You're just not showing the proper respect for the chair of the POTUS, imo, lol.

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Sounds like you're grouping all conservatives together.

Approval ratings mean about as much as early voting.

As usual, you'll be wrong on both.

View: Trump seriously screwed up the temp travel ban. Should have vetted with ICE and others and made it very clear that green card holders are not restricted. This bull**** is how you lose hearts and minds (of the good/on the fence Muslims). Hopefully Trump and his admin learn from this. I would like to hear an apology for any green card holders who got held up, plus I'm sure there are some other related problems.

He or Bannon or someone needs to get on TV and explain to the world that we are only trying to keep terrorists out, and we are sorry for the severe inconvenience (and worse) to all the well meaning Muslims. They need to say, "This is hard." We are trying to separate the evil terrorists from well meaning Muslims, but it is hard. Point out the obvious but under-acknowledged fact that all the problems related to this are the fault of the Muslim terrorists.

Not in this instance, but mongo isn't the only conservative to have engaged in approval rating trutherism so far in this thread.

When did we ever have the hearts and minds of Muslims? Did I miss that announcement? Was there a tweet?

Talk about naieve.

Muslims are on a continuum. There are very bad ones - terrorists. There are just bad ones - believing it is good to kill female adulterers, gay people and those leaving Islam. Those somewhere in between with similar but less severe, odious beliefs. And there are modernized good Muslims. Look at the Pew reports. Many of them (if minorities, still huge total numbers of people), even in the worst of countries answered the questions in ways indicating some beliefs in freedom.

My view is we need to keep the good ones on our side, and bring as many from the middle as possible over to our side, while killing the very bad ones (which I normally just call the bad guys).

This is analogous to the Cold War. We had to fight the USSR (and China) on all fronts, sometimes hot wars, sometimes containment actions, but at least as important was the war of ideas. Leck Walensa (sp?) and others like him, supported by U.S. radio broadcasts, etc. and journalism like the National Review, were essential to winning the Cold War by winning the hearts and minds of those living in the Eastern Block, and even the population of Russia itself. Similarly, winning the hearts and minds of Muslims will be essential to winning this war against Islamofascism.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Muslims can change when they decide as a group to change. Small numbers of them integrated into our society and our value system will be absolutely fine. The majority of them in the world are NOT fine.

Supporting the ones who are tolerant and want to reform Islam should be our goal. Being silent and "respecting" their "culture" shouldn't.

It's a feature of partisan identity. Right now conservatives and all their related parties and fronts have most of the targets for being called for account in the national "leadership" positions.

They break it, we own it.

Chez, can we get all this bull**** voter ID crap out of here? It's been argued to death and we don't need to rehash it here.

Remember the good ol' days when you were mod? You used to be able to temp ban someone for making you look stupid. Now you have to plead with the current mod to stop the bleeding.

That would be silly. I don't think it's been argued in this forum. It is certainly relevant to a Trump presidency.

You say it's fake news, but just because some Harvard researchers questioned the methodology doesn't make the underlying facts wrong. Maybe the breadth is narrower than surmised. We need to drill down.

So I guess we agree on this vvv

But not this vvv

I'm saying that it is extremely important for us to treat them separately and individually. In some cases that is impossible, thus we have the temp travel ban. But my point is that when you have to do something that hurts the good Muslims, you should thoroughly explain it, and point out that you're just trying to hurt the bad Muslims (in the case of killing terrorists) or protect the U.S. from the bad Muslims (in the case of the temp ban).

We NEED to explain ourselves to the good and fence-sitting Muslims.

It does come up a lot and claims of voter fraud are definitely relevant. Either way it deserves it's own thread which it now has.

There's going to be far far too much trump to have just one thread on all of it.

Obama coming back from vacation

Dude with the my little pony avatar was a mod here? Yikes...glad I missed those days.

Not in content threads please.

I've removed the colour and bold because they draw too much attention to the post that isn't appropriate here

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I got loved ones in Bowling Green and other loved ones who panic when loved ones are within 100 miles of bad **** happening. Some of those other loved ones just stop supporting you know who this morning.

tell me more about The Blacks

Which blacks?

or did you mean Blaque's?

Regarding the oft-repeated claims (including by Mori****a in this thread) that Obama banned Iraqi refugees for 6 months in 2011, which is always traced back to the same ABC News article that mentioned it only in passing - this article claims no such ban took place and there were no months in 2011 when we did not accept Iraqi refugees.

Yeah, there is little doubt that obama did an amazing job dividing the country - via doing nothing and often encouraging the poor vs. rich and black vs white issues.

Don't worry though - those days are over. America is great again.

227,000 new jobs added in January....companies are feeling confident about the future and are hiring again...Cutting regulations is huge.

Stock market at record highs.

Consumer confidence is at it's highest level ever.

Trump is doing an amazing job. Don't believe the lies!

Just don't drink from the streams by coal mines.