have robbed that liquor store yesterday.
ReplyDeleteOld regime's supporters unleash violence against Constitutionally elected new government, because only leftist are allowed to win.
ReplyDeleteLetists riot, beat Republicans,s smash windows, and block people from attending the inauguration, but Trump is the fascist.
All your base are belong to us.
ReplyDelete@10:48, English muthafucka!
ReplyDeleteThe very first thing the damn fool did was to come after my health insurance. I hope his balls drop off into his shoe and he steps on them.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Oakland
"Unemployment at its lowest level in 43 years thanks to Obama"
ReplyDeleteBased on a fraudulent definition of "unemployment" which excludes the partially-employed and labor-force dropouts. Labor force participation is at record lows.
But hey, everything else you believe is a lie, that fits right in.
"hey wouldn't listen to traitorous, fifth-columnist, surrender-monkey liberals like us, I guess because they hate it when we are right."
How would we know? You would have had to have been right at least once.
'Now that the tiger has been mounted, he can't do anything but ride, and that won't be easy because the tiger is very stupid, and the very credulousness that got them to believe his bullshit can easily turn to rage and spite when his promises turn out to be the massive buggering that all of us icky liberals tried so annoyingly hard to warn them about."
This is the stupid I keep telling you about. The TEA Party was America asking you to change. You and the Recucklicans (truly, the R-jerseys of the Uniparty) spun, co-opted and laughed them off... but the problems only got worse. Now Trump and the Alt-Right are TELLING you to change. We obviously have you more than a bit scared, but you're still resisting.
Do you really want to know what comes if you overthrow Trump? You get a force that MAKES you change, even if it kills you... and there won't be any mercy or pity left, because you had none and deserve none.
LOL. Kiss your Raiders bye-bye, along with Obama. Dougie.
ReplyDeleteBTW Dougie. Just how much do you pay for your Health Insurance?
ReplyDeleteHow much do I pay for it?
All you Hi-Q White Power Barbies explain the math behind Donnie Douchbag's claims of an electoral landslide when he is number 46 out of 58. Must be along the lines of cutting tax revenues increases tax revenues.
ReplyDeleteDaily lulz for 1/20/17:
ReplyDeleteAs I was watching the insane riots take place yesterday, committed almost entirely by rich, entitled white millennials whose parents raised them in daycare, I heard the black anchor on ABC News state," You know, I don't recall a single protester in either one of President Obama's inaugurations. There were many at Bush's, and many here, but none at Obama's."
These racist white people, whose population topples 200-million, in a nation of such white supremacist history that they'd never accept a black president, and yet the only butthurt we ever see in America is from you lot. The evil white man is nowhere to be found, with his oppressive ways. But these so-called "victims" are out in full swing terrorizing people, setting cars aflame, breaking windows, assaulting people -- and this shit happens on the daily.
One thing is for sure, Obama's performance in office means America won't elect another half-black President for at least 500 years. He really messed things up for mulattos.
ReplyDeleteTens of thousands of independent women are marching on Washington to tell Trump not to undo government policies upon which they are dependent.
ReplyDeleteCommunists always strike first. Note how much of the mainstream press is tacitly approving of this violence by calling rioters "activists" and applauding attacks on individuals associated with the Right.
ReplyDeleteIt should be a sober reminder that the fascist brownshirts were created as a security force in response to violence perpetrated by commie agitators.
If the police can't or won't control these people when they commit crimes, things are going to turn dark quickly.
Obama is gone, but he won’t be soon forgotten. His legacy will endure for days, perhaps even weeks.
ReplyDeleteAnymoose sez- that black bastard Obama is indelibly etched in my memory and won't let me be. I want my Mommy! Wah, wah, phucking wah!!
ReplyDeleteAnyMoose has Obama derangement syndrome and it is in curable. He is doomed to having Obama flashbacks forever. Bwahahahahahaha.
Every protester yesterday was paid by White Power Barbies so Donnie Dumbfuck wouldn't have to explain why no one showed up for his coronation. Drumpf lost in a landslide.
ReplyDeletePics of Drumpf's inaugural show vast stretches of empty white space sorta like a metaphor for wingut potii's heads. Who needs NASA when there is so much space between Drumpf's ears that needs investigating.
ReplyDeleteUnless and until white women learn some fucking gender loyalty, women's marches will be a COMPLETE waste of time!!!
ReplyDeleteFor the first time in history, the First Lady and first daughter are only 3 years apart in age!!
ReplyDeleteBAWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Wow Doc, that's an interesti stat.
ReplyDeleteKind of scary, though.
Isn't this the same pres who said that he is sexually attracted to his daughter?
Gender loyalty. LOL
ReplyDeleteWhite women, by and large, don't need to pretend to be oppressed like black women. Fewer than 1 in 5 consider themselves feminists.
They're not knotting their hair up to the consistency of an SOS pad. It's black women raping India for a white girl's straight hair.
White women know they're atop the pecking order, with a shit-load of room to spare. They are not the least desirable women in America, as you and your sistas be, yo. They do not need to stand around in a huddle, throwing their fist in the air, and pretending that it's 1946. They don't need to get pregnant and have bastards for financial gain. White women do okay by themselves. It's bad enough gender studies catches a lot of them and convinces them that they're some random 85th gender. But you're likely never get more than 10% on your bullshit cause's bandwagon.
A mentally stable white woman can go choose her career, choose her man, and choose her life. You, on the other hand, need to practice twerking in the mirror, trying out different lace fronts, so you can go get a thug n da club to knock you up with your 7th baby from the 7th man in 7 years.
Josh@2:06,racist much?
DeleteAnd are u married to, or do u date one of these "prized" white women? 🙄
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DeleteAs of yesterday, Obamacare had higher favorable ratings than the sexual predator just turned loose on America.
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ReplyDeleteWow Doc, that's an interesti stat.
Kind of scary, though.
Isn't this the same pres who said that he is sexually attracted to his daughter?
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In true PEETOUS fashion, I was exaggerating the age difference. The fact is that she is only 8 years older than her stepson Donny junior.
But yes, this is the same guy that sexualizes his daughters.
BTW, how many MILLIONS showed up at the women's/protest rallies? Absolutely unprecedented!!
field negro said...
ReplyDeleteAnd are u married to, or do u date one of these "prized" white women?
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One thing is for SURE. He's not the son of one nor has he ever had sex with one.
And isn't he gay? Or has he morphed into bisexual now? Or maybe he's transgender?
I paid around 13% of every paycheck I earned for 32 years for my insurance.
ReplyDeleteAnd fuck the Raiders, I haven't watched them since Biletnikoff left.
I think Trump wants to get rid of the NEA and NEH because he has a problem with anyone else being endowed.
-Doug in Oakland
White women are my preference. I've dated two black girls in my life. They were easy and sleazy. I think they have about 9 kids between them now. DNA -- that's what they want. Dick 'n attention. (You know it better than I do.)
ReplyDeleteAnd I've never understood how the truth is so "racist" to you people.
Any data around concerning online dating and hook-ups and whatnot show black women at the bottom of the heap as the least desirable market. Maybe not in Somalia, but certainly the West. That's not my standard. I personally hold black girls above Thai and Vietnamese and Filipino and that region of Asia, though Japanese are my #2. White women are the most desirable women in the Western world, far and away.
Nobody knows this is a fact more than black men. Are you fucking kidding me? White girls are the prize. Even most of the black men who choose black women are doing so out of sense of racial solidarity so they don't make the "sistas" angry. Everybody wants a white woman, or they're lying to score points.
Black women are constantly campaigning against white women and for their black men to avoid them.
White women are the beauty standard of the modern world. Hey, don't blame me that black women, in a never-ending mission to straighten their hair like white women, spend billions upon billions of (taxpayer) dollars every year on weave.
These are things that black people know to be true far and away more than I know them. But because it's a white person saying them, it'll just be "racist."
Well, so fucking what? It's racist, then. Boo hoo! Did you wake up with a disease from it? Did a white man hang you from a tree for it? Did puppies die? No. You feign offense at every conceivable opportunity, but nothing ever happens to the offended. Ever. In fact, they wouldn't be able to score as many virtue-signaling points without it.
But the moral of the story: White women aren't going to group themselves by any meaningless identity en masse because they don't fucking have to. They have self-worth. They don't need to stand around with colored people* and pretend to be oppressed. They'll just divorce a guy with money and make a killin'.
*LOL @ "People of color" supposedly being the preferred way to address "colored people." The difference is...?
No other explanation for Josh and his attention to Blacks. Ne is a jealous attention whore-like Douchebag Donnie.
ReplyDeleteAs a skeptic, there have been dozens upon dozens of communities I've frequented to argue with the resident idiots: Creationist Christians, 9/11 truthers, ancient alien theorists, Bigfoot enthusiasts, Nessy supporters, ghost "hunters," psychics, and on the list goes.
ReplyDeleteThough it is only victim cultist blacks who lack the self-awareness necessarily to even discern why someone might disagree with their dogma. It truly is an amazing case study on the human ability--or, in the case, inability--to grasp very simplistic concepts.
You don't even realize that you're a fringe ideology, basically a religion. You people actually believe you have a moral and majority stance.
For the hard-of-thinking types, there's no other way to put it: You preach a racist ideology that seeks to separate white from black, with one side being the oppressor and the other a victim. You do this on the open marketplace of ideas that is the Internet. You do it regularly and without filter. Yet you cannot seem to conceive of any reason why someone might disagree with your dogma, so you start spamming logical fallacies by the shit-ton and accusations like witch-hunters. Circling the wagons.
You people are intellectual peons compared to every one of those other groups. (The average IQ here is barely pushing 85.) But I'll hand it to ya -- you're orders of magnitude more confident in your narrative than all the others combined. Not a peon in the group here can figure out why someone would dare breach the echo chamber unless for racist reasons.
The level of stupid found here truly does beggar all belief.
There's no other place on the Internet to get this many great LULZ!
In other words, Josh, u are not married and do not have a significant other (man or woman), correct?
ReplyDeleteIz Josh 4chan? Their new plan? They want to “meme up the white birthrate.” They are calling this Operation B.A.B.B.Y., because they are unoriginal and steal from Wonkette. The plan, apparently, is to use images of white families found in places like the site Just Girly Things, and then use those memes to propagandize women into wanting to have white babies. Ostensibly white women who have somehow literally never seen pictures of white families or white babies before, who will go “Oh wow! You mean I could have a white baby if I wanted? And be like these people in this meme? Woah, that is super crazy. I never knew! Guess I’ll go find some loser message board dweller to stick it in me so I can make me a baby!”
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://wonkette.com/610440/hey-white-ladies-4chan-wants-to-meme-some-babies-into-your-womb#EEFCJPQxqkOULJOL.99
You know what's worse than having a white baby? Being one. Imagine what it's like to go through your whole life knowing that your own mother fucked a white guy.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Oakland
field negro said...
ReplyDeleteIn other words, Josh, u are not married and do not have a significant other (man or woman), correct?
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If you wanted the answer to this question, you could have just asked me, ROTFL!!!.
What he puts on this site that so many of y'all seem to enjoy reading, is a reflection of his miserable, empty life.
"What he puts on this site that so many of y'all seem to enjoy reading, is a reflection of his miserable, empty life."
ReplyDeleteYeah dude seems really angry. But let's not judge. Maybe he just needs a friend.
field negro said...
ReplyDelete"What he puts on this site that so many of y'all seem to enjoy reading, is a reflection of his miserable, empty life."
Yeah dude seems really angry. But let's not judge. Maybe he just needs a friend.
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ROTFL Yeah OK Field!! ;)
Holy damn. I'm a random guy on the Internet who disagrees with your black victim dogma. And look how you people line up to wag your fingers in indignation about it, one of you even doing it by proxy so she can maintain the illusion that she ignores me. LMFAO! It's hilarious.
ReplyDeleteYou could just ignore someone who was wrong.
Apparently those "black thangs" aren't such secrets after all...
Little advice for the lovelorn noisemaker, Josh.
ReplyDeleteTo be seen- stand up.
To be heard- speak up.
To be appreciated- shut up!
"Imagine what it's like to go through your whole life knowing that your own mother fucked a white guy."
ReplyDeleteIf you hate yourself that much, Dougie ol' buddy ol' pal, why do you bother to breathe?
Imagine what it's like looking at your mother (and father, if present) and not being able to see yourself. Being utterly disconnected from the most basic concept of "family". That's what mixed children have to do, which is grossly abnormal in human history.
Loving vs. Virginia was wrongly decided.
Diplorable- yer side doesn't get to define family. Or what truth means. If you don't want a "mixed" family, by all means don't have one. You phony kristians want unwanted babies adopted instead of aborted, so how do you know that that white child with black parents wasn't adopted? You assume the worst. That is whitey wingnut nature.
ReplyDeleteImagine what it's like looking at your mother (and father, if present) and not being able to see yourself. If you looked at yer parents and saw yourself that would mean you had two dads. Ewwwwwww!
"If you don't want a "mixed" family, by all means don't have one."
ReplyDeleteI'm paying for Stanley Ann Dunham's mixed family and a million others, and I'm damn tired of it.
"You phony kristians want unwanted babies adopted instead of aborted"
I'm not a Christian at all, but I think what the Hebrews did to the Canaanites is a good blueprint for Making America America Again. Did I mention that Margaret Sanger was right? Planned Parenthood is probably the single biggest civilizing force in Mississippi.
"so how do you know that that white child with black parents wasn't adopted?"
Because no two Bantu parents have ever given birth to a Swede.
"so how do you know that that white child with black parents wasn't adopted?"
ReplyDeleteAdopted, kidnapped or on loan. How the fuck else did it happen?
This is seriously a level of stupidity I've ever only seen from black progressives. I'm not saying that there aren't some white people out there who believe two Floridian rabbits can give birth to an Alaskan hare, it's just I've never met one that stupid. Even creationist Christians, in their monumental stupidity, know that a kind can only give birth to its kind. But some black folks, especially the melanin theorists, seem to believe that "black" is the god particle and two blacks can give birth to a Caucasoid child. They believe black people are the "original" people and thus contain every phenotype (because they don't know WTF a phenotype is). It's hilarious.
Mike. Buddy. It's impossible. Race isn't a social construct. Haplogroups and other genetic markers, not to mention observable taxonomic differences, separate the races by so much that the fact we can even interbreed is something scientists struggle to understand fully. That's how different Negroids and Caucasoids are from one another. A medicine you give a white person to fight illness can kill a black, and vice versa. Gestation periods differ. Olfactory and ocular responses differ. We have different immune systems. Different bone and muscle densities. Different average heights and weights. Different hair follicles. Different levels of melanin receptor activation. Different vitamin levels. Different hormonal levels. Different digestive systems. Different brain sizes. Different vocal structures. Different problem-solving capabilities inherent to ethnicity. Different pain thresholds. Different lung capacities. Different tendon and ligament structures. Different cardiovascular systems. Different blood responses.
Is this more knowledge that whitey is hiding from you or something?
January 2017 to Date Negroe Carnage Toll:
ReplyDeleteShot & Killed: 45
Shot & Wounded: 219
Total Shot: 264
Total Homicides: 46