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[Ohio]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Don't forget that one reason we don't like Trump is that he himself has also screwed people in a similar fashion. 2,000 lawsuits. Claims that contract workers don't get paid and can't fight it in court, and of course the people in Scotland are not thrilled with how he got his golf course built.

Not that any of that would be a reason to have voted for Clinton.

Reminds me of a story my uncle told me. He was a union electrician building Jacobs Field in Cleveland in the early '90's. Bill Clinton threw out the first pitch. Life was good for the rich and famous.

Most of the sub-contractors on that huge project, however, never got paid in full. Many went bankrupt. Nasty business. I'm sure NYC skyscrapers were worse. Politicians and Developers each greasing each others palms.

Like I have repeatedly said. They're all crooks and liars. Both politicians and developers. My concern is their policy. Do they line their pockets selling our strategic uranium to Russia? Do they go soft on China's military ambitions to enrich their kid's hedge fund? Do they bribe Ukrainian officials to fire prosecutors looking into their own family? Do they start wars to enrich their empire? Do they cave into actresses and flip-flop on policy? Do they undermine our way of life by introducing failed socialistic policies? Do they advance political agenda by using use our intelligence? Stuff like that concerns me more.

[Ohio]

Recent events in the little town of Oberlin, west of Cleveland, are a show window into the current politicization of our Universities. When newly saved I used to visit a Christian coworker for a game of Chess and fellowship in that lovely little town.

This article explains how bad things have become. In the aftermath of Trump's election win, underage black youths got caught shoplifting wine at a neighborhood bakery. Instead of an isolated arrest, forcing our youth to be accountable for their criminal action, the College threw the shop owners under the bus, and broadcast this as racial profiling, citing historical slavery and every other crusade of our modern day social justice warriors.

Here's a snapshot from the article showing how horribly misinformed College officials had become . . .

A longtime Oberlin resident, Emily Crawford, who also worked in the school’s communications department, sent out an email to her bosses and then it was forwarded to senior members of the college’s administration. The email read:

“I have talked to 15 townie friends who are poc (persons of color) and they are disgusted and embarrassed by the protest. In their view, the kid was breaking the law, period (even if he wasn’t shoplifting, he was underage). To them this is not a race issue at all and they do not believe the Gibson's [store owners] are racist. They believe the students have picked the wrong target … “I find this misdirected rage very disturbing, and it’s only going to widen the gap (between) town and gown.”

Tita Reed, special assistant to the president for community and government relations, wrote back: “Doesn’t change a damn thing for me.”

Many are throwing out the “Woke and Broke” designation on this case – and though some may see this as a larger issue of the conservatives winning over liberals — that wasn’t really what was going on here. The judge kept politics out of this case, and the jury was actually deciding not so much on what the college did do, but what it did not do.

One of things they did not do is listen to the people who have been in Oberlin awhile and understand things like this. So, it’s not “Woke and Broke,” so much as “Dumb and Dumber.”