Anonymous
Post 03/24/2024 15:44     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:
I've never heard of this, and I bet this guy didn't mean to insult anyone.

Also, I find it exhausting how everyone has to police every single word they say and if you say ONE word out of line, you get thrown to the wolves. I vote left or centrist, but I do notice that it's the left that has the most hair-trigger response to any word out of place. If they want more people to vote for them, they should calm the heck down!



Thank you!!! It gets boring. It's a distraction that derails progress. Sure if someone is saying terrible things IN context or more damaging - acting out terrible things, pay attention.

I had to find the word which I heard first (& only) in 1 of the songs in Spike Lee's movie School Daze.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2024 11:29     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trone has admitted he used a racist term. Why are you making excuses for this mediocre white man?


No one is making excuses. He admitted and apologized. Move on. What is absurd here is those calling him an outright racist for misspeaking??


DP. I mean, let's be real. If he was a Republican and had made the same mistake, this thread would be hundreds of pages long, excoriating him for his "racism" and calling for his resignation. And you know this to be true.


At least with Trump I know this to be false. Trump would not behave like Trone and admit what he said and apologize. Trump would either deny he ever said it or blame the "radical left, Marxist, anarchist, Antifa" press for reporting it.


We know what Trump is. There's no filter. There's no hidden agenda. There is no 4D chess going on.

BTW, this thread is about Trone.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2024 10:38     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trone has admitted he used a racist term. Why are you making excuses for this mediocre white man?


No one is making excuses. He admitted and apologized. Move on. What is absurd here is those calling him an outright racist for misspeaking??


DP. I mean, let's be real. If he was a Republican and had made the same mistake, this thread would be hundreds of pages long, excoriating him for his "racism" and calling for his resignation. And you know this to be true.


At least with Trump I know this to be false. Trump would not behave like Trone and admit what he said and apologize. Trump would either deny he ever said it or blame the "radical left, Marxist, anarchist, Antifa" press for reporting it.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2024 02:13     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:Larry Hogan supporter here. I love what I'm seeing in this thread. The democrat ideological purity tests never fail. Here in republican land, we band together and realize that the goal is bigger than our differences. And we show up to vote no matter how much we might dislike the candidate.


Party before country. At least you’re honest. Even when differences are about deeply unethical behavior, Republicans do band together.
Anonymous
Post 03/24/2024 02:10     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'll bet if you polled 100 random people, maybe 1 has ever heard of this racial slur.


Agree 100%


Meh. If you polled 100 Blacks they’d all know it.


But only about 1 out of 5 Black Democratic voters would vote for Alsobrooks. PG is a sorry proving ground for a governor.


While your opinion might be the same, this is about a Senate race — which might require different political calculations.

Hogan with a Democratic state legislature is not quite the same as adding another Republican to the Senate.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2024 23:17     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trone has admitted he used a racist term. Why are you making excuses for this mediocre white man?


No one is making excuses. He admitted and apologized. Move on. What is absurd here is those calling him an outright racist for misspeaking??


DP. I mean, let's be real. If he was a Republican and had made the same mistake, this thread would be hundreds of pages long, excoriating him for his "racism" and calling for his resignation. And you know this to be true.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2024 22:27     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious that people come in here and parade their own ignorance as a way to absolve the use of a racist term.


+1
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2024 22:10     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:Affirmative action, gone. Loan/grant programs for minorities, struck down. Job programs for minorities, struck down. Government contracting set-asides for minority-owned businesses, struck down. Any program that was meant to help minorities is now unconstitutional. All courtesy of Trump-appointed judges.

But sure, let's play the false equivalence game and act like Trone is the same as Trump/Hogan.


After May 14, we might need to choose between Trone and Hogan. But until then we can choose between Trone and Alsobrooks. (I am undecided but currently leaning toward Alsobrooks.)

FWIW, I do think this is a tempest in a teapot. There is no context in which Trone was trying to denigrate anyone, and it is a very plausible verbal miscue.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2024 19:49     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'll bet if you polled 100 random people, maybe 1 has ever heard of this racial slur.


Agree 100%


Meh. If you polled 100 Blacks they’d all know it.


But only about 1 out of 5 Black Democratic voters would vote for Alsobrooks. PG is a sorry proving ground for a governor.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2024 18:19     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:For those who never heard it you must not have seen Police Academy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98f_930TlLg


I did see it 40 years ago and didn’t remember that scene (didn’t remember much from the movie except that guy who could make funny sounds and that steve Gutenberg starred). I’d guess very few people under 50 have seen it.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2024 17:44     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:Trone has admitted he used a racist term. Why are you making excuses for this mediocre white man?


No one is making excuses. He admitted and apologized. Move on. What is absurd here is those calling him an outright racist for misspeaking??
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2024 17:40     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
It's hilarious that people come in here and parade their own ignorance as a way to absolve the use of a racist term.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2024 17:08     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
For those who never heard it you must not have seen Police Academy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98f_930TlLg
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2024 16:50     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Trone has admitted he used a racist term. Why are you making excuses for this mediocre white man?


Have you looked at Trone's accomplishments, including for black people? Maybe we don't judge people based on one slip of the tongue. I get that you want Alsobrooks to win, and that's fine, but she likely won't, and democrats should rally behind whomever the nominee is and not let Russian trolls divide them.


Oh, ok.

So, we need the white-knight Trone, to rescue us? Is that it?


If you think you're better off with a Republican-controlled Senate, you should vote accordingly.


I know what I am getting when I vote Republican.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2024 16:48     Subject: Trone in trouble over racial slur
Larry Hogan supporter here. I love what I'm seeing in this thread. The democrat ideological purity tests never fail. Here in republican land, we band together and realize that the goal is bigger than our differences. And we show up to vote no matter how much we might dislike the candidate.