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  1. Yep that sword cuts both ways - we can just imply stuff and palm it off on "many people"! I am absolutely convinced this is the case - he was caught on tape and it had to be something way worse than just sex with an underage prostitute - I assume it's something that would put him in prison.
  2. I admire your selfless attempt to make the world better, and it's good to know that a racist can be unracist...icized. But the Trumpsters can't unvote. That damage can't be undone. And by the time they can vote again, they won't need us to change their minds - the dumpster fire formerly known as the United States will do that all on its own.
  3. It wasn't merely poor sentence structure, but let's say it is - I don't think the world will be tuning us out because we criticized his word salad. I think he'll actually responsible for any tuning-out, along with the sneering, laughing, bombing, overthrowing, and so on. That's on his head, not ours.
  4. I had a theory early in the campaign that people were so crazy about him because they were just so damn weary of politicians and their canned speeches. And this made sense to me because who wouldn't be tired of politicians - they're like robots who can only respond the way they're programmed to respond, so if the question is "what would you do about the inner city schools" they just search their database and choose whatever talking point comes closest to the topic, like "I believe that everyone should be educated and I'll be the Education Mayor." It's boring and maddening and it feels pointless to even listen to their interviews - so I truly did get why he was popular. But as time went by and he got nuttier and nuttier I thought ok, even if you're tired of the same-old same-old and his lunacy is vastly entertaining, even so, when it's time to vote you've got to admit the guy is crazy and choose someone else. Right? Right? (Just because you're tired of tuna sandwiches for lunch, doesn't mean you're going eat a bowl of glass shards.) But that didn't happen, and that's the part I'll never get. And now we're going to be stuck with someone who says things like this:
  5. I should add, there are different kinds of dementia with different symptons - in my case I'm just going by personal experience. The severely limited vocabulary, the hand gestures, the weird and inappropriate angry outbursts ("such a nasty woman," imagine anyone else saying that in a presidential debate, it's unthinkable), the sort of lurching he was doing during the debates, and of course his problem with remembering what he said. (Although that could just be the usual problem liars have - that they can't remember what they lied about.) If he starts forgetting the names of common things, that'll be the clincher for me.
  6. Yes, so do I, and I would never say that sarcastically. But I imagine that even if his entourage knows this, they'll help hide it until after he's in office.
  7. Nope I'm old and divorced, although I'd be just fine with all those other things.
  8. I live in a post-PC world now, I don't have to politically-correctly show respect for the President anymore. I'll wear a flag pin instead - I hear that's the same difference. Cuck just baffles me. How did this get to be a thing, it's the dumbest insult ever. "You cuck!" "I'm a what now?" "Cuck, cuck, it's short for cuckold.Which is the husband of an adulterous wife." "Uh, I'm a woman." "Then you're the adulterous wife." "I'm not married." "Libtard!"
  9. It's frustrating to me that noticing Trump is batshit crazy is described as "partisanship."
  10. Oh my God yes. I started reading a book before I even sat down just in case I got one of the chatty ones. We've never seen Lorelai on a plane, have we? What a missed opportunity there.
  11. Also mocked a disabled reporter and picked a fight with the Pope. I still feel like I'm dreaming, how? HOW? Yes, I think that you hit the nail on the head there. We know bad things won't stop happening because the calendar flipped over, but it does give it some distance and the feeling of a fresh start and most importantly, hope.
  12. I looked at my notifications, saw that 31 people had replied to this thread, and I knew Carrie Fisher was gone. I feel like it's not just the end of a bad year, it's also the end of a good era. RIP
  13. Wow, that article is fascinating. Some day, scientists will solve obesity.
  14. That sums up this year so perfectly for me. George Michael would probably have been more of a shock if I wasn't already numb. RIP
  15. You do make a good point @stillshimpy. (Oh cool, when you type someone's name a handy edit-helper-thingy comes up and bolds it for you!) I haven't read the Trump-is-Jesus thing but someone did note on Twitter yesterday that we are being systematically desensitized to outrageous crap so that eventually, we'll just shrug when Trump starts making us wear arm bands or whatever. But I don't know which is worse: deliberate outrageous crap that they at least know is outrageous crap, or actual outrageous crap that they think is just fine and not outrageous at all. It would actually be marginally reassuring if they secretly knew that Baby Jesus Trump is a batshit crazy notion.
  16. I didn't bother to follow the link but some news source has been talking to other people on the plane and their accounts don't match up, either. In any case she wasn't "assaulted," someone merely criticized her, and if she's going to be the "acting First Lady" she might as well get used to it. That whole no-safe-spaces-for-special-snowflakes mentality cuts both ways.
  17. Many people are saying that the Ivanka plane incident was staged. No, seriously.
  18. That concert slogan is a thing of brilliance. "Together We Can Trump Hate." It can be a verb or a noun!
  19. Anybody else think he's put on a lot of weight since the election? Or maybe he was just better at hiding his huge gut before. (Fat-shaming is ok now, right? Post-PC world with no safe snowflake spaces blahblahblah?)
  20. Especially since we outnumber them by what, 3 million? More like an avalanche.
  21. He thinks he's just fine. He has lost all touch with reality - if he ever had one. He's got a tweet out now about how all the A listers are begging for tickets to the inauguration but he prefers to have the "people" there. He thinks we're actually going to believe this. Maybe he even believes it himself. It's hard to tell what's bullshit and what's just plain old delusion.
  22. Get out of it. Say you might be coming down with the flu or whatever excuse you have to make, or hell don't make one just say you can't make it and don't explain why. But get out of it. Life is too short.
  23. I'm going to be dealing directly out of the Trumpenista deck of cards from here on, starting with this: she probably hired someone to harass her to stir up sympathy for herself.
  24. I read that too, on a handy illustration, so I went ahead and looked it up - I'm just going to link directly to their tumblr so that I don't accidentally deprive someone of artwork credit. (Aaannnd the link code button isn't working so I'll just post the actual long link.) http://maeril.tumblr.com/post/149669302551/hi-everyone-this-is-an-illustrated-guide-i-made So true, I had a similar experience with someone I (thought I) knew forever. I stood there speechless until she finished talking and then just turned around and walked away. Later on I made a mental note of all the things I should have said so that I'd have something in the holster for next time.
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