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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. Farked19

    Farked19 Well-Known Member

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    A friend who has been pro Trump thinks that the pressure has finally got to him and he's lost it.
     
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  2. StJabbo1

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    Lost it did he ever find it?
     
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  3. Schrodinger's Cat

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    This is from Occupy Democrats. I think it makes some valid points :emoticon-0100-smile

    Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

    "A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

    Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever.
    And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
    Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: * Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. * You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of ****. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created? If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
     
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  4. The Ides of March

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    What a brilliant summation of the subject in question. This is a great piece of writing as it doesn't resort to insults
     
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  5. Osvaldorama

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    Will still be tuning in to his next press conference now, though. Hoping for total trump tantrum
     
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  6. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    He's certainly been entertaining, at least from this distance.
     
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  7. Kaito

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    This gave me a laugh .....


     
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  8. MIsaints

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    Not so entertaining from this distance unfortunately. Wish I was a greater distance away.
     
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  9. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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  10. StJabbo1

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    Tells it like it is.
     
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  11. Osvaldorama

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    Has Donald bottled his press conference?

    Been waiting ages. Was hoping for another powerpoint
     
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  12. It'sOnlyAGame

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    Where are you MIsaints? How are things with you and your family? All well I hope.
     
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  13. MIsaints

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    MI stands for Michigan. We are locked down except for the protestors at the capital. Apparently they don’t think the governor is doing a good job since we are locked down. We have the third highest cases in the country. Many people just don’t care about anyone but themselves. Fortunately I’m working from home now and getting paid. So far so good. Unfortunately too many similarities between your government and the orange haired one here.
     
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  14. It'sOnlyAGame

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    Hmm not good. Glad you're ok, stay safe.
     
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  15. Osvaldorama

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    Trump halts funding to WHO.

    Fuuuuccckkiinngg hell
     
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  16. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    He has completely lost his grip on reality now.

    He just keeps saying “ventilators” over and over again.
     
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  17. Osvaldorama

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    HIGH QUALITY ventilators
     
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  18. Osvaldorama

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    "Nobody can even believe about our ventilators even big powerful countries cant believe our ventilators and they work really well"

    <laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh> are we living in a parallel universe??

    EDIT: Now hes listing companies for some reason
     
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  19. Beddy

    Beddy Plays the percentage

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    Trump is nothing but a Bloody dictator! I am surprised someone hasn’t bumped him off by now..........surely there’s someone? Any offers......seriously though who the bloody heck does he think he is?
     
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  20. San Tejón

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    When he was elected I suggested that he might be the next president to be assassinated, but it seems that all the nutjobs are his supporters.
    He is like a dangerous, a very dangerous “little boy who cried wolf”.
    He tells so many lies that should he, at sometime in the future, tell a very important truth, no one will believe him.
     
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