Trump’s Immigration Ban Excludes Countries with Business Ties

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35 points·woofyman··9 comments

I don't know about the others, but at least Turkey and Saudi Arabia actually host U.S. bases and are considered allies. It's probably not too strange to exclude them from the list.

I really don't understand why people don't care more about conflict of interest. Certainly his base seem to give zero fucks about it.

42% of Trump voters think he should be allowed to operate a private email server while President: https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/trump-voters-think-...

Which is to say: politics is based on tribal feeling of belonging, and not factual information. Hillary having a private email server is awful because she's Hillary, but Trump having one is fine because he's Trump.

In this particular case there isn't any provable corruption here, just coincidence. Given the rest of the openly corrupt move the administration has already pulled, it's just not worth making a huge fuss about this in particular.

Many people care. I think saying people don't care about the conflicts of interest is the propaganda of normalization at work.

https://medium.com/being-liberal/the-narrative-of-normalizat...

It's not that people don't care enough, it's that not enough people care. No matter how hard you care, your vote still counts the same.

And he just doubled the rate at Mar-a-Lago (now 200K) which he calls the "Winter White House".

Nothing fishy there.

Can't we just have a safespace for news for hackers?

i'm shocked....shocked to find out there's gambling going on in here...

Your winnings, sir

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