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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
... Why in the name of all that God deems sacred does Trump not get arrested for hate speech and inciting ethnicity/religion-based discrimination (i.e. racism)?
edited 7th Dec '15 11:05:09 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.He's advocating acts that are clearly in blatant violation of his own country's Constitution and/or Bill of Rights, all in the course of campaigning for the presidency. How is that protected by the First Amendment?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Americans take free speech very seriously, unless you can for exact acts it doesn't count. So saying Mexicans should be rounded up into internment camps is allowed, it's only if you tell people to go out and round up Mexicans into camps that you'll get into trouble.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranWell, excuse me for saying this, but that's plain stupid. At the very least it should serve as an automatic disqualification.
edited 7th Dec '15 11:17:19 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Plus, and this goes without saying, Trump is stupid rich
edited 7th Dec '15 11:22:33 PM by Xopher001
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So if Trump became president and people start putting Muslims into concentration camps, would that mean they're "working towards the president"?
@probablyinsane: In general, Trump makes W. look like a friggin' genius and a paragon of virtue.
Then again, I'd argue that Bush is a bit underrated. I'd honestly take him over most of the candidates running today.
Leviticus 19:34I just keep waiting for Trump to put a drill to his own head.
Truth.
edited 7th Dec '15 11:56:24 PM by FFShinra
X6 Hey I agree with you.
X3 That's more an indication of how bad the current crop are, Bush was legitimately bad and I'd say isn't underrated, it's just that the current lot are terrible and are overrated.
edited 7th Dec '15 11:55:59 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThis is a few pages back, but it's worth addressing the viewpoint that some of the Trump supporters hold:
"These are the folks who will tell you, "At least he says what he means.""
Yeah, and? He says some horrible things! Plus as has been shown, he flip-flops on a lot of issues anyway.
edited 8th Dec '15 6:50:53 AM by speedyboris
I'm not presuming to agree with these people, only communicating their point of view. They view Washington as populated by sleazy, unprincipled lawyers who are for sale to the highest bidder. They have seen six years of gridlock and "socialism destroying our society" and want someone who won't "sell out" as soon as they get in office. They are intensely frustrated with politics and want someone who is blatantly not a politician.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Quite frankly, no. It strongly depends on one's political outlook and the degree to which one perceives oneself to have benefited from the system.
edited 8th Dec '15 7:04:29 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

X5 Yeah I'm sure, nobody internationally is Trump levels of crazy, that man has called for internment camps like the US has in WW 2, we're not that crazy.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran