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Blast from the past! Supposedly the smartest guy in the room

Thanks for posting, because I never knew the "oranges" of that statement.

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@HillaryClinton
. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a ...concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and ...... powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose. It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read

MARCH 8, 2019 ~ MICHAEL STEVENSON

Someone on Quora asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

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, complexity, 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.

This song about Donald Trump just won a BBC Folk Music Award as Best Song | Listen on The Hobbledehoy

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 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:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• 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 s**t. 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 twit was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

Doesn't ruin anything for me. We all knew a large percentage of the nation were idiots and now, as you demonstrate daily, that percentage and then some has dumbed down to the level of the QuidproPotus.

Hey now...Leader said I was a sociopath. Am I now an idiotic sociopath? That's gonna be tough to live up to.

Great! Thank you
@HillaryClinton
. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a ...concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and ...... powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose. It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

Epic. Love Tulsi.

I don't know much bout Tulsi, but I intend to find out more. This article is interesting but I'll have to dig deeper. It seems that the right is very enthusiastic about her. Funny because she takes many of the same positions as Bernie Sanders.

What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To?

Then there is 4chan, the notoriously toxic online message board, where some right-wing trolls and anti-Semites fawn over Ms. Gabbard, calling her “Mommy” and praising her willingness to criticize Israel. In April, the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, took credit for Ms. Gabbard’s qualification for the first two Democratic primary debates.

Brian Levin, the head of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino, said Ms. Gabbard had “the seal of approval” within white nationalist circles. “If people have that isolationist worldview, there is one candidate that could best express them on each side: Gabbard on the Democratic side and Trump on the Republican side,” Mr. Levin said.

Mattis Mocks Trump’s Bone Spurs and Love of Fast Food

.Mr. Mattis said during the speech on Thursday, “I’m honored to be considered that by Donald Trump, because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress.”

“So I guess I’m the Meryl Streep of generals,” he said. “And frankly, that sounds pretty good to me.

The only person in the military Mr. Trump does not feel is overrated,” Mr. Mattis said. “That’s Colonel Sanders,” the founder and symbol of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Epic. Love Tulsi.

Maybe you should persuade her to primary QuidProPotus.

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read

This is terrific! "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."... "He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of s**t.
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."

This isn't suprising. Biden gets bashed, voters consider the source.

Biden expands edge in U.S. Democratic nomination race: Reuters/Ipsos poll

I don't know much bout Tulsi, but I intend to find out more. This article is interesting but I'll have to dig deeper. It seems that the right is very enthusiastic about her. Funny because she takes many of the same positions as Bernie Sanders.

What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To?

That article is exactly what Tulsi was referring too in her quote. “Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and ...... powerful allies in the corporate media”
What do you want to bet the author, Lerer has ties to the clintons. Covered her campaign maybe?

Great! Thank you
@HillaryClinton
. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a ...concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and ...... powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose. It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

Clinton never mentioned Gabbard, who is polling around one percent, so why is she outing herself with Russian bot talking points?

The electoral college does not represent the people’s will.

Drifter you disagree with this statement so show us how the electoral college better represents the will of the people than the popular vote.
To save you time I’m not claiming trump is not president.*

Clinton never mentioned Gabbard, who is polling around one percent, so why is she outing herself with Russian bot talking points?

I don't get it either. Did Gabbard really say that, or was it totally fabricated? It would seem like a bad move to bad-mouth somebody who actually won the popular vote nationwide in the last presidential election.

I don't get it either. Did Gabbard really say that, or was it totally fabricated? It would seem like a bad move to bad-mouth somebody who actually won the popular vote nationwide in the last presidential election.

This seems to be self defeating for repubs. I have no idea who or what Gabbard represents, but she is popular with the trumpers on here. If she were to run as a third party candidate she would no doubt appeal to those who will not vote blue, but also cannot stand the thought of a trump second term.
trump/Gabbard 2020?

This seems to be self defeating for repubs. I have no idea who or what Gabbard represents, but she is popular with the trumpers on here. If she were to run as a third party candidate she would no doubt appeal to those who will not vote blue, but also cannot stand the thought of a trump second term.
trump/Gabbard 2020?

It’s about Russian assets in the democratic primary and on the left. Killary has accused Stein and Gabbard of being Russian assets. Hopefully, she’ll come forward with proof. Bernie’s Russian sympathies are well known.

It’s about Russian assets in the democratic primary and on the left. Killary has accused Stein and Gabbard of being Russian assets. Hopefully, she’ll come forward with proof. Bernie’s Russian sympathies ar

Pot meet kettle

idiot prez* tried to launch #StopTheCoup today.
Some Twitter user should launch #GetTheMoronADictionary

Maybe you should persuade her to primary QuidProPotus.

She's an ardent socialist, so it's a non starter. But to see her call out that sulphur smelling, vile creature now known as "Queen of the Warmongers" and the MIC controlled news media is just epic. And it was a great move that was handed to her as a gift by Hillary herself. If HRC would have kept her mouth shut, the controlled media would have given Tulsi the Ron Paul "we're going to ignore you even though you are leading in polls" treatment, and she would have faded out. Now, the anti-unnecessary foreign wars ranks will grow (hopefully) and the for profit war machine will be further exposed.

I don't get it either. Did Gabbard really say that, or was it totally fabricated? It would seem like a bad move to bad-mouth somebody who actually won the popular vote nationwide in the last presidential election.

No, the bad move was when that decaying old witch opened her mouth and gave Tulsi attention. Now, Tulsi's anti-endless war stance will gain more attention (in non MSM channels). REALLY stupid move on HRC, in a long line of stupid moves..

This seems to be self defeating for repubs. I have no idea who or what Gabbard represents, but she is popular with the trumpers on here. If she were to run as a third party candidate she would no doubt appeal to those who will not vote blue, but also cannot stand the thought of a trump second term.
trump/Gabbard 2020?

Baby Bush, Obama, Trump all campaigned on stopping unnecessary foreign wars. Trump is the first to actually attempt to scale back US involvement. For decades, especially in the 1960s, the Democratic party was vehemently anti-war. What happened?? (Please share your take on what happened, I will share mine)

Tulsi not only is gathering the Free Stuff Army socialists within her party, but she is awakening the really "woke" Dems who realize that if we stop spending billions, trillions on foreign countries, then there will be plenty for their domestic programs like free health care. And yes, those conservatives who seek a more peace projecting America instead of bombing the crap out of another country, like Tulsi too.

Exxxxxcellent analysis on the Tulsi/Hillary war. This is only the beginning of this.

Tulsi Gabbard Throws the Gauntlet at Hillary - Gold Goats 'n Guns

Calm down Treason Trio, Hillary isn’t running and Tulsi will not be the nominee. We understand your temporary distraction from Giuliani’s indicted pals and the criminal capers of the Moronic Madman in the Whitehouse..

Quote of the day.

At the end of the day what we’re seeing is a total breakdown in the national security process. This is Mr. Trump, home alone, writing letters to President Erdogan. that are almost comical.

Gen. Barry McCaffery