This did not start with Trump, it’s something that is only reaching its climax. For years, as people warned against the mainstreaming of Islamophobia, they were met with equivocation. “Islam is not a race”, “we are criticising Islam, not Muslims”, “we condemn all religion, not just Islam”. Mosques were attacked, women were spat on and had their hijabs snatched from their heads. Western media, led by the British tabloid press, established an industry of hysteria against Muslims with fake news. The niqab and its banning commanded hours of debate in European parliaments.
All the while Muslims repeatedly hit the panic button and were told that they needed to stop overreacting and being so precious. Rightwingers exploited Islamophobia to channel anti-immigration hatred, and liberalism took refuge in intellectual handwringing and posturing over prophet cartoons and freedom of speech and women’s rights, unable to ally itself with what it perceived to be a backward Muslim tradition, and failing to understand that the danger to everything the west stands for is not from Islamic extremism but from the response to it.
What? How does Bannon even have the authority to do that?
I can't believe there's still four years left of this. This whole week has felt like four years of bullshit. It at least takes some presidents a couple of Years to piss a large portion of the population off and cause mass protests. Trumps done it in seven days.
There is very little chance of Trump lasting that long. The Democrats will have plenty of material to impeach him and as soon as the Republicans agree that Trump does more harm than good for them they will drop their support. (Honestly, I am kinda confused that they haven't done so already.)
There is very little chance of Trump lasting that long. The Democrats will have plenty of material to impeach him and as soon as the Republicans agree that Trump does more harm than good for them they will drop their support. (Honestly, I am kinda confused that they haven't done so already.)
1. If Donald Trump is impeached, there will be additional riots.
2. If Donald Trump is impeached, it will damage the Republican party's reputation. Possibly permanently.
3. If Donald Trump is impeached, the media spectacle will be over.
A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it.
I can't believe there's still four years left of this. This whole week has felt like four years of bullshit. It at least takes some presidents a couple of Years to piss a large portion of the population off and cause mass protests. Trumps done it in seven days.
There is very little chance of Trump lasting that long. The Democrats will have plenty of material to impeach him and as soon as the Republicans agree that Trump does more harm than good for them they will drop their support. (Honestly, I am kinda confused that they haven't done so already.)
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Leaders of the influential Koch network on Sunday expressed opposition to President Trump's ban on refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, saying the executive order is not in keeping with their aims to build a free and open society.
“We believe it is possible to keep Americans safe without excluding people who wish to come here to contribute and pursue a better life for their families,” said Brian Hooks, the president of the Charles Koch Foundation, who is co-chairing a weekend conference of donors who help finance the Koch operation.
“The travel ban is the wrong approach and will likely be counterproductive,” he added. “Our country has benefited tremendously from a history of welcoming people from all cultures and backgrounds. This is a hallmark of free and open societies.”
The statement represents the network's first public critique of Trump since his election victory.
How long I wonder until the Koch Wing and the Trump Wing come into open conflict I wonder. It would be terrifying if Der Fuhrer just ordered people to go kill the Kochs off...I think the Koch's can probably afford better thugs and hitmen.
Yeah but Customs Border Patrol falls under the Department of Homeland Security and they will be risking their jobs now.
Ironbite-US Marshals need to be ashamed of themselves btw.
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
Yeah but Customs Border Patrol falls under the Department of Homeland Security and they will be risking their jobs now.
Ironbite-US Marshals need to be ashamed of themselves btw.
Yeah but Customs Border Patrol falls under the Department of Homeland Security and they will be risking their jobs now.
Ironbite-US Marshals need to be ashamed of themselves btw.
But this is Trump's America and he will write a presidential pardon for each and every one of them if some rogue agency tries to enforce the laws AND if they actually do what the judge ordered Trump might fire them and replace them with people who will do what he says.
Yeah but Customs Border Patrol falls under the Department of Homeland Security and they will be risking their jobs now.
Ironbite-US Marshals need to be ashamed of themselves btw.
But this is Trump's America and he will write a presidential pardon for each and every one of them if some rogue agency tries to enforce the laws AND if they actually do what the judge ordered Trump might fire them and replace them with people who will do what he says.
If the pardon power extends that far, the President is effectively a dictator.
Yeah but Customs Border Patrol falls under the Department of Homeland Security and they will be risking their jobs now.
Ironbite-US Marshals need to be ashamed of themselves btw.
But this is Trump's America and he will write a presidential pardon for each and every one of them if some rogue agency tries to enforce the laws AND if they actually do what the judge ordered Trump might fire them and replace them with people who will do what he says.
If the pardon power extends that far, the President is effectively a dictator.
...And?
I didn't say that it's not a scary thing but it seems like something Trump would try to do.
Either he is removed from office or he will become a dictator. Those are the two options I see happening.
I didn't say that it's not a scary thing but it seems like something Trump would try to do.
Either he is removed from office or he will become a dictator. Those are the two options I see happening.
Third option: he becomes a dictator in response to the attempt to remove him from office.
Or I guess they could simply decide that the Muslim ban is cool and there's nothing wrong with it:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-files-appeal-washington-judges-travel-ban/story?id=45274114
...Too complicated for me. There are too many appeals and denies of whatevers for me to keep track of what is going on. I thought the article meant that the ban was in effect and the attempt to cancel it had been cancelled.