Sound The TRUMPets! A Thread for Presidential Pondering 2016-2020(?)

[SimonNZ]

A variation on the theme:

[zamyrabyrd]

Are you drunk? Don't bother answering. I'm going back to filtering you.

Who cares?

[milk]

No, you are wrong. Nothing can compare with the race baiting and stirring the pot of Obama actually inciting riots with comments such as "Trayvon Martin could have been my own son", making prejudgements before all the facts were in. The culture of hate is directed against Trump and anything he does, so it is projection on steroids.

I like it when people get beat up and I like when people get kicked. I like grabbing women's genitals, don't you? I liked partying at studio 54 and I never got captured! Ha ha! I'm a Christian. Have you seen my playboy videos? How do I now the Central Park five were guilty and should be executed? Take a guess how I know. And yes, they're rapists. Do you know who else are rapists? Mexicans. As Alex Jones noted, there's a very large conspiracy aimed at making us believe fake news. Obama started riots by empathizing with a black kid who got killed. Everyone remembers the Obama-riots. The fake news didn't cover it! But what can we do NOW? That's my question. Not only is Tump the most honest president we've ever had, he's the best. You know they will attempt to illegitimately remove him from office one way or another. Then what?

[zamyrabyrd]

Then what?

Hillary Clinton is waiting in the wings...

[Christo]

Are you drunk? Don't bother answering. I'm going back to filtering you.

No, trolling. Persistent cynicism is obviously not an 'opinion', but simply resentment, perhaps hatred, for its own sake.

[milk]

Hillary Clinton is waiting in the wings...

Ha ha ha! I love the Hillary free get out of B.S. card! Works E-V-E-R-Y Time! Wipes the stench of bloody fecal matter away. 
But seriously, you're just going to lie down and take it if Tump gets humiliated? Come on! Tump didn't get his stomach stapled and work those three-hour days just to call it a job done and go home. I say he should take some diet pills and get out there and foment a revolution of deplorable-s!

[Daverz]

I'm trying to understand the mindset that sees an expression of empathy like "Trayvon Martin could have been my own son" as "race baiting".  I think you have to see blackness as essentially illegitimate to believe that.

[71 dB]

I'm trying to understand the mindset that sees an expression of empathy like "Trayvon Martin could have been my own son" as "race baiting".  I think you have to see blackness as essentially illegitimate to believe that.

It's reasoning backwards from your conclusions. A trait of many religious and bigoted people.

EDIT "common" changed to "many" to make the post more clear.

[amw]

I'm trying to understand the mindset that sees an expression of empathy like "Trayvon Martin could have been my own son" as "race baiting".  I think you have to see blackness as essentially illegitimate to believe that.

Pretty much. It's all Bell Curve, Turner Diaries, Camp of the Saints BS. It's a contemporary pathology brought on by growing social alienation & it's not really worth trying to reason it out.

[milk]

I'm trying to understand the mindset that sees an expression of empathy like "Trayvon Martin could have been my own son" as "race baiting".  I think you have to see blackness as essentially illegitimate to believe that.

This is a good reminder to me of how Tumpers are different than some of the mainstream conservatives. Tumpers have a very ugly view of the world. Except that many mainstream conservatives really don't care about this kind of poison if they can get their policies through. Hatred is their friend even if they know these people are intellectually, emotionally and politically toxic.

[milk]

Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President?
A careful reading of court filings suggests the special counsel hasn't been quiet. Far from it.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/31/has-robert-mueller-subpoenaed-trump-222060

[Christo]

A common trait of religious and bigoted people.

In this respect, you resemble this most-secular-ever American president more than you apparently realize.

[71 dB]

In this respect, you resemble this most-secular-ever American president more than you apparently realize.

Just saying how it is. A fundamental part of religious faith is starting from an unquestionable postulate such as "the God of my religion exists" and work backwards from there what all the other facts must be (e.g. the Earth is 6000 years old or it's a sin to be gay etc.). Of course not all religious people are like that, but the idea of faith based belief system doesn't help in learning to reason from the known facts toward the conclusions and not the other way around.

[Karl Henning]

Of course not all religious people are like that [...]

That looks like backtracking.  You would serve your honor better, by refraining from the blanket assertions beforehand.

[71 dB]

That looks like backtracking.  You would serve your honor better, by refraining from the blanket assertions beforehand.

I wrote "A common trait of religious and bigoted people." where the word common means not every religious person. Perhaps not the best choice retrospectively, but that's what I meant. So, I wasn't backtracking. However, you can blame me for a bad formulation if that makes you feel better.

[Karl Henning]

To be clear, it is not any question of my feelings.

[Marc]

I like it when people get beat up and I like when people get kicked. I like grabbing women's genitals, don't you? I liked partying at studio 54 and I never got captured! Ha ha! I'm a Christian. Have you seen my playboy videos? How do I now the Central Park five were guilty and should be executed? Take a guess how I know. And yes, they're rapists. Do you know who else are rapists? Mexicans. As Alex Jones noted, there's a very large conspiracy aimed at making us believe fake news. Obama started riots by empathizing with a black kid who got killed. Everyone remembers the Obama-riots. The fake news didn't cover it! But what can we do NOW? That's my question. Not only is Tump the most honest president we've ever had, he's the best. You know they will attempt to illegitimately remove him from office one way or another. Then what?

[Karl Henning]

Mueller probes Roger Stone's interactions with Trump campaign and timing of WikiLeaks release of Podesta emails

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Just saying how it is. A fundamental part of religious faith is starting from an unquestionable postulate such as "the God of my religion exists" and work backwards from there what all the other facts must be (e.g. the Earth is 6000 years old or it's a sin to be gay etc.). Of course not all religious people are like that, but the idea of faith based belief system doesn't help in learning to reason from the known facts toward the conclusions and not the other way around.

You are taking a stereotypical attribute of "religious people," which describes a small subset, and using it to heap contempt on all "religious people." That is more-or-less the definition of bigotry.

[Karl Henning]

President Toadstool saying that anyone else on the planet "knows nothing about" something viz. the Constitution = ROFLMLAO (rolling on the floor laughing my liberal ass off)

Trump lashes out at Paul Ryan over birthright citizenship comments

President Trump said House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) "should be focusing on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions on Birthright Citizenship, something he knows nothing about!"