Butt-Hurt Trump Takes to Twitter Again (Part 1)

[ElvisL1ves]

@Czarcasm

The jackass-elect actually ordered the cast to apologize?
That deserves a two word reply: “You first”.

I might have chosen a somewhat different two-word reply, but that one works too.

[Morgenstern]

@Czarcasm

The jackass-elect actually ordered the cast to apologize?
That deserves a two word reply: “You first”.

Achtung. Virst we order them to komply vith the fuhrer’s requests.
If they refuse. Ve kill them.
Vait until vou zees die Attorney General ve have for you. Field Marshall Sessions vill make America grate again.

[Chefguy]

It’s called the First Amendment. Trump should probably familiarize himself with it. Stupid fuckwit.

[Count_Blucher]

@ElvisL1ves

I might have chosen a somewhat different two-word reply, but that one works too.

…I might EVEN suggest a three word phrase response to every and any ridiculous BS Comment made by Trump during his entire term.

On the Internet.
In the audience as he speaks.
In Person.
Just Three Little Words.
Hint: the last one is Trump

[Morgyn]

@running_coach

Duckspeak is only used in the context of an echo chamber.

@dropzone

I hate you. Nothing personal.

Yep. I saw what he did there, too.

Pure genius.

[Der_Trihs]

@Grrr

You think maybe there’s someplace in between burring your head and coming off distasteful at inappropriate times to get a perfectly valid point across? And do you think maybe it’s this sort of “justified” attitude that has alienated so many people from the left?

Rather the opposite. It’s the constant deferring and submitting by the Democrats to people like Trump & Pence that has alienated people from the left. Blacks and women and gays and other targets of Pence and those like him see such behavior and recognize it for what it is: a backstab. A demonstration that the left doesn’t really care and won’t really stand up for them, not if it means so much as irritating the bigots.

[Superdude]

@Broomstick

Uh… yeah, he actually is. I may not agree with him, but he has displayed what I believe is genuine human emotion and even, at times, empathy with people. Some people. People who aren’t in the classes of people Pence believes should be modified to suit his religious beliefs.

I guess my mileage varies. From the southern end of Indiana, vice president-elect and Cotton Hill cosplayer Mike Pence makes me ashamed to be a Hoosier.

[ThelmaLou]

@bucketybuck

Is it not like, really really embarrassing for a country to have its president constantly posting drivel on Twitter like some stupid little child?

This. It’s nuts for Trump to be doing this. It’s the equivalent of him running around with a can of spray paint tagging buildings.

When he becomes the P-word (still can’t say it), will he keep up this ridiculous barrage of tweets? It’s inappropriate, undignified, juvenile-- and it would be if ANYONE did it. If Obama, or Hillary, or the POPE did it–it would be completely inappropriate.

Regardless of whether you agree with what the Hamilton cast did*, for Trump to DEMAND that they apologize?? WTF is he thinking?? Oh, right: he doesn’t think. :smack:

*I thought it was perfectly okay.

[sinjin]

@Stranger_On_A_Train

Not “bury your head”; stop focusing on his trivial offenses with no real lasting impact and turn a shining light on his more abominable actions with horrifying long-term consequences. During this campaign, the media gave Trump a virtually free platform, to the tune of an estimated US$2B, to espouse racist, isolationist, hateful rhetoric in exchange for the recreational outrage of being able to laugh at a clown who is so spitefully petty that he’s maintained a grudge to a beauty pagent contesistant and he can’t help but respond to a satirical allegation about the size of his hands that has been running on approaching three decades. Guess who got the better side of that deal? In fact, it’s probably the best actual deal Donald Trump has ever made. Sure, it’s hard to find something substantive to say about a candidate so superficial and desultory as Trump, but even when the media had stories of genuine substance such as Trump harassing black residents or boasting of sexually molesting women, they carried them for a few days, relying on the outrage factor of being able to say “pussy” on air (or tap dance in amused perfunctory prurience around it), and then moved on to the next bizarrely inappropriate but inconsequential Twitter message or vacuous campaign pledge to do something mildly outrageous.

The real horror of this entire election has been the normalization of deviance; the things no candidate short of a radical white nationalist movements should be able to espouse without retreating into hiding in a small Caribbean nation from public shaming became the background noise to Trump’s daily antics and fretting over Clinton using a private email server when it is plain that a large number of legislators and officials frequently email sensitive and FOUO information to their Yahoo! and Gmail accounts like they’re sending recipies to their in-laws. The truth is that nearly half of the people who turne out to vote elected a loud-mouthed blowhard who demonstrated zero intent or aptitude to actually following through on the hollow promises and bombast that shat out of his mouth faster than diarrhea from a night of binging on Taco Bell specials, and the opposing main candidate was so poorly received that people literally couldn’t decide against voting between her or a reality show figuring dipped in Nacho Cheese Dorito crumbs.

In a normal election you have two (or occasionally three) candidates who are critical of each others policies, prior performance, and character to uphold the duties of the office, but never in living memory has a candidate openly leavied unshrouded insults, vengefully threatened repercussions upon taking office, or transparently suggested that his followers should assassinate the opposition. Even if you distrusted or hated Hillary Clinton for any of a number of valid, exaggerated, or totally manufactured reasons, the fact that Trump resorted to this behavior in the course of a campaign, and even in the middle of what was supposed to be a policy debate, this is unacceptable behavior by someone seeking the office of municipal dog catcher, much less President of the United States.

This is not normal. This is historic abnormality in the making. It’s the kind of gross abnormality that gets mentioned in history texts right before a nation goes completely fucking off its rocker and starts killing its own citizens or annexing other nations because it wants a better view. The resigned acceptance of this behavior and of Trump’s “tear down the system” rage-making as being somewhere on the spectrum of things that sometimes happen in a democracy because employment/trade agreements/corrupt banks/whatever is not remotely normal. But by turning away from this behavior and the tacit approval of the Republicans who gathered behind him (and from whom he stole nearly the entire rhetoric from whole cloth, only saturating it with lighting fluid and setting it aflame), and focusing on whatever stupid or offensive thing that Trump tweeted out to the world while taking his 3:40 AM dump, makes it all seem about equivalent in significance and impact.

Every news story about Donald Trump for the next four years (or however long he remains in office) should start with the words, “This is not normal! (Apologies to John Oliver for stealing his new catchphrase.)” and followed by a detailed examination of how Trump blatantly reneged on some promise to bring jobs or build infrastructure, or how he has issued an executive order in clear violation of Constitutional rights or how he has used his position to increase his personal and family wealth. It shouldn’t be about which beauty pagent contestant or talk show host he said something mildly offensive about, or how he plans to redecorate the White House in gilded gold, and it sure to fuck shouldn’t be about his latest nearly incoherent Twitter war with a comedian or singer. Doing mildly offensive amusing things to keep the outrage meter pegged so that when something actually worthy of outrage comes along (as it inevitably will on a regular basis) is doing a grave disservice to the principle of informing the public about things they actually need to know to make informed decisions.

Oh, and they also need to stop giving a fuck about Kanye West, too, and any other celebrity who decides to take a ride on the recreational outrage profit train. If you ignore the trolls, they will eventually get bored and go away.

Stranger

I agree completely. THIS IS NOT NORMAL!!! I am amazed by all the talking heads smiling and laughing on TV. I am amazed at how the press is trying to make TRUMP look like a normal President elect. STOP getting your panties in a twist about his tweets. Be outraged about his cabinet picks. Report on their backgrounds and their incompetence. Be outraged by his children who are supposedly running his company being on his transition team. Be outraged at his Russian connections and demand an investigation into the Russian interference in the election. I am sick of the damn tweets.

[elucidator]

@Superdude

… Mike Pence makes me ashamed to be a Hoosier.

Did you check with your father? You know, Hoosier Daddy?

[Broomstick]

@Superdude

I guess my mileage varies. From the southern end of Indiana, vice president-elect and Cotton Hill cosplayer Mike Pence makes me ashamed to be a Hoosier.

I didn’t say that his conduct was OK, or that I feel any less ashamed to be a Hoosier. I merely stated I believed Pence was capable of human emotion. That doesn’t make him a good man or a sympathetic man or someone I think make wise and/or appropriate decisions for his job.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@running_coach

Duckspeak is only used in the context of an echo chamber.

Ah, yes, I see it now. In my defense, when the duckspeak term comes up in the novel, there is a form of echo chamber - the character with the rapid-fire voice spouting mindless pro-Oceania, anti-thought-criminal doggerel is talking at (not really “to”, since there’s no indication he’s paying any attention to her responses) a woman at his table who expresses various agreements.

[ThelmaLou]

@sinjin

I agree completely. THIS IS NOT NORMAL!!! I am amazed by all the talking heads smiling and laughing on TV. I am amazed at how the press is trying to make TRUMP look like a normal President elect. STOP getting your panties in a twist about his tweets. Be outraged about his cabinet picks. Report on their backgrounds and their incompetence. Be outraged by his children who are supposedly running his company being on his transition team. Be outraged at his Russian connections and demand an investigation into the Russian interference in the election. I am sick of the damn tweets.

+1

As I said in another forum, I can only believe that the Men in Black Flashy-Thing has been at work and the people who are normalizing Trump have already forgotten who this man is! He is not just another Republican candidate-- he is way outside the bounds of normality. He isn’t even the P-word yet, and we’re already seeing a continuation of his outrageous behavior. It’s like Emerald City and a giant segment of the population is wearing Trump-colored glasses and can’t or won’t see what is happening.

This is not Democrat/liberal sour grapes-- the man is not behaving like a normal candidate, P-elect, statesman, or politician.

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@Kamino_Neko

Yes, and it’s ‘humility is bad’.

The bombastic psychopath and his bigot buddy won the election because they screamed lies to the heavens, and half the potential electorate bought it…and stayed home.
…

Actually LESS than half, by 1.2 million votes.

[Spice_Weasel]

Is there any space to acknowledge that Trump is not normal or appropriate without also assuming we are about to lose 100 years of social progress or end in a fiery nuclear war? I’ll start freaking out when he actually does something, rather than bloviates about shit he has no intention of doing. I’ve never seen him follow through on anything or hold the same position for longer than two minutes.

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[Bryan_Ekers]

@Spice_Weasel

Is there any space to acknowledge that Trump is not normal or appropriate without also assuming we are about to lose 100 years of social progress or end in a fiery nuclear war? I’ll start freaking out when he actually does something, rather than bloviates about shit he has no intention of doing. I’ve never seen him follow through on anything or hold the same position for longer than two minutes.

Yes, it’s fair to wait until he takes office at least, and his various appointments start doing their jobs.

Personally, I’m inclined to say Trump is normal, for the United States.

Citizens of the United States are welcome to feel insulted by that observation.

[Superdude]

@Broomstick

I didn’t say that his conduct was OK, or that I feel any less ashamed to be a Hoosier. I merely stated I believed Pence was capable of human emotion. That doesn’t make him a good man or a sympathetic man or someone I think make wise and/or appropriate decisions for his job.

Fair enough. I suppose I’m using a different metric than you, but that’s okay.

@elucidator

Did you check with your father? You know, Hoosier Daddy?

Well, before my dad died, he swore up and down that the only way that he knew I was his is because I’m the middle child, and look like the other two had a kid. So, unless my mom had the same “other guy” knock her up 3 times…

[Kamino_Neko]

@Chefguy

It’s called the First Amendment.

Isn’t that the one that states that Christians don’t need to acknowledge other people’s same-sex marriages? The Vice President Elect told us this.

[Spice_Weasel]

It’s hard to feel offended by the insult. I mean, what defense do we even have at this point? Our culture is obviously flawed.

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[ThelmaLou]

@Spice_Weasel

Is there any space to acknowledge that Trump is not normal or appropriate without also assuming we are about to lose 100 years of social progress or end in a fiery nuclear war? I’ll start freaking out when he actually does something, rather than bloviates about shit he has no intention of doing. I’ve never seen him follow through on anything or hold the same position for longer than two minutes.

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Check out who he is surrounding himself with. I agree that Trump is inconsistent, has no center, and is a tower of Jell-o. But he’s letting a bunch of genies out of a lot of bottles, and he will not be able to control them.

[jsc1953]

Trump’s supporters on social media are demanding a boycott of Hamilton, and predicting dire financial consequences for its future, its cast, and touring productions.

Yeah, right. They realize it’s playing in New York, right? Not Pocatello, Idaho? And that it’s sold out for the next 9 months? This demonstration will not cause Hamilton to lose a single nickel.