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Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#164926: Jan 1st 2017 at 8:11:36 AM

Oh, great. That means the speech is going to be garbled, he's going to interrupt himself at least a dozen times, he's going to waffle on stuff at least twice, no one's going to be able to figure out what his point actually was, and there's going to be at least one monumentally stupid thing in there.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#164927: Jan 1st 2017 at 8:13:39 AM

[up]You missed out "and at least two foreign policy screw-ups unrelated to the above" in there. tongue

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#164928: Jan 1st 2017 at 8:26:13 AM

And all of it written using the vocabulary and grammar of a kindergartner. (With apologies to actual kindergartners everywhere, of course.)

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TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#164929: Jan 1st 2017 at 8:28:27 AM

[up] As well you should apologize. Kindergarteners are generally better behaved and have a better grasp on the English language than Trump.

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#164930: Jan 1st 2017 at 8:30:42 AM

And this is one thing in which Steven Armstrong (AKA the man that Trump is apparently trying to be, knowingly or not, but fails miserably at that) has an advantage over Trump: He knows he can't write a good speech to sell to voters, so he has someone else who knows what they're doing do that for him.

<After Armstrong gave Raiden a long No-Holds-Barred Beatdown while simultaneously giving a long speech explaining his Evil Plan>

Armstrong: So... what do you think?

Raiden: <wheezing> How the hell did you get elected?

Armstrong: <chuckles> Well, I don't write my own speeches.

edited 1st Jan '17 8:31:15 AM by MarqFJA

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#164931: Jan 1st 2017 at 8:42:25 AM

Armstrong at least has an actual ideology, however heinous it is. Trump just wants to line his pockets and go on an ego trip.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#164932: Jan 1st 2017 at 9:29:02 AM

coming White House press secretary Sean Spicer says he expects President-elect Donald Trump will boldly use Twitter to make major policy announcements.

Trump was scolded by foreign policy experts last month when he used Twitter as the venue to say that the U.S. should greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capacity until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nuclear weapons.

Spicer said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that he thinks it freaks the mainstream media out that Trump has more than 45 million people following him on social media. He says Trump doesn't need to funnel his comments through mainstream media outlets.

Spicer says when Trump tweets, he gets results

https://apnews.com/c87b3afea31648ccae159f428c023fc0/Trump-expected-to-embrace-bold-use-of-Twitter

:D

This is fine.

New Survey coming this weekend!
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#164933: Jan 1st 2017 at 9:37:19 AM

[up]Trump "doesn't need" a lot of rather important things, apparently... I wish someone could convince him that he doesn't need to breathe, either.

"Oxygen is for losers!" (holds his breath and turns purple...)

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3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#164934: Jan 1st 2017 at 11:55:47 AM

Maybe his first State of the Union will just be a long string of tweets someone has to dramatic read in congress..

"You can reply to this Message!"
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#164935: Jan 1st 2017 at 12:06:28 PM

[up]TRUMP: You know what, fuck it; from now on, yeah, from now on, State of the Unions are gonna be Trump Twitter Theater, God that's catchy. Pence, care to do the honors?

PENCE: Ahem. 'Until such time as the world comes to its' senses regarding nuclear weapons...'

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#164936: Jan 1st 2017 at 12:50:50 PM

" Sounds extremely familiar, doesn't it?"

Yeah, here it reach terminal case here were the goverment blame everyone else for....well pretty much everything, right now im asking myself if the republican are rightiest chavistas or the other way around.

"Actual social Darwinists are graceful losers. That is of course a rare thing in real life."

yeah, most of the time they are spoiled brat who want to justified why they are better...even when they are not.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#164937: Jan 1st 2017 at 6:04:08 PM

Wait what, now Trump is opposed to the digitization of government?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-russian-hacking-1.3918056

When the Republicans planned to suicide bomb the US government, this isn't what I had in mind.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#164938: Jan 1st 2017 at 6:06:42 PM

He's a cranky old man, it's no surprise that he doesn't like computers.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#164939: Jan 1st 2017 at 6:19:50 PM

"You know, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old-fashioned way," Trump told reporters during his annual New Year's Eve bash. "Because I'll tell you what: No computer is safe."

Right. Because everyone knows courier is completely safe.

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#164940: Jan 1st 2017 at 6:22:49 PM

[up][up][up] Well, let's take solace in the fact that that might mean Trump believes the Intelligence Community now.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#164941: Jan 1st 2017 at 6:25:08 PM

[up][up] Wasn't Bin Laden ultimately taken down by a courier being intercepted? I've seen a lot of people on Twitter who know that Face Palming over the idea that they're so much more secure.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#164942: Jan 1st 2017 at 6:51:30 PM

When I was in Basic Training in the Army, one of our classroom... er, classes... stated that a courier was the most secure method of communications. For the reason that, to intercept the message, you must intercept the courier.

With telephone communications, you can tap the landline. With radio, you can listen in on the same frequency. With computers, you can hack them. In other words, you can spy remotely. No matter how good the encryption is, codes can be broken if you're persistent enough.

But to find out what's in a hand-delivered message, you need to get in there, get your hands dirty, and somehow not get caught.

edited 1st Jan '17 6:56:31 PM by pwiegle

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#164943: Jan 1st 2017 at 7:00:14 PM

Yeah but we can't just transmit everything through courier. What, does Trump think he should personally send a person every time he wants to send a message?

edited 1st Jan '17 7:00:28 PM by Kostya

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#164944: Jan 1st 2017 at 7:06:23 PM

Yeah, I know. The Pumpkinhead probably thinks it's still a viable option — little realizing that he may need to send a message to the other side of the world within minutes. Which is faster than even UPS or FedEx can deliver a package. Only Superman or the Flash could outpace modern satellite communications, and they're fictional comic book superheroes.

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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#164945: Jan 1st 2017 at 7:21:08 PM

nm - joke already made

edited 1st Jan '17 7:21:46 PM by speedyboris

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#164946: Jan 1st 2017 at 7:23:27 PM

Given how the man embraced Twitter so thoroughly it strikes me as weird that he doesn't seem to understand the internet.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#164947: Jan 1st 2017 at 7:30:12 PM

How many Baby Boomers on social media do you think understand the Internet (as much as such a thing is possible, anyway)?

edited 1st Jan '17 7:32:51 PM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!
tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#164948: Jan 1st 2017 at 7:31:40 PM

He wants to literally take us back to the 1950s doesn't he?

Trump delenda est
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#164950: Jan 1st 2017 at 7:37:14 PM

[up] Then Trump himself would run afoul of that, since his suits are cheap garbage.


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