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Again, I'm quite familiar with the concept of a political cartoon, considering I have a cartooning background. It just doesn't have the tonality or cleverness they sometimes too, and simply read as a manifesto graphic. You say that only morons believe the above, but I'm sure a decent amount of those who voted and supported Trump fall directly in line with his thoughts on the nation, of how the press is a giant oppressive conspiracy, that all mainstream news is fake news and that everyone in the government is collectively manipulating the strings against the common man without their control or say. His whole winning ticket was, "I'm different than the Washington scum," and that creates an us vs. them mentality where the citizenry view their government and everyone in it as the enemy is a crass generalization.
You seem to think I was upset at you for posting it, but I wasn't and only would be if you believed it (to save you the trouble of replying, I don't think you do either). It read as a very serious message not at all in touch with something like a political cartoon was, and that kind of warped thinking is what leads to cop murders and massacres when one is manipulated into thinking things that aren't reality. Recent events perhaps set me off, but it does come back to the desire for people to snap out of these delusions if they truly hold weight in them. When you see so many people blindly accepting what's fed to them on a plate you just want them to take their own incentive for once and seek out what's the truth (though this does get difficult at times). But we live in a time of misinformation and overdramatics or exaggerations (Trump is the worst thing ever, our country will never heal, Washington wants to kill us, etc) so it's not always so easy.
Very true.
A lot of truth there, @Thrasos. I don't like Trump at all, but he is very much open season no matter what he does and I'm honest about the fact that I've read many stories taking him to task that made me roll my eyes by how lazily he was being attacked.
I read a New York Times blip that criticized his behavior when, as an Irish journalist was near him in the oval office, he was on the phone with a head of Irish government and asked him if his press was nice to him while complementing the girl on her nice smile. The writer took that as a sign that, in complimenting the woman on her appearance, Trump didn't think women had any place in jobs as serious partners or didn't respect them beyond their looks.
My main argument here is that the media doesn't need to target Trump for innocuous and trivial things like the above. If you give him a day he'll say or tweet something for you to write about, no problem. It's stuff like that that has led to the backlash towards media outlets and given to the rise of alternative news sources that don't stoop to such levels.
Indy finds it easy to criticise Nazis ....... Trump finds it a little harder. ;-)
@Thrasos, I could see what Trump was trying to say there, but his lack of fine speech in the league of a Lincoln or Kennedy really did him in because his vocabulary and speech patterns lock him into forming very rudimentary sentences lacking the nuance and clarity that would save him a lot of trouble with the media. As he is now, he's too easy to ridicule and take to task because of his problems with verbal expression. I can't imagine him having any hope of delivering any speeches of acclaim to the levels of "What you can do for your country" or "Yes we can," and that will hurt him immensely.
Trump has not yet had a speechwriter that could make him say coherent things at all. Even his twitter account does not serve him any better.
I would say that Trumps only interest in America must be his own company's interest otherwise he cannot be bothered. And like any Republican he seems to consider women a second-rate creature. His views on women are somewhat insulting.
If that were true, @SaintMark, he's done a rubbish job of it, with many of his interests falling apart or being abandoned by his past associates. My uncle worked under one part of Trump's "empire" from New York for years and shortly after the man's presidency began his reputation poisoned things so much that the business fell apart and his employees fled like workers from a collapsing mine.
Trump puts up that he's never been so successful (the move of an egotist), but his ignorance and foolishness on such a grand scale is killing any brand he had left. Can't say I have sympathy, though.
THINK ON YOUR SINS.
No, Mr. Silva!!! What did I do?!? Was it not ranking SF first?!?
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Ha! :D
I good, @Fire_and_Ice_Returns. Perhaps try logging out from the list below the big "MI6" logo on the front page at the top left, and trying logging in again to see if it works then?
Thanks just tried that and logged back in and having same issue, logged out on profile page and when I click on home page I am logged in and can access topics as normal.
Glad we're back.