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Had you made the post to Trump he would have demanded pictures instead. But only some. And maybe a video in the spastic MTV quickie flash format with lotsa women.
Zing you also missed my point about the U.S. Constitution and Russia's 1000 years of Czars. The mention zeros in on the Russian long term culture of dictatorship and land seizures of other countries that the USA does not have. Indeed, Russians learned to suffer over a millenium of Czars so they're survivalists and proud of it, demanding ever more suffering to show they can take it. Y'know, like how Russians love Putin and the sanctions that knocked back GDP and hit so many items in Russian life to include the elites who have since become ever more grabby. So yes, it is incongruous for American Conservatives and other Republicans to want life in the USA to be more like life in Russia rather than the other way around.
Over 1000 years of Czarist expansion Russia has always been the Big Dog on the Block -- every block from the Baltic and Black Sea to the Urals and out to the Pacific. Which is why the Crimean War alliance against Russia which in 1853 took on the Ottoman Empire too stopped Russia trying to seize Constantinople and expand into the Med. If Russia had its way back then it might well control the Med to include the present. Putin is fighting in Syria to protect his one miserable naval port, create a second one and to preserve, protect, defend yet another miserable fellow dictator Assad.
Many of the former Soviet Republics applied to EU and sought successfully Nato membership because Russia is the Big Dog of their history. We know Nato is not going to invade Russia. Russia knows and the world knows no one post WW II is going to invade or attack Russia. Rather, Russia the Motherwhatever is inherently expansionist and Putin the KGB-Czarist is both irredentist and revanchist. Putin is a Make Eternal Russia Great Again nationalist. Same as the Chinese are irredentist and revanchist to Make China Great Again. Same as Mussolini and Hitler were all of the above.
It means nothing to you. All you're bitching about stuff that happened before Trump, is irrelevant.
It means nothing to you. All you're bitching about stuff that happened before Trump, is irrelevant.
My replies have to manage your posts for you otherwise I have to snip throughout 'em to get in each precious word of mine own.
American Conservatives have been reacting consistently and forcefully against immigration since the 1960s. That is when LBJ especially and the Democrats of the time -- the Civil Rights Movement -- banged up against the brick wall of racism in the American culture. Four hundred years of it to include a Civil War. The conclusion of the Great Society Democrats of the time was to significantly reduce immigration from white racist Europe. It was concomitantly to open the immigration doors to Central Americans, South Americans and, most recently, East Asians from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan but China in particular. The opening includes SE Asia over to South Asia, i.e., India.
The browning of America predicated in numbers was viewed from the mid 1960s to the election of Trump as the only way to overcome the inherent racism of American culture and society. We weren't ever going to preclude racism, we haven't precluded or neutralized racism, and we aren't going to achieve this imperative goal by changing the substantial number of racist whites and their eternal culture of racism. The Browning of America as it's so often called most recently is the only way to subdue and minimize racism. By numbers of 'em. The rightwhinge in their racialism knows this, is well aware of it, and of course opposes becoming outnumbered by people of color in the US becoming the majority of the population.
Hence the vitriol against the Browning and the people of color or ethnicity other than European being given access to residency, citizenship, voting etc etc. The most horrible myths imaginable are the standard fare of the right as it uses anything and everything to try to reverse what they see as the hordes transiting our borders from the south and the east. The right to include the great majority of Republicans know their domination over the society, culture, lawmaking, judicial rulings etc etc will be subsumed by the Browning of America that began in the mid 1960s forward to the present and beyond. Throw 'em out and shut 'em out is the Trump reply who announced his campaign for the Republican nomination and then sought the presidency on the basis of stopping and reverseing (sharply) the flow of immigration that has been occurring for 50 years and the Browning (as it were) that would otherwise continue. This includes of course a certain minority religion in USA the Right sees as alien to American culture -- Muslims.
There is nothing superficial or glossy about this; it is real and profoundly so over decades of time, events, developments. Conservatives aren't also called reactionaries for nothing.
My replies have to manage your posts for you otherwise I have to snip throughout 'em to get in each precious word of mine own.
American Conservatives have been reacting consistently and forcefully against immigration since the 1960s. That is when LBJ especially and the Democrats of the time -- the Civil Rights Movement -- banged up against the brick wall of racism in the American culture. Four hundred years of it to include a Civil War. The conclusion of the Great Society Democrats of the time was to significantly reduce immigration from white racist Europe. It was concomitantly to open the immigration doors to Central Americans, South Americans and, most recently, East Asians from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan but China in particular. The opening includes SE Asia over to South Asia, i.e., India.
The browning of America predicated in numbers was viewed from the mid 1960s to the election of Trump as the only way to overcome the inherent racism of American culture and society. We weren't ever going to preclude racism, we haven't precluded or neutralized racism, and we aren't going to achieve this imperative goal by changing the substantial number of racist whites and their eternal culture of racism. The Browning of America as it's so often called most recently is the only way to subdue and minimize racism. By numbers of 'em. The rightwhinge in their racialism knows this, is well aware of it, and of course opposes becoming outnumbered by people of color in the US becoming the majority of the population.
Hence the vitriol against the Browning and the people of color or ethnicity other than European being given access to residency, citizenship, voting etc etc. The most horrible myths imaginable are the standard fare of the right as it uses anything and everything to try to reverse what they see as the hordes transiting our borders from the south and the east. The right to include the great majority of Republicans know their domination over the society, culture, lawmaking, judicial rulings etc etc will be subsumed by the Browning of America that began in the mid 1960s forward to the present and beyond. Throw 'em out and shut 'em out is the Trump reply who announced his campaign for the Republican nomination and then sought the presidency on the basis of stopping and reverseing (sharply) the flow of immigration that has been occurring for 50 years and the Browning (as it were) that would otherwise continue. This includes of course a certain minority religion in USA the Right sees as alien to American culture -- Muslims.
There is nothing superficial or glossy about this; it is real and profoundly so over decades of time, events, developments. Conservatives aren't also called reactionaries for nothing.
You do realize that immigration from Europe dropped in the 70's because living conditions in western Europe by that time improved dramatically.
I am sure a huge spike occurred with the fall of communism. As it did in Canada regarding ex communist countries. But western Europeans just do not want to move to North America in great numbers. Indians and Chinese do
Yeah, I know. I used to try to argue that the character count of another's post should not count to the reply. But I do have a bad habit of length.
Well, no real argument from me. The history is clear on your summary. But the history also shows that Democratic lawmakers were in plenty in on creating the American identity through immigration laws in the late 19th and early 20th century.
But I do think all of this racist garbage has been exacerbated as of late because it has coincided with so much irrationality of other things. Conservatives began to define themselves with so much irrationality that they began to grow bitter. Neo-Con ideals didn't pan out as they imagined. Obama wound up being born in Hawaii. Global Warming turned out to be real. Trickle-Down economics was proven a bust. The GOP's Mitt Romney was a one percenter. And in regards to BLM, Conservatives saw only black/white instead of the actual issue at hand where petrified cops were obviously wrong. And when black NFL players began kneeling, Conservatives legitimized their avoidance of the actual issue by pretending that it was simply about disrespecting their personal nationalism.
So what we have here is a segment of the American population who had constantly found themselves on the other side of rationality, and instead of growing wiser they dug in and grew bitter. They saw their ideologies crash, one after another, in a world that had proven to be beyond those fantasies. And now they reject all reason, lack integrity and consistency, and lash out at everything as if everything but themselves is to blame for where they have arrived.
Blew us away on that one Top. Shows what can happen when the words and the thoughts get marshaled and deployed in the concentrated application of decisive force. Overran 'em completely you did. Routed 'em. All that's left for this side now is to mop 'em up. End game comes in November of course.
Oh...but bitching about rolling back anything Obama did before Trump is open season? Seems highly obtuse and hypocritical to me to pretend that everything before Trump is irrelevant. But maybe that is why the lot of you pretend that you never stood for anything before Trump.
Anyways, I'm talking about something real, not somebody's simple infatuation or sad passion for Donald Trump. Fat and unnecessary Defense contracts have not ceased to exist simply because your guy farts in the White House. The Defense system of lobbying Senators, with the help of retiring Generals and Admirals, for economic favor in return for establishing state jobs is not about the military.
And it is extremely simple minded to declare to the tax payers that there is not enough money for "military" or southern border security, directly after enthusiastically cheering for a tax-cut Bill that dramatically reduced government revenue.
So now even a company like Apple is bringing $350B back to the country.
Which has what to do with government revenue?
But you people still can't quite reconcile the fact that corporate America sits on almost $2 trillion of uninvested cash. The amount of withheld money is at a historical high. It is very disingenuous for a company like Apple, which greatly increased it revenue stream by significantly decreasing its expenses though foreign salaries in foreign factories, to declare that it is "bringing back $350B"...because of tax-cuts. Hm....so why not before the tax-cuts? How about all the rest of corporate America that sat on uninvested money before the tax-cut? And where was all this money when Trickle Down was supposed to save the little guy during the Great Recession?
These sorts of declarations are conveniently timed and meant to encourage more and more tax-cuts, which increases the revenue of their stockholders and investors. You know..all those people whose new tax-cuts are not set to expire. They have been playing this game since the late 1980s and Conservatives have largely allowed Republicans (with so very little argument from benefiting Democrats) to get away with it.
So only draconian Democrat tax policies will save us. Just stop okay?
A very extensive, informative (and truly frightening) article. I hope someone sics Mueller on this Harrison guy.
But suckers for #fakenews are once again taking "anonymous sources" as legit.
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A senior National Security Council official proposed withdrawing some U.S. military forces from Eastern Europe as an overture to Vladimir Putin during the early days of the Trump presidency, according to two former administration officials."
What a dumb post.
What's dumb is suckers for fake news getting all turgid over the next spat of "anonymous sources".
What a dumb post.
How specifically is it dumb? When I call your dumb posts dumb, I will explain why it's dumb. If you are going to "play my game", play it right.impdaddy:.
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