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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
     
  2. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Putting wife in quotation marks puts him in the running for "Misogynist of the Year?" You really are ridiculous. I don't agree with him posting it that way, but what you posted was a ridiculous reach.

    Imagine how far off a post would have to be for me to defend fart boy.
     
  3. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    I don't like being lectured to about American values by a onetime undocumented immigrant, in a Transylvania accent.
    If that makes me misogynist I'll wear it.
    I hate his guts and hers too.
     
  4. daemon

    daemon Well-Known Member

    Is it really fascinating? Trump is a troll. It is the one thing that he is undeniably good at. He knows what will get detractors worked up, and he knows that he can use that to further the narrative that he feeds to his base. Instead of visiting the troops on Christmas, he gives the Reflexive Outrage Machine 24 hours to screech about how of course Trump wouldn't visit the troops on Christmas, and then he invalidates that outrage by visiting the troops after all, at which point the ROM is forced to either defend an indefensible position ("Well, why not on Christmas DAY?"), or turn its attention toward some other outrage, which only reinforces the base's belief that it is all a big game of politics that Trump is simply better at winning.

    This thread is a microcosm of it.
     
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  5. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    I'm still amazed the guy gets praised for doing shit he's supposed to be doing - visiting the troops, acting like someone above third grade at a funeral. On and on and on.
     
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  6. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Same stunt he pulled with the Thanksgivng calls. And with the Boy Scouts the summer before last.
    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
     
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  8. daemon

    daemon Well-Known Member

    I don't know that he gets praised - it's more that all of these normally mundane things get turned into huge issues because of the microscope that is on the guy, in no small part because the opposition can't wait to interpret any little thing that he does or does not do as validation for their belief that the guy is in the process of blowing up the country (And I say this as somebody who ardently believes that he is, in fact, blowing up the country). But if the #Resistance makes a big deal out of Trump not visiting the troops, then it ends up being a big deal when he does visit the troops.
     
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  9. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Daemon-
    I understand what you're saying. It's what happens when someone refuses to be compliant.
    But this is all more misdirection. Mueller Claus isn't going to fuck off like the big guy in the North Pole does after the 25th.
    And hiding behind the military is as old as the Roman Caesars.
     
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  10. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    I really don't care, do u?
     
  11. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    I got an email today from an astronaut who's officially out of work because Trump, trying to please his racist supporters and TV's grifter classes, is throwing a tantrum about his dumb wall. I can't think of a more succinct indictment of today's shitty America.
     
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  12. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    He's like a little kid who is stubborn as hell - won't do anything his parents ask them. And then when they bribe him with a cookie to clean his room - acts like he's cured cancer. "Look, I cleaned my room. Look, I did the dishes. Look, I walked the dog."
     
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