The Donald Trump Score Card

No one gets a perfect score on things like that. You are missing obvious things. North Kora's leader makes 8 holes in one his first time playing golf and does not poop. Trump gets 30 out of 30 same idea from the same kind of person.

I highly doubt Trump would have ANYONE Obama had but even if so the evidence is there. Mental evaluations are not done by a person that person picks.

 

So you want us to like Trump?

 

Like my mom used to say..."There is nothing worse than white trash"......exactly what Donald Trump is....and I don't care how much money he has.

 

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Not lets ask ourselves a question about this passage you quoted: Just because some African American people can make their way through the obstacles set forth by racism doesn't mean racism doesn't exist. They are marginalized. Every step of the way. There successes are smaller and fewer than those of their white or European counterparts. Why do you think it is that its only the African Americans cited in this article? Why aren't Asians included? Muslims included? Latinos included? Are you proposing that they are not marginalized? If not share why? Is this piece written by an African American? Or is it fact that African Americans are marginalized in general in most of the world? Propoganda? Brainwashing? Culture? Genetics? Is Norway successful because they are smarter than the rest of the countries? Perhaps so. If so I have to learn to accept that. Instead of crying about it.

I will again remind you that trying to assume that race is the reason that some people get treated badly is being confused with the fact that in America, poor people in general get marginalized. Add to that the hostility factors of specialized treatment and you add fuel to that fire.

I'm glad you included Oprah Winfrey. I look up to her for what she has accomplished. What made her what she is today? She was in a stereotypical poor southern black American story. Got subjected to those hardships just like all the rest in that story does. Yet look at how she figured it out. What made her different than all the other poor southern blacks? Smarter? More opportunity? Every person of every race has different aspects about them that will either help or hurt their chances towards an outcome. And Oprah has done a LOT to help her own personal social causes out of her own pocket. If she ran for office I'd vote for her.

Part of the problem in America is that there is no one definition of racism. The liberals try and make it a black/white thing. While ignoring that Blacks are racist, Muslims are racist, etc. My g/f hasn't spoken to her parents in years. They expected her to marry a Nigerian man. She not only didn't, she was very vocal that she objected to African men in general. So they practice their own form of racism As does she. Every culture, has racial issues. Its a fact of history, it still exist, and you certainly can't force it go away by forcing acceptance through government action. The common factor that lessens the hostilities is prosperity. If we all prosper, we all get along better. Like it or not America is a Capitalist nation. Positive economic outcomes are the fabric of our country. Its what and why we went from British outcast to a world power in less than 200 years. And if you look around the world, the concept of wealth raising the citizens up, isn't an American owned outcome. America isn't the only nation that has marginalized poor countries.

 

Let us not forget that the exception isn't the rule.

 

Congress is set to vote on another continuing resolution to try to avoid a government shutdown. This will be the fourth one since September 2017 and the CR would last about one month..

This isn't Trump's fault but rather a more general problem of the Congress and its inability to implement the budget process.

The following article attempts to explain how the budget process works and how it as changed over the past couple decades.


Congress has long struggled to pass spending bills on time
By Drew DeSilver
January 16, 2018

Congress has long struggled to pass spending bills on time

excerpt:

"Instead, Congress increasingly has bought itself more time by relying on continuing resolutions, or CRs. CRs typically extend previous funding levels but only for existing programs; they’ve lasted as little as one day and as long as the rest of the fiscal year (a “full-year CR”). Since fiscal 1997, the general trend has been for the appropriations process to drag out longer and longer: The time between the start of each fiscal year and the date that year’s final spending bill became law has grown from 56 days in fiscal 1998 to 216 in fiscal 2017.

And rather than pass stand-alone spending bills as it’s supposed to, Congress has increasingly used omnibus bills (which bundle several appropriations measures into a single, giant law) and full-year CRs to resolve annual spending disputes. The first such omnibus measure was passed in 1950 as a one-off experiment, and omnibus spending bills were used a couple of times in the mid-1980s. However, they’ve become much more frequent in the past two decades: In each of the past seven fiscal years, in fact, all or nearly all of the regular appropriations bills were combined into such after-deadline package deals."

 

Garden Grove became run-down in the 70's when it was predominantly Caucasian after the post-WWII boom waned. The Vietnamese-Americans refurbished part of it in the post-Vietnam war era.

The term Garbage Grove referred to a particular strip along Harbor Boulevard. The city has overcome that term, although some will forever use it as a stereotype to express a resentment about an area that was successfully restored by hard-working Vietnamee-Americans whom some don't feel comfortable with because they are not in line with their particular heritage.

A group that might proudly embrace an area known as Little Italy that has people who are perceived as having properly blended in with America might also be resentful of one called Little Saigon because its inhabitants supposedly didn't follow the instructions given to them concerning how properly blend in with America. It calls into question the rationale being used to discern what is supposedly proper American and what isn't.

City-data shows that the crime index of Garden Grove has been consistently below the national average from 2003 through 2016. It's unemployment rate has been lower than the national average. Housing values are moderate to above-average. Overall, it is a respectable multiracial, multicutural city.


http://www.city-data.com/city/Garden-Grove-California.html

Little Saigon, Orange County - Wikipedia

https://voiceofoc.org/2017/02/no-lo...-appears-on-the-verge-of-hotel-building-boom/

 

As I said while I have no personal animosity towards the Vietnamese. I know a lot of people that were affected by the loss of market value as result of their influx. You can call it perceived or not. I owned no property there. But when I left, people couldn't sell for market value. I did go there from time to time to do business. I was in the greeting card business at the time. The values of the community changed. What I could sell for .14 a card before, I had to sell for .07 to them. Or they didn't buy. So to accommodate them they got cheaper quality cards. It was the new norm there. The complexion of the community changed. I didn't say it was a shithole place, I just know that the market became overall a downgrade in value. That may well could have rebounded by and large. Heck 1000SF 40 year old houses are selling for 500K in East LA now. Who would have thought that would ever be?

I do not doubt there was a low crime rate. The Vietnamese very often armed themselves and stood watch over their businesses during times of rioting. I won't discuss who they were protecting themselves from during those riots in L.A. as I will be called a racist. But they did a fine job of protecting their interest. Probably resulted in them gaining even more territory to claim after the riots came and they had plenty of distressed property to acquire. And maybe even helping that part of LA recover better than it would have had they not been there. They understand economics and depressed areas to take over.

Vietnam is now one of the more robust economies in the Asian rim. But what I buy out of there is an inferior product by U.S standards. Its their normal. Its our inferior. No perception there.

 

I don't understand what's going on here? Is this dude saying Trump is going to kick the Vietnamese out of the USA? Does Trump want Vietnamese to clean up Garden Grove to the point where its former White residents would approve of things?

 

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Just a correction. During the Los Angeles riots, the vast majority of Asians protecting their businesses were Korean, not Vietnamese

 

Very true. When the Rodney King deal was going down, it was Koreans, Armenians, Mexicans, and Muslims protecting their own shops. Maybe Vietnamese too. But Koreans for sure.

 

Wonder what Sloppy Steve is going to tell Mueller?

 

The Trump Effect Helps Democrats Pull Off a Surprise Win in Wisconsin
In a district that backed Trump 55-38, Patty Schachtner sweeps to victory with a result that has shocked the state—and Governor Scott Walker.
By John NicholsTwitter
January 17, 2018

The Trump Effect Helps Democrats Pull Off a Surprise Win in Wisconsin

"Given that Wisconsin Republicans have used extreme gerrymandering to secure their positions, Schachtner’s win was a particularly inspiring indication of the extent to which that disenchantment is shifting political sentiments. Noting that “[Schachtner’s] message of building up our communities and bridging our differences clearly had an impact as we saw some of the best numbers Democrats have seen in this district in decades,” State Senator Jen Shilling, the Democratic leader in the chamber, said Tuesday, “The results from today show that Wisconsin is ready for a change in Madison.”"

 

Everyone on here needs to know that Trump just opened up a new civil rights division at Health and Human Services. This new office and its director are tasked with protecting Health workers and Social Services workers who have objections on religious grounds. So, what that says is if a doctor or health care professional does not want to serve a Gay man who needs an operation, they can refuse to serve that person. If a young woman needs an abortion, they can refuse to serve that woman. If a Muslim refuses to accept Jesus as his personal savior, he could be refused an eye exam, or a heart balloon treatment. This new bureaucratic trick is proof that Trump and Pence intend to attack any non-Christian in America.

 

An article about the intriguing history of Gardon Grove from the 1950's through the 1990's. It's a worthwhile read for those interested in history and how events such as the Vietnam conflict shaped the culture of a particular area in California.


Business and politics in Little Saigon, California
Nam Q. Ha
Rice University: Faculty of the Department of History
Houston, Texas
May 2002

Business and politics in Little Saigon, California

excerpt from near the end of article:

"The economic success of the Little Saigon business area is a testament to the fact that Vietnamese refugees have created a new home for themselves in the United States. Like the millions of immigrants who came before them, however, Vietnamese-Americans have found that the formation of a new identity has been problematic.

On the one hand, Vietnamese-Americans do share a common history, language, and cultural that have allowed them to identify with their co-ethnics. At times, this collective remembrance has been useful as a source of pride and resilience when confronting economic hardship and racial discrimination in the United States. As Andrew X. Pham writes, “Vietnamese have a saying: a thousand years of Chinese rule, a hundred years of French subjugation…but we survived, unified. Survive. That's the word. Survive at any cost.”

107. Andrew X. Pham, 282.

From Vietnam to America, this has been the mantra of the Vietnamese people. It is a message that has already been preached by young Vietnamese to those even younger. In a speech to eleven Vietnamese-American high school graduates in 1999, Quang X. Pham, a 34-year-old former U.S. Marine described how he endured racial abuse:

I wanted to shout back at the GIs, “You lost 58,000 Americans in Vietnam. We lost over two million people. You served one tour of duty in combat. My father and his colleagues fought the Commies for nearly 20 years! And you think we(I) cannot make your military?" [sic]

The Vietnamese people and my parents, inspired me without even being there, to march that extra mile in the woods, to swim that extra 15 feet, to girn my teeth and bear the harassment, to prove Vietnamese can belong in America and in the U.S. Marines.

108. Quang X. Pham, “Vietnamese-Americans 2000: Getting Beyond the War and its Aftermath" (keynote address at the Vietnamese Culture and Science Association Annual Youth Recognition luncheon, Houston, Texas, 1 August 1999), SE Asian Archieve, UC Irvine Library, Irvine.

Of course, not all battles can or should be fought with the sword and remembrance is not always an empowering institution.

The history of Little Saigon has shown that intra-ethnic differences stemming from historical conflicts are still being negotiated and cannot easily be subsumed for the sake of political, economic, or social expediency. While these differences have been frustrating and divisive at times, they have been useful in galvanizing the energy needed for such constructive events as the Rock the Vote concert. Additionally, the existence of the Little Saigon business area indicates that economic success is being achieved in the midst of political and social plurality. Moreover, the fact that there is a Little Saigon implies a certain degree of mutual need and cohesion among the people who compose it. With or without political consensus, the shoppers and merchants of Little Saigon will continue getting together to go on with the business of living."

 

Trump is known for creating new division.

 

There is new information on CNN...about money laundering

 

some people are going to go to prison.

 

The Mind of Donald Trump
Narcissism, disagreeableness, grandiosity—a psychologist investigates how Trump’s extraordinary personality might shape his possible presidency.
Mark Peterson / Redux
Dan P. McAdams
June 2016 Issue

The Narcissist

"During and after World War II, psychologists conceived of the authoritarian personality as a pattern of attitudes and values revolving around adherence to society’s traditional norms, submission to authorities who personify or reinforce those norms, and antipathy—to the point of hatred and aggression—toward those who either challenge in-group norms or lie outside their orbit. Among white Americans, high scores on measures of authoritarianism today tend to be associated with prejudice against a wide range of “out-groups,” including homosexuals, African Americans, immigrants, and Muslims. Authoritarianism is also associated with suspiciousness of the humanities and the arts, and with cognitive rigidity, militaristic sentiments, and Christian fundamentalism.

When individuals with authoritarian proclivities fear that their way of life is being threatened, they may turn to strong leaders who promise to keep them safe—leaders like Donald Trump. In a national poll conducted recently by the political scientist Matthew MacWilliams, high levels of authoritarianism emerged as the single strongest predictor of expressing political support for Donald Trump. Trump’s promise to build a wall on the Mexican border to keep illegal immigrants out and his railing against Muslims and other outsiders have presumably fed that dynamic."