Can I just say how much I love Maryland?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Asian-Americans drank the Kool aid that Blacks and Hispanics want to get rid of the gifted programs and so voted for Republicans. Guess they did not understand the "Divide And Conquer" philosophy of the White man from their own colonial past.

Thankfully, with Trump putting restrictions on student and h4 visas most super educated Asian American IT workers were already against the Republicans.

Now I just want all the racist old aunties and uncles to die off...because racists do not change their minds...they just get dementia, stroke and heart attack.

As for the UpCounty.... Poolesville will continue to have a population of rural poor White who resent that things are not great for them and they also resent all the "others" who come for the school and are gentrifying it. It is a catch-22 situation but a microcosm of why Trump appealed to his supporters. It is not because they are racists. It is because they are poor and others are not.

Let's be generous and say that there are about 6,000 people in the Poolesville area.

If every single one of those 6,000 people is poor and white and voted for Trump, that still leaves a whole lot of Trump voters in this county of 1.1 million people who are not poor white Poolesville residents.

And conversely, a lot of Biden voters who are poor. What's your explanation for that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:80% of MoCo voted for Biden and that is great. I am concerned that the 20% who did not have genuine grievances of being poor and having no place in the America of the rich.

We need to fix that for this country to remain united and progressive.

PP, let's take a look at the overlap between who is poor in Montgomery County and who voted for Trump in Montgomery County.

Show me.

The issue is the demographics of poverty and affluence in Montgomery County. You can look up the data yourself, or not, just as you choose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A Trumper leads a life of selfpity, low self esteem and self hatred. They are fully aware that they are White and were given a lot of privileges. Their parents and grandparents did not have to go to college because post WW2 economy allowed them to have a decent life without education.

Republicans who do not want to pay taxes so that social services are funded for the poorest have told them that their problems are due to immigrants, gays, proLife people etc. They believe this because they are scared and think of everyone who is not White as "other".

Trumpers need to realize that their salvation will come when rich pay taxes and all the federal agencies uphold the rights and interests of Americans.

This is the stupidest thing I’ve read today. Rich people are the ONLY people who pay taxes. As for the rest of your drivel, you haven’t even come close to accurately describing the 70 million people in this country who subscribe to a different way of thinking from you. Neither of the two sides is right or wrong; they just favor a different approach to governing. Stop with the condescension and ridicule, and maybe we can get some of the problems in our great country resolved. One side can’t do it without the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A Trumper leads a life of selfpity, low self esteem and self hatred. They are fully aware that they are White and were given a lot of privileges. Their parents and grandparents did not have to go to college because post WW2 economy allowed them to have a decent life without education.

Republicans who do not want to pay taxes so that social services are funded for the poorest have told them that their problems are due to immigrants, gays, proLife people etc. They believe this because they are scared and think of everyone who is not White as "other".

Trumpers need to realize that their salvation will come when rich pay taxes and all the federal agencies uphold the rights and interests of Americans.

This is the stupidest thing I’ve read today. Rich people are the ONLY people who pay taxes. As for the rest of your drivel, you haven’t even come close to accurately describing the 70 million people in this country who subscribe to a different way of thinking from you. Neither of the two sides is right or wrong; they just favor a different approach to governing. Stop with the condescension and ridicule, and maybe we can get some of the problems in our great country resolved. One side can’t do it without the other.

Huh? Everyone pays taxes.

[Anonymous]

Larry Hogan 2024

[Anonymous]

Opinion piece from WaPo today...

Trumpism is a lifestyle disease, chronic in America
A Trump supporter at a rally in mid-October in Greenville, N.C.
A Trump supporter at a rally in mid-October in Greenville, N.C. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

By

Philip Kennicott
Art and architecture critic
November 6, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST

Early in the afternoon after the election, I drove east into Washington from rural Virginia, past the old farmhouse with its small outbuildings that were probably slave quarters, past the hay bales painted red, white and blue and emblazoned with “Trump 2020,” past the battlefield at Manassas, preserved in memory of this country’s most devastating period of civil discord. Nothing about the American landscape struck me as beautiful, or quaint or appealingly rustic, as it sometimes has, and my mind refused the old dance of seeing the best in the things, the picturesque old cabins, the thought that the horses wouldn’t care what their hay once said, the charm of the old killing fields now green and placid and a welcome punctuation in the jumble of suburban sprawl.

No matter what happens to Donald Trump, and who assumes the presidency in January, we can say this: He brought the truth of America to the surface. I’ll leave his policies and his politics — to the extent that he ever had policies or coherent politics — to the pundits. As a critic, I can say that he embodied, embraced or inflamed almost everything ugly in American culture, past, present and perhaps future. He made it palpable and tangible even to people inclined to see the bright side of everything. That this week’s election wasn’t a repudiation of Trumpism, that some 6 million more Americans believe in it now than did four years ago, is horrifying. But it’s also reality, and it’s always best to face reality.

So true. I am a Biden supporter and I am still mentally prepared for Trump to win the election. Even a Biden victory is not a comfort for me because it is horrible that so many people are racists and backwards. I have no respect for America left and if I could leave, I would. I am ashamed to be an American, I am ashamed of this country, I am ashamed that this democracy with gerry mandering and electoral college is a joke, I am ashamed how the supreme court seats were filled, I am ashamed that Trump was ever the president, I am ashamed that we don't believe in Science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Asian-Americans drank the Kool aid that Blacks and Hispanics want to get rid of the gifted programs and so voted for Republicans. Guess they did not understand the "Divide And Conquer" philosophy of the White man from their own colonial past.

Thankfully, with Trump putting restrictions on student and h4 visas most super educated Asian American IT workers were already against the Republicans.

Now I just want all the racist old aunties and uncles to die off...because racists do not change their minds...they just get dementia, stroke and heart attack.

As for the UpCounty.... Poolesville will continue to have a population of rural poor White who resent that things are not great for them and they also resent all the "others" who come for the school and are gentrifying it. It is a catch-22 situation but a microcosm of why Trump appealed to his supporters. It is not because they are racists. It is because they are poor and others are not.

Asian Americans are screwed on both sides. Republicans want to divide and conquer and Democrats only want increased URM representation, so they are trying to choose between the lesser of two evils. Btw, Asian Am. IT workers like the visa restrictions bc they want less of their own coming here and increasing competition for jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Larry Hogan 2024

will be as successful as Martin O'Malley 2016.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Opinion piece from WaPo today...

Trumpism is a lifestyle disease, chronic in America
A Trump supporter at a rally in mid-October in Greenville, N.C.
A Trump supporter at a rally in mid-October in Greenville, N.C. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

By

Philip Kennicott
Art and architecture critic
November 6, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST

Early in the afternoon after the election, I drove east into Washington from rural Virginia, past the old farmhouse with its small outbuildings that were probably slave quarters, past the hay bales painted red, white and blue and emblazoned with “Trump 2020,” past the battlefield at Manassas, preserved in memory of this country’s most devastating period of civil discord. Nothing about the American landscape struck me as beautiful, or quaint or appealingly rustic, as it sometimes has, and my mind refused the old dance of seeing the best in the things, the picturesque old cabins, the thought that the horses wouldn’t care what their hay once said, the charm of the old killing fields now green and placid and a welcome punctuation in the jumble of suburban sprawl.

No matter what happens to Donald Trump, and who assumes the presidency in January, we can say this: He brought the truth of America to the surface. I’ll leave his policies and his politics — to the extent that he ever had policies or coherent politics — to the pundits. As a critic, I can say that he embodied, embraced or inflamed almost everything ugly in American culture, past, present and perhaps future. He made it palpable and tangible even to people inclined to see the bright side of everything. That this week’s election wasn’t a repudiation of Trumpism, that some 6 million more Americans believe in it now than did four years ago, is horrifying. But it’s also reality, and it’s always best to face reality.

So true. I am a Biden supporter and I am still mentally prepared for Trump to win the election. Even a Biden victory is not a comfort for me because it is horrible that so many people are racists and backwards. I have no respect for America left and if I could leave, I would. I am ashamed to be an American, I am ashamed of this country, I am ashamed that this democracy with gerry mandering and electoral college is a joke, I am ashamed how the supreme court seats were filled, I am ashamed that Trump was ever the president, I am ashamed that we don't believe in Science.

By my count, you have about another 194 countries to pick from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Asian-Americans drank the Kool aid that Blacks and Hispanics want to get rid of the gifted programs and so voted for Republicans. Guess they did not understand the "Divide And Conquer" philosophy of the White man from their own colonial past.

Thankfully, with Trump putting restrictions on student and h4 visas most super educated Asian American IT workers were already against the Republicans.

Now I just want all the racist old aunties and uncles to die off...because racists do not change their minds...they just get dementia, stroke and heart attack.

As for the UpCounty.... Poolesville will continue to have a population of rural poor White who resent that things are not great for them and they also resent all the "others" who come for the school and are gentrifying it. It is a catch-22 situation but a microcosm of why Trump appealed to his supporters. It is not because they are racists. It is because they are poor and others are not.

Asian Americans are screwed on both sides. Republicans want to divide and conquer and Democrats only want increased URM representation, so they are trying to choose between the lesser of two evils. Btw, Asian Am. IT workers like the visa restrictions bc they want less of their own coming here and increasing competition for jobs.

Please tell me what's wrong with that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Asian-Americans drank the Kool aid that Blacks and Hispanics want to get rid of the gifted programs and so voted for Republicans. Guess they did not understand the "Divide And Conquer" philosophy of the White man from their own colonial past.

Thankfully, with Trump putting restrictions on student and h4 visas most super educated Asian American IT workers were already against the Republicans.

Now I just want all the racist old aunties and uncles to die off...because racists do not change their minds...they just get dementia, stroke and heart attack.

As for the UpCounty.... Poolesville will continue to have a population of rural poor White who resent that things are not great for them and they also resent all the "others" who come for the school and are gentrifying it. It is a catch-22 situation but a microcosm of why Trump appealed to his supporters. It is not because they are racists. It is because they are poor and others are not.

Asian Americans are screwed on both sides. Republicans want to divide and conquer and Democrats only want increased URM representation, so they are trying to choose between the lesser of two evils. Btw, Asian Am. IT workers like the visa restrictions bc they want less of their own coming here and increasing competition for jobs.

Please tell me what's wrong with that?

DP..nothing inherently wrong with it, except if it comes at the expense of excluding others, ie affirmative action.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Asian-Americans drank the Kool aid that Blacks and Hispanics want to get rid of the gifted programs and so voted for Republicans. Guess they did not understand the "Divide And Conquer" philosophy of the White man from their own colonial past.

Thankfully, with Trump putting restrictions on student and h4 visas most super educated Asian American IT workers were already against the Republicans.

Now I just want all the racist old aunties and uncles to die off...because racists do not change their minds...they just get dementia, stroke and heart attack.

As for the UpCounty.... Poolesville will continue to have a population of rural poor White who resent that things are not great for them and they also resent all the "others" who come for the school and are gentrifying it. It is a catch-22 situation but a microcosm of why Trump appealed to his supporters. It is not because they are racists. It is because they are poor and others are not.

Asian Americans are screwed on both sides. Republicans want to divide and conquer and Democrats only want increased URM representation, so they are trying to choose between the lesser of two evils. Btw, Asian Am. IT workers like the visa restrictions bc they want less of their own coming here and increasing competition for jobs.

Please tell me what's wrong with that?

DP..nothing inherently wrong with it, except if it comes at the expense of excluding others, ie affirmative action.

So you're fine with increasing representation of under-represented groups, as long as it doesn't decrease representation of over-represented groups? Isn't that mathematically impossible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Asian-Americans drank the Kool aid that Blacks and Hispanics want to get rid of the gifted programs and so voted for Republicans. Guess they did not understand the "Divide And Conquer" philosophy of the White man from their own colonial past.

Thankfully, with Trump putting restrictions on student and h4 visas most super educated Asian American IT workers were already against the Republicans.

Now I just want all the racist old aunties and uncles to die off...because racists do not change their minds...they just get dementia, stroke and heart attack.

As for the UpCounty.... Poolesville will continue to have a population of rural poor White who resent that things are not great for them and they also resent all the "others" who come for the school and are gentrifying it. It is a catch-22 situation but a microcosm of why Trump appealed to his supporters. It is not because they are racists. It is because they are poor and others are not.

Asian Americans are screwed on both sides. Republicans want to divide and conquer and Democrats only want increased URM representation, so they are trying to choose between the lesser of two evils. Btw, Asian Am. IT workers like the visa restrictions bc they want less of their own coming here and increasing competition for jobs.

Please tell me what's wrong with that?

DP..nothing inherently wrong with it, except if it comes at the expense of excluding others, ie affirmative action.

Affirmative action is RACIST. Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A Trumper leads a life of selfpity, low self esteem and self hatred. They are fully aware that they are White and were given a lot of privileges. Their parents and grandparents did not have to go to college because post WW2 economy allowed them to have a decent life without education.

Republicans who do not want to pay taxes so that social services are funded for the poorest have told them that their problems are due to immigrants, gays, proLife people etc. They believe this because they are scared and think of everyone who is not White as "other".

Trumpers need to realize that their salvation will come when rich pay taxes and all the federal agencies uphold the rights and interests of Americans.

This is the stupidest thing I’ve read today. Rich people are the ONLY people who pay taxes. As for the rest of your drivel, you haven’t even come close to accurately describing the 70 million people in this country who subscribe to a different way of thinking from you. Neither of the two sides is right or wrong; they just favor a different approach to governing. Stop with the condescension and ridicule, and maybe we can get some of the problems in our great country resolved. One side can’t do it without the other.

Huh? Everyone pays taxes.

LOL someone needs to get woke!
47% of peoiple pay NO TAXES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

LOL someone needs to get woke!
47% of peoiple pay NO TAXES.

This would be true, if it were 2009, and the only taxes were federal income taxes.

However, not only is it 2020, but even in 2009, there were a lot of taxes that weren't federal income taxes. And there still are now.