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Merchant of Doom
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#88 |
Great minds think...
Join Date: Dec 2011
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I corrected my ******* error already. I know you never do that because you will never admit any mistake you make (it's a common trait of those who support Trump). So why don't you give it a rest?
You referred to her as nothing but "porn star", so you're technically correct. You were just as misogynistic, if not more so, than anyone else around here. Never called her by her name, always "porn star", which you repeatedly used to objectify her. You called her a liar, insulted her and her lawyer at every turn. Now you want to come here crying about people being mean because it's the gold digger in the WH? Seriously, get over yourself. ETA: Notice how I didn't use quotation marks around my post either? That's because it wasn't a direct quote. It's paraphrasing all of your statements while you try to play some feeble game of "gotcha" because you never used the word "whore". It's really sad and anyone with half a brain can see right through this latest fraud of a defense you're using. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Huh, I guess I am the bad guy because a poster fraudulently misrepresented my posts in a completely different thread.
man, if totally made up claims can get people worked up, think what actual misogynistic attacks like those we have seen today in this thread would do. Oh right, nothing. So it goes |
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Great minds think...
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Sad response is sad.
![]() Again, I've corrected everything that was a mistake. When you're done playing the victim let me know. ETA: You didn't regularly refer to her as just "porn star"? That's messed up, because whenever I do a search for "whore" in those threads all I see is you calling her "porn star" and "attention whore lawyer" for Avenetti. I'll get you some links to help you with your memory as it seems to be a problem. |
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"All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."--Barbara Grizzuti Harrison “There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.” - Patrick Rothfuss |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Yeah, those morons were scraping the bottom of the barrel when they got Bolton to take the job. If you're young enough to have a post Trump future you'd be damaged goods from the moment you sat in the chair. If you're old enough for this to be your last job you'd be worried about your legacy. Kelly's legacy will be a dumpster fire with his military service almost a footnote. People who could be the NSA are sure to have noticed.
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Fiend God
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Penultimate Amazing
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Several unconfirmed reports that Ricardel is gone.
Long live Queen Cersai,oopps, I meant Melania. |
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Another Trump is melting down article, this time from CNN. Highlights:
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Amen to that.
I never believed he went into this expecting, or even really wanting, to be president. It was nothing but an attention getting stunt for him. And then the adulation started by the idiots who could not see him for what he is. Trump got addicted to the rallies and attention and the power. It fed his narcissism like never before. IMO, he doesn't give a damn about what's good for the country, but only what's good for him. I want it all to come crashing down on him. I want it to be the worst decision he ever made. |
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From what I've read, there is nothing wrong with or particularly conniving about Melania Trump wanting certain White House officials gone due to incompatibility. Indeed - again presuming the reports are true - it seems like Kelly is fairly contemptuous toward her, going as far as consistently "forgetting" to make travel and hotel arrangements for members of her staff when she goes on joint foreign visits with her husband. I have no problem with her complaints and I don't agree that she merits criticism for them.
It is hilarious how she's made Trump look whipped though. Which is his own fault, of course. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Wanting something, though, is a far cry from making the want public. Undermining a president's staff is the same as undermining that president. This is a laudable goal for the press, at least if it's justified and in the public interest. It's a terrible thing for a spouse to do.
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Grammar Resistance Leader
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I think Trump and his minions are cornered on the legislative front. Even if there are Republicans with passable ideas for legislation (that is passable in another meaning ofthe word), the dimwit in chief has no vision and no one wants to work with him because he'll throw them under the bus on a whim. That's the chief reason they've got no program bits passed except for the "Oooh, I want mine, gimme gimme gimme" tax cuts.
What is frightening is that the government is being run by fiat. What Trump and his stooges, particularly the scary ones like Miller, are doing behind the scenes is sending directives to Homeland Security, CBP, ICE, etc..... All those rules were there - they just found uniquely Trumpian ways to interpret them in the most abusive way possible. I'd rather NOT have his foreign advisors also working in the backrooms and slipping memos to State and to the diplomatic services with policy changes that they think they can get away with. Having bigmouth Bolton as an attention whore aids in that respect. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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His touting non existent GOP victories in the mid terms reminds me of Hitler ordering non existenet military units around in his last days. But I would not get to happy about this, we have a borderline psychotic man with his finger on the nuclear trigger. if that is not scary what is. |
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I keep on reading that too; that it started as a publicity stunt, but he got addicted to the adulation. But I alos read that even after his nomination he never really expected to win;he thought he would lose but could from some kind of mass movement with his followers with an "the election was stolen from me" line.
But more then Trump,even, I want the GOP enablers who knew full well what he is but figured they could somehow control and then use him'thye are the ones I really want to suffer. |
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I am now more convinced then ever that,in the end, Trump will decide that the one sure way to rally his base and recapture his glory days is war.
Everything about Trump screams the kind of leader who will get you into a war. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Trump Tweets
"Our pledge to hire American includes those leaving prison and looking for a very fresh start — new job, and new life. The legislation I am supporting today contains many significant reforms. Read more here: http://45.wh.gov/esvdqj " |
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I lost an avatar bet.
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I’ll conceed part of the point. Perhaps one doesn’t need the moral high ground but one has to be at least at ground level to accuse others of misogyny. President Trump has dug a deep hole. Being upset with the left while ignoring the president’s glaring and undisgusable misogyny is laughable.
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Well it has been reported that Trump went into a big sulk after the midterm results returned a Democrat House. As someone who has suffered the pain and misery of living with a narcissist, this doesn't surprise me one bit... it is exactly how most narcissists behave when they have been rejected.
Narcissists are very dangerous when they get like this, they tend to lash out at anything and everything. That this particular narcissist is in a position of power makes him doubly dangerous. |
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Remember that one of his first acts was to release the Mother Of All Bombs, just to make a point that he could.
Wouldn't it be cool if Melania divorces him, leaving him destitute before the end of his term? (I know there are loads of signed papers designed to prevent that happening, but still...) |
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I have a different take on the MoAB detonation. I think it's more like the "Vrooom! Vrooom!" truck-driver miming. He did it because he wanted to see what it'd be like "blow 'em up real good"(someone insert the SCTV clip, if you want).
He's a big baby and wanted to play with his new toys. If we had a dead zone somewhere in the world, he'd be dropping nukes and watching the videos at night before bed. |
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Continually pushing the boundaries of mediocrity. Everything is possible, but not everything is probable. For if a man pretend to me that God hath spoken to him supernaturally, and immediately, and I make doubt of it, I cannot easily perceive what argument he can produce to oblige me to believe it. Hobbes |
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From CNN:
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![]() When Trump first took office I gobbled this stuff up. He was going to get his comeuppance any day now, it seemed. It got to the point where I quit checking CNN, because I felt I was getting an unrealistic expectation that the country as a whole was sick of Trump, and it didn't match the reality I saw around me. Besides which, "heading into uncharted territory" is just stale writing. For the first time his party does not control both houses of Congress. I can do the math. After the shock of his election I wasn't about to believe anything I read ahead of the midterms. I avoided the news all last Tuesday. It came out the way I hoped, mostly. |
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I've lost track of the plot. Who/what is the conductor/conduct?
Regardless, I wish everyone to maintain a degree of decorum. Maybe what Michelle Obama said is falling out of favor. I hope not. This sort of talk gets used against "the good guys" and could cost the 2020 election here on a sleepy backwater forum, ya sure The immigrant call lady married to Trump is discussed frequently. Someone should start a thread one day. |
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