Put down the crack pipe.

When I saw that someone with a username of JohnLocke, I knew I was in for a treat. Did not disappoint.

:cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

Dunno what it is, but it sounds hella good.

JohnLocke
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Trump is a bastion of capitalism who will come down from the heavens on a chariot made of gold riding the righteous Messianic light of the unfettered free market, vaporising every left wing zealot below, restoring order and balance to this Earth and giving to our fragmented life a gravitas, a high seriousness, a divine significance, an emancipatory power that can unshackle us from the self limiting, deterministic and suffocating stranglehold that is Marxism, socialism and the left, allowing us to reach our fullest and truest potential and ambitions. — JohnLocke

I can see this etched at the entrance of the Trump presidential library and casino, but he will take credit for the quote

Which John Locke are you?

We must go back to the island, Jack!

Nobody tells John Locke what he can't do

On top of that, he's an outright immoral character who lied and cheated on his wife, and then claimed to Congress that he ALWAYS said the truth all the while admitting to hurting his wife. Really, a despicable man, and I think he should be in jail. — Agustino

You may very well be the least self-aware person I know.

I can't remember where I read it but this is a genuine phenomenon - something like 'status symbol creep': as status symbols of the rich become more widely acknowledged, what counts as a status symbols shifts in order to maintain that symbolism. And the shift in spending form the rich has moved from goods and tangibles to services, insurance, 'experiences' (holidays, etc) and education instead: things that are harder to 'see', but end up 'opportunity hoarding': it's no longer goods which are exclusive, but the means to accumulate them. Anyone can save up and buy a Prada bag. Good luck sending your kid to Harvard. — StreetlightX

Yes, it's a essentially a 'keeping-up-with-the-Joneses', but instead of comparing your socio-economic success with your immediate neighbor, you benchmark your success against a particular socio-economic group higher than your own, which necessarily leads to frivolous spending and debt accumulation etc. in order to maintain a certain level of respectability. Edmund Burke is an infamous example of feckless spending in order to appear wealthier than he was, and as a result suffered from debt for much of his life. Curiously, it seems that Brett Kavanaugh suffers from the same affliction.

Trump doubled-down on his white nationalism anti-immigration statements today in a press conference.

The brown people are destroying our culture thing again. Fuck off, Trump. We don't need your advice.

Uhh, hurr durr, the mayor of London is an Muslim that hates me, durr.

I think this protest is bigger than his inaugaration: — Michael

Let me count the votes that matter: 304 in favor of Trump, 270 in favor of Clinton.

Sure, it is a possibility, but a highly unlikely one given the context. He was not Hillary, so "We" cannot be Hillary. It must be a group that includes him. Granted that he worked for the FBI, AND they were working on a Trump investigation, the "we" most likely refers to the FBI. You are a lawyer. Do you deny that this is the most plausible explanation, especially given the animosity he displayed towards Trump coupled with his not so upstanding character? — Agustino

I'm not knowledgeable enough about the issue to make that call. I will say that given Trump wasn't elected president at the time, it is very plausible to me that by "we" he meant voters or the American people at large. I find that explanation more likely than a reference to the FBI.

As a lawyer from what I've seen and heard so far there is simply no evidence either way.

Let me count the votes that matter: 304 in favor of Trump, 270 in favor of Clinton. — Hanover

It's actually "favour" you redneck.

At this point you can only consider pointing out that fact as tantamount to trolling...

The Unwelcome Guest

The greatest danger Trump poses is he makes the unacceptable acceptable.

If we start to forgive the President for his transgressions, lies and insults then we only embolden him.

It is not normal to have a President who mocks the disabled, attacks the press as the enemies of the people, who refuses to release his tax returns, who is openly sexist, who apologises for white supremacists, who retweets far-right content, who smears allies, who praises dictators, who rips up international rules, who undermines an independent judiciary and who uses the White House to further his business interests.

Nor it is in the UK’s interest to have a President who has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord, ruptured the Iran nuclear deal, risked peace in the Middle East, undermined NATO and started a trade war that threatens British jobs and livelihoods.

And it is deeply depressing we have a President who has separated child migrants from their parents, withdrawn from the UN council on Human Rights, called migrants vermin and dismissed African states as “s**tholes".

We have a choice. We can fawn before such a man or we can confront him.

If we choose the former then we legitimise his behaviour.

If we fail to do the latter then we are abandoning the standards previously established for holders of that office. — Jason Beattie, The Mirror

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Trump is very popular in the UK. That's our boy!

Trump is very popular in the UK. That's our boy! — frank

I liked the Trump baby balloon.

Me too.

Of course, economics has nothing to do with actual data and numbers. You just think up some semi-plausible sounding psychology, apply that to your country and voilà, everybody gets rich. Thanks for that. :up: — Baden

:lol:

At this point you can only consider pointing out that fact as tantamount to trolling... — Posty McPostface

In a last ditch effort to silence those who fail to see the wisdom of your tired criticisms, you decry the truth as trolling. Nope, Trump's victory was in fact huuuge, devestating to his opponents, and it will shape politics for generations.

and it will shape politics for generations. — Hanover

Clearly, for the worse.

In a last ditch effort to silence those who fail to see the wisdom of your tired criticisms, you decry the truth as trolling. Nope, Trump's victory was in fact huuuge, devestating to his opponents, and it will shape politics for generations. — Hanover

I'm not silencing anyone here, Hanover, common. I'm just stating the fact that you keep on bringing that fact up as if it was some punchline itself serving as a form of some argument to your opponents who disagree with you on matters pertaining how he won the election or at least why and how he did it. You just assert that he did, and that's that. If I'm not mistaken this is some logical fallacy, no?

Still amused that Trump had the star-defying audacity to talk to Europeans about their culture. This is a guy with all the culture of a limp penis after an extended bout of fapping to a Stormy Daniels' vid, to whom a cheeseburger is haute cuisine, and the Kardashians are film noir. What Trump knows about culture could be tattoeed on the pinky of one his very small hands and there'd still be room left over. Back to the zoo with you monkey boy! :monkey:

Here's how this goes: Trump declares himself huuugely popular, his detractors point to his huuuge opposition, his detractors are reminded that he really is huuugely popular, his detractors then attack his supporters. Then (see above) more and more clever comments are shouted in the echo chamber. The right and left take turns cheering and booing. The most annoying of all are those who really think they're objective.

Not entirely objective; but, rational enough to not fall into a highly exploitable trait that Republicans seem to posses of being frightened of big government, enough so that they take stuff like, "Obama was a Kenyan Muslim out to destroy America" as having some substance...

Do you even read the comment sections on facebook, which was now undeniably exploited by some intelligence agencies (Russian GRU, according to the latest indictments of the Mueller investigation), to stoke fears to unseen levels, among an already frightened and paranoid electorate of the US population.

clever comments — Hanover

Why thank you m'am. *Takes a bow*

The most annoying of all are those who really think they're objective. — Hanover

Like declaring a popular vote loss as a "huuuge victory". Probably right.

To be fair, comparing Trump to an ape or a monkey isn't entirely objective, and many apes and their supporters would probably, with some justification, object to the comparison.

To be fair, this does display a double standard of dramatic proportions. Consider an attempt to apply such humor upon his predecessor.