The Trump presidency

[Johnny Canuck3]

Running out of options, the Trump Administration goes with the only bunny suit available:

 

[CRI]

"I know nothing. I know nothing."

Fuck me, Spicer really said that? SMH

 

[CRI]

Or -

 

[bimble]

I don't know about anyone else but this past few days I've been feeling less scared and more amused.
The alt right hardcore Trumpers have been eating each others faces off in public about the missile strike (Fire Kushner bring back Bannon etc). Then Eric blunders in really really loudly to make sure everyone understands that the missile strike must put an end to any investigation into Russian ties.
And now the Hitler, always a good idea to bring Hitler into the conversation. It's all looking a bit comedic, or maybe I'm just out the other side of despair into absurdity.

 

[Idris2002]

The Eurotrash

 

[Idris2002]

Won't get the reference.

 

[CRI]

The people who liked and voted for Trump, liked the offers and promises that he made. They liked the idea of a Mexican wall. They liked the idea of a Muslim ban. etc.

Clinton couldn't have, and wouldn't, offer the kinds of things that Trump offered. So it's unclear what difference it would have made, for Clinton to travel to states and appear in front of these people. They didn't like her; and they liked Trump. No matter how much talking she did, she wasn't going to say the sorts of things that Trump voters liked to hear.

Trump said those things.

I don't get why it's so hard to contemplate that people voted for Trump because they liked his policies. I posted the poll showing only 3% of Trump voters regretted their pick. Even in the slew of "Oh look, poor white people who voted for Trump will suffer" articles, most say they still support him. Some seem genuinely puzzled that he's actually doing what he said he'd do and many seem to think he somehow doesn't realise his policies will hurt the people who backed him. Poor folks think he actually gives a damn about them.

Surely one of the massive mistakes made by the democrats and the media was to encourage the Trump - give him lots of time and attention - back when he was seen as a clown, before he even won the nomination.
Thinking he'd be easy to beat, that "It was in the best interest of Clinton, and therefore the Democratic Party, that Trump was the Republican presidential nominee.."
WikiLeaks Reveals DNC Elevated Trump to Help Clinton

The media definitely reported this contest differently from any before. He was given a massive pass for every outrageous, bigoted, threatening thing he said. Clinton was called up on the most mundane of issues. The media needed a horse race to keep the interest and the revenues flowing, so they pulled out the stops to make Trump as plausible as they possibly could. I'm not sure how else the Democrats could have played the opposition to Trump. I think they tried appealing to the better nature of "ethical Republicans," who surely were also appalled by his racism, xenophobia, misogyny, lack of transparency in business affairs, etc. Unfortunately, they might as well have been appealing to a herd of unicorns.

 

[bimble]

The media definitely reported this contest differently from any before. He was given a massive pass for every outrageous, bigoted, threatening thing he said. Clinton was called up on the most mundane of issues. The media needed a horse race to keep the interest and the revenues flowing, so they pulled out the stops to make Trump as plausible as they possibly could[..]

Yep. Trump from day one was clickbait gold. I think you can't analyse this whole thing, where we are at, without seeing it in relation to how the internet works.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Won't get the reference.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Won't get the reference.

You're right, I don't. At least, other than as a perjorative.

 

[bimble]

That just made me feel young because it looks pre-mash. I thank you.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Zyklon B is no longer a chemical? Fucking hell. South park writers are fully writing the WH scripts.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You're right, I don't. At least, other than as a perjorative.

You never watched Hogan's Heroes?

 

[hegley]

"I know nothing. I know nothing."

Fuck me, Spicer really said that? SMH

 

[Lord Camomile]

There's been many variations on that theme, but I think that's my favourite

 

[bimble]

I'm supposed to know who Leroy Jenkins is (google says its a sort of modern day pacman character) and have watched some ancient sitcom about someone called Hogan.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

You never watched Hogan's Heroes?

I was referring to "The Eurotrash." (Post #6664) I think its a tv show.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm supposed to know who Leroy Jenkins is (google says its a sort of modern day pacman character) and have watched some ancient sitcom about someone called Hogan.

Day not entirely wasted then

 

[Lord Camomile]

I'm supposed to know who Leroy Jenkins is (google says its a sort of modern day pacman character) and have watched some ancient sitcom about someone called Hogan.

 

[CRI]

That just made me feel young because it looks pre-mash. I thank you.

It made me feel old, because I used to watch the repeats after school and that was a loooooooooooooooong time ago. Hogan's Heroes, Gilligans Island, I Dream of Jeannie and best of all Dark Shadows. Wow!

I didn't get the Eurotrash reference either. Was it to do with that late night show with Jean Paul Gautier and Antoine Somebody by that name?

 

[bimble]

Day not entirely wasted then

Must try harder.Hogans Heros on to do list. .

 

[CRI]

Zyklon B is no longer a chemical? Fucking hell. South park writers are fully writing the WH scripts.

Oh, it is, but he said Hitler didn't use chemicals, on his own people.

 

[Pickman's model]

Must try harder.Hogans Heros on to do list. .

You've done the Phil Silvers Show too? And bewitched, I dream of jeanie, and I love lucy?

 

[Pickman's model]

Oh, it is, but he said Hitler didn't use chemicals, on his own people.

Jews, gypsies, gays not his own people obvs

 

[bimble]

You've done the Phil Silvers Show too? And bewitched, I dream of jeanie, and I love lucy?

Bewitched tick. That was on after school, aspirational viewing.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It made me feel old, because I used to watch the repeats after school and that was a loooooooooooooooong time ago. Hogan's Heroes, Gilligans Island, I Dream of Jeannie and best of all Dark Shadows. Wow!

I didn't get the Eurotrash reference either. Was it to do with that late night show with Jean Paul Gautier and Antoine Somebody by that name?

Don't forget the Beverley Hillbillies, Green Acres, The Addams Family, the Banana Splits, the Monkees...

 

[brogdale]

This.

 

[CRI]

Don't forget the Beverley Hillbillies, Green Acres, The Addams Family, the Banana Splits, the Monkees...

Oooh, some of those were still on in the evening when I watched them, so not yet repeats in the after school slot. I knew of the Banana Splits, but I'll bet it was on NBC - which we couldn't pick up. Mind you, I loved HR Puff n stuff, which was on NBC at 11 on Saturday mornings, so I watched it through the snow and crackles.

Kids these days don't know they're born I tell ya!

 

[bimble]

This is an internet forum for old people isn't it.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Oooh, some of those were still on in the evening when I watched them, so not yet repeats in the after school slot. I knew of the Banana Splits, but I'll bet it was on NBC - which we couldn't pick up. Mind you, I loved HR Puff n stuff, which was on NBC at 11 on Saturday mornings, so I watched it through the snow and crackles.

Kids these days don't know they're born I tell ya!

None of those shows were reruns when I watched them; although I probably watched reruns of them later.

Maybe the Phil Silvers Show - but I think that was first-run, too.