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That's where I stopped. I get enough condescension in my life already, thank you very much.

The world is so bonkers, I feel like anything is possible at this point.

I begrudgingly concede much of this.

You should add this to your poll choices.

Yeah, come on guys, let's be cool-headed and non-confrontational, like Donald Trump.

Edit:

I think we're all terrific

My take on Obama (like anybody cares) is that he is, at heart, a good guy. I think he understood what he was up against. Obama is fond of the big ship analogy: to turn around, you can't just crank the wheel--you have to do it very gradually, in degrees. I think that's the essence of his two terms. He made concessions to the status quo in order to make incremental improvements where he felt he could. Overall, I view Obama positively. The one area where I can't quite reconcile is the mass surveillance. For me, that's the worst of Obama's legacy. That's essentially it, yes. But, you know, with flair.

I just read the article. It is critical of Obama, although the scope of the review is much larger than that. This quote is a good representation of the author’s (Pankaj Mishra) beef with the Obama presidency: “During his eight years in office, he expanded covert operations and air strikes deep into Africa; girding the continent with American military bases, he exposed large parts of it to violence, anarchy and tyrannical rule. He not only expanded mass surveillance and government data-mining operations at home, and ruthlessly prosecuted whistleblowers, but invested his office with the lethal power to execute anyone, even American citizens, anywhere in the world.” Also, “…mass deportations, and cravenness before the titans of finance who ruined millions of black as well as white lives.” I think these are valid criticisms. It’s a good article. I’m curious what some here would think of it. The ultimate point of the article has to do with RACE and the failure of liberalism to attack the real fundamental structural problems of inequality in society. This quote I think captures the central point very well: “The widespread belief that Obama had inaugurated a ‘postracial’ age helped conceal the ways in which the barefaced cruelties of segregation’s distant past had been softening since the 1960s into subtle exclusions and injustices.” Ultimately, the author of the article is critical of Coates for not going far enough to impugn so-called progressives for their failures so far in this century. EDIT: By the way, I don't think it would be fair at all to say they treated Obama as "almost as bad as Trump." The article calls Trump an white supremacist at two separate points.

Uhhh, never

dude

"How did they know I have gas? These guys are GENIUSES!"

You may think for a moment that you do, but give him a minute--he'll contradict himself and we'll all wonder: what the hell was he talking about?

This is my new favorite suggestion for Trump's eventual gravestone epitaph.

Doesn't help his case. The smirk tends to get away from him in the heat of the moment. He's almost Andy Kaufman here...

agree to disagree...

I thought it might be interesting to compare the smirks of two prominent, famously-always-smirking ideologues. Who, in your opinion, has the more imposing smirk? It’s Left vs. Right: who brings more smirk power to his respective side? My take: It’s a close call. And they have a lot in common. Both smirkers rock impenetrably faith-based smirks. And both go heavy on condescension and self-satisfaction in their best smirks. The difference, for me, is that Pence is able to convey that extra menace that Schiff can’t muster. Sure, Schiff wants you to burn in hell because you’re a sinner, but it’s too milk and cookies in the end. Pence’s smirk is more sophisticated in that he manages to communicate that not only does he want you in hell, he’ll drive you there himself in the trunk of his car. WINNER: Mike Pence!

Yeah, I anticipated this response. But 33 is a shill as much as anyone. He enjoys immunity here because he's a good lapdog for the prevailing majority.

Hey Champion, don't chafe your nipples dancing around in celebration in your two-tone open-chest leotard just yet.

Congratulations on your willful ignorance. It's quite an achievement. Your bubble just became even better insulated. Soon you will only have to hear words that echo exactly the short, redundant tape loop of insular clichés that runs incessantly inside your own head.

“Trump is a genius! He’s trolling all the cucktards & libflakes so hard, their heads are exploding. Man, he’s playing the MSM like a fiddle. He totally knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s a master political strategist. This is all playing out precisely how he wants.” - This !@#$ing place

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If that’s really true (I don’t think it is), it would be even more serious—it would mean our pres is suffering from full blown psychosis. EDIT: unless you’re suggesting that Trump just spontaneously invents nonsense as in non-sequitors, just for kicks, then I think that’s somehow even more frightening. It’s like having Jonathan Winters as the leader of the free world. [shudder]