Now that Mr Stantis made some crack about your guy, he’s all evil again. You call others snowflakes. More vitriol to follow, see below. Predictable sheep.
I do hope that Stantis realizes that many times Joe pauses, he’s working to not stutter. And listening until someone finishes his/her sentence is a good thing. I love this line about German – and it’s a great habit to get into regardless of your language (IMO). “You’ll also realize why Germans never interrupt you during a conversation: they’re waiting to hear the verb at the end to figure out what you were talking about.”
Yes, the only candidate who is decent, caring, moral, patriotic, and stable.
Remember, though: Republicans will propagandize on anything, and it doesn’t even have to be CONNECTED to a fact. They pretended that reasonable, moderate, compromising Obama was an insane dictator. Because he said “I have a phone and a pen.” Meanwhile Orange Trash could sign an Executive Order tomorrow Outlawing Democrats and they wouldn’t bat an eye.
And at a time when negative partisan narratives provide so much of the glue that holds together the conservative coalition,
…it’s notable that Trump embodies almost everything the right says it hates about the left.
He is an entitled coastal elitist, an easily triggered snowflake who plays the victim card and constantly elevates feelings over thinking.
Trump is a big spending, Constitution-disregarding, dictator-coddling, traditional values-disdaining, identity politics-embracing, cancel culture-advocating craver of safe spaces.
There’s nothing Trump resembles so much as a stereotype of left wingers.
If he were a Democrat, Republicans would find their perfect foil.
Instead, they fell in line out of fear or love with the kind of cult of personality they once decried.
Let’s tick through these narratives, one by one.
Populist conservatives often attack liberals as entitled coastal elites, but their hero is a self-styled playboy billionaire who was bailed out of bankruptcy by his father and lives in a gilded tower on New York City’s Fifth Avenue and at a private club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Snowflake" is conservative shorthand for arguing liberals are easily offended and unable to deal with differing opinions.
But in the Trump administration, disagreement is seen as disloyalty and the President is so easily offended that he obsessively lashes out at critics.
He’s so thin-skinned that last week, the Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to let him block critics on Twitter.
Conservatives righteously condemn a culture of victimization. ✁
Trump occupies the most powerful position in the world, but he compulsively plays the victim card and complains about being treated more unfairly than Abraham Lincoln by the press.
The foreword of the book, which Michael Cohen published on his website earlier this month, fans the flames.
“I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them,” it reads.
“I was the one who most encouraged him to run for president in 2011, and then again in 2015, carefully orchestrating the famous trip down the escalator in Trump Tower for him to announce his candidacy.
When Trump wanted to reach Russian President Vladimir Putin, via a secret back channel, I was tasked with making the connection in my Keystone Kop fashion.
I stiffed contractors on his behalf, ripped off his business partners, lied to his wife, Melania, to hide his sexual infidelities, and bullied and screamed at anyone who threatened Trump’s path to power.
From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise—I was an active and eager participant.”
✁
Cohen was released from Otisville as part of the Bureau of Prisons’ compassionate-release program in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic,
…but balked at the conditions for his home confinement, which stipulated that he forgo his right to publish a book or speak to the media for the remainder of his sentence.
Cohen refused to sign and was returned to prison until a judge ruled in his favor, noting that in all his years on the bench he had never seen a clause like the one the BOP had asked Cohen to sign. (1st Amendment violation?)
Cohen was released and, after a cease and desist letter from Trump lawyer Charles Harder and initial hesitation from publishers, signed a deal with Skyhorse.
tRump is terribly desperate to open up the economy regardless of the human cost. In 2016 he promised that economic growth would be the greatest this country has ever seen.
“We’re bringing it (the GDP) from 1 percent up to 4 percent. And I actually think we can go higher than 4 percent. I think you can go to 5 percent or 6 percent,” Trump said at an Oct. 19, 2016, presidential debate in Las Vegas.
The truth is the economic growth under tRump (pre-pandemic) has never been greater than 2.9%. All of this bragging because of his delusion of what keen business sense he has.
“Donald Trump has made his vast wealth a centerpiece of his presidential campaign; he says voters can trust him because of his keen business sense. There are some problems with that strategy, however: 1) He’s not quite the self-made mogul he makes himself out to be — he got a considerable head start in business thanks to his real-estate developer father. 2) His fortune may well be considerably smaller than he says it is. And 3) his business record is less sterling than he suggests. (Sad!)”
One: Anybody catch Trey Gowdy on Colbert last night?
SC: “Do you think Russia was involved with the 2016 elections?”
TG: “No question.”
But when asked about the investigations, Trey said, to the effect, “There is nothing worse that falsely accused. The president genuinely believes that he was falsely accused.” This, along with no attempt to agree or disagree with the veracity of the charges.
Elsewhere in the same interview, of populism, Trey said (to the effect)
“Conservatives tell people what they don’t want to hear. Populists tell people what they do want to hear.” Break for a moment to highlight what’s next: “After losing seven of the last eight elections, we had to make an adjustment…”
Summary: I suspect the evening was “transactional”; Trey was hoping to push his book, the way a lot of folks, D and R are on his show. I also suspect Colbert was thinking here was another retired Republican who is no longer worried about Trump’s Twitter finger. Methinks both went away from that interview disappointed…
So Scott’s taking a few easy swipes at Joe. He’s got to do something to keep up his conservative bona fides.
And it’s not a deal-breaker to suggest someone over 70 needs his rest. There were plenty of candidates too young for Social Security in the primary, yet this is what we got. Joe still wears his age better than Dolt 45.
For those who missed civics class: A demagogue or rabble-rouser is a leader who gains popularity in a democracy by exploiting emotions, prejudice, and ignorance to arouse some against others, whipping up the passions of the crowd and shutting down reasoned deliberation. Demagogues overturn established norms of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so.
so you’re saying touching adults is the same as touching young underage girls? I bet you have some fun time with kids like Joe. As for “raping multiple complainants” funny they all disappeared just like that, most where paid fore by the democrats and ran away when pressed for proof. They were not nude https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-trump-barge-undressed-beauty-pageant-teenagers-hank-berrien
“I bet you have some fun time with kids like Joe.”
You just can’t keep from slinging insults, can you? Well, that particular lie is rather blatantly personal and vile, and I’ve flagged the comment it’s in for the moderators to see.
I’ve also copied and pasted it here so that even if you come to your senses and delete it, it’s still here for everyone to see, so they’ll know just how seriously to take your comments. Ladies and gents, togoo!
kaffekup over 4 years ago
Looks like a week of cheap shots.
Speaking of cheap shots, how’s the republican rally coming along?
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
A partial list:
Rick Gates: Convicted.
Paul Manafort: Convicted.
George Papadopoulos: Convicted.
Mike Flynn: Convicted.
Michael Cohen: Convicted.
Roger Stone: Convicted.
Steve Bannon: Arrested. Indicted.
Donald Trump: Impeached.
Alex van der Zwaan: Convicted
Richard Pinedo: Convicted
Konstantin Kilimnik: Indicted
12 Russian FSB agents: Indicted
13 Russian organizations: Indicted
Internet Research Agency: Indicted
Trump Foundation: Disbanded
Trump University: Shut down
Lev & Igor: postponed
Rudy: ?
.
Is America Great Again yet?
.
#TraitorTrump
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
So much for the hope (that maybe Stantis was going to show a conscience).
Classyladyor over 4 years ago
This maybe the last time I read this comic. VOTE BLUE! GO BIDEN HARRIS! Dump rump 8645110320
whahoppened over 4 years ago
This feels like a schtick he used on someone else.
RobinHood over 4 years ago
Now that Mr Stantis made some crack about your guy, he’s all evil again. You call others snowflakes. More vitriol to follow, see below. Predictable sheep.
JayHill1 over 4 years ago
I do hope that Stantis realizes that many times Joe pauses, he’s working to not stutter. And listening until someone finishes his/her sentence is a good thing. I love this line about German – and it’s a great habit to get into regardless of your language (IMO). “You’ll also realize why Germans never interrupt you during a conversation: they’re waiting to hear the verb at the end to figure out what you were talking about.”
Ignatz Premium Member over 4 years ago
Yes, the only candidate who is decent, caring, moral, patriotic, and stable.
Remember, though: Republicans will propagandize on anything, and it doesn’t even have to be CONNECTED to a fact. They pretended that reasonable, moderate, compromising Obama was an insane dictator. Because he said “I have a phone and a pen.” Meanwhile Orange Trash could sign an Executive Order tomorrow Outlawing Democrats and they wouldn’t bat an eye.
William Robbins Premium Member over 4 years ago
This was easily disproven if he’d bothered to actually listen to him. Lazy. Stantis is given to easy stereotypes…
Silly Season over 4 years ago
As I’ve said before…
Some days… I loves me a good rant!
~
And at a time when negative partisan narratives provide so much of the glue that holds together the conservative coalition,
…it’s notable that Trump embodies almost everything the right says it hates about the left.
He is an entitled coastal elitist, an easily triggered snowflake who plays the victim card and constantly elevates feelings over thinking.
Trump is a big spending, Constitution-disregarding, dictator-coddling, traditional values-disdaining, identity politics-embracing, cancel culture-advocating craver of safe spaces.
There’s nothing Trump resembles so much as a stereotype of left wingers.
If he were a Democrat, Republicans would find their perfect foil.
Instead, they fell in line out of fear or love with the kind of cult of personality they once decried.
Let’s tick through these narratives, one by one.
Populist conservatives often attack liberals as entitled coastal elites, but their hero is a self-styled playboy billionaire who was bailed out of bankruptcy by his father and lives in a gilded tower on New York City’s Fifth Avenue and at a private club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Snowflake" is conservative shorthand for arguing liberals are easily offended and unable to deal with differing opinions.
But in the Trump administration, disagreement is seen as disloyalty and the President is so easily offended that he obsessively lashes out at critics.
He’s so thin-skinned that last week, the Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to let him block critics on Twitter.
Conservatives righteously condemn a culture of victimization. ✁
Trump occupies the most powerful position in the world, but he compulsively plays the victim card and complains about being treated more unfairly than Abraham Lincoln by the press.
~
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/opinions/us-election-2020-trump-left-wing-foil-avlon/index.html
Silly Season over 4 years ago
The foreword of the book, which Michael Cohen published on his website earlier this month, fans the flames.
“I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them,” it reads.
“I was the one who most encouraged him to run for president in 2011, and then again in 2015, carefully orchestrating the famous trip down the escalator in Trump Tower for him to announce his candidacy.
When Trump wanted to reach Russian President Vladimir Putin, via a secret back channel, I was tasked with making the connection in my Keystone Kop fashion.
I stiffed contractors on his behalf, ripped off his business partners, lied to his wife, Melania, to hide his sexual infidelities, and bullied and screamed at anyone who threatened Trump’s path to power.
From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise—I was an active and eager participant.”
✁
Cohen was released from Otisville as part of the Bureau of Prisons’ compassionate-release program in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic,
…but balked at the conditions for his home confinement, which stipulated that he forgo his right to publish a book or speak to the media for the remainder of his sentence.
Cohen refused to sign and was returned to prison until a judge ruled in his favor, noting that in all his years on the bench he had never seen a clause like the one the BOP had asked Cohen to sign. (1st Amendment violation?)
Cohen was released and, after a cease and desist letter from Trump lawyer Charles Harder and initial hesitation from publishers, signed a deal with Skyhorse.
~
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/michael-cohen-is-plotting-anti-trump-ads
MaryBethJavorek1 over 4 years ago
Biden certainly sounds much clearer than any of GOP, and he doesn’t have to scream it !
nosirrom over 4 years ago
tRump is terribly desperate to open up the economy regardless of the human cost. In 2016 he promised that economic growth would be the greatest this country has ever seen.
“We’re bringing it (the GDP) from 1 percent up to 4 percent. And I actually think we can go higher than 4 percent. I think you can go to 5 percent or 6 percent,” Trump said at an Oct. 19, 2016, presidential debate in Las Vegas.
The truth is the economic growth under tRump (pre-pandemic) has never been greater than 2.9%. All of this bragging because of his delusion of what keen business sense he has.
“Donald Trump has made his vast wealth a centerpiece of his presidential campaign; he says voters can trust him because of his keen business sense. There are some problems with that strategy, however: 1) He’s not quite the self-made mogul he makes himself out to be — he got a considerable head start in business thanks to his real-estate developer father. 2) His fortune may well be considerably smaller than he says it is. And 3) his business record is less sterling than he suggests. (Sad!)”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trumps-13-biggest-business-failures-59556/
BTW can anyone tell me where those great infrastructure projects that he promised in 2016 are occurring?
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
One: Anybody catch Trey Gowdy on Colbert last night?
SC: “Do you think Russia was involved with the 2016 elections?”
TG: “No question.”
But when asked about the investigations, Trey said, to the effect, “There is nothing worse that falsely accused. The president genuinely believes that he was falsely accused.” This, along with no attempt to agree or disagree with the veracity of the charges.
Elsewhere in the same interview, of populism, Trey said (to the effect)
“Conservatives tell people what they don’t want to hear. Populists tell people what they do want to hear.” Break for a moment to highlight what’s next: “After losing seven of the last eight elections, we had to make an adjustment…”
Summary: I suspect the evening was “transactional”; Trey was hoping to push his book, the way a lot of folks, D and R are on his show. I also suspect Colbert was thinking here was another retired Republican who is no longer worried about Trump’s Twitter finger. Methinks both went away from that interview disappointed…
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
Two: After two days of this convention, perhaps we need to rename it:
The QNC convention! Nothing Republican about it. Everything Q-Anon about it! Though, to be fair, watered down.
Haven’t heard about Pizzagate just yet.
WestNYC Premium Member over 4 years ago
It’s the skunk vs. the sloth ! Go with the sloth folks.
T Smith over 4 years ago
What a chucklehead.
rossevrymn over 4 years ago
Standfornuthin’ tryin’ to balance out the stage.
Bradley Walker over 4 years ago
So Scott’s taking a few easy swipes at Joe. He’s got to do something to keep up his conservative bona fides.
And it’s not a deal-breaker to suggest someone over 70 needs his rest. There were plenty of candidates too young for Social Security in the primary, yet this is what we got. Joe still wears his age better than Dolt 45.
theotherther1 over 4 years ago
He’s being turned into a tree! Help him instead of talking about his campaign!
Jesy Bertz Premium Member over 4 years ago
People who say Biden is too old don’t realize that he is only 3 years older than Trump.
Ricky Bennett over 4 years ago
Looks like he’s just Biden his time…
Holden Awn over 4 years ago
LMAO.
NatureBatsLast over 4 years ago
For those who missed civics class: A demagogue or rabble-rouser is a leader who gains popularity in a democracy by exploiting emotions, prejudice, and ignorance to arouse some against others, whipping up the passions of the crowd and shutting down reasoned deliberation. Demagogues overturn established norms of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so.
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
^ And only 181,000 have died because Trump’s covid policy is LET ’ER RIP!
Are we Great Again yet?
Kip W over 4 years ago
Just for reference:
togoo Premium Member 9 minutes ago@Kip W
so you’re saying touching adults is the same as touching young underage girls? I bet you have some fun time with kids like Joe. As for “raping multiple complainants” funny they all disappeared just like that, most where paid fore by the democrats and ran away when pressed for proof. They were not nude https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-trump-barge-undressed-beauty-pageant-teenagers-hank-berrien
“I bet you have some fun time with kids like Joe.”
You just can’t keep from slinging insults, can you? Well, that particular lie is rather blatantly personal and vile, and I’ve flagged the comment it’s in for the moderators to see.
I’ve also copied and pasted it here so that even if you come to your senses and delete it, it’s still here for everyone to see, so they’ll know just how seriously to take your comments. Ladies and gents, togoo!