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Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    robindch wrote: »
    ..a dumb, incompetent, vain, fat, corrupt, orange fraudster.
    I don't care what colour he is. Enough of this racism. We have had "Americas first black president". Now its time for America's first orange one. Fair is fair.
    Roll on The Donald...


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    recedite wrote: »
    I don't care what colour he is. Enough of this racism. We have had "Americas first black president". Now its time for America's first orange one. Fair is fair.
    Roll on The Donald...

    Yes indeed, one big step forward for the oompa loompah nation ;)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Stealthfins


    robindch wrote:
    No decent, upright, law-abiding citizen could honestly applaud the elevation to anything beyond municipal dog-catcher of a dumb, incompetent, vain, fat, corrupt, orange fraudster.

    Who's this you're Post is about ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭Bristolscale7


    Lol, 'merica here you go:



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    robindch wrote: »
    No decent, upright, law-abiding citizen could honestly applaud the elevation to anything beyond municipal dog-catcher of a dumb, incompetent, vain, fat, corrupt, orange fraudster.
    Strong words, Robin, for the millions of decent, upright, law-abiding American citizens ... who voted him into office.;)

    Is this a case of everybody else being wrong ... except for 'our little Johnny' ... eh em Hilary ?
    robindch wrote: »
    ... a dumb, incompetent, vain, fat, corrupt, orange fraudster.
    ... you aren't the cool objective guy you normally are ... your feelings/emotions seems to be clouding your judgement of The Donald.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Lol, 'merica here you go:


    In four years Idiocracy will be re-released as a documentary.

    MrP


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    recedite wrote: »
    :)Happy Trumpday folks :)


    ********** USA USA USA ! **********

    President Donald J. Trump, Inauguration Day
    Are you suggesting that the 20th January be declared a National US Holiday ?

    I hear that most federal workers in the greater DC area got the day off yesterday.:)

    The Donald ... making America great (again) ... even if half the American's don't seem to want to be great ... again !!!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭Bristolscale7


    Serious question for you Trump fans. What measures will we use to know when he has Made America Great Again (TM)? Trump declared "the carnage is over" in his speech. So we'll start with that.

    MAGA Metrics.
    1. Less/no carnage
    2. ???
    3. ???

    What other measures would you include? Employment? Purchasing power? GDP? Graduation rates for minorities? Decline in divorce rate?

    A related question is the timeline. Can we expect to achieve MAGA within six months? The end of his first term?


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    Serious question for you Trump fans. What measures will we use to know when he has Made America Great Again (TM)? Trump declared "the carnage is over" in his speech. So we'll start with that.

    MAGA Metrics.
    1. Less/no carnage
    2. ???
    3. ???

    What other measures would you include? Employment? Purchasing power? GDP? Graduation rates for minorities? Decline in divorce rate?

    A related question is the timeline. Can we expect to achieve MAGA within six months? The end of his first term?
    US Presidential terms are 4 years ... and The Donald is looking good for two terms ... especially after that great Inauguration Day speech yesterday!!!:)
    ... and for those Republican non-fruitcakes who missed it, here is the 45th POTUS on his special day ...
    I predict that 'this American carnage stops right here and stops right now' will be a presidential soundbite on a par with 'the buck stops here' and 'ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country'.




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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,011 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Oh look, a non-answer, just regurgitated buzzwords and catchphrases. I suppose it's my own fault for expecting anything better from someone who thinks Satan has possessed anyone with at least a BSc in Biology.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    Oh look, a non-answer, just regurgitated buzzwords and catchphrases. I suppose it's my own fault for expecting anything better from someone who thinks Satan has possessed anyone with at least a BSc in Biology.
    When did The Donald say such a thing?

    He wants higher performance from the US education system which will require more people with higher degrees in all the sciences (including Biology).:)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Stealthfins


    J C wrote:
    ... you aren't the cool objective guy you normally are ... your feelings/emotions seems to be clouding your judgement of The Donald.

    I agree it's shocking a moderator on board's can actually get away with those vile remarks.

    No doubt I'll get a gold card for this.

    But I'm surprised


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭FA Hayek


    Well using the word 'fat' as a pejorative seems pretty petty, childish and silly if you ask me. Like what are we? 8 Years old on a school playground?


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    I agree it's shocking a moderator on board's can actually get away with those vile remarks.

    No doubt I'll get a gold card for this.

    But I'm surprised
    It's freedom of speech and opinion ... and I would staunchly defend Robin's right to say what he said ... but this doesn't mean that I won't call him out on it.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,197 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    FA Hayek wrote: »
    Well using the word 'fat' as a pejorative seems pretty petty, childish and silly if you ask me. Like what are we? 8 Years old on a school playground?

    Wouldn't the word 'incompetent' be the word that would worry you the most?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭FA Hayek


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Wouldn't the word 'incompetent' be the word that would worry you the most?

    Do you stand by and condone this so? Someone can't do their job because they are fat?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭Bristolscale7


    Poor little snowflakes. Maybe we should have a subforum so JC, Hayek and the other Trumpettes can have safe space?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,197 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    FA Hayek wrote: »
    Do you stand by and condone this so? Someone can't do their job because they are fat?

    Not at all. But aren't you worried that your leader is incompetent? In fact, it seems increasingly like Dictator Trump is deranged? Doesn't that worry you at all?


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    Poor little snowflakes. Maybe we should have a subforum so JC, Hayek and the other Trumpettes can have safe space?
    I'm not a Trump supporter ... just a supporter of alternative opinion for problem solving ... where conventional solutions have failed ...
    ... and Trump seems to have novel alternatives for solving many of the major problems blighting American Society currently, whereas Hilary represented more of 'the same-old, same-old'.

    Time will tell whether Trump can deliver ... but at least Americans seem to have taken on board Einstein's famous quip that 'doing the same thing (i.e. electing another Clinton) and expecting a different result' is a form of insanity.

    ... and as far as I can see the only ones looking for 'safe spaces' and censored news to protect their 'snowflake' opinions ... are the pseudo-liberals ... who aren't liberal at all when it comes to respect for alternative opinion.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Not at all. But aren't you worried that your leader is incompetent? In fact, it seems increasingly like Dictator Trump is deranged? Doesn't that worry you at all?
    I'll answer that with Rudyard Kipling's famous poem If ... which seems uncannily appropriate to The Donald ... a man who has been bankrupted numerous times and rose out of the financial ashes to become a billionaire businessman and a man who was writen off several times during the presidential election camaign, only to defy all predictions and actually win it.

    Read these words ... and see how they describe The Donald to a 'tee':-

    If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;
    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
    Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

    If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;
    If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

    If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
    And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
    And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
    If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

    ... and in The Donald's case, he has become the first POTUS elected without the support of large sections of the politicians in the party, which nominated him ... and in the face of almost total opposition from the MSM.
    He is the nearest thing to an independent non-party president that is possible within the current American political system. This has strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats ... but so does everything in life.

    ... and when the alternative was Hilary and Bill ... instead of Bill and Hilary ... something had to give ... and the result was POTUS Donald John Trump !!!:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭Bristolscale7




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Kipling's poem does indeed bring Trump to mind - every single line and thought in it is parodying what Trump is not.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    looksee wrote: »
    Kipling's poem does indeed bring Trump to mind - every single line and thought in it is parodying what Trump is not.
    I thought they perfectly described what Trump is.

    Vive La Difference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,197 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Yeah, we get it.

    In other news, the sky is down and the ground is up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,011 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    If you want to reason with someone who hails Trump unironically as "The Donald", you're gonna have a bad time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Yeah, we get it.

    In other news, the sky is down and the ground is up.
    The MSM isn't that bad at accurate reporting!!!:D:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    If you want to reason with someone who hails Trump unironically as "The Donald", you're gonna have a bad time.
    Why will you have a bad time?

    The Donald is just a pet name ... like 'Billary' for Bill & Hilary Clinton (the first 'Husband and Wife Presidency') ... 'Dubbya' for George W Bush ... FDR for Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... etc.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato




    It's really not a surprise that religious loons are jumping on the Trump idiocracy bandwagon - even though he destroyed for once and for all the political power of the evangelical lobby. The idea that a small group of southern white religious loons could influence US politics at a national level is finished.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,846 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    J C wrote: »
    The Donald is just a pet name ... like 'Billary' for Bill & Hilary Clinton (the first Husband and first Wife Presidency) ... 'Dubbya' for George W Bush ... FDR for Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... etc.:)
    Trivial fact of the day; the name "the Donald" was coined by his first wife, Ivana, who frequently referred to him in this way. She didn't intend anything by this; she was simply carrying into English a usage which is common in her native Czech, unaware at the time that it wasn't idiomatic English.

    In fact she did this with all forenames, which caused a degree of consternation one day when she was looking for one of Trump's then sidekicks, Richard Wilhelm, on a matter of urgency. She went tearing through the halls of the Trump Organisation executive offices shrieking, "Where’s the Dick? I need the Dick now!”


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Trivial fact of the day; the name "the Donald" was coined by his first wife, Ivana, who frequently referred to him in this way. She didn't intend anything by this; she was simply carrying into English a usage which is common in her native Czech, unaware at the time that it wasn't idiomatic English.

    In fact she did this with all forenames, which caused a degree of consternation one day when she was looking for one of Trump's then sidekicks, Richard Wilhelm, on a matter of urgency. She went tearing through the halls of the Trump Organisation executive offices shrieking, "Where’s the Dick? I need the Dick now!”

    She might have been referring to Trump in that instance, too. Not the first to do so, definitely not the last.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    I agree it's shocking a moderator on board's can actually get away with those vile remarks. No doubt I'll get a gold card for this. But I'm surprised
    Your last card was yellow. Noting your contra-charter posting style, it seems sadly likely that you'll be receiving further moderator discipline soon enough - I hope and trust that you're not trolling for a little discipline? :rolleyes:

    Anyhow, please go away and read the charter and come back to the moderator team with any questions you might have and we'll be happy to answer them.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Trivial fact of the day; the name "the Donald" was coined by his first wife, Ivana, who frequently referred to him in this way. She didn't intend anything by this; she was simply carrying into English a usage which is common in her native Czech, unaware at the time that it wasn't idiomatic English.
    Citation needed.

    So far as I'm aware, none of the Slavic languages have a definite article so if the story is true, then Ivana must been translating some other word than "the". German also allows/requires a definite article before a name but more in the south of the country than the north - does Ivana speak German? There are a few reasons she might :) Memory suggests, possibly incorrectly, that Modern Greek requires a definite article before somebody's name as well and I'm sure there are other language which do too.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭FA Hayek


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Not at all. But aren't you worried that your leader is incompetent? In fact, it seems increasingly like Dictator Trump is deranged? Doesn't that worry you at all?

    My leader?
    Where did I ever say that Trump is my leader?

    Oh, I get it. Even the remotest hint that I am not drinking the hysterical left wing cool-aid means that I must be one of those Alt right supporters. It is so easy when the world that black and white isn't.

    I was nearly making a point that the word fat is being used as a pejorative in this case, in terms of being able to do a job. All other straw men aside, you seem to be ok with that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    It's really not a surprise that religious loons are jumping on the Trump idiocracy bandwagon - even though he destroyed for once and for all the political power of the evangelical lobby. The idea that a small group of southern white religious loons could influence US politics at a national level is finished.
    I have a two word response to this particular post ... Mike Pence.:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    smacl wrote: »
    Yes indeed, one big step forward for the oompa loompah nation ;)
    One enormous step forward ... to sorting out the US economy ... and as Bill Clinton once very incisively observed ... "it's the economy, stupid" !!:).


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    ... even Bill Clinton fully approves of Trump ... Ivanka Trump that is !!!:D

    I guess Ivanka has inherited her father's charming ways, winning smile ... and good looks!!:D



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp



    :pac:

    C24XXl1UQAEO-L5.jpg:small

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    Donald Trump's First Day on the job



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,011 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    If only Spencer was from Illinois, then there'd be a tremendous opportunity for Blues Brothers references. :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,846 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    robindch wrote: »
    Citation needed.

    So far as I'm aware, none of the Slavic languages have a definite article so if the story is true, then Ivana must been translating some other word than "the" . . .
    Fair point. I suspect what was going on is, because none of the Slavic languages have a definite article, Ivana found it difficult to understand/internalise the conventions of English regarding when the article is used and when it isn't.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Fair point. I suspect what was going on is, because none of the Slavic languages have a definite article, Ivana found it difficult to understand/internalise the conventions of English regarding when the article is used and when it isn't.

    Indeed. Chinese also doesn't have articles, and if your native language doesn't have them it can be very difficult to understand how and when to use them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    J C wrote: »
    I have a two word response to this particular post ... Mike Pence.:)

    Pence is unelectable in his own name, that's the whole point. The evangelicals couldn't get even one semi-credible candidate for president to stand in the primaries.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    lulz if true

    C27eBIfUcAAdUwm.jpg

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,011 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    J C wrote: »
    I have a two word response to this particular post ... Mike Pence.:)

    That was the real attraction of Trump for you, wasn't it? That you've got a fellow mouth-breathing, brain-dead creationist who's a heartbeat away from the most powerful position in the world.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    silverharp wrote: »
    lulz if true
    Might be useful to break that one out for the less well-informed amongst us.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,964 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Its apparently Politically Incorrect, 4chan


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    looksee wrote: »
    Its apparently Politically Incorrect, 4chan
    Gotcha. Don't want to sound out of touch but is it supposed to be funny/edgy/ironic or what? All I can see is some anon poster swearing quite a lot, presumably about other people.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    silverharp wrote: »
    lulz if true

    What, like God?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    robindch wrote: »
    Gotcha. Don't want to sound out of touch but is it supposed to be funny/edgy/ironic or what? All I can see is some anon poster swearing quite a lot, presumably about other people.

    4chan and Reddit are like the dark web as far as I am concerned, assuming its true its one of the rioters in DC complaining that the Police were taking a more serious line with their activities and he seems annoyed about this.
    What, like God?

    eh that would be a frightening prospect :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,011 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Right, because an antifa would open up and confess their frustrations and fears to a place which is a haven for literal fascists - or as they prefer to be called nowadays, the "alt-right".


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