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This Actually Happened: At Event Honoring Native American Veterans, Trump Suddenly Starts Ranting, Calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas"

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Dangerman11/27/2017 12:53:08 pm PST

copied from downstairs (and probably mangled a bit)
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You do have to choose your audience carefully, though.

I saw this the other day:

Charles M. Blow

@CharlesMBlow
If u support Trump, we don’t have anything to talk abt & we can’t be friends. This isn’t abt parties or ideology; This is abt right & wrong

Lots of people responded with something like ‘It’s a shame people can’t have honest disagreements over politics without anymore’. I think a lot of people really don’t get that how terrible Trump is. We’re not talking about “You support supply side economics so we can’t be friends”. This is more like, “You’re either a racist or you’re okay with racism, so we can’t be friends.”

principled opponents are welcome when politics is a clash of value systems, each of which is in some way valid; a competition between basically well-intentioned people who see the world differently.

when it becomes, not even a conflict of interests, but instead a tribal, degenerative, brutal struggle for office in which one side with righteous indignation believes only the other is and can be capable of behaving despicably while they themselves, pure, run roughshod over it all, well then fuck ‘em, and without mercy