[quote=John McClane]And before you jump down my throat ;). That's not my opinon. I'm just parroting what I've heard from my sister's autistic friends and their families. At least here where I am they are not happy about it.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]But that's not his fault. He was just extending funding from the Bush administration, so that one rests squarely with da Bush.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]And since you mention the Autistic funding....what a colossal screw up. Bad news all around for those families.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane][quote=Sedai][quote=John McClane]Clear, cut, and dry. Always bad. Always unreasonable. Can’t believe we are even discussing this. Sign of the times, I suppose.[/quote]

Like, every single thing he has done? Like, allocating funds to families with Autistic family members, which he did earlier this week? Or do you mean just this one issue? Not clear from your comment, hence the request for clarification.[/quote]I was just talking about the asking foreign governments to get their hands dirty for him. But yeah, I’d go so far as to say every single thing he has done. There’s like, maybe, 2 or 2.5 things that were OK.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane][quote=Yoda][quote=John McClane]I get it: You don’t like democracy.[/quote]
Well damn, I've been found out.[/quote]

You hid it so well. ;)[/quote]

[quote=Sedai][quote=John McClane]Clear, cut, and dry. Always bad. Always unreasonable. Can’t believe we are even discussing this. Sign of the times, I suppose.[/quote]

Like, every single thing he has done? Like, allocating funds to families with Autistic family members, which he did earlier this week? Or do you mean just this one issue? Not clear from your comment, hence the request for clarification.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda][quote=John McClane]I get it: You don’t like democracy.[/quote]
Well damn, I've been found out.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]I get it: You don’t like democracy.

But it’s cool. We can still be friends.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]Also, saying something is "clear" or "obvious" is also not an argument. In fact, it's kind of being substituted for one, as if I'm going to be [i]shamed[/i] into changing my mind by the mere implication that I should understand your position already because it's so obviously right.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda][quote=John McClane]Clear, cut, and dry. Always bad. Always unreasonable. Can’t believe we are even discussing this. Sign of the times, I suppose.[/quote]
Not a big fan of "why are we discussing this" over actually discussing it.

There's no point in contradicting someone if you're not going to elaborate. Disbelief and disdain are not arguments.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane][quote=Yoda]Just because Trump is boorish and clumsy and probably doing all this for the wrong reasons, it doesn't mean the act itself, in isolation, is inherently/always bad or unreasonable. This is a crucial distinction that a lot of his critics struggle with.[/quote]Clear, cut, and dry. Always bad. Always unreasonable. Can’t believe we are even discussing this. Sign of the times, I suppose.[/quote]