Because ISIS, as well as the rest of these jihadi groups, would extend you and your family the same courtesy, right? I mean, shit. It’s not like they’re running around beheading, blowing up, hanging, drowning, etc. people, and it’s not like they’re not killing gays for being gay, raping women because they can or doing anything else of the sort. It’s not like they’re not actively training their families to wage war against you, or the West in general.
People who do not want to adhere to the articles of the Geneva Conventions should not be afforded their protections. If you want to act like an animal and engage in barbaric acts against people who are different than you then, no, I have no problems with torture.
He never said this.
Considering you’re making stuff up, I believe you would.
Let’s see…he selected as Secretary of Energy a man who literally wants to abolish the department. His Labor choice believes that automatons are the way forward. Education - well, she wants to defund public schools. EPA - has spent a lot of time suing the EPA and is a close friend of the fossil duel industry. Speaking of fossil fuels, the Secretary of State is head of fucking EXXON and has a financial stake in lifting certain sanctions. The SBA - Queen of the WWE.
Tell us more about his awesome Cabinet picks, and how happy Democrats would be if only there were a D after his name.
I really suspect he is. I think it’s his style. He isn’t in office yet and we don’t know what he will actually do. All we’ve seen is talk and what Trump says is irrelevant since he just says whatever suits his purpose at the time. None of it means anything.
He’s an undoubted narcissist and so I have no doubt that he will do things that bring him attention. He also seems to worship wealth or at least the appearance of wealth, so he will feather his own nest and that of his family. Apart from that, who knows?
Imagine if you were China or Russia; would you know what Trump is actually going to do? I think they would have reached the same conclusion as I have ie his aggressive talk is pretty cheap. But he’s just nuts enough that you don’t know.
You said he was less of a war hawk, which should make Ds happy - the reponse was that was immaterial, given his Cabinet picks. You then zeroed in on the strong NATO aspect. I am saying that his Cabinet picks - all of them regardless of NATO opinions- are the stuff of a country’s nightmares.
And like The Donald it is clear that you are trying to use the chicken shit Trump excuse of pretending that we missed what you said. Read it again, I was replying there to your sorry attempts at disparaging the Canadian leader by using his father. When the Father of Trump is a perfect example of becoming rich while making the lives of the ones he disliked a nightmare with his power.
And this is indeed like watching a chicken defending Colonel Sanders.
Being gifted money by your father then investing it well enough to achieve average long term performance about as high as the national average is not particularly impressive. That’s all Trump has done.
No, he didn’t. He asked why they should be taken off the table. It has never been the position of any administration to rule out the possibility of using nuclear weapons (otherwise, we wouldn’t build them), and what he said has been stated by the currently outgoing administration.
The media is always playing these “gotchas!”.
Your problem is thinking I care about the use of torture as a means of garnering evidence. I don’t, and I’ve said so in the past. You shouldn’t assume.
Also, don’t you ever get tired of crying racism? Surely, it must be tiring?
Read it again. I was disparaging Bryan, who is Canadian and who has disparaged Trump for being “a TV star” and for “being successful because of his father” (even though Trump has accomplished much more than had Trudeau before he jumped into politics). But your effort is duly noted.
It sure is, because no rational investor would, say, put $100M into, say, an index fund and leave it for 30+ years. There’s a reason why billionaires are rare.
Sorry for assuming you would use a more semi-human justification, not more to say since you acknowledge then the in-human being you are regarding torture then.
Not as tiring like you must be when continuously attempting to demonstrate to all that you are not only dumb but not much human at all.
Again, I had to point what Trump’s father also did while being so accomplished. It really should be less important for people that get rich to make the lives of people that had a different color of skin a nightmare. Such levels of jerkitude should not be a thing to point with pride, and the apple does not fall too far from the tree.
Not that it matters, really. My comment was about Americans who get butthurt by being called racist, and are willing to torturously and stupidly concoct elaborate rationalizations.
The election of Trump demonstrates a related but distinct expression of American stupidity.
At least Trudeau had seven years of political experience prior to being elected to the highest office in his country. What does Trump have? A bunch of morons who blindly accept whatever Fox News tells 'em.
Not that the tangent isn’t stupid enough to ignore outright, but I suggest Justin Trudeau has more in common with George W. Bush than Trump, i.e. a man who gets the political position once held by his father and who almost certainly benefited from name recognition and the somewhat romantic pseudo-royalist impulses of the electorate.
As best I can tell, Fred Trump was as politically inexperienced as his son currently is, having never held public office, served in the military, led a trade union, or even been a practicing attorney or judge. If Fred’s fatherhood was going to have any significance, Americans should have elected his daughter Maryanne (Donald’s sister), who is currently serving as a Third-Circuit Federal judge.
You expect me to care about the rights of people who-- and let’s be honest-- murder others in cold blood? Sorry (not really), but I don’t. You talk, yet you don’t seem to realize that the very same people you’re willing to afford a level of, for lack of a better word, “humanity” to are content to act inhuman.
This is one step above “I know you are but what am I?”, but not by much.
So we’re back to cries of racism? Look, I get that you’re in mourning-- I really do. But at some point in time, unless your goal is to whine incessantly for the next four years, you’re going to have to join me in the real world, where everyone you don’t like/disagree with isn’t racist (that word of which no longer holds any real meaning).