Post inauguration Trump:

[Pies4shaw]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/ ... aincontent

[Wokko]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/26/lori-klausutis-husband-asks-twitter-delete-trump-joe-scarborough-smears-death#maincontent

The President is far from the first person to question the details of that death.

A 28 year old intern suddenly died of an 'undiagnosed' heart problem, and manages to give herself blunt force trauma.

And Her boss, the new rising star of the Republican party just up and quits.

Yeah, nothing to see here.

Not sure why you care about a US Cable News hosts' reputation though.

[Pies4shaw]

The poor woman’s husband has had to beg the President to stop lying about her death for political purposes. Imagine if Scomo or the ALP (whoever leads it) did that to any of us - we’d be horrified and appalled. It really is beyond the pale. Quite indecent.

[Wokko]

The poor woman’s husband has had to beg the President to stop lying about her death for political purposes. Imagine if Scomo or the ALP (whoever leads it) did that to any of us - we’d be horrified and appalled. It really is beyond the pale. Quite indecent.

Clutch those pearls harder.

Joe Scarborough is a scumbag who you wouldn't defend in a pink fit if anyone but Trump said it, and plenty of people have been saying it since 2001. Hell you probably didn't even know who he was until the Guardian told you to be mad about it.

[Pies4shaw]

[David]

[pietillidie]

Joe Scarborough is a scumbag who you wouldn't defend in a pink fit if anyone but Trump said it, and plenty of people have been saying it since 2001.

Who cares about Joe whoever? Why would you even waste your time reading that stuff? I suppose it's entertaining if you're into that kind of thing.

But it begs the question: is it considered normal where you're from for leaders in the most serious positions, with the gravest responsibilities, to spend their time compulsively publishing salacious tabloid-level gossip?

For the record, it's considered pathetic, juvenile, cringeworthy and disqualifying of serious office in any culture or social group with which I've ever been associated.

[David]

[stui magpie]

^

That's the thing exactly, Trump hasn't changed one bit and I don't know why that surprises people. The US people knew exactly what they were electing and they did it anyway which will forever haunt and mess with the minds of the Hillary supporters.

[Wokko]

^

That's the thing exactly, Trump hasn't changed one bit and I don't know why that surprises people. The US people knew exactly what they were electing and they did it anyway which will forever haunt and mess with the minds of the Hillary supporters.

I was about to post something similar. People voted him in because he's Donald Trump, not in spite of it. Every time someone posts "Look at this crass and rude thing Trump said, surely this time he's finished" everyone who voted for or even just likes the guy just has a satisfied chuckle that he's made some leftist, liberal, cuckservative or globalist mad enough to post about it.

Every rant, meltdown and assertion that "This time he's finished for sure" just makes the satisfaction a little stronger. "Owning the Libs" as David puts it, or even just making them mad, never gets old.

[pietillidie]

[Pies4shaw]

He’s not “owning the libs” (whatever that means) here, though, is he? He’s just ruining the memory of some poor chap’s dead wife for no good reason, on the basis of a series of lies debunked years ago, as a means to throwing his faeces like an orangutan at a media personality he doesn’t like. It’s not politics. It’s a tragedy of barbarism. The people in the US who think this is a good thing probably also like fart jokes. None of this is acceptable from an elected public official, whatever the political persuasion.

[pietillidie]

^The discussion being that the norms to which you refer no longer matter. The more you appeal to them the more power is taken from defying them. Game over.

[Pies4shaw]

That’s fine for whoever happens to be “in charge” - until the tables are turned and some lib “owns” them in just the same way.

[David]

^

That's the thing exactly, Trump hasn't changed one bit and I don't know why that surprises people. The US people knew exactly what they were electing and they did it anyway which will forever haunt and mess with the minds of the Hillary supporters.

Imagine having a view of the world that is so narrow that it revolves around winning imaginary fights with Hillary supporters. This must be why the right-wing press keeps trying to push wish-fulfilment stories about her entering the Democratic primary, and why Trump keeps tweeting about her: that's the playing field that they feel most comfortable on, and they want to relive old victories. Well, sorry to say it, but Hillary is old news, and hardly anybody cares about her any more. A politics of spite and oneupmanship will only get you so far.