Well, that was sad as hell

[Recursion]

Yesterday I watched my wife giving one of her standard outreach talks to students in Mumbai and a teenage boy asked, "I'm Muslim, and I've heard that if Trump becomes President I won't be able to come to America and study. Is that true?"

She's a pro at this, so she obviously dodged that question with some sort of generic feel-good pablum, but man that's fucking awful...

[elleng]

1. Yes it is, Recursion,

and given some unpleasant facts, the possibility looms larger than it should. See this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511342202

[Warpy]

2. It would be a good time to talk about checks and balances

that were put there to ensure that no one man, not even an egomaniacal asshole like Trump, would be able to act like a dictator if he happened to get into office. All power is limited here, at least in theory.

[Wilms]

4. You mean bush's "Unitary President" which Obama expanded?

[Wilms]

3. There are foreigners who are vacationing here and volunteering...

...for Bernie.

[safeinOhio]

5. When GW was president

and I was overseas, I always said I was from Canada.

[tkmorris]

6. Yes, good on your wife for lying to a kid

Do you ever just step back and think about things? Like maybe being a pro at, well, ANYTHING does NOT entail lying to teenagers in Mumbai?

[Recursion]

7. WTF?

She didn't lie, she talked about separation of powers and how the Congress and courts have a say in immigration laws.

What the hell was that?