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September 29, 2020

"I don't see color. I was raised to treat everyone equal, Jane Elliott doesn't know what saying"

Is what a older white male said on my local News 12 NJ this morning.

He said that Biden and Trump shouldn't talk race, because it is uncomfortable.

He said he was a member of the NAACP until a few decades ago, he says he has no "bias", and said that Elliott is using race as a shield for money.

What do you think?

September 27, 2020

Why are Cuban-Americans still so aggressively right wing?

Yikes.

I saw a Afro-Cuban-American man drive a pickup truck in Sayreville today with a large Trump flag next to his Cuban flag.

He looked angry, 23-year old or younger, with a lot of tattoos, and a beard.

Castro is no longer in power.

Why are they still obsessed with "socialism"?

Did Batista do a number on them or what?

September 24, 2020

Do you think police officers' image will be tarnished if they keep voting Republican

or aligning with far right sheriffs, PBAs, etc.?

Police should be neutral and should not in politics, but in my area, the NYPD and suburban police departments are aligning themselves with the NYGOP and NJGOP.

I'm sure the same thing is happening in your area

September 24, 2020

Did you ever like "Dynasty"?

Dynasty from 1981 to 1989, personified the eighties.

Glam, glitz, Reagan, the rise of Trump

We had a discussion today on Joan Collins.

Did you ever like the show?

Did you ever watch?

September 23, 2020

Yikes....I didn't know Dame Joan COLLINS likes Trump and UKIP/Brexit...

Remember her? Dame Joan Collins who became internationally famous with her role as character Alexis Carrington on the 1980s classic Dynasty?

She is a Trump lover.

"I based Alexis on ‘a businessman like Donald Trump,’ she says, describing her most iconic character, the ice queen of the Colbys in the gloriously over-the-top soap Dynasty.

‘She was tough and uncompromising, using her sexuality to manipulate people. I met Donald with [his former wife] Ivana, who is still a very good friend of mine. And he was a very good-looking guy.’"


Miss Collins said that she was not particularly political and since backing UKIP she had "got to know a bit more" about their policies which she felt were "quite reasonable".

"This was four months ago and, to be quite frank, I have not been concentrating on British politics," she added.

"But you know what, I really don't want to get into politics."

She said: "I don't know why everyone is so fascinated with me and Ukip. I was always going on about how much I loved Maggie Thatcher. I don't remember that causing much of an outcry.

"I was a huge Thatcherite and nobody seemed to give a damn, so why all of a sudden this whole thing with UKIP? It doesn't make any sense to me."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-3748736/Outspoken-outrageous-road-Hollywood-icon-Joan-Collins-lets-rip-friendship-Donald-Trump-hates-British-TV-except-Poldark.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3964151.stm

September 23, 2020

Police unions should not endorse political candidates

They are now seen as an arm of the Republican Party.

Anything that has to do with law enforcement and the military should not be political.

Why do Republicans politicize and co-opt the law enforcement and military?

September 21, 2020

What do you want from the conservative man?

First off, I have good intentioned discussions.

We can't live in echo chambers.

Secondly, I live in a swingy part of NJ which decides gubernatorial elections, Middlesex County.

A lot of people next to me are angry people----mostly conservative men.

They are always angry, at least from my impression of them.

They claim that liberals and the left want to take away God, the Second Amendment, etc.

They are always upset.

What do you want from the conservative man?

Is "conservative" even a word anymore?

September 20, 2020

Conservative women

What do you think of them?

I don't care if you are a conservative woman. Women don't have to be uniformly progressive or whatever, but why do you think they are aggressively pro-life?

September 20, 2020

What do you think of undecided voters now?

They aren't political observers, junkies, they don't know what MSNBC, CNN, Fox is, or they only watch those shows whenever there is a breaking news event.

They don't know who is on the SCOTUS, but they know of Ginsburg, Kagan and Kavanaugh.

They don't like neither political party.

How will they vote?

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About NYCButterfinger

I am a moderate, I want to have a classic discussion about the future of the country and the future of the World. Tough. Principled. No-nonsense.
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