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I agree with your sentiment, but not your diagnosis about redlining Black families.  I think the pessimistic view of Donalds is actually much worse.  The problem is not that Donalds would redline Black families to keep them out of the neighborhood.  The problem is he might be the kind of guy who'd give them all subprime mortgages, and blow up the whole fucking neighborhood with foreclosures.  As long as he could get rich and move ahead doing so.    Which means he's just like lots of rich White people who climbed political or financial ladders doing the same thing.  Chris Dodd, former Democratic Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, was the same kind of guy, in my opinion.  He got special deals from subprime lenders while he ignored what they were doing.  Donalds strikes me as that kind of guy. His background is financial services and credit.  The demon view of Donalds is he would would love to be the head of Trump Mortgage.  Which would make billions making bad loans that once again, like subprime, drove the global economy off the cliff.  And destroyed millions of American home owners.  Trump is that kind of grifter.  And as my Sister In Cock said, Donalds is an opportunist.  Would he go as far as Trump would?  Too soon to know. To state that more positively, the thing I like about Donalds is he likes being a "politically incorrect Black man" who thinks if you study hard and work hard you can live the American Dream.  Including the nice home in Naples.  The fact that he does have a nice home in Naples and he is the Republican nominee for Governor suggests he's not wrong about good old fashioned bootstrap capitalism.  In the same way as Obama, he is a symbol of the fact the the US is, at a minimum, not as racist as it used to be. What Donalds comes closer to, in my view, is the idea that a nation divided by class, not race, is perfectly okay.  Because guys like him and Trump deserve to be on top.  Obamacare is the best example of that.  He has no good idea that he's stated about how you replace that for working class families, Black or White, who are not as successful as him. It's kind of the same with the Iran War.  He was against the Ukraine War, like Trump was, but for Trump's Iran War.  His logic:  "We blow up all your stuff.  And then we go home."  Like with Trump, it seems like he likes a world run for the rich and powerful, who will just blow shit up when they need to.  Including Iran, and health care subsidies. To really slaughter the word "redlining," who Donalds would redline is Gay men, and Muslims.  He is the kind of guy who would say Gay men don't deserve the institution of marriage.  The Council on American-Islamic Relations  went after Donald and other Freedom Caucus members saying if they had their way they would "effectively ban the practice of the world's second largest religion in the United States." Again, I agree with your sentiment.  His values are ones I would call extreme, and intolerant.  He's not the kind of guy that sounds like he'd want a Gay family or Muslim family living next door.  I'll be interested to see how Jolly goes after him.  And how well it works.

Ooh interesting...were they rocket scientists in Mandalay?

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