Why are there so many Trump supporters on RIU?

[AKA Big Boss]

You Trumptards are so angry. You vile little shits would even attack kids who are objecting to getting shot at. It's always about you and your old white man entitlement. Your most effective tool is attacks on personal character. Which gets us to this:

Why the Parkland students have made pro-gun conservatives so mad


The American right is officially terrified of the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Those students, who rapidly turned themselves into activists and organizers after 17 of their fellow students and teachers were murdered at their school, have become the most visible face of this new phase of the gun debate, and conservatives are absolutely livid about it. As a consequence, they’re desperately arguing not just that the students are wrong in their suggestions for how gun policy should be changed, but also that they shouldn’t be speaking at all and ought to be ignored.

There are two critical reasons the right is having this reaction, one more obvious than the other. The plainer reason is that as people who were personally touched by gun violence and as young people — old enough to be informed and articulate but still children — the students make extremely sympathetic advocates, garnering attention and a respectful hearing for their views. The less obvious reason is that because of that status, the students take away the most critical tool conservatives use to win political arguments: the personal vilification of those who disagree with them.

So right now, conservatives are engaged in a two-pronged attempt to take it back. On the more extreme side, you have the social media trolls, the conspiracy theorists, the more repugnant media figures, who are offering insane claims that the students are paid agents of dark forces, and can therefore be ignored. On the more allegedly mainstream side, you have radio and television hosts who are saying that the students are naive and foolish, and should not by virtue of their victimhood be granted any special status — and can therefore be ignored.

The kid who tortured another kid so much he shot up a school.... man gotta love that unrelenting stupidity.

 

[AKA Big Boss]

What's GC?

Thought so. How goes it Jmick.

 

[UncleBuck]

Did Vice News forget to write the torches off on their taxes?

i don't know what vice news has to do with the torchlit nazi marches over statues of slave owners who fought lincoln

your side, the right, held those nazi marches and trump called them "very fine people" even after they murdered an innocent woman in a terrorist attack

why does your side have nazi marches in defense of slave owners who went to war with lincoln?

 

[Jimdamick]

Thought so. How goes it Jmick.

Do I know u?

 

[abalonehx]

Stupidity is repeating a debunked Trumptard meme over and over. Or is it Insanity? I think both....

 

[Fogdog]

The kid who tortured another kid so much he shot up a school.... man gotta love that unrelenting stupidity.

yeah

Trumptard unrelenting stupidity is amazing but I wouldn't say there is anything lovable about it.

Grab any pussies lately?

 

[UncleBuck]

When you have nothing of substance, you call names and hurl insults. Best way to judge whos winning and loosing.

 

[cogitech]

The initial post is puzzling. The question seems to indicate an assumption that all (most) pot smokers are lefties. Pot is an amazing plant with proven medicinal properties and extensive (thousands of years) of recreational use. Anyone, regardless of politcal beliefs, can benefit from this plant in some way.

Perhaps it is true that the majority of opponents to pot are right-wing, but this does not necessarily inform one about the feelings of all non-left people.

Evidence of this is playing itself out in Canada and some of the States right now. In Canada's case, there is pretty much a 50:50 split in red vs. blue votes. Yet a solid majority agrees that cannabis should be legalized - so it is happening.

This isn't a win for the left. It is a win for everyone who wishes to enjoy cannabis. And there are alot more "non-left" people enjoying cannabis than the OP realizes.

 

[UncleBuck]

Sometimes to amuse myself I head over to Huffpost and see where all this racial divide and conquer nonsense stems from. Not a lick of quality.

trump's campaign manager steve bannon ran a "news" outlet which had a "black crime" section

 

[Fogdog]

Do I know u?

Great thread, jimi. Your post was like shit to Trumptard flies.

 

[AKA Big Boss]

Hatred and obsession to the point of animalistic vehemence. Rabid is the better term, rabid hate for a guy that sais some dumb shit....

It's pretty sad. But it explains a lot.

 

[UncleBuck]

Especially when he starts cutting welfare from the leeches and those lazy fuckers have to start working for a living...

trump's base is uneducated whites

the counties hillary won account for 2/3 of the economy

 

[Jimdamick]

Maybe you should look up the definition of racism.

Oh, I know exactly what a racist is, cracker.

 

[UncleBuck]

Nah their all pussies who hide behind something (most of the time a keyboard but sometimes masks too). I aint fucking scared of any of you unicorn fairies. No sack all talk, or else they would have enlisted.

didn't you just say that name calling shows that you are "loosing"?

 

[AKA Big Boss]

The initial post is puzzling. The question seems to indicate an assumption that all (most) pot smokers are lefties. Pot is an amazing plant with proven medicinal properties and extensive (thousands of years) of recreational use. Anyone, regardless of politcal beliefs, can benefit from this plant in some way.

Perhaps it is true that the majority of opponents to pot are right-wing, but this does not necessarily inform one about the feelings of all non-left people.

Evidence of this is playing itself out in Canada and some of the States right now. In Canada's case, there is pretty much a 50:50 split in red vs. blue votes. Yet a solid majority agrees that cannabis should be legalized - so it is happening.

This isn't a win for the left. It is a win for everyone who wishes to enjoy cannabis. And there are alot more "non-left" people enjoying cannabis than the OP realizes.

Amen.

 

[UncleBuck]

Trudeau is an absolute nightmare for Canada. Opinion polls confirm this. He's a cuck puppet of the Globalists.

Sure, let him legalize weed, then get him the fuck out!

trudeau is very popular in canada and respected all around the world

tell us more about the globalists. what religion are they?

 

[Fogdog]

The initial post is puzzling. The question seems to indicate an assumption that all (most) pot smokers are lefties. Pot is an amazing plant with proven medicinal properties and extensive (thousands of years) of recreational use. Anyone, regardless of politcal beliefs, can benefit from this plant in some way.

Perhaps it is true that the majority of opponents to pot are right-wing, but this does not necessarily inform one about the feelings of all non-left people.

Evidence of this is playing itself out in Canada and some if the States right now. In Canada's case, there is pretty much a 50:50 split in red vs. blue votes. Yet a solid majority agrees that cannabis should be legalized - so it is happening.

This isn't a win for the left. It is a win for everyone who wishes to enjoy cannabis. And there are alot more "non-left" people enjoying cannabis than the OP realizes.

There is this difficulty that many of the rational folk who post here have with Republicans who insist on keeping MJ at the same regulatory level as heroine while they oppose states legalizing it.

Basically the idea is, if you'd support laws that would put people behind bars for years over a nugget then we don't understand why they would feel at home here. In fact we'd prefer that they not feel at home here.

 

[UncleBuck]

Mexico is paying for it .

not they aren;t, trump is asking for the money from congress. says he will shut down government if americans don;t pay for the wall that he promised mexico would pay for

 

[L30nPh3lps]

No, I'm really a Knight in shining armor, trying to jump over a bunch of white, racist pawns, like you, to capture the King (Trump) and chop off his fucking head, and end this fucked up game he created

Yea bashing a whole race and polarizing both sides is totally how we’re gonna mend our differences and stop letting the powerful few divide and conquer...

 

[UncleBuck]

If I believe what? You think Mexico is in the position to bend us over again?
Yeah sure they are.

"They can pay for it indirectly through NAFTA," Trump told the Journal. "We make a good deal on NAFTA, and, say, I’m going to take a small percentage of that money and it’s going toward the wall. Guess what? Mexico’s paying."

They are paying for the wall if they want NAFTA.

trump does not make good deals though, only bad ones