The Trump Era

Easy to talk tough when not on front line yourself

It's easy to talk tough when not on the front line yourself.

People who blame cops for retreating, well I ask what are they suppose to do if out numbered?

Do you expect them to just pull out machine gun and start mowing people down??

Ye, that would make good TV optics and surely get Trump re elected.

Come on, get real folks.

The last thing we need, this society needs is news images of armed Police, National Guard, mowing down protesters with machine guns, that's something not even China has done.

So sometimes yes, retreating is the better option as long as no immediate life is in danger.

Or would some of you Rambo's rather have a bunch of college aged 'white' dizzy students, and blacks and Hispanics mowed down by machine gun fire on the evening and world news...how would this nation ever recover from that?, tell me.

It also annoys me when either party quotes 'black employment stats'.

But specifically under Trump, I'm sick of hearing (at least before Corona) how low the 'black unemployment' numbers were.

1. Low black unemployment (however you even measure a persons ethnicity) was do to short of labor do to a good economy, it was not do to 'whites' suddenly deciding to hire 'blacks' just out of the kindness of heart.

It has, had, more to do with labor needs, not color....and sure blacks last to be hired to participate in vibrant economy, but will also be the first booted when things get tough again.

But it still really has nothing to do with color, I mean color, in 2020 is not the only way people should be catigorized together.

To be accurate you have to group people together on other similarities other than generic color, like education, geographical location, personal belief system, age, class and more.

'Black' is a very generic term the seeks to lump a variety of people together based on a distant past African ancestry, but since 400 years ago, many so called 'blacks' have evolved, mixed, changed ext, or at least since the ending of slavery.

Many American blacks, in fact, if went back to Africa wouldn't ethnically fit in anywhere do to being mixed with Native American and Caucasion DNA and Asian and more.

Many African Americans have mixed DNA, just do a comparison of a pure sub terrainian African next to a NFL player, and they'll seem like different species.

In closing, so yes, under Trump, employment increased for all, even for those considered 'black', but not cause they were 'black' but cause employers needed more labor....duh

I support Trumps policies, but not really his public 'tact'.

I just think sometimes he placates to the talk radio audience crowd to much with knee jerk statements to the media.

I wish he'd realize that not all his voters were talk radio types, quick sound bite types.

Many of his 1st time voters were deeper thinker types.

A part of wisdom is just knowing when to be quiet and knowing when to let issues burn out on their own, without inserting opinion in on every single social issue under the sun.

Social issues are like the Jerry Springer show, where you just have opinionated people yelling back and forth...and I don't like it when President comes off as being Jerry Springer, and the media like the guests on that show, who just shout immature stuff back and forth.

Voter pools constantly evolving and morphing, he needs to realize that (but he won't).

Instead I'm sure he'll try to win 2020 the same way he won 2016.

And sadly, who ever wins, Him or Biden, it will be ugly.

Let's be honest, no President going forward will be able to unite the nation, that's a pipe dream.

If Biden wins, forget about it, there will be emotional turmoil on the right, and they'll quickly revert to doing what CNN is doing now, like reverse polarity.

And if Trump wins, those who are sad, will be more sad and cause more trouble.

I don't look forward to either outcome actually.

I just wish folks would grow up regardless of who wins.

Conservatives always say 'know your history', but actually if more people of color studied the history of America, they'd actually be more turned off and outraged, by today's standards.

If a person of color, there's really nothing to honor about Americas past except starting at civil rights era during the early 60's.



I mean was America really 'great' for black folks back then?

If you don't know the whole story, than you don't know any part of the story, and to just expect Americans of color today, to now idolize those who killed their ancestors, is nutty and unrealistic.

I voted for Trump, but disagree with him on this idea that if you don't appreciate, basically Nazi equivilints of the Outlaw South, that some how 'you hate America?'

That's like telling Jews or any other peoples around that planet that if they don't celebrate the images of those who tormented them, their ancestors, and made life a living hell for them, that they don't love current nation they're born in?

That's absurd..

There's a lot of history that we don't celebrate and erect statues to.

Should we erect statues of all former serial killers?, that's history also, and yes, if your family was victims to or of the Confederate mindset, than many of those who ran that system were responsible for way more deaths than any serial killer alive today.

So no, this idea that if people want those statues taken down that they don't 'Love America', wrong, to me it's just the opposite, by taking them down, maybe they do love America, but not the Confederate Generals, and others, who tried to break America apart.

Could give a Fk about racist empowered geek men of the past, they mean zero to me today.

And Trump will lose me if they keep standing up for these historical monsters who made life a living hell for many.