Trump repeatedly calls Omar "garbage" it's part of the opposite- speak that Trump engages in. She is one of America's most insightful clearest speaking politicians. And she's beautiful on the outside too.
Trump is enormously ugly/ill inside so he projects that on others.
What is so odd about Trumpie Pooh is his life long fascination for women belies what now comes out of his mouth. But, I could be badly mistaken. Perhaps only Barbie dolls attract him.
Trump is enormously ugly/ill inside so he projects that on others, especially those that intensify his feelings of insecurity like Ilhan Omar. Trump knows that he could never match or have dominance over a woman like Omar. His women are subjugated and highly subjugatable.
And we all came from the same "Mitochondrial Eve" from Africa (about 200,000 years ago).
Perhaps JFK's words in his best speech (American University, June 1963) should be remembered - applied to everyone, "...we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
Any historical comparison says no - we are an empire and a society in late-stage decline. Perhaps the only choice is do we go quietly or do we tear down the world on the way out (I fear the second will be chosen).
... old enough to remember Eisenhower's industrial-military speech ... it is not like we've not had our warnings-chances, we've just keep-selecting-wrong far too many times
Right there with you, Bill. On Saturday I'll be joining a solidarity action here in Maine where we have benefited from having many Somali immigrants. Why benefit? Many of them engage in community service, run for school board, city council and our state legislature. They teach, translate, coach teams, and organize. They help our state be not so old and not so white. And they are under attack from racists emboldened by 47 and his brand of belligerent mediocrity. I hope it will be a big crowd saying, "We are glad that our Somali neighbors are here!"
I used to say as a Career big city Firefighter in a Smoky Fire I couldn't see another Brother Fireman their Color, Race, or background. I only judged them all equally on their Merits as "Firefighters"... Its important to keep that in mind. Our "Roots" also important to understand our forebears their struggles and sacrifices. We have a proud heritage and history. Our country and Families both close & extended a melting pot. We all should be proud and humbled by it, and not divided!!
To me it's not just Trump, he's just the figurehead for that entire class epitomized by the Heritage Foundation who concocted that cynical, petty, vicious Project 2025 which has led to such destruction of law, civility, governance. It's as if a coup took place in this country, its strategists getting away with cloaking not only their pillaging of the country by fingering "the others" among us, but also hiding that critical issues - chief among them global warming, but also nuclear brinksmanship, and potential pandemics - simply aren't being addressed. Add another, our rickety health care non-system, costing ever more, providing ever less.
I am late to this discussion, but thought I would try to put our esteemed current president‘s opinion into some context. In my small collection of books dealing with American history I have one that I used during teaching of European history. In 1916 an American academic of some rank, Madison Grant published THE PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE OR THE RACIAL BASIS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. I used it to explain to my American students that the Nazi racist ideas were not unique to Germans. I quoted the last paragraph:
„We Americans must realize that the altruistic ideals which have controlled our social development during the past century, and the maudlin sentimentalism that has America an asylum for the oppressed, are sweeping the nation toward a racial abyss. If the Melting Pot is allowed to boil without control, and we continue to follow our national motto and deliberately blind ourselves to all distinction of race, creed, or color, the native type of NATIVE AMERICAN OF COLONIAL DESCENT (my emphasis) will become extinct as the Athenian of the age of Pericles, and the Vikings of the days of Rollo.“ BTW, at the time of publication those inferior people coming to America were Poles, Italians, Jews among others. President Trump is just another Madison Grant of a less sophistcated variety. Racists never die.
I, too, am very much a Human Mongrel. And I wouldn't have it any other way. As more of our fellow citizens come to realize that Trumponomics is severely hurting their pocketbooks--and where I live, not much of tariffs-related price increases have even trickled thru the pipeline yet--we shouldn't be surprised that Donald would fall back on his Playbook favorite racism and xenophobia, which I have no doubt whatsoever is what got him the votes to return him to the presidency. "A wounded animal is the most dangerous." He still forces me to laugh out loud at times. Re: the campaign-style rally in PA the other day: imagine, undocumented migrants who are doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in general in this country for "illegally" low wages and zero benefits, are THE CAUSE of the crappy Trump economy!! To quote Joe Biden, "Why, the very idea!!"
Trump repeatedly calls Omar "garbage" it's part of the opposite- speak that Trump engages in. She is one of America's most insightful clearest speaking politicians. And she's beautiful on the outside too.
Trump is enormously ugly/ill inside so he projects that on others.
What is so odd about Trumpie Pooh is his life long fascination for women belies what now comes out of his mouth. But, I could be badly mistaken. Perhaps only Barbie dolls attract him.
Trump is enormously ugly/ill inside so he projects that on others, especially those that intensify his feelings of insecurity like Ilhan Omar. Trump knows that he could never match or have dominance over a woman like Omar. His women are subjugated and highly subjugatable.
On others that make him feel particularly insecure.
And we all came from the same "Mitochondrial Eve" from Africa (about 200,000 years ago).
Perhaps JFK's words in his best speech (American University, June 1963) should be remembered - applied to everyone, "...we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
Trump, and those like him, are beneath contempt.
... all preceding civilizations having failed.. what makes ours that much different
... our path looking exceedingly ominous at present.. can we pull out recovery, or will we continue into further chaos
... can this level of destructive-inequality on such scale world has never known be walked-back
Any historical comparison says no - we are an empire and a society in late-stage decline. Perhaps the only choice is do we go quietly or do we tear down the world on the way out (I fear the second will be chosen).
... old enough to remember Eisenhower's industrial-military speech ... it is not like we've not had our warnings-chances, we've just keep-selecting-wrong far too many times
Right there with you, Bill. On Saturday I'll be joining a solidarity action here in Maine where we have benefited from having many Somali immigrants. Why benefit? Many of them engage in community service, run for school board, city council and our state legislature. They teach, translate, coach teams, and organize. They help our state be not so old and not so white. And they are under attack from racists emboldened by 47 and his brand of belligerent mediocrity. I hope it will be a big crowd saying, "We are glad that our Somali neighbors are here!"
I used to say as a Career big city Firefighter in a Smoky Fire I couldn't see another Brother Fireman their Color, Race, or background. I only judged them all equally on their Merits as "Firefighters"... Its important to keep that in mind. Our "Roots" also important to understand our forebears their struggles and sacrifices. We have a proud heritage and history. Our country and Families both close & extended a melting pot. We all should be proud and humbled by it, and not divided!!
To me it's not just Trump, he's just the figurehead for that entire class epitomized by the Heritage Foundation who concocted that cynical, petty, vicious Project 2025 which has led to such destruction of law, civility, governance. It's as if a coup took place in this country, its strategists getting away with cloaking not only their pillaging of the country by fingering "the others" among us, but also hiding that critical issues - chief among them global warming, but also nuclear brinksmanship, and potential pandemics - simply aren't being addressed. Add another, our rickety health care non-system, costing ever more, providing ever less.
Lotta time bombs being left to tick away.
I am late to this discussion, but thought I would try to put our esteemed current president‘s opinion into some context. In my small collection of books dealing with American history I have one that I used during teaching of European history. In 1916 an American academic of some rank, Madison Grant published THE PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE OR THE RACIAL BASIS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. I used it to explain to my American students that the Nazi racist ideas were not unique to Germans. I quoted the last paragraph:
„We Americans must realize that the altruistic ideals which have controlled our social development during the past century, and the maudlin sentimentalism that has America an asylum for the oppressed, are sweeping the nation toward a racial abyss. If the Melting Pot is allowed to boil without control, and we continue to follow our national motto and deliberately blind ourselves to all distinction of race, creed, or color, the native type of NATIVE AMERICAN OF COLONIAL DESCENT (my emphasis) will become extinct as the Athenian of the age of Pericles, and the Vikings of the days of Rollo.“ BTW, at the time of publication those inferior people coming to America were Poles, Italians, Jews among others. President Trump is just another Madison Grant of a less sophistcated variety. Racists never die.
True. Yes, my Italian grandparents, recent immigrants to America in 1916, would have been denounced as untermenschen by racists like Grant.
... Trump CRAVES divisiveness... Trump fuels hatred... it's an integral part of his agenda-strategy... and it is absolutely un-American, w/o-doubt
I, too, am very much a Human Mongrel. And I wouldn't have it any other way. As more of our fellow citizens come to realize that Trumponomics is severely hurting their pocketbooks--and where I live, not much of tariffs-related price increases have even trickled thru the pipeline yet--we shouldn't be surprised that Donald would fall back on his Playbook favorite racism and xenophobia, which I have no doubt whatsoever is what got him the votes to return him to the presidency. "A wounded animal is the most dangerous." He still forces me to laugh out loud at times. Re: the campaign-style rally in PA the other day: imagine, undocumented migrants who are doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in general in this country for "illegally" low wages and zero benefits, are THE CAUSE of the crappy Trump economy!! To quote Joe Biden, "Why, the very idea!!"