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31st August 2019, 11:00 AM | #41 |
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Tan Suit Gate was in the news cycle for at least two days.
Meanwhile, Trump does crap like this on pretty much a daily basis and it’s glossed over and forgotten about by the next day. |
31st August 2019, 01:18 PM | #43 |
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31st August 2019, 02:04 PM | #44 |
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Yes. That is the point. Trump gets away with it because everyone on the extreme right that's currently in charge in America knows that the rest of the population aren't going to do anything about it. Sure, they might hem and haw and even tsk-tsk when some Trumpist ******* makes a fool of himself in an internet forum, but they won't actually do anything to threatens the complete grip on power that the extreme right has.
I think it's high time to stop pretending. The extreme right sees all of this as a war. We are collectively the enemy. They don't believe the crap they're selling us, but some of us still feel that it's the right thing to do to at least give everything the benefit of the doubt. Until that **** stops, things won't get better. |
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31st August 2019, 02:53 PM | #45 |
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31st August 2019, 03:38 PM | #46 |
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You don't have to wait to find out Obama has a daughter named Natasha! And Michelle is the "Baby Mama" (mother to normal people). You must be pretty embarrassed right? You can Google it or look it up on Wikipedia. Obama does in fact have a daughter named Natasha. You thought I was wrong and you figured being snarky would win you internet points. But I wasn't wrong, you just didn't know Barack and Michelle Obama had a daughter named Natasha.
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31st August 2019, 04:25 PM | #47 |
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Well, I'll be damned! You're finally right about something! Sasha's full name is Natasha. Never heard her referred to as Natasha in all these years.
Nope, not embarrassed at all as I'd bet 99% of people on ISF didn't know that. What would embarrass me is being a Trump supporter. |
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We already know how the right would react if Obama played 25% as much golf as Trump.
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31st August 2019, 04:33 PM | #49 |
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Being snarky while simultaneously being wrong is certainly something to be embarrassed about. People with humility learn from these embarrassing moments because they know they're wrong about many other things as well. Someone of your age should have realized this by now.
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31st August 2019, 04:43 PM | #51 |
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31st August 2019, 04:54 PM | #53 |
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Just because it's the anniversary of Tan Suit Gate!
I did have to laugh at the two FOX pundits who were criticizing the tan suit while wearing.... tan suits (@2:12) |
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1st September 2019, 09:55 AM | #61 |
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I have been thinking about Obama mocking a handicapped reporter.
Can't see it. |
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We know how Obama stops a crowd vs how Trump does(n't):
Obama:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu2Mbev6LY Trump:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBQ4yysGGbc Note how FOX falsely presents Obama as "losing control" of the crowd. |
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I think it's fair to say that he didn't have control of the crowd. I couldn't tell from that video what was happening off-camera, but it did take him some time to quiet the crowd.
Not that I expect a speaker to control a crowd necessarily. He was trying to calm them. That's something. |
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Can you believe there was an Obama scandal worse than the Tan Suit? Mustardgate!
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Trump looks exactly, in poise, posture, style, and mannerism, like a person who looks in the mirror and still refuses to see anything but the person he was 50 years ago looking back.
Trump sees the Trump that was on the cover of Art of the Deal. It's not more complicated then that. But even with Trump judging a world leader on their fashion sense strikes me as distasteful, and the whole "Yeah but we're showing what it was like when the shoe was on the other foot" only gets you so far away from that. |
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Meh. Everyone gets old. Most people get fat. The most offensive part of that pic is the stupid hat.
trump has enough disgusting qualities that his appearance should be very last on that list. |
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