My brother used to comment on how on his commute into DC he used to see roughly the same group of people holding up placards quite frequently. Sometimes they were calling for a ban on abortions, sometimes for more use of the death penalty.
It’s nothing to do with human life and everything to do with religion.
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Poor white gun owning Bible misquoting ‘low information’ voters.
Or… The dipshit with the arsenal who’s worked at Walmart for 20 years as a security guard and reads about a new American Revolution where smart people and minorities and libruls have to bow down to their Yall’Queda dumbfuck law.
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Would you say you’re…disappointed in BoingBoing?
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I mean, he was going to say she was just an angry ex-employee with an axe to grind in any event. I’d say it’s nice for him that the facts don’t contradict that in this case, but I don’t even know if that matters.
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Good point – but not the point I was trying to make. I am an American whose family dates from colonial times who has lived abroad for 30 years. I am trying to articulate what people outside of America see happening in America. Stereotypes? Okay, fair enough. But America is rife with stereotypes, just like everywhere else. That’s part of the human condition.
To be honest I don’t really understand what I see happening in America – the distinctions you make, I am sure are important, but I’ve been outside too long to understand. It just all looks like a broad spectrum of batshit crazy from outside, and if it doesn’t look that way on the inside, there is cause for concern.
I was on a boat last month on the Mekong with a retired Navy Captain – as in Captain of a Destroyer during the Korean war and he went on and on about how Trump was telling it like it is, and that this is how Americans really think even though it ‘sounds’ racist. If what he said was true, it didn’t sound like a place that I would want to live in.
I hope that the stereotypes that he, and a disturbingly large amount of Americans I meet out here, do not embody a significant proportion of the country. But it does give one pause. I don’t like having to talk to these narrow minded, ignorant, racist assholes. They make me feel embarrassed that I am American. I was brought up to believe that America was better than that. But to the rest of the world, it increasingly doesn’t seem to look like it is. Outside the United States, it’s been a long time since people thought of America as “the good guys” and personally I saw that perception begin to crack with the Bush/Gore election and has rapidly disintegrated since then…
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I don’t know about the US so much but over here it is a common claim of the Right that we are in danger of being subjected to a Muslim takeover and Sharia law1. Are there people in the US who believe this? Because if so I can imagine them being worried if they were LGBT. Saudi Arabia and Iran may not agree on much, but this is an area where they are equally…let’s choose words carefully…evil.
1 Obviously, this is nonsense.
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That’s very much the ultra-right-wing super-crazy belief that Trump and Cruz are tapping into: the belief that our current President is secretly a Muslim and that Muslim terrorists are coming to take over the country and enact Sharia law. But that’s an extreme minority belief, and I’d think that LGBT people would be more worried about losing their actual Constitutional rights, which both Trump and Cruz want to take away.
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To be fair, interracial lesbian couples that support Trump are probably also an extreme minority. Though if I were a Republican lesbian in the US right now, I’d be backing Trump too, because as @Mister44 said above he’s probably going to make your head spin contradicting himself, and I’m not really sure whether he hates gay people enough to actively try to attack them. Cruz, on the other hand, I’m pretty sure about.
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They want their own form of religious law. They view Sharia as competition.
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Coincidentally a group I belong to has just been looking at Boris Gudunov, in which the anti-hero is pushed into being Tsar against his wishes because he has assassinated the son of the previous Tsar. God’s judgment catches up with him and it does not end well, for him or Russia.
Has Trump had anybody assassinated? I think we need to know before it’s too late. Does firing apprentices count?
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Wait…how could he close the Super PAC? I thought candidates weren’t allowed to be coordinated with super PACs?
Heh, Lewandowski again.
I don’t really care what Cegielski’s job actually was, anyway. From her own words she’s demonstrating that she’s either a liar and/or a useful idiot anyway.
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Unprecedented unbelievable anger?
I believe it’s neither.
I keep reading people saying that Muslims are rats. Everywhere they go, they destroy society. Then they say Trump 2016.
It’s hate. Plain ol’ hate. Wearing different clothes.
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Ah, the Sharia BS… Here’s the thing to keep in mind when you hear of ‘conservative’ politicians being against stuff - it is because they are projecting and are in favor of such things, but it has to be the American Jesus version of said reprehensible thing.
But they have voters, and those voters are often ill informed enough to take the politicians at face value. To answer your question, yes.
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Are you kidding, the reptilians are going to unmask themselves and say no even we are not that crazy if trump wins.
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He is the embodiment of the ignorant nationalistic might-makes-right USian stereotype. His recent successes and his possible election sadly confirms the stereotype.
One can hope that the overindulgence ultimately leads to moderation (after a decent hang-over).
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Hmmm. . . this is what I was considering for a while too, except a lot of what she says in the article implies he doesn’t care about winning at all, so why modify any of his views. According to her claim (which may not be accurate, of course) losing the election to Hillary or Bernie would be just fine with him, he will have increased his stature, promoted his brand, basically given his ego a giant uber-stroking, without any of the annoyance of figuring out how to cope with congress, re-negotiate treaties, or deal with the economic/engineering nightmare of building a huge border wall.
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My votes with the Reptilians. At least they think we taste good.
So they have a vested interest in at least some of our welfare.
Trump doesn’t need anyone for anything.
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You can’t really judge a whole movement from one group of protesters.
And reasoning for being against abortion can be both.
But I am not going to derail the Drumpf drama with an abortion thread so I’ll just let you all keep on keeping on.
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Perhaps if I hadn’t read this comment on a little glowing screen in my hands, I could take your point more seriously. Perhaps you’d like to go back twenty years and complain about television, too.
*Hops off your lawn. *
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Right she’s a hate mongering monster. You’d have to be to play those politics.
Because if you actually believe that shit you’re functionally useless except to vote… And maybe to get shot off your personal mobility scooter while patrolling the neighborhood with your Browning blah blah blah blah blah…
Whatever.
I think someone should tell them that obesity and guerilla warfare don’t mix. Just saying.
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