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My mind has boggled, thanks SM
It's easy just to shrug your shoulders and ignore these days. But not very long ago, there wouldn't have been many folk support a leading politician saying this.https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381394234941448For the record, the two women he is telling to go back to where they came from were both born in America. Both are elected members of Congress.And their crime? Pointing out that women in an American internment camp have had to drink water out of toilet bowls.
Go on. Which facts have been twisted?
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on July 16, 2019, 07:51:00 pmGo on. Which facts have been twisted?No response BS?I'll give you some help. THIS is twisting facts. https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/trump-falsely-accuses-omar-al-qaeda-fact-check/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FSZOsVWf2hSIt's quite breathtaking isn't it? The Leader of the Free World lies in public more than 10 times a day (https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/10/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/%3foutputType=amp) but all he has to do is grunt "Fake Nooos" and he's got a loyal army ready to block out any criticism of him. I had a colleague who I later found out was fiddling the books at work and having an affair. He used to accuse others of fiddling (they weren't) and regularly told me his wife was playing away (she wasn't). It was like he had to accuse others to normalise his own behaviour. That is exactly what I see in Trump. He knows that he lies more regularly than he shits. So he has to normalise lying. If he can get people believing that no-one is honest and everyone lies, then his lies can be ignored.Those of you who buy into this, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on July 17, 2019, 12:19:12 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on July 16, 2019, 07:51:00 pmGo on. Which facts have been twisted?No response BS?I'll give you some help. THIS is twisting facts. https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/trump-falsely-accuses-omar-al-qaeda-fact-check/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FSZOsVWf2hSIt's quite breathtaking isn't it? The Leader of the Free World lies in public more than 10 times a day (https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/10/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/%3foutputType=amp) but all he has to do is grunt "Fake Nooos" and he's got a loyal army ready to block out any criticism of him. I had a colleague who I later found out was fiddling the books at work and having an affair. He used to accuse others of fiddling (they weren't) and regularly told me his wife was playing away (she wasn't). It was like he had to accuse others to normalise his own behaviour. That is exactly what I see in Trump. He knows that he lies more regularly than he shits. So he has to normalise lying. If he can get people believing that no-one is honest and everyone lies, then his lies can be ignored.Those of you who buy into this, you should be ashamed of yourselves.There's 4 of them not 2 as you claim. Trump was referring to the 2 NOT born in the USA. As for why he doesn't like them, there's alot more 2 it than what you claim. For instance their policies on Israel, and their far left views.
There's 4 of them not 2 as you claim. Trump was referring to the 2 NOT born in the USA. As for why he doesn't like them, there's alot more 2 it than what you claim. For instance their policies on Israel, and their far left views.
BS.Facts. You need to get them right. I corrected my misunderstanding about it being 4 rather than 2. That's what you do when you get something wrong. You correct it.https://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=270698.msg880451#msg880451Now. Onto YOUR facts.ONE of those 4 was born outside the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Tlaib Tlaib. Born in the USA.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez Ocasio-Cortez. Born in the USA.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayanna_Pressley Pressley. Born in the USA.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilhan_Omar Omar. Born in Somalia. Moved to USA as a refugee at 12 years old.Trump was talking about Congresswomen. Plural. He lumped the lot of them in when he said "Why don’t they ("THEY", not "SHE", note) go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." Where the f**k exactly was he suggesting that people born in America go back to? And why should it even dawn on his that they are not Americans?This is the Leader of the Free World normalising the sort of attitudes and language that have been confined to far-right racists for two generations. He's basically saying if you're from a different ethnic heritage, you don't belong there. Whether that's a deliberate decision to classify them as "the other" or whether it's just a lazy "They've got funny skin colour, they must be from somewhere else" attitude is neither here nor there.You've got two choices when you see this. You confront this attitude or you justify it. Depends on which side of history you want your grandkids to see you.
Obviously he genuinely thought they all came from abroad.Maybe his biggest mistake here was not realising they didn't.