…ya know, you think you know just how mad the entire last few year have been: but then you read what Trump said to the Egyptian President shortly after getting elected…
And the only possible response is “Holy Fucking Shit.”
Correlation isn’t necessarily causation, etc., but what was so crazy about that whole thing is that it corresponded with a permanent drop in Obama’s support among white people.
HOLYSHIT Spain is in the “full democracies” group! The bottom line, ok, but gosh we purdy!
I’m beginning to wonder whether our friend asahi is a Russian plant. I do not think that revoking voting rights or “education camps” is a position any reasonable person on the left would actually advocate for.
I don’t believe that. I just can’t. Someone please tell me Michael Lewis made that up or got it third hand from someone unreliable. There’s no way that can be true.
I think you should re-read that part of the article; it doesn’t say what you say it says:
It definitely gives that impression, but it doesn’t really say that Trump said it while talking to the Egyptian president.
grrooooooaaaannnnnnn
In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
I’ve wondered the same thing for the last several weeks; glad I’m not alone. Do I think asahi is a Russkie? No, not really, but in being relentlessly divisive and speaking as (he?) does, he seems to be serving the purpose.
It’s been his schtick for a while and he’s already been taken to task for it several times in this very thread.
Either way, it’s a staggeringly stupid thing to say.
I agree with Llama. That is too stupid, even for Trump.
Oh, come on now. Reading all of ashahi’s posts in this Trump debacle for two years tells me he’s very emotional about this subject. He’s drained and maybe needs a break. The re-educate stuff is probably just fuming.
Hey, you Canucks may be used to doing well in the exams but we’re still recovering from about 500 years of Black Legend, plus about 120 years of trying to kill each other any time the government changed, plus 40 years of Paco Rana, plus then being told we had to feel White Man’s Guilt, plus we’re convinced we’re the most sexist country in the world well except for the Muslim ones those beat us there, plus…
I swear the whole country has a serious case of feeling shorter and stupider than everybody else. Any time anybody likes us for something we actually did and not just for an accident of geography it’s like “really?”
When engaging in discussion with my conservative friends, I really don’t need chuckle-heads like asahi on my side spouting off literal Stalinist solutions.
I guess that he’s trying to make some sort of point, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what that point would be.
I, for one, will have to be empirically convinced there is a substance, let alone life form, that is “too stupid”, compared to Trump.
Osmium? 
(Densest naturally occurring element.)
The Wizard of Osmium?
It’s his Density!