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[Strangelove]

Docs taking some lumps in this thread.

You're drunk!

(on craft beer no less)

In the morning go take a look at what you posted in the GDT!

Very chivalrous of you to attempt to defend Nucklehead's honour though...

[Blob Mckenzie]

Docs taking some lumps in this thread.

You're drunk!

(on craft beer no less)

In the morning go take a look at what you posted in the GDT!

Very chivalrous of you to attempt to defend Nucklehead's honour though...

I was thinking that Per took a huge dump on your chest

[Strangelove]

I was thinking that Per took a huge dump on your chest

PERFECT... no one will ever figure out you love Nucklehead!

[Island Nucklehead]

Maybe fake news has made you completely paranoid.

Maybe you should steer clear of Breitbart, RT and infowars....

[Per]

Make no mistake about one thing. In no way am I in favor of scrapping NATO.
In fact, I am discouraged at how low our Canadian military has slipped over the years. It's a disgrace for the amount of border territory we must patrol.
What would interest me is, are statements on scrapping NATO because it's thought it's no longer necessary or because some countries are not contributing what they should?????

A bit of both it seems.

He has stated that the organization is obsolete, which would hint at the former, but he has also been complaining about other countries not paying their fair share, which clearly points to the latter.

He also seems to be OK with Russia annexing parts of Ukraine, so maybe he just doesn't give a shit?

[Per]

There is a difference between false and wrong.

Wrong.
(listed as synonyms everywhere)

That words are listed as synonyms doesn't mean they mean the exact same thing.

Big has huge as a synonym.

If I say "the crowd at Trump's inauguration was big; the crowd at Obama's inauguration was huge" do you picture the same number of people in your head?



Another synonym of big is great. How does "let's make America big again" sound to you?

The first synonym that pops up for scream is cry,
Should I laugh or scream?

The reason we have synonyms, which would be a huge waste if they meant the exact same thing, is that there are slight differences in nuance to them. Big/Great/Huge... Scream/Cry/Yell... Incorrect/Wrong/False/Fake...

By knowing several words with just a slight shade of difference, our language becomes more colourful.

Trump knows this:

But there is a much simpler explanation. Remember that Hillary basically won the cities whereas Trump won the rural vote? Most polls typically have an over representation of urbanites; they are easier to get hold of. Also, a large subgroup of Trump voters are sceptical of the so called mainstream media, of the government and of anything that reeks of the college educated latte swilling elite. This makes them far more likely to either refuse to answer a poll or to not answer truthfully. Both these factors would help sway a poll in Hillary's favour, if the people in charge of the polls did not factor them in and adjust for them.

I tend to believe that the simplest answer usually is the correct one.
It is far more likely that the pollsters screwed up than that they willingly and wittingly published polls that they knew were wrong.

AHHH.... now we're getting somewhere!

Back on topic: The popular opinion polls on Trump are wrong/false/untrue for the same reason!

(did you catch that Nucklehead?)

Good Point. And as I said earlier, it would seem logical that Trump's approval rating should be somewhere below 40%. A mere 32% does really sound a tad low. They could very well be 5-6 percent off again. Nice catch!

Okay, so you're not the only paranoid liberal these days.

Correct. Most of Russia's neighbours, as well as the NATO leadership are very concerned.
The good news is Canada is now shipping troops to Latvia to make the decision to invade a bit costlier for Vlad.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trump-lo ... -1.3252097

Three cheers for Canada, aka America done right!

I blame "fake news".

You know, the Onion is very upset about this talk about fake news.
They maintain that they produce fake news. The others are just liars.

[Per]

The Dutch are trying to woo Trump in his own unique language.
Could totally work.

[Per]

Meanwhile, it seems Donald has hired Baghdad Bob as his press secretary:

When a press secretary tells you a crowd reached all the way to the Washington Monument, even when every witness and photograph says otherwise, this tells you what game the Trump administration intends to play. Note the way Spicer took no questions and described the reception given to Trump by those CIA employees as “ecstatic”. This is a style of press briefing that is less Washington than Pyongyang.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... r-own-eyes

[Strangelove]

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/01/2 ... video.html

[2Fingers]

Trump will be the biggest let down of a President ever to be elected by the citizens of the USA.

[Strangelove]

Trump will be the biggest let down of a President ever to be elected by the citizens of the USA.

Can we quote you on that Reef?

Umm.. apparently half the citizens of the USA already expect him to be the worst President like evah!

(worse even than Obama)

Not sure if it's possible to "let down" people who expect the worst.

Wait... haven't you already declared yourself as one having zero interest in USA news, never read it, etc?

EDIT: Here...

Reef, you seem more like a "Saw it on CNN so it must be true" kinda guy amirite?

CNN told you Hillary was going to win in a landslide and you believed them... DIDN'T YOU!!

And now you're fucked-up more than ever.... amirite?

I am Canadian so why would I watch CNN.

I don't care about USA news.

What's the dealio Reefer my man?

[Per]

In a move that a vast majority of trained economists, as well as most republicans in congress, consider mistaken and will damage the economy, Trump has withdrawn US participation in the TPP negotiations through an executive order. Many also fear that this means the US will cede strategic influence in the Pacific Basin to the Chinese.

Trade has been the rare issue where Trump and labor unions have found common ground.

“With this decision, the president has taken the first step toward fixing 30 years of bad trade policies that have cost working Americans millions of good paying jobs,” Teamsters Union President James Hoffa said in a written statement.

But Trump’s stance on trade has created tension from some within his own party.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the withdrawal a “serious mistake that will have lasting consequences for America’s economy and our strategic position in the Asia-Pacific region.”

McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also said the decision will “forfeit the opportunity to promote American exports, reduce trade barriers, open new markets, and protect American invention and innovation.”

He added that it would “create an opening for China to rewrite the economic rules of the road at the expense of American workers.”

Wait-a-minute! Jimmy Hoffa is alive?!

[Cornuck]

all valid points

Queuing Doc and his claims of fake news in... 3.... 2.... 1....

[Blob Mckenzie]

all valid points

Queuing Doc and his claims of fake news in... 3.... 2.... 1....

Doc is a beaten and battered mess at this point

[Strangelove]

latest bullshit

Queuing Doc and his claims of fake news in... 3.... 2.... 1....

Mondi has never heard of "fake news"!

Must be been spending a lot of time under the hairdryer these days.

Salon.com!!

"You're soaking in it."

Then he quotes wikipedia about NPD

... UMMM has there ever been a President who did not have dat dere?

Someone tell him his first two quotes are both from the same Washington 'Fake News' Post article.