Wednesday, August 22, 2018

A history of shadiness.

TWEET MEGiven what has transpired over the past few days, the following article is apropos.

"In his signature book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump boasted that when he wanted to build a casino in Atlantic City, he persuaded the state attorney general to limit the investigation of his background to six months. Most potential owners were scrutinized for more than a year. Trump argued that he was “clean as a whistle”—young enough that he hadn’t had time to get into any sort of trouble. He got the sped-up background check, and eventually got the casino license.

But Trump was not clean as a whistle. Beginning three years earlier, he’d hired mobbed-up firms to erect Trump Tower and his Trump Plaza apartment building in Manhattan, including buying ostensibly overpriced concrete from a company controlled by mafia chieftains Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano. That story eventually came out in a federal investigation, which also concluded that in a construction industry saturated with mob influence, the Trump Plaza apartment building most likely benefited from connections to racketeering. Trump also failed to disclose that he was under investigation by a grand jury directed by the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, who wanted to learn how Trump obtained an option to buy the Penn Central railroad yards on the West Side of Manhattan.

Why did Trump get his casino license anyway? Why didn’t investigators look any harder? And how deep did his connections to criminals really go?

These questions ate at me as I wrote about Atlantic City for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and then went more deeply into the issues in a book, Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business. In all, I’ve covered Donald Trump off and on for 27 years, and in that time I’ve encountered multiple threads linking Trump to organized crime. Some of Trump’s unsavory connections have been followed by investigators and substantiated in court; some haven’t. And some of those links have continued until recent years, though when confronted with evidence of such associations, Trump has often claimed a faulty memory. In an April 27 phone call to respond to my questions for this story, Trump told me he did not recall many of the events recounted in this article and they “were a long time ago.” He also said that I had “sometimes been fair, sometimes not” in writing about him, adding “if I don’t like what you write, I’ll sue you.”

I’m not the only one who has picked up signals over the years. Wayne Barrett, author of a 1992 investigative biography of Trump’s real-estate dealings, has tied Trump to mob and mob-connected men.

No other candidate for the White House this year has anything close to Trump’s record of repeated social and business dealings with mobsters, swindlers, and other crooks. Professor Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, said the closest historical example would be President Warren G. Harding and Teapot Dome, a bribery and bid-rigging scandal in which the interior secretary went to prison. But even that has a key difference: Harding’s associates were corrupt but otherwise legitimate businessmen, not mobsters and drug dealers.

This is part of the Donald Trump story that few know. As Barrett wrote in his book, Trump didn’t just do business with mobbed-up concrete companies: he also probably met personally with Salerno at the townhouse of notorious New York fixer Roy Cohn, in a meeting recounted by a Cohn staffer who told Barrett she was present. This came at a time when other developers in New York were pleading with the FBI to free them of mob control of the concrete business.

From the public record and published accounts like that one, it’s possible to assemble a clear picture of what we do know. The picture shows that Trump’s career has benefited from a decades-long and largely successful effort to limit and deflect law enforcement investigations into his dealings with top mobsters, organized crime associates, labor fixers, corrupt union leaders, con artists and even a one-time drug trafficker whom Trump retained as the head of his personal helicopter service.
Now that he’s running for president, I pulled together what’s known – piecing together the long history of federal filings, court records, biographical anecdotes, and research from my and Barrett’s files. What emerges is a pattern of business dealings with mob figuresnot only local figures, but even the son of a reputed Russian mob boss whom Trump had at his side at a gala Trump hotel opening, but has since claimed under oath he barely knows.

Neither Trump’s campaign spokesperson, Hope Hicks, nor Jason Greenblatt, the executive vice president and chief legal officer at the Trump Organization, responded to several emailed requests for comment on the issues raised in this article." [Source]

Yes America, your president has a history, so it's not surprising to see his friends and everyone around him going down like Michael Spinks after a Mike Tyson hook.

The only thing saving Don trump is the fact that he is president, and Mr. Mueller will not indict  sitting president. Of course he (trump) knows that, which is why he can go on FOX VIEWS and blather lie after lie to their gullible viewers. He tried to say that he was not aware of the Stormy Daniels payoff before it happened, even though we can clearly hear the audio tape of him agreeing to it before it was done. (This guy must think we are as stupid as one of his typical supporters.) And then, incredibly, he admitted to later reimbursing Cohen for the Stormy Daniels payment out of his own money.     

"Truth isn't truth." ~trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani~

Here is what I know IS true: if you are a friend of Donald trump, you might want to call your lawyer.

59 comments:

  1. Yisheng = nigger, lilac = cunt10:08 PM

    Trump supporters are the shaddiest people in the country. There is nothing you can trust about them.

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  2. Anonymous10:45 PM

    God bless John Chapman. A true American hero.

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  3. Lance Cockstrong10:53 PM

    Butt Trumpet is probably wishing he had made a deal with the devil so he wouldn't have his white micro dick. All that money and he still ain't packing shit between his legs.

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  4. Crack dealing thugs on the street corner are the best businessmen the black community can muster up. LOL

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  5. Anonymous11:26 PM

    Speaking of "A history of shadiness" what comes to mine is the most famous anti-democrat, Michelle Obama, whose family was steeped in politics. Her father , Fraser Robinson, worked a precinct captain. In turn, Mayor Daley's corrupt Democratic machine gave him a low-paying job as a city pump operator. Mr. Robinson suffered with multiple sclerosis, according to Michelle, however, he never complained about his condition. Michelle resented Chicago's corrupt Democratic politics because it was stacked against black people. Mr. Robinson did not receive raises and promotions customary precinct captains. The democrats treated her father, an other blacks, like a second -class citizens. So embarrassed , Michelle she never disclosed to her close friend, Santita Jackson, Rev Jesse Jackson's, Sr daughter, her father's job as a precinct captain. The moral of the story, the real racist is starts with a D ends with a t.

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  6. A black man criticizing criminals is the height of irony.

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  7. MAGA= my attorney got arrested.

    Fergus is obviously a wanna-be mobster, everything he has ever done screams that.

    But, see, wanna-be mobsters don't have to contend with the upper echelons of the DOJ and FBI. So they can skate along thinking they are smarter than the cops and untouchable, when in reality they simply aren't worth senior law enforcement's time and don't get fucked with because they are too low of a priority to bother with.

    That all changed when Fergus ran for president, but he was too far gone believing what Fox News said about Obama to realize that presidents don't really behave like that, and that there are consequences for morons who try to.

    -Doug in Oakland

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  8. Anonymous11:56 PM

    That explains why Michelle Obama said "For the first time in I am proad of my adult life I am proud of my country ..."

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  9. Dave Zirin = faggot kike12:02 AM

    White people are just retarded. Can't wait for them to become a minority in this country.

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  10. Anonymous12:07 AM

    wolf...…..wolf...…..wolf

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  11. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman1:20 AM



    Anonymous said...

    "Speaking of "A history of shadiness" what comes to mine is the most famous anti-democrat, Michelle Obama..."

    Please post you sources for this smear of Michelle Obama. No one with half a brain is going to believe a word of it.

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  12. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman1:40 AM



    YellowMONEY said...

    "Crack dealing thugs on the street corner are the best businessmen the black community can muster up. LOL"

    I guess I have to burst you bubble, YELLow, But Kenneth Chenault, a black man, just retired from 16 successful years as CEO OF AMERICAN EXPRESS. In case you don't know, American Express is a large, very successful company that issues credit cards. The company's stock sells for about $105 per share.

    I'm quite sure, if you ever chose to look, you would discover many successful, black businessmen.

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  13. From Twitter, MAGA - My Attorney Got Arrested!!😂😂😂

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  14. Anonymous Dave Zirin = faggot kike said...
    White people are just retarded. Can't wait for them to become a minority in this country.
    >>>

    They already would be except many Mexicans think they’re White Mexicans.🙄🙄🙄

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  15. Bolches y tibios yarboclos pa todos los renegados

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  16. Señor Trompas1:50 AM

    > They already would be except many Mexicans think they’re White Mexicans

    Chinga a tu Puta madre pinche negro jediondo.

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  17. The moral of the story, the real racist is starts with a D ends with a t.

    debt, dangit, debit,deficit,doubt,dirt,donut,disgust, digest,dot,don't,didn't, dart, destruct, drat, debut, despot, desert, dessert, dissent, decent, de-scent, distract, distort, divot, disrupt.........Racist?

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  18. 3 wasicu wastey wingnuts got bagged this week. A half dozen got bagged last week for insider trading. Pruitt and Zinke will get theirs as will Wilburrhead Ross, Screwdy Rudy and the rest of Drumpf's totally clueless lawyers.

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  19. Who could have known the lone juror that kept Manafort from being guilty on 18 counts turns out to e an avid Drumpf supporter who wears a Magat hat and gave an interview to Fake Noize. Well I never....

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  20. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/08/22/fossil-female-mom-neanderthal-dad-denisovan/1069543002/

    Great news, wingnuts. Yer ancestors had sex with different species so feel free to keep fucking dogs and horses/mules, etc. Whatever trips your trigger.

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  21. Anonymous10:33 AM

    Trump just gave a Fox interview, in the wake of his associates crashing and burning in court, in which he claimed that “flipping” (accepting a plea deal for reduced charges in exchange for testimony against a more culpable party) should be illegal. So, you know, goodbye justice system.

    He also insisted that if he is impeached, the U.S. economy will instantly be destroyed.

    What delusions of grandeur. As King Louis XIV was alleged to have said, “L’état, c’est moi.” The opposite is true: Allowing Trump to remain in power and continue enacting his disastrous trade policies is what will trash the economy.

    Everything about this was utterly bonkers. Every day with this president is more surreal and dysfunctional than the last.

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  22. Anonymous11:58 AM



    Anonymous said...

    "Trump just gave a Fox interview, in the wake of his associates crashing and burning in court,....."

    Yes, I agree. It seems that about 20 percent of the population has gone totally bonkers, and the remaining Republicans with half a brain don't like Trump, but apparently they are to afraid of him to call him out.

    Each morning I get up and say, "Please God, help us"

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  23. Katelyn Davidson said...

    "A black man criticizing criminals is the height of irony."

    Why is that, Katelyn? The vast majority of black citizens are law-abiding, nice people. Apparently you don't know any facts, so you post bull shit. Have a nice day.

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  24. Hos in different area codes12:35 PM

    pee pee prez likes hos.

    BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

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  25. Anonymous12:39 PM

    Joke:  "The vast majority of black citizens are law-abiding, nice people."

    Woke:  roughly 1/3 of all black men have felony records which disqualify them from owning guns or voting.

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  26. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman2:01 PM

    Anonymous said...

    Joke: "The vast majority of black citizens are law-abiding, nice people."

    " Woke: roughly 1/3 of all black men have felony records which disqualify them from owning guns or voting."

    Dear Anonymous, If you want to be taken seriously, you must post the source of you information. And By-the-way, even if you numbers are correct, which I doubt, that leaves 2/3 of all black men that do not have felony records. So who is correct when she says most black men are law-abiding, nice people? Gambler2 is correct. Just so you know, 2/3 is greater than 1/3.

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  27. " Woke: roughly 1/3 of all black men have felony records which disqualify them from owning guns or voting."

    Thanks to racial profiling. Tis a wonder more Blacks aren't murdered by cops for being Black. Chances are good most cops get off scot free and with accolades from wasicu wsstey wingnut racists.

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  28. Aardsnark, don't you have tiger penis medicine to snort or dog meat to eat? Maybe it is rhino horn that triggers yer pecker.

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  29. Drumpfuck doesn't think they cn impeach a potus doing a great job. Ask William Jefferson Clinton about impeachment when the economy was humming better than this one.

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  30. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/manafort-juror-paula-duncan.html

    Article tells how Drumpf lover blocked 10 of 18 counts against Manafort. Not sure if there is a paywall involved here.

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  31. I am sure Drumpf will invite her to a month at Drumpf Dump South at taxpayer expense/ Drumpf profit.

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  32. Anonymous2:54 PM

    TRUMP 2020!! Face the reality.....

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  33. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman4:23 PM



    Anonymous said...

    "TRUMP 2020!! Face the reality....."

    LOL! Trump will be lucky if he's not in jail by 2020. But keep dreaming if it makes you feel good.

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    1. Anonymous8:07 PM

      After a debate, where Tavis Smiley moderated , Michelle Obama went on stage grabbing the back of Tavis Smiley's jacket yanking him backward before yelling at him in from of more than a thousand people. Michelle put on a show, for the audience, yelling at Tavis because Michelle believed Tavis treated her husband unfairly during the debate (that's a black on black crime in political terms ) . In fact, David Axelrod called his boss the "Black Jesus" as Barack envelop a messianic complex

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  34. decrepit, discrete, descent, dipshit, diplomat, doggonit, dragnet, distant, deft, daft, drift, draft, draught, defeat, dust, doesn't, ........Racist?

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  35. Anonymous4:50 PM

    Fuck the gooks and chinks!

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  36. https://www.the-immoral-minority.com/donald-trumps-bad-week-gets-even-worse-reports-surface-that-david-pecker-was-granted-immunity-now-cooperating-with-federal-prosecutors/

    Buh bye Drumpfuck. Not a friend in the world except the guy that rules his ass with an iron pee pee tail.

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  37. https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/gop-strategist-whines-trump-impeached-jaywalking-dems-retake-house/

    Poor stoopid fucking wingnuts forgot they lowered the impeachment threshold so low for Clinton and then raised the bar so high a wingnut is never apt to get impeached by other wingnuts.

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  38. What is the definitive definition of an organ grinder? A stoopid fucking wingnut with a chipped tooth.

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  39. http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/403248-poll-seventy-percent-of-americans-support-medicare-for-all

    85% Dems and 52% wingnuts favor Medicare for all. Overall the total is 70% in favor.That is even higher than drumpfuck's favoracble rating multiplied by a gazillion.

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  40. Blackmoney7:22 PM

    Crack dealing thugs on the street corner are the best businessmen the black community can muster up. LOL
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    In your trailer park meth dealers are pretty damned successful.

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  41. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman7:24 PM


    Blogger mike from iowa said...
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/08/22/fossil-female-mom-neanderthal-dad-denisovan/1069543002/"

    Great news, wingnuts. Yer ancestors had sex with different species so feel free to keep fucking dogs and horses/mules, etc. Whatever trips your trigger.

    Hi Mike,
    Thanks for the tip on a very interesting article. I thought you might like to check out the article I have referenced below about mitochondrical DNA which mentions that all humans living today descended from the same African woman who lived long,long ago.

    https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/eve.html

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  42. Big Black James7:26 PM

    A black man criticizing criminals is the height of irony.
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    A white person on a Black blog trolling is the best you can muster. Field is a lawyer while you are an unemployed methhead. Some superior race. Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! Not ONE successful white troll yet but we did have one who claimed to have an IQ of 150 and invented things and worked as an orbital engineer. Bwahahahahahaha! Bunch of losers! No wonder trump loves the uneducated.

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  43. Anonymous7:38 PM

    Gambler2 ASKA White Woman


    Not being privy to privileged inside political information does NOT mean information is false/fake.

    A mind is a terrible thing to waste (with your ignominious comments).

    You are so out of touch with political reality and players therein… stop being a damn uniform FOOL!

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  44. Anonymous7:49 PM

    @Gambler2 ASKA White Woman

    Anyone, with a whole brain, understands the truth of the matter; except your ignorant ass.

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  45. From Carl Newman's Twitter feed:

    "Jules Suzdaltsev
    ‏Verified account @jules_su
    Aug 18

    Since 1965

    Democrats (25 years in power):
    3 indictments
    1 conviction
    1 prison sentence.

    Republicans (28 years in power):
    120 indictments
    89 convictions
    34 prison sentences.

    Remind me again how both parties are basically the same?"

    -Doug in Oakland

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  46. Kill white men, fuck white women8:15 PM

    Kill white men.
    Fuck white women.

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  47. Anonymous8:34 PM

    White democrats posting on this blog are racist who pretend to be otherwise. If the saw anyone of you Negros on the street white women, i.e., Gambler2 ASKA White Woman, would clutch her purse and white male would cross the street. Stop fronting!

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  48. Anonymous8:37 PM

    Fuck white people. Fuck the white race.

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  49. More:

    "Hey remember all of those regulations that were rolled back? And the unfilled federal positions? Welcome to the results.

    At least six multistate foodborne illness outbreaks are going on now, according to federal health officials."

    -Doug in Oakland

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  50. From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Netroots Nation:

    “The swing voter is not red to blue. The swing voter is non voter to voter. That’s our swing voter.”

    She's right. Republicans, at this point, are a lost cause.

    -Doug in Oakland

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  51. Hey PR, I hope everything is going well with you!

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  52. Gary Legum
    ‏Verified account @GaryLegum
    Aug 4

    Gary Legum Retweeted Michael D. Shear

    Remember when the wingnuts freaked out about Bill Clinton meeting Loretta Lynch on her plane? Well, Hicks is a witness to possible obstruction of justice by Trump and she got a ride on AF1 today.

    -Doug in Oakland

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  53. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman10:01 AM



    Anonymous said...

    " White democrats posting on this blog are racist who pretend to be otherwise. If the saw anyone of you Negros on the street white women, i.e., Gambler2 ASKA White Woman, would clutch her purse and white male would cross the street. Stop fronting!"

    Dear Anonymous, You know nothing about me and what I would or wouldn't do. I was married to a black man for 35 years. He died recently. Half of my family is black and I do not clutch my purse when I see a black man on the street. Instead, I smile at him and say hello.

    Next time you insult me, include a screen name so I can address you directly. Why are you hiding behind the anonymous designation? Come out and discuss like a grown up.

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  54. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman10:14 AM

    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Anonymus said,


    "Not being privy to privileged inside political information does NOT mean information is false/fake.
    A mind is a terrible thing to waste (with your ignominious comments).
    You are so out of touch with political reality and players therein… stop being a damn uniform FOOL!"


    If your information is so great, why are you afraid to post your sources? And why are you so afraid to pick a screen name, so that I can address you directly?

    And if you don't like my comments, well no one is forcing you to read them.



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  55. Anonymous Gambler2 ASKA White Woman said.. great link, my friend. Whitey gonna be sad and blue when he/she/it finally realizes they are decended from Africans on the non-ScandaHooligan complexions. Thanks for the entertainment.

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  56. Blogger mike from iowa said...

    The moral of the story, the real racist is starts with a D ends with a t.

    debt, dangit, debit,deficit,doubt,dirt,donut,disgust, digest,dot,don't,didn't, dart, destruct, drat, debut, despot, desert, dessert, dissent, decent, de-scent, distract, distort, divot, disrupt.........Racist?

    decrepit, discrete, descent, dipshit, diplomat, doggonit, dragnet, distant, deft, daft, drift, draft, draught, defeat, dust, doesn't, ........Racist?

    dolt, decadent, decedent, dissonant, despondent, distant, decrypt, deceit, depot, distraught, district, distinct....racist? You want moar?

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  57. Anonymous2:31 PM

    "If you want to be taken seriously, you must post the source of you information."

    Trivial to find if you bother to look, and not afraid to know.  https://www.sentencingproject.org/news/5593/ is one of many.  But you'd rather play dumb instead of admitting what you know to be true.  (Maybe it's not playing.)

    "So who is correct when she says most black men are law-abiding, nice people??"

    Not Gambler2.  2/3 is a long way from a "vast majority" (your term).  That starts at about 90%.

    8% of the overall US population has had a felony conviction.  Using the prison population as a proxy for overall fraction of felons, there are about equally many white as black felons and about 1/4 more Hispanic felons than black (https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/rates.html).  The same number of felons among 5x the population makes the fraction of felons 1/5 as much, or about 6.6% for white males.  The other 93.4% IS a "vast majority".  67% is not.

    "Thanks to racial profiling."

    They just happen to match the description of perps reported by victims, identified by fingerprints or DNA, captured on cameras or spotted in the act by police.  Cameras are especially racist because they're just machines; any racial profiling in them has to be programmed in at the factory.  But somehow nobody seems to be able to find where they install the racism in the cameras and make people leave it out.  Funny how that works.

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