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The Real Question should have been:
Would he be willing to set up interment camps for Muslims?
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Wait, Dick Cheney thought this was too harsh? Now that is scary.
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George Takei? Paging George Takei!
So he can’t make a judgement call on whether or not he’d have done that with full hindsight of what an atrocity this was? He would have needed to be there in the height of the panic and paranoia – THEN he’d see what choice he’d make?
Oh yeah, this guy for president…
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Trump isn’t a bigot – he’s a scared little baby who wants the voters to give him the weapons to shoot or isolate everything that scares him.
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“Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine.”
That’s what we’re all wondering about you, Donald.
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Trump “would have to be there”? I’m guessing he didn’t say “I’m philosophically consistent, so yes, I would have supported Japanese internment” because he doesn’t want to tick off his Japanese and Japanese-American business associates.
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Welp, you can reduce the Asian-American support for the Republican Party by another 500,000 votes. This is the benefit to the Democratic Party of Trump’s candidacy—the fact that he’s gotten such gigantic amounts of publicity as the leading Republican contender has firmly fixed his ideology in the minds of American minorities as representative of Republican Party philosophy as a whole.
Which is where Ted Cruz’s studied refusal to criticize Trump will come back to bite him in the general election—a competent Democratic campaign will hang Cruz’s silence around his neck as a tacit endorsement of Trump’s bigotry. Considering that Asian Americans comprise the fastest-growing segment of the American demographic, this is an important advantage for whoever the Dem nominee is.
Even a committed warmonger like Graham understands: “Donald Trump today took xenophobia and religious bigotry to a new level,” Graham said. “It is time for Ted Cruz to quit hiding in the weeds and speak out against Donald Trump’s xenophobia and racial bigotry.”
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If I were running Wharton right now I’d be moving to revoke this moron’s degree. Of the many astonishing things about him, one of the most striking is his comprehensive ignorance and the sloppy superficiality of what I’ll laughingly call his “thinking.” His mind seems to have nothing in it but hazy misimpressions of the most shallow, stereotypical kind. It’s as though he’s had no practice at all in abstract thinking, weighing what principles and guidelines are most helpful in a given situation. And on some level he knows it; almost every answer to a question that gets at such things is a pathetic dodge, like this is. This entire campaign is that of a born bullshitter, the kind of guy normally found on a barstool annoying everyone around him with his idiotic opinions, who’s found himself thrust into a situation where his opinions actually matter at the national level and he has nothing to reach for but those same ignorant bromides. Even Joe Bauers, the mediocrity protagonist in “Idiocracy,” had a certain common sense about life in general. Trump doesn’t come close to having even that. All he has to guide him are the dangerously volatile emotions of a clinical narcissist. You could almost feel sorry for him except, of course, this is that piece of shit Trump we’re talking about.
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The scary thing is that the Republican front runner has now clearly revealed his fascism. I don’t think he knows what that means.
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[Trump Can’t Say Whether He Would’ve Created Japanese Internment Camps]
Trump: “I dunno’! Maybe we just shoot em’! It’s just takes management. I’ll bring in the best people.”
~and his sheople followers go wild cheering and applauding~
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Yeah, it’s just that he’s scared of Muslims, Hispanics and African Americans.
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You have really gone to the dark side when you lose Darth Cheney.
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Trump is the embodiment of Republican politics. He’s just more vulgar and forward with what the Republican Party says and feels. Conservative voters love him because he says exactly what they want to hear and are thinking. No political correctness for them.
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Hey, Drumpf, I dropped a nickel into that wood chipper – see if you can fish it out for me.
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The 2016ers rushed to condemn Trump to varying degrees. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called him “unhinged” while Cruz cautiously said the ban “is not my policy.” Former Vice President Dick Cheney said the plan was “against everything we stand for and believe in.”
Translations of the above:
- Jeb Bush: “I’m so far behind, I have nothing to lose by doing the right thing!”
- Ted Cruz: “I’m a bigot, but not quite as obvious about it as Trump.”
- Dick Cheney: “I need someone like Jeb or Mitt Romney in the White House to look out for my intere$t$.”
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MY concentration camps will be DEEEELUXXXXE!
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The Republican establishment and party elite actually only have one main objection to The Donald: He may have learned the Art of the Deal but not the Art of GOP Politics. He simply must trade his megaphone (and mega mouth) for a subtle dog whistle.
He is saying what most of the GOP believe… I hear people at work say “well it’s kind of harsh but he’s right…” all of the time
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" I don’t know if slavery was a bad thing or not-I’d have to go back to that time."
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