Due process is over rated anyway. MAGA.
No, it’s not the way Obama did it.
Uh, no. He chose to use discretion in pursuing prosecution. That’s his prerogative, and a much more intelligent one that mandatory prosecution of misdemeanor border crossings. And certainly not as outrageous as this.
Your defense of people who put children into concentration camps is appalling. You are the one who is getting more ridiculous, if what you were defending wasn’t so monstrous.
Because, from my experience, Trump voters vote on issues THEY care about, and don’t care really about how it effects others. One of those issues is installing a slough of right-wing judges which will have ramifications for a generation or more.
I didn’t say it’s “the way” Obama did. I just said that he did it too. Your cite confirms this to be true.
Do you think he deserves a pat on the back because he may have done it less often (but we don’t actually know because “the Obama administration did not count the number of families separated at the border”)?
Again, your defense of people who placed children into concentration camps is morally appalling.
I think your point in bringing this up is that it’s your theory that Trump supporters like Trump because he does things the way Obama did? Is that your point?
Back to the OP, it’s weird to support someone more solely because others are being tough on him. First of all, he’s the president and the press and others are always tough on the president. Second of all, he’s lies to everyone, including his supporters, every day, often several lies per day. I’d like to think I wouldn’t support someone who lied to my face as often as he does. (Cue, “Obama lied about being able to keep your doctor!” Even granting that, there’s one. Where are all the rest?)
So, is this what a Trump supporter is thinking: Sure, he supports white nationalists and a literal pedophile. Sure, he was separating kids at the border and falsely blaming the Democrats. Sure, he eliminated sanctions on ZTE, a company that was giving forbidden technologies to our enemies, Iran and North Korea, two days after his company got a $500mm loan from China, because he claimed to care about Chinese jobs. Sure…, etc. But, he has my support because some liberal pundit said something mean about him!
That seems to be what the OP is saying.
Here’s where we differ re: Lyin’ Donnie – you think he’s mostly evil and power-hungry; I think he’s mostly venal and greedy. (And lazy.)
If he were given a choice between
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being the richest and most famous man in the world who has lots of time to golf and party, or
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being the most powerful dictator of all time, but with no personal fortune, no time for play, and someone else often taking all the headlines
I think he’d choose option 2.
And, of course, what is completely idiotic about the “this is how you get Trump re-elected” argument is that this wasn’t why he was elected in the first place.
Sure he would. If he was dictator, there’d be no coverage of any scandals because under our new constitution, he would be infallible and any criticism would be punishable by death. He wants everyone to lick his boots be forced to humiliate himself before him. As far as money goes, he doesn’t need much because he stiffs everyone anyway.
No. We got off on that tangent with this post:
My response was basically pointing out that “we’re not the ones …” wasn’t accurate.
The same Democrats who are now totally about open borders and let 'em all in? Wasn’t all that long ago, when did they decide that?
Or is it like how the beaches of California are the same as my little hourglass egg timer, in that both contain sand? No difference, except a couple million tons, give or take.
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Democrats still seem to be confused about why everyone doesn’t simply accept Democrat Party Groupthink and condemn whoever the Democrats do not like. The best part of a President Trump is that he’s not a President Hillary. Now the intensified hateful rhetoric of democrat Groupthink makes him seem like an underdog. Hee, hee, hee, what a hoot. Melania’s coat, Barron’s kidnapping, shouting and cursing at WH staffers, blah, blah, blah. This is what passed as main stream news now. (insert rolleyes smiley here). My question is why anyone would chose to listen to the hate-mongering among the Democrats?
Trump has four years to accomplish his campaign promises. The Hillary worshippers have vowed to resist everything the Republicans attempt to do. That’s just politics.
But haters gotta hate. That’s what they do. What they don’t seem to have is a compelling argument to support the next potential Democrat candidate for POTUS. If the haters can’t provide a better option, why would Republican’s not support Trump?
Brilliant.
But at least it’s not groupthink!
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Why not? Worked for the Republicans. McConnell made resistance the sole Republican goal under Obama. Trump made slander, insults and hatred into a winning campaign strategy.
Copying what’s worked for the GOP seems like a no-brainer.
Being lectured about “Democrat groupthink” with a list of hackneyed talking points straight from a Russian troll farm— someone with an understanding of irony might see a lot of it there.
Yeah, Trump wonders why he can’t keep his promise about her.
That cartoonist BTW was dismissed for having the bad luck that the owner of the newspaper was for Trump. It does not mean that he can’t remind Republicans in congress that they are missing a backbone nowadays:
So, it’s time to toss all those rascals out.
Admittedly, I don’t know many Trump supporters. But, I do agree that the ones I know tend to love pissing off liberals more than they actually support Trump.
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They enjoy sticking it to the smart aleck college kid who tells them to "check their privilege’
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They enjoy sticking it to the endless new genders and those waging bathroom battles
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They enjoy sticking it to NFL players
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They enjoy sticking it to phone trees with press 2 para Espanol.
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They enjoy sticking it to those waging a Holy War over Columbus Day
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They enjoy sticking it to companies who shade their logos in rainbow colors for the month of June.
I could go on and on, but I think they see supporting Trump as a way to get back at all the change they don’t like. I receive the daily emails from National Review, who isn’t exactly the strongest supporter of Trump, and yet every single day there’s some article about some stupid thing that happened on a college campus, usually a small liberal arts school and NR points to it as a continued sign of downward spiral.
Reading the article it seems like all those quoted are obviously suffering from the backfire effect. They have invested a certain amount of their identity in to supporting Trump. So any attack on Trump becomes an attack on them and will be rejected as biased, fake news, etc… In these attacks will further galvanize their beliefs. There is nothing that can be done to reach these people in their impenetrable self sustaining fortress of ignorance. The best we can hope for is to convince everyone else of the truth, and to energize them to vote him out in the next election.