Seriously, Trump supporters don’t read the NY Times. They know the NY Times is a politcal enemy and they’ll get the worst possible spin on everything.

The NY Times sure seems to think they do, because they’ve bent over backwards to be accommodating to him for years, in ways just like I showed.

IMO very few Trump supporter thinks Trump believes ALL immigrants are bad, genetically inferior etc… They don’t believe that either. That’s mostly attack rhetoric.

Then why does he pay no political price for saying it?

They think he believes a small subset of current illegal immigrants are unvetted cartel members, drug and sex traffickers, fentanyl manufacturers and distributors, sex offenders, criminals recently released from jail etc..

This is the sane-washing I’m talking about. You’ve added a bunch of context out of whole cloth to soften and normalize what he said. None of that was in there! You made it up.

Those are the people he doesn’t want to enter the country. He doesn’t really care where they come from.

He actually does. Here he is bemoaning a lack of immigrants from “nice countries,” which happen to be the whitest people in the world. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/08/trump-immigration-north-europe

They could just as easily be Italian or Russian mob members.

Something tells me Trump wouldn’t have a problem with Russian mob members. “We have all the funding we need out of Russia,” and all that.

Considering I am 75% Italian (50% Sicilian) and 25% Eastern European (mostly Russian) I am bred to be the quite the godfather. 😉 But I don’t think he’d have an issue wih me because I’m here legally and law abiding.

Weird how that didn’t protect the Haitian-American community in Springfield, Ohio from Trump defaming them on national TV…

Trump openly opines that immigrants have inferior genes and the NY Times describes this as “the former president used language that reflected his decades-long belief that bloodlines determine a person’s capacity for success or violence.”

If only there was a concise and accurate word to describe that kind of belief…

Seriously, Trump supporters don’t read the NY Times. They know the NY Times is a politcal enemy and they’ll get the worst possible spin on everything.

IMO very few Trump supporter thinks Trump believes ALL immigrants are bad, genetically inferior etc… They don’t believe that either. That’s mostly attack rhetoric.

They think he believes a small subset of current illegal immigrants are unvetted cartel members, drug and sex traffickers, fentanyl manufacturers and distributors, sex offenders, criminals recently released from jail etc..

Those are the people he doesn’t want to enter the country. He doesn’t really care where they come from.

They could just as easily be Italian or Russian mob members.

Considering I am 75% Italian (50% Sicilian) and 25% Eastern European (mostly Russian) I am bred to be the quite the godfather. 😉 But I don’t think he’d have an issue wih me because I’m here legally and law abiding.

Strat mentions the hidden Trump voters, but one wonders how many Trumper wives will go in there and secretly pull the lever for Harris.

funny you say that, having lunch with my aunt and uncle tomorrow…aunt’s blood, uncle (normally fine, very opionated person) is by marriage…

hard for me to believe she would rock with the redneckish immigrant talk if she wasn’t supporting her partner…

kinda why you heard liz mentioning yesterday that no one needs to know whom you vote for…

I doubt it’s significant, but nobody knows.

I wish we had an easy game to start the season. I could use a laugher.

If Melo put up 7asts/36 and could run an offense, I’d have been much higher on him

Prime Melo had similar playmaking skills relative to the average PF as Brunson has relative to PGs. He’s decent but he’s no Tyrese Haliburton.

-Scorer with huge bag, able to carry very high volume at efficiency a bit above average
-Great in mid-range and the post
-Decent playmaker at his position but not elite
-Can tend to dominate the ball
-Poor defender
-Similar impact metrics

Am I really that crazy? Prime Melo was a very good player.

the last few years have been a fairly easy guess on taking the over, that line though looks pretty good…

for the first time in a while, i would go for the under…

my guess is 52 wins for the season, another second round exit…