The 'Official' Quit Picking On Trump Thread

Who Hates Trump the Most?

  • Dumbocrats

    Votes: 8 25.0%
  • Reptilicans

    Votes: 9 28.1%
  • Broads

    Votes: 6 18.8%
  • Canadians

    Votes: 9 28.1%

  • Total voters
    32

mentalfloss

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enough with the distractions
...so what was shiny potatoe up to today...?

 

Danbones

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Re: Japanese President Rolls Eyes after Awkward Handshake With Complete Moron

honest poster commits eye roll after reading OP from complete moron
 

Curious Cdn

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Re: Japanese President Rolls Eyes after Awkward Handshake With Complete Moron

Maybe, Abe's turning away to look for a bottle of Purell.
 

mentalfloss

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Re: Japanese President Rolls Eyes after Awkward Handshake With Complete Moron

honest poster



CBC just did a play by play (with slo mo recap) leading up the eye roll.

‪ https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/830205312476999680/video/1‬

Man I love the CBC!
 

Curious Cdn

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CBC just did a play by play (with slo mo recap) leading up the eye roll.

‪ https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/830205312476999680/video/1‬

Man I love the CBC!

Fake News! It was all phoneyed-up in a TV studio in St.John's!
 

mentalfloss

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Should Journalists use more obtuse language in pieces about Trump?

I was just wondering, since it seems to be that the press is very soft on him.

I'm not saying that they should write hit pieces or anything, but maybe they should use more appropriate language.

For example, 'Trump is an idiot' is an objective fact.

There's such an unfathomably large sample of evidence to support such a statement as to make it irrefutable.

By sugarcoating their pieces with more sensitive adjectives about him, it feels as if they are doing a disservice to the public and not accurately depicting the extent of his stupidity.
 

Curious Cdn

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Re: Should Journalists use more obtuse language in pieces about Trump?

You mean expressions like "Cuckoo for Coco Puffs" or "Feckin' Nut Bar" or "As Crazy as a Shake's Suspenders" or "Madder than a Sh1thouse Rat" or "Orange Mutant" or ....?
 

mentalfloss

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Re: Should Journalists use more obtuse language in pieces about Trump?

Simpler.

Mainly to highlight the fact that he is legitimately unintelligent.
 

lone wolf

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Re: Should Journalists use more obtuse language in pieces about Trump?

Should Journalists use more obtuse language in pieces about Trump?

Nope.... Smaller words and simpler soundbytes.
 

Danbones

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Re: Should Journalists use more obtuse language in pieces about Trump?

mentaloss, a journalist?
do we have an endlessly laughing donkey smiley?
 

petros

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Re: Should Journalists use more obtuse language in pieces about Trump?

I'd say he is oblate but not in a short n'squat Liberal kinda way.
 

mentalfloss

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Re: Should Journalists use more obtuse language in pieces about Trump?

I'd say measured up against you he'd be a Rhodes Scholar genius! :) :)

Nope...

Trump's Staff Sure Seems Eager to Tell the World He's an Imbecile | Mother Jones

President Donald Trump was confused about the dollar: Was it a strong one that's good for the economy? Or a weak one?

So he made a call―except not to any of the business leaders Trump brought into his administration or even to an old friend from his days in real estate. Instead, he called his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, according to two sources familiar with Flynn's accounts of the incident.

Flynn has a long record in counterintelligence but not in macroeconomics. And he told Trump he didn't know, that it wasn't his area of expertise, that, perhaps, Trump should ask an economist instead.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Re: Should Journalists use more obtuse language in pieces about Trump?

I'm not sure you understand what "obtuse" means.

Here's a hint: it's basically the opposite of what you seem to be looking for.
 

Danbones

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Re: Should Journalists use more obtuse language in pieces about Trump?

but what if they, by using opposite words, accidentally write something that turns out to be true?
If they follow mentaloss's plan, it could happen

that would make a leftie...a righty?