Reero
2. It was in the 100 day plan Trump* SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure
Oh yes, I forgot, he mentioned it in the same breath with which he doomed any hopes of us seriously addressing climate change in the next four years.
I'd also like to use this as an example of the sort of rhetoric that Trump uses to suck people who aren't incredibly knowledgeable in. He will be specific and concrete with the super conservative, harmful elements of his platform (in this case, cutting funding for anti-climate change measures and pulling out of the Paris accord). Then, he will have a more positive, bridge-building statement, but he will leave it so deliberately vague that it's impossible to tell what he's talking about. This is because he wants people who are uncomfortable with some of his policies but still overall supporters of him to be able to interpret his platform in the most positive light possible, so they don't realize how hard he's screwing them.
Environmental infrastructure? What the fuck does that mean? You mean like the EPA, which Trump has pledged to all but eradicate?
Fix America's water? How does he propose we do that? By regulating corporate pollution? No, he doesn't support that (or any other regulations, judging by his hilariously polemic "for every 1 new regulation, we must remove 2 old ones!" point). Maybe a tax credit for compliant corporations, combined with a penalty fee for non-compliance? Well the EPA can't enforce that if he's going to gut them, and he seems to be pretty against taxing corporations for anything.
At the end of the day, you might want to believe that he will do something constructive for the environment, but he won't. Period.
Reero3. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/constitution-and-second-amendment/
TrumpBackground checks - we need to fix the system we have and make it work as intended.
I assume this means improve the background check system?
Also how exactly is lifting bans on suppressors/high ammunition magazines bad?
Note the use of the phrase "fix the system we have". You see, Trump is massively supported by the NRA, and he wants to appease them. He understands that people are ambivalent about the phrase "gun control", but that when individual elements of a gun control platform are proposed, many of them are overwhelmingly positive.
For instance, notice the 3 most popular proposals here:
https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2015/06/FT_Gun_Proposals.png
Those are all new additions to the current background check system that Trump is NOT in favor of. Yet, he keeps that statement deliberately vague, because he realizes that he is actually in the minority here.
As for suppressors, I don't give a fuck about them. I do believe lifting the ban on high ammunition magazines is bad, and that a blanket assault weapon ban is necessary. Well, I'd personally go a lot further than that with gun control, but some of my other opinions are more contentious; I think the assault weapons ban is the bare minimum in that regard, and a fair compromise.
Reero4. Can you go into detail on what you mean? Im confused on what you mean and even on what Trump means by using the words "criminal illegals".
What I mean is that Trump is simply being redundant, pointing out that illegal immigrants broke the law in the very act of illegal immigration and are therefore criminals. While this is obviously objectively true from a technical perspective, he is using this language in part of a continual process of rhetorically linking the act of emigrating to the U.S. from Latin America, particularly Mexico, with acts such as rape and drug trafficking. It all comes back to the targeting of a discreet minority group in order to galvanize the support of unemployed and working class whites, even though undocumented immigrants are crucial to the functioning of our economy.