04-10-2020, 07:29 PM
(04-10-2020, 05:02 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-09-2020, 01:51 PM)David Horn Wrote:(04-08-2020, 11:04 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: ... I've seen her (Rachel Maddow) belittle and insult those who didn't support her/ her side or supported someone or something that hurt her side. It's amazing that a woman like her makes way more money than me. Oh well, I'll get over it. I'll give her credit, she knows liberals and she knows what liberals want and she knows what she has to do and say to keep her job. You pretty much proved that to me.
That is an amazing complaint from a man who supports DJT: the absolute master of insulting everyone. Either you're OK with insults, or you aren't.
Trump hasn't insulted me yet. He's mainly insulted liberals and other people (Neo-cons and GOP's) who insult him or screwed him and tend insult us all the time. Now, I don't need Trump to do the insulting for me because I'm quite capable of insulting liberals myself and pointing out their serious flaws and weakness's. As a matter of fact, the mass majority of the Republican base is quite capable of insulting liberals and taking them to task if need be. In case you aren't up on current events the Evangelical wing is no longer leading like it was during the Bush years. I'm meaner and less caring and more tolerant of wrong doing than a so called Jesus freak. Liberals aren't very nice and it's hard for a nicer group to compete with pack of vicious morons with few druthers. Dave we are at war, we aren't seriously inflicting damage or killing each other yet but make no mistake we are at war with the liberals. I'm ok with insults and so are you. I hope you're aren't dumb enough to plead innocence because I'll stop posting and spend some time pointing out insults that liberals make here.
No politician gets everything that he wants. No politician, unless wielding despotic power to the extent of having the power of life and death over everyone (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amurderin', Satan Hussein) can demand such fealty. If one is President of the United States one automatically becomes an easy target for unflattering caricatures.
Wrong in so many ways, exploiting racism and ugly stereotypes of Africa that have never vanished in America. Did anyone go to prison for this? It says more about the person who created the image than it does about Obama. Then again, I do not want this country to become the sort in which a wisecrack about the political leadership will get one prison time.
As Harry Trump said of the Presidency (and really, fame itself):
"If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen".
Fame for a figure of entertainment means that the hack journalists are looking for some faux pas -- perhaps some egregious act of disgusting behavior. Drunk and obnoxious? Temper tantrum? Stiffing the wait-staff? Telling a politically-incorrect joke? Cheating on a spouse? Maybe some hack reporter (as for the National Enquirer) can do a little checkbook journalism -- pay someone on the domestic staff enough money to take the family to Disneyland, and maybe get a story. Obama had enough self control that he was rarely good for such a story. Trump acts as if he does not care. Fame comes with a loss of privacy, something to consider before setting off on a career as a screen actor, professional athlete, pop musician, or politician.
Donald Trump mocked a reporter on the autistic spectrum. Nobody is autistic by choice. I would rather be black than have the supposedly-mild form of autism that I have. It's like being under the sort of drug that mutes joys and intensifies sorrows. It is fortunate that I have no egregious enemies upon whom to wish it. For some people, Asperger's would be an improvement.
Drunks, dopers, and criminals may be fair game, as are people of egregious bad behavior. Really, I am sick of Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton... I remember hearing plenty of "Helen Keller" jokes when I was not yet ten by my peers. After about that age I quit hearing them from my peers. At a certain age one learns to not mock the handicap. At some point one realizes that someone crippled might have been a war hero, and there but for the Grace of God go you.
I admit to having come up with some nasty, but I hope witty, insults. I dealt with a Republican fundraiser one day over the phone (it was winter in Michigan)... "Do you know the difference between Republicans in the Michigan state legislature and Michigan snakes? Snakes hibernate in a Michigan winter! Or with Susan Smith, who drove her car off a pier with her children in it and claimed that her children had been kidnapped by a black car thief...
"Don't call her a bitch. Dogs are about the best mothers in the animal world!"
Trump has not insulted you because you do not matter to him. That is a good position in which to be. People who 'fail' to obey him without question or resistance make him angry.
...I try to be nice to people. It makes life easier and more satisfying. I associate President Trump with a nasty ideology that demeans people. I need enumerate that no further.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.