trump is serious!!!!!

[Joe Guy]

It's understandable. Some of those hats are probably glued to their heads.

[Bicycle Bill]

It's not just the MAGA hat bunch.  Preferred pro sports teams, favorite NAStyCAR driver, college alma mater, or vehicle of choice — it's like the current generation was born with them damned hats on their heads and they can't possibly take 'em off unless they undergo a medical procedure to have 'em surgically removed.

-"BB"-

[RayThom]

Things change. I am not bothered by this. Patriotism is inward, it needn't be displayed outwardly, especially by removing one's head gear at public gatherings. The same goes for the hand over the heart, and singing along. What's the point?

Of course, I haven't worn a hat since Little League, oh, and the matching Robert Hall fedora my father forced me to wear on Easter in 1955. (Identical matching suits, hats, and top coats. How "brown shirt" is that?)

[Scooter]

It's not just that they won't take off their hats. It's that those who are so intent on seeing disrespect in something like taking the knee are themselves showing disrespect by failing to remove their hats.

[RayThom]

It's not just that they won't take off their hats. It's that those who are so intent on seeing disrespect in something like taking the knee are themselves showing disrespect by failing to remove their hats.

OUR gestures are more patriotic than YOUR gestures.

[Bicycle Bill]

It's not just that they won't take off their hats. It's that those who are so intent on seeing disrespect in something like taking the knee are themselves showing disrespect by failing to remove their hats.

OUR gestures are more patriotic than YOUR gestures.

Where have we seen something like this before??

Oh yeah — another right-wing blowhard who seems to have taught Donald Trump most of what he knows.



-"BB"-

[Scooter]

My favorite had to be Limbaugh attacking Michelle Obama for being fat.

[Joe Guy]

[MajGenl.Meade]

Gentlemen should remove their hats when entering a building and keep them off while they are inside. Asshats keep 'em on all the time.

[Bicycle Bill]

Gentlemen should remove their hats when entering a building and keep them off while they are inside. Asshats keep 'em on all the time.

That's the way I was raised.
Thanks, Dad.  Ya done good.

-"BB"-

[BoSoxGal]

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read
MARCH 8, 2019 ~ MICHAEL STEVENSON

Someone on Quora asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

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?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

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[Lord Jim]

Of course his loophole on that one is "best of my ability"...

[MajGenl.Meade]

... don't overlook that he's done a great job of executing the office. RIP

[Lord Jim]

I'm with Grandma...

[RayThom]

When There Was Only One Set Of Footprints, America, It Was Then That I Carried You

[RayThom]

Get your membership card before it's too late.



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