Six months of Trump and Hillary attack ads . . . ya got any of that tequila and bongwater left?
You could not possibly pay me enough to live in Ohio.
Ever.
But particularly for the next six months.
Smartest thing I ever did was move from Ohio to safe blue states.
I buy the tequila, the other is homebrew. A sacrifice made for quality control.
so you ended up with a billionaire vs a paid for by billionaires?
No, I end up with a buzz that would stop a bullet. Point of the whole exercise, really.
Apparently Trump is going to start getting intelligence briefings as presumptive nominee. The idea being to get the next president up to speed.
I assume no really secret stuff gets shared until at least after the general election - but can you imagine Trump not blurting something out to show how smart he is?
Maybe they will spoon-feed him false intelligence for him to blurt out, thereby confounding the Enemy.
Us?
Oh! I think I met them once!
It’s classified, so it’s all secret. But yeah, I HOPE he blurts out something that won’t get anyone directly hurt. That buffoon is what a significant amount of Americans feel should lead our nation, the more buffoonery now the less likely we’ll have to deal with the man’s tiny finger on the button.
What do you guys think is Paul Ryan’s play in not backing Trump? Covering his ass from a surely doomed presidential campaign or the voice piece of the Old Guard pressuring Trump for some key concession or compliance.
He doesn’t know what to do, because nobody knows what to do. He would love to be the guy who knows what to do, but he isn’t. So, maybe if he just stalls for a little while, he’ll think of something!
He’s proven very fond of avoiding answering, obscuring his intentions and concealing sensitive information that could be used by our enemies, so we can only hope that he would continue this when he has real answers, formulated plans and actual sensitive information that could be used by our actual enemies.
Handy-dandy reference material:
Washington Post publishes a compendium article, bringing together All of Donald Trump’s Four-Pinocchio ratings, in one place. (ETA: Need it be pointed out, this article is rather lengthy?)
This appears to be from about six weeks ago, dated March 22. (Not sure why it suddenly showed up today on WaPo’s headlines.)
Good stuff. That’s a bookmark, then.
I’ll just mention that despite the Mar. 22 dateline, it’s clearly been updated sometime after Apr. 20, as it references the recent National Enquirer story concerning Ted Cruz’ father.
Trump is using the Orlando horror to once again push for blocking Muslims from entry. Lotta good that would do against all those, like Mateen, who were born here!
He is actually exploiting the event to pat himself on the back (“Appreciate the congrats for being right”). Every time you think he can’t sink any lower, he does.
And the thing that really bugs me is that his supporters dint see anything wrong with that. He’s “tough” and “tells it like it is” or something, and it doesn’t matter how many lies he gets caught in, or implies that Obama is somehow sympathetic to
terrorists, or if he pats himself on the back while they are still trying to figure out the scope of the tragedy. As far as i can tell, it only makes his supporters admire him more.
I mentioned to a friend of mine that i wondered if trump was the anti- Christ, running on the “my dick is yuuuge” platform, and he thoughtfully responded "who knew the anti- Christ would be so …embarrassing? "
Apologies for this late reply to your post, BigT. I would’ve responded sooner but, given its content, I thought it best to wait until I had literally nothing better to do in the world.
There’s a lot of bullshit that needs unpacking here. If it’s al the same to you, I’m going to tackle your “points” in reverse order. Let’s start with this:
To be clear, you’re defining ‘Conservative’ as “Someone who makes fun of wimpy overgrown children who get squicked out at the sight of the word ‘Trump’”. The necessary corollary, therefore, is that a ‘Liberal’, in your eyes, is someone who supports this namby-pamby ‘woe-is-me’ bullshit. In that case, yes. I’m a Conservative and proud of it.
If, however, you define ‘Liberal’ as someone who is pro-choice, pro marriage equality, pro universal healthcare, in favour of progressive taxation, anti-Iraq war, pro reasonable gun legislation, anti-TTIP, pro-drug legalisation, or any of the other things normal people associate with Liberalism, then I’m a liberal. Either that or I’m just the worst conservative ever. I voted for Jeremy Corbyn, for fuck’s sake, and he makes Bernie Sanders look like Mussolini.
Okay, two points. Firstly, I would happily bet everything I own that most liberals probably find these snivelling milquetoasts are just as pathetic as I do. Secondly, believe it or not, not all movement is positive. It is actually possible to move backwards, and these kids have - in the name of liberalism no less - moved so far backwards that they’ve ended up in some weird authoritarian no-man’s-land where it’s perfectly acceptable to burst into tears at the sight of the word ‘Trump’ and barricade a University Dean’s office to demand the censure of the person who wrote it because feeeeeelings. Well fuck that. And fuck them.
So let’s say Trump wins. You would, I presume, vote for the Democratic candidate in 2020. In doing so, you would, by your own definition, have become a conservative. After all, you would be “wanting things to go back the way they were in the past”. Dispute that conclusion all you like, but I am using your definition. Perhaps it’s worth considering the possibility that your definition is stupid?
These kids aren’t fighting against bigotry. ‘TRUMP 2016’ is not bigotry. Protocols of the Elders of Zion, that’s bigotry; gay bashing, Strange Fruit, apartheid, the Ku-Klux-Klan, that’s bigotry. ‘Trump 2016’ is a campaign slogan, and a rather boring one at that. Like it or not, Donald Trump is, by popular decree, the presumptive nominee of the biggest political party in America, and come November about 60 million people are going to vote for him. Are you saying they’re all bigots? Because that’s kinda…well, bigoted.
No. They’re not. They’re posturing for attention.
Hey, I’ve just decided that the T in ‘BigT’ probably stands for ‘Trump’. I hereby demand you cease posting immediately, lest you make me cry. This may be an over-reaction, but damn it I’m doing what’s right!
No, I just hang out with people who aren’t sanctimonious, censorious, authoritarians. They would, therefore, probably take a dim view of my being associated with these sanctimonious, censorious, authoritarian students, and quite rightly.
I’m making two arguments here, and only two:
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Anyone who thinks it’s appropriate to storm their university dean’s office and demand satisfaction because they saw ‘TRUMP 2016’ scrawled in chalk on a sidewalk is a pathetic loser, totally unequipped for the real world, who needs to toughen the fuck up for their own good.
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Because these whiny little bitches call themselves liberals, and because their hilarious antics get so much attention in the press and on social media (and, by attention, I mean the ’OMFG Get a load of these fucking pussies!!!’ kind of attention), liberals like me, who aren’t cry-babies, end up getting unjustly tarred with the same brush.
This has absolutely nothing to do with David Cameron. Like, literally nothing at all. Besides, you don’t know the extent to which Cameron is anti political correctness. He’s not slinging round words like nigger and faggot in Parliament, so he can’t be completely anti PC. And you don’t know the extent to which I’m anti PC either. All you know, is that I draw the line at cry-bullies attention whoring over a bit of fucking chalk. I’d imagine David Cameron would find it equally ridiculous. That doesn’t mean we have anything else in common. And if, to be considered PC, one must necessarily be sympathetic to the petulant bleatings of these blubbering little brats then I’d imagine virtually no-one would qualify as PC.
I haven’t made a single “might makes right” argument. If you disagree, by all means quote me so I can point out how you’re wrong in more detail.
Actually, given all the subsequent histrionics, I like to think the real hero here is the guy who dared to express his support for Trump in such an obviously hostile environment. As for those kids being strong? They protested the university dean on the grounds that they were traumatised by a word. They are not, by any reasonable definition, strong.
What, you think he’s morally obligated to have a fucking summit meeting with every little squirt holding a placard? Is he their dean or their therapist? I’m not saying these kids don’t need some kind of therapy because they clearly do, but does he have to be the one to dish it out? A complaint must surely rise to a certain standard of severity to be worth a dean’s attention. If a complaint fails to meet that standard he’s well within his rights to tell them to stop being so bloody neurotic and get out of his office.
Really? I don’t remember any students having conniption fits over any ‘BUSH 2004’ signs.
If you’d ever seen me dance you’d know there’s no shortage of things which make me look bad. One thing which absolutely does not make me look bad, however, is the fact that you have a low opinion of me. Because you’re a sanctimonious arse, and your opinion is about as welcome as a fart in a spaceship and nowhere near as easy to take.
Good day, sir! Good day!
flounces off into the sunset