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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The whole thing that's so bizarre about Trump's whining is that he complained for eight years that Obama wasn't putting the effort in. Like, he was clearly paying at least some sort of attention to what Obama was doing, but it's like he forgot literally everything when he became president.
I know we're not supposed to do armchair diagnosis, but I'm just saying that his family has a history of dementia and Alzheimer's. He may want to see a psychologist or a psychiatrist in case there are any warning signs.
Considering how he was talking about it before he assumed the office, he clearly thought he could get away with being a part time president.
Not to be alarmist but dictators can, and often are, lazy bastards, and that can even be what motivates them to set up the dictatorship. After all, it's just so much easier to have people do whatever you say, rather than having to fight with Congress over things.
It actually makes sense, Trump saw Obama failing to get certain things done and thus assumed that Obama was lazy, because how else could he fail at such an easy job?
If you consider the presidency an easy job then it makes sense to view Obama as lazy, because how else do you explain his multiple failures?
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAmbar: I kinda disagree, be a dictator is tiring, not in the sense of trying to rule wisely but to keep everyone else to Gut you or kick you out.
Instead like wanderer and Myself have said, he resemble more the typical latíno populist that plague the región, he have the stupidity of maduro, the greed of Menem and the rubber spine of Peña nieto
Yeah, we have seen is kind before, too Many times in fact
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"The thing that honestly irks me about Trump becoming President of the United States for his ego: from the moment he was inaugurated it no longer matters what happens to him.
In terms of ego, he's won. From January onward, no matter how terrible or disgraceful he winds up being, or even if he's successfully impeached out of office, he is and shall forevermore be counted among the Presidents of the United States of America and nothing will ever realistically change that.
Trump can go to whatever fate awaits him knowing his name will be taught to schoolchildren for as long as the United States exists.
Even if it's only as a cautionary tale. Though to someone like Trump, infamy might be just as good as fame. No Such Thing as Bad Publicity...
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Until we figure out time travel and erase his very existence via Temporal Paradox.
edited 27th Apr '17 10:14:11 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryEvil won. Happens all the time, despite the popular belief in good winning all the battles 100% of the time. Even happens in fiction all the time; it just doesn't get attention drawn to it. For every battle Mario wins to rescue the princess, there's another battle Bowser wins to kidnap her in the first place.
There is nothing we can do to take Trump's victory from him. Trying to do so is a futile gesture. Worse than that, it's the exact kind of pettiness that led him to take up the campaign trail to stick it to Obama in the first place. We can't keep obsessing over the battle we lost. We need to focus on how to win the next.
The goal isn't to stick it to Trump. It's to protect our country and the world from him.
edited 27th Apr '17 10:29:06 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I have a rather bizarre question.
The Right is characterized by its intolerance of new ideas and for wanting separation of cultures. We also know that a significant amount of them congregate on /pol/ a part of 4chan and known for its memes.
The site's members and other people involved in meme culture seem to dismay the spread of the dank memes to "normies" (a derogatory term used to refer to outsides of meme culture,) on social media sites, the phenomenon is termed "Meme Elitism". I want to know if this is related to the alt-right and if that is part of the reason they made Trump their champion?
tl;dr how connected is Meme Elitism if not Meme Culture itself to the alt-right?
It is the alt-right. Or at least, the "alt-right" as distinct from older white supremacists and their online presence (a la Stormfront), but they are very intertwined.
It's a topic I'm very interested in, but don't have the time to go into it right now. There are already some lengthy articles written about it, and no doubt more to be written in the future.
"Normies" doesn't just refer to people outside of meme culture, but outside of nerd culture in general, the "unwashed masses" as it were. It's part of 4chan's inferiority/outsider complex.
Tactical Fox is basically correct that the one particular incident galvanized them into existence as the logical extension of many attitudes which had been bubbling under the surface for years beforehand as discussions about social justice started to become more mainstream around the beginning of the 2010's. I think someone else on this forum in another thread called it a "radicalization drive for the far right" and I think there's a lot of truth to that.
edited 27th Apr '17 10:50:15 PM by Draghinazzo

He's already caused enough trouble for South Korea with the escalating tensions with North Korea and considering the possibility of a "major, major conflict" with them, and he has the nerve to try and extort South Korea on top of that?...
edited 27th Apr '17 8:35:51 PM by FireCrawler2002