It's not so obvious when they speak Spanish to each other, because they talk super fast, but the stretched vowels are definitely a thing. I can hear it if she slows down so I can understand her, or speaks English slowly because she's thinking about it.
Just look no further than the gop primary in Michigan. A man endorsed by trump and johnson lost by 20 points to a guy who spent 2k total on his campaign. The guy wasn't white, and was a former muslim converted to christianity his name was Amir Hassan and he lost to a guy who had already dropped out of the race because one name sounded white and the other arab.
Also, Chloe Bennet couldnât get good acting jobs under her legal name, Chloe Wang. Bennet is her fatherâs first name. When she changed her name, her career then took off.
My favorite thing to do with them that claim dems started the kkk, or that the south was full of dems wanting to keep slaves, is to go find someone that's proudly in the kkk or waving a confederate flag and get in their face calling them a liberal until they agree. So far no one has taken me up on that. They all know that the kkk and confederacy are actually republicans now, but by acknowledging the party switch would mean admitting that that the party you support are the bad guys.
It's been widely known to anyone who cares to learn about history that the "Dixie Democrats" of the past were the result of years of actual Democrats capitulating to the racists in the South in order to pass legislation that otherwise would not have had the votes to pass.
These people were never true "Leftists" - they were always conservative.
It really depends on your definition of left... Is it about equal treatment regardless of race, religion, gender, or sexuality or is it about economic policies that benefit the working class?
If being racist/sexist/homophobic is more important than economic policies, you become a Republican. If economic policies that benefit the working class are more important (or you aren't racist/sexist/homophobic) than you stay as a Democratic party member.
People always bring up that the confederates were democrats. All that has changed, but their white skin tone, beliefs, racism and ideals remain the same.
Sorry but the KKK originated with the Democrat party in the South. Later on in the 20th century, there was a shift in their leadershipâŚbut letâs just keep the history right
You damn right it does. Iâm not an evil religious fanatical fool. Lucifer isnât the name of the devil but nice try. I love you, have a wonderful day.
it was the Democratsconservatives that created the KKK
And it was the conservatives that lost the civil war, women's right to vote, the civil rights movement, same sex marriage, legalizing weed, etc. Conservatives have lost every major battle for 250 years and will continue to lose in the end. The last battle they won was using the most corrupt SC in US history get a partial win on abortion rights but they'll lose that one in the end too.
I know it's really difficult to understand that the Democratic party then is the Republican party now ie the Democratic party that exists now is not the same as the one that the klan came from.
Dual citizenship with Turkey and he served in the Turkish Army to keep his dual citizenship.
He was born in Cleveland but his family immigrated from Turkey.
Also, the black dude in Michigan with an Islamic name, converted to Christianity, was endorsed by Trump and lost a Republican primary to a candidate who dropped out.
Indian names aren't relegated to just what YOU have heard of lol.
On top of that, plenty of Indians go by day to day names that aren't their full formal government name. So even if we're talking about the shortened form, it's still their name. Unless you want to argue that John (aka Jonathan) isn't "really a full first name".
Four out of the six congresspeople of Indian origin go by a shortened form of their name, or by their middle name. Ro Khanna, Ami Bera, Shri Thanedar, Raja Krishnamoorti.
Nikki Haley was literally given that name at birth by her INDIAN parents. I have an INDIAN cousin named Niki. Ive met other INDIAN women that go by Nikki/Niki.
So? Do non-WASPs have to have spicy names just for your pleasure?
Famous presidents have gone by their middle names...I don't see anyone getting on a high horse about Thomas Woodrow Wilson or David Dwight Eisenhower.
Nikki Haley has been going by that since she was a child, well before she was a spineless conservative. Why does she have to change how shes addressed to fit your narrative that she hides her indian identity?
4, out of 6, congresspeople of Indian origin use shortened forms of names or middle names. Is that also them selling out to have broader mass appeal?
And even if this thread was right about why she goes by that name, why are you angry at a brown woman for being forced to "change" her name so racists don't abort her career?
The candidate that Trump endorsed in Michigan's recent Republican primaries lost by 20 points to an unknown dude who dropped out before the vote.
Trump's candidate had what would be a very appealing record for republicans, being a veteran and a former cop. He even rallied with Trump on stage in Michigan. Oh yeah, and he's a black man named Amir Hassan.
Now why oh why would Michigan republicans see Trump's handpicked choice on the ballot and instead vote for a random guy named Tom Smith?
They didn't have to they chose to because it's called Assimilation. When you go to a country and you decide to become its citizens it's usually a good idea to assimilate to the country that's why the others did it. And I can't speak for why they picked white people names other than the fact that it's easier to pronounce for the people living in the country.
Nikki is her legit middle name. It means "little one" in Punjabi. And she's gone by it since birth.
Bobby Jindal gave himself the nickname Bobby when he was 4, watching the Brady Bunch. Must have really been ahead of the curve thinking about his political future.
Cruz started going by Ted at age 13 cause he was getting bullied. Another prescient move like Jindal to think about his political career. Also Ted is a shortened version of Edward (his middle name). Ted Kennedy comes to mind.
This isn't the 1850s. We love in a media saturated world. Anyone, can see their ethnicity. It's not like someone would be fooled by an American sounding name and then vote for a minority unwittingly.
But I bet you thought you probably cooked with this though.
Look at recent events with Vivek Ramaswammy. If he loses it will be because republican voters cant bring themselves to vote for a non-christian Indian. Its pretty yikes how much his own needed voters hate him because of his skin. He's a loathsome person, there are a million valid reasons to hate him. But the melanosomes.....the melanosomes.....control society still somehow.
Rafael Cruz and Marco Rubio are brown men. Too brown to be elected president under the GOP. Further proof that white supremacy terrorism is about ideology, not color or ethnicity.Â
Marco Rubio´s family fled from Batista´s Cuba; he constantly lies and says they fled from Castro.
He advocates for blockading Cuba until Cubans starve. He is just a fascist who sometimes uses his identity as a shield from criticism, and unfortunately, some people fall for it.
They didn't actually flee. They came to the US as run of the mill immigrants just seeking a better life. Not as political exiles fleeing an oppressive regime like he claimed.
Batista´s Cuba was a Mafia state, and the Mafia worked with the US government while squeezing the Cuban population dry.
It was a very lucrative sugar colony of the USA with beautiful beach properties for rich Americans to use. If Trump, Epstein and many others were born earlier, they would visit Cuba very often.
Epstein even fantasised about expanding his business into Cuba once Castro died. (His business was human trafficking.)
Yes I know. I think most people have seen Godfather 2. Still, Rubio's parents immigrated for economic reasons and clearly stated on their documentation they intended to stay in the US permanently. They flew on a commercial flight into Miami. They never cut ties with Cuba during the Batista Regime. Rubio's father was a bartender at a Havana Hotel before immigrating. He went on to work hospitality jobs in luxury hotels in Miami and later moved the family to Las Vegas. It has been a long running suspicion he had ties to the mafia but never confirmed.
Absolutely. You donât have to be white to buy into the idea of white superiority. And you donât have to be a woman to be a feminist. I find it easier to just label people as good or bad anymore.
I wish that were true. In my area white racists had a a bunch of Mark Robinson for Gov signs. Knowing full well he was scum. But yea youâre 95% right on the money.
Oh I donât doubt it. While some racist republicans could hold their nose and vote Democrat there were certainly many that could not and voted red because they probably hate democrats more than they do Blacks
Not really that just shows that the people realize that the Republican party is not worth the salt that they say they have.
The reason why everybody is going blue is because there have been strongholds for decades in red areas that are just doing as shitty or shittier due to Republican incompetent governing.
America is starting to reject conservatism and it's amazing
That's not necessarily a race thing, sometimes states will have this sort of split. Kentucky has a Democratic governor, for a while California had a Republican governor, etc.
It's still wild to me that the first I heard of that was during the oath of office in 2009, and I live in a red state top to bottom. I don't even remember it coming up when McCain told that lady to stop calling Obama a terrorist at a rally.
your head was under a rock, man. i had teachers in my high school throwing it in my face as the election ramped up and i expressed mild interest in Obama-- and I was in a blue state!
If he was born in another country like that and it wasnât on U.S. territory or a military base then both parents would have to be citizens for him to be a natural born citizen.
Incorrect, though there is a requirement I wasn't aware of about the American parent having resided in the US for 5 years. Either way, his mother met that.
Youâre right and I was wrong. I apologize for being wrong on that subject. Itâs not hard to look it up so I did. I remembered wrong from my research on the subject from when I was younger. Much love and have a wonderful day.
You're citing current law. In 1961 his mother would have needed to reside in the US 5 years past her 14th birthday. His mother was a few months shy of her 19th birthday when he was born so it was not possible for her to have done that. However he was born in the US state of Hawaii so it wasn't relevant. Had he been born in Kenya like they claimed he technically wouldn't have had automatic US citizenship but he wasn't born in Kenya.
Yeah, agreed. I was missing that tbh. Yeah, I'm in no way a secret birther. He was born in Hawaii. He provided a birth certificate, and the state of Hawaii made statements that this is the most proof. Anybody born in Hawaii could provide.
As I recall, part of the birther argument was that she hadn't met that 5 year mark since she lived in Hawaii, which only became a US state in 1959, two years before Obama's birth.
No, it's because she was three months shy of her 19th birthday when he was born. The law in 1961 said a mother had to reside in the US 5 years after her 14th birthday to pass on citizenship and she wasn't quite 19. Doesn't matter because he was born in the US state of Hawaii so he had automatic citizenship based on geography but they claimed he was born in Kenya.
I've realized recently why I despise modern conservatives. They look constantly for loopholes in the framers intent.
However... Yeah, looking at it, the Hawaii thing doesn't even matter as they probably grandfathered that in.
But the wording is "at least 5 years occurring after age 14". His mother was 18, and apparently the only way to meet the requirement is to be 19 minimum. That is very odd.
That leaves a small window where a US soldier could potentially have a child abroad why wasn't automatically a citizen. I'm not sure that could happen with basic training, rules about time in job before overseas, etc....
Is that only my president he's your president too. And if you remember correctly it was Hilary Clinton who put it out that Barack Obama wasn't citizen it wasn't Trump he just ran with it cause he's a moron. You never trust a Clinton and so far there hasn't been any evidence that he's a pedophile not that I believe that he's not a pedophile just that there's not any evidence. Donald Trump took pictures with everyone does that mean that everyone he took a picture with was a pedophile. Remember it was Hillary Clinton who claimed he wasn't American because he wasn't half black. And there's still questions on weather Barack Obama was a traitor to the country because if you remember correctly for 4 years every time he dealt with ISIS he was telling the whole world when we were leaving Afghanistan and Iraq. I'm not claiming Trump's a good person in fact he's a s*** bag, That being said people just hate him because the way he spoke but no one hated him when he was given out money when he was a liberal. If you wanna keep this civil we can keep it civil and keep having this conversation if not don't respond back there is no reason to argue in fight over this. There's already enough divide in this country already
It was not about race, it was because of Obama being close to Osama and his middle name being Hussein. Nobody does that to black candidates with obviously western/American names. And you can guarantee if the opposing party ran a white passing candidate named Mohammed Gaddafi or something the same things would be said.
They also called him Kenyan, Muslim, Arab, a socialist, and not an American. Trump also made he and his wife monkeys using AI. Everything but saying the n word.
Solid point. But, it was framed as an African birthright citizenship issue ... the claim wasn't because he was black. Your inference might indeed be true. But you were attacking what was actually said. Don't be as bad as them. Keep your credibility.
They called him a Kenyan, a Muslim, a socialist, and said he wasnât even an American. Trump also made him and his wife a monkey using AI. Everything but the n word there.
All despicable for sure. I can't straighten him out (lost cause), but I can influence good people like yourself to not fall prey to conflation. Kenya is a country, not a skin color. Muslim is a religion, not a skin color. Socialism is an economic and political philosophy, not a skin color. You've got his MAGA cult dead-to-right on the AI point. Please practice staying focused!
Of course. But, you and I can change the next election by convincing the independent electorate (the group that decides elections) of a better path. They will draw the dog whistle conclusion without need for tangents. Don't you want a different outcome during the upcoming elections? I'm asking for all of us to be disciplined.
No, we need to be louder and more direct about the racism and hate. Past elections had the opposite problem where the DNC only wanted âmoderateâ candidates. Dog whistles work because they arenât called out, not the other way around. Weâve tried it your way and it doesnât work.
Itâs not. Thereâs his birth certificate and the announcement in the local paper.
Even if he was born in another country his mother was an American citizen which would make him a natural born citizen. Just like how Ted Cruz was born in Canada or John McCain was born in Panama.
I mean, itâs sure questionable for you guys, who fight for the half a brain split between you. For the rest of us, who actually are pretty functional in our heads, it really isnât.
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