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Originally Posted by Buster
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Mexico: country not a race
"Black people = law and order:": you're projecting/speculation
"Muslim immigration ban": you forgot the word temporary. It's also a classic Trumpian double-bind. If you recognized it as a technique, you might be less worried about the policy implications. The rest is nonsense speculation.
"Khan's speech" : his point was to inflame the lovers-of-victim-politics.
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Mexico: I don't understand the point you're trying to make here, other than to deflect with a BS semantics argument.
In 2016, stating you're the 'law and order' candidate is tantamount to telling black people 'I'm coming for you'. Deny it if you want, but willful ignorance is not a virtue.
http://www.timescolonist.com/critics...uage-1.2308478
I'm sorry. The word 'temporary' makes it so much better. Trump mentioned how long 'temporary' is, right? Is it two weeks? Six months? A year? A decade? Until the Iran nuclear deal expires?
A 'classic Trumpian double bind' is one of the battiest things I've ever heard. If you take him at face value, he's an awful excuse for a human being. If you assume there's another Donald Trump, then you might ask why the other one never shows up.
Khan's speech showed Donald Trump can be hooked with the most transparent and obvious ruses imaginable. A Muslim American officer was killed in the Iraq war and his parents (understandably, based on everything Trump has said and done for the last year) spoke out against him in a very public, very political setting.
Every other politician in the country would have politely thanked the Khans and their son for their sacrifice and service, and maybe if they were feeling confident, pull a pocket constitution out of their jacket and say 'I've got my own copy' or something.
This buffoon is still talking about it a week+ afterward. All the while, he's getting brutalized in the polls for it. He doesn't know when to quit.
Yet everything this orangutan has said and done is diminished because of some emails (which you can read) and an incident in the Middle East where 4 (Yes, four. Not four hundred. Not forty. Not even fourteen. ####ing FOUR) Americans were killed? Are you serious. Operation Iraqi Freedom left 4,424 Americans killed and nearly 32,000 wounded.
Four bodies in Libya, I'm sorry, that's the cost of doing business as THE superpower. And I don't believe for a second that Donald Trump is going to be better at keeping the world and the United States safe than Hillary Clinton.
"Oh she gives speeches to Goldman Sachs". Yep. She does. She still pledged to appoint a Supreme Court justice who'd overturn citizen's united (which is the single most important step to fixing the American political system).
Maybe not so 'briefly'.