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  • CygnusZero43

    This is exactly what we expected. The notorious twitter troll has returned and went on a rampage last night attacking teenagers. And he is getting close to signing up a dude for secretary of state who was found guilty of leaking classified information to his mistress. LMFAO

    I. Just. Cant. Even.

    • they really have to take his twitter awayGnash
    • good luck with that https://www.youtube.…CygnusZero4
    • lol. good clip ^Gnash
    • filling the sewermonospaced
    • talking about leaking classified information. Weren't you for Hillary Clinton?omg
    • again, omg deflects and blames everyone else - except for his supreme leader trump.inteliboy
    • omg, the trump fanboyinteliboy
    • lol, that is just the overall argument. Are you that delusional that you can't deal with the reality of the situation? I'm not looking to blame anyone.omg
    • I'm just trying to catch a glimpse if you can look at Trump critically? Yet it seems no matter what he says or does, you just point the finger elsewhere.inteliboy
    • Choosing political leaders based on their handling of classified information in regards to Hillary. How is that not looking at Trump critically?omg
    • You have this idea that blame is being placed, when I’m simply juxtaposing two critical political characters in the arena of classified information.omg
    • https://www.youtube.…Gnash
    • ^ lol, ending on the "don't be a pig" remark and the flag burning guy just sits there like a doorknob. classic.omg
  • whatthefunk3

    Just spitting out more shit this morning...

    http://www.politico.com/story/20…

    • he's gonna be great in the middle eastGnash
    • land of the free!moldero
    • I am not big gov enough for this but I would support jailing business people who hire illegal immigrants.R_Kercz
    • Fine R_kerz, punishment for knowingly hiring an illegal alien is one thing, but that's entirely beside the point.monospaced
    • What if you, say, used the flag to wrap the body of a homeless person you killed for fun which you then buried. Is that ok?face_melter
    • consequences? this isnt a fucking dictatorship ya moron. i can burn whatever the fuck i want.CygnusZero4
    • I was saying that if we are going to start new gov surveillance projects maybe they should be around things that could help current citizens.R_Kercz
    • I've been under the impression that this was illegal in the usa.Gnash
    • ^ lmao wut? we arent under nazi reign. burning the flag is freedom of speech, protected under the first ammendment.CygnusZero4
    • only dictatorships throw people in jail for burning a flag. land of the free!CygnusZero4
    • https://www.law.corn…Gnash
    • ^ I knew It was based on something. I get that it's now been found unconstitutional, thoughGnash
    • It was illegal once. Certainly not something done lightly. I don't like the idea of it, but only a fucking moron would equate it with treason.monospaced
    • LOL! Hillary proposed this same law in 2005 https://en.wikipedia…bliznutty
    • Exactly. It isn't done lightly and is not a party driven thing. It's also JUST a flag and not being patriotic isn't a crime. Oh well.monospaced
    • No jail time, you can keep your citizenship. But if they get to burn the flag, then it should be first amendment to also beat their asses. Fists only.omg
    • ^ Mindless patriotism and hatre...is exactly how the rich will check you distracted while they get themselves massive tax breaks and raid your retirement fund.yuekit
    • ^ Burning flags constitutes mindless hate. Protecting your country from the enemy within is an expression of love and defense.omg
    • Well first of all no one is burning flags in large numbers anyway. But even if they were why should you care about someone burning a piece of cloth?yuekit
    • Classic distraction by the powerful interests behind the GOP in order to get you to fall in line.yuekit
    • You want to argue that signs are meaningless, then you would have no problem with people waving their swastikas and confederate flags. Maybe burn a cross.omg
    • I thought this was fake at first.since1979
    • People have the right to do wave any kind of symbol they want. I could care less.yuekit
    • lmao @ wanting to fight someone for burning a flag.yuekit
    • omg, still NO FUCKING CLUE what first amendment covers, and now throwing in hate as another concept he cannot define or grasp in ANY WAYmonospaced
    • because beating people up you don't like isn't freedom of speech, and burning the flag isn't a hate crime. You FUCKING MORONmonospaced
    • How is fighting any different than dance? You move the feet, hands and body, grab, and throw. All expressions of the mind. First amendment.omg
    • I see you skipped over the conclusion, where we compared the burning of the flag to swastikas and confederate flags.omg
    • And notice how I'm talking about fighting, yet somehow manage an intellectual conversation on it.omg
    • The flag also can't be used for clothing, or be used to sell produce and the recommended disposal method for old flags is burning. Checkmate, orange fuckface.face_melter
    • Only a retard would call a fist fight expression protected under the first amendment. And no, I missed nothing you moron. Sorry. You're wrong.monospaced
    • haha. then obviously you've never seen West Side Story, watched a b-boy breakdance or seen Jackie Chan in action.omg
    • o_0monospaced
    • https://www.youtube.…bliznutty
    • https://scontent-dft…bliznutty
  • kona3


    • RIP horrible soccer dictatorsmoldero
    • i dont know if he actually said this. if he did, he deleted it.CygnusZero4
    • don't think he'd spell it with an "s"_niko
    • really niko? really? this is trump we're talking about here.kona
    • lol ok, funny just a rehash of this: http://i.imgur.com/C…_niko
    • Even funnier is this is really something he would do.kona
    • i can't believe we voted for a trollpinkfloyd
  • Ramanisky22

    • Proves most folks good—not exactly ameriKKKa right there but an example of one asshole w/a mouth—the rest all good.
      This should make you proud to live here.
      PonyBoy
  • sted4

    That's just truly amazing :D

    The Internet Archive is building a Canadian copy to protect itself from Trump

    http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/…

    https://blog.archive.org/2016/11…

  • nb3

  • BonSeff3

  • Ramanisky22

    Ohhh Mittens



    • Rafalca, meet me out front in ten!BonSeff
    • both their faces are pricelesssince1979
    • lolmoldero
    • whaitte people unite!utopian
    • “Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there are really are jobs Americans won't do.”–Mitt Romneywhatthefunk
    • i love bruce campbell.ApeRobot
    • "the first photo from the new Twin Peaks"
      comment stolen from Twitter
      Bluejam
    • haha, yeah. It's the up-lighting.Fax_Benson
  • deathboy-2

    “In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?”

  • BuddhaHat2

    "I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?”

    Ignorance is being taken as knowledge everywhere. Americans were just deceived into voting for someone because he had 'the best words', and would put 'the best people' into important cabinet positions. They were dumb enough to take that at its limited face value, rather than look at the more than 30 years of shady business deals, the multi-million dollar Trump U payout, the bankruptcies and the utterly abhorrent behaviour which might suggest to an above-average reader that the individual is temperamentally and professionally a poor candidate for the position of president. (all of that poor behaviour was either dismissed or rejected by the accused, who used outright fabrications and lies to justify their positions - Trump's 'millions of illegal votes were counted' comment is just the most recent)

    The one thing I really haven't seen since the election is any form of 'mea culpa' from media agencies, who bred complacency with voters by predicting a Clinton landslide, who peddled every Trump lie and scheme to its viewers without ever adequately pulling them up on their lies, and who in great part helped Trump into the White House. (There's not one major US news outlet that can be excluded from this behaviour, they were all guilty of it to a greater or lesser degree.)

    What we're left with now is media outlets reporting on interviews with Trump insiders, and allowing them to go unchecked when they profess ignorance at blatant conflicts of interest that are already swirling around the future president:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au…

    "When it was pointed out that Trump has spoken about his business concerns with foreign leaders, and that foreign diplomats have suggested they’d stay in Trump hotels to curry favor, McCarthy professed ignorance.

    “Is someone saying that’s happened?” McCarthy said. “Can [diplomats] not stay at the hotel?”"

    This motherfucker is either a lying sack of shit, or is too ignorant of policy and protocol to hold the position he does, and I'm leaning very much toward the former. Until blatantly lying sacks of shit like this are called out or removed, you can be sure of greater ignorance and uncertainty in future, with regards to a range of issues like climate change, finance, consumer protection, etc etc. It really doesn't look good =\

    • remember the media outlets are selling content. cant just blame the supply side, without acknowledging the demand. we've never really lernd how to consume mediadeathboy
    • “We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.”deathboy
  • instrmntl2

    Perhaps this will become the point where people are fed up and revolt against the government.

    • isn't that what happened by voting a full blown retard into power?fadein11
  • utopian6

    President Obama's gift to Trump

    The US economy grew 3.2% in the third quarter, according to newly revised government figures. That’s just three-tenths of a percentage point short of Donald Trump’s goal for growth, which is 3.5%.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pr…

  • inteliboy2



    • and what do these mean you think?deathboy
    • why no reasoning to explain what it is you are trying to communicate. Do you believe these graphs lack relevant data such as level of subsidies or trade bubblesdeathboy
    • it is funny communication has digressed to posting images as significant things outside any further explanations.deathboy
    • from the graphs i see less GDP as less taxes. I see more jobs produced by subsidization of higher taxes. robbing peter to pay paul. was that the point?deathboy
    • is it to suggest only gov can create jobs? or show the bubbles they create while the red and blue associate to party and not policydeathboy
    • you're right. a shit post of shit internet graphs. I did find this article interesting though...inteliboy
    • http://fortune.com/2…inteliboy
    • that article is meh. It touches on hypothesis but doesn't really test them. The largest one is artifical growth sustainable and its effect on liberties.deathboy
    • but thanks you it does add more contextdeathboy
    • and it does call into question journalism that cites pay to play research, and almost seems to build the case off the synopsis of said paperdeathboy
    • The first graph could suggest that Democrats are better economic managers, contrary to the GOP line that they are the economically responsible party.BuddhaHat
    • The second graph could show that despite the GOP being anti-big-govt and pro-business, democrats are better at creating private sector employment.BuddhaHat
    • I'd say far less conclusions could be drawn from the last 2.BuddhaHat
    • ... which seem to be the same graph.BuddhaHat
    • Fucking Repupitards!utopian
    • Essentially the God fearing, warmongering, racist, hypocritical, homophobic, patriotic Republicans know how to run this great country into the ground.utopian
  • fadein11-1

    Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-n…

    • fadein11, let me give you a secret, just stop posting in this thread, step out and enjoy watching the democratic party implode. When you rather play identityGeorgesII
    • politics, name calling anyone who disagree with (while playing the victim), excuse any act of violence as long as it's not comitted by a white heterosexua lmaleGeorgesII
    • call a dicator a great leader while not even giving a chance to a great leader by calling him a dictator, if 2016 has proven one thing, is that groupthink canGeorgesII
    • be annihilated, let them enjoy their echo chamber while we remake the world around them, They don't even realize that no matter the scenario they push forGeorgesII
    • revolution, they will lose, the army isn't with them, the police isn't with them, they do not possess nor like guns, they believe fee fees is more importantGeorgesII
    • than feeding your family, having a job or feeling safe. They are lost, they have lost and will keep on losing, let them at least have this echo chamberGeorgesII
    • btw: the same people that have been constantly wrong this past year, are now telling me they know everything that made the "right" win, fuckn lolGeorgesII
    • don't know if I agree that PC 100% blameless, but it's well written and does point out the MASSIVE hypocrisy of the anti-PC mindset.Fax_Benson
    • and comments like Georges'Fax_Benson
    • Georges, are you happy Trump made it to president as I could never tell if you were mucking about.Ianbolton
    • stop fuckn projecting ffs, calling me an hypocrites is pretty funny, coming from people who do not accept democratic votesGeorgesII
    • Maybe happy is the wrong term. Maybe it was obvious all along that this is how the game was always going to be playedIanbolton
    • Ohhh shit, I remember why I don't talk politics with people who don't understand it. Keep on projecting and passing the blame to anyone than yourselvesGeorgesII
    • at ian, I have learned a long time ago to double check, tripple check what the media say, especially those I trust, but this year people have collectively lostGeorgesII
    • their fuckn mind, it's like nuance left America in 2014, it's almost funny to see the double standard the "left" goes by. Anything is fine as long as it's makesGeorgesII
    • you feel like you won some battle, 3 weeks from the election and the people in this thread keep on pushing the same resaon why they lost in the first placeGeorgesII
    • and that reason is quite easy to understand, the left is totally disconnected from the reality that a majority of people experienc, yt they still won't acceptGeorgesII
    • example, as a conspiracy theorist, I've never read so much BS passing for news, yet those same news people are now crying that anyone else is fake news, wtfGeorgesII
    • People? It was me. Always you against the world. Nobody else gets it.Fax_Benson
    • a few month ago, I think I realized that Trump couldn't lose so I gave up shitposting here and went back to making my life greater, making tons of money, preparGeorgesII
    • Anyone who questions is the 'Left' in denial. One homogeneous lump. Too blind to engage with.Fax_Benson
    • preparing myself to move to the US of A, yet 3 weeks later, you guys are still not grasping it, it's amazing, it's right in front of your eyes, right fuckn therGeorgesII
    • Troll post way more successful than expected. Totally agree Georges. Lets accept worse because better fucked up. You ridiculous numptyfadein11
    • fax, stop playing the smart ass, I could point at the moon and you'd still try to suck my finger, nobody really cares anymore what you guys think anymoreGeorgesII
    • because everyone is a sexist, racist, bigot, xenophobe, islamophobe, hypocrite, we are currently rearranging the world around you while you push your kiddie fitGeorgesII
    • I generally agreed with you from the start. Not that you'd fucking notice. If you think somebody isn't 'getting it' you shut down the conversationFax_Benson
    • hence my 'hypocrisy' comment re political correctness shutting down debateFax_Benson
    • So, the left have almost allowed themselves to be carried from birth to grave. Building politicals structures to allow infantilist narratives to succeed?Ianbolton
    • @georges. Word of advice numpty. Don't tell me where to post. You didn't post in here for months cuz you spewed the same bs omg and yuritard didfadein11
    • @Georges
      For me it was always irrelevant wether you supported Trump or not. Your arguments were about why he was going to win and not why he should win.
      ORAZAL
    • Jog on you sanctimonious prickfadein11
    • You had pretty good arguments but nobody was really reading them. I understand the frustation.ORAZAL
    • you should put 'no sense of irony' on your visa application.Fax_Benson
    • ORAZAL got it right, Georges is ranting about Trump winning, while disregarding the implications of the victory, of 'remaking the world around them'BuddhaHat
    • the other posts in the last few pages show the character of the people Trump is installing around him, & each nomination shows his populist candidacy was a lieBuddhaHat
    • Georges2k20 - HOPE in consumer gadgetsfadein11
    • Worse than sheep. Sheep don't herd themselves.set
    • Exactly set. Exactlyfadein11
    • common sense and decency has failed so bin 50 years of progress and get behind the nutjobsfadein11
    • anyway - troll post is trolling. keep the comments comingfadein11
    • anyone that disagrees with you, you label a troll haha. Really rather pathetic. lol at the sheep thinking he's the wolf.set
    • eh? was talking about my post you fucktard. my post was a troll post - read the comments (and the post)... numpty.fadein11
    • had a feeling you'd chime in on time lol... and not have a clue what was being said. haha.fadein11
    • #citizensetfadein11
    • I misunderstood your incessant rambling. Surprising.set
    • Not much worse for society than a sheep, helping herd the other sheep, proclaiming not to be a sheep & insulting anyone who disagrees with his sheep opinionsset
    • no rambling - just having a different viewpoint to yours ;) they are allowed you know (for now)fadein11
    • Your incessant rambling and your viewpoint are two different things entirely.set
    • ..at no point have I suggested you can't have your warped viewpoint.set
    • #citizenset - our man of the "extrem left" in Brighton :)fadein11
    • lol - my sheep opinions? as opposed to you - the man who thought a performance artists dinner party was evidence of satanicfadein11
    • Democrat party... PMSL - have a word with yourself. When clear of chemicals for longer than a day ;)fadein11
    • lol pathetic. Constant and desperate attempts at derogatory personal insults in order to help convince yourself your viewpoint prevails. Funny chap.set
    • eh? yet again you attacked my post. and then says I attack you PMSL.fadein11
    • re: sheep. why do you commute to London everyday to work in some shitty agency for shitty companies to make money. I don't work for anyone pal.fadein11
    • satanic hillary! #spiritcookingfadein11
    • "anyone that disagrees with you, you label a troll haha. Really rather pathetic. lol at the sheep thinking he's the wolf." - this post set - 1st one directed atfadein11
    • haha. You sound like a child who doesn't even believe their own argument. Desperately trying to personally insult me. Talking about where I live, my job...set
    • me ya? short-term memory surely not that bad?fadein11
    • ... (false) personal details about my life. Pathetic. This is the politics thread. For adults discussing politics, sheep.set
    • but you attacked me first you absolute spakka :)fadein11
    • Your only redeeming quality is that watching your feeble mind unravel into defensive expletives to enforce your viewpoint to yourself is rather amusingset
    • you have openly said on many occasions where you live and work lol - I'm not a hacker - I am not trying to steal your identity lolfadein11
    • "defensive expletives" - says you ha... wow, just wow. enjoy your day set, you have surpassed your lack of logic levels again - wowfadein11
    • I insulted your basic viewpoint in relation to the topic. You try and insult me on my home, my job and falsely accuse me of being a druggy. Amusing.set
    • You're clearly out of your depth, sunshine.set
    • #satanichillaryfadein11
    • ..but well done on letting us all know you work for yourself, as I happen to do too, incidentally, it's very big and clever and independent of you.set
    • Nope Set - you insult me continuously you fuckwit. As you have done again today. You brag about your short term memory being shot to pieces through smoking. Youfadein11
    • need to take a close look at yourself. I have only ever commented using info you have fed this site. Move on you dipstick. Seriously, it's getting v.tedious nowfadein11
    • But congrats on being trolled by my post oh superior enlightened one :)fadein11
    • I'm not even going to read your halfwit responses anymore. I'll just just laugh and point.set
    • cool - that suits me fine. I thought that was the agreement anyway but you insist on insulting me and commenting on all my posts. By all means do one numpty :)fadein11
    • Lost me at coolset
    • See if you are capable of sticking to the agreement this time. Trust me, I am. Enjoy your eve numptsta.fadein11
    • Lost me at seeset
    • you are generally lost aren't you lol. laterz dude - enjoy your eve numpty. trying to work here (yes people do work beyond 5pm).fadein11
    • lost me at youset
  • fadein110

    Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today.

    1. Do not obey in advance. Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then start to do it without being asked. You’ve already done this, haven’t you? Stop. Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.

    2. Defend an institution. Follow the courts or the media, or a court or a newspaper. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you are making them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions don’t protect themselves. They go down like dominoes unless each is defended from the beginning.

    3. Recall professional ethics. When the leaders of state set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become much more important. It is hard to break a rule-of-law state without lawyers, and it is hard to have show trials without judges.

    4. When listening to politicians, distinguish certain words. Look out for the expansive use of “terrorism” and “extremism.” Be alive to the fatal notions of “exception” and “emergency.” Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.

    5. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that all authoritarians at all times either await or plan such events in order to consolidate power. Think of the Reichstag fire. The sudden disaster that requires the end of the balance of power, the end of opposition parties, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Don’t fall for it.

    6. Be kind to our language. Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. (Don’t use the internet before bed. Charge your gadgets away from your bedroom, and read.) What to read? Perhaps “The Power of the Powerless” by V’aclav Havel, 1984 by George Orwell, The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz, The Rebel by Albert Camus, The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, or Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev.

    7. Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy, in words and deeds, to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. And the moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

    8. Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

    9. Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on your screen is there to harm you. Bookmark PropOrNot or other sites that investigate foreign propaganda pushes.

    10. Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.

    11. Make eye contact and small talk. This is not just polite. It is a way to stay in touch with your surroundings, break down unnecessary social barriers, and come to understand whom you should and should not trust. If we enter a culture of denunciation, you will want to know the psychological landscape of your daily life.

    12. Take responsibility for the face of the world. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.

    13. Hinder the one-party state. The parties that took over states were once something else. They exploited a historical moment to make political life impossible for their rivals. Vote in local and state elections while you can.

    14. Give regularly to good causes, if you can. Pick a charity and set up autopay. Then you will know that you have made a free choice that is supporting civil society helping others doing something good.

    15. Establish a private life. Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around. Scrub your computer of malware. Remember that email is skywriting. Consider using alternative forms of the internet, or simply using it less. Have personal exchanges in person. For the same reason, resolve any legal trouble. Authoritarianism works as a blackmail state, looking for the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have too many hooks.

    16. Learn from others in other countries. Keep up your friendships abroad, or make new friends abroad. The present difficulties here are an element of a general trend. And no country is going to find a solution by itself. Make sure you and your family have passports.

    17. Watch out for the paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching around with torches and pictures of a Leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-Leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the game is over.

    18. Be reflective if you must be armed. If you carry a weapon in public service, God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no. (If you do not know what this means, contact the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and ask about training in professional ethics.)

    19. Be as courageous as you can. If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die in unfreedom.

    20. Be a patriot. The incoming president is not. Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.

    • Yale history professor Timothy Snyder took to Facebook to share some lessons from 20th centuryfadein11
    • this was already postedGnash
    • sorry Gash - I enjoyed it and must have missed the post before - apologies - I would delete if I could.fadein11
    • no need to apologize.Gnash
    • do this people lived under the same obama, who prosecuted more wistleblowers than any pres before and wanted to ratify TPP?, droned 10s of thousands, etc etcGeorgesII
    • synder's been searching for hitler his entire career. When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.Gnash
  • drgs-1

    Is it me or does Donald look 10-15 younger than he is?
    He's 70

    Discuss

  • Ianbolton1

    THE RISE OF POPULISM AND THE BACKLASH AGAINST THE ELITES
    With Nick Clegg and Jonathan Haidt

    http://www.intelligencesquared.c…

    • Why is "populism" a bad thing, isn't it just another way to say, democracy?Gnash
    • Populism currently suggests that there's always blame somewhere in society (ie. Brexit). Maybe it disconnects us from responsibility thereforeIanbolton
    • how can democracy be an honest reflection of what people really want?Ianbolton
    • Populism is usually saying there's an easy answer rather than problems being genuinely difficult to solve.yuekit
    • And that "they" are responsible... immigrants, Jews, capitalists, reptilians etcyuekit
    • Seriously, this really is an interesting debate people.Ianbolton
    • Populism arose because of the disconnect between out political superiors and ..er.. us, the actual people.detritus
    • Populism is that which is popular, right? So who is the minority to say that the majority is 'wrong'?detritus
    • We've had 20 years worth of politcal finger-wagging here in Britain from our political superiors - i think that deserves at least 10 years of redress.detritus
  • whatthefunk0

    Lewis Black: “Democrats Are Psychotic, Republicans Are Idiotic”

  • since19791

    Trump tweets:

    "Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 5h5 hours ago
    Hence, legal documents are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations. The Presidency is a far more important task!"

    Thanks for letting us know, Don. This will be an interesting 4 years.

    • pfft. His dewsh sons will take over and keep it all in the family. Don the Con will make millions while the middle and lower classes eat his shit.kona
    • Oh, and just to make sure he and his sons can make the most money possible, huge tax breaks for the bracket he's in. Way to go Don!kona
    • the swamp is getting swampier.
      Thanks Donnie!!!!
      Ramanisky2
    • Don the Con®utopian
    • He's not draining the swamp.

      He's adding flesh eating bacteria to it.
      kona
  • mg333

    One of the many amazing PS Battle images coming from this image on Reddit:

    https://i.reddituploads.com/b4cd…

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