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POTUS Elect Trump II: Lefties whining and regurgitating fake news

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I'm already weary of being embarrassed by my own President, and he hasn't taken office yet.
 
Re: POTUS Elect Trump II: Lefties whining and regurgitating fake news

I'm already weary of being embarrassed by my own President, and he hasn't taken office yet.

Think of it as a circus act. The presidency as THE ARISTOCRATS!
 
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Trump is going to start a new trend? Presidents tweeting? Does Obama have a twitter acct?
 
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Trump is going to start a new trend? Presidents tweeting? Does Obama have a twitter acct?

He does have a Twitter account, but he hasn't posted to it since taking office. There's an official handler that will occasionally make updates, but they're all professional and dignified.
 
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He has on occasion tweeted, and ended tweets with BO so you knew it was him. But they were few and far between. Same with FLOTUS. I think Trump tweeted a second time after that idiotic one. Seriously, what is he, 12? What a buffoon. And Now he "knows things that no one else does" about the Russian hack that he's going to share with this Tuesday or Wednesday. If it wasn't so scary it would be comical.
 
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people are a holes. christ almighty. :)

I think he should make more. Just imagine how bizarre and interesting it would be if Hitler had had a cameo in M or Nosferatu.
 
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I have no problem with him appearing in those roles--he is ideally suited. POTUS is another matter.
 
Re: POTUS Elect Trump II: Lefties whining and regurgitating fake news

He was great in Home Alone 2. Tremendous. The best. Oscar-worthy, if he cared about Hollywood at all, which he doesn't. But the elites wouldn't let him win. :D
 
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He has on occasion tweeted, and ended tweets with BO so you knew it was him. But they were few and far between. Same with FLOTUS. I think Trump tweeted a second time after that idiotic one. Seriously, what is he, 12? What a buffoon. And Now he "knows things that no one else does" about the Russian hack that he's going to share with this Tuesday or Wednesday. If it wasn't so scary it would be comical.

Course he does. Since they were working with him on everything they were doing, of course he knows stuff that the rest of us can only speculate about.
 
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He was great in Home Alone 2. Tremendous. The best. Oscar-worthy, if he cared about Hollywood at all, which he doesn't. But the elites wouldn't let him win. :D

To be fair, Al Pacino won the Oscar that year for Scent of a Woman, so Trump was in the same ball park.
 
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Krugman nails it. I wish Trump supporters or Republicans in general here would try to reply to the substance of this piece, which I think is factually correct.

There's lots to be outraged or amused about with the presidency going to such a spectacularly unfit person, but this piece captures my worries about our democracy. The main problem isn't Trump, who is simply a buffoon who lucked into being the only other choice when one party ran someone so easily painted as a malicious and criminal shrew for the 49% of the country who wanted to howl at the moon. Trump, while a fool, is just a fool, and we are stronger than that. The problem is our either/or system now means half the country's political leaders will now go along with it as if it were something worthy of more than a horselaugh, because that's where their bread is buttered.

I don't know how we get out of this without a third party to always counter a demagogue with a 2 to 1 ratio, a solution that won't work without rewriting our electoral college and maybe our first past the post election system radically.

It used to be that 40% were blindly R, 40% were blindly D, and elections depended on the 20% other who were middle of the road. Now 49% are blindly R, 51% are blindly D, and elections depend on radicalizing your guys and suppressing the other guys. A system which was stable and moderate has flipped to being radical and extremist just because the environmental variables changed. Fascinating political science but terrifying in reality.

And while the right may be fat and happy now, it could happen to you, too. Right now there is nothing to prevent a genuine radical left-wing movement to luck into a terrible R adversary and take power. Think about that. And maybe help now with what should be a bipartisan attempt to steer our politics back towards the middle.
 
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Re: POTUS Elect Trump II: Lefties whining and regurgitating fake news

Krugman nails it. I wish Trump supporters or Republicans in general here would try to replay to the substance of this piece, which I think is factually correct.

There's lots to be outraged our amused about with the presidency going to such a spectacularly unfit person, but this piece captures my worries about our democracy. The main problem isn't Trump, who is simply a buffoon who lucked into being the only other choice when one party ran someone so easily painted as a malicious and criminal shrew for the 49% of the country who wanted to howl at the moon. Trump, while a fool, is just a fool, and we are stronger than that. The problem is our either/or system now means half the country's political leaders will now go along with it as if it were something worthy of more than a horselaugh, because that's where their bread is buttered.

I don't know how we get out of this without a third party to always counter a demagogue with a 2 to 1 ratio, a solution that won;t work without rewriting our electoral college and maybe our first past the post election system radically.

It used to be that 40% were blindly R, 40% were blindly D, and elections depended on the 20% other who were middle of the road. Now 49% are blindly R, 51% are blindly D, and elections depend on radicalizing your guys and suppressing the other guys. A system which was stable and moderate has flipped to being radical and extremist just because the environmental variables changed. Fascinating political science but terrifying in reality.

And while the right may be fat and happy now, it could happen to you, too. Right now there is nothing to prevent a genuine radical left-wing movement to luck into a terrible R adversary and take power. Think about that. And maybe help now with what should be a bipartisan attempt to steer our politics back towards the middle.

I tried to warn everyone.
 
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