Comrades! Brent's thoughts on Trump are his most revealing ever published by the Tribune.
I'll put Brent down for having zero interest in funding - BahamaCARE!

My respect for Brent just went down the tubes. What a dickwad! As for the Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief, Donald Trump, he is a sexual predator, a serial liar, and a narcissist with a Grade 4 vocabulary. And Brent would have voted for him? Says a lot about Brent's moral compass.

Comrade Banker, Brent displays the typical I prefer to speak up for any foreigner than my own red party's leader Minnis.
Deport via da mail boat the former DPM - back to his Pop's native Current.

Agree Banker. Trump has plumbed the depths and abandoned all standards of decency. Symonette may not have been keen on Clinton, but it's totally unacceptable of him to endorse Trump. And let's not kid ourselves. The real message from Trump was "Make America White Again." I don't think Symonette had much of a chance to be Bahamian PM on account of his own whiteness (let's be realistic, there's a certain amount of racism in the Bahamas too) but he has just dealt himself completely out of the game. Deservedly.

Slow news day?

> Taking to the podium, his first words were: "I'm wearing a red tie today by way of appeal to Trump, not to party."

What an a**

The smartest thing Brent ever did was to **not** put a dollar into the coffers of the Minnis controlled FNM party. And look how much happier he is for not having done so!

Then why did he and his crew throw LBT under the bus? His top aim is greens. . .his train of red is tired up in the red. . .Lol! Even Scott is now "hinting" red. . .under the rocin doc!! Yoon making much sense. . .as usual for an FNM!

Brent has always been a poor communicator. But I never realized he was so stupid. Well, he can kiss active politics goodbye

To expected anything less, one must be dumb, deaf and stupid. A racist will always support another racist. You can tell a lot about the character of a person by the how they vote. Any good moral, upstanding citizen would never vote for an immoral, shady, lying candidate...yet many did in America, albeit, the majority of American voted for Hillary. Brent must be banished forever from Bahamian politics. Like Don the Con he's trash.

Comrades! A reminder that it’s time to get on with BahamaCARE, public access all beaches, stop with the giveaway people's crown lands and islands to foreigners, cruise line owners, and the politically privileged - not rethink increasing corporate welfare.

I don't always agree with you but you are on point with this post!

Comrades! Funny how the former DPM, couldn't bring himself to voting for America's first female president - but the former DPM showed so much excitement while pushing for Long Island's MP "Reheasa" as the first female prime minister we Bahamaland - or has he too wised-up to good reasons to have also cashed-out on "Reheasa's" chances for PM?
Brent and "Rehease" - two people so lacking in any form of a political ideology that they
identify as their own creation - both dependent upon what direction Papa Hubert's winds are blowing from Cooper's Town.

Brent in not in active politics now .......... leave him be

I THOUGHT THAT THE WORD ON THE STREETS IS THAT HE HAS FIXED-UP HIS HQ IN ST. ANNS AREA. . .THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE WHO "GERN" BACK ON THE WAGON. . . WITH DOC. . .LOL!

Wonderful that just canned his chances of ever being PM. Thanks for the revelation.

You cannot be serious???????? Was there ever a chance??????? ................ BOL

Ikr, #sarcasm. The following was mentioned in an editorial last week:

"*If you were to ask most of the intelligent and educated people in this country whether the best person to lead such a government was Brent Symonette the response would be fairly consistent.*"

I was struggling to figure out who were these masses of intelligent people looking to Symonette for their salvation. But then the article also mentioned people thinking LBT would save us, so I knew right away they had to be Bizarians, you know.. from bizarro world

Comrades! Brent was born a Conchy Joe and a native son - no different than the other twenty-percent of the population.
His colour of skin shouldn't conflict about his seeking another term as a MP, or to become our prime minister.
His father, Pop Symonette, was the balancing act that just may have prevented our country from being ruled under full apartheid.
The Good Lord knows that some on Bay Street sure as hell tried really harder than others - including before the courts, colonial governors and on floor of the People's House of Assembly.

Symonette has the same longings as Trump and should be judged harshly for these telling words- as proudloudandfnm does above. I want us to use the same sword when the darker hued Bahamians say different BS but BS never the less.

The most disturbing thing about his statement is, he made it **after** trump unleashed all the chaos with his travel ban and said (basically) ~"so what if Putin is a killer". I could see Symonette saying "I couldn't vote for Clinton, I might have voted for Trump **but** it looks like that would have been a mistake too". But he didn't say that and it's very telling. It's someone who clearly thinks they won't be affected by the racist policies unleashed on "everyone else", so it's ok., not good for the leader of a black nation.

no sane individual supports anything that negatively affects them, a person of character also considers how policies affect other people..And yes our black leaders have fallen short too. I'm sure none of them believe the police will grab their emails, that's why they tabled the Nazi communications bill last week

>And yes our black leaders have fallen short too. I'm sure none of them believe the police will grab their emails, that's why they tabled the Nazi communications bill last week

That's a great point. Suppose in the next election, the Rum Row, Eastern Road White Party got into power. Would the PLP dare introduce this bill knowing that?

Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.

We have exchanged white tyrants (pre-1967) for black tyrants (post-1973) ....... We are still under the same socio-political regime culture .......... just different-looking faces

Comrades! I read your posts and no matter how you frame them I am reminded that 44 years since Independence - and we're still living divided by a "Two Races Bahamaland" - some walls are visible and some are not in our politics and society in general as we go about our daily chores and business.
Take a closer look at our immigration polices where it's hard tell if there really has ever been a change of government over the past 20 years period?

You want to change the immigrant problem? Stop giving out the thousands of work permits for manual labour. If an undocumented person can't get a job here, then it would slow down the flow of illegals. Far too many Bahamians are eager to employ people on a cash basis with no questions asked, for manual labour. You still hear the term "My Haitian".

And speaking of work permits, I once ventured into a perfume shop on Bay Street, looking for olfactory goods that would help me woo a woman that I was in lust with. I was met by smarmy foreigner with a fake ingratiating attitude that was highly offputting. Swallowing the little vomit in my mouth, I engaged him in conversation. We got to talking and he told me that he was here (for years) on a work permit, as he was an expert perfume sales manager. FF Sakes. I'm no fan of Bahamianization, but a perfume sales manager expert?

(The damn perfume didn't work either. She was hoping for a lawyer who was a lil redder -- for da kids sake. Glad I lost that romantic battle.)

Comrade Banker, now you and your work permit fragrances expert knows what the two you didn't know before that what smells good to you two - might stink to the woman's smell
buds - you so lusted after.

No surprise here. Birds of one feather flock together. May the good Lord
be with us. And protect us from the Wicked.