Some Trump Trumps?
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Even better than this article are all the articles now coming out where they dissect the foreign policy ideas Trump talked about with the NYT. Basically he has no knowledge of history or diplomacy and looks at everything as if itâs a short term business deal-- like NATO partners should pay the US for protection because âwhatâs in it for us?â (As if peace in Europe has no intrinsic value, despite what it means for trade and the global market.)
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Well, itâs good to know that you see the hopes of transgender people on the opposite side of the political fence as you as a joke.
Dear Stephanie Cegielski:
Sincerely,
Those of us who are not so willfully gullible or easily manipulated.
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LGBT people and BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) people do sometimes have shit political beliefs that are against their own interests. For example, Caitlyn Jennerâs support of Ted Cruz despite his ties to several extremely transphobic organisations.
I have a Jewish friend who researched her family history and found out that there was strong evidence that her grandparents were Nazi supporters until they finally left Germany in early 1939. They just turned a blind eye to atrocities until they started happening to their own family. Not all of them got out alive 
He can go quite a bit to the left while remaining on the far right. Tell me Iâm wrong when he starts saying we need more workerâs co-ops.
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She wasnât a âtop strategistâ - she was a spokesperson for the Super PAC that he closed. - http://www.snopes.com/stephanie-cegielski-letter-trump/
Say what you want about him, but Iâm confused by the shear volume of stuff I read about him thatâs entirely made up; with the shear volume of crazy stuff he actually says - I donât know why people feel the need to embellish or exaggerate the information about him.
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Thatâs it right there. You certainly have a case with some examples not being supportive of women and minorities, but that certainly isnât the whole of the party nor their platform. Especially with the original outburst being anti-women, I donât think is accurate at all. (I can think of two official party platforms that prove your point, gay marriage, and abortion. Though the abortion stance isnât anti-woman in their reasoning, it is pro-human life.)
Furthermore as I said before attitudes DO shift over time and like I pointed out the acceptance of gays in younger Republicans is rising.
Easy way to remember: Straturgos (from where we get strategy) is the Greek for a general. If it takes a lot of people to do it, itâs strategy; if a few, tactics.
Trumpâs strategy is to benefit the Trump brand and so enrich himself Getting elected is incidental to that. A lot of people will need to vote for him to do that. His tactics are populism, nationalism, and targeting the less educated, all of which he can do on his own.
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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.
Itâs nothing to do with human life and everything to do with religion.
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Poor white gun owning Bible misquoting âlow informationâ voters.
Or⌠The dipshit with the arsenal whoâs 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 YallâQueda dumbfuck law.
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Would you say youâreâŚdisappointed 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. Iâd say itâs nice for him that the facts donât contradict that in this case, but I donât even know if that matters.
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Good point â 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. Thatâs part of the human condition.
To be honest I donât really understand what I see happening in America â the distinctions you make, I am sure are important, but Iâve been outside too long to understand. It just all looks like a broad spectrum of batshit crazy from outside, and if it doesnât 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 â 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 âsoundsâ racist. If what he said was true, it didnât 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 donât 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 doesnât seem to look like it is. Outside the United States, itâs been a long time since people thought of America as âthe good guysâ and personally I saw that perception begin to crack with the Bush/Gore election and has rapidly disintegrated since thenâŚ
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I donât 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 equallyâŚletâs choose words carefullyâŚevil.
1 Obviously, this is nonsense.
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Thatâs 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 thatâs an extreme minority belief, and Iâd 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, Iâd be backing Trump too, because as @Mister44 said above heâs probably going to make your head spin contradicting himself, and Iâm not really sure whether he hates gay people enough to actively try to attack them. Cruz, on the other hand, Iâm 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. Godâs 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 itâs too late. Does firing apprentices count?
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WaitâŚhow could he close the Super PAC? I thought candidates werenât allowed to be coordinated with super PACs?
Heh, Lewandowski again.
I donât really care what Cegielskiâs job actually was, anyway. From her own words sheâs demonstrating that sheâs either a liar and/or a useful idiot anyway.
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