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Trump's billionaire backer Mercer is racist and cray-cray
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidencyHe's quite a bit like Trump, in fact.
Patterson also recalled Mercer arguing that, during the Gulf War, the U.S. should simply have taken Iraqs oil, since it was there. Trump, too, has said that the U.S. should have kept the oil. Expropriating another countrys natural resources is a violation of international law. Another onetime senior employee at Renaissance recalls hearing Mercer downplay the dangers posed by nuclear war. Mercer, speaking of the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, argued that, outside of the immediate blast zones, the radiation actually made Japanese citizens healthier. The National Academy of Sciences has found no evidence to support this notion. Nevertheless, according to the onetime employee, Mercer, who is a proponent of nuclear power, was very excited about the idea, and felt that it meant nuclear accidents werent such a big deal.
Mercer strongly supported the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be Trumps Attorney General. Many civil-rights groups opposed the nomination, pointing out that Sessions has in the past expressed racist views. Mercer, for his part, has argued that the Civil Rights Act, in 1964, was a major mistake. According to the onetime Renaissance employee, Mercer has asserted repeatedly that African-Americans were better off economically before the civil-rights movement. (Few scholars agree.) He has also said that the problem of racism in America is exaggerated. The source said that, not long ago, he heard Mercer proclaim that there are no white racists in America today, only black racists. (Mercer, meanwhile, has supported a super PAC, Black Americans for a Better Future, whose goal is to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party.)
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Trump's billionaire backer Mercer is racist and cray-cray (Original Post)
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2017
OP
what is it about being a rich white billionaire that drives someone nuts???
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2017
#15
dchill
(38,322 posts)1. Grate minds think alike.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)2. Trump's mind really does grate on me
dchill
(38,322 posts)3. I can see their minds only by looking down...
through a sewer grate.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)6. true!
tblue37
(64,982 posts)4. He also said once that a person's value is determined by what they earn, and
that since teachers are paid so little, that means they have little value.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)5. SMH, so depraved
n2doc
(47,953 posts)7. If he wants to be so healthy, I suggest he move to Chernobyl or Fukushima n/t
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)8. David Koch, billionaire backer, is racist and greedy
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)9. Charles Koch, billionaire backer, is racist and greedy
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)10. Sheldon Adelson, billionaire backer, is racist and greedy
3auld6phart
(1,017 posts)13. Agreed
I don't much like any of them. But Adelson is in a class all by himself. Bloated,ugly inside and out. A rung or two above being a pedophile. Just out and out scum.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)11. Rupert Murdoch, billionaire backer, is racist and greedy
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)12. Foster Freiss, Woody Johnson, Scaife, Olin, need I go on?
When you are rich and support the party of racism, you're not making a case for tolerance.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)15. what is it about being a rich white billionaire that drives someone nuts???
MFM008
(19,776 posts)14. And they live
And thrive and make others suffer while
Good men die young.
It happened to my dad at 69.