{"id":3330,"date":"2016-09-20T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2024-09-23T22:44:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:44:59","slug":"one-hillarys-basket-deplorables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/one-hillarys-basket-deplorables\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am One of Hillary&#8217;s &#8216;Basket of Deplorables&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary just let the cat out of a bag. She thinks supporters of Donald Trump belong in a &#8220;basket of deplorables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hillary was talking about me and my friends. I&#8217;m Exhibit A for her rant. I&#8217;m the author of the new book <strong>&#8220;ANGRY WHITE MALE.&#8221;<\/strong> It&#8217;s my testimony about exactly what millions of angry white males who support Donald Trump believe in&#8230;and exactly what liberals like Hillary and Obama think of us&#8230;and how they are trying to target us, muzzle us, punish us and destroy us.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Hillary. At least now the ten-ton elephant is out in the open. Now we know what you think of us. Now we know how much you despise us.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s clear as day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hillary and her socialist cabal just showed their true colors. They hate anyone who loves God, country, family &amp; Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the entire point of my book. Everything I love&#8230;and millions of conservatives, Christians and patriots love&#8230;is under attack from Hillary &amp; Democrats.\u00a0They hate us. They want to destroy us. They want to silence us.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Trump supporters believe the things that made America great are simple: Faith in God, family, patriotism, American exceptionalism, capitalism, Judeo-Christian values, Constitution, military and police.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary and Democrats <span class=\"s4\">despise\u00a0those symbols. To them, belief in those symbols makes you &#8220;deplorable.&#8221; To them, belief in those symbols is old-fashioned, low-class and crass. To them, to say you actually believe America is exceptional brands you as a &#8220;racist.&#8221; To them, to say you love God, country and capitalism makes you a bigot, sexist, homophobic and Islamophobic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t an isolated incident. Or a slip of the tongue. Ask Obama. In 2008 he said conservatives and Christians are &#8220;bitter and cling to our guns and religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or look at the targets and victims of the IRS scandal of four years ago. Was it a coincidence that Obama&#8217;s IRS targeted, intimidated and persecuted only specific groups that happen to fall into Hillary&#8217;s &#8220;basket of deplorables&#8221;? The IRS went after conservative groups; Christians groups; groups that believe in the U.S. Constitution; groups that support Israel; and Tea Party groups that support patriotism and American exceptionalism.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget Obama&#8217;s IRS also targeted and persecuted individual critics of the President- like me. I spent 3 years and countless dollars fighting off over-the-top IRS attacks, only to be cleared twice (without owing one cent). It&#8217;s pretty clear Hillary and Obama don&#8217;t like angry white males who speak up, or speak out.<\/p>\n<p>Why should that surprise anyone? The most important chapter in my book\u00a0<strong>&#8220;ANGRY WHITE MALE<\/strong>&#8221; is about my days at Columbia University, Class of &#8217;83 with my classmate Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I spent four long years getting to know my classmates at Columbia. I spent four years listening to what they <em>really<\/em> believed in. This was before any of them got famous. No cameras were rolling. They were free to tell the truth. They poured their hearts out. And what did I witness? It was exactly what we heard from Hillary Clinton on Thursday- <em>word for word.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My classmates were almost 100% white, ultra-liberal, and pathetically guilty at having been born with silver spoons in their mouths. They ranted just like Hillary every day&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 They made it clear they despised conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 They despised patriots.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 They despised people of faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 They despised America and called it a &#8220;racist nation.&#8221; They vowed to bring this country down.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 They despised anyone with wealth, or who owned a business.<\/p>\n<p>They constantly talked about &#8220;white privilege&#8221; and their hatred for &#8220;the white power structure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They despised Israel and supported the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>But most of all, they despised white, straight, Christian males. To them, we were the symbol of everything wrong about America.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this important? Because I read &#8220;Columbia College Today.&#8221; It tells me all about the success and career achievements of my classmates. Guess where they all work? Many of them are either in the Obama administration, working on Hillary&#8217;s campaign, or in positions of power in the media. In short, these people with hatred in their hearts, are today the most powerful people in America.<\/p>\n<p>From Hillary&#8217;s speech it&#8217;s clear nothing has changed. My classmates have all grown up. But their hatred for America, American exceptionalism, faith, family, capitalism and of course their favorite scapegoats- white, straight, Christian males- has never changed, or faded. It&#8217;s as strong as ever.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they hate us. We&#8217;re just &#8220;a basket of deplorables.&#8221; Hillary made that all clear on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary just let the cat out of a bag. She thinks supporters of Donald Trump belong in a &#8220;basket of deplorables.&#8221; Hillary was talking about me and my friends. I&#8217;m Exhibit A for her rant. 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