I think he still does, he needs to calm down and stop excess inflammatory rhetoric. He is all about his own best interests.

I completely understand where Sean King is coming from. This is why I could never vote for Donald Trump. But the problem I do have is that the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton is also racist and has shown no remorse for the wholesale killing of innocent people of color in her promotion of wars in the Middle East and her promotion of deportation of women and children to Honduras.

The problem here is that the choice is not either / or. The problem is that both candidates have shown themselves to be racist. Therefore, anyone who voted for either candidate can be lumped into the same basket of deplorables. This is exactly why I took such great offense to those who chastised me for voting for Jill Stein. Donald Trump's rhetoric has opened the door to individuals acting out upon it. Hillary Clinton's policy positions have resulted in millions of people dead, seriously injured, and made into refugees.

A human life is a human life. An American life should not have greater value than the life of someone from another country. This is not to mean that I think Donald Trump is not deplorable himself. The Democratic party created Donald Trump and the burden of guilt lies squarely upon the shoulders of the party establishment. They failed to offer desperate people a choice away from the status quo.

then went to work for a right wing New York daily paper. Why should we take him seriously? During the 10 months I was at the site I thought he used bullying tactics to cover up his lack of knowledge.

"Don't you dare say 'black on black' crime"

is there a way for us to collectively quit using the phrase "basket of deplorables"?
Every time someone does, it gives credence to the originator. "She" likely is proud of it and as such every time I see or hear it, it pisses me off more.
May it fade into history as fast as "she" hopefully does.

Hi ec,

I dropped this in Steven's diary, but as this is a video clip thread I'll add it here as well. I miss Jon, but I've grown to like Jimmy Dore and Lee Camp. One must find humor where they can.

6 min total
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUkv_jPgTeg]

Best to look in the mirror before we throw stones at the glasshouse...or something like that

Let me put this as mildly as I can. Shaun King is as much of a Hillaryputz sellout as Rachael Maddow.

Is Shaun King #With John McCain? Does Shaun King agree with McCain's threat against Trump waging peace against Russia?

Does Shaun King think Obama did brown skinned immigrants a lot of big favors? Does Shaun King think Trump could possibly be worse than Hillary on destroying the environment?

I have nothing but contempt for Shaun King.

are okay with his racism.
I say that the people who voted for Hillary is okay with her warmongering and don't care that she has helped destroy 4 countries, killed at least hundreds of thousands of people and was going to continue killing people in the Middle East and risk a war with Russia.
Sorry, Shaun both sides were willing to accept the worst of both candidates.
Bernie offered us something totally different from those two and people said that he couldn't win.
He could have won if those dumbshits voted for him.
Until they didn't get the chance because of how the election was rigged against him.
And when Bernie was defeated by those tactics then people still had another candidate to vote for.
Shaun, as the saying goes
Just because it is less evil, it's still evil.

can't seem to wrap their heads around is that these people don't care that he doesn't like them any more. That whether he lives or dies isn't as important as whether they themselves live or die. For years we've tried to tell them where this road leads, and they just keep insisting, alternately, that everything is fine and getting better, and that their wound is deeper.

The voters gave his team a chance to change and they chose to cash in, just like their parents did in the '80s.

"loosely middle-class" is, IMO, one the central issues. We have at least two generations among us that have lived their lives under a specific set of rules, and with a specific set of expectations in exchange for following those rules. You are familiar with the quotation about Americans being "temporarily embarrassed millionaires", well that was, and to a large degree still is, true. Every survey ever done on this yields the same results, Americans chronically mis-estimate their financial and social position within their own communities. We have people making a quarter mill and more each year that think of themselves as middle class and we have people subsisting on 1/10, or less of that, that also think of themselves as middle class.

We live in a fantasy that, while it has never been true, it was very well constructed and publicized, and until the 21st century, was granted in sufficient numbers to keep it plausible. Then in 2000 they pulled the trigger. The SCOTUS over-ruled the voters and imposed the existing Oligarchy on the world.

Now we have tens millions of Americans that have had everything, the entire product of their lifetime of work, stolen by the same people that broke the contract in the first place, and to whom the law is never, ever applied.

I suppose we could try to catalog each betrayal, but I feel that the fact that anyone with any interest can name three off the top of their head, sufficiently makes the point.

I have yet to meet a single person that voted for Dawhnytahnyhands, I'm sure they exist here, but everyone I talked to voted against Hillary and the Democratic Party. Democrats nearly ran this state's election, but they did so because the republicans were just that much worse, and this state is not very unusual.

Like Brexit, Dawhnytahnyhands was the only chance they've been allowed to send a "Fuck You!", loud and clear, to the parasites that misrule. The revolution is already happening throughout society and around the world, and the only people that are unaware of that are the gatekeepers and employees of the parasites. Watch France and Germany, now.

And that brings us back to Shaun and his penchant for being wrong. He listens to liars.

The first lesson NYC taught me is that you don't worry about the crazy asshole screaming that he hates you, you worry about that nice quiet guy that's always "got your back" right up until he plunges his knife into it.

Malcom X figured it out the first time, why don't more of us?