More information about the context of the poker game, please. Casino/card club situation, or private home? If casino, strangers or buddies? If private home, were you the host or a guest?
Most importantly, how did you do for the session? Did you clean them out, get cleaned out, or break even?
I was going to just read responses but this is important.
Casino playing $1/2 NLHE. I knew most of the dealers who rotated in and dealt to/played with a few of the players before but I didn’t know anyone super well at the table.
I finished up a little over $250 for the session which for a nit like me is pretty good. I did felt one player but he was pretty short and bought back in so I can’t say I cleaned anyone out. But I won almost a buy-in which I’ll take every time.
Thanks for asking!
Right–because Trump doesn’t really give a shit about making the country better. He just cares about his money, and his image–which is the only thing that gets him money, since he isn’t capable of actually doing anything of any value.
But Trump’s base doesn’t know the difference, so they believe his bullshit act as president (just like they believed his bullshit acting on The Apprentice), and they think he “gets things done” because his says so. They’re feeble-minded from watching reality TV, and he knows that, so he just continues doing the same thing in the White House.
Two words: Democrat obstructionism.
And how, pray, are Democrats obstructing anything when the Republican party holds the majority in both houses of Congress?
Stranger
Then the thing to respond with as you leave the table and flash your winnings is “I got this done.”
I’d think reopening the door to Iran becoming a nuclear power, after we’d managed to shut it a few years back, would be universally recognized as a negative accomplishment. But maybe that’s just me.
Not to mention, it’s a hell of a lot easier to pull out of deals than negotiate deals. If someone reached down and made me President tomorrow, I could pull us out of treaties and other deals. I’d be hard pressed to know where to start with respect to making new ones.
You can’t win that argument because Donald Trump “gets things done” that you and people with a shred of decency find offensive. Putting Hispanic children in cages is an example of getting things done; it’s also inhumane. But you can see where I’m going with this.
Donald Trump was voted into power because white people wanted to go back to the country they remember, a little whiter and less openly gay. I don’t care how friendly they seem on the surface, that is their bottom line. And you’re not going to debate that or change how they feel about it.
They will only change when they get tired of dealing with the rot left behind by conservative policies that help make the rich even richer at everyone else’s expense.
They don’t really care about either of those things. The wall is symbolic, and they know that. Of course if he does build a giant wall, then it strengthens his street cred even more. But Trump’s getting mileage out of being inhumane: putting migrant children in cages and threatening to send the military to the border. What next? A full-on invasion and occupation of Ciudad Juarez? I woudln’t rule that out, actually. They don’t need a wall; a lot of jackassery will suffice, and there’s an endless supply of that on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Healthcare? Hospitals and doctors are for pussies.
You can’t win. Anybody who starts a conversation with “he gets things done” is the kind of person who will respond to anything, anything contrary with either:
A) The Swamp
B) The Deep State
C) Democrat Obstructionism
To them, Trump is an embattled hero waging a desperate war against forces never before arrayed against any politician.
Virtue in winning, virtue in losing.
Tru dat. It’s impressive, the way they can maintain this belief in the face of the Republicans controlling all three branches of government, but maintain it they do.
Oh, and:
Basically, there’s a whole contingent of Trump’s base who have spent years with the belief that there are Powerful People who are Out To Get Them. Now here’s this politician, wealthy and successful and not afraid to Say The Things We’re All Thinking, and there are people who are also Out To Get Him! But he doesn’t care! He’s so brave in the face of it! And he’s validating my long-held beliefs at the same time!
It’s got to be a dream come true and they’ll defend him to their dying breath.
While I was electioneering yesterday, there was one woman out there electioneering for the Republican candidates. She was very friendly, and at one point I heard her asking the Sierra Club electioneer about the Clean Oceans Act (actually the Save Our Seas Act) that Trump just signed into law. Why, she asked very friendly-like, hadn’t we heard about it, and why wasn’t Trump being given credit for it?
I looked it up. On the one hand, sure: this is an actually bipartisan piece of legislation, and it does something good, and Trump did sign it.
But on the other hand, think how low the bar is, here: Trump didn’t actually veto a piece of bipartisan, uncontroversial legislation, and we’re supposed to give him credit for that?
The Republican sponsor in the senate, sure: credit to Dan Sullivan. The Democrats who decided not to pull a Mitch McConnell and reflexively block any bill that Republicans put up, sure: credit to them.
But Trump? Talk about a participation trophy. He did literally the barest minimum he could do to not fuck things up. I will refrain from criticizing him for this, because he doesn’t deserve criticism–but there’s no praise in it for him either.
”Are you satisfied now, Teddy? Because I can keep busting you up all night if you like.”
You made a doodie and managed not to get shit all over hou and everyone standing near you! What a good boy, little Donnie! Such a grown up!
Stranger
Damn. Since we lack the legendary “puking smiley,” probably should’a added a 
. Or maybe a :smack:.
Trump has a puff piece here is full of things he’s done, so you could try starting there, but I’m struggling to see actual achievements. His economic achievements are Obama’s legacy, and I fear for them once Trump’s trade war gets going. And much of what he’s done isn’t exactly earthshaking.
Compare that with Obama’s achievements. There’s no comparison, is there?
Oh he’s done a lot all right, rolled back environmental regulations, opened up public lands to the highest bidder, bullies and demeans people, praises dictators, shall I go on?
But did you tell her all that?