The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

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Strat wrote:
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Strat wrote:lol, yea there are non whites in there. Good try though?
Notice anything else?
Yes, burt, but that is not what the meme is getting at.
true.

The tweet responses to that "selfie" were predictable and funny though.

https://mic.com/articles/144177/this-tw ... e-feminism
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I'm sad about what has happened to the word 'meme'. It used to mean so much more than it does today. Now it just means a picture with white text on top of it.
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The Argonaut wrote:I'm sad about what has happened to the word 'meme'. It used to mean so much more than it does today. Now it just means a picture with white text on top of it.
It used to mean "fucking hilarious internet joke" now it means "breaking news"
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The Argonaut wrote:I'm sad about what has happened to the word 'meme'. It used to mean so much more than it does today. Now it just means a picture with white text on top of it.
We need a "Crying Dawkins" meme for every time it's misused.
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I need a Crying Dawkins picture just for my own personal joy.
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The Crying Michael Jordan one is very unsettling.
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California voted overwhelmingly against Trump.

If San Andreas cracks and the big one hits in his term, imagine his response.

He'd probably claim on insurance for his resorts first of all. Then let the rest burn.
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This is the New York Post, so it's fine to approach it with one raised eyebrow:

http://nypost.com/2016/11/21/donald-tru ... ing-squad/

Donald Trump’s media summit was a ‘f—ing firing squad’
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Unless Wolf Blitzer was impaled on a spear, I'd say it wasn't brutal enough.
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theplatypus wrote:This is the New York Post, so it's fine to approach it with one raised eyebrow:

http://nypost.com/2016/11/21/donald-tru ... ing-squad/

Donald Trump’s media summit was a ‘f—ing firing squad’
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Strat wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:I'm sad about what has happened to the word 'meme'. It used to mean so much more than it does today. Now it just means a picture with white text on top of it.
It used to mean "fucking hilarious internet joke" now it means "breaking news"
No, it used to mean a unit of cultural information. I share Asher's lament.
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Thanks for having the wife and me to your dinner party.
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I lament Asher's sharing.
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Strat wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/?utm_source=fbb

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i love The Atlantic, but this thing getting airtime is obnoxious. this is such a minority of people in the U.S. and there were like 3 people who 'heiled'

i find them all detestable,

but if major news outlets want to go and find the one 200-person gathering of semi-nazis in the US and then float the picture of 3 'heiling'; it does not mean that the entire country or even a significant portion of the country thinks this way;

but it starts to bend people out of shape like its a meaningful reality.

when the famine in Somalia happened; news reporters circulated pictures of only the most severely starving people there. painted a far worse picture than it really was (not saying it was great). the sample was not representative of the population. this wound up being termed 'disaster pornography'

there is a lot of 'disaster pornography' going around these days in the wake of the trump victory
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Ha - so the Trump infrastructure plan is really just more tax-cuts

http://commondreams.org/news/2016/11/21 ... perts-warn

this administration is just going to be one big fucking loot-the-register show

make america broke again

thanks for electing me your president!

now we will pass two major pieces of legislation that are simply a direct way of me taking more of your tax dollars so that I can buy gold leaf and ferraris
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digster wrote: My assumption is that this is going to happen more and more, and the question will be less whether there is a conflict of interest and more whether that is something the public even cares about anymore.
it is a conflict of interest

there are already many conflicts of interest

public does not understand the repercussions

public did this to themselves

like 3am late night taco bell drive thru run

going to regret it the next day

but right now - the Fiery Doritos Locos Tacos make sense. I'm ready for a change. I'm sick of soft tacos. I want to eat something new. Even if it is obviously going to make my asshole explode in pain later on. Maybe that's just what this asshole needs
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This has been a pretty amusing morning
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McParadigm wrote:This has been a pretty amusing morning

go on.....

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I think he's talking about the New York Times stuff
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