What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

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Tamas

Quote from: frunk on September 03, 2019, 07:25:05 AM
Can someone explain how we have a president getting into twitter fights with weathermen over where a hurricane is going?

Will of the people. :)


merithyn

Quote from: Tamas on September 03, 2019, 07:28:10 AM
Quote from: frunk on September 03, 2019, 07:25:05 AM
Can someone explain how we have a president getting into twitter fights with weathermen over where a hurricane is going?

Will of the people. :)

Fewer than 50% of the people! :contract:

Sorry.... I'm hanging onto that bit by a thread to keep me sane until 2020. :blush:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Habbaku

Quote from: merithyn on September 03, 2019, 10:46:49 AM
Quote from: Tamas on September 03, 2019, 07:28:10 AM
Quote from: frunk on September 03, 2019, 07:25:05 AM
Can someone explain how we have a president getting into twitter fights with weathermen over where a hurricane is going?

Will of the people. :)

Fewer than 50% of the people! :contract:

Sorry.... I'm hanging onto that bit by a thread to keep me sane until 2020. :blush:

Certainly helps me. Roughly 56% of eligible voters actually voted in the 2016 election, and of that only ~46% voted for Trump. So, roughly 1/4th of the voting population actually voted for him.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

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frunk

Quote from: merithyn on September 03, 2019, 10:46:49 AM
Quote from: Tamas on September 03, 2019, 07:28:10 AM
Quote from: frunk on September 03, 2019, 07:25:05 AM
Can someone explain how we have a president getting into twitter fights with weathermen over where a hurricane is going?

Will of the people. :)

Fewer than 50% of the people! :contract:

Sorry.... I'm hanging onto that bit by a thread to keep me sane until 2020. :blush:

15 years ago no part of my sentence would make sense.  A little more than 11 years ago (prior to Palin's VP candidacy) I wouldn't of understood how a president could be involved in something so dumb.  Now I'm hoping for a day when it sounds as improbable again as it should be.

merithyn

Quote from: frunk on September 03, 2019, 11:03:37 AM
Quote from: merithyn on September 03, 2019, 10:46:49 AM
Quote from: Tamas on September 03, 2019, 07:28:10 AM
Quote from: frunk on September 03, 2019, 07:25:05 AM
Can someone explain how we have a president getting into twitter fights with weathermen over where a hurricane is going?

Will of the people. :)

Fewer than 50% of the people! :contract:

Sorry.... I'm hanging onto that bit by a thread to keep me sane until 2020. :blush:

15 years ago no part of my sentence would make sense.  A little more than 11 years ago (prior to Palin's VP candidacy) I wouldn't of understood how a president could be involved in something so dumb.  Now I'm hoping for a day when it sounds as improbable again as it should be.

You're not wrong. :cry:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Tonitrus

Quote from: merithyn on September 03, 2019, 10:46:49 AM
Quote from: Tamas on September 03, 2019, 07:28:10 AM
Quote from: frunk on September 03, 2019, 07:25:05 AM
Can someone explain how we have a president getting into twitter fights with weathermen over where a hurricane is going?

Will of the people. :)

Fewer than 50% of the people! :contract:

Sorry.... I'm hanging onto that bit by a thread to keep me sane until 2020. :blush:

How about "Will of the States" (thanks to the EC)?  :P

Solmyr

Quote from: Tonitrus on September 03, 2019, 11:41:58 AM
Quote from: merithyn on September 03, 2019, 10:46:49 AM
Quote from: Tamas on September 03, 2019, 07:28:10 AM
Quote from: frunk on September 03, 2019, 07:25:05 AM
Can someone explain how we have a president getting into twitter fights with weathermen over where a hurricane is going?

Will of the people. :)

Fewer than 50% of the people! :contract:

Sorry.... I'm hanging onto that bit by a thread to keep me sane until 2020. :blush:

How about "Will of the States" (thanks to the EC)?  :P

Triumph of the Will?

merithyn

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

grumbler

Quote from: Tonitrus on September 03, 2019, 11:41:58 AM

How about "Will of the States" (thanks to the EC)?  :P

"Will of the States" sounds like one of those HBO shows that got cancelled after one episode.  Though maybe that was "John from Cincinnati."  All I remember for sure was "Somebody of/from Something."
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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viper37

Quote from: merithyn on September 03, 2019, 10:46:49 AM
Sorry.... I'm hanging onto that bit by a thread to keep me sane until 2020. :blush:
too bad you ditched the Canadian husband.  It would have been easier to get naturalized after 2020.  By voting here, you'd have the choice of an ultra dumb but charismatic leader or a ultra not charismatic leader of unknown intelligence. :)
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merithyn

Quote from: viper37 on September 03, 2019, 01:49:07 PM
Quote from: merithyn on September 03, 2019, 10:46:49 AM
Sorry.... I'm hanging onto that bit by a thread to keep me sane until 2020. :blush:
too bad you ditched the Canadian husband.  It would have been easier to get naturalized after 2020.  By voting here, you'd have the choice of an ultra dumb but charismatic leader or a ultra not charismatic leader of unknown intelligence. :)

I don't need a Canadian husband to claim asylum. :contract:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Habbaku

Is Canadian asylum really that easy to get?  :hmm:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Barrister

Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

merithyn

Quote from: Barrister on September 03, 2019, 02:06:19 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on September 03, 2019, 02:04:40 PM
Is Canadian asylum really that easy to get?  :hmm:

No.

Just need a sponsor. :whistle:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=606&top=11

QuoteMember of the Country of Asylum Class
A person who is outside their home country or the country where they normally live and is seriously affected by civil war, armed conflict, or a massive violation of human rights.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Barrister

Quote from: merithyn on September 03, 2019, 04:22:29 PM
Quote from: Barrister on September 03, 2019, 02:06:19 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on September 03, 2019, 02:04:40 PM
Is Canadian asylum really that easy to get?  :hmm:

No.

Just need a sponsor. :whistle:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=606&top=11

QuoteMember of the Country of Asylum Class
A person who is outside their home country or the country where they normally live and is seriously affected by civil war, armed conflict, or a massive violation of human rights.

And are you "seroiusly affected by a massive violation of your human rights" Meri? :yeahright:

A not insignificant number of Americans have tried this over the years.  The large majority of their refugee claims are denied.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.