You flew right under his sarcasm detector, you have humour of mass distraction and I applaud you for that. I'm with Her, girl power, Pokemon Go-to-the-polls! Now, where's my delicious cruelty-free soy drink...
Well, we know pornstar wasn't an option for Trump from Stormy's account of things. Again though you're missing the point. If you can't criticize her based on her professional career, she was the better candidate regardless of comments on her looks and/or thinly-veiled misogyny. America should've been over the "better candidate to have a beer with" phase after GWB. It's not a president's job to be the friendly town drunk, for fuck's sake.
It's a good thing the U.S. has those bases there to keep the region stable, I dread to think what would've happened if you didn't. There are two ways to think about the world - way number one is that the United States, the country in charge of the largest military force in the world, should withdraw into its borders, just let things play out and then everything will be fine. This is patently false and has no historical precedent - if not for American intervention, I would either speak German or wouldn't be alive at all. On the flip side there also wouldn't be any Jews left, so technically you're correct - there would be no conflict in the middle east, besides the fights between Muslims themselves which have only lasted for what, a thousand years now? The alternative viewpoint to that is that we require American presence in the world in order to prevent countries adversary to the interests of the West, to freedom, democracy and liberty, from committing genocide, establishing trade blockades and terrorising us into non-existence. I'm a libertarian, I'm no fan of the government, but I'm not stupid enough not to realise that the latter view is correct, not the former.
Sure, there are plenty of things to nitpick about when it comes to Hillary, and she really was pretty bad at campaigning. Any flaw she might've had though, Trump also had, and usually worse. At this point he can barely string together two coherent sentences. We're going to have to remove him before 2020 for mental health reasons even if he's not removed on criminal charges. So do I think Hillary would've been perfect? Far from it. Do I think she'd have passed more than one item of legislation after two years in office and kept the US at a more stable place internationally? 100% yes.
I dunno, a big part of Trump's platform was the anti-PC stuff, aka "fuck your feelings." It's hard to have a civil discourse when one side believes people with racist/bigoted views should be able to spew their bile in public and not feel shamed for it.
I get it. You can justify any US aggression worldwide under the flimsy excuse of "controlling terror." Problem is, anything can and will be labeled terror at some point. Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.
I dunno, a big part of Trump's platform was the anti-PC stuff, aka "fuck your feelings." It's hard to have a civil discourse when one side believes people with racist/bigoted views should be able to spew their bile in public and not feel shamed for it.
I say forced DNA tests for everybody so people might realize we are all mixed and America truly is a melting pot.
I didn't say everyone feels that way, just that it's hard to have a discourse with those that do. It's a wall that's impossible to climb. My brother is an alt-right Trump supporter, so I'd know, I've tried to climb it several times.
I mean, the racist isn't going to convince others to be racist, and the others aren't going to convince the racist to not be racist, so in a sense, yeah. There's some discourse to be had while dancing around the subject, but it always comes up eventually.
Indeed. The problem is that Trump gives them a larger platform to spread their hatred and convince themselves that they are the majority.
He paid a porn star hush money during the campaign. Russia did everything possible to assist in his election and hurt Hillary's chances. His flaws were not in the open, he just used his Alzheimer's to distract from the truly criminal and unethical behavior. And no, people certainly are not okay with all this, Trump's approval ratings are historical lows for the first two years in office. He gets 40% at best, usually closer to 30%. If he starts a war, even some of his supporters will abandon him, as he campaigned on a strictly "America first" nationalist platform.
"Agree with me or you're a sexist, racist, bigoted homophobe who hates the disabled" is such a constant in modern political discourse that I've began to tune it out, like white noise. There's only so many times you can call someone all those things before these words lose all meaning, and they shouldn't because there are real bigots out there. Very few and very far between, but they're despised universally, by the left and the right. "Fuck your feelings" is an absolute necessity in this day and age, it's the only thing that can turn the tide of PC and actually allow us to have meaningful conversations without jumping at each other's throats. If we just agree from the outset that "how we feel" about things doesn't matter, we can move forward. If we don't, we'll just regress into more and more chaos. Your post really cheered me up, it's rare to see an actual moderate who'll look at both sides and use reason to determine what's likely to be true, try to distill what's really going on and make decisions based on that.
Traditional Republicans are becoming a rare breed because the party was first co-opted by the Tea Party, and now it's been co-opted by Trump. The Republican party is losing all their values because Trump has no values. A majority of Evangelicals would continue to support him even if he fucked a cantaloupe on live TV. These people really have no shame or feel for hypocrisy any longer. I wish we could have the Republicans of the 90s back, even despite their flaws.
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