2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFreepers blame minorities
Yep, they claim they lost not because their policies were bad, but because those darn minorities showed up higher than normal levels." The OP was about minority turnout, everything posted afterwards is in that context. I cant even begin to explain their statements. So Ill post a few and let them stand for themselves.
Here are some of their comments.
Higher turnout from the plantation population. Lower turnout overall. Plantation Party wins.
Ok, so minorities are all takers who are obsessed with only voting for their own race (so hispanics voted for a black guy?) and they deserved to be met with a shotgun. Oh, and it's also perfectly acceptable to use a jim crow dialect in meaningful discussion
Remember, tea baggers arent racist. There is nothing racial about any of them or their political beliefs.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)...that's why they call them the "Party of personal responsibility".
Daniel537
(1,560 posts)Lets people know who these bastards really are. The 50s are gone, assholes. Sayonara.
johnnyrocket
(1,773 posts)...not much introspection going on in these racist white regions of the country.
barnabas63
(1,214 posts)plenty of stupid statements written on that topic as well.
Firebirds01
(576 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Like Bill Maher says, "There are two things Republicans don't like, (1) being called a racist; and (2) . . . . . . . . .Black people.
Let em whine.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
calico1
(8,391 posts)I am one of those so called "takers." Puerto Rican American, born and raised in NY, live in CT now.
I have worked at least p-t since I was 16.
I am sick to death of these ignoramuses.
Do they know that most of the real "takers" are in Red States?
Firebirds01
(576 posts)earned it through hard work. Just like how Joe the Plumber, Paul Ryan, Romney's grandfather, so on all benefited from some form of "handout." But they are white so they earned it. Minorities dont work, they just make babies and take.
calico1
(8,391 posts)Silly me.
And even though I have worked since 16 and have never "taken" anything except unemployment (which companies pay into) I am a taker.
GETTINGTIRED
(330 posts)that the narrow minded, backwards thinking folks of the world, which they are, are now the minority.....
Filibuster Harry
(666 posts)Monday night I watched some FOX -- yes that's right.
Funny thing -- Dick Morris predicted a 325 - 213 Romney Landslide and my friend, I am kidding of course, Ann Coulter also predicted a Romney win. And she stated that the Democrats would not accept Romney's election and blame the republicans on voter suppression.
Really? So today Morris' numbers are close but his outcome was wrong -- VERY WRONG. And now instead of a voter suppression they blame it because more voters turned out? Isn't that what voting is suppose to do -- get
as many voters out as possible.
bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)they will be the ones buying up ammo at their local gun store and putting up
gadson and rebel flags when they didn't have them before.
i also expect a resurgance of the KKK to happen in the next four years because
there are racist white people out there who are very angry that they are becoming
the minority and they don't have control anymore.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I saw it today here in Anaheim. I had to go to city hall twice. I saw well dressed pudgy white guys with scowls giving dirty looks to normally dressed people of all races acting like it was any other day.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)That's the truth of it.
sinkingfeeling
(51,276 posts)BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)...since America is dead, I guess this means you'll be leaving. Perhaps you can move to Antarctica and establish your own new nation--The Republic of Whitetrashistan--where you can have NO laws, NO pesky regulations, NO law enforcement or public services, where it will be "every man for himself", and you can live like the wild animals you are.
Can I help someone pack?
faithfulcitizen
(3,191 posts)but I live in Indiana, so that probably wouldn't go over so well...
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Congrats America we have 4 more years of bailouts, recesion and poor leadership, you got it right this time for sure. Remember the comment 8% unemployment were doing just fine, 4 years from now that number will seem small, now time for the large corporations to start slashing their payrolls.
Please excuse his poor education. He grew up in Texas and Kansas.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Grammar not much better, but reasoning improves.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)If only there was a way to kick these people and make them better :kick:
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Yeah!
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Dr Claw
(51 posts)"Plantation Party".
"I'M NOT RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111"
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)There's always at least one grammar problem in anything an R posts
RichGirl
(4,119 posts)Blaming the minorities is turning them into a minority. Minorities: African Americans, Latinos, Women...and now we also have Idiots!
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)Words fail.
jaseycake
(58 posts)but rush said it himself on fox news: "white voters are no longer a majority. now the election is controlled by women, blacks, and latinos who all want stuff."
ready2go83
(80 posts)And the South Pole is cold. What's new? Being a woman of color, fuck them. My existence poisons their soul. Assholes. They are just mad because they can't go back to the old days where we stayed mum and never got uppity. Fuck emmmmm
PrettyKitty48
(7 posts)+1000.
Preach!
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)We are American. E.O.M
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)THIS IS THE DIRECTION AMERICA IS HEADING
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all). After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied li
ttle. ... The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that. Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections. These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment: 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it! 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
spinbaby
(15,073 posts)I actually had someone tell me that Hispanics with jobs vote Republican and that Democrats only got votes from the illegals who came to this country to collect welfare. There were so many things wrong with that statement I didn't even know where to start.
calico1
(8,391 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)That's been the standard Republican talking point for decades.
That's why the Tea Party guys were so confused when they went to DC and discovered there was no massive welfare program that allows black people to lay around watching cable TV while smoking crack. It just doesn't exist.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Wouldn't want everyone changing color
smackd
(216 posts)CoffinEd
(264 posts)is all talk. Nothing more.
Plus, Republicans always bring up the 'big tent' talk following a nasty or unexpected defeat. But in the end, past actions have shown us what we can expect from them in the future: more doubling down on the bigot/intolerance vote.