[SunkenCiv]

I'm a Gay Activist, and After Orlando, I Have Switched My Vote to Trump

I'm also sad that the events of Orlando have shattered my political beliefs, as I can no longer swear allegiance to a peace-love-and-unicorns progressive philosophy that only helps to get my fellow queers killed. Yes, there is a war between religious fundamentalism and the spirit of love and tolerance. But we progressives here in America still labor under the delusion that the religion we need to combat is Christianity. But that's a strawman opponent, and has been so for decades. Since the 1990s, Christian extremists have essentially lost all their power, and are now toothless nonplayers in the "culture wars." Meanwhile, Muslim extremists, with guns, murder us, and on the left our only response is to bleat about "Islamophobia" and jump through hoops trying to explain away the self-evident religious motivation for the killings...

[mumblypeg]

Awesome. I watched Trump’s live stream speech this morning, particularly watching for any phrase that could be taken out of context and twisted to fit the tired “ Trump is racist, homophobe, blablah” but he nailed it.
Had his talking points sharpened—We need to protect American citizens first. These people (Muslims) don’t have American values, they enslave women and kill gays. Obama and Clinton want to bring more of them here. He said this defies common sense.
He kept emphasizing common sense, Americans’ safety, and the tremendous deficit caused by the national security crisis caused by open borders.
Most impressive: he nailed Obama & co’s blathering about “domestic terrorists” by saying, well, yeah, if we already have problems here, why are we importing more problems? Clinton has no answer to that.
Simple, easy to understand language.
I’m hoping a lot of undecideds were watching.