Disaster relief & donald trump

[chrisrobin]

resident Trump's son Eric Trump tweeted on Thursday that CNN wouldn't report on his father's pledge to donate $1 million to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
Three hours earlier, CNN tweeted its coverage of Trump's pledge, which was announced during Thursday's White House press briefing.
You guessed wrong. We covered the pledge online and on-air well before your tweet.CNN

 

[TexanStar]

President Trump's son Eric Trump tweeted on Thursday that CNN wouldn't report on his father's pledge to donate $1 million to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.

- Eric Trump (@EricTrump) August 31, 2017

- CNN (@CNN) August 31, 2017

Oh my god they're low class. I thought that was a joke at first, but nope, he said it.

Man that's repulsive.

 

[jacenx]

1000000 that sounds very cheap. This disaster is kinda big

 

[TexanStar]

1000000 that sounds very cheap. This disaster is kinda big

It's a personal donation. Typically, you wouldn't look down on someone who donated 1 dollar -vs- someone who donated 1 million. It all helps. I doubt every one in this forum has donated something.

Man, why are you guys so skeevy. Like Trump says something that's clearly wrong (trying to get credit for a donation rather than just donating for sympathy's own sake), and then it's like you've got to try and one-up him by saying something wrong as well.

 

[StormfrontFL]

Well that's an offensive load of crap.

The anti-transgender stuff is an especially nice touch considering that the Texas house of representatives refused to pass the governor's discriminatory bathroom bill (again).

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...band-together-help-harveys-victims/618262001/

"Houston has experienced a cultural boom in recent decades and was labeled the most racially and ethnically diverse large metropolitan area in the United States by researchers with the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas."

Seriously, why the fuck is it all the liberals that are the hateful fucks in here lately?

I only had 1 person PM me just to doublecheck if I was okay because of the flooding and that person is solidly conservative (I'm fine, DFW is high and dry, but all these cheap shots against people in a natural disaster are super-distasteful).

Perhaps the ones who didn't PM you to see if everything was okay were smart enough to figure out that if you had the time to post on LPSG then you were in no jeopardy?

 

[TexanStar]

Perhaps the ones who didn't PM you to see if everything was okay were smart enough to figure out that if you had the time to post on LPSG then you were in no jeopardy?

Entirely possible. I'm just pointing out that there's a string of hateful remarks and jokes going around here about the victims of Harvey, and every one of them has come out of the mouth of a fellow liberal.

Remind me later to run a slate piece by you from a guy who had the audacity to point out that leftist messaging right now is nowhere near as inclusive as it claims to be and making the argument it's this kind of attitude which is turning people off in the multitude of state level elections where Dems are getting slaughtered by Republicans.

 

[Max_Polo]

Perhaps the ones who didn't PM you to see if everything was okay were smart enough to figure out that if you had the time to post on LPSG then you were in no jeopardy?

Or they understood that DFW is a few hundred miles from Houston. But many do not intuit that Texas is that large; we've had inquiries from friends about our safety as well.

 

[TexanStar]

@StormfrontFL

“There’s Been a Slightly Hysterical Tone About Race”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...tics_are_destroying_the_democratic_party.html
Author Mark Lilla thinks Democrats’ focus on identity politics is destroying the party.

Here, it was easier to find than I thought. Interesting listen (even if just to listen to the interviewer find himself consistently unable to separate state level elections from the presidency).

 

[Klingsor]

Remind me later to run a slate piece by you from a guy who had the audacity to point out that leftist messaging right now is nowhere near as inclusive as it claims to be and making the argument it's this kind of attitude which is turning people off in the multitude of state level elections where Dems are getting slaughtered by Republicans.

He may have a point, but I would hope on that last bit he makes allowances for gerrymandering.

 

[TexanStar]

He may have a point, but I would hope on that last bit he makes allowances for gerrymandering.

Dems are losing even in races where gerrymandering is not an issue (gerrymandering has no impact on governorships, for example).

And absent some supreme court ruling against it, which is unlikely to happen with this court, gerrymandering is an evil we have to live with and work with. Just throwing our arms up in the air and crying out "Gerrymandering!" isn't going to get us into a position to do anything about it.

I don't think painting victims of Harvey as racists and bigots is going to help either (but let's not let that get in the way of a righteous laugh... ho ho ho).

 

[StormfrontFL]

Entirely possible. I'm just pointing out that there's a string of hateful remarks and jokes going around here about the victims of Harvey, and every one of them has come out of the mouth of a fellow liberal.

Remind me later to run a slate piece by you from a guy who had the audacity to point out that leftist messaging right now is nowhere near as inclusive as it claims to be and making the argument it's this kind of attitude which is turning people off in the multitude of state level elections where Dems are getting slaughtered by Republicans.

Victims of disaster are victims of disaster. It doesn't matter there race, party affiliation, gender, age, or sexuality.

Tell me how inclusive the conservative message is. How is it supposedly better or different?

 

[Max_Polo]

Victims of disaster are victims of disaster. It doesn't matter there race, party affiliation, gender, age, or sexuality.

Tell me how inclusive the conservative message is. How is it supposedly better or different?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-thou-hast-sinned-1504221194?mod=trending_now_5

 

[chrisrobin]

JUST SEEN FOOTAGE OF VICE PRESIDENT LOOKING VERY PRESIDENTIAL - IS THERE HOPE IN SIGHT (THOUGH A DIFFERENT KIND OF DISASTER!)

 

[TexanStar]

Victims of disaster are victims of disaster. It doesn't matter there race, party affiliation, gender, age, or sexuality.

Tell me how inclusive the conservative message is. How is it supposedly better or different?

Mark that irrelevant because that's the distraction / trap our party is consistently falling into.

Regardless of how Republicans talk about matters of race, gender, sexual orientation... completely regardless of that, there are voters who are turned off from voting Democrat because of the way Democrats talk about it.

Don't justify bad behavior by our party by pointing out bad behavior from another party.

 

[StormfrontFL]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-thou-hast-sinned-1504221194?mod=trending_now_5

Awww. Shall I also post the many diatribes from so called religious conservatives blaming liberal policies and gays for natural disasters befalling areas?

 

[Max_Polo]

Mark that irrelevant because that's the distraction / trap our party is consistently falling into.

Regardless of how Republicans talk about matters of race, gender, sexual orientation... completely regardless of that, there are voters who are turned off from voting Democrat because of the way Democrats talk about it.

Don't justify bad behavior by our party by pointing out bad behavior from another party.

Where's our friend with his "whataboutism" bullshit when we need him?

 

[Max_Polo]

Awww. Shall I also post the many diatribes from so called religious conservatives blaming liberal policies and gays for natural disasters befalling areas?

If someone said gays caused a hurricane (or other natural disaster), the only plausible explanations I can think of are abject stupidity or drug abuse. I don't care if said person is alt-left, alt-right or neither.

And again, where's our friend with his "whataboutism" bullshit when we need him?

The WSJ Op Ed stands on its own and references other publications often quoted here.

 

[chrisrobin]

watch out as more natural disasters are happening...
now its California's turn
huge forest fires - again.
Like Harvey and Katrina these fires are a product of nature - do you think the president might think the balance being upset?
Or, to put it another way - do you think the president thinks?

 

[StormfrontFL]

Mark that irrelevant because that's the distraction / trap our party is consistently falling into.

Regardless of how Republicans talk about matters of race, gender, sexual orientation... completely regardless of that, there are voters who are turned off from voting Democrat because of the way Democrats talk about it.

Don't justify bad behavior by our party by pointing out bad behavior from another party.

I wish we all saw ourselves as one but unfortunately that is not the world we live in.
Racial issues are not the only ones but they should not be minimized or forgotten. Should the focus be on other issues and then once all those are solved focus can go back to issues of race?

I'm all for a fair balance. How many others are?

 

[StormfrontFL]

If someone said gays caused a hurricane (or other natural disaster), the only plausible explanations I can think of are abject stupidity or drug abuse. I don't care if said person is alt-left, alt-right or neither.

And again, where's our friend with his "whataboutism" bullshit when we need him?

The WSJ Op Ed stands on its own and references other publications often quoted here.

If blaming something you find wrong for disasters is stupid then why did you post what you did? Oh, to score points.