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I concur. I dislike Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants as rapists, his recent annexation of Syria's Golan Heights and so on and so forth. My comment hi

I concur. I dislike Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants as rapists, his recent annexation of Syria's Golan Heights and so on and so forth. My comment history will attest to this. People on the left who are not part of the machine of the Democratic Party - Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, many lesser known people in that orbit, have said all along that this whole Trump/Russia thing has been overblown. The Democrats lost the 2016 election. Trump railed against NAFTA and TPP and campaigned around working class people in the Midwest and said the US was in too many wars abroad and steel workers needed help. Hillary took money from Wall Street, initially supported TPP, didn't visit the Midwest despite Michael Moore's entreaties - he was saying at the time which states she could lose, all of which she did. Nader said, paraphrasing - "The Democrats had unappealing policies in 2000 and lost, and in 2016 and lost. They could be self-critical and see US workers did not support their policies, and change them to be more appealing to US workers. Or they could keep taking corporate PAC money and find a scapegoat. They chose that option. The scapegoat was me (Nader) in 2000. In 2016 it was Putin." In a move to try to be less appealing to voters, the DCCC just passed a number of policies trying to prevent local Democratic parties from running primaries against incumbents. They want control to be held by incumbents and corporate PACs and party hacks - any body other than the local Democratic voters who do all the leg work and voting.

s_y_n_t_a_x 8y ago
I'm really curious if you really think he meant all Mexican immigrants are rapists? Have you read the stories what happens to those people who cross the border. The coyotes they pay, as well as people traveling with them, frequently rape them. There's many instances reported of this, even more going unreported due to the nature of the situation. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-women.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-w... It's crazy in this #MeToo era that this issue isn't more in the spotlight. 1 in 3 women are raped when they make their way to the border. Even Politifact had to agree, though they gave Trump a half-true because they used a sample instead of knowing every person who was raped and taking it "out of context", whatever that means lol. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jan/25/donald-trump/trump-said-1-3-migrant-women-sexually-assaulted-jo/ https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jan... Trump said, "One in three women is sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey north." A 2017 report from Doctors Without Borders said 31.4 percent of women had been sexually abused during their transit through Mexico. That's based on a 2015 survey of more than 400 migrants interviewed in facilities where migrants seek assistance. (The majority of migrants interviewed were men.) Doctors Without Borders said its report provided a snapshot in time of the perils migrants face, but said it wasn’t necessarily representative of the entire migrant population traveling through Mexico. Trump’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it Half True.

s_y_n_t_a_x 8y ago

I'm really curious if you really think he meant all Mexican immigrants are rapists? Have you read the stories what happens to those people who cross the border. The coyotes they pay, as well as people traveling with them, frequently rape them. There's many instances reported of this, even more going unreported due to the nature of the situation. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-women.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-w... It's crazy in this #MeToo era that this issue isn't more in the spotlight. 1 in 3 women are raped when they make their way to the border. Even Politifact had to agree, though they gave Trump a half-true because they used a sample instead of knowing every person who was raped and taking it "out of context", whatever that means lol. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jan/25/donald-trump/trump-said-1-3-migrant-women-sexually-assaulted-jo/ https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jan... Trump said, "One in three women is sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey north." A 2017 report from Doctors Without Borders said 31.4 percent of women had been sexually abused during their transit through Mexico. That's based on a 2015 survey of more than 400 migrants interviewed in facilities where migrants seek assistance. (The majority of migrants interviewed were men.) Doctors Without Borders said its report provided a snapshot in time of the perils migrants face, but said it wasn’t necessarily representative of the entire migrant population traveling through Mexico. Trump’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it Half True.