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I fucking love this President. My 2 faves during my lifetime are Trump and Nixon. They share a lot of similarities and were besieged by the same groups of assholes. No I’m not trolling. Y’all, the lef

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This.....is magnificent. The "younger generation" is going to have to work double-time to fund YOUR Social Security, which YOUR generation of elected officials raided the fuck out of.  And which,

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On 8/4/2019 at 11:59 AM, JimmyJames said:

https://cathedral.org/have-we-no-decency-a-response-to-president-trump.html

This was written four days ago. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/07/archbishop-trump-hate-racism-el-paso-twitter/?utm_source=reddit.com

San Antonio Catholic Archbishop becomes vocal too.

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‘Stop hate and racism, starting with yourself’: Catholic archbishop hits out at Trump

 
 
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Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller blesses a member of his congregation during his installation service at St. Mark The Evangelist Church in San Antonio in 2010. (Kin Man Hui/San Antonio Express-News/AP)
August 7 at 6:20 AM

Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio, one of the highest ranking Mexican American Catholic leaders in the country, was left in shock on Saturday when he heard about the mass shooting in El Paso that killed at least 22 people in his state. Garcia-Siller said there was “no justifiable explanation for such scenes of horror.”

But what was clear to the archbishop, who recently supported migrants and asylum seekers crossing the southern border, was that President Trump’s “invasion” rhetoric against Hispanics, language echoed in a manifesto police believe was posted by the alleged El Paso gunman, helped create a climate that led to the tragedy.

The 62-year-old archbishop said on Twitter this week that Trump — a very weak and “poor man” — had caused “Too much damage already” and that the president’s rhetoric had “destroyed” people’s lives. Pleading for gun control so that more lives would not be “wasted in vain” after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, Garcia-Siller had another request for Trump.

 

“President stop hate and racism, starting with yourself,” he said.

[‘We don’t want him here’: Trump to face protests and skepticism as he visits El Paso and Dayton after mass shootings]

On Tuesday, Garcia-Siller, who deleted his tweets mentioning the president earlier in the day, apologized for singling out Trump, but maintained that hateful rhetoric and the violence that comes from it must be extinguished from society.

“I regret that my recent Tweet remarks were not focused on the issues but on an individual,” Garcia-Siller said in a video posted to Facebook.

 

The archbishop’s blistering critique against Trump comes during a period in which religious leaders are speaking out more frequently against the president, his policies and his treatment of immigrants and minorities. In Garcia-Siller’s case, he is perhaps the first bishop in the nation to publicly accuse Trump of racism, CNN reported.

In his nearly four-and-a-half-minute statement, Garcia-Siller shared passages from a pastoral document outlining the Catholic Church’s opposition to cultural racism.

“The pastoral letter stated that, ‘Despite many promising strides in our country, the ugly cancer of racism still infects our nation. Racist acts are sinful because they violate justice,’” he said. “The document also reads, ‘Every racist act — every such comment, every joke, every disparaging look as a reaction to the color of skin, ethnicity or place of origin — is a failure to acknowledge another person as a brother or sister, created in the image of God.’”

Garcia-Siller added: “No one has the moral right to make racist statements.”

While he never said Trump by name in his Facebook post, the archbishop made no secret of whom he was speaking to in the video. It’s also clear in the tweets that remain on his Twitter feed.

 

Violence is escalating everywhere. The retoric and selfishness of many in power has led to destruction and pain. We rise with love , forgiveness and tenderness as we care the wounds of those innocent people affected by hatred, racism and discrimination. Enough, enough and enough

 
 
 
 
 

Gun control is urgent. More lives wasted in vain. Families suffering. We are suffering. Basta!!!

 
 
 
 

As the eldest of 15 children, Garcia-Siller said he grew up in a lower middle-class family in the central Mexican city of San Luis Potosí, where he attended 6 a.m. Mass every day, according to the Vision Vocation Network. Serving as an ordained priest for almost 15 years in California and Oregon, he became a U.S. citizen in 1998 shortly before his 42nd birthday. After Pope John Paul II appointed him as auxiliary bishop of Chicago, Pope Benedict XVI named Garcia-Siller archbishop of San Antonio in 2010.

Garcia-Siller isn’t the only religious leader to speak out against Trump in recent days, with liberal church officials denouncing Trump for his recent broadsides against Democratic minority lawmakers. Pope Francis has been open about his disdain for Trump’s immigration policies, namely his wall at the southern border, saying that a fear of migrants “makes us crazy.” In July, 11 leaders of Catholic and Protestant groups in Maryland, including two Baltimore bishops, issued a public letter imploring Trump to “stop putting people down,” according to the Associated Press. Earlier this month, Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington, the only black archbishop in the U.S., accused the president of “diminishing our national life.” Last week, Washington National Cathedral, the seat of the Episcopal Church, condemned Trump’s racist rhetoric in a statement entitled, “Have We No Decency? A response to President Trump.”

“We feel compelled to ask: After two years of President Trump’s words and actions, when will Americans have enough?” the Cathedral’s leaders wrote.

[Washington’s new Catholic archbishop slams Trump for ‘diminishing our national life’]

But prominent figures on the religious right have either remained silent on the issue or maintained that Trump’s rhetoric reflects politics rather than racism. “He does not judge people by the color of their skin,” the Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the Southern Baptist megachurch First Baptist Dallas, told the AP. “He judges people on whether they support him. If you embrace him, he’ll embrace you. If you attack him, he’ll attack you. That’s the definition of colorblind.”

Ahead of Trump’s Wednesday visit to El Paso, Garcia-Siller had the border city on his mind. Months earlier, the archbishop preached empathy during a February visit to El Paso, coming to see for himself what Trump had described as a “humanitarian crisis.” Instead, he said he found that claims of a “national emergency” were “a lie,” according to Catholic News Agency, and that the real crisis was in supporting the migrants and “how we are going to take care of those who are discriminated against, and those who are disadvantaged.”

He echoed that sentiment on Tuesday.

“There is growing fear and harassment, and at times American public discourse uses rhetoric that instigates fear against foreigners, immigrants and refugees,” he said. “We must pray fervently for peace amidst all of the violence, which seems to be overwhelming our society. We must be lights in the darkness.”

 

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This white house staff lacks the sense to promote the president looking solemn or stoic or, you know, like he understands the gravity of a pile of dead parents on aisle 4 of Wal-Mart.  It's all just him looking elated to be adored, as if he's at a fundraiser.    

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8 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

So far today on his unity tour the President has attacked the mayor of Dayton, Shepard Smith, Fox News, the "lamestream media,"  the New York Times, Joe Biden, Beto O'Rourke, Sherrod Brown, and CNN.

 

On the bright side, his urine-colored mullet game was strong today.

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44 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

So far today on his unity tour the President has attacked the mayor of Dayton, Shepard Smith, Fox News, the "lamestream media,"  the New York Times, Joe Biden, Beto O'Rourke, Sherrod Brown, and CNN.

 

CBS- He was so presidential today!

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Lakeway View front page: "local residents have nuanced view of trump."

I really regret reading it, and sorry no link. All these dumb rich assholes.

Lowlights: "while i dont like his language- tax cuts and judges, he is the lesser of two evils, he tells it like it is, he speaks his mind, he is not politically correct!!!. " democrats are partisan and inflammatory"
And the cooter graw of the bunch, "heck yeah if you dont love it leave it, i know these ladies were born here, but never absorbed our values."

Just a bunch of selfish racist fucks pretending not to be and pulling the ladder up behind them. " We love our messican maid like family." Maid dies of easily preventable disease.

Plenty of olds, but thier kids will slide right in there. Yall keep saying they will die off. I dont think so.

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17 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

Plenty of olds, but thier kids will slide right in there. Yall keep saying they will die off. I dont think so

Had a conversation with a good friend today on this and we speculated the hardcore racists like we saw in our grandparents generation are showing back up in the youth of today.  When we were in high school we thought we were nearly over this shit but kids growing up in the post 9/11 and Obama America have resurrected some real assholes from the 1950s.

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5 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Had a conversation with a good friend today on this and we speculated the hardcore racists like we saw in our grandparents generation are showing back up in the youth of today.  When we were in high school we thought we were nearly over this shit but kids growing up in the post 9/11 and Obama America have resurrected some real assholes from the 1950s.

There are hardcore racists and idiots in every generation. They are a distinct minority today. 

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1 minute ago, JimmyJames said:

There are hardcore racists and idiots in every generation. They are a distinct minority today. 

We weren’t talking numbers, we were talking the intensity of the racism. 

Imagine growing up in a latently racist household just after 9/11 when we had a good run of xenophobia and then the first black president.  

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One thing he and I have in common is neither of us would stand in line to eat that shit.

I had some 20 years ago. A sales rep brings some in and told us how good it was. Anyone who eats that shit and likes it should be embarrassed to ever talk about BBQ. I could go to a Dollar Tree and get better stuff to grill. My God Texas is the best place in the country to eat BBQ and somehow people resort to eating that? Learn how to make it yourself. Hell you can torch it and it would be better than that.

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49 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

Lakeway View front page: "local residents have nuanced view of trump."

I really regret reading it, and sorry no link. All these dumb rich assholes.

Lowlights: "while i dont like his language- tax cuts and judges, he is the lesser of two evils, he tells it like it is, he speaks his mind, he is not politically correct!!!. " democrats are partisan and inflammatory"
And the cooter graw of the bunch, "heck yeah if you dont love it leave it, i know these ladies were born here, but never absorbed our values."

Just a bunch of selfish racist fucks pretending not to be and pulling the ladder up behind them. " We love our messican maid like family." Maid dies of easily preventable disease.

Plenty of olds, but thier kids will slide right in there. Yall keep saying they will die off. I dont think so.

My dad was a lone, vocal Dem in Lakeway. He loved announcing it at bridge or anywhere somebody starting spouting Rush Limbaugh garbage assuming all present were in agreement. Maybe he was the last one. RIP

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On 8/6/2019 at 6:08 PM, RomaVicta said:

It's public information. Everybody needs to establish where they stand in this shit show. Fuck being polite. The other side isn't concerned about it. 

This is just revealing names. Nobody is getting killed or anything.

I've read a few posts recently in this thread about someone being a good person because they know them. Even though they donated to Dotard and his party they are somehow still a decent human being.

HELL NO.

If you donated to that asshole and haven't disavowed him and his party you are complicit. Seeing people say how someone is a good human being while supporting a president who treats people like shit because of skin color makes you as bad as he is.

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You just visited people in the hospital who were shot with assault weapons. Hundreds of lives have been directly impacted forever b/c of the deaths in El Paso and Dayton.

Of course, you'd sit around and attack people on twitter. Totally cool.

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1 hour ago, JimmyJames said:

There are hardcore racists and idiots in every generation. They are a distinct minority today. 

The difference is that we can out them nationally, wrecking their future employment prospects, and making for plenty of awkward conversations with friends and family.    Many of these dumbshits have a hard time wi keeping it off of social media.  

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8 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

A murder of Karens

According to the 2017 American Community Survey, only 55 percent of the population in Dayton is White. Now, compare that statistic to the group of smiling doctors/nurses who agreed to be photographed with Trump.

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