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I am trying to decide if all the conservatives I know were actually as level-headed as I thought they were, or if they were always huge arseholes just waiting for someone like Trump to normalise their true, heretofore unspoken wants.
I am trying to decide if all the conservatives I know were actually as level-headed as I thought they were, or if they were always huge arseholes just waiting for someone like Trump to normalise their true, heretofore unspoken wants.
So whitehouse.gov has removed any mention of the third branch of government from its website. When I first saw reports of this, I thought for sure this was fear-mongering or rehashing a bad source, but nope, I went to the website, and sure enough, under Our Government, where it used to start with Executive Branch, Legislative Branch and Judicial Branch, now it only lists the executive and legislative.
Just a minor oversight, I'm sure.
He just can't take the slightest criticism or protest. The protests need to be kept up and with increased intensity, he'll fold at some point.Blaming Delta computers and Senator Schumer's tears for the mess at airports is one of the most stupidest things I've ever heard of. How will his protesters react to a tweet of his that actually tells the truth?
is it wrong to unfriend the few vocal Trump supporters on my Facebook? well, it's too late, i have done so - my tolerance levels are very low right now, and i don't want to see that kind of thing in my "bubble"
i feel this has gone beyond simple politics, and is a human issue
do you think there were Hitler supporters who supported his economic policies, but just turned a blind eye to genocide? because, i'm wondering, how low can these people go?
Sometimes, but it's definitely not fair to blanket all conservatives in with a Republicans, or any kind of blanket statement of that kind.Neither. They're probably average folks and they adhere to sports team politics.
They're two very different acts, though, but I appreciate the insight.https://mic.com/articles/166845/the...mpiled-by-the-obama-administration#.Aby2ECm9B
That's actually true. As a German citizen, I could normally enter the US for up to three months requiring no visa. But because I've been to Iraq in the past five years, I now need to obtain a visa. That policy came under Obama. I wasn't aware that the countries were exactly the same as which are now banned. It was an ill-advised response to terror acts. If it was in order to appease people on the right, or because he genuinely thought that was a reasonable thing to do, I don't know.
However, I'm a bit tired of the intellectual laziness of evaluating each action and decision by Trump as if they were made in complete isolation of each other. Context is key, and in politics this holds true as well. You look at the person Trump and his history, you look at the people he surrounds himself with and their history (where Bannon features prominently), and you look at all the decisions he has made and how he has justified them in the past, or how a person like Bannon has promoted these very ideas through his medium over the years.
It's all too popular a tactic by his supporters to try and focus the debate on each topic individually, which should be challenged thoroughly.
Let me illustrate by a prominent example from Germany's history: Defendents of Hitler would like to say, "But he built the Autobahn system!" While it's true that he pushed forward the plans and turned them into reality, you cannot ignore the context and his underlying strategy. The decision to build the Autobahn in isolation can be well explained. But to ignore that he had them built in preparation of the conquest of Europe, and ignoring all other policies of his is trying to rewrite history.
(Disclaimer: This purely serves as an example. I don't want to open up the "Is Trump fascist, and if so, who does he most closely resemble?" debate again.)
He just can't take the slightest criticism or protest. The protests need to be kept up and with increased intensity, he'll fold at some point.
I Unfriended a few! I couldn't stand their constant praising of trump on Facebook! Or the fact they would attack me when I posted something negative about trump. Fuck it!is it wrong to unfriend the few vocal Trump supporters on my Facebook? well, it's too late, i have done so - my tolerance levels are very low right now, and i don't want to see that kind of thing in my "bubble"
i feel this has gone beyond simple politics, and is a human issue
do you think there were Hitler supporters who supported his economic policies, but just turned a blind eye to genocide? because, i'm wondering, how low can these people go?
The GOP can't stand him right now, but no one wants to say anything publicly until it's clear that he won't just steamroll people. The Muslim Ban was done without consulting anyone outside of his inner circle, and plenty of people in government are pissed about it.
What the hell?!?!.....
BREAKING: Trump to sign exec. order this morning requiring that for every 1 new regulation, 2 regulations have to be revoked - sr. official
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/826081756713467908
Soundbite policies.Yep I heard him talk about that in the campaign.
nah, i've been doing that since he won the republican nomination.
unless you're family or a very close friend, if you stated support for trump, you got the ol' boot. thankfully the members of my family who i know voted for him don't really post on facebook, and the one close friend who i know did... well... i just do my best to stay civil.
I Unfriended a few! I couldn't stand their constant praising of trump on Facebook! Or the fact they would attack me when I posted something negative about trump. Fuck it!
We need to stop letting Canadians into our country, until we can find out what's going on!Do we know if the White House has condemned the terrorist attack against Muslims in their place of worship in Quebec?
Do we know if the White House has condemned the terrorist attack against Muslims in their place of worship in Quebec?