During my talk at the Leadership Institute, people shared that traveling overseas has been difficult since last summer because wherever you go, people question you in accusatory tones about Trump.
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Good lord.
The USA is $19 trillion dollars in debt, and this clot headed cnut is worried about Donald Trump.
He’s gonna, like, DESTROY the country ya know!!!!
This is why women shouldn’t vote.
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Ah, time for your regular fit. They come with funny regularity. 😃
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Calm down! Hillary’s going to win the election, and in two years the national debt will be $38 trillion.
The “national debt” is just a boogeyman standing in the shadows at the dark corner of the stairs, anyway, another fantasy monster waiting beyond the edge of night like its fearsome companions “climate change” and “nuclear armageddon” — awesome demons always just out of sight, lurking behind the creaking door, crouching right over the horizon, waiting, but somehow never striking, to destroy us all.
So chill out. Your great-grandchildren will die of old age, and the earth is going to keep turning for another five billion years or do, despite some people’s best efforts to save it.
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This is a great comment.
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It is, except for the ‘climate change’ part. One would really have to have their head stuck in the sand not to see climate change as a serious issue.
Message to all republicans: science is not a liberal conspiracy.
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” wherever you go, people question you in accusatory tones about Trump. ”
What kind of weird people get upset about that? I’ve gotten my share of “what’s going on?” and “does Trump have a chance to win?”. If I have the time I explain about the realignment from left and right to globalist vs nationalist (only a partial explanation but better than nothing) and honestly answer “I have no idea” to the second since I’ve long stopped believing any polls on either side.
But that’s where I live, if I were travelling and getting questions in accusatory tones I’d probably react about the way you would if people asked you why Ukraine is destabilizing Europe by trying to exit its historical sphere of influence….
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They are very young, though, and overseas for the first time ever, so I can understand being overwhelmed.
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I totally wasn’t kidding when I suggested this as a question for you! I thought dealing with Bush accusations was hard, but my poor students have to deal with Trump accusations . . . and yes, age and experience make a huge difference!
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I regularly give Trump updates to a bunch of people who live overseas. And I don’t even vote in the US! But somehow I’m seen as responsible. 🙂
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They should try present themselves as (American pro-) Israeli Jews to put these things in proper proportion.
🙂
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This response is specifically to el’s “October 27, 2016 at 02:27” post:
If the question of either candidate’s position on support of Israel comes up:
Presenting yourself as an American pro-Israeli Jew (or as a pro-Israeli American of any political/religious persuasion, regardless of whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, or a Christian Fundamentalist or a hard-core atheist like me) shouldn’t be a problem.
Leave Trump and Hillary and partisan U.S. politics out of your answer. Simply point out that the Jew/Arab problem in the Middle East has been unchanged since the date way back in 1948 when the U. N. recognized Israel as a legitimate International State. In all the long years since, through dozens of reasonable peace proposals by Israel, the Arabs (whether they pretended to be “Palestinians” or simply the unacceptable outcasts of Jordan and Egypt that they are) have acted like rapid dogs who only goal is to slaughter every Jew from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea.
U.S. policy under both Trump and Hillary will be to ensure Israel’s survival as the only island of Western democracy in a sea of barbarian fifth-century savagery. Neither candidate will spell this out so explicitly, but that’s the vritually identical policy of both major parties.
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