Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 8:48 pm
The Senate has confirmed Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.
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My guess is you will not take the justification seriously - but I assume they will point to police brutality and say the violence is not one way. I don't think all the rioters liked Sanders. If you want to address that I know you have - but for those unsatisfied that is the issue. They think there's violence from law enforcement, and too much of it. I know you're aware of that perspective and you likely think it's misinformed/deceitful or that the riots are a disproportionate response - but I'm still reminding you of what they think.Emotions are running high. However, we have the Left nowadays talking about blowing up the White House and having a riot when a university invites a speaker whom they don't like. The hatred and violence is happening on one particular side, and everyone is just ignoring it as if it's justified. I don't understand how Leftist riots are okay. Can anyone point to a recent Rightist riot? I can't think of one.
Brief response:Do you think Obama carefully considered the consequences of pulling out the troops from Iraq, attacking Libya without a strategy for what happens after victory, or failing to back up his "red line" with action? Those decisions all seem very haphazard and all have significant negative consequences, but we rarely hear his supporters or the media (I know, redundant) hold him accountable for the massive unrest in the Middle East he has caused, from the Syrian civil war, to the migrant crisis, to the rise of ISIS. Those are catastrophically bad consequences that we already know happened. But people seem more concerned about what Trump might do than what Obama has already done.
Look. I...this just...you can't use this and expect people to care. Maybe if only two races or ethnicities existed in the world. If you're very tongue in cheek for the rest of this, OK.Trump--the guy married to a Yugoslavian woman--is not a xenophobe.
Why do people dislike what Trump said? "And some, I assume, are good people." Ya, leave it for the end, and leave it in doubt.Trump never said that all Mexicans are criminals, he was specifically talking about the criminal aliens, of which there are 100s of 1000s.
So hey, there's no association between the comments about illegal Mexicans and probably illegal immigrants in the Middle East and immigrants with visas and green cards from the Middle East and Northern Africa.Thank you. It's true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people.
It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably -- probably -- from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast.
Of course, it might be for show, since Israel traditionally ignores requests like that, but maybe he's sincere about it.Trump urges Israel to 'hold off' on settlements
President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked Israel's prime minister to "hold off" on building Jewish settlements in land the Palestinians claim for their future state, yet held back from explicitly endorsing support for a future independent Palestine.
After weeks of dancing around the issue of expanded Israeli settlements, Trump made the request to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint news conference at the White House preceding their private discussions. It is Netanyahu's first trip to Washington since Trump became president.
While Trump's call echoed that of past US presidents, who've considered Israeli housing construction in east Jerusalem and the West Bank an obstacle to a Middle East peace deal, the American leader broke with his predecessors on the idea of a two-state agreement. While such an accord may have once appeared to be the "easier of the two" options, Trump said he'd be open to alternatives if the two sides propose something better...
Yes, but I am uncertain where that line exists--it will be in different places for different people. LBJ picks up a dog by its ears? Some people were still going to vote for him until he decided not to run. Involvement in the Watergate scandal went all the way to the Oval Office? Doesn't matter--some people would have voted for Nixon again, anyway. An out-of-control CIA running around the world doing whatever it felt like doing, even selling weapons to nations which purported to be our enemy? Irrelevant--some people would have voted for Reagan an third time had they been able to. Blowjobs in the Oval Office? Doesn't matter--some people still think Clinton was the best President. Invading or attacking countries which did not attack us first? People voted for Bush a second time. Obama helped roll back race relations and deported more illegal immigrants than his three most recent predecessors put together? His supporters still voted for him.peter wrote:I don't know Hashi, is there not a line beyond even which the faithful cannot be pushed.