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    Lukewarm TakesStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/11/17 11:08am

    It is unfortunate that his base doesn’t care about any of this. Every time he opens his mouth lies spill out at a rate that is almost unprecedented but every time he is fact checked it is almost too late. He has already moved on to the next outrageous thing. With most of his voters getting their information from Fox news they will always live in this insulated world where Democrats are out to get him and make him look bad. How can people be so blindly accepting of #45 and the lies he tells? Do they just see a big R on screen and since they align with that they do not care?

    I am having a hard time collecting thoughts today because I made the mistake of watching the Roger Stone interview on the Today show and my head almost exploded.

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      TheBoysBadNewsLukewarm Takes
      5/11/17 11:16am

      Let me see if I can give you a little ray of sunshine in your day:

      https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2456

      The extremely quick and dirty is that base is slippin. Yeah you’re gonna have that 28ish percent of complete dead-enders that will never ever back down, but fuck those people, it’s the ones who can be convinced that we need to worry about, and well, would you look at that?

      http://thehill.com/homenews/house/332792-poll-dems-lead-gop-by-16-points-on-generic-house-ballot

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      Lukewarm TakesTheBoysBadNews
      5/11/17 11:30am

      Thank you

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    BoSephusStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/11/17 11:00am

    Merrium-Webster trolling him is one of the few bright spots in all this.

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      "Hachi"BoSephus
      5/11/17 11:26am

      I came here to say this. They’ve been trolling him for months and its amazing. I follow them.

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      TiresiasBoSephus
      5/11/17 12:51pm

      Getting trolled by a dictionary has got to sting.

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    EvenBaggierTrousers5Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/11/17 11:10am

    So he came up with a phrase that he not only managed to appropriate to something other than it’s original useage, but a phrase that involves an action I’m sure he’s never done in his life in any form.

    Fuck this liar.

    Sidenote: Listening to Maxine Waters on radio right now ripping Trump a new one. She is FIRE!

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      hocuspocusoctopusEvenBaggierTrousers5
      5/11/17 11:37am

      He is truly exhausting.

      Either his children are just as horrible as he is or they were promised a nice sum of money when he dies because why would you throw in your lot with this delusional person?

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      EvenBaggierTrousers5
      5/11/17 11:39am

      I’ve rarely found so many things to loath in one person.

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    ThePriceofEggsinMaltaStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/11/17 11:34am

    Just had a chance to read the full interview and it’s kinda worth noting that it may be considered shade that the Economist said to his face during the interview that priming the pump is very Keynesian. Generally, telling a Republican that his or her policies are Keynesian would be akin to whipping it out and peeing on his leg. The collapse made them grudgingly embrace some Keynesian principles, but they still refused to call them that—because that would mean they were admitting that sometimes the government has to do stuff and spend money. And most of them still refuse to publicly accept that such policies helped at all, because Keynesian principles are generally demand-side: i.e. give help to the poor and the money will flow up... that’s a gross, terrible oversimplification, but suffice it to say that Keynesian policies don’t jive with the Reaganomic trickle-down snake oil that Republicans have been peddling for my entire life.

    Anyway. I’ll leave deciding whether or not that qualifies as shade to those far more qualified than me. But from a nerdy perspective, that was a fun burn from Economist. And one that, obviously, went so far over Trump’s head that he didn’t even feel the breeze.

    Also... I’m reaching a point where I can’t even read transcripts of Trump anymore. This dumb motherfucker, I swear to God...

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      ARP2ThePriceofEggsinMalta
      5/11/17 12:30pm

      Republicans absolutely believe in Keynesian economics, but they would never call it that. They call it, “protecting our freedoms,” “attacking them there, before they attack us here,” “law and order,” etc. a/k/a war and prisons.

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      Brigitte Bardot's black wigARP2
      5/12/17 9:50am

      Well, like all things Republican, it’s terrible until they want it. Big government is awful! Except when it’s restricting access to abortion and birth control! Government spending is terrible! Except for war (ETA: and the contractors from which we make money!), then spend all the money!

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    ThePriceofEggsinMaltaStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/11/17 11:03am

    Oh, have you heard of breathing before? That’s funny, I hadn’t. I just invented it the other day. I was walking around, ordering my manservants to kill hobos as I normally do, and thought, “this would be so much more tremendous if I had air.” So I breathed! Everybody was impressed, just everybody. It’s gonna be huge, this breathing. Really. Too bad the liberal media is already lying about people breathing before me.

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      imaginaryfriendThePriceofEggsinMalta
      5/11/17 11:12am

      I invented the word “masturbating” myself.

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    Raineyb1013Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/11/17 11:20am

    So basically, not only is Orange Foolius claiming to have invented a phrase that’s been in use for decades, he’s also using it wrong.

    No surprise there because he’s like, a dumb person.

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      crouching tigerRaineyb1013
      5/11/17 2:25pm

      On the subject of neologisms, I hadn’t seen Orange Foolius before but it’s a very good one.

      Cheeto Benito is still my all-time favorite.

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      Raineyb1013crouching tiger
      5/11/17 2:28pm

      I probably shouldn’t be but I’m rather proud of it.

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    Cicely's Side-EyeStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/11/17 11:37am

    I hope someone calls him on this, just so we can watch his pathological inability to admit to being wrong.

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      Hello, America: Find Your SoulCicely's Side-Eye
      5/11/17 12:06pm

      Yeah, or he’ll simply just say he never said that and call the interview fake news.

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    Milkman's SonStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/11/17 11:59am

    I just invented the phrase “fucking lying sack of shit”.

    Yes, I checked.

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      ZabellaMilkman's Son
      5/11/17 12:22pm

      Just be aware that the phrase “you’re a lying sack of crap” already exists and has been set to music.

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    det-devil-ailsStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/11/17 11:31am

    That was the least troubling thing about that article. I’m willing to ignore “I invented it”as possibly an unfunny joke, but he might actually believe the rest of the shit he said.

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    Darmok eats Challah at 12NagraStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    5/11/17 11:31am

    WTF is Trump talking about? Nobody in New Jersey pumps their own gas, and he certainly doesn’t in New York.

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