2016 elections - because it's never too early

[Eddie Teach]

Some racist dude > the devil incarnate

[Admiral Yi]

I wonder if some people think he founded the university.

[CountDeMoney]

I wonder if some people think he founded the university.

  Didn't think of that one

[Grinning_Colossus]

I would segregate the skittles and then eat them in ascending order of tastiness.

[jimmy olsen]

That is so beyond terrible you have to laugh if you don't want to cry.

Don King joins Donald Trump for town hall on Fox News

Boxing promoter and convicted manslaughterer Don King joined Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Fox News host Sean Hannity's town hall aimed at winning the hearts of African American voters today, a sentence we never thought we'd be typing.

"What I'm asking Donald Trump to do is what Donald Trump volunteered to do, it is to change the system," King, who once kicked a man to death on a stretch of road now named after him, said. "It doesn't matter about, whatever we seem right, wrong or indifferent. If the system doesn't change, it's going to be the same. So I say, why would Donald Trump be different from Obama or any other president? Because he will call them out.?

King cited the example of South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who he initially called "Lindsey Tucker."

[CountDeMoney]

Hey man...that's the next Secretary of the Interior you're goofing on.

[Monoriu]

That is so beyond terrible you have to laugh if you don't want to cry.

Don King joins Donald Trump for town hall on Fox News

Boxing promoter and convicted manslaughterer Don King joined Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Fox News host Sean Hannity's town hall aimed at winning the hearts of African American voters today, a sentence we never thought we'd be typing.

"What I'm asking Donald Trump to do is what Donald Trump volunteered to do, it is to change the system," King, who once kicked a man to death on a stretch of road now named after him, said. "It doesn't matter about, whatever we seem right, wrong or indifferent. If the system doesn't change, it's going to be the same. So I say, why would Donald Trump be different from Obama or any other president? Because he will call them out.?

King cited the example of South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who he initially called "Lindsey Tucker."

[Legbiter]

Seems Trump and Clinton have flipped positions in recent weeks, where Trump is now the policy candidate while Clinton campaigns on Russian conspiracies, racistHitlerWHARGARBL voter outreach and Lena Dunham. 

[garbon]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/trump-ohio-campaign-chair-no-racism-before-obama

A Trump campaign chair in Ohio says there was 'no racism' before Obama

Donald Trump's campaign chair in a prominent Ohio county has claimed there was "no racism" during the 1960s and said black people who have not succeeded over the past half-century only have themselves to blame.

Kathy Miller, chair of the Republican nominee's campaign in Mahoning County, who is white, made the remarks during a taped interview with the Guardian's Anywhere but Washington series of election videos.

"If you're black and you haven't been successful in the last 50 years, it's your own fault. You've had every opportunity, it was given to you," she said.

"You've had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn't have. You had all the advantages and didn't take advantage of it. It's not our fault, certainly."

Miller also called the Black Lives Matter movement "a stupid waste of time" and said lower voter turnout among African Americans could be related to "the way they're raised".

Her comments risk further alienating African American voters from Trump in the crucial swing state. No Republican president has reached the White House without also winning Ohio, a state in which 12.7% of the population is black.

Trump has repeatedly stumbled in his push to attract black voters, an effort that began with his declaration last month that African American have "nothing to lose" by voting for him.

...

She said there were "some" African Americans but played down their importance, suggesting they were only a small portion of the population and do not tend to turn out in elections in significant numbers.

African Americans constitute 16% of Mahoning county's population, which is larger than the state and national average.

During the past two presidential elections, voter turnout in Ohio was actually higher among black people than white people.

Miller, however, suggested low turnout among black people could be connected to culture. "I don't think that's part of the way they're raised," she said. "For us, I mean, that was something we all did in our families, we all voted."

Miller also dismissed the racial tensions of the 1960s, when she said she graduated from high school. "Growing up as a kid, there was no racism, believe me. We were just all kids going to school."

Asked about segregation and the civil rights movement, she replied: "I never experienced it. I never saw that as anything."

Miller added: "I don't think there was any racism until Obama got elected. We never had problems like this ... Now, with the people with the guns, and shooting up neighborhoods, and not being responsible citizens, that's a big change, and I think that's the philosophy that Obama has perpetuated on America."

Miller dismissed the suggestion that Trump was exploiting racist or prejudiced views among some voters as "the media making stuff up". Instead, she said of the Republican nominee: "He's very willing to talk about issues that have never been discussed publicly."

When it was pointed out that some people might find her remarks offensive, Miller replied: "I don't care, it's the truth."

[Syt]

 

[Martinus]

I thought it was funny.

Me too. But then I am easily amused. I liked Wild Wild West.

[Martinus]

manslaughterer

Is this actually a word?

[garbon]

manslaughterer

Is this actually a word?

Probably note but then it is easy enough to understand and in same form as murder=>murderer so perhaps it has/will gain currency.

[Ed Anger]

Kathy Miller sounds delightful. 

[HVC]

Man, even the Dalai lama makes fun of trump.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/sep/22/the-dalai-lama-does-his-donald-trump-impression-video?CMP=embed_video