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03-03-2018 02:25 PM
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Trump Believes He is Starring in the Second Season of an Apprentice SpinoffDiscuss. | |
03-03-2018 02:29 PM
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I think he definitely cares about portraying a certain persona, as he would if he were acting on a TV show. I'm not sure that's strong enough to link the two. I know it's not enough to say he's delusional and believes he's performing rather than doing the job of President, which is kinda what the title of this thread is suggesting. |
03-03-2018 02:45 PM
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Lol, I definitely don't believe this is true in the literal sense, I just think it's a hilarious idea that's fun to play with. | |
03-03-2018 02:50 PM
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I think his show has gotten to the point where he's desperate for ratings and is jumping the shark. As theater, the chaos in the WH went from fairly good entertainment (assuming you had no personal investment in the US, I'm sure it's different if you do) to boring fairly quickly, so the strategy is to amp up the chaos to unseen levels. The problem is the audience just gets desensitized all the faster now and it's increasingly hard to get our attention. | |
03-03-2018 03:04 PM
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Take for example all the people who quit/get fired from the WH staff. At first when Flynn got the boot, it was good drama - like wtf man this guy hires and fires this guy from a big job like that in a month? | |
03-03-2018 03:58 PM
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03-03-2018 04:14 PM
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03-03-2018 04:19 PM
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I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, and then you flushed it down the toilet. |
03-03-2018 04:27 PM
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You realize this is a joke thread and I'm just talking shit right? | |
03-03-2018 04:36 PM
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It's the same topic. The turnover in the WH is not particularly surprising. The promise was "drain the swamp". Alot of the people you named, |
03-03-2018 04:38 PM
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03-03-2018 04:46 PM
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But people voted for it. That's what the left is missing in this whole reality show they are producing. |
03-03-2018 05:00 PM
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03-03-2018 05:03 PM
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03-03-2018 08:25 PM
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Everything bad is everyone elses fault! | |
03-03-2018 10:33 PM
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C'mon man. You know better than this. Don't pretend like CNN, NBC, ABC, WaPo, NYT, along with Kimmel, Oliver, Maher, and all the rest of them aren't LOVING a Trump presidency. The guy is compelling, and that means ratings. |
Last edited by BananaStand; 03-03-2018 at 10:37 PM. | |
03-04-2018 11:47 AM
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03-05-2018 07:16 PM
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It's more like Survivor than the Apprentice at this point: | |
03-05-2018 07:25 PM
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03-05-2018 07:37 PM
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03-05-2018 08:25 PM
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It's been understood for quite some time that Trump uses very high turnover of employees. |
03-05-2018 10:51 PM
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Exactly. And he still won. There are things about Trump that are not ideal, and voters decided that it doesn't matter. |
03-06-2018 04:10 AM
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03-06-2018 04:58 AM
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It's a shame poop that you don't give banana any credit for his thoughts becazuse he's absolutely right about the #metoo bollocks. Classic left wing victimisation for political manipulation. Welcome to identity politics. | |
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03-06-2018 05:39 AM
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03-06-2018 06:04 AM
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Exactly which negative traits are you referring to regarding Nixon? Did people know about them BEFORE they voted? |
03-06-2018 06:06 AM
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03-06-2018 06:13 AM
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To elaborate... | |
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03-06-2018 06:21 AM
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I'm only about 20% outraged. |
Last edited by BananaStand; 03-06-2018 at 06:31 AM. | |
03-06-2018 06:23 AM
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Then you should be 10% outraged. | |
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03-06-2018 06:27 AM
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03-06-2018 06:28 AM
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03-06-2018 06:37 AM
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03-06-2018 10:42 AM
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So in your mind, they're victims who are being manipulated into telling their stories, but still victims? | |
03-06-2018 11:31 AM
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I think you've misunderstood Ong, but he's capable of correcting you. |
Last edited by BananaStand; 03-06-2018 at 11:42 AM. | |
03-06-2018 12:48 PM
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Other than dehumanizing people about whom you know nothing firsthand, you are pretty close to making some good points, | |
03-06-2018 01:02 PM
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I don't see where I even hinted at either of those points. |
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03-06-2018 03:01 PM
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Sure. | |
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03-06-2018 03:05 PM
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03-06-2018 05:32 PM
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What % of women taking part in metoo are publicly denouncing someone for pinching their ass in a pub? I think you're trying to belittle the movement by saying it's encouraging women to make (comparatively) trivial complaints. What hard evidence do you have that is what is actually happening? | |
03-06-2018 06:38 PM
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03-06-2018 06:51 PM
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And what is your evidence from twitter? That metoo went viral or some such? I don't see that as evidence that people are publicly accusing others of grab-ass on an epidemic level. | |
03-06-2018 07:09 PM
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03-06-2018 07:18 PM
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Actually, it's a moment of criminal stupidity, just like any other crime that puts others' lives at risk. Whether or not it's common is orthogonal to its criminality and the danger it poses to the criminal and worse, to others. On the other hand, publicising a political opponent's crimes is not itself a criminal act, whether it's cricket or not. | |
03-06-2018 07:32 PM
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03-06-2018 07:33 PM
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03-06-2018 07:36 PM
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03-06-2018 07:39 PM
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03-06-2018 07:43 PM
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The biggest losers of PoundMeToo are women. |
03-06-2018 07:43 PM
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As a matter of principle I don't accept wiki as a source of information. | |
03-06-2018 07:44 PM
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03-06-2018 07:47 PM
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Two things wrong with this statement, before and after the word 'the' . | |
03-06-2018 07:55 PM
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03-06-2018 07:59 PM
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The media is always going to sensationalize things and make it seem like 'this super unlikely event could happen to you'. Well guess what, smallpox could happen to you too. | |
03-07-2018 05:00 AM
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03-07-2018 05:05 AM
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03-07-2018 06:25 AM
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03-07-2018 06:29 AM
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"oops" is not a legal defense, why should it be a moral one? | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 03-07-2018 at 06:38 AM. | |
03-07-2018 06:46 AM
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It is a moral defence though, it's called "mitigating circumstances". If it's the first offence, if you can convince a judge that it was an out-of-character lack of judgement, that you have regrets, and assuming you didn't actually crash, then he will show leniency. So yes, it's a legal defence. | |
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03-07-2018 06:48 AM
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03-07-2018 07:14 AM
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What if the woman isn't bent on fucking up your life? What if she is just bent on participating in a movement that requires her to be a victim? What if she is just attracted to the idea that men are the source of all her problems? What if she just wants someone to blame for her own professional shortcomings or for her own shame at being promiscuous? |
03-07-2018 07:48 AM
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Leniency is not the same as saying what you did is moral. I'm also not convinced that in the particular scenario you outlined, a judge has ever accepted such a defense. But let's say they did: your defense is one of mitigation, it's not a denial of moral responsibility. | |
03-07-2018 07:54 AM
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I questioned your claim that a significant portion of metoo is about shaming men for minor indiscretions like complimenting a female colleague's legs once or pinching a bum in a pub. Your response was to cite wiki (which fwiw didn't address that claim anyways). So, in my view you haven't supported that claim. | |
03-07-2018 11:32 AM
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You're basing this on what? | |
03-07-2018 11:33 AM
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By saying this, you are saying a significant portion of the metoo claims are credible. |
03-07-2018 11:36 AM
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If only i had a dollar for every time you read more into someone's statements than what was there... | |
03-07-2018 11:42 AM
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Most survey results should be taken with various degrees of salt for various reasons. | |
03-07-2018 11:44 AM
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03-07-2018 11:45 AM
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03-07-2018 11:46 AM
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03-07-2018 11:46 AM
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If it were a general occurrence, yes. The fact that it seems be to a problem peculiar to you suggests otherwise. | |
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03-07-2018 11:48 AM
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Last edited by Poopadoop; 03-07-2018 at 11:50 AM. | |
03-07-2018 11:48 AM
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03-07-2018 11:56 AM
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It's almost as if rapists KNOW they're doing something wrong and don't want others to witness it. | |
03-07-2018 12:07 PM
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Except that it's YOU whom is not only constantly misunderstanding poopy, you also misunderstand anyone who doesn't tow a right-wing party line. | |