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What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Oexmelin

I think it's been amply demonstrated that consistency is neither a desirable goal, nor a legitimate political argument for the current Republicans.
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mongers

Ramping up the election fever still further:

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump    41m
The World is using our laws to our detriment. They laugh at the Stupidity they see!


It'll be a sad condemnation of a large minority of the US electorate if his tactics work on the 6th.
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frunk

QuoteThey laugh at the Stupidity they see!

I wish I could laugh at the stupidity I see.

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Quote from: mongers on October 31, 2018, 10:04:45 AM
Ramping up the election fever still further:

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump    41m
The World is using our laws to our detriment. They laugh at the Stupidity they see!


You got that part right.

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FunkMonk

Quote from: mongers on October 31, 2018, 08:50:16 AM

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@realDonaldTrump    19m
So-called Birthright Citizenship, which costs our Country billions of dollars and is very unfair to our citizens, will be ended one way or the other. It is not covered by the 14th Amendment because of the words "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Many legal scholars agree.....


:hmm:

So some U.S. Citizens are more deserving of citizenship than others and are being somehow victimized by these other, unworthy citizens. :hmm:

I don't know which is more appalling: The fact he may not actually believe this but says it anyway to beat the political drum, or that fact that he may actually believe this.
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Quote from: mongers on October 31, 2018, 10:04:45 AM
Ramping up the election fever still further:

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump    41m
The World is using our laws to our detriment. They laugh at the Stupidity they see!


It'll be a sad condemnation of a large minority of the US electorate if his tactics work on the 6th.

The Republicans have gotten majorities in the past without him, so a large minority means they didn't work so well.
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frunk

Quote from: FunkMonk on October 31, 2018, 10:56:22 AM
So some U.S. Citizens are more deserving of citizenship than others and are being somehow victimized by these other, unworthy citizens. :hmm:

I don't know which is more appalling: The fact he may not actually believe this but says it anyway to beat the political drum, or that fact that he may actually believe this.

Assuming he isn't actually racist means that he's really good at pretending to be a racist who's bad at pretending to not be racist for years and years.  He's not that good an actor.

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CNN not pulling punches for once. Maybe the attempting bombings have made them finally realize the seriousness of current circumstances.

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grumbler

Quote from: garbon on October 30, 2018, 10:35:01 AM
I wonder if that's a generational thing. I know my father never liked being called an African-American for exactly that reason while I was never phased by that at all. Just specified/made salient a subtype.

Except that Jewish isn't a subtype of American, and more than Methodist or Catholic is.  I have never heard Saunders refer to herself as a Lutheran-American.
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garbon

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Valmy

I was about to say: if you have ever been to a Lutheran church it sure looks like it is also an ethnicity  :lol:
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Quote from: Valmy on November 01, 2018, 01:51:32 PM
I was about to say: if you have ever been to a Lutheran church it sure looks like it is also an ethnicity  :lol:

I have not. I've been to a Baptist church once or twice.
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Quote from: grumbler on November 01, 2018, 01:31:43 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 30, 2018, 10:35:01 AM
I wonder if that's a generational thing. I know my father never liked being called an African-American for exactly that reason while I was never phased by that at all. Just specified/made salient a subtype.

Except that Jewish isn't a subtype of American, and more than Methodist or Catholic is.  I have never heard Saunders refer to herself as a Lutheran-American.
That's an over-simplification of the Jewish identity.  As far as the question, when I was going to school in the 90ies, we were taught that "Jewish-American" was the correct way to refer Jews.  Then again, there were a lot of hyphenated Americans back then, pretty much everyone other than WASP was one.