Just to be clear, you’ve been reading BB for 10 years and decided that the perfect time to finally register was just to post a badly-supported defense of one of the very worst things Trump has said or done? Ummm, OK. Sorry you’re disappointed in the reaction.
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.
I’m still waiting for a cite that the protestor rushing the stage in Ohio was a “knife attack”.
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Yeah, there’s plenty of political stuff on BoingBoing to disagree over. But jumping in with both feet to make excuses for Trump at his most Trumplike is just idiotic, unless you actually want to stir shit up and throw around accusations about liberal hive mind.
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In the spirit of fraternity with boingers of all persuasions, I’ll offer some props to President Blimp. He may be onto something with the whole running in unarmed bit. …
I’m imagining fantasy Rambo cop. He hears initial gunfire. Knowing most of these events happen only for a couple of minutes,he has no time to lose. Weapon drawn , he runs into the large multi floored building, numerous rooms, long hallways, stairwells. Panicked and frightened children everywhere.Screaming. Some pleading for help. High powered rounds are passing through walls sending showers of deadly shrapnel. A handful of teachers with guns emerging from rooms also looking for someone with a gun…
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Your “concern” is better directed at a regime that takes pride in being driving trollies dicks than at commenters on a Web site who criticise it.
That’s correct. It’s clear that the commentariat here is more educated and prone to critical thinking and demanding support for positions than the general public is. In turn, this is why (with the exception of a minority of regular posters who can be counted on the fingers of one hand) we tend to be more liberal or progressive.
Allow me to introduce you to the Geek Social Fallacies. Buying into them (and you’ve hit 1 and 2 right off the mark) leads to such unfortunate phenomena as missing stairs at SF conventions, dudes with bad hygiene at your gaming table, and trollies in Internet forums. Geeks should have better standards, because geeks more than most understand that standards (e.g. railroad gauges, screws, USB ports) are good.
As noted above, if that “differing political view” involves defending in a dickhead way the behaviour of proud and open arseholes, don’t expect to get the benefit of the doubt around here. This is why Huckabee-Sanders has been roasted in a related thread.
If you’ve been here for 10 years you must be aware that people with differing opinions do speak up. The ones who add value stick around (again, with a dwindling handful of exceptions); the ones who don’t usually don’t last more than a few days beyond the point that they suddenly decide to join up after a decade of lurking to lamely defend right-wing populists and their toadies and express disappointment in BoingBoing.
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You know that’s a painting right?
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You CAN leave if you don’t like drunk uncles who aren’t virulently racist, homophobic, and sexist… Or maybe not read the political articles that seem to offend you so much.
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I can’t imagine any way to understand Trump’s actions other than by thinking they are motivated almost entirely by fear. It’s just that he’s not afraid of the things you are afraid of. He’s afraid of momentarily feeling bad. He does and says what he wants because he can’t tolerate the feeling of holding himself back.
He can’t tolerate thinking a person dislikes him for one instant. Did you watch that meeting he held on DACA where a Democrat said they should do a clean DACA bill and he agreed only to be corrected by a Republican who tried to explain why they weren’t doing that? He doesn’t even have his own position, he just reflexively agrees with people so they’ll like him, then pretends he also agrees with the opposite position.
He responds to people who disagree with him with aggression. He lashes out on twitter, brings them up again and again. Any sensible person running for president, when told off by a former Miss Universe contestant would simply demure and let it fall out of the news cycle. They’d be able to tolerate their momentary discomfort at being insulted in order to pursue a larger goal. He couldn’t, he had to attack her. Assertiveness is a sign of courage, the ability to proceed apace despite adversity is a sign of courage. Aggression is a sign of fear.
What about when he called someone by the wrong name in a speech (he said DJ instead of CJ)? He pretended that the guy went by both names. He’s so petrified of being wrong that he can’t admit he said one single syllable incorrectly. Instead he demands that reality warp itself around him to shield him from the feeling of having made any kind of error at all. That was probably the single most cowardly thing I have ever seen a person do.
You can point out that ultimately it got him a ton of criticism, but that’s a great indicator that he is perpetually acting out of fear: he doesn’t plan for the future. The point of the fight or flight instinct is to put us entirely into the moment and not to think strategically since strategy doesn’t matter if you are dead. He lives entirely in the moment, reacting to whichever of his swirling mass of anxieties screams the loudest.
When temperature starts approaching absolute zero it stops being recognizable as “cold” in the way we normally know it. We think of cold as shivering, not of exotic states of matter in which the speed of light is slower than a walk. This is where Trump is, near the absolute zero of bravery. If he doesn’t look like a coward to you, that’s just because you can’t recognize a thing in its extremes.
He is as terrified of admitting he misspoke a syllable as you would be in a falling elevator, and he has never once stood up to those fears in his life.
He is bad. He is an ass.
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To quote what a commentator on another site said:
“It takes real skill to formulate policy with your foot in your mouth and your head up your ass.”
~Rikon Snow
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If they can’t be Teddy Roosevelt I’d be okay with them being Billy Harrison.
He’s bad and he’s an ass, but that doesn’t make him a badass.
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That… that was amazing. I’m posting this to drag it back to the top of the bbs so others will see it.
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The secret service comes down pretty hard on anyone threatening the president with harm. Maybe they should take Trump aside and explain he’s breaking the law by threatening suicide.
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