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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Just make sure nobody's drinking. The sinking realization that this man was a presidential nominee might be too much.
Eh, Your Insane is a common enough statement that you can play it with anyone unpopular enough.
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"I mean, you're not unintelligent. You must see the reality of the situation. Do you know how many times we've come close to World War Three over a flock of geese on a computer screen? Do you know what triggered the last World War? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors. Telegraph poles! It's all a joke!"
edited 8th Aug '16 4:26:28 PM by kkhohoho
Good job truncating the quote. "It's all a monstrous, demented gag" is too iconic to work for the game.
edited 8th Aug '16 4:27:06 PM by Discar
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Nah, I'm Canadian. We got not horse in this race. Too busy watching our prime minister shirtlessly photobombing marrying couples.
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He's been doing surprisingly well IMHO. I mean, everyone's got issues (it's politics), but I gotta say that IMHO he's doing a lot to reduce people's cynism towards government, which had peaked at last election.
Not that I can speak to everyone, and again, the guy's not perfect, but he's been showing a general willingness to stick to his word and not in a cynical manner? If that makes sense.
But enough derails.
I'm gonna expand the game to rules BY or ABOUT Trump Vs BY or ABOUT the Joker. Easier to make a more varied collections.
edited 8th Aug '16 4:37:17 PM by Ghilz
I wonder if any quotes from Batman: The Animated Series's Joker could work here.
Trump being eviller than Lex...I actually am almost inclined to agree, but actually to be fair Trump has yet to actually murder anybody yet to my knowledge. He does, however, make Lex Luthor seem very Affably Evil by comparison. Though, to be fair, he makes most people look Affably Evil by comparison.
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Well, the both are rather cartoony...nah, just kidding. That Luthor is, at the very least, entertaining in how much of a Warner Bros cartoon he is. He's so high-energy and loud, it's hilarious!
That...guy ain't funny. At least in a way that I can be comfortable with.
edited 8th Aug '16 5:05:24 PM by fredhot16
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.I have met people who were even more petty than Trump, but they were receiving special education and didn't promoting a political ideology that shared at least 2/3rds of Fascism's features.
Leviticus 19:34Former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling plans to run for U.S. President in 2024.
Keep in mind that this is a guy who blamed his lack of nomination into the MLB Hall of Fame on "liberal bias" (he was pretty successful for a few years, but would not be considered "great"), is responsible for the financial disaster behind the scenes of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and has compared Muslims to Nazis online
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So, it's good to know we have a potential Trump 2.0 to look forward to.
edited 8th Aug '16 5:56:05 PM by TotemicHero
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
I doubt that this MLB guy will seriously be the nominee. Trump was a very odd fluke.
