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zangtang » Sun May 01, 2016 9:10 pm wrote:fly on the wall of that office would be interestink.....

btw, can any of you fill me in on why (the apparently disgusting) Chris Christie is standing right behind Trump (and making damn sure he's seen there) during
Trumps' much heralded scripted 'foreign policy' speech ?

- did he cave in early to kiss ass & guarantee hisself a plumb job for being an 'early adopter' ?

This is an age in which a woman might succeed a black man as president, but also one in which a member of the white working class has declining options to make a decent living. This is a time when gay people can be married in 50 states, even as working-class families are hanging by a thread. It’s a period in which we have become far more aware of the historic injustices that still haunt African-Americans and yet we treat the desperate plight of today’s white working ­class as an afterthought. And so late-stage capitalism is creating a righteous, revolutionary anger that late-stage democracy has precious little ability to moderate or constrain — and has actually helped exacerbate.

For the white working class, having had their morals roundly mocked, their religion deemed primitive, and their economic prospects decimated, now find their very gender and race, indeed the very way they talk about reality, described as a kind of problem for the nation to overcome. This is just one aspect of what Trump has masterfully signaled as “political correctness” run amok, or what might be better described as the newly rigid progressive passion for racial and sexual equality of outcome, rather than the liberal aspiration to mere equality of opportunity.

General Patton » Tue May 03, 2016 11:30 pm wrote:I'd do a double tap just to make sure the elephant is dead

JackRiddler » Wed May 04, 2016 12:12 am wrote:

General Patton » Tue May 03, 2016 11:30 pm wrote:I'd do a double tap just to make sure the elephant is dead

I always thought for tactical reasons the Elephant has to die first, but who's going to kill the Donkey? I bet that's one thing you and I can agree on.