Ha, literally the site I was just on reading the summary. Thanks.
Fuck, this is a brilliant article. No doubt many people here will start foaming at the mouth, but I’ll put it out there nevertheless.
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Lose? Trump is president.
If this is losing I’ll take it
They probably already are terrorizing them in other ways without any bargaining .
Personally I want swift action on the inner cities
That’s an extremely sobering (word choice may be off) view and narrative built by the writer.
Edit: One of the great points the author raises is that while we are a nation governed by laws, and that we have checks and balances between branches of government, that at some point it comes down to the integrity of an individual or group to use the laws as intended rather than for personal gain.
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I agree. And just think all they had to do was have open primaries and invite the best and brightest into the arena turn more to the center and Trump would have most certainly lost.
But…
Yes. As @EyeDentist noted, in the US we have not had many of the problems with assimilation that seem to go with very rapid influx of large numbers of people creating insular communities. It’s been noted that as yet no terror attacks by Syrian refugees. You mentioned lower numbers, @loppar.
Syrian Refugees Admitted to the US
2011, 29
2012, 31
2013, 36
2014, 105
2015, 1,682
2016 - Target of 13,000. Official number as yet undisclosed.
With regards to Syria, If Merkel is one extreme, we’re the other.
BTW, in talking about immigrants or refugees, I’m in no way implying we should not help and/ or accept refugees, or that I am in some way anti-immigrant.
Also, just to clarify. In talking about religion, I’m not implying that women should not be allowed to observe religious practices related to modesty norms. I thought the burkini ban was silly. I was taking issue with using the hijab as a feminist symbol, and with the alt left’s confusing intolerance of reformers or critics of Islamism. I’m a pretty HUGE freedom of religion person. Personally, I do have issues with individuals who completely cover their face while concealing the entire body in loose robes, for the same reason seeing someone out in public wearing a ski mask and a long trench coat would make me really uncomfortable.
Edited to add: @Legalsteel, I saw the previous back and forth on the same topic. I seem to be channeling you. I read the link about FGM in the UK. Horrific. No, I don’t think we should NOT accept refugees because they may come from this kind of barbarism, but it’s terrible to think about this kind of thing happening anywhere. Heartbreaking. I believe @Jewbacca’s wife does delicate OBGYN reconstructive surgery, but I don’t know if she sees this population.
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But it was Hilary’s time. RIP. I’ve heard people say she’s gonna run again…that’s a joke right…? lol
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More Travel Ban Fail.
From a Jan. 30 report by CBS News:
BAGHDAD—Gen. Talib al Kenani commands the elite American-trained counter terrorist forces that have been leading the fight against ISIS for two years.
“I’m a four star general, and I’m banned from entering the U.S.?” he said.
His family was relocated to the U.S. for their safety, and he’d had plans to see them next week, until he was told not to bother.
“I have been fighting terrorism for 13 years and winning,” he said. “Now my kids are now asking if I’m a terrorist?” . . .
“This ban needs to be reviewed,” Kenani said. “We thought we were partners with our American friends, and now we realize that we’re just considered terrorists.”
More from today’s WSJ -
“One of the individuals detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport had served as a translator for the U.S. Army and as an engineer on U.S.-funded reconstruction projects. Targeted for assassination, first in Baghdad and then in Kirkuk, he applied for and received a special immigrant visa based on a determination that he had provided “faithful and valuable service to the United States” and was experiencing a serious threat as a consequence of this service.”
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Hillary Clinton may have effected the outcome of the election.
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Honestly…even though this ban is a shit-show…I don’t think it will affect his base one bit. To them, he is simply trying his best to make good on his promises…and that’s what they want to see.
Who cares if it gets blocked? At least he is trying. He is more truthful than career politicians who make promises which are unreasonable, and then completely neglect them.
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Yes, lose. Also, and related, you appear to have been born with zero self-awareness.
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In all fairness…there were many factors that affected the election…Putin & Comey’s awkwardly timed announcement did play a role. Measuring how significant they were is like trying to measure Humanity’s impact on climate change.
However, it is very much like the left to blame those events, over the fact that Clinton was up against Obama’s last 8 years + Trump’s “change message.” Clinton would be 4 more years of Obama and that simply wasn’t going to work with the state of the world at this time.
I was telling my wife (SJW) It is no coincidence that Trump was elected in the same year as Brexit and the loss of many parliament seats for Angela Merkel’s party. Someone like Trump only gets elected under a specific set of conditions.
It probably won’t happen again for another 100 years…but it could happen sooner depending on how well he does.
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Subtle but hilarious. I like it!
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Thanks. Ha! I was just teasing, @MoreMuscle a little bit.
BTW, that one liner was printed as a letter to the editor after the election. Just that one sentence. It cracked me up. So, it’s been plagiarized here just for you, SkyzykS. Haha!
I think it’s going to happen, and the “conservatives” will then have a very hard time deciding who the villain is. Not so long ago, that wouldn’t the case - principled conservatives would side with a justice confining a renegade executive within the rule of law. Now? Who knows. The Right loves them some renegade executive as long as said executive is (mis)using all that power to deliver policies they like (Sound familiar? That used to be a crime committed by liberals.)
Which brings me a troubling observation - I’m not sure there is much of a thing called conservatism in governance any more. Think about it - policy and process are irrelevant, the Right doesn’t care.
They want one thing out of their government - make the hysterical Left hysterical. That’s it. That’s the only endgame anymore. Vengeance trolling against the Left. Do things that make the Left freak out - anything that accomplishes that is a win.
And Trump’s administration serves that up, and the Right uncritically eats it up. Hell, Trump could support government-sponsored health care for white people, and as long as the Left took the streets in protests in outrage, all we would hear from the Right is “stupid snowflakes!” without a peep about how it violates conservative principles from here to Poughkeepsie.
We see it here in PWI. In what universe would the Right (assuming they are conservatives) be ok with someone like Bannon being escalated to NSC in favor of our military chiefs? But when asked about it, they don’t have a word to say about it.
Troubling times.
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From my personal experience… No.
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Damn. I feel violated now. Well played. I will come back better.
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Are you opposed to that? Having a justice opposed to executive overreach sounds pretty good to me.
Disagree with the “liberal bloc” helping to strike down however. Historically Thomas and Alito are much more likely to check the Executive.
I’m not opposed to it, no - but Trump and his minions will be.
And the bloc against executive overreach doesn’t fall down partisan lines - Scalia, for example, was incredibly deferential to executive power, and a number of liberals have not been so deferential.
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