More Sacrifices to the First Amendment

[JoeWeber 2,561]

42 minutes ago, SkyDekker said:

What possibly makes you think that 20 second edited videos are accurate representations of reality?

Comprehension is directly proportional to attention span?

[normiss 723]

1 hour ago, SkyDekker said:

What possibly makes you think that 20 second edited videos are accurate representations of reality?

more so when processed through Chinese government owned servers

[wolfriverjoe 1,460]

3 hours ago, SkyDekker said:

What possibly makes you think that 20 second edited videos are accurate representations of reality?

When they're exactly what he wants reality to be.

[Phil1111 1,077]

19 hours ago, JoeWeber said:

Comprehension is directly proportional to attention span?

Thats the reason why Trump can jump from topic to topic in the same sentence. Yet his adoring base can make sense of it all.

[ryoder 1,547]

4 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

Thats the reason why Trump can jump from topic to topic in the same sentence. Yet his adoring base can make sense of it all.

His babbling is a verbal form of the Rorschach test; They just listen and hear what they are predisposed to hear.

[Phil1111 1,077]

1 hour ago, ryoder said:

His babbling is a verbal form of the Rorschach test; They just listen and hear what they are predisposed to hear.

Its hard to watch, but here is the latest video on you-tube from Psycho-Pac. Its George Conways's anti-Trump attack channel/PAC. Evidently Trump flipped out in a fit of Big Mac throwing rage when he viewed one of the first ones. George Conway’s Anti-Psychopath PAC Targets Trump’s Cognitive Blunders on TV

IMO no normal person will full faculties could make so many stupid, ignorant.... well you'll just have to watch it.

[ryoder 1,547]

3 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

Its hard to watch, but here is the latest video on you-tube from Psycho-Pac. Its George Conways's anti-Trump attack channel/PAC. Evidently Trump flipped out in a fit of Big Mac throwing rage when he viewed one of the first ones. George Conway’s Anti-Psychopath PAC Targets Trump’s Cognitive Blunders on TV

IMO no normal person will full faculties could make so many stupid, ignorant.... well you'll just have to watch it.

A normal person also has a sense of humor. Have you ever seen Trump make a self-deprecating joke? Have you ever seen him make any kind of joke? Have you ever seen him laugh?

There are a lot of missing parts in his head. This meme illustrates a few:

 

[billvon 2,723]

2 hours ago, ryoder said:

A normal person also has a sense of humor. Have you ever seen Trump make a self-deprecating joke? Have you ever seen him make any kind of joke? Have you ever seen him laugh?

 

Reminds me of a great piece by a British writer, Nate White, when asked why some British people don't like Donald Trump:

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A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.

I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:

'My God... what... have... I... created?'

 

[Phil1111 1,077]

5 minutes ago, billvon said:

Reminds me of a great piece by a British writer, Nate White, when asked why some British people don't like Donald Trump:

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A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem........

'My God... what... have... I... created?'

 

That pretty much covers it. The whole world sees Trump that way except for his base. All of which was known before he was elected which is the surprising part.

[kallend 1,822]

I wonder how Trump would have reacted in 1940 had he been the British PM after the fall of France?

[winsor 220]

2 hours ago, kallend said:

I wonder how Trump would have reacted in 1940 had he been the British PM after the fall of France?

Doesn't take much imagination.

A fellow teetotaler with a can-do approach (you have to break some eggs to make an omelet)

Time to resort to The Art of the Deal!

If you were a Stable Genius it would be pretty obvious.

BTW, did Mr. Ed qualify as a Stable Genius

[winsor 220]

On 7/21/2024 at 10:52 AM, wolfriverjoe said:

Again, what about art?
There's a LOT of legitimate art that blurs the line between art & porn. Some of it intentionally (Robert Mapplethorp is a great example of that).
Who decides where that line is?
You?
The 6 extreme and corrupt Christian fanatics that rule the Supreme Court?

You complain about 'gotcha' questions, but what I REALLY want to know is why you feel the need to regulate private behavior by adults.

And why you think you, or anyone else should have that ability.

My mother taught at the Art Institute of Chicago. 

In highschool I was in town with a friend and stopped by to meet her for lunch.  Trying to find her classroom, we stuck our heads into an Anatomy classroom for directions.

I saw a number of students trying to do well on the assignment, with an uncomfortable subject trying not to move.  My heart went out to all the participants, but my companion just about lost it.  He was like an American on a nude beach for the first time.

Like a nude jump, where pretty much nobody's on the menu, there is little about an Anatomy class that one could describe as erotic.

Turning on the TV in France after a late night at work, there was a couple being affectionate.  It soon went way past soft core, and they appeared to enjoy themselves greatly.

Broadcast TV porn apparently stopped sometime later, and the reason was ad revenues.  It seems they could make more money showing something else, so they did.

Abraham Lincoln was quoted as saying that sex is like air, it's no big deal unless you're not getting any.  This I suspect that the people who freak at seeing naked people are mostly envious.

When travelling I prefer societies where, if a young woman wears Daisy Dukes nobody bats an eye.

On the beach outside of Leningrad a beefy woman changed into her bathing suit out in the open, but Russia dances to a different drummer.

Anyhow, I fully expect my kid to have access to much that is not to my taste.  I figure freaking out over it doesn't buy much, and he seems to roll with it if I give him a straight answer to a straight question if the subject comes up.  YMMV.

 

BSBD,

Winsor

[richravizza 26]

On 7/20/2024 at 7:39 PM, lippy said:

Yeah, those are fake

In the sliver of a sliver; my old culture can take us back to Nero and Caligula,so I'm ok with JFK having orgies in the White House. 

The problem most encounter is a simple,one could say a free speech issue.They just need to invite the wife.lol

Edited August 22 by richravizza

[richravizza 26]

On 8/1/2024 at 10:59 AM, ryoder said:

A normal person also has a sense of humor. Have you ever seen Trump make a self-deprecating joke? Have you ever seen him make any kind of joke? Have you ever seen him laugh?

 

Having a sense of humor is one thing,by the way the dude is hilarious.

Self-deprecating on the other hand is a no no.It a Stoic principle {no Offence to to Sto's out there} because it always leaves a depreciating lasting impression to any detractor.An example; a PHD ... check that, out of respect for my detractors.

ie. a Public Highschool Diploma from a crackerjacks box.

Have you seen Frump try to Dance? LOL He looks like he's jacking two off at once.

IMO, This guy's got some talent.Taste the the appetizer,just the first 2 min.here,

If you like try this one.

We can get so off track, the 1A issue I thought you'd find hilarious.

After Elon retweeted Mr.Reagan's parody of Kamala's presidency to the tune of 137M views and laughs.
Save Us from ourselves,Gov.Gavin Newsom chimed in true leftoid fashion,to tell us he's going to write a law in California to prevent this kind of mis information,a true humorless twit. But a learning moment from 1A World renowned Professor Suggon Deeznuttz. LOL

 

Edited August 22 by richravizza

[tkhayes 255]

On 7/19/2024 at 10:29 AM, winsor said:

Just going by what the "experts" say in the clear.  Doesn't require interpretation

You therefore have specific examples of what the experts are saying right?  Chapter line and verse please.

[wolfriverjoe 1,460]

6 hours ago, tkhayes said:

You therefore have specific examples of what the experts are saying right?  Chapter line and verse please.

They are 'top men'.

[wmw999 2,311]

10 hours ago, wolfriverjoe said:

They are 'top men'.

They’re for damn sure not “top women” (with the possible exception of Margaret Thatcher and Condoleezza Rice)

Wendy P. 

[winsor 220]

11 hours ago, wmw999 said:

They’re for damn sure not “top women” (with the possible exception of Margaret Thatcher and Condoleezza Rice)

Wendy P. 

You don't think that is maybe a reference to "Raiders of the Lost Ark?"