***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[AEA18]

Tío Tomas tho?!

If the tap zapatos fit

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

 

[ninjahood]

4 years of guaranteed crying from ya...

imma love it.

this emasculated generation is about to get some well needed cojones.

stock market already can smell that growth GDP looming.

that gas & oil production boom bout drill down down & pop off.

ya bout to see what a real recovery looks like..strap in.

 

[trueprada]

 Clinton’s Popular Vote Lead Passes 2 Million 

 

[EddieDoyers]

What type of shares you got in stock market ninjahood ?

 

[Xennial]

@ksteezy For the longest I was having trouble understanding why @ninjahood was a Right Winger as well but this link below is the reason why.  He always talks about how "Murica" is great because of money and would point at the chart in the link below of the sheer amount of millionaires in this country and he's buying into that dream that Right Wingers sell of becoming a multi millionaire. 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmc...e-most-millionaires-infographic/#140194338b2f

 

[daddy style]

There are so many Ninjahood types in America, it isn't even funny anymore. This election has exposed them all, and all are going to get a serious let down. Those of you who thought that you weren't ******* because you supposedly worked hard or went to school? HA! Trump just told you that the plantations have reopened, and you are next in line! [emoji]128540[/emoji]Your whole game of trying to be better than those lazy black folk over there, you are not black, you are west indian. You are not black, you are dominican, or you are puerto rican with no "black" in you because you have straight hair, ****** have that nappy hair, and you "look white", guess what? You aint got the right papers, both you and your straight white looking hair is OUTTA here if Trump does his thing. You are getting in the way of the American people, and you ain't them! Don't mind me as I have fun with this, but hey, it is good to be BLACK right now, because being delusional about freedom has never been OUR problem. We wanted freedom for everyone, while others simply wanted to leave us behind. Well, toodles! lolololol

 

[Belgium]

The explanation for Ninja's views is much simpler. He has stated numerous times that he does not give a single damn about social issues.

He strictly cares about himself and nothing else except maybe his close family. He has proven countless times that he lacks even a shred of empathy for anything involving social issues. He gives zero damns about racism, LGBT rights, general xenophobia and bigotry, ... even if directed at people like himself.

When you have such extreme and selfish views, supporting the democrats is simply not an option.

 

[rolaholic]

 Clinton’s Popular Vote Lead Passes 2 Million 

I don't really blame any of the "not my president" folks at all at this point man ,2M votes is far from minute :x

 

[EddieDoyers]

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.time...-trump-stock-market/?source=dam?client=safari

Stocks? Don’t think about it. Bonds? No thank you.

Even while some Wall Streeters are saying Donald Trump’s presidency could result in stronger domestic growth and a boost to the stock market, a team of Goldman Sachs gs analysts led by top strategist Charles Himmelberg are saying, “Not going to happen.”

The prediction comes as part of the team’s annual not about the top ten market themes for 2017. Theme No.1: Utter disappointment.

Stocks already look expensive from a historical perspective, the team says. And Donald Trump is not going to help the matter. As a result, the Goldman analysts are expecting the S&P 500 Index to close at 2200 in 2017—just 18 points, or higher than where it is now. Goldman also expects the price of the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond to drop 0.50% in 2017. The yield, which moves in the opposite direction of price, will end the year up at 2.75%.

Trump’s plans to increase infrastructure spending and lower taxes could lift economic growth, the analysis say, but it will run right into the country’s—and the world’s—biggest problem, which is a shortage of workers. That will mute the amount boost the economy will get from Trump’s stimulus spending, and it will add to inflation.

Meanwhile, the productivity growth of the American worker is expected to continue slowing—despite improvements in technology—meaning the GDP is not expected to receive a helping hand on that front. Goldman expects GDP to increase just 2.1% next year. That’s a slight increase from last year, but it’s still less than what the rest of Wall Street is expecting.

“We are skeptical,” the team wrote. “Until more clear evidence accumulates showing that the outlook for productivity and trend growth has improved, the opportunity set for investors is likely to remain low.”

And not even Trump will be able to do anything about that.

 

[ninjahood]

My wife's cousin has been traveling here since a little girl with a visa, she gave birth to her son and daughter here, she's now here illegally because she wanted the best education for her kids, which would be here over DR and didn't want to be away from them, she's now looking for someone to marry, unfortunately is not as easy as a decade ago and chances are she will have to wait till her daughter is 18 to start the process, she gave up being an ortho surgeon with her own practice in DR to come here and be a waitress in order to keep her family together, this is one of MANY stories of immigrants in this city....these are your ***** people, b....how dare you side with a ******* that would straight up look at you and think you are inferior than him because of your skin color and to think I would ride with you when you would defend your Hispanic/Latino card....you don't deserve that ***** you are a white American trapped in a dark skinned body....riding our culture while secretly not giving a ***** about your own people.

and folks wondering where these hidden Trump voters were at... they were keeping their mouths shut so they ain't had to be inundated by whining & folks that gotta pull their skirt down.

 

[RustyShackleford]

He defended Jeff Sessions saying this
"Fundamentally, almost no one coming from the Dominican Republic to the United States is coming here because they have a provable skill that would benefit us and that would indicate their likely success in our society,”
So what do you think? 

:x

Who said that? Ninja? :x :x :x

Shame on you fam.

Hey bro, Ninja is harmless, don't we all have a homie like him that doesn't know any better.

 

[ninjahood]

Guaranteed Ninja ain't preaching this to his real life acquaintances, dudes in da heights, least the people I know, which ironically some are dudes that grew up around him would never accept this way of thinking....this is some next level sell out ****

there u go being naive again.

plenty of folks was out here ready & willing for a Trump Presidency. Dominicans bout our bread first...da folks i know who aint vote for Trump didn't vote at all cuz they sure wasn't gonna vote for Hillary's status quo self.

*sigh* inauguration can't come any sooner.. maybe when them jobs start flooding back ya get off ya snide and get this money, Reagan era style.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Ninja gonna go on a Hiatus again when Trump doesn't bring back any jobs and he can't afford da Hemi anymore....

im batting a 1000. so far...i suggest u keep working on ur batter.

It is batting 1.000 Ninja. Meaning you hit rate is 100%, "batting 1000" is just a colloquial term used because batting averages are calculated to the third decimal.

The way you wrote it, makes it look like you're saying you have a hit rate of 100000%

The DR is shaking their head at you right now

 

[ksteezy]

Hey bro, Ninja is harmless, don't we all have a homie like him that doesn't know any better.

I never really agreed on anything with him besides how he identifies himself because I chalked it up as an overly proud Latino man....which I no longer believe he is either....honestly as a Latino man myself I don't claim dude as one of us and neither should you guys as black men...dude doesn't belong in either of our groups, I sure as hell ain't gonna fight dude trying to claim him as a Latino man, that dude is no different to me than a white middle class male wing a confederate flag wth a tan....dude better not ever wave that Latino card in my presence again....smh...I would suggest ya do the same.

 

[EddieDoyers]

Hey ninja, you said the stock market is going to rise up and the economy will be good when trumponomics takes effect, what stocks would you invest in?

 

[RustyShackleford]

Guaranteed Ninja ain't preaching this to his real life acquaintances, dudes in da heights, least the people I know, which ironically some are dudes that grew up around him would never accept this way of thinking....this is some next level sell out ****

there u go being naive again.

plenty of folks was out here ready & willing for a Trump Presidency. Dominicans bout our bread first...da folks i know who aint vote for Trump didn't vote at all cuz they sure wasn't gonna vote for Hillary's status quo self.

*sigh* inauguration can't come any sooner.. maybe when them jobs start flooding back ya get off ya snide and get this money, Reagan era style.

And you had the guts to call people emasculated, YOU

 

[ksteezy]

there u go being naive again.

plenty of folks was out here ready & willing for a Trump Presidency. Dominicans bout our bread first...da folks i know who aint vote for Trump didn't vote at all cuz they sure wasn't gonna vote for Hillary's status quo self.

*sigh* inauguration can't come any sooner.. maybe when them jobs start flooding back ya get off ya snide and get this money, Reagan era style.

Fam cut it out....I don't know what Domonicans you speak of but I'm starting to believe I got a deeper connection with DR than you ever would....not a single Dominican I know and I know plenty is happy bout a Trump election....not him or whoever he's appointing represents us IN ANY POSSIBLE WAY.

 

[MVP]

Brother Roland hit it right on the head, they scared.

 

[leavemeglazzies]

I don't really blame any of the "not my president" folks at all at this point man

,2M votes is far from minute

20 times the popular vote lead of the 100k Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin votes that ended up deciding the election.

 "Democracy".

California, Oregon and Washington should give the hick states an ultimatum: Either get rid of the BS electoral vote or we secede and create the most awesomest country in the history of the world. Or just join Canada.

 

[son nelly]

 
The explanation for Ninja's views is much simpler. He has stated numerous times that he does not give a single damn about social issues.

He strictly cares about himself and nothing else except maybe his close family. He has proven countless times that he lacks even a shred of empathy for anything involving social issues. He gives zero damns about racism, LGBT rights, general xenophobia and bigotry, ... even if directed at people like himself.

When you have such extreme and selfish views, supporting the democrats is simply not an option.

You gotta realize that "social issues" don't matter for a lot of people. Its not part of their lives. And its not always just whites either. I live in NC, and got family in some low income counties like Robeson County, where there's whites, blacks, and tons of Lumbee native americans.

The US they see on TV/Social media is not the US they live in, but its still the US all the same. The "important issues" presented to them on TV don't mean a thing. Gay rights, immigrants, muslims, thats white noise. And even then they probably lean more right on those issues. The "Intense racial tension" being shown on TV isn't there, so they don't respond strongly to that. The whites, blacks, etc. all know each other anyway and live their lives. I can't say its like that for every area that went red, because some of them do have those problems, but I'd be a ton of them are like that.

The Social Issues can be debated and brought in, but not as the main issue. ESPECIALLY not the way its communicated to them on TV. You will never get their ear for one second if you have well off and rich minorities on news sites and social media lecturing poor whites about "White Privilege". And that went double for this state when a bunch of celebrities and corporations tried to pull the morality card on the entire state because of bathroom stuff no one actually living here knew or cared about.

 

[son nelly]

Waxing on about the popular vote is meaningless, really. The Electoral college is the rule and both candidates knew that and  campaigned accordingly for it. The Popular vote being the decider would have resulted in both of them campaigning differently to being with, and would probably have influenced voter turnout differently.

 

[Belgium]

Huffington Post took a closer look at AG Jeff Sessions' LGBT rights record. Senate document sources are linked in the article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-lgbt-rights_us_58346cd9e4b030997bc1524f

 
He voted in support of a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, against taking up a bill providing workplace discrimination protections for LGBTQ people, against repealing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and ― two  times  ― against expanding the definition of hate crimes to include attacks on people because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.

In 2014, a year after the Supreme Court struck down part of the now-defunct Defense of Marriage Act, Sessions co-sponsored a bill  that would allow the state definition of marriage to supersede the federal definition.

Sessions is currently co-sponsoring the First Amendment Defense Act, an extreme measure that would allow any taxpayer-funded organization to ignore laws that conflict with its religious beliefs about marriage. It opens the door to all kinds of discrimination against LGBTQ people. A state-contracted counselor, for example, could deny services to a lesbian mom. Taxpayer-funded adoption agencies could refuse to place children with same-sex married couples. Government employees could decline to file official forms for gay couples (see: Kim Davis, who went to jail for doing this). 

The Human Rights Campaign keeps an annual scorecard of how lawmakers fare on LGBTQ issues. Sessions’ score, year after year: zero.

His record on civil rights is equally dismal. In addition to opposing the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, he was rejected for a federal judgeship  in 1986 over allegations that he called a black attorney “boy,” suggested a white lawyer working for black clients was a race traitor and joked that the only issue he had with members of the Ku Klux Klan was their drug use.

“It is deeply disturbing that Jeff Sessions, who has such clear animus against so many Americans ― including the LGBTQ community, women and people of color ― could be charged with running the very system of justice designed to protect them,” said Chad Griffin, the president of Human Rights Campaign.

Sessions still has to be confirmed by the Senate. But his party controls the chamber and his current colleagues will be voting on his nomination, so he’s got a strong chance of making it through.

His immediate business as attorney general would include taking over the Justice Department’s lawsuit against North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ law, HB 2, which bars transgender people from using public bathrooms that match their gender identity.

Trump originally opposed that law, but he changed his mind in April and said states have a right  to pass whatever law they want.

What a wonderful person. Trump truly respects the LGBT community 

 

[daddy style]

I never really agreed on anything with him besides how he identifies himself because I chalked it up as an overly proud Latino man....which I no longer believe he is either....honestly as a Latino man myself I don't claim dude as one of us and neither should you guys as black men...dude doesn't belong in either of our groups, I sure as hell ain't gonna fight dude trying to claim him as a Latino man, that dude is no different to me than a white middle class male wing a confederate flag wth a tan....dude better not ever wave that Latino card in my presence again....smh...I would suggest ya do the same.

See, if he were getting a beatdown by a bunch of white guys and they were calling him the N word while doing so, I may possibly ask them to stop. This is due to the color of his skin, bur If it were Rusty or any other of ya'll, I'd jump in there, take a few down.

 

[deleted]

im batting a 1000. so far...i suggest u keep working on ur batter.

No

You tried to tell us that 8 days was equal to 2 weeks

Ty Cobb wouldn't do that

 

[sonoftony]

Guaranteed Ninja ain't preaching this to his real life acquaintances, dudes in da heights, least the people I know, which ironically some are dudes that grew up around him would never accept this way of thinking....this is some next level sell out ****

there u go being naive again.

plenty of folks was out here ready & willing for a Trump Presidency. Dominicans bout our bread first...da folks i know who aint vote for Trump didn't vote at all cuz they sure wasn't gonna vote for Hillary's status quo self.

*sigh* inauguration can't come any sooner.. maybe when them jobs start flooding back ya get off ya snide and get this money, Reagan era style.

Bruh, we about the same age. You was an infant during the Reagan era, stop it 5