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lovelyritametermaid said

*sigh* I really want to argue your point made here, but right now I’m exhausted and just want to watch Queer Eye and then fall asleep. Raincheck for tomorrow?   

Sure thing!

Sky999 said
Trump shines when it comes to peacekeeping? I’m sorry I must have been a sleep the last four years.   

Trump was the first US president to cross into the North Korea demilitarized zone. He called off a bomb strike after Iran shot down our drone. He did not start World War III. Race relations in the US have actually improved since Obama left office. Those are cherry-picked examples and I don’t know if “shines” is the specific terminology I’d use, but he’s done surprisingly well.

EDIT: never mind I was misreading the poll I got that from, ignore that point

Sky999 said

I would say people are more open racist now than perviously and more divided with such things as the Charlottesville incident or locking children in cages. I think people should come here legally, but put them in cages in a bit much.

He may have not started WWIII;  however he has insulted various international leaders.   

1) If people are racist, I’d rather they speak up about it so I can argue with them and/or avoid them altogether. If people are discriminating in hiring or whatever, then we condemn them.

2) The Charlotteville incident, while tragic, was one isolated incident which does not speak of race relations so much as it does of the growing societal polarization and violent tendencies of the increasingly radicalized, often mentally ill fringes of society. For what it’s worth, the nastier elements of the rally were also soundly and explicitly condemned by President Trump.

3) Detaining illegal immigrants and separating adults from children a) has nothing to do with race (Hispanic people can be white, indigenous, black, mestizo, any combination thereof, etc.) and b) is standard practice when people are arrested in this country. It was also carried out under President Obama. And I ask you, if you want to stop people from entering the country legally, then what are you to do besides arrest and detain them in secure facilities (which, for the record, many of them were relatively luxurious compared to the hardships a lot of those people put themselves through trying to cross deserts to get here)? You can’t just catch them and then turn them loose and expect them not to disappear into the American population.

4) He’s a rude, brash New Yorker who says the things that everyone else is afraid to say, and he acknowledges it. Often he “tweets from the hip” as it were. While I understand why people find his conduct troubling, I hardly find it a deal breaker considering how well the economy is doing and the actions he’s taken in regards to China (I have a lot of problems with the Chinese Communist Party, so anything America can do to stop feeding the beast as we’ve been doing is good in my book). (I also find it hilarious but that’s just me, speaking as someone with a history of saying the things that other people are afraid to say, often to some social detriment.)

Tulsi is too stubborn for her own good and, on a personal/non-strategic level, I kind of love it.

Also, she doesn’t have as many supporters as Fauxcahontas Warren, so it’s not like she’s weakening one of the main candidates (I.e. Bernie).