And Slow derails another thread.
As far as Issa, good riddance to bad rubbish.
He banned immigration from seven predominantly Muslim nations.
He didn't ban all Muslims, that is a plain lie. He did talk about stopping Muslims from coming in until things get straightened out with the vetting process, he never had a stance of banning Muslims as a permanent thing.
So again, what he tried to pass did not ban all Muslims, right? What Trump did was ban people from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Seven countries. Say it with me guys.
Highly doubful. He's from behind the Orange Curtain. His district consists of much of Orange County CA, Camp Pendleton Marine Base and Oceanside: Camp Pendleton's military town in north San Diego County.
This area is a pocket of very strong republicanism. And not the "kinder gentler" version. Alt-right Trump supporters. Much of this county was populated by white flight from LA county.
He banned people from seven predominantly Muslim countries because he couldn't implement the total ban he really wanted. Say it with us.
He has business ties to Saudi Arabia?What do you think stopped him from making it eight countries?
What do you think stopped him from making it eight countries?
I see what you're trying to do, you know. You're assuming that a limited number stems from a sincere change of heart, and that the narrowed scope was Trump's choice rather his team picking something that wouldn't look like a ban targeting predominantly Muslim countries. Because it wasn't a larger number of Muslim countries or all of them, you argue, it can't possibly have been a discriminatory ban.
My questions: why did they choose the countries they did, and initially make exemptions for non-Muslims? Again, they don't correlate well to actual threats from the region, and the exemptions make it clear that the goal was specifically to prevent Muslims from those countries reaching the US.
Not all of that pro-Trump base is white. I have in-laws who are Vietnamese-Chinese in OC and for some reason they are massively pro Trump (and there are quite a few like-minded.) I have no idea how they conflate their Saigon Airlift arrival with Trump's anti-immigration stance, but whatever...he is like a walking talking embodiment of the American Dream to them.
What do you think stopped him from making it eight countries?
1st gen vietnamese american from OC here - older Viet people are massively republican and conservative. Younger ones not so much.
So dishonest. He made it as many as he could possibly justify to the Judiciary & enough to satisfy the xenophobic ravers in his base.
I'll bet the raving about chain immigration has them in a tizzy. That's how a lot of vietnamese came to be here.
While I'm sure that did make the xenophobe types want to touch themselves, I don't think that was the purpose. Why do you want more people from those countries to be here? Many of these would be conservative religious types that would prefer to harm LGBT rights and other pro-freedom agendas.
I don't know why he chose the countries he did, I don't think we've had many problems from them specifically, but I don't know what our country's military intelligence knows about those populations currently either, or what information the president is privy to regarding those countries that we don't know. So, I don't know why he chose the countries he did, and I don't think we have enough information to take a good educated guess at it. But I'm sure some projected feelings from those with a partisan agenda fill in the gaps nicely.
Now, again, what do you think stopped him from making it eight countries if his goal was to ban all Muslims? Surely he could have fit a few more in if he was just choosing them based on nothing, regardless of it they or some citizens had been responsible for an attack on us or not.
News breaking that Issa might try to poach Duncan Hunter’s adjacent seat which is a safer R district. Maybe a tich risky since he has not resigned yet and voters may not view such opportunism favorably.
News breaking that Issa might try to poach Duncan Hunter’s adjacent seat which is a safer R district. Maybe a tich risky since he has not resigned yet and voters may not view such opportunism favorably.
What a patriot just wanting to serve his country.
So again, what he tried to pass did not ban all Muslims, right? What Trump did was ban people from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Seven countries. Say it with me guys.
Donald Trump is desperately trying to ban all muslims to appease his heart and the hearts of all the other cold, dark, racist assholes like yourself that continue to unquestionably support him.
I don't know why he chose the countries he did, I don't think we've had many problems from them specifically, but I don't know what our country's military intelligence knows about those populations currently either, or what information the president is privy to regarding those countries that we don't know. So, I don't know why he chose the countries he did, and I don't think we have enough information to take a good educated guess at it. But I'm sure some projected feelings from those with a partisan agenda fill in the gaps nicely.
Now, again, what do you think stopped him from making it eight countries if his goal was to ban all Muslims? Surely he could have fit a few more in if he was just choosing them based on nothing, regardless of it they or some citizens had been responsible for an attack on us or not.