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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #32100 on: September 06, 2019, 11:22:32 am »

In a way, it actually says something good about Trump. This is obviously a terrible, idiotic action that isn't helping the president at all, but it is nonetheless shifting attention away from the concentration camps.

If his goal was to move media attention to something else, he could have done a lot of things that wouldn't make him look like a child trying and failing to modify his report card.

He actually isn't a master of media manipulation, it's just that the American public is almost as bad as he is at focusing on important issues.
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« Reply #32101 on: September 06, 2019, 11:27:45 am »

In a way, it actually says something good about Trump. This is obviously a terrible, idiotic action that isn't helping the president at all, but it is nonetheless shifting attention away from the concentration camps.

That’s sort of gotten back burnered (maybe more middle burner) for some time now though, occasionally breaking the surface only to dive again.
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #32102 on: September 06, 2019, 01:16:16 pm »

Speaking of Trump and border security, at least he's taking money out of the Pentagon.
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« Reply #32103 on: September 06, 2019, 01:37:06 pm »

I'm not convinced by the argument "don't pay attention to smaller crazy shit Trump does, that's just the new normal - focus on the worse things he does". If we let the little things slide as the new normal, this doesn't in fact highlight the worse things, it normalizes them too.
I don't think that's the argument there. I think it's more that we shouldn't let the daily bullshit obscure the terrible shit he does.

Yes, this. The rich would very much like you to focus on Trump's stupidity, insanity, and vulgarity, to treat him as the weird billionaire who doesn't act like all the other billionaires in the hope that we will fail to notice that he differs from the norm chiefly by being a worse liar. On policy, he is a perfectly normal Republican, and the Republicans do not want everyone to take note of that.

See, the only real difference between Donald Trump and Elon Musk is that Trump would eat your liver well-done with ketchup and Musk would live-stream cooking it with a flamethrower. Trump is no more cruel or evil than any other billionaire, his leadership no more disastrous for everyone else. In order for one person to accrue a billion dollars, it is necessary for them to be like Trump in every way that really matters: a greedy, venal sociopath.

The new normal is just the old normal with the gilding rubbed away.
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #32104 on: September 06, 2019, 01:42:45 pm »

Speaking of Trump and border security, at least he's taking money out of the Pentagon
Unfortunately, he's taking money out of military construction projects that would actually help improve QoL for soldiers and stuff, as opposed to the drones
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #32105 on: September 06, 2019, 02:41:01 pm »

I bet you 10$ if you managed to insult Trump's inability to produce a Harambe rap he'd do it within a day. Within an hour, maybe. During a staff meeting.
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #32106 on: September 06, 2019, 03:51:47 pm »

More like produce something he'd call a harambe rap, butchering the pronunciation and probably having no resemblance whatsoever to one. Let's not ascribe more competency to the man than displayed.
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« Reply #32107 on: September 06, 2019, 03:58:30 pm »

So given recent events, I'm wondering: Who thinks Joe Biden won't live to see election day? He's melting even faster than Trump is.
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #32108 on: September 06, 2019, 04:00:49 pm »

You say that like details matter to Joe Biden.
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« Reply #32109 on: September 06, 2019, 04:01:47 pm »

I mean, is there anything actually stopping us from electing a dead person as POTUS?
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #32110 on: September 06, 2019, 04:04:36 pm »

Arguably they don't have a high bar to meet after this presidency.
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« Reply #32111 on: September 06, 2019, 04:16:47 pm »

We'd need to figure out a way for the dead body to say the oath of office, but even then the powers would immediately transfer to the vice president.
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« Reply #32112 on: September 06, 2019, 04:24:23 pm »

I mean... would it? Do the applicable procedures refer to the president being dead, or do they specify at the point the POTUS dies? 'Cause the president can't die in office if they're dead before they're elected.
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #32113 on: September 06, 2019, 05:31:47 pm »

Swearing in the hologram of Joe Biden, who ran against Mecha Reagan in 20xx.
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #32114 on: September 06, 2019, 05:33:18 pm »

Swearing in the hologram of Joe Biden, who ran against Mecha Reagan in 20xx.
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