Trump Calls for Ban on Muslim Immigrants

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Can we tone down the calling each other stupid comments. This topic seems to spark passion in people, which is understandable as it concerns the future of a superpower state. However, let's not descend into a quagmire of angry feelings.

Pardon me, androbot01, but when someone says something rude I'm going to defend myself,

so "NO" I won't "tone it down".

I suggest you take it to Cathylynn who opened her mouth in the first place.

Many other rude comments have been said in this thread and you haven't said one thing about them "toning it down".

So I suggest you stay out of it.

polls - more proof that trump has the uneducated vote.

Americans don't do those jobs because these businesses skirt American labor laws with essentially scab workers, it hurts our most poor and disadvantaged while benefiting the very rich. I do not see exploiting illegal labor as compassionate and we don't owe anybody in any other country a 1st world life, we have to worry about our own. The greedy cheap captain of industry IS EXACTLY WHO SUPPORTS INCREASED IMMIGRATION, legal and illegal. Not everybody believes the propaganda that immigration is always a net positive, maybe for those on top but for us on the bottom it will destroy our quality and way of life.

As for Trump having racist supporters, so does Hillary and Bernie, so does everyone. This is a silly leftist tactic, you shouldn't repudiate anybody as its a never ending game they use to discredit you that would never be used against them. It's silly, you can control who supports you. Even ISIS and al-Qaeda have given endorsements.

Actually, James O'Keefe started something of a trend of by Conservative activists using the same manipulative moralizing emotionalism that the left uses and oh do THEY HATE IT!

Who else is offering solutions let alone viable solutions? Hillary has no credibility in foreign affairs, she was the worst Secretary of State of all time and if our laws are fair should end up in prison. Bernie Sanders is pretty much a one issue candidate and refuses to talk about anything else, he could be interesting if he spoke more authoritatively on the subject but politically the Democrats want a Warrior-in-Chief just as much as the Republicans and Hillary is the biggest neocon they have after Joe Lieberman. I suspect Bernie probably is somewhat more reasonable than the average Democrat on the subject but he isn't Dennis Kucinich or Cynthia McKinney, he's more of a controlled opposition who is despite being an "independent" is for the most part beholden to his party leadership. Hillary doesn't take a position on anything without months of polling, she's an incompetent and a criminal that stands for nothing to boot.

Trump wants to deny entry to non-citizen Muslims until we can, in his words, "properly vet them." That is his stated position, not to ban Islam or to deport all Muslim. Legally it is our right to decide who does and does not enter this country, I would restrict and reduce immigration across the board then pick/choose which refugees I see fit. Christians, Druze, Shia, Alawites, secularists for whatever reason, probably aren't much of a threat and have a better chance of integrating. Trump said he wants to "shut down parts of the internet" which sounds like censorship but what he is talking about is shutting down or "infiltrating" the internet in the areas of Syria and Iraq which ISIS controls, I do believe we have the technology for this and we likely saw an example of this in North Korea last year when they got blamed for that Sony hack. How effective will this in combating ISIS supporters and recruiters online? Probably not a terrible amount since so many ISIS supporters are from the West but it would probably mess their logistics up on the ground. We could probably send them back to the stone age if we wanted to with some sort of EMP, they might actually like that however. If we are to fight these terrorists then we must fight to win, surrendering to the police state and accepting this as the new normal is not the answer.

Hey, I'm serious. I'd never vote for him in the general election, but I SO want him to be GOP candidate.

I'm probably gonna be forced to vote for Clinon in the general. Reframing it as voting against Trump will make that easier.

I will keep this very short, as I would very much like to see lunch time.

I normally don't care very much about American politics, and have never had anything more than a passing thought about any of it's former Presidents. This time around I'm of two very strong minds about the American Presidency.

If Trump becomes President it will be a massive boon for America, it with pave the way for a brighter, more prosperous future for all the Great Western Nations. In the short term however, my country (Scotland), will suffer immeasurably, and may not fully recover by the time America gets into a position where it can readily save us, and the rest of Europe, from the very real and serious Islamic threat.

If he fails, America will become a very ugly place to live, especially for Atheists and minority religions, those that will not have the collective unity to stand against, and weather incoming storm. However, the mounting bottleneck in Scotland will at last be broken. Millions of immigrants en-route to the United States, that got stuck on the last stepping stone, will finally continue their journey, spilling forth from our country like a great flash flood. We'll be left to pick up the broken pieces of our nation left in their wake, but in the short term, our survival would be guaranteed.

Why not Bernie Sanders? Hilary is probably the worst person running for the democratic party...she just says what she thinks people want to hear and doesn't really stick to positions plus she has plenty of billionaire funding. At least Bernie Sanders has a political track record that shows he stands by what he says. I also fear trump would for sure win if Hilary is nominated as the democratic candidate.

Trump didn't turn his daddy's millions into billions being stupid.

Trump is GREAT at reading his audience and pandering to them.

I don't think Trump is Hitlerian, but what he's doing right now, manipulating the mob by scapegoating muslims, comes rigth out of the fascist playbook.

Extreme right-wing nationalism is a far greater threat to Europe than Islamification. Imagine a continent with Putin-clones leading the UK, Germany, and France.

When I likened Trump supporters to "idiots," I meant it in the nicest possible way.