It Has Come To This

[Blackjack200]

I assumed you did choose your words.

ex·ter·mi·nate
ikˈstərməˌnāt/
verb
verb: exterminate; 3rd person present: exterminates; past tense: exterminated; past participle: exterminated; gerund or present participle: exterminating

1. destroy completely.
   "after exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings"
   synonyms: kill, put to death, take/end the life of, dispatch; More
   slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, eliminate, eradicate, annihilate;
   murder, assassinate, execute, slay;
   informaldo away with, bump off, do in, take out, blow away, ice, rub out, waste
   "they were hired to exterminate the carpenter ants"
2. kill (a pest).
   "they use poison to exterminate moles"

Take it a step further, chief.

ex·ter·mi·nate
ikˈstərməˌnāt/
verb
verb: exterminate; 3rd person present: exterminates; past tense: exterminated; past participle: exterminated; gerund or present participle: exterminating

1. destroy completely.
   "after exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings"
   synonyms: kill, put to death, take/end the life of, dispatch; More
   slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, eliminate, eradicate, annihilate;
   murder, assassinate, execute, slay;
   informaldo away with, bump off, do in, take out, blow away, ice, rub out, waste
   "they were hired to exterminate the carpenter ants"
   • kill (a pest).
     "they use poison to exterminate moles"

Origin
late Middle English (in the sense ‘drive out, banish’): from Latin exterminat- ‘driven out, banished,’ from the verb exterminare, from ex- ‘out’ + terminus ‘boundary.’ The sense ‘destroy’ (mid 16th century) comes from the Latin of the Vulgate.

The origins of the word are important here. Extermination is ridding a place (or person) of some kind of pestilence. It's not about directing violence at an individual, like an execution is. Fascism needs to be exterminated, it cannot be reasoned with or debated, as the fascists on this board demonstrate time and again.

 

[hal2kilo]

The same was said of Bush by democrats. The same was said of Obama by republicans.

And the same will be said of the next president by the opposition party. Trump is in part a consequence of this never-ending crisis mentality. Calling everyone we don't like Hitler will eventually numb us to the appearance of a genuine Hitler.

And Trump, despite his idiocy, is not Hitler. Neither was Obama, and neither was Bush.

Clueless as ever. Keep marching on .

 

[Blackjack200]

Clueless as ever.

He's not clueless, he's quite intentional. He likes what's going on.

 

[Jaskalas]

Man, you guys are in for a nasty time when more liberals like Perknose realize that their overtures of fairness and understanding are pointless and you don't need to be reasoned with, you need to be exterminated.

It's still in its early stages, but its coming. Good luck.

If that eventuality happens, a breakdown would result in gangs / tribes / terrorists. On a good day we'll resemble Afghanistan. On a bad day... ISIS and genocide. If you truly feel the need to wish a person good luck with not being "exterminated" in America, a better course of action would be to run for another country as fast as humanly possible. Because once our logistics break down, you should know what follows.

 

[Victorian Gray]

He's not clueless, he's quite intentional. He likes what's going on.

Ladies and gents, we have a Bingo!

 

[Jaskalas]

What are the positive ways to describe Trump?

Who?
*facepalm

Sigh, I'm a bit taken aback to discover that is where your brain went. Though I've seen it before. Here's an idea. Stop making him the center of attention in people's minds. Talk about you, and what you want to do for them. I know, people somehow forgot what it meant to talk policy, not hate. RIP Reason, 2015. Happy birthday Madness, 2016.

As I feared, the board is set and the pieces are moving. I just hope they land where activists think they do. I fear it is not good strategy.

 

[jackstar7]

Who?
*facepalm

Sigh, I'm a bit taken aback to discover that is where your brain went. Though I've seen it before. Here's an idea. Stop making him the center of attention in people's minds. Talk about you, and what you want to do for them. I know, people somehow forgot what it meant to talk policy, not hate. RIP Reason, 2015. Happy birthday Madness, 2016.

As I feared, the board is set and the pieces are moving. I just hope they land where activists think they do. I fear it is not good strategy.

Sounds like you want some hope and change.

 

[Noah Abrams]

So we humans are vain creatures. Take any random year from history say 1261 AD, and people would think they are living in very very important and history changing times. Now with mass media, this tendency has increased manifold.

So no it hasn’t come to this. It’s always been like this.

 

[Blackjack200]

Oh hell to the fucking yeah.

https://twitter.com/zackfinknews/status/1009891487344144385?s=12

Fucking legend.

 

[IJTSSG]

OMGawd, I felt dirty liking this. But, for my own sanity (and perspective), I've got to retain my sense of humor. Just know this IJTSSG, I am a beige belt sensei in F*CK YOU, the ancient art of verbal abuse. That . . . and in the long run, 'tis true, the pen is mightier than the sword.

^^^ Now watch our resident right-wing dimbulbs go to town on that last statement, all shucking and grinning like this is the Special Olympics and they won something.

Happy to help.

 

[Greenman]

Man, you guys are in for a nasty time when more liberals like Perknose realize that their overtures of fairness and understanding are pointless and you don't need to be reasoned with, you need to be exterminated.

It's still in its early stages, but its coming. Good luck.

I don't recall ever seeing one of those overtures of fairness. What I often see are posts just like your's, calling for the extermination of people that disagree with you. It's the Nazi approach to problem solving, and I very much doubt it's going to work out for you.

 

[Blackjack200]

I don't recall ever seeing one of those overtures of fairness.

Of course you don't.

 

[Perknose]

Happy to help.

You complete me.*













*I'm the top half.

 

[Jhhnn]

I don't recall ever seeing one of those overtures of fairness. What I often see are posts just like your's, calling for the extermination of people that disagree with you. It's the Nazi approach to problem solving, and I very much doubt it's going to work out for you.

Well, yeh, but that would just put them in the same category as other very fine people.

I personally haven't given up hope for many of our conservative brethren. Maybe the disaster of Trump will cause many of them to reconsider, take a look at what they believe in. You know, one of those "WTF was I thinking? How could I have been so wrong?" moments...

He'll give them plenty of opportunities, bet on that. Or, Hell- I don't know. Do they still chant "lock her up" at Trump rallies?

 

[Greenman]

Well, yeh, but that would just put them in the same category as other very fine people.

I personally haven't given up hope for many of our conservative brethren. Maybe the disaster of Trump will cause many of them to reconsider, take a look at what they believe in. You know, one of those "WTF was I thinking? How could I have been so wrong?" moments...

He'll give them plenty of opportunities, bet on that. Or, Hell- I don't know. Do they still chant "lock her up" at Trump rallies?

Most of the conservatives I know really aren't pro Trump, they're just anti everyone else. Like me, everyone of them just wishes he'd shut the fuck up. If someone would wire his jaw shut and smash his phone he'd be a lot more popular. Not any better, just a bit more likable.

 

[imported_tajmahal]

Was this in celebration of the year + a week anniversary of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_shooting ?

Oh wait, non violence yeah. nod, nod and a wink.

Just in fun.

 

[jackstar7]

Most of the conservatives I know really aren't pro Trump, they're just anti everyone else. Like me, everyone of them just wishes he'd shut the fuck up. If someone would wire his jaw shut and smash his phone he'd be a lot more popular. Not any better, just a bit more likable.

So you mean that you and these other folks are all too stupid to notice when some lady is objectively superior to a damn moron? Yeah, you sound like a real brain trust.

 

[Jhhnn]

Most of the conservatives I know really aren't pro Trump, they're just anti everyone else. Like me, everyone of them just wishes he'd shut the fuck up. If someone would wire his jaw shut and smash his phone he'd be a lot more popular. Not any better, just a bit more likable.

But they voted for him anyway. He hasn't really changed in the meanwhile, either. Same old Donald. WTF did y'all think, anyway? That the oath of office would somehow transform him into a decent human being?

 

[imported_tajmahal]

But they voted for him anyway. He hasn't really changed in the meanwhile, either. Same old Donald. WTF did y'all think, anyway? That the oath of office would somehow transform him into a decent human being?

He's still a better choice than Hitlary.

 

[nickqt]

He's still a better choice than Hitlary.

#TiredofWinning

Yeah, we got it, champ.

It's everyone else's fault.

 

[Greenman]

So you mean that you and these other folks are all too stupid to notice when some lady is objectively superior to a damn moron? Yeah, you sound like a real brain trust.

There's that winning liberal attitude. Keep that up, you'll get Trump another four years.
The non stop tantrum from the far left is childish. You can hold your breath and kick your feet all you want, it isn't going to change anything. All of your hate, all of your rage, all of your arm chair protesting is worthless, yet you spew it at everyone that won't pay lip service to your foolish posturing.

 

[fskimospy]

There's that winning liberal attitude. Keep that up, you'll get Trump another four years.
The non stop tantrum from the far left is childish. You can hold your breath and kick your feet all you want, it isn't going to change anything. All of your hate, all of your rage, all of your arm chair protesting is worthless, yet you spew it at everyone that won't pay lip service to your foolish posturing.

If you genuinely don't see multiple large problems with this guy in the office of the presidency I don't know what to tell you. As just one of many, many examples we know for a fact foreign entities have attempted to bribe the president's personal lawyer through one of his shady LLCs. You know who has zillions of LLC's? The president. Because of that it stands to reason that there's a significant likelihood that foreign entities may attempt to bribe the president directly but we have absolutely no way of knowing if that's occurring or not because he is concealing his finances from public scrutiny.

If the fact that foreign entities may be secretly bribing or blackmailing the president doesn't elicit a 'holy shit get that guy out of office immediately' from you I don't know what would and remember, that's only one of his many, many impeachment level scandals. If partisanship has gotten so bad that conservatives can't even muster up the morals to kick this guy to the curb then just how bad does it have to get?

 

[Perknose]

There's that winning liberal attitude. Keep that up, you'll get Trump another four years.
The non stop tantrum from the far left is childish. You can hold your breath and kick your feet all you want, it isn't going to change anything. All of your hate, all of your rage, all of your arm chair protesting is worthless, yet you spew it at everyone that won't pay lip service to your foolish posturing.

Trump is the non-stop tantrum. It's alarmingly dangerous that he's got his tiny little hands on all the levers of power, and is busy abusing them to the hilt.

Hate is Trump's Muslim ban, his separation of children from their parents, his public mocking of a disabled reporter, his demonization of anyone who opposes him, etc, etc., ad infinitum. That's naked hate, sir.

Yet YOU want to portray our outrage at his barbaric tactics as the true hate. This says more about you, and what you will excuse in the service of your own personal socio-political safe space. Frankly, it's pathetic and disgusting.

In this forum, you have consistently portrayed yourself as the poor, put upon and neglected little fellow from fly over country. Your deep seated envy of others is rooted in your corrosive insecurity, and that demagogue Trump plays on your pathetic insecurity like Itzahk Perlman on his violin.

Trump uses your inferiority complex to play you for the chump you are, CHUMP. And you demonstrably lack the personal integrity or adult self-awareness to take a clear-eyed look at yourself and your politics.

Now, go ahead, play your victim card and your transparently pathetic "I'm outraged that you're outraged" card. Nobody's buying it from you anymore. Smarten the f*ck up.

 

[Greenman]

Trump is the non-stop tantrum. It's alarmingly dangerous that he's got his tiny little hands on all the levers of power, and is busy abusing them to the hilt.

Hate is Trump's Muslim ban, his separation of children from their parents, his public mocking of a disabled reporter, his demonization of anyone who opposes him, etc, etc., ad infinitum. That's naked hate, sir.

Yet YOU want to portray our outrage at his barbaric tactics as the true hate. This says more about you, and what you will excuse in the service of your own personal socio-political safe space. Frankly, it's pathetic and disgusting.

In this forum, you have consistently portrayed yourself as the poor, put upon and neglected little fellow from fly over country. Your deep seated envy of others is rooted in your corrosive insecurity, and that demagogue Trump plays on your pathetic insecurity like Itzahk Perlman on his violin.

Trump uses your inferiority complex to play you for the chump you are, CHUMP. And you demonstrably lack the personal integrity or adult self-awareness to take a clear-eyed look at yourself and your politics.

Now, go ahead, play your victim card and your transparently pathetic "I'm outraged that you're outraged" card. Nobody's buying it from you anymore. Smarten the f*ck up.

I'm not from flyover country, I live in the heart of the west costs liberal mecca. I'm not exactly poor either, though I do work hard. I'm certainly not a victim.
To the meat of your statement. I don't much care about Trump, as I didn't much care about most presidents before him. He's a temp, he'll be gone soon and the country will still be here.
I'm not outraged, I'm not even a little bit angry, sometimes annoyed would be accurate. It's annoying that any statement about Trump made here that doesn't directly denigrate him is met with outrage. I find that foolish. I find the concept of changing minds through personal insults equally foolish.

 

[SMOGZINN]

It's annoying that any statement about Trump made here that doesn't directly denigrate him is met with outrage.

It is because it is hard to find anything about the man that is not outrageous.

He is incompetent at his job. They misspelled separation on the executive order. It might seem like a small thing, but small mistakes show a lack of attention, and this is not the first time it has happened. Remember Covfefe? How about the "promote the possibility of lasting peach"? That was not a tweet, that was a press release. How about him nominating "John Huntsman Jr."? Except of course that is not his name. Or the fact he has repetedly uses the word council instead of counsel in official correspondence? It is not an occasional mistake we are upset with, it is the regularity that it happens that upsets us. It clearly shows a lack of care.

He very obviously does not have the best interest of the nation at heart, but instead all his actions are aimed at personal gain, either politically, financially, or self aggrandizement. He has surrounded himself with shady individuals who are very often found to be corrupt, and is very opaque about his own business dealings leaving us to wonder if he is corrupt himself. He has had to fire, or force to resign under duress 37 people so far! That is literally unprecedented. He never released his tax returns, something he promised he would do. He still holds official business at places he owns, which puts money in his own pocket since he charges the US government for his own use of his own facilities.

He regularly bald face lies to the American people. I'm not even talking about the questionable things we can argue about. I'm talking about stuff like him saying that the treaty signed with North Korea guaranteed 'total nuclear disarmament' which he said to the press yesterday in a cabinet meeting, and is objectively a lie and easily disproven.

So yes, we are outraged. This is not how we want out country ran. This is not how we want out country portrayed. We demand better than this of our government.