A Futile and Stupid Gesture: The History of the First Trump Presidency & Q-Anon

Er no, you cited Lineker as a valid source. I countered that, as I believe he is virtue signalling gobshite who cannot be trusted as an authority on anything other than Walker's crisps and even that is doubtful, as that's a paying gig.

The wave of grenade attacks and gang rapes in Sweden are no cause for alarm then?
 
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Lord Buckley said:
Er no, you cited Lineker as a valid source. I countered that, as I believe he is virtue signalling gobshite who cannot be trusted as an authority on anything other than Walker's crisps and even that is doubtful, as that's a paying gig.

The wave of grenade attacks and gang rapes in Sweden are no cause for alarm then?
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I would love to hear what you think I used Lineker as a "source" for. I'd question your reading comprehension, but I'm beginning to fear you have just gone batty.
 
doghouse said:
I would love to hear what you think I used Lineker as a "source" for. I'd question your reading comprehension, but I'm beginning to fear you have just gone batty.
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My reading comprehension is very well thank you. It was you who posted the Gary Lineker Twitter comment, I was merely drawing attention to the fact that he is somewhat of a controversial figure in these here part as regards his position as self-anointed commentator and moral arbitrator on the refugee crisis and Trump's presidency. And whichever way you choose to polish him, ultimately he's some dude that sells crisps and has a job on a Saturday afternoon commentating on football. Hardly the credentials to pass judgement on someone of Trump's stature as the president of the USA.

Of course, there are others who consider him the Bono equivalent in the world of advertising for crisps. So yes, I think he doesn't have the authority to be holier than thou and pass judgement on Trump or anything other than testing crisps. He is just another example of the shallow celebrity obsessed mediocrity of our times.
 
Lord Buckley said:
My reading comprehension is very well thank you. It was you who posted the Gary Lineker Twitter comment, I was merely drawing attention to the fact that he is somewhat of a controversial figure in these here part as regards his position as self-anointed commentator and moral arbitrator on the refugee crisis and Trump's presidency. And whichever way you choose to polish him, ultimately he's some dude that sells crisps and has a job on a Saturday afternoon commentating on football. Hardly the credentials to pass judgement on someone of Trump's stature as the president of the USA.

Of course, there are others who consider him the Bono equivalent in the world of advertising for crisps. So yes, I think he doesn't have the authority to be holier than thou and pass judgement on Trump or anything other than testing crisps. He is just another example of the shallow celebrity obsessed mediocrity of our times.
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It was a funny tweet.


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    a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.
 
I still maintain that "Reince Priebus" sounds like it should be the name of one of the bounty hunters assembled on the bridge of Vader's ship in Empire Strikes Back. One of the ones who never had any lines but got his own action figure anyway.

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I'm always disappointed when I see what he actually looks like. It's a soul-crushing waste of a name.
 
Rambo said:
interesting piece. interesting comments as well.
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The Spectator is well respected, most of the opinions are well argued and thought out, albeit the recent artcile by Hugo Rifkind entitled "I went to see Disney World - and saw a dying country" is an epic fail.

You can't really judge the readership by the comment section, too many factions and some who practice strategic bombing of their enemy newspapers and magazines.
 
Lord Buckley said:
The Spectator is well respected, most of the opinions are well argued and thought out, albeit the recent artcile by Hugo Rifkind entitled "I went to see Disney World - and saw a dying country" is an epic fail.

You can't really judge the readership by the comment section, too many factions and some who practice strategic bombing of their enemy newspapers and magazines.
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The BBC comments are a good example of this. I've not once seen a positive comment on an article. Even if it's positive and lighthearted news.
 
Monkeyface said:
The BBC comments are a good example of this. I've not once seen a positive comment on an article. Even if it's positive and lighthearted news.
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Think this is a malaise of the internet age. It doesn't matter what article it is : 'Monkeyface rescues Lord Buckley and his offspring from dangerous reptiles'. You'd have comments excoriating Monkeyface, LordBuckley, his offspring et al

If you want to swim in a tsunami of bile, just go onto the DailyMail website and go to any article's comment section.
 
QuandoDio said:
Think this is a malaise of the internet age. It doesn't matter what article it is : 'Monkeyface rescues Lord Buckley and his offspring from dangerous reptiles'. You'd have comments excoriating Monkeyface, LordBuckley, his offspring et al

If you want to swim in a tsunami of bile, just go onto the DailyMail website and go to any article's comment section.
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But amazingly no one will pass judgement on the reptiles.
 
Lord Buckley said:
The Spectator is well respected, most of the opinions are well argued and thought out, albeit the recent artcile by Hugo Rifkind entitled "I went to see Disney World - and saw a dying country" is an epic fail.

You can't really judge the readership by the comment section, too many factions and some who practice strategic bombing of their enemy newspapers and magazines.
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Monkeyface said:
The BBC comments are a good example of this. I've not once seen a positive comment on an article. Even if it's positive and lighthearted news.
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QuandoDio said:
Think this is a malaise of the internet age. It doesn't matter what article it is : 'Monkeyface rescues Lord Buckley and his offspring from dangerous reptiles'. You'd have comments excoriating Monkeyface, LordBuckley, his offspring et al

If you want to swim in a tsunami of bile, just go onto the DailyMail website and go to any article's comment section.
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Every particular media site has its regular core of commenters who have agendas and are more interested in spewing them and slamming others.

Quite like DW when you come to think of it!
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...val-office-us-president-michael-a7589626.html

"White House spokesperson, Sarah Sanders, confirmed Mr Deare had been let go on Sunday, saying staffers who questioned the billionaire property developer’s agenda should not be part of the Trump administration."

Looks like Trump and the left have something in common after all, they both like safe spaces! Next we'll have trigger warning Trump!
 
Monkeyface said:
Looks like Trump and the left have something in common after all, they both like safe spaces! Next we'll have trigger warning Trump!
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Does anyone really not know that Trumpistas are the biggest snowflakes out? I thought that was common knowledge.
 
Some quality slandering here:

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-karma-reincarnated-as-himself-frankie-boyle

Example:
You look into Trump’s eyes and you see the fear and confusion of a man who has just been told he’s got stage-four cervical cancer. He is a super-villain in a world without heroes, a man so obnoxious and unhappy that karma may see him reincarnated as himself. You kind of wish he’d get therapy, but at this stage it’s like hiring a window cleaner for a burning building. It’s still difficult to classify him exactly: he’s not a classic Nazi, but would burn books if his supporters knew how to read.
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Etc.
 
Full on hyperbole and projection of Nazi fantasies going on there, I wouldn't expect anything less from The Guardian.

The Independent has a go too, with some really effortless journalese and asks the pressing question of our time: why does Donald Trump's suits fit so badly? And has a go at everything from tie width to lapel size, the fact he dresses like a 1970s Dad, but fails to have investigated which tailor or make of suit he sports as a helpful warning to the rest of us. Obama gets a mention as a President who dressed well, even though he had people to do this for him and then the readership gets to have their daily spewing of hate in the comments section:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...lored-clothes-dress-politicians-a7589316.html
 
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It's pretty hard to state how much of an upgrade McMaster is over Flynn. This is probably even with Mattis for best pick of the administration.
 
The problem he has now is that anyone remotely in line for a position is going to have the full force of the politicised IC and deep state out to dig up the dirt. No one's that clean.
 
doghouse said:
It's pretty hard to state how much of an upgrade McMaster is over Flynn. This is probably even with Mattis for best pick of the administration.
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Agree. Just glad he didn't go for Petraeus. Sorry, i mean Petraeus did 'withdraw' his name.
 
QuandoDio said:
Agree. Just glad he didn't go for Petraeus. Sorry, i mean Petraeus did 'withdraw' his name.
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Ol Dave shot his wad on that aggro girl unfortunately, literally and figuratively. I think he needs some more image rehab before he is ready for prime time.
 
Not much better around Paris, either, where our beloved new EU citizens have started riots in the suburbs.
The government uses 50% of it's military personnel to stop the riots spreading.
Allegedly our Muslim friends are well informed and organized and react immediately on any troop movement and start the riots again when the soldiers leave.
Looks like those young men are extremely volatile and aggressive and use any occasion to attack the police and randomly destroy stuff.
North America should really take a closer look, that's what you are importing (oh wait, most of it is already there):

 
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The situation in France is volatile and very worrying for the rest of Europe as well. I get reports from people in Paris that the Parisiens are seriously pissed-off with the situation and descent into where there are machine gunned soldiers everywhere. One colleague told me that yes, you will see two squaddies with machine guns regularly patrolling and everywhere in Paris, but it's also not unusual to turn a corner and see a whole platoon marching through Paris. You certainly wouldn't be rushing there for a romantic weekend.
 
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From their own regional tourist organisation they state that the whole Il-de-France region has lost 1.3 billion in tourist income. I'm trying to help by stocking up on calvados, but I've crossed Disneyland Paris off my list.
 
doghouse said:
Guys, we are way more violent than that already, we don't need to import anything.
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Exactly, which is why it is so mind boggling that certain people/ NGO are hell bent to bring in more Muslims.
As if the US need one more religious/ ethnic minority that burns down their own neighbourhood when authorities touch one of that minority's members.
I guess Canada is not violent enough, though.
BTW, I don't think that Trump appeared in today's BBC radio news. Which is very rare.
 
Scherensammler said:
Exactly, which is why it is so mind boggling that certain people/ NGO are hell bent to bring in more Muslims.
As if the US need one more religious/ ethnic minority that burns down their own neighbourhood when authorities touch one of that minority's members.
I guess Canada is not violent enough, though.
BTW, I don't think that Trump appeared in today's BBC radio news. Which is very rare.
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I'm not sure how it can be mind boggling given more Muslims will generally make us less violent on net.


 
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