Posts made by royalcrown89

@raphjd:

The fact that you can't talk about John Lewis the politician (his day job for the last 30'ish years), shows you are a racist.    The fact that you dragged MIK,Jr into this shows you are a racist, since I haven't said a thing about him.

Trump is not obligated to do any such thing.   Besides, that is not what Lewis said.

Lewis said that Trump was illegitimate because of the election.   He may have gone on to claim more things, but Lewis first needs to supply proof of his "illegitimate" claims.   He also proved he is a lair by claiming he has never missed an inauguration other than Trumps.

Nope, the burden of proof is on #45. What are his ties to Russia? Why hasn't he released his tax returns, which other presidents have done? And I will continue bringing up what John Lewis nearly died for because it is a part of his legacy, just like him questioning the legitimacy of both George Bush and #45. You can keep calling him a political hack all you want, what you can't do is change the fact that he nearly died trying to gain access to the ballot for black people in the South who had been disenfranchised FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. Calling me a racist isn't going to change the fact that white people murdered black and white people in the South for trying to help black people vote.

Hopefully, this is just a rumor. If not, if #45 and Pence decide to attack our community with discriminatory legislation then I simply will not understand how any of you would support that. I keep seeing people saying, "I support him for his economic policies." What policies are you talking about? He himself isn't releasing any details about anything because he's too hung up on his low approval ratings by multiple sources, including conservative polling sources. Instead of ignoring the boos and putting his vision for the country out there, he's too busy on Twitter attacking people. Who does that? How can you say you support him for his economic policies when there aren't any in place or currently being drafted? #45 came in with bad numbers and its going to get worse, so why not move on and put your vision forward anyway? He should be scheduling his joint session of Congress for February, not acting like a child on Twitter.

@raphjd:

@royalcrown89:

Once again, this is irrelevant since John Lewis is not the President of the United States. He is not our commander-in-chief, nor has he campaigned to be. He is a Civil Rights hero who nearly died for trying to bring Dr. King's dream to fruition. As you know, Dr. King was indeed murdered by a racist white man in connection with the American government. You can say all you want that the actions of this country's past have no effect on our lives today, but they actually do. Now we have as you put it, "a douche bag" in the White House who is nearing the point of out of control. The things he are doing are beyond partisanship at this point and as a result, millions are now on the side of he is not our president and he does not represent us. Those of us who wanted to give him a chance have been pushed away by his actions and will be active in urging our elected leaders to impeach him when the time comes. There will be no honeymoon period for his first 100 days and there will be no peace with him in office.

You can't have any discussion without having it be about race, can you?

John Lewis is a CONGRESSMAN and a proven liar, as well as a partisan hack.  If you took off your racist glasses, you'd see that.

Trump is a douche bag, so what?  Other Presidents have been douche bags.

So pointing out the fact that John Lewis nearly died while trying to gain access to the ballot for black people in the South makes me a racist? Is that your official position on this topic? Are you therefore calling Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a racist? Please, make your position clear because others have already said the nastiest stuff about Dr. King on here.

Beyond that point, #45 has an obligation to this country to prove John Lewis wrong by releasing his tax returns and fully divesting himself from his companies. Until he does that, how can you call John Lewis a partisan hack? The last time I checked, presidents from different parties released their tax returns and divested themselves from companies they were invested in, and some had to make very difficult and painful decisions like Ronald Reagan had to when he became president. Do you know how successful Ronald Reagan was and the sacrifices he had to make to become president? #45 is a disgrace to the legacy of other presidents who have served this country.

@raphjd:

CONGRESSMAN John Lewis is not beyond reproach.  He blatantly lied to the American people.  He has also declared the last 2 republican President as "illegitimate".   He's a partisan hack.

Trump is a douche bag, nobody is denying that.

The John Lewis you keep talking about hasn't existed for at least 30 years.

Once again, this is irrelevant since John Lewis is not the President of the United States. He is not our commander-in-chief, nor has he campaigned to be. He is a Civil Rights hero who nearly died for trying to bring Dr. King's dream to fruition. As you know, Dr. King was indeed murdered by a racist white man in connection with the American government. You can say all you want that the actions of this country's past have no effect on our lives today, but they actually do. Now we have as you put it, "a douche bag" in the White House who is nearing the point of out of control. The things he are doing are beyond partisanship at this point and as a result, millions are now on the side of he is not our president and he does not represent us. Those of us who wanted to give him a chance have been pushed away by his actions and will be active in urging our elected leaders to impeach him when the time comes. There will be no honeymoon period for his first 100 days and there will be no peace with him in office.

@aadam101:

But your premium isn't based on how many services you are using.  The risk adjustment process isn't taking into account the risk of each individual person.  Medical underwriting was eliminated under ObamaCare.

African Americans account for a higher percentage of heart disease and diabetes cases.   Should we charge them more?

I wish you hadn't asked that question because now we're going to get a racist response from him. The bottom line of all of this is Republicans know once they repeal this law and the very people who believed Obamacare and the ACA were two different things figure out that they were benefiting from the subsidies and everything else, they're going to turn on the Republican party almost instantly. I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans leave the law in place as is at this point.

The moment the Republicans repeal the ACA and all the misinformed people who voted for them learn that Obamacare is indeed the ACA, the insurance companies are going to drop all of those with preexisting conditions (which can range from once having a yeast infection to being hospitalized for an appendectomy to anything the insurance companies deem a preexisting condition) and there will be millions losing their insurance and angry at the Republican party. Some Republicans have proposed delaying the repeal so that it won't take effect until 2021, after the next presidential election. However, we all know the insurance companies are not going to play ball with the Republicans. They'll see those bonuses from dropping all of those coverage costs and they'll turn on those who are either currently sick or have preexisting conditions like rabid dogs. Remember what happened in 2006 when all those House and Senate seats flipped? Looks like we're due for a repeat.

@raphjd:

Beyond that, he never apologized to John Lewis nor did he prove John Lewis wrong.

Did Rep John Lewis apologize for lieing to the American people about never missing a Presidential inauguration before Trump?    Maybe he's too senile to remember that he skipped GWB's 2001 inauguration because he too was an "illegitimate President" according to Lewis.

John Lewis is not the president of the United States so I don't see your point. John Lewis is a Civil Rights hero who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and nearly died trying to change this country and keep racist white people from murdering black people and other white people who tried to help black people in the South vote. He has a right to his opinion and the only way to disprove what he has said is for Donald Trump to release his taxes and divest himself from his businesses. As of now, Donald Trump has not released any proof that he has no ties to Russia or that he has fully divested himself from his businesses; therefore, it is fair to call him corrupt and not the leader of this country. Simple as that.

@upNXT:

Continue? Who here should have been supporting them this far?! I have never, am not, will never support such a vile man and denounce most of what he stands for, his ideology, his….crazy. Shame on anyone still throwing support behind him...especially from our community. And since I'm thinking about it, they already have launched an attack on our rights--I think we can all agree that women's rights (lets not forget about our gay sisters), gay rights, funding for the arts, truth & justice, fair treatment of minorities, etc etc etc all go hand in hand with LGBT issues.

I wanted to be different than the Republicans who behaved downright disgusting towards President Obama. I wanted to keep believing that when the president succeeds, we all succeed. I no longer hold that belief now because I truly do not believe Trump has any of our best interests at heart. He has no heart. He has no soul, as far as I'm concerned. #45* is #NotMyPresident.

*awaiting his impeachment (along with now nearly 60% of the country)

I was holding out hope and I really didn't want to be like so many of the disgusting Republicans who believed the racist theory that President Obama wasn't born here and/or called him a Muslim, but I will no longer refer to Donald Trump as president. He has not changed or made an effort to show he is the president for all of us. President Obama didn't use this offensive and disgusting type of rhetoric nor did he ever believe crazy conspiracy theories such as "4 or 5 million people committing voter fraud." How do you win an election and continue to focus on the fact that you did indeed lose the popular vote by a wider margin than any other elected president in recent history? The people in his administration are highly incompetent and do not deserve the titles that they were given in his administration.

Beyond that, he never apologized to John Lewis nor did he prove John Lewis wrong. We have absolutely no idea what ties to Russia Trump has because unlike every other president in recent history, we have no public access to his tax returns. He has not fully divested himself from his companies and is currently being sued because of it. If he doesn't have ties to Russia or hasn't done anything illegal, why not release the tax returns? After the White House petition gained enough signatures, the response from the White House was that he will NEVER release his tax returns. #NotMyPresident

@aadam101:

I don't know how anyone can consider Trump to be a legitimate President.  After the election Trump questioned the legitimacy of the election he won when he claimed that millions of fraudulent votes were cast.

He's flipped on many, many things but I do believe he's a legitimate President. Even though he himself questioned the legitimacy of Barack Obama based on a racist theory that he kept going on for more than five years, I still believe he's legitimate. Our system still works and unless Republicans pass landmark legislation directly banning millions of people from being able to vote, I think things will be changing drastically in the next midterm. Trump only has this year to change the overwhelming majority of this country's citizens' minds about him. If things keep going this way we're going to see a wave to the left in next year's elections.

@amicusets:

@royalcrown89:

Just learned that it's standard for whitehouse.gov to remove all pages associated with the previous president, so the LGBT page disappearing doesn't mean anything. Still, all eyes are on this administration. The election is over. Hillary Clinton did not win; therefore, Hillary Clinton is irrelevant at this point. Trump won and is our president which means everything he says and does is the action of the president, he does not get any passes. I do not care that the Republican base is anti-LGBT, he cannot afford to be anti-LGBT. He has practically no political capital and no honeymoon period due to his low approval rating (which ranges from 32-37% by many reputable sources, including Fox News/Pew). You may not believe in polls anymore but the reality of the low turnout at his inauguration is symbolic of his real support. There are blogs and other online groups dedicated to showing the thousands of regret posts on Twitter and Facebook by people who voted for him due to his billionaire Wall Street cabinet picks and his opinion changes since the election. He has no room for any mistakes like many other presidents have had. His best chance is to reflect policies based on what the majority of Americans support. If he or Pence or even the Republicans launch an assault on the LGBT community then they will be DONE.

What opinion changes? Name at least 2. Yesterday, even the liberal media had to concede his whole address boiled down to, "yep, I meant everything I said on the campaign."
Keep living in the clouds if you think that he is somehow worried about those polls or what the dems or even the repubs think.

(1) "I'm going to drain the swamp" - Donald Trump, until he picked a Wall Street insider who foreclosed on an elderly woman for owing $.27 (27 freaking cents) as his nominee for Treasury Secretary, a billionaire (one who along with her brother donated a ton of cash to Trump's campaign) who doesn't even know how public schools function or are funded as his nominee for Education Secretary, and the owner of Hardee's/Carl's Jr. who is on record saying he opposes discrimination laws and would love to fire as many people as possible and replace them as robots to avoid paying wages to working people.

(2) "I know more than the intelligence community," and, "The intelligence community is using Nazi tactics against me" - Donald Trump, until now; now he's kissing up to them and claiming, "I have your back."

As for me living in the clouds, I didn't make up the millions of people marching in various cities around the country today. There were also marches around the world protesting against the man who was just inaugurated as the American president yesterday. He doesn't have to care about the polls, but elected officials do. Once he gets around 28% he'll become toxic and the Republican party will do to him what they did to George W. Bush. It's time for Trump to make some changes or this thing is about to get a lot worse. The only reason why I'm still holding on to a shred of hope is because they haven't attacked the LGBT community or made it official that LGBT families will no longer be accepted at official White House events or treated with respect. The moment we return to "there needs to be a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage" will be the moment I join millions of others in opposing the administration wholeheartedly.

Just learned that it's standard for whitehouse.gov to remove all pages associated with the previous president, so the LGBT page disappearing doesn't mean anything. Still, all eyes are on this administration. The election is over. Hillary Clinton did not win; therefore, Hillary Clinton is irrelevant at this point. Trump won and is our president which means everything he says and does is the action of the president, he does not get any passes. I do not care that the Republican base is anti-LGBT, he cannot afford to be anti-LGBT. He has practically no political capital and no honeymoon period due to his low approval rating (which ranges from 32-37% by many reputable sources, including Fox News/Pew). You may not believe in polls anymore but the reality of the low turnout at his inauguration is symbolic of his real support. There are blogs and other online groups dedicated to showing the thousands of regret posts on Twitter and Facebook by people who voted for him due to his billionaire Wall Street cabinet picks and his opinion changes since the election. He has no room for any mistakes like many other presidents have had. His best chance is to reflect policies based on what the majority of Americans support. If he or Pence or even the Republicans launch an assault on the LGBT community then they will be DONE.

The LGBT rights page has been removed from whitehouse.gov. Still not losing hope but this is troubling.

@koliko6:

@royalcrown89:

@raphjd:

Trump won't be able to ban gay families from the White House without changing US laws.

Mike Pence is a piece of shit.  Nothing will change that.

If they decide to bring back DADT or even attempt at creating a constitutional ban on marriage, will you continue to support them? No one is saying that is what will happen and even I strongly believe it won't happen, but if it does will that cause you to change your support?

Also, even if he did appoint a supreme court that overturned gay marriage (highly unlikely it'll ever be reversed), who the fuck cares?! There are FAR more important things in this country than whether people can get butt married.

"Butt married?" Oh my, that's so disappointing that you would refer to something so important with such disrespect. Think of all the people who died never getting the chance to be "butt married" because of this country's stance on same-sex marriage and LGBT rights.

I would care because I was able to get married in 2015 and it would be highly upsetting if he did reverse the progress that was made during President Obama's time in the White House. It would be a slap in the face for something like that to happen, especially since he himself said it was settled and the law of the land. If he goes back on his word on that, I and many, many others will have absolutely nothing to support him on anymore. This is our lives we are talking about, not just some imaginary idea. We can't go from having a president who supported expanding more than just marital rights to same-sex couples, but the benefits that come with those rights, to a president who will return us to how it was. I have to say it's very disappointing to see some of you okay with the possibility of returning to how it was. I'm literally crossing my fingers hoping that Trump will keep his word. I don't want my marriage to be considered invalid because of this incoming administration and how some (like Pence) view same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT individuals. This is very, very serious and I still can't believe how some of you are behaving right now.

@raphjd:

I'm fully aware of Strom Thurmond and who/what he was.

Sen Robert Byrd never left the Democrats.  Even as late as 2001, he twice used the term "white niggers" in an interview.

False equivalence for a couple of reasons. (1) West Virginia stayed Democrat for much longer than other former majority Democrat states that flipped Republican because of its lack of racial diversity (2) Robert Byrd stayed in the Democratic party for that very reason. He would've lost his seat had he gone Republican. I can guarantee if he were alive today he would've joined the Republicans because now West Virginia is a Republican state. Strom Thurmond left the Democrats because the Democrats no longer believed in racial segregation and now represented the interests of more people than just white Americans. You cannot compare Senator Byrd and Senator Thurmond without the context behind what they did when they did it. And once again, please do some research on the party realignments in this country and why they happened.

@raphjd:

Trump won't be able to ban gay families from the White House without changing US laws.

Mike Pence is a piece of shit.  Nothing will change that.

I didn't say banned from the White House, I said banned from White House events such as the Easter Eggroll, as in those type of families simply won't be invited. You are aware that during many presidencies, LGBT families were not allowed to participate in those events, right? President Obama's White House was one of the most open White Houses in a very long time. If it goes back to how it was, will you still support Trump? If he and Pence decided to coerce Congress into passing legislation or if Congress itself goes through the committee process to create legislation challenging the SCOTUS ruling, will you still support them? If they decide to bring back DADT or even attempt at creating a constitutional ban on marriage, will you continue to support them? No one is saying that is what will happen and even I strongly believe it won't happen, but if it does will that cause you to change your support?

I still believe Donald Trump and Mike Pence will be focused on many other things and will ignore Republican calls to dismantle the right to same-sex marriage and many of the other protections given to LGBT couples by President Obama by executive order. I just can't see them doing it after Donald Trump told America that same-sex marriage is a settled issue. However, Mike Pence is Mike Pence  :funny2:

If the Trump administration aligns with the many Republicans in the House and Senate who believe the Supreme Court ruling is wrong, will you continue to support the Trump administration? If he reverses all of the protections given to LGBT couples working in the federal government given to them by President Obama, will you continue to support the Trump administration? If he bans LGBT couples and their families from White House events, a complete reversal of the past 8 years under President Obama, will you continue to support the Trump administration?

For the person who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a Marxist, thank you for confirming my beliefs that many white people like using Dr. King to condemn black people but have no respect for the man at all.

@raphjd:

Under DADT, more people were kicked out of the military for being gay than before it.

"Dixie-crats" or southern Democrats were, if not still, the biggest bigots.

Once again, you are delving into something you have no experience in @raphjd. Do you know who Strom Thurmond is? He was a well-known U.S. Senator from my state who favored racial segregation until the day he died. Strom Thurmond was a Democrat and Dixiecrat BEFORE THE PARTY REALIGNMENTS. Please tell me you're intelligent enough to know there were party realignments in this country. Senator Thurmond did not die a Democrat. What party was he a part of in the last 20+ years of his career and life? That's right, he was a Republican. HE DID NOT CHANGE ANY OF HIS VIEWS and he BECAME A REPUBLICAN because that party now catered to those views, not the Democratic party. Please do not try to rewrite well-known history to fit your beliefs. He, along with many other former Democrats, went to the Republican party because the Democratic party became more open to and representative of people of color. The South flipped to the Republican party for a reason, and it wasn't because the party became liberal. I live here and I know the legacy of Strom Thurmond, I live in the legacy of Strom Thurmond and I can promise you it's not a good one. He is one of the people who inspired Dylann Roof to murder 9 innocent black church members in Charleston.

John Lewis acknowledges now that he did indeed skip GWB's inauguration. However, he now calls GWB a friend because GWB reached out to him and many other Democrats and met with them on many occasions. That has absolutely nothing to do with this. Once again, Donald Trump is our incoming President and he needs to show leadership and reach out in this instance. Only Donald Trump can fix this problem, no one else. There is a reason why he is so unpopular and why so many people (of all races) are out protesting in many cities and towns across this country. This is completely different than what took place in 2000 and 2001. For the umpteenth time, Donald Trump was fairly elected and is our legitimately elected president. That is not in dispute. What has upset me and many, many others is his disrespect of a Civil Rights hero with the comment that said Civil Rights hero is, "all talk and no action." He did not clarify what he meant by that statement so many have taken it as a shot at Lewis's Civil Rights record. That is not where we are going as a country and as a result, many are rightfully boycotting the upcoming inauguration.