What can you even say about a person whose response to the news that a Saudi Arabian murder squad chopped a Washington Post journalist into bite-sized pieces and then lied about it is to worry that the scandal might prevent him from selling them more weapons? Here’s Donald Trump, a man who we’ve decided to entrust with the power to inflict a nuclear holocaust at will, explaining that Jamal Khashoggi’s apparent torture and murder is a fine price to pay if that’s what it takes to keep Lockheed Martin in the lucrative business of murdering Yemini schoolchildren.
No moral compass at all? Doesn't Lockheed have a position on this? — Benkei
Incidentally, does anyone remember Trump shellacking Obama for bowing to the Saudi king? — Wayfarer
citizens feel threatened by mass migration — Maw
The second, highly unlikely scenario, is that socialist policies are enacted to ensure cohesive policies to slow and eventually stop climate change, before the aforementioned affects occur — Maw
"It's going to be an election of the caravan," Trump said at a campaign rally in Missoula, Montana. "You know what I'm talking about."
In an extended riff about illegal immigration and the caravan, Trump told the crowd that Democrats were banking on the caravan to arrive before Election Day so they could vote for Democrats -- even though as asylum-seekers, they wouldn't be citizens and therefore would not be able to vote in the congressional elections.
Is anyone else nervous about society right now? I'm nervous. I haven't been this nervous in a while. Since the twin towers fell. But I think I might be even more nervous now than I was then because it feels like America is starting to war with it'self and it's neighbors and it's planet with no concern for ethics what so ever. — Lif3r
Just as with everything else that Trump says he will do, this too won't go anywhere. You're simply making the mistake of thinking these issues too logically and not thinking of what Trump actually does here.Trump's claim that he can with a stroke of his pen overrule the US Constitution is the very definition of authoritarianism. — LD Saunders
This is a good observation. Trump is a marketer who likes to win, devoid of principles. Deploying troops to the border is theatrics that is cheered by his supporters and decried by his detractors. When his detractors react hyperbolically, he "wins". By continually discussing his nonsense, we keep it alive and keep his supporters energized. The "invasion" by the caravan has become a major issue in the election because Trump made it so, and we detractors keep discussing it. News sources that attempt to expose Trump's absurdity with facts add to the problem because 1) his supporters aren't interested in facts, they cheer Trump because they agree with his sentiments 2) his detractors keep the discussion going; the more absurd his behavior seems, the more we react, the more we pump up his supporters - especially when our reaction is hyperbolic.The whole intention is just to get the left to be outraged and simply to give the appeareance of something being done. Appearances are enough. People actually don't care if things really are done or not because they are too obsessed in hating the other side. — ssu
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