The (Current year) General Political/Salma Hayek discussion Thread Part V

[jamil]

I challenge you to find Bengladesh on a map, lolz

Everyone makes minor mistakes. I'd let that one go.

 

[jamil]

Oh. Another area where I thought Trump had ****ed up, but actually turned out okay. Iran. They kinda stopped ****ing with ships. Gas is near $2/gallon. How the **** did that happen?

Jar Jar theory.

 

[BugI02]

Everyone makes minor mistakes. I'd let that one go.

Perhaps should have been purple, it was a riff on inadvertent minor mistakes (current subject, yes?) at his expense (bonus situation)

 

[jamil]

Perhaps should have been purple, it was a riff on inadvertent minor mistakes (current subject, yes?) at his expense (bonus situation)

Dude, I'm continuing the riff. No need to explain.

 

[BugI02]

Oh. Another area where I thought Trump had ****ed up, but actually turned out okay. Iran. They kinda stopped ****ing with ships. Gas is near $2/gallon. How the **** did that happen?

Jar Jar theory.

I think you should perhaps give him a smidge more credit. It isn't like he is just following conventional wisdom, so if you would absolutely blame him if it all went wrong you should credit him when his insticts are right

 

[jamil]

I think you should perhaps give him a smidge more credit. It isn't like he is just following conventional wisdom, so if you would absolutely blame him if it all went wrong you should credit him when his insticts are right

Jar Jar theory says, Trump is either a bumbling idiot who happens to have a lot of serendipitous luck following him, or he's an ingenious dark lord of the sith who manipulates the midichlorians to cause the right outcomes, seemingly from idiotic actions. Or, could be somewhere in between.

Seriously, I don't think Trump is a genius at all. He's not a complete idiot either. I think he's developed some strategies for working out problems in his own business dealings and life and he's figured out a way to make that work for him on a wider scale. He applied a heavy hand with Iran, as opposed to Obama's soft had. That seemed to work. He applied a soft hand, (and possibly tongue) to KJU, where Obama had applied a heavy hand. That seemed to work too. Not that either will continue to work. Either one might just be short term success. But right now, we don't have KJU terrorizing the West, and Iran seems to be content with blowing up some empty tents to save face. Meanwhile, I filled up my truck for $2.08/gal yesterday.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Meanwhile, I filled up my truck for $2.08 yesterday.

that's a small tank

 

[jamil]

that's a small tank

Hey. or really cheep gas. No, implied was per gallon.

 

[Ingomike]

How many minor mistakes before you start to wonder about someone's actual knowledge?

You really want to charge that hill?

It has been demonstrated that Trumps tweet was factually correct, he did not say the Chiefs were in Kansas, he congratulated the state of Kansas, a state that is part of the Chiefs support are along with Missouri, a word not included in the team name. Kansas City is a name used by adjoining cities that are one metroplex that crosses a state line.

What the heck would be the big deal if a President didn't know or forgot the exact layout of Kansas City relative to state lines?

As as for the whole Trump is a dummy, the guy has succeed in two of the toughest businesses, NY real estate, and Hollywood, he has outsmarted both the repubs and dems, the entire MSM, all the way to the Presidency and people still want to say he is dumb.

I am am reminded of the movie quote from Josie Wales, "whooped em again" Trump...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

It has been demonstrated that Trumps tweet was factually correct, he did not say the Chiefs were in Kansas, he congratulated the state of Kansas...

 

[Ingomike]

Not sure what that means...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Not sure what that means...

I don't think it's worth defending the mistaken tweet as being accurate at all. He deleted it, and corrected it. It's not a huge deal, and we shouldn't (in my opinion) go out of our way to say "Well, actually... it was accurate..." in some odd way.

 

[Ingomike]

I don't think it's worth defending the mistaken tweet as being accurate at all. He deleted it, and corrected it. It's not a huge deal, and we shouldn't (in my opinion) go out of our way to say "Well, actually... it was accurate..." in some odd way.

I agree but like to point out the naysayers are not that smart on everything either

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Rush Limbaugh just announced on his radio program he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Says there will be days he won't be able to be there due to treatment

https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1224419860492451846

Edit: Starting to see confirmed elsewhere.

 

[BugI02]

Not seeing any confirmation of this in the real world

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Not seeing any confirmation of this in the real world

Since it literally just happened, you'll have to wait for your legacy media to catch up. Or close your eyes and click on that twitter button to see news as it breaks.

 

[jamil]

I agree but like to point out the naysayers are not that smart on everything either

The problem with it, why did Trump tweet that? Why'd he say Kansas? I'm pretty sure it wasn't because his tweet was technically correct. It was a mistake, even if, technically you could say that he didn't say they were in Kansas. It's pretty obvious he said it because he thought they were, and after being corrected, he fixed it. I don't think you're helping Trump by trying to make that defense. It's not pointing out anything of importance about the naysayers.

 

[BugI02]

Since it literally just happened, you'll have to wait for your legacy media to catch up. Or close your eyes and click on that twitter button to see news as it breaks.

Oh, sorry. I went to the actual show archived for today. I forgot fake news never is spread by twitter

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Oh, sorry. I went to the actual show archived for today. I forgot fake news never is spread by twitter

No worries, you can trust that I'll do some of the filtering out of shaky claims.

I wait until I see multiple verified accounts rather than a tweet by "xX_Sephiroth420_6969_Xx"

 

[BugI02]

That's appreciated. At first it just seemed like wishful thinking on the left