Trump: When did America stop being great?

Good guy Trump.

Let's Make America Great Again?

When did it stop being great?

And if you're gonna idolize people like Putin, Saddam, Kim Jong Un...

And use Russian intelligence to hack American emails...

Ask foreign officials to give you money in an American election...

How can a man do these things?

Everything Trump does and stands for are self serving.  They are not American.

You don't want Hillary?  Fine.  Or Sanders?  Cool.  Or Johnson?  Or Stein?  Your perogative.

But if you are so Republican that you'd vote Trump in because he CALLS himself Republican?

Ridiculous.

He is NO Republican.  Adherence to him is going to result in a bastardization of values he says he has, but is habitually proving he doesn't.

And voting Trump will make America great again?

To when?

To a time of blatant racism, social injustices, xenophobic endangerment, and misogyny?

Great.  Let's go backwards.  Let's sprint to Trump's idea of when HE thinks we were great.

I got news for you, buddy.  We weren't great then.

But we are now.

Donald Trump?  Stop doing what you're doing.

You're proving that people are so concerned with not voting Democrat they'll vote in a Fascist bastard with zero scruples.

Don't Take Sides. Take a Stand.

Very sorry to hear about Dallas.

Violence doesn't justify violence, unlawful death doesn't validate more unlawful death.

This doesn't cancel out the first two atrocities (Sterling and Falcon Heights), but you don't protest murder by committing more murder.

Sad for all the lives lost, in all three instances.  But please... don't use one to explain/forgive the other.

View these three instances as references to the simple basic factor in the statement below:

Stop killing people.

You can protest without killing. You can detain without executing.  You can pull someone over without shooting them in front of their wife and daughter.

I forsee plenty of conflicting and terrible statements in the wake of this.

I forsee men saying the cops had it coming.  That they kept killing African American men, women, and children... And this kind of vengeance is justified.  That they were pushed to this in light of the Sterling and Falcon Heights Shootings.

Then, there's the other side.  People who will say that the cops murdered the two men BECAUSE of this type of violence.  That if the Dallas shootings hadn't happened, cops wouldn't use lethal force to begin with.  That this "proved" that most "black guys" are "criminals," so maybe killing Sterling and Castile is justified.

Both of these beliefs are fundamentally flawed. 

Don't take sides.  Don't say "the cops deserved it" or "the blacks deserved it."  Don't use this as a platform to propagate hate. 

All that will lead to is more hate.

Instead of taking sides, take a stand.  A stand against violence of all kinds.  A stand against murder, which was present in all three cases.  A stand against intolerance, bigotry, and in gun related deaths.

A stand for decency and humanity. 

The lives of these police officers and the two African Americans that have been lost?  Those didn't need to be lost.  They should NOT have died.

Let's take a look at preventation by using words, logic, and heart.

If we say "What happened to Sterling and Castile is why we should rise against the police..."

More police will be murdered.

If we say "What happened in Dallas to the police officers is why we should treat black people as criminals..."

More African Americans will be killed.

It's about a simple end to a faulty juxtaposition.

And if we refuse to see the same problem for the same reason in both, all we will do is perpetuate a notion that will guarantee bloodshed in the years to come.

The Trumpian Ticket

I've said it before and I'll say it again...

When Pentagon officials are promising to vacate should Trump win the presidency...

When he is endorsed by the KKK, Kim Jong Un, and other enemies of America and refuses to speak against it...

When he embodies values and qualities that are so far removed from the Republican ideals that are at the core of the party...

When our allies are abandoning us in droves...

When diehard Republicans are leaving the party...

At this point, supporting Trump doesn't make you a Republican.  What Trump has done to the party has bastardized it... Cheapened it... And rendered it unrecognizable.

To support Trump is merely "Trumpian."  An unprecedented creation of xenophobia, racism, hate mongering, misogyny, political inexperience, hypocrisy, and rhetoric filled propaganda.

Indignation Over FBI's Clinton Recommendation

I'm sorry, but I'm gonna say the men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who read the thousands of emails in regards to Hillary Clinton have a much better perspective than Conservatives who didn't.

These are the same people who say North Koreans are more American than Democrats because they endorsed Trump.

The same people who think any kind of gun control is an infringement on human rights, more so than the right to live.

The same people who think a meme made by a white supremacist on a white supremacist site was a Sherrif Star, and not a Star of David.

I will say this... I have no idea if the 30,000 plus emails provided a clear indication of illegal activity, guilt by volition, or evidence of purposeful wrongdoing.

And unless you were part of the FBI investigating?  Neither do you.

"Don't ban my guns!"

To those who argue that the idea of banning firearms and the notion of banning Muslims in the U.S. are different:

The two are linked.

The argument that "not all gun owners are criminals" carries over.

Not all Muslims are terrorists.  Not all Muslims are criminals.  Not all Muslims believe in a radical form of the religion.

In fact, statistically speaking, more people have died from gun violence in this country than from Islamic extremists.

And if we want to talk about people coming to the U.S. to kill the people here, maybe we should talk to the Native Americans.

Pretty sure we killed more of them and got away with it.

And if they had known of the word, terrorists probably would have fit the crimes of our ancestors quite well.