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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#130876: Jul 18th 2016 at 5:35:29 PM

Trump's plan if memory serves was to stop any and all money transfers from anyone of Mexican ethnicity to anyone in Mexico until the Mexican government built the wall.

Oh really when?
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#130877: Jul 18th 2016 at 5:39:14 PM

[up][up] Asians have made plenty of contribution to Western civilization, especially Japan. What a idiot.

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#130878: Jul 18th 2016 at 5:40:49 PM

For a second I thought you meant Stephen King...

This makes more sense coming from a republican.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#130879: Jul 18th 2016 at 5:41:06 PM

[up][up][up]

Arab intellectuals literally helped save Western civilization from being lost to obscurity.

edited 18th Jul '16 5:43:31 PM by AlleyOop

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#130880: Jul 18th 2016 at 5:41:16 PM

The Renaissance was caused largely by the Arabs.

Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#130881: Jul 18th 2016 at 5:42:35 PM

Trump's plan if memory serves was to stop any and all money transfers from anyone of Mexican ethnicity to anyone in Mexico until the Mexican government built the wall.
Wouldn't that (effectively or legally?) demand that Mexico and Mexicans be considered an enemy of the state? Last time I heard about this issue was that it was largely used for terrorists and their sponsors.

edited 18th Jul '16 5:43:34 PM by Eschaton

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#130882: Jul 18th 2016 at 5:47:35 PM

Well he's already said in the past that the Mexican government is deliberately sending "murderers and rapists" across the border the destabilize us soooooo

Oh really when?
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#130883: Jul 18th 2016 at 5:48:53 PM

Shepherd Smith (one of the few reasonable voices at Fox) tore Bobby Jindal a new one for using the phrase "All Lives Matter", it seems.

wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#130884: Jul 18th 2016 at 5:53:16 PM

For a second I thought you meant Stephen King... This makes more sense coming from a republican.

If I'm not mistaken, Stephen King is actually a democrat and voiced his support for Obama when he was campaigning in 2008.

Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#130885: Jul 18th 2016 at 6:05:59 PM

Stephen King would say Steve King can go fuck himself.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#130886: Jul 18th 2016 at 6:19:30 PM

Steve King is still a ingrate who doesn't do any research. As was mentioned before, Asians have contributed immensely to Western culture, particularly Arabs, Indians and Japanese.

vicarious vicarious from NC, USA Since: Feb, 2013
vicarious
#130887: Jul 18th 2016 at 6:21:16 PM

Civilization started in the Middle East sir..

I don't get these people

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#130888: Jul 18th 2016 at 6:22:39 PM

Hell, the Bible was created by people from the Middle East. That's arguably the most influential thing in all of Western Society.

[up]Afro-Eurasian civilization did anyway.

edited 18th Jul '16 6:24:31 PM by Kostya

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#130889: Jul 18th 2016 at 6:29:00 PM

Let's not forget the fact that many nations were built on the backs of slaves. Black people have contributed a hell of a lot too.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#130890: Jul 18th 2016 at 6:38:40 PM

By the way, I noticed the Baton Rouge gunman had a TAR-21 instead of a AR-15 like most shooters in the US. Where did he get that from?

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#130891: Jul 18th 2016 at 6:40:15 PM

His local gun store probably, mine sell them.

Oh really when?
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#130892: Jul 18th 2016 at 7:24:08 PM

Well, he was wealthy enough to buy one, you don't see a Tavor for less than 2 grand.

Inter arma enim silent leges
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#130893: Jul 18th 2016 at 7:27:54 PM

And now Trump got his wife to speak in the convention, who has a thick Russian accent. Thought these types of Americans hated Europeans...

Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#130894: Jul 18th 2016 at 7:32:50 PM

On the failed RNC vote:

Gary Emineth, the chairman of the North Dakota GOP, said he had just submitted his resignation from Trump’s finance committee in protest of the proceedings. “I’ve been texting Reince for about 10 minutes. You don’t do this in America. This is what they do in other countries, like Russia.”
Real fast on the uptake this guy.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#130895: Jul 18th 2016 at 8:04:34 PM

And now more "greatest country in the world" and American Exceptionalism bullshit. America got it's ass kicked by a bunch of rice farmers in Vietnam, do they really think they can take on other fully armed technologically modern armies, especially other countries with nukes like the UK, France and Russia?

Edit: And barely anybody is cheering the speech.

edited 18th Jul '16 8:25:27 PM by Bat178

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#130896: Jul 18th 2016 at 8:27:54 PM

Iunno, I heard a lot of cheering while I was listening in.

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#130898: Jul 18th 2016 at 9:16:50 PM

Man, Trump can't do anything original, can he? His businesses and money came from his dad, his wall came from Arrested Development, and his wife stole her speech from Michelle Obama. Jeez dude.

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#130899: Jul 18th 2016 at 9:20:05 PM

Let's be fair. The staffer who wrote Melania's speech stole it from Michelle Obama.

RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#130900: Jul 18th 2016 at 9:20:37 PM

[up][up] I swear I remember a previous election cycle had one of the people running for the Republican nomination suggest building an electrified fence between the U.S. and Mexico. So Trump wanting to build a wall is technically toning the rhetoric down a little.

edited 18th Jul '16 9:21:29 PM by RavenWilder


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