"Leave Donald Alone!" Pleads His Press Secretary

The BBQ Pit
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:rolleyes: You really need to re-examine your silly assumption that the environmental importance of a region is determined solely by how many and how often human beings physically see it.

For example, many of the drought-stricken regions in the West are physically remote and unpopulated, but they nonetheless have a massive impact when it comes to devastating wildfires. Most of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are entirely unpopulated, but their significance for climate factors affecting billions of humans is huge.

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In the late 60s liberals were all het up that we were running out of trees
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What makes you think that deforestation wasn’t a serious environmental problem in the 1960s (or that it isn’t still a serious environmental problem)?

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in the early 70s we were all running out of oil
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:confused: In what way are you imagining that “running out of oil” is an environmental problem? Cite for 1970s “liberals” presenting it that way? I think you’ve just got mixed up between environmental crises and the oil embargo, which was fundamentally an economic crisis.

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ithen came the hole in the ozone that was gonna kill us all
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Which is now a diminishing problem because of international legislation that successfully addressed the causes of it. Yay, regulation!

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and now it’s [del]global warming[/del] climate change.
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You seem to be confused about the name of the problem: it can be correctly described both as global warming and as climate change. The global warming of the atmosphere produced by massive anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gas concentrations is what produces the various changes in climate.

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I know this because the country’s liberals have now been placated on all these issues except climate change by costly and restrictive regulation
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Please name even one specific example of US legislation to counteract deforestation, as well as one to counteract ozone depletion, that you consider “costly and restrictive” when compared to the long-term costs of not addressing those problems.

(I’ll let you off finding an example about oil shortage since, as I said, I think you just got confused between the economic crisis of an oil shortage and an actual environmental crisis.)

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Trump has had no business successes, and his net worth is probably negative. I’m a better businessman than Trump is, as are most of the other members of this board. We’d all be able to at least invest our money in a nice index fund, which would have given a better return on investment than Trump’s thievery.

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Actually, OPEC was pissed we supplied arms to Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
In 79, it was the Iranian Revolution.

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It’s truly jarring how little the fantasy Donald Trump you’ve built up in your mind has in common with the actual Donald Trump— whom, it may surprise you to learn, we can all see and hear.

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No. I’m not pretending to quote you or in any way misrepresenting your direct words: I’m just being clear about what the claims you’re making actually imply.

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could you please explain the mechanism by which the rich getting richer results in the poor getting poorer?
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You misunderstood the statement: it’s not the mere fact of rich people getting richer that necessarily causes poor people to get poorer. It’s the particular strategies of Republican trickle-up economics that cause both those things to happen together.

Here’s an example illustrating the difference. When, say, J.K. Rowling writes another successful Harry Potter book or Ted Nugent gives another successful concert, those are examples of rich people getting richer without causing poor people to become poorer in consequence.

But when Republican legislators pass large top-bracket tax cuts and cut means-tested social services to pay for them, since tax cuts for the wealthy don’t produce economic growth, that results in the rich getting richer (since they pay less in taxes) and the poor getting poorer (since they have less support from needed services) simultaneously.

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It used to surprise me what imaginary gods people would willingly choose to worship, until I started comparing them to the non-imaginary gods they also chose to bow down to.

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Oh yeah? Well, if Trump is such a bad business man, then how did he inherit so much money, huh?

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Paris Hilton has been far more successful turning her inheritance into a business empire than The Donald has.

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I do not want to see the Donald Trump sex tape.

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The Olsen Twins are better at business.

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I’d be OK with somebody else seeing it, and telling me about it. Especially if it were something impeachable, like an unauthorized blowjob.

Me, I’d bet that if Trump sex tape exists that shows him to be a sexual Tyrannosaurus with a dick like the Hammer of Thor…we’d already have it. He ain’t shy.

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No shit. Were I Garry Trudeau, I’d be chumming up with the Trudeaus up in Canada.

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Honestly, I think Trump loves it when the press digs at him. Sure he’ll go on a midnight tweet storm, but don’t be fooled – the sonofabugger loves free press, be it good or bad. NYTimes and Wa-Po op-eds are probably erotic poetry as far as he’s concerned.

The rude awakening will come in the form of job approval ratings and if (hopefully when) he loses the mid-term congressional elections and control of congress. Those are popularity contests that can’t be ignored so easily.

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Yep. If Trump had just taken his daddy’s loan and invested it, he’d be worth a lot more. He has negative money-making acumen.

But Trump is all about his vanity, ego, and celebrity. He needs to slap his name on things. Attention is his oxygen.

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Are we really still going with “Trump is playing 4-dimensional chess”? Really? Never mind that we have extensive evidence of his extremely thin skin, never mind that any rational profile of his psychology based on his public statements and the statements of his ghost writers and personal aides paints him as a thin-skinned narcissist, the reason he’s going after these people is because…

…Riiiight. His press secretary telling people to leave him alone is a great move for him and his candidacy. I’m sorry, I don’t buy it.

Need I reiterate my list? While none of the things on it cost him the election (obviously), you cannot act like his attacks on the Khan family were good for him. And you can’t pretend it wasn’t an obvious misstep that pretty much no other politician would have made - it was clear from the start what a terrible idea that was, and how petty and vindictive it would make him look. Because only someone incredibly petty and vindictive would do that. Why did Trump do it? Because he’s incredibly petty and vindictive. Not because he’s playing 4D chess. Not because he’s some genius mastermind of a politician. Not because there was some secret endgame that was somehow achieved by mocking the family of a dead iraqi veteran.

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That might have made sense if his “goals” were not actually limited to those things that are of personal benefit to him.
He has no other goals than to be praised (and funded).

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He’s probably more likely hung like a seahorse.

He told us at the debate there was no problem there, but I think he’s hiding something not yuuuge. He wouldn’t release a sex tape for the same reasons he won’t release his taxes. They would both be evidence of underperformance.

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BYW, after Sunday’s little whine fest, is it OK to begin referring to Sean Spicer as Mouth of Sauron?

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I think Trump does indeed have thin skin, but I think a part of him loves to enter the arena and fight people he perceives as his fellow gladiators, be they people in the press, other entertainers, journalists, or even other political candidates. I can’t tell whether he’s thin-skinned or whether he just genuinely loves a good fight – or maybe it’s both. It’s weird how he went after all sorts of celebrities who trashed him during the campaign yet hardly said a negative word about Michelle Obama even after she publicly rebuked him on multiple occasions.

When mainstream celebrities go after him I think it almost sort of arouses him – gets his competitive juices flowing. The real pain would be in the form of knowing that his fans don’t like him anymore. He lives for adulation. Take it away, and I think he’s a broken man.

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You might want to check with Sauron.

ETA: I would go with Spewmeister.