Trump

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The Daily Show, to be even handed, has decided to make a video using Carly Fiorina’s recent serenade to Cruz’s daughters. With totally appropriate graphics.

(The title “Lucifer in the Flesh” is how fellow Republican John Boehner described Cruz only yesterday)

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 ... hn-boehner

[Little stoned kiwi]

[KlaxonCow]

If everywhere you look you see religion, perhaps you'll eventually have to accept that religion-like behaviours are innate rather than cultural.

One, I was just making a joke there.

Two, as I've covered before, I entirely accept - and have made the case for - the notion that magical thinking and false agency are innate to human thinking. And religion is, indeed, made of those psychological building blocks.

But, you know, that's a one way relationship. Just because rain is wet doesn't mean that all wet things are rain.

Religion is a cultural construct, built of magical thinking. But it's magical thinking that's the innate bit, not religion.

(I mean, otherwise, wouldn't there only be a singular universal religion?)

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Gravy knows full well what I'm on about, so you didn't need to petulantly address that post to him anyway.

Sadlly I do.

You're on about what everyone else has done when the subject is what Trump is saying he's going to do.

There's been some monumental fuck ups in US foriegn policy since the war, mostly by clever people who's start points were good intentions.

Just imagine what that could be like when the start point is a thick cunt with naked malice?

Terrifying eh?

[Darkflame]

Just saw Back to the Future 2 again for the first time in a long time.
a) It still holds up as a great film. Both plots and effects for the most part.
b) Its not so much that alt-timeline Biff is Trump, its more like Trump is a exaggerated caricature of Biff..

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b) Its not so much that alt-timeline Biff is Trump, its more like Trump is a exaggerated caricature of Biff..

Can they sue?

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Phew! The important matters getting tackled now.

Kassich's pancake eating transgressions finally taken to task!

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Christ he is getting worse. Kasich is as dull and inoffensive as they come. Trump can’t fault him on policy as there is no comparison: Kasich actually has a reasonable platform. He can’t really fault him for staying in the race. That is his right and until Trump has enough delegates to make his victory a mathematical certainty then other candidates have every right to stay in and see how the race is resolved. So he decides how he eats is fair game.

Trump’s made a problem for himself as he has ruled himself out of further debates. Despite the race being far from over he has refused to join any debates so no more have been organised. He instead only has his supporters to bounce things off. And they like outrageous statements like that. Problem is he is just generating content for his opponent’s adverts and other negative coverage.

[merman]

Just saw Back to the Future 2 again for the first time in a long time.
a) It still holds up as a great film. Both plots and effects for the most part.
b) Its not so much that alt-timeline Biff is Trump, its more like Trump is a exaggerated caricature of Biff..

Actually the screenwriters explicitly said that alt-Biff was based on Donald J Trump, the 80s businessman. What they'd make of the current Trump...

[PumaG]

Gravy knows full well what I'm on about, so you didn't need to petulantly address that post to him anyway.

Sadlly I do.

You're on about what everyone else has done when the subject is what Trump is saying he's going to do.

There's been some monumental fuck ups in US foriegn policy since the war, mostly by clever people who's start points were good intentions.

Just imagine what that could be like when the start point is a thick cunt with naked malice?

Terrifying eh?

The masses are finding Trump scary because they're used to being manipulated and brainwashed by successive governments. It's a human condition (same with Religions) and now the prospect of having a president with nothing in his bag, they recognise something is wrong and it feels uncomfortable. They've woken up but then instantly latch on to the possibility that he doesn't like people with darker skin, they now have a good reason top stop him and hopefully go back to that comfortable world of being manipulated and brainwashed again.

Trump needs big businesses to bung him tens of millions, write his speeches and set his agenda. He needs to tell lies in order to manipulate, not tell lies because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

You see, this is really what makes him a thick cunt. The people want to be manipulated and brainwashed. He's got his run with 'lets make America great again' which works for the tens of millions of thicker of the working classes (that the liberals despise) rednecks and trailer trash, but even they will turn when America doesn't become great again (which it wont)

What's truly terrifying, is the number of centuries humans continue to require this manipulation and brainwashing either by governments or religion.
One of the biggest lies is that America was ever 'free', just doesn't happen when you allow religious nuts to thrive or the rich to poor gap to continually grow,

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[Darkflame]

Just saw Back to the Future 2 again for the first time in a long time.
a) It still holds up as a great film. Both plots and effects for the most part.
b) Its not so much that alt-timeline Biff is Trump, its more like Trump is a exaggerated caricature of Biff..

Actually the screenwriters explicitly said that alt-Biff was based on Donald J Trump, the 80s businessman. What they'd make of the current Trump...

I did hear that, what I wasn't aware of till I rewatched is Biff is more subtle and restrained then (todays) Trump.
Todays Trump thus seems like a caricature of a caricature of yesterdays Trump.

[gumboot]

Saw this ad on TV and was reminded of Trump. Maybe you can guess why...

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“We can't continue to allow China to rape our country”

What is it with him and the sexual imagery? Not only is this an appalling non-starter of a negotiating position but it bears no relation to US-China trade relations. Heck, if the US really wants to stop trading with China they could do so tomorrow. They might need to withdraw from the WTO but they are a sovereign nation. The result would be damaging to both economies but especially the US.

[merman]

“We can't continue to allow China to rape our country”

What is it with him and the sexual imagery? Not only is this an appalling non-starter of a negotiating position but it bears no relation to US-China trade relations. Heck, if the US really wants to stop trading with China they could do so tomorrow. They might need to withdraw from the WTO but they are a sovereign nation. The result would be damaging to both economies but especially the US.

He's always been like that. From saying he would go out with his own daughter, to telling reporters that the victim of Mike Tyson's rape was "gagging for it".