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In Jim Cooley?s open-carry America, even a trip to Walmart can require an AR-15 WINDER, Ga. ?All Jim Cooley wants to do is buy some soda. ?You want to come to Walmart?? he asks his wife. ?No,? Maria says. ?Pretty please?? Jim asks. ?I?m not going to sit there and have the police called on you. I mean, I don?t want to see that crap,? Maria says, knowing what a trip to Walmart means. She knows her 51-year-old husband has two guns inside the house, and this afternoon it won?t be the 9mm, which he straps on with a round in the chamber when grabbing lunch at his favorite fast-food restaurant or visiting a friend?s auto shop. It?ll be the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, which he brings when going somewhere he thinks is dangerous, like the Atlanta airport, where he?s taken it loaded with a 100-bullet drum, or Walmart, where he thinks crowds could pose easy targets for terrorists. In a country of relaxing gun laws where it?s now legal to open-carry in 45 states and there are 14.5 million people with carry permits, every day seems to bring a new version of what open carry can mean. In Kentucky, it?s now legal to open-carry in city buildings. In downtown Cleveland, people carried military-style rifles during the Republican National Convention. In Howell, Mich., last month, a father went openly armed to his child?s middle-school orientation. In Mississippi, it?s now legal to open-carry without a permit at all. And in Georgia, which has passed a ?guns everywhere? bill and has issued nearly 1 million carry permits, Jim Cooley is staking out his version of what?s acceptable as he keeps pleading with his wife. ?I got to get soda.? Maria sighs. She worked the night before assembling air-conditioner compressors at a nearby factory, and in a few hours, she knows she?ll have to leave for another third shift. ?Yeah,? she says, giving in. ?I might as well get this travesty out of the way.? ?What travesty?? ?You carrying a big ol? rifle in the store, scaring the hell out of all the Walmart shoppers.? ?There?s no difference between carrying a rifle and carrying a handgun,? he says. ?You tried that last time, remember?? Maria says, stepping into a pair of flip-flops and running her fingers through her hair. ?And what happened? Barrow County sheriffs. Three or four of them.? ?They can?t tell me what and what not to carry,? Jim says. ?You know I wouldn?t listen to them anyway.? ?Well, you go one way in the store; I?ll go the other,? Maria says. ?Then when they say, ?Ma?am, do you know this person?? I?ll say, ?No, I?ve never seen him before in my life.??? He places a lit cigarette into an ashtray, walks into his bedroom, reaches behind its door, picks up the AR-15, snaps in a magazine with 15 rounds, and slings the rifle around his left shoulder so it rests against his torso. ?Ready?? he asks. ?Yeah,? she says, grabbing her purse and following her husband out the door for an afternoon trip to Walmart to buy soda. *** The gun Jim Cooley carries is the ATI Omni-Hybrid Maxx AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. It cost him $579.99. It weighs 6.25 pounds, is 35 inches long, and fires bullets as fast as the trigger can be pulled, and, as Jim has learned, fits nicely between the front seats of a white minivan with peeling paint on the front and a bumper sticker on the back that says, ?I ? Law.? Jim goes everywhere now with a gun ? if not the AR-15, then his sidearm ? and is so reliant on one being close by that it surprises him to think the majority of his life was lived otherwise. He was raised in a working-class family in Chicago, where he can?t imagine living now because of its strict gun laws. But they didn?t bother him then. He didn?t hunt. He didn?t fear for his safety. If his dad had a gun, no one knew. He grew up without a gun, went to church without a gun, married Maria without a gun, began raising two children without a gun, and settled into a life that felt as safe as it was dependable. But then it began unraveling, starting when he was fired from a trucking job days after telling Maria, who was pregnant with their first child, to quit her job and focus on the baby, that he could support them both. Their first bankruptcy filing wasn?t far behind, then the second, and the third, and then they were moving to Florida, where Maria had family and where Jim got a job with a grocery chain. It transferred him to Winder, and he moved the family into a middle-class neighborhood struggling with crime and drugs. Jim now steers past the house of a neighbor who sold him his first gun ? a .380 semiautomatic for $100 ? so he could protect his family from that crime, then past Winder?s only gun shop where he took his dad so he could buy a gun, too. He lights a cigarette, feels the breeze from an open window because the air conditioner is broken, and takes a sip of soda from a big mug that says Athens Regional Medical Center. It?s a memento of sorts from the day in late 2008 when he emerged from that hospital with three stents in his heart, debts worth $41,052.51 and a dawning realization he was now disabled, broke and would never work again. After the heart attack, he lost most of the circulation in his legs, received three more stents and started using an electric scooter whenever he had to walk long distances. He told Maria he was all used up, a drag on the family. She should think about leaving him. But she wouldn?t, even after the hospital sued him for unpaid medical bills, even after he was arrested when he carried his .380 outside a school board meeting, even after he came home one day with an AR-15. He shot it at a nearby firing range and, feeling a sense of control that had gone missing in his life, told Maria he could now keep the family safe. She now sits at his side, as always, in the passenger seat. At first, she didn?t understand the changes she saw in the man she married 24 years ago. Why did he suddenly want a gun when he never mentioned one before? Why did he want her to get one, too? Why did he put two four-inch knives inside the car?s ?passenger-side door? And why all the security cameras? Maria glances at a small screen beneath the rearview mirror: It shows feeds from surveillance cameras affixed inside the car that start recording when someone turns the ignition. But Maria went along with all of it. She bought a .380 semi?automatic and has gotten used to taking it with her wherever she goes. She got used to the cameras, too, including the seven Jim placed around the house?s perimeter. She began to understand why he was so concerned about crime, about terrorists, about the need to protect their family because they couldn?t count on the government to do it for them. Last year, when he showed her his new AR-15 and asked her to shoot it, she did, feeling intimidated afterward. But then she did it again. And when he started bringing the rifle not just to the range, but to Atlanta, to the airport, inside Walmart, she eventually went along with that, too. So much of her life involves accommodating him now, including just before they left for Walmart and he asked her to send a Facebook message to a local deputy about his plans. ?What do you want me to tell him?? Maria had asked. ?Say, ?Hey, buddy, I?m going to Walmart, and I?m going to have my AR with me, so if any call comes over the radio, you know it?s me,? Jim told her. Maria sat at a laptop in a bedroom cluttered with stacks of documents, some of which detailed foreclosure proceedings against the house, and saw the browser had 35 tabs open. One was a YouTube video of something called ?Police State 101.? Another showed the dictionary definition of the word ?law.? Another was a fringe website her husband classifies as ?underground,? the sort he started visiting more frequently after he joined a Georgia militia in late 2014 and decided it was up to him to protect his family from foreign and government threats. She messaged the deputy, then looked at Jim?s Facebook page. It bore pictures of her husband carrying guns and posts about a country dissolving into chaos and videos about people stopping intruders with guns, people killing burglars with guns, people shooting big guns, small guns, all kinds of guns, that he watches late into the night. She came back to the kitchen table, where Jim sat and smoked. ?At least I notified the sheriff?s department ahead of time,? he said. He looked at Maria. ?Come on, come to Walmart with me,? he said. ?I got to get soda.? So she went along with that, too, and now here she is, pulling into a parking spot outside Walmart, and her husband is reaching for an AR-15 that he tells her sometimes he would have no problem using against a thief breaking into their house, or a violent protester in the streets of Milwaukee, or a terrorist in Syria, or, if necessary, even a stray dog on their lawn. The Walmart Supercenter is outside of downtown Winder, next to the Subway, the Great Clips, the GameStop, and buffered by a parking lot that can easily fit hundreds of cars, but is rarely more than half-full on weekdays. There are two entrances. One is beside the landscaping section and says ?Home and Garden? above the doorway. The other, which Jim now walks through, leads to another Subway, this one just inside the supercenter. As Maria goes ahead, Jim veers to the right, where he climbs into a complimentary electric scooter, repositions his AR-15 so its barrel points toward the scuffed vinyl floor, and rolls into the store. ?Hey, Maria,? he calls when catching up to her. ?Do we need any lunch meat?? ?I?ll go get some salami,? she says. ?All right,? he says, now alone, and accelerates the scooter deeper into the store, crossing into the grocery section. Two middle-aged women stand beside a refrigerator, talking. One of them looks at Jim, sees the gun around his neck and goes silent. The other woman turns, and when she sees the gun, her expression freezes, too. But it?s not the fearful looks that Jim notices as he rolls past. It?s a nearby sale. ?Eighty-eight cents for a loaf,? he says and keeps moving toward the back of the store. Not everyone sees his AR-15, which is partially obscured by the cart. One man walks past without a second look. So does a woman, making her way into the clothing section. One couple give Jim wide berth, their eyes on his scooter and, briefly, his gun. And then Jim gets where he?s going ? the soda aisle ? and sees what he?s looking for. He reaches out and, grunting, pulls free a 24-pack of Diet Dr. Thunder. Trying not to jostle the AR-15, he leans forward and, twisting awkwardly, drops the box into the scooter?s front cart, accidentally tearing it open. ?They don?t make these things like they used to,? he says quietly and grabs another 24-pack of Diet Dr. Thunder, placing this one inside the cart more gently. In search of Maria, he continues into the dairy section, where he wheels past a father and his young daughter who stares at his rifle, into aisle 9, where he puts a large can of Great Value Classic Roast Coffee into his cart, and finally back to the front of the supercenter, where he sees Maria ordering salami. She takes the soda and coffee out of his cart and places it in her own. She gestures at a nearby cheesecake. ?They got strawberry swirl,? she says. He is leaning forward. The muzzle of the loaded gun is pressing against his shoe. Now it?s sliding under his shoelaces. ?Give me the strawberry swirl,? he says, and as Maria heads toward the checkout line with the cheesecake, the salami, the coffee and the soda, he straightens up and the muzzle slides free of his shoe. He steers toward the front doors, parks the scooter, slowly stands and walks outside, and that?s when a group of employees standing just outside the entrance notices the gun. ?Is that what I see?? one will later recall saying. ?What do we do if he comes in the store?? ?If someone feels uncomfortable, what can we do?? They continue staring as Jim walks into the parking lot toward the car. ?You know my grandfather was murdered, right?? one of the employees says, and as they launch into a discussion of a robbery and shooting that happened in 1973, they are in the midst of a late summer afternoon in 2016 with its own set of shootings. In California, by the end of this day, a 61-year-old man will have been shot to death at a carwash. In Virginia, an intruder will have burst into a home and killed a 24-year-old man inside. In Missouri, a woman will have shot and killed a man she said was chasing her. And meanwhile, in Georgia, Jim is braking hard on the ride home, causing his AR-15 to topple forward. ?Can you hold onto that for me, please?? he asks Maria. ?Yeah,? she says, putting the gun back where it was, and without further incident they continue on their way home, where Jim puts away his AR-15, sits down at the kitchen table and takes a drink of Diet Dr. Thunder.
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I am not sure where you are getting this oppression of Christianity from but ...if that is ur view...it's your view.
Concerning your views on certain religions and or people..to me comes across as insidious. I'll leave you with this: If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. James Madison Quote:
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All you hate filled people on this thread just come out and say this is what you really want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVBn_3EjmE
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Donald is the snake an the woman is America.....good video!
Quote: Regarding your last line, luckily for us we have a presidential candidate who clearly understands the dangers you discuss. I'm not sure if you've seen this video, but I think you will like it. http://youtu.be/hvuUQGto-_M
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THANK YOU WEBMASTER! You rock! As said in Corinthians 10:31, your actions have brought glory to God.
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The Story of Khalid Jabara?s Murder Is Devastating and Infuriating It?s very hard to know where to begin with the murder of Khalid Jabara, whose story is one of the most devastating and infuriating accounts of systemic failures in the legal system you are likely to read about. That?s the takeaway from a harrowing telling of Jabara?s death published in the Washington Post on Tuesday. Jabara?s family had allegedly been stalked for years by Vernon Majors, who had described them at one point to police as ?filthy Lebanese.? According to a police report described by the Post, Majors confessed last year to nearly killing Jabara?s mother in a horrifying hit-and-run. After initially being denied bail for assault and battery with a deadly weapon among other crimes and spending eight months in jail, District Judge William LaFortune reversed that decision and allowed Majors to be released on bond in May. On Friday, Jabara called police to inform them that he had heard Majors had acquired a gun?as part of a restraining order Jabara's mother had taken out on Majors, which he had been charged with violating, the 61-year-old was not allowed to possess firearms. The police told Jabara that there was nothing they could do and left his home. Eight minutes later, according to the account Tulsa Police Homicide Sgt. Dave Walker gave the Post, neighbors reported hearing gunshots. Majors had allegedly shot and killed Jabara on his front porch while the 37-year-old was on his cellphone with his family and getting the mail. ?When one neighbor screamed at Majors to leave, he pointed his gun at the neighbor before fleeing in his bare feet, leaving footprints in blood and then mud between the two houses,? according to the Post?s telling of the police account. Majors was found hiding behind a tree, arrested with a six pack of beer nearby, taken to the hospital for illness, and police say he will be charged with first-degree murder as soon as he can leave the hospital. ?The Constitution allows for people to bond out,? Walker told the Post of the failures that led to Jabara?s death. ?That said, certainly, knowing what we know today, decisions would be made differently.? Victoria Jabara Williams, Jabara?s sister, described on Facebook the period leading up to her brother?s murder: This suspect had a history of bigotry against our family. He repeatedly attacked our ethnicity and perceived religion, making racist comments. He often called us ?dirty Arabs,? ?filthy Lebanese,? ?Aye-rabs,? and ?Mooslems??a fact highlighted by the Tulsa Police Department who also heard these comments from the suspect. The suspect?s bigotry was not isolated to us alone. He made xenophobic comments about many in our community -- ?filthy Mexican? and the ?n? word were all part of his hateful approach to anyone from a different background. ?. This [case] is troubling at any time, but profoundly disturbing given the current climate of our country and the increase nationally in cases of hate crimes. Our brother Khalid was just 37 years old and had his whole life ahead of him. He was a kind spirit, loving brother, uncle and son. Khalid?s heart was big. He cared for our entire family, our friends and people he didn?t even know. He created every Jabara family joke and filled our lives with love and laughter. All of that has been taken away from us by this hateful man and a system that failed to protect our community. Another of Khalid?s siblings, Rami Jabara, posted this on Facebook about his brother: While one cannot explain irrationality and evil, one thing I can explain is that indifference and inaction were major factors leading to Khalid?s death. As an attorney, I have seen the system fail defendants, but it also seems to fail the victims just as much or perhaps more. I feel like my family lost, my community lost. My brother lost. We all lost. I feel like we did everything we possibly could do advocate for and protect ourselves. In the past few days while grieving my brother, I can't help but think about those victims who might not have the knowledge of the legal system to advocate for themselves, or who don't know the doors to knock on. What about them? For those of you who didn't know my only brother, he was hilarious, quirky, very intelligent, and really would give all of himself for anyone he loved. I miss him. And I know that I'll miss him more with every day that passes. I love you Khalid If all of that weren?t wrenching enough, the details of Majors? history with the family make the case even more tragic. On Aug. 6, 2013, Jabara?s mother, Haifa, filed a restraining order against Majors saying he ?harassed? and ?stalked? her by ?knocking at windows late at nite, harassing me with ugly sex words over the phone, taking pictures and harassing my helper in garage.? In March of 2015, Majors was arrested for violating the restraining order, having accosted her and told her ?F??? you and I want to kill you,? according to a police report cited by the Post, and his trial on those charges was set for October. On Sept. 12, 2015, Haifa was discovered on the side of the road with a ?severely broken left arm, a broken nose, and road rash all over her body,? according to a police report cited by the Post. From the Post: When police located Majors inside an apartment complex near the scene of the hit-and-run, ?he was extremely drunk and urinating, without the use of his hands, through his open pants,? according to an incident report. ?Is she ok? Haifa?? Majors said, according to the police report. ?I was out driving my car, drunk. I?m always drunk and you guys never stop me. And there was this rabbit, and Haifa jumped out in front of my car.? ?Majors went on to repeat this with variations including that he ?hit her? and ?I left because I was scared,'? the officer wrote in the report. Police found his car with its windshield shattered and ?what appeared to be blood or tissue stuck on it.? Majors, who court records showed was married to a man in 2014, told police that the family ?were filthy Lebanese and they throw gay people off roof tops,? a police report stated. Majors was charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon, leaving the scene of a collision involving injury, violating a protective order, and public intoxication. Then eight months after his arrest, according to the Tulsa World, LaFortune ignored a plea from prosecutors who argued that Majors should not be offered bond?or to have bond set higher than it was?because he ?demonstrated a wanton disregard for the life of the victim and the safety of the public.? Bail was set at just over $70,000, Majors posted bond, and was released. Family friend Rebecca Abou-Chedid told the Post that she felt the current political climate was partially responsible for the deaths. ?After 9/11 you did not see the rhetoric that you see now. It?s gotten so much worse,? she said. ?If crazy people keep hearing that Mexicans are rapists and Arabs are terrorists, well then who are crazy people going to take their craziness out on?? While Majors reportedly verbally harassed the family by calling them ?Mooslems,? Abou-Chedid told the Post that the Jabara family was Christian. Jeremy Stahl is a Slate senior editor. You can follow him on Twitter.
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After shooting of imam, N.Y. Muslims confront climate of fear USA Justice After shooting of imam, N.Y. Muslims confront climate of fear csmonitor icon Latest News Most members of the Bangladeshi community in Ozone Park insist the execution-style killings of an imam and his assistant just after prayers Saturday were hate crimes. By Harry Bruinius, Staff writer August 16, 2016 New York ? Over a decade ago, Sahabuddin Chowdhury opened his modest auto repair and body shop on Atlantic Avenue in Queens, right on the northernmost border of Ozone Park, when his teenage daughter and son were still very young. He was part of a wave of immigrants from Bangladesh that over the past two decades has made this traditionally working class neighborhood another of New York?s mosaic of ?littles.? ?We work hard here, we pray, we go to the mosque, we pray five times a day,? he says. ?Our children grow up for the Muslim community, and we are proud to be the Muslims. We are making a peaceful life in this community.? Recommended: Sunni and Shiite Islam: Do you know the difference? Take our quiz. On Monday, however, Mr. Chowdhury closed his single-garage shop at noon and slowly made his way through the side streets to Ozone Park ? where a number of single-owner yellow cabs sit parked in front of the rows of single-family houses, many with American flags out front. He was on his way to attend a Salat al-Janazah funeral prayer for a local imam and his assistant ? an event attended by local officials, including New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. Test your knowledge Sunni and Shiite Islam: Do you know the difference? Take our quiz. Photos of the Day Week two action at the Rio Olympics The religious leaders, Imam Maulana Alauddin Akonjee and his assistant Thara Miah, were shot and killed execution style, in broad daylight and near the neighborhood?s elevated subway tracks, minutes after they walked from midday prayers at a mosque two blocks away. ?I?ve never seen this happen, I?ve never seen this in my life,? Chowdhury says, noting that the neighborhood is not without its problems. ?The imam just finished the prayer, and now ? we are very, very upset. My kids, we are very now ? they are feeling very unsafe about what?s going on. My daughter, my son, they are crying, say[ing], 'Daddy, don?t go outside, it?s unsafe.' It?s not a good time for our people.? It?s been a refrain of many American Muslims over the past year, as community advocates and even President Obama cite a growing climate of fear among Muslim residents. A growing list of threats and acts of violence and intimidation across the nation have set many communities on edge. ?See my beard, see my clothing ? I am a Muslim, anybody can hit me, anybody can shoot me,? says Mia Parvez, a tourism and travel agent wearing a light panjabi long shirt and traditional tupi cap. He has started to become more politically active this year, he says, becoming an organizer for the local Bangladeshi community. ?So this is the problem now, everybody scared now, not like before.? Police arrested a Brooklyn man, Oscar Morel, later on Monday. He was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon, police said, but they caution that a motive has not yet been established. Imam Akonjee was carrying $1,000 cash, according to police, but security cameras captured the quick execution-style shootings and police believe robbery was not a motive. Most members of the Bangladeshi community in the area insist that is was a hate crime ? even though many said they had mostly felt safe in this Ozone Park enclave in the past few months. Muhammad Asrab Khan, like Chowdhury, is wearing a dusty T-shirt and work boots as he makes his way to the Janazah service ? even as the majority of the men gathering are attired in traditional garb like Mr. Parvez ? familiar clothing now on the streets of this ?Little Bangladesh? in Ozone Park. Mr. Asrab Khan is an electrician, a small-business owner who installs security cameras, mostly as a subcontractor for the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees government buildings and maintenance. He, too, was part of the influx of Bangladeshis who arrived in the past decade and have become legal residents ? about 15,000 per year, according to the Department of Homeland Security, with New York being the top destination. ?I am a contractor, and so many people here, they work for the government, work for the union, they try to build up our lives in Amrika,? Asrab Khan says, using the common pronunciation for America in the community. ?A lot of Bengali people, they are doctors and engineers and teachers ? they support our community, our government, and our police officers.? Not too long ago, this area was knows as the ?Little Italy of Queens.? Before that, German and Irish workers helped build the row houses along the neighborhood?s side streets. Even earlier, back in the 19th century, French factory workers here produced pots. And now Chowdhury and others here know well the idea of what they sometimes refer to as the ?Amrikan dream? ? a chance to provide their children with a better home, a better education, and in certain ways a better life. As a member of the Chittagong Association of North America, an advocacy group for Bangladeshis headquartered in Brooklyn, Asrab Khan says communities in New York have not necessarily experienced the same kind of overt acts of intimidation and violence that some other communities in the US have experienced. ?But some political leaders are talking anti-Muslim, the sentiment is going up,? says Kazi Hussain, former president of the Chittagong Association. ?This is a bad thing, this is dangerous thing ? for democracy. So I?d like to say, Donald Trump, please stop your speech against the Muslims.? During the service, angry cries of ?We want justice!? often interrupted those speaking. "I want you to know we are all mourning with you," Mayor de Blasio told the crowd of more than 1,000 Muslim men attending the funeral prayers. The two victims "were examples of goodness and righteousness," he said. ?In Islam, the loss of a person is regarded as not just a loss for their family, but for the entire community,? the mayor continued. ?That?s something we as New Yorkers understand, again across all faiths, across all neighborhoods... We're not going to listen to those voices who try to divide us. We will stand up to them each and every time," he said. "We will make sure that whoever did this is brought to justice, I can guarantee you that." For Nasir Uddin, an undocumented worker who peddles perfumes and such near Manhattan?s Chinatown on Canal Street, the ?Amrikan dream? has changed the lives of his American born children. ?I come here for one thing, mainly: education for my children,? he says. ?My sons now have a rising life, my daughter has a rising life, even if I am not rising so much. Amrika feeds me, gives me a better life.?
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A Gallup Study Just Debunked the Most Popular Theories About Trump?s Rise By Osita Nwanevu A new Gallup working paper on Donald Trump supporters has exposed critical parts of the prevailing narrative about Trump?s rise as myths. According to the Washington Post?s write-up, the study?based on more than 87,000 interviews Gallup has done with Trump supporters over the past year?reveals that Trump supporters have not been significantly adversely impacted by trade or immigration, the two issues that have been the focal points of the Trump campaign. From the Post: The Gallup analysis is the most comprehensive statistical profile of Trump's supporters so far. Jonathan Rothwell, the economist at Gallup who conducted the analysis, sorted the respondents by their Zip code and then compared those findings with a host of other data from a variety of sources. After statistically controlling factors such as education, age and gender, Rothwell was able to determine which traits distinguished those who favored Trump from those who did not, even among people who appeared to be similar in other respects. Rothwell conducted this kind of analysis not only among the broad group of Americans polled by Gallup. He was also able to focus specifically on white respondents, and even just on white Republicans. In general, his results were the same regardless of the group analyzed. Rothwell?s analysis found that those who support Trump are more affluent than those who do not and that Trump supporters may even be more affluent than generic white Republicans, who tend to earn more than most Americans. Trump supporters are also only slightly more likely to be unemployed than all nonsupporters when controlling for geography and other factors, but are no more likely to be so than whites or white Republicans. The study also suggests that while blue-collar workers with low levels of education are significantly more likely to support Trump, those workers are not, for the most part, factory workers who have been hit by trade and the decline of American manufacturing. ?The Gallup analysis shows that Americans who live in places where employment in manufacturing has declined since 1990 are not more favorable to Trump,? the Washington Post?s Max Ehrenfreund and Jeff Guo write. ?Rothwell did not find a relationship when he focused only on white respondents, either, or even specifically on white Republicans.? In fact, Rothwell writes in the study that Trump attracts less support in regions where trade has had a greater impact on manufacturing. ?Surprisingly, there appears to be no link whatsoever between exposure to trade competition and support for nationalist policies in America, as embodied by the Trump campaign,? he says. But Rothwell also writes that there is genuine malaise at the heart of at least some support for Trump?blue-collar workers without college degrees obviously fare worse in the economy than other Americans. Additionally, those in areas where intergenerational mobility has fallen flat and where physical health has been poor were more likely to have favorable views of Trump. Still, Trump?s abysmal numbers with minorities, including blue-collar minorities who have been faring similarly poorly to the blue-collar whites that back Trump, indicate that support for him is not purely economically motivated. The study paints a similar picture on immigration. From the Post: Although Trump voters tend to be the most skeptical about immigration, they are also the least likely to actually encounter an immigrant in their neighborhood. Rothwell finds that people who live in places with many Hispanic residents or places close to the Mexican border, tend not to favor Trump?relative to otherwise similar Americans and to otherwise similar white Republicans. Among those who are similar in terms of income, education and other factors, those who view Trump favorably are more likely to be found in white enclaves?racially isolated Zip codes where the amount of diversity is lower than in surrounding areas. The study, of course, won't change anything about the Trump campaign. As we?ve seen, imagined grievances make for good politics.
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American Nazi Chair: Trump Win Would Be ?A Real Opportunity? For White Nationalists
?Now, if Trump does win, okay, it?s going to be a real opportunity for people like white nationalists, acting intelligently to build upon that?? https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczyns ... erm=.niJRvmRdl#.tw2wyYwQg
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The only thing more absurd and frightening than Drumpf....are the people supporting this con artist.
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How Donald Trump Created The Worst Week Any Candidate?s Ever Had Here are all 16 of Trump?s terrible gaffes this week. WASHINGTON ? For Donald Trump, the past week has marked a fresh low in a campaign that has already sunk modern American politics to new levels. But unlike the GOP presidential nominee?s previous nadirs ? such as his call for a blanket travel ban on Muslims, or his false claim that the father of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ? this week has actually hurt Trump?s campaign. A lot. Polls taken late this week show Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton leading Trump by double digits nationwide. The businessman is even behind in deep red states like Georgia. So what happened? The short answer is that Trump waged war against everyone from the family of a fallen soldier, to his party?s top officials, to a baby who cried at one of his rallies. He?s given voters, GOP lawmakers and potential donors a laundry list of reasons to steer clear of his campaign. Here?s how Trump?s terrible week went down. Saturday, July 30: Trump attacked Khizr and Ghazala Khan, a Gold Star military family whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004. The couple appeared on stage together at the Democratic National Convention, where Khzir Khan criticized Trump, saying the GOP nominee ?smears the character of Muslims.? Trump responded by insulting the Khans and ignoring their sacrifice. ?If you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say, she probably ? maybe she wasn?t allowed to have anything to say, you tell me,? Trump told ABC?s George Stephanopoulos on Saturday. ?Mr. Khan, who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, and say many other inaccurate things.? In the same ABC interview, Trump complained about the presidential debate schedule. ?It?s against two NFL games. I got a letter from the NFL saying ?This is ridiculous,?? he whined. Within hours, a spokesman for the NFL said the former reality TV personality was lying. Asked about changes to the GOP party platform that seemed to benefit Russia, Trump told ABC, that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not sending forces into Ukraine. ?Just so you understand, he?s not going to go into Ukraine, all right,? he said. Informed that Russia had annexed part of Ukraine in 2014, Trump flubbed, ?OK, well, he?s there in a certain way, but I?m not there yet.? Early Monday, August 1: Trump renewed his attacks on the Khans. Monday afternoon: Trump attacked the fire marshal overseeing a rally in Columbus, Ohio, saying the first responder ?ought to be ashamed of himself,? because ?they turned away thousands of people.? It was the second time in a week he?d attacked firefighters. Trump had speculated in Colorado Springs on July 29 that the fire marshal in charge was probably a Democrat, and he called the enforcement of fire code occupancy limits ?a disgraceful situation.? Monday 7:25 p.m.: Trump praised Paul Nehlen, the Wisconsin primary challenger vying to unseat Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. Monday 8:35 p.m.: USA Today contributor Kristen Powers reported how the GOP nominee said that if his daughter Ivanka Trump were ever sexually harassed at work, he?d expect her to quit her job. ?I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case,? he said. Early Tuesday: Trump?s son, Eric Trump, doubled down on the idea that women who are victims of sexual harassment have done something to deserve it. ?Ivanka is a strong, powerful woman? Eric Trump told CBS This Morning. His sister ?wouldn?t allow herself? to be subjected to sexual harassment. Tuesday, late morning: Donald Trump told a supporter at a rally in Ashburn, Virginia, to remove her crying baby. He?d said moments before to the same woman, ?Don?t worry about that baby, I love babies. I hear that baby crying, I like it.? ?Actually, I was only kidding,? Trump said seconds later. ?You can get the baby out of here.? When it seemed like the woman had left, an incredulous sounding Trump told the crowd, ?I think she really believed me! That I love having a baby crying while I?m speaking!? X Tuesday around lunchtime: In a wide-ranging interview with The Washington Post, Trump went out of his way to say he could not endorse three leading Republicans: Ryan, Arizona Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte. (R-N.H.) The three snubs all appeared to be vindictive attempts by Trump to exact revenge on fellow Republicans he felt had been critical of him. Both Ryan and McCain have formally endorsed Trump already, but they also denounced his attacks on a federal judge and on the Khan family, respectively. Tuesday evening: For the second time in two days, Trump peddled the notion that the November elections would be ?rigged? against him. He said on Fox News that court rulings striking down voter identity laws were discriminatory and would likely lead to fraud on Election Day. ?People are going to walk in there, they?re going to vote 10 times, maybe. Who knows? They?re going to vote 10 times,? Trump said. Wednesday midday: During a rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, Trump vividly described watching a video of currency being unloaded from an airplane that he said was shot in Iran. ?I?ll never forget the scene this morning,? Trump said. ?Iran ? I don?t think you?ve heard this anywhere but here ? Iran provided all of that footage, the tape, of taking that money off that airplane.? The only problem was that what he actually saw was a publicly available video that was months old ? and shot in Geneva, Switzerland. It did not show the exchange of cash, it was not ?top secret,? as Trump claimed, it was not ?a military tape? and it was not ?provided by Iran.? X Early Thursday: Trump?s campaign admitted that all the candidate had ever seen was the old footage from Switzerland, not military video from Iran. But that didn?t keep Trump from repeating the lie again. Thursday afternoon: The real estate businessman insisted to a crowd in Portland, Maine, he?d seen a secretive Iranian video. ?It was interesting because a tape was made,? he said. ?Right? You saw that? With the airplane coming in? Nice plane. And the airplane coming and the money coming off, I guess, right? That was given to us, has to be, by the Iranians.? Thursday evening: The damage Trump had been doing to his campaign all week finally began to show up in polls, where the Republican nominee trailed Clinton by 9 to 15 points nationally. Even more worrying for Republicans, however, were the double digit leads that Clinton was achieving in battleground states. Friday morning: Trump acknowledged in a Twitter post that he had not, in fact, seen any video from Iran. As if to underscore how irresponsible Trump?s comments on Iran had been, former CIA acting director Mike Morell penned a scathing condemnation of Trump, published in The New York Times on Friday morning. He suggested in the article that the GOP nominee was being manipulated by Putin, himself a former Russian intelligence officer. ?In the intelligence business, we?d say that Mr. Trump was an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation,? Morell wrote. Friday afternoon: As Trump?s party, and his potential donors panicked all week, the presidential candidate repeatedly said how united the GOP was behind him, a point he reiterated at two rallies on Friday with his vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. Friday evening: The only sign that Trump had any intention of shifting the momentum of his disastrous campaign came late on Friday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he read formal endorsements of Ryan, McCain and Ayotte from a sheet of paper. While this may have been enough to satisfy Republican party leaders desperate to find some redeeming quality in Trump?s campaign, a few minutes of politeness isn?t likely to repair the damage from his hellish week. Only 12 more weeks to go... Editor?s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims ? 1.6 billion members of an entire religion ? from entering the U.S. Also on HuffPost
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Well DRUMPF just ripped off 3 little girls.....yep he sure is a great financial guru. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UOKh00-GuY
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Good to see Trump and his supporters setting up the Hitler Youth.....
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politic ... 1470156548-htmlstory.html Child yells profanity directed at Hillary Clinton during Donald Trump rally A school-age child at a Donald Trump rally on Tuesday stood up and yelled "Take the bitch down" after the candidate mentioned Hillary Clinton. His mother later defended the child's right to speak and blamed his language on "Democratic schools." The child, who looked no more than 10, was sitting next to his mother in the media section. The mother identified herself in a brief interview with a small group of reporters as Pam Kohler of Mount Vernon, Va., but she would not name her son or say how old he is. ?He's a minor so he can't be interviewed,? Kohler said. ?I think he has a right to speak what he wants to," she said. Asked where he learned to speak that way, she answered, "Democratic schools." As more reporters began surrounding her, she walked out of the auditorium at Briar Woods High School, where the rally was held, using a Trump sign to block cameras. Behind her seats was a school sign, encouraging good behavior: "Trustworthy, Respectful, United, Excellent."
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Here are the true facts if you care to take off your tin foil hat an read them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politic ... 8-0cb344221131_story.html TRUMP, in a tweet Wednesday: ?Our incompetent Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!? THE FACTS: Trump is wrong about Clinton?s involvement. The $400 million payment ? plus $1.3 billion in interest to be paid later ? is a separate issue from the Iran nuclear deal that Clinton initiated. The process that resulted in the payout started decades before she became secretary of state. In the late 1970s the Iranian government, under the U.S.-backed shah, paid the United States $400 million for military equipment. The equipment was never delivered because in 1979, his government was overthrown, revolutionaries took American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran were severed. In 1981, the United States and Iran agreed to set up a commission at The Hague that would rule on claims by each country for property and assets held by the other. Iran?s claim for return of the equipment payment was among many that had been tied up in litigation before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, and interest the U.S. owed for holding the money for so long was growing. Litigation over these claims has continued intermittently for 35 years, with some being settled and others going to the tribunal for judgment. All private U.S. claims before the tribunal have been resolved, with Iran paying more than $2.5 billion to American people and businesses. Some claims remain unresolved. As secretary of state, Clinton did initiate secret talks with Iran over its nuclear program. After John Kerry succeeded her on Feb. 1, 2013, those secret contacts grew into 18 months of formal negotiations that culminated in the July 2015 nuclear deal. U.S. officials had expected a ruling on the Iranian claim from the tribunal any time, and feared a ruling that would have made the interest payments much higher. As the nuclear talks progressed, the separate, intermittent talks on the military-equipment claim continued. On Jan. 17, a day after the nuclear deal was implemented, the United States and Iran announced they had settled the claim, with the U.S. agreeing to pay the $400 million principal along with $1.3 billion in interest. Administration statements at the time made clear that the principal and the interest would be paid separately, but did not specify how the money would be delivered. Trump is correct that the $400 million was paid in cash and flown to Tehran on a cargo plane. But litigation on the Iranian claim preceded Clinton?s tenure as secretary of state by decades and heated up only after she left the job. ___ TRUMP: ?When they took our sailors, they forced them to their knees and the only reason we got them back is that we hadn?t paid the money yet. And that?s the only reason we got ?em back. Otherwise, they would?ve had to wait until I became president.? THE FACTS: There is no evidence that the episode with the sailors was related to the Iran deal or the 1970s payment. On Jan. 12, four days before the Iran deal was implemented and five days before the payment was delivered, 10 sailors veered off course in two small boats and landed on an island in the Persian Gulf where there?s an Iranian military installation. They were held at gunpoint and released the next day after negotiations between Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The Navy has disciplined many of the sailors and their commanders for the navigation error that led to an international incident. ___ TRUMP: ?It looks like we paid $400 million for the hostages.? THE FACTS: There is no concrete evidence that the cash payment was, in fact, a ransom. Critics of the Iran deal, including many senior Republican lawmakers, maintain that the $400 million settlement was a ransom for the release of four private American citizens jailed in Tehran and freed a day after the Iran deal was implemented. Some Iranian officials have suggested the same thing. The Obama administration has flatly denied it has ever paid ransoms, including in this case. The timing of the prisoner release and the arrival of the payment has given weight to GOP claims. U.S. officials acknowledge that progress in the nuclear negotiations contributed to progress on the settlement of the claim as well as progress in talks on the release of the Americans. ___ TRUMP: ?Iran provided all of that footage, the tape of them taking that money. ... Over there when that plane landed, top secret ... and they have a perfect tape, done by obviously a government camera and the tape is of the people taking the money off the plane, right. In order to embarrass us further, Iran sent us the tapes, right. It?s a military tape, it?s a tape. It was a perfect angle, nice and steady, nobody getting nervous because they?re gonna be shot.? Local Politics Alerts Breaking news about local government in D.C., Md., Va. THE FACTS: Several senior U.S. officials involved in the Iran negotiations said Wednesday they weren?t aware of any such footage.
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I am going to highlight some of the interesting findings of Professor Pape.....I would encourage the reading of the entire text.
http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2015/0 ... m-and-u-s-foreign-policy/ Your 2005 book, Dying to Win, documents a number of remarkable findings about suicide terrorism. Who are suicide terrorists, and what are they after? For the most part they?re responding to the military occupation of a community that they care a lot about. I put together the first complete data set of suicide attacks after 9/11. I did that because, like many people who come into suicide terrorism, I thought I was going to figure out when an Islamic fundamentalist goes from being a devout, observant Muslim to somebody who then is suicidally violent. But there was no data available, so I put together this complete database of suicide attacks around the world from the early 1980s to 2003. I was really struck that half the suicide attacks were secular. I began to look at the patterns and I noticed that they were tightly clustered, both in where they occurred and the timing, and that 95 percent of the suicide attacks were in response to a military occupation. Speaking of ISIS and information, what is your reaction to The Atlantic?s March cover story, ?What ISIS Really Wants?? I think it?s just wrong. [The author Graeme] Wood is painting a picture of ISIS as all religious, all the time. Interestingly in the second section he is talking about how the main difference with Osama bin Laden?s Al Qaeda is that ISIS really wants territory. Wanting territory means there?s a community that wants a state. ISIS, and most suicide groups, are driven by an ideal of nationalism; they want to control their destiny with a state. ISIS is composed of a leadership of about 25 people, which is one-third very heavily religious, for sure; one-third former Saddam [Hussein] military officers who are Baathists, who are secular; and one-third who are Sunni militia, Sunni tribal leaders. That just conveniently is lost in the Wood piece. It?s definitely the case that ISIS wants to kill people who are not part of its community. But this is normal in nationalist groups. (Hutu wanted to kill Tutsi; they also wanted to kill moderate Hutu who didn?t want to kill Tutsi.)
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Um okay...here ya go even back further
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(1978%E2%80%93present) quote] TheBigGuy wrote: Not quite... you have only rationalized global Muslim Terror since 2003, the start of the 2nd Iraqi War. Excluding Sept 9, 2011... in the previous decade when Bill Clinton was President, Al Qaeda attacked WTC #1, US Embassies Kenya & Tanzania, Bombing of USS Cole, all which would have been considered acts of war. And I only mention attacks on US... It seems like you and your like minded ilk think that the global Muslim terror threat only started because of George Bush. Conveniently and dangerously shortsighted. As I think about it now, one could say that Hillary's husband's inadequate responses to those attacks lead to 911? It is nice to know 15 years later it is all Bush "the lying CHRSITIAN's" fault. Quote:
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All terror an hate is wrong....killing innocents can't be justified. You and your like minded ilk only seem to think terror comes from one particular group. If you know your history....ISIS came out of the mess from the Iraq war....a war crime...a terror plot....orchestrated...by..say it with me....now....a lying CHRISTIAN............mission accomplished... Quote:
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We Americans will defeat this two bit demagogue....this pale Hitler wanna be shall not be elected..... he can go back to being the two bit con artist that he is.
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I know all the conservatives and neo-cons on this forum like balance and fairness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War Let's not forget this sophisticated deliberately planned terror attack...for oil and revenge led by a man who claimed he was a christian and was not a liar. Hundreds of thousands died directly and indirectly...and we are still paying for it. This led to cruel torture, kidnapping and assassinations without any trials. Quote:
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One of my favorite songs and so perfect for what's happening to the Republicans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8zksSKb9Zg
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Ted Cruz Didn?t Endorse Trump At Trump?s Own Convention Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) saw his big moment at the Republican National Convention drowned out by thunderous boos on Wednesday night as he notably declined to endorse his former foe Donald Trump for president. The speech had started with a diametrically different tone. Cruz came out to a hero?s welcome, and earned sustained applause as he laid out a conservative case for governance. ?We deserve an immigration system that puts America first. And yes, builds a wall to keep us safe,? said the senator, in a nod to the now formal Republican presidential nominee. But the crowd, led by the New York delegation, grew notably restless as the speech went on and Cruz refused to mention Trump?s name. Cruz acknowledged them ? ?I appreciate the enthusiasm of the New York delegation? ? but kept soldiering on, a slight smirk on his face. The restlessness turned to outright jeers when Cruz told the crowd to ?vote your conscience? ? a phrase that has been adopted by the group of Republicans who had asked delegates to not coronate Trump as the nominee. And when he declared that Republicans are ?fighting, not for one particular candidate or one campaign,? the boos began. Trump?s children looked on from their box seats, stoic and not applauding. As the speech entered its closing stages, Cruz had completely lost the crowd. Screams of ?endorse? came from the rafters. And in an act of pure showmanship, the room?s eyes turned back to that Trump booth. The candidate had perfectly timed his entrance to take away attention from his former primary foe. Cruz had been upstaged while standing on the stage. Critics will say that he had tried to be too clever by half. But the truth is, much of Wednesday night?s drama shouldn?t have come as a surprise. Over the course of the week at the Republican National Convention, one of the more entertaining side shows has been the battle among Republican elites to position themselves for the 2020 election. And no politician has been on the receiving end of more of that 2020 chatter ? facilitated, in part, by his top adviser ? than Cruz. The Texas senator is naturally positioned to emerge from the wake of a Trump electoral defeat, should that loss transpire. He won the second most delegates during the 2016 primary, and as the most high-profile conservative in the party, he gives GOP voters a chance to move on from a Trump loss without moving ideologically to the middle. Cruz has carefully fed the chatter. Well before he took the stage, it was leaked that he would not formally back Trump, in a speech he reportedly wrote himself. Part of it, naturally, is that the Trump campaign treated him like hell during the primary, mocking his wife, suggesting he had engaged in multiple affairs, and saying his father hobnobbed with Lee Harvey Oswald. But part of it is also because he wants to emerge as the candidate regretful Republicans turn to after the fall. ?Gotta give the guy credit. That?s stand-up. I?ve got to give him credit for his integrity to hold up and hold his own chops,? said a Wyoming delegate who said he was originally bound to Cruz. ?At the same time, I know that he?s a good Republican and he?s going to back the Republican Party. And I?ve got to say, he?s not alone in this. He is by far from being alone.? But by letting it be known early on that he would not formally endorse, Cruz also gave the Trump campaign plenty of time to prepare. ?He had an opportunity to blow the roof off the place, and he blew it,? said Carl Paladino, the Buffalo real estate developer who is one of Trump?s top backers in the state. Peter Kalikow, the former owner of the New York Post and New York delegate, said he wasn?t surprised that Cruz didn?t endorse Trump. ?No, nothing stupid that he does ever surprises me,? he said.
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Of course he has a shot at winning.....he won the Republican Circus Primary.
Even though Hillary has horrible favorable ratings like Trump. She has several advantages going into the General. A united Democratic party. A broad coalition of support among many groups. A healthy ground game that is already working in the states. A fundraising advantage. A seasoned and professional staff. She could put the icing on the cake by being bold and going with a progressive....she really shouldn't go with a safe VP pick. She has much more political experience an should be able to better navigate the challenges ahead. Quote:
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That's nice but if you look at the rank and file Republicans at the convention there are few if any people of color.
I wonder why a majority of African Americans will not vote for the GOP? I wonder why a majority of Hispanic Americans will not vote for the GOP? I wonder why a large percentage of Women will not be voting for the GOP? I wonder why a large percentage of Asians will not be voting for the GOP? I wonder why a majority of Muslim Americans will not be voting for the GOP? So far over 300,000 Muslim Americans have newly registered to vote.......African American participation is not expected to drop this election....some analysts believe it might be even higher than elections that got Obama elected. Hispanic Americans are also pushing their communities to register an vote........ Trumps chances of winning....are small. Quote:
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Im almost tempted to support the Republicans....who else is battling Lucifer and seeking inspiration from MY LITTLE PONIES?!?! I think you have a point K-Lo. The party is under the control of the extreme right wing....and they are not using dog whistles anymore...they are just coming straight out with their raw naked hateful ideas and aggressions.
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The convention isn't fairing so well. What I'm really curious about is whether this signals the end of the GOP.....an maybe the rise of a new party made up of more moderate and liberal republicans ....with a smattering of independents. I mean a party made up of old white men isn't really going to cut it...not with the projected future demographics of this nation.
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Hey! You leave my favorite cartoon character out of this. We all know Trump runs a Mickey Mouse operation! Quote:
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Rape is wrong no matter who commits it....so stop it with your hate filled fear mongering.
Take a look at the statistics about who does commit rape. Majority of them are committed by white men. https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violence [/b] Quote:
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