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Author Topic:   A Book about the Anti-Trump Conspiracy
Chiroptera
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Message 134 of 277 (836932)
07-24-2018 12:43 PM
Reply to: Message 133 by ringo
07-24-2018 12:23 PM


Re: What is the evidence to support the assertions made in the second paragraph.
...it's right there on Twitter....
I would think that if Trump were worried about context, he wouldn't make so much use of a medium that's limited to 280 characters.


What do you despise? By this are you truly known. -- Frank Herbert

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Chiroptera
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Message 139 of 277 (836948)
07-24-2018 4:32 PM
Reply to: Message 137 by Percy
07-24-2018 1:19 PM


Trump the racist
Don't forget to include Trump's claim that Mexican immigrants are predominantly crinimals.


What do you despise? By this are you truly known. -- Frank Herbert

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Chiroptera
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Message 173 of 277 (837103)
07-26-2018 6:42 PM
Reply to: Message 170 by Faith
07-26-2018 6:32 PM


Re: the problem
Well, the only reason I bother with the internet is to interact with "opposing points of view". It would be a shame if you weren't around any more.


What do you despise? By this are you truly known. -- Frank Herbert

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Chiroptera
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Message 203 of 277 (837175)
07-28-2018 11:36 AM
Reply to: Message 201 by Faith
07-28-2018 11:00 AM


Re: the problem
You can argue all you like, that isn't going to change how supporters of Trump see him.
That's probably true. Trump's approval ratings, although the lowest of any US President since such a thing began to be measure in the 1930s, has gone up a little and down a little but overall has remained remarkably steady.
That suggests that although Trump supporters are a minority, they're a hardcore fantatical group and probably aren't going to change their minds. Probably not even if Trump were to walk into their own homes and shoot their own children in front of them.
Edited by Chiroptera, : Minor edit: didn't change the point.


Oh, God! Pride of Man, broken in the dust again! -- Quicksilver Messenger Service

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Chiroptera
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Message 215 of 277 (837206)
07-28-2018 1:47 PM
Reply to: Message 206 by Faith
07-28-2018 11:45 AM


Re: the problem
Maybe. But I haven't really come across any right wingers who seem to be interested in narrowing any "political chasm". A lot are just screaming, "Listen to me yell, and agree with everything I say!"


Oh, God! Pride of Man, broken in the dust again! -- Quicksilver Messenger Service

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Chiroptera
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Message 219 of 277 (837212)
07-28-2018 3:00 PM
Reply to: Message 217 by Faith
07-28-2018 2:46 PM


Re: the problem
Okay, what if I had said that he could rip their own children out of their arms and put them in internment centers?


Oh, God! Pride of Man, broken in the dust again! -- Quicksilver Messenger Service

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Chiroptera
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Message 225 of 277 (837218)
07-28-2018 3:28 PM
Reply to: Message 222 by Faith
07-28-2018 3:03 PM


Re: the problem
Are you saying that it's paranoid to think that Trump would advocate a policy of removing children from their parents and holding them in internment centers?
Or just that it's paranoid to suggest that Trump would do it himself, personally?


Oh, God! Pride of Man, broken in the dust again! -- Quicksilver Messenger Service

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Chiroptera
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Message 277 of 277 (837444)
08-01-2018 3:49 PM
Reply to: Message 276 by Percy
08-01-2018 1:54 PM


Re: the problem
The modern conservative, especially the tea party or Trump conservative, isn't a true conservative (and certainly not a Reagan conservative).
The reason I sometimes put "conservative" in quote marks when I speak about the US Know Nothing (LIterally) Party is because, indeed, they aren't really conservatives in any real sense.
Look it up: conservative is a relatively well-defined ideology (well, actually a family of closely related ideologies). Not only do contemporary American "conservatives" not fit any of these definitions, they don't even have a coherent ideology at all.
They are all just a bunch of angry white people screaming about stuff they don't like.


Oh, God! Pride of Man, broken in the dust again! -- Quicksilver Messenger Service

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