1806

I thought maybe some people didn’t want that nice Egyptian goddess to get a bad rep.

1807

Also a person replying saying they don’t trust a general on the number of kills our military has gotten against IS forces. Because it’s the government. While saying we should attack them. With that same exact military. The cognitive dissonance made my brain melt.

“We need the military to go after them!”
“They are. See this general saying as much.”
“We can’t trust the military!”
“Wut?”

1808

Well the current military is loyal to Obama who created ISIS. Obviously they will lie about their results. When Trump assumes the throne, I mean, when he swears the oath of office, he will naturally have to purge both the Supreme Court as well as the general staff of the military with the cleansing fire of the 2nd amendment.

1809

The right wing nutters consider it a big deal because -

[Quote=“Right Wing Nutter”]
As I have posted before, this is why Obama and Co. use the term ISIL instead of ISIS. It is very important to understand what territory ISIL includes vs ISIS. ISIL includes the state of Israel. So when Obama uses the term ISIL, he is giving credence to the ideology that Israel does not exist, instead, he is giving support to the ideology that Israel is Palestinian land. It is an insult to Israel every time he uses that terminology.[/quote]

Don’t you go insulting Israel, man!

p.s. fuck Israel.

1810

Stupid Things Zapp Brannigan Says

1811

That’s why he wanted that Purple Heart so badly.

1812

Now Trump is trying to walk back his Obama “founder” comments by saying it was sarcasm, and we were obviously too stupid not to realize it.

1813

I cannot exist in this universe anymore.

I haven’t seen enough of Stranger Things to know if this is an accurate statement or not, but I think I’m going to go try to find a demogorgon to touch me and take me away from here.

1814

I suspect Trump honestly thinks that too. In his own mind, no doubt everything he says is sarcastic, because he knows very well it’s all specious. But (possibly to his surprise) he found that it worked and kept on working in the primaries, so now he first doubles down (because that generally works) and then falls back to the admission of sarcasm as the last defense against the media when he is finally forced to it.

1815

Somewhere up thread there is an actual quote of Trump saying that. That Obama uses ISIL to be different.

1816

Yeah, no. Sarcasm stops after someone asks you like 3 times in a row to clarify. Also… that still isn’t sarcasm anyway.

1817

I don’t want to Jinx things, but I am pretty sure I said months ago that the “Teflon” Don would talk himself out of the presidency. And that the smart money would go towards keeping a house/senate majority to limit the impact of 4 years of Clinton, though she probably will be able to pick 2-3 Supreme Court justices.

1818

So apparently the Donald isn’t worried about GOTV because the miners and steelworkers will all vote for him. Which is great and all, but that’s 300k votes in total, which would barely get you Wyoming.

1819

He doubles, triples, and quadruples down. “NO NO I MEAN HE LITERALLY CREATED ISIS.” Then he says he’s being sarcastic. Trump is impossible to parody.

1820

Starting to seriously consider Trump as the Andy Kaufman of politics.

1821

He’s just joking. He’s just being sarcastic.

He gets out of verbal jams like a middle schooler.

1822

True. His defense with the Khans was “they started it!”

1823

Should we make a ‘Stupid Things Hope Solo Says’ thread also or can we just consolidate it here?

1824

“Hope Solo” was a character in the 1960s TV spy series, “The Woman from T.R.U.M.P.”, yes?

1825

Sorry, gonna need some context :/