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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Should we add Trump in the Pantheon as God of Blatant Lies?
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.![]()
No, but only because we don't dabble in troping RL politics.
Good for you, Oregon.
edited 14th Mar '16 2:22:27 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!""I'm not even convinced that Trump is a real person. He's a pop-culture reference from the 1980s, like J.R. Ewing." — said Bill Mahr, three or four years ago.
And it only illustrates the bizarre state of affairs when Sarah Palin becomes the Voice of Reason.
Scaramouch was right; the world is insane.
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I'm not sure I'd say it's a uniquely western problem; non-western civilizations are just as xenophobic (and sometimes more).
edited 14th Mar '16 3:14:14 PM by Protagonist506
Leviticus 19:34We already have The Tyson Zone for people who became living memes.
Ironically, Tyson himself endorsed Trump.
The Senate approved John King's nomination to lead the Department of Education on Monday.
Tom Vilsack is now the only original cabinet member left.
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.Is it wrong for me to think that Tom Vilsack sounds like what somebody would name their Dungeons & Dragons character?
Meanwhile, Jeb Bush & co. are trying hard to paint Trump as misogynistic
.
Wow, next thing you know, they'll notice he's racist.
Better yet, they are a black kettle calling a black pot black.
edited 14th Mar '16 4:12:00 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Yeah, he is. He's just good about pretending he isn't, like most some of the Republican establishment.
edited 14th Mar '16 4:35:39 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"They have a Grand Dragon, now? What happened to the Grand Wizard?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Seems like rhetorical battlelines are being drawn, though.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman