Here’s the thing though, how dumb does he have to be to not understand that yet? I don’t know, maybe he really is that oblivious of reality. But it sure has me starting to wonder just how much he actually wanted to be President. Versus, perhaps this whole thing being a stage for him to reinforce his celebrity with a population that, while too small to win him the White House, still ends up being a hefty and rabid fan base now and in the future. I can’t help but ask myself if he ever really wanted to win.
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I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. I don’t think he really wants to be the President. I think this was all an ego trip and a way to expand his brand that evolved beyond his wildest dreams.
I think he’s well aware of the fact that he can’t win without expanding beyond his base, but he doesn’t want to win.
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It’s why he’s also already planting the excuses.
It’s rigged!
It’s fixed!
Our immigration stance has always been to welcome those into this country that are looking for freedom and opportunities regardless of where they came from. Yes, assimilation is a part of that and yes a portion of immigrants don’t assimilate. There is no full proof way to eliminate this issue without closing the borders.
Isolationism, a religious test, or an IQ standard are not what is best for this nation.
Both of these things are illegal. So, you’ve got an enforcement issue not a regulatory issue.
Yeah I’m not sure who likes that stuff. Maybe he’s trying to plant the idea in people’s heads that if Obama started ISIS Clinton is guilty by association. Not saying it’s right.
Anyways he gets what I think are the most pressing issues correct and that’s why I like him for president
Dude is served up an out:
and doesn’t take it…
That isn’t our system of immigration, and shouldn’t be. It’s inconsistent with our nation’s ideals.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
See the Statue of Liberty. (That’s the giant lady in New York harbor.)
What your talking about is immigration based on national “need” and, more sinister, ultimately taking into account (perceived) quality differences in people by race, culture, creed, etc.
No thanks. Keep your creepy, fascistic ethno-nationalist immigration programs where they belong - we aren’t a blood-and-soil people, we’re a tribe of ideas and free people.
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This can not be emphasized enough.
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Much good advice from the French did, look at the problems they are dealing with. Look at the disaster Europe has become, you really want that shit here ?
Any country is well within it’s right to control immigration, what you are doing with Raj is shaming him into silence, or trying to. You cannot continually import millions of poor, unskilled, and uneducated people and not think it won’t affect our way of life.
You are suggesting policies that will erode the freedoms you claim to love. Dems will ultimately come for your guns and your free speech, and immigrants usually vote Dem in huge margins.
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This is not a false fear.
If it’s true. I am not sure what kind of people we are anymore. Decent well meaning? Or lazy and entitled? I can’t tell the difference anymore.
This seems to be often forgotten in America, but is even rarer in the rest of the world. It’s not our background or cultural norms that make us a great nation it’s the commitment to individual freedom, success and self determination.
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Or we could withhold government benefits from non-citizens. Benefits that were pooled by Americans for Americans. Without a guaranteed safety net, the immigrant demographic changes to those willing to not only risk more, but those more likely to succeed. (This doesn’t necessarily mean IQ, But I hope that wasn’t really what Raj had in mind.)
Your refrence to Europe explains perfectly why we have had problems with mass immigration. Just like Europe it’s the gradual increase of the Nanny state that creates the problem with low skill labour both native and immigrant
Summary: ‘Because it’s always been this way no need to stop’
Nah.
Government sees the aging majority with fewer babies being born. They would rather import tax payers than let go of power and contract the government.
Think of the United States as Medical School and immigrants as potential applicants.
Should spots be given to the smartest and most ambitious or should spots be allotted through a lottery system and to people who are related to the staff in the school?
I’m not sure what part of my post “nah” refers to but your own posts reinforce my point that the rest of the world does not understand American values. Also by your own admission the entry of taxable low skill workers via immigration is the governments ploy to support the aging workforce thus making them a gain to society…
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But they aren’t importing tax payers. A study was done in California about a decade ago, where the population increased by 10 million people, 7 million of them were on the dole. Only 150,000 of them were tax filers.
The end result is 35% of the nation’s welfare resides here, but just 12% of the overall population.
Migration can be a great thing, when it is done responsibly. This country rose to the top in a period of around 200 years, and that happened because people DIDN’T want the government to tell them how to live their lives.
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