MLK day is over. Save your crap for next year.
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
So how much did you donate to Trump's campaign, Gomer?
Trump’s campaign suckered donors out of tens of millions of dollars. The scam was not complicated. When people gave them money online, the donations came with pre-checked boxes authorizing the campaign to take donations every single week. They needed to uncheck the box to stop the automatic transfer. At first the auto-checked box simply said, “Make this a recurring monthly donation.” Then it added, “Make this a recurring weekly donation until 11/3,” with a second box below it, with even more text, authorizing an additional one-time $100 donation on September 29. Ultimately, the messages included two text-heavy boxes, filled with boldfaced, all-caps slogans, with a much less conspicuous line at the bottom informing whoever had made it through this mini op-ed that they were authorizing the campaign to drain their bank account.
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
Doc Dutch (01-18-2022)
Joe Capitalist (01-18-2022)
evince (01-18-2022), Joe Capitalist (01-18-2022)
Sirthinksalot (01-18-2022)
But you do t want anyone to learn about the things MLK did for our country
All the challenges he faced while helping black Americans to be allowed to vote
You hate the laws about voting rights he got passed
You say the history of his life and struggle to save democracy is CRT and is EVIL TO TEACH OUR KIDS
Doc Dutch (01-18-2022)
While some conservatives may hate MLK, and MLK Day, I do not believe the majority -- the great majority -- do.
On the contrary, they hold MLK up as an example of the way to struggle against racial injustice: not by riots, but by nonviolent direct action.
I'm an old Civil Rights activist, who was on the Left for a long time, and I have been heartened by the fact that most of my fellow conservatives
welcome Black people into the movement -- indeed, go out of their way to do so. I could give many examples of this.
Not only is this morally correct on their part, it's tactically smart: Black people make up 12-15% of America: the more of them we can win to our
side, the stronger we will be. Only a fool rejects allies in a struggle.
Of course there are hard-core, genuine white supremacists, who are the symmetrical opposite of the Critical Race Theory ideologues. Both seek to pry
open the racial fracture lines in the US. And these lines are real.
For our part, we must resist them. People of all colors and creeds are welcome among patriotic Americans.
I marched with Dr. King as an eighteen year old college freshman in 1965. Truth.
I never give him a second thought in 2022. Truth.
We don't need holidays commemorating people...any people.
The holidays should be January rest day, February rest day, etc.
This is one of my most firm beliefs.
Last edited by NiftyNiblick; 01-18-2022 at 12:23 PM.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Yes, I was only eighteen as a college freshmen. That was common back then.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
evince (01-18-2022)
That is awesome that you marched with Dr king
Remembering people is not a bad idea though
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