The American Politics Thread

BaldJean wrote: Trump threatening to use military is a warning sign regarding his possible reaction should he not be re-elected. I said it before and will repeat it here that I consider Trump to be totally capable of a coup d'état should the presidential election not have the result he wants

Our head of military has already shot down his idea of using the military to stop looting. If things keep going the way they are going now, trump will not have enough power or supporters to pull off any stunts. I get the impression that top military leaders in this country are prepared to stop any antics if needed.
Trump's fortunes have changed very much recently, his power and support are not what they used to be.

I'm sure that Trump thinks the phrase "second coming" has something to do with sex.

There was an interesting, and not entirely unfair, opinion piece in today’s Times newspaper which made the point that locations where these atrocities have taken place, such as Minneapolis, LA and etc. have, for donkeys years, if not forever, been run by Democrats. Republicans have not had a look in for elections in Minneapolis, and there must, therefore, be some logical necessity for the so-called liberal party in America to take a long deep look at itself and the institutions it runs.

^ My grandson works in an office in Newark, NJ. He's working form home but said there has been no looting or violence with the protests there. I suppose having a racially mixed police force in that city has helped. Historically, no targeting of blacks have taken place, as far as I know. Now imagine that?

SteveG wrote: ^ My grandson works in an office in Newark, NJ. He's working form home but said there has been no looting or violence with the protests there. I suppose having a racially mixed police force in that city has helped. Historically, no targeting of blacks have taken place, as far as I know. Now imagine that?

No looting in Memphis either where we have a similar police force.

lazland wrote: Easy Money wrote: Re lazland: Clinton is from Arkansas, not Alabama. P.S. Racism is everywhere, it is the true global pandemic. People who think their locale is somehow more enlightened than somewhere else are just fooling themselves. I've lived all over the US and have traveled all over Europe and Mexico. I have not found that place that is free from racism and xenophobia yet. My apologies. Of course it is Arkansas. Blame it on a hard day at work. Re the rest of your post. Absolutely agree. No intelligent person wouldn’t, but that wasn’t the point of the post.

Well if the point of your first post is that liberals don't understand racism any better than anyone else, and not always any better at eradicating it. I would agree with that. A different type of denial is sometimes at work.

Re lazland: Racism in large liberal cities is called gentrification, where old working class neighborhoods are replaced with expensive hip condos and latte shops with wifi. It happens a lot.

Easy Money wrote: Re lazland: Racism in large liberal cities is called gentrification, where old working class neighborhoods are replaced with expensive hip condos and latte shops with wifi. It happens a lot.

lazland wrote: Easy Money wrote: Re lazland: Racism in large liberal cities is called gentrification, where old working class neighborhoods are replaced with expensive hip condos and latte shops with wifi. It happens a lot. Absolutely agree. Anyone reading any of my more political posts will know that I loathe such metropolitan liberal w**kery. Always have, even in the days of my leftie yoof.  I live in a very rural part of West Wales, solidly normal, no lattes to be seen for miles, and where men are proud to call themselves men, and the sheep are simply gorgeous. Actually, I witnessed an amusing scene at my local railway station cafe last year (I say local. It is about 20 minutes away). Lady from London who had been visiting walked in. She asked, when prompted, for a skinny white. Welsh lady serving asked...Do what?”. Order repeated. Lady serving replied. We only do tea and coffee here, love.

We're not real sophisticated around here either. I was performing at a casino in Mississippi and the hotel bar that was rarely used was being handled by what seemed to be the cleaning lady. I made the mistake of asking for a martini, she said 'a what?'. Anyway, she gave me something lemon lime flavored with a couple olives in it. It was actually kind of interesting.

So the real problem in the world is actually drinking lattes? Well that'll be easy to solve then...