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Reverse Midas. Everything he touches goes to crap.
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Penultimate Amazing
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I saw one in a Twitter comment that I (and several others) immediately liked:
(the auto-censor doesn't work in this case -- I'm not trying to bypass it, but I will put it in a Spoiler) I think it needs descriptor in the front, like "Orange". |
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How about Draft-Dodging Donald?
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Muse
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'Nam Spurs.
Back then, in his "personal Vietnam", he *did* get VD -- Vietnam Deferment. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Of course officially he's still Mr. Trump, but down at the Turkish bath me and the boys call him "Slats."
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There needs to be a term for draft-dodging Boomers who are now wrapped-in-the-flag war hawks.
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#368 |
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#369 |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
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It's been suggested in this very thread that finding the right nickname and getting it to stick will undermine Trump's political support:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com...5#post12365815 http://www.internationalskeptics.com...9#post12365819 http://www.internationalskeptics.com...0#post12365870 http://www.internationalskeptics.com...1#post12366441 Six months in, and there's been zero progress on that. I'd say Fantasy Land is right here in this thread. Certainly it's in keeping with the fantastical aspirations voiced here to opine that won't be having any effect. (There's also this bit of make-believe: http://www.internationalskeptics.com...5#post12404065) |
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Becoming Beth
Join Date: May 2009
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My position has been and remains that Trump has been doing a bang-up job of making his own name a pejorative nickname and object of ridicule with an increasing number of Americans. Dragging "GOP" and Republican" along for the ride. Just in the past couple of weeks he's probably increased that number by a sizable chunk out of some 800,000 people, most of whom I expect are voters, as well as everybody who gains from their paychecks. Family, stores they shop at, mortgage holders and landlords, just to name a few. Keep it up, Trump. ![]() |
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Join Date: Mar 2016
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1. I was referring to the "Guy's gonna be president for 8 years" bit.
2. Your original post and my reply had nothing to do with the claim by some that "finding the right nickname and getting it to stick will undermine Trump's political support". |
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Has a nickname stuck? Not that I'm aware of. A nickname would have to stick before you can dismiss (or applaud) the efficacy of a nickname that stuck.
The other aspect of your, er, whimsical post is I'm fairly confident that none of the posters you cited expect that efforts to nickname here in Backwaterville will spill out onto the national stage. In other words, you're doing the rhetorical equivalent of walking up to the edge of a swimming pool wearing dripping wet speedos, and calling out I'll race you to the other side to a person who's lounging under an umbrella in cabana-wear, nursing a cold one. And then you swim a lap and declare victory. I hope this analogy helps get the point across. ![]() |
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What there needs to be is a term for political-protest draft dodgers to differentiate from the Let George Do It spoiled brats. Some of us went to jail, some of us went to alternate service like becoming lab rats, some of us spent a decade or more in exile. The chicken-hawks just went back to living their cushy existences.
(Not why I came to thread..... As to the OP, I suppose "Sandy" is out, now?) |
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I submit "The High Priest of Fraud", inspired by a 1958 episode of this show, called "Trackdown":
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Bizarro Homer Simpson
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Donald Strump.
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#379 |
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May as well get used to calling him Master Trump, Americans.
Don't look now, but he's got your government. He is systematically choking it down. Nothing is being done to stop him. And he's got all your nukes too. They go or don't go on his say-so. You should be thinking of stupid names to call yourselves. All you had to do was swarm to the polls and landslide that crazy bastard, and none of this crap would be happening now. But you couldn't even do that. |
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Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
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President No Clothes.
I think it has a nice ring to it. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Carlsbad. It's a cave.
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Penultimate Amazing
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Cave Jefe.
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The Part-time President.
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I recently read Marmalade Manchild somewhere...
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I'm thinking of him as Donny Dimwit.
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Penultimate Amazing
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My favorite remains Benedict Donald.
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Penultimate Amazing
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I gotta say, I'm kind of partial to Mister President.
It has a certain "reality based community" ring. |
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Harassment Victim in Chief.
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/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
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Penultimate Amazing
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How about "Missed her President"?
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Tim Apple - we know it gets to him, and reminds people of his stupid lies
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Currently I'm leaning towards ORANGE MAN BAD.
The main advantage, I think, is that it's catching on with some right wing bloggers. So it actually has a chance of making it out into the larger culture. |
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