I had a recent twitter exchange with a proud, white, “not racist” Trump supporter. He scorned me for being duped by “fake news”.
He was proud of “white culture”, and what white people accomplished. He praised his fellow white people for all the advances in science, engineering, industry, agriculture, etc.
I pointed out that people of color contributed to all of those fields as well. But, hey, what does it matter?
He blamed Obama for the rise in racism.
He declared he was not a “white nationalist”, even though he admitted he was a Proud Boy.
I informed him of Roger Stone flashing the white power hand sign with some Proud Boys.
His final praise for Trump was “Promises made, promises kept”.
I was happy to show him a few promises not kept. But I went further. It was probably too much for him to process my last message.
1.
Racists blame Obama
2.
White nationalists flash the white power hand sign
3.
Proud Boys flash the white power hand sign
4.
Only far Right true believers believe far Right media
5.
The beliefs are indoctrinated
6.
Racism is not racism to racists
7. You cannot grasp this
He blocked me soon after I posted this.
Rewarding as that was, I thought I’d expand on his theme of “Promises made, promises kept”. A fair standard, as such, albeit less than fair promises were in the mix.
Anyway, here’s a handy guide to those promises.
Promises
Kept:
Tax
cuts for the rich
Raised import tariffs
More
Healthcare for veterans
Stopped
TPP
Defunded
Planned Parenthood
Cut
Education Department
Limited
legal immigration
Broke
Iran Deal (Brink of war assassination and retaliation)
Canceled
Paris Agreement (Deny global warming)
Deregulated
polluters
Installed
unqualified theocratic/corporate judges
Promises
Not Kept:
Showing
his tax returns
“Balance
the budget fairly quickly”
Repealing
Obamacare
$550
billion for infrastructure
“Bring
back manufacturing”
Prosecute
Hillary
6
months paid maternity leave
Allow
deductions for health care premiums
Cuts
in food stamps for 700,000 (Blocked by judge)
“Won’t
cut Medicare” (Payroll tax cut)
“Won’t
cut Medicaid” (Added work requirement)
“Won’t
cut Social Security” (Proposed Payroll tax cut)
“Eliminate
wasteful spending”
“Better
cheaper healthcare” (Downplayed Covid pandemic)
Reducing
the debt (“Eliminate in 8 years”)
DACA?
(Then: “I love the dreamers.” Now: “Deport the dreamers.”)
"Build the wall"
Mexico
paying for the wall
Ending the wars
“Bring
back waterboarding”
And last, but not the least promise not kept:
“Law and order”
Hmm. Let's see here...
Admitted
history of sex crimes.
Campaign
cronies met with and shared info with Russian agents.
Campaign
cronies welcomed Russian help.
Cronies
lied to Congress.
Pardons
and commutation for cronies.
Broke
the law by paying off porn star.
Up
to 10 counts of obstruction of justice on Mueller investigation.
Witness tampering.
Solicited
foreign help for election.
Assault
on lawful protesters for photo op.
Vote
suppression: 18 U.S. Code § 594: "Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces,
or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the
purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote
as he may choose".
Obstruction
of mail: "knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the
mail".
(U.S.
Code § 1512.Tampering with a witness(b)Whoever knowingly uses intimidation..
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Dave, the clock is ticking with one day left. " In two weeks, I'll sign an executive order to protect pre-existing conditions. " He said this on 8/7/20. We'll see if he makes his self imposed deadline. I'll bet not based on past behavior and ring it up in the promises not kept category. Bogus executive order anyway. He probably doesn't even remember he said it. We'll see if he makes me eat crow. My dad left me with some words to live by " If a man isn't good on his word, he's good for shit. " I think this is a fair standard to apply to " Don the Con. "
Tim,
Fear not, all is well.
Like he told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in 2016: “I am going to take care of everybody … Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.”
Sure enough:
On July 19, 2020 he promised, “We’re signing a health-care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health-care plan.”
Those pre-existing conditions are no longer a concern by now, I'm sure.
Woo Hoo! We're all saved! He's the Only One! I'll bet he makes Mexico pay for it too! ;-)
On FOX(R):
"Bannon - Stone - Flynn - Gates - Manafort. What's that say about your judgment & the culture of lawlessness around you?"
Trump: Well, there was great lawlessness in the Obama administration
Victim card, race card, lie card, deflection card, and dismissal card.
Definitely not a full deck.
Hi Dave,
Just checked in on the National Debt Clock. I love to watch the circles of numbers tick off with dizzying speed like a 1960s era adding machine. I don't recall it ever spinning this fast. I think it used to take a day or so to click off $1 billion. So the national debt is at about $26.6915 trillion as of this evening. Look fast. It doesn't stay the same for very long. It looks to me like we are adding something like $2.5 million/minute. This is cranking out an unheard of additional debt of $3.5 billion/day. Conservatively at this rate, we will top $27 trillion by Thanksgiving. The next trillion will take less than 300 days.
It's a bust, right? I mean there's only so much debt even the strongest economy in the world can stand to support?!? Right?
F.J.
Nice to see you.
Don't worry about the debt. That's only important when a democrat is president. At least that's message we get from the "party of fiscal responsibility".
And don't worry about the Fed's artificial boosting of the market. The Fed and Mnuchin are buying $1,250,000,000,000 (yep Trillions) of corporate bonds resulting in spikes in the stock prices of those companies.
What could possibly go wrong if Biden were to discontinue that fake fix?
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