That would make Russia even worse … Why not the Vatican? Trump trolls have been calling for ages for the Pope to break down the walls around the Vatican to let more immigrants in …
My Eisenhower Republican grandparents thought a college education was the an essential first step in a successful career. Now 58% of “Republicans” think that a college education is bad for America. “Facts are irrelevant or fake” and “bigotry is good” are not the slogans of a world leader. What has our two opposing party system done to my country and why?
In the 1700s, immediately after the American Revolution, Virginia had a governor who fought public education every step of the way. He felt that having the lower classes educated would lead them to think they were just as good as the rest of us. (I’d have to go check ALL of my textbooks to find out who it was.)
Feb 24, 2016 – Trump told supporters in Las Vegas that he got votes from well educated and poorly educated people, adding “I love the poorly educated.”
Even though the poor and uneducated are the imaginary scapegoats for Trump being elected , statistically speaking, they do not turn out to vote, but these folks do …
" …. we have actual data on Trump’s supporters. Far from being idiots, they are people who would normally be considered functioning and successful. Trump’s supporters are better educated and wealthier than the American average.Rather than characterizing them as losers who are easily fooled, Trump’s supporters—who amount to at least a plurality of the Republican primary electorate—deserve to be looked at in their own terms. Trump’s essential appeal is based on racism. He launched his campaign talking about Mexican “rapists,” and subsequently stirred up xenophobia against many other groups, especially Muslims. His racist pitch succeeded because the Republican Party is overwhelmingly white and has relied heavily on dog-whistle appeals to racism since the early 1960s.Trump is appealing to the aggrieved privilege of well-to-do white Republicans who feel threatened by America’s changing demographics and challenges to the traditional racial hierarchy in the age of Obama.…"https://newrepublic.com/minutes/133447/donald-trumps-supporters-idiots
Countless analyses have demonstrated that Trump won the election by combining support from traditional Republican voters with a surge in backing from constituencies that contemporary economic and cultural developments have left behind.
But Trump did not campaign against economic elites. Instead, he built a fire under animosity toward what has been called “the creative class” by Richard Florida, the demographer; the “plutonomy” by three analysts at Citigroup; and the “cosmopolitan class” by Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale.
In recent decades, this class has become increasingly influential in setting cultural standards and in shaping contemporary values. Its success has provoked deepening resentment, to say the least.
And finally:
One of the more interesting findings that came out of the 2016 election in the United States — a finding that reinforces Goodhart’s thesis — is that voters who never left, or remain close to, their hometowns tended to vote for Trump, while those who moved away were inclined to support Hillary Clinton.
The latest GOP ploy is to promote idiocracy by discouraging people from going to college. That way they have a better chance of ruining this country for everyone but the wealthy without people who will question what their motives and agenda are.
I missed the article on why a college education is ruining America but I will say this about academia: While I have enormous respect for the absolute necessity of education, and believe that education must NEVER stop, I cannot say the colleges these days are the best venue for either of those. Like everybody else, their focus has become their bottom line, which means attracting as many payers as possible, which means those in the minority thought-group can just shut up, which means education has become nothing more than indoctrination into the Cult of Majority-Think (actually a gang of thugs.) That, and people who would rather do work that requires training and apprenticeship are made to feel sub-standard if they don’t have a degree. 1984, anyone? And, finally, to quote Paul Newman’s character in “The Sting”, “Thanks, kid. I already know how to drink.”
What we are getting is a large group who only read, listen to, go to schools run by Reich Wingers who have a view of history and society at odds with the known history. They get educated in things that just aren’t so. Some get PhDs in that fiction.
Russian mobsters were beginning to invest in high-end real estate, which offered an ideal vehicle to launder money from their criminal enterprises. “During the ’80s and ’90s, we in the U.S. government repeatedly saw a pattern by which criminals would use condos and high-rises to launder money,” says Jonathan Winer, a deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement in the Clinton administration. “It didn’t matter that you paid too much, because the real estate values would rise, and it was a way of turning dirty money into clean money. It was done very systematically, and it explained why there are so many high-rises where the units were sold but no one is living in them.” When Trump Tower was built, as David Cay Johnston reports in The Making of Donald Trump, it was only the second high-rise in New York that accepted anonymous buyers.
Donald Trump is unarguably the most hostile president to the environment this country has ever seen. He is an unabashed science denier who believes that climate change is a hoax invented by China. He petulantly withdrew the United States from the Paris Accords that mobilized more than 170 countries to protect the planet. His director of the Environmental Protection Agency is an avowed critic of the institution and has lobbied to abolish it. Trump opposes development of eco-friendly, renewable energy and supports expanding use of coal and fossil fuels.
“Gold fever hit the Pacific Northwest, and Grandfather Trump moved up to Bennett, British Columbia. It was a fast, raucous, money-grabbing atmosphere and Trump opened the Arctic Hotel, which had a bar, a restaurant and, according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899, edition of The Bennett Sun newspaper, “private boxes for ladies and parties.” Each box apparently came equipped with a bed and a scale to weigh the gold dust that was used to pay for the services offered in it.
Dtroutma almost 7 years ago
Yep, make America great again, deport all the Trumps to Russia.
Coopersdad almost 7 years ago
@DTROUTMA…I second that motion!
mr_sherman Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Can I third it?
lopaka almost 7 years ago
I’ll fourth it
erik.vanthienen almost 7 years ago
That would make Russia even worse … Why not the Vatican? Trump trolls have been calling for ages for the Pope to break down the walls around the Vatican to let more immigrants in …
superposition almost 7 years ago
My Eisenhower Republican grandparents thought a college education was the an essential first step in a successful career. Now 58% of “Republicans” think that a college education is bad for America. “Facts are irrelevant or fake” and “bigotry is good” are not the slogans of a world leader. What has our two opposing party system done to my country and why?
Dani Rice almost 7 years ago
In the 1700s, immediately after the American Revolution, Virginia had a governor who fought public education every step of the way. He felt that having the lower classes educated would lead them to think they were just as good as the rest of us. (I’d have to go check ALL of my textbooks to find out who it was.)
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
Feb 24, 2016 – Trump told supporters in Las Vegas that he got votes from well educated and poorly educated people, adding “I love the poorly educated.”
superposition almost 7 years ago
Even though the poor and uneducated are the imaginary scapegoats for Trump being elected , statistically speaking, they do not turn out to vote, but these folks do …
" …. we have actual data on Trump’s supporters. Far from being idiots, they are people who would normally be considered functioning and successful. Trump’s supporters are better educated and wealthier than the American average.Rather than characterizing them as losers who are easily fooled, Trump’s supporters—who amount to at least a plurality of the Republican primary electorate—deserve to be looked at in their own terms. Trump’s essential appeal is based on racism. He launched his campaign talking about Mexican “rapists,” and subsequently stirred up xenophobia against many other groups, especially Muslims. His racist pitch succeeded because the Republican Party is overwhelmingly white and has relied heavily on dog-whistle appeals to racism since the early 1960s.Trump is appealing to the aggrieved privilege of well-to-do white Republicans who feel threatened by America’s changing demographics and challenges to the traditional racial hierarchy in the age of Obama.…"https://newrepublic.com/minutes/133447/donald-trumps-supporters-idiots
martens almost 7 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/opinion/republicans-elites-trump.html?mcubz=0
Countless analyses have demonstrated that Trump won the election by combining support from traditional Republican voters with a surge in backing from constituencies that contemporary economic and cultural developments have left behind.
But Trump did not campaign against economic elites. Instead, he built a fire under animosity toward what has been called “the creative class” by Richard Florida, the demographer; the “plutonomy” by three analysts at Citigroup; and the “cosmopolitan class” by Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale.
In recent decades, this class has become increasingly influential in setting cultural standards and in shaping contemporary values. Its success has provoked deepening resentment, to say the least.
And finally:
One of the more interesting findings that came out of the 2016 election in the United States — a finding that reinforces Goodhart’s thesis — is that voters who never left, or remain close to, their hometowns tended to vote for Trump, while those who moved away were inclined to support Hillary Clinton.
Juan Varea almost 7 years ago
“while those who moved away were inclined to support Hillary Clinton”
You mean those that are aware there’s a whole world on the other side of the Hicksville Trailerpark fence…..
salmon43 almost 7 years ago
The latest GOP ploy is to promote idiocracy by discouraging people from going to college. That way they have a better chance of ruining this country for everyone but the wealthy without people who will question what their motives and agenda are.
braindead Premium Member almost 7 years ago
JohnSallySullivan :“What is being said is true compared to the Trump/Russia fake stories.”
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Your basic Trump Disciple providing a real live example of exactly what the cartoon illustrates.
dogday Premium Member almost 7 years ago
I missed the article on why a college education is ruining America but I will say this about academia: While I have enormous respect for the absolute necessity of education, and believe that education must NEVER stop, I cannot say the colleges these days are the best venue for either of those. Like everybody else, their focus has become their bottom line, which means attracting as many payers as possible, which means those in the minority thought-group can just shut up, which means education has become nothing more than indoctrination into the Cult of Majority-Think (actually a gang of thugs.) That, and people who would rather do work that requires training and apprenticeship are made to feel sub-standard if they don’t have a degree. 1984, anyone? And, finally, to quote Paul Newman’s character in “The Sting”, “Thanks, kid. I already know how to drink.”
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a speech to the anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom earlier this week
montessoriteacher almost 7 years ago
We could always send the trumps on one of those intergalactic trips that many ultrarich hope to be going on soon. That would be extra special.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 7 years ago
What we are getting is a large group who only read, listen to, go to schools run by Reich Wingers who have a view of history and society at odds with the known history. They get educated in things that just aren’t so. Some get PhDs in that fiction.
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
Russian mobsters were beginning to invest in high-end real estate, which offered an ideal vehicle to launder money from their criminal enterprises. “During the ’80s and ’90s, we in the U.S. government repeatedly saw a pattern by which criminals would use condos and high-rises to launder money,” says Jonathan Winer, a deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement in the Clinton administration. “It didn’t matter that you paid too much, because the real estate values would rise, and it was a way of turning dirty money into clean money. It was done very systematically, and it explained why there are so many high-rises where the units were sold but no one is living in them.” When Trump Tower was built, as David Cay Johnston reports in The Making of Donald Trump, it was only the second high-rise in New York that accepted anonymous buyers.
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
Donald Trump is unarguably the most hostile president to the environment this country has ever seen. He is an unabashed science denier who believes that climate change is a hoax invented by China. He petulantly withdrew the United States from the Paris Accords that mobilized more than 170 countries to protect the planet. His director of the Environmental Protection Agency is an avowed critic of the institution and has lobbied to abolish it. Trump opposes development of eco-friendly, renewable energy and supports expanding use of coal and fossil fuels.
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
The number of people who were at Don Jr’s Russian meeting was larger than Trump’s inauguration crowd.
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
“Gold fever hit the Pacific Northwest, and Grandfather Trump moved up to Bennett, British Columbia. It was a fast, raucous, money-grabbing atmosphere and Trump opened the Arctic Hotel, which had a bar, a restaurant and, according to an advertisement in the Dec. 9, 1899, edition of The Bennett Sun newspaper, “private boxes for ladies and parties.” Each box apparently came equipped with a bed and a scale to weigh the gold dust that was used to pay for the services offered in it.
Zev almost 7 years ago
Keep ’em dumb and keep ’em voting Red.
Mr. Blawt almost 7 years ago
Good one Mdavis, that should be in the toon as well! And “Pollsters are fake news!”