I never saw the whole thing live, just bits and pieces from all sides so don't even know exactly how it happened. My problem with Trumps reaction is that he's trying to get elected President and he doesn't need this stuff now. He needs to think before he says anything...why give the other side ammo? This is his main problem, he reacts too quickly and that doesn't bode well for a president. This is how I see it. This is what I have trouble with about him, he has your vote for sure. Why do things that turn off people on the fence...he needs those votes...desperately. He may be absolutely right about something but he always makes it come out wrong or ugly and keeps losing endorsements. I can't be the only one that sees it this way....
Yes, he tells it like it is and I tend to agree with him but the fact that Trump has to get the votes of people on the fence who don't like his crude style is important if he wants to win. No matter what his views and wether I agree or disagree, a President that can be baited and responds without thinking scares me. Every time he does this type of thing, he loses endorsements. I'm sick of all the political correctness too but that doesn't mean I approve of acting like a total jerk either.
What you need to do to get rid of all that junk, @Chrissy Page , is just go to each person's page, and then choose "unfollow". I do that with everything and everyone, except my kids,which is what I have Facebook for in the first place. You do have to go to that person's page to see what they are posting after you unfollow them, and that is what I do. Some people I check every day, and some people (ones who do not post a lot), I just check every now and then to see how things are going. The ones on the bottom of the page are the ones I seldom check. It works really good for me, and I miss most of the everyday shares and posts (political and otherwise) that make the rounds of Facebook every day.
Ok, thanks. He's a very nice person but older and I feel he believes all these things shares, and I'm not going to bother commenting that it's false or whatever. I don't even think he knows the difference between sites that are satire but I'm not even that close of a friend to even tell him that so just best to unfollow him.
I have a friend about the same age who does the same, who is also a veteran. This someone I know personally. I have been to his house a few times, had lunch with him several times, and worked with him on the Ron Paul campaign here in Maine in 2012. He is conservative on most issues, yet he most always votes Democrat, including voting for Obama in 2008 after being a delegate for Ron Paul during the primary. Admittedly, unless you were going to vote third party, there wasn't a conservative choice in the 2008 general election. He hates Trump, and was going for Bernie during the Democrat primary. He hates Hillary too but still posts anti-Trump stuff all the time, so my guess is that he is going to leave that space blank or write someone in, since he doesn't like Johnson (Libertarian Party) either. The best I can figure out is that he is opposed to wars, and has bought into the idea that Democrats are opposed to war. After voting for Obama in 2008, he wouldn't vote for him in 2012 because he expanded our war involvement rather than stopping it. Hence, the Ron Paul campaign. He's not a stupid person and he's certainly not a liberal, yet he's always willing to give the Democrat a try, while if he finds anything he doesn't agree with in the Republican candidate, he won't vote for him. I don't get it. Some of it makes no sense at all. For example, he criticizes Trump because he doesn't have any military experience. Well, there is no one on the ballot in most states who has military experience, and Obama's lack of military experience didn't keep him from voting for him in 2008 despite the fact that his opponent was John McCain, a former POW.
Not much of anything, really. The best I can tell it was the assumption that maybe the wife wasn't speaking because she wasn't allowed to, but this is true (from everything I have ever heard) in many Muslim circles. Since this guy was involved in Sharia Law, I didn't think that was a bad assumption. If he had picked out some unsuspecting Muslim family to criticize, I might agree that it was uncalled for, but this guy was a speaker at the Democrat Convention, and chose to somehow blame Trump for his son's death twenty years ago.
I just read that Khan took his website down, not sure if you mentioned it yesterday or if this happened today. https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4vtmtd/panic_mode_khizr_khan_deletes_law_firm_website/
I was just going to post the same thing, but from Breitbart.com. It includes a link to the site in the Wayback Machine. His site shows that one of the primary areas of practice for his law firm was immigration law and immigration VISAs. Also, that he spent more than a decade working for Hogan & Harrison, whose major client is Saudi Arabia. The firm that also did Clinton's taxes.
Now it's getting interesting, and I'm believing its true. Of course it's not in mainstream media ...yet. As one comment on Reddit pointed put, they made sure it was in the news when Melania removed her website.
It will NEVER come to light if there was a payout for Kahn's speech at the DNC but I really really believe he made a ton! If I absolutely Hated Trump, I would still look at Kahn as a big mouth Muslim lawyer making a buck on the death of his son. But, here's the question I have now. While Kahn and his wife might be grieving for the good captain, do not their beliefs indicate that he was a martyr of sorts and subject to the finest of virgins and such? I'm not trying to be or sound cold to the sacrifice of any life of any combat soldier but it just seems that Kahn was doing a lot of play acting and not a very good job of it either. It sounded more like a summation in a court room.
It's disgusting to me that so many swallow the 'news' from primary sources hook, line and sinker. It's almost as if Americans are brainwashed to believe what they're told, without questioning anything. I find it interesting that the group in charge these days is the one that promoted questioning authority, until they became that authority.
That's true, @Diane Lane but at the same time you really can't totally believe sources than lean left or right...they too have an agenda. Since I'm pretty much center on most things, I do see it. I wish a site that was just facts with no slant or agenda would come about. It would have to be big enough so they could cover the news stories with reporters. Also would have to be proven totally unbiased. I'm at the point where I don't believe anything anymore and just wait and see how things develop.
One would think there'd be a market for a news source that published the news without the opinions or the slant, or at least made an honest effort to do so.
Khan Runs a Shady Immigration Law Firm Involved With “Citizenship For Sale” Excerpted from Shoebat.com. Khan, is a Muslim Brotherhood agent, working to bring Muslims into the United States. so if Trump wins he's out of Business