Trump: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

[patrick jane]

Diplomats rely on years of carefully maintained relationships with people in the countries where they're stationed. Understanding of cultural protocol, building of trust. A lot is accomplished through these connections that we're not privy to, and even though there's the expectation of turnover with new administrations, the diplomatic personnel leaving can pave the way for their successors - unless there is no successor.

The article below is pretty balanced between the paralysis of State (and why) and arguments for cutting bureaucratic bloat.

Diplomats Question Tactics of Tillerson, the Executive Turned Secretary of State

Get a life. I've been ignoring your posts for months. I don't read the Fake News.

 

[drbrumley]

Twitter colluded with DNC to try and get Hillary elected. They even admit it. This is the real collusion, but media not interested. https://t.co/N2z7CsMKoY

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[WizardofOz]

Get a life. I've been ignoring your posts for months. I don't read the Fake News.

"Ignoring"

 

[patrick jane]

Twitter colluded with DNC to try and get Hillary elected. They even admit it. This is the real collusion, but media not interested. https://t.co/N2z7CsMKoY

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It doesn't fit in with the Hate Trump narrative.

 

[Town Heretic]

It doesn't fit in with the Hate Trump narrative.

But it fits perfectly into the "disdain both candidates" camp.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Russia another pro-Trump blog is born. :shocked:

Get a life. I've been ignoring your posts for months. I don't read the Fake News.

Like the post she aimed at WoZ but you felt compelled to speak to anyway?

 

[Town Heretic]

What an idiotic thing to say. There were plenty of homes that did not offer free candy, and none of them were considered criminals or harassed by police or military or fined or coerced in any way to participate.

You've obviously never been "tricked" then. lain:

The point of the Tweet is to mock the monumental goofery of the initial. The answers are predicated on that remarkable miscue. You have to get into the spirit of it. One of my favorites was some guy who noted that his taking a great share of the candy-getting-profit for little apparent reason was a wonderful illustration of corporate capitalism. But all of it exists in the paper thin contextual premise of Orange Juniorous' original Tweet.

 

[patrick jane]

But it fits perfectly into the "disdain both candidates" camp.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Russia another pro-Trump blog is born. :shocked:



Like the post she aimed at WoZ but you felt compelled to speak to anyway?

I don't have to read a post or the links to respond. Like your point by point analyses of each post you respond to. Drivel.

 

[kmoney]

My personal favorite:


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I don't have a side in the halloween/socialism debate but malignant potato is a funny name.

 

[WizardofOz]

I don't have to read a post or the links to respond

:liberals:

You don't have to read a post before responding to it?

 

[patrick jane]

:liberals:

You don't have to read a post before responding to it?

Short ones, yes. Not paragraphs and links. :duh:

Sometimes the first sentence tells me all I need.

 

[kmoney]

Twitter colluded with DNC to try and get Hillary elected. They even admit it. This is the real collusion, but media not interested. https://t.co/N2z7CsMKoY

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Where is the collusion?

 

[Town Heretic]

I don't have to read a post or the links to respond.

With that approach how aren't you already in Congress? :think:

So as is the case with many of you Trump-ets, you have a logic problem. . . or fifty. lain:

 

[rexlunae]

Twitter colluded with DNC to try and get Hillary elected. They even admit it. This is the real collusion, but media not interested. https://t.co/N2z7CsMKoY

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It's been on every major news network in the last 24 hours, including Fox News, CNN, and even MSNBC. I'm not sure how you conclude that they have no interest in it.

Yes, this is "collusion" of a sort. It's even a bit of a scandal. But it's perfectly legal. No one doubts the DNC has the legal right to sign contracts with Hillary For America. Trump working with Russians to subvert an election is a crime.

 

[Danoh]

I don't have to read a post or the links to respond...

How Trump-like.

Like Trump; like Trump drone.

:rotfl:

 

[patrick jane]

How Trump-like.

Like Trump; like Trump drone.

It's true, I don't waste my time with long posts by Trump hating authors. It's always the same tired talking points from butt hurt liberals who still can't accept the reality of Donald Trump as our President. I also don't read your long posts where you attempt to correct others in their "understanding" and "studying a thing out."

 

[Tambora]

butt hurt liberals who still can't accept the reality of Donald Trump as our President.

I like the way Trump talks.
I had gotten soooooooooooooooooo sick and tired of all the political correctness going on, and walking around on eggshells to scrutinize every word you spoke as to not offend anyone (which is impossible to begin with).
I like having a politician that doesn't rely on a speech writer to form his words before he speaks to Americans.
I like that Trump interacts with Americans on social media connections.
I like that Trump doesn't think he is above speaking to everyday Americans in the same manner in which they think and speak.
Being from the great state of TEXAS, I understand speaking with exaggeration and using stereotypical idioms without flipping out about it.
I have enough sense to know how to differentiate the actual message from the language used to express that message.

The liberals have grown so accustomed to cookie-cutter speeches that they cannot even understand everyday communication.
It's now all about using the accepted political correct words, and nothing else.
And the list of words you can't use is getting loooooooooonger and looooooooonger.
Everything has to fit a cookie-cutter standard or they are just lost and cannot understand the point being made at all.
They are too hung up on language use rather than the message, and therefore they never actually hear the message.

 

[Tambora]

Oh, and ...... You better be reading ALL of my posts, PJ. :sibbie:
Every single word!

 

[patrick jane]

I like the way Trump talks.
I had gotten soooooooooooooooooo sick and tired of all the political correctness going on, and walking around on eggshells to scrutinize every word you spoke as to not offend anyone (which is impossible to begin with).
I like having a politician that doesn't rely on a speech writer to form his words before he speaks to Americans.
I like that Trump interacts with Americans on social media connections.
I like that Trump doesn't think he is above speaking to everyday Americans in the same manner in which they think and speak.
Being from the great state of TEXAS, I understand speaking with exaggeration and using stereotypical idioms without flipping out about it.
I have enough sense to know how to differentiate the actual message from the language used to express that message.

The liberals have grown so accustomed to cookie-cutter speeches that they cannot even understand everyday communication.
It's now all about using the accepted political correct words, and nothing else.
And the list of words you can't use is getting loooooooooonger and looooooooonger.
Everything has to fit a cookie-cutter standard or they are just lost and cannot understand the point being made at all.
They are too hung up on language use rather than the message, and therefore they never actually hear the message.

:chuckle:

 

[patrick jane]

Oh, and ...... You better be reading ALL of my posts, PJ. :sibbie:
Every single word!

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[patrick jane]

Trump is LIVE in Japan now