US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4402

On July 22 2016 15:12 Kyadytim wrote:

I'm amazed to see all those people applauding "protect LGBTQ communities" considering the party platform's stance on LGTBQ people.

On July 22 2016 15:08 FiWiFaKi wrote:


I'll take the Trump compliment I suppose.

But I will say, calling Trump racist, sexist, or anti-gay has always been misinformed. The one argument you can make is he's potentially somewhat skeptical of Islam. Honestly, I just really really hope people give Trump a chance, and look at him again with fewer preconceived notions.

I know it just sounds like I'm flaunting Trump support, but I really think he would be good for the country, and he's what the country needs. See through the non-PC statements he said, and just give him a try... It's very easy to make Hillary look bad, and it's also very easy to make Trump look bad, just depends which side you're standing on. Try to start in the middle. I know I'm a bit biased at this point as I have gone into this camp, but when I read the statements here... All too often people come here with the notion that he's a lunatic bigot, and really, he's not. He's not perfect, but he's not most of what you guys accuse him to be.

Anyway, apologies for the emotionally charged statements, but I wanted to get them out there because I thought they're important. Well, I'm done for the day.

On July 22 2016 13:39 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


Normally it's like 20 to 5 all the Clinton supporters must be asleep

On July 22 2016 15:19 xDaunt wrote:

There's a difference between "gay sex and gay marriage are immoral" and "gay Americans should be slaughtered."

On July 22 2016 15:48 Kyadytim wrote:

Yeah, sorry. That was a bit of an asshat reply from me - I was just reading something this morning about how the platform is out of touch with the party's base on the subject of gay marriage and such.

There were plenty of people who were totally okay with gays being slaughtered, judging by their posts on facebook and twitter after the Orlando shooting, though Stuff like "at least it wasn't innocent people," "nothing wrong with shooting a few gays," or calling it an effective shooting. Probably not a tremendous number, but I find it kind of disturbing that people were okay posting that stuff on social media tied to their name.

On July 22 2016 16:17 Slaughter wrote:
Yea but its weird that Clinton gets hit hard by "not telling the truth" but Trump gets a pass? The guy has done more lying then anyone during this election season but no one seems to care but Clinton gets stuck with this label of being too dishonest to elect.

On July 22 2016 16:34 RoomOfMush wrote:

Because Clinton is a politician and the Donald is a clown. You dont go to the circus and expect the clowns to be honest serious people. You expect wacky hijinks and light hearted fun.

On July 22 2016 16:06 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Exactly as CorsairHero says, bad apples in both parties, though probably more with the Republicans, also Republican bad apples send a stronger negative message, so there's that.

And GH, I think you can say that he's a bit narcassist, though I'd state it more as not humble, assertive, confident, with a touch of arrogance. I think the fact he's not humble is a big turn off for a lot of people, and it's seemingly a more important trait to have every year, but I think it's not a bad quality in a leader. It's just people jump to the conclusion that he must be an asshole, a bigot, and hence old fashioned, and hence all the -ist terms, unintelligent, and automatically disqualify him based off of that.

Yes, Trump stretches the truth and leaves out information, like when quoting statistics using inconsistent years for data that should use the same years (comparing voter turnouts of Republicans to Democrats), but its a skill and strategy that politicians utlitize all the time.

He's been quick to understand the game, and to win a political election, you need to use some of these political tricks... Such as saying stuff to appeal to a wide voter base, as every cabdicate does every four years, even when it's often fluff. At the end of the day, it's not representative of his character, and he's a far better man than people give him credit for... Hopefully the eyes were on him these last four days, and people learned something.

Apologies for any grammatical errors, I wrote this before I fell asleep on my phone, which usually leads to this stuff and my fingers and brain don't work at the same speed here.

On July 22 2016 15:01 GreenHorizons wrote:
Ironic coming from what we're made to believe is the biggest bigot the GOP has had to offer in a while.

On July 22 2016 17:26 TheYango wrote:

I don't think those who have openly called Trump a racist or sexist would be so naive as to think that.

The bigotry of the modern Republican party runs deep and there are far more bigoted politicians in it than Donald Trump.

On July 22 2016 17:26 TheYango wrote:

I don't think those who have openly called Trump a racist or sexist would be so naive as to think that.
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On July 22 2016 15:19 xDaunt wrote:

There's a difference between "gay sex and gay marriage are immoral" and "gay Americans should be slaughtered."