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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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Donald Scum
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Do you think there's a nickname that, if it gained widespread popularity, would significantly increase the chances of impeachment?
Seems like that would be the Holy Grail of Trump nicknames. |
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Depends on what you define as a "significant" impact.
Political careers have been damaged by less; Dukakis in the tank with the headphones on, Howard Dean making an odd sounding "roar", etc.. If it impacts the electorates disposition towards Trump, I think it would certainly have an impact on Congress' willingness to do the right thing. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Wow Distracted, you and I agree about some things.
People are often influenced by subtle often seemingly insignificant things. Things they would never admit or even were aware were influencing factors. I can't even begin to say just how many times I have asked people on both sides how they came to an opinion about a particular candidate and heard nonsensical reasons or general almost meaningless answers. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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It's a double whammy with Trump. Not only do I hate his politics, I hate....no despise Trump. I keep seeking some redeeming quality about him and I keep coming up empty. I had held out some hope that he could be good for infrastructure investment...But he's AWFUL on that too.
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a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
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"Shemp, you are the one fixed point in an ever-changing universe." - Beady "I don't want to live in a world without shemp." - Quarky "...just as a magnet attracts iron filings, Trump attracts, and is attracted to, louts." - George Will |
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Trumpelgruber.
Nah, too obscure. |
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Impeachment is not the goal of the name-calling.
Some people still smoke tobacco even though it is dangerous, and even though it took decades of legal wrangling to finally get a public health warning on the packet. And some people still fight that. The goal of the name calling is to have an accurate description of Trump as a similar public health warning. And we expect some people will still fight that too. |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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PIDJIT. Contains both PDJT and idjit.
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It is decidedly odd. Hard to imagine a previous candidate surviving a recording of "grab them by the pussy"
Maybe it has something to do with the ability to actually feel embarrassment or shame. Lacking that ability, Trump is perhaps an emotional (if not intellectual) "Forrest Gump" |
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Sunkist Kaiser.
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Maybe fat, ugly, lazy Donald (FULD). I've been singing this in my head for a while now.
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I grew up in Wisconsin playing the card game sheepshead
Cards in this game are of two types/suits: trump and fail. Don's a seven of clubs. |
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This would explain Trump's disregard for such behavior. It doesn't explain that of his supporters, who are equally unconcerned. The problem isn't just Trump. If it was he would never have been elected in the first place, and even in that unlikely event he still would have been gone by now. As long as his supporters continue to ignore or excuse all of his many shortcomings and malfeasances Trump will continue to be proven right for his lack of concern. |
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Just the right amount of cowbell
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I saw a good one today:
Infected malignant rectal polyp. |
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"Trump"
I'm going to start using it as a cuss-word from this moment. Oh, Trump! Trump you! Get Trumped! Note: Please do not consider this as simply replacing the F-word with "Trump". The former is an act which gives me pleasure. The latter does not. |
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Crazytown, term allegedly used by John Kelly, is Trump's Jonestown.
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I know one is better off just calling him by his name, but a recent incident at a veterans' meeting makes the monicker "agent orange" pretty tempting.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...affairs-2018-8 |
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Stormy's revelation points the way...
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Saw one I really liked the other day:
Agolf Twitler. |
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It just works.
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I'm still partial to Jon Stewart's one for him...
If you don't know it, then just Google it. |
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I'm starting to really like President Prison Date.
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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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I've held off on re-re-posting this outstanding Todd Rundgren youtube (Donald Fagen vocals) for six months, fearing a yellow card for spam. This thread seems the right spot for one more spin. Tin Foil Hat:
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