**** Elections thread *****

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And any other president would have received heartfelt gratitude. Except Mr. Ball decided that Trump is special.

We already agreed Mr. Ball is a dick. What's your point?

Non-sequitor. This has nothing to do with CNN's credibility. Credible or not, they have been Trump's mortal enemy from day 1 of the campaign. And now their anchors are citing his success in order challenge one of Trump's critics. And you don't think that's at least a little interesting????

Only to you because you're desperately seeking ways to find support for Trump, one of your least popular presidents ever.

If CNN or any other news media says 'wow the president finally did something right', then yea i guess on some level that's impressive.

You make it sound like Xi should just be rubber-stamping their release. That's insane.

Not what I said at all. But it isn't uncommon for a president to intercede on behalf of his citizens in another country. You act like it's never happened before.

Imagine if you attended a cockfight that was raided by the police and everyone got arrested. Then, after they rounded everyone up, a cop says "Ok Cockfighting is cool in Santo Domingo, so anyone with a Dominican passport is free to go. The rest of you are under arrest"

Does that make sense to you? It shouldn't

And this China situation is 10x worse cause stealing is morally wrong, and it's illegal in America too!

Yes, of course those kids deserve to rot in jail for 10 years for shoplifting. And the president getting them released is the diplomatic coup of the century that no other president except all of them have ever pulled off before.

It only makes him look like an idiot to the people who already think he's an idiot. To the people who think he's a genius, it makes him look like a genius. The people in the middle have to rely on what they hear in the news. And right now the news is "Trump wins in China. Lib-tard throws tantrum anyway"

Lol, if there's anyone left in the middle in America, they certainly aren't thinking 'wow thank god we have a president who can have a twitter war with some mental case on the internet.'

I'm sure he's an extremely busy man, but I would still guess he has at least 50 opportunities a day to send a tweet without interrupting his schedule at all.

Is he? Because most busy men in very important jobs are spending their time thinking about their jobs on a plane, lying in bed, etc., not sending tweets to some random jerk.

Also, this isn't like it's the first time this kind of thing has happened.

As I've been trying to explain, the whole point of the tweet is to drive the headlines. To a degree, he is influencing what is talked about, and perhaps more importantly, what isn't. And that is most definitely part if his job.

There you go, the old argument about Trump's stupid behavior deflecting attention from even worse behavior. Sure, I guess that's a talent of sorts. But wouldn't you prefer a president whose image isn't so poor among most people that he needs to consantly be doing this?

It's a completely false analogy. If you don't see why, you're just stupid.

So if I'm on the train home and I tweet to Mr. Ungrateful parent it's a good use of my time?