Twitch Temporarily Bans President Trump (theverge.com) 296
Twitch has temporarily banned President Donald Trump, in the latest surprise and high-profile suspension from the streaming service. Trump's account was banned for "hateful conduct" that was aired on stream, and Twitch says the offending content has now been removed. From a report: One of the streams in question was a rebroadcast of Trump's infamous kickoff rally, where he said that Mexico was sending rapists to the United States. Twitch also flagged racist comments at Trump's recent rally in Tulsa. "Like anyone else, politicians on Twitch must adhere to our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. We do not make exceptions for political or newsworthy content, and will take action on content reported to us that violates our rules," a Twitch spokesperson told The Verge. The statement was originally issued last year when Trump's channel was launched.
Good! Now let's ban him from office in November! (Score:5, Insightful)
After voting Republican for 35 years, this year I will vote my first ever democratic ballot. Change must happen.
We drained one swamp and then filled it with an even more dirty swamp.
Re:Good! Now let's ban him from office in November (Score:5, Insightful)
After voting Republican for 35 years, this year I will vote my first ever democratic ballot. Change must happen.
We drained one swamp and then filled it with an even more dirty swamp.
You didn't as much drain the swamp as invite the swamp monster [amazon.com].
I saw one quote about swamps: Individual politicians are judged positively on how much pork they can bring home. Politicians collectively are judged negatively on how much pork they allow.
Re:Good! Now let's ban him from office in November (Score:5, Insightful)
Totally agree about the need for change. Voting for Biden won't accomplish it though.
Re:Good! Now let's ban him from office in November (Score:5, Insightful)
But voting for Trump won't accomplish it, and it will make things much worse. Don't wait for a great candidate before you stop voting for the idiot. Baby steps to get out of the swamp.
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Step 1: Stop the bleeding
Step 2: Make Biden a one term president as well
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As long as it stops the corrosion of existing functional government, that's change enough for now. First rule of problem solving: when you find yourself in a deep hole, put the fucking shovel down.
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Haha, sure, but the same could be said for electing you, me, or just about anybody else - it's a low bar.
Biden is the embodiment of the political status quo in the U.S. which, if you'll recall, is a huge part of what led to us having a President Trump in the first place.
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The problem... with our current fscked up political system. Is no other candidate has a chance in hell of winning other than the 'picked' one currently running.
Basically, two things need to happen.
Get the t-baby out of office ASAP and meanwhile work on grassroots efforts to reform the system, get rid of campaign contributions, and provide equal funding for anyone to run for office like other civilized countries.
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I thank you for at least seeing reason and voting for the better candidate, regardless of party affiliation. We need more people like you going to the polls in November. I too have been a moderate Republican in my voting trends for my adult life, but I find this particular iteration of Republican politics to be repugnant and disgusting, and continuing in the wrong direction.
The "Party of Lincoln" needs to realize that they are courting the same attitudes and institutions that Lincoln set this country on t
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Why couldn't we ban him earlier with the impeachment?
Streaming pile of (Score:5, Funny)
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But he totally owned that 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' special event he put on a couple weeks ago.
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Trump spends all his time on sims trying to rebuild that fourth wall.
Ban him from all social media.Create a Tiktok acct (Score:2)
What were his EXACT words? (Score:5, Informative)
In his June 16, 2015 speech announcing his run for the presidency, Donald Trump said the following: [time.com]
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Yup, hate that a certain country should get their shit together.
Mexico is a mess. It's almost certainly a mess created by various US policy (mainly agriculture and drugs).
And while incredibly poorly worded, and spoken, as usual, by Trump, it's not entirely wrong.
Tell me when a bunch of people on slashdot decide it's fine to get emigrate to *whatever* country (that's not the US shithole) without abiding by their immigration laws, and tell us why you think that's so cool.
Re:What were his EXACT words? Mariel boatlift? (Score:2)
Castro did it with the Mariel boatlift [wikipedia.org]. He dumped his prisons and asylums into Florida.
Australia says "g'day, mate" (Score:3)
Castro did it with the Mariel boatlift [wikipedia.org]. He dumped his prisons and asylums into Florida.
They're all just copying England anyway.
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You realize the next sentence doesn't remove the first one, right?
"there might be a few good people among the rapists and criminals" doesn't undo "they're rapists and criminals".
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"They're" not all good any more than "they're" all rapists in the real quote.
The real quote is right up there:
They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Perhaps your ESL courses didn't quite teach you the subtleties of American English, but the "I assume" construct is intended to imply he doesn't actually believe it, or the number is very small. There's no need for the "I assume" qualifier if he actually believed it.
This thread is proof (Score:2, Insightful)
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I don't live in California.
Haha (Score:3)
This is going to give him even more publicity and ammunition.
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Maybe, but if he ends up being given the boot from other social media platforms, his ability to project that will be sharply curtailed.
He was on there? (Score:2)
Wait, what video game does he play? Tic Tac Toe?
Re:What a fucking embarassment (Score:4, Insightful)
Even 10 year old video game streamers can follow Twitch's term of service.
Donald Trump must be the dumbest, most hateful president to ever commit high treason against his country.
Lock Him Up.
Only authoritarian bullies locks up their opponents after an election. Also, treason has a very specific definition in the US constitution [wikipedia.org].
I would also like to remind you that the problem isn't just Trump itself, but that something has gone so wrong that a large part of the population supports him. The traditional Republican party has been destroyed, and its values is in ruins. People no longer look for facts or truth - and then evaluate pros and cons - but ignore facts, hate science, hate people with other opinions - because if you don't think the same as them, of course you want to ruin America. Everyone enjoys their own echo chambers. What went wrong?
Re:What a fucking embarassment (Score:5, Interesting)
What went wrong?
Politics as a career... Money and power for the elite. We've not been a democracy (or a republic) in a very long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re:What a fucking embarassment (Score:5, Insightful)
When was politics not a career? For goodness sake, we've had Adams as presidents, two Roosevelts, and two Bushes. Lots of Presidents have been Senators or Governors. Lots of Senators, Governors and Presidents got to where they were by being in state legislatures or in other elected offices.
Politics is an occupation. If you had nothing but unskilled neophytes, at best you'd get bureaucrats fully in control, or at worst, you'd get another Trump, who doesn't even have the ability to understand his lack of accomplishment. This is a man who stood next to health officials and said things that they immediately had to correct. This is a profoundly stupid man. That's what getting someone with no political experience gets you; a crap businessman who thinks he knows everything, but as it turns out, actually knows nothing.
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Except the subject of the OPs "what went wrong" question is the first non-career politician to be US president since... a long time ago.
Reagan was an actor, but he held elected office before being president, so politician was a second career. Eisenhower didn't hold a previous elected office, but he was a military governer, and positions like SAC and Chief of Staff of the Army are pretty political.
I got tired of clicking on US presidents, but Trump might be the first who's come to the office with zero govern
Re:What a fucking embarassment (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What a fucking embarassment (Score:5, Insightful)
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That could be a problem. Old people consistently vote in every election. Young people tend to talk shit on the internet about voting but don't actually vote. See https://www.census.gov/content... [census.gov]
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Because petty partisan vindictive post-term investigations and trials are something that should be added to the transition of power in the US, right?
Be very careful what you are asking for, because it sounds like you are asking for abuse of power and further polarization of the US Department of Justice to become the norm. How about we let Trump go the fuck away back up his stupid gilded escalator and fade away into the ash heap of failed presidential history with Herbert Hoover, John Tyler, Millard Fillmor
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You're right. The peaceful transition of power is something that generations fought and died to achieve and preserve. Ford understood it very well when he pardoned Nixon. Sure, it meant Nixon effectively got away with his misdeeds, but the alternative was a protracted political crisis on top of the Watergate crisis which had dragged the White House and Congress to a standstill. Pursuing Nixon would only further have damaged the institution of the Presidency.
There's also the simple pragmatism. A political le
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You definitely have the correct path for the situation if Biden wins. Unfortunately, the frothing at the mouth peanut gallery may drive Biden's administration to "DO SOMETHING!" just to do something, and we end up spiraling further down the path towards the country falling completely apart.
I hope somebody actually in the game has the intelligence to point out that pardoning the Trump of whatever he's accused of in that final moment, because who knows what he'll do between then and now, will suddenly turn h
Re: What a fucking embarassment (Score:3)
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You know what I'd do if I was Joe Biden. On my first day on the job, I'd pardon Trump for all crimes he may committed while in office. That gesture of magnanimity would cause Trump and his supporters' collective heads to explode. He'd spend the rest of his life trying to rally troops to his imaginary cost, and would do further harm to the GOP in the process.
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You know what I'd do if I was Joe Biden. On my first day on the job, I'd pardon Trump for all crimes he may committed while in office. That gesture of magnanimity would cause Trump and his supporters' collective heads to explode. He'd spend the rest of his life trying to rally troops to his imaginary cost, and would do further harm to the GOP in the process.
There's still the impeachment. That can't be removed by pardon:
The President shall...have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
And supposedly one of the arguments Ford made supporting his pardon of Nixon (who was pardoned before impeachment) was that a pardon was an indication of both an offense being committed and guilt being admitted, since you obviously can't be pardoned for a crime that didn't happen or that you didn't do. So Trump could theoretically reject a pardon on those grounds. This has been affirmed by the Supreme Court as well (that a recipient can rejec
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You know what I'd do if I was Joe Biden. On my first day on the job, I'd pardon Trump for all crimes he may committed while in office. That gesture of magnanimity would cause Trump and his supporters' collective heads to explode. He'd spend the rest of his life trying to rally troops to his imaginary cost, and would do further harm to the GOP in the process.
The pardon has to be accepted and that carries an "imputation of guilt" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re:What a fucking embarassment (Score:5, Informative)
Mueller was investigating conspiracy, not collusion.
The legal definition of conspiracy requires intent to commit a crime.
There wasn't direct evidence of Trump himself working with Russia, but there was evidence of his sons working with Russia.
The Trump family members were not willing to cooperate with the investigation. They probably could have been ordered to by a court, but it likely would have required years of court battles before getting a definitive answer. Mueller felt that it was important to resolve the investigation sooner, so he did not pursue that path.
The final conclusion was essentially that with the evidence available, we can't tell if there was intent to commit a crime, or if they were just too stupid to know that what they were doing was illegal. Without being able to prove the intent, they can't state either way if there was conspiracy or not.
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Yeah, that was all media and social crap. Lawyers and investigators do not deal with collusion as there is no criminal definition of collusion.
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And you will find those who refuse to side with the Democrats because they're liberal. That's fine. I agree with that, since I'm not aligned with either party. However the responsibility then lies upon those Republican voters to make sure that their party gets reformed, that idiocy is shunned, and thoughtful discourse on conservatism is rewarded. Bring back the days of those influential conservative writers like Safire and Buckley instead of promoting a reenactment of Idiocracy.
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And you will find those who refuse to side with the Democrats because they're liberal. That's fine. I agree with that, since I'm not aligned with either party. However the responsibility then lies upon those Republican voters to make sure that their party gets reformed, that idiocy is shunned, and thoughtful discourse on conservatism is rewarded. Bring back the days of those influential conservative writers like Safire and Buckley instead of promoting a reenactment of Idiocracy.
As someone who has voted Republican in the past, I'd say the death of John McCain will be considered the point at which the Republican party we all knew and loved (or loved to hate) ceased to be.
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Sane people know John McCain was a war-mongering monster and thank god he never became president.
Re:What a fucking embarassment (Score:5, Interesting)
It certainly lost any claim to intellectual and ethical rigor. Not that the Dems are any great bastion of that, but really, since the rise of the Tea Party, the GOP has become dominated by ill-mannered reactionaries, who other than a few slogans inherited from the Reagan years, don't really seem to stand for any of the niceties of democracy. They view high offices as little more than a means to get back at everyone they think did them wrong. There's no kind of real conservative philosophy anymore, just empty jingoism and a desire for chaos.
I don't know how the Republicans fix themselves. They have a serious demographic bombs in a number of key states that not even gerrymandering can save them from forever. The fringes so hate the middle that trying to sound reasonable and balanced ends up with the base hating you (witness how McCain and Romney have both been treated).
The Republicans have become victims of their own success.
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With Arizona looking to become a swing state, I think even the Republicans are beginning to wonder about the long-term viability of the party. By all accounts, Republican activists had actually been making some decent inroads into minority communities, particularly with Latinos, but somehow Trump has managed to fuck that up completely. I think at this point many within the upper ranks of the GOP are actually hoping he crashes and burns. The big concern is that there are downticket races that could be royall
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Not to worry. I'm sure there will be plenty of room back under the rock for you after November. You can go back to photocopied pamphlets extolling the virtues of white power, like in the good ol' days.
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Even 10 year old video game streamers can follow Twitch's term of service.
Donald Trump must be the dumbest, most hateful president to ever commit high treason against his country.
Lock Him Up.
Only authoritarian bullies locks up their opponents after an election. Also, treason has a very specific definition in the US constitution [wikipedia.org]
Then Donald J. Trump should read it. He throws the word 'treason' around like confetti at a carnival.
Re: What a fucking embarassment (Score:3)
Re:What a fucking embarassment (Score:4, Insightful)
Bullshit. As we've seen with Russia putting bounties on our soldier's heads and the con artist not doing a damn thing except a) lie he was never told about this despite it being in his daily briefing and b) claiming the intelligence isn't there and this is all fake, the person at the top can very clearly commit treason (when we're at war).
If we're in a war with someone and the so-called leader does things which aid that enemy, it's treason. One item might be calling the other side and telling them we're not going to bomb certain of their formations or provide notice of where our troops are moving, that's aiding the enemy.
In other words calling the leader of our country a traitor because he is exercising his power is silly.
No, it's not silly because being treasonous is not exercising their power. They are being a traitor to the country and should be called out for it. It's been done since the day this country was founded.
But he is also the person we selected to be our president.
No, we did not select him. He was selected by less than half the people who voted. It was only because of the outdated Electoral College system that he won. It's why he continues to whine about "vote fraud" because he lost by 3 million votes.
Re: What a fucking embarassment (Score:3)
The reporting is now that it was included in the presidents daily briefing and that officials had already started to formulate possible responses. Of course, Trump can't be bothered to read his daily briefings (even after they've been condensed to 1 page). This episode is just one more in a long list showing that he is not competent to be president.
Re:What a fucking embarassment (Score:5, Informative)
As the chief of the country it is impossible for him to legally commit treason.
I'm sorry? He's president, not the god-king, and he is legally held to same standards as any other citizen. There is a clear definition of treason:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/us... [cornell.edu]
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Currently there is no legally defined "enemy" (except maybe North Korea, I don't know if that status was ever redefined or not), so Rump is not legally committing treason. That is in no way the same thing as it being impossible for him to commit treason. If Roosevelt had handed military information to the Nazis he would have been guilty of treason, even as Commander In Chief. Now we need to define who our "enemies" are.
Re:What a fucking embarassment (Score:4, Insightful)
What?
Article II, Section 4 of the US Constitution:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
That particular clause got echoed around the world incessantly about six months ago. How did you miss it?
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Actually... there are a fair number of people that can't seem to abide by Twitch's TOS. Their reaction to such breaches is wildly inconsistent.
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I have mixed feelings. I do not like big like corporations engaging in political censorship. That's not their role. I do not entrust them with my political life.
At the same time, this terrible president taking a slap in the face makes me smile. That could serve him though: "Look at the globalist elites trying to silence the voice of the honest people blahblahblah"
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The first amendment allows a private entity to decide the rules on what is acceptable use of their provided systems and networks. If a user doesn't like it, they are free to fuck off and create their own.
Isn't the first amendment, and the internet, great?
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It would be better if politicians did not use these private means of communication and had some limitations to respect. Like using official governmental channels where their speech is read by advisors who can suggest corrections. Something professional. Also, less money spent on political ads and slogans. Favours simple minded ideas and richer parties.
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And Twitch is an Amazon company, to boot.
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Even 10 year old video game streamers can follow Twitch's term of service.
Donald Trump must be the dumbest, most hateful president to ever commit high treason against his country.
Lock Him Up.
I can almost guarantee you that no former president will ever be arrested/convicted/imprisoned for conduct while in office, short of literally being caught personally killing someone (or ordering the death of someone domestically, such as their political opponent, a journalist, etc). It's a precedent that no president wants to set because their party is guaranteed to lose the White House at some point and, if they presided over the arrest of a former president due to conduct in office, you know the next op
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Very true, though I won't mind him getting kicked-off Twitter for constantly violating their ToS when he's no longer president.
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Very true, though I won't mind him getting kicked-off Twitter for constantly violating their ToS when he's no longer president.
He probably won't mind either. I would say it's pretty clear he is jockeying for some kind of partnership deal with Fox News or (more likely at this point) OANN for when he does leave office. He, and his followers, aren't going away any time soon, and I daresay it will take a while for the Republican party to recover from Trumpism (if it even can while staying in it's current form)
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I have a feeling that if Trump gets rolled in this election, you aren't going to find a whole lot of Republicans hanging with him while he's a lame duck. He'll be fucking radioactive and they'll all be running the other way in a 2020's-style duck-and-cover move. I just wish they would have done it in 2016, but rather than focusing on how late to the party they are, let's just celebrate that they showed up at all?
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I have a feeling that if Trump gets rolled in this election, you aren't going to find a whole lot of Republicans hanging with him while he's a lame duck. He'll be fucking radioactive and they'll all be running the other way in a 2020's-style duck-and-cover move. I just wish they would have done it in 2016, but rather than focusing on how late to the party they are, let's just celebrate that they showed up at all?
Some politicians may jump ship, but as long as Trump has vocal supporters you will have a contingent of politicians trying to court them. Especially if he does lose this year and goes out kicking and screaming about a rigged election. That will really rile up his supporters. They will drive Republican politics for a while, just like the TEA party did.
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It's a precedent that no president wants to set because their party is guaranteed to lose the White House at some point
People seem to forget this for some reason or other.
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Peaceful transfers of power might have prevented all sorts of calamities. The stablest nations, over the long term, whether they be republics or monarchies, are the ones that mastered this particular political art. Where leaders are left to fear that if they leave office they'll be pursued by their successor is an incentive to not only hold on to power as long as possible, but to warp the political system to pursue opponents both through judicial and extrajudicial channels. The genius of the Western world,
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The worst thing that I hold against Obama is not prosecuting Shrub for war crimes. The Nuremberg Commission executed people for things far less vile than his gratuitous invasion of Iraq.
That's fine, But will you also hold Obama accountable for crimes against the 1st Amendment where his administration threw a film maker into prison for creating a film that practically nobody even knew of before Benghazi? Or how Obama ordered the assassination of a US citizen (albeit Anwar al-Awlaki was a really bad dude) This was very much against the "Due Process Clause" of the 5th Amendment.
You're Talking about Nakoula Basseley Nakoula who accepted a plea bargain for parole violation, I'm unaware of the legal theory that would pin that on Obama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] Obama didn't order the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki before the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said it was ok https://www.latimes.com/nation... [latimes.com]
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He simply thinks that rules don't apply to him. Typical narcissist behaviour.
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He simply thinks that rules don't apply to him. Typical narcissist behaviour.
To be fair, once you reach a certain level of wealth or status(or the perception of having it) in the US it's basically true.
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He suffers from severe psychopathy. That's what his fucking problem is.
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Now only if his family had access to the resources necessary to diagnose such a condition, and the specialized tutoring instruction in order to overcome it.
Oh, wait...
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People outright refused to recognize its existence in that time, a problem that persists into the modern era.
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I've watched interviews with him from the 1980s and 1990s, and while he's always been given to a bit of bombast and never what I would consider to be a great thinker or speaker, he seemed to have a reasonable attention span and some ability to stay on topic. No, this has more the earmarks of cognitive decline; rambling, incoherence, poor impulse control. The Donald Trump of 2020 is not the Donald Trump of 1990.
The last time we saw this was in Reagan's final years, but in the case of Reagan, he'd always lean
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Would you call Chris Brown a cowardly woman-beating pavement ape? Or would you stop after woman-beating? Same principle.
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People confuse racist and xenophobe - probably because more people know the word racist than the word xenophobe.
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Which just shows the level of thought that goes in to people who think this way. They don't even care to get their terms right, they just care that thought crime is severely punished, and that everyone thinks exactly the same as them at all times.
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Obligatory(tongue in cheek) (Score:3)
What raises the question why we would let a bunch of irrationally aggrieved losers without even a basic command of the language and the ability to use a dictionary dictate terms to the rest of us.
Because we elected him to? /end troll :p
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It's called democracy: everybody gets a vote, even if they don't deserve it. It's not ideal, as brilliantly demonstrated by Trump becoming POTUS, but it's marginally better than other forms of government.
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I'm married to a foreigner as well, and she really likes Donald Trump.
My Chinese friends are split on him. Maybe a few more like him than don't.
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Well there was that time in the 70s when he illegally kept black people out of his rental properties, and that time in the early 90s when he called for black kids to be killed before they had even had a trial, so it's not a recent thing.
Just being married to a foreigner doesn't mean you can't be xenophobic. There are lots of different foreigners and xenophobes can like some and not others. Given his attitude towards women in general and his treatment of his wife (cheating on her while pregnant and after the
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The coyotes smuggling illegals across the border are rapists.
The majority of female illegal immigrants are raped on route.
How hard is it for you to recognize that? You would ignore that for your own petty personal politics?
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The coyotes smuggling illegals across the border are rapists.
The majority of female illegal immigrants are raped on route.
How hard is it for you to recognize that? You would ignore that for your own petty personal politics?
Generally if they are getting raped, they are getting raped on the way to the Mexican/American border, or in staging areas before the crossing. I really doubt a coyote is going to take the time to stop in the middle of the desert during a crossing to get his rocks off. They have to keep moving to not get caught, and the longer you are out the more likely you are to get caught.
And this isn't limited to the southern border, either. In pretty much any instance where there is illegal immigration or mass smug
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While I don't agree with the rapist generalization as a whole, I really like your reasoning here:
The rapists are only raping during the staging part of the smuggling. Not DURING the smuggling. They're not actively raping literally while crossing the border, and *somehow* it's not technically on the *route*. Just at the pre-border camp.
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I disagree, at least sorta. I do agree that our current methods aren't working and I find it incredibly doubtful a full boarder wall would change that.
I would say our mistake though, is that we're chasing the wrong end of the problem. We should be going after the employers who hire illegals.
Make the currently existing e-verify system mandatory for all employers and couple that with stiff fines and inspections among typically offending industries and you will very quickly see jobs for illegals immigrants in
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All going after the employers does is drive the migrants into more illegal or informal jobs making them even more a target for exploitation. Illegal migration is more of a push effect than a pull effect: while they are going to the US or EU because those are the best options, they are still getting pushed out of where ever they are coming from. You have to try and figure out why they are trying to leave their own country (the easy part) and then try to address that problem (the very, very difficult part).
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Coyotes = rapists.
Majority of female immigrants = rape victims
There are a lot more attempted immigrants than coyotes (who, in any event, are probably going to go back south for their next payday), yet we should take out that broad brush and paint all immigrants as rapists? Some of the immigrants are (or will be) rapists, sure, but since that's not what the AC was implying I don't think the comprehension problem lies with the AC here...
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all I read was "blah blah blah i dont actually care if people i dont know get raped i just want to attack the other team"
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See? It's okay to make that generalization because it might be true a non-zero amount of times!
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And when do non-xenophobes get their apology?
One group needs to be extremely careful and cater to the fragility of the other. Never say anything that can be taken negatively in any way.
The other group broad-brushes with abandon. Screams. Condemns entire races. Pulls down statues. Is as perfectly nasty as they wish, all the time, with no consequence. And gets to claim they're the victim.
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If you can control the border crossing, you can find out who has a history of committing rape and tell them to go home instead. If outlaws control the border, outlaws will be the people who have the easiest time crossing it.
How hard is that to understand? Every country in the world has — at all times — rightfully had rules on who can come across their borders.
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Yeah. Some people take offense as a tactic.
In other words, while what the president said may be true, people do not want this kind of narrow minded ranting being the crux of the political discourse.
They prefer politicians who hide in the basement and never say a word off script. Reality is scary.
Let the winners of the grievance olympics rule every moment of every individual's life. Easier than saying no to them.
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Politicians should have more self-control than normal. They are leaders and representatives. If they can't STFU, they don't deserve the job. It's like hiring astronauts who can't handle stress and discomfort.
Biden also has loose lips, I'm afraid. But at least he usually apologizes and/or clarifies after a slip-up. That's a step up from never-admit-wrong T.
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No one "deserves" the job.
You don't want astronauts. You want actors playing astronauts in a carefully edited, emotionally satisfying fiction.
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No he implied people coming from a certain place do it more often. Statistically speaking he is also correct, rapes associated with illegal immigrants are highly correlated with those entering via our southern land boarder.
Now to do that, they must logically be either originating in Mexico or being allowed to pass thru Mexico. The Mexican government is plainly aware these people do not posses the required documents/legal status/etc to enter the United States but permits them to travel anyway. - You might th
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Or you're imagining that.
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Yeah ok, you were totally staring at her ass and we all know it.
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Denying that rapists have been coming across the unsecured border is an insult to all those who have been raped by illegal Mexican border crossers
The racism is:
1) All Latinos are "Mexican",
2) All or the vast majority are rapists.
3) Insisting that rapes happened "many, many times". The clue that this isn't true is the folks trying to use this as a cause can only manage to bring up two individuals.....over and over and over and over and over again.
Immigrants (legal or not) commit violent crimes at a much lower rate than the native population. If you really are concerned about reducing the number of rapes, you need to be looking at the folks born here
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