Trumps not for freedom of speech

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Oh, you mean like removing qualified people from the National Security Council and appointing a man whose only experience is running a race-baiting online bullshit generator?

You're... talking about Bannon?

Is there any possibility that those 'qualified' people on the NSC happened to be corrupt and/or unwilling to work with the president?

There were probably better choices. I don't think it's the end of the world, though: we've survived Obama's terribly corrupt cabinet, I imagine we'll survive this as well.

Or how about banning but not banning a group of people from entering the country on account of how dangerous they are when they have not been responsible for one single death on American soil in the last 40 years?

Tell that to Europe... You do know that radical Islamic terrorism is a thing, yes? Something something 9/11, and a bunch of suicide bombers?

Or how about stating that he plans to gut the separation of church and state?

I'm not into that personally. Do I consider him the devil to do so? No. Religious freedoms should be respected just as gays should be legally allowed to engage in the farce that is called marriage (which should have zero legal ramifications in and of itself due to the religious origin of it).

He isn't the first president to have suggested such things... and yet? I didn't see anyone rioting about Bush.

Or how about nominating a creationist that thinks grizzly bears are good reason to have guns in schools as the Secretary of Education?

Grizzly bears ARE a good reason to have guns in schools. They'll fuck a kid, an adult, and their gramma up. Also, as you may have noticed, many of the mass shootings that have taken place took place in Gun-Free locations.

Still, in what way does their creationism interfere with their heading of that department?

Or how about saying he admires a man that kills people that speak out against him?

Putin? Guy is terrifying in his own ways, but I happen to also respect the man. He's absolutely impressive.

Or how about advocating we torture people despite all evidence pointing to the fact that it serves absolutely no purpose and actually harms us?

One of those position changes he did. Flipped that one round, to hear Alex Jones tell it Alex Jones is behind that one. Catch up.

Or how about re-opening the CIA black sites that were shut down because we were found to have routinely violated innocent people's civil rights there?

Don't you trust your intelligence agencies?

Our rights have been violated in innumerable ways, and we have done innumerable terrible things. But sometimes terrible things must be done in the defense of our country.

I personally hate secret police, but hell: it's not like Trump invented them.

But, hey, fuck that mainstream media, right?  Always quoting what he says and shit...

Often misquoting, ommiting, interjecting... sensationalizing. Yeah, fuck that. I'd love to find a news site that just reports on the news, as I believe I need diverse opinions myself... but I haven't found any news site that fits the bill.

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Then those people are fools there is no lesser evil. And if you choose a supposed one your still picking evil

There's always not voting. I didn't, but I would have in the end had I not arrogantly decided that all of the shit was largely baseless and was already on the table at the time when I had the opportunity to register (or get the papers, not sure which the case would be, I've lived a very transitory life but I digress).

I don't think Trump is evil.

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Meh, I think otherwise...I think we -could have been- much bigger pricks than we were...and I don;t exactly think that any of the other major players would have handled such power with whatever modicum of decency that we did...for whatever reason...mostly since history tells us that they didn't...........

We have -every-right to criticize other states...and any "well, you did/do bad shit too" only re-enforces our criticism as a base appeal to hypocrisy.  The moment that anyone tries that shit about anything is the moment that they've explicitly admitted to doing bad shit.  End of.

Let us take a moment to thank Jesus Christ that it wasn't The Soviet Union, it wasn't Nazi Germany, and it wasn't Imperial Japan that ended up being the world's sole superpower: it was the United States of America.

Things really could have gone much worse.