The Art of the Donald Trumpocalypse

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Tue Aug 16, 2016 10:49 pm

I probably wouldn't find it so funny if I was older than 12.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Tue Aug 16, 2016 11:01 pm

Max Peck wrote:]
No, I think that maybe we should see other people from now on.

Oh thank god.

Would it have killed ya to use the "it's not you, it's me" line? That's all I've ever wanted.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Tue Aug 16, 2016 11:37 pm

GreenGoo wrote:
Max Peck wrote:]
No, I think that maybe we should see other people from now on.
Oh thank god.

Would it have killed ya to use the "it's not you, it's me" line? That's all I've ever wanted.

Well, you see, the thing is that I actually do think it's you rather than me. And I've previously explained my position on telling people what they want to hear just to make them happy if it means saying something I don't actually believe. Lying never ends well, even if done for the sake of social harmony (although that's an easier principle to uphold if one is single and unattached).

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:08 am

Lol, that's my point. Even in a pretend breakup with nothing on the line and no consequences whatsoever, you can't do it. Not only can't you admit you're wrong, you can't even pretend you're wrong.

You're kind of insufferable.

Let's call it mutual and ignore each other when hanging out with our friends here on OO.

Ok, the hell with it. You can even tell everyone you dumped me if it will get you to go away.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:15 am

Hey, we recently implemented a PM feature! You guys should check it out.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:18 am

Zaxxon wrote:Hey, we recently implemented a PM feature! You guys should check it out.

Why, did you want to talk? We're done. I'll keep it in mind for next time he steps on my toes and refuses to apologize.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 4:56 am

Zarathud wrote:Have you ever seen a "Made In the USA" label? Or an email "Please think of the environment before printing" (which is bullshit, as trees are renewable resources)?

Some of my liberal clients DO put their money where their values are, and some of those investments have had amazing returns. The growing trend among charities is to use endowment investments to advance their mission by investment selection and shareholder voting.

Some of my conservative clients do the opposite. One charity can never support any environmental cause or any organization which ever denigrates the oil or fossil fuel industries.

So where are all those liberal idealists when it comes to not shipping jobs overseas or not replacing tech workers with H1B visa slaves?

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:07 am

Rip wrote:
Zarathud wrote:Have you ever seen a "Made In the USA" label? Or an email "Please think of the environment before printing" (which is bullshit, as trees are renewable resources)?

Some of my liberal clients DO put their money where their values are, and some of those investments have had amazing returns. The growing trend among charities is to use endowment investments to advance their mission by investment selection and shareholder voting.

Some of my conservative clients do the opposite. One charity can never support any environmental cause or any organization which ever denigrates the oil or fossil fuel industries.
So where are all those liberal idealists when it comes to not shipping jobs overseas or not replacing tech workers with H1B visa slaves?

Why aren't all the "OMG The Mex'cans is coming!" people boycotting Motel 6 and Walmart?

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 7:12 am

Shake up time!
Yuge! Like my strong hands that hold up charts!

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 7:21 am

I look forward to the Donald Trump who doesn't feel boxed in and now feels he can be more himself with less pressure to change.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:05 am

I like the idea of a President brave enough to blame all his own mistakes on other people.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:47 am

tjg_marantz wrote:Shake up time!
Yuge! Like my strong hands that hold up charts!

At some point does anyone think that it will become apparent to Trump supporters that maybe it's a red flag that he can't seem to hire competent campaign staff?

I mean, don't get me wrong, I personally think the problem is the candidate and not the campaign staff - but for his supporters that don't believe that - shouldn't he be able to hire the best campaign staff? And if he can do that, why isn't he?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:51 am

I'm fairly certain that what we're seeing is par for the course for someone who simply wants to surround himself with Yes Men. Trump has never struck me as the type of person who believes in any truth except those that he wants to believe. Most of us do the same, don't get me wrong. But most of us don't purge our lives of anyone who doesn't agree with those truths.

Just further proof to me that even voting in Hillary is still better than Trump.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:08 am

Yeah I've never in my life seen such a train wreck. If the guy can't even manage a single campaign, how do people expect him to manage the nation?

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:10 am

It'll be fascinating to what depths Trump will explore now - Manafort for all his issues was at least attempting to keep Trump on message. Any predictions on the crazy shit that will now tumble from his mouth? I'll go out on a limb and expect to hear a mention of the new and completely nonsensical conspiracy theory that the Clinton's had a staffer at the DNC killed because he leaked emails to Wikileaks.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:15 am

YellowKing wrote:Yeah I've never in my life seen such a train wreck. If the guy can't even manage a single campaign, how do people expect him to manage the nation?

Seriously - I don't think the first world has seen anything this bad out of a 'mainstream' national candidate - ever.

Scraper · Post by **Scraper** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:22 am

The fact that he brought in the president of Breitbart news as his campaign chief executive should tell you what direction his campaign is headed in. It stands to get even crazier, which should be fairly entertaining at the least.

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:34 am

Oh, what a savvy business man Trump is! So smart to fire old sad losers before they expect a pay raise and hire new staff to do the same job for less money! Don't believe dishonest media lies!

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:57 am

Looking forward to being educated about this development. It should be beautiful.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 10:23 am

So Trump now has as many ex-campaign managers as ex-wives? What's next, a political liquidation and Chapter 11 of the GOP?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 10:43 am

Moliere wrote:Trump’s Missing Money

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 11:17 am

hepcat wrote:
Moliere wrote:Trump’s Missing Money

Funny because it's not far from the truth. All the people praising him for "self-funding" his campaign don't read the fine print that he is simply loaning the campaign money and then using campaign contributions to pay himself back with interest. That along with using all of his various businesses for campaign expenses he might be the first candidate to make a profit on the whole process.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:17 pm

GreenGoo wrote:Lol, that's my point. Even in a pretend breakup with nothing on the line and no consequences whatsoever, you can't do it. Not only can't you admit you're wrong, you can't even pretend you're wrong.

You're kind of insufferable.

Let's call it mutual and ignore each other when hanging out with our friends here on OO.

Ok, the hell with it. You can even tell everyone you dumped me if it will get you to go away.

I see how sincere you were with regard to your earlier claim to an ability to just let things go. Even an obvious joke, directly in response to your apparent joke, is a mortal insult to you. Your painful insecurity gives me an unironic sad.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:46 pm

Archinerd wrote:Oh, what a savvy business man Trump is! So smart to fire old sad losers before they expect a pay raise and hire new staff to do the same job for less money! Don't believe dishonest media lies!

For the record Manafort is still on the gravy train. Unless those are the lies the dishonest media is telling us?

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:06 pm

GreenGoo wrote:
Archinerd wrote:Oh, what a savvy business man Trump is! So smart to fire old sad losers before they expect a pay raise and hire new staff to do the same job for less money! Don't believe dishonest media lies!
For the record Manafort is still on the gravy train. Unless those are the lies the dishonest media is telling us?

You should know by this point that logic and facts are not important.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:19 pm

By the time Chris Christie became governor of New Jersey, the state’s auditors and lawyers had been battling for several years to collect long-overdue taxes owed by the casinos founded by his friend Donald J. Trump.

The total, with interest, had grown to almost $30 million. The state had doggedly pursued the matter through two of the casinos’ bankruptcy cases and even accused the company led by Mr. Trump of filing false reports with state casino regulators about the amount of taxes it had paid.

But the year after Governor Christie, a Republican, took office, the tone of the litigation shifted. The state entertained settlement offers. And in December 2011, after six years in court, the state agreed to accept just $5 million, roughly 17 cents on the dollar of what auditors said the casinos owed.

link

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:38 pm

Here's what's perceived as the "sane" portion of the GOP ticket:

You know anyone picked by Trump to be his running mate almost certainly will have a problem with established science, of course, but it turns out Pence is also a young Earth creationist. And one with a lot of conviction about it, too. In 2002, while a congressman from Indiana, he gave a short speech on the floor of Congress denying evolution, and used quite a few misleading, if not outright false, claims...

...

Then he said this:

And I also believe that someday scientists will come to see that only the theory of intelligent design provides even a remotely rationale explanation for the known universe.

...

Oof. Well, ID is not a theory, it’s just warmed-over creationism, and is now actually illegal to teach in public school because it’s religion, pure and simple. It was made illegal in 2004, two years after this speech, but ID was purposely constructed to be modified creationism since its inception (I'll note that Pence has made similar anti-evolution claims in the years since, too).

I feel that at the very least, a vice presidential candidate should uphold the Constitution, especially the First Amendment.

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:05 pm

Steven Novella also did a pretty thorough take down of Pence's science beliefs recently:
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/inde ... evolution/

Nothing groundbreaking, but a good primer on counter points to a lot of Creationist propaganda.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:05 pm

Nothing says rational explanation like "a wizard did it".

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:13 pm

First Classified Briefing

Donald Trump offered a blunt explanation for why he wants retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn at his side as he gets his first classified briefing at FBI headquarters on Wednesday — he doesn't trust intelligence information coming from those currently in charge.

"I think he's a great guy. I've gotten to know him. He's been a real fan of mine and defender of mine and he's a terrific guy, a terrific general — tough, smart. Feels like I do about illegal immigration, in particular," Trump told Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt in Milwaukee on Tuesday night. "He wants to make sure the right people are coming into our country, not the people that we're probably taking in right now. We don't even know who we're taking in. I mean, we have people coming into our country, we have no idea who they are, where they come from and he's somebody that I believe in."

Earhardt followed up by asking whether Trump trusts "intelligence."

"Not so much from the people that have been doing it for our country. I mean, look what's happened over the last 10 years. Look what's happened over the years. It's been catastrophic. And, in fact, I won't use some of the people that are sort of your standards, you know, just use them, use them, use them, very easy to use them, but I won't use them because they've made such bad decisions," said Trump, who will also be joined by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at the inaugural briefing. "You look at Iraq. You look at the Middle East. It's a total powder keg. It's a — if we would have never touched it, it would have been a lot better. I mean, we would have been much better off. On top of which, we've spent probably $4 trillion. Nobody even knows what we've spent. So, no, I have great people, and Gen. Flynn is one of them."

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:33 pm

I only hope he hires people via a televised apprentice vetting process.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:40 pm

I have discovered his speeches are much more entertaining when read in Zoidberg's voice. They're easier to understand, too.

BooTx · Post by **BooTx** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:44 pm

"I'm gonna bring in all the best people."

*fires everybody*

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:44 pm

Blackhawk wrote:I have discovered his speeches are much more entertaining when read in Zoidberg's voice. They're easier to understand, too.

Or preferably Zapp Brannigan's.

#MakeAmericaBrannigan

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:51 pm

Well hell, he already has said he knows more than the generals, why wouldn't he know more than the CIA and NSA?

Malachite · Post by **Malachite** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:02 pm

El Guapo wrote:
Blackhawk wrote:I have discovered his speeches are much more entertaining when read in Zoidberg's voice. They're easier to understand, too.
Or preferably Zapp Brannigan's.

#MakeAmericaBrannigan

Nah, Sassy Donald Trump
I Didn't Have Relations With That Man

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:54 pm

Those are all listed as being the product of one Peter Serafinowicz. I wonder if it's THE Peter Serafinowicz?

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 10:18 pm

hepcat wrote:Those are all listed as being the product of one Peter Serafinowicz. I wonder if it's THE Peter Serafinowicz?

No idea...

But there are those who say "Yes!"

Donald Trump’s speech have caused uproar and outrage. Now Peter Serafinowicz has made them totally more bearable to listen to. The British actor and comedian – famous for his roles in Guardians Of The Galaxy and Shaun Of The Dead – has built up a considerable fan based for his Sassy Trump videos. In each video, Peter puts on a sassy voice and recites, verbatim, some of his most memorable speeches over video footage of him giving them.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 10:55 pm

If you missed the short lived Running Wilde when it aired, you missed Peter's amazingly hilarious portrayal of a rich and clueless Saudi oil heir. The highlight being his impersonation of Alan Alda as a street tough. I'm a big fan of Serafinowicz.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 11:27 pm

A doctor take a look at Trump's note from his doctor

All I can say is, typos and weird links and mentions of non-existent sections of gastroenterology and nonsensical medical information aside, the letter provides essentially no medical information.