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Khizr Khan, China Tensions, and a Long Island Trump Superfan's Facebook Posts
from Nice Means Nothing · #4
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5 minTim and Ray discuss the Muslim Gold Star father Khizr Khan's DNC speech and controversy around Trump, China tensions, then Tim reads increasingly unhinged racist Facebook posts and Trump memes from a Long Island Trump-supporting Facebook friend.
- 29:30Tim describes China conducting military exercises to intimidate over the South China Sea, noting Trump's supposed closeness with China doesn't worry them.
- 29:59The DNC put up Khizr Khan, a Muslim Gold Star father whose son died in Iraq, as a speaker at the convention.
- 30:32Khan has ties to Islamist front groups operating out of Saudi Arabia, though Tim notes all U.S. leaders have similar foreign entanglements.
- 31:02Tim observes the polarization on Facebook: the left demands free healthcare, housing, and college; the right posts incoherent grievances.
- 31:20His Facebook friend epitomizes the Long Island Yahoo—a Trump superfan whose profile picture is himself with a MAGA hat or Trump hair filter.
- 31:58The guy posts that Breitbart should poach Hannity and O'Reilly from Fox to start their own station, removing liberal commentators like Megyn Kelly and Juan Williams.
- 32:26Such a station would resemble Alex Jones but focused on hating minorities instead of conspiracy theories.
- 32:56The Long Island guy posts that Chelsea Clinton should wear a burka because she's ugly, his political commentary reduced to personal insults.
- 33:24His posts list serious issues—ISIS, illegal immigration, the economy, Iran—dismissing coverage of a dead lion as unimportant.
- 33:43A contingent of Trump supporters believes they've been under attack for the past decade through what they call political correctness.
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