President Donald J. Trump

[K_Dubb]

It depends on the people involved.  We don't know the dynamic in that relationship, and the daugther might lord it over the father and do what she likes. And there are varying degrees of anti-semitism, you don't necessarily want Jews all going up the nearest smokestack, you might just be casually racist rather than venomously so.

We've been hearing that this Gorka character has links to racist groups in Hungary now. Bannon is pretty iffy, obviously. Miller too. If he chooses to associate with people like that we are entitled to draw our own conclusions.

I thought Miller was Jewish.  Guilt by association works both ways, you know; a real anti-Semite would find enough Jews in this administration to fuel a conspiracy.

I don't know much about Bannon, and both Miller and Gorka are loathsome creatures based on what I've seen of them, but once you dilute the charge of antisemitism by discriminating between these Jews and those Jews, it starts to look like an ideological divide which, whatever you think of it, is perfectly legitimate in politics.

[Dr. MD MD]

Don't use words unless you know what they mean.

I know what it means and intentionally chose it for that reason. However, just for your edification, faggot:

Decimate - kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.

[ItsOver]

https://www.axios.com/ivankas-role-in-trumps-speech-2292353919.html

[Yorkshire pud]

Shit, you're right. I can only post a pointless cartoon, because I'm an idiot. Damn.

[Yorkshire pud]

I know what it means and intentionally chose it for that reason. However, just for your edification, faggot:

Decimate - kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.

Clue is in deci.......try again.

[aldousburbank]

Clue is in deci.......try again.

Having sex ten times?

[GravitySucks]

You're itching to condemn him for refusing to meet your boy. Perhaps you'd call him a cuck, faggot, heretic? Fucking Trump who has the temerity to blame others for his sanctioning the mission. Trump who got his daddy to get him out of Vietnam.

I don't think there are very many neo-Nazis and I don't hold Bannon responsible for them. I think Obama and the liberal's support for BLM has more to do with making them more vocal than any single person like Bannon.

[21st Century Man]

That's the thing, dude. They were just decimated. They really don't have any power anymore. It's all hot air now. 

I'm thrilled with the victory but they were hardly decimated.  We need to convince more people to join us and being brash doesn't work for everybody. I'm not saying we have to compromise our ideals but we need to present them in a manner that is palatable.  Going off half-cocked on Twitter doesn't work for everybody.  I voted for the guy but there are certainly many people who didn't vote for him but would have if he chose his words a bit more carefully.  I get you want somebody that likes to punch back, so do I, but I'd rather he stuck to house rules.  I guess that is the difference between us, MD. It takes all kinds to elect a President.  Keep that in mind.

[Dr. MD MD]

Clue is in deci.......try again.

I guess everyone in Britain always speaks literally and never colloquially?!  :

[Dr. MD MD]

I'm thrilled with the victory but they were hardly decimated.

They lost over 1000 seats under Obama. How is that not being decimated?!

P.S. I get that how pud's trying to point out WAY over 1/10th was wiped out. 

[Yorkshire pud]

I guess everyone in Britain always speaks literally and never colloquially?!  :

Deci is latin. Latin is literal.  :

[Dr. MD MD]

Deci is latin. Latin is literal.  :

So is the fact that you're an unrepentant Britcuck. 

[Yorkshire pud]

So is the fact that you're an unrepentant Britcuck. 

Hush child. Go and play. 

[SredniVashtar]

I know what it means and intentionally chose it for that reason. However, just for your edification, faggot:

Decimate - kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.

No, decimate means 'one in ten'. In ancient Rome they would punish Roman legions by killing every tenth soldier. Language ought to be used with precision or not at all. Otherwise you sound like a rube.

[21st Century Man]

They lost over 1000 seats under Obama. How is that not being decimated?!

P.S. I get that how pud's trying to point out WAY over 1/10th was wiped out. 

Yeah, the Dems are being decimated- to loosely use the word,  lol - throughout the states.  No doubt there.  I thought you were just talking about the Presidential election.

[GravitySucks]

No, decimate means 'one in ten'. In ancient Rome they would punish Roman legions by killing every tenth soldier. Language ought to be used with precision or not at all. Otherwise you sound like a rube.

Modern usage tends to make it a synonym for annihilation. 

[SredniVashtar]

Modern usage tends to make it a synonym for annihilation.

Well you can tell modern usage to shove it. All the way up. I'm trying to maintain standards here, dammit!

[GravitySucks]

Well you can tell modern usage to shove it. All the way up. I'm trying to maintain standards here, dammit!

I can totally understand wanting high standards on your favourite forum so you can keep using colourful language and such.

[Yorkshire pud]

Well you can tell modern usage to shove it. All the way up. I'm trying to maintain standards here, dammit!

By feeding caviar to pigs? Good God man!!

[21st Century Man]

Well you can tell modern usage to shove it. All the way up. I'm trying to maintain standards here, dammit!

You wouldn't approve of our public education system over here, SV.  The standards are very low if not nonexistent.  Can't have anybody fail a class or grade, don't cha know.

[SredniVashtar]

I can totally understand wanting high standards on your favourite forum so you can keep using colourful language and such.

I didn't say 'high' standards, I just said 'standards', to be determined by me in whatever capricious manner suited me at the time. If I was running this place (and thank the god of your choice that I'm not) you'd think you'd walked into something run by the bastard child of Stalin and George Senda.

[GravitySucks]

I didn't say 'high' standards, I just said 'standards', to be determined by me in whatever capricious manner suited me at the time. If I was running this place (and thank the god of your choice that I'm not) you'd think you'd walked into something run by the bastard child of Stalin and George Senda.

Did Uncle Joe touch Senda on the butt?

[21st Century Man]

Hell even the Democrats want to be Republicans these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNzPjdVbSk4

[The King of Kings]

I think Trump's poll numbers will be high enough for him to be in the Republican debates.

Oh fuck, are you going to be disappointed. 

I think Trump will win the New Hampshire Republican primary.

Oh fuck, are you going to be disappointed. 

I think Trump will win the Republican primary.

Oh fuck, are you going to be disappointed. 

I think Trump will win the general election against Hillary Clinton.

Oh fuck, are you going to be disappointed. 

I think Trump will serve two full terms as President.

Oh fuck, are you going to be disappointed. 

[SredniVashtar]

Did Uncle Joe touch Senda on the butt?

He'll probably add that to the list of the famous people he's met. Perhaps Patton introduced them.

[GravitySucks]

Hell even the Democrats want to be Republicans these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNzPjdVbSk4

Only a true politician could continue on without breaking character after screwing up that bad.

[Yorkshire pud]

I think Trump's poll numbers will be high enough for him to be in the Republican debates.


I think Trump will win the New Hampshire Republican primary.

I think Trump will win the Republican primary.

I think Trump will win the general election against Hillary Clinton.

I think Trump will serve two full terms as President.

Yes yes, but will you ever see an adult woman with a pulse naked.

[21st Century Man]

Only a true politician could continue on without breaking character after screwing up that bad.

Isn't that the truth!!

[The King of Kings]

No, decimate means 'one in ten'. In ancient Rome they would punish Roman legions by killing every tenth soldier. Language ought to be used with precision or not at all. Otherwise you sound like a rube.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimate

Hmm, who should I believe, Merriam-Webster dictionary or some fag on bellgab?

Tough choice.

[SredniVashtar]

I thought Miller was Jewish.  Guilt by association works both ways, you know; a real anti-Semite would find enough Jews in this administration to fuel a conspiracy.

I don't know much about Bannon, and both Miller and Gorka are loathsome creatures based on what I've seen of them, but once you dilute the charge of antisemitism by discriminating between these Jews and those Jews, it starts to look like an ideological divide which, whatever you think of it, is perfectly legitimate in politics.

Personally, I'd be inclined to doubt that Trump was anti-Semitic,  if only because he seems to be someone of no strong convictions of any kind. There seems to be little that he will say one day that he isn't capable of repudiating the next. That rambling answer he gave to a Jewish reporter last week may have just been the blatherings of a not-particularly-bright man, or perhaps he had one eye on his base, who have a more equivocal view about Jews, who can say? Give him the benefit of the doubt and see how things go in the future.