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marcus says

Trump derangement syndrome is more descriptive.

wrong thread.

No it’s pretty accurate
marcus says

wrong thread

HANOI, VIETNAM—Tearing up as he described the courage he would have had no choice but to summon had he not been born into a life of luxury, President Trump reportedly took time Tuesday before the North Korea summit in Hanoi to travel south and lay a wreath at the spot where he would have died in the Vietnam War if he weren’t rich.

“Today we recognize those who, like myself, would have been forced to make the ultimate sacrifice had they not come from wealthy families who could call in a favor from a doctor friend and get exempted from the draft,” said Trump, speaking for several minutes about the death he would have faced if he had been unable to afford an elite education and, instead of receiving college deferments, had been conscripted to fight in a conflict in which more than 58,000 Americans died.

“I would have died bravely with my fellow soldiers right here in this field had I not had a father who could pull some strings and make sure I never had to do anything like that.

So today, I reflect upon and honor all those who were able to avoid service, especially those who received a medical deferment from a podiatrist who rented office space from their dad.”

Trump went on to announce that a new monument would be erected on the National Mall in Washington to honor all affluent survivors of the Vietnam draft.

https://politics.theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992

Reminder of what we missed.
Still no evidence Trump ever colluded much less sold out the country like clinton.

Dodged a bullet.

You Poor Sad Sad People.

Even Schiff has Shifted course and the new narrative is Trump's finances. The Russia hoax backfired. So now they desperately need a process crime against Trump before all your Commie Heroes go to pound me in the ass prison.

Elgatouno says

Last summer, somebody asked on Quora “Why do many British people not like Donald Trump“. They got back 43 answers. Here’s one of them:

A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.

I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a bully’s snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

1. Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

2. You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:

‘My God… what… have… I… created?

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

http://www.politicalirony.com/

Kakistocracy says

They got back 43 answers. Here’s one of them:

How about selectively quote then give feedback of your own?

Noone wants to see these 4 page walls of text from some anonymous try-hard on the internet. Do you have something to say?

www.youtube.com/embed/_6N3Z9XLSQU

www.youtube.com/embed/gqCO9osj1Rg

jazz_music says

The bullshit about Clinton Foundation is just another distraction from REAL Republican shit and that's when it re-emerges from their rotten vaults.

Do you think it is ok for politicians to make millions in office? I don't.

Kakistocracy says

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

TDS has no bounds.

CBOEtrader says

Noone wants to see these 4 page walls of text from some anonymous try-hard on the internet. Do you have something to say?

I just scroll through the cut and paste of desperate anti Trump BS.

A coworker earlier.

"Boy they are really going after Trump now!"

I said
"Don't you think it's ridiculous long about now? I mean first it was Russia collusion the 2 years of TDS resistance disillusion. I mean do you think this is righ?"

Him
"Well now it is getting silly, and enough already.... But Trump acts like he's untouchable."

Me again.

"Really Untouchable? Wouldn't you be acting the same way, if a bunch of butt munches kept trying to pin a bunch of shit on you that you didn't do.
How would you like to go home today and 5 of your neighbors are saying you broke into their house and robbed them? Not only that, but they continued to accuse you for two years, even after surveillance footage showed it wasn't you, it was a gang of Somalians. Would you be Defiant and laugh at them, or would be obsequious to them in their screed?"

Elgatouno says

Right.

This is why Putin has manipulated Trump to:

Support his client Assad in Syria (no, Trump actively supported the rebels)
Support his client Maduro in Venezuela (no, Trump is calling for Maduro to step down)
Go along with Merkel buying natural gas from Russia (no, Trump has really chastised Merkel for that)

And I am sure Putin wants NATO members to up their defense budgets