American Politics Thread: Orange is the new POTUS

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Sliver

How do you even make that mistake? If we hadn't bothered fact checking your post (which we shouldn't have to do, but have grown used to it with anything you post in this thread), I would have thought NY Post ran Trump squinting at the sun on their cover. I don't go fact checking jayswin or even CHL (when I make it to the bottom of one of his posts),?

I lol'd

[Violator]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

I can't imagine Donnie will be too happy with these numbers.

Obama speaking on Afghanistan? 40 million viewers.
Donnie? 17. Must sting a little.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...-speech-241905

40 million on ten networks for obama

Vs

17.8 on four networks

The speech was also eight years ago when you could guarantee more people had cable.Also the afghanistan issue was a big campaign issue for obama.

[Nufy]

The Trump Shoes or those classy Velcro lace-ups on the left ?

Originally Posted by direwolf

Cult members in Phoenix gettin' fired up for Trump's Hitler Youth rally tonight. Those shoes are hilarious.

[JFK]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

i glanced at the cover above and thought it was the NY Post. Sort of the same format. Sorry for that mistake.

The NY Post cover today is good, what the news should be.

Would you be so kind as to address the rest of his post and not skip over it?

It's one thing to have different opinions and level of debate but your posts genuinely distract from any of that happening because they have nothing to do with anything or at worst misleading and borderline made up.

[GirlySports]

I don't believe my posts are misleading. They may be sloppy and poorly made and if so I get called out for it.

[Wormius]

It's a weird thing to get wound up about; it's not like anybody had to do a lot of digging to realize that it wasn't a NY Post front page.

[direwolf]

No chaos whatsoever. Everything is fine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/u...ell-trump.html

The relationship between President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has disintegrated to the point that they have not spoken to each other in weeks, and Mr. McConnell has privately expressed uncertainty that Mr. Trump will be able to salvage his administration after a series of summer crises.

What was once an uneasy governing alliance has curdled into a feud of mutual resentment and sometimes outright hostility, complicated by the position of Mr. McConnell’s wife, Elaine L. Chao, in Mr. Trump’s cabinet, according to more than a dozen people briefed on their imperiled partnership. Angry phone calls and private badmouthing have devolved into open conflict, with the president threatening to oppose Republican senators who cross him, and Mr. McConnell mobilizing to their defense.

In a series of tweets this month, Mr. Trump criticized Mr. McConnell publicly, then berated him in a phone call that quickly devolved into a profane shouting match.

During the call, which Mr. Trump initiated on Aug. 9 from his New Jersey golf club, the president accused Mr. McConnell of bungling the health care issue. He was even more animated about what he intimated was the Senate leader’s refusal to protect him from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to Republicans briefed on the conversation.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Wormius

It's a weird thing to get wound up about; it's not like anybody had to do a lot of digging to realize that it wasn't a NY Post front page.

Probably because it's such a weird "confusion" that it's unbelievable to that it was accidental (so people then think it was on purpose, and then read into that).

Being honest, NY Post and Daily News have completely different cover styles, and, obviously, Daily News has "Daily News" in big letters and NY Post has "New York Post" in big letters. There is no believable way to confuse them unless you didn't even actually look (lending credibility to the Facebook repost/making stuff up comments). This isn't a picture of wolves we're talking about here.

[Itse]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Probably because it's such a weird "confusion" that it's unbelievable to that it was accidental (so people then think it was on purpose, and then read into that).

Chill, Pepsi.

Girly's been around long enough to earn some good faith, and badgering people like that is not cool regardless.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Itse

Chill, Pepsi.

Girly's been around long enough to earn some good faith, and badgering people like that is not cool regardless.

Yes she has been here a while. Maybe you haven't noticed, but she unapologetically lies, misleads and misinforms constantly in this thread. The fact that she's posted here a while doesn't excuse dishonesty.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Itse

Chill, Pepsi.

Girly's been around long enough to earn some good faith, and badgering people like that is not cool regardless.

I'm very chill, I was just explaining to Wormius why her post was getting a reaction.

I certainly don't think any of my posts towards her would be considered badgering.

[Fozzie_DeBear]

Originally Posted by Itse

Chill, Pepsi.

Girly's been around long enough to earn some good faith, and badgering people like that is not cool regardless.

Agreed...move on

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear

Agreed...move on

#### that, someone is getting punched in the face here.

We're turning this thread up

[savemedrzaius]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Well yeah. People realize it isn't any more dangerous to look at the sun during an eclipse than at any other time, right? The reason we were warned not to do it is because during an eclipse we have reason to stare at the sun for more than a few seconds, and if the sky is dimmed we may not naturally look away. It's not as though during an eclipse the sun puts out special rays that burn out your retina just by looking at it for a couple seconds.

Off topic but am I the only one that believed this is what happens?

[Itse]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yes she has been here a while. Maybe you haven't noticed, but she unapologetically lies, misleads and misinforms constantly in this thread. The fact that she's posted here a while doesn't excuse dishonesty.

No, I don't see that constantly, and everybody makes mistakes sometimes. Let people back out with some dignity. Be better and move on.

There's nothing more to win here.

[JohnnyB]

Edit: ha ha, posted in the wrong thread. Reading more than one thread at once. Funnily though, I must have been swayed to post in this thread because real American politics have become equivalently far-fetched to dragons, white walkers and other fantasy stuff....

[Mr.Coffee]

Girly may not be eloquent, and she may potentially make #### up (doubt she intends to though, likely accidental), and she may look to fuel debates that aren't really debates, but I have to say it's still better than what this thread has devolved into because at least she's trying to make it better than... what it is...

I'm not sure why but it seems as time goes on this site seems less and less capable of conjuring up debate and respectful discourse. There's sort of a wolf pack mentality, and then the likes of a guy like peter12 gets basically banned because posters can't seem to take a difference of opinion very well. Whoever posted that oatmeal comic a page or two back, that was well-played and I think desperately needed for many people on this site.

I'm a huge loser so I am frequently on this site and have read it for years pretty much daily. Gotta say that Sliver coming out and calling other people out on their posting style after the way he entered this community is preeeeetty rich. I find it highly ironic and amusing and I honestly really like Sliver, and think he's hilarious and seems like a decent person.

I get that impression with Girly, she doesn't strike me as a troll, I think she has a more innocent tone and tries to engage in debate or ask questions to trigger them even though it is likely she knows the answer, because the questions come across as daft. But then we get the same old crowd having a cry about it, or overreacting to it. It's too bad really.

[direwolf]

Anybody watching this train wreck of a speech? Jesus, he's such a f'n jackass. What an embarrassment.

[DuffMan]

No kidding, these dummys chanting drain the swamp, drain the swamp, are too dumb to realize he is doing the complete opposite of draining the swamp.
I've just caught the last 10 minutes, but, holy frick, what a moron.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Him, the speech, the crowd.

It's just all so embarrassing.