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certainot

(9,090 posts)
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 12:19 PM Jun 2018

These universities are good places to protest until they stop endorsing Trump racism excuses.

Universities all over the country support Trump by continuing to broadcast sports on radio stations that make excuses for his racism and child abuse.

They don’t have to. If those stations were bought by the KKK how many would not be forced to look for alternatives?

If those stations broadcast Limbaugh’s show they are Trump stations, and they might as well be KKK stations now. There is no excuse for any publicly funded university to rent their logos and mascots to radio stations to help them attract advertising to pay for racists like Limbaugh to make excuses for Trump and his child abuse.

If Trump would pay $1000 per radio hour to excuse his crimes, 1200 stations broadcasting 15 hours/day are worth $18MIL/day.

Protests at universtities that support RW radio would be aimed directly at the Trump problem. If one university started discussing the possibility of looking for sports broadcasting alternatives Republicans would freak out. Media would notice. Other universities would be shamed into following. Advertisers would desert RW talk radio and Trump and the Republicans would lose an essential ally.

An unchallenged RW talk radio monopoly will win and keep a lot of elections close this November.

All Limbaugh stations have been following his lead for 30 years. Those stations have been used by the Republican think tanks for years to use the immigration issue to rally the racist base and sell voter suppression legislation. They’ve played an essential part in this disaster.

Here is local KKOB talker Pat Frisch in Albuquerque NM, who has a 2 hour show after Limbaugh. He was attacking Santa Fe for being a sanctuary city (while filling in on the 9AM hour. This was available on the podcasts collection of that show Nov 22, 2016):

ever seen the movies "Purge" or whatever they are?.... Some people may say hey maybe that's not a bad idea. You watch one of those movies, OK? Basically what it is in a nutshell is for like 12 hours under this fictitious world in the "Purge", you're allowed to kill whoever you want…


As described here - Artificial intelligence could spell the end of Trump talk radio before November - I used Quicktime, free on Mac, and Sonix.ai -$5/hr - and transcribed last Monday's 6/18/18 Limbaugh show. He used all 3 hours to excuse and minimize Trump’s child abuse and racism. Excerpts below.

The number after the university is the number of Limbaugh stations they endorse. There are a lot more schools doing this, and a lot more stations benefitting from it.

From republiconradio.org:

ALABAMA 8 Auburn 3, Alabama 2, Southern Alabama 2, Troy 1
ARIZONA 2 Arizona St. 1, Arizona 1
ARKANSAS 3 Arkansas 3
CALIFORNIA 5 San Jose State 2, USC 2, Fresno St. 1
COLORADO 4 Air Force 2, Colorado 1, Colorado State 1
CONNECTICUT 1 Connecticut 1
FLORIDA 20 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2
GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2
IDAHO 7 Boise St. 4, Idaho 3
ILLINOIS 7 Illinois 7
INDIANA 11 Notre Dame 6, Purdue 4, Indiana 1
IOWA 5 Iowa 4, Iowa St. 1
KANSAS 4 Kansas St. 2, Kansas 1, Wichita St. 1
KENTUCKY 3 Louisville 2, Kentucky 1
LOUSIANA 3 LSU 2, La.-Monroe 1
MARYLAND 2 Maryland 2
MASSACHUSETTS 1 Boston College 1
MICHIGAN 19 Michigan St. 11, Michigan 7, Western Michigan 1
MINNESOTA 4 Minnesota 4
MISSISSIPPI 6 Mississippi St. 3, Mississippi 2, Southern Miss 1
MISSOURI 6 Missouri 6
NEBRASKA 6 Nebraska 6
NEW JERSEY 2 Rutgers 1, Seton Hall 1
NEW MEXICO 3 New Mexico 2, New Mexico St. 1
NEW YORK 7 Syracuse 6, Army 1
NORTH CAROLINA 16 North Carolina 8, North Carolina State 3, Duke 3, East Carolina 2
OHIO 10 Ohio St. 6, Toledo 1, Dayton 1, Bowling Green 1, Xavier 1
OKLAHOMA 5 Oklahoma St. 3, Oklahoma 1, Oral Roberts 1
OREGON 12 Oregon St. 7, Oregon 5
PENNSYLVANIA 14 Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1
SOUTH CAROLINA 4 South Carolina 2, Clemson 2
TENNESSEE 7 Tennessee 4, Memphis 3
TEXAS 16 Texas A&M 9, Texas Tech 4, Texas 1, Texas Christian 1, Baylor 1
UTAH 1 Utah St. 1
VIRGINIA 6 Virginia Tech 5, Virginia 1
WASHINGTON 6 Washington 5, Washington St. 1
WEST VIRGINIA 2 West Virginia 1, Marshall 1
WISCONSIN 5 Wisconsin 5

Here's Limbaugh (POS), recorded off 850 KOA last Monday 6/18/18, a major Colorado Limbaugh station in Denver, which broadcasts University of Colorado Buffaloes, Denver Rockies, and Denver Broncos games. They all need to find apolitical alternatives.

This is where Republicans spread/ get their talking points.

It is an entirely manufactured crisis it's entirely manufactured this has been going on for years it happened during the Obama administration.

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It's all about people attempting to invade our country not emigrate here.

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It is the Democrat Party who is seeking to have children brought here on trains from Central America without their parents. To create just the kind of scenario we are finding ourselves in the middle of today.

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Trump is standing up for America and fair deals for America. As such economic growth in the U.S. is leaving the world behind.

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I'm going to demonstrate to you today that this is a manufactured crisis in the sense that nothing's new here. This policy has been in place for years and was widely practiced during the Obama administration. The only difference is the media didn't tell you about then. The Obama administration wanted it hidden, and so it was. But there's nothing new under Trump except an attempt to fix it. By holding people accountable to the law. the only way circumstances like this can happen is if people are allowed to violate immigration law. And not be punished. that's the only way this can happen.

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Their focus is Donald Trump their focus is damaging Donald Trump, if they cared about these kids and their families being separated they would have done something about it.

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Now they have the gall and the audacity to say that Donald Trump is mean spirited and extreme because he likes separating immigrant families and children from their parents. Not so. if anybody is going to fix it. Like everything else it's going gonna be Donald Trump but it's going to be on his terms and it's not going to be part of an immigration deal that allows mass amnesty by DACA kids and others for the sake of fixing this. It's a manufactured political issue designed to change the subject from all the robust goodness and decency that is springing up all over this country.

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They want the United States to become a migrant camp. Those are future democrat voters dependent on government. They want the United States to be a refugee holding facility. They want to claim credit for being the only ones with compassion caring about the downtrodden when this is a scheme. It is a targeted plan that the Democrats are in on.

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this is a last ditch effort to force Trump to sign comprehensive immigration reform granting amnesty not just to these families of refugees but to every illegal immigrant in the country.

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Democrats don't care any more about them today than they did during the Obama administration. January 28 2016 Washington Post this is over two years ago Obama administration placed children with human traffickers report says.

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The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the border since 2011 leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government approved caretakers.

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This is pretend concern about illegal immigrant kids being separated from their parents. I'm telling you folks it is a manufactured crisis.

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and threatening the GOP establishment
This is not about kids. It's not that they are just the latest fill in the blank objective and the Republicans better get in the game on this and not leave Trump isolated because Trump knows what's going on. Trump knows what the effort really is here.

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He knows what this is about because we see it happening in Europe right now destroying original cultures of all of these European nations. He has the single administration figure standing athwart all of this saying stop.

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(According to the) New York magazine (the) Obama administration handed child migrants over to human traffickers.

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Mexican kids held for months away from their parents is nothing new folks nothing new at all.

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the Trump administration is not changing the rules that pertain to separating an adult from the child. Those remain the same. Separation happens only if officials find that the adult is falsely claiming to be the child's parent or is a threat to the child or is put into criminal procedure.

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The new trump policy is to prosecute these adults all of them who are breaking the law. The idea is to send a signal that we are serious about our laws and create a deterrent against re-entry. This is Trump being serious about enforcing immigration law folks.

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So in other words folks the parents who decide at the border to ask for asylum in this fashion rather than going in the front door remember now these are people attempting to get into the country illegally.

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if the parents who decide to ask for asylum in this fashion via illegal entry and then getting caught they're choosing they’re choosing separation they're choosing it.

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Here's Mandy Connell on KOA parroting POS:

What has to happen is that all these news media reports have to start trickling down into Central America and mothers need to hear that if they come to the United States their kids are going to be ripped away from them. We need to dissuade people before they try to make that crossing.

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And if people come here and instead of being immediately processed and turned around with their children to go back to their home country they decide to apply for asylum they need to be told very clearly in their language that they understand your children are going to be separated for you from you indefinitely. We don't know when you're getting them back. They need to make that choice.

She’s a POS too.

Back to POS:

So this is not a wanton planned effort to separate families for whatever reason a break to conjure up. It is the result of strict American law that's been on the books since 1997

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the parents deciding to seek for asylum end up choosing the separation and yet look what's happening. If you pay attention to the news media you would think the United States is forcing separation on people.

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This would not be an issue if they weren't here trying to get in illegally.

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Everybody's accepting some vision that helpless needy poor kids fleeing war come to the United States wanting a better life.

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this has been going on basically since the year 2000 1997 and only now is there a big complaint about it.

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the people causing it are the people coming here folks.

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You see how easy it is to get caught up in one of these manufactured political crises. And the Democrats in the media are expert at it. I don't care if it's the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act or if it is Donald Trump and Russian collusion or the Donald Trump travel ban or... you are never told the truth about it. It is politicized with one objective and that is to ruin Donald Trump and his presidency, reputation, image and all of that.

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if you get thrown in jail for robbing the bank Is it the banks fault for catching you and enforcing the law or is it your fault because you tried and if you get thrown in jail and you're separated from your family because you get thrown in jail robbing the bank. Whose fault is that?

Here's Connell's variation on POS’s analogy:

At some point are we not holding the people responsible for dragging kids across the desert to break into the country responsible for their own actions? You know if if I decide to go into Target this afternoon and shove a bunch of stuff into my pants and try to walk out without paying. And the Q (her daughter) with me and they decide to arrest me for shoplifting is the Q supposed to go to jail with me? I certainly hope not. And if I didn't have Chuck to come pick up my daughter after I got arrested shoplifting then I would assume that Child Protective Services would step in. Why is this any different.? And if you're outraged about children being ripped away from their mothers after they break the law why aren't we upset about every woman who's in prison? An overwhelming majority of which are mothers. Why. Because they committed a crime.

Back to POS:

Let me tell you who's been busting up families. The Democrats.

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Democrat party literally subsidized single motherhood in the black community. For decades it was called AFDC the Democrat Party promoted a welfare policy that gave single women additional money for every child they had. the father need not ever be around in many cases the father was not even know the father was not even identified because the Democrat Party assumed the role. Actually the Democrats made the government assume the role of father.

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You could also say that Planned Parenthood is excelling at separating families couldn't you? You want to talk about separating families look no further than the abortion mills of Planned Parenthood.

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On the Mueller investigation (he’s doing whole shows on it after any new development vs Trump): I cannot tell you how repulsive that is to me these charges are manufactured and made up politically, charges, political charges manufactured made up by Trump's enemies.

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There was no collusion there was no obstruction.

More from Connell:

But if we had some measure of border security along the southern border guess what would not be happening right now. Children would not be separated from their families because they would not be trying to break into the country.
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