Play Nice 45th President of the United States: Donald Trump - Part 4 (cont in pt 5)

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A fitting nod to the weaponised autists that got him elected!
They voted for Obama too
Presidential Proclamation: World Autism Awareness Day, 2016
World Autism Awareness Day, 2016
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Every person deserves the chance to reach for their highest hopes and fulfill their greatest potential. On World Autism Awareness Day, we reaffirm our dedication to ensuring that belief is a reality for all those who live on the autism spectrum ‑‑ including 1 in 68 children. And we uphold our obligation to help make sure every man, woman, and child, regardless of ability or background, is accepted for who they are and able to lead a life free from discrimination and filled with opportunity.

From home to school and in businesses and communities around the world, people living with autism spectrum disorder contribute in immeasurable ways to our society. They remind us each day that every person is born with unique talents and should be treated with respect, play an active role in planning for their futures, and feel empowered to fully participate in and contribute to their communities. When those with autism have access to equal opportunities, we all do better, and that begins with making sure our country lives up to its commitment to ensure all things are possible for all people.

Individuals with autism are just as deserving of the peace of mind that comes with having quality, affordable health insurance as anyone else. The Affordable Care Act helps ensure no person is prevented from obtaining health coverage simply because they live with a preexisting condition like autism, and it requires most plans to cover recommended preventive services ‑‑ including critical screenings that test for autism in children. My Administration is dedicated to ensuring educational opportunities for autistic students are worthy of their extraordinary potential and to providing Americans with autism the chance to earn good jobs and hone their skills and talents. We are working to break down barriers to competitive, integrated employment for people with disabilities, including people with autism. We are also promoting inclusivity for kids with autism in high-quality, early childhood education programs. In 2014, I signed the Autism CARES Act, which supports autism‑related research and helps us to better understand the particular challenges faced by students and young adults living on the autism spectrum. And this month marks 3 years since my Administration launched the BRAIN Initiative ‑‑ a collaborative effort by Federal agencies, philanthropies, universities, foundations, and others in the medical and scientific communities that aims to accelerate our work to solve some of the most intricate mysteries of human brain function and reveal new insights into conditions like autism. In my most recent budget proposal, I was proud to support increased funding for this important initiative.

Americans with autism play an important role in our national story, and in their daily lives they embody the belief at the heart of our founding: that in America, with hard work and equal access, all people can realize their aspirations. Today, and every day, let us reach for a future in which no person living on the autism spectrum is limited by anything but the size of their dreams ‑‑ one in which all people have the opportunity to live a life filled with a sense of identity, purpose, and self-determination.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 2, 2016, as World Autism Awareness Day. I encourage all Americans to learn more about autism and what they can do to support individuals on the autism spectrum and their families, and to help shape a world in which all people, including those with autism, are accepted for who they are.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortieth.



BARACK OBAMA



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This just gets more surreal by the day, so the 60 Russian diplomats (suspected of being spies) that were kicked out of America after the poisoning in Britain are allowed to be replaced by 60 new Russian diplomats.
Mind you now new US diplomats are allowed back but these one's will be chosen by Trump to be Putin patsies, meanwhile the CIA will have to work overtime gathering intelligence on the new Russian spies....I mean diplomats.

Trump really is quite shameless in his transparency as a Russian stooge, can you imagine the phone call with Putin when first announced the expulsion of the diplomats, he would've had to change his shorts after.
 

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It’s high time we gave those yanks a taste of their own medicine.

If Australia issue broad economic sanction against US - we ban kfc, mc Donald’s, hungry jacks, Netflix Nike apple ...

They won’t even feel a pimple of pain - but it would send an important message :- that we might be white and Anglo and enjoying the benefits of centuries of genocide and calumny but by god we are now making a stand

Enough is enough!

FFS our population now is so stupid that we could literally defoliate a country and it wouldn’t even be on the news but a ****en cricket ball tampering incident and we go nuclear.
 

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That's a pretty big and misleading stretch. The Democrats and the Republicans 'swapped' in the 20th Century, so of course they don't have history to show for it, but that swap was related to the 'New Deal' after the Depression, which brought about a more 'left-wing' social contract that we would associate more closely with European/Commonwealth Democracies. From Wiki (my bold):



I don't mind being wrong, as I'm not a strong scholar on this, but here's more evidence for strong unions in this time from The Atlantic:

So the seeds were there for the way America would become. Still, Roosevelt's vision was successful enough that it created a consensus, and it can still be said (as Wiki comments), that the power break-down in that time was very much Democratic:
1933-1945 Franklin Roosevelt Democratic - congress with him for basically all of his 12.1 yrs. He then died.
1945-1953 Harry Truman Democratic - congress with him for 6 of 7.8 yrs. There were complaints about strikes (labour power) early in his time in charge, though, and he became anti some Unions. Congress went Republican in 1946 (Nixon and McCarthy were freshmen), and passed the Union-limiting 'Labor Management Relations Act', which Truman vetoed, but Congress overrode that. Democrats won it back in 1948 with Truman saying he would repeal the act, but southern Democrats didn't allow it. That's a familiar problem still stopping progress on issues in today's America - 'the South', politically, are fairly right-wing. Truman's 2nd win was a surprise. Democrats even tried to recruit a replacement for him beforehand. That man was:
1953-1961 Dwight Eisenhower Republican - congress with him for only 2 of 8 yrs.
1961-1963 John Kennedy Democratic - congress with him for all of his 2.8 years. He was then assassinated.
1963-1969 Lyndon Johnson Democratic - congress with him for all of his 5.2 years.​

Nixon is then elected, showing how the narrative of America politics had gone in a different direction. Tricky Dicky was a paranoid guy, and keen to tell Americans they too were being left behind by others (Goldwater saw the power of that narrative). But the Democrats still had both houses, and would do so up until Reagan's election, when we saw that 'neo-liberal' thing really take hold in America. The Democrats would then not win the Presidency for 14 years, until Clinton did his 'centrist' pitch, which as we know, was still corporation-friendly. As with all the 'Bernie would've won' claims, people willfully ignore the political reality of America (more often that happens in order to pretend the Democrats are similar to the Republicans). The Democrats didn't win power until they moved closer to the Republicans. They did more for the poor (like Obama did), but they didn't legislate a drastic change to America like Roosevelt did in the New Deal and like Reagan reversed in the 80s.

The narrative may have changed again now, thanks to Bush's incompetence and the GFC highlighting just how much America's economic policies were failing (at a macro level to match their failures at a micro level for so many), but the vote for Trump was still significantly right-wing in nature, so we can't be sure yet. It looks like Don Don has done enough to ensure the narrative has shifted, but of course his fans and the right-wing media will continue claiming otherwise (e.g. their gun control propaganda), so it's hard to predict. Information warfare is a real issue here.

This is already too long, but anyway, here's a quote from Eisenhower which references 'labor laws', to show where he was coming from as the Republican in that 36 year run listed above. It also shows that back then it was Republicans having to accept the political reality of American voter's opinions:

Also, for what it's worth:

tl;dr Democrats do have history of being pro-working class people.
The big switch was as much Johnson's fault as Nixon's. Nixon exploited the rifts in the south created by the Civil Rights Act.

Although it didn't help that the Dems' best candidate in 68 was assassinated during the primaries.
 

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So Mr 50% tweets and is re-tweeted 4.1 K times and liked by 17K.

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Obama tweets about the student march and is retweeted 328 K times and is liked by 1.6 M.

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Hmm I wonder who is more popular. Must burn.
So he wants to ban guns in the USA, pity he wanted terrorists in Libya and Syria to have so many guns, and rocket launchers, and anti tank missiles! Ultimate nimby
 

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So he wants to ban guns in the USA, pity he wanted terrorists in Libya and Syria to have so many guns, and rocket launchers, and anti tank missiles! Ultimate nimby
Is that what you got from my post?

From a tweet about Student march and onto terrorists. I want the same bow and arrow as you please. Amazon?

Way to miss the point.
 

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So Mr 50% tweets and is re-tweeted 4.1 K times and liked by 17K.

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Obama tweets about the student march and is retweeted 328 K times and is liked by 1.6 M.

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Hmm I wonder who is more popular. Must burn.
I wonder why the post's statistical numbers differ? Would it be because one is only 44m old while the other was 9 days old?
 

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It’s high time we gave those yanks a taste of their own medicine.

If Australia issue broad economic sanction against US - we ban kfc, mc Donald’s, hungry jacks, Netflix Nike apple ...
We have two major parties in this country who are, basically, both led by cowards.
Sadly we will do nothing like the good little lap dogs we've proven to be over the past few decades, blindly supporting US foreign policy at every turn and following them into every hair-brained war they seem to get themselves into.
 

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This has been going on a very long time, it's just getting more and more obvious!
Now Sinclair are going into damage control that no one is allowed to talk to the media....yet they are the media.

This really does show that Trump is a convenient patsy for the establishment, find a guy that blames immigrants for all the countries problems and comes across as a genuine solver of those problems and support him from the shadows into getting what you want (money and power).

Afterall Hitler didn't write Mein Kampf, he just told his thoughts and ideology to someone else who then translated it to paper. Then his name was put to the book because he was the genuine sounding mouthpiece who got the populace to rally behind the cause (ridding the country of the Jewish immigrants).

The parallel's are amazing.
 
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The big switch was as much Johnson's fault as Nixon's. Nixon exploited the rifts in the south created by the Civil Rights Act.

Although it didn't help that the Dems' best candidate in 68 was assassinated during the primaries.
I'm not sure I follow your logic on that (someone doing the right thing does not morally absolve bad actors who are consequently 'provoked' by that right thing), but while we're talking about the assassination of the Kennedy's - I don't readily see many conspiracy theories that suggest white supremacists could be implicated. Maybe I should read more?

Other than the stated conclusion that Oswald killed him due to his support of Cuba (and the conspiracy that, in a fairly obvious contradiction, claims that the CIA wanted him dead despite them being anti-Cuba), KKK types would seem to be the most obvious candidates for wanting popular progressives dead. The assassinations were JFK, MLK and Bobby, after all, and James Earl Ray's clumsy defence involved him trying to blame a Cuban-sounding guy "Raul". Maybe the CIA conspiracies are sometimes related to KKK types within the hierarchy there?

Anyway, off-topic. The Trump apologists on here are boringly predictable in their propaganda, so hearing a few takes on US history seemed more appealing.
 

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I'm not sure I follow your logic on that (someone doing the right thing does not morally absolve bad actors who are consequently 'provoked' by that right thing), but while we're talking about the assassination of the Kennedy's - I don't readily see many conspiracy theories that suggest white supremacists could be implicated. Maybe I should read more?

Other than the stated conclusion that Oswald killed him due to his support of Cuba (and the conspiracy that, in a fairly obvious contradiction, claims that the CIA wanted him dead despite them being anti-Cuba), KKK types would seem to be the most obvious candidates for wanting popular progressives dead. The assassinations were JFK, MLK and Bobby, after all, and James Earl Ray's clumsy defence involved him trying to blame a Cuban-sounding guy "Raul". Maybe the CIA conspiracies are sometimes related to KKK types within the hierarchy there?

Anyway, off-topic. The Trump apologists on here are boringly predictable in their propaganda, so hearing a few takes on US history seemed more appealing.
I'm at work, so can't go into heaps of detail, but look up Nixon's "Southern Strategy". Coupled with the infighting going on in the Dems at the time it proved to be the moment the parties flipped.
 

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I'm not sure I follow your logic on that (someone doing the right thing does not morally absolve bad actors who are consequently 'provoked' by that right thing), but while we're talking about the assassination of the Kennedy's - I don't readily see many conspiracy theories that suggest white supremacists could be implicated. Maybe I should read more?

Other than the stated conclusion that Oswald killed him due to his support of Cuba (and the conspiracy that, in a fairly obvious contradiction, claims that the CIA wanted him dead despite them being anti-Cuba), KKK types would seem to be the most obvious candidates for wanting popular progressives dead. The assassinations were JFK, MLK and Bobby, after all, and James Earl Ray's clumsy defence involved him trying to blame a Cuban-sounding guy "Raul". Maybe the CIA conspiracies are sometimes related to KKK types within the hierarchy there?

Anyway, off-topic. The Trump apologists on here are boringly predictable in their propaganda, so hearing a few takes on US history seemed more appealing.
Not sure Oswald was driven by white supremacy, but some of the press in Texas prior to his visit was definitely Toxic with a decent dose of racism. Fascinating time https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www...-he-began-his-fatal-visit-to-1505387.html?amp
 
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