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[LA se Karachi]

Trump's numbers went up after that.

I was just reminding people what Romney really thinks of Trump.

 

[ultron]

Trump/Putin Billboard – “Make the World Great Again”​

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Cars pass by a billboard showing US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin placed by pro-Serbian movement in the town of Danilovgrad on November 16, 2016.

Putin is a bastard dictator. To be fair, Merkel is an even bigger bastard dictator, in power since 2005.

 

[T-72]

I was just reminding people what Romney really thinks of Trump.

There was also this in 2012

same elite club, this might be the great Trump deception, a populist experiment on the right.

or maybe he's just being magnanimous and pragmatic.

 

[LA se Karachi]

Well, Trump endorsing Romney in 2012 wasn't surprising. But what Romney said this year about Trump was very scathing:

"I am far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament of be president. After all, this is an individual who mocked a disabled reporter, who attributed a reporter's questions to her menstrual cycle, who mocked a brilliant rival who happened to be a woman due to her appearance, who bragged about his marital affairs, and who laces his public speeches with vulgarity."

"We will only really know if he is the real deal or a phony if he releases his tax returns and the tape of his interview with the New York Times. I predict that there are more bombshells in his tax returns. I predict that he doesn't give much if anything to the disabled and to our veterans. I predict that he told the New York Times that his immigration talk is just that: talk. And I predict that despite his promise to do so, first made over a year ago, he will never ever release his tax returns. Never. Not the returns under audit, not even the returns that are no longer being audited. He has too much to hide. Nor will he authorize the Times to release the tapes. If I'm right, you will have all the proof you need to know that Donald Trump is a phony."

"Mr. Trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes. He creates scapegoats of Muslims and Mexican immigrants, he calls for the use of torture and for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit first amendment freedom of the press. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.

Here's what I know. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.

His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill."

 

[T-72]

just rhetoric, they're done campaigning and the race is over, so clean slate and back to business now ?

Trump goes skinny dipping in the swamp lol

 

[LA se Karachi]

just rhetoric, they're done campaigning and the race is over, so clean slate and back to business now ?

Trump goes skinny dipping in the swamp lol

Try as you might, you can't dismiss everything he said as "rhetoric". He criticized not only his temperament and personality, but he criticized his political proposals and business failures as well. Those things about Donald Trump will not change.

 

[RiazHaq]

http://www.riazhaq.com/2016/11/impact-of-trumps-top-appointments-on-us.html

Who are President-Elect Donald Trump's top picks for his Cabinet and White House staff positions? What are their views on US domestic and foreign policies? How will they shape US policies on national security, immigration, minority rights and foreign relations?

Are critics right about their reservations regarding Trump's top choices of Steve Bannon (Chief White House Strategist), Gen Michael Flynn (National Security Advisor), Jeff Sessions (Attorney General), Michael Pompeo (CIA Director) and Chris Kobach (Immigration)?

What should Muslims do in response to appointments of known Islamophobes like Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Chris Kobach and others? Should they support civil rights groups like Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to challenge any anti-Muslim policies and actions? Should they make common cause with other ethnic and religious minorities to defend their civil rights? Should they put more efforts into inter-faith harmony?

What will Team Trump's policy be toward India and Pakistan? Will they favor India over Pakistan? Will they pressure Pakistan to comply with US demands in the region, particularly with respect to Afghanistan? Will they collaborate with India to isolate Pakistan? How will Pakistan respond to such pressure? Is there a risk that Pakistan might go rogue?

Viewpoint From Overseas host Faraz Darvesh discusses these questions with panelists Misbah Azam and Riaz Haq (www.riazhaq.com)

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http://www.riazhaq.com/2016/11/impact-of-trumps-top-appointments-on-us.html

 

[Solomon2]

Last week, The Post invited readers to share why they voted for Donald Trump. We’ve received more than 1,600 responses. Below are some of their answers.

WHY I VOTED FOR TRUMP
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...11 of 29

Deniz Dolun
22 years old • Boca Raton, Fla.

My entire family — five Muslim immigrants from Turkey — voted for Donald Trump in Florida because of the Democratic Party’s pandering to Islamism. As people who have actually experienced Islamism in its purest form, back in Turkey, we supported the candidate who promised to help us fight that issue, regardless of any of his other policies. For us, the people of the Middle East, this election was just too important to hand over to someone such as Hillary Clinton.

...20 of 29
James Brady
74 years old • Tennessee

I voted for Donald Trump based on my Christian values. I didn’t know a lot about Trump but I knew too much about the Clintons. This country needs to get back on track with God, to give God praise, honor and glory each and every passing day. He is worthy. I pray for the new administration that will take office in January. I believe if Hillary Clinton had won the election we would be dead in the water. Too many things she sought to get passed were against any Christian belief for those who are true to Christ.


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[T-72]

Try as you might, you can't dismiss everything he said as "rhetoric". He criticized not only his temperament and personality, but he criticized his political proposals and business failures as well. Those things about Donald Trump will not change.

2 ways to look at it, either it's a big man move/magnanimous gesture from Trump to try and reach out and unify his party, or that the system is rigged and the elites are all in bed. Remember that they both took swipes at each other, if Romney made one big speech, Trump went out night after night calling him a choker and mocking him to huge crowds of tens of thousands of people.

The "failed" businessman thing is a ridiculous charge anyway, even if some of his ventures (airline/education) didn't succeed. Apart from his initial 'muslm ban/total shutdown' comment, which I thought was a bit extreme, what exactly has he proposed that is so radical ? He's walked back on the muslim ban since, and did end up doing better than Romney with Latinos and Blacks so...

Trump is not thin skinned either, he's probably made of some of the thickest skin ever, a year and a half of essentially being called Hitler by all major news outlets in the US, and he still wins the presidency.

#tremendous

 

[ultron]

Apart from his initial 'muslm ban/total shutdown' comment, which I thought was a bit extreme, what exactly has he proposed that is so radical ?

He said that in the context of the huge Islamic State attack in Paris. Otherwise he would not have said that. Every country has the right to do what it sees necessary to protect its civilians from terrorism, even if it means temporarily banning a whole religion from entering.

 

[T-72]

He said that in the context of the huge Islamic State attack in Paris. Otherwise he would not have said that. Every country has the right to do what it sees necessary to protect its civilians from terrorism, even if it means temporarily banning a whole religion from entering.

He made those comments in the wake of the San Bernardino attacks, which is why I sort of give him a pass on that too (heat of the moment etc) but either way, it was months before the primaries even began, and the fact is that he has since walked it back.

Stuff like banning any people belonging to an entire race/religion is quite retarded in this day and age, but given the timing, Trump probably knew what he was doing.

 

[ultron]

Stuff like banning any people belonging to an entire race/religion is quite retarded in this day and age, but given the timing, Trump probably knew what he was doing.

Not really. Let's say there is a hate group in Cuba that hates Americans and one member kills 500 people in the US, you can bet your pants the US would ban all Cubans from entering.

 

[T-72]

Not really. Let's say there is a hate group in Cuba that hates Americans and one member kills 500 people in the US, you can bet your pants the US would ban all Cubans from entering.

Muslims only make 2 or 3% of the total population in the US so in a sense it's understandable how people have reacted to Donald Trump's ideas. They're also not a monolithic group culturally or racially, black people from various parts of Africa, east Asians, white Slavs, there are all sorts of different muslim groups, a ban is retarded, you know it too, superboy.

 

[ultron]

Muslims only make 2 or 3% of the total population in the US

Not it doesn't. Even Jews are only 2% of the US population. Muslims is about 0.1% tops.

 

[T-72]

Not it doesn't. Even Jews are only 2% of the US population. Muslims is about 0.1% tops.

Whatever it might be, the point was that most people, despite the regressive left's best efforts, didn't respond very sensitively to Donald Trump's rhetoric because Islam is alien to most of them.

Think about it, if Trump really follows through and knocks the hell out of ISIS, FSA etc with Putin, he'll end up making Islam great again too.