Yeah exactly. Those opposing him should be hoping he fails in what he hopes to do.
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Yeah exactly. Those opposing him should be hoping he fails in what he hopes to do.
Race is a social construct. But, I hate that people only bring it up to deny the impact racism has in society.
The normalisation for Trump is slightly scary, kind of similar to what happened with Modi in India.
Maybe. Depends on how much income inequality widens and whether growth comes at the expense of long term stability or the climate.
Sure. We don't have a president basically is the answer!
I heard this earlier today: 'Democrats and the neo liberal media took Trump literally but not seriously. Trumps voters took him seriously but not literally.' Its a massive difference which swept Trump to power.
As part of the neo liberal globalists who sneered at his very existence, Im still outraged and in shock that so many people share his values. But I also have to admit I got it wrong - he is highly relevant to a large group of people. Im simply trying to not make the same mistake again.
I think its clear now that Trump is not stupid: he has a very accurate grasp on how many many people in his country feel, and that he is a master at using the media to his advantage. And despite his lack of political experience, he does have and entire life of experience in many situations. Maybe from this basis, I can see the world more clearly, than I did and so contribute to move the world in my preferred direction next time around.
In the meantime, I guess I bend over and think of the Queen.
Did he always tweet like he's doing now?
He almost comes across as a caricature on his Twitter account now.
He almost comes across as a caricature on his Twitter account now.
Glenn Beck, GLENN BECK, worried how much of a terrifying white nationalist Bannon is.
But everything is fine.
But everything is fine.
@Ubik I think that pretty much says it all. Scary as hell!
That picture of Steve Bannon is what Robert Redford would look like if he used a method acting approach to playing Eric Cartman in the episode of South Park where they couldn't stop playing World of Warcraft.
Progressives:
This is why you shouldn't embrace false equivalency with the hard right when it suits you.
This is why you shouldn't embrace false equivalency with the hard right when it suits you.
Also, John Bolton for Secretary of State?
Yes, this is my brain on marijuana products.
Ahh, yeah, that would explain it. #jealousAlso, John Bolton for Secretary of State?
Are you kidding me?
Currently rumoured. I'm holding off on most of my snark until something's confirmed.
Also, John Bolton for Secretary of State?
Tis ok mate, not your fault. I had 25 years of enjoying myself
and boy did I fecking enjoy myself! So can't grumble, just hard being straight all the time. Well nearly, thankfully the NHS still prescribe me morphine and codeine, but that's stopping soon too. (thankfully)As @berbatrick (I think) posted earlier in the thread, it's a reflexive deference to power - some prime examples in this thread.
Tis ok mate, not your fault. I had 25 years of enjoying myself
Ooh, yeah. Not a fan of either, myself, which I'm sure you might find hard to believe.
And a lot of people just want to go back to the status quo. And the election being over was supposed to signal a return to that.
I've read to many Denald tweets to not laugh when I see Donald tweet.
No, not at all, I know where you are coming from. It's not actually my choice now though, as you know. Anyway, off topic. My apologies.Yeah, but the status quo was the blonde granny who smiles funny winning it. Then we'd move along and try to pretend the election barely ever happened.
Also, John Bolton for Secretary of State?
John Bolton being a diplomat is the equivalent of me trying to be a singer.
Can't be any worse than Nickelback.
It's all good, I'm an Admin. Absolute power etc, etc.
This is exactly how.... never mind.
...misrepresenting quotes via Twitter causes unnecessarily vitriolic emotional reactions?
Where's the misrepresentation?
A man that got endorsed by the American 'Nazi' Party and terrifies Glen bloody Beck. Vitriolic, yea. Unnecessary? I call nay.
The Clinton oppo research on Bernie was released with Wikileaks. Pretty much the same. I never gave him a chance in FL for this reason.
He still had awesome popularity, while openly embracing the socialist label, particularly in the surprise Trump states (NH, WI, MI). Latino support wouldn't have budged from the Clinton figure.
Finally, I am confident the Sandernista stuff wouldn't have worked. Not in this angry, outsider-driven election cycle. Especially since he still sticks to half that critique openly nowadays too (Mossadegh, anti-Kissinger).
Last episode of Last Week Tonight was great. John Oliver is spot and makes a nice appeal. Though at the end I was kind of sad, more than laughing.
In the tweet itself. When one reads those 140 characters, their initial though will be "holy feck, even the head of the American Nazi Party thinks this guy is dangerous!" when the actual meat and potatoes of it is that dude is surprised that Trump didn't give it to a Washington insider.
Fairly innocuous, really. Surprised that anyone cares what a useless inbred twat like Rocky has to say, anyway. But it advances an agenda for some, I guess, and Twitter is a great tool to use misinformation to further ones cause.
Not really though?
If he would've written something like "shocked", fair enough. But he didn't. Reading it I immediately thought the head of the Nazi party is positively surprised about the choice.
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