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Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
No, this is NOT from the Onion: Trump: GOP 'must do better' on African-American outreach. politico
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Donald Trump, whose campaign has been embroiled in countless racial controversies, called on the Republican Party to improve its outreach to black voters on Saturday.
“Outreach to the African-American community is an area where the Republican Party must do better,” said Trump, at an evening campaign stop in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
I don't know if he is that unself-aware or that cynical. Either way, he is just that pathetic.
it's more the lack of self-aware. Hmm Being self-aware shows critical thinking and being honest about one's self. I don't find either of those characteristics to be a part of Donald Trump's reality.


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his surrogates say the Dems are hypocritical for saying at one time he is not reaching out and then when he does, it is because he is cynical .... somewhere in there I believe there is a disconnect


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I think the biggest disconnect comes from the white supremacist followers who he refuses to disown.

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OAKTON, Va. — Jared Taylor hits play, and the first Donald Trump ad of the general election unfolds across his breakfast table. Syrian refugees streaming across a border. Hordes of immigrants, crowded onto trains.

“Donald Trump’s America is secure,” rumbles a narrator. “Terrorists and dangerous criminals kept out. The border, secure; our families, safe.”

Taylor, one of America’s foremost “racialists,” is impressed and relieved. “That’s a powerful appeal,” he said. “If he can just stick to that, he is in very good shape.”

From his Fairfax County home, Taylor has edited the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance and organized racialist conferences under the “AmRen” banner. He said that Trump should “concentrate on his natural constituency, which is white people,” suggesting that winning 65 percent of the white vote would overwhelm any Democratic gains with minorities.

When Trump made Breitbart News CEO Steve Bannon his campaign’s chief executive last week, Taylor found reasons to celebrate. It was the latest sign for white nationalists, once dismissed as fringe, that their worldview was gaining popularity and that the old Republican Party was coming to an end.

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after all he is MR BREXIT .... one of the underlying principles of this movement was bigotry/xenophobia .... hard for anyone to escape who they really are


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That lack of awareness of how badly you have offended some people is typical psychopath behavior. It does not surprise me at all, but I have lived with psychopaths. Most people have not, so this seems strange.

The major defect in psychopathy is the inability to construct mental models of other people. This leads to lack of empathy, poor predictions of how other people will react, what is interpreted as strange behavior by others, construction of false realities (seen as pathological lying by others), etc.

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Newsweek has yet another informative article on Trump this week: This time they are talking about his real finances. (Not his fantasies.) Apparently he is in debt to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars when you add it all up. He can't escape via corporate isolation this time, because he countersigned some huge loans and just about every one of his businesses is in the red. Unless he wins the Presidency and can manipulate a whole bunch of things, he is headed into personal bankruptcy.

My opinion: And perhaps being killed by any number of the more criminal lenders. I think he is going to lose badly and will share the fate of Jimmy Hoffa. You just can't stiff that many people and not have one of them take out a hit on you.

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LOL channeling each other again, Zeke. link.


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Oh yeah lol - I missed your link grin - brings to mind the old adage about "great minds"... smile


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It's all good, my friend. It's hard not to with all of Trump's bad press.


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Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
Newsweek has yet another informative article on Trump this week: This time they are talking about his real finances. (Not his fantasies.) Apparently he is in debt to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars when you add it all up. He can't escape via corporate isolation this time, because he countersigned some huge loans and just about every one of his businesses is in the red. Unless he wins the Presidency and can manipulate a whole bunch of things, he is headed into personal bankruptcy.

My opinion: And perhaps being killed by any number of the more criminal lenders. I think he is going to lose badly and will share the fate of Jimmy Hoffa. You just can't stiff that many people and not have one of them take out a hit on you.
PIA, I went to Newsweek and didn't find the article. Do you have a link? smile


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