[QUOTE=Nick Danger;1838765]
Not 100% sure you've got your facts straight, Stavros. I'd like to see some attribution of your claim that Obama deported illegal immigrants en masse, for one thing.
--Statistically Obama is ahead of the current Administration, but note that 'mass deportations' did not become annual affairs until 1986 and the record under Obama is also due to the way illegal immigrants are defined ('Felons, not families' was common in the Obama era). Thus:
figures released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on December 5th show that the total number of deportations has declined over the past fiscal year—from October 1st 2016 to September 30th 2017—to the lowest level seen since 2006. The data also show that deportation has become less selective in the Trump era.
https://www.economist.com/united-sta...rack-obama-did
and
In his first year in office, President Donald Trump's administration's arrests of immigrants -- especially those without criminal convictions -- were up substantially, but actual deportations lagged behind his predecessor, according to statistics released Friday.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/23/p...ons/index.html
The fact check that gives you insight into definitions is here-
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ob...d-more-people/
Trump voters know he is corrupt. We know he is a cheeto-skinned, pelt-haired, patently dishonest, egomaniacal, self-serving madman.
--If Americans were aware or accepted that they live in a corrupt economy they were at least able to earn enough to own their own home, send their children to school, pay for health care, have two weeks holidays a year -but the fact is that technology from the 1960s and the off-shoring of industrial jobs to Asia since the 1980s has eroded the income base of the working and middle class, which is where you are now. So why vote for people who claim that the 'good times will come back' and at the same time applaud a liar who promotes policies that do the opposite? He has already reneged on the tariff and sanctions policy on China because it affected jobs back in the USA, the policy has failed before it even begins to take effect.
As for Trump's moves against transsexuals, well, it was coming...Do I care about this? Sorry, I just don't see these things as being particularly important to transsexuals, and I'm 100% certain that the next Democratic administration - however far in the future it may be - will squash all of Trump's anti-gay/anti-trans agenda.
--There are approx 15,500 transgendered people serving in the US Military, I guess there won't be so many willing to serve their country in the future, if they are told they are not wanted, regardless of their commitment. It is in my view callous and offensive to dismiss the issues transgendered Americas face as some sort of 'political correctness' problem around 'trivial' matters like rest-rooms that they themselves -you suggest- do not think are important. Surely the issue, as it has been for many others in the USA, the difference between the equal rights they have under the Constitution and the lack of these rights being met in their daily lives? And is it not also the case that as a small percentage of the US public, it would not take much effort or cost to meet the needs -and the rights of Transgendered Americans, so why discriminate against them?
You may not personally like the President or be fooled by his rhetoric, but you are seeing those around him build on his rhetoric of hate -has any President so constantly attacked, abused and denigrated his own country, his fellow citizens, and American institutions?- build on that rhetoric to cause damage to the US economy, to deepen divisions in US society, to widen the gap between rich and poor, and that in the long term means that this current Republican Administration will cause more harm than good, and that it will take some time for Americans to embrace the changes demanded of the 21st, rather than the 18th century in which so many of the President's admirers seem to live in.
