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17th July 2018, 07:19 PM | #41 |
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Ahhh. I have no idea what actually works with voters. I can guess though however. I find it surprising that anyone voted for what was clearly a despicable dishonest person. How this turd even won a primary is beyond me. I listened to and read his speeches and was convinced he is really a very awful human being. Self centered, dishonest, sexist, racist and void of any personal integrity.
My theory about the nicknames is that it may have made some people see him as strong and dominant. The alpha dog in the pack. But swords are double edge. Tag him with an accurate nickname and another picture is created. |
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17th July 2018, 07:21 PM | #44 |
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17th July 2018, 07:23 PM | #45 |
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In somewhat obsolete British vernacular, the verb "to trump" refers to audible farting, and it does seem appropriate to re-popularize the use of that term.
But otherwise, I think we can leave the childish nicknames and the like to the people like Trump who get a kick out of it. |
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17th July 2018, 07:24 PM | #46 |
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At one point, I referred to him as Bến Tre Trump. "I had to destroy the country in order to save it."
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17th July 2018, 07:27 PM | #47 |
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After this weekend, I'd go with "Trumpski" or "Donald Badanov"
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17th July 2018, 07:29 PM | #48 |
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I like to stick "ster" on the end of a name. (I think it goes back to an old SNL skit where a guy keeps giving people nicknames over and over. "Hey, it's Sting. Stingster, The Sting-meister, Sting-a-reno...) I had a dog named "Pupster", and I call one of my best friends, "Hankster". So I kind of like that too. For Trump, it comes off as Insultingly affectionate.
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17th July 2018, 07:32 PM | #49 |
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I believe I also had my suggestions and preferences in the other thread ("Cheetoh Benito" wins for me). I usually go with The PDJT but I also like
the PAAPOTUS. (Person Acting As...) |
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17th July 2018, 07:33 PM | #50 |
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Commander in chief?
Oh wait, in game of thrones she was called breaker of chains. So, may I humbly suggest breaker of leftists? MAGA! |
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I have no idea what you're trying to say, but I'm still pretty sure that you're wrong. -Akhenaten I sometimes think the Bible was inspired by Satan to make God look bad. And then it backfired on Him when He underestimated the stupidity of religious ideologues. -MontagK505 |
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17th July 2018, 07:49 PM | #56 |
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17th July 2018, 07:51 PM | #58 |
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17th July 2018, 07:51 PM | #59 |
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Trump is a kakistonomen: his own name, being a representation of him, is already worse than literally anything else you could call him. Reference a bloodthirsty dictator? All of them were smarter than he is. Call him by a bodily fluid? All of those serve useful purposes. Use adjectives to imply insanity, ridiculousness, or childishness? The mentally ill aren't responsible for their actions, ridiculous people can at least be amusing, and children grow up. Every insult you can dream of would be a step up for Trump. Just call him by his own name, it's already an insult.
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17th July 2018, 07:59 PM | #61 |
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17th July 2018, 08:02 PM | #62 |
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While I understand the 'know your audience' angle, and we know that in the political realm the group that has shown they respond very well to juvenile, mindless, name calling are ardent Trump supporters, I think you're falling just short of the level of 'knowing' needed there.
They don't respond well because it is mindless, nor juvenile, nor mean, nor clever, nor name-calling. They don't respond only because of the way it makes them feel. It isn't the quality of the mockery that factors in at all. Colbert, Meyers, even Kimmel and Bee are orders of magnitude better at it than anyone supporting Trump can be. They respond that way because of who the name calling is directed at. They do so because it does feel good, to signal your group. Yes, they are 'loyalists' in that proving 'loyalty' to their tribe and virtue signaling is more important that facts, or even for many their own best interests. The more absurd the absurdity they are supporting is, the more it proves their loyalty. You will never make them feel bad about mockery, yours or their own, because the function it serves is almost entirely loyalty based for them. Even if they honestly think most people think them vile, it still isn't even on them personally, because they've rejected any meaningful implementation of the idea of personal responsibility and have abdicated their agency to their master. Good things are credited to the master. Bad things, even their own dark feelings and insecurities, are blamed on the other. They want a god-anointed king. That is why you'll never have a nickname that does meaningful damage to Trump for the audience we know embraces meanspirited mockery in the political realm. That is why they'll never actually be the audience for such things. The audience I was addressing was those here. And make no mistake, we are engaging in it for some of the same reasons; to signal our unity on opposition to 45. The main difference is the level of importance we put on it, and other aspects like the cleverness. |
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Circled nothing is still nothing. "Nothing will stop the U.S. from being a world leader, not even a handful of adults who want their kids to take science lessons from a book that mentions unicorns six times." -UNLoVedRebel Mumpsimus: a stubborn person who insists on making an error in spite of being shown that it is wrong |
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I guess some indication will become apparent with the next round of polling. After the most recent debacle some evidence of a drop in Trumps support may become apparent.
For the Trumpsters, the headlines screaming "traitor" will have less impact than the ones featuring "embarrassment" in weakening that support. |
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If your support is irrational to begin, why not double down?
I have a conservative aunt. Everything is "fake liberal media" EVEN WHEN SHE SEES IT ON LIVE TELEVISION. Mango Mussolini has a hardcoe base of people who won't waver. I think, personally, get the kids out to vote for House seats. (By kids, I mean 18-25) |
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17th July 2018, 09:17 PM | #71 |
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POSOTUS.
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17th July 2018, 10:09 PM | #72 |
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It is customary in Russia to add your name, appended with -ovich, as a middle name. Donald Vladimirovich Trumpski. Maybe just Trumpski for short.
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17th July 2018, 11:06 PM | #73 |
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Lying, little, low energy, crooked, crispy Trump.
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17th July 2018, 11:18 PM | #74 |
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Double Negative Trump
Though that's not catchy at all. Don The Con, as mentioned earlier, is pretty good. |
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17th July 2018, 11:59 PM | #78 |
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King Orangutan and the Trumpanzees - the whole lot of them fling crap around.
Not all that inventive, but the image of a great orange ape is the first thing that comes to mind whenever I see this poor excuse for an anthropoid. |
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If the North Korean president is 'Rocket Man', then he is 'Norma Jean', Putin's drooling bitch.
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POOTUS ?
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