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America's Great Divide

PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 41,834
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https://www.pbs.org/video/americas-great-divide-from-obama-to-trump-part-one-8wtjss/

Two part series on Frontline. The Throbber watched Part One yesterday and will have Part Two on while he tends to his chicken today.

Very well done. Highly recommend.

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    BendintheriverBendintheriver Member Posts: 5,305
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    Jeezus Throbber. That is a genuflect on one knee, play his skin flute, homage to BO. It portrays anyone who isn't a rat as racist and it is most definitely written to be a hit job on Trump.

    I knew what I was getting into when I saw it was pbs, but that video goes beyond my lowest expectation. What it did do though was remind me that the rats used Charleston as an opportunity to paint the American Right as racist. One fucking psycho kills and everyone who disagrees with the far left is racist. 6% of the population in this country (black males) are responsible for 44% of the murders and not a mention. It is all about the racist white Republicans. Wow!

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    SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,920
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    Bendintheriver said:

    Jeezus Throbber. That is a genuflect on one knee, play his skin flute, homage to BO. It portrays anyone who isn't a rat as racist and it is most definitely written to be a hit job on Trump.

    I knew what I was getting into when I saw it was pbs, but that video goes beyond my lowest expectation. What it did do though was remind me that the rats used Charleston as an opportunity to paint the American Right as racist. One fucking psycho kills and everyone who disagrees with the far left is racist. 6% of the population in this country (black males) are responsible for 44% of the murders and not a mention. It is all about the racist white Republicans. Wow!

    The Rats don't need any opportunity in order to paint Republicans as racists. It's been their default position now for nearly 50 years. And if they can't find a good incident to use in order to make their charge, they'll make one up. Hands Up Don't shoot!!!
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    BendintheriverBendintheriver Member Posts: 5,305
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    SFGbob said:

    Bendintheriver said:

    Jeezus Throbber. That is a genuflect on one knee, play his skin flute, homage to BO. It portrays anyone who isn't a rat as racist and it is most definitely written to be a hit job on Trump.

    I knew what I was getting into when I saw it was pbs, but that video goes beyond my lowest expectation. What it did do though was remind me that the rats used Charleston as an opportunity to paint the American Right as racist. One fucking psycho kills and everyone who disagrees with the far left is racist. 6% of the population in this country (black males) are responsible for 44% of the murders and not a mention. It is all about the racist white Republicans. Wow!

    The Rats don't need any opportunity in order to paint Republicans as racists. It's been their default position now for nearly 50 years. And if they can't find a good incident to use in order to make their charge, they'll make one up. Hands Up Don't shoot!!!
    HH and his belief in "Hands Up Don't Shoot!!!!!!!!! Bless his heart....
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    PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 41,834
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    RaceBannon said:

    I passed on this one because Frontline. The Throbber recommendation carries some weight but still undecided

    America always seems to be divided when a GOP (allegedly) wins the White House. Its all butterflies and rainbows when a Democrat is there

    Bi partisan is agreeing with the left and giving them what they want. Partisanship is doing what your conservative base elected you to do which is also divisive. And racist

    I found it to be a good refresher of 'how' we got to where we have. 2008 was all hope and change and unity and hugs....and in less than a decade, reasonable people are pissed off at the extremes.

    Obama pushed the wrong buttons when he embarrassed Trump at the DC Correspondents Dinner. That's the day the world changed imho.

    Also pretty interesting too to watch the clip of Ann Coulter on Bill Mahrer literally getting laughed at by the leftists when she predicted Trump would win. Like guffaws and knee slapping. Which shows how out of touch the left had become to a rising tide of discontent.

    After I tend to my chicken, planning on watching Part 2 this afternoon.



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    PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 41,834
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    SFGbob said:

    PurpleThrobber said:

    RaceBannon said:

    I passed on this one because Frontline. The Throbber recommendation carries some weight but still undecided

    America always seems to be divided when a GOP (allegedly) wins the White House. Its all butterflies and rainbows when a Democrat is there

    Bi partisan is agreeing with the left and giving them what they want. Partisanship is doing what your conservative base elected you to do which is also divisive. And racist

    I found it to be a good refresher of 'how' we got to where we have. 2008 was all hope and change and unity and hugs....and in less than a decade, reasonable people are pissed off at the extremes.

    Obama pushed the wrong buttons when he embarrassed Trump at the DC Correspondents Dinner. That's the day the world changed imho.

    Also pretty interesting too to watch the clip of Ann Coulter on Bill Mahrer literally getting laughed at by the leftists when she predicted Trump would win. Like guffaws and knee slapping. Which shows how out of touch the left had become to a rising tide of discontent.

    After I tend to my chicken, planning on watching Part 2 this afternoon.



    2008 was all hope and change and unity and hugs....and in less than a decade, reasonable people are pissed off at the extremes.

    2008 was all Hope and Change because that's the way the media sold it. The Media now sells Trump as the next Hitler who thinks the Klan are fine people and all Mexicans are rapists and shockingly people are pissed off.
    I'm not debating that or bias by PBS even in this presentation. Over 12 years in the course of events, there was a lot of 'oh, yeah...I forgot about that' moments recollected while watching the episode(s).

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    SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,920
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    What made Obama unique and new wasn't that he was black or his name. What made him unique was that he was the first anti-American, American President. Obama sold racial healing and Hope and Change but he governed just like the hack Chicago Pol he was. He had no problem using the power of the Federal Government to attack his political opponents, he had no problem making appeals based upon race, and he had an army of surrogates that included the media that would savage anyone who criticized him as a racist.

    All you need to recall is the way Obama and the Rats went after Palin in 2008 and it refutes the bullshit about Obama trying to bring us together.
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    2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
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    SFGbob said:

    What made Obama unique and new wasn't that he was black or his name. What made him unique was that he was the first anti-American, American President. Obama sold racial healing and Hope and Change but he governed just like the hack Chicago Pol he was. He had no problem using the power of the Federal Government to attack his political opponents, he had no problem making appeals based upon race, and he had an army of surrogates that included the media that would savage anyone who criticized him as a racist.

    All you need to recall is the way Obama and the Rats went after Palin in 2008 and it refutes the bullshit about Obama trying to bring us together.

    Da fuq are you even talking about? Anti America American l president. Lol

    And El oh El on Palin. Making fun of her for stupid shit she said is totally worse than calling her a Muslim born in Kenya.

    You are a giant pussy. HTH
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    SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,920
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    Weird the way they left out of the clip Obama saying he didn't know all the facts but that the police acted stupidly. Obama turned that Gates incident into a racial issue. The cops didn't and the press didn't. Obama made that an issue for no other reason that the cop was white and Gates was black and then cries about the reaction of the right?

    Also, no mention that Obama's claim that Obamacare wouldn't cover illegal was a lie. The OUTRAGE was over Saint Obama correctly being called a liar.

    This documentary is pure partisan crap.
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    MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,781
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    SFGbob said:

    Weird the way they left out of the clip Obama saying he didn't know all the facts but that the police acted stupidly. Obama turned that Gates incident into a racial issue. The cops didn't and the press didn't. Obama made that an issue for no other reason that the cop was white and Gates was black and then cries about the reaction of the right?

    Also, no mention that Obama's claim that Obamacare wouldn't cover illegal was a lie. The OUTRAGE was over Saint Obama correctly being called a liar.

    This documentary is pure partisan crap.

    If obama had a son he'd look like Trayvon martin.

    If I were the cop in the Gates deal I would have told Obama to fuck off when told about the "beer summit". JFC.
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    SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,920
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    All the opposition to Obama is depicted as coming from anger and racism. And the gall of the motherfucker who's entire political party is now consumed with racial identity politics warning about voices urging us to fall back into our respective tribes is just too fucking rich. Obama spent 8 years hyping racial politics. The son of bitch hired Al Sharpton to be the head of his get out the vote effort and then turns around and condemns anyone who might play racial politics? Look in the mirror motherfucker, your entire Presidency was about racial and ethnic politics.
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    ThomasFremont said:

    BUMP

    Meltdown bump
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    Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,833
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    That was a good series. I'd recommend watching the Bannon, Reich, and Coulter interviews in Youtube. There was a pollster too. Frank Lutz or something. He gets kind of weepy. It's annoying.
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    PurpleThrobber said:

    RaceBannon said:

    I passed on this one because Frontline. The Throbber recommendation carries some weight but still undecided

    America always seems to be divided when a GOP (allegedly) wins the White House. Its all butterflies and rainbows when a Democrat is there

    Bi partisan is agreeing with the left and giving them what they want. Partisanship is doing what your conservative base elected you to do which is also divisive. And racist

    I found it to be a good refresher of 'how' we got to where we have. 2008 was all hope and change and unity and hugs....and in less than a decade, reasonable people are pissed off at the extremes.

    Obama pushed the wrong buttons when he embarrassed Trump at the DC Correspondents Dinner. That's the day the world changed imho.

    Also pretty interesting too to watch the clip of Ann Coulter on Bill Mahrer literally getting laughed at by the leftists when she predicted Trump would win. Like guffaws and knee slapping. Which shows how out of touch the left had become to a rising tide of discontent.

    After I tend to my chicken, planning on watching Part 2 this afternoon.
    To me it isn't that complicated. The left has continued to move further and further to the left, while criticizing the right for being unreasonable. Has the right not given in on Gay Marriage? Have the right not given a wink & nod to abortion for 50 years while objecting to "Shout Your Abortion" type libs?

    It's the slow creep of socialism, with shit like Zinn's "People's" History of the US and the NYT 1619 project greasing the skids for the ultimate overthrow of the Capitalist system in favor of what the hard & far left thinks is better.

    Unfortunately, the US is not the racist, xenophobic, oppressive nation the left needs to believe and propagandize about to get their wish, so the pendulum is going to smack their power-hungry little asses about every 8 years or so when they go too far.

    Obama let too many "critical theory" educated termites into his Administration, hired his inept basketball buddy Arne Duncan to run the Dept of Ed, and appointed his flunky, unqualified, POS partisan buddy Erik Holder as AG. To many Americans, it showed Obama to be an ideologue, reckless, careless, and throwing his lot in with power-hungry, America-last group of assholes who lust for power and unwarranted "revenge" - but which really means getting power and riches at the expense of the voters they act like they care about.

    I like Obama, still. But as a two time supporter, I can also say he was a pretty weak, ineffectual President, especially in his 2nd Term.
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