Displaying 931 To 960 Of 1,008 Comments At some point voters in the USA will have to confront how they have treated Hillary Clinton. To this day, even though she is not running for any office and probably never will again, republicans, Democrats and the press spread lies about her on a daily basis. When people look back at the period in American politics from 1990 through 2019 and beyond, they will no doubt judge republicans, Democrats and the press very harshly related to how women in general and Hillary Clinton specifically were treated during this period. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/18/hillary-clinton-why-hate-unlikeable-us-election There is – and perhaps there always will be – a dedicated group of people who don’t know Hillary Clinton personally, but nonetheless hate her. Not even the worst thing Clinton was accused of comes close to the things trump has actually done. Yet, in a “binary choice” many people chose trump over Hillary. The reality is that this says a lot more about the negative characters of voters than it does about Hillary Clinton. Hillary recognized that at least fifty percent of trump’s supporters were racists, bigots, misogynists (deplorables), and that trump was a puppet of Putin’s. She actually told Americans these things in 2016, but Americans held it against her. I guess seeing is believing. How is trump working out for ya, America? » Posted By TOCB On July 20, 2019 @ 7:04 am I am sorry for your experience related to such an attack. I heard John Heilemann attempt to mention the case that was filed by Jane Doe that charged trump and epstein raped her when she was 13 years old on Nicole Wallace’s show yesterday. Nicole said they would get into that, but they never did. » Posted By TOCB On July 19, 2019 @ 6:26 am Although you and I and people who share our values did not vote for trump and do not support him, TECHNICALLY, the “people” of the United States elected him. SUPPOSELY, trump represents us in everything he says and does. Although President Obama did not coin this phrase, he often said that the most important office in a democracy is that of citizen. The people. The voter. » Posted By TOCB On July 19, 2019 @ 6:20 am No one can dispute that almost ANY Democrat would win the popular vote over trump, just as Hillary Clinton did. IF (very strong IF) trump actually won the electoral vote in 2016 without ballot interference by Russia or whomever, the task becomes winning the electoral votes in MI, WI and PA. There is every indication of trump and republicans winning in the red states. Texas is in play but it is a hard lift. We are definitely in the mist of a political and cultural civil war, and the very survival of democracy and the rule of law is at stake. NOW is the time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of their country (not party). I remember typing this phrase many times in typing class in high school. I NEVER thought I would actually live it. » Posted By TOCB On July 19, 2019 @ 6:14 am Trump’s defense of roy moore was that he “strongly denied it”. This was also his defense of putin, kavanaugh, and initially of epstein before he became not a fan of epstein’s. This is also how he defended MBS in the murder of Khashoggi. This defense is apparently acceptable to the current DOJ, congressional republicans and republican voters. “He strongly denied it”. » Posted By TOCB On July 19, 2019 @ 6:03 am “The inescapable conclusion from all of the public materials available now is that there was ample evidence to charge Donald Trump with the same criminal election law violations for which Michael Cohen pled guilty and is now serving time in prison,” Schiff said. “Were Individual-1 not protected by the DOJ opinion prohibiting the indictment of a sitting president, he would be criminally charged as Cohen’s co-conspirator.” Schiff said that the available evidence “strongly supports the conclusion that Trump committed an election law crime in order to influence the election,” and questioned what role Attorney General William Barr played in the decision to close the case. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-cohen-documents-trump-hush-money_n_5d30810be4b004b6adac33d1 Adam Schiff and congressional Democrats have no control over what trump and barr do, EXCEPT to impeach them. I heard somewhere that DOJ decided against pursuing charges against trump because he did not know he was violating the law. This is consistent with the reason Mueller said he did not indict trump and his minions in the Russian conspiracy case, i.e., they did not know they were violating laws and thus did not do the things they did knowingly and willfully. They lied about these things and attempted to cover them up because they didn’t know they were crimes. In other words, the stable genius and his minions who are the best people in the country for their positions (according to the stable genius) , were ALL ignorant of their crimes. They didn’t intend to do it. There are at least two rules of law that are being neglected related to trump and his minions, (1) ignorance in no excuse under the law and (2) a defendant “knew or should have known” that their actions were criminal. Even if trump was never interviewed under oath, there is circumstantial evidence the he knew or should have known about the things some of his minions have been charged for lying about under oath and others are even serving time in prison for. I don’t expect congressional republicans and trump’s supporters to acknowledge guilt on trump’s part or their own complicity. I DO EXPECT congressional Democrats and people who actually value the rule of law to hold EVERYONE equally accountable to the law. When Nancy Pelosi and others REFUSE to impeach trump because of the fear of political retribution, she too is complicit in trump’s actions. Someone responded to me on this site recently that I am ONLY concerned about principle, while they are more concerned about removing trump from office and that person insinuated that pursuing the principled course of action would likely reduce the chances of removing trump from office in the 2020 election. From my perspective that makes this person also complicit in trump’s behavior and crimes, just as much as trump’s supporters are complicit. I plead guilty as charged to putting more weight on principle and the rule of law than on politics. » Posted By TOCB On July 19, 2019 @ 5:51 am WHY is the mainstream media not talking about THIS??? And Trump’s connections to Epstein’s sex trafficking may go beyond merely superficial. In 2016, “Jane Doe” filed a lawsuit against Trump alleging a “savage sexual attack” in 1994, when she was 13 years old, in which he tied her to a bed at Epstein’s house, raped her, and struck her in the face. The account was corroborated by a witness who claimed to have seen the child perform sexual acts on both Trump and Epstein. https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein » Posted By TOCB On July 18, 2019 @ 5:25 am The racist president held a racist rally last night in North Carolina, and his racist supporters broke out in a racist chant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TnkJ8_BmSI The world sees the USA, not as a shining city on a hill, but as a racist country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oiJKO9vrf0 » Posted By TOCB On July 18, 2019 @ 4:54 am We hear republicans complain about identity politics, but so-called white evangelical Christians and the party of God have an identity problem. They say they don’t like what Trump says, but they like what he does. Here is the problem with that from a biblical perspective. Mark 8:36 King James Version (KJV) IF Trump delivered on his economic con or even his Make America White Again con, white evangelicals would gain the whole world but lose their souls because the Bible also says, 1 John 4:20 Racism and white nationalism is identity politics at its worse. Trump could never pull this off by himself. Trump as the demagogue he is, can and has taken advantage of the racism, bigotry and misogyny that existed in the USA long before Trump stole the presidency. The so-called Christians in the USA have a God problem, IF their God is about Love. IF their God is not about Love, then they are spot on with their racism, bigotry and misogyny. There is no way I can partner with people who harbor this mindset. It is a non-starter for me. I accept their racism, bigotry and misogyny for THEM, but I will never accept it for me. IF these people represent the majority of America, I can never accept THAT America. » Posted By TOCB On July 17, 2019 @ 6:36 am I totally agree. Americans who don’t subscribe to the racist agenda of Trump and his supporters should stage massive protest all over this country. We should stop being the silent majority. » Posted By TOCB On July 16, 2019 @ 3:43 pm Trump’s supporters don’t have the courage nor I suspect the intelligence to watch the proceedings of The House of Representatives that are taking place right now as I type, on CSPAN. The purpose of the proceedings is to condemn Trump for the racist remarks he said about four members of Congress. During the proceedings Speaker Pelosi said that the words Trump used were racist. At that point congressional republicans moved to stop the proceedings in order to strike the words of the Speaker from the record. Mind you that the purpose of the proceeding is to condemn Trump for using racist rhetoric. When the proceeding resumed, Congressman Swalwell of California said that calling African countries “shithole countries” is racist. Recall that this the term Trump used to describe countries from Africa. After Congressman Swalwell said this, Congressman Collins AGAIN stopped the proceeding to have THOSE WORDS, THAT TRUMP SAID, removed from the record because they were unfit to use on the floor of Congress. Mind you that the republican president said these words. What more evidence and examples are required to accept that the current occupant of the White House is unfit for the office he occupies, and he should be removed from office, if for no other reason than his unfit conduct. Does conduct unbecoming of a president rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors? If The House of Representatives says it does, it does. » Posted By TOCB On July 16, 2019 @ 3:23 pm At least 46% of 2016 voters, the fake patriotic ones, the fake Christian ones, voted for trump in spite of knowing about his lack of character and that he is a con man. The problem is not trump. The problem is the idiots who support him. Hillary said half of trump’s supporters were deplorable. She was wrong. ALL of them are deplorable. » Posted By TOCB On July 15, 2019 @ 2:35 am Here is another article that addresses trump’s “leave the USA” comment. Trump is not a fine person. His words Sunday were not racially “charged,” “fueled,” or “tinged.” They were unapologetically racist. The gist of the article is that there is no doubt that trump is a racist. What’s more is that if anyone still supports trump, they too are racist. I use to give some of trump’s supporters the benefit of doubt and say they may have supported trump for ill-conceived economic reasons. However, I have always held that even those people were obviously willing to tolerate racism and bigotry, but placed money above morals. Now that it is as plain as the nose on one’s face that trump is a racist, there is no excuse for anyone supporting him to not own up to the fact that they too are racist. » Posted By TOCB On July 15, 2019 @ 2:20 am These people existed long before Trump. Trump did not shape their character. He merely exposed it. As for the so-called evangelicals, they sold their souls to Satan. How can one proselytize and promote the teachings of Jesus Christ, while supporting the anti-Christ? » Posted By TOCB On July 12, 2019 @ 6:33 am Indeed! Why would bail even be considered for this scumbag? » Posted By TOCB On July 12, 2019 @ 6:29 am Epstein is definitely in a pickle and he could put Trump in a pickle. Epstein could give up the goods on Trump in the claim of the lady who said Trump and Epstein raped her when she was 13 years old. I suspect Trump is not an Epstein fan because of that possibility. » Posted By TOCB On July 10, 2019 @ 6:55 am Many people are saying that Democrats are embracing losing issues like Medicare for all (including access for undocumented immigrants), busing, reparations for descendants of slaves, to name a few. These are losing issues for Republican voters. Democrats are deluding themselves if they are banking on Republicans voting for them. They may or may not get votes from Democrats and Independents who voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 but voted for Trump in 2016. The group Democrats should be appealing to mostly are people who share their values but don’t traditionally vote at all. If more Americans share the values of Trump and the GOP than those who share the values of Democrats, the country is doomed anyway and it doesn’t matter if Trump wins. Democrats should not compromise their values to pander to values they don’t agree with, just to win an election and disappoint people who voted for them for those reasons. » Posted By TOCB On July 9, 2019 @ 9:07 am Can someone please explain to me why supposedly 155 million Americans like their private health care insurance? Before I went into the Air Force in 1973, I had never had health insurance. In the Air Force everyone had access to health care. When I worked in the oil and gas industry from 1979 through 2018, every company I worked for provided health care insurance for all of its employees, some at no cost to the employees. I have been fortunate to have had access to health care insurance all of my adult life. So yes, I liked having heath care insurance as opposed to not having health care insurance. Many of my ten siblings have not had access to health care insurance. As a result, in our old age they are less healthy than I am. So when pollsters ask the question if Americans like their private health care insurance, what are they comparing it to, not having insurance at all? What would be the difference between private health care insurance and a single payer health care insurance system? The short answer is that private health care insurance will focus more on profits than on health care, while a single payer system would provide health care to all people for all illnesses with no regard for profits. Would a single payer system be free? Is private health care insurance free? Neither one is free. One is just more efficient than the other, and one would cover all Americans, while the other does not. » Posted By TOCB On July 9, 2019 @ 6:46 am The MSM is only mentioning that Epstein has ties to high profile people, including Trump and Bill Clinton. However, they are not mentioning that Trump was accused of raping this lady when she was 13 years old. Even if she is not a credible witness, if would seem that the MSM would at least report that this is an accusation that they have not verified. This lady’s story is very similar to other charges against Epstein and she has actually filed suits stating as much, so why doesn’t this lady deserve to be heard? » Posted By TOCB On July 8, 2019 @ 6:29 pm There is a lady who has filed lawsuits against Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in several jurisdictions, all of which were eventually dropped for various reasons. This lady claims that Trump and Epstein held her against her will for weeks and repeatedly raped her when she was 13 years old. Epstein also has had a connection with Bill Clinton and other high-profile men. Whether they knew about his sex ring(s) is unclear. » Posted By TOCB On July 8, 2019 @ 5:29 am If 70% of Americans want a single payer system and all other industrialized nations have one, there should be plenty of examples of one that would work for the USA or one that we can model to adopt our own unique model. The only thing delaying a single payer system is political will. I don’t see Democrats nominating anyone who doesn’t support a single payer system at any level of the federal government, president or Congress. It is not complicated. All it takes is coming up with an estimated cost to provide care for all Americans and how to provide the administration for a system, then place a health care tax in place to fund it. We already have some of the best health care providers in the world. We have several health care networks already in place and they are providing primary care for 80% of the people and emergency room service as primary care for the rest of the people. It is not rocket science. » Posted By TOCB On July 5, 2019 @ 11:54 am Joe Biden and any so-called moderate Democrat make a grave mistake to think that Americans do not want universal single payer health care insurance. According to a recent Reuters survey 70% of Americans, including 85% of Democrats and 52% of Republicans support some form of single payer health care insurance system. The prudent course is to educate Americans about single payer rather than engage in the rhetoric of small government conservatives about socialism. » Posted By TOCB On July 5, 2019 @ 6:12 am
» Posted By TOCB On July 5, 2019 @ 1:54 am The stable genius and his speechwriters really screwed up that speech. “Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over airports,” Trump said of the fighting force created by the Continental Congress in 1775. There was no air travel in 18th Century America. “…it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket’s red glare it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant.” One other note: The battle at Fort McHenry that inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” took place during the War of 1812, not the American Revolution. Btw, the ramparts that were rammed at Fort McHenry (in 1812) were rammed by the Brits. Our army did not ram our own “ramparts”. This wasn’t a gaff because Trump read it from a prepared speech. Do we fault the speechwriter or Trump or both? Unbiased observers know Trump is as dumb as a rock, but who wrote the speech? Did they actually write what Trump said, or did the stable genius adlib? » Posted By TOCB On July 5, 2019 @ 1:35 am At 9,500 members, this suggest that roughly half of border patrol agents are members of this group. That is a very serious problem. I heard Trump say this morning that he knows that border patrol agents don’t like Democrats, because they want open borders. Such a remark greenlights the reported behavior of border patrol agents and how they treat migrants. We cannot say this is not the USA, because we have a representative government and what our officials do represent us. I don’t believe this behavior represents the majority of Americans, so it is imperative that we speak VERY LOUDLY in November of 2020 to elect a truly representative government. » Posted By TOCB On July 2, 2019 @ 6:37 am It is obvious that you and I don’t agree on this topic, and are not likely to ever agree on it. You are entitled to your opinions. » Posted By TOCB On July 1, 2019 @ 7:36 am This is what I said. Are you suggesting that black communities did not have education, housing, food, employment, training programs, ect. in the 1990s, and that is why black men were rampantly killing each other as well as innocent men, women and children in their neighborhoods? This is what you said. Access doesn’t make those thing adequate or equal to our white counterparts. Please don’t lie and say I said Black people didn’t have the above mention things. That places your character in question. I assume your questioning of my character is negative. Please note that I asked you a question for clarification. You received that as my saying I lied about what you said. Who actually lied? » Posted By TOCB On July 1, 2019 @ 6:10 am I think your analysis is pretty comprehensive. However, I also think the 1994 crime bill accomplished what it was intended to accomplish. It got murderers and gang member off the streets and into prisons. Yes, there were unintended consequences as is often the case when actions are taken to resolve problems. I do not agree with the premise that people who were trying curb violence were doing it from a position of racism. Did some racist people abuse the law to go way further than well intentioned people desired? No question. It appears to me that the resolution to that is to put measures in place to address the unintended consequences, and beginning with the Obama administration, that was done. The abuse of the law was done under the Bush administration, so those are the people who should be held accountable for mass incarcerations and not those who sought to use the law for the intended purpose of preventing murders that resulted from gang violence and drugs. » Posted By TOCB On June 30, 2019 @ 9:15 pm Your “information” seems to be skewed by hatred of all white people. Race is a social construct that was created to give smaller population an opportunity to emit control by using the color code system. Human is the genetic make up of a being that physically exist on earth. So, there is no such thing as the human race. That is trickery. There is no human race? Well, I have to admit that you got me there. I suppose that position could make sense if you hold that race does not genetically exist at all. I agree that the social construct of race is genetically inaccurate. So since humans are all the same, race could be synonymous with species, but it indeed does exist. I’m sorry, I didn’t see you question. We start with education, housing, food, employment, training programs, etc. That’s where I would’ve started and the country should’ve. Bill Clinton knew this would be a problem, but signed the bill anyway. Are you suggesting that black communities did not have education, housing, food, employment, training programs, ect. in the 1990s, and that is why black men were rampantly killing each other as well as innocent men, women and children in their neighborhoods? In reality, black people have had access to the things you claim we did not have access to since at least the 1970s. We have not had the same access that white people have, but we had enough that we didn’t have to resort to killing each other. My question was more related to what would you have done to black men who were killing people in the 1990s. Would you have allowed them to simply go unpunished? Feeding them and educating them after they had committed murders would not be my first response. Maybe you could explain that a little more. » Posted By TOCB On June 30, 2019 @ 8:58 pm It doesn’t matter to Trump’ supporters though, because they don’t care that he has committed crimes. The so-called Independents theoretically don’t get their news solely from Fox “News” so they should already know the Mueller Report doesn’t exonerate Trump. The only thing that matters as far as those who have to power to hold Trump accountable is at what point does Pelosi puts more weight on upholding the Constitution and the rule of law compared to what she thinks is politically expedient. Otherwise, Trump basically gets away with murder and could very well be re-elected because the majority of voters will perceive Democrats as being too weak to govern. The perception will be that although Trump and republicans may be destroying the country, at least they are do so with strength. » Posted By TOCB On June 30, 2019 @ 8:32 pmComments Posted By TOCB
Whether they are truly a “vast rightwing conspiracy” (as Clinton called them in 1998) or just many in number and conservative in outlook, there’s no arguing that they exist or that they continue to try to influence public opinion on the Democratic nominee.
Just as he has a patten of sexual predation, Trump also seems to have a pattern of threatening victims who come forward. Jane Doe alleged in the lawsuit that Trump told her she shouldn’t ever say anything if she didn’t want to “disappear like Maria,” a 12-year-old girl who had also been abused along with her. Jane Doe dropped the lawsuit in November 2016, days before Trump’s election, after her attorney, Lisa Bloom, cited “numerous threats” against her client. (Trump denied the allegations, and Bloom declined to comment for this story.)
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
King James Version
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
And, if you support him, so are you.
I did not respond to your question related to white gangs in black neighborhoods because that question is irrelevant. The crime bill that you are holding against those who intended for it to curb violence in black neighborhoods did not make a distinction between black criminals and white criminals in black neighborhoods. It simply sought to address rampant crime in black neighborhoods. In fact, there was little to no white crime in black neighborhoods. Blacks were killing blacks. You may recall Sister Souljah’s statement that if black people wanted to kill someone they should kill those who caused their plight rather than killing each other. (paraphrased).
As for access to housing ect., I never said it was comparable to whites. In point of fact, I clearly stated that it was not. I don’t know how you come across to others, but to me you come across as hating white people. It is one thing to state facts about the history of this country related to treatment of black people. It is quite another to promote that there has been no progress and positive change related to treatment of black people and black people having equal access to the resources of the country. Your consciousness seems to be one of negative vibrations. What exactly gave you the impression that I hate myself as a black man in America? I have said nothing to you about my personal circumstances, although I shared some of my experiences in this discussion related to crime in my neighborhood to address your suggestion that there was no rampant crime in black neighborhoods in the 1990s. Positive vibrations begins from within. It might benefit you to seek a more positive consciousness.
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