Trump Vows to Ban Immigrants Who ‘Don’t Like Our Religion’

Let this be a reminder to anyone who hasn't liked Biden's handling of the Gaza situation that this is the alternative.

Bro, just because Trump is worse than Biden doesn't make Biden immune to criticism
- Sure, criticize away, and you absolutely should. It's just important to not get so carried away that you wind up contributing to an outcome that you openly know to be objectively worse at the ballot box.
- Yeah, but my man ain’t said shit about not criticizing Biden.
Why are either of them choices?
- Because we have a first-past-the-post voting system that all but guarantees only two parties are ever real contenders. We must to move toward ranked-choice voting if we ever want to have more options.
- First past the post voting, Citizens United, and the Electoral College, among other reasons.
- I guess that's the best USA had to offer.
for many matters trump and biden are identical
trump moved the embassy to jerusalem, legitimizing israel's violation of international law
biden goes over and gives netanyahu a big hug on TV in order to make it clear to the whole world he openly endorses genocide
trump started the border wall
biden expanded construction on it
trump unilaterally broke the iranian nuclear deal
biden makes no real effort to reinstate it
trump puts tariffs on chinese steel and other imports from china
biden continues the same tariffs
trump used "temporary" covid measures in order to refuse people at the border seeking asylum and separate families
biden uses the same exact policies, again in violation of both international and internal laws
the difference between them is narrow and focused on specific topics. for example biden is nice to the rainbow flag.
- to make it clear to the whole world he openly endorses genocide
  If that's your takeaway, you'll have to forgive me for thinking that you're not exactly engaging in any meaningful amount of good faith and moving on.
  It is amusing, however, that you say the only difference between them is in narrow specific topics after you've just cherrypicked a few select specific topics. As a member of that rainbow flag myself though, that's a difference I rather appreciate.
- You have no idea of what the State Dept is working on internally.
- This is such a poor understanding of policy.
- Biden isn't really expanding border wall construction. There hasn't been a policy shift to build a giant wall to solve immigration issues. Just a single case of wall being built. Every one of your points are skin deep and ignores a lot of nuance. Not to mention the condescending comment on being nice to the rainbow flag.

You guys have "a Religion"?

Yes. Money.
Trump is the religion. Next move is to deport anybody that doesn’t follow it.
- Then when deportation proves too expensive...
It’s more like a cult
American religion is the worship of money. Sometimes it takes the guise of Christianity but eschews any of the real lessons.
I know people have said "money," but if there's anything akin to "a Religion," it's American Fundamentalism, the weird amalgamation of white supremacy, conspiracy theories, Christian fundamentalism, apocalypticism, colonialism, constitutional originalism, and American nationalism.
It's festered beneath the surface for decades, and Trump was the first to seize upon the true believers and become their defacto demigod. He even has actual pastors revering him not just for his rhetoric but as an actual messiah figure.
The #Trump #GOP worships #Mammon.

How fucking Christian of him.

I almost wish religion was real, just so Jesus could come back and start smiting Trump and the rest of these fake Christians.

While I agree with the sentiment, we should take a step back.
"Our" religion!? And what would that be? Pretty sure the founding fathers made it damn clear that there was no official religion and we were to separate church and state.
I'm so sick of these Christian fascists that see the handmaid's tale as something to aspire to and the grifting assholes that will drive that into existence for their own personal gain...
I say if we deport anyone it's the people who start forcing their religion on the rest of us.
- “Our” religion!? And what would that be?
  In theory, yes. There should be a separation of church and state.
  In practice though, there are a lot of Republicans who would welcome a fascist theocracy and they're working toward that end. They get away with it because there are so few moderate Christians who are willing to go to war with these assholes.
- I was readying the first amendment and that first line really looks like freedom from religion to me.
The religion he's talking about isn't Christianity. Trump wouldn't recognize Jesus Christ if he smacked him in the face. He's talking about Trumpism.
- Trump wouldn’t recognize Jesus Christ if he smacked him in the face.
  Just for the record... if Jesus came back, he'd do a lot more than smack Trump in the face - I don't want to get into details, but I'd imagine the involvement of a holy flamethrower is a distinct possibility.
As someone who grew up in a religious household but is now agnostic….I sometimes have second thoughts with the fact that trump is basically frame for frame the “antichrist.”…and we were taught that the Antichrist would be “injured” for a short time but they will eventually win and that’s when the NWO, join or die and the mark of the beast shit will happen. Sometimes that gives me pause for the future.
What are your thoughts?
- I always thought the antichrist would have to be pretty smart. Either Trump has been playing the long con for the past 60 years or he's the moron so many people who have interacted with him say he is.

Hasn't anyone noticed that he is the actual embodiment of the 7 deadly sins?

I've pointed that out many times.
Anger, Envy, Vanity, Lust, Avarice, Gluttony, Sloth- he embodies them all.
- Before breakfast
This pastor had some observations.....
www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
- I don't think that I've seen that one, and even as an atheist I was like "well... maybe???"
- I remember that article. I'm not Christian - and so don't believe in an anti-Christ. However, if you told me that the anti-Christ was real and was alive today (and I had some iron-clad reason to believe you were telling the truth), Trump would be my first guess.
American Christianity has long deviated from the teachings of Jesus.

Greed isn't a religion you dumbass.

Can’t wait to see North Americans come back to Europe to runaway from religious persecution.

Welcome to the Old World my friends !

Sorry, we all were educated by the American school system and thus have no useful skills or knowledge Europeans need.
- Also we're not quite sure where it is.
What you imply is a common misconception. Puritans did not flee to America in the early modern period because they were religiously persecuted. They fled to America because they were not allowed to religiously persecute others anymore. They were scolded because of their religious intolerance not because of their religion per se.
- Puritans. Yes.
- Depends on if you mean Puritans in Massachusetts, or Quakers in Pennsylvania.
- Either you phrased that badly, or people are truly ignorant of history lmao

Trump is literally an atheist who has been caught mocking the faith of his own followers in private

He's also an elitist east coaster that they used to hate.
- I'm just glad that we can firmly document that Hank Hill would not vote for Trump. Dale Gribble probably would though
Not sure if this says more about him, or the average practioner of these religions who keep voting for him.
- My mother is convinced he’s chosen by god even though he’s a terrible person. She’s just hand waving all of his obviously ‘sinful’ behavior as irrelevant to god doing god things. She keeps saying ‘he’s a man for such a time as this’ and it’s fucking wild how hard she’s gone in on this fascism since I broke contact with her and stopped fact checking her.
- It says he's a man of no principles who will take any audience or following he can get, as long as it gets his foot in the door. Even if the following is antithetical to the few things Trump keeps near and dear to the cancerous black mulch he has where the rest of us keep our hearts.
  For evangelicals, it says they're batshit crazy, but that's not new information.
  So I'd say it says more about him
Trump is not an atheist. He's a pretender who will say whatever the fuck he thinks makes him look good
- Actually one of his staff who was of the MANY arrested testified that behind closed doors after getting back from a rally... Trump commented on his religious followers by saying something to the effect of "Can you believe people really go for that kind of stuff"
  In reference to the existence of God.
  If he doesn't believe in God he is by definition an atheist
- Why do you think Trump is spiritual/religious in ANY way?
- Does declaring yourself an atheist make yourself look good in American politics in your experience?

Can I ban republicans because they don't like my religion?

I say "Christo!

You say "Fascist!"

Christo!

Polo!
- so close!
- Outstanding! LOL

"Our?" His religion is money, so uh, ban immigrants who don't like money?

Edit: I'm 30 minutes late, flyingsquid got to religion=money first

I'm guessing that Trump doesn't even understand not liking money.

He worships himself.
- And now you will have to like that religion, according to him.

"Our religion" Is Trump a Communist??

- "Is that your bible?" "It's a bible."
  Direct quote from when they attacked reporters and protestors so Trump could get his picture in front of a church.

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus speaking on the Statue of Liberty

I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.

Jesus speaking in Matthew 25:35

Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me.

Jesus speaking in Matthew 25:40

vowing to “immediately restore and expand the Trump travel ban” and “halt all of the refugee settlements to the United States” on “day one” of his presidency.

Trump speaking in New Hampshire

Let's go with Trump.

American evangelicals speaking in 2023

It's one of the most damning indictments that their religion doesn't change who they really are.

These comments just seem like he's drowning and he's desperated to drum up any kind of reaction to take away from the fact that he's probably gonna lose most of his trials

Something has definitely started happening with him in the past few weeks. He's been stumbling in speeches, confusing WWII, forgetting who he beat in 2016. The dude is not well. And he's the one that says Biden has dementia. My how the tables have turned.
- Isn't this also the same guy who caused "sharpie gate"?
  I'm referring to when Alabama was added as a weird sharpie blurb on the hurricaine forecast back in 2019.
  No one owned up to physically using the sharpie to doctor the report, but trump was very stubborn that the sharpie was correct.
  I still can't imagine trying to "win" against the national weather service when your only "evidence" is a random sharpie blurb lmao.
before he was a special attraction now he's opened up pandora's box and let all the bonkers people out

That would be anyone who isn't indigenous and shamanistic

Capitalism? Exactly what religion is this dipshit talking about?

He can vow all he likes, but 1. he's a lying sack of shit and 2. he's never getting anywhere near the White House again, so who cares what he says?

he's never getting anywhere near the White House again, so who cares what he says?
Man, I wish I shared your optimism. The next election is going to come down to a few thousand votes in a handful of states, thanks to our backward electoral system.
- backward electoral system
  Gerrymandering, disinformation, election fraud, voter intimidation by big guys with their big tough guns at the polling stations. Oh, and the arbitrary under-staffing/removal of said polling stations. Lack of ranked-choice, etc.
  Sorry, going off the cuff, but I guess your choice of words covers all that. Man I'm ~~proud~~ embarrassed to be an American
Arguably being the front running for the Republican party is pretty damn close to the white house.

He knows he's not shitting in the White House ever again.

It seems we have reached his appeal to the idiots phase of his campaign.
Always has been 🌎🤔🔫👨‍🚀

Adolph Bonespur

Robert E. Peetapes

"The Constitution?" trump replied. "Never seen her before. Not my type. Bigly ugly."

Fun fact, because he campaigned on a "Muslim travel ban", courts slapped down the ban when his administration tried to argue it wasn't religious based. It eventually went to the supreme court and I think was partially enacted by dropping some countries.

Soooo if you ever wanted proof that he doesn't learn from his mistakes...

Wait, the griftee who doesn't even know how to hold a Bible, let alone reading it, is saying that.

Stop giving the guy a platform for whatever bullshit he's going to say and forget. He wants this message to spread.

Focus on what he can't control that tarnishes his reputation instead like his legal woes.

That's going to be tough to do while incarcerated for multiple state felonies.

That's redundant

O-oh looks like you guys are going to get him elected again .