POTUS 45.09: How do I hate thee? Let me count the posts.

[Kepler]

Re: POTUS 45.09: How do I hate thee? Let me count the posts.

Because they have no spine, I think.

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[ScoobyDoo]

Re: POTUS 45.09: How do I hate thee? Let me count the posts.

Real Time is going to be epic tonight.

[Slap Shot]

Re: POTUS 45.09: How do I hate thee? Let me count the posts.

Still my favorite Colbert bit on Trump was when he shook his keys at the camera to entice him like a rattle would a baby. Dammit if I can't find it though.

[Kepler]

Re: POTUS 45.09: How do I hate thee? Let me count the posts.

Real Time is going to be epic tonight.

My God yes.

Sure he isn't on the road, though? He seems to be dark about 40 nights out of 52 because he's lighting up and getting laid at every college in the country.

(The idea that his wrinkled 60-year old puss is still pulling 20-something trim, just because he's funny and rich, is, to me, both horrific and hopeful.)

[rufus]

Re: POTUS 45.09: How do I hate thee? Let me count the posts.

Because they have no spine, I think.

No, you miss my point. Republicans will attack and badger a Democrat for every tiny little mis-step, real or imagined. They ramp up their cyclone of outrage until everybody thinks this is the worst crime in the history of humanity.

But when Democrats are in charge, are they expected to hold the same level of scrutiny and accountability to the actions of Republicans? No. That stuff's all in the past, we can't keep harping on it, we have to move on so we can heal as a nation. Dwelling on such things does no one any good, it keeps government from functioning, hurts the economy and consumer confidence. Forget about it, all in the past, let's look forward.

Every friggin' time.

[rufus]

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This whole post is great. I agree with you. Trump himself seems to be an imbecile. He isn't orchestrating any sort of deep treasonous plot because he's too dumb to tie his own shoes. But perhaps in part because Trump is so inept and infantile he exercises no control over his organization which means any corruption runs wild inside it. Add to this that Trump has no apparent morality, let alone a moral compass, and it's entirely possible he "knows" about illegal stuff going on in his organization and simply doesn't realize or care that it's illegal.

This is like a Skinner box experiment in raising a human being with absolutely no accountability. He has lived for 70 years with no feedback mechanism to check any whim. As a result, he's a delusional overgrown infant.

Rather than imprison him we should just run scientific experiments on him. We could learn a lot about how character develops by looking at a control case with literally none.

I still think he's laundering Russian mob money. But is that his intention, did he say, "I'm going to launder money for the mob?" No. "But these nice Russian guys came along and said they'd give me all the money I could ever ask for to fund my projects. Who could say no?"

Kinda like how he let the Russian photographer and all his equipment into the Oval Office. He's a nice guy, the dude's official photographer, no publicity is bad publicity. Sure, come on in, take all the shots you want. Yopu think there may have been listening devices in that equipment, or perhaps they even succeeded in bugging the Oval Office? That never occurred to him.

He's just that friggin' oblivious.

[Kepler]

Re: POTUS 45.09: How do I hate thee? Let me count the posts.

I still think he's laundering Russian mob money. But is that his intention, did he say, "I'm going to launder money for the mob?" No. "But these nice Russian guys came along and said they'd give me all the money I could ever ask for to fund my projects. Who could say no?"

Kinda like how he let the Russian photographer and all his equipment into the Oval Office. He's a nice guy, the dude's official photographer, no publicity is bad publicity. Sure, come on in, take all the shots you want. Yopu think there may have been listening devices in that equipment, or perhaps they even succeeded in bugging the Oval Office? That never occurred to him.

He's just that friggin' oblivious.

My concerns come down to this: I don't find this a ridiculous theory, and that is a real problem.

[geezer]

I work with about 40 people from group 1.

I've never met anyone from group 2, thankfully, and I hope nobody in it is over the age of 12.

Think of long term grad students who can't finish and don't have the imagination to change plans, working half time as a research assistant in CS or engineering... by day they're quiet and mild-mannered but when they let their hair down they're destroying women online and electing D Trump.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Think of long term grad students who can't finish and don't have the imagination to change plans, working half time as a research assistant in CS or engineering... by day they're quiet and mild-mannered but when they let their hair down they're destroying women online and electing D Trump.

Yeah, fcuk 'em. Being broke and socially inept doesn't entitle you to emotionally harass others from your anonymous troll accounts. If anything, it should cause you to look in the g*d****ed mirror.

[Jimjamesak]

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Elections have consequences.

Can't wait for an entire watershed to be taken out permanently by a mine collapse and my state's economy to truly go into the *er.

[Kepler]

Re: POTUS 45.09: How do I hate thee? Let me count the posts.

Elections have consequences.

Can't wait for an entire watershed to be taken out permanently by a mine collapse and my state's economy to truly go into the *er.

Pff. By then Trump will have sold you to Putin and pocketed the fee, anyway. "In Soviet Alaska, North future's you!"

[Jimjamesak]

Pff. By then Trump will have sold you to Putin and pocketed the fee, anyway. "In Soviet Alaska, North future's you!"

I wish I could joke about the crumbling ruin my state is slowly becoming...

[Kepler]

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Think of long term grad students who can't finish and don't have the imagination to change plans, working half time as a research assistant in CS or engineering... by day they're quiet and mild-mannered but when they let their hair down they're destroying women online and electing D Trump.

They're grad students; they're too smart to be MRA or Republican.

Well, the liberal arts and humanities ones are smart. Not sure about the rest, though they do seem to pop out a STEM serial killer now and again.

[Kepler]

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I wish I could joke about the crumbling ruin my state is slowly becoming...

Hang in there. Another century of global warming and Anchorage is going to be f-cking Venice.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Hang in there. Another century of global warming and Anchorage is going to be f-cking Venice.

Wrong. Anchorage will be underwater. Ever seen an Alaskan tide?

Fairbanks will be very popular though.