And you know this how?
Because Whoopi Goldberg said so?
You're getting a lot of mileage out of me sharing the Louis CK email.
He never claims to be a political scholar, nor do I, and nor are you. In fact he explicitly and humbly says in the message.
That’s just my view. At least right now. I know I’m not qualified or particularly educated and I’m not right instead of you. I’m an idiot and I’m sure a bunch of you are very annoyed by this. Fucking celebrity with an opinion. I swear this isn’t really a political opinion. You don’t want to know my political opinions. (And I know that I’m only bringing myself trouble with this shit.) Trump has nothing to do with politics or ideology. He has to do with himself.
I'm not filtering my thoughts and beliefs through him, and he wouldn't want that anyway. I merely passed along his thoughts on the matter, because I think he fucking crushed it and articulated many of the things I've attempted to in this thread. Treat it as if he was just another poster on this board, except I do believe, despite what he would say, that he's more informed, insightful, and intelligent on this particular subject than at least 50% of the participants in this thread...
Anyway, to start over and answer your question:
And you know this how?
Because Whoopi Goldberg said so?
I know this because I can read and watch events as they take place and I don't have to filter them through Louis CK or Breitbart.com or InfoWars or anyone else. I can watch what transpires in the debates:
I can understand that a candidate saying that visas for highly skilled workers would "decimate American workers" (the closest thing you can actually nail him down as conservative on), then turning around at a debate speaking enthusiastically in favor of them, then doubling down when confronted with that hypocrisy and even MORE emphatically supporting them, spouting how "evolved" it is for him to change on the position that Kaos is parroting now. So for those couple of days he was in favor of H1B Visas? Did some libruhl take over his brain for those couple of days, and that wasn't the real him? Or was it? Is he liberal on that position or not? Apparently not, because MINUTES after the debate was OVER his campaing managers (sorry
he, LOL) sent out an email blast and posted this to his website:
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-position-on-visasDONALD J. TRUMP POSITION ON VISAS
"Megyn Kelly asked about highly-skilled immigration. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions."
So now he's back to stoppin the Mex'cans? Since that's the main position he took that idiots are lapping up?
How do you explain that "rapid evolution" any other way?
We're not talking "Oh, in the 80s I thought gun control was a good idea, but over the years I've come to realize that prohibition never works blah blah"
We're talking decades of soft immigration stances, run for president and suddenly he's brass-balls-tough on it, then suddenly come out strongly in favor of guest worker visas, get called out on it, double down, and then cower back into the corner of "GET 'IM OUT & BUILD A WALL!"
You know good and goddamn well this is RECORD level flip-flopping the likes of which make Hillary and John Kerry look downright principled. You have to know it. Yet you refuse to acknowledge it.
And it's not like this is the only major issue he's flip flopped on either. He was staunchly pro-choice strangely until he "evolved" the second he started in a Republican primary. He was vocal about instituting gun control, specifically an assault weapons ban, until he walked into that magical GOP primary portal. And a bevy of other stances I've mentioned over and over.
But it's not even just those "evolutions". We're talking about DURING the couple of months he's been running for the Republican nomination.
Up until last week he was talking about murdering ISIS's families and committing torture "much worse than waterboarding" because "they deserve worse" until someone obviously told him that oh yeah that those are clear-cut war crimes. Magically, Friday night he reversed those too. (
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-reverses-his-stance-on-torture-1457116559?tesla=y)
In September he told Fox News he would accept Syrian Refugees. "I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis, you have to. It’s living in hell in Syria. There’s no question about it. They’re living in hell, and something has to be done." (
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-syrian-refugees-213430#ixzz41u30eCx2) But that wasn't consistent enough with his butch badass "most militaristic" persona that is getting votes, so less than a month later he was back on Fox telling them "I tell you, if they come into this country, they’re going out. If I win, they’re going out. We can’t take a chance." (
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/11/18/trump-syria-refugees-could-be-ultimate-trojan-horse/) and then by the third month he's all the way up to "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" even beyond the refugees. (
http://time.com/4139476/donald-trump-shutdown-muslim-immigration/)
You guys CHOOSE to believe the positions you jive with. You completely ignore where he clearly and emphatically stated otherwise. Sometimes the conservative position is what he's currently spouting, sometimes it's what he previously spouted and has since "softened" on. In either case, you stick with the one you like and choose to believe that.
You're being conned. It's sad you can't see it. Sane people can see it clearly.
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