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To summarize, those who know Donald Trump tell of how great a person he is in terms of helping those in need. Those who know Hillary well tell of her being violent, guilty of multiple assault against her husband, temper fits, yelling fits, violent bouts of rage and violence.
Tell the people of Haiti that. Where did that disaster relief from the Clinton Foundation go? "it disappeared". We should elect her, apparently she is a magician.
Hillary has a proven track record of bad decision making which has been chronicled and documented over the decades for all to see; this will continue on a much larger scale if she gets into the WH. We can't afford that. If you think what you've already seen is bad, just wait, you ain't seen nothing yet.
What's so sick is that we have so many liberal ideologs who actually like these extreme corrupt candidates.
The Leftist people on this site enjoy watching our State's losing their freedoms to dissagree with Big Brother democrats.
They like it when the Democrat party forces every public school to allow boys who think they are girls, to go into our daughters bathrooms!
This is how extreme and dangerous they are. They are the arrogant Left who actually believe they are the enlightened Bog Brother that will force us all to think like they think.
They wanted Gay marriage... they forced all states to change their marriage laws.
They want boys in girls bathrooms... Obama tries to make another executive order to make it happen. SCREW ALL THE PARENTS WHO DISSAGREE!
Democrats don't like guns.... they will appoint liberal activist justices and use executive orders to force their anti gun agendas no matter how these gun control measures they push would have stopped none of the mass shootings. They just use these shootings to force through their radical views.
It's truly scary. There are many on this site I pre ban on my debates because they are so extreme, it is a total waste of time debating them.
Ask Bill Clinton about Obamacare. "It's the craziest thing I've ever seen!" he declares. "It makes no sense!" he says. For once...Bill Clinton and I agree on something.
He was talking about the tiny fraction of people who are in the private insurance market and make just above the level of income were people qualify for a subsidy.
Compare that to: insuring 20 million more people, saving tens of thousands of lives, providing insurance for those with pre-existing conditions, removing lifetime caps, limiting rescissions (getting kicked off your insurance when you go to use it), providing preventative care with no out-of-pocket cost, etc. etc. all while maintaining low rates of premium growth and healthcare inflation. refrefrefref
Democrats are fine with trying to improve it even further - are Republicans? - or, are they more committed to making sure that nothing called Obama-* can be seen as a success?
Do you have any idea what I was referring to? I am an educated conservative so I know what facts are. Educated people are not swayed by your ridiculous conspiracies. The rhetoric that you spew causes Hillary to get elected. As a conservative it pisses me off that you stupid republicans are acting like this and getting her elected.
Explain to me how having girls (where the only biologically male part of them is their genitals) in the girls bathroom is wrong.
Explain to me how having mandates for civil rights such as marriage equality is wrong.
I agree with you on gun rights, however. To me, its qbout freedom. Freedom to own guns, freedom to go into the bathroom of which you look like, not by what your genitals dictate, and freedom to marry whatever gender you want. None of these things harm other people- why restrict them?
If you want to keep calling them "losing freedoms", you have to say what freedoms you're losing.
If you agree with gun rights, DON'T VOTE FOR HILLARY!
Explain to me how having boys, WHO ARE BOYS, WHO HAVE DISORDERS ABOUT THEIR SEXUALITY, in the boys bathroom is wrong? This is where they belong. Boys should not be allowed to dress up like girls. IT SCREWED UP! IT'S NOT NORMAL! KIDS AT THAT AGE CAN NOT BE ALLOWED TO DICTATE HOW THEY SHOULD BE IN GIRLS BATHROOMS!
No school should allow boys who dress up like girls in our daughter's bathroom.
Boys have no clue about their sexuaity in early years and for these LGBT activists to push their beliefs into our daughter's bathrooms IS TRULY SICK!
It's sick how arrogant people like you think that your screwed up beliefs should be forced on every child in this nation. You Big Brother leftists are truly control fanatics!
If these boys grow up and still want a sex change operation to become something they are not, then they will go into women's bathrooms because no one knows they are not women.
There is no problem with boys going into boy's bathrooms because they have always done so. They are boys who have boys genitalia. They should not be dressing up like girls when they are boys!
I can't believe we have idiots in this nation trying to push this disorder.
Boys who are boys go into boys' bathrooms. As for people who have male biology yet are mentally females, they experience gender disphoria, esaily solved by acting like the female that they truly are, which includes dressing like one amd attending the proper bathroom. Transgender people are mentally unaligned to the sexual anatomy that they have- it's the best they can do to act like the gender of which they actually are. They same goes for female-to-male individuals. Although these people may not have the same chromosomes as most people of their gender, they are still mentally their gender and we've seen that trying to force them to confirm to their biological gender isn't good for them at all. It only increases gender dysphoria and can lead to depression and suicide in some cases.
You claim that they're trying to become something they're not, but this isn't necessarily true. They're not biologically male- but they are mentally, so their identity is female. So technically these people are actually going from something they aren't to something they actually are, not the other way around. Perosnally, if I woke up as the opposite sex tomorrow and had the chance to change back, I would. I can only imagine living that way youre entire life.
I appreciate the fact that you're aware that gender dysphoria is a mental disorder. However, I'm not trying to "push it". I'm trying to cure it by letting them act as the gender they are, which solves gender dysphoria- forcing them to act as the gender which they don't believe they are is "pushing it", as it only worsens the symptoms.
Let me try to explain how your logic (as with most people on the Left) is totally flawed and misplaced.
We all know that there are a very small percentage of people who have many different types of disorders. As a compassionate people, the vast majority of Americans treat people with disorders in a respectful compassionate way.
Lets take an eating disorder such as Anorexia Nervosa. Many people who have this disorder are already thin, BUT STILL BELIEVE THEY ARE FAT! Can you grasp the point? Skinny people think they are fat, and Transgender boys think they are girls!
HELLO? Just because some boy thinks he is a girl, does not make it so!
Have you noticed how these Left wing politicians are not pushing to force every public school to create purging stations, whereby after eating lunch, they can feel better about themselves by purging the food.
Few people are trying to condition all Americans to believe that Anorexia is something we should understand and cater to by forcing every public school to support and enable the disorder.
NO! We understand it is a disorder and not something to lift up to our children as a normal natural thing.
Transgender people have a disorder whereby they are born a certain gender, BUT BELIEVE THEY ARE THE OPPOSITE GENDER.
This is another disorder whereby people have feelings of being something they are not.
But as we have seen for decades from the Left's fixation on LGBT issues, they have made it their political goal of conditioning all our children, in every public school, that these abnormal sexual orientations or transgender disorders are things that should be lifted up as normal and ok.
These controversial issues and disorders are things loving parents want to keep form their vulnerable children. Kids are not responsible or mature enough to understand these issues. Kids can be easily manipulated by people in authority over them. Kids believe what teachers tell them as fact.
Kids go through many growing stages questioning things about their bodies, their sexuality, etc. etc.
We as loving adults can not be putting ideas of weird disorders in their heads. They are not old enough to understand them. We would be creating a world of children having pyschiratrists in their elementary schools. GET REAL! Let kids be kids!
Parents of children with disorders will be the ones dealing with it, NOT FORCING EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL IN OUR NATION TO CATER TO IT!
This is political correct insanity whereby extemist leftwing Democrats are trying to indoctrinate our children, against the will of parents, into political correctness concerning very controversial issues.
Stay out of my child's mind! I will raise my children to love ALL PEOPLE, without lifting up disorders as being a normal natural thing. Talk about arrogance from the Left.
When our children grow up, they will decide for themselves.
Anorexia Nervosa is similar to gender dysphoria. It's treated by therapy and counseling, in which the person is taught to control their eating habits and they're treated to stop self-destructive habits that are a result of Anorexia Nervosa. You're right, Anorexia Nervosa is a disconnect between fat and skinny- people believe that gaining weight is bad, so they avoid eating or some other form of weight loss to make themselves skinny- yet they still might believe they are fat.
Gender dysphoria is somewhat different. It's not believing that you have a vagina instead of a penis, it's believing that you do have a penis, yet you're feminine in your identity. These people aren't disillusioned- they're very well aware that they have biology that most males have- yet they're female in their mind.
Our society associates males with masculine things and females with feminine things. We also tend to associate males with penises and females with vaginas, which makes sense, because most males have penises and most females have vaginas. However, it's not just genitals that make up males or females, its whether or not you're masculine or feminine. You can be feminine and have a penis, in which case you would be a female, with a penis. Biologically, you're what would be considered male but you're still mentally female.
As for a disorder being not a normal thing, well yeah. That's why it's called a disorder- but that doesn't make it bad or anything. For Anorexia Nervosa, the person is disillusioned with their body and causes self-harm to themselves, so action is taken. All in all, speaking mentally, a trans girl is feminine and mentally female, acts like a female, dressing like one, etc. Being a penis does not automatically mean you are a male. It does in the biological sense, but we don't determine the restroom issue based on genitals (If we did we might have a sign with a penis and a vagina, not a guy and a girl in a dress.)
"Transgender people have a disorder whereby they are born a certain gender, BUT BELIEVE THEY ARE THE OPPOSITE GENDER."
When I speak of gender, I speak of the cultural associations with being male and female, which is basically masculinity and femininity. In this case, when people born biologically male act feminine and as if they were female, it's not that they believe they are the opposite gender. On the other hand, it's two different kinds of gender. There's the cultural gender which is them being female, then there's the sex gender- the biological side of it. In this case, trans people are born one gender as in sex, and know that they are that sex. However, they also know their cultural gender.
Anyways, its been shown that letting transgender people act as the gender they are, and not the sex they are, is much mentally better for them.
Thanks for that waste of time. I repeat everything I said and HOW DARE YOU PUSH SOMETHING AS ABNORMAL AS TRANSGENDER DISORDERS INTO THE PSYCHI OF OUR CHILDREN.
A feminine man IS STILL A MAN! There is nothing wrong with being feminine or masculine. These people should be counseled that it is ok being a man with feminine feelings.
But there are etremists on the Left who want to throw out all norms in society. They are so concerned with hurting the insecure feelings of a few people with disorders, so they decide to hurt the feelings of miilions of parents and usher in a culture that is totally screwed up.
We are through here. The arrogance of people like you is truly pathetic. I repeat, STAY OUT OF MY CHILD'S MND!
You are starting to act very much like the stalkers on this site.
Spew nonsense. For any fool to not be outraged by a Big Brother Government FORCING ALL pubic schools to condition every child, no matter what their parents think, to believe what these activist LGBT groups and Democrats want them to believe, is beyond being rational.
You hypocritical fools would be the first ones to scream if Conservatives were pushing gun safety courses in every public school.
Do you think the hypocrites on the Left would want their children learning how to use a gun to protect themselves?
Would you be ok with a Republican president FORCNG EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL TO TEACH SAFETY COURSES ON USING GUNS, no matter how many parents objected?
I could not care less what you beliefs are concerning Transgender people. THE ENTIRE POINT IS THAT YOUR VIEWS OR THE PRESIDENT'S VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT CAN NEVER BE FORCED ON ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WHEN SO MANY PARENTS DO NOT AGREE!
Then why was it ok when the government ordered integrated schools? Or legalized interracial marriage? There is precedent for government acting in regards to civil rights, so stop acting like the issues themselves don't even matter in the discussion.
You don't think there is any possible connection between a group being marginalized for their sexual preference and a group being marginalized for their race?
I've got better things to do.
Do you really? Because you seem to spend a rather large amount of time yelling mindless rhetoric at about 15 individuals you don't know on the internet. You certainly seem to find some value in discussing these issues.
The debate is over because someone is comparing skin color, on which you're born with and there was a baseless stigma against it with a mental disorder that someone was born with and there's a baseless stigma against it? The real problem I see here is that you call them "weird abnormal sexual disorders", implying that it's literally something the person does not chose it. The fact that you're so opposed to mental disorders shows something about the bias behind your argument.
Conditioning them to believe that people have a right to alleviate gender dysphoria instead of being depressed and feeling alienated from their peers. If a student doesn't want to agree with it, then they don't have to (provided there's no bullying involved on both sides, of course).
"Would you be ok with a Republican president FORCNG EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL TO TEACH SAFETY COURSES ON USING GUNS, no matter how many parents objected?"
Nope- gun safety courses would be very important to me, but a course with using guns is extremely dangerous if you're using actual bullets. There's a very high probability that someone could be killed. Somewhat similar to how some transgender students kill themselves when forced to confine to their biological gender and after facing enough bullying due to the social stigma of being transgender that certain people feel the need to enforce, saying they're broken and whatnot.
There's virtually no drawback to having transgender rights, and it helps transgender students cope with gender dysphoria. You keep saying that it's going to be "boys in girls' restrooms", but keep in mind that transgender girls are going to look like girls in the first place, especially if they've transitioned. The boys are going to be the uncomfortable ones if they have someone looking like a girl in their bathroom. It goes the same for transgender guys- they're going to fit much better in the guys' bathroom. If you want to talk about guys in girls' bathrooms, these are the people that girls are going to have in your bathroom if you don't support transgender rights.
The difference between the gun safety course is that someone could be easily killed if a gun was mishandled. The drawback of transgender rights is that people are going to be overly concerned about a penis on a girl that looks like a girl, acting like a girl. If you want to argue a violation of privacy, tell me how dictating what a student does on whether or not they have a penis isn't a violation of privacy.
So many parents do not agree, but so many parents due because they've seen their child suffer through rejection and self-harm, while parents who disagree are worried about something they don't really seem to understand.
Alright, let's say that transgender people are just "feminine men". When they embrace their feminine identity, even going as far as a sex-change surgery, they have much better mental results (1). The "cure" for this disorder is not to suppress feminine urges, but to embrace them. It's not like Anorexia Nervosa, where the behavior is self-destructive. If it's okay for a man to have feminine feelings, then why aren't you letting them use the women's restroom? It's safer for them to embrace that identity.
"But there are etremists on the Left who want to throw out all norms in society. They are so concerned with hurting the insecure feelings of a few people with disorders, so they decide to hurt the feelings of miilions of parents and usher in a culture that is totally screwed up."
It looks like you're saying the drawback here is that parents' feeling are hurt. First of all, there are also parents with transgender children who want their child do be able to use the restroom with what they identfy as. Second of all, there's a difference between not liking what people do and having gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria can have a very negative effect on mental health, and curing that is much more important than people who are concerned about "boys in girls bathrooms". I should remind you that transgender girls are going to look like girls anyways. Even if we did have integrated bathrooms in the first place, how is that harmful?
"We are through here. The arrogance of people like you is truly pathetic. I repeat, STAY OUT OF MY CHILD'S MND!"
We're not trying to make any children become transgender. Children are the one who grow up transgender, and are desperately looking for a way to resolve their identity conflict. It's not a matter of a person with male genitals who likes acting female, but a female with a penis who is not only disgusted with their genitals, but feel at significant odds in their own body, some even thinking that they'll just eventually grow up as the opposite sex (2).
WikiLeaks is dumping hundreds of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. Now, this new email shows Hillary Clinton trashing African-Americans.
This is outrageous:
Hillary Clinton:
"The main reason behind successful immigration should be painfully obvious to even the most dimwitted of observers: Some groups of people are almost always highly successful given only half a chance (Jews, Hindus/Sikhs and Chinese people, for example), while others (Muslims, blacks and Roma, for instance) fare badly almost irrespective of circumstances.”
A Middle Eastern nation requests something that is deadly to the interests of the United States. Well...they are her employer, so...she does as they request.
The reason is simple: you hate Trump because of things he has said. We dislike Hilary because things she has done. Your only argument against the accusations against Hilary is lack of proof. That is an invalid, ignorant argument. But where is the factual proof that Trump is racist, sexist,etc
Both Bill and Hillary Clinton took time out to come to Northern Ireland when the so called 'troubles' ( an euphemism for bloody and deadly civil war) were at their height.
As all Americans are particularly welcome here and due to their charisma and negotiating skills they both played a significant role in brokering the ceasefire which is still holding today and that has saved countless lives.
The bruising campaign between Trump and Clinton has brought out the worst in certain elements of the American electorate.
I'm certain that somehow Trump's aggressive, bulldozing manner has been responsible for bringing American politics to a new low.
His attack on his fellow Republicans has severely, if not terminally damaged himself and the party which he is trying to lead.
So far, he has led them up shit creek without a paddle.
Hillary gathered billions to help Haiti during it's first crisis. The money? "disappeared". I won't be voting for that + scandals galore, an open border policy which is mindless, support for TPP, and putting an impeached man ridden with sexual assaults by the hundreds into the doors of the Whitehouse again..
As you're obsessed with ''corruption'' you should delve into the tax affairs of Big Don.
Trump likes to be perceived as 'CAPTAIN AMERICA, when all the while he is no more than an outsized tax dodging phony who failed to support his own country by paying his just and lawful taxes.
That's more liberal bull sh*t. All kinds of businessmen do the same thing including Hillary. And basically what you are accusing Trump of is doing things legally. Like liberals care about the military. Your fearful leader cut vet benefits while liberals looked away, but of course liberals aren't typically military families or personel nor do they care. Did Hillary not support the military when she kept private funds in the Clinton Foundation and tax free? Oh my...It looks like everyone had their hand in this legal tax bucket. Are all business owners who took tax incentives anti military? Are you any time you took a cut? According to yourself, yes.
Nevertheless, once you get beyond doing taxes legally, you got nothing. Hillary's scandal list is a mile long. Justify Chinagate to us. Justify emailgate to us. Justify Beghazi to us. Justify support for NAFTA and TPP for us. Justify her fits of rage and physical assault on her husband and Secret Service members. Justify her "losing the money", billions of dollars raised to help Haiti that they are calling her out for. Where's it at? Where's that money Winkle? Where are those emails Winkle? These are the answers we need to know.
2009: 49.0 (actual - including recovery act spending)
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He's also focused on reducing veterans homelessness, worked with the private sector on encouraging the hiring of vets (including tax credits), expanded eligibility for veterans with Agent Orange and Gulf War Syndrome claims, advocated for and signed the post-9/11 GI Bill, reduced the VA claims backlog by 90%, covered expenses for families of fallen soldiers to be at Dover AFB, etc., etc.
1)You'll need to explain to us vets complaining of their medical coverage in mass, and having to wait for medical care, many dying because the government wouldn't cover them...a first. And?
2)This is why we'd pick a four days dead cockroach over your demon from hell... I mean candidate. THIS:
Be afraid, be very afraid. What they are proposing doing is dissolving our country and giving away our resources. I've always said liberals are generous with YOUR money, but not theirs; this is a prime example.
Ben Carson has been a part of Trump's campaign and debated him for the Presidency. I know Hillary. I've been studying her for years. Not a speck of light in her soul. I've looked. I've looked hard.
Which part? The New World Order she and Obama are giggling like schoolgirls about? If we go full wiki the only way to support her is if you yourself are in turn? Evil...
I actually agree with you on this one. Why? Well...if you go full wiki:
1)You realize that the media is in the government's pocket.
2)You realize not one thing that Hillary has said is actually true, and you actually have no idea where she stands on any single issue, meaning? A vote for her is Russian Roulette.
3)The Democrats are moving us quickly into a movement of world control/social control. Owning and controlling the food through Monsanto, uniting militaries through the NWO/UN, owning and controlling the media.
Somebody never watched the Congressional hearing on the most corrupt, deceptive American politician in History. Would you like to take a quick peak or remain a part of the sheeple? Here I'll give you a peak-
It's more that Trump is definitely the wrong choice. It's too bad someone like Kasich isn't the nominee. He'd have it in the bag by now. Oh well, we will have to limp through the Hillary presidency which will probably not be amazing but it will better than what most expect right now.
No political record vs political record that caused chaos, death, no actual accomplishments, scandal after scandal, corruption, pay for play from foreign governments, and leaks of classified information? I'd pick a 4 days dead rat in a field over Hillary Clinton.
She is obviously the least bad option. But she is not great either. We have to live with Republicans' choice to pick the only person in the country that is worse than Clinton.
Explain how Trump is worse than Hilary. Is it because he hates illegal immigrants? Because he wants to keep out Muslim immigrants until we have a legit vetting process? Because he said sexually degrading things 11 years ago?
