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On campuses across the country, students are standing up for Donald Trump
The Los Angeles Times ^ | April 1, 2016 | Rosanna Xia

Posted on 04/01/2016 5:05:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Hunkered behind a MacBook decorated with stickers that read "This laptop was brought to you by capitalism" and "TRUMP 2016," Jake Lopez bounces T-shirt slogans off his friend Ian McIlvoy.

"Trumplicans," he says, nodding with satisfaction. "I think it'll take off."

Lopez is the California director of Students for Trump. Working from his dorm at Westmont College, he helps marshal the thousands of students who are pounding out phone calls, taping up fliers and blanketing Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat in an effort to persuade their peers that Donald Trump is the man.

Although vastly outnumbered nationwide by left-leaning classmates chanting "Feel the Bern," the youngest supporters of the GOP front-runner say they are similarly inspired by the hope of a radically different future and eager to support a leader who strikes them as anti-establishment and willing to speak his mind.

The verbiage that erupts from Trump's stream-of-consciousness is not universally appreciated by students. Many say the very mention of his name can be hurtful, threatening or cause for intervention.

A Mexican American student at Scripps College in Claremont woke up to "#trump2016" scrawled on the whiteboard outside her dorm room. The student body president called it a "racist act."[continued]

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Education; Politics
KEYWORDS: california; college; ianmcilvoy; jakelopez; losangeles; losangelesslimes; losangelestimes; millennials; rosannaxia; studentsfortrump; trump; westmontcollege
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1 posted on 04/01/2016 5:05:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Solo, when you melt away a snowflake what is left? There must be something.


2 posted on 04/01/2016 5:10:44 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now if we could just get Vets onboard the train!!!! LOL


3 posted on 04/01/2016 5:18:50 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

According to “Byron the Aussie” or whatever his name is, every single active duty, retired, veteran, ROTC, Civil Air Patrol and National Guardsman has already sworn fealty to Don Trump.


4 posted on 04/01/2016 5:22:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Interesting, but I couldn’t get the page at the link to hold still. Gave up.


5 posted on 04/01/2016 5:27:54 PM PDT by moonhawk (What would he do differently if he WAS a muslim?)
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To: Robert DeLong

This Vietnam vet is on board. Though given their predominantly infantile state, I’m not so sure I’d tout the colleges to much.


6 posted on 04/01/2016 5:28:08 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Byron_the_Aussie; Robert DeLong
According to “Byron the Aussie” or whatever his name is

I thot you were supposed to courtesy ping the person being discussed?

7 posted on 04/01/2016 5:29:13 PM PDT by disndat
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To: disndat

So you’re a re-tread?


8 posted on 04/01/2016 5:32:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A Mexican American student at Scripps College in Claremont woke up to "#trump2016" scrawled on the whiteboard outside her dorm room. The student body president called it a "racist act."

A racist act of the worst kind; self inflicted by the snowflake herself.

9 posted on 04/01/2016 5:36:22 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://dcwhispers.com/blue-collar-betrayal-parties-heres-american-workers-want-trump/


10 posted on 04/01/2016 5:49:13 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not a retard. Just an observer. With a good memory.


11 posted on 04/01/2016 5:51:56 PM PDT by disndat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bill Mitchell ‏@mitchellvii 27 minutes ago

Wait, I thought Hannity said Trump just had THE WORST WEEK EVER!?


12 posted on 04/01/2016 6:15:04 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

LOL. If that’s Trump’s worst week ever, let’s have more of them :-)


13 posted on 04/01/2016 7:28:25 PM PDT by freedomcrusader (Proudly wearing the politically incorrect label "crusader" since 1/29/2001)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL, I was speaking personally to you, but you knew that.


14 posted on 04/01/2016 7:44:15 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“More than 5,000 students in 200 chapters in 38 states are publicly on board. Fifteen chapters have taken hold in California, on campuses including UC Santa Barbara and USC.”

Excellent!


15 posted on 04/01/2016 7:50:41 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Robert DeLong

Yes, I did. I was just noting that every other living veteran has already endorsed him, so what do you need me for?


16 posted on 04/01/2016 7:53:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: onedoug
Yes, the college kids, or at least the vocal minority who want a free education, are out. But not all college kids are against Trump. We must remember the deep consternation being caused at Emory College where someone was writing in chalk on the sidewalks, Trump 2016, and Make Emory Great Again. It terrified those poor college students so badly they had to call in counselors to sooth their fragile personas to make it to classes without shaking in fear

But I was referring to that particular vet I had responded to. Glad to hear your aboard though.

17 posted on 04/01/2016 7:56:50 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: disndat; 2ndDivisionVet; Byron_the_Aussie
I suppose if we were playing by Miss Manners rules of etiquette. That, I think, has been lost like it is every Presidential election cycle as we all split into different support groups. Hopefully we can all unite once again to defeat Hillary.

Let's all just hope it's Trump!!!!

18 posted on 04/01/2016 8:02:07 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: be-baw

“Solo, when you melt away a snowflake what is left? There must be something.”

A drip.

L


19 posted on 04/01/2016 8:03:09 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Robert DeLong
.. Let's all just hope it's Trump!!!! ..

Roger Wilco. Trump Recon Squad 'The Centipedes' boobytrap a safe space deep in the enemy's staging area:


20 posted on 04/01/2016 8:10:26 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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