Colin Unger

In terms of the real estate lawsuit in the earl 70's its' certainly troubling. As is Biden's record from the 70's. I would have greatly preferred candidates who didn't have these types of issues from the 70's like Bernie Sanders and Tusli Gabbard. However, the system is still broken and the best candidates the ones who want to make real change are not being allowed to make waves unfortunately. Tusli Gabbard would have been my most preferred candidate but she dared to speak about the problems with the democratic party and is even more anti-war than Trump. Not sure what Bernie's policy on war would be so she's even more preferred in my mind but she's very clear on the issue. A recap of what Biden was up to in the 70's if we missed the comments that Kamala Harris made towards him in the democratic debates. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/joe-biden-record-on-busing-incarceration-racial-justice-democratic-primary-2020-explained.html

You put me in a difficult situation here because for most of these things I agree with you that Trump was in the wrong and am much more comfortable arguing with someone who would state that Trump did absolutely no wrong in these instances. However, I view your take on these events as somewhat of an exaggeration. In terms of separating families and holding them in hold areas at the border Trump was continuing a policy that was implemented by Obama and was using he cages Obama built. The only thing that changed under Trump in this regard is that he no longer sent people back with a warning as Obama was doing in many cases. He felt that you should be processing each case before turning the individual/individuals back because then when you had a repeat there could be stiffer penalties for breaking the law the second time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/live-updates/election-2020/third-democratic-debate-analysis-and-fact-checking/fact-checker-biden-on-immigration-policy/?arc404=true The situation with presuming guilt of the young Black men in Central Park. He called for the death penalty to be re-instated after the individuals had confessed to the crime of rape and murder. I can't find any evidence of him calling for them to face the death penalty after he became aware that they were innocent of the murder/rape charge. He was critical of a documentary on the subject because it presented these individuals as having been completely innocent wrong place wrong time. Multiple rioters had identified them as being involved in multiple beatings in central park that night. Now, I can't attest to what is true and what is not true in all of this because I'm not privy to the evidence. However, we don't have any reason to believe that Trump was motivated by a hatred towards African Americans. The way i view it he was more likely to believe that they were guilty perhaps because of their skin color which is systemic racism. Regarding Mexican Immigrants. Trump was completely wrong to say the things he said because he focused too much on the bad apples in those comments during his first speech. He's a horrible communicator and he should have not only taken a softer tone but he should have made a much clearer distinction between the average undocumented immigrant who is coming to america for the jobs that are being made available to them and the gangs that are coming into the country across the border. Trump was criticized by fellow Republicans during the debates for his plan to greatly increase legal Mexican Immigration after they've secured the border.

Well there are two types of racism that is often spoken about these days. One is Systemic. This is the type of racism that is almost subconscious. As an example. A white person might encounter several young African Americans when they go out for a walk. They may feel scared or something and walk to the other side of the street. That same white person would encounter several young white teenagerers and think they look like young punks but walk right past them. This would be an example of on a subconscious racism. And then there are pure racists like those in the Alt-Right and KKK ect. Who hate people who are not white, don't want to associate with them, and are fully aware of their hatred. These are two very different things. Everyone to some degree on some level is a systemic racist however most people are no full on racists.

There's all kinds of different waves of people who are either leaving the republicans or leaving the Democrats. There's the #Blexit movement of African Americans who are leaving the democratic party and getting behind Donald Trump led by Candace Owens. There's also a movement of democrats who want to see some abortion laws regarding things like 3rd trimester abortions who are being completely shut out by the Democratic party. They aren't able to have a conversation within their party about the issues whereas the Republicans are willing to talk to them to find common ground. The Lincoln Project seems to be republican strategists who have worked with neocons like John McCain and George Bush. Believe me their problem isn't racisms. There problem is that Donald Trump stole their party and drained these types of people out of the party and attacked their long standing war policy. They want to view Russia like its still the cold war. But like Obama pointed out to John McCain in one of their presidential debates regarding Russia. "The 1980's called. They want their foreign policy back". Its really unfortunate that Hillary Clinton was looking for a narrative that would take attention away from the substance of the leaked emails about what she was doing to Bernie Sanders. I think all this anti-Russia propaganda has really set things back. Don't get me wrong, Putin is a bad dude. But Democrats and Republicans have no problems getting into bed with an even worse regime like the one in Saudi Arabia.

I get that. But you had mentioned wondering what Kamala Harris thought about the situation and I was just trying to point out that her opinion on justice reform is cloudy by her own horrible record on the issue. What was your question exactly?

Of coarse she would be she has a horrible record on criminal justice and now she's pretending to be a progressive. I think Tusli Gabbard said it best in the debate that forced Kamala Harris to step out of the ring.

He has though.. Well its mostly been Jared Kushner pushing him to do these things. But again. I don't look to a politician to provide sincerity. I look to a politician to implement things that i think are right and justified. I can assure you that there's no way the Republicans would have supported that justice reform bill had it not been for Trump. Obama tried to get the bill passed but was never able to. Trump will have made backroom deals with them to make it happen.

He's pardoned several african americans. He pushed through the historic criminal justice reform bill that repeals some of the horrible policies that disproportionately affected African Americans that Biden passed and then bragged about. He also promised the African American community jobs before being elected and then African American employment rates ended up being at all time highs. Going forward he's planning on investing 500 billion dollars into building up African American business and is pledging to label the KKK as a terrorist organization which will open up all kinds of powers to go after white supremacists.

I totally agree with you that he largely is a fake person. He views politics the way that one my view a business start up. You find out what the people want and then you take on those positions. If you follow through on those promises then you will get repeat customers. Like nobody believes he found God for example. But he's done a better job of giving the evangelical vote what they want then other republican presidents. While he does like a lot. Especially when it comes to boasting his accomplishments and also not being honest about things he's done in his life that would hurt his presidency. I feel like he genuinely tries to implement the policies he was elected on. So in that way he's more honest than some presidents. Im not sure what you're referring to in terms of fostering hate for Black People and enables and excuses white supremacists. I hope you aren't referring to the Proud Boys who are 100 horrible things but certainly not white supremacists.

Yeah.. He's a systemic racist and has shown that like many other on many occasions. However, I've yet to see evidence that he hates people who are of a different race than him. In fact I think he's done a lot more than previous presidents for the African American community.

Do you always scream and swear when somebody disagrees with you?

I do hope he wins over Biden for the reasons i've mentioned. But I would have preferred Bernie Sanders over Trump. The biggest issue to me is war. I like how Trump doesn't believe in war and is willing to talk to dictators to reduce tensions like he did in North Korea. I believe Bernie also has a history of speaking to dictators. Im also a big believer in being tough economically on China. So those are two big ones where I think Joe Biden will go back to the old way of catering to China and expanding war efforts. Bernie Sanders like Trump was against the TPP. But establishment republicans and democrats were in favor of it.

What are the policies he implemented which were really bad for Americans? I get that he's a horrible loud mouth and irritating to listen to. I view him as an isolationist. He wants to bring the troops home and build a wall around america which would be a massive improvement over past Presidents who like to control the entire world. If they would just isolate and leave us all alone that would be a big improvement.

I don't have an irrational fear of left wing people. I am one. I'm attack war mongers like Joe Biden and Colin Powell. I'm also praising criminal justice reform. What I don't like about Trump are many of his right wing policies. One politician who I actually could have supported would have been Bernie Sanders. But the democratic establishment once again conspired to block Bernie Sanders by strategically having certain candidates drop out before Super Sunday and had the one candidate who steals votes from him to stay in until Biden had enough delegates to win. I don't at all buy Trump and Fox's BS that Biden and Harris are extremely less wing. They are somewhere between the Clinton's and the Bush's. What few promises they've made to the progressives they will back out of the day they get the power they are looking for.

I do see Xenophobia from Trump at times and also the systemic racism that affects everyone. I don't see "Racism" racism though.

I don't see any racism. In fact he was the leading force behind the historic criminal justice reform bill that repealed many of the measure that Biden had put into law that unfairly targeted African Americans. He targeted job creation initiatives that have led to alltime high African American employment rates and has recently pledged to officially label the KKK a terrorist group which will give special powers to target white supremacists. For a Republican he's doing very well in polling among African Americans and Hispanics. He's recently stated that climate change is occurring and that some of it is man made and some of it is not which is all true. Lets not kid ourselves. Joe Biden has plenty of problems with misogyny as well and Kamala Harris made it clear to anyone during the democratic debates that Biden has trouble with racism. Yeah. Clearly Trump won win it. Obama won it before doing anything and then he ended up starting 7 new war involvements during his presidency.

I missed the second part from you. He's moved most of the troops out of Syria and has plans to finish moving troops out of Afghanistan. Keep in mind that the two previous presidents continued to expand on the number of wars the americans were involved in. Even a freeze on expansion is a massive improvement for the united states. If Biden is elected that certainly won't be the case. Especially as he is surrounding himself with neocons such as the war criminal Colin Powell who spoke on his behalf at the democratic convention. Biden was one of the last Democrats to criticize the war in Iraq. He waited until long after everyone could see that it was a fraudulent war.

I'm not a supporter of any politician. Its just that people can't control their hate for Trump to take a look at everything that's actually happening in the world. Yeah the one where he ended up receiving a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for.

How's this for creating instability world wide.

Here's a video from a progressive leftist who pretty much sums it up.

Well.. When you have people who have written books on how horrible of an idea it was to go into the middle east and how America should end it as quickly as possible totally flip flopping when Trump starts bringing the troops home it doesn't take an Alt-Right wacko to see that people are changing their opinions to contrast every policy Donald Trump has.

Yeah this is the mentality i see with people. They don't like Trump and therefore they feel the right to exaggerate and lie about him. The problem with this is that it ends up pushing more people towards Trump. I feel like he never would have won the first time had it not been for Trump derangement syndrome. Im going to just take the democrats approach and say we have to trust and not question doctors. His doctors say that he is not contagious at this point so we cannot question doctors and have to trust.

Right. But what ends up happening is that people in the media and at large exaggerate things he's done and said and in some cases make things up. Regardless of the fact that he says a lot of things that hurt him there's also a lot of false information or unproven information used against him.

Can't see there being an legitimacy to this report. Sounds like the kind of stuff that is made up and reported upon as an attempt to hurt Trump and get some clicks. Doesn't surprise me considering Trump is drawing troops from the region and Biden is surrounded by neocon warhawks like the war criminal himself Colin Powell. Very poor choice of words. He needs to apologize. What he was talking about is that SC is not a racist state and that minorities have been voted into the senate and other positions. But in order to win his his state regardless of race you need to be a conservative because SC is a conservative state.