President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Pretty good.

 

Pretend we met. Hadn't met before. Why the everloving fuck would you bring up politics in conversation without prompting? That would mark you as an antisocial ass in my book, and I would quietly walk away.

If you can't control your impulse to yak about politics, that's on you. I would never bring it up in polite company.

 

When one of my Facebook friends starts talking politics, the first thing I do -- before I even really read it -- is hide the post. If most of what they post is political (like my brother during the last presidential campaign), I'll unfollow them.

 

These days, I don't bring up politics socially. If someone raises it around me, however, I'll talk. I won't yell, but I'll be frank.
At a pool party Saturday night with a Trumper whose dudgeon went 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds, and it was rather unpleasant. Tried to de-escalate him, to no avail - I'm just avoiding this dude from now on.
Later, he got into a big argument this close to getting physical with our host's nearly 50ish son (who probably had a Fireball or two too many), and it had nothing to do with politics - said if this was his son, he'd spank him, right in front of his mother and stepfather. Thank God he then left. Great example of how strongman dictator politics is catnip to assholes like him.

 

Hannity looks like he's morphing into Trump with the bronzer.

 

He gets off on otherwise decent people fighting ... over him.
It's all part of the neediness, all part of the pathology.
So my policy is to ignore the subject in public.

I have a finite lifespan on this planet, I don't intend to spend every day talking about someone with a personality disorder.

 

You just posted a Tweet from a guy who has 5,000 followers and identifies himself only as "a regular working lawyer." Even if you'd just posted the Tweet thread contained within Jeffery Whoever's tweet, it's still just a recap of reporting that has been done by other news organizations. The New York Times just did a huge blowout on Ross' shady dealings. All you did was post some Internet person's opini-alysis of OMG WHAT DOES THIS MEAN. Actually, you posted one Internet person's opini-alysis of another person's opini-alysis of OMG WHAT DOES THIS MEAN.

I'm only chiming in to explain why I think 75 percent of the tweets posted here are bunk, and why I don't enjoy having to wade through them. Tweets like this one are little more than echoes from the chamber. If I want to know the viewpoint of some left-leaning armchair analyst who I've never heard of, I know where to find them: Twitter, which is bad enough when self-contained. My litmus test is pretty much this: a Tweet is worth posting if 1) it is from a reputable journalist and contains new facts that have not been reported elsewhere (i.e., it is not possible to summarize the new developments and link to a full story), or, 2) It is newsworthy on its own (i.e., a public figure taking a stance on something that is not boilerplate partisan jibber jabber).

That's just me. Not saying any of this to rag on you, just attempting to help you understand where myself and others are coming from.

 

I wouldn’t bring it up. But what if an organic conversation leads there? Politics are constantly bubbling just beneath the surface in this climate.

I think it was a Michael Che joke, paraphrasing: I would love to go back to barely remembering who the president is.

You don’t have to worry about me though. I usually don’t talk to strangers.

Now, if I saw you in a restaurant eating burnt steak... I might not be able to help myself.

 

How long before Hannity or another full-on Trumpist just goes off on Smith because of his sexual preference?

 

"He’s like the killer who keeps returning to the scene of the crime, ignoring the bloodhounds on his trail. There’s no method to his madness. It’s just madness."

Frank Rich: Why Trump Goes Out of His Way to Incriminate Himself

 

The ones that are, need to laugh at him, and enjoy the clown show.

 

Being an amateur shrink myself, I don't think Trump really wanted to be President, he just wanted to stick it to everyone who said he was a joke and he loved the attention. I imagine having people not on his payroll actually cheering him on and saying he's doing great is something he never would have imagined.