Which part of the Basket of Deplorables are you in?

Discussion in 'Opinion POLLS' started by DennisTate, Sep 13, 2016.

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I must admit that I sometimes struggle with some feelings of:

  1. Racist....(but I am working on it)!

    1 vote(s)
    3.8%
  2. Sexist.....(but I admit i DO NOT deserve my wife)!

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  3. Homophobic...(but Rupaul does look good)!

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. Xenophobic...(got to Google that one)!

    2 vote(s)
    7.7%
  5. Islamophobic.....(I suppose being beheaded is a good way to go)!

    7 vote(s)
    26.9%
  6. You name it........ Other type of deplorable?!

    16 vote(s)
    61.5%
  1. GeddonM3

    GeddonM3 Well-Known Member

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    I am the deplorable the left hates the most.

    Against illegal immigration and allowing illegals to take advantage of our country

    For the second ammendment

    Against wasting our time of refugees when we have our own poor to care for

    Against wasting our money on countries that do not, and will never benefit us in any way

    For improving education in not only the poorer areas, but all over

    I am for freedom of speech no matter what side you are on and not for silencing those who disagree with me like progressives want to do

    I am pro Israel

    I am for the USA and it's citizens first

    I am for creating more jobs

    I am against the electoral college

    I am for freedom of religion and freedom from religion

    I am against forcing people to have to accept other peoples fantasies and acknowledge them and even be forced to lose their privacy over said fantasy

    for gay marriage or any marriage as long as it is between 2 consenting adults

    And last but not least , I prefer the truth which is a progressives worst nightmare since they thrive on lies and faux outrage or whatever new fad "trigger" they can come up with.


    I'd rather be considered a deplorable than a lowly progressive.
     
  2. Steady Pie

    Steady Pie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes, aimed think it's undeniable that the Trump crowd is driven by these issues to some degree, just as it was with Brexit. That doesn't make either the wrong choice though. All movements have deplorables, no less the left than the right.

    I don't wish the South had won, I wish they had repealed the anti-federalist fugitive slave act and let the South go on their merry way until abolition a few decades later through peaceful means... like everyone else did.

    I am mainly opposed to the war as a continuation of the federalism vs unitary government debate occurring since ratification of the constitution. It once and for all settled that debate in favor of Hamilton, Clay and those who prefer a strong central government over local autonomy. Slavery was a catalyst for this, the war could have very easily been fought over protectionist northern tariffs 40 years prior.
     
  3. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Exactly.......... or shoot rockets at Israel from the home of a local Christian family......
    so that when the IDF retaliates on the home from which the rockets were shot.....

    you destroy the home of a hated Christian family...... and get bad PR for the IDF......
    and if that doesn't work then......

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_the_Palestinian_territories


     
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    E_Pluribus_Venom Well-Known Member

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    Deplorable as in "deserving strong condemnation"? Yeah, I'd say so.

    The beauty of opinions.
     
  5. Gatewood

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    It means that you had nightmares about Xena Warrior Princess.
     
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    You will find that conservatives and Liberals find very different things deplorable. Things like blacks voting 90% dem for over 60 years is deplorable.
     
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    Then stop making it so easy?
     
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    It's hard to fight the "vote for us and we'll give you free stuff; vote for them and they'll take your free stuff away" line from the DNC.
     
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    What to call liberals deplorable ?
     
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    E_Pluribus_Venom Well-Known Member

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    Never heard of it. Perhaps you could start by purging those that aren't very welcoming to black folks?

    If you see fit.
     
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    I find this hard to believe.
     
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    America First, USA USA USA !

    The Rule Of Law Deplorable's.
     
  14. DennisTate

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    Whatever that mean-spirited, corrupt, stupid old (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) Hillary is FOR, I'm AGAINST! And whatever she condemns, I am likely to take pride in!

    Before Obama and the whole sickening, hyperliberal freak-show took over in 2009, I was a fairly well-balanced person without a hateful, or remotely "racist" bone in my body. Now, because I'm over 40, male, and White, I feel like I've got a bullseye painted on my back and I don't like it ONE DAMNED BIT! :machinegun:
     
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    Exactly! There was a Social studies professor who came out and basically said "Look, this whole white privilege thing you're doing to cause #WhiteGuilt? Yeah...It's actually causing a lot of problems". Did the Liberals listen? Nah, they flat out ignored him and continued with their degenerating insults. And thus, today's America is the result. Where every light-skinned person is guilty until(if) proven innocent, despite the fact that their grudge if any should be with the English-Americans who are ALREADY DEAD.

    What more do they want? The slave-owners and the Jim crow people are DEAD. Do they think if they are able to magically change the demographics of people in the country it'll make their lives better?
     
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    Realistically, it was not truthful at all, because the poll was of South Carolina supporters only. That being said, the poll doesn't make anyone in SC deplorable, just rationally and justifiably cautious of terrorism and liberal extremism.

    Regarding Romney, I never had a problem with his 47% comment, it was very factual and descriptively concise.
     
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    That wasn't how it worked at all. Her comments were about that percentage of Trump supporters who are racist, sexist, etc.

    If you're not one of those things, you weren't part of the basket of deplorables.
     
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    American Blacks were provided with complete equality with everyone else with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But, evidently, that was not enough. There were violent riots, looting, and pillaging all over the United States afterward, and so we developed various kinds of "preferences" for Blacks -- especially those known as "Affirmative Action" (reverse discrimination), and enormous advantages for minority-owned businesses in government contracts, where large companies have not even been allowed to compete! These unfair, unjust practices continue to this day!

    So, what do they want now? Read their demands. They want more free stuff from the government, and many of them have their mouths watering over the prospect of getting "reparations" from American taxpayers to pay Blacks because of slavery -- which ended 150 years ago!

    From all of this, one thing seems to emerge -- Get Whitey on the run and then beg, borrow, and steal everything you can get your hands on. Make up excuses for why you can't support yourself, make it all Whitey's fault, and get on the handout gravy-train for the rest of your worthless life! :hippie:
     
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    Sounds like Hillary has control of you pretty much wrapped up......


    You:"""" I was a fairly well-balanced person without a hateful, or remotely "racist" bone in my body.""""


    Bolding mine.

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    Didn't Donny admit they were all deplorable? He said he could shoot someone right in front of them and never lose a voter....that's pretty deplorable of them....well, it is to normal people...
     
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    So partially then lol

    Because shutting down U.S. mosques is a rational response to terrorism.

    Points for being consistently on the wrong side of the electorate then.
     
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    1.A single southern state, one out of fifty, is quite partial.
    2. It is if certain mosques become a front for Islamic terrorism.
    3. 2012 showed that Romney might have been about 4% too low in his estimate.
     
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    You could swap each southern state with minimal changes.

    The poll didn't use that precursor. Just mosques, period.

    and too low in electoral votes.
     
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    1. And it still wouldn't make any of the southern respondents deplorable; just more pro-American, more pro-traditional values, more security conscious.

    2. It didn't need to, Trump supporters know that his position is to close down mosques only where "bad things are happening". In SC, a minority of them see all mosques as a potential threat.

    3. Which only proved Romney to be correct; just slightly low in his percentage.
     
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    Pro-American? The Muslims at those mosques are American, too.

    Nice try, but we don't just get to make up meanings for very clear poll questions.

    Surely, you realize Trump would need this same group.
     

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