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rurallib

(62,424 posts)
5. "with charity and big bags of money for the rich and malice toward anyone
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:23 PM
Jan 2017

we pick" is not the way the speech went, Trump!

iluvtennis

(19,863 posts)
6. Yes, very sad, & the majority of Ameirca didn't want this clown which is why I believe hacked vote..
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:38 PM
Jan 2017

...counting machines to give the Traitor the 80K votes needed to turn the battleground states. If there is ever an investigation into Russia's interference into our elections, it will be verified this occurred.

rurallib

(62,424 posts)
11. yep - the combination of an intimidated press, and who knows what kind of software and access
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:50 PM
Jan 2017

is built into our voting machines makes hacking certainly a very real possibility.

We should do what the Irish did anr toss them in the sea and go back to paper ballots.

cigsandcoffee

(2,300 posts)
7. Does America really have a proud history of "welcoming" refugees and immigrants?
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:42 PM
Jan 2017

I'd say it's mixed at best.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
8. I had the same thought
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:44 PM
Jan 2017

We've been bastards since the beginning.

But our PR was good, and if we'd lived up to that, we'd be good.

 

TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)
9. Sadly this is true. I don't understand why all these scared snowflakes don't realize that
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:45 PM
Jan 2017

the "immigrant" is dropped out in a generation or two and the kids and grandkids are thoroughly American. They are also so scared of losing their "identity"...well your "identity" must be very fragile if you find this a threat.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,862 posts)
13. I'm the granddaughter of immigrants.
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:30 PM
Jan 2017

I have long believed that the only difference between me and lots of others here, is exactly when our ancestors got here.

A decade or more ago I was in the checkout line at my local supermarket, somewhere in the Midwest. The woman bagging groceries had an accent, that I think was Middle European. The man ahead of me addressed her by name and said, "I hear you've just become a citizen. We need more people like you here." That has stayed with me. He was right, even though I know nothing at all about that woman other than her recent citizenship. This country was founded on immigration, nd we should never lose sight of that.

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