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RE: This Is What Happens When You Elect A Turd as President
July 1, 2017 at 12:14 pm
(July 1, 2017 at 12:11 pm)Succubus Wrote: (June 30, 2017 at 7:38 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Lay off the cider, ya gobshite. Fuckin' Christ, a Limey can't hide a drunk to save his life.
Ingrate! It was officers of Her Majesties Royal Navy who invented Limes to cure scurvy, the curse of sailors the world over. Name one case of scurvy on the USS Nimitz? You can't can you? Ungrateful fucker.
This deplorable stance of yours is an inevitable consequence of relinquishing hold over a primitive colony, a colony that's not quite ready. At least the Aussies know how to make beer.
I bid you good day sir!
There are some great American beers when you get away from the big names. Come on over and give 'em a shot.
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RE: This Is What Happens When You Elect A Turd as President
July 1, 2017 at 12:30 pm
Actually, I think this is what happens when an empire has run its course. The US stepped off this cliff many years ago but the first part of the fall wasn't bad; good view, a cool breeze, we could pretend we were looking down at the rest of the world from a well earned or god given mountain top. It looks different with the ground rushing toward us at fatal speed, but it is way too late to step back from the edge of the cliff.
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RE: This Is What Happens When You Elect A Turd as President
July 1, 2017 at 2:19 pm
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(July 1, 2017 at 12:30 pm)tjakey Wrote: Actually, I think this is what happens when an empire has run its course. The US stepped off this cliff many years ago but the first part of the fall wasn't bad; good view, a cool breeze, we could pretend we were looking down at the rest of the world from a well earned or god given mountain top. It looks different with the ground rushing toward us at fatal speed, but it is way too late to step back from the edge of the cliff.
Well put. But I must disagree with your conclusion, It's not too late. With the realization that there is something profoundly wrong with an electoral system that in order for it to function, many billions of dollars need to change hands.
It's a fucking F T Barnum road show, the best snake oil takes all. How the general populace will come to this realization, I have no idea. It's a game of blind poker, the one with the most money wins.
Quote:The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Henry Louis Mencken.
Bit too late though.
My highlight.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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RE: This Is What Happens When You Elect A Turd as President
July 1, 2017 at 5:05 pm
It's a crying shame that America produces so few Menckens, and so many Trumpeteers.
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RE: This Is What Happens When You Elect A Turd as President
July 1, 2017 at 6:31 pm
(July 1, 2017 at 5:05 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: It's a crying shame that America produces so few Menckens, and so many Trumpeteers.
It's far, far easier to be a yokel, if one has the stomach for it.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: This Is What Happens When You Elect A Turd as President
July 1, 2017 at 6:48 pm
(July 1, 2017 at 6:31 pm)Fireball Wrote: (July 1, 2017 at 5:05 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: It's a crying shame that America produces so few Menckens, and so many Trumpeteers.
It's far, far easier to be a yokel, if one has the stomach for it.
I'll let Minimalist post the pic. I know he's got one on deck.
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RE: This Is What Happens When You Elect A Turd as President
July 1, 2017 at 7:05 pm
Of course, I do.
![[Image: as-democracy-is-perfected-the-office-of-...757022.png]](https://pics.onsizzle.com/as-democracy-is-perfected-the-office-of-president-represents-more-7757022.png)
although I do believe that Mencken's prophecy came true on Jan 20, 2001 when Dubya was sworn in. The WLB is merely doubling down on the Idiocracy we have become.
When it comes to prophecies the score stands Mencken 2 - Jesus 0.
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RE: This Is What Happens When You Elect A Turd as President
July 1, 2017 at 8:29 pm
(June 30, 2017 at 3:29 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: (June 30, 2017 at 2:25 pm)Succubus Wrote: As a Brit I look upon these latest antics of yours with morbid fascination. Are you out of your fucking minds! Have you been infected by some sort of mind virus? You were smart enough (massive understatement) to get to the moon fifty years ago and now you elect this complete utter bastard to POTUS? What the fuck has happened to you people?
Never mind that, the problem you have now is; what are you going to do about it? What 'can' you do about it! The GOP won't impeach the bastard, (sunk cost fallacy), the Dems can't invoke the 25th amendment because the sackless twats in the GOP won't back them up!
Years ago I earned fabulous shillings, oil pipelines and that sort of carry on. Did I tour Europe? Did I fuck. Heathrow, and interrogate the lass's at the counters for a decent ticket. 'Would you like to book a hotel sir', no, just a car, and make it big bastard. I do not exaggerate when I say I've driven more miles in the states than I've driven in the UK. I've been shitfaced in more states in the States, than I have counties in England. I've got pisst with the Sioux in North Dakota. That's right; the fuckin Injuns! Well, they said they were, but then again I was buying the ale.
I just love that fucking country.
I could go on for hours, so I'll just leave you with this.
Do something with the horrible cunt. A Lee Harvey, a polonium 210, a Harkonen hunter seeker, or just strangle the bastard, but do something! Your creditability is at stake.
N.b.
Blythe, California is shite.
Conro, Texas is shite.
Niagara Falls is shite.
Never been to Salt Lake City. What do they do there?
Okay woah woah woah....
Please don't lump all of us in the same category. Not all of us voted that cheeto in office. Not all of us want him there. Not all of us are crazy, deluded individuals.
He didn't win the popular vote. If anything you should criticize us for not having long since gotten rid of the electoral college. And to think it was originally designed to ensure that the uneducated IDIOTS in the populace who voted wouldn't fuck things up. Yeah, that sure could never fail.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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RE: This Is What Happens When You Elect A Turd as President
July 1, 2017 at 10:56 pm
(June 30, 2017 at 12:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote: https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-pl...64900.html
Quote:Trump overrules cabinet, plots global trade war
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- With more than 20 top officials present, including Trump and Vice President Pence, the president and a small band of America First advisers made it clear they're hell-bent on imposing tariffs — potentially in the 20% range — on steel, and likely other imports.
- The penalties could eventually extend to other imports. Among those that may be considered: aluminum, semiconductors, paper, and appliances like washing machines.
One official estimated the sentiment in the room as 22 against and 3 in favor — but since one of the three is named Donald Trump, it was case closed.
I love the guy. I think he's doing a spectacular job.
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RE: This Is What Happens When You Elect A Turd as President
July 2, 2017 at 2:07 am
(July 1, 2017 at 12:30 pm)tjakey Wrote: Actually, I think this is what happens when an empire has run its course. The US stepped off this cliff many years ago but the first part of the fall wasn't bad; good view, a cool breeze, we could pretend we were looking down at the rest of the world from a well earned or god given mountain top. It looks different with the ground rushing toward us at fatal speed, but it is way too late to step back from the edge of the cliff.
And the rest of the world is the bowl of petunias thinking "Oh, no, not again." 
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