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12 minutes ago, fansince88 said:

I love these "draw out the morons" posts

Why are you so hard on yourself?  I know it must be hard to meet friends right now, but things will get back to normal and the library washrooms will reopen!!! 

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1 hour ago, KzooMike said:

I'm independent,  but your first statement......"He's in the White House for a reason". Ok..... Clinton was a god awful candidate and Joe Biden will be next. Masses are A$$es. Trump won the election based on excellent marketing, branding of his name, and further dividing party lines. All the while being afforded the ability to say literally anything because nobody could ever pretend to fact check a human being that embellishes at the rate he does.  While having the privileges almost no american receives he managed to fail at almost everything he has ever done outside of a TV show and branding his name. His name is so well branded with success it makes citizens think he has at some point in his life been successful in business, which is not true in any capacity. By any practical measure he is an utterly horrible business man. They actually had to make a fake set for the Apprentice because his actual office was so deplorable it wouldn't work. Moving along, he somehow wins votes from people who don't make a lot of money and are very pissed off about the income disparities in this country. That said, Trump would never help somebody or put measures in play that help people in a sub 75k income bracket. Why these people vote for him I don't know. He's rich and they also want to be rich? Break the status quo and turn it into the WWE?  

 

If you make 100k+ I get it. He helps your bottom-line and every candidate pretty much sucks, so if that's the case go with the one who benefits you most.  At this point I would just settle for somebody that is presidential and doesn't spend half his life on Twitter.          

I am in complete agreement with you.  I heard that not only did they build a set for the reality TV show, some of the people on the reality tv show had make up applied by Hollywood types, there were some episodes where they did multiple takes, and sometimes the voices were dubbed in.  I also heard some scenes were scripted, that maybe sometimes people were overly dramatic or aggressive purely for entertainment value,and that the car outside after someone got fired wasn’t there by chance.  I also noticed no one ever used the bathroom, which is odd.

 

You also hit on the branding of Team Trump.  They out-hustled the competition, out marketed, out worked and were masters at digital marketing.  Ironically, Joe Biden also specializes in digital penetration, though a different type.

He appealed to an extremely broad segment of the public, from no collar to blue collar to white collar.  Historically speaking, he rocked the world and should rightly be acknowledged  for it.

 

Let’s hope for 4 more years.  But yeah, lots of people were fooled by The Apprentice experiment.  Same thing happened with Leave It To Beaver (the original sit com,  not the porn remake).  People were furious when they found out everyone on the show was an actor. 

 

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3 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

I am in complete agreement with you.  I heard that not only did they build a set for the reality TV show, some of the people on the reality tv show had make up applied by Hollywood types, there were some episodes where they did multiple takes, and sometimes the voices were dubbed in.  I also heard some scenes were scripted, that maybe sometimes people were overly dramatic or aggressive purely for entertainment value,and that the car outside after someone got fired wasn’t there by chance.  I also noticed no one ever used the bathroom, which is odd.

 

You also hit on the branding of Team Trump.  They out-hustled the competition, out marketed, out worked and were masters at digital marketing. 

He appealed to an extremely broad segment of the public, from no collar to blue collar to white collar.  Historically speaking, he rocked the world and should rightly be congratulated for it.

 

Let’s hope for 4 more years.  But yeah, lots of people were fooled by The Apprentice experiment.  Same thing happened with Leave It To Beaver (the original sit com,  not the porn remake).  People were furious when they found out everyone on the show was an actor. 

 

Another irony is that I believe the CEO of CNN now was the producer for the Apprentice. Everything is contrived.

It looks like Q-lazy posted something. I'll bet it was another proof of intelligent life. I guess I will have to go through the rest of my life not knowing.

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Reality Check said:

Another irony is that I believe the CEO of CNN now was the producer for the Apprentice. Everything is contrived.

It looks like Q-lazy posted something. I'll bet it was another proof of intelligent life. I guess I will have to go through the rest of my life not knowing.

Maybe if you weren’t such a princess, you could see what other people write. 

Posted
11 minutes ago, Reality Check said:

This ignore feature is priceless.

I find the feature equivalent to hanging up one of those sticky back two sided gnat strips.  Just set it and forget it.  Those gnats are still out there but every couple of days I can look at that sticky yellow paper and see 40 more of those annoying but harmless wretches, stuck to and dying on the vine.

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15 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

I do hear you, truly. I was you in 2016 (didn't vote Trump, couldn't vote Clinton, voted Obama twice). But once you really see the rot and intentions of the establishment political class (which is bi-partisan rot), the only thing that you know for sure won't break the cycle is to keep electing establishment politicians who got us into this mess. One of the more undeniable trends of the past four years is how former partisan enemies within the political class (think Bush v Obama, Bush v Clinton) immediately became allies in their universal denouncement that Trump was a threat. 

 

History proves the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas (and more) were the actual threat. They've been in power for over 30 years -- and in that time have done some horrific things like: launching endless wars for going on two decades while simultaneously gutting the military's ability to fight those wars, throwing away the Bill of Rights in the name of "the war on terror", off shored millions of jobs and our most vital supply chains, and subverted the rule of law to allow them (and their friends) to get away with crimes that would land the average American in jail for decades. 

 

That was the first tell for me. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" type logic. But that only got me so far. It wasn't until I really looked under the hood of what happened in 2016, and what was attempted in 2017-2019 that the actual stakes of the game we're playing right now came into focus. This isn't about Trump, or even Biden. It's about whether the people of this country would rather live in an free and democratic republic, or merely the illusion of one. 

 

And make no mistake, an actual free and democratic republic can get ugly. But I'd rather have it be ugly and free than the inverse. 

Good post and yes, we sound like we have similar takes on some things. My two issues, primary issues, campaign finance reform as well as Wall Street reform (Repeal of Glass-Steagall) have led to horrific consequences to the systems overall balance. 

 

At one point I identified more with Democrats but still have some Republican views. In time they just both blended into a melting pot of the same BS. As I said, most of which you describe better than me. I have no earthly clue how the US stops this cycle. For me, it's not Democrat or Republican, it's the system. I am the voter you described in why Trump won. Like you, Obama twice, couldn't do Hillary nor Trump. I see similar attitudes playing out among people like ourselves throughout this next election. It's hard to evoke passion to vote based on dislike of the opposite party. I very well could sit this one out again, but it's possible my frustration over the complete mockery of the presidency is enough to cast a vote for somebody I really don't believe in just to prevent somebody who is even worse from winning.  

 

As you point out, that is just another vote towards establishment politics which I'm certainly not endorsing. I just hope this pattern of keep blowing it up doesn't land us in an even worse position. As this is occurring, these blow it up presidents are nominating Supreme court justices, creating policy, and lets face it, while not establishment politics, certainly advancing the agenda of income inequality. I love capitalism, but it's dangerous with the level of greed that can come with it and the ability of that greed to infiltrate all forms of the way decisions and policy are made. We have reached a point in which the scales are so deeply tipped,  I don't know how we get back.     

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Posted
1 hour ago, Q-baby! said:

Interesting, considering I continue to prove you wrong! 
 

Edit.....Sorry, I keep forgetting that you are kitchen help! My bad! 

 

Really??  Typos?  That's all ya got? 

 

 

1 hour ago, BillStime said:

I have yet to hear what Trump got right in the past 3.5 years?

 

Because it's subjective.  He could cure cancer and you schmucks would find something wrong about it. 

Posted
1 minute ago, Chef Jim said:

 

Really??  Typos?  That's all ya got? 

 

 

Didn’t you admit that you were wrong last night as well? 

Posted
5 minutes ago, Q-baby! said:

Didn’t you admit that you were wrong last night as well? 

 

I certainly did.   Rather to be occasionally wrong and admit it than come across as a petulant, vulgar, immature child.  

Posted
Just now, Chef Jim said:

 

I certainly did.   Rather to be occasionally wrong and admit it than come across as a petulant, vulgar, immature child.  

Stop being wrong then! 

Posted
23 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

 

Because it's subjective.  He could cure cancer and you schmucks would find something wrong about it. 


Strike two - who’s next? 
 

What has Trump accomplished?

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

 

That's sad to admit that.  But not surprising.

 

Carry on.  

Thank you! I will continue to prove you wrong! 

4 minutes ago, Reality Check said:

I don't believe that is in his job description.

$$$$

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