I think if you changed this thread title to "Profile A Bigoted Racist You Know IRL", everything would still be on topic.

It's only just occurred to me that some portion of TRUMP's supporters are just happy to have found someone that reasonable people (non-racists) hate as much as they hate Obama.

Just learned this week that my father-in-law is supporting TRUMP. He lives in SC but isn't voting today (LOL ground game). I always had him pegged as a textbook Lindsey Graham military-hawk Republican so this came as a fairly huge shock.

Gender: Male
Age: Early 70s
Occupation: Retired
Marital Status: Married
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Ethnic Heritage: Caucasian
Political Affiliation: Republican
Religion: Christian but completely secular as a practical matter
Why Trump?: Don't want to know. We've never, ever talked politics in the time I've known him and things are best left that way.
Misc: Everyone else in his family is liberal, including my wife. He's one of the nicest, friendliest people you'll ever meet and hasn't expressed any overt anger in my presence about anything, let alone politics. He's also never shown any hostility against minorities (including me) so my best guess is that his support of TRUMP is more about the alpha, "Obama is evil" messaging than anything else.

ah, another TRUMP wishcaster. "he'll magically transform once POTUS".

still waiting for your profile, i gave you mine as asked. given your staunch defense of TRUMP, you must be VERY firm in your support of your first choice.

Better a President that does some things right and some things wrong in an unpredictable way, than Hillary and Bernie who will do things wrong by design.

Trump's not my choice because he may transform or show his true colors in bad ways, and will certainly not be liked by people outside of the US, and will certainly be a blowhard.

But still the "Lesser of two evils" call goes to Trump in a Donald v Hillary or a Donald v Bernie general election.

i'll try again.

who is your first choice? we know that you think all democrats are the anti-christ.

This might be the most comical thing I've ever read during the course of my entire life. Bro, get help. Immediately. Mother of God. You can't actually believe the bolded parts, can you?

BREAKING POLL: 40% of Blacks Line Up Behind Trump – 45% of Hispanics

I went to Jury duty, there was this kid that just graduated from college in Political Science. He said his goal was to work for government or a non-profit. That is the problem.

1. People graduate from college and they think since they have a degree they never have to work again. They wants some government to pay them a salary, but the job it not of importance.

They claim they hate corporations but they sure want to tax them.

"Breaking poll: 95% of politics posters think steelhouse is stark raving mad. [Drudge siren drudge siren drudge siren]"

I guarantee that poll is more accurate that steel houses.

This whole thread is to make Trump supporters out as old, racist, and stupid. That is against the rules of the forum. Only a bigoted person would participate in this thread. Everyone knows who Trump is. Young black/latin and smart people support Trump too.

What seems apparent is black people don't support Barry Sanders, so if you vote for him are you a racist?

"Not elite and greedy like Obama." what kind of person would hire the most people he can to work on his and his wife's staff. Fly out to Hollywood for a fundraiser where he is not even running anymore to hang out with celebrities that generates pennies compared to what it is spent. Tie up traffic in Los Angeles on a routine basis for hours. Every minute he shows up late to a press conference or a speech costs lives.

If 10 million people watch his state of the union, and he shows up 10 minutes late that is 100 million minutes or 190 years.

The same person that is anti-corporation is the same person that is a racist. That is probably why black people see through Sanders. Schools are not that important jobs are.

Some analysis of that Trump poll

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-black-voters/

Barry Sanders has a pretty broad spectrum of support imo, shame about the ****ty franchise he played for though

sanders/sanders ticket? guarantees bernie the michigan and oklahoma vote.

If only Thanksgiving came before the election. I always thought of that day as the one day his broad national appeal peaked as he was usually a sole bright spot in the midst of 3 hrs of bad football. Maybe he can steal a page out of the TRUMP book and Make Thanksgiving Great Again.

And steelhouse still managed to add like 20 points in his imaginary poll.

Doesn't take much effort. And 2 out of 3 aint bad.

They don't have to be old or racist but stupid is the common denominator here.

The reality is those that call Trump a racist are ignorant. I am sure Trump would welcome Mexico giving us Baja to house immigrants for them.

The poll does not matter. Does Clinton polling more than Sanders make Sanders a racist? The republican party is dying to elect a Black or Mexican or Cuban candidate. They are the party that stopped the democratic slave nation.

I'm glad we can all agree that LIEbrals are the real racists

This guy agrees:

twitter.com/demsrrealracist

Not at all.

Obviously the US has failed to take meaningful steps to absolve its sins against African-Americans; and that failure is systemically racist. It would be wonderful to see reparations happen.

But I don't agree with the habit that many posters have of interrogating everyone's actions at all times for possible signifiers of racism.

Any person with an intact amygdala will exhibit some level of in-group preference and out-group hostility when in a stressful or vulnerable situation. In my opinion, most of the "racists" that posters here berate are just common people living lives with no meaning or control and it's utterly uninteresting to notice that they are especially hostile toward people with a different skin color.

For example, I would say a bigger problem in America than garden variety racism is garden variety child abuse. (Which is particularly rampant in the African-American community and without doubt exerts a significant inertial effect on that community's progress.)

So why don't people take a while to refocus their righteous indignation and Twitter-shaming on the cultural norms that protect child abusers?

Gender: Male
Age: Around 45
Occupation: Minimum wage earner
Marital Status: Married
Education: High School
Ethnic Heritage: Caucasian
Political Affiliation: Republican
Religion: Presbyterian
Why Trump?: Tired of standard political lies, so prefers to vote for business-man (who may or may not be lying )
Misc: Looking to increase lifestyle and success, fast-food eater, family-man, not particularly religious but has conservative family values

Simple profile of a Trump Supporter: Easily succumbs to cult type personalities.
http://www.workingpsychology.com/cult.html

"I will make our military so big, powerful and strong, that no one will mess with us. - Donald Trump - https://www.donaldjtrump.com/issues/

So, anyone involved in any way with the MIC will probably vote for him.

This:http://************/hkcoazg [tinyurl] is a pie chart of where our tax dollars go. It shows that 20% goes to defense & 21% goes to social security.

The problem with the chart, is that social security is still solvent & the money comes from SSI taxes, not the general fund. The general fund owes the SSI fund ~2.7 trillion dollars.

So, since SS shouldn't be in the pie chart, when you take it out, defense becomes 25% of all money taken in from taxes for the general fund.

During FY2014, the federal government collected approximately $3.02 trillion in tax revenue, up $246 billion or 9% versus FY2013. Primary receipt categories included individual income taxes ($1,395B or 46% of total receipts), Social Security/Social Insurance taxes ($1,024B or 34%), and corporate taxes ($321B or 11%). Other revenue types included excise, estate and gift taxes.

Notice that SSI taxes was 73.4% of all individual income taxes in FY2014. The SSI taxes is what keeps this country from bankruptcy, since it still has a surplus. When Clinton claimed to have balanced the budget, it was because the surplus of SSI taxes made up for the deficit in spending. In exchange, the govt. gave us pieces of paper that said "I.O.U." & when the interest is due, gives us another piece of paper that says "I.O.U."

Anyone think those pieces of paper are worth anything?

Anyone wanna' increase our spending on the military from 25% to say 30% of all taxes taken in not related to social security?

Russia has the world's fourth largest defense budget, with Moscow spending $54 billion on the military in 2015. Russian defense spending is finally trending upward, after decades of starvation budgets brought on by the end of the Cold War and a poorly performing economy.

Of the top ten countries that have the largest military expenditures, the U.S. & its allies totals 902.7 billion. China & Russia totals 199.4 billion. Add India & you get 244.6 billion

Japan spends 47.7 billion compared to Russia's est. 70 billion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_expenditures

It has cost the United States $8 trillion to provide military security in the Gulf since 1976. According to Roger Stern, a Princeton economist, the US has spent as much on Gulf security as it spent on the entire Cold War with the Soviet Union! In recent years through 2010 it has been $400 billion a year, though the US withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 and the gradual withdrawal from Afghanistan this year and next presumably means that the figure is substantially reduced. Still, we have bases in Kuwait, Qatar and elsewhere, and a Naval HQ in Bahrain, none of which is cheap. If it were $200 billion a year, that is a fair chunk of the budget deficit the Republican Party keeps complaining about. And if we could get that $8 trillion back, it would pay down half of the national debt.http://www.juancole.com/2013/12/chea...-trillion.html

Russia has 10 military bases outside its country.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_bases_abroad
China has announced it will open its 1st military base outside its country.

The United States has bases in 31 countries. The U.K. has bases in 18 countries.

The U.S. accounts for 30% of all arms sales in the world. Russia accounts for 23%; Germany 10%; France 8%; U.K. 4%.

All 5 of the above countries are permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. The 6th permanent member is China.