Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that transgender people should be allowed to use whichever bathroom they prefer...
“North Carolina did something that was very strong and they’re paying a big price. There’s a lot of problems,” Trump said. “You leave it the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom they feel is appropriate, there has been so little trouble, and the problem with what happened in North Carolina is the strife, and the economic punishment that they’re taking.”...
Trump’s position is a clear break from his rival for the Republican nomination, Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), who has called the North Carolina bill a “perfectly reasonable determination for the people to make.”“Men should not be going to the bathroom with little girls,” he said in an MSNBC town hall earlier this month. Cruz repeated that position in response to Trump on Thursday and accused him of bending to political correctness.
Thank you for posting what he actually said. His position is that they're making a mountain out of a molehill and taking a disproportionate economic hit because of it. Lyin Ted went right to the pedophilic thoughts. Guess we know where his head's at. :mrgreen:
Actually your statement is full of holes.
Cruz responded weeks ago over the trans bathroom issue in NC and recognized the citizens of that state taking a stand against something the majority felt to be wrong. If it brings economic hardships due to activists pulling their businesses from the state so be it. They will survive just fine. To hear Trump talk we should all lower our principles in the name of the almighty dollar.
Trump doesn't share the views of the majority of people in North Carolina, He doesn't have a problem with shared bathrooms.
Of course he does. Because he's a liberal.
Thank you for posting what he actually said. His position is that they're making a mountain out of a molehill and taking a disproportionate economic hit because of it. Lyin Ted went right to the pedophilic thoughts. Guess we know where his head's at. :mrgreen:
The funny thing is that Trump, siding with the left on this, and they still hate him. He's the only guy that wants to try and keep union jobs here, and the left hates him. He speaks out in favor of funding Planned Parenthood, and the left hates him.
I don't agree the 'left' hates him. Well, at least not all. There's quite a few Dems I know that like him!The funny thing is that Trump, siding with the left on this, and they still hate him. He's the only guy that wants to try and keep union jobs here, and the left hates him. He speaks out in favor of funding Planned Parenthood, and the left hates him
That's what pissed me off about this.
Not what Trump said ... what Cruz said.
He declared Trump had said something he never said.
Cruz does that a lot and I suspect it's one of the biggest things that make him such an irritant to so many people.
They hate him likely because he's a fool. Likely why many conservatives hate him too.
I don't agree the 'left' hates him. Well, at least not all. There's quite a few Dems I know that like him!
They don't think in terms of the Senate, the Court, etc. They're blue collar and working class, have seen their jobs lost to cheap labor from Mexico and overseas, and are older, white, and remember when America was on top of the world. As long as they paid their union dues at the plant or on the docks, they could work their 40, a little OT, and with some cautious spending they could have a nice little house with good company insurance for the kids, and a little pension nest-egg for after the house was paid-off.
It's all gone now, and Mr. Trump says he'll bring it all back. And that sounds pretty good to them.
I know several individuals just like this amongst my close friends and family!
To be fair, "the people" were no more involved in the Charlotte vote than they were in the vote that overturned it. In both cases it was entirely up to elected officials.Interesting what Cruz said, though - "a perfectly reasonable determination for the people to make." I think what he means is the determination is "reasonable, so long as the people agree with me" since the entire point of the bill was to override what "the people" had determined in a few cities.
To be fair, "the people" were no more involved in the Charlotte vote than they were in the vote that overturned it. In both cases it was entirely up to elected officials.
The funny thing is that Trump, siding with the left on this, and they still hate him. He's the only guy that wants to try and keep union jobs here, and the left hates him. He speaks out in favor of funding Planned Parenthood, and the left hates him.
Careful, you may be talking about our next POTUS.
No, you just fail to recognize that national leaders are faced with finding Solomon like decisions for issues like this. To do that effectively one must first gauge the actual scope of the problem. It's a molehill problem and NC has chosen a mountain solution. That's fine that NC has chosen how they have for themselves. However, I wouldn't want NC's issues to determine the solution for the nation. That solution would have to face the "is it worth the outcome" test.
And yes, Ted does do negative attack ads very well. Mostly because he has nothing positive to sell.
You fail to recognize states business is just that states business. The bathroom issue shouldn't be the concern of the "national leader". Each state will deal with it accordingly. Today the governor of NC lashed out at Trump for his comments. He said their state's bill was a common sense solution. In fact the overwhelming majority in the country see it as such. You mocked Cruz for saying grown men should not be allowed to share a public bathroom with young girls. If you can't see the potential of how that could be abused then you are so Trumped up that all perspective has been lost. The huge rally Cruz held in PA today, were in total agreement with his comments. The applause was YUGE! Common sense, as Thomas Paine so eloquently penned has gone out the window and been replaced with PC. I hear the Cruz campaign started selling red ball caps today with a slogan on them "Make PC Great Again".
You fail to recognize states business is just that states business. The bathroom issue shouldn't be the concern of the "national leader". Each state will deal with it accordingly.
Why is it the state's business and not the business of local governments, or the Feds?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
States have police powers, which is why their authority is much more broad-ranging than the federal government.
Why is it the state's business and not the business of local governments, or the Feds?
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