The Holes in Trump's Agenda
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It was a bad day when Trump was elected president. It was an even worse day when he started following through on some of his promises.
Weeeeeeeellllll, it isn't. Trump can easily be debunked on several of the cornerstones of his agenda, upon which there isn't much left of him.
IMMIGRATION
Terrorists
Trump has prevented immigration from several countries for 90 days to "prevent terrorists from getting in". The thing is, this isn't going to be effective at all: Your chances of being killed by an immigrant or a refugee terrorist is 1 in 3.6 billion. You're more likely to be killed by a lightning strike or an armed toddler. Therefore, it is more logical to ban toddlers for 90 days and save more lives.
The Wall
The wall across the Mexican border is also a defining part of Trump's agenda. However, it's going to be tricky for him to get it to do anything.
Say that you are Trump, and you build a wall. It's a nice wall, 20 feet high, it's the best wall they've ever seen. But the illegal immigrants still come. You check and you see that they have 21 foot tall ladders to get over the wall. So you make it higher, but they get 31 foot tall ladders. You put barbed wire on top of the wall, but their ladders just get a bit taller. So you get guards to patrol the top of the wall; if anybody comes up, they get detained.
But they still keep on coming through. You look and you find that they dig tunnels under the wall. So you get tremor sensors that alert your guards when somebody is trying to dig / crawl through. The illegal immigrants stop coming through, and the wall works beautifully. However, the wall is a larger version of the Berlin Wall, and we all know how well that ended up (hint: badly). And eventually, you find that the illegal immigrants are still coming through. You look and you look and you realize that you spent $50 billion dollars on a wall that doesn't even work because the immigrants can take a boat.
Paying for the Wall
Trump said that Mexico would pay for the wall he built. They refused. So, Trump said that Mexico will pay for the wall with a 20% import tax on goods from Mexico. Let's have an example:
Miguel sells salsa to John for $5 per jar. Then, the import tax comes along, so Miguel sells the salsa for $6, the US gets its $1, but Miguel still gets $5 dollars in profit. Who paid for the wall?
The American Consumer.
So in reality, the American people will pay for a wall that doesn't work.
The Environment
This just makes me sad. There is undeniable proof that the climate is changing; 2016 was the hottest year on record. The famines in Africa? That's because of pollution. Species are losing their habitat and their lives thanks to humans, and now we've elected a president who believes that the climate is not changing. He is going to try to build the North Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone Pipeline so we can all die from climate change faster. Fun. NOT. In case you need some convincing, take into account that 97% of all scientists agree that the climate is changing.
CONCLUSION
Trump's agenda is wrong and flawed, and all that's left now is a psychopath with such a distorted view of reality that it's scary af. So unless we get him impeached ASAP, we're going to all end up dead.
That was pretty depressing, I admit.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
That's better. Anyways, there's work to do.
Weeeeeeeellllll, it isn't. Trump can easily be debunked on several of the cornerstones of his agenda, upon which there isn't much left of him.
IMMIGRATION
Terrorists
Trump has prevented immigration from several countries for 90 days to "prevent terrorists from getting in". The thing is, this isn't going to be effective at all: Your chances of being killed by an immigrant or a refugee terrorist is 1 in 3.6 billion. You're more likely to be killed by a lightning strike or an armed toddler. Therefore, it is more logical to ban toddlers for 90 days and save more lives.
The Wall
The wall across the Mexican border is also a defining part of Trump's agenda. However, it's going to be tricky for him to get it to do anything.
Say that you are Trump, and you build a wall. It's a nice wall, 20 feet high, it's the best wall they've ever seen. But the illegal immigrants still come. You check and you see that they have 21 foot tall ladders to get over the wall. So you make it higher, but they get 31 foot tall ladders. You put barbed wire on top of the wall, but their ladders just get a bit taller. So you get guards to patrol the top of the wall; if anybody comes up, they get detained.
But they still keep on coming through. You look and you find that they dig tunnels under the wall. So you get tremor sensors that alert your guards when somebody is trying to dig / crawl through. The illegal immigrants stop coming through, and the wall works beautifully. However, the wall is a larger version of the Berlin Wall, and we all know how well that ended up (hint: badly). And eventually, you find that the illegal immigrants are still coming through. You look and you look and you realize that you spent $50 billion dollars on a wall that doesn't even work because the immigrants can take a boat.
Paying for the Wall
Trump said that Mexico would pay for the wall he built. They refused. So, Trump said that Mexico will pay for the wall with a 20% import tax on goods from Mexico. Let's have an example:
Miguel sells salsa to John for $5 per jar. Then, the import tax comes along, so Miguel sells the salsa for $6, the US gets its $1, but Miguel still gets $5 dollars in profit. Who paid for the wall?
The American Consumer.
So in reality, the American people will pay for a wall that doesn't work.
The Environment
This just makes me sad. There is undeniable proof that the climate is changing; 2016 was the hottest year on record. The famines in Africa? That's because of pollution. Species are losing their habitat and their lives thanks to humans, and now we've elected a president who believes that the climate is not changing. He is going to try to build the North Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone Pipeline so we can all die from climate change faster. Fun. NOT. In case you need some convincing, take into account that 97% of all scientists agree that the climate is changing.
CONCLUSION
Trump's agenda is wrong and flawed, and all that's left now is a psychopath with such a distorted view of reality that it's scary af. So unless we get him impeached ASAP, we're going to all end up dead.
That was pretty depressing, I admit.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
That's better. Anyways, there's work to do.
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nah, i just experience in that forum, check who puted the subject on the table, who he accuses and for what motive.
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You haven't made an argument of which policy is wrong or why.
Turkey claimed Russia entered Turkish airspace. It was one jet and relations between the nations broke down. Turkey made the argument of sovereignty which Russia denied- claiming it never entered Turkish airpsace. There is a big difference between that isolated incident and the US openly and purposefully shooting down multiple Russian jets in a foreign sovereign nations territory that doesn't have that nations permission to even be in its airspace. Turkey also had a coup attempt not long after which not only restored Russian-Turkish relations but pushed Turkey away from US influence.
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you mean like the part where I pointed out how the wall is a pointless expenditure of money?
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But it isn't. It is symbolic and a major deterrence. It will be a WALL. ICE will be deporting illegals, businesses will be heavily punished for hiring them & the wall will make it far harder to cross. It is also symbolic with an open message: don't come here, you're not welcome. The border force will also be given the power to properly deter illegals and arrest them - the same border force that openly supported Trumps campaign. The American people have wanted a wall for decades, it's been promised and promised and never delivered. Finally it will be. Bye bye third world. Bye bye warmongers.
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they already have fence and drones to track them on the border, i think it's somewhat obvious to them that they are not wanted 
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We can't and shouldn't isolate ourselves from the third world. Just because someone was born into poverty in Africa or Mexico or the Middle East doesn't mean that they should be denied the same opportunities as the luckier ones. This was one of the founding principles of America, and still should be. As for cutting off America from the rest of the world? Look at North Korea. Also, America is too big and too important for the Monroe Doctrine to work anymore. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door." "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" Everybody is human.
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This isn't an issue about being born "lucky" or with some sort of "White privilege" mental gymnastic, but rather the fact that poverty-stricken nations: (1) Exist in an environmental largely unsuitable for industrial development (Haiti, Togo, Madagascar, for example): (2) The peoples of these nations (primarily African and South American ones) exist in a culture that promotes communalist concepts and unstrict attitudes towards hard work ethic that you see in developed western nations: (3) Many of these people come to the United States to leech off of the system and actively resent this nation while doing so. Speaking further on point three, why shouldn't they resent America? Specifically the seven nations covered in President Trump's travel ban. After all, there wouldn't by a migrant crisis hadn't our Globalist-backed military industrial complex ordered a tactical strike on little Muhammad Al-Khafir again and again over the course of a decade. This next point is anecdotal: I grew up not far from the largest concentration of muslim immigrants in the United States, and in fact outside of the Middle East; Dearborn, MI. We have an issue here in Detroit wherein your average Syriac comes here and works off of a visa whilst not paying taxes for seven years. After those seven years are up, they usually go home and lend their business to their new immigrant cousin or some other relative to continue leeching off of the system and avoiding taxes. I knew a Syriac in High school who did just this, he's back in Damascus now shilling it up with other pro-Assad cultists. Furthermore: These people aren't assimilating. The college I attend has a very large Muslim population, and these people keep to themselves; They're enclaves of sharia doctrine and actively resent those that aren't like them. They're the real racists- the real fascists. --- On the wall: I oppose building a wall largely due to it being an ineffectual solution to a growing crisis in Mexico. We've permitted the drug war and the cartel conflicts for far too long, and simply putting a concrete barrier between ourselves and these issues that are already spreading inwards isn't going to solve the issue we created ourselves. I've proposed a military occupation of Baja, Sinaloa, Tampico, Yucatan, and the rest of the border states until a new Mexican government elected by the people can be formed under the watchful eye of the United States. If this does not occur, I would propose strict annexation and assimilation. The Mexican government has been a shell for over a century now, and its toxic influence has begun spreading into our own nation for far too long now. A wall will only allow it to fester until it eventually infects Commiefornia and Texas.
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I am wondering who is going to be new world power.
---- No such thing as a good girl, you are just not the right guy. 
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United Kingdom Leaves European Union and forms a union with the commonwealth realms who already have Queen Elizabeth II as head of state forming the NEW BRITISH EMPIRE, GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
---- Lest we forget Moja Bosna Ponosna
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Screw it, I'm moving to Canada.
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Your problems have some logic in them. However, a travel ban isn't going to reduce resentment, it's going to dramatically increase it. Also, just because Muslims in your area are a problem doesn't mean that they don't benefit communities somewhere else. As for annexing Mexico... I don't think that's going to improve many political relations. Also, why assimilate people into our culture? What is wrong with their traditions and religions? Are there not Christians who resent those not like them? We are all immigrants at the root, and a tree is dead without its roots.
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So we should just open our borders and let all of the hate filled jihadists in to rape and pillage the west like he did Europe? You sure you're not Swedish? And a travel ban won't dramatically increase resentment- not much as, say, accidentally droning random Yemeni families like what's been happening since 2007. Because our culture is vastly superior and doesn't allow the laziness of Mexican culture nor the dogma of abrahamic culture to lay in the way of good work ethic. Assimilation is key to successful nations.
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If you kill your enemies they win. 
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Das' right! Nosrsly tho, Deus Vult.
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Trump the dump is like Foris Gump one time he drunk out of a fuel pump.    Hilery sounds like chilery need i say more
---- AVADAKADAVRA
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That's generalizing a bit, not all examples represent the whole of the Muslim Community. There can be exceptions to that Muslim majority-cultural stance of close-mindness to the outside world. I don't want to repeat myself from other things I've said before in other moments but for example, the Muslim community in Portugal, even if very small is fully and deeply integrated in Portuguese society. Its religious structures are deeply respectful of our laws, maybe even more than the catholic church himself in 1 or 2 cases and are really intolerant against any show of intolerance and violence perpetrated by any muslim, whether here or abroad. Sometimes it's not about the muslim individual itself, it's more about the institutions behind them that are the real problem, and what goes inside the Mosques. The Sheikh of Lisbon has repeatedly stated terrorism has no religion and a muslim who indulges in terrorism isn't a martyr or any sort of religious people. He's a lunatic and a nobody. Quite frankly, I agree. I indeed agree Muslims are more close-minded than other people of their same generation widely due to deep cultural aspects entrenched in the individuals, which make them resistance to any show of cultural diversity. But Public Authorities with the help of religious institutions should fight this religious fanatism and anti-diversity. We fight an extremist ideology, of any sort not only with guns, but with books too, in the ideological field.
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tbh, this wouldn't be that surprising at all, and could probably happen with William on the throne
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What do you mean by "sadly"? 
---- Don't ever look down on someone unless you're helping him up. Don't ever treat someone else the way you wouldn't want others to treat you. We're all people. 
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Yeah, he'll abdicate in favour of his son, if National Interest requires that..but the'res stats that do say Republicanism grows a lot with Charles on the throne
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Do you realise it's been 7 months since the election? No one cares about your whining anymore, just shut the fuck up. If you hate Trump so much then maybe you should get out of the country, you aren't appreciated anyways, we can always get someone else to work at Starbucks for us. Honestly, I live in Canada and Trudeau's a lot worse, he's a flamboyant piece of shit who does nothing but parade around talking about what a feminist and #Pride2017 person he us. Meanwhile, Alberta's economy is barely surviving, with unemployment as high as 8%. However, Trudeau doesn't seem to mind much, he just spent our taxpayer money on a vacation to a private island in the Bahamas, not to mention lying to us about it. Did I mention the carbon tax causes us to pay thousands of extra taxes every year? Also, you're some random autist who plays browser games and probably have a PHD in gender studies, what do you know about immigration, economics and enviromental sciences? You should at least give sources to support your claims. Also, Trump's only been in office for about 5 months, his policies barely even had time to take any effect. You can't have someone elected and expect to see results (whether positive or negative) right off the bat. In some cases, Trump's economic policies may even take up to a decade to see any effects. Look at Fabian, dictator of the Roman Republic during the second punic wars. Everyone hated him, they wanted to beat Hannibal in pitched battle, they thought Fabian's shadowing strategy was cowardly, he had to walk the streets flanked by guards to avoid being killed, Romans even went as far as to elect a co-dictator because they hated him so much. Despite this, even though Fabian never got to fight Hannibal, he took away crucial supplies from him and perhaps caused Rome to win the war. My point is, you won't see effects right away, just wait and see what Trump does. I admit, he might fuck up, but he also might not. Now shut the fuck up and stay on Tumblr.
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Wow you're a special snowflake that's easily triggered when someone insults your god Trump.
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You're a special snowflake who is easily triggered.
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Trump is president, democrats lost the entire federal government, and most of the state governments. There is absolutely no reason to continue arguing with them. They will die bitter and confused about how there fairy tale came crashing down under the weight of reality, there thoughts have been methodically programed through social engineering with the soul purpose of creating a compliant slave society without any characteristics. The issue being that more and more people are seeing through the fairy tale and abandoning there social justice fascist slut shaming strategy. They lost it all and are now just robotic husks without a purpose. Simply put ignore them and they will go away.
----  We are not the same- I am a Martian.
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You wouldn't be abolishing "a big part of your history", just putting it where it belongs to: history! 
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That's precisely why I was wondering why did you consider such a miracle of abolishing the monarchy to be "sad"
---- Don't ever look down on someone unless you're helping him up. Don't ever treat someone else the way you wouldn't want others to treat you. We're all people.
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I see your point, they were fucking autistic though
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Says the man who just recently got triggered about Trump's policies
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