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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@Crucial Except there is nothing extreme about Trumps presidency, his personality is extreme. But his policies are very mainstream.
In the eye of the beholder, of course.
Maybe... So enlighten to which of his policies is extreme?
What I'm saying is that many people may view his policies as extreme given their own political slant.
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@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@Crucial Except there is nothing extreme about Trumps presidency, his personality is extreme. But his policies are very mainstream.
In the eye of the beholder, of course.
Maybe... So enlighten to which of his policies is extreme?
What I'm saying is that many people may view his policies as extreme given their own political slant.
Do you find them extreme?
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@Frank said in US Politics:
@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@Crucial Except there is nothing extreme about Trumps presidency, his personality is extreme. But his policies are very mainstream.
In the eye of the beholder, of course.
Maybe... So enlighten to which of his policies is extreme?
What I'm saying is that many people may view his policies as extreme given their own political slant.
Do you find them extreme?
If so - which ones?Why would you need to know? It has no relevance at all to the comment I made.
I really should get back off this board. I stopped reading it for ages as it was full of posters getting dragged into personality arguments and irrelevant finger pointing about their own views.
Any attempt to make comment about political 'happenings' moves quickly to questions like this.
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@Frank said in US Politics:
@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@Crucial Except there is nothing extreme about Trumps presidency, his personality is extreme. But his policies are very mainstream.
In the eye of the beholder, of course.
Maybe... So enlighten to which of his policies is extreme?
What I'm saying is that many people may view his policies as extreme given their own political slant.
Do you find them extreme?
If so - which ones?the topic is US politics, not Crucial's beliefs.
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@Crucial
If you would rather not discuss the policies you don't like of Trump's (or don't actually have an answer because you secretly love them ) that's fine.I openly say my own views here. It isn't a sensitive matter to me.
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@Frank said in US Politics:
@Crucial
If you would rather not discuss the policies you don't like of Trump's (or don't actually have an answer because you secretly love them ) that's fine.I openly say my own views here. It isn't a sensitive matter to me.
I am just trying to understand the thinking of people who might have views different from my own.I'm going to call bullshit on that @Frank
You post on here to cheerlead and support your opinion (which you are entitled to do). I have never once seen you genuinely 'try to understand differing views' even through debate.
Even recently you attacked a comment of mine, where I said I disliked Trump due to his personality more so than policy by equating me with people stupid enough to criticise policy without knowing it. Again, just now you tried to drag me into the same argument.
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@Crucial
Ha ha - partially true. Fair comment.But right now I am trying to know what policies you dislike of Trump and you are really, really determined not to say. I am trying to understand you and you don't want to say.
I guess I should get back to what I do best - cheerleading for Trump.
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@Frank said in US Politics:
@Crucial
Ha ha - partially true. Fair comment.But right now I am trying to know what policies you dislike of Trump and you are really, really determined not to say. I am trying to understand you and you don't want to say.
I guess I should get back to what I do best - cheerleading for Trump.
OK, I will give you one example. The only example that affects me directly and one that I feel I have a 'right' to whinge about.
His Border Protection policies emboldening a bunch of tossers that were already tossers to begin with and giving them unbridled powers to be even bigger tossers.
I like living in a 'free' society that values an assumption that you are going about your life in a legal manner unless there is good reason to think otherwise . Not an assumption that just because you want to enter a country you are a bad egg and must prove otherwise. The ability to demand electronic devices and passwords just because you want to transit through the US is an example. The ability to detain without representation or good reason is another. The ability to detain someone based simply on their religion is another.
Now these policies didn't start with Trump but he has solidified them and encouraged their execution to the extreme.How does this affect me? It certainly deters me from wanting to run the gauntlet to visit friends in the US and even more so the stupidity of paying for an ESTA to change planes then joining endless queues to get processed. (This is also one of the reasons the AirNZ flights to London have become less desirable and then cancelled)
There you go, an example. Not sure how that helps you.
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Ok.... the last few posts sums up the problem with the left in politics. They call Trump extreme, get asked for examples of his policies that are extreme and instead launch into ad hominum attacks and personal experiences.
And extreme isnt the same as wrong. It is just extreme compared to previous norms for that country or party.If Trumps policies are so extreme it should be dead set easy to list a whole bunch.
I will list some off the top of my head for Democrats
Murder of babies up until birth,
Medicare for all
Open Borders.
Elimination of ICE
The Green new deal
Reparations
Removal of Electoral College
Stacking the Supreme courtThose are ALL extreme positions, so far form the historical centre of the independents and indeed even the democratic base.
So @Crucial what are the extreme policies that Trump has instigated , your immigration example is not even close as his policies are more liberal than previous administration -
I wonder what candidate?
I guess Trump because Orange man bad
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The Democrats are impeaching the President of the United States ... and CNN’s ratings have hit a three-year low. It’s the Boy crying wolf and a three year incessant whine. The American people have tuned out.
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This is from the Dems articles of impeachment.
Crimes aren’t what you actually do; it’s what we think is inside your head. We need Minority Report style clairvoyants to testify. Thought-crimes must be punished.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
This is from the Dems articles of impeachment.
Crimes aren’t what you actually do; it’s what we think is inside your head. We need Minority Report style clairvoyants to testify. Thought-crimes must be punished.
Man, you really do read what you want to.
That says 'we are tasked with establishing what the motive was, not what it might have been'.
In a long winded way, of course.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
This is from the Dems articles of impeachment.
Crimes aren’t what you actually do; it’s what we think is inside your head. We need Minority Report style clairvoyants to testify. Thought-crimes must be punished.
Its a concern just how far gone and crazy the Democrats are today.
Here's another. (is this for real?)
Steve Guest
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@SteveGuestDemocrat Rep. Al Green says the impeachment of @realDonaldTrump is needed “to deal with slavery.”
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@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
This is from the Dems articles of impeachment.
Crimes aren’t what you actually do; it’s what we think is inside your head. We need Minority Report style clairvoyants to testify. Thought-crimes must be punished.
Man, you really do read what you want to.
That says 'we are tasked with establishing what the motive was, not what it might have been'.
In a long winded way, of course.
Is that any better? Political opponents guessing motive and then trying to remove an elected president...
The entire impeachment fiasco is reliant on people reading what they want... Cause the Dems sure haven't got any evidence.
The whole impeachment is a disaster for Democrats as there is partisan approval and non partisan disapproval... Sell that to voters -
@Winger said in US Politics:
@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
This is from the Dems articles of impeachment.
Crimes aren’t what you actually do; it’s what we think is inside your head. We need Minority Report style clairvoyants to testify. Thought-crimes must be punished.
Its a concern just how far gone and crazy the Democrats are today.
Help me understand what is crazy about that excerpt.
It is a snippet with possible contradictions in the pieces cut at either end, but the complete sentences there are fine.
This is an investigation at the moment NOT a prosecution.
The investigation exists to find the facts, no?
The investigation (whether biased or not) must evaluate accounts to see if they ring true, no?
The investigation must try to establish real reasons from the possible ones, no?Happy for you to knock away at those statements, but I don't see where the craziness you declare exists.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@Crucial said in US Politics:
@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
This is from the Dems articles of impeachment.
Crimes aren’t what you actually do; it’s what we think is inside your head. We need Minority Report style clairvoyants to testify. Thought-crimes must be punished.
Man, you really do read what you want to.
That says 'we are tasked with establishing what the motive was, not what it might have been'.
In a long winded way, of course.
Is that any better? Political opponents guessing motive and then trying to remove an elected president...
That is their job if they decide a breach in law isn't it? Or does being elected now afford non-accountability?
Personally I think this is a storm in a teacup and yes, there is an element of the Democrats latching onto a possible wrong step for their own purposes. There are also others that hold a very strict view on what the presidency affords in the way of powers (and/or how they should be carried out).
This is the correct process, however to nut those arguments out and establish just how far over the line Trump stepped and what the consequence should be.
Trump is not a king, he doesn't have the power he thinks he should have. A reprimand here wouldn't change that, I don't think, but surely the system of govt as it was designed must go through its motions?
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