Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

That is a completely different argument. You like the company of dogs better than most people. Plenty of people find it easier to have relationships with animals, boys, girls, computers, social media ,etc.

But that wasn't what he said. He said he would choose dogs over Muslims. Not people. Just a group of people based on his perceptions of them based on their religion.

She didn't see the context of him making the statement.

Piers Morgan said previously:

"There are a lot of white English people I would happily trade for a good weekly chicken tikka masala"

Was that also racist?

He said if he to choose between no more Irish people in the world or no more dogs in the world, outside of family and friends, he'd choose keeping the dogs. I love my two dogs but I'm sorry, that's completely fooked up imo.

He responded o a tweet from a Muslim who made a tweet against dog ownership and used her religion a reason for being against dog ownership.

Thats why he referenced her religion and why given the choice between the 2 he'd pick dogs.

Its a statement so lacking in empathy as to be psychotic.

The statement made by Randy Fine is just his latest attack on Muslims and is most definitely racist.

Thats is not what happened. She said dogs were unclean and shouldn't be inside. And that aligned with how Muslims thought.

He then said that, given a choice between dogs and muslims he would choose dogs. And you are defending it! The mind boggles. You need to take a step back and look at the position you have taken.

You are excusing this based on what she said. But let's play along with that. Imagine she actually said what you have made yourself believe she said. Do you honestly believe that it is correct for anyone to come out and say they would choose an animal over an entire group of humans? Not the human that drives them mad from down the street. But every single muslim is treated as one singular grou,p and that group has less value to this man, and you, than a dog? That is your position? What you believe is that if you had to choose you kill humans to save animals?

And this is a direct result of the years of racism that Trump has been pushing, particularly against Muslims. Now it is considered acceptable, even reasonable, that a person would state that, given a choice, they would choose dogs.

Have you asked yourself why you would choose a dog over every single muslim? That you don't believe that there is even one muslim that you could accept over a dog?

That is the problem with the US: people are now more concerned about the dog tweet and response. This feeds into the notion of culture wars. People are missing sight of the actually important issues: the Epstein files (where there was sexual depravity and market manipulation of the worst kind by very influential people), a tumbling economy, an increasingly hostile isolationist, foreign policy, tumbling economy (the crypto bros are taking a beating), spiralling joblessness, dismantling of democratic safeguards, excessive force by the body of people who are supposed to protect the people…

But that is the success of MAGA. Despite all of the above and the fact that the current actions of the administration deserve tomes and tomes to be written here and elsewhere, a whole day is spent talking about a tweet from somebody. A lady who is not even part of any administration. And we discuss the crass response of a Republican trying to prove to middle America that there is a class war happening and next, they will be coming after your pet Fluffy

Wonder how he feels about Kristi Noem.

Only for now. The Epstein files aren't going anywhere.

I absolutely bloody guarantee you that Randy Fine would be singing a different tune if someone did make a similar comment about Jews.

That story is not going away. No ketchup bottles safe in the white house tonight.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx47k34yqxo

I think it's far too early to come to that conclusion. Historically, when autocrats have tried to suppress this sort of thing it tends to backfire and backfire spectacularly at that.