Donald Trump to Confederate flag: You’re fired!

politico ^ | 6-23-2015 | ADAM B. LERNER

[Citizen Zed]

Donald Trump spent the majority of his first news conference following last week’s presidential announcement talking up his new golf course, though he did weigh in on two key political issues up for debate.

When asked whether he supported South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s decision to call for the Confederate battle flag to be taken down from out front of the State Capitol building, Trump said he did.

“I would take it down, yes,” the billionaire real estate mogul said. “I think they should put it in a museum and respect whatever it is you have to respect.”

Then, when asked what woman he would like to see on the new $10 bill, he responded — to laughter — “My mother.”

The questions came after Trump spoke outside his Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. There, Trump reiterated his offer to let President Obama play on the course, but said he hasn’t yet heard back from the White House.

“I would say I’m probably not his favorite person in the world,” Trump said of the commander-in-chief, though he did note that he had a helicopter pad available on-site and that Obama could travel across the Potomac River to the course relatively quickly.

Trump has been in the race only a week — and has never held elective office — but polls give him a real shot at one of the 10 slots on the Republican debate stage this August. According to Fox News, the co-sponsor of the debate, the top 10 contenders will be determined according to an average of national polls — though the network hasn’t disclosed which ones.

A poll of likely New Hampshire voters released Tuesday by Suffolk University found Trump garnering 11 percent of votes, trailing only former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s 14 percent. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio both finished with support below 10 percent.

Still, a national poll of Republican primary voters released Monday by the WSJ and NBC news was far less sanguine for The Donald. Only 1 percent of respondents listed Trump as their top choice and two-thirds said that they could never imagine supporting him.

[SeekAndFind]

If we are going to ban the Confederate Flag as a symbol of slavery, then to be consistent, we have to ban the Stars and Stripes too.

It flew over slavery and slave transporting ships for much, much longer than any flag of the Confederacy. If the logic is that the flag flew over slave-owning lands, then the Stars and Stripes has to go, as well.

Heck, even the Ku Klux Klan flew the Stars and Stripes in their rallies...



If we go down that road, we will continue to be lopsided in our views, unaware of our own history.


So What's next? Are they going to take down the Flag of the United States too?

By capitulating because an evil nutjob like Dylann Roof slaughtered 9 innocent black Christians, aren’t folks like Trump providing incentive for the next nutjob to do something similar?

Not just that but anything someone decides is politically incorrect in the future. He probably knows that some are calling for the tearing down of monuments and statues, re-naming military bases, what about US 11 the Robert E. Lee Memorial Highway? Their pandering is not going to gain them any support it’s going to cost them, all this going on at a time when all the Republicans have to do to win the WH, Senate and House is to unify those who traditionally support them and they start by attacking Conservatives and then adopting democrat policies and spending us into oblivion and refusing to stand up to Obama and his illegal actions.

If we are going to ban the Confederate Flag as a symbol of slavery, then to be consistent, we have to ban the Stars and Stripes too.

It flew over slavery and slave transporting ships for much, much longer than any flag of the Confederacy. If the logic is that the flag flew over slave-owning lands, then the Stars and Stripes has to go, as well.

Heck, even the Ku Klux Klan flew the Stars and Stripes in their rallies...



If we go down that road, we will continue to be lopsided in our views, unaware of our own history.


So What's next? Are they going to take down the Flag of the United States too?

[American Constitutionalist]

Isn’t much different than those Republican politicians who crumpled up like a cheap accordian wet noodle when faced with standing up for religious freedom.

Ted Cruz is the only one who has showed courage in the face of opposition.

[American Constitutionalist]

Friends don’t let friends jump on flash in the pan band wagons.

[American Constitutionalist]

From Trumped to dumped, many are jumping off his flash in the pan band wagon.

[South40]

From Trumped to dumped, many are jumping off his flash in the pan band wagon.

If they havn't already, he is sure to embarrass himself and his followers to the point they will.

[GeronL]

I agree

[American Constitutionalist]

The itchy ears canidates window shoppers are on this one: Trumped, then Rumored, then finally Stumpted to go where next.

It just galls them to turn and realize that Ted Cruz is the only conservative candate to support.

Rand Toast Paul disappointed them also.

Hey Cruz haters ? The Ayatollah of Iran is available as a candidate to vote for if your reaching and scratching the bottom of the barrel.

It must really galls ya all and sucks to have to face and admit it that you might just have to vote for him in the general election in 2016.

They might just cut off their nose to spite their face and vote for Hillary or Berney.

That’s how deep their hatred of Ted Cruz is.

Pityful.

[American Constitutionalist]

I hate those auto correction checker software.

I meant, those supporters of Donald Trump.

They went from Trumped, then, Dumped, to finally Stumpted, where to go next ?

[South40]

I find it both sad yet interesting that anyone here on the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism would hate the most conservative man in the race while supporting the man who is, undoubtedly, one of the most liberal men to ever run with an R next to his name.

[American Constitutionalist]

Spot on, and yet ? They get offended if they are called out on it.

[South40]

It’s a typical liberal response. They all do it.

[nickcarraway]

Bump

[nickcarraway]

Never Trumper.

[chris37]

Would appear he has changed his mind on that, don’t it?

[nickcarraway]

Who is he?

Anyway, the power of the media to change people's mind is amazing.

[Just mythoughts]

(credit to rodguy911 for posting) When the hyenas and dragons start screaming what the swamp monsters are going to do, perhaps it might do well to be appraised of what the Trump administration has already accomplished.

Just in case anyone asks what the President has done since he took office here’s just a few things:
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1. Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch

2. 59 missiles dropped in Syria

3. He took us out of TPP

4. Illegal immigration is now down 70%( the lowest in 17 years)

5. Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index 125.6

6. Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a seven year high

7. Arranged from 7% to 24% Tariff on lumber from Canada

8. Bids for border wall are well underway

9. Pulled out of the lopsided Paris accord

10. Keystone pipeline approved

11. NATO allies boost spending by 4.3%

12. Allowing VA to terminate bad employees

13. Allowing private healthcare choices for veterans

14. More than 600,000 Jobs created

15. Median household income at a 7 year high

16. The Stock Market is at the highest ever in its history

17. China agreed to American import of beef

18. $89 Billion saved in regulation rollbacks

19. Rollback of A Regulation to boost coal mining

20. MOAB for ISIS

21. Travel ban reinstated

22. Executive order for religious freedom

23. Jump started NASA

24. $600 million cut from UN peacekeeping budget

25. Targeting of MS13 gangs

26. Deporting violent illegal immigrants

27. Signed 41 bills to date

28. Created a commission on child trafficking

29. Created a commission on voter fraud

30. Created a commission for opioids addiction

31. Giving power to states to drug test unemployment recipients

32. Unemployment lowest since May 2007

33. Historic Black College University initiative

34. Women In Entrepreneurship Act

35. Created an office for illegal immigrant crime victims

36. Reversed Dodd-Frank

37. Repealed DOT ruling which would have taken power away from local governments for infrastructure planning

38. Order to stop crime against law enforcement

39. End of DAPA program

40. Stopped companies from moving out of America

41. Promoted businesses to create American Jobs

42. Encouraged country to once again - ‘Buy American and hire American’

43. Cutting regulations - 2 for every one created

45. Review of all trade agreements to make sure they are America first

46. Apprentice program

47. Highest manufacturing surge in 3 years

48. $78 Billion promised reinvestment from major businesses like Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota

49. Denied FBI a new building

50. $700 million saved with F-35 renegotiation

51. Saves $22 million by reducing white house payroll

52. Dept of Treasury reports a $182 billion surplus for April 2017 (2nd largest in history)

53. Negotiated the release of 6 US humanitarian workers held captive in Egypt

54. Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years

55. Signed An Executive Order To Promote Energy Independence and Economic Growth

56. Has already accomplished more to stop government interference into people’s lives than any President in the history of America

57. President Trump has worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any President since Truman

58. Has given head executive of each branches 6 month time frame, dated March 15, 2017, to trim the fat, restructure and improve efficiency of their branch. (Observe the push-back the leaks the lies as entrenched POWER refuses to go silently into that good night!)

59. Last, refused his Presidential pay check. Donated it to Veterans issues

I hope each and every one of you copy and paste this every where, every time you hear some dimwit say Trump hadn’t done a thing!

Ray Schneider, PhD
Associate Professor Emeritus
Bridgewater College

[nickcarraway]

Admittedly it’s a small sample size, but, so far Gorsuch ranks between Souter and O’Connor. At the same point in John Roberts’ SCOTUS career, we though he was great. Too early not to say Gorsuch is a John Paul Stevens or David Souter.

[Just mythoughts]

Speak for yourself on Roberts.. I did not put this list together.. as noted by the person who did at the bottom of the list...

The weight of this nation, it might be said, weighs upon whether or not Gorsuch will fulfill his oath of office. Few, these days do.

I thought it proper, to demonstrate that President Trump is far more conservative than any of the host, of other election 2016, primary contenders.

[nickcarraway]

I thought it proper, to demonstrate that President Trump is far more conservative than any of the host, of other election 2016, primary contenders.

I think it's the reverse is true. And the media did everything in their power to drive the other 16 out.

[Just mythoughts]

I think it's the reverse is true. And the media did everything in their power to drive the other 16 out.

You watched a different election... Conservative 'media' mouth and words were never for Trump... the mass media made big money off promoting Trump as the 'orange baboon'. Because, they all had Rick Wilson's dirty dossier in the top drawer to end Trump's campaign... Trump rallies and are what won him the election... Maybe you watched at least one of them? Now there are two sitting senators who thought they were entitled to leave their Senate work and use donors dollars to get to the White House... and for all they have accomplished they could still be out campaigning on some one else dime.