Trump

[skab]

I treat just about everything on social media as nothing more than people's opinions anyway.

I mean, yes, of course, that's what it is. Anybody who gets their "news" from Facebook is a tool. The established media isn't that different, it's always someone else's opinion, but when you read a paper (or their online version) with a proper reputation, there's a certain probability that what you're reading is not outright lies. Some idiot on Facebook spreading bullshit from a chain letter is the complete opposite.

Fuck social media. All that shit is is a platform for lunatics, sociopaths, and conspiracy theorists. All those tramps that usually sit in an edge of the pub, muttering bollocks into their beer without anyone to listen now find other idiots to spread their putrid discharge.

[merman]

There were several variations on this, but I agree - when six of the twelve speakers at the Republican National Convention have the same surname (Trump), you are heading into North Korean cult leader territory.

[F-ZeroOne]

In his RNC speech, Trump refers to Biden as "the Destroyer" - which immediately made me ask "What did you do, Ray?". [1]

[1] Watching the actual clip from "Ghostbusters", the specific word used is "Destructor" but almost everyone seems to refer to it as "Destroyer".

[merman]

In theory Trump broke the rules using the White House for a Nazi political rally.

[tufty]

Hilariously, the Biden campaign bought a new domain name.

https://www.keepamericagreat.com/

[gilesgoat]

.. and I am still thinking "he may really win again" ... and I am also thinking "what kind of shit we are going to see then ?" ...

[Harlequin]

The documentary film-maker Michael Moore has warned that Donald Trump appears to have such momentum in some battleground states that liberals risk a repeat of 2016 when many wrote off Trump only to see him grab the White House.
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“The Biden campaign just announced he’ll be visiting a number of states – but not Michigan. Sound familiar?” Moore wrote, presumably indicating Hillary Clinton’s 2016 race when she made the error of avoiding some states that then swung to Trump.

“I’m warning you almost 10 weeks in advance. The enthusiasm level for the 60 million in Trump’s base is OFF THE CHARTS! For Joe, not so much,” he later added.
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Moore cited CNN polling of registered voters this month to assert that “Biden and Trump were in a virtual tie”, including a poll that showed the pair tied at 47% in Minnesota. Moore said that Trump “has closed the gap to 4 points” in Michigan.

A national CNN poll this month showed that Biden’s lead over Trump has narrowed nationally, 50% to 46%, while a survey from the Republican-leaning Trafalgar Group found Biden and Trump statistically tied at 47% in Minnesota, and Trump narrowly leading Biden in Michigan. The margin of error for the poll, which surveyed 1,048 people, is 2.98%.

Moore, a vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders’s leftwing candidacy, warned in October 2016 that “Trump’s election is going to be the biggest ‘f*** you’ ever recorded in human history – and it will feel good,” even as Clinton appeared to be sailing to victory.

“Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant because he’s saying the things to people who are hurting, and that’s why every beaten-down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump,” Moore warned in 2016.

The article continues,

Moore’s latest warnings come as Trump said at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Friday night that he supported seeing the first female president of the United States, but recommended his daughter over the Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

“They’re all saying ‘we want Ivanka,’” Trump told his supporters. “I don’t blame them.”

Even without noting that the 'they' Dump is referring to in such statement structures is usually himself, is it not heartwarming to know he is as fond of her now as he was when she was in her early twenties and, allegedly, early teens?

[F-ZeroOne]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... oronavirus

One day, its going to be the US that needs help. And the rest of the world will say: "NO.".

Going Postal:

https://gizmodo.com/dead-birds-missing- ... 1844879313

And in the interests of balance, she really should have known better:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53994209

[F-ZeroOne]

Trump is getting criticism due to The Atlantic article that claims that he’s made disparaging remarks about POWs and those who have died in service to the US military.

It’s not like he doesn’t have a bit of a record on this - I never did understand how he got away with his remarks about John McCain for example.

[Foozwah]

Trump is getting criticism due to The Atlantic article that claims that he’s made disparaging remarks about POWs and those who have died in service to the US military.

It’s not like he doesn’t have a bit of a record on this - I never did understand how he got away with his remarks about John McCain for example.

I have always found his support from military-minded conservatives puzzling, because of this and numerous other documented examples of him being disparaging about those who serve(d) in the same manner.

I have no doubt the comments being reported now are to-the-word true: it is exactly the kind of third-rate mob boss parlance he has always loved to use. And only someone who is convinced of his own "genius" and managed to avoid conscription something like six times for non-existent "bone spurs" would be tone-deaf enough to refer to war dead, those unfortunate enough to be shot down, or captured, as "losers".

[F-ZeroOne]

So, Trump is now claiming Joe Biden is “anti-vaccination”, because he’s raised concerns about a rushed Coronavirus vaccine. This is a bit rich coming from someone who once claimed babies were injected with vaccines with a horse syringe (back when he was courting the anti-vaxxers, oh, the ironies!).

[Little stoned kiwi]

Only poor people enlist.

[Foozwah]

Only poor people enlist.

Well if they didn't want to be (in current presidential parlance) "losers" and "suckers", why didn't they just start inheriting millions dollars from their father's business interests, just like normal, everyday, salt of the earth, man of the people types like Trump did?

[Foozwah]

why didn't they just start inheriting millions of dollars from their father's business interests*

*Starting from the age of 3, of course.

[F-ZeroOne]

Only poor people enlist.

Assuming you’re referring to military enlistment, and aren’t quoting one from Trump I haven’t heard, you may want to look into the history of the RAFs 601 Squadron.