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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Also, for anyone wanting an incomplete history of Trump's...less than stellar track record when it comes to treatment of women, here
you are.
Here are some choice bits:
"Women have one of the great acts of all time", he wrote. "The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression 'the weaker sex' was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye - or perhaps another body part."
"It must be a pretty picture", Trump said. "You dropping to your knees."
"He got up", Beck said. "his face got red, he shook his finger and he screamed 'You're disgusting, you're disgusting,', and he ran out of there.
I'm sorry if I'm just pointing out the obvious here, but all of this makes one thing perfectly clear: Trump has all the maturity of a 14 year old on 4chan. It's really fucking disturbing that a person can be so incredibly immature at 70 years old.
edited 28th Sep '16 8:42:05 PM by Draghinazzo
When you consider his base, it's kinda fitting, isn't it?
edited 28th Sep '16 8:56:19 PM by PhysicalStamina
i'm tired, my friendHe reminds me of my father. I hate my father.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.I'm wondering exactly when america was great. When it was engaging in political witch hunts? When it was on the brink of nuclear annihilation? When black people weren't really people? When you could just lock up japanese people and steal their shit?
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Fox News' vice president of public opinion research had to write a memo reminding employees that online public opinion polls weren't actually capable of meeting their editorial standards
. I wonder what they are?
One of the top funders of #NeverTrump is now using one of his PACs to allow GOP members to donate to the Trump campaign anonymously
. Should do better than Nimble America.
I feel like I have a lot to say about the whole Make America Great Again slogan, but I'm going to exercise Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment here.
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Basically voiced a lot of my thoughts already.
edited 28th Sep '16 9:51:40 PM by BearyScary
Do not obey in advance.It needs to be said again, there are white people in this country who hate minorities, specifically black people, so goddamn much they're willing to turn the nuclear codes to a narcissistic thin skinned manchild with no impulse control or intellectual curiosity just for the CHANCE that he'll screw people of color over en masse.
Like...how the fuck?
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Cash, a mortgage and a car tends to do pretty well as a shield.
If they don't think that forcibly suppressing every minority doesn't reduce competition for those three things, they think that some vague definition of "great again" will make life easier for them on those fronts.
An interview with Matt Furie, creator of Boys Club and by extension Pepe the Frog
, literally on the day the ADL officially listed racist Pepes as a hate symbol.
He's still not entirely sure of what he can do about the attention now directed at racist Pepes. He's voting for Hillary, though, after supporting Sanders in the primaries.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotDonald Trump attacks 'biased' Lester Holt and accuses Google of conspiracy
...Uh... What?
He also had surrogates attack his Democrat rival for her husband’s infidelities while suggesting she wants to “strip [the United States] of its status as a sovereign nation”.
The Republican nominee launched the latest salvo of attacks in an interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly where he claimed Holt “was much, much tougher on me than he was on Hillary”. Trump said that while initially “I said good things right after the show” he had changed his mind about Holt’s performance “after seeing the way he badgered and even the questions I got”.
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*eyeroll*
"Yup. That tasted purple."As for why he used that conspiracy theory
Mr. Trump’s comment sounded like an off-the-cuff line, and he has been known to float falsehoods frequently in his stump speech, often in riffs of his own. But the conspiracy was in the first paragraph of his prepared remarks for delivery.
Oops!
It's almost refreshing: Trump has a propaganda machine working for him that controls the information environment of fully 40% of the U.S. population, plus foreign governments disrupting our political process, and he still can't overcome his inherent awfulness.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

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