Trump White House/Cabinet appointments

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ivwshane

Lifer
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From here it smells like fear. Some people are very impressionable and after reading a slew of fake news sites, they come to believe that war has been declared on them because they feel they're different.

Ok you definitely have to be a parody account! There is no way you are lacking this much self awareness.
 

agent00f

Lifer
Jun 9, 2016
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I'm not upset...truth be told, I just feel sorry for you.
The guy obviously has some personal issues that he needs to work through. I take no joy in that and wish him the best.

This play wasn't effective for your friends either, who're all clearly rather perturbed that someone would be mean enough to tell let like it is about them. In order to point to the reality which paints you as somewhat dishonest & unethical, someone only has to be willing to deal with this sort of righteous indignation and weak deflection that follows.

Take for instance, everyone here already thinks the same but worse of buckshot, and you won't exactly dispute that even if you can't admit sharing largely the same views for similar reasons.
 
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This play wasn't effective for your friends either, who're all clearly rather perturbed that someone would be mean enough to tell let like it is about them. In order to point to the reality which paints you as somewhat dishonest & unethical, someone only has to be willing to deal with this sort of righteous indignation and weak deflection that follows.

Take for instance, everyone here already thinks the same but worse of buckshot, and you won't exactly dispute that even if you can't admit sharing largely the same views for similar reasons.
Your opinion is duly noted. Thanks for sharing.
 
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Reality isn't a matter of opinion, no matter how much people with a weak grasp want to think so.
You really should read up on projection. Human beings are incredibly complex creatures and are fallible in a million different ways...take it from me, I are one.
 

agent00f

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You really should read up on projection. Human beings are incredible complex creatures and are fallible in a million different ways...take it from me, I are one.

Like many of your retorts copied from better men, these only work form advantageous positions. For example the intellectual lecturing the simpleton on concepts he's surely not heard of previous.

This situation is more like the monkey aping the human mocking him, unaware of how the mockery works. In case you're still having trouble reading minds, you're hardly the intellectual or human in his example.
 
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Like many of your retorts copied from better men, these only work form advantageous positions. For example the intellectual lecturing the simpleton on concepts he's surely not heard of previous.

This situation is more like the monkey aping the human mocking him, unaware of how the mockery works. In case you're still having trouble reading minds, you're hardly the intellectual or human in his example.
As a lesser man, I bow down to your intellectual superiority. May I go now?
 

boomerang

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Jun 19, 2000
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I don't know what's going on with agent00f...but it looks like he's completely lost his mind.
In all seriousness, I'm starting to actually feel bad for people that are this emotionally involved in this election. I also am saddened that there are people in the media that feel it's their duty to gin it up to create what must be referred to as hysteria. Hysteria on different levels but there's no better way to term it.

I think part of the problem is the aspect of the leftist/progressive personality that takes things so literally. Conservatives can hear Trump say things and can understand that he is talking like their buddy on the job site. We get the impression of what he's getting at, we understand that he's inserted some hyperbole and that it actually is rooted in a form of humor which evidently only conservatives can understand. We also understand that when Trump says he wants to help everybody that he is sincere and that he truly means it. We also understand that he does not have a political background and as such hasn't put the proper filters in place although he seems to be learning the ropes.

But with the help of the media and our educational system people on the left have been led to believe that conservatives are evil monsters out to murder them in their beds for having different values. That the Constitution means nothing to them (interestingly, a common belief of those on the right towards those on the left too) and that free speech will be eradicated, that gays and Muslims and everyone but those with a majority of Anglo-saxon blood coursing through them will be punished in various forms or another. They have also been taught that a minute minority of radical right assholes truly represent the feelings of every conservative and that we are just waiting for the signal to start marching through the streets banging down doors and dragging helpless people off to never be seen again. Come on, really?

I could go on with this but there is no point to it. I can't undo decades of brainwashing and I have no wish to. It's just sad to see so many that have become so overwhelmingly psychotic over an election that is little more than the swinging of the political pendulum. Hopefully a modicum of sanity will resurface eventually. They may not like Trump, they may have been taught to hate him solely because he ran as a conservative but they have nothing to fear. Their life has an enormous potential to only get better. That's the way the pendulum is swinging right now. And hey, you can foist all the goodness off on Obama. Make him wholly responsible for everything good that is coming. That narrative has already started.
 

agent00f

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In all seriousness, I'm starting to actually feel bad for people that are this emotionally involved in this election. I also am saddened that there are people in the media that feel it's their duty to gin it up to create what must be referred to as hysteria. Hysteria on different levels but there's no better way to term it.

I think part of the problem is the aspect of the leftist/progressive personality that takes things so literally. Conservatives can hear Trump say things and can understand that he is talking like their buddy on the job site. We get the impression of what he's getting at, we understand that he's inserted some hyperbole and that it actually is rooted in a form of humor which evidently only conservatives can understand. We also understand that when Trump says he wants to help everybody that he is sincere and that he truly means it. We also understand that he does not have a political background and as such hasn't put the proper filters in place although he seems to be learning the ropes.

But with the help of the media and our educational system people on the left have been led to believe that conservatives are evil monsters out to murder them in their beds for having different values. That the Constitution means nothing to them (interestingly, a common belief of those on the right towards those on the left too) and that free speech will be eradicated, that gays and Muslims and everyone but those with a majority of Anglo-saxon blood coursing through them will be punished in various forms or another. They have also been taught that a minute minority of radical right assholes truly represent the feelings of every conservative and that we are just waiting for the signal to start marching through the streets banging down doors and dragging helpless people off to never be seen again. Come on, really?

I could go on with this but there is no point to it. I can't undo decades of brainwashing and I have no wish to. It's just sad to see so many that have become so overwhelmingly psychotic over an election that is little more than the swinging of the political pendulum. Hopefully a modicum of sanity will resurface eventually. They may not like Trump, they may have been taught to hate him solely because he ran as a conservative but they have nothing to fear. Their life has an enormous potential to only get better. That's the way the pendulum is swinging right now. And hey, you can foist all the goodness off on Obama. Make him wholly responsible for everything good that is coming. That narrative has already started.

Quite amusing that in the time it took to write this self-congratulatory love letter that its recipient already gave up on you.
 
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In all seriousness, I'm starting to actually feel bad for people that are this emotionally involved in this election. I also am saddened that there are people in the media that feel it's their duty to gin it up to create what must be referred to as hysteria. Hysteria on different levels but there's no better way to term it.

I think part of the problem is the aspect of the leftist/progressive personality that takes things so literally. Conservatives can hear Trump say things and can understand that he is talking like their buddy on the job site. We get the impression of what he's getting at, we understand that he's inserted some hyperbole and that it actually is rooted in a form of humor which evidently only conservatives can understand. We also understand that when Trump says he wants to help everybody that he is sincere and that he truly means it. We also understand that he does not have a political background and as such hasn't put the proper filters in place although he seems to be learning the ropes.

But with the help of the media and our educational system people on the left have been led to believe that conservatives are evil monsters out to murder them in their beds for having different values. That the Constitution means nothing to them (interestingly, a common belief of those on the right towards those on the left too) and that free speech will be eradicated, that gays and Muslims and everyone but those with a majority of Anglo-saxon blood coursing through them will be punished in various forms or another. They have also been taught that a minute minority of radical right assholes truly represent the feelings of every conservative and that we are just waiting for the signal to start marching through the streets banging down doors and dragging helpless people off to never be seen again. Come on, really?

I could go on with this but there is no point to it. I can't undo decades of brainwashing and I have no wish to. It's just sad to see so many that have become so overwhelmingly psychotic over an election that is little more than the swinging of the political pendulum. Hopefully a modicum of sanity will resurface eventually. They may not like Trump, they may have been taught to hate him solely because he ran as a conservative but they have nothing to fear. Their life has an enormous potential to only get better. That's the way the pendulum is swinging right now. And hey, you can foist all the goodness off on Obama. Make him wholly responsible for everything good that is coming. That narrative has already started.
Excellent post! I wish I could be half as articulate.
 

fskimospy

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Mar 10, 2006
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Quite amusing that in the time it took to write this self-congratulatory love letter that its recipient already gave up on you.

As always, boomerang brings the crazy. It's ironic that in the same post where he declares a conspiracy by the education system and the media to demonize conservatives he says that other people are crazy and have been brainwashed. It's always awe inspiring to me how little self awareness he seems to have.

Also, who can't love the line that '[conservatives] understand when Trump says he wants to help everybody he's sincere and that he truly means it'. I laughed out loud when I read that.
 

fskimospy

Elite Member
Mar 10, 2006
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He gave some very good insight into how many people view Trump. Take it or leave it. Your mileage may vary.

It is good insight into how he views Trump! It's just a shame that his view is completely fucking insane where he believes that there's some conspiracy to brainwash America into hating conservatives.

Surely you would agree that people who think that don't have a strong grasp on reality, no?
 

agent00f

Lifer
Jun 9, 2016
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It is good insight into how he views Trump! It's just a shame that his view is completely fucking insane where he believes that there's some conspiracy to brainwash America into hating conservatives.

Surely you would agree that people who think that don't have a strong grasp on reality, no?

Don't be silly, Doc reads Harvard economists. Of course he thinks they're libtard conspirators.
 

buckshot24

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Nov 3, 2009
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It is good insight into how he views Trump! It's just a shame that his view is completely fucking insane where he believes that there's some conspiracy to brainwash America into hating conservatives.

Surely you would agree that people who think that don't have a strong grasp on reality, no?
Don't be petty. It seems awful personal the way you came after DSF for his praise of that post.