C-Mag wrote:
Actions and results always mean more than words.
I agree. There is very much a wait-and-see attitude here at Casa de Kath & Nerd. We're watching very closely and so far, we're seeing a lot of childlike behavior. I know boatloads of people who are both non-politicians and not giant adult babies at the same time. It's TOTALLY possible to not be both.
I'm waiting and seeing as well. AND, since I predicted his victory I will enjoy the cases of beer on jugs of whiskey I won on the election while I laugh at all those people that were completely wrong, especially the press.
I'm going to have trouble with Trump when he uses Federalis to get directly into individual state business, like crime in Chicago. Yeah, other people have different personalties. I accept him for who he is, I voted for him because Hillary was dangerous to the world.
Kath wrote:He's truly President Cry-Baby. Wah... I am telling the truth. My inauguration was the BIGLIEST EVER! I WON THE POPULAR VOTE TOO! My penis is the bigliest. Belieb me.
It's pronounced big league, not bigly.
The "cry baby" angle is all just jingly keys to distract the media and the Trump haters, and they are falling for it, big league.
Scott Adams wrote:At the moment there are so many outrages, executive orders, protests, and controversies that none of them can get enough oxygen in our brains. I can’t obsess about problem X because the rest of the alphabet is coming at me at the same time.
When you encounter a situation that is working great except for one identifiable problem, you can focus on the problem and try to fix it. But if you have a dozen complaints at the same time, none of them looks special. The whole situation just looks confusing, and you don’t know where to start. So you wait and see what happens. Humans need contrast in order to make solid decisions that turn into action. Trump removed all of your contrast by providing multiple outrages of similar energy.
You’re probably seeing the best persuasion you will ever see from a new president. Instead of dribbling out one headline at a time, so the vultures and critics can focus their fire, Trump has flooded the playing field. You don’t know where to aim your outrage. He’s creating so many opportunities for disagreement that it’s mentally exhausting. Literally. He’s wearing down the critics, replacing their specific complaints with entire encyclopedias of complaints. And when Trump has created a hundred reasons to complain, do you know what impression will be left with the public?
He sure got a lot done.
Even if you don’t like it.
Jingly keys are more like a slight of hand distraction. What Trump has done to the progs is more like toss them a squeaky toy to play with while he gets to work on serious matters.
Speaker to Animals wrote:Jingly keys are more like a slight of hand distraction. What Trump has done to the progs is more like toss them a squeaky toy to play with while he gets to work on serious matters.
I like your analogy better. Squeaky toy it is.
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Speaker to Animals wrote:I am trying to understand why you think you somehow defeated me by repeating the intent of my post?
I asked you two questions to clarify your meaning, and you fantasized about me being sent to a black torture site. Am I missing something here, or are you drunk?
StCapps wrote: It's pronounced big league, not bigly.
The "cry baby" angle is all just jingly keys to distract the media and the Trump haters, and they are falling for it, big league.
Scott Adams wrote:At the moment there are so many outrages, executive orders, protests, and controversies that none of them can get enough oxygen in our brains. I can’t obsess about problem X because the rest of the alphabet is coming at me at the same time.
+1
Good Article here from USA Today along the same lines.
In fact, Trump’s basically gaslighting them. Knowing how much they hate him, he’s constantly provoking them to go over the top. Sean Spicer’s crowd-size remarks on Saturday were all about making them seem petty and negative. (And, possibly, teeing up crowd size comparisons at this Friday’s March For Life, which the press normally ignores but which Trump will probably force them to cover).
Trump knows that the press isn’t trusted very much, and that the less it’s trusted, the less it can hurt him. So he’s prodding reporters to do things that will make them less trusted, and they’re constantly taking the bait.
They’re taking the bait because they think he’s dumb, and impulsive, and lacking self-control — but he’s the one causing them to act in ways that are dumb and impulsive, and demonstrate lack of self-control.
Speaker to Animals wrote:I am trying to understand why you think you somehow defeated me by repeating the intent of my post?
I asked you two questions to clarify your meaning, and you fantasized about me being sent to a black torture site. Am I missing something here, or are you drunk?
You better run like hell.
I am writing an API for neural networks, so I might get a little goofy with the fascism jokes. It can't be helped. it's writing the JUnit tests that does it to me.
Unrelated to anything, I just want to say that Frontline is fucking KILLING it lately.
They've done a 3-part series on Obama's presidency, and Trump's rise to power. If you're interested in how this looks to history, I cannot recommend it enough.
