DaveC
Blue Crack Addict
do we have anyone here from hawaii? curious to hear about reactions to the missile alert.
do we have anyone here from hawaii? curious to hear about reactions to the missile alert.
People spend way too much time online. I cut about 80% of my time down, and feel much better for it.
I wonder if anyone actually qualified to be President can win the Presidency in 2020. People don't seem to care about that anymore.
Battle of the Geriatrics! A 78 year old takes on a 70 year old to to try to defeat a 73 year old to decide the future of the country!
Remember that time everyone hoped Ivanka was the saving grace of the Trump administration? Why, exactly?
Almost as absurd as Melania being innocent in all of this.
I wish we could get past the superficial crap. Who cares how old someone is? Are we so simplistic to a point where we examine characteristics of a candidate that are largely irrelevant? I agree that someone's age may, perhaps, indicate something about them. Maybe they're less in touch with society? Maybe they're old school? Maybe they will fail to relate with the current major generation of the workforce, and the future generation?
Sure, all valid points. If you're reaching into a bag of old people and randomly pulling one out. As for a known politician of age x, I think the least we can do is accept their views and answer these age-related questions as a case by case basis. After all, it's the president of the United States. I don't think generalizations are even on the map.
The headline for the In Touch Stormy Daniels full interview says "I can describe his junk perfectly".
There is no amount of $ in this world...
There's always enough money in this world...There is no amount of $ in this world...
I think if it came out Trump paid for an abortion it's one of the few things that would have the potential of really hurting him with his base. They seem to be willing to overlook almost anything, but I think abortion might be a line.
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I think if it came out Trump paid for an abortion it's one of the few things that would have the potential of really hurting him with his base. They seem to be willing to overlook almost anything, but I think abortion might be a line.
He's such a hypocrite anyway. He doesn't care about abortion, and I doubt he cares whether gay people get married or any other social issue. He was a Democrat for most of his life for crying out loud. His pandering to evangelicals like he's one of them is so transparent, that I can only believe they see through it and don't care because 1) the Supreme Court and; 2) they hate Democrats. Anyone who believes he really believes all the things he's saying about these social issues is self-delusional.
I do believe the misogyny come from his core, along with most of the anti-immigrant stuff. Those things get him worked up, but I don't think he sits around stewing about abortion or gay people. His entire "ideology", such as it is, is self-promotion anyway.
Nah, they’ll just say ‘that was when he was a dem’, just like the pussy grabbing.
They're in too deep. Such records would be dismissed as liberal conspiracy.
It is not quite fair to say that Donald Trump lacks core beliefs, but to the extent that we can take apart these beliefs they amount to Give Donald Trump Your Money and Donald Trump Should Really Be on Television More. The only comprehensible throughline to his politics is that everything Trump says is something he’s said previously, with additional very’s and more-and-more’s appended over time; his worldview amounts to the sum of the dumb shit he saw on the cover of the New York Post in 1985, subjected to a few decades of rancid compounding interest and deteriorating mental aptitude. He watches a lot of cable news, but he struggles to follow even stories that have been custom built for people like him—old, uninformed, amorphously if deeply aggrieved.
There’s a reason for this. Trump doesn’t know anything or really believe anything about any topic beyond himself, because he has no interest in any topic beyond himself; his evident cognitive decline and hyperactive laziness and towering monomania ensure that he will never again learn a new thing in his life. He has no friends and no real allies; his inner circle is divided between ostensibly scandalized cynics and theatrically shameless ones, all of whom hold him in low regard and see him as a potential means to their individuated ends. There is no help on the way; his outer orbit is a rotation of replacement-level rage-grandpas and defective, perpetually clammy operators.
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To understand Trump is also to understand his appeal as an aspirational brand to the worst people in the United States. What his intransigent admirers like most about him—the thing they aspire to, in their online cosplay sessions and their desperately thirsty performances for a media they loathe and to which they are so helplessly addicted—is his freedom to be unconcerned with anything but himself. This is not because he is rich or brave or astute; it’s because he is an asshole, and so authentically unconcerned. The howling and unreflective void at his core will keep him lonely and stupid until the moment a sufficient number of his vital organs finally resign in disgrace, but it liberates him to devote every bit of his being to his pursuit of himself. Actual hate and actual love, as other people feel them, are too complicated to fit into this world. In their place, for Trump and for the people who see in him a way of being that they are too busy or burdened or humane to pursue, are the versions that exist in a lower orbit, around the self. Instead of hate, there is simple resentment—abject and valueless and recursively self-pitying; instead of love, there is the blank sucking nullity of vanity and appetite.