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Walmart says it will kill plans to build 3 new stores if DC wage bill passes

Care to prove that?

Not really, but okay...

Consider me: Liberal and smart as a whip.

Then you: Conservative and an abject retard.

Seeing a pattern?
 
I suppose that means we are more robust than liberals. We don't tire as easily nor become exhausted as the liberals do by their pretense of deep thinking.

only because you guys are always at war ... if it's not against women, it's against gays, or the poor, immigrants, blacks, Latinos ... ya gotta be in good shape and robust for that ...
 
Not really, but okay...

Consider me: Liberal and smart as a whip.

Then you: Conservative and an abject retard.

Seeing a pattern?

That's what I thought. Just spewing more talking points.
 
only because you guys are always at war ... if it's not against women, it's against gays, or the poor, immigrants, blacks, Latinos ... ya gotta be in good shape and robust for that ...

You seem unaware that it is the Democrats who have always supported laws which would make Black people second class citizens, right from pre Civil War to today.
 
You seem unaware that it is the Democrats who have always supported laws which would make Black people second class citizens, right from pre Civil War to today.

good point ... and thanks ... I was wondering why Romney, McCain, and Bush got over or close to 90% of the black vote ... this explains it, doesn't it? (BTW, if you're going to give me the "black people are too dumb and are easily fooled" explanation, please don't bother.)
 
good point ... and thanks ... I was wondering why Romney, McCain, and Bush got over or close to 90% of the black vote ... this explains it, doesn't it? (BTW, if you're going to give me the "black people are too dumb and are easily fooled" explanation, please don't bother.)

Actually from the time Blacks were first allowed to vote to the 60s, Republicans generally did get the majority of the black vote. It wasn't until the Democrats realized they needed that black vote that they started pandering. Just like they pandered to the Irish.
 
Oh; then it's a non sequitur. Walmart was pushing an initiative to get a variance in zoning and environmental regs, which failed. That's not the same as being required to pay a wage that does not lower the prevailing wage in a part of the country where GDP per capita is uniquely high. Walmart is a bottom-feeder. So kudos to DC for saying it's okie doke to enter its market, but just not if you're going to bottom-feed.

Other areas of the country should take heed, and follow DC's lead, IMO.

And Wal-Mart replies with "Nevermind. Leave your inner city underserved."

Ever hear of an urban food-desert? The areas they were going to build these stores are just that.
 
Actually from the time Blacks were first allowed to vote to the 60s, Republicans generally did get the majority of the black vote. It wasn't until the Democrats realized they needed that black vote that they started pandering. Just like they pandered to the Irish.

Italians, actually (FDR creating Columbus Day, even though Chris never set foot on soil which is now American).

Irish were split between support of Northern Republican elites and Tammany Hall.

The Democrats lost the South when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Bill.

Black voters moved from the Party of Lincoln during FDR's admins, since lifting the country out of the Depression also greatly improved the lives of Black Americans. They feared Truman would be a Southern Dem (he had some uncomfortable associations with KKK and was quite bigoted) but after meeting with Black Leaders, and assuming mantle of president, of all Americans, Truman not only promised to continue FDR reforms, but did, overcoming his own prejudices.

Meanwhile, Nixon's Southern Strategy seems to have had some legs, and even to this day, the GOP is on the wrong side of minority issues, reflexively ... and of course, running out of enough Angry Whites to offset the now unbeatable coalition of Liberal Whites and virtually every minority group, except anti-Castro Cubans, who are now even coming over to the Dem side due to the GOP being so anti-Hispanic in its rhetoric.
 
good point ... and thanks ... I was wondering why Romney, McCain, and Bush got over or close to 90% of the black vote ... this explains it, doesn't it? (BTW, if you're going to give me the "black people are too dumb and are easily fooled" explanation, please don't bother.)


Once again it is a leftist who is making derogatory remarks about Black People. This is the kind of racial superiority, which has forever been the hallmark of the Democrats, that continues to this very day.
 
Actually from the time Blacks were first allowed to vote to the 60s, Republicans generally did get the majority of the black vote. It wasn't until the Democrats realized they needed that black vote that they started pandering. Just like they pandered to the Irish.

Sure. Lyndon Johnson was well aware of the consequences. “I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]”

The victim was the Black family, at one time one of the strongest in the nation, to what we see now in Detroit and other urban centers.
 
Once again it is a leftist who is making derogatory remarks about Black People. This is the kind of racial superiority, which has forever been the hallmark of the Democrats, that continues to this very day.

I just looked up the word "pathetic" and they had your picture next to the word ... if you don't believe me, look it up ...
 
Italians, actually (FDR creating Columbus Day, even though Chris never set foot on soil which is now American).

Irish were split between support of Northern Republican elites and Tammany Hall.

The Democrats lost the South when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Bill.

Black voters moved from the Party of Lincoln during FDR's admins, since lifting the country out of the Depression also greatly improved the lives of Black Americans. They feared Truman would be a Southern Dem (he had some uncomfortable associations with KKK and was quite bigoted) but after meeting with Black Leaders, and assuming mantle of president, of all Americans, Truman not only promised to continue FDR reforms, but did, overcoming his own prejudices.

Meanwhile, Nixon's Southern Strategy seems to have had some legs, and even to this day, the GOP is on the wrong side of minority issues, reflexively ... and of course, running out of enough Angry Whites to offset the now unbeatable coalition of Liberal Whites and virtually every minority group, except anti-Castro Cubans, who are now even coming over to the Dem side due to the GOP being so anti-Hispanic in its rhetoric.

The Leftists always have their own spin on history. Little wonder so many American schools are failing.
 
The Leftists always have their own spin on history. Little wonder so many American schools are failing.

Which part is spin and not actual history? And of course, how so?
 
I just looked up the word "pathetic" and they had your picture next to the word ... if you don't believe me, look it up ...

Sure. Cut and run. That's what the leftists do when confronted with facts.

It is only the leftists who use phrases such as "black people are too dumb and are easily fooled". No one else said that but you.
 
Sure. Cut and run. That's what the leftists do when confronted with facts.

It is only the leftists who use phrases such as "black people are too dumb and are easily fooled". No one else said that but you.

Then no doubt I can expect an answer to my response ... soon?
 
Which part is spin and not actual history? And of course, how so?

I expect people to come on this forum moderately equipped with enough facts to have an honest debate rather than taking the short cut from some web site they may have discovered in order to support whatever beliefs they may have.

You have attempted to condense history from Columbus to the present in a couple of paragraphs and you want to know where you went wrong? These sort of 'sound bites' is the way history is now being taught and sold. Read a few serious books on your own and then talk history.
 
Italians, actually (FDR creating Columbus Day, even though Chris never set foot on soil which is now American).

Irish were split between support of Northern Republican elites and Tammany Hall.

The Democrats lost the South when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Bill.

Black voters moved from the Party of Lincoln during FDR's admins, since lifting the country out of the Depression also greatly improved the lives of Black Americans. They feared Truman would be a Southern Dem (he had some uncomfortable associations with KKK and was quite bigoted) but after meeting with Black Leaders, and assuming mantle of president, of all Americans, Truman not only promised to continue FDR reforms, but did, overcoming his own prejudices.

Meanwhile, Nixon's Southern Strategy seems to have had some legs, and even to this day, the GOP is on the wrong side of minority issues, reflexively ... and of course, running out of enough Angry Whites to offset the now unbeatable coalition of Liberal Whites and virtually every minority group, except anti-Castro Cubans, who are now even coming over to the Dem side due to the GOP being so anti-Hispanic in its rhetoric.

your last paragraph is especially on the mark, and explains this racist backlash (exemplified on this thread by Grant) we're seeing from the GOP ... they're scared ... between 2000 and 2010, Latinos accounted for over 50% of the population growth in the U.S. ... the median ages of Latinos (71% for Obama), Blacks (93% for Obama), and Asians (72% for Obama) are all lower than that of whites ... last year, I believe it was, was the first time that there were more white deaths than white births - that was the case only for whites ... yet, the GOP, and clowns like Grant, keep alienating these groups (and let's not even talk about their war against women -- especially YOUNGER women) ... Did you hear what Steve King, one of the GOP's most prominent members said, about Mexican immigrants? if not, check out this gem ...

The controversial comments focused specifically on so-called DREAMers, advocates for a path to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants, especially those with strong school records, who were brought to the United States by their parents. King acknowledged that there are undocumented immigrants for whom he has sympathy, with strong connections to the community and exemplary school performance.

"But they aren't all valedictorians, they weren't all brought by their parents," King said.

"For everyone who's a valedictorian there's another 100 out there that, they weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act."
 
I expect people to come on this forum moderately equipped with enough facts to have an honest debate rather than taking the short cut from some web site they may have discovered in order to support whatever beliefs they may have.

You have attempted to condense history from Columbus to the present in a couple of paragraphs and you want to know where you went wrong? These sort of 'sound bites' is the way history is now being taught and sold. Read a few serious books on your own and then talk history.

Characterize it anyway you wish, but you've yet to point out why. So dodging is no better than cut and run.

Answer the questions or run off. Your call.
 
I just looked up the word "pathetic" and they had your picture next to the word ... if you don't believe me, look it up ...

Was it George Costanza who first used a line like this or was it earlier?

Anyway it is typical of the Left's lack of originality or humor.
 
Sure. Cut and run. That's what the leftists do when confronted with facts.

It is only the leftists who use phrases such as "black people are too dumb and are easily fooled". No one else said that but you.

you didn't look it up, did you?
 
Was it George Costanza who first used a line like this or was it earlier?

Anyway it is typical of the Left's lack of originality or humor.

Much earlier is my guess ... even earlier than this one: "You seem unaware that it is the Democrats who have always supported laws which would make Black people second class citizens, right from pre Civil War to today."
 
your last paragraph is especially on the mark, and explains this racist backlash (exemplified on this thread by Grant)

Where did i say anything racist? In fact it was you who said "(BTW, if you're going to give me the "black people are too dumb and are easily fooled" explanation, please don't bother.)"

Is that not so?
 
Much earlier is my guess ... even earlier than this one: "You seem unaware that it is the Democrats who have always supported laws which would make Black people second class citizens, right from pre Civil War to today."

But that is true. Where is it in error?
 
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