Trumpite Americans, when will you finally acknowledge your leader is a joke?

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  1. Fisherman's Worf

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    that you think the extent of having a teenage mindset is making dick and fart jokes really shows you have the mind of a teenager















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    Says the guy whose country is being invaded by disgusting mudslimes from Africa and your government is too afraid to do anything about it.

    :)
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  3. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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  4. matthunter

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    Harrumph. Post #111.
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  5. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...olicy-she-fixed-the-grammar-and-sent-it-back/

    When Yvonne Mason first opened the letter, she read it all the way through. It did, after all, have the president’s seal at the top and his signature at the bottom.

    But sometime around the third read, something began to irk the retired teacher, who had spent 17 years of her life refining the English skills of middle and high school students:

    Look at all these unnecessarily capitalized letters, she thought.

    “Federal” and “Nation” and “State” and “States” — common nouns capitalized as if they were proper nouns. And too many of the sentences began with the ninth letter of the alphabet: “I signed into law” and “I also directed.”

    The letter, with her name on it, was written on heavy, official-feeling paper. Some would see such a letter from the president as suitable for framing. But for Mason, there was an itch that could not go unscratched.

    She took out a purple pen and did something she had done countless times with countless papers.

    She started circling.

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    Yvonne Mason received this letter after writing to President Trump. Then she started to edit. (Yvonne Mason)
    It began with those pesky capital letters. But by the end, she had scrawled several notes, crossed out a few punctuation marks, and asked whoever wrote the letter a question that may or may not have been rhetorical: “Have y’all tried grammar and style check?”

    A scrawl at the end of the paper was aimed at one sentence but seemed to sum up Mason’s opinion of the whole thing: “OMG this is WRONG!”

    “If I had received this from one of my students,” she told The Washington Post, “I would have handed it back without a grade on it and said, ‘I hope you left the real one at home.’ ”

    [‘Elected to lead, not to proofread’: Typos, spelling mistakes are commonplace in Trump’s White House]

    She mailed the letter, now bleeding with purple ink, back to the White House. But first, she snapped a photo and posted it on her Facebook page, hoping to draw smiles from friends or former students who have been on the business end of her crusade to protect the English language.

    Days later, a friend persuaded her to make the post public, and by the end of May, it had been shared more than 4,000 times, the latest piece of evidence for critics who believe the president and his administration play fast and loose with the English language.

    As The Washington Post’s David Nakamura wrote in March: “The constant small mistakes — which have dogged the Trump White House since the president’s official Inauguration Day poster boasted that ‘no challenge is to great’ — have become, critics say, symbolic of the larger problems with Trump’s management style, in particular his lack of attention to detail and the carelessness with which he makes policy decisions.”

    It’s a message Mason tried to drill into the minds of public school students for nearly two decades: How you speak, the words you choose and your mastery of the English language all convey something about you, whether you’re a high school sophomore or a junior senator.

    Mason, 61, who taught English rhetoric and composition in Greenville, S.C., and recently relocated to Atlanta, regularly writes to her elected officials and has turned the practice into class assignments — a civics lesson and a writing lesson all wrapped up in one.

    She frequently told students they weren’t allowed to simply spout opinions; their arguments had to be grounded in logic and backed up by facts. “They rewrote them until they were correct and they put forth a good argument,” she said.

    To guide them, sometimes she would show copies of letters she had written, criticizing or praising a vote or urging a particular policy stance.

    But her Feb. 15 letter to Trump was about saving lives. She wrote it a day after 17 people were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

    “I wrote urging the president to meet with every single family of a victim individually,” she told The Post. “And to hear what they had to say and to assure them that something was going to be done about gun control in this country.”

    But she knew that she was one of many voices on the topic. “I didn’t expect to hear back. … After I mailed it, it was over for me. I had expressed my opinion.”

    [Teachers shelling out nearly $500 a year on school supplies, report finds]

    Like many of the letters she has received from politicians, she figured Trump’s was written by someone at the White House trained to mimic the president’s writing style, such as a speechwriter. She insists that whoever wrote the letter doesn’t need a new job, maybe just a new stylebook. She hasn’t received any word from the White House about her suggested edits.

    Mason told The Post that her catchphrase for students was “language is the currency of power.”

    “If you can’t communicate what you want or what you need … you’re not going to get what you want,” Mason said. “Writing clearly and consistently gives you power.”

    Mason said that the attention she’s received since her letter went viral has given her a new opportunity to share that message.

    She gave up teaching English after her grandson was born. He’s 4 now, and while he’s been talking for some time, he’s reached the point where he’s forming complex sentences.

    Perfect sentences.

    He hurt himself a few days ago while playing with the dog, Mason said.

    “I said, ‘Well, do you think you need a Band-Aid,’ ” his grandmother recalled. “And he said ‘I need a Band-Aid quickly.’ With an ‘l’ and a ‘y.’ The child doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of having bad grammar.”
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    And even after all of that she is a paycheque to paycheque living unknown school teacher that has nothing better to do than to criticize the God Emperor.
    And Trump made ISIS and Korea BEND THE KNEE.

    Trump Wins.
    Trump Followers Win.

    You Bongs lose to the mudslimes you cuntfaggot!

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  7. matthunter

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    Yet he can't make you bend the elbow.
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  8. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Bush created ISIS.
    And a Venn diagram of Bush and Trump voters is a fucking single circle.
    So...that.
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  9. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    Well, you have to give it to Trump in one respect. He's allowed the rest of the western nations to grow some balls.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44345129

    Of course the Trumpites will beat their chests....but when the orange joke suddenly needs support from the other western nations me thinks he'll be in for a shock.
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  10. Bickendan

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    Proofread that for ya :async:
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  11. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    Question for the Trumpites. If The Donald ultimately ends up pardoning himself, will you still support him?
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  12. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    The Trumpites seem conspicuously silent. Could it be they're having second thoughts? That would assume they'd had first thoughts...
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    I’m pretty sure you can’t pardon yourself if you aren’t President anymore.
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  14. Fisherman's Worf

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    He doesn't need to pardon himself. Melania has been mysteriously missing for nearly a month. She has probably taken the fall for Trump's crimes because you can't convict a husband and wife of the same crime.
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  15. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Well, Trump and the Republicans (and @Dayton3) wanted a war, I guess a trade war is the closest fit.

    Ironically, it's the most un-American and un-Republican thing to do, if golden boy Ronnie Reagan is to be believed:

    Radio Address to the Nation on the Canadian Elections and Free Trade
    November 26, 1988
    http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=35207

    It's worth a full read, but here is a short excerpt that is relevant:

    "Yet today protectionism is being used by some American politicians as a cheap form of nationalism, a fig leaf for those unwilling to maintain America's military strength and who lack the resolve to stand up to real enemies—countries that would use violence against us or our allies. Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies. We should beware of the demagogs who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag. The expansion of the international economy is not a foreign invasion; it is an American triumph, one we worked hard to achieve, and something central to our vision of a peaceful and prosperous world of freedom."
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  16. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    :lol: And of course @Dayton3 thinks Reagan's words are dumb.
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  17. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Why does Dayton disagree? He's not a Trumpite.
    :chris:

    If only there were a way that Lassie could tell us without losing the bet he already lost by repping.
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  18. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    I find it ironic that we have Brexit due to the politics of populism and nationalism, and yet the populist and nationalist Trump is helping push Europe closer together when it comes to the US by being a total wankpuffin.
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    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    I lol'd at "wankpuffin"

    You Brits and your classy swear words :)
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    Hmm...maybe then he'll need to turn to muslim nations for support. England perhaps?
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    But they don't have any HANDS! You can't get a gripper with a flipper.
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    Obvious troll notwithstanding, he's about as popular here as a diarrhoea milkshake.

    We don't like fat orange cunts in general actually. Dale Winton (RIP)... and this bloke (he's probably the reason):

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    Matt, it's not trolling in the least. The sand monkeys are breeding like tribbles and running rampant in the streets. Sad but true, kid.
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    You don't become the world's largest economy by getting screwed on your trade deals. Trump is pandering to a Republican base that wakes up every morning and fears the loss of white cultural dominance. The base is eating this up; they expect Canada, Mexico, and Europe to bend over and hand Trump a victory.
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    I live here, ya dozy cunt. Peddle the BS to those who don't have eyes on the ground or do have heads up their arseholes.
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    Sand monkeys? :ban:
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    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    Ya know what that is?

    Growth. :yes:

    [/Sarcasm]
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  28. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    I always giggle at comments like this from idiots like you who seem blissfully unaware that the US has more Muslims than the UK. :lol:
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    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    Remember, Squire is one of those people who like to show
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    And that's what's wrong with pussies like you. And why would I be banned in any case?