I don’t have any problem with Trump dissing Dems or protesters who are attacking him. I’m just saying he shouldn’t go after a whole city, one that, like any other city, has slackers and hard workers, retired veterans and criminals. Trump always uses too broad a brush with his insults. That’s dumb politically and, well, it’s deplorable.
 

Your comment is a joke, right? Tell me it's a joke.

if you want to become President, or remain President, you shouldn’t insult millions of people in one casual comment.
 

Trump should also keep in mind that 11% of Baltimore City voted for him – he’s bashing some of his own people.
 

Replies: @Pericles

Trump lost Maryland to Clinton by something like 34% to 60%. He doesn't have to worry about losing Maryland again, he already won't win there. However, he is reminding people in other states that Baltimore is the future of America if the Dems take over. I think it's a smart statement for motivating clear-thinking people to vote for him.

anyone who was ever going to vote for trump agreed with his comments. you seriously have to be an NPC to get offended by an accurate description of a place. It's like the shitholers comment he (allegedly) made.

Anyone who is like "haiti is totally NOT a shithole you bigot!" is either severely brainwashed or has an ulterior motive and was never reachable.

Trump should also keep in mind that 11% of Baltimore City voted for him
 

Trump received 8% of the black vote in 2016. I don't think he is counting on the black vote to put him back in the White House. What Hillary did was completely different. Whites are still 70% of the electorate and (even though she didn't think so - math not her strong suite) she NEEDED the votes of Deplorables to win.

Dems insult Trump every day, from the leadership to the press to the Party base. Read the NY Times and its comments section. They call him a liar right in the news section, not just on the editorial page. If there's a story about how cheese no longer tastes as good as it used to, people write in to say that it's Trump's fault. If there's a story about the Chinese dictatorship oppressing its own people, people write to say that Trump is even worse. There's nothing bad happening in the world that's not linked to Trump.

Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @MikeW, @Anon

' ...Trump should also keep in mind that 11% of Baltimore City voted for him...'

You need to study how the electoral college works.

The 11% of Baltimoreans who voted for Trump know that what he said is the truth.

Wrong, Mike. He's bashing the city government. Except for a handful of white cops, nobody in city government is likely to have voted for him.

He wasn't bashing Baltimore. He was bashing hypocritical Baltimore politicians who can't be bothered to try to do something about their fair city.

That's the problem. Nobody gets anything.

MikeW:

WRONG!
It's not your hippy-dippy "forced networking". For old whiteys it's the proverbial Sword of Damocles.

True, but Foxx needs to answer, and an investigation of Foxx could lead to the Obamas.

Yes. Smollett is a colossal idiot and sociopath, but his career is toast and that’s good enough.

 

Not good enough. It's not even on his criminal record. He was INDICTED on 16 COUNTS and they couldn't even force him to plead guilty. That's an embarrassment to all of American Civilization.

Grind him into dust. It’s what they’d do to me or you. Suppose the cops had turned up a couple of white suspects. Do you think that creep Smollett would have lifted one carefully manicured finger to protest the injustice he launched?You might hate the game, but we have to play.

a stupid publicity stunt where nobody was harmed
 

Are you willing to dismiss all of them as "stupid publicity stunts where nobody is harmed"? What about the ones to come which will be less easy to unravel than Jussie's preposterous, Dumb-and-Dumber-esque plot and bumbled execution?

The people who have written that Jussie, and niw these prosecutors who let him off the hook, have fanned the flames of race war, are too far over the line into hyperbole. How many hate hoaxes would it take until a few hotheads on the margins of both sides decide to take revenge in a very real way...?

It’s not worth sending someone to jail over a stupid publicity stunt where nobody was harmed.
 

That's good advice, but the kind of person who would take that advice isn't the kind of person who would land himself in this situation to begin with.

I haven't lived in Chicago for 19 years, but Streeterville wasn't a gay area back then. The gay area of Chicago was 4 miles north along Broadway.

Streeterville was kind of a yuppie corporate worker place in the late 20th Century. Lots of expensive high rises, but a little bleak for some reason. I imagine lots has changed since then, though.

Replies: @Mike Zwick

I've said the same thing about lesbians. They go to bed to commit politics, not to make love. They go to bed to achieve sarcasm. I'm coming! I'm coming! I'm coming . . . to another hateful conclusion!

Something like.....I shuda fucked er

I wonder why Poland didn't just surrender to move "past the ugliness" with Germany. It's a winning strategy.

Replies: @Simple Psuedonym

Indians are much nicer to Indians in America than they are to each other in India.

Replies: @Duke of Qin

I think Indians have three economic advantages when they immigrate to first world nations.

1. Indians are socially aggressive-loquacious and tribalistic. This is typical for West Asian ethnic groups (Mediterranean Euro, Levantine, Christian Arab, Persian, Arab, Middle Eastern, Jewish, etc) who inhabit ethnically-fractured, clannish regions. These West Asian ethnic groups (many of which are non-Muslim) are what could be called "Men with Gold Chains." Indians may have received this "Gold Chain" admixture into their population during the mass migration of Aryan/Yamnaya tribes.
2. They are also into a culture of Tiger Mothering and "grinding." When you consider that Indians lived under conditions of intensive agriculture for thousands of years, this makes sense. Their agriculturalist environment probably selected for diligence, thrift, high-investment parenting, and "K" traits. Malthusian genetic and cultural selection......... This might explain how Indians can do poorly on cognitive tests and still produce so many software degree graduates. Their Tiger Moms make them "grind" their way through courses.
3. Indian-American migrants are disproportionately from the nation's professional elite.
So they're above the Indian average in ability, education, drive, and verbal articulateness.

Unfortunately, those "Gold Chain" characteristics probably screw up India to some extent. When a society is full of clannish/tribalistic types, there's an extreme amount of corruption and a lack of cooperation. It's difficult for an ethnically fragmented nation to build large-scale institutions or engage in positive sum interactions. This ends up crippling the society's potential.

However, when Indians immigrate overseas, those "Gold Chain" characteristics make Indians adept at ethnic networking and being verbally assertive. Since networking and verbalizing are important traits to advancing in the American/Western corporate world, Indians benefit.

So what screws them at home is helpful abroad.

This seems to be true of many "Gold Chain" ethnic groups. Just look at how well Southern Italians and Greeks do abroad, compared to their lackluster performance at home. Look at Levantines. Look at Armenians.

Replies: @Edward, @Anonymous, @Jack D, @Duke of Qin

All ethnicities should pay mor3 attention to keeping their homelands for themselves.

This appeared on Reddit half an hour ago. Take anonymous accounts with a grain of salt, but they will be more truthful than the news. https://www.reddit.com/r/starbucks/comments/8n41l0/what/ Just the first paragraph:

The fuck was that? I mean, seriously. I was actually hoping this would be an informative and interesting training, but all it was was Starbucks covering their asses by equating cringey slogans and buzzwords with an actual effort to show customers that we hear and respect them and want to do everything in our power to make them feel safe and welcome. "Color brave." I fucking can't, guys...
 

They told us that if we saw two customers come in at the same time one of them black and one of them white, we must serve the black person first.
Bullshit.
I am 100% serious. I was a bit afraid to object though (we all were). Try it yourself, you'll see that I'm not pulling your leg. I wish I were joking.
I would of objected the shit out of it...
I'd rather keep my job. I am not going to get involved with all these retarded social issues.
 

Replies: @AnotherGuessModel

"Have you looked at the badges on our caps recently? ... Are we the baddies?"

Replies: @Mr. Anon

I hope you are never allowed any supervisory position ever.