That’s a false equivalence; one candidate is a typically flawed politician, while the other isn’t even a politician, or even a worthwhile businessman, but a known con-man pressing the same buttons Hitler et al did, with great success mind you, while the world watches aghast.
The only honorable reaction to Trump is to shun and revile the dangerous scumbag.
(I consider Clinton a dangerous scumbag like most powerful politicians, but Trump is something else again; a flat-out crime boss.)
Both are their parties’ candidates for president and are therefore politicians. They are people who are in the political field.
My point is that while you and I see Trump as abhorrent, there’s apparently a huge number of people who see Hillary as equally or more monstrous for their own reasons. If an entertainment show like Fallon or James Corden bars Trump but allows other people on their show running for the same job, they’ve suddenly become political. Instead they choose to be neutral parties. They’re inevitably going to anger people one way or the other by doing so, but a whole lot less than by outright boycotting one or the other candidate. And when it comes down to it, that’s simply the business of mainstream middle-of-the-road entertainment.
Again, a false equivalence. You must have internalised the media’s constant enforcement of bullshit centrism.
You know how Dubya introduced new lows, and the rest of the world both mocked and feared your choice of President?
Trump is Dubya squared. Playing politician doesn’t make him one. All humanity is reeling at this possibility; departments of trade and foreign affairs can’t believe they may have to deal with this turkey.
And I didn’t mention Nuremberg as a rhetorical flourish. It’s 1930s Germany over there - you’re with humanity or you’re against it.
Just because you personally don’t see Trump as a politician doesn’t invalidate the fact that he’s currently the leading candidate for President. But you’ve gone Godwin as well so I won’t bother continuing.
I have absolutely no idea what this means, to be honest. I loathe what Trump stands for, but I can also see the reality of the current electoral map, and hope to hell it changes.
I see what you did there
This is actually the case with bacon bits sometimes - the off the shelf stuff’s often soy protein with smoke flavoring.
and this can be legally sold as bacon?
You’ve retrenched the coal mine’s canary.
They usually label them ‘Bac-os’ or some bacon-esque word to imply but not state that the stuff’s bacon.
20 years ago, I got my first job in IT. I lived in Austin but we trained in Dallas for the first month. The company provided a hotel room and reimbursed us for meals.
Next door to the hotel was a Waffle House. I went there almost every morning that month, on the company’s dime. My weight quickly went up and, in spite of 20 years of various efforts toward fitness and/or weight loss, I’ve never really looked back…
EDIT:
Yeah, that plate of starch and syrup with a side dish of griddle-fried starch didn’t help matters there very much…
You know, I think you’re right. Of all the generations, a millenial is probably most likely to understand that articles about Trump and his Twitter habits usually help him. At the same time, millenial’s generally aren’t Trump supporters.
Agreed. If he doesn’t want to take sides on this, he really shouldn’t have them. I was just pointing that out. Leno did much the same, and even Colbert had Kissinger on, despite how controversial a figure he is, especially on the left.
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