President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[Jeff Lebowski]

I think that reflects the board's right and center right bias.

Frank you are killing me, man.

[BlueK]

You had to watch "a lot of his speeches during the 2024 campaign" before you decided not to vote for him? Were you hibernating from 2016-2020? You seriously had to listen to a lot of speeches to get a hold on candidate Trump?

Interesting point. To me, every speech of his sounds pretty much the same

[wally]

You had to watch "a lot of his speeches during the 2024 campaign" before you decided not to vote for him? Were you hibernating from 2016-2020? You seriously had to listen to a lot of speeches to get a hold on candidate Trump?

LOL! It wasn't for informing my voting intentions; I already knew I was voting 3rd party. I was listening because I was curious about some other stuff at the time. I admit that I didn't pay super close attention to his campaign in 2016, because I was convinced, like many people, that he was going to lose.

[falafel]

LOL! It wasn't for informing my voting intentions; I already knew I was voting 3rd party. I was listening because I was curious about some other stuff at the time. I admit that I didn't pay super close attention to his campaign in 2016, because I was convinced, like many people, that he was going to lose.

Nice. So it sounds like you just didn't pay much attention in 2016 or 2024. I do wonder what you "were curious about", but I'm really afraid JL will accuse me of policing people's politics.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Nice. So it sounds like you just didn't pay much attention in 2016 or 2024. I do wonder what you "were curious about", but I'm really afraid JL will accuse me of policing people's politics.

Hey don’t look at me, that’s your conscience talking.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Other than PAC do we have any moderate liberals on this board?

That's not an unfair characterization of me, though honestly I'm unsure where I fall these days. Linear right-left descriptions don't suit me nor many others these days. i was a registered Republican for 50 years until January 2020, and other than voting for Obama in '08, always voted Republican until 2016. My preferred political podcasts are The Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg's The Remnant, and Ezra Klein. Not sure whether I simply have an open mind or an empty head. Trump and his spineless or two-faced supporters are the only things that get me worked up, often regretfully so.

[BlueK]

Frankly, I am surprised that this isn't now a quasi-mandatory social courtesy which should immediately follow one's preferred pronouns upon introducing oneself to other progressives? I would assume failure to state that you did not vote for Trump might constitute hate speech violence against someone by now?

What makes it a curiosity is how often you state it. I guess for essentially everyone else on here it's pretty self evident from their posts whether they voted for him or not.

[RC Vikings]

That's not an unfair characterization of me, though honestly I'm unsure where I fall these days. Linear right-left descriptions don't suit me nor many others these days. i was a registered Republican for 50 years until January 2020, and other than voting for Obama in '08, always voted Republican until 2016. My preferred political podcasts are The Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg's The Remnant, and Ezra Klein. Not sure whether I simply have an open mind or an empty head. Trump and his spineless or two-faced supporters are the only things that get me worked up, often regretfully so.

I think many are in this same boat, life long voting R and then Trump comes along. I keep waiting for either party to go hard after this group but the extremes on both ends won't allow it. I know in this current political climate I'm farther left than I've ever been.

[Northwestcoug]

I don't think I posted about Trump yesterday so I'm hoping Wally will allow me to post about him riffing. But this is hilarious. Previous to this clip he pointed to Zelenskyy and asked 'do you have any questions for President Putin?' It took him a couple of seconds to realize his mistake, and then he did the very Trumpian thing of playing like it wasn't a mistake (i.e. continuing to say the wrong word like he meant it all along, etc.). So then he continued to ask the press if they had questions for Putin :

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I also thought about posting the video where he talks about the 'Islamic republic of Japan' but I will forbear. I don't want to risk further political violence!

[frank ryan]

I don't think I posted about Trump yesterday so I'm hoping Wally will allow me to post about him riffing. But this is hilarious. Previous to this clip he pointed to Zelenskyy and asked 'do you have any questions for President Putin?' It took him a couple of seconds to realize his mistake, and then he did the very Trumpian thing of playing like it wasn't a mistake (i.e. continuing to say the wrong word like he meant it all along, etc.). So then he continued to ask the press if they had questions for Putin :

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I also thought about posting the video where he talks about the 'Islamic republic of Japan' but I will forbear. I don't want to risk further political violence!

Trump is not declining. This is perfectly normal and how he has always been.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I don't think I posted about Trump yesterday so I'm hoping Wally will allow me to post about him riffing. But this is hilarious. Previous to this clip he pointed to Zelenskyy and asked 'do you have any questions for President Putin?' It took him a couple of seconds to realize his mistake, and then he did the very Trumpian thing of playing like it wasn't a mistake (i.e. continuing to say the wrong word like he meant it all along, etc.). So then he continued to ask the press if they had questions for Putin :

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I also thought about posting the video where he talks about the 'Islamic republic of Japan' but I will forbear. I don't want to risk further political violence!

[falafel]

Hey don’t look at me, that’s your conscience talking.

Ha! Its actually my experience talking.

[dabrockster]

And yeah, I'm not an extreme leftist. I been allowed that designation on here but it doesn't reflect reality.

[Maximus]

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[wally]

I don't think I posted about Trump yesterday so I'm hoping Wally will allow me to post about him riffing.

What do you mean "allow?" I didn't even get a DM ahead of time from you asking permission for this post!!

This kind of lawless behavior is why Trump is even president again, you know.

I never voted for him, BTW.