This is an absolutely staggering display of burying one’s head in the sand. The general topics (Trump’s long and decorated history of lawsuits, fraud, and questionable finances) were discussed ad nauseam during election season, so we might as well “agree to disagree” now, but it’s unbelievable that you can say this with a straight face.[/quote]
No I clarified this:
America is a highly litigious society and Trump runs a multi billion dollar company. It’s the reality for any company that large in the current business environment to be routinely engaged in lawsuits. He was in the limelight for 40 years prior to running. If he behaved in such a fraudulent manner why did people continue to do business with him? Why was he never convicted for any major crimes?
Again explained this. Bill Clinton has already paid out a settlement for a sex crime. A settlement is an admission of guilt. Past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour. I’m not necessarily convinced that black kid claiming to be Clinton’s son but I’m certainly open to it.
This is his response as to why the CIA intelligence telling us Iraq had WMDs is completely different from Intelligence stating the current president is connected to Russia: I can’t explain it to you, you’re too stupid to understand.
How can anyone possibly take this guy seriously? He’s living in a James Bond Novel.
Had he continued on with the lawsuit people would go on about his conflict of interest as president and running his business. Now that he settled he’s a fraud.
Somehow, in the same post, you can write “a settlement is an admission of guilt” (applied to Bill Clinton, or probably anyone but Donald Trump) while still apparently holding the opinion that Donald Trump has never done anything illegal.
Trump has settled over 100 lawsuits. I mean, the Trump University settlement alone invalidates your basic premise: if “a settlement is an admission of guilt” (your own words!) then, by your own logic, Tha Real DJT has indeed committed a crime or three along the way.
The issue is, and this has been the researched experience of the British government, that oftentimes the 2nd generation of Muslims are significantly more extreme, and even were that not true, their rate of assimilation is lower than any other group by miles.
From the report:
People of Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnicity tend to live in more residentially segregated communities than other ethnic minority groups. South Asian communities (people of Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi ethnicity) live in higher concentrations at ward level than any other ethnic minority group.
“English language is a common denominator and a strong enabler of
integration. But Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic groups have the lowest levels of
English language proficiency of any Black or Minority Ethnic group – and women in
those communities are twice as likely as men to have poor English”
So it is in the UK, but that doesn’t stop it happening and happening, to date, with 0 convictions. 100000+ by some estimations.
I also said operating a large billion dollar company in America would lead to lots of Lawsuits. companies often settle lawsuits because it’s not worth the time and money to fight them. In the realm of sex crime, if you are convicted of one (or settle) that tag will follow you for the rest of your life.
“Donald Trump has already paid out a settlement for fraud in the Trump University suit. A settlement is an admission of guilt. Past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour. I’m not necessarily convinced that Donald Trump is guilty of financial misdoings but I’m certainly open to it.”
If you can’t draw the distinction between civil and criminal, SMH is going to just have a field day jumping up and down on you and squishing your guts between his toes.
Yeah, I’ve thought these are the fringe wingdings that want to marginalize or persecute people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, or Maajid Nawaz, but unfortunately, I think that’s become a more mainstream position. You have to disavow anyone who talks about reform within Islam because… “pro-Muslim.”
As an aside, I don’t know if any of you caught Ashley Judd talking at the women’s march? Apparently the center left did not engage in extreme vetting of these celebrities. I was having flashbacks of listening to that nut job Ted Turner talk about population control at Kyoto. Crazy stuff. The victim hood of having a period and throwing away favorite panties. Powerful. For some reason she needed to claim the right for females in 2017 to experience sexual pleasure. I’m not sure who she’s been dating, but I didn’t realize it was a thing these days. Maybe men compete on how they can be really terrible in bed 'cause misogyny? I know I’m pretty sheltered.
On a serious note, related to the link you put up about push back. This is the kind of thing that fuels that. It’s like listening to feminists talk about suicide. More men kill themselves every year, but more women attempt. Despite the fact that 3 to 5 more men actually die, for teenagers it’s 3 boys for every 1 girl, it’s clearly a problem that effects more women. Because of the “more attempts.” Clearly. We need more money for women’s mental health. In any gender issue, the female must always be the biggest of the victims.
If we get a divorce, and my husband gets more time with the kids in the custody agreement, then that’s a sign of gender discrimination. The man got the best deal. Men always do. If the judge gives me more time with the kids, it’s because women are expected to take on the caregiver roll. That’s discrimination, folks. Also misogyny. See how that works?
Technically part of the reason for gender walls is to keep the women away from the single men. As a woman in an oppressive male society that doesn’t sound so bad. And as a man that would kind of suck.
Of course I could explain it to you. I’m just not going to, because you’re A. too dimwitted to follow along, and B. a dishonest piece of shit who was caught lying about his own explicitly-stated standard of evidence just last night.
It doesn’t matter, anyway. Under consideration is specific evidence for a specific set of allegations. Talking about different, entirely unrelated evidence for a different, entirely unrelated set of allegations is never going to rescue you from this hole you’re in. You could spend the next year learning the ins and outs of the Duelfer and SSCI reports – neither of which you’ve ever read – and still not be able to rebut a single word of the case against Trump. This because nothing you say about Iraq-WMD 2002 will have anything whatsoever to do with Trump-Russia 2016 (though in light of your inability to handle this debate on its own terms, it isn’t exactly surprising that you’re desperate to find as indirect a route as possible by which to continue on this road).
Similarly, it would not constitute evidence in support of the Trump allegations for me to make the point that the intelligence collection and analysis which led to Operation Neptune Spear was a fantastic and complex success (note however that the IC reforms implemented after 9/11 and Iraq [e.g., the creation of the ODNI], and the increasing emphasis on SIGINT, do indeed make Neptune Spear a better analogy).
This is neither OIF nor ONS. It is its own matter. The evidence has been arrayed before you. You have had the opportunity to rebut it – and of this you have done such a fucking piss-poor job that you literally submitted to the discussion last night the admission that you don’t even understand the basic timeline at issue.
I wanted to leave this here. As a minor political brush with fame, my friend’s brother is the American Ambassador to Yemen. Cool, right?
Anyway, he shared this with her right after trump announced the recent 7 country travel ban. You can guess what his response to it is. Lot’s of inflammatory language, but you can read some of the legal language and response here.
I don’t see how this travel ban is going to do anything positive. At all. Even if you thought it was a good idea, it didn’t need to be so chaotic. Most of the local Persian population here are not personally effected because they are generally citizens, many of them second generation Americans. I have one friend who is a green card holder. Her husband travels a lot for business, but fortunately he was home on Friday. I do have a friend whose husband missed his flight to Belgium and an important meeting, due to the protests at LAX. The LAPD were allowing protesters to alternately block roads within the airport.
This is an interesting read, if you want to know more about Tehrangeles and Persian demographics and immigration in the US as a whole. The part about religion is really interesting. I had no idea that 26% of the population of Beverly Hills are Iranian Jewish.
Regarding foreign affairs, I just see no rhyme or reason. Tweeting about Mexico right before Enrique Pena Nieto was going to make a trip was just stupid and juvenile. BTW, between Trump, Putin and Nieto I’m definitely on team Nieto. wink. We have a long friendship with Mexico, so I don’t understand the crazy. They are our friends, right?
