That’s awesome. I’ve given money to that summer camp in Israel where Palestinian children and Jewish Israeli children get to know each other as human beings.
Maybe someone should start a fund to help Deep Red youth immersively visit Deep Blue locales, and vice-versa.
Or as the far-right currently call this sort of thing, “grooming”.
Hah! Good point. Remember that idiotic rumor that the Obamas were setting up re-education camps?
You didn’t know that he was a vocal promoter of the racist birther conspiracy theory when Obama was president? Read a newspaper for fuck’s sake.
Or Wikipedia for fucking fuck’s sake,
Yup.
I don’t follow the news terribly close, I certainly don’t follow the ‘socialite’ circle, but I’ve always known that Trump is Scum. Or, not scum so much as a self aggrandizing blowhard. Then I watched the 2016 debates and quickly realized that he was a moron too.
Trump supporters like him because they want to be just like him. Fall into a pile of money and then spend your life cheating people.
That isn’t the garnish IME, it’s the main ingredient of the dish.
One thing I’ve noticed from the right wing forums is that there are no general problems that everyone agrees we need to solve together.
Every problem is caused by the other tribe: democrats, blacks / latinos (not all forums are overtly racist, but many are. The less overtly racist will focus on “immigrants”), “lefties”, supposed “communists”.
In their view, the only thing we need to do to make america great is hurt the bad tribe more.
The more I think about, the more I think that the people fooled by Trump are establishment liberals like Jon Stewart who insist that Trump voters aren’t racists.
The Trump voters knew who they were voting for and got what they wanted, but there is this entrenched layer of old white left of center types who refuse to believe that tens of millions of Americans are fascists.
Pretty certain those would just be regular old education camps, as it obviously didn’t take the first time.
At least they know what fascists are, and why they’re bad.
Speaking of education, you don’t have to be a “certified” teacher anymore. You don’t have to go to teaching college, nor even have a Bachelors degree. You just have to be “in” college. Thanks Governor Douchey.
Arizona teachers will only need to be in college to start teaching in classrooms under a new law signed by Gov. Doug Ducey.
SB 1159, introduced by State Senator Rick Gray, allows people without a bachelor’s degree to start and finish their training as a teacher while in college.
The bill also allows educators with expired licenses to renew their license more easily.
“For the past eight years, we have made it a priority to give our kids a high-quality education, and this legislation builds on those actions,” Ducey said. “S.B. 1159 will ensure that more Arizonans have the opportunity to pursue a career in education and help get our kids caught up.”
In retrospect, Trump is important.
In the moment (pre-2016 campaign), he’s some rich guy who was big in the 80s who’s now a reality TV star. Even if I happened to care enough to read an article somewhere that said “Donald Trump said X”, I would have had zero reason to retain or remember it an instant later.
Y’all need to get some perspective about the massive amount of information there is out there to know, the different channels people might or might not be paying attention to in any given moment, and how likely we are to retain or care about any random piece of the barrage of data we receive.
Most Americans don’t know who their local house reps are. Most Americans can’t name their US house reps. You expect people to retain what they might have seen or heard once on the news in 2010 about something some rich celebrity said about the president?
You want to call people morons who couldn’t have told you much about Donald Trump prior to 2016? You have a pretty low bar for moron-hood. Unless you were in his direct sphere of influence, any piece of information about Trump prior to his campaign for 2016 was as relevant and important as celebrity gossip you try to retain so your team can win trivia on Tuesday nights.
Precisely.
In 2001 trump was one of many minor celebrities all across the country that said or did stupid things, or just things. No more or less important than, say Paris Hilton or Charlton Heston. Rudi Colludi was the People’s Mayor, not the ghoulish Simon Bar Sinister lookalike lawyer with dementia and ooze leaking out his head that he has come to be known as. (He also got name-dropped on L&O, like trump, but then again, that show is written and filmed in NYC, so the bias is insidious.)
Even if I had known nothing about Trump prior to 2016, this alone should have disqualified him.
The fact that he was willing to gin up a racist, completely false out-of-the-blue narrative against Obama (courtesy of our old friend, Jerome Corsi, who also authored the Swift Boating of John Kerry) should have been disqualifying on its face.
The fact that so many voters ignored this has appalled me for years.
I knew a lot more about Trump despite living in the West all my life, but I’ve sadly come to accept I’m better informed than a lot of people. I knew he couldn’t obtain loans from American banks and was being funded by Russians. I also knew what this meant with respect to him being compromised by them.
I did not ignore the statement made by the Obama Administration on October 7, 2016, that all of our national security agencies agreed with a high level of certainty that Russia was working to subvert our 2016 election. Apparently most of the rest of the country did.
So yeah, a country filled with racist, ignorant morons.
They didn’t ignore it: it was what they liked about him.
Stop pretending people voting for/supporting Trump are decent people. They know exactly what they are voting for.
Easier said than done when 2 of them are your parents.
I sympathize.
Still, they were not fooled, they didn’t “ignore” anything. They just liked what they saw.
They are not children.
All of them are in it for the racism, the sexism and other bigotry AND/OR they are in it for the opportunity for grift.
Nobody heard his speech announcing he was going to run and thought “what a nice man”.
It was always about bigotry and fleecing the rubes.
Exactly!
It’s not that we’re expecting the US masses to have known a lot about Trump before early 2020.
It’s that almost anything they DID know about him, should have eliminated him as someone to consider voting for President.
From early 2020 onward, of course, there is no excuse whatsoever.
{hugs}
Seriously, that’s rough. I don’t know how I’d reconcile this. It would haunt me terribly.
Stop pretending everybody is the same. The people I work with voted for trump the first time because of only two things: R, and NotHillary. They don’t know about the rest. These are people that don’t even know who their congressman is, let alone that he’s the worst one in all of Congress.
And we had our own Birther out here that talked louder and closer than trump. And you know what - we, all of Maricopa County, ousted that nutjob in the election. For a democrat.