Jaicee said:
Considering the sheer range of self-contradicting positions that emanates from the White House in a given week, is it actually possible to disagree with Trump 100% of the time? It's very rare, but every so often I find myself incidentally agreeing with Trump. For example, we were just discussing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's threat to sue the U.S. government if Elizabeth Warren is elected president because she has pledged to break up major tech companies like his that engage in monopolistic business practices. The Trump White House, for its own reasons, is also investigating Facebook for potential violations of antitrust law. So there's one thing I can agree with. Another of these rare examples goes back to the 2016 primary season. There was a point during that campaign wherein a bunch of Christian leaders held a high-profile event wherein the host pastor called for all of the non-heterosexual people in this country to be rounded up and executed. Participating in this event, and excitedly shaking hands with said pastor shortly after he had delivered this sermon, was none other than presidential candidate and Senator from my home state Ted Cruz. Now one is not guilty by association in my mind (are we not all realistically associated with homophobes, after all?), but...the overlap between those two things sent chills down my spine. That's an idea you should definitely rebuke in your own speech if that just happened right in front of you! My mind contrasted that with Donald Trump's response to the Pulse night club shooting. I mean yeah you could say that he had his Muslim ban (he was still on the original, comprehensive version of which at the time) in mind, but still one had to notice the difference in attitudes toward gay and lesbian people. I've just never really gotten the feeling, in fact, that Trump personally has an issue with same-sex attraction as such the way the Christian conservatives (like Mike Pence!) do. A month later, there was a moment at the Republican National Convention wherein the attendees applauded Pulse and Trump said something like "It's good to hear you clap for that". Something like that. Anyway, my point is that the fact that Trump wound up winning the nomination seemed to have the effect of making many Republicans a bit more accepting of gay and lesbian people. I think that's something of value anyway. That counts for something in my book. There was also the First Step Act. Yeah, that's really the best I can do when it comes to finding areas where I agree with Trump, but just saying that it is theoretically possible. Concerning Israel, the good news is that it actually looks like Benjamin Netanyahoo, who will always be this guy in my mind...
(Now if only he could get his hands on a weather forecast.) ...will probably be unable to form a new government following last month's election. His party failed to win the most seats in this most recent election and Netanyahu himself is currently facing indictment for fraud and bribery in three corruption cases. His main rival, a liberal centrist, has stated that he has no intention of participating in any government headed up by someone facing criminal charges. So it's actually looking like there is (finally) an impending change in leadership. |
Yeah there could have been a few things here and there that I agree with 45, like not going to war with Iran despite being pressured to by his cabinet, so I guess it's prolly more like 5%, very very rare.
Idk how you could say you feel he's helped queer people like ourselves. His administration and him have been aggressively anti-LGBT specifically anti-trans and have been trying to roll back our rights from day one. Here's a list of the things his administration and he has done against LGBT individuals since he took office.
