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Jitter65

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March 3, 2016

Elton John goes under the bus...i guess.

Elton John at Hillary Clinton fundraiser in NYC: "This is a very important year for America and she's the only hope you have"

March 3, 2016

Watching MSNBC: They still don't get it. Talking about Trump and his supporters.

The media and most everyone else dillydallying around what motivates his base. This is largely the same base that suffered through the downturn in the economy under Bush 8 years...they were left out then as they seem to feel they were left out under Obama. There was not this anger or meanness.. The reason is simple.

Pure racism dressed up as economic and social anger, rage at the "establishment" in DC (whom by the way they put in DC hoping against hope that they could thwart the black guy sitting in the WH). The Trump base has added to their numbers because now they have a spokesman who seems to share their racist, xenophobic views. They are coming out of the woodwork like ants running to the tipped over honey jar oozing fresh new honey.

The numbers and facts just don't support the level of anger they say they have over the economy. Those same angry folks are out at all the family restaurants, shopping malls, beaches, booking cruises, buying new cars, smart phones and paying exorbitantly high costs for gouging plans that come with them, they now enjoy health insurance coverage that they never had before, their children are now able to be covered until 25, private schools are turning people away because there is no more room for them, gasoline is at an all time low, the millennials are spending lots of money on their favorite fads and super star concerts, there seems to be no limit to the amount of jewelry being sold at all levels. So the BS about being angry and left out of the economy is bunk! All the usual reasons for being angry about the economy are based on bulls--t the media and the GOP through talk radio and cable news tells them to believe.

We here all know and so do they out there what is really behind this anger. Their greatest hope for a failed Obama Presidency never materialized much to their chagrin. And for that they blame the establishment and for that they are angry.

March 2, 2016

Remember, you just have not heard or seen much from the voters of minority groups that do not

vote in primaries. Come the GE, the GOP is about to make an historical slide to basement. Trump will be taking them to the pits of oblivion and all those hateful, angry people will wonder what happened.

March 2, 2016

Just what is the hate and anger against Washington all about.The GOP controls the place from SCOTUS

to House to Senate. Then they come out and say they hate Obama and Obama has ruined this country. WTF!!
They don't even understand that their anger and what is wrong in Washington is largely is really against their own Republicans.

What are they angry at Obama for? For being successful in reducing the deficit, for stopping the bleeding of jobs, for lowering unemployment to less than 5%, for getting millions health care, for low oil prices, for Wall Street regulations, for strides in clean energy???? What are they talking about? Or it could be that Iran agreement that has now helped the Iranian people rise up against their conservative religious zealots?

Or, are they just angry that Obama was not an abject failure and that their Republicans didn't do enough to make him one?

Hate nurtured in racism is a bitch!

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