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Postby Gravlen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:44 am

Trump "orders" American companies to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including moving production back to the US.

Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.


I guess this talk about him being the King of Israel has moved him.
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Postby North German Realm » Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:46 am

Gravlen wrote:Trump "orders" American companies to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including moving production back to the US.

Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.


I guess this talk about him being the King of Israel has moved him.

Wow he's actually making smart decisions now. I wonder if he actually responds well to praise. Maybe if we praise him for smart decisions he'll start making smart decisions?

(Though to be fair, some of his Foreign Policies, specifically regarding Iran and Israel, I back fully and completely)
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Postby Gravlen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:47 am

Trump has also found a new enemy:

My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?


I guess the Fed is an Enemy of The People now as well.
EnragedMaldivians wrote:That's preposterous. Gravlens's not a white nationalist; Gravlen's a penguin.

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Postby Shrillland » Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:49 am

Gravlen wrote:Trump has also found a new enemy:

My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?


I guess the Fed is an Enemy of The People now as well.


Well, plenty of people believed that already, so....
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Postby Zurkerx » Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:51 am

Gravlen wrote:Trump "orders" American companies to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including moving production back to the US.

Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.


I guess this talk about him being the King of Israel has moved him.


Gravlen wrote:Trump has also found a new enemy:

My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?


I guess the Fed is an Enemy of The People now as well.


King President Trump decrees that all loyal fellow Americans either listen or else :p

Seriously, I think the divine stuff is officially in his head now. Could someone take the crown away from him?
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Postby Alvecia » Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:57 am

Gravlen wrote:Trump has also found a new enemy:

My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?


I guess the Fed is an Enemy of The People now as well.

Shall we start a pool on how long it takes for the words "Fed" and "Ponzi scheme" to appear in the same tweet
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Postby Gravlen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:59 am

Shrillland wrote:
Gravlen wrote:Trump has also found a new enemy:

My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?


I guess the Fed is an Enemy of The People now as well.


Well, plenty of people believed that already, so....

This tweet caused the Dow to fall 400 points though.
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Postby GLDF » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:00 am

Gravlen wrote:Trump has also found a new enemy:

My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?


I guess the Fed is an Enemy of The People now as well.

All government office holders and workers are automatically more traitorous than the totalitarian dictator who wants to end America. If you're Trump, of course.
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Postby Gravlen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:01 am

Today in Trump's Odd Lies, his claim that doctors left operating rooms - while in the middle of doing surgery - to greet him after mass shootings is debunked by hospitals.
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Postby San Lumen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:06 am

Gravlen wrote:Today in Trump's Odd Lies, his claim that doctors left operating rooms - while in the middle of doing surgery - to greet him after mass shootings is debunked by hospitals.

He could say the earth is flat and his supporters would believe it
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Postby Philjia » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:08 am

Gravlen wrote:Today in Trump's Odd Lies, his claim that doctors left operating rooms - while in the middle of doing surgery - to greet him after mass shootings is debunked by hospitals.

Is Trump a pathological liar, or is there some insane logic behind making this up that I'm not seeing?
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Postby Pacomia » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:09 am

Philjia wrote:
Gravlen wrote:Today in Trump's Odd Lies, his claim that doctors left operating rooms - while in the middle of doing surgery - to greet him after mass shootings is debunked by hospitals.

Is Trump a pathological liar, or is there some insane logic behind making this up that I'm not seeing?

Both, except it’s not logic, it’s “Haha this makes me sound good! I’m going to say it! Yeah!”.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:16 am

Can't wrap his head around visiting victims not being about him. He posed smiling thumbs up with an orphaned baby for fuck's sake.
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Postby Telconi » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:17 am

Cannot think of a name wrote:Can't wrap his head around visiting victims not being about him. He posed smiling thumbs up with an orphaned baby for fuck's sake.


I'm pretty sure smiling with a thumbs up is just the only photo pose he knows.
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Postby Telconi » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:18 am

San Lumen wrote:
Gravlen wrote:Today in Trump's Odd Lies, his claim that doctors left operating rooms - while in the middle of doing surgery - to greet him after mass shootings is debunked by hospitals.

He could say the earth is flat and his supporters would believe it


And someone could tell you that Trump supporters believe everything out of his mouth and you'd believe that...

Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?
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Postby Pacomia » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:21 am

Telconi wrote:
San Lumen wrote:He could say the earth is flat and his supporters would believe it


And someone could tell you that Trump supporters believe everything out of his mouth and you'd believe that...

Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?

There are people with a fanatic love for Trump and people with a fanatic hate for Trump. As far as I’m concerned, neither is particularly less foolish than the other.
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Postby Ifreann » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:23 am

Gravlen wrote:Trump "orders" American companies to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including moving production back to the US.

Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.


I guess this talk about him being the King of Israel has moved him.

His ego has levelled up.
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Postby Gravlen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:30 am

Philjia wrote:
Gravlen wrote:Today in Trump's Odd Lies, his claim that doctors left operating rooms - while in the middle of doing surgery - to greet him after mass shootings is debunked by hospitals.

Is Trump a pathological liar, or is there some insane logic behind making this up that I'm not seeing?

He's a narcissistic sosiopath and a pathological liar. I don't mean that as an insult, simply as a subjective description of his mental health as I've observed it.
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Postby Maineiacs » Fri Aug 23, 2019 10:40 am

Gravlen wrote:
Philjia wrote:Is Trump a pathological liar, or is there some insane logic behind making this up that I'm not seeing?

He's a narcissistic sosiopath and a pathological liar. I don't mean that as an insult, simply as a subjective description of his mental health as I've observed it.




But he's the best pathological liar; everybody says so. No one has ever been as great at it as he is. He's the Chosen One of liars.
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Postby The Greater Ohio Valley » Fri Aug 23, 2019 10:49 am

Gravlen wrote:Trump "orders" American companies to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including moving production back to the US.

Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.


I guess this talk about him being the King of Israel has moved him.

As if he can actually "order" companies to do anything.
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Postby Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Fri Aug 23, 2019 11:09 am

Gravlen wrote:
Philjia wrote:Is Trump a pathological liar, or is there some insane logic behind making this up that I'm not seeing?

He's a narcissistic sosiopath and a pathological liar. I don't mean that as an insult, simply as a subjective description of his mental health as I've observed it.

No, and we need to stop ascribing mental health issues to a person who is clearly not ill, but just a bad person. If he really suffered from mental illness, he would require our help and understanding. However, he is not sick, and we lay people cannot diagnose him. He is a bad person.

Just ascribing mental illnesses to Trump does nothing but paint a picture of people with actual mental health issues as dangerous.
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Postby Gravlen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 11:25 am

Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:
Gravlen wrote:He's a narcissistic sosiopath and a pathological liar. I don't mean that as an insult, simply as a subjective description of his mental health as I've observed it.

No, and we need to stop ascribing mental health issues to a person who is clearly not ill, but just a bad person. If he really suffered from mental illness, he would require our help and understanding. However, he is not sick, and we lay people cannot diagnose him. He is a bad person.

Just ascribing mental illnesses to Trump does nothing but paint a picture of people with actual mental health issues as dangerous.

I would agree with your sentiment, but I disagree that he's "clearly not ill". On the contrary, I honestly believe that he really is suffering from mental illness and that the symptoms are visibly present (though of course I cannot give him an actual diagnosis. However, on this forum, I will allow myself to speculate based on the observable facts).

That said, I also believe him to be a bad person. The one doesn't rule out the other.
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Postby Gravlen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 11:26 am

Gravlen wrote:
Shrillland wrote:
Well, plenty of people believed that already, so....

This tweet caused the Dow to fall 400 points though.

500 points.
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Postby Galloism » Fri Aug 23, 2019 11:47 am

Gravlen wrote:
Gravlen wrote:This tweet caused the Dow to fall 400 points though.

500 points.

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Postby Philjia » Fri Aug 23, 2019 11:57 am

Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:
Gravlen wrote:He's a narcissistic sosiopath and a pathological liar. I don't mean that as an insult, simply as a subjective description of his mental health as I've observed it.

No, and we need to stop ascribing mental health issues to a person who is clearly not ill, but just a bad person. If he really suffered from mental illness, he would require our help and understanding. However, he is not sick, and we lay people cannot diagnose him. He is a bad person.

Just ascribing mental illnesses to Trump does nothing but paint a picture of people with actual mental health issues as dangerous.

Trump being a bad person explains why he's an arsehole, but it doesn't explain why he's so weird.
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