tfw mustardoverheal gets least heals on team

Ok as vehemently against the electoral college I am this is obviously going nowhere so let's change the subject to this

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/13/501937200/trump-taps-reince-priebus-as-chief-of-staff-steve-bannon-as-chief-strategist

Steve Bannon still in a position of power...smh

kobe bryant was the worst player in the nba last season

no, but even right now there are 5-10 players playing better than him, so calm down canadians

EDIT: ok I'm definitely exaggerating with the 10, his efficiency is surprisingly good, but it will be unsustainable to an extent

y'all watching this?

gonna listen to new tribe right after this new chappelle show episode 8]

I'm very secure with the fact that my sense of self-worth is not tied to a ludicrous sense of masculinity that I feel the need to affirm every 2 seconds.

If there is open warfare in the streets, you me and everyone else are fucked.

a lot of people legitimately believe that the main reason they need guns is to protect themselves from the government

which an assault rifle wouldn't exactly help much with if the armed forces were after you but shrug

being a firefox user is like 2 shades removed from being an ie user in 2016

Note that, while I disagree with reero's optimism and even would go so far as to call him misinformed, I do not need to resort to ad hominem because we are talking about the actual issues. None of the many strawmen and character attacks that have propped up recently.

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.

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.

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.

If I were any of the other conservatives in this thread I would be desperately PMing you begging you to stop posting and making them all look bad.

It's easy to overlook things we don't want to see about candidates we support, but it is a sign of cowardice. I've certainly dealt with it myself, having to confront my support for Obama despite his drone strikes that make me extremely uncomfortable. I am sorry that you are unable to move past your pre-existing notions and literally cannot process objective information put directly in front of your face because it does not gel with the image of Donald Trump that you wish to believe in.

P.S. no, employing black people and putting a token black republican in his cabinet does not give him a pass for years and years of racist language and actions.

one of the few things about trump that I actually agree with, as I've said

source on his actual policy suggestions? other than just empty words?

that's bad (and he's opposed to universal background checks from what I've seen so also somewhat inaccurate)

I wish that was what it meant

but that is not what it meant

sorry

One last thing since it didn't fit above-

Take a look at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4r2yxs/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is/?st=ivdd2s88&sh=5dc93313
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4r58wo/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is/
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4sv46y/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is_a/
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4svwua/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_donald_trump/
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4t0fsu/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is_crazy/
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4teoxl/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is_a/
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4uapwn/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is_a/

Yes, some of these points are outdated, or have been debunked, or are exaggerated. Over half of them, however, are still valid. If you try to argue against me, after I have given that disclaimer, by pointing out a few that are out or context or that Trump has (thankfully, finally) distanced himself from, I will not respect your reading comprehension.