Those who support bigotry and hatred
Ahahahahahahaha – Trump is promising a “test” for immigrants to make sure we don’t let in any terrorists, but what makes that funny is that his proposed test would exclude him. He would fail that test so hard – he would get less than zero. He would owe somebody something, he’d fail it so profoundly.
Donald Trump called Monday for a Cold War-style mobilization against “radical Islamic terror,” repeating and repackaging calls for strict immigration controls — including a new ideological litmus test for Muslim visitors and migrants — and blaming the current level of worldwide terrorist attacks on President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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The speech was one in a series of prepared remarks the Republican presidential nominee has scheduled, amid criticism of controversial off-the-cuff policy pronouncements that he has later dismissed as jokes or sarcasm. Reading directly from a TelePrompter, a subdued Trump rarely departed from his script.
The principal new initiative was what Trump called “extreme vetting” for “any hostile attitude towards our country or its principles, or who believed sharia law should supplant American law. . . . Those who did not believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry and hatred will not be admitted for immigration into our country.”
See what I mean? Trump has an intensely hostile attitude toward many of the principles of our country, and he not only supports bigotry and hatred, he foments and incites them. He’s a hate-filled bigot himself, and the core of his campaign is working other people into a frenzy of bigotry and hatred. He’s the worst bigot and hater anyone has seen campaigning for president in living memory. He’s a flaming, proud, noisy, shameless, red-faced bigot and hater. His proposed ideological test would exclude him.
He’s got a fucking nerve lecturing anyone else about bigotry and hatred.
Not to mention that nothing engenders hatred and dissatisfaction like discrimination and othering of perfectly innocent people. It’s why a significant number of home grown Islamic terrorists have been children of immigrants. The parents might be better off, but their kids feel the injustice of discrimination and yearn for a sense of belonging. That’s easily high jacked.
It seems odd that he wants only liberal/progressive people to be able to immigrate here.
The parents might be better off, but their kids feel the injustice of discrimination and yearn for a sense of belonging.
That may be true in some cases. However, many jihadists come from well off backgrounds and were raised by well integrated parents. Cries of discrimination act as fig leafs for some, deflecting from the fact they gleaned their hatreds DIRECTLY from readily identifiable religious texts.
“Those who did not believe in our Constitution..”
Strike 3, Donald.
Chris T @4,
Not true. Donald J. Trump loves the Constitution. All of it. Article I, Article II, Article XII….the whole thing!
Only if “We, the people” is excised.
Trump: “Me, the people”.
John, you’re conveniently ignoring the fact that a person can be financially well off but still suffer racial and cultural discrimination at multiple levels.
Many, many, MANY people suffer racial and cultural discrimination.
The Chinese were subjected to a head tax and many other discriminatory measures.
The Japanese were interned in camps during WWII.
And the Jews have faced discrimination for centuries.
And yet despite all of that bigotry and oppression, how many Chinese individuals or Japanese individuals or Jewish individuals have gone all *Bataclan* because of it.
How is that test supposed to work since the people it’s designed to keep out would pass with flying colors because they want the same things?